InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ gymnast from hell ❯ chpter 22 ( Chapter 22 )

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Disclaimer: I don't own the `Fallen Interlude' by Blink 182 and `Fake Wings' by SeeSaw

A/n: I noticed that I seem to be using a lot of songs now in the chapters. Well it helps me write and the songs I choose actually add something to the fic and they fit it in some way. Well I warn you from now: there will be a whole lot of song-based chapter types in the future. I hope it doesn't discourage you from reading this fic.

But if it does…. Your loss not mine.

Chapter: 22 (wow we reached far) if I had to name it, it would be `the fallen interlude' or `a bad shopping experience and an interlude' I guess. Oh well

After school the next day, Sango and Rin found Kagome at the front building. They approached her.

"Uh hey" Kag asked

"You wanna hang out?" Rin asked

"I cant, I gotta go over Inu's for practise"

"oh don't worry, we got that covered. Just come with us it will be fun" Sango said

"Ok…but what are we gonna do?"

"Were going shopping. Sess asked us to pick out some new threads for you to wear tomorrow" Rin supplied as they dragged her to Sango's car.

"Uh shopping?" she asked coming to a standstill, "what's wrong with my own clothes?"

"not sure, but come on please" she pleaded, waving a credit card in her hand. It was just too irrisistable, even to a girl like Kagome.

"Fine"

"But you have to swear on one thing" Sango said

"What?"

"that you'll wear whatever we chose and you will not act like the old Kagome"

"……I guess…" she said kinda uneasily

"Great c'mon!!" they said dragging her off. (a/n: my friends did that to me once, I had to be a typical `sorta girlygirl' (that's what I call my friends) it was a very un-Danielle-like day. (yes my name is Danielle))

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Sango and Rin dragged Kagome into Limited Too (I hate that store!)

"Hell no!!!!" Kagome said eyes wide.

"Why not?" Sango whined, "They have cute stuff in here"

"Were going to a punk competition, not a Barbie convention!"

"Fine" she grumbled then they exited the store. Kagome pulled them over into Hot Topic.

They two girls went wild; they went to different racks of clothes faster than the eye could see. They grabbed stuff from all over as they went. They both met back at Kagome at the same time and stuffed the clothes in her arms them pushed her in a nearby empty stall. She oof-ed and ack-ed at the mistreatment but said nothing, she was supposed to be submissive today.

They gave her pink tanks, black tanks, marked up thanks, torn tanks, corset tops. Many differently styled black pants and capris and mixed colour skirts and stuff. And she had to try them all. The first thing she did was throw over back all the pink stuff (I loathe that color) then set to work trying on stuff.

When she had tried on the last one, which had been a black and red corset top, making her boobs look bigger, and a pair of black pants, and they approved. She like any normal person would have thought they were done. A blood red long-sleeved jacket looking top with black lining and a black X on one sleeve was shoved into her arms courtesy of Sango, then a black and gray tutu like mini skirt by Rin her eyes widened.

"Awe Hell naw! You are not getting me into a tutu" she all but yelled. The teens who worked there, snickering on the punk's behalf, they've been having a great show since they came.

"But you promised" Sango warned

"Oh God" she whimpered, remembering that she did promise. This was torture. She reluctantly went back into the room. When she changed and saw her reflection, she shrieked.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing"

"Then get out here!!"

"Uh uh"

Don't make me come in there…"

"Ok ok" she grumbled then slowly left the wonderful confined of the stall, only to be met by shrill squeals. "This is not happening"

"OMG, this is a keeper, now we got clothes out of the way, all you need is hair dye, well that goes under accessories, and make up"

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When all the clothes were paid for, Sango and Rin went gushing around for cosmetics and jewelry. She and Rin were too preoccupied to notice Kagome slipping out of the store, telling the clerks to zip it in the process.

Kagome went into the CD store next door, which she just so happen to be a regular of. She bypassed the CD section and went straight to the back where the guitars were.

"Higurashi what are you doing back here?" asked a familiar voice. She spun round from criticizing a guitar to see who it was.

"Hey Hojou" she greeted.

"Why back here? The CDs are out front. Oh and we haven't gotten the new Korn album yet"

"I'm looking for a new acoustic, mine, uh, broke" she said tucking a wayward strand of hair behind her ears.

"How'd that happen?"

"It was an accident, my brother got to it"

"Oh, and your arm?"

"I got beat up"

"You got beat up? He asked incredulously

"Yeah, took me off-guard. It was an off day anyway"

"Ooh, well, hope you feel better soon."

"Hmm" she said turning back to the guitar. She took it up, and looked at it critically. It was a dark blue colour. The texture looked like the paint was dropped carelessly on it, so it splattered here and there and had the thick rippled effect of paint. And there was some brown spots left out.

She spotted a stool and sat down in it. She hoisted the guitar on her propped led then began tuning it. She bent over to observe the strings properly. They were nylon, not metal. Her black locks created a barrier around her face, blocking her from the outside world.

After a proper tuning, she plucked the strings experimentally to see how they felt; she had never used nylon strings before now. The random notes gradually changed to chords and the chords gradually changed to a tune of a song she remembered conveniently.

"Shine bright morning light

Now in the air the spring is coming

Sweet blowing wind

Singing down the hills and valleys

Keep your eyes on me

Now we're on the edge of hell

Dear my love, sweet morning light

Wait for me, you've gone much farther, too far" she sang, unaware of the audience that was gathering.

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Sango and Rin were finally finished buying stuff, so they actually realized Kag ditched them.

"Where'd she go?!" Rin shrieked

"She's over at the music store," the cute clerk who had been ordered to stay quiet said.

"Thank you!" Rin said then dragged Sango out of the store. They entered the CD store to see a crowd at the back of the place, they were curious as to what was going on so they went down there, looking for their friend in the process.

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Kagome ended her short song, only to hear applause. She froze and her head shot up, eyes wide. Heat started to creep up her cheeks. She stood up and bowed slightly to the dispersing crowd then looked back at the guitar.

"Kagome!!" came too annoying voices she looked over to see the devil and her cousin who wore relieved expressions.

"We were so worried" Sango said, the devil

"Oh, sorry" she looked back at the guitar and moved to put it back.

"Aren't you gonna buy it?" Rin asked, the cousin

"I don't think so" Kag started

"C'mon, you sounded great with it"

"Didn't your other one `break'?" Sango asked

"I guess?"

"Then all the more reason to buy it!" they yelled pushing her to the counter.

After paying for the guitar, the girls headed over to Kagome's house so they could start her make over. They made her wear a pair of black cargos with chains. They wanted her to wear one of the tanks but she refused, in its stead she wore a blue t-shirt that said: `When life gives me lemons, I make lemonade' and it showed a picture of a glass of lemonade…that was bubbling and steaming and had `toxic' and `biohazard' signs all over it.

After that, they tied her down to a chair in the bathroom and did her hair and make up. They streaked it with blonde and pink and blue non-permanent dye and did the tips pink, then they did her make up.

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Kagome entered the garage and slammed the door behind her, bracing it with her body. Miroku and Kouga looked up.

"Sango and Rin want to kill me," she explained

"Oh they took you shopping" Miroku said noticing her new hair colours.

"Yeah, that was torture on two accounts," she said, the guys just laughed, "what, those two should be arrested"

"Well this is a first, a girl that doesn't like shopping" Kouga said.

"its not that I don't like it. I just wouldn't do it if I had the choice"

"Oh…big difference"

"Whatever, so where's fluffy and puppy?"

"Theyre talking with their dad" Miroku said.

"You wanna fool around a bit?" Kouga asked

"Why not" Kagome opened back the door to make sure that no vapid black-haired psychos were out there. When the coast was clear she left the door to hook her guitar up.

Kouga began with some random notes, Miroku started with the cymbals and a light beat. Kagome came in with some random chords now and then but kept a constant high A chord in tune with the basic drum beat. Thus began the `Fallen Interlude'

After a good minute or so, Miroku began to actually `play' the drums, no one noticed the brothers as they entered and began watching them. Miroku and Kouga began singing.

"Down down down, pick me up I'm fallen" they repeated it and Miroku gave the drums a workout inbetween. Then after a short while they ended.

"That sounded cool" Inuyasha broke the after-song silence, startling everyone, causing Miroku, who was trying to edge the stick away from the cymbal soundlessly, to drop it.

"Didn't here you come in there." Kouga said turning around. He and Kagome were turned facing the drums, back to the door. Kag turned and Inu sucked in his breath.

"I see the mission was successful" Sesshomaru commented, then read her shirt "…somewhat…" (he seemed to talking way too soon nowadays ne?)

"Those two are crazy!" Kag said

"They get that way when shopping"

tbc….

The last suit they chose while shopping, the gray and black tutu skirt and the red jacket top with black trimmings and X. I got it from the cover of Avril lavigne's latest album, though I switched the colours of the shirt. The orginial is actually black with red trimmings and a red X across the sleeve.

Yeah, uh..what was I gonna say?..oh yeah! Right. The persons who took the fic challenge were:

Spring Turkey

Wolf69

Miroku's_fave_girl (I very luved rewiewer)

And I would also like to say that there will be NO lemon in this fic. I don't think it would bode well with what I'm doing, whatever it is.

Well now that that's out of the way. I hope you liked the chap. Review!