InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Reason ❯ Band Joining and Romance ( Chapter 4 )

A/N: Ok everybody! Here's my next chapter! Please review!!!

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Kagome came running up the stairs and between breaths said, "Inuyasha *gasp* what *gasp* happened?*gasp*" she then saw the girl that was rubbing Inuyasha's ears. She then said, "Mina?" and started laughing hysterically.

The girl called Mina realized what she was doing and abruptly stopped and stood a good few feet away from him and apologized. "I'm sorry, and didn't mean to do that. Its just that your ears are so cute." She then added, "I really did mean what I said about how good you are. Would you wanna join my band?"

"What?" Inuyasha said.

"I asked if you wanna join my band," she, Mina, said.

"You really want him in your band, Mina?" Kagome asked.

"Yup. He seems really good. I mean, he can play `Dust in the Wind' a helluva lot better than me or Kin. How long has he been playin' anyways?" Mina asked, directing the last part to Kagome instead of Inuyasha.

"Actually, he started playing about two hours ago," Kagome replied, tapping her index finger on her chin in thought.

"WOW! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" Kagome nodded. "Jeez, and I thought Kin was a good player `cause he learned how to play `Dust in the Wind' after six months. But two hours? Jeez man!" she slapped her hand to her forehead in disbelief. "He's definitely gotta be in my band now!"

"I don't know, it would be a problem, considering…" she trailed off.

"Oh come on! Please?" she said `please' with a little whimper and a pout.

Inuyasha just realized that the two women speaking in front of him were leaving him out of a conversation that concerned him greatly and he said, "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, HEY! Wait a fuckin' minute, will ya?" The two women who were speaking without a thought toward Inuyasha suddenly realized that he was still there.

"What?!" they both asked angrily.

"Okay, I may not know what a band is, but whatever it is, it sounds like a big commitment, and you two aren't even telling me anything! Firstly, I don't know what in the seven hells is a band! Secondly, I haven't been living here very long, and I'm not exactly ready to reveal who I am to everyone yet! Thirdly, I started playing this…this…this… guitar like, a few hours ago! And Fourthly, I don't even know who you are!!!"

Kagome and Mina looked at each other with nervous, shocked, not to mention frightened, faces. Inuyasha by now was standing and yelling at them, and his face was turning different shades of red. Then they both got apologetic looks and Kagome said, "Sorry, Inuyasha. Got a bit carried away there didn't I?"

Inuyasha, a bit surprised by Kagome's display of compunctious behavior, said "Keh!"

"Yeah, I'm sorry too. I got a little carried away there, didn't I? Its just that I've been lookin' for a new guitarist for a couple months and haven't found anyone really good, but you. You, you're, like, a natural, ya know? Plus Kagome has to know you, since you're in her house, and stuff, and it would be really good if I got a guitarist whose friends with one of my friends. And I'm really really sorry that I sorta jumped you too. Come to think of it, I don't even know your name either," she said.

"Keh! It's fine." was Inuyasha's mumbled reply. Then louder, "The name's Inuyasha."

Mina looked a bit confused about the name for a second, then she smiled and said, "Hi. My name's Mina Hoshiko. It's very nice to meet you, Inuyasha." She stuck out her hand.

Inuyasha looked at her hand, confused. He looked at Kagome, who was shifting her eyes back and forth between him and Mina's hand. After a few seconds, he reached out with his hand and she took it and shook it up and down. She let go and he looked confused, and so was Mina. She said slowly to Kagome, "He's not from around here, is he, Kagome?"

Kagome shook her head. Hesitatingly, she began their tale, starting from the very beginning. She told her how she came through the well and ended up in Sengoku Jidai, how she met Inuyasha. How the jewel shattered. How they met Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kaede. She told her everything, excusing some of the little details, and a few that she would rather leave out (most of what she left out was Kikyo, and some of the things that happened that didn't have to do with the jewel).

By the time she was finished, the sun had set and there was only the barest indication that it was ever there at all. Miroku, Sango and Shippo had long since arrived and were now sitting around the attic. Shippo was now sleeping contentedly on Sango's lap with Miroku sitting a good few feet away, Sango made sure of this because she didn't want anything to happen while Kagome's friend was here. After Kagome finished telling her tale, everyone sat silently for awhile. Mina looked around the room at everyone before she broke the silence. Hesitatingly and quietly she said, "And, this is all true?"

Everyone nodded their heads grimly. None of them had realized what a great adventure they had gone through to end up where they were now until they actually heard it from someone else. If they hadn't been the ones who were in the story, they wouldn't have believed a single word of it. Mina suddenly decided to break the silence once more, but this time she yelled out in a preppy happy voice. "Oh My Gosh! That is so cool! I can believe you actually did all this!" she yelled out. She was jumping from person to person asking them questions, with stars in her eyes. [A/N: think of Serena from sailor moon when she's being preppy happy, except with shorter, unbound black/blue hair]. She asked questions like, "Did you really do that?" and "How was it like doing that?" and "Did you really meet Oda Nobunaga?" and "Was Kikyo really that much of a bitch?" It scared everyone.

Finally, when her lapse of preppiness was over, she took a deep breath and said, "Well, since your not from this time, I guess I'll explain what a band is to you." And so she began telling Inuyasha exactly what a band was. She and Kagome told him all about the great bands, with a few interjections by Miroku, Sango, and Inuyasha, like the Beatles, Led Zepplin, Aerosmith, Nirvana and so on. They also told him about the more modern bands, with a few more interjections, like Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The All-American-Rejects (that one confused him a bit). Mina told him that she wanted him to play the guitar for her band, Infinity, and told him about everyone else in the band. She said that her twin brother, Kin Hoshiko, would be playing the bass guitar (they had to explain what that was to him too) and her cousin, Yasuo Tanaka, would be playing the drums (ditto). So after she explained all this stuff she asked with a voice full of hope, "So, do you wanna be in my band?"

Inuyasha squirmed nervously and kept looking at Kagome for an answer. She told him, "This is your decision Inuyasha. If you wanna do it, I'll help you, but if you don't that's okay. It isn't my decision."

Inuyasha pondered a little bit. He thought about it, and finally gave them an answer. It was, "Keh! Whatever!"

Kagome rolled her eyes and said, "That means, `Yes Mina, I'll be happy to be your guitarist,' in Inuyasha."

Mina giggled and said, "Sounds like you've been doing that for awhile."

"Trust me, I have," Kagome responded dryly.

Mina gasped as she checked her watch, "It's almost seven! I have to get home! Sorry I couldn't help you Kagome, I'll see you tomorrow!" she ran down the attic stairwell.

"Bye!" Kagome yelled behind her.

"Inuyasha!" a voice called out from somewhere. He was still nailing the roof shingles and he had finished but didn't notice, so when he finished he kept nailing the air, and of course, he fell off. He landed in the bushes on the side of Higurashi household. He struggled to untangle himself in the bushes. He heard familiar giggling from somewhere outside the bushes. As he emerged from the bushes, clothes torn and hair full of twigs, he saw Mina and Kagome laughing. Kin and Yasuo turned the corner and saw him, and they too, began to laugh. He growled and said, "Stop laughing already! It's not that funny!"

Everyone stopped laughing because they knew what Inuyasha would do if he was angry, so Kagome apologized, "We're sorry Inuyasha. It's just that you fell down and I didn't even say sit!"

On that word, unfortunately for Inuyasha, he slammed into the ground and the laughter began again. He muttered into the ground, "You *mumble mumble* better *mumble mumble* start *mumble mumble* RUNNING!"

But Kagome couldn't resist a chance to insult Inuyasha, "Huh? What was that? I couldn't hear you? Could you speak a little louder?" The laughing grew louder.

He repeated himself, "You *mumble mumble* better *mumble mumble* start *mumble mumble* RUNNING! *mumbling* BITCH!"

"Huh? What was that again? I didn't hear you!" Kagome mockingly stepped closer to hear him better. She said, "I couldn't hear you! Would you say that again?" the laughing grew louder still.

By now the spell was starting to wear off and he growled, "I said, You Better Start Running BITCH!" and with that he launched himself from the ground and went to tackle Kagome, who by now realized her mistake and with a scream she started running.

She could hear the laughing of her friends, who were now rolling on the ground with laughter with tears of laughter streaming from their eyes. She ran off to the wooded area in a vain attempt to get Inuyasha away from her, but as you know, it didn't work. And plus, her miko clothing was significantly slowing her down. A few yards into the wooded area she was caught by Inuyasha, who carried her off into the treetops. She was hoisted over his shoulder in a fireman's carry position. She was kicking and flailing and screaming "Inuyasha! LET ME DOWN!" she dared not say the `s' word, which would probably end up crushing them anyway. As they reached the very tip top of the tallest tree, with an evil smirk as he deposited her on the highest branch that would support her weight, he said to her, "You want me to put ya down? Okay! Here ya go!" she automatically clutched the trunk of the tree for dear life,

He jumped down to a lower branch that was just low enough so that he could still speak to Kagome, but couldn't get to him. As he stood there, it looked like he was standing on solid ground instead of a tree branch several hundred feet off the ground. He turned to her and pulled down the skin under his right eye and stuck out his tongue and laughed.

She screamed at him, "Hey! Let me down from here!"

Inuyasha just kept making faces at her and said, "Nuh-uh. No way. Not until you apologize. Then maybe I'll get you down."

She kicked, if you could call it that since she was still clutching onto the tree trunk, and said, "If you don't let me down, I'll say the `s' word!"

He looked down at the ground precariously, "From up here? If you do that, I may decide to leave you here."

She clenched her fists and screeched, "INUYASHA!" she was pleased at the sight of Inuyasha cringing. All of a sudden, there was a large CRACK! And a jagged crack appeared where the branch met the tree. Kagome screamed again, "Ahhhhhhhh!"

As the branch started to fall, with Kagome with it, Inuyasha leapt to catch her. he caught her with one arm under her knees and the other supporting her neck and landed on another branch, lower this time and said, "Oi, you must've really gained some weight to have made that branch fall."

Kagome hit him as he set off again and said, "Shut up."

He stopped on a branch not too far from the ground and said to her, "Make me."

"Fine. Put me down." She said and Inuyasha obeyed as she stood on the branch next to him. She calmly said, "Sit." And so Inuyasha crashed face first into the soft forest ground below. As he landed on the ground, she jumped off the branch and landed right on top of Inuyasha. She was satisfied with the sound of pain coming from Inuyasha as she landed. She was laughing and then all of a sudden, Inuyasha was on top of her instead.

He laughed. "Hahaha, I got you now!" he started tickling her. she started laughing uncontrollably and started to beg for him to stop.

"Please," laughter, "stop," laughter, "it," peals of laughter, "Inuyasha!" more laughter. She started to struggle and he got up off of her. He helped her off the ground and was leaning on him for support. She was still laughing a bit, plus her stomach still hurt a bit, so she didn't notice how close they were together. When her laughter died away, they looked into each other's eyes. Blue eyes stared into amber, while amber ones stared back into blue. They were so close together that each felt the others breath upon their face. They stood locked in that position for an eternal moment before Kagome realized what they were doing, and how close they were together. She stepped back a bit to widen the space between them and lowered her head in embarrassment as a deep red blush crept upon her face.

Inuyasha had done the same. He realized that they were so close together before Kagome, but really didn't have a problem with it. He actually found himself enjoying it. When her eyes met his, he had the strangest urge to touch her lips. But just as he was about to move closer, she pulled away and bowed her head to hide her blush. It was so cute when she blushed like that.

"Um…" Kagome said

"Yeah," was his response.

"We should, um, get back now," she said quietly.

"Um, uh, yeah. I guess we should." He responded.

As they slowly walked back through the forest, Kagome had an idea. "Inuyasha?" she said.

"Hm?" he looked up at her.

"I'll race you back to the shrine!" she said with a smile before breaking out into a run.

Inuyasha was a bit shocked at her, but he quickly regained composure. He had to if he wanted to win. "Hey!" he yelled after her.

She just looked back at him and stuck out her tongue before she turned back to running. Inuyasha grinned as he sped up to catch up with Kagome as they both reached the edge of the forest.

A/N: How d'ya like my chapter? I hope it was good, `cause I did this instead of my research paper. :oP. Oh well. Whatever. I tried putting some Inu/Kag fluffiness into my chapter, but unfortunately, it sucked. But I promise you that there will be Inu/Kag fluffiness in the last chapter. Anyways!!! Remember to review, review REVIEW!

-boredomstrikes