InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanging by A Moment ❯ Chapter 2 Life Sucks Doesn’t It? ( Chapter 2 )

Hanging by A Moment

by Lor

Sorry it took forever to get this chapter up. Having a messed up wrist is a major set back. Finally found out what's wrong with it though. I have like water collecting in the joint and severe tendentious. So I'm going to have to get physical therapy done on it. Fun. So for this chapter I asked my Younger Twin (Ancient Zoidian) to write most of this chapter for me. Well she took forever to send it to me otherwise it would have been up sooner. Also if I can update next weekend it won't be until sometime on Sunday cuz I have a jazz band trip Friday and Saturday. Oh one more thing! Does anyone want a lil translation thing up? Cuz I do throw in Japanese mention it in a review if ya need translations. Oh one FINAL thing.....there will be lemons in this fic later which is one of the reasons this fic is rated R

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` .... ' thoughts

" ..... " dialogue

~ ...... ~ flashback

Chapter 2

Life Sucks Doesn't It?

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~"Oka-san, why do we have to go?" the teenage boy was in the backseat of a black Mercedes SUV. "Inu, will you please stop whining." his Oka-san smiled as she turned to look at him from the front passenger seat. "No, why should I? I don't want to visit Sess in Tokyo. Why couldn't Kikyo and I stay behind?" Inu sighed and looked out the car window watching trees and buildings go by.

"Oh Inu-chan, he is your Son-kei." Kikyo looked at him. "It wouldn't hurt to see him." she said as she laid a hand on his arm. "Well couldn't I have at least taken my own car?" Inu crossed his arms and leaned against the back of the seat slouching. "My car is faster and has a better sound system."

"Inu will you please shut up and stop acting so immature." his Otou-san shook his head annoyed and looked in the rearview mirror to see his son. "Sorry Otou-san." he sighed again bored and returned to looking out the window. "Thank you." his Otou-san looked back at the road. He was driving carefully in the rain towards the nearing intersection.

"Oh look a cow" Inuyasha said in an extremely bored voice, as he pointed the animal out. "Why is there a cow at the side of an urban interstate?" Kikyo asked him as she leaned over him to see the bovine. Inuyasha just shrugged and breathed in Kikyo's flowery scent. 'At least Kikyo's here.' Inu looked over at his girlfriend of two years as she settled back into her own seat. Inuyasha slouched down in his seat grumbling about how long it was taking to get to Tokyo.

"HOLD ON!" his Otou-san shouted suddenly. Inu looked up to see a truck heading straight for them; the truck was spinning out of control. "What the Hell!?" "INUYASHA!" Kikyo screamed out his full name as the SUV came to a violent halt crashing into the truck.

Inu crawled out of the wreckage minutes later to see Kikyo, his mom, and his dad lying completely still thrown from the SUV, with blood dripping from their bodies. Inu could tell his parents had been instantly killed. He quickly glanced around for his girlfriend. A shard of glass was embedded in Kikyo's forehead, her head hanging at an odd angle. Kikyo's neck had been snapped. "NO KIKYO!" Inuyasha rushed to her side and carefully set her head in his lap, tears streaming down his face, "No....."~

He sat up in bed sweating, the sheets sticking to his muscular bare chest. (AN: stop drooling!! ::wipes drool off own face:: oh be quiet!) "Not that dream again." Yash sat up in bed and wipes the sweat off his face with a hand. As Inuyasha swung his legs over the side of the bed, he grabbed a black tank top off the floor and pulled it on. "I can't get that outta my head. It's been 3 months! That image of Kikyo and my parents....lying dead. Why did I have to live? I should've died with them." He rested his face in his hands.

"YO YASH!" Sess screamed. "Get your fuck'n ass down here or you'll be late for school... again"

"Coming." Yash yelled back as he rolled his eyes. "Why did I get stuck living with my psychotic older brother!? I'm 18 damn it! I should be able to live alone!" Yash got off his bed and grabbed his acoustic guitar and started strumming a tune, singing in his head and then started writing the notes down on some spare music paper.

`I watch as the daylight crawls....

past the.....shadows hanging on the walls......

It's been a long time....since I felt the stain

of yesterday...getting in my way'

Yash plays some more chords working on the song. "YASH!" Sess screamed again. "Coming." he set his guitar down and sighed. `Why can't he ever leave me the fuck alone?!' Yash went over to his closet and dug around for some baggy blue jeans and a blood red sweatshirt then pulled them on over his tank top and boxers. (AN: Did anyone drool again? lol people are probably going to be mad that he isn't getting a shower but that'll happen later! sorry hentainess setting into my mind!) Then he grabbed a pair of Vans and pulled them on and headed downstairs.

"Do you want breakfast?" Sess looked up from doing his homework for Tokyo University, as Yash entered the kitchen.

"No, like I want to eat any of your crappy cooking. See ya, I gotta go pick up Miroku and Shippo." Yash ran out the door, pulled his keys out of his jeans pocket and jumped into his restored 1968 Jaguar E-Type. He pulled out his Green Day International Super Hits CD and clicked through the songs until he got to Brain Stew. Yash turned on the engine and sped out of the driving and started singing along to the CD.

"I'm having trouble trying to sleep

I'm counting sheep but running out

As time ticks by

And still I try

No rest for crosstops in my mind

On my own... here we go"

Yash sped down the urban roads, narrowly dodging from hitting a kid on a bike.

"My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed

Dried up and bulging out my skull

My mouth is dry

My face is numb

Fucked up and spun out in my room

On my own... here we go"

Yash made a narrow left turn, he had almost missed the turn and caused a 3 car pileup back in the intersection. Luckily for him, no one had noticed that it was his fault.

"My mind is set on overdrive

The clock is laughing in my face

A crooked spine

My senses is dulled

Passed the point of delirium

On my own... here we go"

Yash drove on not really paying attention to his surroundings, just concentrating on the song.

"My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed

Dried up and bulging out my skull

My mouth is dry

My face is numb

Fucked up and spun out in my room

On my own... here we go"

"Happy song." Miroku walked up wearing a pair of black baggy jeans, oversized black shirt with black boots. Yash had known Miroku for years. He has his third cousin or something on his mom's side of the family. "Miroku, I hadn't even noticed that I was here yet." Yash yelled over the next song, which was Jaded.

"No wonder!" Shippo jumped in the back seat wearing baggy blue jeans and a New Found Glory tour shirt, with a pair of tan Birkenstock sandals. Shippo was Miroku's neighbor, and had become good friends with Yash the last time he had visited before Yash had moved to Tokyo. (AN: was that confusing? ::shrug:: oh well) "With Green Day blaring and the top down. Why ya blasting Brain Stew?" "Be quiet Shippo. I don't need to explain anything to you." Yash motioned for Miroku to get in. "Well at least I'm in your class today, since I'm so smart." Shippo smiled a very prideful grin as Miroku slid into the front passenger seat. "Oh shut up smart ass." Yash looked at him. "Or you won't live to see another fucking day."

"Someone's in a cheery mood today." Miroku laughed. Yash just glared at Miroku, and quickly pulled out of this driveway and back onto the road, narrowly missing a parked car. (AN: lol sounds like my driving!) Miroku reached over and turned the volume up on the stereo. The three guys tuned out, just listening to Green Day. (AN: Green Day rocks!!)

Five minutes later Yash drove into the parking lot of the school and into an empty space near a midnight blue Audi. "Get out, we're here." Yash turned the car off. "Did you have the dream again?" Miroku looked at Yash, finally have the nerve to say something. "Yeah," Yash nodded and jumped out of the car. "Sucks dude" Miroku said as they walked towards the school's main entry. Yash turned around and looked back towards the parking lot. "What are you looking at Yash?" Shippo asked. Yash shook his head "Thought I smelled someone I haven't seen for awhile." "Who?" Miroku said with a lecherous smirk. "An old friend" Yash pushed open a door and walked into the school.

The three of them headed down the halls, Miroku slapping butts as they walked. "Miroku you really need to stop that." Yash commented as he dodged a girl's attempt to kick Miroku. "Why? I love the ladies and the ladies love me." Miroku smiled and motioned call me to one of the girls. The girl just rolled her eyes and walked away...rapidly. "You're hopeless." Shippo shook his head while he opened his locker to grab his Chemistry book. "Well I'm off to Chemistry see ya in Algebra II." Shippo turned away and headed down the halls.

"The smart ass always brags since we have had to take Algebra II two years in a row." Yash shut his own locker." "Later Miroku." "Yeah see ya." Miroku waved and then continued on his lecherous path until he was slammed on the ground by a cheerleader.

"Guy never learns." Yash laughed and wandered to his English class. "The teacher is boring as hell." he sat down in the back of the room as the bell rang and the teacher started talking. `This is going to be a long day' he thought as he pulled out his latest manga and began to read. The manga hidden behind his binder.

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Kagome turned and poked her cousin in the side. "What is with you today? I thought today was my day to be depressed" Roru blinked her eyes and looked at Kagome. "What?" Kagome rolled her eyes and went back to talking to Sango about the history paper due the next day. `What is wrong with me?' Roru took a bite of her sandwich. `That guy I saw earlier couldn't have been him.' "I heard there's this new guy that finally showed up today after skipping for 2 weeks" Emi said after taking a sip of soda. "He supposedly has beautiful silver hair!" Yuri added. "Silver hair?" Roru turned and looked at them. "Un, that's what I said!" "Come on Roru you know Yuri she's never wrong about someone's hair!" Sango said as she began to laugh.

Kagome looked away lost in thought, `Why can't I be home asleep still!? I don't want to hear the latest cute guy gossip' Kagome rested her chin in her hands and looked out the window to see the Sakura trees in bloom.

Roru pulled out her Yu Yu Hakusho manga and opened to her current spot and tried to read but ended up just staring at the page, `God I'm turning into Kagome! I don't have a reason to be depressed! Just because I miss some of my old friends doesn't give me a reason to mope!' Roru closed her manga and joined in the new topic about how annoying the guidance councilor Mr. Tykou could be.

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A few hours later after lunch Yash slid into his seat in English Lit. 'Yawn, yawn, boring.' He banged his head on the desk for the next 2 minutes. The teacher never noticed the banging noises coming from the back of the room. Yash raised his hand 5 minutes later. "Yes," his teacher looked at him. "Can I go pee?" Yash stated very abruptly. Students snickered. "I sure hope you can, but not here." the teacher smiled, laughing at his own joke. "Haha, I'm dying of laughter." Yash mumbles as he walked out of the room, with no intention of returning. "This school is a shit hole."

Yash walked into one of the classrooms clawed hands in the front pockets of his baggy jeans. `What the?' He looked around the room and discovered he had apparently walked into one of the school's music rooms. Along the right wall was a beautiful wooden acoustic guitar. `Wow...'

Yash pulls his hands out of his pockets and walks over to the guitar and picks it up carefully. "What a beaut...." he said as he looked it over.

The guitar was made of light cherry wood, it was so polished it gleamed in the crappy school lighting. Sakura flowers were imprinted on the pegs. It was obvious it was well taken care of. Yash carefully strummed the strings to discover it was in perfect tune. `It must have cost a fortune for this thing...so why is it just sitting out in a school where some kid could swipe it?'

As Yash sat down on a nearby stool, he perched the guitar carefully on his knees, his feet on one of the stools rungs. Soon began strumming the guitar playing a song he wrote a few months earlier and began to sing

"I watch as the daylight crawls

past the shadows hanging on the walls

It's been a long time since I felt the stain

of yesterday getting in my way"

His voice started off a little shaky but by the time he finished the first verse his voice was in perfect tune. Yash's voice was a mellow tenor.

"I'm alive but tell me am I free?

I got eyes but tell me can I see?

The sky is falling and no one knows

It shouldn't be hard to believe

shouldn't be this difficult to breathe

The sky is falling and no one knows"

Kagome and Roru were walking down the hallway towards the music room when they heard someone singing.

"Who's singing?" Kagome asked her cousin since Roru was the one who spent a lot of time in this part of the school. "No clue, sounds amazing" Roru said loud enough for Kagome to hear, but then said quietly "sounds really familiar though"

The two girls walked down and looked just inside the room, to see a boy with long silver hair, with matching colored doglike ears on top of his head. The boy's eyes flashed downwards watching his fingers as he played.

`Golden eyes?....the only person I remember having dog ears and golden eyes was....' Roru shook her head in disbelieve. `It couldn't be..... He lived at least a hundred miles away from Tokyo....but that gossip from lunch......'

"You leave me hanging on only to catch my breath

I got you and I got nothing left

Don't leave me all alone down here

with myself and all of my fear"

`Inuyasha?' Roru couldn't believe it but she knew it was true. It really was one of her best friends from Kanagi, where she lived her life before her parents' deaths. She had moved away from Kanagi 4 years earlier to live in Tokyo with Kagome and her family. `I never thought I'd see anyone from Kanagi ever again' Roru started to smile, eyes sparkling, truly happy for the first time since her parents died.

"I'm alive but tell me am I free?

I got eyes but tell me can I see?

The sky is falling and no one knows

It shouldn't be hard to believe

shouldn't be this difficult to breathe

The sky is falling and no one knows

no, no one knows

no one knows

no, no one knows"

Yash begins to strum the guitar faster getting into the instrumental part of the song, not noticing Kagome and Roru slowly entering the room.

`Who is he?...he's cute' Kagome smiles to herself as she noticed his cute doglike ears perched on top of his head `I wonder if those are real.' She and Roru stood off to the side of the room quietly watching, as the boy finished the song.

"I'm alive but tell me am I free?

I got eyes but tell me can I see?

The sky is falling and no one knows

It shouldn't not that hard to believe

I got air it shouldn't be this hard to breathe

the sky is falling and no one knows"

(AN: If anyone wants to know that song was written by Lifehouse on their CD Stanley Climbfall. Song is called Sky is Falling, those lyrics are for the acoustic version of it, love that song!)

Yash finishes the song and looks up startled that people got into the room without him noticing. `That one chick looks familiar...' He stands and puts the guitar back onto its stand. `Wait....' he sniffs the air. "Roru?" he asked not sure if it was really her.

Roru breaks into a hug smile "Yash!" "What are you doing here?" "I moved here 4 years ago to live with my Aunt Suzu and her family, remember! I should be asking you that question!"

Kagome stood on the sidelines confused, `Yash? Who's Yash? How does Roru know him?'

"Just moved here 2 weeks ago" Roru flung herself at him and gave him a hug, then stepped back Yash just stood there looking kind of awkward. "Hey I can give you a hug can't I!? I never thought I'd see anyone from Kanagi again." Yash laughs "Un, I kinda feel the same way." Roru finally remembers Kagome was there, "This is my cousin Kagome Higurashi." Kagome just looks at Yash. "Un, the ears are real. I'm a hanyou, you know part human part youkai." Yash stood there expecting the girl to freak. "Cool!"

Both Roru and Yash looked at Kagome shocked. "Why didn't you tell me you knew youkai, Roru?" Kagome seemed to be very excited about meeting a hanyou. "One, you never asked. Two, I thought you'd freak. Three, you probably know some youkai." Kagome looks at her cousin confused. "There's a way for hanyous and youkai to appear human, I just never felt like learning the spell." Yash shrugged. "Hey, you know who's guitar that is?" Yash asked the girls. "It's mine, I just keep it here during the week." "You still a music freak?" Yash asked with a cocky smile, Roru punches him in the arm "You know I'll forever be a music freak!" They all start to laugh. "That reminds me Kags and I came down here so I could pick up my tenor. I'll be right back!" Roru runs off into a room off of the one they were in.

Yash and Kagome stood there looking at each other. "She means her tenor saxophone" "Un, I know. She's played that thing since she was 10." "How do you know so much about her when's she's my cousin?" Yash shrugged, "I don't know, been around her a lot I guess. Used to be neighbors, my `rents were friends with hers." They settled into a silence. "So....you play any instruments other then the guitar? You were really good before" Yash ran a hand threw his hair, "Thanks, I just play guitar and bass. My dad started me on it when Roru started lessons." They again stood there in silence unsure of what to talk about. `Damn he's cute...' `Why does she have to look like Kikyo!? What does the world hate me more today for some fuck'n reason! They can't even be fuck'n related!!'

The two heard a loud squeal and saw Roru rushing into the room with her tenor sax in it's case. "I got the job!! I can't believe it!! Rehearsals start tonight at 5!!" Roru lets out another squeal. "Wait, what job?" Kagome looks at her cousin with a raised eyebrow. "The one at the Jazz Mocha!!" Jazz Mocha was the local coffee house that had a jazz group perform every Saturday night. "I can't believe it!!" Roru looks down at her watch and her eyes go wide. "I can't believe it's already 3:45! I have to go get ready!!" "But it's not until...." Yash just rolled his eyes. "Don't roll your eyes at me!" Roru pokes Yash in the ribs. "Oi!" Roru was already half way out the door into the hall, "You can give Kags a ride home for me, right! Oh don't forget about Sango, Kohaku and Sota! Thanks!" Roru leaves them behind without waiting for Yash's response.

Kagome and Yash just look at each other. "Ummm thanks?" Kagome said to Yash, who just glared out the door after Roru. "How'd I get stuck giving people rides!?" "I can always just take the bus or something...." Kagome looked away, hoping he hadn't noticed her staring at him. "You're Ror's cousin, I can't leave ya hanging. Plus she'd end up ticked at me, which is always dangerous." Kagome smiles and shakes her head with quiet laughter, "So true."

The bell rings loudly making the two flinch. Kagome sighs "Are they ever going to fix that thing!" "Hey at least you have normal hearing! That hurt yo!" Yash complained while his ears twitched "Yash...we can leave now...school's over" Yash just looks at her "Oh yeah! I ditched the last class!" "What you finally show up to school and you ditch already?" "Un, so?" Kagome rolls her eyes. "Maybe I just won't give you that ride...."

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Shippo walks over to his locker to see Miroku get slapped across the face by yet another girl. "CALL ME!!" Miroku yelled after the girl who turned and flicked him off before walking out of site. "Well that was rude" Shippo rolls his eyes and opens his locker, "Miroku" "Un?" "You need help...psychological help" Shippo crams his stuff into the locker. "I am not insane!" "Un, but your a major hentai" Miroku leans against the lockers "that I can't argue against." Shippo slams his locker shut making Miroku jump. "So where's Yash? He wasn't in last period." "How do you know that?" "Saw him ditching it." "So we're probably stuck without a ride....Great" The two guys head down the hallway and hear people yelling from a nearby class room.

"You don't have to give me a ride you moron!" "I don't have a choice you wench, if I don't Ror will kill me!" (AN: hehe Roru's a lot like me hehehe I get very violent hehehe) "DON'T CALL ME A WENCH!" "I WILL IF I DAMN FUCK'N FEEL LIKE IT!!"

Shippo and Miroku exchange a look. "Sounds like Yash made a new friend" Shippo said having every word drip with sarcasm. The two look into the class room and see Yash giving a girl the death glare. `Girl...pretty...' Miroku's eyes go wide and runs into the room and kneels in front of the girl, "Will you do the honor of bearing me a child?"

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Kagome looks down at the boy kneeling in front of her. Her eyes wide in shock, before she could react... "GET AWAY FROM HER YOU DAMN HENTAI!" Yash slammed Miroku in the back of the head. Miroku lies on the ground with @.@ eyes. Shippo falls over clutching his stomach laughing. Kagome just looks between the three guys. "What the fuck?"

"Kags, meet Miroku Kazuomi and Shippo Misangu." Yash said pointing out which was which. "Umm Hi?" Shippo regains his composure and stands, Kagome looked at him her head tilted to the right, "Your youkai aren't you?" Shippo looked at Kagome shocked, "How could you tell?" Kagome shrugged. Miroku stands up using a nearby stool to get his balance, "Oi, Yash what were you doing alone with such a beautiful girl?" Miroku winks at Kagome, who blushes at being called beautiful. "Watch it hentai! She's Roru's cousin." "Ohh the violent one?" "No that's Roru's friend Sango." "The one with the hair fetish?" "No I think that chick is Yuri" "So the musical one then" "Un" Miroku nods his head happy he finally figured out who the hell Roru was.

Kagome bangs her head against her hands, "SHUT UP!" They turn and look at her as if she was insane. "What?" She says calmly.

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I was going to make it longer but got brain freeze hope you enjoy!! R&R