Battle of the Bands
Chapter 3
Why?
Hey there, Sapphire again, bringing you another sweet slice of rock! It has become my sworn mission to finish this fic to make sure you guys learn what good writing is. That and I haven't gotten writer's block yet for this story. Well I hope you like the story thus far. I decided to use some lyrics from Cold Play because they're the coolest band ever! They're one of my favorites. Of course the fight during the last chapter was over my friend and mine's fight. I was the Linkin Park side; she was on System of the Down's side. Our fight didn't end up like Inuyasha's and Kagome's, but I felt that if I should use it I should add some of their old characteristics from the series. The way they fight about the most unreasonable things always got me going. I always try to give it my all! It always makes me happy to write stories, even if I know they aren't very good. It means a lot when I get reviews because they tell me how I can fix my mistakes. I'd certainly appreciate your review, considering I haven't got any yet. PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!
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Kagome ferociously dug into her ice cream. It really got her to calm down while mulling over the somewhat blurry details of her fight with Inuyasha. She was starting to feel bad about over reacting about something that stupid. She was tired of gloating around and being so stubborn and unreasonable, that was usually Inuyasha's job. She pressed the play button on her answering machine. It was Sango.
"Hey Kagome, you know who this is, I was just wondering if you wanna go to the gym with me and Miroku tomorrow. We couldn't get Inuyasha to come. He said something about you being mad at him. I tried to get the truth out of him, but he wouldn't tell me anything. Whatever, give me a call when you get home."
The machine beeped and the next message was from Kouga.
"Hi Kagome, I saw you come home tonight, you had Strawberry ice cream. I know what that means. If you wanna talk I'm here."
'Wow, I never thought of Kouga that way, he's a pretty nice guy when he's not being creepy,' Kagome thought. The machine's third beep brought her back to her senses. The message was from Inuyasha himself.
"Hey Kagome, you there? I know you have caller ID so you can avoid talking to me. Look I think it needs to be said, you were an overreacting little witch after the concert, but I wanna know if I did something before to help set that off. I guess it's my fault if that's the case, look just call me back."
She sighed and polished off the ice cream. He was right after all. She hated when he was right, but she was mature enough to admit it, say sorry, and move on. She changed into a pair of pajamas and brushed her teeth. She took the brush from her room and pressed the speakerphone button. She punched in Inuyasha's number and started to brush her hair. She was greeted by Inuyasha's answering machine.
"Inuyasha? It's Kagome; I wanted to say I'm sorry for being such a witch over something so trivial. I don't know what happened. I'll understand if you don't wanna forgive me just now, but please know that I'm sorry for what I did," and with that she hung up and punched in Sango's number. She was also greeted by Sango's machine.
"Hey Sango, guess who? I'll go to the gym with you guys tomorrow if you really want me to, but I don't think Inuyasha will go. I can't go swimming, but I'll gladly tag along for the rest of the day. Well see ya tomorrow then," Kagome hung up and stopped brushing her hair. She sighed and yawned and decided to go to bed early.
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The next morning Inuyasha woke up the sound of his alarm clock. He'd fallen asleep in his clothes again. His T-shirt was wrinkled and sweaty, his jeans were stuck to his legs, which in turn were tangled up in his messy sheets. He searched for his alarm clock on the dresser with his arm and when he couldn't find the switch he got mad and threw it on the ground. The stupid thing was still going off (don't you just hate that?) so he finally managed to get himself untangled from the bed and he smashed it to bits with his abnormal strength.
"SHUT UP!!!!!" he screamed at it. He heard a softer beep and walked to the sound. It was his answering machine. Kagome had left a message. He recalled last nights senseless fight over nothing important and sighed. He knew TOM was visiting, but her behavior was ridiculous! How a woman with so much restraint can get so worked up over something so trivial was beyond him, but she still made him feel bad. What if he'd done something to make her feel that way and it actually came out because she'd had too much.
He decided to wait until after he was more awake to play the message. So he ate breakfast. After words an empty feeling still hung in his stomach. So he brushed his teeth, after that a bitter taste still hung in his mouth. He took a shower, but after that he still felt dirty. He made his bed, so why did he still feel like it was a mess?
Finally he couldn't find another excuse, so he played the message. He had expected to be irrationally yelled at or hear hysterical crying. But he heard a calm, but shaky apology as though she was afraid of his reaction. She was quick and to the point, obviously sad and possibly embarrassed. He remembered Sango and Miroku asked him to go to the gym. It's never to late to change your mind right? He called Sango and told her he'd be there.
He got together a bag of gym stuff and walked to his car, not his van. It was a pretty nice one too. He had a Pontiac Grand Prix GT. It was Blood red with black and slightly lighter black flames. His favorite colors (Okay, I'm going by the color of his clothes, and since black looks better than white with red, that's what goes in my fic!). He got in and arrived at the gym early.
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Miroku woke up in a similar fashion that morning. He had fallen asleep in his clothes working on his thesis (That's right, he's in college! Deal with it!). His laptop was still on with the paper just waiting to be finished. So he ran to the kitchen of his two level apartment and grabbed a box of pop-tarts. He took out his gym stuff and a fresh outfit (black jeans you could hide a Sears cooler in, and a blue dragon tee). He shoved a pop- tart in his mouth and started to type the last paragraph of the long, and might I add, very professional paper. He finished, saved, pressed print and shoved another pop-tart in his mouth he ran to his bathroom and was just undressing as his phone rang.
'Damn telemarketers!' he thought to himself as he ran through his house shirt less to answer the damn thing. It wasn't a telemarketer after all. It was Sango.
"Hi Miroku," came Sango's sleepy voice through the phone. She must have just woken up.
"Hey Honey, did you dream about me?" came Miroku's suave voice through the phone.
"Not unless you count you getting hit with a mallet the size of a Buick."
"That hurts sweet Sango."
"I bet it does. Tell me, are you always horny in the morning, or just when I call?"
"Just for you Darling."
"Whatever. Listen Romeo, Kagome and Inuyasha are coming with us today okay?"
"Just as long as you're there with you sexy little self, Juliet."
"Try not to drool okay?" was the last thing he heard from Sango before she hung up.
He hung up the phone and headed for the shower. When he got dressed he grabbed his paper, stuffed it neatly in his silver brief case. He grabbed his gym bag and arrived at the gym just as Inuyasha was getting out of the locker room.
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Sango woke up to what she thought was Miroku's sexy voice. Though as soon as the word sexy was associated with Miroku's voice, she quickly sent the thought to the grave. It was 3:00 in the morning. No matter how much she tried, going to sleep was not possible so she got up and looked at her phone. It was blinking a bright red. Obviously somebody called. Kagome sounded sad in her message, and tired, Sango hoped it was nothing too serious, and walked into the kitchen. She fell asleep on the floor waiting for her toast. She woke up again at about 6:30 and heard the phone ring. Inuyasha was coming too.
She took a shower and remembered her toast. She stuffed it in her mouth and grabbed her gym bag. She got into her car and went to Kagome's house to pick her up. She had a pair of sparring gloves with her and she was in a good mood. Maybe she'd let Miroku win their match today. She arrived at Kagome's house and honked the horn to signify her arrival.
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Kagome snapped out of her daze when she heard Sango's horn. She finished her yogurt and stuffed a few strawberries in her mouth. She grabbed her gym bag, pulled on her shoes and ran to the car where Sango waited patiently. They arrived at the gym just as Inuyasha came around on the track around the ceiling. He looked down as he passed to see Kagome looking down with her gym bag. She dug out her pass and then she looked up just in time to see his retreating form. She wondered if he was just a figment of her imagination and shrugged as she walked with Sango into the ladies locker room.
Inuyasha was on the last lap before he hit a mile, when Kagome passed him. He was dumbfounded; Kagome was never as fast as he was, much less one for running. He ran to catch up with her when he realized that it was Sango who'd passed him. She'd looked like Kagome in the blur. He suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder, this time it was Kagome. She was breathing evenly and smiling. Now the poor guy was just confused. What was going on? He slowed down to a jog instead of Sango's fast pace and Kagome moved to his side. She began to talk to him. But it wasn't her voice it was.
"Inuyasha are you in there?" Miroku said. Inuyasha snapped out of it upon hearing Miroku's voice.
"Sorry, I just kind of zoned out," He said.
"So what were you doing trying to pass Sango?"
"I was just trying to ask her when Kagome's coming."
"Didn't she tell you when you called her? She was gonna pick her up this morning," with that he ran past Inuyasha and beside Sango.
'Why do I keep seeing her? What's going on?' Inuyasha thought. He realized he'd ran about three laps too many. He stopped jogging and walked to the stairwell where he saw the real Kagome. She was sweaty already from a Tai-Bo class. She looked up at him and stopped dead in her tracks. She looked at him with surprise and turned tail to run away.
'Great, now she's afraid of me. And for what? What'd I do to spook her?' he thought as he chased after her. She was never as fast as he was and it was obviously starting to show that she was tired. He caught her before she made it into the locker room.
"Hey, what's the matter?" he asked her. He was genuinely concerned.
"I'm just a little surprised to see you, nobody told me you were coming. I'm kind of embarrassed," Kagome said.
"Huh? Are you disappointed that I came?"
"No it's just. I was afraid of how you'd react. I was really unreasonable, and I don't really know what to say to you."
She gave him a nervous smile and looked away.
"Hey Kagome, you wanna go rock climbing on the wall over there with me?" he asked her.
"Sure," she said taken aback. She didn't think he was going to swallow his pride so easily, much less do her favorite event with her.
They got some harnesses around them and then they were off. Kagome was the faster climber, but Inuyasha was the stronger one. They started to talk and relax with each other; Kagome even waited for him. They made it to the top twice before actually quitting.
Later they met Sango and Miroku who were finished with their workouts for the day and the grand total of wins, losses, and ties for the day was Sango: 6-3-2 and Miroku: 3-6-2. Sango admitted that she never once let him win, and Miroku admitted that he had more than once let her win. He had let her win 3 of the six times she won. He had to have some kind of fun getting pinned by Sango right?
Everybody headed back for the locker rooms to shower; everybody was too tired for swimming today. Kagome was the first to finish so she walked to the lobby and used her cell phone to check her messages. Only the ones she forgot to delete last night were on the machine. So she waited and after a while Inuyasha came out. He walked over to Kagome and they just stood there next to each other when her cell rang. She answered and the following conversation took place.
"Kagome? This is your manager, listen we need a favor, I know it's your guys' day off, but could you please come and play again, the band scheduled for today called in and said they weren't going to make it and we can't fill the time slot."
"How long do we have to get there, and how long is this gonna take?" she asked.
"You've got about half an hour and the gig will last until the next band shows up."
"Hold on, let me check really quick," she said.
"I heard Kagome, we can do it, all we need is my van and the others," Inuyasha said quietly.
"We can do it, we'll be there as soon as we can," she said and hung up the phone.
Sango and Miroku came out walking briskly and chattering with each other. Inuyasha and Kagome grabbed them both by the wrists and ran to the cars. Kagome shoved her gym bag into Sango's trunk and flew into the passenger seat while Sango started the car and drove to the Blue Moon as fast as possible. Miroku followed closely to set up the light show.
Inuyasha went back to his home to get his van and Kouga. He squealed into his garage and switched vehicles. He defied all the laws of the road and grabbed Kouga off Kagome's doormat. He practically blew up his engine to get to the Blue Moon on time. Kouga nearly wet himself. Kagome ran outside with Sango and the unloaded everything and set it all up. Kouga had to sit down to play steadily and Inuyasha was about to have a heart attack.
The manager used Kagome's microphone to make an announcement.
"Ladies and gentlemen and bikers.we are sorry to inform you that 'Hair Ball' will not be performing tonight because of some transportation difficulties, but the band to replace them is a great band indeed. Let's give it up for the 'Revolutions'!" she said.
The crowd seemed to care less if Hair Ball performed and waited politely for the music to start. Inuyasha played the first few chords of he song, followed quickly by Kouga and the others.
"Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry. You don't know how lovely you are," Kagome sang clearly.
"I have to find you, tell you I need you, tell you I set you apart," Inuyasha sang.
"Tell me your secrets, ask me your questions, oh let's go back to the start," Miroku continued slowly.
"Running in circles, calling it tails, heads on science apart," Sango sang.
"Nobody said it was easy, oh it's such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be so hard, I'll take you back to the start," they all sang in unisons.
"I was just guessing, the numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart," Inuyasha began.
"Questions of science, science and progress, that loves me as loud as my heart," Kagome followed.
"Tell me you love me, come back and hold me, don't wanna rush to the start," Sango came in.
"Running in circles, chasing our tails, coming back as we are," Miroku cut in.
"Nobody said it was easy," Inuyasha started.
"Oh it's such a shame for us to part," Kagome picked up
"Nobody said it was easy," Miroku gracefully leaped in.
"No one ever said it would be so hard," Sango set up.
"I'm going back to the start," they all sang.
"Oh oooooh, oh ooooh" Kouga softly howled.
The song ended there and many more came by and left. Until about 10:30. The next band arrived at the last few chords of 'numb'. Kagome's manager came up on the stage again with a look of immense gratitude on her face when she looked at Kagome. The expression changed to a big smile as she faced the crowd to announce the next band.
"Let's have a huge round of applause for our stand in band the Revolutions! Now the next band is a very mellowed out band, more cheery then the last, let's hear it for the Slayers!" she cried. The lights on the first stage (Kagome's stage) went out, and the second stage lit up like a star.
A single spotlight fell on a woman in a black cape with fiery red hair. She was in a black suit and heeled boots. The light spread to include another girl with purple hair in a white suit and shorter cape with the same kind of shoes except they were white instead of black. The light continued to spread onto a guy with long blonde hair in a blue shirt and blue jeans with blue shoes. Finally the light fell on a man with a red suit and green scale like make up with a full head of spiked purple hair. They all threw flash powder onto the stage and in their hands appeared instruments. The blonde guy was a drummer, the guy in make up was down with bass, and the girl with purple hair was at a keyboard, and the woman with red hair had a microphone.
Music started to play and out came one of the sweetest song redoes voices of all time; Lina Inverse was singing a slow song in a punkish tune.
"Sweet dreams are made of this, who am I to disagree, travel the world at seventeen," she began. The Inuyasha gang had left just as the other band was starting to play.
Kagome got a ride home with Inuyasha and she took her stuff out of Sango's car. Kouga got a lift with Sango, and Miroku went home all by his lonesome. Kagome talked to Inuyasha about how well the gig went for minute or so but then it all fell to awkward silence.
"So did you have fun today?" she asked.
"Yeah, did you?" he replied.
"Yeppers," she answered.
Inuyasha pulled up to her house and walked her to her door. She thanked him and gave him a hug, like she used to do all the time. When she went inside and he walked back to his van they waited a little bit watching each other, and finally Inuyasha left. Kouga was dropped off shortly after Inuyasha left and he thanked Sango. He was much too tired to sneak around near Kagome's house now; he'd do it tomorrow.
When Sango showed up at her house she noticed Miroku's car up the road. She sighed and parked in her garage as Miroku pulled up.
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How's that for a cliffhanger?! What's gonna happen at Sango? Are Inuyasha and Kagome falling in love? When's Kikyo coming back? And for the love of Pete, when will I get a life? I hope you enjoyed this chapter of the story. Please review; if you do, I'll review your story(s). Please? Bye for now! Love you guys!
Rock on,
Sapphire
Chapter 3
Why?
Hey there, Sapphire again, bringing you another sweet slice of rock! It has become my sworn mission to finish this fic to make sure you guys learn what good writing is. That and I haven't gotten writer's block yet for this story. Well I hope you like the story thus far. I decided to use some lyrics from Cold Play because they're the coolest band ever! They're one of my favorites. Of course the fight during the last chapter was over my friend and mine's fight. I was the Linkin Park side; she was on System of the Down's side. Our fight didn't end up like Inuyasha's and Kagome's, but I felt that if I should use it I should add some of their old characteristics from the series. The way they fight about the most unreasonable things always got me going. I always try to give it my all! It always makes me happy to write stories, even if I know they aren't very good. It means a lot when I get reviews because they tell me how I can fix my mistakes. I'd certainly appreciate your review, considering I haven't got any yet. PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!
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Kagome ferociously dug into her ice cream. It really got her to calm down while mulling over the somewhat blurry details of her fight with Inuyasha. She was starting to feel bad about over reacting about something that stupid. She was tired of gloating around and being so stubborn and unreasonable, that was usually Inuyasha's job. She pressed the play button on her answering machine. It was Sango.
"Hey Kagome, you know who this is, I was just wondering if you wanna go to the gym with me and Miroku tomorrow. We couldn't get Inuyasha to come. He said something about you being mad at him. I tried to get the truth out of him, but he wouldn't tell me anything. Whatever, give me a call when you get home."
The machine beeped and the next message was from Kouga.
"Hi Kagome, I saw you come home tonight, you had Strawberry ice cream. I know what that means. If you wanna talk I'm here."
'Wow, I never thought of Kouga that way, he's a pretty nice guy when he's not being creepy,' Kagome thought. The machine's third beep brought her back to her senses. The message was from Inuyasha himself.
"Hey Kagome, you there? I know you have caller ID so you can avoid talking to me. Look I think it needs to be said, you were an overreacting little witch after the concert, but I wanna know if I did something before to help set that off. I guess it's my fault if that's the case, look just call me back."
She sighed and polished off the ice cream. He was right after all. She hated when he was right, but she was mature enough to admit it, say sorry, and move on. She changed into a pair of pajamas and brushed her teeth. She took the brush from her room and pressed the speakerphone button. She punched in Inuyasha's number and started to brush her hair. She was greeted by Inuyasha's answering machine.
"Inuyasha? It's Kagome; I wanted to say I'm sorry for being such a witch over something so trivial. I don't know what happened. I'll understand if you don't wanna forgive me just now, but please know that I'm sorry for what I did," and with that she hung up and punched in Sango's number. She was also greeted by Sango's machine.
"Hey Sango, guess who? I'll go to the gym with you guys tomorrow if you really want me to, but I don't think Inuyasha will go. I can't go swimming, but I'll gladly tag along for the rest of the day. Well see ya tomorrow then," Kagome hung up and stopped brushing her hair. She sighed and yawned and decided to go to bed early.
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The next morning Inuyasha woke up the sound of his alarm clock. He'd fallen asleep in his clothes again. His T-shirt was wrinkled and sweaty, his jeans were stuck to his legs, which in turn were tangled up in his messy sheets. He searched for his alarm clock on the dresser with his arm and when he couldn't find the switch he got mad and threw it on the ground. The stupid thing was still going off (don't you just hate that?) so he finally managed to get himself untangled from the bed and he smashed it to bits with his abnormal strength.
"SHUT UP!!!!!" he screamed at it. He heard a softer beep and walked to the sound. It was his answering machine. Kagome had left a message. He recalled last nights senseless fight over nothing important and sighed. He knew TOM was visiting, but her behavior was ridiculous! How a woman with so much restraint can get so worked up over something so trivial was beyond him, but she still made him feel bad. What if he'd done something to make her feel that way and it actually came out because she'd had too much.
He decided to wait until after he was more awake to play the message. So he ate breakfast. After words an empty feeling still hung in his stomach. So he brushed his teeth, after that a bitter taste still hung in his mouth. He took a shower, but after that he still felt dirty. He made his bed, so why did he still feel like it was a mess?
Finally he couldn't find another excuse, so he played the message. He had expected to be irrationally yelled at or hear hysterical crying. But he heard a calm, but shaky apology as though she was afraid of his reaction. She was quick and to the point, obviously sad and possibly embarrassed. He remembered Sango and Miroku asked him to go to the gym. It's never to late to change your mind right? He called Sango and told her he'd be there.
He got together a bag of gym stuff and walked to his car, not his van. It was a pretty nice one too. He had a Pontiac Grand Prix GT. It was Blood red with black and slightly lighter black flames. His favorite colors (Okay, I'm going by the color of his clothes, and since black looks better than white with red, that's what goes in my fic!). He got in and arrived at the gym early.
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Miroku woke up in a similar fashion that morning. He had fallen asleep in his clothes working on his thesis (That's right, he's in college! Deal with it!). His laptop was still on with the paper just waiting to be finished. So he ran to the kitchen of his two level apartment and grabbed a box of pop-tarts. He took out his gym stuff and a fresh outfit (black jeans you could hide a Sears cooler in, and a blue dragon tee). He shoved a pop- tart in his mouth and started to type the last paragraph of the long, and might I add, very professional paper. He finished, saved, pressed print and shoved another pop-tart in his mouth he ran to his bathroom and was just undressing as his phone rang.
'Damn telemarketers!' he thought to himself as he ran through his house shirt less to answer the damn thing. It wasn't a telemarketer after all. It was Sango.
"Hi Miroku," came Sango's sleepy voice through the phone. She must have just woken up.
"Hey Honey, did you dream about me?" came Miroku's suave voice through the phone.
"Not unless you count you getting hit with a mallet the size of a Buick."
"That hurts sweet Sango."
"I bet it does. Tell me, are you always horny in the morning, or just when I call?"
"Just for you Darling."
"Whatever. Listen Romeo, Kagome and Inuyasha are coming with us today okay?"
"Just as long as you're there with you sexy little self, Juliet."
"Try not to drool okay?" was the last thing he heard from Sango before she hung up.
He hung up the phone and headed for the shower. When he got dressed he grabbed his paper, stuffed it neatly in his silver brief case. He grabbed his gym bag and arrived at the gym just as Inuyasha was getting out of the locker room.
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Sango woke up to what she thought was Miroku's sexy voice. Though as soon as the word sexy was associated with Miroku's voice, she quickly sent the thought to the grave. It was 3:00 in the morning. No matter how much she tried, going to sleep was not possible so she got up and looked at her phone. It was blinking a bright red. Obviously somebody called. Kagome sounded sad in her message, and tired, Sango hoped it was nothing too serious, and walked into the kitchen. She fell asleep on the floor waiting for her toast. She woke up again at about 6:30 and heard the phone ring. Inuyasha was coming too.
She took a shower and remembered her toast. She stuffed it in her mouth and grabbed her gym bag. She got into her car and went to Kagome's house to pick her up. She had a pair of sparring gloves with her and she was in a good mood. Maybe she'd let Miroku win their match today. She arrived at Kagome's house and honked the horn to signify her arrival.
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Kagome snapped out of her daze when she heard Sango's horn. She finished her yogurt and stuffed a few strawberries in her mouth. She grabbed her gym bag, pulled on her shoes and ran to the car where Sango waited patiently. They arrived at the gym just as Inuyasha came around on the track around the ceiling. He looked down as he passed to see Kagome looking down with her gym bag. She dug out her pass and then she looked up just in time to see his retreating form. She wondered if he was just a figment of her imagination and shrugged as she walked with Sango into the ladies locker room.
Inuyasha was on the last lap before he hit a mile, when Kagome passed him. He was dumbfounded; Kagome was never as fast as he was, much less one for running. He ran to catch up with her when he realized that it was Sango who'd passed him. She'd looked like Kagome in the blur. He suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder, this time it was Kagome. She was breathing evenly and smiling. Now the poor guy was just confused. What was going on? He slowed down to a jog instead of Sango's fast pace and Kagome moved to his side. She began to talk to him. But it wasn't her voice it was.
"Inuyasha are you in there?" Miroku said. Inuyasha snapped out of it upon hearing Miroku's voice.
"Sorry, I just kind of zoned out," He said.
"So what were you doing trying to pass Sango?"
"I was just trying to ask her when Kagome's coming."
"Didn't she tell you when you called her? She was gonna pick her up this morning," with that he ran past Inuyasha and beside Sango.
'Why do I keep seeing her? What's going on?' Inuyasha thought. He realized he'd ran about three laps too many. He stopped jogging and walked to the stairwell where he saw the real Kagome. She was sweaty already from a Tai-Bo class. She looked up at him and stopped dead in her tracks. She looked at him with surprise and turned tail to run away.
'Great, now she's afraid of me. And for what? What'd I do to spook her?' he thought as he chased after her. She was never as fast as he was and it was obviously starting to show that she was tired. He caught her before she made it into the locker room.
"Hey, what's the matter?" he asked her. He was genuinely concerned.
"I'm just a little surprised to see you, nobody told me you were coming. I'm kind of embarrassed," Kagome said.
"Huh? Are you disappointed that I came?"
"No it's just. I was afraid of how you'd react. I was really unreasonable, and I don't really know what to say to you."
She gave him a nervous smile and looked away.
"Hey Kagome, you wanna go rock climbing on the wall over there with me?" he asked her.
"Sure," she said taken aback. She didn't think he was going to swallow his pride so easily, much less do her favorite event with her.
They got some harnesses around them and then they were off. Kagome was the faster climber, but Inuyasha was the stronger one. They started to talk and relax with each other; Kagome even waited for him. They made it to the top twice before actually quitting.
Later they met Sango and Miroku who were finished with their workouts for the day and the grand total of wins, losses, and ties for the day was Sango: 6-3-2 and Miroku: 3-6-2. Sango admitted that she never once let him win, and Miroku admitted that he had more than once let her win. He had let her win 3 of the six times she won. He had to have some kind of fun getting pinned by Sango right?
Everybody headed back for the locker rooms to shower; everybody was too tired for swimming today. Kagome was the first to finish so she walked to the lobby and used her cell phone to check her messages. Only the ones she forgot to delete last night were on the machine. So she waited and after a while Inuyasha came out. He walked over to Kagome and they just stood there next to each other when her cell rang. She answered and the following conversation took place.
"Kagome? This is your manager, listen we need a favor, I know it's your guys' day off, but could you please come and play again, the band scheduled for today called in and said they weren't going to make it and we can't fill the time slot."
"How long do we have to get there, and how long is this gonna take?" she asked.
"You've got about half an hour and the gig will last until the next band shows up."
"Hold on, let me check really quick," she said.
"I heard Kagome, we can do it, all we need is my van and the others," Inuyasha said quietly.
"We can do it, we'll be there as soon as we can," she said and hung up the phone.
Sango and Miroku came out walking briskly and chattering with each other. Inuyasha and Kagome grabbed them both by the wrists and ran to the cars. Kagome shoved her gym bag into Sango's trunk and flew into the passenger seat while Sango started the car and drove to the Blue Moon as fast as possible. Miroku followed closely to set up the light show.
Inuyasha went back to his home to get his van and Kouga. He squealed into his garage and switched vehicles. He defied all the laws of the road and grabbed Kouga off Kagome's doormat. He practically blew up his engine to get to the Blue Moon on time. Kouga nearly wet himself. Kagome ran outside with Sango and the unloaded everything and set it all up. Kouga had to sit down to play steadily and Inuyasha was about to have a heart attack.
The manager used Kagome's microphone to make an announcement.
"Ladies and gentlemen and bikers.we are sorry to inform you that 'Hair Ball' will not be performing tonight because of some transportation difficulties, but the band to replace them is a great band indeed. Let's give it up for the 'Revolutions'!" she said.
The crowd seemed to care less if Hair Ball performed and waited politely for the music to start. Inuyasha played the first few chords of he song, followed quickly by Kouga and the others.
"Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry. You don't know how lovely you are," Kagome sang clearly.
"I have to find you, tell you I need you, tell you I set you apart," Inuyasha sang.
"Tell me your secrets, ask me your questions, oh let's go back to the start," Miroku continued slowly.
"Running in circles, calling it tails, heads on science apart," Sango sang.
"Nobody said it was easy, oh it's such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be so hard, I'll take you back to the start," they all sang in unisons.
"I was just guessing, the numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart," Inuyasha began.
"Questions of science, science and progress, that loves me as loud as my heart," Kagome followed.
"Tell me you love me, come back and hold me, don't wanna rush to the start," Sango came in.
"Running in circles, chasing our tails, coming back as we are," Miroku cut in.
"Nobody said it was easy," Inuyasha started.
"Oh it's such a shame for us to part," Kagome picked up
"Nobody said it was easy," Miroku gracefully leaped in.
"No one ever said it would be so hard," Sango set up.
"I'm going back to the start," they all sang.
"Oh oooooh, oh ooooh" Kouga softly howled.
The song ended there and many more came by and left. Until about 10:30. The next band arrived at the last few chords of 'numb'. Kagome's manager came up on the stage again with a look of immense gratitude on her face when she looked at Kagome. The expression changed to a big smile as she faced the crowd to announce the next band.
"Let's have a huge round of applause for our stand in band the Revolutions! Now the next band is a very mellowed out band, more cheery then the last, let's hear it for the Slayers!" she cried. The lights on the first stage (Kagome's stage) went out, and the second stage lit up like a star.
A single spotlight fell on a woman in a black cape with fiery red hair. She was in a black suit and heeled boots. The light spread to include another girl with purple hair in a white suit and shorter cape with the same kind of shoes except they were white instead of black. The light continued to spread onto a guy with long blonde hair in a blue shirt and blue jeans with blue shoes. Finally the light fell on a man with a red suit and green scale like make up with a full head of spiked purple hair. They all threw flash powder onto the stage and in their hands appeared instruments. The blonde guy was a drummer, the guy in make up was down with bass, and the girl with purple hair was at a keyboard, and the woman with red hair had a microphone.
Music started to play and out came one of the sweetest song redoes voices of all time; Lina Inverse was singing a slow song in a punkish tune.
"Sweet dreams are made of this, who am I to disagree, travel the world at seventeen," she began. The Inuyasha gang had left just as the other band was starting to play.
Kagome got a ride home with Inuyasha and she took her stuff out of Sango's car. Kouga got a lift with Sango, and Miroku went home all by his lonesome. Kagome talked to Inuyasha about how well the gig went for minute or so but then it all fell to awkward silence.
"So did you have fun today?" she asked.
"Yeah, did you?" he replied.
"Yeppers," she answered.
Inuyasha pulled up to her house and walked her to her door. She thanked him and gave him a hug, like she used to do all the time. When she went inside and he walked back to his van they waited a little bit watching each other, and finally Inuyasha left. Kouga was dropped off shortly after Inuyasha left and he thanked Sango. He was much too tired to sneak around near Kagome's house now; he'd do it tomorrow.
When Sango showed up at her house she noticed Miroku's car up the road. She sighed and parked in her garage as Miroku pulled up.
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How's that for a cliffhanger?! What's gonna happen at Sango? Are Inuyasha and Kagome falling in love? When's Kikyo coming back? And for the love of Pete, when will I get a life? I hope you enjoyed this chapter of the story. Please review; if you do, I'll review your story(s). Please? Bye for now! Love you guys!
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Sapphire