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Guitar Lessons

If someone's popularity could increase in a week, it's me. Since I've joined Attack! People have been talking to me more, or getting me stuff.

Guys want to go out with me more. I have a life now. I mean, sure I stopped cleaning the shrine and caring about what Mom and Grandpa want, but I'm happy.

I throw my hair into a ponytail and yank on my calve high boots. Its my first show with the band, so hopefully things don't turn out horrible. I put on my flared black skirt, my red tank-top, and a black hoody.

My door opens and my mom steps in. "Where are you going, dressed like that?"

"I'm going to sing, I'm in a band now."

"You didn't want to ask my permission to join a band?"

I sit down on my bed, sighing. "I don't need to. I'm 17, and this is something I really want to do."

"Since when?"

I hear Inuyasha's horn and I jerk a thumb in the direction of the window. "Since them."

I move past her and go down the stairs. I get outside, and it's just a little cold.

When I'm close to the car, I hear Inuyasha say, "What took you so long? The show starts in thirty minutes!"

I get in on the passenger side and kiss his cheek. He grunts. I laugh, "Well, at least I'm ready."

"Are you nervous?" Sango pipes from the back.

Actually, I am. I'm really nervous about singing in front of so many people. This whole week Inuyasha has helped me prepare for this. I've been learning how to do more things on the guitar.

Inuyasha snorts, "What is there to be nervous about? She'll sing, we'll party after, then go home."

Kouga says, "Kagome, theres a party in my pants for you."

"I will kill you!" Inuyasha says, rolling the car around the corner. I laugh. Kouga has become more persistent in wanting me to be his girlfriend. Inuyasha doesn't want an exclusive girlfriend, yet he's jealous of Kouga. Cool.

After the first day of practice, after every guitar lesson since then we've made out. He always starts it. But if we're not alone, he pretends like he's never even touched me before.

Its frustrating. The first guy I like in ages, and I don't think I mean much to him. We pull up in front of a club. I get out and Inuyasha and Kouga take all of our equipment out of the jeep.

At the door, theres a tall, good-looking guy waiting. Was he supposed to wait for us or something?

Sango sighs as we reach the door and the good-looking guy waiting. Was he supposed to wait for us or something?

Sango sighs as we near the door and the good-looking guy with the rat tail ponytail in his hair. Once we get there, Sango sighs again when he takes my hand.

"Hello, what a beautiful girl you are. Do you want to bear my children?"

What?

Sango smacks him upside the head. "Give it a rest, Miroku! I swear, every girl!"

Miroku smiles, looping an arm around Sango. "I'm sorry, it's an initiation."

Inuyasha pushes his hand on the small of my back, urging me forward. "I see you met Sango's boyfriend."

What?

Miroku claps a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Not just boyfriend, manager too!"

I turn, making eye contact with him. "You're the group's manager?"

"Unfortunately," Inuyasha mumbles.

Miroku gets a wide grin on his face. "Yup, yup! I get you guys all your gigs. You're the new singer right?"

I nod, and Sango says, "New lead singer!"

Inuyasha scoffs, "I'm leader of this band!"

Everyone shares an eye roll as we walk into the back entrance of the club. The music is thumping. Yo can hear the voices of people and tons of laughter. It smells strongly of liquor in here. What did I get into?

Miroku is talking to a bald guy, who I assume is in charge of performances. He comes back over to us and says, "You guys are on in fifteen minutes. Get ready."

Inuyasha nods. "You remember the lyrics, right?"

I roll my eyes while I take a seat on the couch that is conveniently placed back here. "Of course, I wrote it."

I did. But I'm still incredibly nervous. What if I fall off stage? What if I don't do good enough and they kick me out of the band?

My eyes drift to Inuyasha. His eyebrows furrowed, his lips are pursed. Those lips. The corner of my own lips pull up. I wonder if he'll kiss me after the show.

He notices me staring and smirks. "Does looking at this face calm your nerves?"

My heartbeat does a triple beat. No, it makes me more nervous. He's so confident, he's probably assuming the entire performance is gonna go great.

"We're gonna do great," he says.

Of course. Oh yeah, no pressure.

"Is Kagome playing her guitar?" Sango asks.

Inuyasha shakes his head. "No, it's too soon. We'll play, she'll sing."

Seems like things are always gonna be like that. Am I really the lead singer of this band? Up until last week, I didn't even think I'd be able to get back into choir.

What if we get booed off stage? What if the audience really does prefer Inuyasha's singing to mine?

"Hey wench! Stop biting your nails!" Inuyasha smacks my hand.

I hadn't even noticed I was biting them. "Sorry."

"You don't need to be so nervous, it's gonna go fine."

What a cocky-

"Show time!"

I whip my head in Miroku's direction. "What? It hasn't been fifteen minutes!"

He chuckles, "Oh, how time flies."

Sango gets up, grabbing her guitar. "Show time!"

Kouga high fives Miroku as he walks out to get to the stage entrance. "Show time."

I haven't moved from the couch. I'm so scared.

I hear Inuyasha in my ear, "Show time."

I swallow a lump of spit and my knees tremble as I stand up and head for the stage entrance. I can hear Inuyasha following behind me.

I make it to the stage entrance. At this point, I just have to take two steps and I'm on the stage. In front of a least a hundred people.

I frown as Miroku puts a headset on my head. He turns to Inuyasha, "Wheres her guitar?"

"She can't play it all the way yet."

Miroku nods, "I'll give her a hand microphone then." '

He goes away and we then comes back with a microphone, he takes the headset off of me. "Go."

My eyes widen as he pushes me onto the stage. The lights are blinding. The room is silent. Blood is rushing in my ears. Oh God, I can't do this-

Inuyasha pushes me towards the center as he goes to stand beside me with his guitar.

I hear an announcer, "Ladies and gentlemen, lets keep our part going with this next band, Attack!"

My hand is wrapped around the microphone so tightly. Inuyasha nudges me with his foot. I look at him, and he looks annoyed. I look back at Kouga and Sango and they nod at me.

I nod at Kouga, and he starts to play his drums, starting the song.

Sango starts to play.

The crowd is stirring, some people are bobbing their heads.

I raise the microphone to my lips and I start to sing, "I'm sitting in a room, made up of only big white walls and in the hall, there are people looking through, and it makes you wonder what exactly are they here for,"

The crowd is moving, this is getting easier. I sing, "Don't look up just let them think theres on place else you'd rather be,"

As I sing the chorus, Inuyasha starts to play his guitar too.

I move around as I say, "It's obvious that you're dying, dying, just living proof that the camera's lying, now open, open wide, and you'll go out in style..."

The crowd is cheering, and I can loosen up. Alright, they like me.

I sing the rest of the song and we get a huge applause. I hear the announcer say, "That was amazing, give it up for Attack!"

The room practically shakes with applause. Theres a huge grin breaking out on my face as the audience screams, "Attack! Attack! Attack!"

"Woah, looks like the band has an even larger fan base! Attack! has been playing since they were freshmen, can you believe there still in high school?"

The announcer keeps talking as my band mates high five each other. "And they recently got a new lady singer, Kagome Higurashi!"

The crowd cheers, and they're cheering for me, "Kagome! Kagome! Kagome!"

I turn when I feel Inuyasha's claws on my waist. He's smirking again.

"You did good."

I don't know why, maybe it was this girlish instinct or because I'm so happy that I've done so well the first time around but I wrap my arms around Inuyasha's neck, hugging him.

My eyes close. I can smell his scent so clearly now. I can hear the crowd going crazy again.

"Whats this? Looks like we got a new power couple in the making! Thanks for coming, Attack! Please exit stage right."

He never hugged me back. Instead, I let go and we all head for the back.

"That was awesome!" Miroku says, as we go in the back, where another band just left to go play. He kisses Sango and hugs me, "Amazing,"

Inuyasha lazily smacks Miroku in the back of the head, "Anything for a feel huh?"

Kouga plops on the couch as Inuyasha starts to gather the guitars and drumsticks. "Time to party."

"Party?" I say.

Sango turns around, grinning. "Yeah, after every show we go to another club or party to celebrate."

Miroku leans against the door. "Of course, that means mostly drinking."

Kouga scoffs, "For you."

Inuyasha whistles and we all turn to him. "Alright, everybody in the car!"

So in the car we go.

A A A A A A

I don't party, I don't drink. However, now I do because I'm a part of Attack! This is how they celebrate. I like it.

I move my hips to the music as I take another shot of some spicy tasting drink. I'm dancing with some guy I don't even know.

Where is everyone else?

This guy has his hands on my hips, my arms. I keep dancing. I tilt my head back, I think he's touching my neck. The beat of the music speeds up and I throw my arms up.

It's helping me keep my balance. I hear a voice against my ear, "What do you say we get out of here?"

Get out? Go where?

"Kagome!"

I think Sango is talking to me. I can just barely make out her face amongst the blurred edges of my vision.

I hear a thump and the pressure on my neck and hip is lifted. I can't stand up straight anymore. My knees buckle, but something is holding me up.

I hear Sango's voice say, "Inuyasha, she doesn't look too good."

He sighs, "She drank too much and now she's ready to pass out. Stupid wench."

Wench, stupid? Huh?

"Woah, is Kagome drunk?"

"No Kouga, she's napping, of course she's drunk! We gotta get her out of here."

"Have Miroku take you and Kouga home, Sango. I'll take Kagome."

"...Why?"

"Get your mind out of the gutter, go!"

"Fine, fine, I'm leaving, come on Kouga."

"But Kagome's drunk!"

And then I pass out.

A A A A A A

Soft. I'm laying on something really soft. I helps clear my headache. My head is pounding. My body aches, my mouth feels dry. When did I leave the club?

I crack my eyes open and the lights in the room are dimmed. Where am I?

My eyes fly open and I look around the room. I quickly pat my body. I sigh with relief. I'm still clothed.

I sit up. I'm on a couch. A red couch. I turn my head and Inuyasha is sitting on the floor, guitar in his lap, examining his claws.

I drag a hand through my hair. "I-Inuyasha," my voice is hoarse.

He looks up, ears twitching. "You're awake. You should have said you couldn't hold your liquor."

I sigh. "I didn't know I couldn't hold my liquor." Tonight was the first time in my life I ever drank. Well, alcohol anyway. I lay back down on the couch, talking has made my head hurt more.

Its quiet for a few minutes. Are we alone? Just me and Inuyasha? I mean, I've been alone with Inuyasha before. But that was for guitar lessons. Which led to kissing.

I place a hand on my heart and my eyes slide over to him. He's tuning his guitar. His claws suddenly stop tweaking the tuner and he looks at me. Those serious gold eyes.

I can feel my heart beating beneath my finger tips. Its going faster than I can think. Can he hear it too?

My breath hitches as he gets up. This reminds me of when he first kissed me. It was completely unexpected, and it happened so suddenly. I didn't mind at all. I just went with it. It hadn't mattered that he had just started talking to me. But in return, I want him to care for me as quickly as he's taken to kissing me with out any promises.

He kneels in front of me. I release the breath I'm holding as he moves a piece of my hair between his fingertips.

He slides a hand underneath my back and pulls me forward. "What?" I ask.

He stares. "Should I stop, touching you all the time?"

I don't know how to answer this. I love his affection. But I hate, how if he wanted, he could just go do the same to someone else. Like I don't mean a thing.

"Only if... you're doing all of this, to someone else," I say. I don't make eye contact with him.

He snorts. "Right now, theres no one else half decent."

Maybe that was Inuyasha's way of complimenting a person. I go so far as to say, "So, you won't do this to anyone else?"

I keep my eyes off of his. I stare at the lines on my hands.

I can fee his claws on my chin, my lips. Its a pleasant tickling feeling. The hand that was resting on my back tightens.

His lips touch mine for what's probably half a second.

He pulls back and lets me go.

Inuyasha sits back down in the center of the room and puts the guitar in his lap. He looks at me. "Come here."

He's so bossy sometimes that I forget that we even have this kind of relationship.

I move and get up, my legs are stiff. How many hours was I laying there? The world tilts for a moment before everything goes back to normal.

I walk to him and he moves his guitar onto the floor. I gasp as theres a yank on my arm and I go falling into his lap.

He laughs as I try to clear my head by shaking it. Maybe I'm still a little drunk.

He grabs the guitar again and puts it on my lap. "Tune it," he says.

I look at him, then back th guitar sitting in my lap. I haven't learned that yet. "I can't," I say.

He takes my hand and puts it up to one of the tuners. He moves my hand to move the tuners. Then he takes my other hand brings it across that chord.

"Just listen for the perfect sound,"

I twist the tuner and pluck the string. Its a soft, pleasant noise. I look at him, slightly proud of myself.

His claws touch my hair, "The perfect sound?"

I rest my forehead against his. "The perfect sound."

Done with another chapter. I can't wait to see the overall result of this story. I know it seems like thing are moving fast, but I'm doing that on purpose as a part of my plot, more or less a foreshadowing. Fall in love quickly, all hell breaks loose. Please review, I still wanna see some fan art for my stories, I think it would be really cool, if you made a fan art for any of my stories email me at therealladykikyou and the website that is on is yahoo. Thanks so much for reading this far, and keep a lookout for the next chapter of I Don't Do Love Songs entitled: Promise. You can look forward to some romance and maybe a little anger on the reader's part next chapter. Thanks again.

With that said, Sayonara!