Gem: Someone wanted to know why Inuyasha and Kagome are acting the way they are around each other even though Inuyasha was supposedly given a second chance
Kagome: That's fairly easy to explain. In the actual show I say that I'm being stupid at one point and ask Inuyasha to forgive me, he agrees, but it doesn't really change our relationship. Even though the situation we had been in at the time was fairly intimate.
Gem: There you have it. Straight from the horses mouth. Kagome & Inuyasha got off on the wrong foot to begin with, and basically in Australia, Inuyasha asked to start over with a clean slate. That doesn't mean that his entire demeanor will change overnight.
Inuyasha: Keh. I'm never going to change.
Sagi: You will by the time I'm through with you. *evil grin*
Inuyasha: *running away* Keep the midget away from me! Stupid wenches.
Gem: I don't own Inuyasha, so why don't you scroll down and read the next insertion of Enchanted.
Chapter 10
Sengotsu
Day two of their stay in Bombay was no different than the first. It was still pouring like there was no tomorrow outside and it was still fairly hot indoors. Ami and Ayame were lounging in their room, bored out of their minds.
"Maybe we could go flirt with the locals." Ami sighed miserably as she watched the second hand on her wristwatch slowly make its way around the clock.
"In the hotel?" Ayame barely opened her closed eyes to look at her roommate tiredly.
"Why are you always shooting down my ideas?"
"I don't know, maybe because they're all illogical?" Ayame sank further into her temporary bed and closed her eyes again.
"Maybe I'll go flirt with Kouga-kun then. That'd pass the time until tonight's concert well enough."
Ayame's eyes popped open in some form of surprise as she shot up like lightning and glared at Ami. "Don't you dare go near Kouga."
The young kitsune just looked back at her companion with a shrug and headed out of the room and down the hall. With a very wolf-like growl, Ayame followed after Ami and cut off the younger girl's path.
"What is your problem, Ayame-chan?" Ami cocked her head to the side, her light brown hair falling partially onto her face.
The female ookami-youkai didn't respond but just glared coldly at the girl in front of her.
Ami slightly smiled, suddenly realizing what was really happening. "Oh, you like Kouga-kun, don't you?" Sticking out her tongue slightly, Ami smiled cynically.
"Whatever." Ayame stopped her low growl and relaxed. "Let's go." Her sudden change surprised Ami quite a bit, and the gears in the prodigy's head began to turn with this new information.
Once this data had been "processed," Ami found herself wondering if this tour was such a good idea afterall. One group made up of two humans, and three youkai; and the other made up of a human, a hanyou, and a youkai. Things could begin to get a little sticky and claws could fly without a moment's notice.
*
Another concert was at hand, and there were a couple of sour faces among the performers. Not to mention any names, but the worst one would have to have long silver hair.
It seemed American music wasn't as popular a thing here in India as it was in California. So Enchanted's performance wasn't applauded nearly as much as Inuyasha would have liked.
Sengotsu was about to get on stage and play their songs when Kagome paused next to Inuyasha to grab his hand and smile at him. "You guys did great, the audience just doesn't know how to appreciate you."
That brought a touch of a smile to Inuyasha's face and he was reluctant to let go of Kagome's hand as she continued her trek for the wooden stage. He wasn't sure still why she affected him the way she did, or why he was trying to go out of his way to do anything for her. It just sort of…happened…
On stage, Kagome took the microphone and spoke to the crowd calmly. Not something Inuyasha was used to seeing. Usually you pumped the crowd; you didn't settle them down.
Tonight is the night
The night of Sengotsu
The night when only the stars
Are there to light the way
Kagome's clear, crisp voice carried through the building and resonated off the back wall. The crowd was in apparent awe and the only sound was the sure female voice floating from the stage.
After Kagome's words stopped and the smooth echo they had left behind died down, a piano began to play an entrancing melody that drew in the very soul.
Inuyasha looked over and saw Kagura sitting on the piano bench, her hands flowing over the keys like water. Ayame was standing next to the piano with a flute in her hands. Ami too had a flute with her, and in unison, they brought the instruments to their lips and played a harmony that matched Kagura's playing.
The tune was soft and gentle, yet at the same time blissful, not really something that Inuyasha had expected from a bunch of girls that seemed to like songs more along the lines of pop rock.
Sango still sat at her drum set, her drumsticks lightly tapping a steady beat that blended well into the background of the music. She leaned forward and sang into her nearby microphone just as the piano music grew a notch in volume.
Sengotsu
I really missed you
When will you come again?
Don't tell me that you're going to leave
For another month
A few more measures of piano and flute, then Kagome sang again.
Sengotsu
I really love you
I don't think I'd be able
To survive without you
So stay just a little longer
In unison, Sango and Kagome sang the chorus over the gentle sounding instruments. The tune was almost slow moving, but yet seemed light and perky, just like the girls performing it.
Tonight is the night
The night of Sengotsu
The night when only the stars
Are there to light the way
Once again Sango sang the first few lines of the verse and Kagome finished it, singing in unison for another round of the chorus.
SengotsuI am a star shining brightly
In your dark sky
With no moon I can
Stand out among the rest
Sengotsu
Is the best night of the month
There's no moon for the wolves
To sing their songs to
And howl about the kill
Tonight is the night
The night of Sengotsu
The night when only the stars
Are there to light the way
Sengotsu
Come back to me
Sengotsu
I'll miss you
Sengotsu
Till next time we meet
Sengotsu
Don't you forget me
Sengotsu
You are beautiful
Sengotsu!
The song slowly died until the entire hall was silent as a ghost. Then without warning, shots of joys and excitement rang up throughout the stands like Inuyasha never expected.
It took all he was worth not to let his jaw drop to the floor in amazement, and when he glanced at Miroku out of the corner of his eye he immediately made note of the large droplet of drool.
After the rest of Sengotsu's songs for the evening, the girls once again came backstage with content looks on their faces.
Kouga was holding Kagome's hands in an instant, looking at Kagome with a sparkle in his eye as he spoke. "You have such a beautiful voice that even the angels envy you, my dear Kagome."
A sweat drop made its way down the side of Sango's face, as Kagome blushed slightly pink.
"A-arigato, Kouga-kun." Kagome stumbled over her words with embarrassment, not noticing the two musicians in the room that were growling slightly.
However, Ami did notice, and was put on edge by it. There were two youkai in this cramped space that were letting their instincts get the better of them. If no one stepped in soon, a fight or two would ensue.
Not wanting anyone killed at the moment, Ami scooted over so she was standing by Miroku and told him that his assistance was required. She didn't fail to notice that Miroku too had seen how angry Inuyasha and Ayame looked.
*
"Ami, I am not going to sit here and watch!" Ayame paced through their hotel room later that night, on the verge of ripping her hair out.
"And I'm not asking you to. I'm just saying that you shouldn't take this all out on Kagome." Ami sat on her bed nervously, she still being unnerved by the teeth gnashing that had occurred when she and Miroku had tried to play mediator.
The wolf youkai turned on her angrily, temper flaring dangerously out of control. "This is her fault! If it weren't for her, Kouga would be paying attention to me!"
"She didn't ask Kouga to like her!" Ami leaned forward slightly, feeling her own temper rising.
"Every guy falls head over heels for her and never gives me a second glance! She flaunts around going 'I'm the leader of Sengotsu. Look at me.' " Ayame flung her hands like a preppy girl and forced an obviously fake smile in her own imitation of Kagome.
"Kagome doesn't do that and you know it!" The tension in the atmosphere of the room was thickening by the minute as the arguing pair continued to lay it on each other.
"Don't you see it, Ami? Every move she makes, every word she speaks, she's just trying to get another guy's attention. Never satisfied, never stopping."
"Shut up, Ayame! You've known Kagome for years! How can you say things like that?" Ami felt her youkai powers surfacing, and knew that her fox tail had already appeared and was swinging vigorously behind her with anger.
"She's such a slut! I hate her! If she doesn't quit Sengotsu, then I will!" Ayame stormed out of the room and down the hall towards the stairs to go to the lobby in a huff.
Ami sat perfectly still on her bed, shocked at the wolf demon's words. "She wouldn't…really quit…would she?" Tears swelled up in her eyes and soon they were streaming down her face. "What's happening to us?" Her hands came up to cover her eyes and very quickly her stream of tears turned into full-fledged sobbing.
*
The next morning everyone boarded a train to head north to Agar, Uttar Pradesh to see the Taj Mahal before leaving the country. There was a tense silence among the travelers that were dispersed between two private rooms on the railroad train.
Sesshoumaru, Kouga, Ayame, and Kagura were in one room, and the remaining five were located in the other.
Sesshoumaru sat silently, brooding over the expenses the tour was forcing on the group while Ayame tried to make conversation with Kouga.
"What do you like to do in your free time?"
"Don't have any."
"Well, how bout if you had some free time, what would you do?"
"I don't know, hire some girl to entertain me?"
The conversation was closed with a disgusted looking Ayame and a bored drummer.
Kagura sat on the other end of the small room in silence, thinking about a letter she had just received from her father.
The door to the hall slid open quickly, there standing an exasperated looking Kagome. "Ayame, can I talk to you? Onegai?" Kagome motioned for Ayame to follow her and the wolf demon reluctantly obeyed, glancing back once or twice at the remaining occupants of the small room.
"What do you want?" Ayame glared coldly at Kagome the moment the door had slid shut behind them.
Kagome looked at her with one eyebrow raised. "We're all waiting for you in the next car. I was thinking this would be the perfect time to practice that song I showed you guys before we left Japan."
"Forget it."
"Nande?" Kagome was forced to do a double take as Ayame's words sank in.
"Kagome Higurashi, from this moment forward, I refuse to continue performing in Sengotsu so long as you're still a member." Ayame took a deep breath, standing up perfectly straight.
The raven-haired human didn't move; as if time itself had frozen over. "Ayame-chan? What are you saying?"
"I'm saying that I will quit Sengotsu if you don't."
"Y-you're breaking up the group? B-but why?" Kagome trembled slightly, fearing with her entire being what Ayame's answer would be.
"Because I have found that I can no longer work with you." Ayame refused to look Kagome in the eyes, but instead found her attention focused on the door at the end of the hall behind her newfound enemy.
There was another minute of silence, where you could almost see the gears in Kagome's head turning frantically. "There's nothing I can do to get you to change your mind, ne?"
"Nothing."
Kagome, too, straightened her back, but she had no fear of looking Ayame straight in the eyes as she spoke. "Well then, Ayame Wolfe, I hope you're happy. You have now destroyed the diligent labors of five young women. One of which is you. I will leave Sengotsu, but I'll have you know: I wrote Sengotsu's songs, and unless you pay for copyright, they're mine." Kagome was shaken from the inside out, but she did her best not to show it as she turned on her heel and returned to the other compartment inhabited by the two bands.
Miroku and Inuyasha were the only two in the small room at the time of her entry, and with a signal from the hanyou, Miroku quickly left the premises. Once he was gone, Kagome flung her arms around Inuyasha's waist and cried her heart out.
Sobs racked her entire body and Inuyasha wasn't exactly sure what he should do. With a great deal of nervousness he began to run one of his strong hands up and down Kagome's back. It seemed to work fairly well as a calming method, and within a few minutes Kagome was silent.
"What's wrong, Kagome?" Inuyasha was still quite nervous about this whole ordeal, and his hesitation could easily be identified in his voice.
"N-nothing." She tightened her grip on Inuyasha and buried her face into his side none-too-gently.
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Gem: Sorry for the short chapter and the time it took to update, but I was…er…occupied…
Inuyasha: By what? An elephant?
Gem: Something along those lines.
Inuyasha: Yeah right.
Sagi: I was one of her many distractions!
Kagome: That's not really something to be proud of, you know.
Sagi: And your point being?
Gem: *cough* Well, anyways…peoples have asked what the deal with Kagome is, and here's the low down: I ain't telling just yet because it has to do with the story's plot!
Inuyasha: Wait, this thing actually has a plot?
Gem: Of course! And now for something else requested by peoples: translations of Japanese words I use.
Matte~ wait
Onegai~ please
Arigato~ thank you
Okaa-san~ mother
Sengotsu~ new moon
Hai~ yes
Ite~ ouch
Iie~ no
Hentai~ pervert
Ja ne~ See ya later (sorta)
Minna-san~ everyone
-chan~ friend or little
-san~ more formal way of addressing someone
-kun~ addressing a male friend
-sama~ a way of addressing a lord or someone above you in status
Keep in mind that I am not a major in Japanese, so this may not necessarily be totally correct, but this is what I believe I've learned through all the anime and fanfiction I've subjected myself to. Sorry if I missed some of the words I've used in the story, and I may have listed some words I haven't used. But maybe I'll get to those ones in the future.
Until then, ja ne, minna-san!
