Dudes, I am lovin the response to the first chapter! Thanks! Anyway, onward with the next one, eh?

Kagome awoke to the sound of her alarm clock going off. She bashed the button on the top to make it stop beeping like a car alarm and tried to sleep for a little longer.

Unfortunately, her mother knew her all too well, and entered her room, telling her to get up.

Kagome moaned in displeasure and made her way to the bathroom where she took a shower and brushed her teeth.

She came back to her room, got dressed in her uniform for school and headed downstairs to breakfast.

Today was going just as everyday did. Nothing strange had happened, nothing new, nothing special.

Yep, it was just going to be another boring day in the life of Kagome Higurashi.

She finished eating and rushed out the door, just fast enough to say goodbye to her grandfather who was coming in with the morning “Sankei Shimbun”.

“That girl really ought to take her time with things.” He said. Kagome’s mom laughed and said

“If she took anymore time each morning, she’d be late to school.”

Kagome’s grandfather gave a laugh to and took a sip of his coffee that was on the table. He looked at the cover story of the newspaper.

As he read the article, all the coffee in his mouth spurted out all over the paper.

“Dad, what’s wrong?” Mrs. Higurashi said, rushing to her father’s side. He coughed a little, though he was still shocked.

“We have to get Kagome and tell her the good news! She won the Takahata Kyougi (Takahata contest)!”

Kagome noticed something very strange as she rode the bus to her school that morning. Everyone else was looking at her, but not saying anything. Every once in a while, some people would talk to their friends, the same conversation every time.

“Is that her?”

“Yeah I think so.”

Kagome felt a little embarrassed that she was getting looked at, and tried to look away from everyone. She looked across from her, and say that same man from a few days ago with his newspaper, just as before.

‘At least someone isn’t watching me.’ She thought. She looked at the paper, and yet again, in large writing, she could see the cover story title:

WINNER OF TAKAHATA KYOUGI ANNOUNCED

She sighed. She still couldn’t believe that her friends had actually gotten her to enter that stupid thing. She continued to look at the cover page, which had a large picture of Takahata himself, and then another picture.

It was a picture of a girl, but she looked familiar. Kagome squinted, and when she finally saw who it was, all color from her flesh disappeared.

It was a picture of her.

She was the one who won Takahata Kyougi.

Oh crap.

She looked back at all the people who were still watching her. She got up and rushed to the front of the bus as it came to a halt, and tried to cover her face with her hand, as though it would do anything at this point.

She was the first one out of the doors as soon as they opened. She looked around and saw that she had gotten off a few stops early.

‘Oh man, today is not my day...’ she thought. She started to run in the direction of her school, receiving looks the entire way.

When she arrived on the campus, just a few minutes before the bell, she was breathing heavily.

‘I can’t believe I made it.’ She thought. She entered the building, only to be surrounded almost immediately by students. It was just like the crowd back at the music store, except the questions and statements were different.

“Kagome, I can’t believe you won! Congratulations!”

“Is it really your voice, or did you cheat and send in some fake recording?”

“Will you sign my leg?”

...Ok, mostly different. The suffocation seemed the same though. She tried to get through the crowd of people and into her homeroom, but could barely make it to the stairs.

“Don’t you people have classes to get to?” she asked. None of the people responded though, they were too busy bombarding her with more useless questions.

“WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?!?!?!?” shouted a voice. Everyone stopped themselves in mid air and turned around to see where the loud voice had come from.

Standing there was a man who was dressed in a blue business suit, with a blue tie. He pushed his glassed closer to his face before crossing his arms and raising his eyebrows. Kagome shouted a loud “THANK YOU GOD!”

when she saw her savior.

It was vice principal Watanabe.

Everyone began to back away from Kagome and allowed her to escape. She quickly scurried over to the side of the vice principal.

“All of you, get to your homerooms before I suspend you all!”

Sure enough, everyone in the hall began to run back to their homerooms, climbing over and almost killing each other to do so.

Kagome held her chest and let out a heavy sigh. ‘That could have been deadly.’ She thought. She turned to Mr. Watanabe and bowed.

“Thanks a lot for that Mr. Watanabe.”

He laughed a little and smiled as Kagome rose to her normal height.

“No problem Ms. Higurashi. Actually, I was just going upstairs to go and get you, there’s someone here to see you.”

Kagome raised an eyebrow and scrunched up her mouth a bit. Why would there be people in the office for her? She walked down the hall, following Mr. Watanabe until they reached his office.

He opened the door and entered, as did Kagome. In the office, there were two people Kagome had never seen sitting there in the waiting chairs.

“Here you are Mr. Seguchi, this is Ms. Kagome Higurashi.” Said Mr. Watanabe.

Kagome watched the two strange men as one of them got out of their chairs.

He was only a few inches taller than Kagome, he was wearing a business suit and was walking over to her. As she backed up, the man held out a hand.

“Please Ms. Higurashi, I’m not here to kidnap you or hurt you like you may believe. On the contrary, I’m here to tell you some wonderful news. My name is Tohma Seguchi, and we at N-G productions have chosen you as the winner of the Takahata Kyougi.”

Kagome eyed him. “You know, the mobs of people attacking me kinds gave it away. Sorry to ruin the surprise.”

Tohma laughed and pulled his hand back. “Well I’m sorry that you’ve been through so much already, but I assure you, it’s worth it.”

Kagome eased up and continued to watch him.

“Please come with us outside. There’s a limo waiting to take us back to the production studios. We’ve already told your family that you’ll be coming home later today.”

She was a little excited by this. She was actually going to go to a recording studio to help make a CD! Though she wouldn’t admit it, she thought this was pretty cool.

“Well Ms. Higurashi, shall we?” asked Tohma. He made another attempt and held out his hand. Kagome looked at it for a second, then shook it with her own.

He smiled, and so did she.

This was going to be fun.

The other man got up and followed Tohma and Kagome outside to the limo. They got in and settled. Kagome, who had never been in a limo before, was wide eyed throughout the ride to the studios.

“I think that I should warn you about Mr. Takahata,” started Tohma, “he doesn’t like anyone at first, so when you meet him, don’t be offended if he gives you a cold shoulder.”

Kagome nodded and looked over to the other man who was in the car with them. He had long blonde hair that was up in a ponytail, and was wearing a white dress shirt and pants with a tie. He had something around his shoulder, it looked like a gun, but she didn’t want to make any assumptions. Tohma saw her looking at the other man.

“Oh I’m sorry about that, where are my manners? That is Inuyasha’s manager, K. He’s one of the best mangers around.” He said.

Kagome waved to K, who gave a stupid smile and waved back.

She could feel the car come to a halt, and she looked out the window. It wasn’t a fancy building, it was just a tall square with the N-G logo at the top.

She exited the limo, Tohma and K close behind.

“Let’s go in. Inuyasha’s waiting to get started.” Said Tohma.

Kagome tensed up again. They were going to record today? K laughed and put and arm around Kagome.

“C’mon Tohma, don’t scare the poor girl like that! After all, if Inuyasha gets out of control...” K pulled the object that was hanging from under his arm, which turned out to really be a gun, “we can handle him.”

Kagome screamed and immediately went to hide behind Seguchi.

“K, maybe you should reconsider who’s scaring who.” He said, then turned to Kagome, “Please forgive him, he likes guns.”

Kagome gulped hard. “Yeah, I can see that.”

They all entered the building and went up the elevator to the eighth floor.

Kagome followed the two men all the way through the halls and into a room. It was a recording room, though it was completely empty.

“Where’s Inuyasha? He’s supposed to be here.”

K whipped out his gun again and got an evil look on his face. “Maybe I should track him down, getting rid of everyone in my path..” he pointed the gun at Kagome. “starting with the girl.”

Kagome froze and held her hands up, trying to surrender, “You’re way off your rocker man! You can’t just point guns at people!”

Suddenly, the door slammed against the wall and a figure stood in the doorway. “K, leave her alone, she won’t be here long anyway.”

The figure was a man that Kagome immediately recognized.

It was Inuyasha Takahata.

Kagome watched as K smiled and put away his gun as Inuyasha walked through the door.

“Nice of you to join us.” Said Tohma. Inuyasha scoffed and looked off to the side.

“It’s not like you need me for the first part of this thing anyway.” He said.

“Yes, but that’s no reason for you to be rude. After all, she is going to be a guest on your CD, so the least you could do is be kind. Her name is Kagome Higurashi ”

Inuyasha turned his head toward Kagome. He walked over and stood right in front of her. She gulped as he watched her, but tried to not show any fear.

‘This is the girl behind that voice? I don’t believe it. It doesn’t look like there’s much special about this one. She must have cheated on that voice tape.’

“Hey,” she said, trying to be brave, “Do you find something interesting about me or what?”

Inuyasha gave her a rude look and walked back to the corner of the room.

“Well, it’s good to see you two getting along so well on the first day.” Said K.

“Alright, how about we get started? Kagome, could you please enter the recording room from the door in the hall?” asked Seguchi. Kagome nodded and gave one final glare at Inuyasha. He happily glared back.

She exited the room and walked a few feet down the hall and found another door. She opened it and could see a microphone in the middle, a stand with lyrics just behind the mic, and a glass window on the left. It was as wide as the room, and through it, she could see Tohma, K, and the jackass…I mean Inuyasha.

She walked in deeper and felt that there was a nice carpet on the floor. She stood in front of the mic as Tohma pressed a button on the control pad on their side of the glass.

She could hear a scratchy noise before she could hear Tohma’s voice on the speakers.

“Okay Kagome, this is just a test that we’re going to give you. It’s just for your voice, so we know what we can expect alright?”

Kagome nodded.

She could suddenly hear music playing in the room. It was one of the new popular songs on the radio. She looked at the stand and could see that the lyrics were to that song.

When the intro ended, she began to sing, right on queue, and it was phenomenal.

They all watched her as she sang the song, never taking her eyes off of the lyrics. All mouths in the other room were agape, especially Inuyasha’s.

‘Yeah…That’s the girl’

W00t, for all you gravitation fans out there, yes I had to bring in K and Seguchi, for the soul reason that I was way to lazy to come up with my own characters. For those of you who thought I created these characters, I’m letting you know now, that if I was that creative, I wouldn’t be writing non profit pieces of material ;) Anyway, review please!