Disclaimer: Gravity nor Gravitation belongs to me. I owe these two to the great minds of Maki Murakami and S.G. Hill.
Chapter One
Ryuko Sakuma made her way into the park, followed by her cousin Slacker and several other members of Snowflake. She hummed to herself, hugging Kumagoro to her. "Remind me what we're doing her." Sara-chan asked. "Just walking!" Ryuko answered and swung the stuffed bunny around in a circle. "Right…" Himeko-chan muttered to herself. The brown-haired girl stopped. Slacker bumped into her. "Ooof!" He steadied himself for a second, tugging on the halter on his guide dog Katsugan. "Ryu-chan, what is it?" "Do you here that, Slacker?" He frowned and tilted his head. "Sound like….a keyboard?" "I agree!" Saki said with a nod. She'd played the damn thing enough to know when one was being played. "Sounds pretty good!" Ryuko grinned. "Let's go check it out!" She raced ahead. "Ryuko, wait!" Hime-chan growled. "Let's just go after her…" Saki sighed, tucking the bottle of booze under her coat.
Sara sighed and ran after Saki, stopped and looked back at Ryuko's cousin. "Slacker?" He smiled. "Go ahead. Katsugan and I will be along in a while." She nodded and headed to where the rest of her band mates had disappeared.
Ryuko came within distance of where the music was coming from, crouching down and hiding behind a bush, chewing on Kumagoro's ear. A girl with black hair, about their age stood, tinkling away, playing an amazing tune if Ryuko said so herself. She tilted her head. That wasn't just any song! It was a Nittle Grasper song. She frowned trying to figure out which one. "It's Sleepless Beauty, I think." Slacker said coming up beside her, Katsugan sniffing at the dead leaves on the ground. "She's amazing!" Saki slurred. "Saki!" Ryuko turned around red-faced. "You've been drinking!" "Does it show, baby!" She wrapped her arms around the other girl. "And it's SAKE." "EH! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU CALL YOURSELF! JUST LET ME GO!" The blonde smiled drunkenly. "Great…" Himeka murmured shaking her head. This started an ongoing scuffle between Ryuko and Saki (or should we say Sake). "You're so gorgeous!" "Saki! Cut it out!" The bushes started to shake, alerting the girl playing the keyboard to their presence.
"Who's there!"
Ryuko cursed. "See! We've spotted!"
Slacker shrugged his shoulders, "Then why don't we introduce ourselves."
"Great idea!" Sara agreed, nodding her head. "Let's go you two!"
Himeka followed the other's leaving poor Ryuko at Sake's mercy. "Help! Get back here you guys! Eck! Himeka! Sara-chan! SLACKER!"
Himeka looked at the girl who they were approaching. Her hair was raven. Really raven, unlike hers that had been dyed. It was kind of straight and reached down waist. She stopped playing the keyboard and looked up at the new comers, smiling. "Oh, hi!" She folded her hands at her waist Her golden-amber eyes were full of warmth.. "How do you do?" Ryuko moved to talk as soon as she got free of 'Sake' but… "Who disturbs the great, Matsunaga-san?" A low young male voice intoned. Sara moved her head, craning it around to be what she hadn't seen. It was a young boy. He was lying across the bench near the keyboard. He looked to be writing something. The girl rolled her eyes. Who's that? Ryuko thought. "Don't mind him. That's just my annoying little brother." "I said, silence, mortal!" The boy got up, towering over all of them on the bench. "You have disturbed the God of Haiku and now you must pay the penalty!" He began to laugh insanely. "And to think…He's usually so quiet…" The girl muttered under her breath, though Ryuko could clearly hear.
"You have disturbed!" his voice became more serious and less stupid sounding.
The girl picked up her back pack a flung it at her young brother! "SHUT UP, KIYOSHI!"
It hit him dead-on and he fell back off the bench and landed into the bushes behind him.
She grinned…. "Sorry about that!"
Ryuko, "That's all right. Didn't bother us one bit! Did it guys?" She looked to her band mates.
"Quite all right!" Slacker agreed, his dog beginning to sniff at the girl's school uniform.
It was white and had a blue skirt, a red bow and blue sailor collar along with blue cuffs at the sleeves. "What high school do you go to?" Ryuko asked. The girl looked at her outfit. They looked to be the same age. "Ejihaan High." "Hmmm." "Oh! How rude of me!" She bowed to Ryuko. "I'm Usagi Uesugi! I'm very pleased to meet you!" Her golden-amber eyes glittered as she said this. "Nice to meet you too. I'm Ryuko Sakuma and these are my…" But the poor girl never got through the sentence. "Uh-oh…" The boy named Kiyoshi sporting the same eyes and hair said, coming out from the bushes. "Uh-oh?" Sara-chan parroted. "Uh-oh." He looked towards his sister, who looked as if she was a full piñata about to explode. "SAKUMA! DID YOU SAY SAKUMA?" She fluttered high on angel's wings, dress now in a red kimono and waving a fan. "AS IN RYUICHI "THE GOD" SAKUMA?" "There she goes…" Kiyoshi slumped on the bench, shaking his head. "Is this bad?" Saki asked. "Does it LOOK bad?" The boy retorted tightly. "OH MY! I HEARD HE HAD A KID! ARE YOU HER? I ABSO-FREAKIN"-LUTELY LOVE NITTLE GRASPER!" "Oy…" Kiyoshi shook his head and took something of his back pack. It looked to be a gun at first glance, but Sara immediately noticed it as a rubber dart shooter. "Die, vile being!" He fired the first dart at his elder sister's forehead. "Return to the cursed lands which you come from!" He fired another, which stopped the crazed girl in her tracks. Usagi fell against the grass, lying there quietly.
He lowered the dart gun with a serious expression on his face. "Please excuse her. She was dropped on her head when she was an infant. Hasn't been right since."
"Oh, what would you know, you twerp!" Usagi got up glaring at her brother. "Little brother…Must DIE!"
"You're the one acting like the idiot! Why must I die?"
She was turning scary.
"I was just trying to write my haiku, but you're noisy… As usual!"
She rolled her eyes. "WHATEVER!" She turned to smile at her new friends. "I'm sorry for acting like a spaz…" Usagi took Ryuko's hand. "It's just that… Nittle Grasper's my ultimate favorite band..." She sighed. "Which…mind you…" Kiyoshi spoke up. "Hasn't been around since, what sixteen years ago?" He was such wet-blanket. Not to mention a pain in the ass! "It's not their fault!" "Yeah, due to the fact that the vocalist croaked…" He continued to write. She gritted her teeth. Pain in the ass indeed! "My beloved Ryuichi was killed in a terrible car accident, you little jerk!" She put a hand dramatically over her heart. "Whatever." Kiyoshi lifted his head from his writing and wrinkled his nose. "He's still dead. What's dead cannot be brought back to life…" Ryuko listened in amazement. She was a bit insulted that this little asshole was speaking so of her biological father. "You're such a little jerk, Kiyoshi!" Usagi ground out. "For a prodigy you're sure not so smart sometimes!" She stalked towards him. "You're so DEAD!" He saw this, eyes widening he ran off. Usagi held up a finger. "Just a sec kay?"
Ryuko and the rest of the crew nodded and watched as the girl, Usagi chased her annoying, insulting little brother all over the park for a good while. "What's with that you suppose?" Saki asked. "That little raven brat's an ass, that's what?" Ryuko's was slightly ticked. "I thought you didn't care…" Sara-chan began. "I don't hate Ryuichi. So I can't stand him being talked about like that!" Steam came out of her ears. "Who does that brat think he is?" Usagi came back up to her new friends and smiled. "Sorry, about that." She shook her head. "For twins…." Sara, "Twins?" "That's right! Twins!." She looked after where her brother had disappeared. "But we're nothing alike. And I guess that's how it should be. But he doesn't have to be a jerk! You'd think we'd be closer, seeing as how we're twins!" Her eyes became sad. "He just doesn't understand my love for Nittle Grasper…" She sniffed real tears back. "I mourn every day Ryuichi Sakuma died." She wiped her eyes. "Sorry. I know I go a bit over the top." She smiled. "So you're his daughter?" "Yeah." "And it must be SO cool to be raised by two famous people? Shuichi Shindou and Eiri Yuki!
"I've read everyone one of his books you know!" Her eyes sparkled. "They're SO awesome!"
Ryuko nodded. "He's my Papa, and I agree!"
"WOW!"
"I go to all his signings!"
"ME TOO!"
"Kinship!" They hugged each other.
"Tell your Papa to keep up the good work okay! From a fan!"
"How lovely?" Himeka murmured. "She's found someone whose fanatic as she is. Wonderful."
Usagi tugged a Ryuko's hands. "Come to my house, Ryu-chan!" She grinned from ear to ear. "I want to show you my collection!" Ryuko grinned back. "You bet!" "Sounds fun!" Kumagoro said for the first time. "Sure does, Kuma-chan!" "Oh, how cute! My elder sister has a Kumagoro just like that one!" She patted the bunny's head." "Really?" "Yeah, it was given to my okaa-san as a present before she was born (my elder sister, that is)." "How cool!" "Yeah…" "Ahem!" This came from Himeka. "Oh!" She laughed. "How careless of me! Usagi, wasn't it?" Nods. "Usagi, these are my friends and band mates?" "You're in a band!" "Yes." "How cool is that!" "…my band mates, Sara Fujisaki…" Sara-chan curtsied. "Himeka Nakano." Hime-chan nodded curtly. "Saki Ukai." "The daughter of Noriko Ukai!" "That's right..." Saki replied. "SO COOL!" "And the guy with the Labrador is my cousin Setsuna Seguchi. Or as he is more popularly known…Slacker." "COOL!" "Pleasure." Slacker murmured. "You're Snowflake!" "Oh! You've heard of us! I didn't think anybody had!" Ryuko exclaimed. "If you're Slacker…" She pointed to the blonde. "You must be the only son of Tohma Seguchi!" "That's right." She got excited again.
"Now, you MUST totally come to my house!"
"Well… I don't know…Micheal…."
"Puhhhlease!" Usagi begged, getting down on her knees, becoming a puppy dog, taking on BIG golden eyes. She whimpered. "Pleaze!" Inu-Usagi whimpered still, hoping to break down Ryuko's resistance.
She looked at her band member's, thinking about it for awhile.
"PLEASE!" Inu-Usagi tugged on Ryuko's skirt.
"Well…" She twisted her skirt in her hands. "I guess it would hurt for a little bit…"
"Hopefully, Michael won't kill us…." Himeka muttered, folding her arms.
A/N: NO comment other than…Please review and hope you liked it!
