The upbeat music pulsed over the crowd as Kaoru watched the small blonde girl bounce around on stage. The dark pink streaks in her short choppy hair seem fluorescent in the summer sun.
"So raise your glass if you are wrong, in all the right ways all my underdogs! We will never be, never be anything but loud and nitty gritty dirty little freaks! Won't you come on and come on and raise your glass! Just come on and come on and raise your glass!" The girls' voice carried loud and proudly over the cheers as she pumped her fist high in the air.
Kaoru had been wandering a street fair with Haruhi and Hikaru when he had noticed the girl. It was the last week of their summer vacation before they would be starting their second year of high school and Hikaru and Haruhi had been dating for about a month now. Kaoru was happy the two of them had gotten together, he really was, but there were times that he felt like a third wheel. Like today.
Hikaru had asked him a few days ago if there were any girls he was interested in. After thinking about it, Kaoru realized that the only girl he had started getting feelings for was Haruhi, but he wanted his brother to be with her more than himself. The more Kaoru thought about it the more he realized how predictable the girls at school were. Could that be why they never caught his interest?
A typical conversation with the girls from school consisted of their families and what their parents did. When it wasn't family, it was something about school, or maybe a celebrity, and of course the Host Club. Were things really so predictable or was it just something that Kaoru was just starting to notice more?
"Slam, slam, oh hot damn! What part of party don't you understand? Wish you'd just freak out. Can't stop, coming in hot, I should be locked up right on the spot. It's so on right now! Party crasher. Penny snatcher. Call me up if you a gangsta. Don't be fancy, just get dancey! Why so serious?"
This girl wasn't like any other girl Kaoru had met before. She moved so free and confidently. It was like she didn't care that she would go off key now and then, or care that she tripped during her dancing. Aside from Haruhi, all the girls Kaoru met were so quiet, poised, and… well, everything they were always taught a proper lady should be like.
Kaoru wanted to meet this girl.
After the girls' song was over his voice mixed with the cheers of the others in the crowd. A tall man crossed the stage, clapping as he laughed and took the microphone, "Weren't these kids great? Let's hear it for-"
"There you are!" Hikaru's hand touched his twins shoulder, "We've been looking for you all over the place."
"Huh?" Kaoru turned and looked at his brother, "Oh, sorry, I just wanted to hear that girl."
"What girl?" Haruhi asked.
"Up there," Kaoru gestured to the stage, but the girl and her band were gone.
Kaoru looked around in confusion, trying to spot the girl over the crowd.
"She was just up there." He said, "I didn't hear the bands name, did either of you?"
"This was a battle of the bands Kaoru." Haruhi said, "There are a lot of bands that were supposed to play today."
Kaoru frowned as he tried to see the girl over the crowd one more time. That was it. The girl had disappeared as fast as she had gotten his attention.
Meanwhile, behind the stage, the small girl stretched her arms happily above her head.
"God that was great!" she grinned.
"Yea," the boy who had been playing the drums said as he twirled the narrow stick between his fingers. "It's too bad you're going to be transferring schools though. We won't be able to practice during lunch anymore."
"I know." The girl sighed, "Going to Ouran's gonna suck."