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Chapter 10: Battle of the bands start
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(A/N: to start out different… HERE'S…) Sango woke up with a large yawn and stretched. She fell back down again, ready to go back to sleep.
"GOOD MORNING!" A loud voice yelled, bringing blow horns and tambourines with it. "Rise and shine Sango, Sister! Battle of the bands!" It said, shaking her. She mumbled.
"Five more minutes, mommy…" She said and rolled over. The person sweat dropped.
"SANGO! I'm not you're mommy! Mommy's downstairs! This is Kohaku! You know, your BROTHER Kohaku. Now get up you lazy bum!" He yelled and ripped the covers from her. She whimpered and looked at him.
"Damn. You have a GREAT way of interrupting a dream! I'm up, I'm up." She said getting up. Preparing her stuff, she headed into the shower. After a fifteen-minute shower, she got dressed. For Special occasions like this they wore a uniform type thing with different colors. Sango wore a magenta long sleeve shirt, with 'Whoop-Ass 17'on the left arm and 'Sango' on the right arm with the sleeves flared out; her letters were forest green. They could either wear the black pants with the color of shirt fishnet on the bottom over the black, or the skirt with that same pattern that stopped at their knees. She chose the pants. She put on black skater shoes to top it off. For jewelry she put on black arm warmers and a dog collar. Magenta eye shadow came with it and she pulled her hair up in a high ponytail. Seeing herself she nodded and went downstairs.
"Hello family." She said grabbing a bagel.
"Hello Sango, dear. Where are you going all…dressed up?" Her mother said.
"Oh. Remember that Battle of the Bands thing I was telling you about?" She asked. Seeing a nod she continued. "Well that's today. I'm going to go meet the girls at the place." Sango said. It turns out; The Battle of the Bands was actually a bunch of bands competing to donate to a cancer cause. A whole bunch of people were going to be there listening to them play.
"Oh. Ok well have fun." She said, going back to what she was doing.
"SANGO! CAN I GO TO! PLEASE!" Kohaku yelled/asked.
"What? NO!" Sango yelled.
"Sango, it wouldn't be that bad to take your brother along now would it? You hardly spend any time with him." Her father said, looking in the newspaper.
"WHAT! Are you people loco! I spent goo gobs of time with the pest! The band is the only escape I have! And school…!" she yelled, desperate not to take him with her.
"But Sango, he really wants to go." Her mother said taking a look at Kohaku doing the puppy dog eyes, "Besides, he really likes you're band." Sango have up.
"Fine." She turned to Kohaku, "But one false move from you and you're out! Got that?" she asked, pointing a finger at him.
"Yea, yea, whatever. I won't even share you're dirty little secrets with Miroku that you seem to like so much. Sango stiffened. She hadn't told him she liked Miroku! Hell, she hadn't even mentioned it for who knows how long!
"How did you…" She began, eyeing him carefully.
"You talk in your sleep. A guy can get a lot of info about your personal life from that. You really got to watch that…" he said, and walked away. Sango whimpered and yelled, "HEY SQUIRT! Be down here in ten minutes or I'm leaving your ass!" earning a dirty look from her parents. She smiled and walked to her car Sweet Death (A/N: if you don't remember it is the car from chapter 7) and warmed it up. Kohaku was down in five minutes and they were off!
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A violent ring filled Miroku's sleeping ears. He mumbled and put his head under his pillow, pretending it wasn't there. Another followed, and soon became impossible to ignore. A stream of curses escaped his mouth as a rough 'hello' came out.
"MIROKU! You damn lazy ass bum! Get your ass up!" A growling voice came from the other end.
"What? What for? Inuyasha?" He asked, really confused. Indeed, Inuyasha was on the other end.
" YES! Its Battle of the fucking bands today! You can't be late! Get up! Get dressed and get down here!" Inuyasha yelled. Miroku's eyes almost popped out. Knocking Miroku out of his daze, "Sango's gonna be there…" Inuyasha said slyly, knowing full well that would get him up. Soon a drop of the phone was heard, and Miroku was off.
He jetted into the shower, and as soon as he was in, he was out. His long black hair was sopping wet…it would have to dry on the way. He too, had a band uniform for these kinds of things. Miroku pulled on his fishnet shirt that showed off his well-toned chest. With it came a collared shirt, Miroku's was dark purple. The sleeves were left unbuttoned and on the back it had 'MIROKU' and 'HARDCORE DOGS' in blue letters with silver outline. The other's shirts were like that. He wore dark baggy pants with studded belt with skulls on it. He pulled on black converse and ran into the kitchen. Taking his keys off the table, he grabbed a comb and said bye.
"Bye Mushin!" He yelled, on the way to the door.
"Whoa! Hold your horses there boy! Where you going?" He asked looking at him.
"Battle of the bands today…totally forgot." Miroku panted.
"Oh…well good luck, here's a apple. Can't sing when you're starving. And your hair's wet." Mushin said, threw him an apple and went back to the paper. Miroku smiled.
"Thanks Mushin! I'm late! Later!" He yelled and zoomed out the door. Once in his car, and on the way there, he combed his hair. Luckily, it wasn't that tangled so he had a fairly easy time combing it. Once done with that, he grabbed a hair tie out of his glove compartment and tied his hair up. It was smooth sailing from there…till he got there…
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Sango entered the building with her bass, and looked around for her friends with Kohaku in tow. Having spotted Max (A/N: Yea, remember Max, the guy that greeted Kikyo at the door? Him.), she walked toward him.
"Hey Max." she said, looking at him. He lifted his head.
" Hey Sango. What can I help you with? " He asked, smiling. Sango involuntarily shuddered.
"Was wondering if you had seen Kagome or any of the others around." She said looking around. "Can't find them anywhere."
"OH! Yea I found him! They're right over there." Max said pointing to a place next to a door. Sango smiled at him.
"Thanks Max! See you around and wish us luck!" She said walking over to the others.
"Of course, dear Sango." He muttered dreamily while staring at her for a while. He was knocked out of his stupor by a hand hitting him.
"If you wish to keep your life, don't do that again." The man said. Max looked up to a human man glaring at him with violet eyes.
"And what do you intend to do if I do?" Max asked, pushing his luck.
" You don't want to know. All you need to know is that Sango is mine and to keep your hands off!" He said irritated.
"MIROKU! GET YOUR LATE ASS OVER HERE!" A silvered haired man yelled. The man sighed and looked back at Max.
"You're excused- for now. COMING INUYASHA!" He yelled back and ran off. Max blinked a couple times and went back to reading his magazine.
Sango approached her friends. Kagome had on the same thing she did, but her shirt was black and had silver words and her pants had silver mesh with black converse. Kagura had a red shirt and white letters with red mesh at the bottom of her skirt. She had white and red converse. Rin sported her favorite golden yellow color, words were black with lining on her pants AND skirt, yellow. She loved to mix stuff like that. She wore golden yellow converse. Ayame had a lavender shirt with royal blue letters and lavender mesh at the bottom of her skirt and blue converse. Noticing Souta there, Sango laughed.
"So you had to tag along your bro too?" She asked. Kagome nodded, irritated.
"Yea. Looks like you had too, too. I don't know WHY I had to take care of him! Kikyo's here to! Why couldn't SHE!" Kagome growled.
"Because I don't want to be left with Kikyo all day. NO WAY." Souta interrupted. "Stop acting like a baby Kagome." He said and him and Kohaku left to take their seats. Kagome growled.
"Damn brother…" She said as she glared at her brothers back.
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Miroku approached Inuyasha and he rest of them. Inuyasha had the same thing he had on, except his was red and the letters were silver. He had baggy faded jeans with a hole in the knee and a skull belt buckle. Kouga had a brown over shirt with gray letters. He wore black pants and checkered belt. Shippo had a teal shirt and badge lettering. He had dark blue jeans and a black belt. Sesshomaru had black mesh and a white over coat. The letters were black and so where his pants. He had a studded belt and black jell bracelets.
"Hey guys. Inuyasha, you had to bring Shiori?" Miroku asked, glancing at Shiori.
"Yea. Mom and Dad found it absolutely impossible so they gave her to us." Sesshomaru said with Shiori on his shoulders.
"HEY! Look! Its Souta and Kohaku! Let me go, Fluffy!" Shiori said, hitting Sesshomaru's head.
"Ok, Ok. Stop hitting already! I'll let you down!" He said lifting her up and setting her on the ground. "Make sure to stay in the crowd. Inuyasha and me will be looking for you. Be careful." He said running his hand through her hair.
"Bye twerp." Inuyasha said winking at her. Shiori waved and went with her friends.
"Man, you're such a daddy's little girl." Souta said, disgusted.
"DADDY!" Inuyasha and Sesshomaru heard Shiori yell and winced. They heard a loud 'KABOOM' which was probably Souta hitting the ground. " HE IS NOT MY DADDY! HE WAS MY BOTHER!" Shiori yelled and stormed off.
"Man, poor Souta." Inuyasha said and shook his head.
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"OH MY GOSH GUYS, LOOK!" They heard Ayame shriek. Kagome looked around, ready to pounce on any sudden action. "It's Kouga and the boys of Hardcore Dogs! Lets go talk to 'em." She said and Kagome relaxed and growled at Ayame's antics.
"Damn. Got me all alert and shit. Lets go talk to them then." Kagome said and was the first to stroll over. " Hey Inuyasha. Fancy meeting you here." She said, eyeing his revealed abs and chest. He noticeably blushed.
"Hey Kagome. What's up?" He asked, doing some scanning of his own. "You look nice." He said, winking.
"You don't look bad yourself." She said and smiled. The rest of the group came over and started conversations.
Rin coughed. "Greetings from Planet Pluto, Shippo." She said doing that alien piece sign thing. Shippo raised an eyebrow.
"Uh… greetings from Earth I guess." Shippo said, unsure of a response. Rin snorted.
"DAMN SHIPPO! You're so normal! Earth, EARTH! What kind of creativity is that?" Rin yelled waving her arms around. Shippo blinked.
"Normal. Yes." Shippo said and glanced at her pants and skirt. "And you are weird." Shippo said sweat dropping.
"Alas, Shippo! We are all weird, on the inside! You must EMBRACE you're weirdness! Make it your own, call it your own; do not be afraid of it! Bring it to the surface and SHINE! SHINE, SHIPPO, SHINE!" Rin said, going all Shakespearian on him. During that little speech, he had snuck off somewhere. At the 'Shine, Shippo, shine' part, he had gotten the hell outta dodge. Rin glared at the spot where Shippo stood and felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't worry Rin. He'll get used to you. I have." Kagura said and smiled at her. Rin suddenly got an evil smile on her face.
"I won't Kagura. I'LL GET HIM! OHHH SHIPPO! COME HERE!" Rin yelled and went after him. Kagura stared after her. "AH HA! There you are!" Came Rin's voice! "DAMN! NOOOOO! HAVE MERCY MASTER!" Came Shippo's terrified voice. A smiled came over Kagura's features as she went back to Sesshomaru.
"Rin has a very…interesting…personality…" Sesshomaru said scratching the back of his head. Kagura laughed.
"That isn't even the tip of the iceberg. That's probably the calmest I've seen her. I mean; she'll randomly break out into song at practices. When there's an awkward silence or something, she'll get on the drums and come out with this crazy ass song. Most of the time, impromptu." Kagura said laughing.
"What? Does she have ADD or something?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Oh hell no. Man, she has a genius level IQ! She's just random as hell. Without her, I don't know what would keep us together. She's awesome." Kagura said. "We're all best friends, but she's the one that keeps us together when we get all pissed off at each other. Ms Comic Relief." She laughed again.
"Cool. So what about you? What is the roll of Kagura in Whoop Ass?" Sesshomaru asked, quirking an eyebrow. A few minutes later, a voice in the loud speakers came out.
"Band members of all bands, solo singers, and all competitors of Battle of the Bands 2006 please report to blue auditorium for briefing." The voice said and went off. Miroku snickered.
"Hehe. He said briefing." Miroku said and smiled stupidly. Sango looked at him and sweat dropped.
" You can be so immature…" She said and headed into the room.
Whoop Ass and Hardcore sat together while they were 'briefed'. Basically, they said the order of the genres and what types of songs you had to have. They said what it was all about: To raise money for cancer research and uncured diseases funds. There was a live audience with big company presidents looking for the newest thing. Inuyasha secretly hoped his dad was going to be there, he wrote a special song for him, Perfect. The bands were going to perform all their songs at one time, to avoid confusion. Pop was first, meaning Kikyo was up first; then R&B/ Hip Hop/ Rap was next, then Rock all different kinds, then last but not least, Country. They said in between each genre, there was a skit from the students of Tama Elementary School. There was a chance Shiori, Souta, and Kohaku might perform a skit… hm. After that was over with, they headed over to the main auditorium to watch the rest of them perform. The bands were on the balcony with some fans; or just hung out back stage. Our friends, sat with the commoners, and would escape when they were up. Tigeme and surprisingly, Raetoe showed up on the catwalk at least a yard or two away from each other.
" Hello audience! I'm Tigeme Lanair here with you to host Battle of the Bands 2006! MAKE SOME NOISE!" Tigeme screamed receiving a satisfying roar from the crowd. Her long hair was pulled up into a tight high ponytail. She had a black shirt on, that cut off right at the end of both her shoulders, and had a light gray background beneath a thick black stitching that looked like silk going straight down the middle in a 'X' pattern. It had a light gray ruffle going around the trim at the top and bottom of the shirt. Two strings came up from the shirt and made into a thick silk chocker on her neck. From the shoulders down to her wrists, was black fishnet that at the wrists puffed out into the light gray ruffle and sort of covered up her hands. Charcoal gray pinstriped slacks accompanied that with all black converses.
Raetoe showed up with a microphone and spoke to. "Hey! I'm Raetoe Narba, as some of you know. Even though we're here to have fun and listen to music, we have some guidelines we need to cover. 1: even though you may not like a band or performer, please don't say anything. Don't boo them or anything. 2: if you have to leave, or go to the bathroom, do it AFTER they perform. Not in the middle of it. 3: turn your cell phones OFF. Don't have them ringing in the middle! Or turn it on vibrate! 4: don't come up on stage and like hug the people while they're playing. Basically, don't enter the stage area unless you were CALLED from the person. And last but not least; 5: Have as much fun as humanly possible!" Raetoe called. He had on a light pink shirt that said 'pink is the new black' in black trimmed letters and blue jeans with White Adidas with 3 black strips on each side. Someone had turned prep…ew.
"So now without further or due, starting us off in Pop would be Kikyo Higurashi with her songs." Tigeme said. Kikyo appeared on stage in a short jean skirt that ended halfway down her thighs and tattered. She had pink high heels that went up three inches, to think, she had to MOVE in those. Her shirt was a pink spaghetti tank top that had 'A blond with a brain' on it… SHE WASN'T EVEN BLOND! She was stupid that way.
"Hello guys! I hope you like, enjoy this!" She said pushing her hair back. She sang a couple songs, in which Kagome and Inuyasha had to restrain from gagging and barfing everywhere. No doubt they had they're fun, laughing at all those poor saps drooling over her. She sang one song, which irked Inuyasha and Kagome to no end. Kagome, having to restrain her anger and hatred for the song and meaning behind it while Inuyasha glared bloody daggers and Kikyo and had wonderful visions of her dropping dead. The song was called "Boys" (A/N: I DO NOT OWN THIS! Not like I would want to…). It was absolutely sickening and if Kagome EVER got her hands on it, it wouldn't be pretty.
Kikyo sang with a bunch of her boy dance-along people, who were of course clad in white, and were very muscular. She sang out into the crowd, occasionally rubbing against a guy and then looking back. She found it very entertaining to look at Inuyasha and Kagome fuming.
For whatever reason,
I feel like I've been wanting you all my life
You don't understand
I'm so glad we're at the same place
At the same time, it's over now
She twirled around it some guy's arms, and then dipped low, showing lots of cleavage. Kagome sighed 'That's my sister…' She thought.
I spotted you dancin'
You made all the girls stare
Those lips and your brown eyes (oooh)
And the sexy hair
I should shake my thang
Make the world want you (giggle)
Tell your boys you'll be back
I wanna see what you can do (uh)
She took this opportunity to get wrapped up in another guy's arms, rub her hand through his wavy blue hair and down the catwalk, waving her hair around. Inuyasha sneered. He knew what was coming next; Kikyo was working on it when they were going out. Thought it was disgusting then, and it damn sure was now.
What would it take for you to just leave with me?
Not tryin to sound conceited but
you and me were meant to be (yeah)
You're a sexy guy, I'm a nice Girl
Let's turn this dance floor into our own little nasty world!
She came to the end of the catwalk and stopped, letting everyone up front take a good look up her skirt. She put her pointer finger to her lips, trying to look innocent and batted her eyelashes. She looked strait at Inuyasha as she said the last three lines and when she said 'sexy', she ran her hand up her up the side of her thigh, making her skirt fly upwards. Kagome almost ran up to the stage and choked her sister wondering WHY she wonders why people are always stalking her.
Boys!
Sometimes a girl just needs one (you know I need you)
Boys!
To love her and to hold (I just want you to touch me)
Boys!
And when a girl is with one (mmm, mmm)
Boys!
Then she's in control!
The damn girl goes through a boy every week or so and all hell breaks loose. NOW she's saying she wants another one! 'GOOD LORD MAKE UP YOUR MIND!' Kagome screamed in her head.
Took the boy off the dance floor
Screaming in his ear
Musta' said somethin bout me (what you say)
Cuz he's lookin over here
You lookin at me (giggle)
With a sexy attitude
But the way your boys movin it (uh)
It puts me in the mood
OUW!
Kagome's foot first tapped on the floor, slightly irritated.
What would it take for you to just leave with me?
Not tryin to sound conceited
but you and me were meant to be
You're a sexy guy, I'm a nice Girl
Let's turn this dance floor into our own little nasty world
As Kikyo did her sluttish dance, Kagome's foot continued to slam harder and harder onto the floor.
Boys!
Sometimes a girl just needs one (I get nasty)
Boys!
To love her and to hold (I get nasty)
Boys!
And when a girl is with one (I get nasty)
Boys!
Then she's in control! (You like that? Here we go..)
Tonight Let's Fly
Boy have no Fear (have no fear)
There's no time to loose
And next week,
You might not see me here (uh-huh)
So boy just make your move (let me see what you can do)
'Next week? There's a NEXT week with Kikyo? 'You might not see me' is right. You'll never see her after she screws you.' Inuyasha thought, very thankful he denied Kikyo the pleasure of screwing him. He was beginning to hear Kagome's foot tapping.
Boys!
Sometimes a girl just needs one (I like that)
Boys! (I like that)
To love her and to hold
Boys!
And when a girl is with one (it's gonna turn me on)
Boys!
Then she's in control!
Come with me
Let's fly Into the Night
Oh boy, tonight is ours (it's just you and me baby)
When huggin me, make sure you hold me tonight
Let's head for the stars
GET NASTY!
Moan Moan Moan, OUW !
At the end of this part, it was probably at the worst it could get. Kikyo was going around to random guys, singing to them and sometimes humping them, while her man-bots danced their little routines on stage. Poor guys, they never had a chance. Inuyasha was going to be one of her victims, instead, when she went to sit on his lap, anger overtook Kagome as she pushed her off of him; a inhuman growl coming deep within her throat. It was the last straw. After pushing Kikyo away, Kagome's foot problem had only gotten worse.
Boys!
Sometimes a girl just needs one
Boys!
To love her and to hold
Boys!
And when a girl is with one
Boys!
Then she's in control!
Kagome's foot went flying upwards, slamming into the back of the chair that was in front of hers. A loud "OW!" was heard, ending the song off perfectly while the person sitting in the seat had a very large, very painful bruise coming. Kagome feared some of her powers were in that kick, and looked apologetically to the owner. Luckily, it was no one she knew.
Can't live with em'
Cant live without em'!
"Aha! Thank you; thank you all! Have a great day! I hope you all enjoyed this. I wrote it for my sister, Kagome, and I going after the same guy and how, as we all know, he will ultimately choose me. But anyhow, thanks so much for listening! Bye!" Kikyo said, her long speech ending. Kagome was on the verge of going and choking the living life out of Kikyo.
'Why that cocky BITCH! What the fuck was with all that, 'he'll choose me' crap! Man she's gonna get it! Just wait till I get my hands on her…!' Kagome thought, planning Kikyo's murder. While she was the verge of getting up, she felt on a strong arm around her waist, pulling her back down. Irritated, she glared at the owner of the arm. Inuyasha just shook her head, saying it wasn't worth it. Kagome sighed and sat back down, leaning her head against his shoulder for a little comfort. His arm remained around her waist.
Kikyo exited the stage, cocky as ever. Lots others came on, some not half-bad; others, horrible. When R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap was up next, the Tama students performed a short skit about what bands do when they're not practicing, it was really kind of funny.
R&B was finally over, and a skit was about to take place. Shiori, Souta, and Kohaku showed up on the stage with microphones and a white overhead back screen floated in the back of them as to show pictures. Souta was in the front, spotlight on him, eyes shut.
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Sorry Guys! I cropped a lot of this off and it'll be in the next chapter…like what Souta and company does. It's pretty funny. So thank you for giving me my last three reviews and sorry it took so long to update! As you can hopefully tell, all of you picked option B. Middle sized chapters. Which I'm happy of! Here's the review replies from chapter 9…
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Yes so I guess that's it for this chapter! Um…review please and I'll get it up a week faster, I think…. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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