Disclaimer: Again, I still do not own Inuyasha!!
Starring: Kagome Higurashi and...Sesshomaru?
AN: If you have read my first chapter you will notice the summary is a little different than this one!! I had an epiphany right after I posted the first chapter. I realized that the original story plan I had was not really thought out very well (I am new at this so what do you expect) so it came to me a way to give this story more of a plot other than a love story. I hope you enjoy!
PS- I also would like a beta reader to help me out through this first story. If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
Chapter 2: "The Auditions"
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Skimming through the script of "The Lord and His Miko," Sesshomaru smirks to himself at how easy this defeat will be. The main character, the lord, is powerful and obviously has smart tactics. 'It is like I would be playing myself five hundred years in the past,' Sesshomaru thought as he read through the summary of the play...
"In feudal Japan, there were four powerful relics of the gods. If one was to obtain all four relics they would gain more power than any man or demon should possess, and destroy themselves and the rest of the world. So the gods separated the relics and divided them into the four points of Japan; North, South, East, and West. The gods appointed a powerful demon lord to guard and rule over the lands of each point. For centuries the secret of the relics had been kept well hidden. Somehow a dark powerful sorcerer came upon the knowledge of the relics. He started in the north and slowly the sorcerer defeated the north, east, and south and gaining the relics within them. West was next, but the Western Lord was not to be defeated. His army was strong and diverse with powerful beings. The Western Lord happened to come across the most powerful miko he had ever felt. Determined to defeat his fast coming enemy, the lord persuades the miko to fight the battle by his side. The miko agrees, and is convinced to live in the manor so that the lord's secret weapon would not be discovered. However, Something happened that the great Western Lord did not expect. He developed feelings for his secret weapon."
'Feelings? Well that certainly ruins the whole play,' Sesshomaru thought with distaste. 'None the less, I will over look this small rift in the story.'
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"Kagome, come on let's go I am starving," said Sango as she hummed and rearranged, for the millionth time, the flowers Miroku sent the other day. Apparently he has asked her forgiveness with a dozen red roses, and of course Sango accepted.
'Thank Kami,' Kagome thought, 'she was driving me crazy.'
"Come on Kags, Inuyasha and Miroku are waiting for us," Sango said impatiently. "You look just as hot in that outfit that you did in all the other ones you tossed in the floor. I swear, it is not like the boy has not seen you at your worst. He was there when you went through that awkward phase where you only wore that one ugly brown dress."
"It was my favorite dress Sango," Kagome whined, "and you did not have to make fun of me for it either. I was only 13, and it was a lovely cream color not brown."
"Well you wore the thing everyday until it became brown Kagome," Sango stated.
"Let's just go," Kagome sighed at her defeat.
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"I am so nervous about the auditions tomorrow," Kagome said.
"You are going to do great Kagome," Miroku said, "You have had the lead in over half of the plays since you have been here."
"But I really want to get this part," exclaimed Kagome, "This play is going to be the biggest play the school has ever produced. Naraku, the most famous critic, is going to be there. Plus, my family lives on a shrine, I will be honoring my ancestors if I was to be the miko in the play."
"I do not see how Naraku could be so famous," said Inuyasha, "The only play he 'critics' is "The Lord and His Miko." How famous can you get only going to one play?"
"Shut up Inuyasha!! He is great and he can take my acting career somewhere," Kagome exclaimed!!
"He does seem kind of weird Kags. Did you see that special on television about him? He looks like a total creep," stated Sango.
"A creep that can jump start my dream career on the stage," Kagome said dreamily. "He practically made Kagura and Kanna's careers!! They are super famous now."
"Yeah I guess so," Sango said.
"Inuyasha, how can you not be nervous," Kagome asked? "I feel like I am about to pass out."
"It is hard to be nervous with my acting skills," Inuyasha stated confidently, "I have got this thing in the bag Kagome. So you just concentrated on worrying about yourself."
'Remind myself again why I care about him' Kagome thought. "You are so cocky Inuyasha! If I did not want you to be the lead male so I would not have to kiss some weirdo I would hope you did not get the part just to put you in reality check," huffed Kagome.
"Keh, you really just want to kiss me," stated Inuyasha.
'So what if that has crossed my mind a few times, well more that a few times. That does not give him a right to say such things,' Kagome thought. "You wish," Kagome stated after not being able to really think of anything better to come back with.
"Keh," Inuyasha said.
Kagome choosing to ignore Inuyasha decides to move on to her double cheeseburger and fries before they got cold. 'Men can be so infuriating sometimes,' she thought.
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"Okay listen up everyone," Kaede, the play director, yelled, "I will say your name once and only once. We will go in alphabetical order by last name. Keep in mind that if I feel you are suited for a different part then you audition for then I will put you there. First up is Akito, Ami."
"I am too so glad that I am towards the beginning because my nerves would go crazy having to sit and wait. Especially if there are a lot of good auditions," Kagome whispered to Inuyasha as a very pretty girl with a ponytail of rich chestnut hair nervously walked up to the stage in front of Kaede.
"Just rub it my face wench. I am at the end so I will be here forever," Inuyasha roughly whispered back.
"Maybe if you did not have such a foul mouth Kami would have mercy on you and they would have started from the z to a," Kagome whispered, "and I was not trying to rub it in."
"Keh. At least I get to sit here and make fun of all the nerds who think they can act. Like that kid," Inuyasha whispered as he pointed to the really short for his age guy practically running off the stage.
"You are such a bully Inuyasha. The poor thing looks like he is on the verge of tears," Kagome whispered back. "I think he had a lot of courage to go up there and do what he just did."
"Well maybe Kaede saw potential, and he gets cast as the lord you get to kiss," smirked Inuyasha.
Kagome's face suddenly went pale. "Do not joke about things like that. At this rate you will psych me out, and I will have a terrible audition and not have to kiss anyone," Kagome whispered back harshly.
"Higurashi, Kagome" Kaede said loudly after what seemed like an eternity of sitting in silence replaying her part over and over in her mind.
"Oh Kami, please do not let me hurl my lunch in front of all these people," Kagome whispered pleadingly to the ceiling as she slowly got up to walk down to the stage.
As soon as Kagome stepped up on the stage and turned to face Kaede and all the other people auditioning for the play she could feel the stinging feeling of bile rising up in her throat.
"Please, you may begin Kagome," Kaede said with a reassuring smile. Kagome was one of her favorite drama students, and she was positive that Kagome would give a wonderful performance.
Kagome swallowed the acidic liquid back down to her stomach, and began the audition with the part she had been practicing for weeks now. "My Lord I do not feel I am as strong as you think. I am just a humble shrine miko trying to serve my village," she began. As the words rolled off her tongue, she felt a sudden feeling of deja vu that she never felt before. Even in practice this feeling never overwhelmed her as it was now. Kagome was not sure if it was just because she was on the stage with all the lights and everyone focused on her or if it was because she had repeated these words so many times. However, she could not shake this feeling that she had experienced this before. Images of hut-like houses in what appeared to be some kind of village flashed through her mind. There were people dressed in olden style garbs. 'Where is this place,' Kagome thought. 'It feels like home.'
Before Kagome even realized it, she had completed her audition. She felt she had suddenly been sucked back to the present day. Kagome was a little flustered and confused, but she quickly regained composer in time to see the shining eyes of the play director giving her a more than approving nod. 'Kami, I do not even remember what happened or if I messed up one of my lines, but I must have done something right because Kaede has never looked at anyone like that,' Kagome thought.
"Very well Kagome, that was a splendid performance I must say," Kaede exclaimed. "You may step down now."
"Arigato," Kagome thanked as she stepped off the stage and back to her seat next to Inuyasha.
"That was so amazing Kagome," Sango whispered. "It was like you really were the miko."
"Sango," Kagome whispered, "I thought you said you were not going to be able to make it."
"I thought I would surprise you," Sango whispered back. "Do you think I would miss my best friends biggest audition ever?"
"Well I am glad you didn't," Kagome whispered as she hugged Sango. "I was so nervous, and Inuyasha sure was not helping matters."
"You did great though, and you did not even look nervous up there," Sango replied. "You are for sure going to get this part."
"Thanks. I hope so," Kagome whispered.
Kagome sat back in her seat, now in between Inuyasha and Sango. Kagome looked at Inuyasha, who had a look of surprise and shock all at once plastered on his face. "What," Kagome asked him.
"Nothing," he stammered. "I just...that was really good that is all."
Kagome's face blushed red all over. Inuyasha had never actually gave her a compliment before. "Thanks, that means a lot to me Inuyasha," Kagome replied.
"Keh, it is nothing," Inuyasha whispered back.
The trio sat in silence watching audition after audition. The sound of Kaede calling Inuyasha's name broke their still silence.
"Taisho, Inuyasha," Kaede yelled.
"Here goes nothing," Inuyasha murmured as he got up to walk on stage.
Inuyasha looked out at all the faces staring at him on the stage. Each person he glanced at raised his anxiety level a little more. He was terrified of all these people. Thinking about all of there judgmental faces making assumptions about him made him nervous, and when he got nervous it made him angry. 'I could kick all their asses,' Inuyasha thought to himself. However, in the back of Inuyasha's mind he often wondered why he was doing this. He dreaded coming up here. Of course he knew that he was amazing at it none the less, but he hated feeling like this, weak. Looking out into the audience, he locked eyes with Kagome for a brief moment. 'She looks so much like my Kikyou,' Inuyasha thought. 'But she isn't her,' Inuyasha's subconscious told him. 'I know, but I wish she was,' he thought back to himself, and then shook his head at the fact that he was actually having a conversation with himself.
"You could start anytime Inuyasha," Kaede spoke impatiently, breaking Inuyasha out of his trance.
Inuyasha just nodded to her and began. "My lands are abundant, and my men are powerful, but I fear my enemy has grown much stronger with the other relics he has obtained." Inuyasha spoke with all the emotion he could considering his nerves were going haywire. "I will need your sealing powers miko. The sorcerer has somehow taken into his body the relics of the gods, and now he will be almost impossible to kill. We must seal him until we can find a way."
After finishing his audition Inuyasha did not even look at Kaede or anyone for that matter as he walked back to his seat next to the woman that looks so much like the one he longed for every minute of everyday. 'Maybe Sesshomaru is right. I am just acting like a weak little boy. Playing make believe with this girl like she is Kikyou,' Inuyasha thought.
Inuyasha was hovering over his seat in the process of sitting down when the next name out of Kaede's mouth forced him down with a loud thud.
"Taisho, Sesshomaru," Kaede yelled.
"What the fu...," Inuyasha said loudly before being slapped upside the head stopping him. "What was that for wench," Inuyasha asked glaringly towards Kagome.
"You cannot cuss in front of a whole auditorium of people Inuyasha," Kagome exclaimed. "Wait a second, did she just say Sesshomaru?"
"Yes," Inuyasha and Sango whispered in unison.
"I don't understand," Inuyasha started mumbling to himself, "Just last week he was making fun of me and this play." Inuyasha started laughing to himself. "He took what I said as a challenge to be in the play. Well Sesshomaru, this is one thing you will never defeat me at." Inuyasha spoke confidently.
"I think Inuyasha is going crazy over there talking to himself," Sango whispered to Kagome.
"I know, I am afraid he is going to go rabid on me Sango," Kagome whispered kiddingly.
"Shh," Inuyasha whispered. "This will be entertaining," he spoke amusingly as all three pairs of eyes focused on the beautiful man on the stage about to speak.
Sesshomaru spoke the same line of audition that Inuyasha had just attempted. The only difference was that Sesshomaru was better, much better. It was easily believable that he was the Lord of the West. It was scary how good he was, and Kagome was worried. 'What if he gets the part. What if I have to kiss him?" Kagome thought. 'Now that I think about it, maybe that would not be so bad.' she realized as she played in her mind the recent shirtless Sesshomaru she encountered a week ago. 'I could suck it up and kiss him. For the play of course,' Kagome thought.
After Sesshomaru finished and walked off of the stage there were three very different emotions on the three very different people sitting in the audience. Sango's face was of amazement and wonder that the ice prince could act...really good acting too. Kagome sat with a deep blush and smile on her face. Then there was Inuyasha's face full of so many emotions surprise, envy, and the strongest, defeat.
"How the hell did this just happen," Inuyasha exclaimed as he got up to leave the auditorium in a huff.
A small smirk formed on Sesshomaru's face as he watched Inuyasha walk out. 'He did not even stand a chance against this Sesshomaru,' he thought.
After the last audition Kaede walked on stage and yelled that the list being posted up the next day at noon, and then Kaede dismissed them all.
"What was that about with Inuyasha," Kagome asked Sango as they fought through the sea of people to get out.
"I don't know," Sango replied, "I guess the nerves finally got to him."
Little to their knowledge, someone else walk out after Sesshomaru's performance. Only instead of anger he was leaving with a smile on his face and the knowledge that he had finally found them. 'They will regret the day they dare challenge me. I will rip the last relic out of his little wench and put it where it belongs,' he thought. "The Shikon No Tama will finally be mine," Naraku laughed.
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AN: Okay so there it is. My new plot line. The next chapter will go into more detail about Naraku and how some of the things that happened. Not all will be dished out though!! I gotta save some for later!! I hope you guys like the new direction, and hopefully I will receive more feedback after this. I do dedicate this chapter to the only person who reviewed me, Saruko!! Thank you very much, if it wasn't for you showing interest then I probably would've just stopped. However, if one person likes it then I guess I have made someone happy at least!! I would love more reviews though pretty please!! They really make my day!