False Pretense
Description: He had fallen for her,and her him. But he screwed up, when it came to it he dumbly rejected her to uphold a reputation, but will he cave in when they start spending even more time together because of a band? SessKag,mainly
Recap: "Sessh, what are you doing home?" Izayoi, his father's wife asked. Sesshoumaru stared at her. "And what are you doing walking in my room without knocking, Izayoi?" Sesshoumaru retorted glaring at her. "And how many times must I tell you, my name is Sesshoumaru and that's how you will address me." Sesshoumaru, added. Izayoi looked at him resentfully. "Sesshoumaru I have had it with your disrespect. Tonight at dinner we will be discussing this with your father." Izayoi said before storming out of his room slamming the door behind her.
"Crap. Father will really be mad now." Sesshoumaru said sitting back on his bed. After a few moments went by he laid down and slowly drifted to sleep.
Chapter 6. Grounded, Sneaking Out, And Band Practice
Sesshoumaru woke up several hours later, around four o'clock. He glanced at his clock and jumped from his bed. Band practice. He obviously didn't want to go. But sadly he had too. Just then he heard his father calling him. He walked to his door and opened it, and yelled: "YES FATHER!" Sesshoumaru sat there waiting for a reply until his father said" "COME DOWN HERE WE ARE HAVING DINNER EARLY TODAY!"
InuTaisho then walked back to the dinning room where Izayoi also was. Sesshoumaru sighed and walked to the mirror to make sure he looked decent. And headed downstairs.
He sat where he did everyday, and didn't bother to start any conversation. "Sesshoumaru, we need to talk." InuTaisho began looking to Sesshoumaru. "About what might I ask?" Sesshoumaru asked even though he knew all to well what they needed to talk about. "You have some serious respect issues, Sesshoumaru." InuTaisho said. "Is that so?" Sesshoumaru said smartly. "Sesshoumaru, you will not be smart, we need to talk about this and your smart comments will get us nowhere." InuTaisho said getting a bit agitated. "Yes father." Sesshoumaru said.
"Just today, Izayoi told me you completely disrespected her and caught an attitude with her." Sesshoumaru just looked at his father listening.
"I heard her side now what's yours?"
Sesshoumaru began at that moment. "Well when I came home I went up to me room, and closed my door, but soon after she came in without knocking and asked me what I was doing home. So I asked her what she was doing walking into my room without knocking. AND!" Now Sesshoumaru was just being dramatic. "She called me Sessh! So I told her for the millionth time my name is Sesshoumaru and that's how I will be addressed! Buuut. After that she got all mad and said 'I have had it with your disrespect, Sesshoumaru tonight Your father, yourself and I will be discussing this' and stormed out of my room and slammed my door." Sesshoumaru said using a 'girly' voice when he imitated Izayoi.
"Sesshoumaru, what did I just tell you!" InuTaisho yelled this time. InuTaisho was very tolerant when it came to his only son. He felt that Sesshoumaru was a good kid, so he was lenient when he did have a problem. He also felt the only reason that Sesshoumaru was as morbid, and mean as he was, was because of himself. And the fact that he never had a mother. They had already lived in so many other places and countries, he didn't know how to behave or act in his home country. Where hopefully he would be for the rest of his childhood, and if he wants to get out when he's old enough that's his problem.
"Gomen ne, father." Sesshoumaru said. "Now Sesshoumaru, please apologize to Izayoi, and finish your dinner. Your grounded for a few days." InuTaisho simply said before stuffing a piece of meat into his mouth and chewing. Sesshoumaru huffed before Apologizing half heartedly. "I accept your apology, Sesshoumaru." Izayoi said sweetly, smiling.
"Excuse me." Sesshoumaru said, standing.
"Where are you going, Sessh?" InuTaisho asked. Sesshoumaru's father, and his friends, which were Kagome, Ayame, Rin, Kouga, Bankotsu, Miroku, and Sango, only, were allowed to call him 'Sessh'. Obviously Izayoi not included, if he made such a big deal of it.
"To my room, I have homework. Nor am I very hungry." Sesshoumaru walked out of the dinning room to the stairs, to his room. He closed the door. And walked to the side of his bed, and grabbed his bag. From it he pulled out a notebook, labeled, "Lyrics." There was a song he was working on, but hadn't yet finished. He called it "Always Love You, Never Leave You" He still had an hour until he had to leave. 'Darnit, this song writing thing is harder then I expected. I still have a half hour till I need to le-..' Sesshoumaru's eyes widened. "CRAP!" Sesshoumaru screamed. "I'm freakin' grounded." Sesshoumaru contemplated how he was going to get to band practice if he was grounded. Ask father, if he may still attend it? No. It was considered a privilege, and when your grounded your privileges are taken away.
"Ugh..." Sesshoumaru knew that 'sneaking' out was a bad idea. Because, if he was caught, his father would be furious. And he would get grounded longer. But he had no choice. He couldn't just skip. Everyone would be mad. And he really wanted them to read his lyrics to see what they thought. He had the music for it too.
"Alright..Well it wont kill me to jump out the window." Sesshoumaru said chuckling slightly. Then when he looked at the clock, he got a little nervous. He had 10 minutes to get to Kagome's. So he slung his bag over his shoulder, and walked to his window opening it. He stuck his head out and looked down, and shrugged he didn't care much about heights. With one knee he one the windowsill, he pushed off and jumped out. At first falling fast, but nearing the ground he used his demonic energy to safely float to the ground.
Once there, he looked around to make sure no one was in sight. He began to run as fast as he could, being a demon, so fast no one could decipher the blur. Once he was completely out of sight of the house, he slowed to a jog. He had already been three quarters of the way there. But had only 5 minutes left. When he finally made his way to the Higurashi shrine, he began to fully run up the stairs. When he finally reached the top he headed for the door to the band studio Kagome had told him of, after he took the time to use the front door to her home the first time he came over.
When he reached the door he felt extremely nervous. And a bit guilty. He knew he had to apologize to Kagome and tell her everything, that was on his mind that lead him to his absurd conclusion. He wasn't entirely ready to speak to her but to him it was now or never. He obviously picked now over never. So he slowly raised his hand to knock on the door. When he did he head a slightly obscured "Come in" from whom he thought was Kagome. So he took hold of the door knob and opened the door. Opening the door he saw only Kagome, sitting on the couch with her legs crossed and strumming a guitar. He stepped in closing the door behind him. Kagome didn't look away from her hands strumming the guitar. Sesshoumaru decided to go sit on the couch next to her. When he did so she stopped. She set her guitar next to her leaning on the couch. She just sat there before, she turned to Sesshoumaru, she opened her mouth to speak but Sesshoumaru put his index finger over her lips to signal, not to.
"We should talk about today." Sesshoumaru said taking his finger off her mouth. "That's what I was going to say." Kagome said shyly. "Well I'll start anyway." Sesshoumaru interjected. "Okay." Kagome said also very shyly.
"What I said was, not the whole truth. I hardly have an idea how to explain to you, how I feel and let you understand." Sesshoumaru said with the lightest blush.
"No, Sesshoumaru you don't have to, I understand, your not interested in me like that. And I accept that." Kagome said slightly looking away. "Kagome, obviously you don't understand, because what your at acceptance with isn't true." Sesshoumaru said, taking her chin in his hand and forcing her to face him once again. Her eyes widened as he let go of her chin. "What do you mean by isn't true?" Kagome asked now slightly excited but very curious. "I simply mean that when I said I wasn't interested in you, and that we can only be friends, I said that out of slight fear, and that its not true." Sesshoumaru said looking into her eyes.
"W-What?" Kagome asked completely confused. Did he actually like her? Love her? "I just had your protection in mind, more or less. You know how the girls are in our school. Vicious primates, they are. Or at least that's how I see them." Sesshoumaru chuckled lightly. Kagome nodded in agreement.
"If we were to start dating, who knows what they would do to you, to break us up or to hurt you. Right?" Sesshoumaru stated.
"True." Kagome said in thought. "So now do you understand?" Sesshoumaru asked hopefully. "Yes. I think I do." Kagome said. "So now that we're all good, can I tell you something?" Kagome asked getting nervous. "Uh, sure?" Sesshoumaru said getting a little nervous himself. "Well, earlier today during, lunch period, Hojo asked me out. And I said..yes." Kagome said looking down, fiddling with her fingers. "NANI!" Sesshoumaru half screamed. "How could you even stand that wolf!" Kagome cringed at his loud voice. "I-I'm sorry. You made me feel so rejected, and Hojo made me feel so much better when he asked me out. I couldn't really say no.." Kagome said regretting what she had done.
"I'm sorry." Kagome said again. "It's okay, Kagome. I kinda understand how you feel now." Sesshoumaru said, looking away. "I definitely know now, how you feel." Sesshoumaru said feeling rejected at that moment and he was not used to it at all. "So, I- uh..Wrote a song." Sesshoumaru said.
"You..Did?" Kagome asked very curiously. "Yeah." Sesshoumaru smirked. He then reached into his bag and grabbed the lime green notebook that was labeled "Lyrics". And handed it to her. When she opened it to the first page she began to read it. When she was done, she looked up at him extremely impressed. "Wow, Sesshoumaru…This is…Great." Kagome said sounding impressed.
"Wait, I'm singing with you in this?" Kagome asked turning red.
"Yeah." Sesshoumaru said simply. "Something wrong with that?"
"No! I was just curious, I guess."
"Alright, good"
Sesshoumaru got up and walked to the wall with the guitars on it, and grabbed an acoustic. He walked back over to where they were sitting, and started playing the intro. And started singing. (A/N: Whatever is in parenthesis is what Kagome is singing. And if there saying something and one is in parenthesis they are singing together at the same time.)
"We are that young,
And we all die young,
And our bodies grow old,
And I'm still eighteen in the heart but not the bones,
Let that pillowcase lie under my face,
And no cigarettes, could ever take your place,
This all just took my fuckin' place, (Took my place)
So! (So!)
And our bed stays warm,On the side where you left it,It's got our names hanging up upside that door,Trust me I've got this picture perfect situation,
Drowning in roses waiting on you baby, (Drowning in roses waiting on you baby,)
Drowning in roses waiting on you baby, (Drowning in roses waiting on you baby,)
(Whatever happened too, Always love you never leave you,
Don't leave these pillowcases need you,
Slow dancing on rooftop dreams,And it kills my eyes to see,These people we could So… people we could be,Ohhhh,)
Whatever happened too, Always love you never leave you,
Don't leave these pillowcases need you,
Slow dancing on rooftop dreams,And it kills my eyes to see,These people we could So…
And our hearts burn bright,Let's set them on fire,There's no rain that could fuckin' flicker out my flame,I've got, I've got this picture perfect situation,Drowning in roses and waiting on you baby,
Drowning in roses and waiting on you baby,
Always love you never leave you,You told me Don't leave these pillowcases need you,
Slow dancing on rooftop dreams,And it kills my eyes to see,These people we could,These people we could So… people we could be,Ohhhh,(Always love you never leave you,You told me Don't leave these pillowcases need you,Slow dancing on rooftop dreams,And it kills my eyes to see,These people we could,These people we could So… people we could be,Ohhhh,)
Always love you never leave you,You told me Don't leave these pillowcases need you,Slow dancing on rooftop dreams,And it kills my eyes to see,These people we could,These people we could So…
(Everything you want, you give it, you got it now,Everything, x 2 )
You want it, you got it,
(You want it you got it) You want it you got it.
(Cause I'm drowning in roses waiting on you baby,) Cause I'm drowning in roses waiting on you baby,(Cause I'm drowning in roses waiting on you baby,) Cause I'm drowning in roses waiting on you baby,
(Whatever happened to always love you never leave you,It's lonely, cause baby I still need you,Baby, I still need you,It kills my eyes to see,These people we could be…)
Whatever happened to always love you never leave you,It's lonely, cause baby I still need you,Baby, I still need you,It kills my eyes to see,These people we could be…
When they finished Kagome was ver impressed by how good the song had sounded with both of them singing it.
"Wow, that was great." Kagome commented, as she smiled at Sesshoumaru. "You think so?" Sesshoumaru asked fairly pleased with himself. "Yes that was great." She replied.
"I um…Made it for you." Sesshoumaru said a bit shyly.
"R-Really?" Kagome stuttered blushing madly. "Yeah…I had been working on it since the day we started the band…Er…Yesterday…and I just finished it today, but I have been working on it non-stop…My father started getting irritated." Sesshoumaru chuckled at how his father got mad that Sesshoumaru wouldn't come out of his room for the past couple days because of that song.
"Wow, Sesshoumaru, t-thank you." Kagome stuttered again, still blushing. "Your welcome." Sesshoumaru said just as the phone rang. Kagome stood up and walked to the wall that it was on. It was Bankotsu. "Hello?" Kagome answered. "Hey Kag, Listen we cant come to practice today." He said sounding concerned. "Whys that?" Kagome asked, getting a little concerned herself from his own tone.
"We're all at the hospital. It's Rin"
Don't hate me! .;; "Nyway The song..Like I explained where the parenthsis are Kagome is singing, and if there is the same thing written not in parenthesis Sesshoumaru and Kagome are sining those lines together. If you wanna hear the song you'll have to look it up somewhere, e_e The original lyrics are:
And we are that young,
And we all die young,And our bodies grow old,And I'm still eighteen in the heart but not the bones,Let that pillowcase lie under my face,And no, cigarettes could ever take your place,This all just took my fucking place,So…And our bed stays warm,On the side where you left it,It's got our names hanging up upside that door,Trust me I've got this picture perfect situation,Drowning in roses and waiting on you baby,Drowning in roses and waiting on you baby,Whatever happened to always love you never leave you,And always these pillowcases need you,Slow dancing on rooftop dreams,And it kills my eyes to see,These people we could So… people we could be,Ohhhh,And our hearts burn bright,Let's set them on fire,There's no rain that could fuckin' flicker out my flame,I've got, I've got this picture perfect situation,Drowning in roses and waiting on you baby,Always love you never leave you,You told me And always these pillowcases need you,Slow dancing on rooftop dreams,And it kills my eyes to see,These people we could,These people we could So… people we could be,Ohhhh,Everything you want, you give it, you got it now, want it, you got it,You want it, you got itCause I'm drowning in roses waiting on you baby,Cause I'm drowning in roses waiting on you baby,Whatever happened to always love you never leave you,It's lonely, cause baby I still need you,Baby, I still need you,It kills my eyes to see,These people we could be…
But I made the modifications so you guys got where Kagomes parts were. :]