Hey guys, welcome back to the story. I must say I really do like where this is going and I want to make this a long running thing, especially after I was inspired by Avenger264's Fight of the Hell Butterfly fanfic which I really liked. If you haven't checked it out then please do. Anyway this chapter the guys will add one more member and become a full progressive/alternative rock/metal group. Read on.

Brotherhood of Man from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( /69WpCBLrdSQ)

Lelouch's Keyboard Solo ( /VQ9p5B5PILg)

Chapter 3: A Full Band

It had been about three weeks since Issei and Ichigo met Simon and Natsu. Every weekend and whenever they had free time they'd be playing at each other's houses. They'd turn their small music spaces into a rocking power house every weekend. They just had this great piece that worked well together.

Still though they, particularly Ichigo, felt that something was missing. They all felt it but they didn't bring it up at all. They felt they needed some keyboards in their lineup. Keyboards were a common instrument in rock music, even in the most hard rocking groups. Everybody in the group were fans of progressive and alternative rock, genres that they really wanted to perform, but they felt an absence of keyboards and synthesizers was keeping them from reaching that goal. That's why they were mostly covering only hard and punk rock groups for the time being.

It was Friday night and they were over at Simon's place having another jam session. This time they were covering an old tune from Scorpions. Eventually they got to the final notes. Issei let his amplifier produce feedback to give a buildup for a couple seconds and then they hit the final note.

"BEST JAM SESSION EVER!" Natsu yelled out.

"Yes indeed, let's take a break and get some water," Ichigo said as he put the guitar back in the case.

They all put stuff down and went into the kitchen. Simon went over to sink to get the glasses and the water for each of them.

"So I'd say we've been doing very good so far," Issei said as he sat at the kitchen table.

"Definitely," Natsu said, "we've been having the greatest rocking out session since the beginning. We really have gotten some places since we started."

"Yeah," Simon said as he brought them the water and sat down at the table with them, "Actually guys I was thinking. Considering all of us have recording equipment and mixing software, how about we make a demo?"

"Really," Issei asked as he took a sip of water, "I was thinking the same thing."

"Yeah we've got a lot of stuff to record and mix, we can send it in to the local record company," Ichigo said, "I wouldn't guarantee they'd respond but you know, never say die when you can try."

"Ehhh, guys I was thinking," Natsu said nervously, "we all want to do more artistic kind of rock music."

"Yeah we do like that stuff of course," Simon said.

"But the thing is, we'd need keyboards in order to fully reach that goal," Natsu said standing up. For a brief second they each looked at each other with uncertain looks on their faces, and they each nodded.

"You're right Natsu, I think if we use synthesizers, organ, keyboards or whatever, we can get a more Pink Floyd, Rush, or Dream Theater like sound. There are endless possibilities," Simon said as he took another sip.

"Yeah but can any of us here play keyboards at all," Natsu said. Each of the guys looked down at the floor in discouragement at the question.

"No I don't know crap about it. I never played piano or anything," Ichigo said sadly.

"Me neither," Simon said. But then they realized something and looked at Issei with happy faces.

"Issei you could do it, you've had piano experience," Ichigo said happily. Unfortunately Issei looked down at the floor sadly.

"No, I can't. Piano is one thing but all the technical stuff with synthesizers, Mellotrons, and the organ are way beyond my comprehension. It's too technical for me to learn and I'm not good with all the programming and whatever. I could play piano fine but for all that stuff there's no way."

"Damn it," Simon said, "well I guess we're pretty much screwed.

"Hey let's not look down already," Ichigo stood up and spoke confidently, "there are plenty keyboard players in the city, we just need to find one who can do it."

"You're right," Simon said, "we just got to look around school and see who's interested in joining."

"I got it, we'll each look around school and ask if anybody can do this and if they can, we'll bring them in," Issei said.

"I like that plan," Ichigo said nodding.

"Ditto," Natsu said.

"Yeah it's a good plan," Simon said.

Issei and Simon went into school the following Monday morning and began searchiung around for keyboard players. Issei thought his best option would be to ask Rias if anyone in the pit orchestra was interested.

When his free period came around he went to the auditorium. He saw Rias there working at the soundboard and lighting board. She had her glasses on and was looking over the actors on stage. They were doing their rehearsal, getting ready for the opening night of "How to Succeed in Business" which was coming up next Friday. Rias was working overtime, putting all her effort into it.

"Hey Rias," Issei said walking up to her. She looked behind her and smiled at seeing her good friend there.

"Hi Issei, it's nice to see you," she said with a happy tone of voice.

"Listen I'd like to ask you a question about..." he was about to say before Rias shushed him.

"Hold on, hold on, I need to go through this one dance number and then we can talk, okay," she said quickly before turning back to the soundboard and speaking into the microphone.

"Okay everybody, we're gonna do the number 'Brotherhood of Man' and then we can call a break for today. I want you all to put your best effort into it and have fun, okay?"

"Got it Rias," the actors all said from the stage.

"Alright, 3-2-1, now," Rias counted down and then pointed at the stage. She started a karaoke version of the song on her iPhone and put it out through the stereo system for them to sing along with.

Now, you may join the Elks, my friend,

And I may join the Shriners;

And other men may carry cards
As members of the Diners.

Still others wear a golden key
Or small Greek letter pin; to
But I have learned there's one great club
That all of us are in.

There is a Brotherhood of Man,
A Benevolent Brotherhood of Man,
A noble tie that binds
All human hearts and minds
Into one Brotherhood of Man.

Your lifelong membership is free.
Keep agivin' each brother all you can.
Oh aren't you proud to be
In that fraternity,
The great big Brotherhood of Man?

One man may seem incompetent,
Another not make sense,
While others look like quite a waste
Of company expense.

They need a brother's leadership,
So please don't do them in.
Remember mediocrity
Is not a mortal sin.

They're in the Brotherhood of Man,
Dedicated to giving all we can.
Oh, aren't you proud to be
In that fraternity,
The great big Brotherhood of Man?

Issei watched the whole time nodding his head as the actors danced and sang with the music. Rias adjusted the soundboard multiple times, changing between different microphones for each different line. This was a really fun show to watch as the actors danced and singed on the stage. As the song ended and finally stopped everybody on stage was laughing at everything. Rias looked very content with their performance and called out again.

"Great job everybody," she said happily, "that was just perfect, you can all go now. Again great job, I think this shows going to be a blast." At that the actors left and went to get changed out of their costumes.

"Rias that was very cool," Issei said with a smile. Rias then turned and slumped back in the chair taking off her glasses. He could see that she was looking very tired.

"Oh man this job is a killer. I'm working day and night to make sure this show goes great," she groaned.

"Classic Rias Gremory," Issei said jokingly, "always working so hard. I always wonder what you do in your spare time for fun though Rias, you never seem to have any."

"I do stuff," Rias said simply.

"What kind of stuff," Issei asked playfully.

"Just stuff, but enough with that, why did you come here Issei, the pit orchestra isn't practicing today."

"Well I meant to ask some questions. My best friend Ichigo and I started a rock band recently with two other guys and we're looking for someone who plays keyboards and synthesizers. We want to have a sort of progressive rock edge to our music. So I meant to ask if you knew anybody at all that plays keyboards," he asked.

"Oh umm," Rias said scratching her red hair in uncertainty, "I don't think so, I mean you're the main pianist in the pit orchestra so I don't understand why you couldn't do it."

"I'm not that technical when it comes to synths, it's all just a blur so I can't figure it out."

"Oh, well I'm sorry Issei but I can't help you there," Rias said sadly looking at the floor.

"No it's okay," Issei said patting her shoulder, "but if you meet anybody who can do it, would you tell me?"

"Of course, I certainly will," she said happily, "you should get back to class now, but remember to come for practice again. The show is next week and we got to be ready."

"I got it, thanks Rias," Issei said as he waved goodbye and left the auditorium. He was walking down the hallways bout to head to his next class.

"Well that was a miss, I do hope Ichigo is having better luck than I am."

Ichigo was on the school grounds during his free period. He had looked around the school and went to the music teacher to ask if anybody was interested in playing keyboards in a rock band. So far he had nothing.

"Geez, I never thought it would be this hard to find somebody, well I guess that leaves only one option, I'll have to ask Orihime," he thought to himself.

He went looking for her and found her sitting under the tree reading.

"Hey Orihime," he called out. She looked up from her books.

"Hi Ichigo," she said happily. He sat down next to her.

"What are you reading?"

"Lord of the Flies," she said, "Mrs. Akiyama assigned it in English class. She warned all of us it was disturbing and graphic, I just said 'how bad can some book from the 50's be' and I was definitely wrong," Orihime shivered at the stuff she had been reading.

"Hey Orihime can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, what," she asked curiously.

"Issei and I recently got some guys together and we started a rock band."

"Really that's awesome," she said happily.

"Yeah but we decided last week that we need someone to play keyboards. Do you know anything about organ, synthesizers, or Mellotrons," he asked her.

"Yes of course, it's fairly straightforward stuff. The organ is no different from the piano but synthesizers are more technical than with traditional piano as they more involve the use of sound frequencies more than use with the keyboard, but I know a lot about them and have played them before," she said to Ichigo.

"Really, well would you like to join," Ichigo asked. This caught Orihime by surprise.

"Oh well, I umm," she stammered.

"We don't mind having a girl in our group, it would create more variability. I think it would be cool," Ichigo said trying to keep her from getting nervous.

"Ichigo, I'm afraid I have other commitments. I would join your group if I could but I can't," she looked away from him sadly, "I'm sorry."

"Don't be, it's no big deal," he said smiling, "if you have other things to attend to I understand that. Thanks for telling me."

"Thank you," she said quietly with a smile. After that the bell rang and they both frantically got up to go to their next class.

Later that day after they got back from school, the band members were walking down the streets of Karakura Town talking to each other. Mostly about the fact that they're chances of finding a keyboard player were unsuccessful.

"I asked around everywhere in school, nobody I met could do a damn thing," Simon said sadly.

"Same goes for me," Natsu said, "I even went around my neighborhood asking random kids if they could do it and I still couldn't get a friggin person."

"So what's the plan now," Issei asked, "we've done as much as we could at this point."

"Put out some ads at the music store or on Twitter and Facebook?" Ichigo asked, "it seems like a good plan."

"I'm not one for social media but I guess it'll do," Issei said.

"I'm cool with it," Simon said.

"Yeah me too," Natsu said.

"Speaking of music store, since we're close, let's run inside," Issei said as they got close to the store called "Urahara's Rock & Roll Palace."

"How come," Simon asked.

"I need some new strings. My other ones have been rusting lately, and it's hurting my fingers," Issei said as he showed them his fingers that were covered with bad calluses.

"Oh, now I see," Simon said in monotone.

"Besides we know the owner Urahara, he might know some people that can help us," Ichigo said.

With that they walked inside the store.

What was inside was probably the coolest thing those two guys had ever seen. This store while small on the outside was gigantic inside and boasted some of the coolest equipment ever.

On the walls hung guitars and basses from different companies like Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, Dean, PRS, Schecter, you name it dude. The store also had keyboards, drums, old vinyl records, recording equipment, effects/pedal boards, accessories, everything you could imagine. This was like every musicians dream right here and it was right on the corner in a small town.

Sitting at the main counter was a guy who looked like he was in his early forties. He had blonde hair that looked almost white. He was wearing a hat and sunglasses. When he caught sight of Ichigo and Issei a giant smile crossed his face.

"Ichigo, Issei, how you doing," he said jovially.

"What's up Urahara," Issei said as he and Ichigo did a secret handshake sort of thing with Urahara.

"How are my best customers," he asked.

"We're good," Ichigo said, "still playing as usual, we even got ourselves a little band going."

"Excellent, and these are your band mates here if I am correct?"

"Sure are, this is Simon and Natsu," Issei said before turning to the both of them, "this is Kisuke Urahara, he's the owner and one of the greatest musicians ever in existence."

"Really," Natsu asked getting a little curious.

"Well I don't like to brag but you know," Urahara said shrugging his shoulders. He then got up and went over to a set of instruments over in a corner. What followed was the greatest bit of musicianship in the history of man. Urahara jammed on each instrument from guitar to bass to keyboards to drums. He did it with great charisma, talent, and enthusiasm. Simon and Natsu stood with their jaws on the ground, in awe at this great spectacle.

"I used to be a musician back in the eighties, working under the name Tensai."

"Wait as in... the... Tensai, the famous singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer that had over twenty number one hits from the seventies to the late eighties. That was you," Natsu asked in astonishment.

"Yep that was me, and I was a one man band" Urahara said proudly. After that, Natsu fell back onto the floor.

"Natsu, you alright buddy," Simon yelled in concern.

Everyone looked at him as he laid there on the floor with a huge open mouth smile on his face.

"Maybe the shock was just too much for him," Issei said. Natsu got up from the floor and just stared at Urahara.

"Oh my god, I cannot fathom the fact that one of my favorite musicians is standing right in front of me, you're a legend," Natsu yelled in excitement.

"I made a lot of cash and records, but I grew bored in the nineties and decided to make my own store here in Karakura Town, I sell gear, fix instruments, and I give lessons."

"You see guys Urahara has been our main man to come to in terms of instruments. He's hooked us up with the greatest gear and equipment," Ichigo said smirking at the two of them.

"I also gave them some pointers on how to play their instruments," Urahara smirked at them.

"But I was taking guitar lessons from your former student Riser, remember that," Issei said, "the guy who constantly called me half assed.

"Oh yes, Riser was a stubborn, ornery, little son of a bitch. I tried to teach him kindly and he always snapped back at me, it's remarkable you survived four years of that crap Issei," Urahara sighed.

"We actually came to ask you Urahara, do you know any keyboard players here interested in joining a rock group," Ichigo asked.

"Well there may be someone, go check the keyboard section, you might find some."

They nodded and went into that section. However, Issei called back.

"Urahara could you also hook me up with some strings, my other ones are rusting up?"

"Sure will," Urahara called back.

In the keyboard section were loads of expensive equipment. There was everything like Moog analog synths, Hammond rock organs, and digital samplers.

"I cannot believe you're a pianist and you don't know crap on how to use synths at all," Natsu said to Issei.

"He's right shouldn't pianists be able to work with those," Simon asked.

"Sometimes, but like I said before it's very technical for me," Issei said shrugging his shoulders, "I could probably use one of those vocoder things though, I've seen people use them on YouTube a lot and they seem easy to handle."

"Oh I love those things," Ichigo said, "they make your voice sound really badass."

"Yeah I know."

They turned and saw a kid standing right there. He looked to be around their age. He was very skinny and tall with jet black hair.

"Sorry," he said scratching his head, "I tend to jump into other people's conversation."

"Hey it's cool, we were just talking about music," Issei said.

"My favorite thing ever," the kid said exuberantly.

"Well that's one reason people come to he music store don't they," Ichigo said laughing. The kid just shrugged in response.

"My names Lelouch by the way," he said, "Lelouch Lumperage."

"Issei Hyoudou," he said shaking hands, "and these guys here are Ichigo, Simon, and Natsu."

"So are you guys a band or something?"

"Well a partially formed one yeah," Natsu said.

"Well four guys is a lot isn't it," Lelouch chortled.

"Well you see we like prog and alternative rock but we need a keyboard player in order to do it," Simon said.

"Issei can play piano rather well, but all the synths, organ, and other crap he doesn't know a thing about," Ichigo said.

"It's true," Issei said guilty and shrugged.

"How about I do it," Lelouch said.

The four friends became elated. They finally were able to find somebody who could play. Still there was much to be done, they had to see how good he was at it.

"Well, you'll have to show us," Issei said. This caught Lelouch off guard, he didn't expect he'd need to audition. Then again it was necessary because you had to show what skills you had before you joined anything.

"Umm..okay," Lelouch said with uncertainty, "you guys want to come over to my house for a while and see what I can do."

"Sure why not," Ichigo said. The other guys nodded at the proposal.

"I live in an apartment complex not far from here, you can come there."

"Sounds good," Issei said, "lead the way."

They followed Lelouch as they led him out of the store.

"Hey Issei," Urahara called, "don't forget your strings."

He tossed Issei a pack of strings which Issei quickly caught.

"Hey thanks."

He took a couple dollars and laid them on the counter. Before he walked out he gave Urahara a thumbs up, which he gladly returned. As soon as he was gone, Urahara laid back in his chair.

"Hehehe, those kids are gonna rule the world someday."

Lelouch led them downtown to a nice looking apartment complex. It was positioned near the downtown area where cars would pass by everyday.

"This is the place," he said to them.

"Nice apartments," Issei said looking around.

He got them through the door and they took the elevator up to the eighth floor. As they waited in the elevator they struck up conversation.

"Are your parents home," Natsu asked.

"Uhh, I think my mom may be, my dad works until six at least," Lelouch said, "I think my sister is here though."

"You have a sister," Ichigo asked.

"Yep, her name is Nunnally, I think she'll like you guys," Lelouch said smiling.

The elevator stopped and they got out. They went to the first door on the floor where Lelouch unlocked it with a key. The inside of the room was very nice looking and spacious. It was fairly large for an apartment room. The living room had nice furniture, and the walls were decorated with old Japanese art and decor.

"Nunnally, mom, I'm home," Lelouch called out.

The next second a little girl in a wheelchair came into the room. She was rather adorable to look at, as she had blonde hair and violet eyes. The boys looked at her quietly, not saying a single word.

"Hi Lelouch," the girl said in a quiet voice full of sincerity.

"Hey little sis," Lelouch said happily, "is Mom home."

"No, she went to the grocery store, but she'll be back soon," she said before she caught sight of the other four. "Who are they?"

"A couple guys I met down at the music shop, they wanted to see me play so I brought them here to show them. Guys this is Nunnally, my little sister."

They smiled and waved politely to her. She smiled in response and let out a quiet chuckle.

"It's a pleasure, I think you'll find my brother to be greatly talented in his music," Nunnally said sweetly as she moved the chair into the other room.

"I'll go get my equipment set up," Lelouch said as he walked into one of the other rooms. The guys were looking at the door where Nunnally went in.

"She seems like a good kid," Issei said.

"But why is she in a wheelchair," Simon asked nervously.

"Be cool Simon," Ichigo said quickly, "I think maybe she might have been in a really bad accident or something."

"You guys gonna come in or what," Lelouch called back.

"Right, sorry," Natsu called back.

They followed Lelouch into his room where he was connecting wires into amplifiers. In the room were two keyboards. The first was a standard one that had built in preset sounds to recreate the sounds of an organ, strings, pads, and others. The second was an analog synthesizer, a small one to be exact.

"My dad made this room so I could practice correctly, you guys ready to hear some stuff," he asked.

"Knock yourself out," Issei said.

Lelouch started off rather simply, doing some simple background noise. He later progressed through the sounds and recreated certain rock tracks with the organ, strings, and synth pad presets, recording the sounds and looping them while he played.

It was astonishing. The way he played was very technical. He could switch between everything quickly and his playing was pretty fast. After some time he went to the synthesizer and began playing on that, messing with the pitch bend and oscillators to create spaceship like sounds. This guy could just play.

Eventually he finished. The four guys clapped at him as he took a bow.

"So, am I in," Lelouch asked.

"Oh yeah," they all said in unison.

The the five of them decided to take a stroll through the park. They were discussing their plans since they finally got their band together. They talked about the possibility of making a demo.

"I like the idea," Lelouch said, "but chances can be slim."

"Yeah, but we can do it and if we get rejected than we just say 'whatever we still did it'," Ichigo said.

"Actually guys," Simon said, "I think we should take some vows since we started this finally."

"Vows" Issei asked.

"Yeah like stuff that we can all promise each other so that we can keep each other going."

"Oh that'll work," Natau said before he started thinking of something, "how about we always stick together."

"That's one, how about we'll always assist each other in the writing," Ichigo said.

"Very smart I like that one," Issei said.

"Never get involved in drugs or alcohol," Simon said.

"Oh yeah definitely, there's no way I'd ever do that" Lelouch said, "how about never get into any fights at all."

"Yeah, but I think the most important thing is, lets never keep anyone in the dark. Let's always let a certain guy do what they please when they want to write or play something. We'll always be open to what they want," Issei declared. All of them smiled and nodded at Issei's suggestion.

"But wait, what will we call ourselves," Lelouch asked, "every band needs a name."

"Actually I thought of using the name Sole Survivor, it's catchy and it fits nicely," Ichigo suggested.

"There's a band that already has that name though," Simon said.

"That's right," Natsu said.

"Aww damn it," Ichigo groaned in disappointment.

"Wait how about instead of Sole Survivor, we called ourselves Soul Society," Issei said.

The other guys then smiled at the suggestion of name.

"That's awesome Issei," Lelouch said, "where'd you get the idea?"

"It just came to me, from who knows where," Issei shrugged, "but let's remember we're a band now, so let's go out and rock."

They all put their hands forward and assembled them into a team hand stack. They then pushed forward and shouted out into the sky.

"YEAH!"

Issei walked down the school hallway heading to his locker. Fourth period had finally ended and it was time for lunch. As he was putting his books away, he heard what sounded like two voices arguing.

"What the hell is that," he wondered as he walked to where it was coming from.

Soon he came to the center of the hallway where the auditorium was. The yelling was coming from inside.

"Look all I way saying was..."

"No say it to me truthfully, what the hell were you saying!?"

Issei took a glimpse inside and saw that it was two actors from the play, Fumio and Daichi. Fumio was the actor playing Mr. Twimble and a good friend of Issei's. Daichi was the one playing Finch but he wasn't a friend of Issei's, in fact he probably wasn't a friend of anyone.

Daichi was by the far the most unlikeable person in the entire Kuoh Academy theater department. He had played the lead role in the musicals four times already and because of that he had a huge ego. Everybody talked badly about him behind their backs, especially about how much of a jerk he was. And not to mention he was probably acting like one again. Issei stood there taking in what they were saying.

"All I was saying one, your voice sounded a little off key," Fumio tried to say in a reasonable tone.

"Oh really, because it seems like you were contradicting me in front of everybody in there," Daichi retorted angrily.

"I was not Daichi," Fumio snapped back, "everybody here needs some kind of constructive criticism if they're going to get better."

"Well in that case, I win," he said before smiling in this arrogant way.

"What?"

"This competition you started just now, I won."

"Competition?"

"Yeah the competition to see who's better, it seems I win because I'm the star attraction and your just the mailroom guy," Daichi rambled on.

"THAT WAS TOTALLY NOT WHAT I SAID," Fumio shouted back at him.

Issei couldn't take any more of this. He had heard how much of a jerk Daichi was, but he didn't expect him to be this bad. And if he was going to go and mock one of his closest friends over something so stupid than there was no way Issei was going to take it lying down. He then made his presence known.

"Stop it!"

Daichi and Fumio both turned and saw a very angry Issei heading towards them. Daichi groaned at this.

"Oh look, here come little boy Hyoudou."

"Issei," Fumio said, "what are you doing here?"

"Sticking up for you against this self-righteous piece of crap," Issei said to him before going face to face with Daichi.

"I was just telling off this loser for insulting my singing during auditions yesterday."

"Really," Issei asked, "because it seems to me that your ego was speaking for itself. Don't you understand that theater isn't about competition Daichi? It's supposed to be about making friends and enjoying yourself. Clearly you do not see the point of it and instead feel it as a way to feed your ego. Well if you go insulting my friends there is no way I'm gonna get you get away with it."

"Doesn't really matter does it," Daichi said still keeping his pompous grin, "next week I'll be the shining star of Kuoh Academy when we put this show on the road."

"Not anymore."

They both turned and saw Rias standing in the doorway. She looked like she was royally pissed off as she walked towards Daichi. Hell, Fumio and Issei looked terrified by her as well.

"Oh uh Rias," Daichi mumbled getting fearful, "these guys were being very rude to me..."

"Save it Daichi," Rias interrupted, "I heard everything. I told you multiple times that if you didn't change your behavior you'd be cut from the play. Well, this is the final straw."

"No, no, NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT," Daichi shouted in panic.

"I'm the student manager of the theater department, I can do whatever I want," she said with a smirk, "now get out of my sight you pretentious little twit."

Daichi walked away but not before giving a death glare to Issei who stood very still, not intimidated in the slightest by him.

"Are you okay Fumio," Rias asked putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah, thanks for helping me out there guys," Fumio thanked.

"No problem bro," Issei said, "that's what friends are for right."

Fumio nodded before he walked away.

"I'll tell you," Rias turned to Issei, "I really didn't want to cast Daichi for the part, but he was the only one who auditioned for the lead."

Issei gasped at the sudden realization, there was no one to play the lead.

"Crap," he yelled, "Rias, what are we going to do, we have no one to play Finch."

Rias turned to Issei with a smile on her face.

"Oh no no," Issei prattled waving his hands in the air, "I can't do it."

"Of course you can," Rias said, "you're a former theater actor, I'd think you'd be able to cover it well."

"But who will handle the mic switching," Issei asked trying to weasel his way out of it.

"I know another person who can cover it," Rias reassured. She then looked at him with desperate eyes, "please do this for me Issei. I've busted my ass to try and get this thing running. To have all of it go to waste after so much work."

Issei looked down at the floor before he made his decision, "ok, I'll do it."

Rias jumped up in excitement and gave Issei a big hug.

"THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH," she squealed. She then reached into her backpack and pulled out a spare script, "since we have a week in advance you could probably memorize your lines quickly. If you need help just call me and meet with me after school so I can give you pointers. Thanks again."

Rias walked off as Issei looked at the script in his hands. This was really going to be a big commitment for him. No doubt about it. Not to mention, what would the rest of the band think about it?

I finally got this chapter out. So now we got Lelouch involved the group. Thanks forever everyone for their support.

I took a while to update because I had initially become kind of wary with this story particulary with certain filler things I added. I also removed the spam negative comments thing because I began to find it absurd. I will point out that I am open to people's opinions and constructive criticism, but the real reason I posted that was because I didn't want any comments that were harsh, demeaning, or unpleasant. We're all here to have a good time. I am open to everybody's opinions and I welcome them freely.

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying belongs to Shepherd Mead and Frank Loesser. (I didn't use the full lyrics to Brotherhood of Man, but the video still has them all.)