Boys of Summer
Chapter Eight: The Perv, the Innocent, and Angel in Blue Jeans
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InuYasha and Miroku watched Shippo gain a little bounce in his step after he and Kanna started dating a week ago. He was constantly buying her video games, new controllers, and once, even a new Xbox.
The red haired ball of energy was putting one of Kanna's newest gifts into a gift bag when InuYasha and Miroku entered his room and calmly closed the door.
"Shippo..." InuYasha said, sinking to the floor beside the younger boy's bed.
"We need to talk." Miroku took his place beside InuYasha.
"Sure! What do we need to talk about?" Shippo never took his eyes away from the task at hand.
"If you would pay attention, that would a pretty good start." InuYasha growled.
Shippo finally sat the bag down and turned to his brothers. InuYasha looked pretty ticked off, no surprise there. And Miroku...was...Eating brownies...
"Ok, I'm paying attention. Now, what's up?" "What's up? WHAT'S UP?! You spend three hundred dollars in a week on Kanna and you ask 'What's up'? Are you out of your rocker?"
Shippo stood up, grabbing the bag and stomping to the door. Before he left, he turned to InuYasha and Miroku.
"Maybe when you two find a girl that will stay with you longer than three days, you'll understand how I feel about Kanna...Oh, man...InuYasha, I'm-" "Leave Shippo." A curtain of silver hair had fallen over InuYasha's eyes, obscuring them from the world.
"Look, I didn't mean it..." Shippo stopped, seeing how Miroku was motioning him out of the room.
After Shippo had left, Miroku sat his plate of brownies down and turned himself around to face InuYasha.
"You can't start this now InuYasha. Kikyo wouldn't want you to be sad, would she?" "I'm cool, Miroku, I'm cool. But...Ah, I don't know."
Miroku turned to his brother with a caring smile.
"Kikyo was a good person, and she was like a sister to me and Shippo and you know that."
InuYasha knew, all right. He still remembered Kikyo sitting at the dining room table assisting Shippo with his homework, helping him and Miroku tune the guitars, and then she had to go.
InuYasha rubbed his eyes dry and stood up, Miroku following suit after retrieving his empty plate. They were walking down the stairs when a thought hit InuYasha.
"Miroku, you can't cook. Where did you get the brownies?"
In the kitchen, Miroku sat his plate in the sink. And yet another detail caught InuYasha's eye. The plate had a delicate flower pattern along the white rim. In the middle was a lotus blossom. The silvered haired boy opened up his cabinets to discover dishes that the plate put to shame.
Paper plates, plastic cups, even their eating utensils were plastic. At least they had the cool kind, they had the packs of plastic silverware with transparent red, blue, and clear forks, knives, and spoons. And the plates were the best, they had Zoo Pals. InuYasha's personal favorite was the red chicken, Miroku liked the fish, and Shippo liked the cow. But no, that was definitely not their plate.
"I got them from Sango. I told her my nutrition was severely lacking from eating nothing but ramen, potato chips, and Snickers bars all the time. So she fed me well, then I stole her brownies and left the house with a plate of roast beef and brownies."
"You ate roast beef?" InuYasha asked, feeling almost sick at the idea of the younger boy getting real food for once.
"Yeah! And mashed potatoes, green beans, and Kagome had made the best brown gravy in the world..."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa...Kagome cooked to?"
"Well yeah...They were having dinner when me and Shippo went over there. It was when you were gone looking for a gig."
He sighed and slumped up against the counter. They hadn't been able to do a performance since the party, and money was running low. He had some songs stashed away, but where could they use them?
"We really need to look at the clubs in other areas. If we don't, we're royally screwed."
"Well, I have a request."
InuYasha looked up at Miroku, who was wringing his hands nervously.
"Yeah, what is it?"
Miroku's dark eyes flicked across the kitchen, then to InuYasha's face, then back to the hunter green floors.
"I...I want to perform a song for Sango because...Well...I'm in love with her."
Golden eyes drooped a little from the useless information.
"Miroku, why must you point out the obvious?"
"I don't knowwwaitaminutehowdoyouknowIloveher?" Miroku rambled, inventing a new word for the English dictionary.
InuYasha gave a careless shrug and walked over to the refrigerator and looked inside.
"Well, can you help me? At all? Please?"
InuYasha popped the top on a can of Code Red and smiled mischievously.
"Of course, I can, brother dear."
Miroku swallowed hard at the foreign friendly tone of the elder boy's voice, and prepared himself for the worst.
..........
"He wants to do what?" Kanna asked as Shippo clicked the phone off.
Shippo looked at his girlfriend and stood to go.
"They are going to get everyone they can to come to your front yard, and Miroku is going to perform a song for Sango."
Kanna's eyes gained that distant look as she imagined what the performance would be like.
"This is going to be so cool! I wish something like this could happen to me!"
"Hey!"
"Sorry, Shippo."
"...You don't mean it..." Shippo murmured, beginning to sulk.
Kanna ignored him, he sighed and got up to look for his drum sticks.
"InuYasha is probably gonna sing for Kagome, too."
Kanna snapped out of her daze and turned to the red head who was looking under Kanna's bed. InuYasha couldn't...She was still getting over what Hojo had done to her. She could still remember the night that Kagome's mom had called from the hospital, saying that Kagome was getting treatment for her three broken ribs and arm. Koga had bought a plane ticket that night, flew to Kagome's house, and went to find Hojo the next morning after he spent the day with Kagome in the hospital questioning her over where he lived and where he liked to hang out. Needless to say, Hojo witnessed Koga's wrath head on.
"Shippo, don't think I'm being mean or anything, but InuYasha can't sing to Kagome right now."
Shippo's moment of triumph from finding his drumsticks was over.
"Why not? Does Kagome not like InuYasha or something?"
Kanna winced and shook her head.
"It's not that...It's just...Well...Kagome, me, and Sango didn't just come to California for a break. We brought Kagome here for a little mental rehabilitation. She just escaped a very abusive relationship."
Shippo looked at Kanna like she was crazy then shook his head in disbelief.
"No way...Kagome is too headstrong to let someone do something like that to her."
Kanna sighed and clasped her hands under her chin.
"We thought that too. But when we got the call from her mother, we all realized that her stubbornness was probably what got her into this mess in the first place."
"Why?"
"Hojo wanted Kagome to sleep with him, but she refused to. So he pummeled her." "Well, InuYasha would never do that to her."
Shippo stuck his drumsticks down into his shoes and walked out the door.
"And he's going to prove it to her."
Kanna came up to him, and pulled him over beside the house.
"What are you doing?" "I have to tell you something about Kagome."
InuYasha looked down at the small girl, her eyes burning with determination.
"Ok, go ahead."
Kanna flew into the story, telling InuYasha about the abuse, Hojo, and her time in the hospital.
"I...I just don't want something like that to happen again."
InuYasha patted her head.
"Don't worry, Kanna. It won't."
People started showing up as Miroku was sitting down mats for Shippo's drums. InuYasha approached him with a smile plastered across his face, and handed him a sheet of paper.
"Here's the song we're doing for Sango. Read over it and practice with it until they get here."
Before he managed to walk off to give Shippo his sheet of music, Miroku stopped him and turned InuYasha to face him.
"You're singing for Kagome too, aren't you?"
A moments hesitation and the blush spreading across his cheeks gave him away. Miroku nodded and clapped his adopted brother on the back.
"I knew it, I knew it. Don't worry, it'll be fine."
They turned around to see Kagome and Sango pulling up in the driveway, and Miroku choked up a bit.
"I hope..." The two boys squeaked, picking up their instruments and walking towards the mats.
Kagome and Sango approached Kanna, anxious to know why at least sixty people were in their front yard.
"Kanna, what's going on here?" Kagome asked, looking around at the people.
"Hey, Kagome. Look over there." Sango pointed over to the people beginning to group around the area between the two houses.
The three girls moved along with the crowd, and Kanna led them to the front as music began to play.
Miroku, Shippo, and InuYasha waited for the girls to appear in the front before Miroku spoke to the crowd.
"This song, ladies and gentlemen, is dedicated to Sango."
He turned to InuYasha, who blushed and stepped up to the microphone.
"And Kagome, two very special girls in our lives."
Kanna looked back and forth between the two speechless girls as InuYasha carried on the music a little longer than normal.
His eyes met Kagome's, and so many emotions burst through for both of them. He sighed and let all of the tension go as he found his voice.
"I saw an angel in blue jeans today,
I felt that she melted all my bitterness away.
You always tried so hard to hide your wings behind your coat.
So let it be and let them free, So you can't hover low above the ground."
Miroku was hesitant, nervous, and queasy all at once. He looked down at Sango, her eyes bright and excited. She gave him an encouraging smile, and the lyrics poured from his mouth regardless of his nervousness of confession.
"You look so tired you've got moonbeams in your eyes, And if I believed I know you'd be the first to fly.
You always tried so hard to hide your wings behind your coat,
So let it be and let them free,
So you can't hover low above the ground."
Shippo leaned into the microphone attached to his drum set and began his part, but not without smiling at Kanna first.
"I'll find sunshine sometime soon.
How can I miss anything about you,
When I don't even know what your name is.
I feel like I know you as well as I know the sun, So please tell me where is my sunshine now."
InuYasha and Shippo took the next verse of the song, the crowd's applause growing louder and louder.
"I'll find sunshine sometime soon.
How can I miss anything about you,
When I don't even know what your name is.
I feel like I know you as well as I know the sun,
So please tell me where is my sunshine now."
All music stopped and Miroku went into the final part, smiling at Sango the whole time.
"How can I miss anything about you,
When I don't even know what your name is.
I feel like I know you,
As well as I know the sun.
And I wonder where is my sunshine now."
The applause was deafening as Miroku ran over to Sango, capturing her lips in a long kiss. Kagome stood smiling at the two when someone tapped her on the shoulder. She turned to find InuYasha standing before her, smiling gently. He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her towards him, her lips brushing against his.
"Kagome, you don't have to be scared."
Brown met gold for a moment, and he smiled.
"Don't say anything to Kanna, she told me not to mention it. But I just wanted you to know that as long as I breathe, no man will ever hurt you again."
Kagome smiled, and buried her face in InuYasha's chest. They stood there for a few moments, not as friends now, but as something more.
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