InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Blue ❯ Chapter 11 ( Chapter 11 )

 

Disclaimer: No I do NOT own Inuyasha…trust me I would be doing something with my life if I did…

 

 

A.N. I hope that you guys like it-and THIS IS NOT AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE!!

 

 

Blue

 

 

Chapter 11: Everything and Nothing

 

 

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Inuyasha rolled his violet eyes as he listened to his nieces sing along loudly to the Blue CD playing throughout his speakers. His hair was the usual concealed black it was on his human nights.

 

Both girls laughed at each others horrible ability to sing, but continued none the less.

 

Traffic was awful, backed up and jammed through the whole parking lot. People screamed in excitement while others laughed or talked animatedly amongst themselves.

 

Everyone appeared to be joyful.

 

The concert hall Blue was to be performing in was not one to be taken lightly. The top reached to enormous heights, and Inuyasha had no doubt in his mind that the inside was just as big, if not bigger, than the outside.

 

After much difficulty, Inuyasha finally found a place to park. He swerved his Aveo Chevy as fast as he could into the small spot, smirking to himself as other drivers honked angrily at the spot he stole.

 

Akina and Shiho laughed at the other's misfortune, hopping out of the car as fast as they could. Inuyasha, on the other hand, took his time. He got out of the car at his own pace, relishing greatly the protest both girls threw at him. He couldn't help but smirk at the angered looks on their faces.

 

“Girls, girls,” Inuyasha said with a smile on his face, trying to catch the girl's attention.

 

“What?” they whined together, their shoulders sagging in defeat as their uncle smiled in mirth.

 

“We'll get there, no need to rush. You're not going to miss anything,” Inuyasha said with a smirk forming on his lips, knowing how irked this was making the pair.

 

“Uncle Inu!” Shiho whined, balling her fist to better emphasize her displeasure.

 

Akina, who was greatly like her uncle, put up with none of it.

 

“What do you mean `We'll get there no need to rush'?” Akina asked her uncle. She glared at the older hanyou; her fist balled angrily and held firmly on her jean clad hips.

 

Inuyasha just smirked. “I mean that we'll get there, no need to rush,” he repeated.

 

Still smirking, Inuyasha bent down, bringing his face nose to nose with Akina as he battled her glare with a smirk.

 

“Why?” he said suddenly, the playfulness in his eyes apparent. “Did I stutter?”

 

Akina blew up, throwing her fist angrily at her uncle.

 

“Lose that attitude with me! I want to see that Blue concert that I've been dying to see since I've known it was coming out damnit! And I want to see it!” Akina yelled, finally having enough of her uncle's antics for one day.

 

Shiho stared at her sister, sighing as she thought of the similarities between her and Inuyasha.

 

Inuyasha suddenly laughed, the amusement in his eyes clear as water. Standing upright he petted Akina's head, resembling the way a master would a dog.

 

“Okay!” He burst out, “god damn kid, don't shit your pants!”

 

Inuyasha continued to laugh as Akina boiled.

 

“Well let's get going! We don't want to be late!” Inuyasha said. Grabbing Shiho's hand, Inuyasha began to walk off, the amused smile never leaving his face as Akina shouted profanities to his retreating back.

 

Shiho giggled, hiding it innocently behind her little hand.

 

Inuyasha looked down at the little girl, a gentle smile gracing his face.

 

“You sure you can put up with the sounds kiddo?” Inuyasha asked Shiho, one of his eyebrows raised in question.

 

Shiho nodded with a smile on her face. “Sure!” she said, “Not only that, but I brought a pair of ear plugs incase it gets too loud.”

 

Inuyasha nodded. “Good thinkin' chick!” he told Shiho, earning another giggle from her.

 

Looking away, Inuyasha scanned the area around the ticket booth with a seriousness of sorts on his face. His eyes suddenly lit up as he spotted what he was looking for.

 

Turning around, Inuyasha took a quick glace to see where Akina was, satisfied when he noticed she was grudgingly following him at a distance.

 

Inuyasha tugged on Shiho's hand, gesturing that he wanted to pick up the pace.

 

Inuyasha and Shiho walked quickly to the ticket booth with Akina following them up the back.

 

Shiho quickly noticed what had caught her uncle's attention as a head of red hair appeared in her sight. She felt a smile tug at her lips as her cousin smiled and waved at their little group.

 

Shippo ran a short ways, catching up with Inuyasha and Shiho in the middle of the ticket area. Shippo watched, slightly amused, as Akina came stomping up with the group.

 

“I'm surprised I found you so easily,” Shippo said to Inuyasha, making the adult hanyou snort in doubt.

 

“I was the one that found you,” he told the adopted kitsune.

 

Shippo merely shrugged with a small smile dancing on his face.

 

“Can we please go now?!” Akina asked, her hands on her hips angrily, wondering why in the hell no one listened to her.

 

Shippo nodded to the angered hanyou, his smile growing larger.

 

“I'm ready when you guys are!” he told the group they were bunched in excitedly.

 

Akina growled as Inuyasha nodded, following Shippo to the entrance of the concert hall with Shiho's small hand clasped in his own.

 

“What the hell?!” she yelled to their retreating backs, running to catch up with the odd group. She ran through the crowd, finally catching up with her uncle and cousin, mindless of the pedestrians she shoved to catch up with them.

 

Shippo laughed as Akina boiled.

 

“Chill girl!” he told her, laughing at his own statement. He reached down, ruffling Akina's hair with a smile on his face as she growled at him.

 

“You need to be in a good mood, we're seeing Blue!” Shippo said to Akina, satisfied as she took some deep breaths, trying to calm her attitude down.

 

“Sorry,” she mumbled to her cousin, “you know that I have just as bad of a temper as Uncle Inu does, and man when you fire me up, look out.”

 

Shippo laughed at the statement. “Oh how right you are!” Shippo replied, making Inuyasha growl.

 

“You know I can hear you,” he told the pair.

 

“Oh I know,” Shippo replied, the smile never leaving his face.

 

“Ticket please,” a very bored voice asked from the box.

 

Inuyasha reached into his pocket, giving the man three tickets and watching as he ripped the bottom off of them, giving them back to him with a very bored, “Have a nice day,” before preceding to the next person.

 

Shippo had to struggle with a laugh as the man asked and did the same thing with him.

 

“Cheer up!” he told the man with a smile before following Inuyasha into the long dark hallway towards their seats.

 

Inuyasha picked Shiho up, resting her on his hip before he made his way into the long stretch of hall, satisfied as Akina and Shippo followed him. The hallway was not crowded, but Inuyasha knew it would be in the concert hall.

 

It was almost surreal as Inuyasha made his way out of the last of the hallway.

 

He watched with amazed eyes as the hallway stopped, opening up to a huge dome inside. The ceiling stretched tall, light fixtures flashed in testing, fixing the few last minute things. Metal railing ran across the interior of the roof. Little metal bridges with padding had crew walking up and down them in final preparation for the upcoming event. People crowded the stands above his head, talking loudly amongst themselves, causing their voices to echo in the structure. The stage was huge with a small stretch of it reaching into the audience, telling Inuyasha that this `Blue' person would be walking into the crowd. A fabric screen ran along the very back of the stage; Inuyasha knew that that would be used for close ups, allowing people who couldn't see Blue very well to see her just fine. Metal seats ran in long rows along the bottom floor, close to the stage. Railing ran along the base of the stage to prevent crazed fans from jumping onto the fixture.

 

All in all the fixture was one of the biggest Inuyasha had seen in over five-hundred years.

 

Shiho stared in amazement from Inuyasha's hip, turning her head this way and that as she struggled to get a better view of the whole building.

 

Inuyasha heard Akina gasp as she came into view of the concert hall, agreeing mentally with her surprise of the place.

 

Shippo whistled as he came into the dome, also never seeing anything like it before in his life.

 

“Wow,” someone said, though Inuyasha wasn't sure who.

 

Shaking his head in disbelief, Inuyasha looked down at the tickets still held in his hand.

 

Scanning the number he found on their ticket, Inuyasha led the way to where their seats were, not the least bit surprised to learn that they were in the front row.

 

“Jeez Akina, what did you do to land these spots?” Inuyasha asked mockingly.

 

“Not much,” Akina replied, knowing how big of a brat she sounded like at that point in time.

 

Inuyasha simply huffed.

 

“Yeah well there's not much to do now so we might as well just chill,” Inuyasha told the group, planting his butt in the seat his ticket told him was his.

 

Shippo shrugged and did the same thing, followed shortly by Akina.

 

X_X_X_

 

Kagome walked quickly down the narrow walkway backstage, trying to ignore the woman who was dabbing her cheeks with powder and continuously trying to fix her hair.

 

Her mask was secure on her face, her eyes dolled up with blue eye shadow and black eyeliner.

 

Sachiko clung desperately to her mother's hand, trying not to lose her in all the hassle and worry around the final preparations for her mother's last concert for her round-the-world tour.

 

Sachiko, though, found herself not struggling as hard as she usually did to keep up with her mother; she guessed it was because she was so used to it.

 

Her concealment spell was already on; it had been since earlier that morning.

 

Kagome suddenly stopped before bending down to be at eye level with Sachiko.

 

“Now I think that you know what time it is,.” Kagome started.

 

She pulled out two small ear plugs from her jean pocket before handing them over to Sachiko.

 

“I want you to be good to Uncle Ron,” Kagome told Sachiko.

 

Sachiko rolled her eyes. “Okaasan you always tell me the same thing.” Letting out an exasperated sigh, Sachiko let her shoulders slump in mock annoyance. “I know what I have to do.”

 

Kagome openly laughed at her daughter's adult attitude. Quickly grabbing Sachiko's head, Kagome brought her face to her own, pecking the girl on the forehead.

 

Standing up, Kagome pulled her shirt by the hem, a little nervous gesture she had developed through time.

 

Smiling brightly at Sachiko, Kagome waved to her quickly before turning around and being ushered to the stage entrance—which was a door leading to the stage.

 

“Good luck!” Sachiko shouted to her mother, a smile of her own dancing across her face.

 

Kagome turned her head, looking over her shoulder at Sachiko with a smile.

 

“I love you!” she shouted back before disappearing completely from Sachiko's line of sight.

 

Ron, who had been standing unchecked, made himself known as he placed his large hand on Sachiko's shoulder.

 

Sachiko looked up, smiling brightly at the man.

 

“Come on kiddo, time to go see your mother perform,” Ron said with a chuckle as both Sachiko and he made their way to the side of the stage.

 

It was always the same.

 

The one thing Sachiko always noticed. The place might have been located in a different area, bit it was always the same. It always held the same amount of seats filled, always held the same amounts of screaming fans. It was always the same, and yet—it was different.

 

People talked amongst themselves, waiting anxiously for the arrival of Blue. Some fans held posters filled with designs, some telling Blue of how much they loved her while others asked random questions.

 

Not a single camera resided in the concert hall.

 

People with camera phones were asked not to bring them or leave them with security at the front booth. A system of sorts worked with the phones, people were given tags, and they showed the security teams the tags to receive their phones back at the end of the concert. Home addresses were also attached to the phones, allowing Blue's team of security to mail the mobiles back if forgotten.

 

There had so far not been an accident that Sachiko knew about; she guessed that the plan worked really well.

 

Ron tugged at Sachiko's hand, directing her attention to her mother.

 

Sachiko watched in morbid fascination as Kagome prepped herself, talking nonsense to herself while breathing in deep breaths, tugging at the end of her shirt all the while.

 

Sachiko smiled to herself.

 

Everything would go over fine.

 

She just knew it would.

 

X_X_X_

 

Inuyasha sighed, Shiho sat on his lap talking animatedly to Shippo as Akina threw in her own comment every once in a while.

 

The concert hall had grown considerably loud. The empty seats were now filled to maximum capacity as people talked anxiously, their nerves shot and waiting for Blue.

 

Inuyasha couldn't help but roll his eyes. People who got over obsessed about certain things really bugged the crap out of him.

 

The room suddenly grew quiet as the opening band came out to promote themselves.

 

People cheered, knowing that they were that much closer to getting to see Blue. The band in general was not a bad band. Its sound resembled Blue's greatly, though they didn't hold that special something that this woman with the unseen face had.

 

When the band was finished playing the crowed grew loud, deafening Inuyasha's sensitive hearing.

 

The players bowed their final goodbye, walking off stage quickly to get out of Blue's way.

 

Everyone in the auditorium who wasn't standing before stood now, causing Inuyasha to curse and stand as well.

 

Akina bounced from foot to foot anxiously as Shippo stood tall with a bright smile on his face.

 

Shiho squealed, asking Inuyasha in a rush something about sitting on his shoulders.

 

Inuyasha smiled down at the young hanyou before nodding and swinging the little girl on his shoulders for a better spot.

 

Shiho squealed in delight at the spot she was in, enjoying for once not being at the bottom of the group of people while only staring at their legs.

 

The lights suddenly went black, causing an uproar in applause.

 

Everyone knew what was coming, and everyone was more than ready.

 

X_X_X_

 

Kagome stood behind the door quietly, her whole appearance that of confidence. She felt her nerves shudder, though, as she always did before she made her first steps onto the stage.

 

Out of habit she reached up, checking to see if her mask was secure on her face.

 

One of the technicians came up to her, handing her a microphone.

 

Kagome thanked the young man before she redirected her attention back to the matter at hand.

 

She could hear the screams from the fans, causing a smile to form on her face.

 

A thought suddenly came to mind as the screaming increased in volume.

 

'Look at me now,' Kagome thought, 'nothing will bring me down ever again.'

 

With that thought in mind Kagome pushed on the metal door, causing a blue light to shine into the crack.

 

She walked out onto stage, never looking back.

 

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Inuyasha had to wince as the volume increased, making his eardrums ring.

 

'Even to human ears the sound would be deafening.' Inuyasha thought to himself as the sounds continued to do nothing but increase, making him wonder momentarily if the humans could get any louder.

 

That thought was blown away though as they quickly proved they could when a shadowed figure emerged from behind the stage.

 

A blue hue was added to the whole thing as lights flashed all around.

 

The figure, which Inuyasha could tell was a woman, walked out to as far as the stage would allow her to go, just standing there with her head tilted down as she listened to the crowd.

 

Finally the volume decreased a bit.

 

Kagome raised her head, looking out into the crowed.

 

Her vision was impaired, though, as she only saw the blue lights floating in her eyes.

 

She scanned her eyes across the crowd as best as she could, only seeing the blue lights while only hearing the screaming and yelling of fans. The whole thing brought a smile to her face as she brought the microphone up to her glossed lips.

 

Inuyasha stared at the female, trying to decide what was so important about her. He noticed, though, that she seemed to not focus on one thing in particular, telling him without words that she couldn't see a thing.

 

Inuyasha wasn't stupid.

 

He'd been on stages before with business, the light shining blindingly in his eyes, he knew that the poor girl probably couldn't see a thing.

 

Inuyasha just sighed, the sooner this damn thing began then the sooner he could leave.

 

Kagome looked back to her band while nodding her head, telling them to begin the first song.

 

Inuyasha couldn't help it, when the band began playing and the crowd began screaming loudly he couldn't help but sigh.

 

He really didn't want to be here.

 

As Blue began singing the crowd began singing, some singing along with her while others just screamed as loud as their lungs would allow them to. To people who couldn't see her well, they looked at the screen filled with live close-ups of her singing, satisfied in every way.

 

The lights came on full force as the opening chorus to the beginning of her song came on.

 

It went on like that for hours, Kagome singing her heart and soul out as fans screamed and cheered for her.

 

The concert was a great one, people participated all too willingly. Everyone had fun as Kagome had them be in the concert just as much as she herself was. She hopped about the stage, never staying in one place. She danced, sang, and even just let the people do the singing for her. Her back up dancers danced along with the tunes too, adding to the whole effect of perfection. Lights streaming this way and that, ranging from blue to multicolor black.

 

The concert was going perfectly.

 

Sachiko, all the while, watched her mother from the sidelines, just as into the concert as her mother and her mother's fans were. She and Ron hummed with the tunes while in some places Sachiko couldn't help but dance along with her mother.

 

Then the time came.

 

After hours of waiting, after years of listening, after times of cheering, the time had finally come.

 

As one song finished Kagome walked back to the band, telling them something away from the microphone, making all fans wonder what the hell she was doing.

 

The band nodded in understanding, all of them wearing identical smiles, making the fans wonder all the more.

 

Kagome walked out as far as the walkway would allow her to, stopping when she felt she was far enough.

 

Every one grew quiet as Kagome raised the microphone back to her lips.

 

"I have someone here to help me with this song," she spoke into the microphone, listening as it echoed throughout the concert hall.

 

Everyone cheered, not really caring what she was saying.

 

"I wonder when she will take off her mask." Akina said absently causing Shippo to look at her thoughtfully.

 

"I guess when ever she feels like it," he told the hanyou.

 

Akina shrugged.

 

"I don't care when she does it, she just better do it," Akina said while crossing her arms around her chest, pouting at the thought of not seeing Blue without her mask.

 

Inuyasha looked over at the pair.

 

"What are ya'll yakking about now?" he asked them, getting an exasperated sigh from his adopted son.

 

"Nothing, never mind," Shippo mumbled, knowing that Inuyasha would hear him.

 

Shiho looked down at her uncle.

 

"Uncle Inu?" she asked quietly from her perch on his shoulders.

 

Inuyasha looked up.

 

"Yeah what's up Shiho?" he asked the little girl.

 

Her amber eyes stared thoughtfully at Blue before training on him.

 

"When do you think Blue will take off her mask?" she asked, unknowingly repeating Akina.

 

Inuyasha shrugged to the best of his abilities.

 

"I'm not sure," he told the child honestly, directing his attention on the said woman, watching as she told the crowd who she was bringing out. Though, Inuyasha knew no one really cared.

 

An old man suddenly walked out from behind the side of the stage. He looked Indian, not the kind of Indian found on the United States territory, but the kind of Indian from India.

 

He smiled kindly at Blue as she handed a second microphone to him handed to her by the same technician who handed her hers.

 

A sort of Indian techno mix came on, causing the crowd to fall into another uproar as many remembered the song from her most recent CD.

 

The man began singing in a language no one was familiar with in Japan, but still the crowd cheered, loving the song all the same.

 

Drums picked up in the back ground, banging loudly against each other as Kagome began to dance. Her dance was far from innocent, though, as she stepped the heat up a bit.

 

Inuyasha watched, entranced for some reason by the moves and type of song it was.

 

Blue definitely knew how to dance, Inuyasha would give her that much.

 

Kagome swayed her hips, raising her hands sensationally into the air and swaying her body in tune with itself as the man sang, singing where she was required to.

 

The bells chimed in the background, the drums lightly beat across each other, and Kagome hummed a tune as the chorus.

 

The man suddenly began to chant, causing the drums to clash harder against each other.

 

Two beats rang loudly against each other and the auditorium was engulfed into darkness.

 

People screamed in amazement, everyone growing anxious of what was going on under the dark concealment.

 

Even Inuyasha couldn't see thanks to the concealment spell cast over his eyes to change their usual amber color into violet. The whole scene caught his interest, making him unconsciously growing anxious with the rest of the crowd.

 

Everything was quiet, the band held, not playing a single sound.

 

Then it happened.

 

The lights flashed on suddenly as the beat picked back up.

 

Blue stood where she was before the lights flickered off, the only thing different was the way her head hung, shielding her face from the view of the audience.

 

It was almost simultaneous as everyone noticed the blue mask hanging limply in her dropped hands.

 

The crowed roared, every one dying to see what Blue truly looked like.

 

Her lines floated through the crowed, entrancing every being in the audience.

 

Inuyasha stared in fascination as this single woman caused such a great reaction, he himself now wondering what the girl really looked like.

 

Shiho tightened her grip around his neck, just waiting for the moment when Blue would lift her head. Akina stood tall, her breath not coming out her body as Shippo stared wide eyed at the woman.

 

Wrestle with your darkness

Angels call your name

Can you hear what they are saying?

Will you ever be the same?

 

Kagome sung with her head hung, the words echoing throughout the concert hall.

 

The beat picked up again before another two drum beats rang trough the speakers.

 

Lights flared all different ways, illuminating the whole stage.

 

Kagome raised her head, gripping the microphone in her hands tightly as she sung the last chorus.

 

The crowd faltered momentarily before erupting into the loudest scream of that night.

 

Inuyasha stared.

 

His lungs constricted, not allowing any air into the airway, his gut clenched causing him to double over. He gripped the metal railing surrounding the sage, trying to keep from falling over as Blue continued to sing.

 

Blinking, Inuyasha squinted, trying to see if he was just hallucinating.

 

Looking over to Shippo, Inuyasha noticed that he had seen the same thing he did.

 

Shippo stared at Blue, tears forming in the corners of his eyes.

 

His mouth gaped in disbelief, his face going pale in astonishment.

 

Inuyasha tore his eyes away from Shippo to look back at Blue, finding the whole thing sick.

 

How could fate play him like this?

 

Akina and Shiho sang and cheered along with Blue as if nothing was happening.

 

Kagome stood on stage as the song dimmed. The cheering causing a bright smile to form on her pale face.

 

The song dimmed into another and Kagome began to dance with that one, singing the lyrics as they came on.

 

Inuyasha felt as if his heart was going to burst. Emotions he hadn't felt in years building up upon themselves. His heart strings pulled. He wasn't too sure which emotion he was feeling, all of them overwhelming his senses.

 

Ragged breaths entered and exited Inuyasha as he struggled to control his emotions.

 

Memories flew through his head. It couldn't be true.

 

It just couldn't.

 

Inuyasha struggled to breathe as he found his breathing coming out short, this couldn't be happening.

 

Kagome finished her song, smiling at the end of it.

 

"I hope y'all all have a wonderful night and liked my concert!" she yelled into the microphone over all the cheering.

 

Inuyasha gasped.

 

'No!' he thought. 'I won't let her! I won't let her walk out of my life again!'

 

Looking around desperately, Inuyasha tried to find anything to make her stay.

 

"Fuck!" he yelled, the sound being muffled from the roaring crowd as Kagome waved goodbye to her fans.

 

"Kagome!" he yelled, trying to catch the girl's attention.

 

"Kagome!" he yelled again, becoming desperate as his yells drowned into the screaming of the crowd.

 

'No!'

 

"Kagome!"

 

'NO!'

 

Kagome walked towards the side of the stage, a bright smile on her face as she redirected her attention to something Inuyasha couldn't see.

 

"KAGOME!"

 

X_X_X_

 

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