InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Grudging Loss ❯ Karaoke Night ( Chapter 3 )

Karaoke Night

 

“Why am I here?” Inuyasha thought as he looked around him in the microbrewery near the Santa Monica pier. The bar was crowded and it was karaoke night. Loud music pumped through the area with sweltering crowds of men and women bumping into each other. Smells of beer filled his nostrils as he looked at the sticky swills of beer that were all over the wooden counters. He finished nursing the amber lager that he had obtained with his fake ID and made his way to the singing area.

 

“Sesshomaru said that they would be here,” he thought. “Where are they?”

 

He glanced left and right as he made his way through the crowds. He was looking for a woman with long black hair and miko's robes. But there was no one matching that description in the bar. Normally he could have scented her out, but tonight was his human night. He felt so lost without his normal demonic senses. No enhanced sense of smell or hearing. Though he did note wryly that having normal hearing was sometimes a good thing when you were in a crowded bar with loud pumping stereo music.

 

Suddenly he heard someone calling Kagome's name and he jerked his head around to see Sango pushing Kagome onto the karaoke stage. Inuyasha looked up at her and gaped at the sight. Now he realized while he hadn't recognized her. The last time he had seen her she was wearing miko garb with long red hakama pants and a long white top that covered every part of her. He was completely unprepared to see the priestess wearing a white leather mini-skirt that tightly wrapped her hips and a silver corset that emphasized her round breasts. She was showing a fair amount of skin. For the first time he really noticed her pretty figure that curved in all of the right places. He looked at her again to see chocolate brown eyes that sparkled in the harsh bar lightening and her hair that fell in long ebony locks around her beautiful face.

 

“Sango! Stop it!” muttered the miko.

 

“No can do, Kagome. Get up there and sing. It's the only thing that will help your mood,” shot back the smiling Sango.

 

Kagome sighed and blew at her bangs as she surveyed the room and stood behind a microphone stand. “So who is man enough to sing with me?” she asked.

 

“This is my opening,” he thought as Inuyasha made a small leap onto the wooden platform. “Did you say that you needed a singing partner?” he asked while doing his best to show his most charming smile.

 

“If you can sing,” she answered with a shy grin. “Hey, Dominic! Play song #456.”

 

“What's Song 456?” asked Inuyasha as he walked up to the second microphone on the stage and picked up the mike.

 

“Life is a Highway…,” said Kagome as she started to move and sway to the beat of the music that started to play over the bar's stereo equipment. Inuyasha couldn't help but to be distracted by her movements as she rocked her hips and clapped her hands together before slapping her hands against her smooth thighs. He couldn't help but to look at her long legs that stretched so nicely from under her short skirt. Koga was right. She did have legs to die for.

 

He couldn't help but think of a new change of plans. Yes, he would do everything to find out about her team and any weaknesses. But another plan was starting to make its way through his jumbled brain. If he could fuck her and then steal her bra or panties... Wouldn't it be embarrassing if he could flash her undergarments on nationwide TV before a match? Wouldn't that completely unnerve her? And best of all, he thought, he really wouldn't mind fucking something so lovely. And there would be no need to feel guilty about it. The bitch deserved it after what she did to him. She would deserve every iota of pain that he could dish out at her after she had shot an arrow through his heart.

 

But he needed to think of other things. He smirked as the music coursed and pulsed around him. This was his element. He held his microphone in his hands as if they were lips that he needed to kiss. He had been in a band for the better part of the year. He was used to singing in public and hamming it up for the audience. He knew that the chicks loved it when he looked like he was making love to his microphone or his guitar. He was prepared to put on a show again.

 

He rocked his hips as he started to sing. His voice was clear, masculine and steady as he sung the lyrics that appeared on the karaoke screen.

 

Life's like a road that you travel on

When there's one day here and the next day gone

Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand

Sometimes you turn your back to the wind

There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door

Where blues won't haunt you anymore

Where brave are free and lovers soar

Come ride with me to the distant shore

 

He looked over at Kagome slyly. She seemed almost surprised. “Good she's taking the bait”, he thought. He also noticed that some of the patrons at the bar were starting to take notice. He even smiled at a girl in the audience who seemed to be following his rocking hips. She noticed his gaze and blushed.

 

“I haven't lost my touch!” he thought as he waited for Kagome to sing her lyrics.

 

Kagome's fingers drummed to the beat against the tall mike stand. Her raven black hair waved as her shoulders started to move with the music and her waist swayed. She gripped the silver microphone stand between her long smooth legs and rocked against it as the music throbbed. Suddenly Inuyasha was feeling a little jealous of the simple piece of metal that was between her legs.

 

He was amazed at how clear and angelic her voice was. She wasn't a casual singer. He could tell right off that she had been classically trained. Her notes were too perfect and her pitch was exactly on key.

 

Life is a highway

I wanna ride it all night long

If you're going my way

I wanna drive it all night long

 

His eyes couldn't help but to look over at her thighs that gripped the microphone pole between them. Her hips bucked against the pole as she sang, “I wanna ride…”

 

“Shit. Fuck,” he thought. She was making love to her mike stand in the middle of the crowded bar and he noticed that the men in the audience were staring.

 

Suddenly he was angry at all of the men for staring at her. He was planning to fuck her and no one else was supposed to look at her that way. Then he had to stop himself. Where did that thought come from? It's not like she was anything other than a rival and perhaps a quick fuck--a fuck that was only about humiliation and nothing more. His stiff male pride continued singing. But now his smirk was gone and he had a frown on his face.

 

Knock me down get back up again

You're in my blood

I'm not a lonely man

There's no load I can't hold

Road so rough this I know

I'll be there when the light comes in

Just tell 'em we're survivors

 

She gazed at him and her eyes lit up. She seemed to be nodding to him in approval. Kagome opened her mouth and a lovely angelic voice poured fourth. It mesmerized him and he almost forgot to echo her voice after she finished each line.

 

There was a distance between you and I

A misunderstanding once

But now we look it in the eye

Whoooo….

 

Then she strutted up to him with the microphone stand left and only her mike in her hands. He decided to meet her halfway across the stage with his own mike. She pressed her small hand against his chest as she sang into the mike while looking directly into his eyes. He could only help but smirk as he decided to take it up a notch. One of his hands held the mike, but with his available hand he traced her bodies' curves in front of the entire audience. Then he moved so close to her that there was only a hairsbreadth between them. She gasped in surprise as he clasped her waist against his and rocked his hips against her on stage as they sung the final lyrics together. Her surprise was short-lived and soon she was raising her arm directly over her head and lifting her head to arch her back. He felt her soft breasts push up against the hard planes of his chest as she pressed against him. He decided that he was not going to try to make love to his microphone onstage anymore. Instead he decided that Kagome would be the one who would receive his attention. Their bodies rocked together and their hands caressed each other onstage as they finished their lyrics.

 

Life is a highway

I wanna ride it all night long

If you're going my way

I wanna drive it all night long

Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah

If you're going my way

I wanna drive it all night long

 

Kagome's eyes glimmered as the song faded away. She smiled at him and then moved away. It wasn't until she left his side that he noticed that he wanted her warmth to stay next to him.

 

“Hey, you just can't walk away like that,” he murmured.

 

She turned and smiled back to him as she put her mike back in its holder. “Walk away?” she asked quizzically.

 

“Kagome!” a voice was calling out to her. They both turned to see the other two members of her team calling out to her. Inuyasha instinctively grimaced when he saw Sango the Demon Slayer and Miroku the Monk staring up at him. Just like Kagome they were sporting casual clothes rather than their fighting gear. Sango was wearing black leather pants and a black wife beater. Miroku was dressed in black casual jeans and a purple dress shirt that was unbuttoned at the top. “Kagome-chan, Miroku and me want to ditch this place and get something to eat. Are you coming?” asked Sango.

 

Kagome put her hand to her forehead. “Do I want to spend the entire evening watching you two make out?” she asked rhetorically. “Actually no…,” said Kagome as she started to walk off of the stage.

 

Sango spoke up again. “I thought that you were done sulking, Kagome,” added Sango as she grabbed the miko's arm.

 

“Sulking?” wondered Inuyasha as he watched Kagome's face pucker with a frown.

 

Sango continued, “What about the man you just sang with…?” Sango turned to look at Inuyasha. “Hey! What's your name?”

 

He had to think fast. It wasn't as if he could tell everyone his real name. He was here undercover, so to speak and needed another alias for the evening. “Ummm, my name is Ash,” he said while scratching his head.

 

“Well, Ash. Would you like to be Kagome's date this evening? She won't hang out with us if I don't get a guy to accompany her.”

 

Inuyasha grinned. This was working out so well on so many different levels. He decided to throw out the charm again, which was extremely difficult for him—but necessary. “I would be delighted to accompany Kagome on a date.”

 

Kagome tried to open her mouth to speak, but Sango cut her off. “But…”

 

“Now that's settled. Come on Miroku, Kagome, Ash. A great burger joint is just a few blocks away.”

 

Inuyasha put his arm against the small of Kagome's back as they all walked out of the bar. He couldn't help but to grin. The evening was progressing extremely well.

 

 

Author's Notes:

#1: `Life is a Highway' by Rascal Flatts from the 2006 Cars Soundtrack was used for this chapter. If you can, I recommend playing it in the background as you read.

#2: Yes, Inuyasha is a little out of character. He was trying REALLY hard to be charming during this chapter in order to weasel his way into learning about the opposing team and to try to get Kagome in bed. You can glimpse his character much better when you read his thoughts.

#3: I'm looking for rock music style duets for Kagome and Inuyasha to sing together. If anyone has any recommendations, please pass them along. The songs don't necessarily have to be duets, but could be solo songs that can be broken down between two singers.