Chapter 3: Prepare for the Time of Your Life
The phone rang loud and sharp at 5:30 in the morning. Kagome, Sango, Kikyo, and Kagura all groaned as Kagome answered it groggily.
"… Hello…?" Kagome said still half-asleep. An automated voice machine answered her.
This is your wake-up call at 5:30 for Saturday, May—
Kagome hung up the phone and rolled back over. "Damnit… We've got a performance in 3 hours…"
"Yeah, but then we've got Disneyland afterwards…" Kikyo chimed in. A knock sounded at the door. Since Sango was the closest, she decided that she should go get it.
"Breakfast is downstairs," Totosai said quickly and left.
"Who was it?" Kagura asked Sango as she came back and sat on the bed. "It was Totosai. He said that breakfast is downstairs."
"Well, then, let's go," Kagome got up and the others followed. They went down in their pajamas, as did almost everyone else. The breakfast room was empty except for their band, and they were the first group down. The four of them slowly assembled their plates and took a seat at a table near the door. They saw everyone enter one by one. Still half-asleep, the four girls picked at their food. Then Kouga came over and sat next to Kagome and across from Sango. He had changed into his street clothes. "Hi," he said, obviously still tired.
"What's up with you?" Kagome asked.
"Try sleeping in a corner and having both Inuyasha AND Myoga step on you in the middle of the night when they attempt to make it across the room to the bathroom…"
"Oh, eck, I'm sorry about that, Kouga." Sango said. "Why didn't you guys just share beds like everyone else?"
"Are you kidding me? YOU try sharing a bed with Myoga, Inuyasha, or Eikichi."
The four of them gave Kouga a weird stare.
"Oh, come on, that's not what I meant. If you shared a bed with any of them, they would crush you in the middle of the night!"
"Seems like they did that anyway," Kikyo muttered while poking at her cereal with a spoon.
"What?" Kouga asked, throwing Kikyo a slight glare.
"Nothing," Kikyo said nonchalantly and placed a spoonful of the cereal in her mouth.
"Why are you sitting over here anyway?" Kagome asked, a little harsher than she meant. "I mean, why aren't you with the guys over there?" She added and pointed at where Inuyasha and Miroku were sitting.
Kouga shrugged and put a piece of muffin in his mouth. "I like it over here."
Sango and Kikyo gave each other a 'Sure, that's why' sarcastic look and smirked. Kagome saw and rolled her eyes. Kouga was oblivious to this action. The five of them finished their breakfast and looked at the clock over the doorway
"We should get back and change into our uniforms. We need to get our street clothes ready too for Disneyland," Kagura said.
"Oh, no, Kaede said that we would be coming back. No changing on the bus for us," Sango chuckled.
"Too bad huh…" Kikyo sighed.
Kouga gave them a weird stare as Kagome laughed. The five of them were the first ones out of the breakfast room. Kouga went to his own room while the girls all filed into theirs.
"Oh, crap, we didn't iron our shirts! Kaede's going to kill us!" Kagura panicked as they walked in.
"Don't worry, I ironed them last night before we slept, remember?" Sango opened the closet door and brought out all of their uniforms.
Kagome laughed as Sango handed her the uniform. "Thank you, Secretary."
Sango rolled her eyes as she went over to Kikyo and Kagura. Then she went for her own uniform. She looked at it and glared. 'Hideous things…'
"Ugh, I hate this stupid band thingy that we have to wear…" Kagome referred to the cumber bund that went around their waist.
"And this bow tie…" Kikyo added.
"And this long-sleeve shirt in this weather…" Kagura said.
"And this dress!" They all said in unison.
Another knock was heard at the door, and once again, Sango went to answer it.
"Yes, answer it, Secretary." Kikyo and Kagome laughed and Sango rolled her eyes again.
"Yes, Kaede?"
"Tell the girls that we'll be meeting down in about fifteen minutes."
Sango nodded and closed the door. "Fifteen minutes, you guys."
"Okay…" everyone said as they put on their uniforms. Kikyo and Kagura were fully dressed, but Sango and Kagome left the bow tie and cumber bund off for now. Sango went back to the closet to retrieve everyone's instruments. She brought out the biggest one first.
"Here, Kikyo," Sango handed the case that contained the bass clarinet to Kikyo.
"Ah, thank you, little sister," Kikyo grinned playfully as Sango turned around and went back into closet and carried out the second biggest one.
"Kagura's saxophone." Sango set the black case down next to Kagura. Kagura smiled and nodded.
"And last, but not least," Sango carried out the two remaining instrument cases. "The flute and the clarinet." She handed Kagome the square case while she kept the rectangular one.
"I have the biggest twanger," Kikyo laughed.
"And I've got the smallest," Sango replied. "It's good for sticking it up people's... Well, we've had this conversation before. You know," Sango smiled sheepishly while setting her flute case down on the bed. She sighed as she tied the cumber bund around her waist and put the bow tie on. Kagome did the same.
"Wait, what?" Kagura was confused once again. "What's a twanger? What'd Sango do with her flute?"
"Ah, Kagura, Kagura…" Kikyo patted Kagura's head. "Your innocent mind isn't suited for us."
"Be happy, Kagura. You have an innocent mind and you're in high school. You're one of the few lucky ones," Sango added in.
"Well, anyways, we've got about three minutes left," Kagura said, looking at the clock. "We should probably start heading down."
The others nodded and they put on their nice black shoes that needed to be worn as a part of their uniform. They walked out with their instruments and looked out over the balcony, laughing at its irony again. Once again, Miroku's group was down there first. Shortly after, Kouga's group came out.
"We might as well go down there too," Sango said as she walked towards the staircase. They sat and awaited Kaede's presence. When she came down, they all loaded their instruments onto the bus and found a seat. Kagome was the first one in. She took a seat and Sango sat in front of her. Kouga sat across the aisle from Kagome, and Miroku sat across the aisle from Sango. As usual, Kikyo and Inuyasha went in the back while Kagura sat in front of Kikyo.
Kagome leaned forward so that she could speak in a whisper to Sango. "Look at where the girls and the guys are sitting," she said, causing Sango to tear her eyes from the window. Sango looked around the bus and her eyes widened slightly. They both shook their heads and laughed nervously. The bus started up and they were on their way to the site of their performance.