Well de Rouge An Inuyasha X Moulin Rouge Tale

Disclaimer; Inu-yasha is not mine! Nor is the story line to the Movie "Moulin Rouge" (boy these disclaimers give everything away)

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Well de Rouge (An Inu-yasha X Moulin Rouge Tale)

Okay Kagome 45765! No need to cause a scene! Besides, this is a really, really long one so sit back and enjoy. (You'll like this one, Hun! Trust me!)

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Chapter 4; A Must Pass Dance Class

Miroku sat in Sesshoumaru's office as the dog demon lit up his pipe. The playwright looked over the room as Sesshoumaru took a seat and offered him to take one as well.

"Kagome has an extraordinary gift, Miroku. I'm willing with your permission to employ her if you allow me to do so?"

Miroku looked at him rather odd, "If I allow you to?"

Sesshoumaru nodded, and Miroku sat back. Sure Kagome did not belong to him. She was merely the seamstress they needed to higher in order to have costumes for the...the musical.

Miroku grinned, "Of course she can."

Sesshoumaru clapped his hands with delight and sat up, "Wonderful! Now--"

"Ah uh! Now, now dear friend, understand that this does not come without a price."

Sesshoumaru held up his hands still smiling, "Of course, of course! How much do you need?"

Miroku watched him as he whipped out his checkbook, but he closed the book Sesshoumaru had open, "I need a stage for my musical."

Sesshoumaru looked at him and removed the pipe from his mouth, "I'm not willing to jeopardize my hall over a girl mind you, Miroku. Now girl is worth my reputation."

Miroku shrugged his shoulders, "Very well! I'll just take tell Kagome that the deal is off and--"

"Wait!" Sesshoumaru said getting up from his seat, "Alright! Under one condition!"

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"He said what?" Sango and Shippo chorused,

Miroku shook his head, "Look! If we help him with shows during the night, and pull some of our weight around here, he'll allow us to do the play."

"Yeah, and then what? What if Kikyo comes back before the play goes up? Kagome's gone as soon as she's back."

Miroku sighed, "We can only hope, but until them we have to keep Kagome going and make sure she understands that everything depends on her now and just impersonating Kikyo for a few nights."

Shippo looked out to the stage and shook his head, "Well, start packing, cause I don't think we'll have any hope with Kagome riding this whole thing on her shoulders."

Sango turned to the fox, "What makes you say that?"

Shippo motioned them to come over behind the curtain and he pointed out Kagome and a few of the other showgirls. Kagome couldn't keep up with them, nor could she keep a beat. She was either missing a step, or falling behind and trying to catch up. The biggest problem was Sesshoumaru's impatience as he stopped the music in order to get the girls started again.

It was late in the afternoon now, and Kagome had not eaten anything since breakfast early that morning. Her stomach was killing her and her head was in a fog.

Sesshoumaru turned the record off again, "Miss Kagome, what are you doing? We've gone over this part several times now, you should have it by now."

Kagome brushed her hair out of her face, "Look, I didn't sign up for this job, okay? You just accepted my audition, which I didn't even know about, and made me Kikyo's stand in. I can't dance! I've told you that."

Sesshoumaru sneered, "Well, you better learn quick! I've got three days to whip you into shape, and there is no time to waste due to your inexperience."

Kagome took a breath and readied herself to talk back, but Sesshoumaru snorted and ordered, "From the top, ladies!"

Kagome sighed and stomped back to her place on top the highest platform. One of the girls rolled her eyes and looked to her fellow dancer, "Jeez, and I thought Kikyo was difficult!"

Kagome over heard this and felt her heart break. She felt worthless all at once and felt like all that she had worked for meant nothing now. Everything road on her shoulders now, and she couldn't handle the responsibilities Kikyo handled in such chorography.

The music started, and Kagome started once again, but on the other hand, Inu-yasha had arrived from a client and took a seat next to his brother. He watched Kagome and stood dumbfounded as she lost her footing and fell behind once more. He turned to his brother, "She can't keep up! Why are you pushing her to the final run?"

Sesshoumaru groaned, "I need a dancer by the next night show, Inu-yasha. I don't have time to start from scratch with this girl."

Inu-yasha looked at Kagome as she tried to catch up and lose her footing once again, only this time she fell flat on her face at Sesshoumaru's feet. The dog demon groaned as he stopped the record, "That's it! I need a break. If I watch this any longer I'll lose my appetite."

Kaede looked to her boss and called dinner. Sesshoumaru looked at Kagome as she lifted her head and gazed up at him. Sesshoumaru shook his h "Y "You better get this right! Or your friends will never have that musical on this stage."

With that, the dog demon stomped off and left Kagome on the stage floor. She pulled herself up and sat on the first high rise. She crossed her arms and began to cry with all her misery. She took a breath and removed both of the ridiculously high-heeled dance shoes, and threw them across the room. They hit the large dancing floor with a loud clatter, but even the sound couldn't lift Kagome's broken heart.

"Jeez, you really do give up too easily!" a voice suddenly said from behind her. Kagome shot up to her feet, and turned around to find the source of the familiar tone.

Inu-yasha stood in the shadows of the stage and slowly walked up to her, "You know crying won't do you any good."

Kagome sniffled, "Yeah? Well...who asked you *sniff? You're the one who got me into this mess."

Inu-yasha snorted, "That's it! Blame it all on me! You obviously can't take the blame out on yourself alone, so why not spread glo gloom?"

Kagome sat back down and turned her back to him. Inu-yasha exhaled heavily and rubbed his dog-ear for a moment. He then walked down to where Kagome sat weeping and took a seat beside her. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a handkerchief for her to wipe her tears.

"So, what's weighing you down? So, you can't dance, but you can learn?"

Kagome let out a fake laugh, "Sure, you try and perform a miracle in three days before a show, not to mention your friends' musical rides on this, and your own pride as a person. I'm not just an object programmed to be Kikyo. I can only be Kagome!"

Inu-yasha groaned, "Act like Kikno ono one ever said you had to be her!"

"But that's what you want, isn't it? You want someone to be a fake Miko Diamond."

Inu-yasha found himself in a hole again, and he didn't try to fight her on this. He looked out to the dance floor and took Kagome by the arm. He led her out to where her shoes lay and he picked them up and looked at them for a moment.

Inu-yasha looked at Kagome, "There was this kid that worked here once. He couldn't dance for anything, not even a bag of gold. He wanted to quit hundreds of times, but one thing remained in his mind.

"He remembered his father's night hall and the first night he was old enough to see it. One guy stood out from all the rest, and they called him the Diamond's Lover. The guy danced like he had been doing it for years, and when the kid came up to him to ask him to help him learn to dance, the guy told him, 'There's only one thing you need to know in order to be a go dancer. You have to believe you can do it up in your head. Once you have it there, that's the easy part. From that point on, you need to find what makes you believe it in your heart.'"

Kagome whipped her last tear from her face and sniffled, "So, what happened?"

Inu-yasha grinned, "Well, the guy taught him how to dance, and he believed it up in his head enough to make it into the original male dance team here at the Well de Rouge, and when they guy retired, the kid was old enough to take his place."

Kagome smiled as Inu-yasha handed her the dance shoes. She looked at them, and then back at Inu-yasha, "So, what made him believe in the first place?"

Inu-yasha took a step back, "Well, in his head, the kid believed he could be just as good as the Diamond Lover, and he ended out being even better."

Kagome then had an odd look on her face and asked one last question, "And what does he believe in his heart?"

Inu-yasha smiled, "He's still trying to figure that out!"

Kagome felt odd about the whole conversation. Even though she knew very well whom they were talking about, she did not feel like she could be Kikyo's equal.

Inu-yasha cleared his throat, "Okay, let's get down to business here! You need to relax first hand because when you're all tense you can't think, can't move, and can't breathe. It's very important to breathe!"

Kagome sighed and looked at her shoes, but Inu-yasha took them out of her hands, "Don't bother with these now, we need to get your steps right, first."

Inu-yasha placed the shoes a ways from where they both were standing and came back to her. He looked over her dress and pondered for a moment, "First things first! You need to see what you're feet are doing in order to know where you're going."

"But Sesshoumaru said that I can't look at my feet."

Inu-yasha snorted, "Yeah, well, he's not your teacher now, I am, and the first thing we need to do is make sure you have an idea of where your feet are going."

Inu-yasha bent down to her skirt and lifted it, petticoats and all until all that could be seen was the pant like under garment. Kagome gasped and pushed her dress back down, "What are you thinking?"

Inu-yasha glared at her, "Oh please! I'm a gigolo for crying out loud; it's nothing I haven't seen before. Now do you want to see your feet or what?"

Kagome frowned and then sighed, "All right, but I'm only doing this for myself."

Inu-yasha waved his hands, "Fine, fine! Whatever just take it off!"

Kagome blushed, and Inu-yasha crossed his arms, "Oh you know what I meant!"

So, she sucked it in and removed her skirt and three petticoats. Kagome turned to Inu-yasha expecting him to be looking her over, but he didn't even seem to notice it. It was like that face she was partly undressed didn't even faze him.

Inu-yasha clapped his hands, "Now, lets get back on stage shall we?"

Kagome and Inu-yasha walked up to the top of the stage high rise, and Inu- yasha played the record. Kagome began her chorography so that he could spy her problem areas, and the only problem was...well, in short, all of it!

Kagome stopped halfway and looked at him, "Well?"

Inu-yasha stood with a displeased look on his face, and sucked air through his teeth before walking down to her, "How early do you wake up in the morning?"

"Before dawn, why?"

Inu-yasha put a fake grin on his face, "Okay, when you see that sun start to rise, that's when we stop."

Kagome gasped in anger, "Oh, so when do we start again, then huh?"

Inu-yasha took her hand, "Same time we end!"

He then pulled Kagome to the top of the stairs and went back down, "Okay, no music this time. First you need to learn beat. In dancing, there's usually a count to keep everyone in time starting from one to eight. So, lets try that!"

Kagome nodded and Inu-yasha began his count slowly at first and watched Kagome as she staggered through from one to eight. Inu-yasha shook his head, "No, okay, from the top again!"

He walked up with her this time and counted, but this time stopped at each number to correct Kagome's pose and stature until they got back down to eight. He turned to her when they got to five, "Okay, there's a pose we're missing here!"

Kagome groaned, "What now?"

Inu-yasha looked at her and then walked around her, "You need to act more sexy, more seductive. Every man wants a piece of you out there and you want to make it seem like you know it, but they can't have it."

Kagome laughed feeling goofy about the whole thing, "So, now what?"

"Well, think about it, you know! What makes a man's heart run wild about a woman?"

Kagome walked up to the top of the first step and thought hard for a moment about the steps. She got into her first pose, and thought about her figure as a woman. She puffed her chest out a bit and showed her legs off as she walked down the stage rises, and let Inu-yasha watch.

She then turned around and placed her hands on her hips for a moment, and then held one up to him, "I believe you were expecting me?"

Inu-yasha smiled and nodded, "Well, that's one part down!"

Thus, the days and night followed with the same training and dancing. Inu- yasha found time for her around his appointments and meeting places. Wherever there was room, he taught her. In the afternoon during her tea break he would teach her steps to simple dances and steps in public. Behind closed doors he'd put those steps to work by showing her how to make them more seductive and sultry. Places for these lessons took place either in her hotel room or on the stage of the Well de Rouge. Often the whole lesson would get boring, and Kagome would try to bring him out of his serious mode into a fun one, but she knew when it was time for real work and whatnot. Inu-yasha's teaching and lessons led to short sleeping hours for Kagome alone, because she slept only when he was away with a client. He seemed to act like there was no tomorrow, like he thrived off being awake for such long hours, but maybe he was used to this, too.

In one lesson, she found herself learning how to dance in a very different set of clothing. Inu-yasha knocked on her door in the hotel, and she answered it rather groggy. She looked at him when the door was open and he walked in, "Okay, we need to make up for lost time, so let's get started!"

Kagome groaned as she shut the door, "What do we do tonight at this ungodly hour?"

Inu-yasha removed his trench coat and revealed a rather horrific corset that looked like the waist could, well, disappear. Kagome's jaw dropped, "What is that?"

Inu-yasha gave her a look, "It's a corset, what's it look like?"

Kagome mocked a laugh, "It looks like something that you'd get from a torture chamber."

Inu-yasha snorted in amusement and then twirled his finger to tell her to turn around. Kagome groaned, and took hold of her bedpost.

"Wait! I have to take my corset before I put that thing on!" Kagome announced and began to undo the snaps in her corset. Inu-yasha waited until the black corset she wore over her white night shirt came undone. As the black garment shed off her body, he couldn't help but notice one very different fact about Kagome's body and Kikyo's. Kagome caught this sudden observance and questioned, "What?"

Inu-yasha sort of came out of a slight daze, "I'm sorry! It just that...um!"

"What?" Kagome demanded and she put her hands on her hips.

Inu-yasha growled and closed his eyes, "You're not like Kikyo as much as I thought."

Kagome looked at her breasts for a moment, realizing that this was the topic of their conversation. She looked back up at him, "Are they not like hers?"

Inu-yasha looked again and sighed nervously, "No, but I don't think we have much to worry about there anyway."

Kagome placed the corset around her body, and Inu-yasha's claws combed out the cords. She adjusted the front of the corset, and then prepared herself by taking hold of her bedpost. Inu-yasha tugged at the cords until they met her normal figure, "Well, here we go! You ready?"

Kagome squeaked and gripped the bedpost with her arms. Inu-yasha shook his head and gave his first good pull, and instantly Kagome exhaled out loud.

"Oh jeez!" she cried.

Inu-yasha pulled all the excess cord from the lacing so it would make its way down to the excess cord in his hands, "Just try to keep it all in!"

He pulled again with a good trust and Kagome gasped, "Oh, gods, I can't breathe!"

Inu-yasha snorted, "Get used to it!" and he gave on last and final pull and tied the corset off. Kagome gasped to try and get a full breath of air, but it was no use.

Kagome closed her eyes and felt the sides of her body, and found that the depth of her curves had gn fan far deeper.

Inu-yasha put on a record and held out his hand, "All right, let's go!"

Kagome shook her head and leaned back against the bedpost, "I can't dance like this. I can't breathe!"

Inu-yasha rolled his eyes and took hold of her to make sure she knew he was close by, "You faint now, and you'll never get through this?"

Kagome sighed, but it wasn't as heavy as usual, "Fine, put the sooner we finish, the fast you help me out of this evil thing."

And so, the lessons continued, with the "ungodly" corset on Kagome until she got used to it.

Finally, it was Monday afternoon and the show was in two hours. Kagome was dressed in her undergarments while Inu-yasha was dressed in his under shirt and pants. Kagome had gotten used to the fact she didn't have to worry about clothing around him, and she found that the other girls wore only there underwear around the Well de Rouge as well during rehearsal, and sure even at the show there really wasn't much difference, but she liked that she could feel comfble ble with Inu-yasha more than the other gigolos.

So, the time had come for final judgment, and Kagome was ready. Inu-yasha sat up after drinking his tea with her on the stage and clapped his hands, "All right, it's time for your finals, Kagome! You believe you can handle it yet?"

Kagome jumped up to her feet and got into position, "I'm ready for anything, Inu-yasha! Let's play that record and show it whose boss!"

"Good!" Inu-yasha simply stated and pulled the the same handkerchief Kagome had whipped her tears with long ago. Kagome looked at the cloth then at him confused, "What's that for?"

Inu-yasha smiled and got behind her, "If you really know it, then you can do it with out your eyes!"

He bound the handkerchief over her eyes, "But if I can't see how will I know where the step is, or when I need to find my partner?"

"You shouldn't have to use your eyes for that. Use what's inside of you. Uses your instincts!"

Kagome stood blinded and got back into position as Inu-yasha turned the record on once more. She felt everything in side of her scream in fear and terror. How could she do this? How could he do this to her? She couldn't dance with out her sight, or could she?

Suddenly, everything inside of her snapped and all she could here was the music and feel Inu-yasha's presence. She'd gotten this far, and nothing was going to stop her now. Kagome took her first few steps.

One, Two, Three...

The music played in her head as she moved with it, and felt her body go into this zone all its own. She was doing it! She was really dancing!

ThrFourFour, Five...

Now came the part where she danced with a partner, and she felt Inu-yasha's clawed hand touch hers and he pulled her close to him like they had always done before. His hands touched her leg and supported her back. Then, she took hold of the hand that touched her leg and he let him take the lead as he danced in his sultry ways with her.

Seven, Eight, and One...

Kagome soon found herself wondering what was going through his mind when he did this. He hated her, didn't he? So, what really made him act like this around her? Then, it kind of clicked in as acting. He was acting like he couldn't resist her body, but in reality it was all just simple steps to a dance. It was nothing but a dance.

Six, Seven, Eight, and STOP!

Kagome found herself in the final position, which was Inu-yasha dipping her and putting his face near hreasreasts. She pulled her head up and removed the blindfold, "I did it! Inu-yasha, I did it! I can dance!"

Inu-yasha pulled her back to her feet and she smiled at him and he smiled back at her, "So, you believe it in your head now, right?"

Kagome nodded franticly, "Oh, gods, yes, but you were right! Something about your heart plays a part in this as well. It was like it was guiding me through it all, but I don't know what was making it believe. It's like a completely different reason than the one in my head. I don't know what it is!"

Inu-yasha smiled as he caught his breath, "That's what will make you get better and better as you go. You'll want to know that answer, and you won't stop untou fou find it."

Kagome smiled and suddenly spied the clock to the side of the stage, "Oh shit!"

She took hold on Inu-yasha's clawed hand, "We have to get ready! We have to be ready for the second number!"

Inu-yasha gripped her hand as he looked at the clock and then back at her, "Go to Kikyo's quarters. Kaede will be waiting there to suit you up."

Kagome gripped his hand and looked at him, "You'll be there, right? I mean, I know I'm not dancing with you, but you'll still be near by, right?"

Inu-yasha saw the look in her eyes and felt everything in his body shutter. He cleared his throat and let go of her hand, "Yeah, I mean, I have the next number after yours. I have to be back stage by then."

Kagome smiled and hugged him, and Inu-yasha found himself in a daze from the sudden reaction. Kagome suddenly snapped out of her own daze and pulled away from him, with a red blush over her face. Inu-yasha had his own and then turned his head to backstage, "Come on, Kagome! The longer we stay here the less time you'll have to get into your 'ungodly' corset."

Kagome whinnied and held her sides as she walked beside Inu-yasha to the dressing rooms.

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A/N; Awe! What a great chapter, huh? Hope you're all salivatin' for more.

Next chapter, Kagome's big break has arrived. Dressed in a red gown and complete with diamond-covered necklaces and jewelry, Kagome feels ready for anything, but there's only one problem. She doesn't think she can dance the same way she does when she's in Inu-yasha's arms. So, what happens when the backstage pass becomes a total front and center panic? Well, it's time to start finding out those reasons why they believe in their hearts.

See ya next time! Love Rubster!

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