Miranda: /Sweatdrops/ I was supposed to post this last night.. and completely forgot. Sorry Rhea! /runs away/

Rhea: I WILL do all the posting from now on...

Rhea's eyes widened. "…I didn't know I had one…" Then she realized what the second part of his sentence was. "10 MINUTES ISN'T ENOUGH TO WARM UP AND PRACTICE!!" She screeched as they reached backstage.

Kurama scratched the back of his neck. "Heh. Well, it's a two-minute song, so it actually is. But without sound turned on, otherwise we'll be heard." He opened the Rehearsal Room door, set up with equipment and wires taped down everywhere.

The vampire looked around. "Whoa…confusing. How many songs are we singing?!" Before Kurama could reply, she continued. "You know what?! Next time, don't give Miranda all the info, and tell her to tell me! Do it vice versa!" She kneeled next to a cooler, and rummaged through it for Zephyrhills Water.

Kurama paused and looked at her. "You know…minus the drink I spilled on you? You look very pretty tonight."

Rhea stopped her rummaging. -Okay…what do I say to that? OH SHIT!! I NEED ANOTHER SHIRT!!- Her eyes wide, she turned to Kurama. "Kurama…Can I borrow your shirt real quick?"

The fox demon grinned at her. "I'm supposed to sing shirtless?"

She retorted, "Hey, you're the one who spilled something, you're the one who should pay." She stood up again, and gulped half of the water bottle straight down.

Kurama chuckled, "Fair enough." He took off his shirt, and sarcastically asked, "I suppose wearing a non-girly shirt is no problem is it?"

Miranda was pretending to be pissed, but poor Hiei couldn't tell the difference. She humphed, "I do not have two left feet." She sniffled, and walked away in the direction of the rehearsal room, still pretending to be offended. "You are a jerk."

Hiei called after her. "WAIT!! Damn her…" he followed her through the crowd, hearing things like "Hey kid, get out of here!" and "Go home, this club is for adults!" But he ignored them, controlling his temper because he wanted to catch up with Miranda as quickly as possible.

Rhea rolled her eyes, snatching the shirt from his hands. "Hah, that was so funny, I forgot to laugh…" She buttoned up the first two buttons, but then she stopped. "Wait, your shirt is white, never mind." She handed it back.

She was wearing tight black leather pants with a red and black tie dye skirt a little over knee-length around them, along with a long-sleeved fishnet shirt under a black corset with red lacing. Her nails were done in black, with G-O-O-D-angel halo, on the left hand and E-V-I-L-pitch fork, on the right. There were sex bracelets randomly halfway up one arm, a black leather watch, and a silver bracelet with a purple heart-shaped charm. The other arm had a grey sweatband with the phrase: "If I close my eyes it's like you're not even here" and some random rubber bands. There were two black rings on her left hand, two silver ones on the right one, and some duct tape on random fingers. She had a chain with a small, bronze key around her neck. Her hair was died a deep red with black and red highlights. She had on thick black eye liner, light grey eye shadow, grey-tinted lip gloss, and swirly thingy on her left temple. All this was paired with thick, high boots that had red laces. In short, she looked quite stunning.

Her friend, Miranda, was wearing a very short black leather mini skirt and a tight red shirt that had a low V-cut. Her hair was down, her natural extremely dark brown shade, controlled only by a black velvet headband that had silver rhinestones on it. Her only make-up was black eyeliner, glitter dusted on her eyes and on her cheeks, and clear lip-gloss. Her nails were short, because she played piano, and colored a simple black, with a silver rhinestone on each nail. Her feet were in open-toed black stilettos, and she had silver-and-red earrings in her ears. On her neck was a black lace choker, a short gold chain with a pearl, a few random silver chains, and a long red-beaded necklace, the longest of them all even though it was double-looped. To put it simply, she looked like a gorgeous, twenty-first century porcelain doll with a touch of hot.

After a moment, Rhea asked, "Hmm…how many minutes do we have left?" She flashed a quick peace sign to Miranda when she walked in. Kurama put his own shirt back on too. "Um, seven." To Miranda, he asked, "Uh…where is Hiei?"

He sweatdropped at her noncommittal shrug.

Meanwhile, Miranda hugged Rhea, and wrinkled her nose. "Ugh, you smell seriously foul," she said, laughing.

"FOUL? What do you mean by that?!" Rhea screeched again, hating the fact that everyone could smell it. Right then, Hiei burst through the door, and Miranda laughed again, "Like, disgustingly alcoholic."

She smiled at her unfortunate friend, who replied "Oh yeah…funny story 'bout that, think you can get rid of it in about seven minutes?" Even while she said it, Rhea looked over Miranda's shoulder at Hiei, the fact that Miranda was ignoring him not escaping her notice.

Hiei couldn't quite take it anymore. "Don't look at me with that pathetic look!!" At the shout, Kurama jumped five feet in the air; he hadn't known Hiei was there. Miranda ignores them both, pulling out a Tide Pen® and a mini can of Fabreeze® too. "I guess you're lucky I'm a klutz huh? Otherwise, I wouldn't carry all this stuff in my purse…"

Rhea fidgeted. "Yeah, yeah, hurry up." She looked at Hiei again. "Don't be an asshole! Apologize." Not even waiting for a response, she looked back at Miranda. "Guys are jerks," she whispered, sitting down to let Miranda do her magic.

Hiei snarled, "You BI--". That was all he managed to get out before he felt a slap upside his head, and turned around to see Miranda with flames in her eyes. Drawing her hand back again and hissing threateningly, she whispered, "Apologize to Rhea for that thought, NOW, or you might find yourself needing an emergency gender change…"

Rhea laughed, but pulled Miranda back over to her, effectively saving Hiei. "OK, hurry," she said, indicating the still-present stain on her shirt. Hiei remained silent, seething soundlessly.

But Miranda shook Rhea off, and got in Hiei's face, hissing like an angry rattlesnake. "APOLOGIZE…"

Hiei got in her face too. "Why should I?!"

Rhea ended up taking matters into her own hands, slapping Hiei across the face and shouting, "APOLOGIZE OR YOU CAN SING!!"

Hiei's eyes widened. "Fine, I'm sorry!"

But Miranda's eyes were already cold, and unfeeling. "Whatever…"

At that point, Kurama decided it would be okay to speak up. "Um, you guys? We have four minutes left."

Rhea's eyes flashed; she'd had enough. "People! Get over you your love affairs at the moment please! Right now we're a band, not a bunch of lovebirds! MIRANDA!! PLEASE!!"

Miranda's eyes were still blank though. "What?" she asked slowly. "What do you want?"

By now, Rhea's eyes were wild and panicky. "Help-smell-STAIN!! SMELL OF ALCOHOL!! HELP PLEASE!"

Hiei added his own opinion into this medley, with: "I agree with Rhea you know. We're a band right now."

Without her normal, easy smile, Miranda knelt down in front of Rhea silently, and with still-blank eyes got rid of any trace of alcohol, then got up and walked over to the keyboard. The fortunate vampire thanked her, and then walked over to Hiei, whispering "Whatever the fuck you did, fix it now or I will kill you," in a cold voice that made even Hiei's spine tingle.

"…How?" he asked. Kurama sweatdropped, and just picked up his guitar, deciding it was safest for him to stay out of it all.

Rhea rolled her eyes. "Apologize you jackass."

Just then, Miranda asked "Are you guys gonna play this song or what? Like, this century?" She knelt down to plug the keyboard into the wall.

The short fire demon sighed, looking at their piano player. "I don't want to be cremated, just throw me in the ocean." He walked up to her, and tapped her on the shoulder. "Hey, Miranda?"

Meanwhile, Rhea was with Kurama. "Hey, where's the mic?"

Miranda finished plugging in all the annoying plugs at the back of the keyboard. "Yeah, what?"

"It's-" Kurama started to answer, but then he noticed what Hiei was doing. "Um, tell you what. I feel like keeping my hearing, so I'll go get it from the supply closet…down the hall."

Rhea's eyes widened. "Hey, wait for me!" And with that, Hiei and Miranda were left alone.

Sighing, he tried to do what Rhea had said. 'Apologize…' "Look…don't make this too hard, I'm not completely sure what I'm doing but…I'm…sorry."

Miranda looked at him carefully, searching for who knows what in his face, before saying "…You're standing on my sheet music."

But Hiei was thinking quick by then, and he picked them up for her, apologizing again, "Here."

She lifted one eyebrow, before smiling very slightly. "Don't worry about it, no harm done to them." But then she twitched slightly. "Hey, Hiei?"

Said-fire demon looked down at her with hope. "Yes?"

She smiled very sweetly, before using her cheerleader lungs: "CALL RHEA THAT AGAIN AND YOU WILL DIE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND??" She then smiled even sweeter. "I think that covers it."

Hiei was more or less deaf by then, his eyes wide and face pale. "O…….k……" -Note to self: Don't curse at Miranda's friends…- "But…" He hit a B Minor on the keyboard. "I'm sorry about earlier too…the two left feet thing."

Miranda laughed, patted his muscular arm slightly. "Hiei? I wasn't mad about that; I just wanted you to follow me so you couldn't focus on killing all the humans who made fun of your…midgetness." She grinned.

Hiei's eyes widened slightly that she could dupe him like that. "…I hate you," he said, grabbing his drumsticks.

Meanwhile, with Rhea and Kurama, who were currently still located in the Supply Closet, the fox demon whispered, "…Do you think it's safe to go back yet?"

Rhea took a deep breath. "I don't know…I got in a fight with Miranda once…I don't wanna go down that road again…Hey, I don't smell like alcohol anymore!" By now, this news gave her face a glow of happiness.

Kurama got a twinkle in his eyes. "We could stay in here for a while you know. Just to be…" He inched closer to Rhea, their breaths intermingling. "…sure it's safe and all…"

Rhea rolled her eyes. "Mhmm, and skip the gig, and leave Hiei and Miranda to tell the whole club half the band is missing."

He chuckled. "While I would love to see the crowd's faces and the two attempts to still play a song; perhaps that should be saved for another time…" He opened the door, and gave Rhea a mock bow. "M'lady…" But when Rhea started to walk out, he grabbed her elbow, and brought her face a bare half-inch away from his. "There will be another time though. I promise you that much." With a heavy, dark look in his eyes, he brushed a soft butterfly kiss over Rhea's lips. Smirking when she couldn't even say anything, he left, and walked back in the direction of the Rehearsal Room.

Rhea joined him too, in time to hear Hiei say "How many more minutes?"

Miranda's reply: "Zero. Thirty seconds in fact, so we might wanna get moving to the stage."

Hiei turned around when he heard them. "Hey! You two got out."

Rhea's eyes widened as she realized she forgot the mic anyways. "Fuck you…" she said, and then ran for the mic.

Miranda looked at Hiei. "What's with you?" Hiei turns to her like it was obvious. "They were in the closet! I thought Rhea said we were a band!"

Rhea grinned, coming back. "We weren't fighting though. Now get on the stage, we're late!!"

Miranda's eyes widened, "Shamrocks!" They ran to the stage, which was thankfully already set up.

Kurama sweatdropped as he looked at the crowd. "Glad to see you made it."

Miranda was laughing pretty hard, so with some difficulty, she called into her background-singing mic, "Sorry peoples!"

Hiei's eyes widened. "Oh shit, I forgot my drumsticks!" Thankfully, with his speed, he's back in like five seconds, with the drumsticks.

Rhea shouted into her own mic, "Sorry 'bout that, we'll start as soon as Shorty gets back…!"

Hearing that, Hiei grabbed the microphone at his drums, and retorted, "Umm, excuse me, I'm not that short, I happen to be taller than Miranda.

Rhea laughed. "Shush, crazy tiny man."

Miranda's eyes start glimmering with tears at this point. "I just realized, I'm the shortest!" She sniffled, and started playing the first few notes. Soon, Kurama joined in on his guitar, and Hiei backed the entire song on his drums. Eventually, Rhea started singing.

Note: This is not our song, it is Slipped Away by Avril Lavigne

Hmmmm hmm hmm hmmmm

Nah nah nahnahnah nah

I miss you.

I miss you so bad.

I don't forget you

Oh it's so sad.

I hope you can hear me

I remember it clearly

The day you slipped away

Was the day I found

It won't be the same

Ooohhhh

Nah nah nah nahnah nah

I didn't get around to kiss you

Goodbye on the hand

I wish that I could see you again

I know that I can't

Oooohhhhhh

I hope you can hear me

'Cuz I remember it clearly

The day you slipped away

Was the day I found I won't be the same.

Oooohhhhhh

I've had my wake up

Won't you wake up

I keep asking why

And I can't take it

It wasn't faking

It happened you passed by

Now you're gone now you're gone

There you go there you go

Somewhere I can't bring you back

Now you're gone now you gone

There you go there you go

Somewhere you're not coming back

The day you slipped away

Was the day I found

It wont be the same

Oooohhhhhh

The day you slipped away

Was the day I found

It wont be the same

Ooohhhh

Nah nah nahnahnah nah nah

I miss you...

When the song was over, the crowd cheered wildly. Seeing as no one else was gonna do it, Miranda took her mic and said, "Heh, the band is gonna take a quick break now, back in twenty."

As soon as they were cleared, Rhea ran off of the stage, and grabbed Kurama. "You better tell me everything you told Miranda 'cause I didn't even know what song we were singing 'till you started playing!"

Kurama sweatdropped, -I hate you, Miranda…- "We promised to sing two songs. This one, and some song Miranda has. I don't remember the name, go ask her."

Rhea frowned. "Then what do I do? I can't play anything."

Hiei sniggered. "Boo hoo."

Kurama sweatdropped. "You can just sing background, there are no instruments…I think."

Rhea blinked. "O…k…Wait, what song is it?"

Kurama shrugged. "I don't know, ask Miranda."

Rhea ran to her best friend. "Hey, what song is it? What am I gonna do?"

Miranda laughed at her worrying. "It's a solo, with no instruments. The light will just be on me, so as long as you guys don't move, you won't even be seen. Or you can just not even go on the stage in the first place; I don't really care much either way. And the song is a song my mother taught me, in my native language, Czech." Miranda smiled brightly. "I'll sing it once in Czech, once in English, if you care." She continued, still smiling.

Rhea sighed. "OK…can you teach me the backup please?" Miranda sweatdropped, "yeah, sure. Want me to sing the whole thing now?"

Rhea brightened. "Yes, please." Smiling, Miranda said "OK.", and started singing.

Note: This is not Miranda's song; it is a lullaby from the Czech

Republic, from a movie

"Rozvívej se poupátko...

nejkrásnější z kvetu.

Od rána as do noci...

budeš vonět světu.

Od rána as do noci...

budeš vonět světu.

Láska je jak květina.

Klici od poupěte.

A kdo věrné miluje.

Tomu láska kvete.

A kdo věrné miluje.

Tomu láska kvete.

Open up little flower bud.

The most beautiful of all flowers.

Every morning to every night,

You will sweeten the world.

Every morning to every night,

You will sweeten the world.

Love is like a flower.

It starts as a bud and grows.

And he, who loves loyally,

For him love shall grow.

And he, who loves loyally,

For him love shall grow..."

"See? It's not that bad!"

Miranda: /staring at Hiei/

Hiei: /growls/ "What?"

Miranda: /smirks/ /singsong voice/ "You looooooooooooorve me!"

Hiei: /twitches/

Rhea: /staring at the two idiots/ "Fuckin' weirdos..."