WHITE GIRLS KICK WIDOW ASH

Kagome sighed, poking her fingers to the sides of her throat to feel her swollen tonsils. She just had to be sick, didn't she? On today of all days!

Inuyasha and Kagome were supposed to do a duo for their new debut album; Satellite at the state theator of Washingten D.C. She'd spent days preping for stagewere with Rin, lighting with Miroku, and vocals with Sango. Days spent perfecting her moves on stage with Inuyasha. Even planning the ending pose to the d of the end of the performance.

And then, the morning of the concert debut, she'd woken up with one tonsil twice the size of the other and an order from the doctore that she'd need her tonsils removed less her Strep Throat become something much, much worse.

Oh, but she should be thrilled, right? According to Sango, she'd have days of eating nothing but her favorite flavor of frozen yougert. Really she was being nothing but petty. She should be happy that it wasn't really anything worse. Once she'd realized that, she'd gone ahead and told Inuyasha to just do the song with Ayame, who's voice matched her's in intensity.

Inuyasha had denied, at first, "No way! The audience don't want a debut from White Widow and GKA unless it's from the lead singers!"

Kagome had shaken her head. "No, Inuyasha, it really doesn't make a difference. And besides, I'll be prepping for surgery by the time your on stage."

"No, Kagome. I'm not doing this song without you."

"What are you going to do?" Kagome had scowled. "Cancel the performance?"

Inuyasha had grunted. "'Course not. Postponing will work just fine."

"Inuyasha, that'd cost twenty thousand dollars."

Eventually she had warn him down, though. And he surrendured with another grunt.

It didn't help her, though. Didn't help her at all, actually. She still felt as if she were somehow wronged in the greater sceme of things. Kagome comforted herself with the knowlege that there would be other concerts, othe debutes, as the doctore walked in.

"Kagome, do you feel up to a visitor?"

A furrow of her brows told all of her confusion, but she nodded. "Yeah, sure."

Inuyasha, Ayame, Sango, Rin, Kouga, and Miroku walked in with exited hello's, and took they're places surrounding her bed. Inuyasha sat on the end and propped her feet on his lap. Ayame sat on the doctore's stool to her side. Sango and Miroku took the floor, and Kouga and Rin sat in the only chairs left; blue padded uncomfortable things in the corner of the room.

"Guys?" Kagome frowned. "What are you doing here? Arn't you supposed to be prepping?"

Ayame shrugged. "We really couldn't do the debut without you."

Rin giggled. "Jakotsu had a fit when Inuyasha told him what you wanted."

Miroku's head tilted slightly to the side. "Really, what were you thinking?"

Sango shook her head. "GKA is nothing if all of the gang's not in it, Kags."

Kouga nodded. "Which is why,"

Inuyasha layed his hand on her knee and grinned. "We decided to give you a gift."

Ayame stood and did a little dance in a circle and Kagome's eyes were brought to the entrance of Sesshomaru, holding in his arms two guitars, three pairs of drum sticks, her micraphone, and a keyboard. Kagome found it strange that he wasn't even stumbling at the weight of all the instuments. On a second thought though, she mused over the theory that his grace probably came from his youkai herritage.

He passed a guitar to Ayame and Kouga, gave the keyboard to Miroku, who laid it on the floor in front of him and flipped the on switch. Then he sat, a knee propped up, and a knee tucked under, passing a pair of drumsticks to Sango, and keeping one from himself.

Inuyasha grinned as Sesshomaru tossed him the mike, and then grinned wider as he handed it to Kagome. He then proceded to reach into his back pocket to pull out his signature mike.

"Guys?" The girl questioned.

Sango giggled. "You didn't really think we'd do this without you, did you?"

Ayame started a rythm on her guitar and Kouga joined her as Jakotsu walked into the room, leading two camera men, Suikotsu, the voice-techknowlogist, an old man with a white beard, and short cropped white hair, and two girls, around they're age; one that looked startalingly like Kagome, only with straiter hair, and bolder eyes, and the other with eyes a mixture of brown and red, brought out by bright red lipstick.

A red light flashed on the camera's, and Inuyasha squeesed her knee before he started singing, much to her amusement.

You can't feel the heat,

until you hold your hand,

over the flame.

He frowned when she didn't start singing, "Come on, Kagome, you know this."

Kagome put her lips to the mic, and sang the next part.

You've got to cross the line

just to remember

where it lays.

Her lips tilted into a smile and she bobbed her head with the beat.

You won't know your worth,

now, son,

until you take a hit.

Inuyasha grinned, dancing his head to the sides with her.

And you wont find the beat

until you

loose yourself in it.

Inuyasha joined her, and they belted out the chorus as if it was they're only defence against reality.

That's why we wont back down

we wont run and hide,

yeah, 'cause these are the things

that we can't deny

I'm passing over you

like a satellite!

Kagome sat up straiter, tilting her head back.

So catch me when I fall.

Inuyasha rolled his shoulders and pumped a fist in the air, shaking the bed in his vigore, but Kagome didn't seem to mind.

That's why we stick

to your game plans and party lines

But at night we're conspiring by candlelight.

Kagome sat up, folding her legs beneath her and dancing to herself.

We are the orphans of

the American Dream

So shine your light on me!

Kouga brought his guitar up as Inuyasha continued.

You can't fill your cup

until you empty all it has

You can't understand what lays ahead

until you understand the past

The guitar melded in with Ayame's and Kagome took over.

You'll never learnto fly

until your standing at the cliff

and you can't truely love

until you've given up on it!

And then there was harmony as Inuyasha grasped Kagome's hand and they both screamed out loud of they're entrancement of the song.

That's why we wont back down

we wont run and hide

because these are the things that we can't deny.

I'm passing over you

like a satellite,

so catch me if I fall

Inuyasha dipped his head in vigor.

That's why we stick to your game plans and party lines

But at night we're conspiring by candlight

We are the orphans of the American Dream

So shine your light on me!

Sango and Sesshomaru beat the floor with they're drum sticks, Kouga and Ayame wavered the guitar, and then Inuyasha was singing directly to Kagome.

She told me she never

could face the world again

So I offered up a plan

We'll sneak out while they sleep

and sail off in the night

We'll come clean

and start over

the rest of our lives.

Kagome leaned her head on his shoulder, twining they're fingers.

We'll sneak out while they sleep

and sail off in the night

We'll come clean

and start over

the rest of our lives.

And Inuyasha was joining her.

Because we wont back down

we wont run and hide

yeah, 'cause these are the things

that we can't deny

I'm passing over you like a satellite,

so catch me if I fall

That's why we stick to your game plans and party lines

But at night we're conspiring by candlelight

We are the orphans of the American Dream

So shine your light on me

Inuyasha laughed.

Because we wont back down

We wont run and hide

Kagome giggled.

Yeah, 'cause these are the things

that we can't deny

And they were singing together.

I'm passing over you like a satellite

'Cause these are the things that we can't deny now

This is the life that you can't deny us now.

The instrumentalists finished off the beat and Jakotsu grinned at his bedridden girl.

"See, now, Kagome? Not a one of us liked the thought of doing this without you!"

Kagome shook her head. "But, I don't understand! How is my singing infront of a bunch of camera's in a doctore's room helping any?"

Inuyasha wrapped an arm around the confused girls shoulders as the camera men turned and left. The girls stayed put. "When I told Jak that you wanted us to go ahead and do it without you, he asked if pigs had magicly started flying. And then Myoga showed up and he was all looking foreward to meeting you."

Myoga, she assumed to be the man with the beard, took a step foreward and offered his hand. Kagome put hers in his. "Hello, Kagome-Sama. I am a big fan of your work. I'm so glad you're getting the chance to work with my nephue here," He gestured to Inuyasha.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha uncirtainly. "You never told me he was your Uncle."

Inuyasha rubbed an eye. "He's not."

Myoga frowned. "Now, Inuyasha-Sama, don't be like that. I was friends with your father long before your birth, and in these states that makes me your Uncle."

"You aint my Uncle."

Myoga sighed. "And to think I'd even brought him a present."

At that, one of the girls, the one that looked suspiciously like Kagome, trotted foreward and leaned across the bed, taking hold of Inuyasha's arm and tugging him away from Kagome so fast that she didn't have a chance of saving herself from the face plant on the bed.

"What the-" Inuyasha sputtered. "Kikyou?"

"Hey, Baby."

The other brunet walked directly past them and sat in Sesshomaru's lap.

Sesshomaru growled out, "Kagura."

Kagura smirked, planting a kiss to his lips. "Fluff-Kun."

Rin stood with a snarl and hurled herself in they're direction, grabbing the hair in Kagura's feather'd bun and dragging the woman off his lap.

Sesshomaru mearly crossed his arms and raised a brow.

Kagome picked herself up off the bed and scooted to the headboard, to shocked to do much else.

Inuyasha glanced at her, and then at Kikyou, then at her again. "No, no, Kagome, this is not what it looks like!"

Sango huffed and moved to sit on the bed by Kagome, gathering the girl in her arms. "Then what's it look like to you, Inuyasha? Your getting manhandled by someone who's most definately not Kagome, and Sesshomaru just kissed a girl who was not his girlfriend."

Kagura gasped. "I am too his girlfriend, you leach!" And then she turned toward Rin, who had her hands locked on the girls neck, one knee firmly planted on her stomach, and the other holding her right leg down. "Who are you anyway? Get off of me!"

Rin's eyes blazed in a way that made Sesshomaru question weather he should be nervous or proud. "I, you home-wrecking whore, am that stoic arse' girlfriend."

Sesshomaru's eyebrow raised even further up. "Stoic arse? Hn."

Everyone was silent for a beat, and then Kagura seemed to put two and two together, well mostly. She would have gotten three, had she actually been doing a math problem. But three's close enough to four for her to get that Sesshomaru wasn't trying to save her from the little woman on top of her, and Inuyasha seemed to be trying to escape Kikyou, rather than embrase her.

She looked towards the man she'd come to see. "Sesshomaru?"

He didn't even glance awat from the girl claiming to be his girlfriend. "Hn."

Kagome burried her head in Sango's shoulder, more to escape the desperate look Inuyasha was sending her than anything else. She whispered to Sango, "I don't think I feel up to so many visitor's anymore, Sango."

Sango nodded, "Give me a moment and I'll bring the girls back, alright? We don't need these guys anyway."

She stood from the bed and Kagome grabbed her sleeve. "Kouga and Sesshomaru can stay."

Sango smiled and nodded. She then proceded to kick people out of the room, much to p.o.'d to simply ask them to leave, and finding it much to fun to use force against these broads.

First, she grabbed Kikyou by the back of her neck, poking two fingers into the soft spot to the flesh of her shoulder. She caught the girl when she fell and shoved her in Inuyashas suprized arms before flinging the door open and pushing both outside, albeit with a small harsh kick to the butt of the source of her friends pain.

She then patted Rin on the head, smiling when the girl released the limp body beneath her in favor of Sesshomaru's outstretched arms, and then grabbed Kagura, hauling her to her feet by the back of her neck. With her other hand, she grabbed Miroku's ear, and pulled until he stood, stumbling with Kagura.

Miroku sputtered. "Hey, hey, hey! I didn't do nothing! Why am I getting kicked out?"

Sango only pushed him further. "You just annoy everyone, Miroku."

Only when they were out, and the door was slammed firmly in they're face, and after listening to what sounded like the dropping of a body, the squeal of a girl, only then did she return to Kagome, who had actually started tearing up.

Did You Know: that this is my absolutely favorite song?

Did You Know: that this will be the turning point in Kagome and Inuyasha's relationship?

Did You Know: that it took two days to finalize this chapter?

(A/N) I am so so so very sorry for the delay, guys! But I got my laptop and I'm trying very terribly hard to make my updates more coherent. Thank y'all for sticking with this story, and know that I have NOT given up on it!

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