Japanese Idol
All Kagome Higurashi had been seeing for the past three months were commercials for Japanese Idol, a new singing contest designed to select the best singer in Japan and give him or her a million dollar contract.
Boring.
Of course that was all her friends at school were talking about as well, Idol this and Idol that. Jeez, what the hell was the big deal with it? Oh, yes, the judges.
There were supposed to be three judges on the panel that would decide the first few rounds who would go on and who would not.
The one ALL of the girls were drooling over was Sesshomaru Tashio, multi-billion dollar record company owner at age 22. Of course they were also drooling over his brother Inu-yasha Tashio, who was a hit talent finder at age 18, and a millionaire. Of course there had to be at least one female on the panel, so all the guys got to drool over Sango Hirokotsu, million dollar singing and dancing sensation.
Yawn.
Kagome just couldn't see the appeal in any of this. What was the point in going up in front of people who would just shoot you down the first chance they got? Not to mention all of the pressure that would fall on you if you actually managed to get past the first round. No thank you, not for her.
Much to her disappointment, while Kagome was brooding, her three friends come up to her with a huge surprise in store for her. Kagome was snapped out of her daydream thanks to a shrilly scream of Eri, Yumi, and Shippo screaming, " We entered you!"
"What the hell are you guys talking about?"
"You know that you are the top singer in chorus, as well as the whole school district, right?"
"Yes, but what the hell is your point?" Kagome asked a vein beginning to pop on her forehead.
Shippo, unable to hold it in anymore burst out, "We entered you in Japanese Idol! Isn't that great Kagome?"
As soon as those fateful words left Shippo's mouth, Kagome's peaceful aura began to burn and kill everything around her, she was so furious.
"You guys did WHAT?" She screeched.
"We figured you are such an awesome singer you could become known as the best in Japan!" Yumi said happily, hoping that Kagome wouldn't kill them for this one.
"Hadn't you guys been listening to me at ALL? I hate the idea of going up in front of people and singing, like I have been telling you since the commercials for Japanese Idol came out.
"Ummm yes, but we decided it was for your own good." Eri said edging around Kagome trying to calm her down.
"Get me out of this contest now!" Kagome screamed drawing everyone's attention.
"Sorry, it's a bit late now." Shippo said scratching his head sheepishly.
"What the hell do you mean, a bit late now?" Kagome said beginning to choke Shippo and she took out her anger on her friend.
"Well, once you're entered you are stuck, there is no taking back your entry."
"GREAT! Thanks for this, if I end embarrassing myself on national T.V. I will personally kill you all, understand that?" Kagome yelled at the top of her lungs, but then she seemed to lose all of her energy as a new thought came over her, dropping poor Shippo to the ground.
"Kags? What's up now?" Yumi asked cautiously.
"I just realized, what about Mom, Grandpa, and Souta? How are they going to take this? What will they do?"
"No problem. We checked with them before you entered you in the contest." Shippo said once he could breathe again.
This only served to get Kagome angry again, " You mean my entire family was in on this as well as my best friends in the world, and no one bothered to consider how I might fell about all this?"
"Damn it Kags, it's for your own good, you know it, and we know it, it's just we acted on the opportunity." Eri said, tired with Kagome getting on their cases like this, even if they did deserve it.
" Yes but, but, oh screw it."
Eri, Yumi and Shippo began to do their happy dance spinning around and yelling at their happiness that Kagome was going to go through with the contest, and that she hadn't killed them because of it.
"Question, when is the audition, and where is it?" Kagome asked hoping for a month to prepare for the hell she was going to have to go through.
"Hehe, funny you ask that Kags, you see um… they come to Tokyo on Thursday." Shippo said edging away from Kagome before she could figure it out.
"Thursday, hmmm…okay. WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE! THURSDAY? That's in two days!"
"Oh, yes it is, funny we didn't realize that." Eri said joining Shippo in edging away from the now pissed off Kagome.
"So you guys give me two days to get an outfit together and a song memorized and perfect, that's what you're telling me."
"Yes!" Shippo chirped once her realized that she probably wouldn't kill them.
'And because we know that you really must be angry with us we decided that we would buy the outfit that you want to wear to auditions, as an apology of sorts." Yumi said hoping that Kagome would stop being so scary.
"Really! You guys will buy me an outfit?" Kagome asked hoping she had understood them correctly.
"Yep!"
"All right then, let's go to the mall and buy me one sexy outfit, but wait what song cane I sing, cause the song has to fit with the outfit, right?"
"Bloody hell, woman, don't get so worked up, we already chose a song that would show off your superb vocal range.' Shippo said while thanking god that he was a guy, and didn't have mood swings like women do.
"What song do I have to sing?" Kagome asked cautiously.
" Everybody's Fool, by Evanescence, happy now?" Eri asked.
"I suppose so," Kagome grumbled under breath.
"Good, here are the lyrics, memorize them and add you own personal Higurashi touch to the song, while we go out and get your outfit." Shippo said whipping out a giant envelope and thrusting it at her, courtesy of one of his numerous pockets in his baggy cargo pants that he loved.
"Wait a damn minute, you guys are picking out my outfit?" Kagome asked.
"Yes, and you had better stop standing there and start practicing that song, we will come over to your house later tonight to give you your outfit, and to hear your performance, okay?" Yumi asked hesitantly.
"All right, see you guys later, I suppose." Kagome said as her three friends run out of her sight, ecstatic that they had managed to get Kagome into their harebrained scheme.
Once Kagome arrived at the Higurashi Shrine, she said her usual greetings to her family and headed straight for her bedroom.
For Kagome, her bedroom was a safe haven for her because last year for her birthday, her mother told her to design her bedroom the way she wanted it. On her birthday when Kagome came back from school, there it was, her dream bedroom.
The walls were painted periwinkle blue, and she had a papasian chair with a matching footstool, that had black cushions (the chairs with wooden frames and the huge cushions), three bookcases, a huge bed with a beautiful iron wrought frame, and black/gray/and white sheets with spirals, along with two dressers, as a desk with a computer for her own personal usage. In addition to that there was a phone in the corner of her room, and five CD changer, and a recording unit, so she could record her singing and listen to it, so she could improve.
Kagome plopped down on her comfy bed and opened the envelope that Shippo had sent her in amazement.
'Jeez Shippo really did his homework this time' Kagome thought as she pulled out the lyrics to Everybody's Fool, the notes, a CD of the song so she could hear it sang first before she tried to sing it, as well as several key variations if she chose to use them.
She walked over to her CD player and put the CD into one of the empty slots and pressed play and collapsed into her papasian chair as the lyrics, the notes, the whole song commanded her attention.
Perfect by Nature
Icons of self-indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world
That never was and never will beHave you no shame don't you see me
You know you've got everybody fooled
Look here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh, how we love you
No flaws where you're pretending
But now I know she never was and never will be
If you don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
Without the mask
Where will you hide?
Can't find yourself lost in your lies
I know the truth and now
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore
It never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
It never was and never will be
You're not real and you can't see me
And somehow now you're everybody's fool
As the last notes in the song faded away Kagome took in a deep breath, not realizing that she had been holding her breath the entire time the song was playing.
'I guess, maybe, just maybe singing in Japanese Idol, might not be such a bad thing after all.' Kagome thought as she set to memorizing the lyrics to Everybody's Fool.
Please Review, I have never done a Sesshomaru/Kagome pairing before, so feedback would be nice.
Silver Ivy