InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ 30 AU Ban Jak kisses ❯ Radio-cassette player (kiss 14) ( Chapter 14 )

Radio-cassette player (kiss 14)

 

By kira

 

Author's note: the following AU is based on Live Journal's 30 kisses, and takes place in my “Homecoming” universe. My couple incase you haven't already guessed is Ban/Jak.

 

Since it wasn't specified exactly if it was a radio or a cassette player, I chose to go with a cassette player. I get the impression that this was meant to be a songfic too.

 

Jakotsu & Sesshomaru are singing “Baby it's cold outside” by Frank Loesser. They also sang a verse of “On a slow boat to China” also by Frank Loesser.

 

The author would like to thank Jen for her suggestions and the Divine Miss M for recording enough standards and ballads to choose from that have the right amount of drama and fun for Jak to sing...

 

“I guess that's why they call it the blues” is by Elton John.

 

Thanks also to my unofficial beta, Jen, for working her magic behind the scenes as I write.

 

888

 

 

Bankotsu popped the cassette into the player and turned it on. As the tape wound through the player, the sounds of Youkai's latest album-to-be could be heard. Picking up a pad and pen, he wrote down the song title and started making notes. The record producer did this for each track he listened to until he reached the last song on the tape. After a few minutes of laughing and talking, mostly about himself having been stuck in a meeting, a familiar voice started singing.

 

“I really can't stay...” Jakotsu sang.

 

“But, baby, it's cold outside...” Sesshomaru chimed in.

 

“I got to go `way...” the cross-dresser continued.

 

“But, baby, it's cold outside...” the blond guitarist added.

 

“What the hell are you two doing?” Inuyasha demanded, although, whoever was sitting there doing the recording said nothing. And it took Bankotsu a few minutes to realize it was Inuyasha.

 

“We're singing. What does it look like we're doing?” Jakotsu said, and without missing a beat he sang, “This evening has been...”

 

Bankotsu smiled. If he closed his eyes, he could imagine he was there, watching the mayhem ensue.

 

“Been hopin' that you'd drop in...” the elder Nishi sang while the younger sputtered helplessly.

 

“So very nice...”

 

“I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice...”

 

“My mother will start to worry...”

 

“Beautiful, what's your hurry...?”

 

The cross-dresser giggled. “My father will be pacing the floor...”

 

“Get out of there you two!! Ban's going to have our asses for wasting studio time!!”

 

“Chill out, baby bro! Ban is going to love this. Now where was I? Oh yeah... Listen to that fireplace roar...”

 

“So really I'd better scurry...”

 

“Well, maybe half a drink more...”

 

“If you two idiots don't stop right now, I, I, I...”

 

Bankotsu heard the sound of something crashing along with laughter. He chuckled, imagining the scene as it must have played out. He figured the noise was Inuyasha throwing his headphones in frustration as the laughter definitely belonged to his lover and Youkai's leader guitarist slash vocalist. As the tape played on the recorder producer heard them launch into “On a slow boat to China.”

 

“Hmmm, I'm gonna get you on a slow boat to China... All to myself alone... Get you and keep you in my arms evermore... Leave all the others waitin' on a faraway shore...” Jakotsu sang.

 

Sesshomaru sang along with him, “Out on the briny... where the moon's big and shiny... Melting your heart of stone... I'm gonna get you on a slow boat to China... All to myself alone...”

 

They sang, and in between stanzas, they argued back and forth with Inuyasha about wasting studio time and how they had to get out of there “right now or else.” Bankotsu burst out laughing when heard Inuyasha suddenly say, “Are you gay?”

 

“Silly Inu-chan, of course I'm gay!” Jakotsu said.

 

“Not you, my idiot brother.”

 

“I won't even dignify that question with a reply.”

 

“Hey! What's wrong with being gay?”

 

“Nothing...” Sesshomaru said.

 

“Then why didn't you answer my question?” Inuyasha playfully demanded.

 

“Yeah!!” the cross-dresser added.

 

“Because I don't have to if I don't want to.”

 

Inuyasha heaved a dramatic sigh. “Oh hell... I guess I'd better go break the news to Rin.”

 

“You'll do no such thing!”

 

“Yeah? Who's going to stop me?”

 

“Me!”

 

As the tape continued to play, Bankotsu thought he heard his lover's soft sigh. “Uh, guys, this was supposed to be a lil something for Ban to listen to while I go tape that guest spot in Kyoto, not a taped flashback to your childhood... So if you don't mind, I'm ready to sing that song, you know, Ban's favorite one.”

 

“Sorry, Jak.”

 

“Yeah... Go sit and start playing, Sessh. Let's try to get this in one take, okay?”

 

“I'm ready when you guys are...”

 

The tape rolled for a few minutes without sound, before Bankotsu heard Sesshomaru play the opening bars of the song on the piano.

 

“Don't wish it away...Don't look at it like it's forever... Between you and me, I could honestly say... That things can only get better...”

 

Bankotsu sat there, with his mouth open. It wasn't exactly his favorite song, as he was not much of an Elton John fan, but the lyrics seemed to fit the moment. He wondered how Jakotsu knew that when he went into the studio that morning two weeks ago. The fight they had had the night before he left for Kyoto was one of the rare ones he had started and now it seemed so stupid and pointless when he thought about it. If anything, he would have been the one to walk away from their relationship, not the cross-dresser. He knew damned well that Jakotsu had had enough of that kind of hurt to heap it on anyone else. But he just could not help feeling annoyed about his timing. A week later and Bankotsu could have easily gone with him.

 

Jakotsu sang on as his lover sat there, silently berating himself for being a fool.

 

“And I guess that's why they call it the blues...Time on my hands could be time spent with you...Laughing like children, living like lovers...Rolling like thunder under the covers...And I guess that why they call it the blues...”

 

Bankotsu rubbed his forehead tiredly. I'm such an idiot.

 

“But more than ever I simply love you...More than I love life itself...”

 

“Got it! It sounds really good, Jak. I'll see to it that it gets spliced onto the demo tape.”

 

“Thanks, Inu-chan... and please put it all on, the silly fight and the other two songs. I want to Ban to feel happy when he hears this.”

 

“Oh, okay...”

 

“Thanks...” Jakotsu said. There was the sound of him kissing the mike. “I wish that was you, Ban honey. I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I tried to get them to push it back a week but the producers were adamant about it. Hopefully you're not missing me too badly, because with a bit of luck, I'll be home before you know it.” Jakotsu took a deep breath and sang, “But more than ever I simply love you... more than I love life itself...”