InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ As the Band Plays ❯ Just for the Fans ( Chapter 15 )

Screams and squeals wreaked havoc in the house, rocking the very foundation. Kagome groaned and opened her eyes only to narrow them in concentration on the figure out of whose voices were filtering into her bedroom. Snarling, she recognized Nazuna and Sesshoumaru mainly, with a comment thrown in here and there by the perv and Sango. Crawling out of bed she snarled and stormed down the hall, jumped halfway down the stairs and burst into the den where they were all crowded around Sesshoumaru who's face was red with either anger, embarrassment, or both.

Miroku, unlike the other's, was too busy cackling to notice Kagome's grand entrance in all of her rumpled pjs and medusa hair glory. “Sesshoumaru's jealous! I cannot fucking believe it!!! All because of that stupid kiss!!”

Kagome froze, her mouth half open to tell them all that it was a cardinal sin to be so loud at this ungodly hour of the morning, and turning her own shade of crimson. Someone pushed in behind her and quirked a brow.

“So, he's jealous, eh? Well, he shouldn't be, it was only for show. More the audience likes us, the more gigs we get,” Inu Yasha said as he shrugged and pushed past Kagome to get into the room.

Sango watched as Kagome's eyes darkened and clouded over. The younger girl plastered a smile on her face. “He's right Sesshoumaru, there's no reason for you to be jealous, especially over that. It was gross, he slimed me.”

Nazuna blinked numerous times as she eyed the trio. What the hell was going on? Did she imagine that look of raw emotion between the both of them last night, or were they just expert actors?

Inu Yasha glared at her, ignoring the amused look on Sesshoumaru's face, and biting back a wounded look. “Yea, well, just because I try to please my fans, that doesn't mean I need to please you're bitchy ass. You're not even my type, so don't think you can get with me just because you look like my ex. There's a reason I'm not with that hideous bitch anymore,” he snapped.

Everyone in the room fell silent for a few moments and Kouga finally drug himself into the room. “What's for breakfast?” he yawned. Kagome turned and walked out of the room, ignoring the boy.

He blinked. “OK, what'd I miss?”

 

Kagome slammed her locker with way more force than she meant to, causing heads to turn up and down the hall. “Shit,” she muttered, trying to hide her shaking limbs from her pent up hurt, anger, and venom. A tender hand came to rest on her shoulder, jarring her out of her red tinted daze. She whipped around to find Sesshoumaru there, and her eyes widened in shock and the gentle look in his face.

“Kagome,” he started, unsure how to approach the subject of that morning's goings-on, but she intercepted the line of conversation and came back with a bubbly grin and a bouncy tone in her voice and step as she carried on walking towards her next class which she shared with Sesshoumaru, Kouga, Inu Yasha and Ayame.

“Hey, Fluffy! God it's great to be back at school huh?” she beamed, the expression not reaching her stone cold eyes. “I can't believe we have ANOTHER concert tonight too. I hope we do well, I don't want to disappoint our fans!”

Sesshoumaru stared at the girl with his ice masque back in place. “Yes, that is what we do this for.” Kagome nodded absently, and avoided his deadpan gaze. “Kagome?”

“Hmm?” she queried, concentrating mostly on weaving in and out of the idiots in the hallway who needed a class specifically on how to not clog the walkway.

“Do you want to go out after school and maybe grab something to eat? It's Nazuna's turn to cook tonight and no matter how much I love my sister, I don't think I can stomach her odd concoctions right before a concert.” Sesshoumaru smirked slightly and glanced at the girl in front of him.

Kagome paused out side of the classroom door and looked up at him, an inner battle raging in her mind behind her eyes. “Sure. Why don't for lunch we go to get coffee. I'll pay.” A smile painted across her lips this time and she didn't allow her inner thoughts show. Sesshoumaru was very kind and she never really had a problem with him before. Ever since they all decided to move in with his family he'd always been the most courteous, and the least irritating.

Sesshoumaru nodded. "Sounds good, Kagome, but I insist on paying. Let it be my treat," he said as he saw Inu Yasha out of the corner of his eye and said each word slowly and deliberately making sure he heard. "I asked you out after all its only right for me to pay after all."

Inu Yasha frowned as he threw his bag over his shoulder and stormed down the hall towards the nearest exit he could find when he heard this. The last thing he needed right now was another soap opera relationship.

Kagome stiffened when she saw the younger brother and nodded at Sesshoumaru "Let's argue about the paying dilemma later whenever we're not about to be tardy for class," she said, forcing another smile.

Sesshoumaru smiled and opened the door for her. "Ladies first," he said as he motioned for her to go in.

 

Inu Yasha stormed outside and almost ran to the student parking lot to get to his truck. Once there, he threw his bag into the bed and promptly began to kick the door of his truck.

"Fuck him!! Fuck her!!" he yelled as he continued the assault on his truck until his foot hurt and sat down next to it frustrated. Lighting a cigarette he looked at the sky and tried to clear his head.

A figure draped in a slinky exposing dress made her way across the parking lot and leaned against the truck by Inu Yasha. Her clawed hands with painted red nails clicked against the metal of the truck bed. "What's wrong, Yasha? Lack of sex?" The sultry girl smirked, looking up at him with a face so similar to the one that was currently the source of his angst.

Inu Yasha recognized the voice and scowled. "Get the hell away from me," he said in disgust. "You make me sick, and your voice gives me a migraine," Inu Yasha said as he stood up and opened the driver's side door to the cab of his truck and getting inside.

Kikyou rested her hand on the door, keeping it ajar. "Well, I just thought you might want to know that Naraku's taken an interest to Kagome. He seems rather keen on acquiring her for his own purposes," she said as she examined her nails on her free hand, boredly.

His eyes opened wide for a moment and then narrowed again. "What does he want with her?" he asked. "Did you slut around on him to or did you give him something that he can't get rid of?"

Kikyou glared at him. "You know, I'm not sure I like your tone. Here I am just trying to warn you that your new little whore has caught the eye of Naraku, and you start your shit with me. I hope he does nab her from you and throws her to his lackeys," she snapped bitterly and whipped around to storm back towards the school.

Inu Yasha slammed the door of his truck and then leaned out the window and yelled at Kikyou. "People who live glass whore houses shouldn't throw stones. You're the biggest whore in town!" With that, he started up his truck and peeled out of the parking lot. "Kagome is Sesshoumaru's problem," he said to himself sourly. "But I will tell him what I found out once he gets home," he added quietly.

 

Kagome yawned and peered out the window of the classroom, waiting for the bell to ring. She had been caught up during lunch and hadn't been able to make her lunch date with Sesshoumaru, so they and remade plans to go out right after school. Suddenly, her wish was granted, and a shrill, jarring ring yanked her back to attention, and she got up ready to bolt from the room, when suddenly someone grabbed her wrist.

She looked back over her shoulder and stared at the boy who hand caught her arm. None of her friends were in this class, so she hadn't bothered talking to anyone in it or trying to remember anyone's name, but she was pretty sure this guy's name was Naraku, and for some reason she felt as if she'd seen him somewhere other than school before. He was fairly good looking is he didn't send out creep-me-out waves like an overpowering cologne.

Naraku gave her a unnerving smile. "My, my what are you doing all by yourself? Someone might just grab you and carry you away," he said as his grip tightened on her wrist. "There are a lot of creeps and thugs that go to this school you shouldn't walk around unescorted, you never know what might happen."

Kagome gave him a strange look and tried to wrest her hand out of his grip. "Yea, I'll take that into consideration, but could you let me go, please?"

He smirked and pulled her closer to his body, pinning her. "What do I get if I do?" Naraku asked as his eyes looked her up and down.

She glared at him, still trying to get her arm free. "An unbruised nut sack," she growled, trying to keep back her pent up anger from lashing out at the idiot, but not quite succeeding.

Naraku laughed. "Oh I like it rough, so don't worry, I can take it," he said as he grabbed her chin roughly. "But don't expect me to be gentle. I gave back as I receive."

A sound of books hitting the floor rang out through the now empty hall causing Naraku to look back over his shoulder. The only thing he saw when he did look back was a fist coming at him fast and hitting him square in the eye.

"She said to let her go!" a voice boomed out. Naraku let Kagome go and stumbled back against the wall and groaned holding his eye. Kouga cracked his knuckles reading another punch. "You do not come near her again because next time it won't be me it will Inu Yasha that gets you."

Kagome stared at Kouga and backed away, shaking at the look Naraku had had in his eye when he has spoken his last words to her. "Kouga, let's go, I don't want to stick around here."

Kouga kicked Naraku in the stomach for good measure making sure he wasn't able to follow them. "Yeah, let's go before the creep is able to walk again." He grabbed Kagome by the elbow and rushed her out the nearest exit. "He probably has some of his goons around so we need to hurry." Kouga said as he ran beside her towards the parking lot trying to fumble with his car keys along the way.

Kagome stared at the back of Kouga's head. "Kouga, why are you in such a hurry. Who was that guy?"

Kouga unlocked his car doors as he tried to explain. "That guy is one of the biggest creeps on this planet. He is the leader of the nastiest gangs in town and runs drugs for the thrill of it." Kouga hopped into his car and opened the door for Kagome. "He is used to getting wha he wants and if its not given to him he takes it by force."

"So what does he want with me?" she asked, climbing into the car and looking around, suddenly feeling rather nervous.

Kouga cranked up the car and drove as quick as he could to get out of the parking lot. "One of two things," he said as he got out onto the highway. "You are almost identical to Kikyou, so he might want you because of that reason, or he could be using you to get to Inu Yasha."

Kagome scowled. "Why, what's his beef with Inu Yasha?" she asked, rubbing her sore wrist.

Kouga sighed. "That's a long story but I will try to make it as short as possible." He turned the car onto the road leading to the house. "Naraku was fooling around with Kikyou behind Inu Yasha's back. A few month's later, Inu found out about it, and he found out about right before he asked Kikyou to marry him." Kouga turned into the drive way. "Well you know how Inu is, that lit his fuse and he blew up like a powder keg, starting a war between him and Naraku's flunkies."

Kagome stared out the windshield. "Oh, I see." She frowned. "I don't know why he'd try to use me for that though. According to the morning's events, Inu Yasha wants nothing to do with me," she grumbled, staring out the window.

Kouga rolled his eyes. "Inu has trouble expressing his feelings. After the trauma of losing his mom, and then Kikyou on top of that, he tends to keep all people at arms distance because he doesn't want to be hurt again," Kouga said as he exited his car and closed the door.

The girl who got out of the car and stood beside him was puzzling over this for a bit when she suddenly jumped up. "Oh my god! I forgot about dinner with Sesshoumaru! He doesn't even know where I am!"

Kouga raised a brow. "Call his cell, and tell him what happened. I'm going inside to get me a sandwich, I'm starving," he said with a laugh as his stomach growled.

Kagome ran into the house and slammed the door and picked up the phone, dialing the boy's phone number. She swore loudly, and very unladylike when she got his answering machine. "Sess, I'm sorry, I'm at the house right now. That Naraku guy cornered me after class and wouldn't let me go. Kouga punched him and then we got out of there as fast as we could, and came home. Please don't be angry with me. Be careful." She hung up the phone and slunk down the wall in the front hall.

Inu Yasha walked out of the kitchen and saw Kagome in the hall. He did a U-turn and headed back into the kitchen. He really didn't feel like hearing Kagome drool all over that asshole brother of his, not now, not ever. Inu Yasha took a seat next to Kouga at the table. Kouga looked over at him and raised a brow not being able to speak because his mouth was full of food.

Inu Yasha glanced over at him and gave him a glare. "It's nothing, so just keep eating."

Kouga had no complaints with that and continued to chow down on his food.

 

A car door slammed outside, and Kagome looked up. She stood and raced to the door, her mouth open to apologize to Sesshoumaru again a thousand times when she opened the door, soon was containing a muffled scream as a hand went around her mouth.

The assailant twisted her out of the door way and leaned slightly in. "Naraku sends his condolences, Mutt!" snickered Juromaru, and made his way back to the car where four other guys were standing, ready to attack or leave.

"Package acquired," the man with the squirming girl in his arms said.

Sesshoumaru pulled up into the drive way a little too fast and slammed on the breaks, burning his tires as he skidded into the flunkies' car. He looked out the window and saw a goon holding Kagome in his arms. Sesshoumaru snarled as he jumped out of his car and jumped the guy.

"Let her go!" he yelled as he, Kagome and the goon hit the ground.

The wind rushed out of her lungs as the weight of two guys with decent measure of muscle fell on top of her. She yelped in pain as the guys shuffled to get off of her, and a misplaced elbow shoved into her solar plexus. She looked up to see Sesshoumaru there and tried to scream to tell him to watch out as another guy came flying out of no-where with a piece of pipe in his hands, but nothing came out. In fact, the more she tried to breath, the more she felt like she was slowly being strangled, and every move she made caused pain to stab at her ribs.

 

Sango ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. "What the hell is going on outside?!" she asked, the two at the table, trying to figure out who was causing all the racket that she could hear even over her blaring radio.

Inu Yasha jumped to his feet. "Sounded like a car crash," he said as he ran out the front door with Kouga on his heels. The breath left his lungs as he saw Kagome on the ground and his brother fighting her attackers. Kouga looked around and found a piece of what once was a shovel handle and ran over and hit the guy that was on Sesshoumaru. Inu Yasha, mean while, rushed over to Kagome and checked her over for serious injury. Miroku bounded out the door to see what the hell was going on. Seeing his friends fighting off some people he didn't know, he ran over to help out.

Inu Yasha touched Kagome's cheek. "Hey, Kagome, are you ok?"

Kagome's hand snapped up to wrap around his wrist and as soon as she had a hold of him, she felt a rush of air pour back into her lungs so fast her whole body started shuddering with coughs and gagging at the stabbing pain her expanding chest was making as she tried to regulate her breathing again.

Sango ran over to one of the bastards that were creeping up behind Inu Yasha and Kagome and delivered a quick and simple strike to his spinal cord in his neck. Another one started to rush to the other guy's aid but she soon had him engaged in a heated hand to hand combat.

Miroku struggled with one of the guys as another snuck up behind him and struck him across the back with an iron pipe. He fell to the ground in pain as he saw the guy raise the pipe to hit him again, but Kouga tackled the guy and toppled him to the ground taking the pipe and holding it against the guy's air way until he passed out.

Sesshoumaru threw one of the thugs so hard into the windshield of their car the he actually shattered it. "Someone get Kagome into the house!" he yelled as he ran over to Miroku.

"I got her!" Inu Yasha yelled back as he picked her up as carefully as he could and rushed her towards the house.

Sango looked around at the wreckage and the incapacitated guys strewn all over the driveway. "What the FUCK is going?!" she screamed at the guy she had brought to his knees. She was staring worriedly at Miroku and Sesshoumaru who was checking him over. "What the hell is your business with Kagome?!" the girl snapped, twisting his collar so it strained against his windpipe.

The guy coughed as he tried to talk. ''Naraku...." was all he said before he passed out from lack of air.

Kouga and Sesshoumaru helped Miroku get to his feet. "I got a call from both Kagome and Inu Yasha telling me that Naraku is after Kagome," the elder brother said as him and Kouga moved Miroku slowly to the house. "I got a call from Inu Yasha first saying that Kikyou gave him warning about Naraku and his plans for Kagome."

The girl snarled and through the guy to the ground in anger. "This is bullshit! Kagome didn't do anything to them! This all because I asked her to be in the damn band!" She kicked the guy as hard as she could, sending him rolling a few feet. She snarled and walked to the house and grabbed the keys to Inu Yasha's truck and the keys to their shed, and went about cleaning up.

Kagome was still breathing with difficulty and trying not to grimace every time air passed into her lungs. "I'm fine," she choked out and sat up.

Sesshoumaru let Kouga deal with Miroku and rushed over to Kagome upon seeing her wracking form, knocking Inu Yasha out of the way. "We need to get you to the hospital, Kagome." Inu Yasha scowled as he moved out of the way and let Sesshoumaru sit next to Kagome.

She stared at the boy in front of her, trying to make out specific facial features, her vision swimming in and out of focus. "No, Inu Yasha, please don't make me," she whimpered as her eyes closed. Her muscles were screaming for her to lie down and rest, and protesting her getting up, until her body just crapped out on her and she fell back on the bed, causing her to yelp again in pain, her consciousness draining. "I don't...please...Inu...please... Daddy..." Finally a painful wince arched through her body and she grit her teeth to keep from crying out, the pain in her chest rising to a point so great that it made her pass out.

Inu Yasha's eyes narrowed at the sight of the beaten girl being taken into his brother's arms and rushed out the door to his less than beautiful BMW. Sesshoumaru put the frail girl in the front seat and buckled her in and rushed to the other side of the car and hopped into the drivers seat. He threw the car back into reverse so fast that the transmission groaned in protest.Kouga cleaned up Miroku as Inu Yasha stood there with his blood boiling.The young man walked through the kitchen and out the back dooor that led to the garage.Inu grabbed the keys to his motorcycle and pulled on his red helmet.He threw a leg over the red Ninja and sit down turning over the motor.His intentions were to stop this madness even if it meant killing the mother fucking Naraku.With that thought in mind Inu Yasha rode off.

Sango squealed the tires of Inu Yasha's pick up, and fishtailed it into the drive way of Narkaku's quaint little hang out. She leapt out of the truck and drug out the guys in the back, throwing them at the doorstep, still strugling against their bindings. Kikyou came to the door and arched a brow down at the pile of men at her feet. "You bitch!" Sango spat, grabbing her up by the throat and pinning her against the wall.

Inu pulled up behind his own damn truck when he reached Naraku's hide out.He looked around and saw her face to face with no one else but the bitch herself."Sango!" he yelled out even though it was muffled by his motorcycle helmet "Its my problem I will deal with it! I dragged all you guys into it and I will get you out."Inu walked up to the pair "Go to the hospital and stay with Kagome."He said as he placed a hand on her shoulder the worried expression he wore hidden by the mirrored visor that covered his face.

Sango glared at him, dropping the girl to the floor and whipped around to him. "No." Her simple act of defiance held back a whole rush of anger and blood thirst. "I want to see this bitch dead. This is all because of her, and I'm beyond sick of the shit. You want someone to watch Kagome, go do it yourself, because you hurt her worse than any of these thugs did by the words that came out of YOUR mouth this morning."

Inu's back stiffened "And now you see why I said what I did .I didnt want her to get involved with this shit!"He stormed out and then turned his attention to Kikyou "I want that asshole Naraku now!" he took a few steps forward and knelt down to the girl infront of him "Bitch I would get moving and get him because if I get any more pissed off right now you might not see tomorrow morning." He said as he flipped up the helmets visor to glare at Kikyou to prove he wasn't joking by the look in his eyes.

Kikyou stared at him and scrambled to her feet to comply, rushing out of the range of their blows. Sango stared at the back of Inu Yasha's head. "Well it sure looks like it all worked," she said bitterly. "I mean hell, I can't believe how unbelievably effective that was at keeping her out of the hospital." Sango glared at the boy she'd grown up with. "You're stupider than I thought if you think that this is going to work. You know Naraku and that he's got too many people here to back him up. You think that your death from stupidity is going to solve this? Grow the fuck up, Inu Yasha. You're going on 18, act like it!"

Inu Yasha growled "I know its my fault that Kagome's in the hospital!" He yelled "Im going to fix the situation Naraku wont bother her any more and her and Sess can live happily ever after!' he stormed over to the back of the truck and grabbed a can of gasoline from the bed. Inu twisted the cap off and began pouring out around the house that he knew Naraku was hiding in .He looked over to Sango as he threw the canister down since it was now empty. "You have to the count of three to get in my truck and get out of here." Inu reached into his jeans pocket and pulled out a zippo and in one flick it was lit "One.." He said as he turned to look at the house "get going Sango."

Sango glared at him as he turned, ran silently up behind him and knocked the base of his skull none to gently. She grunted as his weight fell into her arms. "God damn, you beef machine," She grunted. She moved him into the truck and walked around back to run the bike up into the bed. The smell of smoke reached her nostrils and she turned to look at the house. The dropped lighter was burning the grass and the flames were creeping closer to a large pool of gas. "Fuck! Me!" she cursed, leaping into the truck and peeling out of there towards the hospital.

 

a/n yes I got lazy on the end with the editing, but hey, be happy you guys got this. Lmao. Hope you like it please review.