InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Behind Cameras ❯ Scenes ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter Four

The Scene

 

Kagome's mother looked at the screen, her eyes wide. What the hell was her daughter up to? Making out with some guy in front of a camera, on her bed…The same guy who had fought with another demon in the hallway. Something about accepting him as he was, she thought. He was hanyou, or something like that. No need to say Jii-chan was screaming his lungs out when he saw her.

“With a hanyou, no less!” he yelled, “Demons are dangerous!”

It was pretty stupid actually. She was supposed to focus on acting, but instead, she was thinking about a boy!

XX

“Kagome Higurashi!” Kikyo called from the hallway two days after Koga got disqualified, “Phone call!”

Kagome sat up from her bed, where she had been reading, and walked to the phone.

“Hello?” she greeted.

“Kagome!” her mother gasped into the phone, “What was that you pulled on television?!”

`What…?' Kagome thought. `Holy shit, Inuyasha!'

“It was on tv?!” she all but yelled into the mouthpiece.

“Yes, it was!”

“I totally forgot…” she sputtered helplessly, “The cameras…”

“Yes, the cameras!” her mother whined, “What are people going to think?! What are they going to say?! Oh, Kagome…”

Kagome's eyes were now wide open. People! Not just people, Hojo! She had forgotten about him, that guy who ran after her like a little puppy. And maybe she had been a little attracted to him… And now, it was all screwed. He would be heart broken, having followed after her for years.

“I didn't realize…” Kagome whispered. “Won't people think it's just an act? Maybe they'll think it's not all true… Won't they?”

“I don't know Kagome. It was pretty…” Mrs. Higurashi trailed off, feeling a little nauseated.

Kagome was like horror struck. Never had she been caught making out with a boy… and suddenly, it was all over Japanese television!

“I should go, sweetie,” Mrs. Higurashi said at last. “Take care of yourself… And please, pay attention to those cameras…”

“Hai!” Kagome nodded vigorously.

“Oh, and one more thing…” Mrs. Higurashi said with a smile, even though her daughter couldn't see her. “You were great out there…”

Kagome smiled fondly.

XX

It was with a phone call that Inuyasha finally realized what the Hell he was doing. “Yasha, man…” Sesshomaru had said. “I don't understand you. It's like you only have eyes for her. In all the shoots, we see you looking at her…and damn, it's not just lust I see there.”

“You don't know what the fuck you're talking about!” Inuyasha had barked back. “This is just some chick I find hot. So what if she's the only one I'm looking at? Is there any other pretty girl here?”

“I see a few,” Sesshomaru had answered with a wolf whistle, which had earned him a whack on the head from his wife, Rin.

“Yeah, well, I don't.” Inuyasha had answered.

“Yeah, right. So what was with all of that cheesy hanyou stuff?” Sesshomaru had wanted to know.

“Nothing,” Inuyasha had dismissed. “It was nothing.”

“If you say so…”

And this was why he had decided to back off of Kagome. He couldn't afford this; he had to focus on his acting career. He would just have to show her that this wasn't serious, whatever the Hell it was.

And just as he had decided this, she had showed up at his door.

“Oh. Hey,” he said stupidly.

“Yash,” she said, biting her lip. “I didn't realize there were cameras up last night.”

“That's alright. I realized it afterwards. Makes good publicity,” he laughed.

“Publicity?” Kagome repeated, trying not to be hurt.

“Yeah,” he said. “Publicity.”

“O-Oh…” she said softly. “I thought, maybe…” She looked into his cold eyes, those same eyes that had expressed so much passion only a day earlier… they seemed so distant now.

Willing herself not to falter, she shook her head, plastered on the best fake smile she could muster, and walked out of the room.

Inuyasha stared at her back as she walked out, and sighed, but didn't try to go talk to her.

XX

“Contestants,” Kikyo's cold voice greeted as they all walked in the modernly furnished lounge. “You have to work on a new project. You will have one week to finalize it.”

They all sat stiffly, waiting eagerly for the project that would be revealed to them soon. “Under your seats you will each find a script to the movie, True Love. The objective is simple. You will be paired up two by two, and will have to play out a scene from this movie. Remember, you are two guys and two girls. Most scenes are of Yuu and Miki, the couple of the story. So, it would be advisable for you to pair up in couples if you want to have a lot of choices. We have picked one of you randomly to choose their partner first.”

There was a crushing silence. Kagome had swallowed hard. Who did she want to be with? She looked at Miroku. She had learned to know the less perverted and more serious side of him, but wasn't sure that she wanted to spend so much time with him. And Inuyasha - she was confused about him. He had seemed to like her but suddenly, he was cold and looked like he'd never cared.

“Sango Matsuura,” Kikyo's voice interrupted her thoughts. “You have been picked to choose who you would like to spend this week working with. Consequentially, the other couple will be made automatically.”

Sango looked like she needed time to think about it. She glanced at her three friends. Of course, Kagome was eliminated, if she wanted to have a lot of scenes to choose from.

She hardly knew Inuyasha, but he seemed very aggressive. They would probably kill each other after the first day. Miroku, on the other hand, was great to work with, yet too much of a pervert for her comfort. If they wanted to record a romantic scene, it wouldn't exactly be easy to work with him without having to slap him every hour or so.

Her mind was made up.

“I choose to work with Miroku Houshi,” she said quietly. Miroku looked delighted. Sango, on the other hand, looked surprised.

`I meant to say Inuyasha!' she thought, alarmed.

Kagome's eyes widened and she felt her heart beat hard in her chest. Inuyasha, who was sitting beside her, leaned towards her to whisper in her ear, “I guess we're together then princess.”

`Princess?' “Y-Yeah…”

“It's settled then,” Kikyo said, a hint of unease in her voice. From the first time she'd seen Inuyasha in the plane, she'd wanted him. And Kagome was very much of an obstacle.

“You have until next Tuesday to finish your scene. Two cameramen will be put in the disposition of each team. They will film you, but you will have to do the editing, which will also count in the eliminating. Remember we will allow you to have one extra actor, male or female. But he or she will not play any important role. He cannot take up too much attention, or we will be forced to ask you to change the scene.

“We will let you use the actual set for the movie on Saturday and Sunday, so you will still have until Tuesday for the editing.

“The team with the best movie will be safe, and one actor from the other one will be eliminated.

“I suggest you start reading. Good luck.”

And with that, she left.

XX

“I can't believe I'm stuck with you!” Kagome groaned as she walked in her room, followed by Inuyasha.

“You know you love it,” he said. “Anyway, that's not the point,” he went on, noticing the camera that was hung on the wall next to the window. “We have to start reading.”

She nodded with a sigh, and settled on her bed, watching as Inuyasha sat down on the couch in front of her, and started reading the first page. She did the same.

Soon, she realized that she loved the plot. It was about a young woman in university falling in love with one of her classmates who was only there on full scholarship. They dated, and when they started to get serious, her parents wanted her to break it off because he wasn't exactly `in their social class', as they said. It was sort of Romeo and Juliet themed.

After a couple of hours, they had read the whole script. “Which scene do you think we should use?” Kagome asked as she flipped through the pages. She had taken a few notes and highlighted a few parts, but wasn't sure which scene she wanted to play out yet.

“I liked the one where he's arguing with her brother and she comes in,” Inuyasha said his voice strange. “On their first summer vacation together, before her parents decide to take action.”

She flipped the pages to that scene and read it again as he watched her expressions carefully.

--

[Yuu is picking up Miki at 7 PM for dinner. The sky is already darkening, the night is chilly.

Inside; Miki is upstairs in her room, not yet ready. Her brother is in the living room closest to the door. Their parents are out.]

Miki: Fuji, could you please let him in? I'll be down in a second!

Fuji: (groans) Fine.

[Fuji opens the door.]

Fuji: Miki'll be ready really soon. Make yourself at home.

[View changes to Miki in her room getting ready. She opens the door to her room and walks out to the hall to look down the stairs at the living room. She smiles, and walks back to her room and goes on getting ready. A yell gets her attention soon, and she runs down the stairs to find Yuu and Fuji yelling at each other.]

Yuu: How dare you?! You don't know what she wants!

Fuji: And you do?! My sister is worth a lot more than someone like you!

[Yuu gets ready to strike him.]

Miki: Stop! What are you doing?!

[Silence. Yuu and Fuji glare at each other.

Miki pulls Yuu outside a little forcefully and glares at Fuji behind her.

Miki: What was all that about?!

[He just looks at her.]

Miki: Yuu!

Yuu: (coldly) You know perfectly well what it was about.

Miki: (softly) And you know I don't think like him, right?

Yuu: I know! I just hate the fact that I'll never be accepted by him. And when your parents know, they'll react exactly like him!

Miki: But -

Yuu: But nothing! He's right, Miki! I hate that I can't take you to expensive places, can't buy you beautiful things and everything else you deserve! Maybe you should consider dating that guy your parents want you to be with…

Miki: (crying) But I don't care about all that Yuu! We're only twenty! You don't even have a job yet! You're doing great at school, and when you graduate you'll have plenty of job offers! I don't expect you to do all that for me yet! I don't even care if you ever do! If it's money you're worried about, then you shouldn't! Look at me, Yuu! I love you, and you only. I don't care about money! Honestly, I just want to be with you…

[Miki clings to him, looking in his eyes. Very romantic moment.]

Miki: I love you so much…

[Miki kisses him passionately.]

Yuu: (nodding) I love you, too.

Miki: (very happy) Let's just go have dinner, alright?

--

Kagome looked up. “It's very…” she started, unable to find a word to describe the scene.

“Intense?” Inuyasha tried.

“Yeah… I didn't think you would want to play out anything like that,” Kagome said with a frown. He moved closer to her and placed a kiss on her neck.

“Well, it's one of the only scenes where they kiss passionately…” he whispered, and Kagome had to fight off the urge to shudder.

“You pervert!” she said, slapping him on the arm. He moved away, laughing. “So I guess that's the scene we're doing then.”

He nodded. “But we need an extra character.”

Kagome smirked. “Kouga.”

“WHAT?!”

XX

Woww… it's been way too long. I'm really sorry, I just had a MAJOR block on this one. I don't know what happened to me, I just couldn't write anything. It's coming back to me now, I guess… Haha. At least I updated, right? And I think now I'll be able to update a LOT sooner than last time, seeing as I'm into it again.

Love, IK Obsession