Inutori: I don't own Inuyasha, Kouga, Miroku, Kagome, Sango, Ayame, Kagura, Haraikotsu, or any other thing mentioned that actually belongs to Rumiko-chan. But I do own the rights to all of the songs sung in this story, no matter how atrocious they are, and Kagome's dad and Ami. One of who plays a major roll in this story. Bet you can't guess which.
Inuyasha: That's a no brain-er.
Inutori: Shut up Inuyasha, I don't want you giving it away.
Kagome: Yeah, but he's right you know, anyone in their right mind would no the answer to your bet.
Inutori: Oh, someone guessed right on who the two people chatting at the end of the last chapter were, but I can't seem to recall the reviewer's name…
Inuyasha: *hits Inutori* Stop thinking! There's smoke coming out your ears!
Inutori: Oh, leave me alone, dog-face!
Chapter 5
Violence IS Necessary
Last Time:
An hour or two later, everything had settled down and only two people remained awake, one from Sengotsu and the other from Enchanted.
"Are you cold?" The member of Sengotsu stood up and approached the male figure from the famous American band.
"No."
"Then why are you shivering?"
"…"
"You could just turn off this fan, you know. If you did I'm sure you would be a lot more comfortable, baka."
And now on with the story…
Miroku looked up at the black-haired girl standing beside him slightly grumpily. He hated flying, and he was tired from not getting enough sleep the previous night. "Would you just leave me alone?"
"Whatever happened to that smooth talking hentai from yesterday, hm?" The girl leaned down further and looked more closely into the young adult's eyes.
"He ran away with the ability to sleep."
"Interesting. So you become sober, so to speak, when you don't sleep?" Her red eyes disappeared behind her eyelids as she stood back up straight. "That could be useful information for the future."
Miroku turned away from Kagura, feeling the full force of his fatigue hit. Hopefully he'd be back to himself by the time the plane landed, but for now, he'd play the part of Scrooge. "Take a hike."
Kagura laughed, and Miroku cringed. 'She really shouldn't laugh, it sounds so evil.'
"Sorry, boy, can't take a hike. In case you had forgotten, we just so happen to be over 1000 feet in the air, and I'm not about to commit suicide by stepping outside into the thin atmosphere." She stopped laughing and glared again at Miroku.
Then a thought came to Miroku. "Why are you a member of Sengotsu anyway? You don't seem the type of person."
"Money, I guess. What's it to you?" Her expression seemed to get even darker as she looked at Miroku.
"Sorry, but that just seems kind of shallow, don't you think?"
"Hmph. It's not any of your business as to why I am in a band. Anything I do is only in my best interest, you should do the same, if you want to save your neck in the real world, that is." She looked at him one last time and gave him a look that said he wasn't worth her time, and then went back to the rear of the plane where she had originally been seated.
Miroku began to ponder about Kagura's character, and began to wonder how she hooked up with Sengotsu in the first place. He was only able to speculate for a few minutes before sleep possessed his body and he slumped against the nearby window.
*
Ayame grabbed both of Sango's wrists and yanked her out of her seat, jerking her out of her peaceful slumber. "Sango, we've landed!"
"Nani?" Sango apparently wasn't fully back in the world of the living, and was having trouble turning the stiff gears of her brain.
"We just landed! We're in CHINA!" Ayame smiled warmly and looked around the cabin of the airplane, seeing all of the quietly snoozing musicians.
"Why did you have to wake me up first?" Sango stifled a large yawn and slumped back in her seat.
"Ayame, why are you making all that racket?" Sango and Ayame turned to see Ami rubbing her eyes tiredly while holding a small, baby blue blanket.
"Rise and shine, sleeping beauties! It's a beautiful day in China, and there are shops all over this city calling for us to go there!" Ayame seemed to have stolen all of Ami's earlier energy, for she was now eagerly punching her fist into the air.
"I'll rise, but I won't shine."
"Ah, come on, Kagome, don't be such a spoilsport." Sango smiled knowingly at Kagome, who had apparently just woken up.
"Will all you wenches shut up? You're giving me a headache."
Each of the four girls chatting turned angrily to see Inuyasha sitting facing away from them slightly with an apparent scowl covering his features.
"I don't know, Kagome-chan, you're starting to get some competition for your spot as spoilsport." Ami looked between Inuyasha and Kagome with a slight smirk.
"Whoever said I was a spoilsport?" Kagome frantically waved her hands in front of her face in an attempted defense.
"We did." Sango, Ayame, and Ami all chorused their response to Kagome in monotone voices.
Kagome sweat dropped and scratched the back of her head. "Yeah, well, Inuyasha can take the stupid spot for all I care."
"What, Kagome is backing out of a challenge?" Sango looked mischievously at Ayame and Ami, and then threw Kagome a questioning glance.
"There was no challenge in the first place, so how could I be-"
"Ah, but you see, there was a challenge…" Ami smiled broadly at Kagome and inched towards the unsuspecting girl.
"WILL YOU WOMEN SHUT YOUR TRAPS FOR JUST FIVE MINUTES? IS THAT REALLY TOO MUCH TO ASK?" Inuyasha apparently was on his last straw and a vein popped out of his forehead as he glared at the noisy culprits.
"Dude, dog-breath, keep it down, will ya? Some of us are trying to sleep." Kouga stood up and stretched his arms above his head.
Kagome was forced to elbow Ayame and Ami before they started drooling.
"Shut it, wimpy-wolf, I can do whatever I please." Inuyasha glared at Kouga for a brief moment before returning his focus to the girls that were giving him a strange look.
Sango looked over to see Kagura opening the door that lead to the location of the exit of the plane. She nudged Kagome to get her attention, and they silently nodded to each other and stood, exiting the cabin and following after the bass player of their band.
Confused, Ami and Ayame wandered after them, followed by Inuyasha and Kouga. This left a snoring Miroku in the plane all by his lonesome. It seemed that Kagura had started a strange train just by leaving the premises.
In the end, the train ended up at the hotel they were supposed to stay in. None of them were quite sure how they had managed it, but there they were, checking in and getting their rooms.
That's when Inuyasha and Kouga realized that Miroku was still on the plane.
*
Miroku woke up, noticing the dead silence around him. Looking around, he found the area deserted of any other inhabitants. Furrowing his eyebrows, the bass player stood up and exited the plane.
Standing on the airfield, Miroku didn't catch sight of anyone he recognized, so began wandering aimlessly.
"Ko, airishi lanteri wan amo!" (A/N, sorry to bother you, but this is gibberish, since I don't speak Chinese)
Miroku turned around confusedly and looked at a man who apparently worked at the airport approaching him. "Are you talking to me?"
"Joal goqa, amo." The man seemed angry with him, but Miroku had no idea as to why.
"I don't speak Chinese. Do you happen to speak English?" Miroku tried to keep a cool head as he walked toward the Chinese man.
"Raest godes sobotak pritaverkel."
Miroku just blinked at the man stupidly. "Umo…"
"Raest godes sobotak pritaverkel, joal"
He needed to get out of there, he had no idea what this man was saying to him, but the tone made Miroku realize that this dude was not happy one iota.
So, not really thinking through the situation, Miroku did the first thing that came to him: he ran. Perhaps it wasn't the best thing to do, since Miroku had no idea where he was going. But he truly began to realize his stupidity as the sirens started up and the airport security began chasing him.
*
Inuyasha and Kouga returned to the plane and looked around inside. No Miroku.
The two guys shrugged, thinking nothing of it, and left again. When they got back to the hotel, Ami and Kagome nearly punched them.
"You insufferable jerks! You're just going to let Miroku wander around the city alone?"
"Keh, of course." Inuyasha turned away from Kagome and pulled out his key to go into his room.
"What if something happens to him? What if he never shows up?" Kagome followed him into his room yelling the entire way.
"It's not like this is the first time he got lost."
"WHAT? He's gotten lost before?" Kagome refrained from punching the wall in her anger.
"Yeah, in New York he was missing for two and a half days…in New Orleans he would have been missing, but the police picked him up and brought him to the hotel…when we went to DC he disappeared without a trace and popped up a week later half dead…"
"Enough, I don't need to hear this!" Kagome shot an angry look at Inuyasha. "Did you ever stop to think about the fact that everywhere else he got lost, he was in a place where the natives spoke the same language as him?"
Inuyasha's eyes widened slightly, then he sat down with a slight huff in one of the hotel chairs. "Keh, like I really care."
"You're impossible." With that, Kagome opened the door that connected his room with the one next-door and walked through. Apparently the other inhabitant had already opened the other side.
"What the-"
Inuyasha stood up and followed Kagome through the door.
"I didn't say you could come into my room." That voice belonged to none other than the lead singer of Sengotsu herself: Kagome. Her voice gave away to the fact that she was highly irritated with Inuyasha.
*
Miroku had been taken to the police station and he was given one call, in which he called Sesshoumaru, his manager, since he didn't know the number of the hotel at which his counterparts in the band were staying.
The inu youkai had reluctantly agreed to come and bail the 'monk' out of jail. And so here they were, driving towards the hotel where everyone else was staying already.
"Slow down! Sesshoumaru! You're going to kill us!" Miroku braced himself on the seats armrests as he looked in horror at the traffic they were speeding past.
"Shut your mouth human, be grateful I even picked you up." Sesshoumaru glared coldly at Miroku, taking his eyes off of the road.
"Watch where we're going, will ya? I want to live to see the day I can drink!"
Sesshoumaru took a deadly swerve to the right and pulled into a hotel parking lot, skidding to a stop in one of the many parking spaces.
Miroku immediately jumped out of the car and kissed the ground below him.
"Filthy human, get your mouth off of the ground. We're going inside."
Miroku reluctantly got up and followed after Sesshoumaru into the large building. They stopped at the front desk to check in before heading to the elevators.
One of the elevator doors opened and Sesshoumaru quickly stepped in and glared coldly at all of the current occupants of the elevator. Whether or not they meant to get out on that floor, all scurried away quickly like frightened deer.
Sesshoumaru then took the opportunity to glare at Miroku, as if challenging him to get in the elevator. He did so, but was soon picked up and thrown back out by Sesshoumaru.
"Ite, hey man, did ya have to throw me so hard?" Miroku rubbed his head and glanced back at Sesshoumaru through the closing elevator doors.
"Yes." And then Sesshoumaru was gone, and Miroku was obliged to press the 'up' button on the wall once again.
He waited for a little over a minute before another elevator stopped on the floor and he was able to head up to his room.
Upon arriving, he nearly jumped out of his skin when he found Kouga peaking out from behind his bed in apparent fright.
"Oh, it's just you. I thought it was someone else." Kouga stood up and ran past Miroku, slamming the door shut.
"Who did you think it'd be?" Miroku looked back curiously at the drummer of Enchanted.
Kouga turned away from him and blushed slightly. "I'd rather not say."
"Oh, come on. Who did you think was coming in?"
"Ami or Sango." Kouga gulped and looked away from Miroku.
Miroku gave Kouga's back a skeptical look. "Why are you hiding from them anyway?"
"No reason." With that, Kouga ran through the door the connected Miroku's room with the one next-door.
*
The next evening, after a day of shopping and hanging out at the hotel, the boys had a concert. They were tuckered out from being dragged along by the girls to carry bags and boxes, so none were really up to the performance.
As they stood up on stage, the only one with any energy left; and the only one who didn't go shopping, thought of a way to pump some blood into his two counterparts.
"I'd like to thank you all for coming out here tonight. Miroku and Kouga are a little out of it right now, so I figured we'd start off the concert with one of our older songs. As I'm sure some of you know, Kouga and I were wrestlers in High School, and that's when we had written this song. Minna, I present to you, Violence IS Necessary."
Screams rang up through the crowd as Miroku and Kouga groaned. They were really too tired to play such an upbeat and demanding song. But Inuyasha was the leader, and he had already made the decision without them, it was their duty to follow along.
Miroku played a few low, smooth notes on his bass, and then was joined by Kouga on the drum set. Last to come in was Inuyasha with the electric.
Remind me again
Just tell me again
Who was that guyThat said,
"Violence isn't necessary"?
Cries rang out through the crowd as the boys played one of the songs that had really made them famous. It was one of the pieces that was on their first album and was constantly sung at WWE tournaments.
Throw a punch my way
And I'll throw one right back
Give me a kick
And I'll return the gift
Brawlin' over breakfast
A fistfight 'fore lunch
Friendly wrestlin' match
Mid afternoon
So…who was the guy that said
"Violence isn't necessary"?
I live for the thrill of battle
To hear a satisfying crunch
Maybe it's a little gruesome
But I'll only do that after lunch
Don't like to pick on the weak
They're never any fun
So toss a leg, swing an arm
I'll take on anyone
Tell me again
Why isn't violence necessary?
Throw a punch my way
And I'll throw one right back
Give me a kick
And I'll return the gift
Brawlin' over breakfast
A fistfight 'fore lunch
Friendly wrestlin' matchMid afternoon
Can't get enough action
Violence is so necessary
I live for the fights on a daily basis
Violence is necessaryInuyasha smiled as the crowd cheered loudly for them. A girl in the front with black hair pulled up in pigtails looked like she was about to cry. There was a boy standing next to her that had short brown hair and a look that could probably kill. The girl seemed to be the fan and the boy must have been dragged along. Inuyasha felt the boy's pain.
He began to think back on Kikyou and how she had used Inuyasha. It had annoyed Inuyasha to no end then, and just thinking about it now gave him a rush of anger.
*
It had almost been a week since they had left Japan, and they were just leaving China. They had been delayed at customs when security tried to take Sango's Haraikotsu and she had refused, hitting them all over the head with the giant boomerang.
Apparently she couldn't part with the item, and it cost the entire group their private jet. So now, much to Enchanted's dismay, they were traveling on a commercial airline. Luckily for them, they were all in first class and there was no one but the nine of them up there. The nine including Sesshoumaru, who now and then disappeared like a ghost, even in the middle of their flight to Sydney, Australia.
Sango was happily cuddling up to her boomerang, having just knocked out another stewardess and Miroku, when Kagome sat down in Miroku's vacated seat to talk to Sango.
"Hey taijiya. What's up?" Kagome glanced down at the monk lying in the isle of the aircraft, and then turned her attention to Sango.
"Nothing much, just a few layers of atmosphere and a vacuum filled with rocks and gas…"
"You know what I meant." Kagome gave Sango a look that said she was none-too-pleased with Sango's earlier answer.
"Hai, hai, but I couldn't resist! Gomen ne." Sango smiled apologetically at Kagome quickly, and then continued. "I think that I'm going to croak before this whole tour thing is done with. Houshi-sama is driving me insane."
"I seriously doubt you're going to die." Sango almost interrupted Kagome to protest, nut Kagome stopped her. "But I wouldn't doubt it if Sengotsu ended up at an asylum before this summer comes to a close."
"So true, so true."
Sango looked behind them to see Ayame peacefully sleeping on Kouga's shoulder. Kagome followed her gaze, smiling slightly. "At least some of us will be able to reach some measure of sanity this season."
"Yeah." Sango smiled and pulled out her disposable camera. "I wonder if those two even realize what they're doing." She unbuckled and flipped over so she was kneeling backwards in her seat, facing the sleeping pair behind them. A picture was taken and the camera quickly found its way back into Sango's bag. "I'm so using that as blackmail later."
Kagome giggled slightly at the thought, knowing how horrid Sango could be about the whole blackmail issue. She took it so seriously, and wouldn't bluff at all. Kagome had found that out the hard way when an embarrassing photo of her with her face buried in frosting ended up posted on every wall in the school. Sango had only wanted to go shopping, but man did she take a no seriously.
So Kagome shrugged, knowing that there was no one who could stop Sango from torturing her close friends to get what she wanted. Some may call that using your friends, but for Sango, all was well since she didn't do it THAT often.
~
Inutori: Done with another chapter!
Inuyasha: And how long did it take you to write it?
Inutori: Shut up Inuyasha, just because you're a half demon you never get sick. I've been ill for the last week, and still going, so haven't been able to do much.
Inuyasha: Excuses, excuses.
Kagome: Well, it's not like YOU don't make excuses for yourself either, Inuyasha.
Inuyasha: Keh.
Inutori: Hope all of the people who enjoyed this chapter will review, unless ff.net is being stinky like it was for me last night…I read several stories, but it wouldn't let me review for any of them…but at least I tried. So please try to review. If ff.net won't let you, then at least you have credit for trying, aye?
