This Because of That? Chapter 22: Rock, Paper, Scissors, an inuyasha fanfic

I haven't had a full week of school in about 3 weeks and still didn't progress anywhere with the story. But, thanks to some new and weird sleeping patterns i have adopted, I'm going to make sure i get it done by 5 am while listening to alexisonfire for inspiration.

the songs in this here chapter are, We Sleep Forever by Aiden and Calling All Cars by Senses Fail.

Disclaimer: i don't own anything.

"What a glorious day!" Ayame sang while spinning in a circle with her arms spread out to the sides effectively hitting several innocent bystanders. "Whoops! Sorry!" she called after people she had hit.

One person didn't care much for her apology and let her know it. "You know, right now I could kill you and five people would give me a hi-five."

Taking the statement as a challenge, Ayame called him on it. "...And these people would be?"

"Well," the person began, "there's Koga, Miroku, Inuyasha, and Sesshomaru." he said counting each name on his finger.

"What for?" Ayame asked smugly.

"Car wash ring any bells?" he asked in the same tone.

"Okay, fine, but that's only four."

"Then, there's also Bobby-Boom for arguing with Koga over the radio this morning." he said confidently. "I'm sure he planned on closing his show with a witty banter of his."

By now, Ayame had lost hope of winning the argument and resorted to desperate measures. "Well I don't like your pants!" Hey, who ever said desperate and childish were different anyway?

"Whereas I don't like your face." the person calmly said while walking away.

"Whereas?" Ayame questioned more to herself than anyone else. "Whereas!" she then yelled to the person. "What, did you major in freaky vocabulary in college or something?" she asked earning herself the one finger salute. "Yeah, I am number one!"

"What a strange fellow." Sango commented after the person had disappeared from their vision.

"You got it." Kagome said nodding.

"He just may be my hero." Rin said amazed.

"Yeah, well he is my new sworn enemy." Ayame said definantly. "Now come on, those ice raspberry teas are calling my name!"

"How did he know about the whole car wash thing?"Kagome asked Sango as they followed Ayame to the stand with the drinks.

Sango shrugged. "I don't know, maybe the guys are somewhere in the parking lot telling people of all our evil deeds."

"And don't even get me started on the frozen food fight we had one night." Inuyasha said to the crowd of people around him as his band mates nodded in agreement. The crowd roared in excitement and urged the guys to tell more.

"It was quite a disaster afterwards." Miroku said

"You're telling me. At least you didn't have a bruise on your face from a bagel bite." Koga said.

"If you hadn't have thrown that frozen hamburger and hit Sango with it, then she never would have thrown the bagel bite." Sesshomaru said sensibly.

"Then explain the frozen peas for us, will you Sess?" Miroku said.

"That's easy, Rin got caught up in the moment." he said crossing his arms.

"And used a straw to spit frozen peas at your head?" Inuyasha asked.

"Ya know, I seem to remember Kag using french fries and a sling shot." Sesshomaru said smirking.

"And his eye has never been the same since." Koga said laughing.

"But we got them back!" Miroku said proudly.

"Yeah," a new voice said, "by the end of the night, we were either bruised, bumped, or hmm." Kagome said. "Hey, Inu, what would you consider yourself that night."

"I'd go with partially blinded." he said nodding his head.

Ayame looked at him and managed to keep a straight face even when she asked him the eyepatch question. "What ever happened to the eyepatch? It went well with your... eyes? Eye? Visible to others eye?"she asked more than said. "I do believe it was a marvelous idea of yours to wear it too."

"It did get me some attention." he said stroking his imaginary beard.

Rin snorted. "Yeah, after kagome drew an eyeball on the patch."

"It was realistic!" Kagome defended.

"Hey, I'm over it, why can't you be?" Inuyasha asked the sisters.

"Irreconcilable differences." they said simultaneously while shrugging.

"Well, that was weird." Koga said.

"Yeah, why don't we just go back to the judge's table?" Sango asked and pulled on the arms of the two people closest to her before running away. "Come on, before they start a path of destruction on our faces or something!" she yelled back to Koga, Sesshomaru, and Inuyasha.

"Yeah, come on!" Bobby-Boom yelled as he ran past them encouraging everyone but Rin to go to the table.

"Where did he come from?" Rin asked before going to join the rest of the judges at the table.

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Once everyone had made it back to the judges' table, and in a timely fashion, the second round began. This time, High Heights would go first followed by 13 Rocks and the winner would be declared.

Once both bands had situated themselves on their designated makeshift "stages" they waited for the okay from Bobby-Boom to begin. The super secret signal was flashed, but since it was super secret no one knew exactly what Bobby-Boom was doing.

"Just start." he said disappointed.

"Alright," Kohaku began. "We're gonna play a song-"

"Vote for us!" Sota yelled before starting the song.

Kohaku rolled his eyes and started when his part came up. "This is We Sleep Forever."

She walks the line into her deathbed rings
I say she's all alone
Begging for forgiveness
I won't teach her to lie or make a plan
That clairvoyant stare and grin
God won't forgive me
For this I know
Tragedy unfolds tonight
As you sever my skin apart
Take this sadness and close your eyes love

All three members of the band vocalized for the chorus. Kohaku went solo while the other two sang together.

Woah!
Hey, call the angels. This razor blade was meant for me.
Woah!
Hey, call the angels. We'll mutilate insanity.

By now, Kohaku and Sota had made their way across the "stage" and were doing what came naturally to them while playing.

She cuts a vein although it's much too dull
I say she's all alone
Fighting for redemption
I know little pain, a little lust
I lose myself at night to feel the rush
Of tearing my skin apart
Now take this sadness and close your eyes love

Woah!
Hey, call the angels. This razor blade was meant for me.
Woah
Hey, call the angels. We'll mutilate insanity.

During the instrumental break, Kohaku and Sota went back to their original spots but soon moved close together.

Go deeper, I feel it
I see your ghost appear
Go deeper, I see it
I feel your ghost appear
I won't say goodbye tonight

For the next part, Sota turned so he faced Kohaku and they both sang the same words slightly yelling them

We'll sleep forever

When they finished the line, Kohaku began to sing by himself as Sota and the drummer sang "on" in between some of Kohaku's words.

Hold on, hold on tonight love
We'll sleep forever
Hold on, hold on tonight love
We'll sleep forever
Hold on, hold on tonight love
Close your eyes

The guys began to jump around more and move with the music as they prepared to end the song big.

Woah!
Hey, call the angels. This razor blade was meant for me.
Woah!
Hey, call the angels. We'll mutilate insanity.

After a moment of silence, the crowd erupted into mass chaos and chants of "High Heights". It was then that the guys realized their band's name was pretty weird awkward for chanting. They waved to the people, who were too caught up in the moment and screamed as if the guys had made it big and were not just playing in a parking lot. The other band took the opportunity to do some last minutes preparations and go over some important details about their stage presence.

"You may begin." Bobby-Boom said to 13 Rocks very unlike himself. "Or die!" he added, there was the Bobby-Boom everyone loved.

"We're gonna play Calling All Cars." the singer announced just before the guitarist started to play.

Calling all cars we've got another victim,
'Cause my love has become an affliction,
Well what did you expect from me?
What did you expect from me?

The rest of the band came in after the singer finished the opening and the song picked up in tempo.

I'm sorry, but i think i failed to mention
That I lied at my very first confession
Well what did you expect from me?
What did you expect from me?

'Cause this has been building since I have been breathing,
And I know how it's going to end.

During the chorus, the lead singer sang the main part while the rest of the band sang smaller parts to emphasize it.

So will you scatter my ashes where they won't be found?
I kept my word when I swore that I would let you down.
(And now that I'm gone) Try to forget me and just move on.
So will you scatter my ashes where they won't be found?
I kept my word and you hate me for it now,
(But you knew all along) Try to forget me and just move on.

Right after the chorus was finished, the second verse began and the singer moved from one side of the stage to the other.

Oh my dear what have I gone and done now?
It's curtain call, I'm about to take my last bow.
Well what did you expect from me?
Well what did you expect from me?

Without giving away the hints on your ending,
I ruined the evening again.

I don't, have love left inside, inside.
And I don't, have love left inside, inside.

Are you desperate for an answer?
I don't have an ounce of good left in me now,
Thats why I walked out.

So will you scatter my ashes where they won't be found?
I kept my word when I swore that I would let you down.
(And now that I'm gone) Try to forget me and just move on.
So will you scatter my ashes where they won't be found?
I kept my word and you hate me for it now,
(You hate me for it now) Try to forget me and just move on.

I am not the one that you should blame,
So take what I left you for the pain.
I am not the one that you should blame,
So take what I left you for the pain.
And do your best and forget my name

When the singer finally stopped singing, everyone knew the song was basically over, all the band had to do was get the music part of it to end too. When it did, Bobby-Boom was the first one to speak.

"Wow, touching."

"Pretty good." Ayame said shrugging

"Yeah, you need good lungs for that song." Sesshomaru said.

"Let's not to this into some talent contest on television." Rin said.

"But it is a talent contest." Koga pointed out.

Rin rolled her eyes. "Yes, but is it on tv?"

"Oh. I guess not." he answered.

"Can we just vote?" Inuyasha asked impatiently.

"Sounds splendid." Sango said as the group imploded into a tight huddle.

The group stayed like that for a few minutes completely oblivious to the outside world. Once in a while their whispers got louder but quickly quieted down. After what seemed like an eternity and a half, the group got out of the huddle and went back to the judges' table.

"Alright, this maybe be surprising to some of you, but we couldn't agree on who should win." Bobby-Boom began. "It was basically each person from one band against their counterpart in the other band and you don't wanna know what it was like between Ticking Tracy and me."

"So we decided, whoever wins the best of three in rock, paper, scissors wins it." Ticking Tracy announced.

"Who's going to play for their band?" Bobby-Boom asked?

After some mild deliberation of the bands, Kohaku was pushed out of the trio and the drummer from 13 Rocks was pushed from his band's circle.

"Shake hands." Miroku said and the two guys abruptly shook hands.

"Turn around." Kagome said and once again the guys followed the order.

"Do the chicken dance Sango said as the guys began to play the chicken dance with instruments from both bands. Just as they were about to do it, Kohaku stopped.

"What?" he asked. "I should have known you were up to something when Kag said to turn around."

"Fine then, turn towards each other and do the first round." Ayame said.

The guys put the instruments down since they weren't going to play anything and formed a semicircle around the two.

"Ready, set, go!" someone yelled and they each hit their left palm with their right hand in a fist three times. After the third hit, they had chosen their symbol. Kohaku: scissors, other guy: rock.

They started the next round and the outcome was the opposite. Kohaku had his hand out flat for paper and the other guy balled his hand into a fist. By now, both guys were getting nervous, only one more round until one band would be declared the winner.

The process was repeated and sides were taken. The drummer had chosen rock again and Kohaku had also chosen rock. Both contestants, sighed and prepared themselves for the redo. They hit their palms and stuck out their hands. Kohaku had decided on the scissors while the other guy went with the paper.

Koga grabbed Kohaku's free hand and lifted it up while Miroku pretended to be a reporter. "Kohaku Satou,you have just won the first ever what ever this contest is called contest. What are you going to do next?"

"I'm um, uh, what am I going to do?" he asked himself just before the other members in his band jumped on his back causing them all the fall down.

"Hey, no orgies in public!" Kagome yelled to the guys as they picked themselves up and off the ground.

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Would you look at that, the chapter has been finished with 15 minutes to spare! Sorry it took so long but at least the football games are almost over. Hopefully we don't win on Friday and don't have to go to anymore of the playoffs.