Something Different
Zakuro sat outside the large, mansion house, which Mint Aizawa lived in. She looked at her watch, and tapped her foot impatiently. She wore a black top with a plunging neckline, and a white mini-shirt with little chains running off of it. She wore knee-high black leather boots, and it was evident they were going to something important. She looked up, hearing a door shut above, and saw the young girl she was waiting for run out of the house.
"Miss Zakuro! I'm sorry that I'm late, I had to make sure I had everything!" Mint apologized quickly, as Zakuro smiled, only a little. She liked how Mint had dressed, nothing to classy, but not too trashy. The 13 year old wore a white collared shirt with long sleeves. On her right sleeve was the print of a blue bird. She wore small black shoes and a long blue skirt.
"Don't fret. Come on, we need to hurry. Ryou said this might be the one he's been looking for." Zakuro said, as they walked into a limo before it sped off, as fast as Zakuro commanded them to go. "Now, what Ryou has said was this is the next girl he has found."
"Any name?" Mint asked, as Zakuro shook her head.
"He didn't say. But what he did say was that during a malfunction during their experiments, it was injected into a girl without her even noticing anything, not like what happened with us." Zakuro explained, remembering the day perfectly: a large earthquake, and an odd light. She looked up, seeing a large line of people suddenly whipping past them. Mint looked out the window, before they stopped at a large stadium. "Come on, we need to hurry."
The two girls stepped out of the limo, and right to the front of the line. They showed two passes, personally gotten by Keiichiro, as the man let them by, a few girls already passing on the news that the model Zakuro Fujiwara was there that night. They walked down stairs, right to backstage. People with headphones were buzzing around like bees, yelling into their headsets. One girl was especially chatty, before spotting Zakuro and Mint.
"I've got to go." She spoke quickly, before smiling at Zakuro and Mint. "Miss Fujiwara and Miss Aizawa! Welcome! We're so happy to have two performers to see on the newest star on her first show! Come on, she's right in here." The women lead the two into a new room, jabbering on her headset the entire way.
She opened a new door, where people were running around with make-up applicators and different compacts filled with colors of all kinds. They were all running around a girl with long, raven hair that was dyed black in streaks. The girls with makeup were putting black eyeliner on the younger girl's eyes, along with black eye shadow. They were making her look pale, and accenting the black eye shadow with light blue sparkles. They all stepped back, as the girl opened her eyes. Dark green eyes with hazel flecks were reflected back in the mirror, as she smiled.
"That's good girls, you can go now; I have visitors." The girl said, as the women bowed and ran out of the room. The girl stood up from the chair she was sitting in, and turned around. She was wearing a white corset with black accenting, with no straps. She wore black pants, with long chains and orange accents. Large, clunky, black boots with buckles up the side made her become at least five inches taller, as tall as Zakuro to be exact.
"So, you're the model Zakuro Fujiwara and the dancer Mint Aizawa." She said, placing a hand on her waist and tilting her head. She looked them up and down, before extending her hand. "I'm Zeisha." She shook both Zakuro's and Mint's hand. Zakuro caught a flash of something pink on the underside of both of her wrists. She couldn't catch it before she took her hand away. "I'm glad to have you two here, I could use the support from the other performers that have already been under the spotlight." Zeisha said, smiling.
"It is good to be here." Mint said, as Zakuro nodded. Because Zeisha was more around Mint's age, Mint would do all of the talking. "I love a lot of your work, it's good to have some variety in people's singing. You don't sing just one type of song, you sing from soft and slow to fast and harsh, it's amazing what you can pull off!"
"Thank you Mint." She said, smiling. "You'll like what I'm doing for this concert, because I need to show a lot of people what I can do under pressure." Zeisha explained, before tilting her head. She pressed her hand to her ear, before nodding. "Alright, I understand. I'm coming." She looked up to Zakuro and Mint and bowed. "I must go now…" She said, before running off.
"She might not be the one… I thought I saw the mark but…" She looked at Zeisha's wrists and only saw the residues of some of her blush. "I was wrong…" She said, sighing and crossing her arms. Mint was busy snooping around in many sheets of paper, before picking up one. She looked at it with a quizzical glance, but then smiled and brought it over to Zakuro.
"This may interest you." Zakuro took the paper, and Mint continued. "It looks like an entry in her diary. Look at the last notes." She added, as Zakuro looked down at the bottom of the paper.
I don't know how my voice got so much better after that odd dream I had. Like, my sorrowful notes are like the call of a crying girl, and my screaming sounds as sharp as a dying animal, no matter how bad that sounds. Might be the extra classes I was taking helping me out. But, whatever it is, it seems to be helping me more then ever, I've been creating more and more creations with this new addition to my voice.
Zakuro smiled, before folding up and placing it in her pocket. "Ryou would love to see this one." She said, before they walked out of the room. "But we have no proof. Remember, without seeing her form for ourselves or the mark, she might not be the one at all." Mint nodded, as they walked out of Zeisha's room. Someone with a headset locked up her room, leading Mint and Zakuro towards backstage.
"Yeah, I know." Mint rolled her eyes. This was so tedious. No wonder Ichigo was acting all strange when she was searching. "But hey, we get to enjoy good music while we're here!" Mint grinned, as Zakuro laughed. The rounded a corner, as Mint spotted the amount of people crammed into the stadium. The voices were so loud, her ears almost hurt.
"Hey, you two!" Zakuro turned coolly, spotting the woman from before. "I'm sorry to intrude, but you shouldn't be that close to the stage, the speakers could blow your eardrums out…"
"We brought ear-plugs." Mint explained, taking out some black rubber plus. "We'll be fine." She placed them in her ears, before glaring at the woman. "Shouldn't you be going somewhere? Or are you supposed to stand there staring at us?" The woman, taken aback, apologized, and ran away.
"You're learning too much from me." Zakuro raised an eyebrow at Mint, who smiled innocently.
Suddenly, screams rang out through their ears. Zakuro winced, before noticing Zeisha had walked out on stage. Her eyes sparkled a multitude of colors, before strutting over to the microphone. A black lip rings glinted on the right side of her lower lip, eyebrows ring in her left eyebrow.
"How did we not notice her piercing before?" Mint asked, as Zakuro shrugged.
"I think we were too distracted by trying to find the mark." Zakuro replied, shoving the earplugs into her ears. Mint immediately followed, and not a moment too late. The guitar player to Zeisha's left had just slammed down an ear-splitting note, and the drummer soon followed. The two could feel the vibrations from the speakers through their shoes. "Geez… is all music now-a-days this loud?" Zakuro asked, as Mint shrugged.
Zeisha had just begun singing, soft and calm. Even without screaming, her voice oddly matched the fast paced guitar riffs. Mint watched, before catching two objects floating above the crowds of people in the stadium. One was humanoid shaped, whichever alien it was, she couldn't tell. The other looked like a bird. Small right now, but she knew all to well what those things turned into. She immediately jabbed Zakuro, who looked up.
"Great… ruin the party." Zakuro cursed. Her and Mint looked around, seeing if it was all clear and safe to transform. Zakuro cast one quick look at Zeisha, who had looked up. See seemed to have spotted whatever what was floating, unidentifiable at the moment. It didn't phase her one bit.
"God, what did I do wrong?" She sung along the guitars, her voice starting to get louder. "Why did Mama and Papa run away?" She sang louder, and then, screamed loudly. Her voice turned growl-like, before she yelled out, "I'm sorry! Please forgive whatever I've done!"
"Wait Mint. Look." Zakuro looked up at the bird, which seemed to be withering in pain. When Zeisha stopped singing, it seemed to stop. Zeisha then waited for a bridge to end, as the bird was staring to get larger. She started to sing again.
"Where have you gone? Love was just so cold these days… Chasing away the lovely dawn I used to see and think of you." She sang, as the bird stopped growing, and shrieked. The crowd didn't seem to notice; they thought it was another fan.
Zakuro and Mint were amazed to see that the bird shrunk rapidly, before it separated into kirema anima and harmless bird. The bird flew away quickly, just as the alien took the kirema anima and disappeared.
The music rapidly stopped after the drummer slammed some random notes, as Zeisha walked towards the edge of the stage. People reached up with their hands, wanting a high-five. Zeisha slapped all of their hands, before punching one of her arms into the air, before yelling into her microphone.
"Good evening Tokyo!" She yelled, smiling. Crowds cheered, as she continued to talk to them. "How are you all doing tonight?" They screamed again. Zeisha giggled, as Mint recognized what she was doing. She turned her back to the crowd, and looked over her shoulder. Winking, she made a peace sign and placed it over her mouth. The pose from her first album, released only a month ago. Even though it was only out for such a short time, it was causing a huge uproar.
"Let's make a fatal memory!" She screamed, as the crowd screamed back. It seemed to be the new catch line, because people screamed it back at her.
"Come on Mint, we've seen everything we need to." Zakuro grinned, as Mint nodded and followed right behind her. The exited out from the backstage doors, and got into the car Zakuro had obviously called up to pick them up. They both got into the car, as Zakuro laughed. "Well, she's something different, isn't she?"