He knocked on the door.
No-one answered.
He knocked again.
No-one answered. They probably couldn't hear him.
Inuyasha pounded on the door.
A man, well... a teenaged boy came to the door. "You here for the party?" He asked, clicking his tongue stud up against his teeth.
"I'm here to see Amy... do you know an Amy?" Inuyasha was unsure about going in here.
The teenager shrugged and walked away from the door, leaving it open.
Inuyasha stepped inside, "AMY! AMMMMY! Hey Amy! Are you in here?" He shouted, keeping his ears pressed tightly against his head. It was so much louder inside. He felt like he was going to pass out soon if he had to endure this noise and these smells formuch longer.
"Hey there, Inuyasha!" A woman with greased-down but still curly red hair approached him, waving. Her eyes were obscured by sunglasses, even though this room was extremely dim. There was a man standing awkwardly beside her.
"Amy, how did you intend upon discussing Kagome here? I can barely hear you over all of this racket." He asked incredulously, even though he didn't like to use such a tone with Amy, she didn't seem like Amy.
"Well, she can't listen to us here, come on, let's sit down."
Inuyasha groaned in frustration and pain, now placing a hand on each ear. He wished he could cover his nose too, but he only had two hands.
Amy plopped down deeply into the middle cushion of a crusty old couch. "Hey! A new batch of brownies!" She declared in great excitement as she picked one up and shoveled it into her mouth.
Trepidaciously, Inuyasha sat down on the edge of the couch, he didn't really want to touch the couch, but he really didn't want to be touching the floor, and he felt like he couldn't stand up anymore. The man seemed to be doing the same thing.
"You want some?" she asked Inuyasha.
"Um, no," he said, shaking his head emphatically. Out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to see the other man smiling at him. It wasn't a creepy smile. It was one of... solidarity and reassurance.
"Okay..."
"Amy, tell me what you know about Kagome and why she won't marry me." He cut straight to the point because he had been forced to perk up his ears to hear her over the tremendous racket.
Amy giggled at him as though what he asked was terribly silly.
"I love this song," she said, as she eagerly staggered to her feet. She grabbed one of the dials on the nearby stereo system and turned it up. It made a loud schreeching noise.
Everyone in the room covered their ears, but quickly recovered when that horrid squeal stopped.
"Amy what's wrong with you!" Inuyasha yelled, grabbing her arm.
The other man turned the sound back to how it was, in fact, a little lower.
The sunglasses slipped down to the end of Amy's nose and revealed her bloodshot eyes. Amy giggled uncontrollably as Inuyasha let go of her in surprise.
"Look at me! I'm a head librarian!" She shouted triumphantly as she pushed her sunglasses back into place, knocked them back down and then nudged them again.
The man approached Inuyasha. "Just ignore her, no-one except her stoner friends can talk to her when she's like this."
"This is just great!" Inuyasha growled, "Now who's going to help get Kagome to marry me?"
"Well, I don't know why you'd ask Amy." The man seemed to think that Amy was the last person to help with something like that.
Inuyasha looked at him in a bit of confusion, "Why do you say that? And by the way, who are you?"
"My name is Ichiro, and I'm Amy's "friend"." He said with a twinge of annoyance.
"Hey, I thought you were her boyfriend or something..." Inuyasha remembered Amy saying something about him.
"Yeah, well... I was. She and I were boyfriend and girlfriend. I thought I was doing everything right! I was very proper and good to her. The day came when I thought we were ready so I proposed to her, then she BROKE UP with me. And, well, I could have dealt with that... but a few weeks later she called me up. She seemed to have changed her tune completely. We... did things... but then when I tried to kiss her... she pushed me away and said we were "just friends... with benefits." "
"That's so stupid..." Inuyasha grunted, "That's stupid on the level of the stuff Kagome is pulling..."
"Who's Kagome?" Ichiro asked as he moved closer to Inuyasha, taking Amy's spot.
"Um... you've met her the librarian who..."
"Oh her!" Ichiro cut him off, "You know, I'd like to blame her for all of this change in Amy... but I guess I ought to have done something..."
"So hey, you seem to know plenty about all of this. Maybe you can help me. I want Kagome to marry me, but she claims that love in general isn't real."
"Oh that's just bullshit."
"Yeah, I know..." Inuyasha agreed.
"She doesn't really believe that, you know. She's just like Amy. She believes in love but she's afraid of it. She's afraid of getting burned. They both trust us so little that they think as soon as they say 'I do', we'll keep them prisoners in their own homes, take advantage of them, and not love them anymore... you know, I've really had it up to here with Amy!" Ichiro raised his hand way above his head.
"Well, what should I do to make her trust me, Ichiro?" He asked intrigued by the new insight he provided.
"Why are you asking me?" He asked in a sour voice. "I obviously do not have the answer to this."
"Ichiro!" Amy whined as she stumbled back over to them.
"What?" he asked in tremendous annoyance.
"Let's go... " she motioned towards the bedroom of this slummy apartment.
Ichiro groaned and stood up with Amy clinging onto him. "Okay, whatever."
"Ichiro, come and talk to me later. Right now you're the best friend I've got. I don't know my telephone number but if I'm not at a match I'll be at the Sunset Shrines or at the library."
"Kay... see ya, dude." Ichiro waved slightly, and kind of smiled as Inuyasha also stood up, only he was going to leave this place ASAP. The ground beneath his feet was throbbing from the treacherous bass. He moved to put his hands over his ears again but it actually hurt to touch them.
Amy led Ichiro away, giggling and squealing merrily.
"Bye, Amy..." Inuyasha glowered at her, but did not solicit a response.