InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kepp It Together ❯ Complaints ( Chapter 1 )

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Keep It Together

Chapter 1

Complaints

"Hey Inuyasha! This song sucks and you know it." Koga frowned as he threw his drumstick at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha cleverly dodged it and growled out, "I doubt you could do better Koga."

"Okay, okay, we all know it sucks, Inuyasha." Miroku stepped between Inuyasha and Koga while he put his hands up to stop them from the oncoming fight.

"What's wrong with it? " Inuyasha growled threateningly. He knew the song wasn't their usual style but he liked it and they had nothing better.

The two men stared at blankly and finally said, “Everything!” in unison.

Inuyasha threw the microphone at Miroku and hit him in the head, then he picked up his electric guitar to throw it as well. Miroku recovered before this could happen and yelled.

"Not the instruments!!! Don't tell me you forgot what my mom said when we started this band! Even you couldn't forget that." Miroku pushed Inuyasha onto the small couch with springs and food sticking up everywhere.

"Hey! You'll get my clothes dirty." Inuyasha jumped up and started brushing off his clothing vigorously. Miroku groaned and shook his head slowly as he sat down behind his keyboard.

“Well these are new clothes. You'd be mad if I shoved you on that couch too. It's disgusting man do you ever clean that thing? Scratch that you should just buy a new one with all those springs everywhere.”

"Inuyasha you're a freak. Always wearing all the brand name clothes. I can wear anything and look good in it.”

“I don't know of anyone who thinks you look good.” Inuyasha shot back.

Miroku picked up two pillows from the couch and threw them at Koga and Inuyasha. At first anger crossed Inuyasha's face but then a small grin graced his lips.

“What did your mom say about throwing things Miroku?” Inuyasha taunted.

"But those weren't instruments." Miroku grinned. “Oh, and Inuyasha if you want to buy me a new couch to replace that old thing be my guest.”

“Feh, like I'd waste my money on you.”

Koga pried himself up from off the ground and looked at Miroku as a dangerous look glazed his eyes. "Miroku." He said dangerously.

Miroku's eyes widened in fear as he scrambled out from behind his keyboard and started to run upstairs.

A female voice was heard from above the boy's heads.

"No not the instruments!" He glanced at Koga who immediately stopped chasing him.

"You better not throw things around Miroku. I paid for your drum lessons and the drums to go with them. I can easily take them back and kick you out of your practising space." Said the female voice.

Miroku's parents were pretty rich because his grandparents had left them a fortune when they passed away. His grandfather had been a successful businessman and his grandmother had run a stock market. When Miroku informed them that he wanted to take guitar lessons so he could start a band with some friends, his parents had agreed to buy his equipment and lessons so he could have some fun. They also bought a lot a little ways away from their house so they could practice without disturbing neighbours or anybody else. They only used the basement if they had to do something else and didn't have time to go to the practice house. Today they all had to work. However, they had warned him that this would be the only time they were so generous. This also meant they wouldn't be buying him a car and such. For that he would have to get a job.

"Don't worry Mom!" Miroku said as he eyed Inuyasha who was about to throw Miroku's drumsticks to him. “Inuyasha if you don't hand them over nicely your in deep shit.”

Inuyasha walked over and the drumsticks over when he heard a voice.

"Hey little bastard." A deep voice called.

"What do you want old bastard?" Inuyasha growled back.

"You forgot to mow the lawn after school. It's your turn and Mom's royally pissed." SesshÅmaru walked into the basement. "And by the way that song sucked. I heard it from a mile away."

"That's because you're an inu youkai Einstein. Piss off." Inuyasha grabbed his guitar and slung the strap over his shoulder.

"Same to you brat. But that doesn't change the fact that Mom's pissed and Dad says you're going to be grounded if you don't come home now." SesshÅmaru put down the guitar that had been hanging from his shoulder.

"Whatever." Inuyasha muttered as he struck the first chord of a song.

The guitar solo was repeated twice, and then joined by the drums. SesshÅmaru cleverly picked up the tune and began to play along with Miroku's keyboard part.

Inuyasha began to sing and his anger slowly melted away into the music.

I've been walking around the city with my head stuck in the clouds,

'cause all that's on my mind right now is you.

I shake my head and jump up and down,

but still you stay in my head refusing to leave

And I can't ask you to leave

'cause in my heart, I'm wanting you to stay forever

What's more I'm gonna die from the waiting.

SesshÅmaru interrupted "This song sucks you know."

He put his guitar on his shoulder again and started to walk away.

"Piss off, SesshÅmaru. I don't need your opinion. You're the one who chose to listen and join in." Inuyasha growled as he started to get angry again.

"If you really care about your band stop writing the songs. You have a good voice, but your songs suck. Get a new member who knows how to write lyrics." With that SesshÅmaru walked out of the basement and shut the door leaving Inuyasha boiling with a fierce rage.

"One day, I'm going to end up killing him because I'll have no other choice with the way he acts."

"Shut up, Inuyasha. You know that's an empty threat and what he says is almost always true. Besides our songs do suck. We should listen and get another member so they can write them for us." Miroku bitterly spat out.

“Yeah but honestly who would want to join with us the way we sound now.” Koga pointed out.

“We could hold auditions or something like that. It would probably be our best bet.” Miroku responded.

“Maybe we should get a girl.” The other two looked at Koga oddly. “I mean a lot of people like to listen to chicks sing right.” He watched as they nodded their heads. “And girls can usually write really well so, we could have a new to right our songs and sing. We might be more popular that way.”

“Hmm. You've got a point there Koga.” Miroku replied.

“Whatever. I'm heading out. I have to go mow the lawn and then got o work. Need money somehow.” Inuyasha said as he departed quickly.

“He's still hung up over Kikyo isn't he?” Miroku said sadly.

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“Yeah he is. Frankly it's sad that he can't get over her. There's nothing he can do to change what happened.”

“Yeah. And because of that he's afraid to go and have lots of contact with other females. I could never live like that.” Miroku added dramatically.

“Miroku you're such a pervert. Of course you'd never live. Your `cursed hand' would suffer from depression and die wouldn't it.”

“Ah yes, such a sad thought indeed. I would never live without female contact.”

Koga gave a short laugh. “Okay man you have fun with that but I have to go. I have to work soon so I better go get ready. See you later Koga said as he walked up the stairs.

Miroku looked around the room and shook his head. He muttered, “So they leave me all the mess to clean up. Great. May as well get started, if I'm late for work again I'll get fired.” He quickly started to clean up all the pop cans and chip bags holding a garbage bag to shove them all in.

Okay here's the chapter. I changed a lot compared to what I had before but I think this sounds better overall. This is more my writing style using another authors story. Just for reference I'm not going to use the last names because I think it makes more sense without them. Also I'm using the English way of writing the characters names so they may look wrong but they're not. As well I'm going to include some Japanese words so at the end of every chapter I'll have a glossary. Please tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.

Original story idea created by rikku-099.

Glossary:

Inu youkai - Demon