Ah ha, yes, it's the other half of chapter 16. Cool, huh? I love the name of this. Enjoy!
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Chapter 17: Wake Up Call, Calling All Hurting
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Inuyasha woke up early the next morning, every part of his body screaming in protest as he rolled over, staring at the clock. It read 4 AM in big red letters. He sighed as he looked at his taped up hands. He froze for a second. Where the hell was he? He looked back, as all the emotions came flooding back to him as he remembered passing out at the battleground. He looked around and found he was in his room, safe, warm and taped up. He figured since Kagome was in the hospital, he would go and see if she was still living. Part of him was scared to think about it, but he rolled out of bed and took a shower, coming out of the bathroom in his boxers and drying his hair off with a towel as Sesshomaru stood in front of him and he jumped back. "Damn it, you scared the hell out of me!" He whispered.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing up? You need to go back to bed." Sesshomaru said coldly.
"What are you doing up?" Inuyasha asked, eyeing his brother.
"I have to pee. Unlike you who is going to run out at 4:30 in the morning to go see Kagome in the hospital. Visit her tomorrow." Sesshomaru said, brushing past his brother.
"No, I'm going today." He said and entered his room. He pulled out a black button up shirt with and a mesh undershirt with a black and white checkered tie. He put on darker jeans with holes at the bottom and one at the knee along with his black and white chucks. He grabbed his black beanie with a rim on it and placed it snuggly on his head. He buttoned up the shirt up so the first three buttons were open, showing the mesh underneath and tied the tie loosely around his neck. He pulled some gloves on with the top part of the fingers cut off to hide the mysterious bandages. He left the cuffs of the shirt open and dragged on a leather jacket with studs and pins in it as he ran outside, running and jumping to his car still parked where he left it. He unlocked the door and got in.
Sesshomaru reemerged from the bathroom, seeing Inuyasha gone, and no trace of him. He sighed. "Stupid little brother, going to get himself killed straining his body like that..." He muttered as he went back to bed.
Inuyasha turned on the car as he drove to the hospital, seeing it open and practically empty. He jumped out of his car and ran to the front desk.
"Hello, what room is Kagome Higurashi in?" He asked, looking around. The old woman looked up at him, chewing her gum loudly as her bright green eye liner glared up at him. She returned her attention to filing her nails.
"Sorry sir, no visitors." She muttered already bored. His eye twitched.
"Look, Lady, you don't understand I have to see her. It's very important." He urged.
"Sorry, no can do." She muttered again.
"Look, miss…" He glanced at the nametag, "Balls, it's urgent that I see her I need to make sure she's alive." He tried again. But yet again she denied him.
Souta couldn't believe it. He couldn't get back to sleep at four in the morning. It frustrated him so bad that all he could do was eat. He sighed and departed from his sister's room and went downstairs to the vending machines for some chips and some juice.
"If you could JUST tell me where Kagome's room was I would be extremely thankful. You obviously don't get, nor care how important this is!" He heard an all-too familiar voice say. Souta perked up and peaked behind the wall, spotting Inuyasha trying to reason with the desk lady.
"Obviously I don't." She replied, still filing her nails.
"It's ok, Ms. Ball, Inuyasha's with me." Souta said, walking up to Inuyasha and latching his hand onto Inuyasha's. She looked up and sighed.
"Whatever. If I get in trouble I'm blaming you." She said. Souta smiled as he pulled Inuyasha along with him.
"Thanks Souta." Inuyasha said, picking up the boy and putting him on his shoulders.
"Wow Inuyasha! You're really strong! What are you doing here?" Souta asked, feeling tall for the first time in his life.
"Not nearly as strong as I should be. I need to see your sister. Is she ok?" He asked, as Souta suddenly sobered.
"Kagome and Kikyo are still in a coma. They had stopped most of the bleeding, except for in a few places. Kikyo's heartbeat is almost up to speed, but Kagome's isn't that quick. It'll be good for you to see her." Souta answered, resting his chin in Inuyasha's hair. "It's up here, turn here." He said. Inuyasha entered a room as he moved Souta from his shoulders to his arms, then to his feet.
"How are you doing, buddy? I saw your powers unfold, that was pretty awesome. Congratulations." Inuyasha said, ruffling his hair. Souta smiled sheepishly.
"Thanks. I didn't even know I had them!" he said.
"That's like Shiori. I and Sesshomaru have powers but for a while she was convinced she didn't have any. It's in the bloodline so even though you're the youngest, you have them, and you just have to wait. Shiori just discovered her speed. I'm proud of her." Inuyasha said, walking into a white room with two beds, and one makeshift one crammed in the middle. "What happened here?"
"Last night I refused to go in any room without my sisters. So they set up this thing for me to sleep on." He said, sitting on it as Inuyasha pulled up a chair, and sat next to Kagome, holding her hand, sliding his thumb over the top of her hand slowly. Souta peered over from the other side of the bed, noticing the dazed look in Inuyasha's eyes and the way he passionately rubbed the pad of his fingers over his sister's hand as a huge grin came to his face. "You like her don't you?" he asked suddenly, peering at Inuyasha very closely.
Inuyasha looked around, as if just noticing Souta was there. "What?"
"You like her!" He said, pointing to Kagome.
"…" He blushed.
"You do!" He said "AH! You can become my big brother!"
"Woah! Hold on Souta! I never said I liked her!" He weakly tried to defend himself.
"You didn't say anything!" Damn, outsmarted.
"Well I didn't say I liked her." He said stubbornly, looking away.
"But, you did have that dreamy look when you were staring at Kagome…"
"Souta, shut up." Inuyasha said. Kagome's hand tightened around his as he stared at her pale face slowly starting to regain a bit of color. "Kagome, Kagome are you awake?" he asked as Souta jumped over to him and sat on his knee, staring at his sister. He took the hand that wasn't holding her hand and caressed the soft skin of her cheek.
"Inuyasha…" She muttered as her chocolate brown eyes open, staring straight into his eyes. "What time is it? It's dark outside…how long have I been out?" She asked, rubbing her head. Inuyasha felt a wave of relief come over him. She's alive, she's awake.
"Kagome…" Souta looked on shocked as Kagome temporarily let go of Inuyasha's hand to open her arm to Souta for a hug. He jumped on her, giving her the warmest hug she'd ever gotten from him. "You're alive!"
"That I am kiddo. You didn't think I would croak on you, did you? Souta, I'm so proud of you, you got your powers, and they're amazing. I knew you could do it." She said, kissing her little brother on the forehead. He got off of her as she returned her hand to Inuyasha's.
"It's 5:30am and we got you and your sister out by like one…or so." He brought her hand up to his mouth and planted about a billion kisses on her hand. "You have no idea how glad I am that you're ok." He said, keeping eye contact at all times. He leaned forward and gave her a huge hug as she smiled, enjoying everything about him.
"Thank you Inuyasha. It's five in the morning and you're here, instead of sleeping? Are you insane?" She asked, running a hand over his cheek. "You look exhausted. What happened to you?" She asked.
"…I passed out at the battleground. I was going to walk home and I passed out. I woke up in my room and I don't know how I got there." He said, smiling. "A lot of things happened last night Kagome. I had to make sure you were breathing and ok." He said, smiling.
"Don't forget to breathe tonight..." She whispered.
"What did you say?"
"Don't forget to breathe tonight. Did you say that when I passed out? Did you just say it?" Kagome asked, looking up at him. Inuyasha shook his head. "I heard you say that…" She gripped his hand. "I heard you say a lot of things. About how you were worried I wouldn't make it, and how you hurt so badly. It was like a letter that you said to me. I remember hearing it, a whole thing." She said, trying to remember.
"Are you sure Kagome? I said that way after everyone left. There was just me. And I was crying out to you. I wasn't sure…" He trailed off.
"If I could hear you, and I did. I heard everything you said. And, to tell you the truth, I felt myself dying, slipping away. I heard you and it gave me the confidence to move on. You named a whole bunch of people to survive for, including you." She put a hand to his face and started caressing his cheek. "You said you hurt, that you felt empty and lonely, and that you were going under and drowning. You kept saying that you thought that you had to say good-bye to me. So I woke up to tell you that you don't ever have to. You said that you would never put a piece of gum in my hair again, and I intend you to keep that promise." She smiled. "You said I was making you regret things and that you needed my help. Well I'm back now. And you don't have to feel that way anymore, ok Inuyasha?" She said quietly. Inuyasha nodded dumbly.
"I can't believe you could actually hear me."
"It drove me to keep fighting and I felt you here. So I forced myself to wake up." She said, laying her head back. He rested his head on her stomach as she rubbed his hair.
"I'll let you fall back to sleep but you have to promise me something, well two things actually." He said, looking at her. She smiled.
"And what would that be?"
"That you'll wake up sooner or later, and that you'll still be here when I get back from school." He said as he buried his head in her stomach, breathing in her scent.
"I can do that Inuyasha, but only for you." She said. He lifted his head and looked at her.
"Kagome, what's your favorite flower?" He asked. Kagome raised an eyebrow.
"Sunflowers and Roses, why?" she asked.
"No reason. I still don't know how I ended up at home…" he muttered.
"I thought I would find you here. You ass, Dad went out to try to find you. He didn't even think twice about it. It was raining really hard and we went out to get you. He and mom patched up your hands. What did you do? Poor mom was mortified." Sesshomaru said, stepping through the door. "Hey Kagome, feeling alright I trust." He said as she smiled and nodded.
"Are you serious?" Inuyasha asked. "Dad went out to find me?" He asked.
"Yea, he had the determined look too." Sesshomaru said as he leaned in a corner.
"Wow. I…um…I punched through a tree the slow way…" Inuyasha confessed, clenching his fists.
"Damn it Inuyasha. You're going to give your poor mother a heart attack." Sesshomaru said.
"You did what? Let me see!" Kagome demanded as Inuyasha took off the gloves and showed her the bandages where blood was already starting to seep through. "Inuyasha! I'll call the nurse in and they'll fix it." She said.
"Kagome you don't have-"
"No." She said.
"KAGOME! YOU'RE AWAKE ALREADY!" Sango yelled bursting into the room, hugging her friend. "Souta! You're ok too!" she said as she hugged them both.
"Quite a party here, huh?" Kagura said as her and Rin walked through the door and hugged Kagome. "God I'm so glad you're ok. I was going to kill your ass if you weren't. So was Rin." Kagura said as Kagome grinned.
"Yea, I know. I love you guys."
"Can't say the 'I love you's without me." Ayame said, walking in with Kouga.
"I heard 'I love you'!" Miroku said, walking in.
"Damn it's a good thing we have a big room." Kagome said laughing as she hugged everyone.
"Now all we need is-" Inuyasha was cut off by the door opening.
"Shippo is here." Shippo said entering. Kagome smiled widely.
"Wow guys, my first day here and everyone show's up. Thank you all so much." Kagome said, hugging Shippo. Everyone grabbed a chair and sat around Kagome.
"So, how are you awake already? I was sure you were going to be in a coma for about two months." Ayame said. "You looked in almost worse shape than Kikyo." Kagome glanced at Inuyasha.
"…I heard a prayer." She said, smiling.
"Ooo! Kagome, you're not telling us something! Tell, tell!" Rin insisted leaning in on her bed. Kagome blushed.
"Later." She said, shaking her head.
"You better tell us soon, because you're not leaving this room before you do." Sango said, crossing her arms.
"So what's the Damage Report Kags, when are you going to get out of this white room?" Miroku asked, his hip lazily leaning up against a wall near Sango, his arms crossed.
"I can answer that." A nurse said, walking into the room. She looked around, astonished at the amount of people. "Wow, I hardly see this many people in one room. You must have a lot of friends," She looked at the clipboard in her hands, "Kagome. How many are there?"
"About twelve, including me, my brother, and sister; and yes, I do have a lot of friends." Kagome said, looking around. "But I do have more than half a million around the world."
"So what's the damage, Nurse," Miroku peered at the nametag, "Tulip. Beautiful name." he said, smiling seductively.
"Miroku…" Sango growled out, glaring death at him.
"Sorry Sango won't happen again." He muttered, looking at the floor.
"It better not." She said, looking at the nurse. She sweat dropped.
"I thought you all looked familiar; Hardcore Dogs and Whoop-Ass17, am I right? Well," she looked at the clipboard, "You certainly did a number on yourself. I see you haven't moved your left arm very much, or have you?"
"I have, but barely because it hurt like a thousand fire arrows were stabbed into it. Why?" Kagome asked.
"Well, you've torn and pulled about 85 of the muscles in that arm. Needless to say, you're going to have to have a couple operations, along with your sister, to put that arm into place. Oh, and you dislocated that shoulder and right elbow also. The muscles were liquid last night. It was nasty. Your right leg has about the same damage, but I'm surprised you moved on it, as your brother told us," she glanced at Souta, "you broke various bones and pulled most of your muscles and cracked your Femur. You're 'working leg' isn't doing that much better. You sprained your ankle and dislocated your knee apparently." Kagome cussed. "Those were the main ones, but you had many stab wounds and holes through you're right shoulder…oh wait, that's Kikyo. She's the one with the holes in her shoulders." She flipped a page. "Ah, here it is. You have multiple stab wounds in your side, a large gash in your back, a gash on your stomach, and bruises everywhere. I'm surprised you're not purple, actually. Also, you have a large variety of cuts, largest collection I've ever seen. Oh, you have some slight head trauma." Nurse Tulip said, looking more at the clipboard. Inuyasha stared at the nurse.
"Oh wow. Did I mention I hurt really bad? Oh, and my friend Inuyasha here, punched through a tree and I would really appreciate it if you looked at his hands and fixed them up properly." Kagome said, rubbing Inuyasha's hands.
"Sure. Oh, and I brought these." She pulled out a bottle of IB Profen. "This should help." She maneuvered through the crowd to Inuyasha.
"Oh my God, painkillers!" Kagome screeched and lifted her good arm to the nurse frantically. "Mine, give me the painkillers!" She yelled. The nurse smiled and handed two of the pills to Kagome and a bottle of water as Kagome chugged them. Tulip maneuvered around the crowd and led Inuyasha to a small sink in the room and took off his bloody bandages and gasped.
"Oh my…" she murmured, staring at his bloody and torn hands, flipping them over to examine the underside. "That is pretty bad. But of course, punching through a tree will do that to you." she said, getting out a bag and digging in it, bringing out a small bottle and a gauze with some cream with some medical tape. "This will burn. Hold on." She said, pouring the contents of the bottle on both of his hands as he bit back a scream. The stinging increased as his hands sizzled. She wiped some liquid off then poured some more stuff on, with burned, but not with the intensity of the last. He closed his eyes as the stinging subsided and she wiped all extra liquid off with a cotton ball. She pulled out some tiny splinters and rubbed the cream on his hands. Inuyasha finally opened his eyes and watched her put several squares of gauze on his cuts on the top and bottom of his hand, then wrapped it up with a gauze bandage, taking the material and stretched it over Inuaysha's hands as she wrapped it around his fingers so he could use them. She wrapped his whole hand like that so only his fingers remained untapped. She did the same with the other hand then over coated it with medical tape. "There you go. All better. Here's the things I used so make sure you disinfect it and change the bandages everyday. Ok?" She asked, handing the things to Inuyasha.
"Wow, they feel so much better. Thanks. And I will…" He said, looking at them.
"Inuyasha are you going to visit me everyday?" Kagome asked, seemingly out of nowhere.
"Yea, of course I will. Why?" He asked.
"I'll do them everyday till they heal then." Kagome said, smiling. Inuyasha smiled and nodded. He checked his clock.
"Damn Kagome. We have to go. School's starting soon. Get some sleep and I'll be back." He said as everyone looked at Kagome and bid there good-byes as Inuyasha leaned in and planed a kiss on her forehead and on her cheek. "Get some sleep." He said as he walked out.
"OH! He likes you!" Souta squealed as soon as Inuyasha closed the door. Kagome's face turned beat red as she shook her head.
"AH! Shut up!" she yelled and pulled the covers over her head. "Go to sleep Souta!" she yelled and smiled under the covers, drifting off to a much needed sleep.
Inuyasha and his friends entered the parking lot, and sighed heavily at the sight of their school. It felt like they haven't been there in forever. "Ready Boys?" Miroku asked, sighing heavily and looked at them. They nodded reluctantly.
"You know, it's never too late to go back home or to the hospital." Shippo said, eyeing the school warily. Kouga shook his head.
"Nope, we have to go. We have tons of beautiful admirers we need to impress. Remember?" he asked, running a hand through his hair, and tying it up again.
"Yes and the newspaper were going to interview us over the battle yesterday. Plus, why would we want to skip when we have the beautiful blonde of Sarah Anderson interviewing us and the divine Jackie Chase, also. We would be insane to miss that!" Miroku said rubbing his chin a bit. "I hope Sarah's wearing the red thong today, that's my favorite…" He mused aloud as choruses of sighs were heard beside him. "What?" he looked around behind him, somehow surprised to see his friends with exasperated looks on their faces.
"Miroku, there are only so many times we can hit you for your crude comments. However, with Sango around, I'm afraid you're ass will get kicked more than it ever will around us. I suggest you bring the perverted comments to a minimum before you die a horrible, painful, embarrassing death." Sesshomaru said, starting to walk toward the school, his long hair swaying gracefully behind him. Inuyasha laughed.
"I can just see the tabloids now! 'Shocking news today, the popular and loved band 'Hardcore Dogs' loose Miroku, their most perverted member from death by punishment from Sango. Worst thing is he deserved it!'" Inuyasha said, laughing loudly as he did the announcer voice. "They would have a field day!" he said.
"Well Sango isn't around so I have nothing to worry about!" Miroku defended, catching up with them.
"Well you never know Miroku that could change." Kouga said shrugging.
"Not funny." Miroku said.
"Oh Miroku! Hello there!" a high pitched voice said as he turned, and spotted a brown-haired girl with a short jean skirt, red high heels, and a red top that showed some of her stomach when she raised her hand to him and a jean jacket. Miroku winked and blew her a kiss. She squealed and fanned herself profusely, looking like she was going to die.
"You're such a whore, Miroku." Inuyasha said as he received a whistle from a bleach-blonde with tight blue jeans on and a pink Hollister top with a thin gray jacket over it. He flashed one of his 100 vault smiles as she fell back and her friends caught her and waved and swooned at Inuyasha.
"You're one to talk." Sesshomaru said as a girl ran up to him and gave him a white rose and ran off flustered. This left Sesshomaru staring at the rose.
"Face it Sesshomaru. It's a family curse. Dad had it, I have it, you have it, and Shiori will defiantly have it." Inuyasha said as his male ego took over rather quickly.
"I wonder what it is, Kouga. What makes girls go nuts over those jerks?" Shippo asked. Kouga shrugged.
"Maybe it's because they never cut their hair." He offered
"Or maybe, it is the hair!" Shippo gasped. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru stared at the two.
"I heard that." They said simultaneously and turned around and began walking.
"I swear those two can be twins sometimes." Miroku whispered as they walked through the door. A black haired girl with bright green eyes ran up to Kouga and gave him a white teddy bear and asked for his autograph. Kouga gave the girl his autograph and kissed her on the cheek as she ran off blushing.
"Ayame's going to be pissed once she finds out." Shippo said, shaking his head. Kouga sighed and put his head down.
"Don't remind me of that." He said, already fearing the girl's wrath.
"Hey guys," Miroku yelled. "Kouga got another teddy bear!" Laughter rang out.
"How many is this, Kouga?" Inuyasha asked laughter in his eyes as Kouga stuffed it into his locker.
"I'm guessing twelve for the month." Kouga said as he smiled and draped his backpack over his shoulder lazily. "I wonder what Shippo will get."
As if on cue, a hoard of girls came and ran away with Shippo. Inuyasha stared on helplessly. "What the hell…?" He asked. As they decided to leave it, and walked to the stairs to sit down before class started. "I wonder what happened to Shippo." Sesshomaru said, examining his claws. Again, as if on cue, Shippo reappeared from the gust of girls in which he was taken away in, except this time with lipstick kiss marks all over his face.
"Wow Shippo. Did you get raped?" Miroku asked, staring at him. Shippo shook his head and collapsed on a stair.
"Pretty damn close though." He sighed. The group exchanged looks as a round of applause went up.
"That was the best today, if I do say so myself. You've outdone us all." Miroku said smugly as he clapped, grinning at Shippo.
"I smell a groupie called the 'Shippo Groupie' soon. Watch yourself Shippo." Inuyasha said a sing song note to his voice as he nudged his friend.
"Shut up." An agitated Shippo said, crossing his arms and blushing. A loud laughter erupted, Shippo included. As the laughter died down and the warning bell rung, Inuyasha sighed a bit.
"I have a feeling something dramatic going to happen." He said shaking his head.
"Can't be any more-so than yesterday. See you all later." Sesshomaru said as he walked off, seemingly a trail of white roses being left behind him. And so the day began.
"Please can the Tashio brothers, Shippo, Kouga, and Miroku please report to the office? I repeat, can the Tashio brothers, Shippo, Kouga, and Miroku please report to the office, thank you." The announcer lady said through the intercom.
Inuyasha moved slightly. Figuring it was just a dream, the sleeping Inuyasha rolled over, and onto the floor, waking up he looked around quickly. "What, what, what happened?" He said groggily as he was poked violently with a ruler.
"Sleeping in class again Mr. Tashio? I would like to see you in the real world after this band thing is over. You best start staying awake." His teacher reprimanded. Inuyasha glared daggers at his teacher as Miroku offered him a hand. He took it and was hoisted up.
"We were called to the office, buddy." Miroku said, shaking his head slightly. Inuyasha gave him a weird look.
"Are you sure? I really hope it's not the police wondering about last night," Inuyasha groaned. "That would suck." Miroku nodded understandingly.
"Indeed it would. Let's get going." He said as the walked out of the room. Outside the office door, they were joined with Sesshomaru gracefully walking, or more like floating, down the opposite hallway, stopping in front of them, and Shippo and Kouga coming from the hallway to the right of them.
"I wonder what they want us for." Kouga said, stopping in front of the door, staring at it.
"Well, we'll never know standing around out here." Inuyasha said, pulling the door open and walking inside, his friends in stow.
"Oh! Hello, Principle Myoga needs to speak with all of you. It's necessary you do so immediately." The office lady said and opened the little gate between the interior of the office and the outside. "He's ready to see you." She said smiling as they walked through, and into the open door of the principle's office. The short man was seated in the comfy chair, his head barely visible above the desk.
"Ah, boys," he said warmly, as he slightly reached up, intertwining his fingers on the desk. The boys held back a laugh. "It's so nice to see you. I trust you did well in the concert?" Mr. Myoga asked, somehow wanting to go through the painstakingly long process of small-talk. However, Inuyasha didn't feel like going through such things.
"Cut the crap, old man. What do you want with us? We got an interview soon."
Inuyasha said impatiently, crossing his arms and glaring at the man. He cleared his throat, once again caught off guard by the adolescent's shrewd behavior.
"Yes, of course," He muttered, "Well, Mr. Tashio, your father called in and told us you were transferring to a new school."
"What?" All five of the teenagers said, terrified. The other three were especially terrified. The band, split up? That was almost unreal. If Sesshomaru and Inuyasha went to another school and they couldn't skip class and practice, or just hang out and do what friends do. They could only see each other once in a while, and that was sad. Eventually the band would split up. Shippo started panicking.
"Yes, well, he said so. He said to send you straight home. He said that goes for the rest of you also, apparently he got the ok from your parents to transfer you." Their jaws pretty much hit the floor. Was he serious? All of them would go, together? Shippo was no longer stressed.
"Are you serious?" Shippo voiced all their thoughts. "Well if we are, can we at least make the announcement that we're leaving?" he asked.
"Well, I don't see why not." The principle answered, shrugging. The boy's smiled as they looked around. "You are excused." He said and waved them off as they immediately rushed for the news room.
"Miroku, you're here!" A high, feminine voice said.
"Sarah! Hello, my dear." Miroku said in his slickest voice as the girl ran up to him and jumped onto him as he twirled her around. She had long brown hair with even browner eyes and glasses. She had a pink bow in her hair with a pink shirt that ended just a little below her belly button with yellow writing on it and a jean jacket that ended right at her bust line with tight jeans on and pink high heels under that.
"Jackie! Jackie they're here! You guys are early, why? You're never this early." She said, releasing Miroku and intertwining her fingers as she waited for her friend.
"We had an announcement." Sesshomaru said shortly.
"What kind?" The slightly deeper voice of Jackie Chase said. She was a black haired girl with short hair that went to the bottom of her ears and vibrant green eyes. She had a red plaid mini skirt, and a black tank top and black shoes under it. She walked in through an open doorway, her hips swaying slightly as she stood beside her friend, sizing up the boys. "Hello, looking wonderful as usual."
"We got called to the office and it was something big." Kouga said and shrugging, looking at the floor.
"Ah Jackie, looking beautiful as always." He said taking a slight bow. Kouga hit him in the head.
"It was something big so we needed to get it out." He said shortly. It seemed like no one in the band really liked the girls aside from Miroku, but then again, there were few people Miroku didn't like.
"Let's get the interview going then. Sarah is the camera and mikes on?" Jackie asked, seeing Sarah already getting the microphones untangled and camera's set up.
"Almost," Sarah said, plugging in the last microphone to the sound board as she gestured to the five seats, set up in a small mini circle. Two chairs were set up across from them with the cameras off to the side, having the angle of both people. "Well, the show is starting now and we're up right away. Chad! Get your ass in here! We need you know!" She called, sitting down in one of the chairs with a notebook. A tall, blonde haired boy with hair down to his chin walked in, a gray sweatshirt on and jeans. He stared at the band for a minute then went behind the cameras, and counted down.
"Five, four, three, two, one, go." He mouthed.
"Good morning Oceans High! I'm Jackie Chase," Jackie glanced at Sarah.
"I'm Sarah Anderson," She glanced at the band.
"And we're the Hardcore Dogs. I'm Kouga,"
"I'm Sesshomaru,"
"I'm Miroku,"
"I'm Inuyasha,"
"And I'm Shippo!"
"So guys," Sarah started, looking at them, her legs crossed. "I hear you went to the Battle of the Bands, yesterday. How was that?" Sarah asked. Inuyasha stiffened at the thought of yesterday, but shook it off as Sesshomaru answered.
"It went fairly well. We went, we met a few people," He nudged his brother, "and we performed." He answered.
"How'd you do?" Jackie asked, her legs also crossed.
"We did really, really well. We got first place in the rock division, as long as another band." Inuyasha said.
"What? Two first place bands?" Sarah asked a puzzled look on her face.
"Yea, it was really weird. Apparently we got the exact number of votes, and we both got to perform songs." Shippo said, leaned back in his chair.
"Who was the other band?" Jackie asked. The boys exchanged looks.
"Whoop-Ass17" They all answered.
"Or, if you haven't heard, they changed it yesterday to 'The Darkest Hour'." Sesshomaru said. Jackie and Sarah gasped loudly, a hand covering their mouths.
"You are not serious. You performed with Whoop-Ass?" Jackie asked, hardly recovering their breath.
"Yea, we've hung out with them for a while now. We had a lovely game of laser tag with them. You guys remember that? That was so much fun." Shippo said, smiling. The girls gasped again.
"That's hardly anything. We had to come up with a song with them. It's called Ugly." Inuyasha said. "Kagome and I wrote it."
"Kagome, you wrote with Kagome? The Kagome?" Jackie breathed out. "Oh, my..." she said.
"Yes. That's her. She's cool." Shippo said.
"Who else was there?" Jackie asked an eyebrow rose in anticipation.
"Kikyo H., Kagome's twin." Inuyasha said.
"Oh my gosh," Sarah yelled, "Kikyo was there! I love her!" she yelled.
"Too bad none of us do…" Kouga muttered.
"What was that?" Sarah asked, eyeing Kouga.
"Nothing, nothing at all." He said as Jackie saved him and asked something.
"What songs did you play?" Jackie asked, barely having her breath.
"For the actual thing we had four songs, then one more when we won. For the contest we had 'Grow Up', 'Colors', 'Perfect', and 'Let Me Out'. Sesshomaru sang that one. For the last song it was 'Funny Little Feeling'. I love that song." Inuyasha said, laughing a bit.
"Can you remember what songs they played?" Jackie asked.
"Yea, of course, they wouldn't shut up about it," Kouga laughed a bit. "They played 'Shadow', 'Miss Independent', 'Nobody's Home', and…what was that last one?"
"It was the one they had to have the scene change on, remember? 'Reflection'," Inuyasha answered. "Kagome was on the piano."
"For the last song they played 'Crazy'. It was cool." Kouga said. "Kagura wrote it."
"Wow…" Jackie and Sarah said, swooning.
"I'm guessing you like them." Sesshomaru said observing their behavior.
"Like them? I love them! They are so cool and Kagome is absolutely gorgeous! I have no clue how anyone could have their makeup so perfect!" Jackie swooned.
"She hardly wears it." Shippo said. "None of them really do, the most is eyeliner."
"Wow…" They swooned again.
"Oh, what was that big announcement you were going to say?"
"Well…" Miroku started. "We're being transferred."
"You're being what?" Sarah asked.
"Transferred, we just found out. It sucks, we know." Miroku said.
"Oh my God!" Sarah cried, shaking her head. "Oh no this is horrible!"
"We'll visit. Maybe we'll get the girls to come, once Kagome get better and gets over her injure…whoops." Shippo said and sank down and covered his mouth.
"What's wrong with Kagome?" Jackie asked, getting her pen ready.
"Nothing, she's fine." Inuyasha said quickly and glared at Shippo.
"Are you sure?" Sarah asked.
"Yes." Sesshomaru said, too quickly. No one dared question him though, so there was no use carrying on the conversation.
"Well Oceans High School, that's it, and I suppose its farewell to our friends." Jackie said.
"We'll miss you guys." Sarah said. "I'm Sarah, good-day!"
"I'm Jackie, have a nice day!"
"And we're the Hardcore Dogs, see ya!" They said and smiled at the camera until the red light went off. Miroku was immediately bombarded by the two girls.
"Miroku, you're leaving?" Jackie whined.
"That's so sad!" Sarah cried as they both sat on his lap and his hands wandered.
"Now, now ladies, we'll come back to visit. And we'll bring the girls with us, ok?" he said slyly. The girls shrieked and jumped off of him, a slap to each cheek.
"Pervert!" They yelled.
"Oh, no need to be like that!" He yelped, rubbing his now red cheeks.
"Come on Miroku, we have to go." Kouga said, pulling Miroku by the ear out of the room as he regained the use of his legs, and they each walked to their classes and picked up their bags, and cleaned out their lockers, and then went home.
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Well this is a good chapter; there are no reviews so no review replies. Like I said before, this one and the last one were going to be one big one, but I thought you would hate me for making you read that big thing. So get two chapters out of one! YAY! Be happy. I really hope you enjoyed it as much as I did writing it and please review. Please, please, please, please give me input on the whole dramatic thing of last chapter. I would really appreciate it. Thank you so much for those of you that did, and will.
And if there are some smart ones out there that realized Miroku originally went to Kagome's school and now goes to Inuyasha's, I'm sorry about that. I only realized that when I had already completed the whole 'coming into school thing' and as you know, he plays a huge role in that. So I just left it. But I wanted to apologize if you caught it. Thank you and I love you all. Don't forget to review!
Stand Alone Complex.
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