Chapter 1 ~ Meeting You

~I wouldn't exactly call it love at first sight. Hell, I could have cared less about the guy; I just wanted to get a decent bass player.~


"Luka!" a voice echoed from the entrance of the small music studio. Upon hearing her name, the pink-haired woman shifted her attention from a handful of sheet music to the direction the voice came from. The voice belonged to a grinning Meiko.

Luka raised an eyebrow, "What are you so happy about?"

"We found our bass player!" Meiko replied, her grin still intact. Luka's expression brightened up and she rose to her feet.

"Really, where'd you find them?"

"He's an old friend of Kaito's."

Luka cringed a bit at that statement; she had met Kaito's friends before. One was completely obsessed with leeks. What was her name, Hatsune? She seemed sane enough, until she invited Luka over that is. She had made entire dinner with them; every single dish she had prepared had leeks in it somehow. She sang songs about them and even had a few leek plushies. Her hair was even the same color as a leek; Luka assumed the girl had dyed her hair. Then there were the twins Rin and Len … well at least they looked like twins. Their personalities were polar opposites. Rin was bouncy and energetic while Len was cool and collective yet; they were always together and seemed to get along well. But they had one thing in common, their love for road rollers. Of all things, why a road roller? It was a love Luka hoped to never gain nor understand. 'Twins always seemed kind of creepy, thank you Hollywood,' Luka thought. The brunette's puzzled look freed Luka from her thoughts.

Meiko grabbed her arm, "Come on, you need to come introduce yourself!"

'Please be normal, please be normal…'

In the doorway were Kaito and two other people Luka didn't recognize. One was a tall slender male with the prettiest sky blue eyes Luka had ever seen and … purple hair. Long purple hair at that, Luka mentally gagged and switched her eyes to the green-haired girl. She looked like she had just gotten back from an anime convention. She was dressed in a traditional Japanese variation of that Gothic Lolita style. Luka had to admit, she did look kind of cute.

"Ah, if it isn't our little diva," Kaito said.

"Shut up, Kaito."

"How lady-like. Luka, meet Gakupo Kamui and his sister Gumi."

Luka raised an eyebrow, "Gakupo Kamui, like Gackt Camui?"

"Only better," Gakupo added.

Smug too, the guy hadn't even played a note yet and he was already losing points with Luka. Cute or not he better be one hell of a bass player for her to even consider adding him to the band. And why did he bring his sister?

"Um please excuse Oniichan's rudeness. Please let us show you our talent through our music, Ms. Megurine," Gumi stepped in.

"Do you play bass?" Luka asked, still unsure why Gumi was there.

"No, but I do play the keyboard and piano quite well! I'm not too bad at the flute either."

"But we only need - -"

"Uh like Gumi said; let them show you their talents through their music." Kaito interrupted, looking somewhat worried. "Besides what band have you heard of with only four members?"

"He does have a point," Meiko chimed in.

Luka sighed and placed her hand to her face, this wasn't going as planned. She told Kaito specifically to bring back a bass player not a bass player and pianist. She should have known not to trust Kaito with something so important. 'Oh well,' Luka thought. It can't be helped now and it would be cruel to tell the girl that she couldn't audition after being told she could. Even though she kind of wanted to and mentally cursed herself for having gotten a keyboard for the music studio she, Meiko, and Kaito were splitting the bill on. In a way, Kaito did do his job. He just brought someone extra, and who knows, maybe the girl was good. Luka sighed again and removed her hand from her face.

"Ok fine, prove to me that you're worthy." She said finally.

"Yay, I promise you we won't disappoint!" Gumi said with confidence.

Much to Luka's dismay they didn't disappoint, they blew her away. It could have been that they knew the songs that she a thrown at them so she decided to try some of her own songs that she had composed herself to not only test their freestyle skills, but to throw them off as well. Hmm, maybe she was cruel after all! Unfortunately Luka's evil plan had backfired, for Gakupo and Gumi had seemed prepared for her little tricks. Every note was dead on, they stayed in sync with the rest of the group. They didn't over power the others either, and even did their own little solos without going out of key. After a few hours Luka could do nothing more but accept defeat.

"Are we done "proving ourselves" to you yet, Ms. Diva?" Gakupo asked, with an "I-told-you-so" smile on his face.

"We did well, didn't we Oniichan?" Gumi asked.

"Well, you weren't bad," Luka added, still somewhat unable to grasp what had just happen.

"That's Luka Speak for: "You two are totally in."" Meiko translated.

"What, it does not!"

"Ah, is Ms. Diva in denial?" Gakupo asked.

Luka shifted her gaze to Gakupo. His cockiness was really putting a strain on her patience. It would only be a matter of time before she ended up punching the guy or worse. An already tarnished reputation would not be good for a band, especially when you're new. If he was going to join them, he obviously needed to know his place. And she was just the person to him there. "You should respect your Diva and keep quiet." Luka said.

"You should watch that sharp tongue of yours, it may get you in trouble."

"You should also, or else girls won't like you!"

"Is that more denial I hear?"

"W-what?!"

"Admit it, you fell for me the moment you saw me."

"Like hell I did!"

While Luka and Gakupo argued, Meiko, Kaito, and Gumi were off to the side negotiating. "So… Luka, Meiko, and I both split the bill for this place so you two will be required to do the same." Kaito said. Gumi nodded, letting Kaito know that she understood.

"And," Meiko added, "You will have to find your own way over to the studio for practices. Although the occasional ride every now and then is fine, but don't make a habit of it."

"I understand," Gumi said in an unusually serious tone.

"Same goes for gigs… if we get any that is…"

"I'm sure we will, Ms. Luka has a very angelic voice!"

"Yeah…when she's singing," Kaito said; look back at the arguing pair.

"You are such a dick!" Luka exclaimed.

"You only say that because you're in denial," Gakupo stated.

"Denial my ass, you're delusional!"

"Please excuse Oniichan's behavior," Gumi said to Meiko and Kaito.

"Only if you excuse Luka's," Meiko said.

To be continued…