White Girls Kick Widow Ash
Kagome sighed as she sat down on the purple and blue cushioned couch in the Girls Kick Ash tour buss. Well, not that it belonged to the four girls alone anymore. No, because White Widow's buss just had to break down at that Shell gas station three cities back. That had been the longest eight hours of Kagomes life.
It wasn't that White Widow and Girls Kick Ash didn't get along, which they didn't, it was just that sitting eight seventeen year olds in a cramped bus with nothing but pillows (which they had repeatedly told Miroku, White Widows key boardist, were not for pillow fights), Kagome's fathers pass down bass guitar and a couple of note books to keep them busy. It would have been okay. If Kouga hadn't decided to try to play one of their songs on Kagome's fathers guitar. If Inuyasha hadn't turned up his music louder than necessary. If Sesshomaru had gotten up off his lazy bum to help with anything. If Miroku hadn't decided that since he couldn't find any thing to amuse him, he'd try and amuse himself with Girls Kick Ash's very temperamental drummer.
Or maybe if Kagome had any sort of preferable work space where she could actually finish writing her song.
They had parked at a gas station hours ago, because Kouga and Rin had decided that they really were hungry, and Kagome decided to take the time she could to write as much as she could.
With her fathers guitar out and ready, she had threatened to rip every single strand of Kouga's hair out of his head if he touched it again, she tapped her hand against it and began with the only lyrics she had.
Ooh, oh hey, yeah,
Take all my vicious words
And turn them into something good
Take all my preconceptions
And let the truth be understood
Take all my prized possessions
Leave only what I need
Take all my pieces of doubt
And let me be
With a sigh, Kagome stopped. That was as far as she could seem to bring the song. "Let me be the real me." Shaking her head, she tried again. "Let me be who I want to be."
"Let me be whats underneith."
Shocked, Kagome turned to the direction of the voice, only to find Inuyasha standing there quietly, gazing at her with a serine expression that was hard to figure out.
"What?"
"Let me be whats underneith." He repeated, coming forward to sit on the couch opposite her. "Makes sense. You've tried everything else, right? 'Me' and 'be' don't seem to fit." at her questioning glance, Inuyasha heaved an exasperated sigh, "Just try it, alright?"
She shot him a skeptical glance, but did it nonetheless.
Take all my prized possessions,
Leave only what I need,
Take all my pieces of doubt,
and let me be whats underneith
Kagome grinned at him. "It works!" She tested a few guitar notes and grinned again. "It shouldn't, but it does! My language arts tutor would die if she heard that!"
Inuyasha smirked. "Told ya, wench."
Ignoring his insult, I mean, she was just that happy, she tested a few more lyrics.
Courage is
when your afraid
but you keep on moving, anyway,
Courage is
when your in pain
but you keep on living, anyway.
Kagome clapped her hands above her head as she sang to the roaring audience.
Ooh, oh hey, yeah.
Ooh, oh hey, yeah.
We all have excuses why
Living in fear,
something within us dies
Like a bird,
with broken wings
It's not how high he flies,
It's the song he sings
Breaking off, Kagome smiled at Inuyasha, as he joined in with the song they wrote
Courage is
when your afraid,
but you keep on moving, anyway
Courage is
when your in pain
but you keep on living, anyway
Kouga and Ayame took their parts, duo-ing the lead electrics solo.
Inuyasha walked over to Kagome and held her hand as they both walked center stage and sang to their audience.
It's not how many times
you've been knocked down
It's how many times you get back up
Kagome looked at Inuyasha and sang low into her microphone, as if she was singing to him.
Courage is when you've lost your way
But you find your strength, anyway.
Inuyasha grinned at her and started singing to her.
Courage is
when your afraid,
Courage is
when it all seems gray
Courage is
when you make a change
And then they were both singing, the crowd going wild in anticipation.
And you keep on living anyway.
Kagome smiled at her companion.
Ooh, oh hey, yeah.
Ooh, oh hey, yeah.
When the last strums were strummed, Kagome took the microphone into her hands. "That was for all our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, aunts uncles, hell, even our friends second cousins twice removed– anyone who's family or friends are in the war right now, anyone who's in the war right now. Kami bless you all."
With that said, Kagome made a salute to their audience and exited stage left, Inuyasha right on her heals. She sank into the black leather couch back stage and took an exasperated drink from her water bottle. Inuyasha sat beside her as their band mates all walked in and sat in a circle around them.
"Charity events are so over rated." Kouga frowned, sitting next to Ayame and stealing her water bottle to take a swig.
"Hey!" Ayame growled, grabbing for it, only to be held at bay as Kouga held it above his head, forcing Ayame to practicly climb on his back for the thing. Sesshomaru sighed as he walked up, grabbing the water bottle from Kouga's outstretched hand and handing it back to Ayame in passing as he took a seat in the chair next to Rin.
Kouga frowned. "What'd ya do that for?"
Shaking his head, Sesshomaru sighed. "Our band should be called Two Idiots, A Pervert, and The Normal One."
Kagome frowned. "That would be an on-the-dot description of your band, but it's to long." Then, turning to Kouga, "And charity events are not over rated. If it's for a good cause, that's reason enough to play."
Inuyasha growled. "I am not an idiot."
Kouga shrugged and stole a strand of Ayame's hair to play with, making her eye twitch in anger. "Look, all I'm saying is that it doesn't pay, and the crowd doesn't know the proper way to applause an absolutely awesome solo. Not to mention the fact that we were just in Los Vegas, gambling city of the world, and we had to leave to do this stupid show."
Taking her hair back from him, Ayame smirked. "They sure applauded my solo alright."
Kouga pouted. "That's because their amateurs who don't know good music."
Rin shot them both a look. "Guys, you played at the same time."
That shut them all up.
"GKA, Babies, come on, give your daddy some love!"
The girls all turned and squealed when their manager, Jakotsu Okayami, walked in. He wore his shoulder length brown hair in a pony tail with a pink button down long sleeve t-shirt with the top three buttons over black jean pants. A purple and pink gem stone necklace hung over the collar of his shirt in multiple shades and shapes down to his chest.
"Jakotsu!" Girls Kick Ash squealed, jumping over the guys's laps to give their manager a hug.
Jakotsu giggled. "Girls, girls, if I were strait I might blush with all this attention!"
Kagome mearly laughed and tousled his hair. "Good thing your gay, then, right?"
He laughed, but nodded nonetheless.
Rin led the manager over to the guys and introduced them all. "Jank, that's Sesshy," She looked at Jakotsu and whispered, "Hot, but he's a bit of a sour puss. I think he might be into the same thing as you, if you catch my drift." At Sesshomaru's disbelieving look, she muttered a shy what. Turning towards Inuyasha's laugh, she continued. "That's Inuyasha." She again turned to whisper into her manager's ear. "He's off limit's though, because we think Kagome and him like each other." She ignored Inuyasha's sputtered denial. "And that's Kouga." She turned toward Jank's ear. "He likes Ayame, but he hits on Kagome to make her jealous. It's a lose, lose situation though, because it just gets on both of they're nerves." Then, turning toward Miroku, Rin didn't even bother to whisper. "And that's Miroku. He's a real pervert, but he focuses mainly on Sango. I'm not denying that he'll grope anything with a heartbeat that has the possibility of bearing his children, I just think he'd rather have Sango do the bearing than anyone else."
Rin turned back to the bands, only to see them all stairing at her open mouthed. "What?"
Inuyasha chuckled but shook his head. "You forget, Rin, that most of my band mates and I have demonic hearing."
Kagome cut her a side long look. "Not to mention the fact that you absolutely suck at whispering."
Sesshomaru huffed indignantly, his expression staying as neutral as his voice as he said, "I am not gay."
Jakotsu giggled at them all, but decided to have fun with it as he took Rins old seat by Sesshomaru, watching as the stoic man eased himself slightly away. He giggled again. "Well, guys, come on!" Jakotsu waved his arms around expressionly. "I know how fantabulous my girls are, but I have no idea how good you are! Play something for gay old Jank, pretty please?"
Kagome shot their manager a look. "You mean you made plans for GKA to go on tour with them and you've never even heard them before?"
Jakotsu seemed to realize his mistake as he rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, you see, Gome, I was with my boyfriend, you know him, right?"
Kagome thought for a moment. "Tall, dark, and handsome with Miroku's wandering hands, only for you guys?"
Sango pipped up with a frown. "No, no, Kagome, that was three years ago. He's talking tall, long brownish hair and strong build."
Rin frowned. "No, Sango, He's talking about Renkotsu. You know, skin head pyro with the pail skin and sky-blue eyes."
Ayame frowned at her girls. "No, no, no! Your all wrong. He's talking Bonkotsu! Remember, Renkotsu nearly burned his house down so Jank dumped him and we helped him sue the jerk for all he's worth."
Kagome, Sango, and Rin all shared a look and said, at the same time, "Braids!"
White Widow shared a look with each other. Kouga leaned behind Miroku to whisper to Inuyasha. "Girls are crazy." Inuyasha nodded.
Jakotsu, on the other hand, used to his girls's charm, mearly giggled. "Yes, Bonkotsu. Ah, he does have a nice butt on him, doesn't he?" GKA nodded eagerly. "Anyways, as I was saying. I was with Bonkotsu and he mentioned his friend Suikotsu who just happened to have this cousin in Kyoto who was talking about his friend who had a band called White Widow."
Inuyasha grinned. "Your talking about Mioga, huh?"
Jakotsu giggled. "I think that was the name, yeah. Something about a flee demon. Anyway, so we were in the middle of a nice dinner, and Bonkotsu has this great Idea, and he says, 'Why don't we get the two bands together?' and then, wa-la! The tour schedule was laid out, and Mioga-san was called and there you have it!"
Kagome shook her head. "I can't believe you planned GKA's future over dinner with your hot bf."
Ayame grimaced. "I hope it was only dinner they planned this over.
Inuyasha frowned. "I second that."
Kouga and Rin raised their hands. "Third."
Sesshomaru's eyebrow twitched as he said. "Fourth."
Sango made a disgruntled face. "Fifth."
When they didn't hear the last vote, they all turned in Miroku's direction. Miroku raised an eyebrow. "What?"
They all groaned.
"Anyways, so, on with it then!" Jakotsu said, resuming their earlier conversation, not even bothering to say that it was indeed all they planned over. "I want to hear a song from my girl's tour mates.
Inuyasha cut his guy's a look. "What do ya say?"
They all shrugged and Inuyasha sank onto the couch next to Kagome, sitting a little closer than necessary and putting his arm on the back of the couch behind her head, grinning to himself when Kagome unconsciously scooted closer.
Miroku patted a beat onto the ground in front of where he sat, Sango and Sesshomaru scooting out of their chairs to join along.
Rin grabbed her bass guitar from where it sat leaning against the wall and sat down next to Sesshomaru. Kouga grabbed the lead guitar from it's position next to the door and took a seat next to Ayame.
Inuyasha sang.
Ooh, yeah.
I'm living life with no regrets
They're on their way,
but aint here yet.
I just left Los Vegas
in bad, bad shape.
Jakotsu nodded his head with the beat, eeping and squealing when Inuyasha's testosterone fueled voice hit just the right note.
I only call home
if I get the chance
Every other night,
a new romance
Wake up just in time
to miss the day
Inuyasha thought in his mind, screw it, and pulled the arm behind Kagome over her shoulder, pulling her against his chest. He felt Kagome stiffen, but she soon relaxed as he just played it cool and sang. Pretty soon, her head was laid against his chest, and her hand was gripping the black Monster shirt over his heart as she sang back up for him.
And I'm talking to the man
in the mirror
and I think I heard him say
Jakotsu leaned over to Rin and whispered. "I think your right about them liking each other."
Rin nodded seriously. "Off limits."
Inuyasha continued.
What ya gonna do
When the whiskey aint
working no more
and life don't
feel like before
What ya gonna do
What ya gonna do
When the ride aint
coming no more
Nobody's beaten
down your door
What ya gonna do
Ayame leaned back and played the air guitar next to Kouga, belting out a whaap wap wap waap for every lead note that was played in the short solo.
I've been down to low,
down in the streets
I'm high enough
to make believe
That I aint ever gonna
hit the ground
Inuyasha smiled as Kagome switched positions so that she was leaning against his side with her feet dangling over the arm rest of the couch. He continued.
The one that got
away from me
Every now and then
She calls to see
If I'm alive
or plan to settle down
Well, I called her
drunk last night
And I think I heard her say...
Kagome's foot tapped against the air to the beat they were playing. She took over.
What ya gonna do
When the whiskey aint
working no more
And life don't feel
like before
What ya gonna do
What ya gonna do
When the ride aint
coming no more
Nobody's beating
down your door
What ya gonna do
What ya gonna do
Inuyasha tilted his head back and enjoyed her singing. It was beautiful. Not fake beautiful, like a lot of the singers one hears nowadays on the radio, but natural. It was a natural beauty that made him ache. In a good way.
I can't sleep
I can't hide
Because the voices in
my head are
getting louder,
Getting louder every night
Kagome smiled when she was done. It was great exorcize on her voice. She'd have to start breaking out in random songs more often.
Inuyasha took over.
I'm living life with
no regrets
They're on the way,
but aint here yet
What ya gonna do
When the whiskey aint
working no more
And life don't feel like before
What ya gonna do
What ya gonna do
Nobody's beaten
down your door
What ya gonna do
Kagome whisper sang as loud as she could to back him up.
What ya gonna do
And then they were singing together.
What ya gonna do
When the whiskey aint
Working no more
and life don't feel like before
what ya gonna do
What ya gonna do
Nobody's beaten
down your door
What ya gonna do
Kagome and Inuyasha fell into a fit of laughter at the end, grinning at each other as their lyrics fell into place with the crazy beat their friends were setting in the back ground.
Jakotsu smiled. "Perfect! Just perfect!"
(A/N) Lolz. This chapter was fun to write. :)
Did You Know: That the song "What Ya Gonna Do" by Hinder was sudgested to me by a friend?
Did You Know: That originally, Jankotsu wasn't GKA's band manager, and Kikyou was? :( I think having Jankotsu gay, and being manager worked soooo much better.
Did You Know: That "Courage" by the Veranica's was found over a randome Youtube search? I had no idea what I was searching for, only that I put, "Meaningful go-army songs" in the search bar. :)