InuYasha Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Another Yellow Brick For The Road ❯ Chapter 2
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By: whymihere 
school life and what goes on in their spare time
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama / Comedy / Shounen / | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 02.20.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 5.9K | Visits: 557 | Status: Completed
school life and what goes on in their spare time
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction / Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama / Comedy / Shounen / | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 02.20.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 5.9K | Visits: 557 | Status: Completed
Here’s number 2
Chapter 2
Settled in the back seat, Kagome looked out the window to see if Inuyasha was following them. But when she realized that he was still at the school, she sat back and twiddled her drumsticks. Normally she’d be curled up in Inuyasha’s arms as they went to practice, however he had to serve a detention that had been given to him the day before their break. So, as they listened to a local D.J. Kagome noticed something odd on the side of the road.
Having her friend stop the truck, Kagome went and grabbed a flier off of a near-by telephone pole, hopped in saying, “Well it’s about fucking time they did something like this.” Holding out the flier was an audition for an unknown band to perform the next year at an MTV tribute. “Says here we need to be able to perform at least six songs perfectly and to send in a dvd or video showing us actually playing. If they like it, then a scout will come and check us out to see if we’re the real deal.”
Taking the paper, Miroku scanned it for any possible side notes and gave a small chuckle saying, “Well it says here that we all have to be 18, and well you won’t be 18 until the day after the deadline.” Snatching it, Kagome gave out a loud whine saying that it was unfair for her not to appear in a video. Looking over the back of the seat Miroku smiled at his friend and told her, “Hey, at least Naruto can do the drums, and Duo can take over for rhythm. And, besides if we got on, knock wood, you could do the live performance if need be.”
Pouting, Kagome made a puffed up face and covered her ears like a child not getting her way. Pulling into his driveway, Duo helped Kagome out so that she could get used to the drum set in the garage. Since it would become a pain to drag a drum set with her to school everday, the band chipped in and left one at Duo’s house for such an occasion. Normally they’d practice at Naruto’s and Sasuke’s, but if they couldn’t then Duo would load up the drum set and lug it to school with him.
As Kagome went through a few rolls on the used set, Duo headed in finding his mom sitting at the table sipping some tea. Kissing her head he said, “We’re practicing here tonight if that’s okay?” Kissing his cheek, the woman said that it would be since his father wouldn’t be home until late. Grabbing some soda’s, Duo gave his mom a smile telling her, “We might also get a gig performing at prom, I’ll tell you about it later.”
Settling back into her tea, Madeline Maxwell pulled out some papers and began to grade them. The matron of the Maxwell house worked as a professor in the University’s History department, Madeline was able to get Duo into the university on a discounted rate. But, that plan went on the back burner since he and the band had been getting a lot of gigs during the past couple of years. The biggest one they had was opening for the “Foo Fighters,” on their previous tour. They even got Dave Grohl to come in and play a couple of “Nirvana,” songs with them. And since Seattle was the birth place of grunge, they could see the tears in a few people’s eyes as they played.
After the concert, the bands took pictures with each other, and they even let the parents in on it. So you could say that “Mutt,” was a hot commodity in the whole of Washington State. The band had a large amount of money saved for when they graduated and headed out on their first ever U.S. tour. With Shippou’s computer system he had spent many hours after homework editing and burning CD’s of their music. They hadn’t sold a lot of them, in fact it was just about under a thousand from across the state and Sasuke hadn’t seen an internet buzz about them yet even with them winning the contest that allowed them to open for the “Foo Fighters.” Putting her papers away, Madeline went off into her room as the sudden shouting of Naruto cursing Duo emanated from the garage.
As he walked around giving his friend’s their soda’s, a loud smack and sudden bit of pain shot up his shin. Looking down, Duo’s face twisted as he saw a large plastic bat in lying a couple inches away from Inuyasha’s foot. Setting his soda down, Duo dived for the bat and started chasing Naruto around the garage shouting in a rather elevated voice, “You fucking asshole! Get back here so I can bust your freaking head in!”
The rest of the band watch on in amusement as they tuned their instruments. Miroku and Shippou were setting up the sound as Hinata took a seat on a nearby stool giggling as Duo finally tackled Naruto and smacked him across the back a few times before being knocked down and put into a leg lock. Hearing the giggling, Sasuke looked at his brother’s girlfriend saying, “Just be careful around him. He’ll go after you even if you are a girl. Just ask our mom the next time you see her.”
Keeping a smile to her face, Hinata sat back as Shippou wen tout and broke up the fight between the two idiots. Dragging them back in, Shippou went back to finishing his work saying, “Okay, we’re patched.” The group broke into a few simple chords testing out the volume and feedback levels. Adjusting the treble and bass, Shippou gave them the signal to try it again. Running his fingers along the strings, Sasuke gave a short electric solo as Duo pumped out a smooth bass line as Kagome hit a beat on the drums in expert timing to go with Naruto’s rhythm chords.
Hearing the notes go smoothly through the lowered volume and with no feedback, Shippou looked to a short stack of papers and looked through them. Flipping through the pages he called Duo over asking, “Duo, are you sure this song is done?” Standing in the corner Duo told his friend that he finished it a few days ago and was ready. Holding it up, Shippou smacked the guy asking in an aggrevated voice, “How the hell can they play it if you didn’t write the music to it!?”
Snatching the paper, Duo scanned it over and tried to back out as he received cold glares from his friends. Chuckling he said, “Okay, I guess we can work on the songs for prom then.” Reaching out, Sasuke smacked the brunette before Naruto and Kagome could. Rubbing the forming bump he shouted, “I’m sorry all right! I thought I’d added in the notes!” Telling him that it didn’t matter, Sasuke reached for a pen and paper so they could begin writing down a set list for the prom. The only problem, they’d have to play slow sappy love songs along with a few of their more hardcore favorites.
As the band began to make up a set list, Inuyasha put his English between the pages of his textbook. Staring at the clock he gave a great sigh of relief since he was now able to leave. Snatching up his guitar, Inuyasha said goodbye to Hinata’s cousin when exiting the door. Rushing down the stairs he burst out of the school and hopped into his car. It was a bit of a clunker and didn’t heat up that well in the cold, but good gas milage and a working stereo was enough for the silver haired teen.
Leaving the school, he made the twenty minute drive to Duo’s house. It was already five and he knew that Naruto had left half an hour ago to get to work meaning Duo had probably left as well so that Sasuke would be able to get him. Inuyasha would end up taking both Hinata, Kagome, and Miroku home since they all lived on the way back. He still had some of the money that Sesshomaru left him and put a bit of gas into the tank at the station a block from Duo’s.
Pulling onto the side of the road in front of his friends, Inuyasha got out to see the band rehearsing a few songs that he knew they wouldn’t play if the offer of the prom hadn’t come up. It wasn’t exactly their best moment, granted Kagome was the perfect choice save for songs like, “Time After Time,” the Ozzy version. Stepping into the garage he was suprised to find Duo attempting the drums. While the others were okay at that instrument, Kagome and Naruto were the closest to being actual pros at it.
While they faltered on occasion with the faster songs, they recovered so quickly that it was unnoticeable to anyone other than the band members who saw the faces they made when screwing up. Applauding his friends with a laugh he said, “Gee, is that supposed to be a duet?” Sticking her tongue out, Kagome looked over the lyrics and listened to a sample Shippou had in his computer. Plugging into the sound system Inuyasha said, “We can’t afford any fuck ups on prom guys or else a machine’ll replace us.”
Snorting, Sasuke took a sip of water telling his friend, “Thanks for the bit of info Sir Obvious.” Putting the bottle on a near by stool he asked, “What’d you have detention for this time? Did Miss Kikyo have something to do with it?” The sudden ripping of paper in Kagome’s hands, mixed in with an off hand comment of surprise by Hinata had Sasuke reform his question. “Which teacher did you piss off this time?”
Snatching a drink from the cooler, Inuyasha took a swig after mumbling, “Mr. Hyuga.” The whole group looked at the now red faced Hinata. Putting her fingers together she asked what had he did that set her cousin off. Setting his drink aside, Inuyasha struck a power cord saying, “I told him that his class was boring. Guess he didn’t get the joke.” The whole group chuckled and showed Inuyasha the sheet music to some of the songs they’d picked. Putting it on the stand, Inuyasha let Kagome get to the mic as he strapped the bass while his girlfriend put on Naruto’s rhythm guitar so they could continue the practice.
While the wails of guitars and the pounding of a drum set filled the street of America Avenue, Naruto was busy stocking a bunch of cook books atop a ladder. Making sure they were in the right spot, he checked it off his list as a customer asked, “Where can I find the strategy guides?” Pointing the teenaged girl in the direction near the manga, Naruto told her to look a couple aisles before the Fantasy books. Giving him a wink she added in, “Thanks cutie,” before heading to the section.
Grumbling at yet another girl flirting with him, Naruto climbed off his ladder and checked his watch, “Only an hour left.” A bit miffed that he only got a chance to practice a few songs, Naruto felt comfortable with the progress they’d made. With some long hard practices they would be able to play the songs no problem at prom. It’d be hard with finals and work, but they’d learned harder songs in less time than a month. Sure they weren’t up to the creating bands level, but those guys had been playing the song for years and after playing it for so long they could go to levels of skill they’d only hoped to catch up to.
Grabbing his basket a co-worker shouted, “Naruto! Phone call!” Growling, he walked over to the phone saying that he told all his friends not to call him during work. Smirking the guy said, “It’s no problem man, we’re closing soon so it’s not busy. Sounds like your mom anyway.” The guy told Naruto that he was off to finish up some stock so that his friend could have some privacy.
“Thanks, Kouga.” Cradling the receiver he asked, “Borders, this is Naruto how can I help you?” Hearing his dad ask for a book called “Oops I Crapped My Pants,” the blonde man said, “Okay Dad, stop watching Crank Yankers and tell me what you need.” Chuckling, Keiji told him that Sasuke was going to be by in half an hour to wait for him and that dinner was in the fridge. Telling his dad thanks, Naruto set down the phone and went back to work totalling out the girl who’d flirted with him earlier.
When she asked him if he wanted to go out sometimes, Naruto smiled shyly telling her that he was already seeing somebody. Snatching her bag, the woman growled, “Asshole,” and left the store in a huff. Blinking after her, he rang out a few more people and locked the doors going into the store. Finding Kouga he told the his supervisor about what had just happened. Nearly falling down from the ladder he was on, Kouga told him he should be flattered that she even gave him a second glance as she was a nine on a scale of ten.
Snorting, Inuyasha showed him a picture of Hinata. Giving it a look he said, “I’d give her a seven.” Taking his photo back, Inuyasha told the guy that he held her above other girls in just about everything. Laughing lightly, Kouga put the last book away, picked up the ladder, and told his friend, “You have an eye my friend, that I know for certain.” Putting the ladder behind the counter, Kouga rang out the registers as Sasuke walked in.
“Mind if he leaves a bit early tonight Kouga since you fell for one of my dad’s crank calls.” Setting the tills on top of each other, Kouga told the boys that if they helped him take the tills up and lock the doors, Naruto could leave. Grabbing two of them, Sasuke walked over and pulled the doors shut saying, “We made some decent headway on two of the songs. But, with simple enough music, the vocal arrangements are something we’ll really have to work on to actually sound good enough to not get embarrassed before graduation.”
As he headed up the stairs to the counting room, Naruto shouted, “What do you expect? We can’t sit there and play ‘Priest,’ or ‘Cooper,’ at a high school dance. Not since those congressional hearings for subliminal messaging.” Setting the cash drawer down, Naruto took the ones from his brother just as the older twin reached the door. Patting them he shouted, “Kouga all done!” With a sound of thanks, Naruto took to clocking out and ran out the door only to realize that his brother had the keys.
Sitting on the roof of the car, Naruto watched as Sasuke came out of the bookstore. Hearing the doors unlock, Naruto opened it to find all of his stuff in the back seat accompanied by a small stack of papers. Getting into the drivers side, Sasuke picked the papers up so that his brother could sit down. Once in the car, Naruto was welcomed with a sudden weight on his waist as Sasuke said, “It’s the sheet music for the songs we chose. We’re going to run them by Iruka tomorrow.”
Snorting, Naruto pointed to one of the songs, “Leann Rimes? Since when the hell do we do country?” Keeping his eyes on the road, Sasuke told his twin that it was only because they needed a few slow songs. Giving a loud snore, the blonde looked over a few other notes giving a big smile. “So you decided to give me and Inuyasha a chance to shine through on the whole grunge thing. Seems fitting if you look at where we were born, I guess a Pearl Jam version of an old sixties song is enough compensation for the mushy romance crap you’re shoving down my throat.”
Pulling into the driveway with a strong jerk, Sasuke smiled at his twins head smashing into the dashboard. Unbuckling himself he said, “Should have put on your seat belt,” and went inside finding his dad sitting on the couch watching an episode of Family Guy. Grabbing a plate from the cupboard, Sasuke found some meatloaf, potatoes, and green beans waiting for him in the fridge. Pulling the meal out, along with a few rolls, Sasuke heated up the meal with dog-like impatience. His stomach growled as Naruto began a conversation with their dad, only to be silenced by the sound of the microwave.
Rushing into the kitchen, Naruto piled his own food onto a plate and waited as his brother pulled out the now steaming plate with a towel. Going into the living room, Sasuke grabbed a soda from the fridge before leaving the kitchen and sat down next to his father. Popping open his Sprite, Sasuke laughed as Stewie yelled at the toilet to get a job. Biting into the food he asked, “How was your trip?”
Grabbing his beer, Keiji took a small sip saying, “Not too bad considering I was dealing with a bunch of idiots.” Opening his laptop he pointed at the opened document saying, “They spent nothing in promoting the product and wondered why they were in the hole financially.” Pointing at the screen he said, “If you make it, have the decency to promote yourselves enough so that your bank accounts don’t look like this.”
Choking at the lack of money in the accounts, Sasuke had his dad smack him on the back forcing the food down. Rubbing his throat and catching his breath Sasuke told his dad that he’d never seen such a loss in money. Leaning over the couch, Naruto said with a full mouth of food, “Why did these people even bother to try and start a business?”
Ruffling his sons hair, Keiji saved his work and went to bed leaving the boys to watch television. Putting his feet up on the coffee table, Sasuke smirked as the episode changed over to the one about Luke Perry being gay. But before he could say anything, Naruto muttered, “Here’ comes your boyfriend.”
As Naruto received a beating of fists and kicks, Kohaku was just printing off the last of his homework. Pulling out the last page, he gave a heavy sigh of relief at accomplishing all the homework he had done in the past eight hours. Setting it in his folder he popped open the internet just as the door clicked open to be followed by the throwing of shoes. Looking over his shoulder he asked, “Bad date?!”
Groaning, Sango grabbed a spoon and some ice cream saying with a stuffed mouth, “This guy was a freaking moron, he couldn’t even read the menu and it was in English for Christ’s sake!” Peeking over her brothers shoulder, Sango opened his book asking, “Did you finish every thing Mr. Hyuga gave you?” When Kohaku told her that he did, Sango kissed his cheek saying, “Mom and Dad’d be proud of you.”
Kohaku felt his heart swell at his sister’s acknowledging his school life. Even though he wasn’t exactly at the top of the class, Kohaku did pretty well and he had his sister to thank. He’d always worried about her when she went out on dates. His worry was caused due to his Sister being in the car the night their parent’s died. Kohaku had been at his grandparents house for the weekend and his parent’ s had been on their way to get him.
He didn’t know why his grandparents had been crying until they had gotten to the hospital. While his grandfather went to identify his parent’s bodies, Kohaku sat with his grandmother in a waiting room waiting for Sango to get out of surgery. She’d suffered from minor spinal injuries and some abdominal punctures, but she lived and after a few weeks of therapy she could get around with almost no help. The only effect the surgeries had on her were the scars that made her too self conscious to buy a two piece swim suit.
The funeral was sad, Sango held onto Kohaku for dear life as their parent’s bodies were lowered into the ground. They’d lived with their grandparents for a while after the funeral. The paperwork for their inheiritance took some time to process and when Sango was in college, they’d received enough money to get into a large apartment with a monthly allowance to pay for anything they might need. Kohaku was still a few months shy of when he could inherit his part of the money. His plans were simple, he’d help the band with some of the finances for their tour, mainly with the rental of a large R.V. and to pay for the gas as they toured.
Clicking his messenger window to minimize, Kohaku was too late to stop the words, “Hey babe,” from showing up in a I.M. window. Smirking, Sango peered at the nickname under the screen name blushing a bit. “When did you get a boyfriend,” she asked upon seeing the words, “LONGandSLOW,” appear on the left side of the message. Hearing her brother mumble, Sango began tickling him asking loudly, “All right I want to know everything! Even the nasty stuff you little sneak.”
Falling to the floor with his sister tickling him, Kohaku gasped out, “I’m...not..” He was soon cut off by a fit of coughs. It was his usual reaction when tickled too much, he’d laugh, and then he’d start hacking to the point where he nearly puked. Letting him up, Sango rubbed his back calming him down as he caught his breath. When the coughs were done, Kohaku wiped some of the tears from his eyes as he said, “I’ll tell you before I go to bed, just let me talk to him, ok?”
Getting up, Sango picked up her ice cream and left her brother. Yelling that he’d better clean off the keyboard before he finished, she went into her room and turned the T.V to some television show. Settling back in front of the computer to find he’d already gotten ten other IM’s. Smirking at the impatience, Kohaku began to type.
Deathstarninja: sorry about that. sis came home and decided to attack me. You doing okay tonight?
LongandSlow: eh, can’t complain. Mom’s cooking sucked as usual because she was trying something new and dad joked about it with her.
Deathstarninja: sounds good. All I spent all night finishing up hyugas homework. Took me eight freaking hours
LongandSlow: haha, is the poor baby tired
Deathstarninja: not too tired, just mentally drained and wanting to get the hell out of here so we can start our tour.
LongandSlow: *grumbles*
Deathstarninja: stop whining it’ll just be for six months. Besides I’ll buy you phone cards so we can...
LongandSlow: eh, it’s better than nothing. *pulls you into lap and nuzzles neck* but I’d much prefer you ;)
Deathstarninja: *squirms* same here, but don’t even think about starting something tonight. sango caught your first message so now, she wants to know.
LongandSlow: oh shit! You’d better get going then. Me I’m gonna tell mom and dad after graduation.
Deathstarninja: good luck babe. *kisses* love ya
LongandSlow: *kisses back* love ya too...night
Shutting off the computer, Kohaku went into his room, got into his pajamas, and then headed off to tell his sister who he was dating. Knocking he waited for the customary confirmation that the coast was clear. Opening the door, he jumped onto the bed making his sister pop up a foot off the mattress and laugh as she fell back down. Giving him the last scoop of ice cream, Sango asked her brother, “So, is this a real boyfriend or one of those online things?”
Nearly choking on a bit of ice cream, Kohaku set the pint on the floor as he said, “It’s someone at school. We’ve been going out for since homecoming, although we didn’t go together because we didn’t want unwanted attentiON!” Kohaku was suddenly assaulted by a pillow to the face only to have his sister start smacking him playfully yelling at him for keeping it a secret for so long. Pushing her off, he got her in a leg lock saying, “You have a big mouth! And god only knows who you’d go and run your mouth off to! Not even the band knows!”
Breaking free of the leg lock, Sango got her little brother into a half-nelson asking, “So have you?” Kohaku stopped squirming at the question. He didn’t know what she was getting at so he began telling her that they went to movies, and they’ve gone for dinner. Smacking his butt playfully she said, “I mean which base have you gotten to with this guy?” Kohaku relaxed letting his arm fall from his sister’s.
“Oh, my god! You went all the way!” Kohaku sat up and looked at his sister. Crossing her legs, Sango asked with a curious smile, “So, what was it like?” Watching her brother give her a look of disgust, the teacher put her hands up in defense. “Hey, I’ve never done that and I’m your big sister. I don’t want all the details. I just want to know if you were careful” Giving him a smile, she held his hands as she added quickly, “Andifyouwerethecatcher.”
“You see! This is why I hate you being a teacher at my school!” Kohaku tried to run but his sister held onto him. He saw in her face that she didn’t mean anything by asking if he was the bottom. Blowing out some air, Kohaku relaxed and said, “The first time I was on top, and yes we used protection.” Sango raised an eyebrow at this new knowledge of her little brother.
Shaking his head, Kohaku told his sister, “Yes we have done it more than once. It’s definetly interesting to feel something like that. But, we were gentle and now it’s a bit easier to well figure out what we want as we do it. Along with some of the foreplay.” Covering her ears, Sango told her brother that was enough and that he should get to bed as they had an early day tomorrow. Giving her a kiss goodnight, Kohaku headed into his room, put on some music and went to sleep.
A few days later, the band was sitting in Kohaku’s room discussing the possibilities of lighting and the like. They’d just finished practicing at Kagome’s and were glad to have the weekend. Save for all of them having to work on Sunday morning, the band had all of that night and Saturday morning to practice for prom. Iruka had approved the set list telling them it was a good mix and they’d receive payment a few days after the dance.
Leaning back on the couch, Shippou asked, “By the way, what’s going on with your guys’ dates? I mean while we’re performing what are they gonna do?” Everyone grew silent at the question. Shippou didn’t want to tell anyone he was taking Temari. Her brother’s Kankuro and Gaara were massively over protective and they decided to keep it on the down low. Everyone else had dates except for Miroku, Sasuke, and Kohaku. They all knew Kohaku was dating someone, but the biggest question was who the boy was dating and the secrecy was killing the band.
Sasuke had many prospects on deck, but they were never sure of who he’d pick or if he’d pick anyone. They all knew he dated and even managed to keep a steady relationship for a few months. But even then he was completely closed off about it. He never let them know any more than he wanted them to. Yet his cryptic nature was too much too handle and the band just stopped bugging him about it to get on with their own lives.
Breaking away from INuyasha, Kagome told the group, “Well we can have some prerecorded stuff set up so that if we need to go to the bathroom or actually have a good time there’ll still be music.” Agreeing to the conditions, Shippou started on another list of songs for them to play while they took breaks as Naruto went to answer the door. He’d been sitting on the window sill strumming some guitar scales while staring out waiting. He had plans to go out with Hinata after practice and the whole group knew he was a bit uneasy around them with her.
After a while his prayers were answered and dashed at the same moment. Apparently, Hinata was a bit nervous herself so she brought along Kiba. With the red tattoos under his eyes, spiky hair, and gruff attitude, Kiba made the perfect bodyguard. He was a martial artist and had won many competitions over the years, but he was a good guy at heart and never boasted about them. Well he boasted about them for a while after winning them, but he hadn’t been competing as much lately and no one knew why.
Working on a few costume designs, Kohaku paid no attention to the sudden amount of extra weight sitting next to him until a nudge to the shoulder made him screw up a design. Raising the pen he tried to stab the person only to have them grab his hand saying, “Jesus, calm down. You can always go back and redraw the thing.” Looking down at the drawing Kiba said, “Hey, Kagome! I think Kohaku is under the impression you’re a stripper or something.
Tossing a drumstick at the recent addition, Kagome asked Sasuke for a ride to Inuyasha’s. Nodding, Sasuke grabbed his wallet saying theat he had to go get a tux fitting. Just as Naruto started to toss out an insult the older twin said, “Mom’s getting one for you as well, so you’d best prepare yourself.” Snickering Kagome and INuyasha excused themselves so that they could head out to dinner.
Inuyasha’s family was going out that night and Kagome had been invited to join them. Normally, Kagome didn’t go out with the Taisho’s when it came to family events. Not she didn’t get along with them, it was just that her mother didn’t really approve of her dating while in school. Nobody knew why the girl’s mother worried so much about Inuyasha. He was raised to respect women’s descisions about life and sex, so when Kagome told him not until marriage he said that it wasn’t a problem. Of course that didn’t stop them from being caught doing other things a couple of times by the band when the couple thought they were alone.
Now with half the band gone, Miroku grabbed his stuff saying he had been called into work earlier while Shippou left to go and get himself a date for prom. Saying goodbye, Hinata found that it was only herself, Naruto, Kiba, and Kohaku left in the small apartment. Blushing she looked to Naruto asking quietly, “Do you want to go to a movie?” Looking at her, Naruto gave a cheer saying that the dollar theater was showing an anniversary edition of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Giving a small smile, Hinata grabbed his arm saying that they’d see the two of them later.
Saying goodbye to his friend, Kiba reached into his book bag and pulled out his English Comp homework. Peeking over, Kohaku noticed that it was about Arthurian legends. Setting his sketchbook down, he marked his page and leaned over to look at the pictures describing the events before asking the question, “In this scene we learn which item is more valuable than the sword Excalibur. Please name the item and why such a mundane item would be considered more powerful than this legendary item.”
Smirking, Kiba picked up his pen and wrote down that the sheath was more powerful because it allowed Arthur to survive even the most mortal of wounds. Snorting, Kohaku said, “Pretty simple question don’t you think?” He received silence from his friend and decided to go back to working on his costume designs wondering why the usually chatty Kiba was so quiet. That question was soon answered by the opening of the door announcing the arrival of his sister.
Peeking out of the kitchen, Sango asked, “Kiba, are you staying for dinner?” The sound of two pencils breaking at the sudden invite made Sango roll her eyes as she said, “You’re here so you might as well eat. And don’t think because you’re a guest I’m going to get off your case during P.E.. I don’t want anyone to think I’m playing favorites.”
A few miles away at a nice pier-side resteraunt, Kagome was sipping tea as she chatted with Mrs. Taisho about the band and graduation. While the women chatted, the two man-children sitting at the table were in the middle of a glaring contest over who got the last roll before a new set came out. Snatching the roll from between his sons, Teijo sat back down next to his wife telling his sons, “Stop your petty bickering and tell us about school and work, or you’ll have to pay for your own meals.”
Chapter 2
Settled in the back seat, Kagome looked out the window to see if Inuyasha was following them. But when she realized that he was still at the school, she sat back and twiddled her drumsticks. Normally she’d be curled up in Inuyasha’s arms as they went to practice, however he had to serve a detention that had been given to him the day before their break. So, as they listened to a local D.J. Kagome noticed something odd on the side of the road.
Having her friend stop the truck, Kagome went and grabbed a flier off of a near-by telephone pole, hopped in saying, “Well it’s about fucking time they did something like this.” Holding out the flier was an audition for an unknown band to perform the next year at an MTV tribute. “Says here we need to be able to perform at least six songs perfectly and to send in a dvd or video showing us actually playing. If they like it, then a scout will come and check us out to see if we’re the real deal.”
Taking the paper, Miroku scanned it for any possible side notes and gave a small chuckle saying, “Well it says here that we all have to be 18, and well you won’t be 18 until the day after the deadline.” Snatching it, Kagome gave out a loud whine saying that it was unfair for her not to appear in a video. Looking over the back of the seat Miroku smiled at his friend and told her, “Hey, at least Naruto can do the drums, and Duo can take over for rhythm. And, besides if we got on, knock wood, you could do the live performance if need be.”
Pouting, Kagome made a puffed up face and covered her ears like a child not getting her way. Pulling into his driveway, Duo helped Kagome out so that she could get used to the drum set in the garage. Since it would become a pain to drag a drum set with her to school everday, the band chipped in and left one at Duo’s house for such an occasion. Normally they’d practice at Naruto’s and Sasuke’s, but if they couldn’t then Duo would load up the drum set and lug it to school with him.
As Kagome went through a few rolls on the used set, Duo headed in finding his mom sitting at the table sipping some tea. Kissing her head he said, “We’re practicing here tonight if that’s okay?” Kissing his cheek, the woman said that it would be since his father wouldn’t be home until late. Grabbing some soda’s, Duo gave his mom a smile telling her, “We might also get a gig performing at prom, I’ll tell you about it later.”
Settling back into her tea, Madeline Maxwell pulled out some papers and began to grade them. The matron of the Maxwell house worked as a professor in the University’s History department, Madeline was able to get Duo into the university on a discounted rate. But, that plan went on the back burner since he and the band had been getting a lot of gigs during the past couple of years. The biggest one they had was opening for the “Foo Fighters,” on their previous tour. They even got Dave Grohl to come in and play a couple of “Nirvana,” songs with them. And since Seattle was the birth place of grunge, they could see the tears in a few people’s eyes as they played.
After the concert, the bands took pictures with each other, and they even let the parents in on it. So you could say that “Mutt,” was a hot commodity in the whole of Washington State. The band had a large amount of money saved for when they graduated and headed out on their first ever U.S. tour. With Shippou’s computer system he had spent many hours after homework editing and burning CD’s of their music. They hadn’t sold a lot of them, in fact it was just about under a thousand from across the state and Sasuke hadn’t seen an internet buzz about them yet even with them winning the contest that allowed them to open for the “Foo Fighters.” Putting her papers away, Madeline went off into her room as the sudden shouting of Naruto cursing Duo emanated from the garage.
As he walked around giving his friend’s their soda’s, a loud smack and sudden bit of pain shot up his shin. Looking down, Duo’s face twisted as he saw a large plastic bat in lying a couple inches away from Inuyasha’s foot. Setting his soda down, Duo dived for the bat and started chasing Naruto around the garage shouting in a rather elevated voice, “You fucking asshole! Get back here so I can bust your freaking head in!”
The rest of the band watch on in amusement as they tuned their instruments. Miroku and Shippou were setting up the sound as Hinata took a seat on a nearby stool giggling as Duo finally tackled Naruto and smacked him across the back a few times before being knocked down and put into a leg lock. Hearing the giggling, Sasuke looked at his brother’s girlfriend saying, “Just be careful around him. He’ll go after you even if you are a girl. Just ask our mom the next time you see her.”
Keeping a smile to her face, Hinata sat back as Shippou wen tout and broke up the fight between the two idiots. Dragging them back in, Shippou went back to finishing his work saying, “Okay, we’re patched.” The group broke into a few simple chords testing out the volume and feedback levels. Adjusting the treble and bass, Shippou gave them the signal to try it again. Running his fingers along the strings, Sasuke gave a short electric solo as Duo pumped out a smooth bass line as Kagome hit a beat on the drums in expert timing to go with Naruto’s rhythm chords.
Hearing the notes go smoothly through the lowered volume and with no feedback, Shippou looked to a short stack of papers and looked through them. Flipping through the pages he called Duo over asking, “Duo, are you sure this song is done?” Standing in the corner Duo told his friend that he finished it a few days ago and was ready. Holding it up, Shippou smacked the guy asking in an aggrevated voice, “How the hell can they play it if you didn’t write the music to it!?”
Snatching the paper, Duo scanned it over and tried to back out as he received cold glares from his friends. Chuckling he said, “Okay, I guess we can work on the songs for prom then.” Reaching out, Sasuke smacked the brunette before Naruto and Kagome could. Rubbing the forming bump he shouted, “I’m sorry all right! I thought I’d added in the notes!” Telling him that it didn’t matter, Sasuke reached for a pen and paper so they could begin writing down a set list for the prom. The only problem, they’d have to play slow sappy love songs along with a few of their more hardcore favorites.
As the band began to make up a set list, Inuyasha put his English between the pages of his textbook. Staring at the clock he gave a great sigh of relief since he was now able to leave. Snatching up his guitar, Inuyasha said goodbye to Hinata’s cousin when exiting the door. Rushing down the stairs he burst out of the school and hopped into his car. It was a bit of a clunker and didn’t heat up that well in the cold, but good gas milage and a working stereo was enough for the silver haired teen.
Leaving the school, he made the twenty minute drive to Duo’s house. It was already five and he knew that Naruto had left half an hour ago to get to work meaning Duo had probably left as well so that Sasuke would be able to get him. Inuyasha would end up taking both Hinata, Kagome, and Miroku home since they all lived on the way back. He still had some of the money that Sesshomaru left him and put a bit of gas into the tank at the station a block from Duo’s.
Pulling onto the side of the road in front of his friends, Inuyasha got out to see the band rehearsing a few songs that he knew they wouldn’t play if the offer of the prom hadn’t come up. It wasn’t exactly their best moment, granted Kagome was the perfect choice save for songs like, “Time After Time,” the Ozzy version. Stepping into the garage he was suprised to find Duo attempting the drums. While the others were okay at that instrument, Kagome and Naruto were the closest to being actual pros at it.
While they faltered on occasion with the faster songs, they recovered so quickly that it was unnoticeable to anyone other than the band members who saw the faces they made when screwing up. Applauding his friends with a laugh he said, “Gee, is that supposed to be a duet?” Sticking her tongue out, Kagome looked over the lyrics and listened to a sample Shippou had in his computer. Plugging into the sound system Inuyasha said, “We can’t afford any fuck ups on prom guys or else a machine’ll replace us.”
Snorting, Sasuke took a sip of water telling his friend, “Thanks for the bit of info Sir Obvious.” Putting the bottle on a near by stool he asked, “What’d you have detention for this time? Did Miss Kikyo have something to do with it?” The sudden ripping of paper in Kagome’s hands, mixed in with an off hand comment of surprise by Hinata had Sasuke reform his question. “Which teacher did you piss off this time?”
Snatching a drink from the cooler, Inuyasha took a swig after mumbling, “Mr. Hyuga.” The whole group looked at the now red faced Hinata. Putting her fingers together she asked what had he did that set her cousin off. Setting his drink aside, Inuyasha struck a power cord saying, “I told him that his class was boring. Guess he didn’t get the joke.” The whole group chuckled and showed Inuyasha the sheet music to some of the songs they’d picked. Putting it on the stand, Inuyasha let Kagome get to the mic as he strapped the bass while his girlfriend put on Naruto’s rhythm guitar so they could continue the practice.
While the wails of guitars and the pounding of a drum set filled the street of America Avenue, Naruto was busy stocking a bunch of cook books atop a ladder. Making sure they were in the right spot, he checked it off his list as a customer asked, “Where can I find the strategy guides?” Pointing the teenaged girl in the direction near the manga, Naruto told her to look a couple aisles before the Fantasy books. Giving him a wink she added in, “Thanks cutie,” before heading to the section.
Grumbling at yet another girl flirting with him, Naruto climbed off his ladder and checked his watch, “Only an hour left.” A bit miffed that he only got a chance to practice a few songs, Naruto felt comfortable with the progress they’d made. With some long hard practices they would be able to play the songs no problem at prom. It’d be hard with finals and work, but they’d learned harder songs in less time than a month. Sure they weren’t up to the creating bands level, but those guys had been playing the song for years and after playing it for so long they could go to levels of skill they’d only hoped to catch up to.
Grabbing his basket a co-worker shouted, “Naruto! Phone call!” Growling, he walked over to the phone saying that he told all his friends not to call him during work. Smirking the guy said, “It’s no problem man, we’re closing soon so it’s not busy. Sounds like your mom anyway.” The guy told Naruto that he was off to finish up some stock so that his friend could have some privacy.
“Thanks, Kouga.” Cradling the receiver he asked, “Borders, this is Naruto how can I help you?” Hearing his dad ask for a book called “Oops I Crapped My Pants,” the blonde man said, “Okay Dad, stop watching Crank Yankers and tell me what you need.” Chuckling, Keiji told him that Sasuke was going to be by in half an hour to wait for him and that dinner was in the fridge. Telling his dad thanks, Naruto set down the phone and went back to work totalling out the girl who’d flirted with him earlier.
When she asked him if he wanted to go out sometimes, Naruto smiled shyly telling her that he was already seeing somebody. Snatching her bag, the woman growled, “Asshole,” and left the store in a huff. Blinking after her, he rang out a few more people and locked the doors going into the store. Finding Kouga he told the his supervisor about what had just happened. Nearly falling down from the ladder he was on, Kouga told him he should be flattered that she even gave him a second glance as she was a nine on a scale of ten.
Snorting, Inuyasha showed him a picture of Hinata. Giving it a look he said, “I’d give her a seven.” Taking his photo back, Inuyasha told the guy that he held her above other girls in just about everything. Laughing lightly, Kouga put the last book away, picked up the ladder, and told his friend, “You have an eye my friend, that I know for certain.” Putting the ladder behind the counter, Kouga rang out the registers as Sasuke walked in.
“Mind if he leaves a bit early tonight Kouga since you fell for one of my dad’s crank calls.” Setting the tills on top of each other, Kouga told the boys that if they helped him take the tills up and lock the doors, Naruto could leave. Grabbing two of them, Sasuke walked over and pulled the doors shut saying, “We made some decent headway on two of the songs. But, with simple enough music, the vocal arrangements are something we’ll really have to work on to actually sound good enough to not get embarrassed before graduation.”
As he headed up the stairs to the counting room, Naruto shouted, “What do you expect? We can’t sit there and play ‘Priest,’ or ‘Cooper,’ at a high school dance. Not since those congressional hearings for subliminal messaging.” Setting the cash drawer down, Naruto took the ones from his brother just as the older twin reached the door. Patting them he shouted, “Kouga all done!” With a sound of thanks, Naruto took to clocking out and ran out the door only to realize that his brother had the keys.
Sitting on the roof of the car, Naruto watched as Sasuke came out of the bookstore. Hearing the doors unlock, Naruto opened it to find all of his stuff in the back seat accompanied by a small stack of papers. Getting into the drivers side, Sasuke picked the papers up so that his brother could sit down. Once in the car, Naruto was welcomed with a sudden weight on his waist as Sasuke said, “It’s the sheet music for the songs we chose. We’re going to run them by Iruka tomorrow.”
Snorting, Naruto pointed to one of the songs, “Leann Rimes? Since when the hell do we do country?” Keeping his eyes on the road, Sasuke told his twin that it was only because they needed a few slow songs. Giving a loud snore, the blonde looked over a few other notes giving a big smile. “So you decided to give me and Inuyasha a chance to shine through on the whole grunge thing. Seems fitting if you look at where we were born, I guess a Pearl Jam version of an old sixties song is enough compensation for the mushy romance crap you’re shoving down my throat.”
Pulling into the driveway with a strong jerk, Sasuke smiled at his twins head smashing into the dashboard. Unbuckling himself he said, “Should have put on your seat belt,” and went inside finding his dad sitting on the couch watching an episode of Family Guy. Grabbing a plate from the cupboard, Sasuke found some meatloaf, potatoes, and green beans waiting for him in the fridge. Pulling the meal out, along with a few rolls, Sasuke heated up the meal with dog-like impatience. His stomach growled as Naruto began a conversation with their dad, only to be silenced by the sound of the microwave.
Rushing into the kitchen, Naruto piled his own food onto a plate and waited as his brother pulled out the now steaming plate with a towel. Going into the living room, Sasuke grabbed a soda from the fridge before leaving the kitchen and sat down next to his father. Popping open his Sprite, Sasuke laughed as Stewie yelled at the toilet to get a job. Biting into the food he asked, “How was your trip?”
Grabbing his beer, Keiji took a small sip saying, “Not too bad considering I was dealing with a bunch of idiots.” Opening his laptop he pointed at the opened document saying, “They spent nothing in promoting the product and wondered why they were in the hole financially.” Pointing at the screen he said, “If you make it, have the decency to promote yourselves enough so that your bank accounts don’t look like this.”
Choking at the lack of money in the accounts, Sasuke had his dad smack him on the back forcing the food down. Rubbing his throat and catching his breath Sasuke told his dad that he’d never seen such a loss in money. Leaning over the couch, Naruto said with a full mouth of food, “Why did these people even bother to try and start a business?”
Ruffling his sons hair, Keiji saved his work and went to bed leaving the boys to watch television. Putting his feet up on the coffee table, Sasuke smirked as the episode changed over to the one about Luke Perry being gay. But before he could say anything, Naruto muttered, “Here’ comes your boyfriend.”
As Naruto received a beating of fists and kicks, Kohaku was just printing off the last of his homework. Pulling out the last page, he gave a heavy sigh of relief at accomplishing all the homework he had done in the past eight hours. Setting it in his folder he popped open the internet just as the door clicked open to be followed by the throwing of shoes. Looking over his shoulder he asked, “Bad date?!”
Groaning, Sango grabbed a spoon and some ice cream saying with a stuffed mouth, “This guy was a freaking moron, he couldn’t even read the menu and it was in English for Christ’s sake!” Peeking over her brothers shoulder, Sango opened his book asking, “Did you finish every thing Mr. Hyuga gave you?” When Kohaku told her that he did, Sango kissed his cheek saying, “Mom and Dad’d be proud of you.”
Kohaku felt his heart swell at his sister’s acknowledging his school life. Even though he wasn’t exactly at the top of the class, Kohaku did pretty well and he had his sister to thank. He’d always worried about her when she went out on dates. His worry was caused due to his Sister being in the car the night their parent’s died. Kohaku had been at his grandparents house for the weekend and his parent’ s had been on their way to get him.
He didn’t know why his grandparents had been crying until they had gotten to the hospital. While his grandfather went to identify his parent’s bodies, Kohaku sat with his grandmother in a waiting room waiting for Sango to get out of surgery. She’d suffered from minor spinal injuries and some abdominal punctures, but she lived and after a few weeks of therapy she could get around with almost no help. The only effect the surgeries had on her were the scars that made her too self conscious to buy a two piece swim suit.
The funeral was sad, Sango held onto Kohaku for dear life as their parent’s bodies were lowered into the ground. They’d lived with their grandparents for a while after the funeral. The paperwork for their inheiritance took some time to process and when Sango was in college, they’d received enough money to get into a large apartment with a monthly allowance to pay for anything they might need. Kohaku was still a few months shy of when he could inherit his part of the money. His plans were simple, he’d help the band with some of the finances for their tour, mainly with the rental of a large R.V. and to pay for the gas as they toured.
Clicking his messenger window to minimize, Kohaku was too late to stop the words, “Hey babe,” from showing up in a I.M. window. Smirking, Sango peered at the nickname under the screen name blushing a bit. “When did you get a boyfriend,” she asked upon seeing the words, “LONGandSLOW,” appear on the left side of the message. Hearing her brother mumble, Sango began tickling him asking loudly, “All right I want to know everything! Even the nasty stuff you little sneak.”
Falling to the floor with his sister tickling him, Kohaku gasped out, “I’m...not..” He was soon cut off by a fit of coughs. It was his usual reaction when tickled too much, he’d laugh, and then he’d start hacking to the point where he nearly puked. Letting him up, Sango rubbed his back calming him down as he caught his breath. When the coughs were done, Kohaku wiped some of the tears from his eyes as he said, “I’ll tell you before I go to bed, just let me talk to him, ok?”
Getting up, Sango picked up her ice cream and left her brother. Yelling that he’d better clean off the keyboard before he finished, she went into her room and turned the T.V to some television show. Settling back in front of the computer to find he’d already gotten ten other IM’s. Smirking at the impatience, Kohaku began to type.
Deathstarninja: sorry about that. sis came home and decided to attack me. You doing okay tonight?
LongandSlow: eh, can’t complain. Mom’s cooking sucked as usual because she was trying something new and dad joked about it with her.
Deathstarninja: sounds good. All I spent all night finishing up hyugas homework. Took me eight freaking hours
LongandSlow: haha, is the poor baby tired
Deathstarninja: not too tired, just mentally drained and wanting to get the hell out of here so we can start our tour.
LongandSlow: *grumbles*
Deathstarninja: stop whining it’ll just be for six months. Besides I’ll buy you phone cards so we can...
LongandSlow: eh, it’s better than nothing. *pulls you into lap and nuzzles neck* but I’d much prefer you ;)
Deathstarninja: *squirms* same here, but don’t even think about starting something tonight. sango caught your first message so now, she wants to know.
LongandSlow: oh shit! You’d better get going then. Me I’m gonna tell mom and dad after graduation.
Deathstarninja: good luck babe. *kisses* love ya
LongandSlow: *kisses back* love ya too...night
Shutting off the computer, Kohaku went into his room, got into his pajamas, and then headed off to tell his sister who he was dating. Knocking he waited for the customary confirmation that the coast was clear. Opening the door, he jumped onto the bed making his sister pop up a foot off the mattress and laugh as she fell back down. Giving him the last scoop of ice cream, Sango asked her brother, “So, is this a real boyfriend or one of those online things?”
Nearly choking on a bit of ice cream, Kohaku set the pint on the floor as he said, “It’s someone at school. We’ve been going out for since homecoming, although we didn’t go together because we didn’t want unwanted attentiON!” Kohaku was suddenly assaulted by a pillow to the face only to have his sister start smacking him playfully yelling at him for keeping it a secret for so long. Pushing her off, he got her in a leg lock saying, “You have a big mouth! And god only knows who you’d go and run your mouth off to! Not even the band knows!”
Breaking free of the leg lock, Sango got her little brother into a half-nelson asking, “So have you?” Kohaku stopped squirming at the question. He didn’t know what she was getting at so he began telling her that they went to movies, and they’ve gone for dinner. Smacking his butt playfully she said, “I mean which base have you gotten to with this guy?” Kohaku relaxed letting his arm fall from his sister’s.
“Oh, my god! You went all the way!” Kohaku sat up and looked at his sister. Crossing her legs, Sango asked with a curious smile, “So, what was it like?” Watching her brother give her a look of disgust, the teacher put her hands up in defense. “Hey, I’ve never done that and I’m your big sister. I don’t want all the details. I just want to know if you were careful” Giving him a smile, she held his hands as she added quickly, “Andifyouwerethecatcher.”
“You see! This is why I hate you being a teacher at my school!” Kohaku tried to run but his sister held onto him. He saw in her face that she didn’t mean anything by asking if he was the bottom. Blowing out some air, Kohaku relaxed and said, “The first time I was on top, and yes we used protection.” Sango raised an eyebrow at this new knowledge of her little brother.
Shaking his head, Kohaku told his sister, “Yes we have done it more than once. It’s definetly interesting to feel something like that. But, we were gentle and now it’s a bit easier to well figure out what we want as we do it. Along with some of the foreplay.” Covering her ears, Sango told her brother that was enough and that he should get to bed as they had an early day tomorrow. Giving her a kiss goodnight, Kohaku headed into his room, put on some music and went to sleep.
A few days later, the band was sitting in Kohaku’s room discussing the possibilities of lighting and the like. They’d just finished practicing at Kagome’s and were glad to have the weekend. Save for all of them having to work on Sunday morning, the band had all of that night and Saturday morning to practice for prom. Iruka had approved the set list telling them it was a good mix and they’d receive payment a few days after the dance.
Leaning back on the couch, Shippou asked, “By the way, what’s going on with your guys’ dates? I mean while we’re performing what are they gonna do?” Everyone grew silent at the question. Shippou didn’t want to tell anyone he was taking Temari. Her brother’s Kankuro and Gaara were massively over protective and they decided to keep it on the down low. Everyone else had dates except for Miroku, Sasuke, and Kohaku. They all knew Kohaku was dating someone, but the biggest question was who the boy was dating and the secrecy was killing the band.
Sasuke had many prospects on deck, but they were never sure of who he’d pick or if he’d pick anyone. They all knew he dated and even managed to keep a steady relationship for a few months. But even then he was completely closed off about it. He never let them know any more than he wanted them to. Yet his cryptic nature was too much too handle and the band just stopped bugging him about it to get on with their own lives.
Breaking away from INuyasha, Kagome told the group, “Well we can have some prerecorded stuff set up so that if we need to go to the bathroom or actually have a good time there’ll still be music.” Agreeing to the conditions, Shippou started on another list of songs for them to play while they took breaks as Naruto went to answer the door. He’d been sitting on the window sill strumming some guitar scales while staring out waiting. He had plans to go out with Hinata after practice and the whole group knew he was a bit uneasy around them with her.
After a while his prayers were answered and dashed at the same moment. Apparently, Hinata was a bit nervous herself so she brought along Kiba. With the red tattoos under his eyes, spiky hair, and gruff attitude, Kiba made the perfect bodyguard. He was a martial artist and had won many competitions over the years, but he was a good guy at heart and never boasted about them. Well he boasted about them for a while after winning them, but he hadn’t been competing as much lately and no one knew why.
Working on a few costume designs, Kohaku paid no attention to the sudden amount of extra weight sitting next to him until a nudge to the shoulder made him screw up a design. Raising the pen he tried to stab the person only to have them grab his hand saying, “Jesus, calm down. You can always go back and redraw the thing.” Looking down at the drawing Kiba said, “Hey, Kagome! I think Kohaku is under the impression you’re a stripper or something.
Tossing a drumstick at the recent addition, Kagome asked Sasuke for a ride to Inuyasha’s. Nodding, Sasuke grabbed his wallet saying theat he had to go get a tux fitting. Just as Naruto started to toss out an insult the older twin said, “Mom’s getting one for you as well, so you’d best prepare yourself.” Snickering Kagome and INuyasha excused themselves so that they could head out to dinner.
Inuyasha’s family was going out that night and Kagome had been invited to join them. Normally, Kagome didn’t go out with the Taisho’s when it came to family events. Not she didn’t get along with them, it was just that her mother didn’t really approve of her dating while in school. Nobody knew why the girl’s mother worried so much about Inuyasha. He was raised to respect women’s descisions about life and sex, so when Kagome told him not until marriage he said that it wasn’t a problem. Of course that didn’t stop them from being caught doing other things a couple of times by the band when the couple thought they were alone.
Now with half the band gone, Miroku grabbed his stuff saying he had been called into work earlier while Shippou left to go and get himself a date for prom. Saying goodbye, Hinata found that it was only herself, Naruto, Kiba, and Kohaku left in the small apartment. Blushing she looked to Naruto asking quietly, “Do you want to go to a movie?” Looking at her, Naruto gave a cheer saying that the dollar theater was showing an anniversary edition of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Giving a small smile, Hinata grabbed his arm saying that they’d see the two of them later.
Saying goodbye to his friend, Kiba reached into his book bag and pulled out his English Comp homework. Peeking over, Kohaku noticed that it was about Arthurian legends. Setting his sketchbook down, he marked his page and leaned over to look at the pictures describing the events before asking the question, “In this scene we learn which item is more valuable than the sword Excalibur. Please name the item and why such a mundane item would be considered more powerful than this legendary item.”
Smirking, Kiba picked up his pen and wrote down that the sheath was more powerful because it allowed Arthur to survive even the most mortal of wounds. Snorting, Kohaku said, “Pretty simple question don’t you think?” He received silence from his friend and decided to go back to working on his costume designs wondering why the usually chatty Kiba was so quiet. That question was soon answered by the opening of the door announcing the arrival of his sister.
Peeking out of the kitchen, Sango asked, “Kiba, are you staying for dinner?” The sound of two pencils breaking at the sudden invite made Sango roll her eyes as she said, “You’re here so you might as well eat. And don’t think because you’re a guest I’m going to get off your case during P.E.. I don’t want anyone to think I’m playing favorites.”
A few miles away at a nice pier-side resteraunt, Kagome was sipping tea as she chatted with Mrs. Taisho about the band and graduation. While the women chatted, the two man-children sitting at the table were in the middle of a glaring contest over who got the last roll before a new set came out. Snatching the roll from between his sons, Teijo sat back down next to his wife telling his sons, “Stop your petty bickering and tell us about school and work, or you’ll have to pay for your own meals.”