Usagi's POV
Glistening in the far distance; framed by luscious trees was the place where my goal in life would be fulfilled. OH YES! The ACTUAL stage where the amazing Earthian Knights were ACTUALLY going to play an ACTUAL concert right in front of my ACTUAL anticipating eyes.
Ok, so I can't deny it, Earthian Knights are my favourite band of ALL time: past, present and, most probably, future. And yes you may call me a shallow fan girl, but I know I am and I accept it. There may be people who don't like it, but so what?
I couldn't believe my sheer luck and hard work in getting those precious tickets, although it did take up a vast year of my life savings and then a further 3 hours queuing... But in the end, it was defiantly worth it!
But of course you wouldn't expect me to go alone? HO HO HO…NO. I only had to go and drag my faithful bestest friend, Hino Rei, along with me for support. And to, you know, catch me if I just happen to make eye to eye contact with one of the band members half way through the show and faint for dramatic emphasis (could happen).
Or maybe I might even meet them and get autographs or signed t-shirts. Hey maybe, if I'm lucky, I'll get a hug! In which case I will NEVER bathe AGAIN (perish the thought).
Hmmmm, yes, you now may be thinking that the day you meet even one member of the Knights is the day I visit Santa in the North Pole. Well, lucky for you, because with my genius and wit (haha) I have more than half a chance of meeting them then any normal person (I hope hehe).
"WHAT THE HELL?! I CANT BELIEVE I LET YOU DRAG ME HERE! LOOK HOW LONG THE FREAKING QUEUE IS! IT'S GONNA BE THE RAPTURE BEFORE WE GET OUT OF HERE!" Rei-chan exclaimed as she scanned trough the wide variety of people in the seemingly never ending queue.
"Ahhhh but, my dear friend, we are near the front!" I responded in a vaguely truthful way, as we were quickly approaching the front. The entrance was rather unusual like no other... it was very close to the stage, with towering gates and two doors either side of the actual entrance. I supposed that the doors lead to back stage somehow, however there were 2 bulky security guards protecting the door and collecting in tickets by them.
"Hello? Usagi-chan? You okay?" Rei asked, wafting her hand in my face as my eyes became transfixed to the mystery door.
"Huh? Oh right, sorry." I stammered regaining my posture once again and reverting my eyes from the door to Rei-chan.
"YES! We are actually near the front! Finally! I was beginning to grow old here." she sighed, sniggering slightly.
I still had my eyes on the door... it was calling out to me; leaving a lingering smell and tempting me to enter. I tried my very hardest to ignore it, but BOY was it hard.
Soon we reached the front with one gang of boys in front, handing over their tickets slowly. I couldn't believe I was nearly there! Finally, my heart started to race and the butterflies in my stomach leapt with joy, making me feel sick.
I watched intently as the very last person in the mob stuck out his ticket and strutted through. My heart skipped a beat.
"Finally!" I breathed a sigh of relief and excitement as I got my ticket ready.
However, the security man held the last ticket high the air and peered at it, eyes squinted. He took a few seconds then his eyes widened.
Spinning round he yelled and dived at the boy, like Super Man, sending them both crashing into the ground and everyone else gasping as the security man tried to apprehend the boy.
"Fake ticket…" muttered Rei as she stared in awe at the scrap. I was rather astounded as well; however, that smell that had once caught my attention had now returned and I found my eyes being forced back to the door: the now UNGUARDED door.
I tried to restrain myself but it was too late; my brain had already hatched an idea too great to ignore.
"OOPS, my purse! Rei-chan, help me get it?" I said, more obvious than a pink polar bear in the Antarctic. But with the boy not going down without a fight and the impatient crowd now getting rowdy, I didn't think anyone would really notice - or care for that matter.
I tugged on her sleeve and the yanked her down to the floor.
"What are you doing Usagi-chan?" Rei demanded as I crawled closer to the door and she had no choice but to follow.
I didn't answer, as I could predict her unhelpful reaction. I continued and THANK GOD the door had been left slightly ajar. Rei-chan had probably grasped what I was doing by now, but didn't bother to argue as the plan was already too underway. Rei-chan and I were just thin enough to squeeze through the gap without drawing attention to ourselves.
I pulled my way through and got up. I'd actually made it… my plan had actually worked! I was on cloud nine I was so happy and intrigued by the long corridor that stretched down the opposite way. Maybe I would meet the renowned Earthian Knights after all.
"AHHH WHAT THE HELL USAGI-CHAN?! What are WE doing here? You're in soooo much trouble! This is so illegal!" Rei-chan complained in a fluster, whilst rising to her feet and brushing herself down.
"It's only illegal if we get caught." I stated with an evil smirk; a click of the heels and off I dashed to find… errr…something.
Dashing down the corridor, with Rei-chan not far behind, I was in a world of glee and happiness swarming my veins. It was so exciting; despite not knowing where I was going and that I appeared to be running down a dull corridor leading to basically nowhere. Apart from that, I was sure something positive was going to happen, or destiny was going to show!
"USAGI! For Christ's sake, wait up!" Rei yelled behind me clutching, my shoulder bringing me to a sudden halt with a surge of pain.
"OUCH! What's the matter?" I said casually…bad move.
"OH besides the point we've just ILLEGALLY snuck into a concert and are running down a dark and damp corridor to nowhere and may even get caught; forcing us to confess to the crime and go to jail for the rest of our LIVESSS!…Yeah but apart from that I'm totally cool." she retorted sarcastically, glaring.
"And your point is…?" I said happily, not trying to strike up too much conflict at this particular moment and continuing my journey down the corridor.
I didn't actually know what I was looking for or why I was doing it. I just loved the thrilling feeling you get when you're doing something you're not supposed to. Hey, never know what might happen at a EARTHIAN KNIGHTS concert.
"So… Ummm, where are we?" Rei asked, calming down and starting to keep pace with me.
"I dunno, I haven't exactly been here before." I replied, pointing out the obvious and Rei-chan just rolled her eyes at me.
"Wellll, I know this is a seriously bad time, but I think I see one ahead so... Ummmm, I need to go to the toilet." she said giving me a cheesy smile.
"Can't you wait? You can't be that desperate!" I whined, not waiting to waste a single precious moment of excitement on Rei-chan's stupidly timed bodily functions.
"If I don't get to a bathroom, the results could be hazardous! Hazardous I SAY!" she warned, trying to make a cheap joke at a crucial time.
I sighed and nodded giving in once again. However I was forced to wait outside because, as we approached the toilet, it came to our attention that it only had a single toilet and basin and not loads of cubicles.
"OH NO! I'M GONNA GET CAUGHT WAITNG OUT HERE!" I screeched, suddenly realising my fate.
"You'll be fine, besides I'll only be two minutes." she said slinking into the bathroom before I could do anything about it.
I stood there scanning the area. The corridor wasn't dark anymore it was bright and homely, more what you would expect. I could sense we were near to finding something…or even someone. There were many oak doors spaced along the corridor some with signs on but too far away to decipher.
I started daydreaming of the crowd outside and where the band must be, letting myself slowly drift off into my own world.
Suddenly I felt a cold tap on my arm and panic flushed over me.
'WHAT!?' I screeched rather stupidly as now I looked even guiltier.
But I froze upon whom I saw: dark hair, fantastically kissable lips and the most amazing stormy blue eyes. Yep, none other than: Chiba Mamoru, lead singer of the Earthian Knights…in the flesh!
"Uh, sorry didn't mean to scare you." he apologized looking down upon me. I felt my head tilting back to look up at him. Jeez, he was SO much taller in person!
Ok, this is it.
This is my moment.
My dreams have finally come true.
No time to mess this up!
Deep breaths.
In.
Out.
In.
Out.
"Y-y-you're hiiiiiiiimmmmm." Was all I could slither from my dried up throat.
Smooooooth.
He looked at me, puzzled and slightly scared at the freaky drooling stranger in front of him. I snapped out of my trance; it didn't take a genius to figure out what he was going to ask next: who are you?
"AHEM…I'm…a girl"
Obviously.
"…who is here…"
Duh!
"To fix…your…"
WHAT WHAT?!
"…hair….ahem yeah"
His face lit up.
"FINALLY, the hair dresser! I've been looking everywhere for you! I'm going on in like…." He looked at his expensive watch "AHHHH 10 MINUTES, we better hurry, I look like a BEAR!"
I giggled at the reference but immediately cleared my throat and tried to keep a straight face.
I couldn't believe that THE Chiba Mamoru was standing in front of me, and now he was looking extremely uncomfortable.
"ahem….sorry….you look like a bear….yes…..well I don't think you do, but you just said you looked like one and I thought it was funny…sorry" I stammered digging my grave deeper and deeper with every word.
To my surprise he smiled at me, a glistening smile that made me melt. WOOOWWW!
"Come on, we better get started." he said changing the subject.
Before I could squirm myself out of it he grabbed my arm and pulled me down the corridor. Plus the affect of that last dazzling smile had left me paralyzed and his touch on my arm felt like electricity was shooting through my veins. He could be dragging me into the depths of hell and I wouldn't have put up any form of resistance.
We entered an empty room that was full of makeup and hair products, rather plain but a typical salon kind of style. He slumped in one of the chairs and scanned me up and down.
"You look kinda young?" he said quite rudely, quirking an eyebrow sceptically.
"Huh? YEAH I JUST….GRADUATED VERRRYY EARLY."
'SHIT IM DOOMED!' I thought, but to my amazement he bought it.
"Oh cool. Well, the guys should have already briefed you on what to do to my hair so whenever you're ready." he replied with another dazzling smile.
I was out of my mind, what was I doing?! This was fraud! I didn't know the first thing about hair! Panic swept over me and the room felt like it was closing in.
My heart was racing and I felt like crying as he sat there, waiting as I touched his luscious hair - like I supposedly knew what I was doing.
"You seem pretty cool." he said randomly, as though he could sense how nervous I was.
"Heheh….thanks…I think you're amazing…" my eyes widened as I realised what I'd let slip out. Oh well, might as well go with the flow. "Shame I won't get to see the show." I continued sadly, realising that being here meant I was probably going to miss it.
"Why?" he frowned.
'Crap…' I thought as my nerves started picking up again.
"Because I need to….shave a….cat…cause I'm a hairdresser…..and ummm it's a VERY hairy cat…..seriously it's like a GIANT fur ball...eheheheh..."
I mentally cursed again. I was SOOO screwed!
He…laughed?! WHAAAT?
"Ha funny, you know I could sing you something for you seeing as you're going to miss the show?"
I stopped dead and my jaw dropped down to my waist. No way would THE Chiba Mamoru sing ME a song ALONE. It felt like it was all a dream and I'm really talking to my pillow, but no I'd pinched myself several times and this was no dream.
"F-f-for me?" I asked seeming rather pathetic, which I would kick myself for later.
"Sure, I wrote this song myself." He rose and grabbed his guitar then sat back down again "It's nothing like the kinda songs Jed writes, but anyways hope you like it."
He smiled and began to play a heart stopping tune and I swear I was so close to fainting I could feel the ground beneath my head. It was a beautiful song and the lyrics (which are the best bit in my opinion) were AMAZING!
As he was playing, I continued to do his hair - which didn't really look much different to when I started and soon enough he stopped playing and placed he guitar back down.
"So?" he questioned at my frozen body.
"W-WOW! OH MY GOD!" I squeaked.
"I'm guessing you liked it then?" he said chuckling slightly.
"LIKED IT? IT WAS FANTASTIC!" I couldn't stop myself from screeching, I was just so ecstatic.
"Well thanks." He laughed, "So, you nearly done?" he asked casually, relaxing back in his chair again.
I looked at his hair and came to the conclusion: it didn't look the slightest bit different from before.
"errrm…I just need one more thing."
Examining the room I reached for a blue tub of gel.
'This will do, I'll just put a bit on.' I thought in success.
Carefully holding the tub of gel in one hand above his head I scrapped a tiny bit on to his hair and tried to rub it in and style it somehow.
It wasn't sticking.
I put a bit more on.
Still wasn't sticking.
Bit more.
Nope.
In the end I just dug my hand in the tub and scooped a handful out then dumped it on his head.
He raised a perfect eyebrow at my behaviour, but I tried to ignore that. It was sticking now so I quickly tried to style it. However the gel started to become thicker and stuck to my hands consuming Mamoru's hair in blue slime.
Bugger…
I tried to make it better by sticking my hands in his hair and scraping out the goo. As I did this I noticed something about his once luscious black hair. AHHH IT WAS TURNING BLUE.
YES I REPEAT: BLUE!
My head was spinning, what had I done? The greatest day EVER had turned into my WORST nightmare.
I WAS DOOMED!
I finally meet Chiba Mamoru and what do I do: TURN HIS HAIR BLUE AND GOOEY… Brilliant.
Well, there was only one thing to do now.
"Ummm, I just need to go get a towel" I said slyly.
"But there a clean one here?" he pointed out, holding one up.
"WHAT THE...!" I grabbed the towel and swiftly chucked it out of the open window beside Mamoru, "AH HA NOW IT'S GONE! ….ahem I mean, I'll be right back." I smiled sweetly at a slightly frightened Mamoru and walked out the door.
I would have stopped and cherished the moment but I had literally no time to spare. I, rather ungracefully, pegged back down the corridor to find Rei-chan (seriously what was she doing in that bathroom?) and leave before I got into so much trouble it hurt to think about.
As my legs carried me down the corridor I heard a deep voice yell in shock.
I ran faster…