An Unexpected Wave

Less than a week later, it was the big competition, Santa Cruz Band Review. After all the practice from the past month and a half, it was time to see how much it paid off. Unlike before, the bus ride over was very uneventful. Everyone was sleeping, due to the fact it was 6 in the morning.

This time, Kagome sat in the back of the bus with Myoga, across from her was Inuyasha behind him was Kikyo and behind her was Jaken. No one could sleep, for the seats were too uncomfortable to deal with and the bus was ice cold. Kagome brought her speakers to listen to music. Unexpectedly, Kagome turns on the band that Kikyo loathed the most: NSync. Kagome knew this badger Kikyo, but she did it to torture Kikyo intestinally. Kagome enjoyed tormenting Kikyo. Kikyo presumed that, at the time, was Kagome's favorite thing to do.

The bus was waiting behind a swarm of other buses containing other bands.

"Salvation! No more of this god forsaken music!" Kikyo exclaimed excitedly as she jumped for joy. "Okay, no more crappy music, but now we have to play, and it's about to rain. Can this day get any better?" she asked looking up towards the raindrops beating on her dirty glasses.

"One last practice before the competition," Kagome announced.

Competition began.

Intense fear ran a tingling chill through everybody's bones.

But within an instant, it was over.

"It was a breeze. I don't think it's as bad if you don't care how you do, just as long as you get it over with," Kikyo gave a sigh of relief.

It was time for fun; time for their band to run amuck across Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Everyone planned to meet back to eat by one to go play laser tag at the arcade, for a group discount.

By one everyone was anxious to play. Kikyo decided to stick by Ayame, since Jaken decided to ditch a virgin to the game. Well, Kikyo just followed Ayame shooting her so at least she would have a score.

Game Over.

"What did you get?" Kikyo asked Ayame in a teasing manner, laughing so hard she couldn't breathe, for Kikyo knew exactly what she got.

Ayame glared trying not to laugh with Kikyo, but it failed.

Afterward, Kikyo and Ayame decided to look for a game, along with Jaken and Inuyasha, worthy for them to play without embarrassing themselves, too badly. They wandered around for a while eventually loosing Jaken and Inuyasha, but discovered Koga and Kagome playing air-hockey.

Ayame wished to stay at the air-hockey tables, whereas Kikyo went to find her two comrades. To her dissatisfaction, but to her expectation, they weren't playing Dance Dance Revolution.

Eventually she found them, playing the game with guns.

She rolls her eyes and chuckles to herself, "Typical guys…"

All of a sudden Ayame anxiously runs up to Kikyo, " Oh my god you wouldn't believe what Myoga just told me that Koga likes Kagome!"

All Kikyo could do was blink aimlessly at her heart broken friend.

"Wow," Kikyo stated in monotone, wide eyed. That was all she could choke up.

A few moments passed, before anything else was said, "I can't believe it… But then at the same time I'm not surprised." Kikyo realized all the clues she missed, not that she really was intestinally searching for them. She felt like a bad detective that spent more time stuffing their drool-covered face, which sparkled with sugar, with donuts than solving a crime.

The reast of the trip was awkward, but it didn't bother Kikyo, for she actually got to listen to what she wanted and was alive in all the commotion, at least all the commotion going on in her area of the bus. For a while she actually forgot the traumatizing events that happend that day.