The sign on the door named the place The Beef and Brandy. It was lit by bulbs that cast a yellow light on the booths and bar. Mick and crew were on the jukebox. Some nighthawks hung around the booths, and truckers sat at the bar. The clock on the wall said three o' clock. InuYasha picked a booth in the corner and sat down. Kagome slid in beside him with Sango and Miroku across from them.
"Alright, the cops ain't findin' us here, what do you guys know?" InuYasha began. "Well, long story short, therre's a guy out there, he's collectin' jewel shards and we-" Miroku was interuppted by Sango. "Hold on, before we go any father, some please enlighten me on what the fuck a jewel shard is." Kagome reached in her jacket and removed a small bottle with three shards in it. "These are them, it used to be a whole jewel until InuYasha decied to shoot it." Kagome said, fixing the youth with a glare. "Like I knew what the hell it was!" "Wait, YOUR the one who broke it? What the hell were you thinking?" "Shut the fuck up pasian." "I'm not Itailan." "Then why the fuck do you work for the mob?" "I don't anymore, and when I did, I did it for my own Godamn reasons." "Yeah what ever Miroku. Kagome, please continue."
Kagome glared at InuYasha before continueing. "Anyway, the jewel shards somehow give unnatural power to anything that uses 'em, but it always turns the user to evil. So me and InuYasha have been collecting them ever since. I've... seen what it can do to animals.. but never to humans."
Sango sensed there was some memory attached to that last statement but left it alone. "We've seen what it can do to humans. Me an' Miroku both saw. The guy took like 25 bullets and didn't die. Only disappered." Miroku nodded agreement, then signaled everybody shut the fuck up as the waitress aprrocahed.
The waiteress was a woman who had to be 50 and had defidentaly seen better days. Her name tag read 'Mavis'. She glared at the youths gathered around the table at 3 AM, giving the longest glare to Kagome, the youngest. "What'll be?" Sango ordered soup, InuYasha got a hamburger, Kagome just a side of fries, and, orignally, Miroku ordered a roast beef and some brandy.
Mavis didn't bother writing anything down and left them. "So anyway, how does this ah, jewel work?" Sango asked. InuYasha shrugged. "You two started this, you should know." Miroku stated. "Hell I dunno, it glowed, so maybe radation or something." InuYasha hypothisiesed. "No way, if that were true we'd be feeling the affects just from being around the damn things." "Maybe it's only radioactive when mixed with blood or something. I don't know the damn science behind it." "Well then how does it only work for evil, I mean, it's gotta have a computer chip to tell good from evil right?" "No electricty though..." "Good point." "Wait I got it!" InuYasha announced triumphantly. "The chip is powered by blood, it's a liquid like water, so electricty has to flow through it." Everyone stared at InuYasha silently. "... fuck you guys, I'm not a damn scientist, 'sides, better than any of you have done."
"Err... ok then InuYasha. Why don't we figure out where the jewel came from?" Sango asked reasonably. "Dunno, I got it from Kagome, she should know." Everyone turned expectalntly to Kagome. She glanced around the table. "Magic?" She offered lamely. There was a brief puase. "Okay, I'll go with magic." "Yeah me too, makes more sense than InuYasha's damn blood-powered-computer theory." "Shut it."
"Anyway, back on topic. What intelligance do you guys got?" "Miroku has very little-" "Hey!" "I, on the other hand have found something useful. First thing is a list of all the companies and locations that are on Naraku's payroll. "I belive I found that." "Naraku? Him again?" "Yeah him again, anyway me an' Miroku have been hitting all the front buisness, that's what we were doing when we ran into you."
"Well what do we now?" Kagome asked. The four gathered around the tabled glanced at each other. "I say, if this Naraku guy is collecting the shards, we just keep going on hitting the places on the list, then eventully we'll run into him, and get his shards." Miroku offered his plan. After a moment mulling it over, InuYasha nodded. "Alright, sounds like a plan." "One problem" Miroku stated flatly. "How do we kill this guy? Bullets don't work." "Don't worry, I got that taken care of." InuYasha said. "Oh?" "Yeah, I just happened to have a .45 that's been modified so it can take down pretty much anything." "Modified? How?" Sango asked. "I dunno, I didn't do it, maybe works on the same principle as the shards." "Would that be the blood-powered-radioactive-computer principle?" Miroku asked with a grin. InuYasha stared at Miroku for a couple seconds then abrubtly whipped a sugar packet at his head.
Miroku's retaliation was cut short by the arrival of Mavis with food.
As he ate his burger, InuYasha looked around at the group contemplatievly. "Ya know... we got four of us.. on three bikes.. three of us with leather jackets... we got us a biker gang." The group stopped eating to dwell on this fact. "Yeah.." Miroku agreed "But, if we have a biker gang, we need a name..." "Why?" Kagome asked. "Becuase.. to be identifable from other biker gangs.. and umm.. to promote unity an'.." "Becuase it's cool alright?" InuYasha interuppted. "If you say so."
"Now.. any ideas?" "Is 'The Cobras' too unimagnative?" Kagome suggested. "Yeah pretty much." Miroku made a point, "It's gotta be a music referance. Speakin' of which, I'll be right back." Miroku got up and juanted to the silent jukebox. As he came back, "Start Me Up" began to play.
"What albulm?" InuYasha asked as soona s Miroku sat down. "Forty Licks." InuYasha chuckled and stared at the table witha far away look in his eye. "Yeah, I got alot of memories attached to that albulm. "Keep 'em to yourself Pops. Back to the name." "Right." Kagome silently cursed the loss of what might of been a look into InuYasha's past. A/N: You, however could get a look, http:adultfan. Changelings?" Miroku suggested. "Nah, only Door's fans will get that, everyone else will think we're gay." "Good point." "Rebels of the Sacred Heart?" "No one will get that." "The cool people will get it." "Well we arn't out to impress the cool people, the cool people will know we're cool." "But what about Drunken Lullabies"
The girls looked on in confusion as the two discussed the sociological impact of an obscure Irish rock band. Eventully they decied that while Floggin' Molly was good, and had some great lyrics, but didn't have what they were looking for.
"Anyway" InuYasha staed. "Back to The Doors. Riders on the Storm?" "Yes! Song fits, title fits, makes sense to everyone." "Alright then, Riders on the Storm is numero uno at this point." "Moving into more obscure songs, The Seatbelts?" "Pfft, bikes don't have seat belts, don't fit." "Mmm."
After several seonds of silence, Miroku spoke up "Spirt of the Radio? It's not as obvious as the others, but it really reflects the driving force behind it all." "That's more of a title." "Alot catchier than say, the awsomely metal biker group..." "So true, you would think we would be able to come up with something better." "But say we get know by that name, can we change it?" "I'd like to but I dunno if I can, I'd really like a Rush referance, and I guess the song 'Subdivisons' fits a little more subject wise than Salty Dog even if Salty Dog stands out more." "Hmmm, I gotta tell ya, I'm leaning ALOT towards Spirit of the Radio, something grandiose about it." "Right, but what about the name of the group?"
Finished breaking down the fourth wall, they returned to the task at hand. "THE band for biker referances is still the Stones and you know it." "That's why I put 'em on the juke box." "Midnight Ramblers?" "Maybe, that goes on the list." "Man, we should just put 'Stones referance' on the list by it's self and figure out which referance later." "Yeah, I'll go with that, also 'Zepp referance' " "Yeah"
The sky began to pinken as the sun rose. "Tell ya what" Kagome yawned "We got a good start, let's sleep on it and decide in the morning, we're in no rush." "That's my point!" "Shut up InuYasha."
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