After extensive debate and idea-gathering, Tsuki and Akina have decided that we will update this fic, even though only Tsuki is present at the moment.
Tsuki: ::Cries:: my taco left!
Akina: ::from her house:: stop that, you know I have homework!
Tsuki: ::snuffles:: you just hate me.
Akina: ::whacks Tsuki over head with math book::
Tsuki: ...so this is the last chapter of this, you guys. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru...reveal their amazing powers of dance and song...to Kagome's entire school!
Akina: didn't Kagome tell her friends that Inu was a biker?
Tsuki: whoever said bikers couldn't dance and sing? You're reading my Mars, right?
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Kagome knew that something was up. It just wasn't like Inuyasha to be running off like this. He was making up excuses to go off on his own into the forests of Feudal Japan, leaving a bewildered traveling group behind him.
She didn't regret kissing the hanyou, although it had encouraged him and made his avid 'protecting' of her worse. Kouga had walked away from their last encounter with a fat lip, which Kagome had been unable to prevent with a 'sit' due to Inuyasha's attachment to her.
Despite the strange hardships she encountered with the hanyou, she knew that his disappearances didn't have anything to do with his newfound confidence in his love life. No, she was afraid to hear the truth about her hanyou's whereabouts. She was afraid that it had something to do with...
Dance and song.
Yes, that sound was unmistakable. Inuyasha and another male were singing at the top of their lungs, and Kagome knew the song.
Oh, God no...
"If all the raindrops were licorice and pixie sticks,
Oh what a rain it would be!
Standing outside with my mouth open wide,
Ah ah ah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah, ah!
If all the raindrops were licorice and pixie sticks,
Oh what a rain it would be!"
It continued, growing in volume as it drew closer. Kagome put her head in her hands as she realized what was happening. The brothers were finished with their rehearsals, and it was time for their...debut!
Sango and Miroku grabbed Shippou and regarded the woods as if an angry animal was charging towards them. Kagome just shook her head back and forth; hands over her ears and eyes squeezed shut. She would just make it stop all on her own!
Gradually, the voices faded. Kagome removed her hands and opened her eyes, staring off in the direction they had gone. So maybe they weren't ready? Maybe they were still...rehearsing?
Kagome stood up to regard the direction that they had gone in. It didn't seem to be very specific, in relation to the towns and villages she knew of. They were just headed in the general direction of the well.
Of the...well? Crap!
Kagome sprinted out of the campsite as if she had been burned, streaking off in the direction of the terrible signing. They can't possibly be drunk...can they?
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Inuyasha scoured his mind for the place that Kagome had told her friends they were from. The head of the school-pack stared at him as he tried to recall his homeland.
"Oh! That's right, Belgium! We're from Belgium!"
The leader of the school-pack blinked before nodding. "Okay. You say you can dance and sing. That sounds like a wonderful cultural presentation for our kids. How much do you charge?"
"I want as much ramen as you can bring me," Inuyasha said. Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes.
"...so...fifty dollars?"
"Fifty packages of ramen! No—TWO HUNDRED RAMEN CUPS!"
Now Sesshoumaru raised his eyebrows. (flashback)
"Let me do the talking, Baka. You don't know anything about Kagome's time. I am the master of the future," Inuyasha gloated.
"Hello, may I help you?"
Inuyasha yelped and spun around, eyes wide. "Uh, we're here to sing and dance for Kagome's school!"
The short man blinked, regarding the hanyou as if he were going to charge at any moment. "Ooohhhkaaayyy...where are you from?"
"Um..." (end flashback)
Right. Leave it to him. It looked like Sesshoumaru would have to intervene once again. "Allow this Sesshoumaru to correct his brother's mistakes. We would gladly accept your fifty dollars, if we can use it to purchase instant ramen."
The leader of the school-pack shrugged. "I don't care what you do with the money. Stay here for fifteen minutes while we call around to the classrooms and get the kids into the auditorium."
Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru obediently waited. Two seconds later, a huffing and puffing Kagome jogged down the hallway.
"Oi, wench, you're just in time! Sess and I are about to go on!"
Kagome's face paled. "Inuyasha...what are you going to do?"
"You'll see," Inuyasha said mischievously.
The brothers trotted towards the auditorium, unsuspecting and both wondering what an auditorium was.
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Kagome was going to kill Inuyasha. It was simple. She would wait until he had made a fool of himself in front of her entire school, and then she would throttle him. Her hands were itching, she could barely wait.
The lights dimmed, and so did the talking. Slowly, the battered curtains parted, to reveal Sess and Inu with their backs to the audience, decked out in full Sengoku Jedai garb and standing next to each other with spirit hands held out towards the ground.
The lights flashed on, and so did the music. Multi-colored beams shone down on the brothers and they began a little tap-dance, moving in sync with the beat and perfectly mirroring one another. Suddenly, Inuyasha whipped out the Tetsusaiga.
Kagome gasped along with her fellow classmates, but for another reason. If Inuyasha was the Lord of the Dance...had he meant fighting? He was going to kill Sesshoumaru on a High School stage! She was going to get sued for assisted manslaughter and go to prison forever with the idiot!
Sesshoumaru drew the Tensusaiga. When the swords clashed, they threw off sparks and lights. Hopping apart, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru continued with their little tap-dance. The crowd oohed and aahed, thinking that the energy sparks the two swords were putting off were advanced foreign speical effects. Kagome hung on the edge of her seat with baited breath, waiting for one of them to snap and chop of an arm...
Finally, after fifteen minutes of song changing and mock-sword fighting, the brothers took microphones and struck feminine poses in the center of the stage.
Kagome's mouth fell open as the song began. It...was...modern?
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for, for you
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you
As years go by
I race the clock with you
But if you die right now
You know I'd die too, I'd die too
You remind of the times when I knew who I was
But still the second hand will catch us
Just like it always does
We'll the make the same mistakes
I'll take the fall for you
I hope you need this now
Because I know I still do
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you
Should I bite my tongue
Until blood soaks my shirt?
We'll never fall apart
So tell me why this hurts so much
My hands are at your throat
And I think you hate you
But we'll still we'll say "remember when"
Just like we always do, just like we always do
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you
Yeah, I'll spill my heart
Yeah, I'll spill my heart for you
My hands are at your throat
And I think I hate you
We make the same mistakes
Mistakes that friends do
We made the same mistakes
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you, for you
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you, for you
Until the day I die
I'll spill my heart for you
Until the day I die
Until the day I die
She was astounded, completely speechless. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru had danced...and sang...for her school, and she wasn't waiting to rip their heads off? She stood up and cheered with the rest of the school, grinning like a fool. Wait until Sango heard about this!
"We owe it all to Kagome—get up here, wench!"
She couldn't believe what she was hearing. Inuyasha...wasn't making her tell lies to cover him up? He was...acting like a normal stage performer? They hadn't sung a children's song! She was so happy, she almost did a little victory dance right there! How they had gotten their hands on modern rock was beyond Kagome, but she jumped up and ran on stage anyway.
Sesshoumaru was happily conversing with the leader of the school-pack while Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and spun her around, receiving a face-full of kisses for a job well done.
"Inuyasha, I...I..."
"You didn't know I was the Lord of the Dance, and you didn't know that Sesshoumaru is a master pickpocket. It wasn't too hard to steal a magazine or two from you."
Kagome turned and gaped at the quiet inu-youkai, her mouth falling open. "Sess, you..."
From within the folds of the white kimono came a very familiar book. Kagome's eyes narrowed as the word 'diary' glinted in the stage lights.
Good mood gone.
Completely forgetting what was happening, Kagome beat up the two brothers in front of her entire school. Inuyasha emerged a little worse for wear, having been the object of many frustrations of late. Sesshoumaru, while not coming out unscathed, was relieved that his brother's miko hadn't ripped off his other arm.
Kagome glared at Inuyasha as she received the papers for her suspension. "As if I haven't missed enough school already," she muttered.
"And here," the principal said, "is the payment for a job well done, boys."
Inuyasha grinned as a garbage bag of instant ramen was placed on his lap. Kagome glared some more.
"Well, at least we know you'll never make it on Broadway, with payment like that," she mumbled. Inuyasha opened the bag and selected one.
"Here, this one can be your share, Kagome. It's chicken mushroom, you know I hate that kind. You can go to town with it."
Kagome rose out of her chair. "Inuyasha..."
He latched onto his brother, who had been grinning into his own bag of ramen. Blinking down at the hanyou, Sess opened his mouth to ask what was going on when the miko finished her sentence.
"Sit, boy!"
The two brothers fell to the ground, Inuyasha landing in Sess' tail and discovering how the fur didn't want him to breathe. Inuyasha struggled to get up for a moment, before giving up and resigning himself to a face-full of fluff.
"Sesshoumaru, why were you interested in the future to begin with?" Inuyasha asked, the thought one of the few that tend to hit him.
Sesshoumaru was silent for a moment before shrugging. "Call it intuition. I sensed an opening, and a chance for this Sesshoumaru's true talent to be realized. From now on this Sesshoumaru is no longer the Lord of the Western Lands, or even the dreaded Killing Pill...but..."
He jumped up as the curse of the prayer beads lifted, striking a feminine pose and waggling his eyebrows up and down at Kagome.
Well, of course, we want some fanart. DRAW US FANART, PEOPLE! WE LOVE THE STUFF, IT'S NOT LIKE WE HAVE THE TIME TO DRAW IT OURSELVES!
Akina: ::sweatdrops:: you sure that's the best way to get fanart, Tsuki?
Tsuki: ::thinks:: well...maybe not...
Akina: since my buddy here is a little bit preoccupied with the paradoxes of her brain, we're just going to chat with review replies, okay?
Tsuki: Oh, before we do—that song was called 'Until the Day I Die' by Story of the Year. ::grins:: they're a great band, go bother their CD.
Akina: and now...more review replies! Oh, joy! ::grins::
Vengeance4love23: ::raises eyebrows:: uh, why would we take it off? and, um...it was supposed to be a one-shot. Tsuki is just generally confused by this review...
acvrebel2: ::bows:: happy to oblidge!
orange-InuYasha: SQUEEEEEEE!!!!! taco taco taco! you're the most faithful reviewer ever, you know that tacos make Tsuki hyperactive and writing-crazed! woooo-hoooooooo! ::grins until her cheeks hurt:: Tsuki and Akina will most likey be the cause of the world's laughter bringing it to an end...::decides to bounce up and down instead of grinning:: you da bomb...:D
fuf ::grins back and paitently waits for you to sort out your mental word block:: love ya too, fuf...
KittySamurai506: kitty, you of all people should know that time holds no limits for the Tsuki. She has been known to wait up all night for flash animations to load, and writes more than a few stories on hyperactiveness and sleep depravation alone....
eX-Driver Liz: funny thing is, some time we're going to investigate a small Sess/Rin plotline we concocted when watching the first movie...can you say..."subduing spell"? LAMO, muchos gracias!
Elfin Kagome: Tsuki sympathises with the impossibleness of laughing and hyperventelation simoultaneously...
Tsuki: even though I can't spell, I got it all done, Akina!
Akina: obviously...hey, when did we say we were going to update this? I seem to have not been involved...
Tsuki: ::sweatdrops:: yeah, thing is...I had an idea...for...nevermind...want cookies?
Akina: ::eyes light up, falls for bribe::
Tsuki: see ya, everybody! review lots and we'll love you forever!
