InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Rock This ❯ Tequila Explainations ( Chapter 11 )

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Sango and Rin stared at Inuyasha. They had just come up in the elevator, dragging their equipment and things behind them, fully expecting to see Kagome puttering around the apartment; most likely looking for her hairbrush.

 

Instead they had been met with Kagome miserably attempting to look busy in the kitchen, and Inuyasha standing awkwardly off to the side of the counter, a knit cap perched awkwardly on his head and his hands shoved into his pockets. Both had looked up at them when their bags were dropped un-ceremonially to the floor in a heap.

 

“Hey what's going on?” All four of them had said at the same time. Though two with slight and barely covered panic and the other two with a wary question in their voices.

 

Kagome laughed. “Hey guys.” She suddenly sobered as she eyed the bags. “That had better not be my Chinese food…”

 

The three girls eyes met before bursting out laughing. Leave it to Kagome to diffuse a semi-awkward situation with food. Inuyasha just scratched his head in confusion.

 

“Nah, just some crap Kagura wanted you to look at for Friday. She dropped it by the store right after you left.” Sango scooped up the bags and moved them to the dining room table.

 

“Great!” Kagome squealed as she went to rifle through the bags. Kagura always got the newest vinyls and sent them over to her to see if there was something that she might want to use the next time she spun at one of her clubs. While Kagome was occupied the other two women turned their stares onto Inuyasha. Stares that clearly wanted him to explain himself.

 

“Ummm… Hi again.” Inuyasha managed to get out, trying not to cower at the looks he was receiving.

 

“Hi. What brings you here?” Sango asked, clearly daring him to answer incorrectly.

 

“Oh he just stopped by, but he has to go now.” Kagome came to his rescue on hearing Sango go into super interrogator mode 9000.

 

“He just stopped by?” Rin and Sango asked in unison, yet again.

 

“Just stopped by. He lives near here and wanted to know when the next show was. He didn't want to miss it.” Kagome let out a mental sigh as she patted herself on the back. No way in hell was she going to tell Sango that he stopped by to bring her new bedding because he had bled all over her old when he fell six stories from a fire escape.

 

Inuyasha let out a small choking sound that only Kagome caught. He was thinking, as now was she, of the last little “show” he had seen…

 

“Why didn't he call?” Rin asked, interrupting the little moment that the two were having as they laughed inwardly with one another. “Or why didn't he ask Miroku?”

 

“Oh will you look at the time!” Kagome grabbed Inuyasha's wrist before he could open his mouth. “It's too bad you can't stay!” Her cheery voice didn't match the emotions swimming in her eyes as she all but shoved him into the elevator. Inuyasha smirked at her, catching the lingering spike in her scent. Knowing again what he was thinking about the color came into her cheeks.

 

“So what time is the next show?” His smirk widened with her eyes.

 

“I…umm…” Kagome managed to stutter.

 

“It's tomorrow night at the club. Opening band starts at eight.” Rin called from behind them, completely oblivious to their little “inside joke,”

 

“Eight at the club… I'll be there. Have a good night ladies!” He called to them before winking at Kagome and pulling the grating down. Alone inside the elevator he pressed the automatic down button before he let himself laugh. This was going to be fun.

 

 

 

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Back in the apartment Kagome was dreading turning around. When she finally faced her friends they were both grinning like hyenas.

 

“So Kagome…” Rin started, her smile almost splitting her face.

 

“Tell us what really happened…” Sango finished.

 

“Ummm…Hey! You guys don't believe me?” Kagome fake pouted. She figured that they wouldn't completely buy her story, but she could try at least.

 

“No way in hell.” Sango smiled at her.

 

“So tell us tell us tell us!” Rin bounced around.

 

“Can we at least order food first?” Kagome wined. This was going to be one looong night.

 

“Yeah but after that you are going to tell me the real reason he was here. And Rin doesn't even know that he stayed here last night.” Sango smirked at Kagome as she grabbed the phone from the cradle. “Hey this is disconnected!”

 

“HE STAYED HERE ALL NIGHT LONG? KAGOME!!!” Rin squealed in delight. “I can't believe it! So tell me… was it everything you thought it could be?” Her teasing tone gave her away. They all knew Kagome wasn't the one night stand kind of girl, no matter how delicious the guy might be.

 

“He stayed because we were up talking, and it got really really late. I felt bad for him to have to try to find a safe way home at five a.m. so he crashed. No big deal.” Kagome sighed as she tried to remember what little she had told Sango earlier.

 

Sango, meanwhile, was still trying to plug the phone cord back into the wall. Reaching behind the small table it was perched on she managed to slip it into the socket. Only to bang her elbow on the table when the damn thing rang next to her ear.

 

“Kuso!” She picked up the phone automatically and cursed directly into it.

 

“No Sango! Don't pick it up…” Kagome's voice trailed off when she saw it was too late. Well at least she got to hear Sango bitch out Koga. Again.

 

”Is that any way to answer the phone my love?” Koga's voice sounded out of the handset.

 

“Oh it's just you, the scum sucking bastard.” Sango answered back flatly.

 

”Kagome? Is that you?”

 

“No. And she won't be coming to the phone. Ever. So stop calling already. She's told you, I've told you, and pretty soon the police are gonna tell you too. So back off asshole and leave her the hell alone.” Sango's voice rose slightly in volume as the icy edge continued to get sharper.

 

”Listen bitch, I'm going to talk to my woman whether you, or even her, like it or not. I think you're the one that needs to back the hell off.” Koga's voice started to rise as well. Who did this chick think she was to keep him away from his Kagome?

 

“BITCH? Oh you piece of shit, you have no idea what kind of bitch I really can be. For Kagome's sake I haven't beaten some sense into your ass, but the next time you insult me, her, or anyone else involved, it will be your last. Now be a good boy and fuck off.” Sango yelled into the phone before slamming it down on the hanger, nearly making it disintegrate into little bits. Before it could ring again she yanked the cord from the wall.

 

Kagome, meanwhile, was rolling on the floor and laughing her ass off. This had to be at least the fourth time in a month that Sango had verbally handed Koga's ass to him. Rin was laughing and holding herself up with the counter.

 

Sango looked over at the two girls, seething. All she wanted to do was hunt him down and beat the living hell out of him. She could deal with things better if she could kick its ass. And she was very good at it. Being a fourth degree black belt in Jeet Kun Do didn't hurt, of course.

 

“That fucker is really asking for it isn't he?” Sango started pacing. “Can't he take a freaking hint? I mean, Kami! It's ridiculous. Kaggie, why don't you change your number?”

 

Kagome looked up from the flat of her back, and smiled at her seriously pissed off friend. “I refuse to let him make me change my life. Even something as little as that gives him some slight victory, and you and I both know he doesn't deserve it.”

 

“You're so stubborn you know that?” Rin laughed as she slid herself up onto the long bar counter. “It's just a phone number…”

 

“Yeah but then he would start showing up here again.

 

“Well then just call the cops…or don't.” Sango grinned as she cracked her knuckles.

 

“Uh huh…Food now, killing and plotting later.” Kagome giggled again before sitting up and reaching into Rin's purse to grab her cell phone. Kagome herself didn't own one, she thought they were too confining. Dialing the number by memory she was quickly connected to their favorite Chinese food joint down a couple of blocks.

 

“Peking Garden, how may I help you?” The chipper voice on the other end sounded.

 

“I need to place an order for delivery. I need one order of Moo Goo Gai Pan, Sweet and sour chicken, General Tao's Pork, Wonton soup, three egg rolls, and one hot tea.” Kagome rattled off the order.

 

“Okay, will that be for Miss Kagome then?” The girl on the line chirped.

 

“You got it Shori! Thanks.” Kagome smiled. Even though they had never met face to face she liked the younger girl immensely. How could you not with her peppy attitude?

 

“Okay then, it'll be there in about twenty or so!”

 

“Sounds great. Talk to you soon.”

 

“Bye honey!” Shori's sunshine almost blinded Kagome through the phone.

 

“Later.” Kagome hung up and turned back to where her friends were just yanking out their things.

 

Sango unpacked her Rickenbacker 4001 Left handed electric blue bass and started to retune the strings. Seeing as Rin's practice drum set was already at the apartment and her sticks were on the counter, she had started to root around for shot glasses and lime slices. True to her word Sango had brought a rather large bottle of Patron with her. Kagome rolled her eyes, grateful that she wasn't leaving the house to get into anything too insane. Granted she would never drink and drive, but taxis in New York take you pretty much anywhere. Except sometimes Brooklyn. God she loved this city. Sometimes she missed the shrine and her family, but New York was her home now.

 

“SHOTS!” Bellowed Rin, holding up the procured shot glasses and limes.

 

“Good lord Rin, I don't know how such a loud noise can come out of such a tiny girl.” Sango plugged one ear while plugging the bass into the amp.

 

“Hey! I'm not tiny! I'm just short for my height!” Rin giggled, pouring the tequila into three shot glasses.

 

“Same difference honey!” Kagome giggled back as she strapped on her 1961 Gibson EB-0.

 

Rin pouted as she expertly balanced the three shot glasses as well as lime slices and a saltshaker. She crossed the room to their “practice corner” and handed the other girls their drinks. After placing the salt they all raised their glasses.

 

“To a flawless show!” Kagome announced before licking the salt and shooting her tequila.

 

“To Koga being hit by a rouge meteor.” Sango laughed then followed suit.

 

“To Kagome finally getting some off of a certain silver haired god.” Rin giggled as she licked and tossed back her drink.

 

Kagome immediately coughed and sputtered, almost spitting the tequila all over her friends.

 

“RIN! Kami you hentai!” Kagome's face was currently a nice shade of tomato red.

 

“Too bad he doesn't have a brother…” Rin muttered as she sucked on her lime slice.

 

“He does actually… well half at least.” Kagome giggled, somewhat recovering.

 

“Nice. I'm going to have to insist on an introduction at your wedding!” Rin laughed again before going to flop onto the pile of pillows situated in the room.

 

“Did she hit her head or something when I wasn't looking?” Kagome turned to Sango.

 

“Nah. She just can see the future, ya know. And don't think you are getting off easy about telling us what was going on when we got here.” Sango prodded, starting to strum on he bass as she learned the lines for the new songs.

 

“Yeah!” Rin chimed in “And what the hell was with all the bloody stuff?”

 

“Bloody stuff?” Sango's head shot up.

 

“Yeah. It's all over the counter in the kitchen.”

 

`Kuso!' Kagome cursed, mentally bitch slapping herself for forgetting about the bloody things from his hand. What would they think when it was almost completely healed by tomorrow? Maybe she could downplay it as a cut rather than a stab that went almost completely through his hand.

 

Sango, meanwhile, had left her bass and was glaring at the bloodied towels and medical supplies in the kitchen. “What happened Kags?”

 

“He knocked over a glass and sliced his hand. I just bandaged it up a bit. What a klutz huh?” Kagome laughed awkwardly and scratched the back of her neck.

 

“Yeah something like that. But there's so much blood!” Rin chirped from the pillow pile.

 

“Yeah he's a bleeder I guess.” Sango added, leaving the kitchen with the tequila bottle and more limes.

 

“You might say that!” Kagome laughed again, this time more believably. The boy definitely did know how to bleed, that she could say for sure.

 

“So what was he really doing over here?” Sango asked suddenly.

 

“Nani?” Kagome's laugh died in her throat.

 

“You heard the lady! What's going on?” Rin hopped up and moved to behind her drums after taking another shot.

 

“Well… umm…”

 

“Stop stalling! It's not going to work honey!” Sango poured a shot for herself and Kagome before moving to her bass again.

 

“Well he just stopped by. Not really sure why, maybe just to see what I was doing.” Kagome stuttered lamely.

 

“So he stopped by. Out of nowhere and not even 12 hours after he saw you last?” Sango's eyebrows shot up in disbelief.

 

“Yeah. I guess he's not really much for the phone, besides even if he did try to call it's not like it would be on the hook in the first place!” Kagome tried to defend their actions.

 

“Well that makes sense!” Rin added before starting a rapid beat on her drums.

 

“Yeah I guess.” Sango was still not convinced. Something else had to be going on here, and she was determined to get to the bottom of it, some way or some how.

 

Luckily for Kagome, before Sango could pry every last detail out of her the buzzer sounded, giving her a reason to pop up and head to the intercom console.

 

“Yes?”

 

“Peking Garden delivery!” The voice sounded through the machinery.

 

“Be right down!” Kagome replied back before hopping into the elevator.

 

A few minutes later found her returning with two large bags of very good and very hot Chinese food. After everyone was situated on either pillows or couches with their food, they all looked back at Kagome.

 

“What?” She muttered around a mouthful of egg roll.

 

“Oh nothing, just wondering if you are ever going to tell us the rest of the story.” Rin laughed as she munched her rice.

 

“Huh?”

 

“As in, what happened after he got here, besides him bleeding all over your kitchen.” Sango laughed at Kagome's face and how comical she looked with half an egg roll hanging out of her mouth.

 

Swallowing heavily Kagome sighed inwardly. She should have known it was too good to be true that they would drop it at that horrible explanation she gave them earlier. She really needed to learn how to lie…she resigned her self to fate and started a short explanation, leaving out how much she looooved the feel of his claws on her skin.

 

“Well after I patched him up I had to change, and he spotted my tattoo…”

 

“Why exactly did you have to change?” Rin interrupted with a smirk. Oh this was going to be so much fun to screw with her later. Or right now, whichever.

 

“I had just gotten out of the shower when he got here.” Kagome blushed lightly before shoving more food into her mouth.

 

“So you were naked up until this point? Interesting?” Sango's hand made its way to her chin and slowly started a scholarly stroke.

 

“NO!” Kagome managed to sputter around her Moo Goo Gai Pan. “I was in a towel. I buzzed him up when I though it was you guys…” She trailed off, thinking again what would have happened if it had been Koga instead of Inuyasha that had ended up in her apartment. It honestly made her a bit nauseous to think of. Koga in general seemed to have that effect on her these days.

 

“Oh well, that's kinda embarrassing!” Rin laughed before poking Kagome in the side. “So continue…”

 

“Well after the baka stopped bleeding I went and changed, and I guess he caught a flash of my tattoo, apparently he knows the story as well as I do.”

 

Sango and Kagome shared a look. She knew the legend, and what that tattoo meant to Kagome. Sango also knew what it was like to lose family members. Most of her family had been murdered in a freak yakuza war incident when she was very young. She had grown up in an orphanage in Kyoto with her only remaining family member, her brother Kohaku. He had stayed in Japan, studying to be a historian while she headed to the states.

 

On the day she left they had inadvertently gotten the same tattoo. On the inside of Sango's left wrist was the kanji for `Family.' The same day she had gone to show him her new addition, he had come to her to show her an identical kanji on his right wrist. They had laughed and cried for hours, each marveling at how they had managed to get the same tattoo, and in basically the same place.

 

While Kagome's tattoo was to remember the love shared between two soul mates, Sango's was to remember the love between family and the bonds that tied them together. Her family was a little bigger now, with the addition of her two `sisters' as she liked to call them. Sango was a firm believer that blood didn't necessarily translate to family. Needless to say, they all agreed on that.

 

“Wow. That's kinda cool isn't it?” Rin broke the musing, but not uncomfortable silence.

 

“Yeah it was really really odd to say the least. It's not the most well known legend.” Kagome finished off her food and moved to toss the now empty take out containers into the trash. She grabbed her container of Oolong tea from the counter on her way back.

 

“It's meant to be then!” Rin sighed heavily as the romance part of her brain suddenly took over. Sango nudged Kagome and the two shared a giggle as Rin dreamily spaced out, mentally planning the most beautiful wedding. A bit of Sango's rice flew across the low table and Rin snatched it out of the air, ending her revere.

 

“I still don't know how you do that…” Sango muttered. Rin always seemed to have lightning quick reflexes, no matter how far out into space her mind drifted.

 

“I'm a ninja. Didn't you know?” Rin giggled again before turning to Kagome with a too innocent look on her face. “So…. are you two boyfriend and girlfriend?” She blinked several times to illustrate her point.

 

“Yes. And he asked me to the spring dance too.” Kagome laughed before standing and cracking her neck.

 

“Oh, well in that case, we have to go get you a pretty dress. Maybe my mom can drive us!” Rin laughed again, this time flopping onto her side and rolling around a bit before stretching like a super hyperactive cat.

 

“So that's it then?? Nothing else?” Sango prodded as a last ditch effort before taking yet another shot of tequila.

 

“Well I want to jump him, does that count?” Kagome laughed as she rose up her shot glass to Sango before quickly swallowing it down. `Kuso did I say that out loud? How many have I had? Six or so I think…' She wondered before laughing again.

 

Sango and Rin laughed with her. So there was something between the two of them. It was about time too; they had just started looking into several cat shelters in the area. Thank god for the tongue loosening effects of Patron and Kagome.

 

Kagome suddenly slapped her hands together. “Okay, enough of that. Time for music. New songs. Must learn them.” She gestured to some sheet music strewn on the coffee table.

 

Rin picked up several sheets and started to scan while tapping out a beat on the thigh of her jean-clad leg. She glanced up at Kagome and shot her a wide grin. “These are Koga inspired I imagine?”

 

“Did you have to ask?” Sango laughed. She had been reading the notes for a little bit now and had felt a cold satisfaction as she read the words. She almost wished Koga would show up just so they could belt out the wicked lyrics. She usually sang backup, with Rin joining in occasionally, and it would be all three of them screaming the words out at him.

 

“Well then let's get started yeah?” Kagome bounced around a bit before taking “just one more” shot of tequila and strapping on her guitar.

 

The three girls started the tune, stopping occasionally to work out rough spots until they had it tweaked to “near perfection” as Rin called it. Once they had finished with the “We hate Koga and hope that he happens to spontaneously combust” song they went on to try out two new songs that weren't so terribly venomous. Satisfied with the progress and becoming slightly more inebriated as time went on, the girls went on to practice their usual songs.

 

Many hours and many more shots of tequila later the three girls finished both the bottle of Patron and rehearsals. All ended up in a hysterically laughing heap in the mountain of pillows as they listened to Kagome and Sango take turns making the most incoherent and hentai songs on an acoustic guitar.

 

“We ought to write down all these songs and play them sometime!” Rin giggled as she tapped a beat on the coffee table with her sticks.

 

“Nah, I think we would get censored with most of them…” Sango laughed as she started to slur her way through the next song. Something about a turtle that was slow everywhere; except the one place all men pray they will never be quick.

 

Kagome laughed and giggled as she joined in on the chorus.

 

“Now Timmy the turtle was the slowest,

Never ever did he ever show us,

Just how that turtle,

With one little gurgle,

Finished first every time!!!

 

Poor little Timmy

With one little shimmy

Three seconds in

Finished first

But it shouldn't have been a quickie!”

 

 

“Not to mention that it's probably not as funny to other people. Hell, it might not even be funny to us if we weren't completely and totally smashed.” Kagome fell over once she finished her sentence, happy that they had finished all the songs they wanted for tomorrow night, and even happier that she didn't have to work tomorrow.

 

“I…am not smashed!” Rin proclaimed as she pointed to the ceiling and almost fell on top of Kagome.

 

“You aren't?” Sango yelled from only a few feet away. “Cause I sure am.”

 

“Nope. I . am. not. smashed.” Rin repeated, carefully pronouncing her words and trying to concentrate on something other than the spinning room. “I just happen to be extremely inebriated.”

 

All three girls happened to catch a laughing jag that continued for several minutes before they calmed down and a drowsy lull fell over them.

 

“Now, are you guys crashing here, or do I need to call a very patient taxi driver?” Kagome giggled, trying to figure out what they were doing before she was no longer able to form coherent words.

 

“I'm not moving.” Sango stated as she glanced around at the pillow heap where she currently lay.

 

“Kay, and you?” Kagome glanced over at Rin, who had already passed out. “Not drunk my ass….” She muttered as she tried to stand. After wobbling unsteadily for a moment she managed to catch her balance. Looking back down at Sango, who wasn't in much better shape than Rin, she smiled.

 

“Sango are you crashing here or in bed?”

 

“Not moving…”Sango murmured from her face plant in the pillows.

 

Laughing again in earnest Kagome crossed the room and yanked several blankets out of her wardrobe before returning to her unconscious friends and covering them. “Sleep tights girls.”

 

She pulled off her jeans as she went into the kitchen to lie out three matching sets of Advil and bottled water on the counter top. Knowing how they were going to be waking up, she figured it was better to be prepared. Kagome stumbled over to her bed before tossing herself into the center of it and burrowing in under the covers. She could still smell Inuyasha all over the place here. It was a comforting smell, though part of her was a little upset that she wasn't going to be sharing his warmth tonight. `Where did that come from?' She mentally shrugged to herself, deciding to figure it out when she was more focused. Wrapping her arms around a sweet smelling pillow she fell into a deep sleep.

 

 

 

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Many blocks away Inuyasha was finding it very difficult to sleep. He had been tossing and turning for over three hours now, and it seemed impossible to find a comfortable position. His inner demon was nagging at him in the back of his head, but he was tuning it out. The damn thing never did have anything helpful to say in the first place. He felt like something was missing, but he wasn't sure what. Whenever he tried to put his finger on it, the demon part of him would start acting up again. It was becoming difficult to ignore, but somehow he managed… Several hours later, when he drifted into an uneasy sleep, it was visions of dark hair and blue-grey eyes that filled his head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A/N- As you may have noticed, all the guitars and basses are from FLCL. If you haven't checked it out, do. It's so worth it.

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flcl

 

Does contain some plot spoilers