Chapter 3-Hey Ho
Ichigo sat at bar with Shinji and Renji watching the bands that had applied for the Friday night spot, so far there were 15 bands to be auditioned over two days. Starrk was in seated at a table a few feet away glaring at the paperwork in front of him making Ichigo laugh.
"Hey, you do know that glaring at it isn't gonna make it go away. Your band is auditioning in an hour why don't you put this stuff behind the bar and after the audition is finished I'll walk you through the most efficient way to complete it. Sit back and enjoy the competition with us for a bit, Grimm and them should be here shortly."
Starrk looked up and gave a small smile as he nodded his head, as he leaned back stretching his arms over his head and moaning as his spine popped and cracked. Ichigo keep from staring at the long well muscled torso that was encased in a skin tight t-shirt that the man wore like a second skin. Ichigo's eye's traveled over the broad chest and down his arms roped with thick corded muscle and covered in tattoos of wolves the same shade of blue-grey as his eyes. Realizing what he was doing he tore his gaze away from the man in front of him and turned back to the stage to watch the next band setting up. Fortunately Starrk didn't notice his stare, unfortunately Shinji and Renji both did. The two men looked at each other in amusement. Shinji had always thought that Ichigo was closeted but until now had no real proof of it. Renji being deep in the closet himself knew that Ichigo hadn't fully realized where his interests truly lye. Before either man could say anything to tease their boss the front doors opened and a man's loud and enraged voice was heard as a large group entered.
Ichigo looked up and fell off his stool laughing as he watched Grimmjow yelling at a rather tall dark skinned woman who was wrapped around him despite his efforts to pry her off. Finally getting himself back under control Ichigo pulled himself up and hollered at the rowdy group.
"Oi shut up assholes, there is another band getting ready to play! If you can't keep it down get the fuck out!" Ichigo watched as Grimmjow's scowl deepened and the woman with him gave him a dirty look.
"Ichi," Grimmjow growled, "Don't even start with me; I am not in the mood!"
Ichigo saw that the man was really in a very foul mood and with the death glares he was sending at the woman Ichigo could guess why. Taking pity on his friend he called out, "Yo Grimm, I need to speak to you come on up to my office." Grimmjow sent a grateful look at his friend and began to extract himself again. As the two men walked toward the office the woman began to follow them Grimmjow noticed and started to growl again. Ichigo looked at the woman and stopped turning to her, with his signature scowl fixed firmly on his face he addressed the woman. "Is there something I can help you with, Ma'am?"
The woman glared at him and drew herself up to her full 5'8" height "I'm going with my Grimmjow not that it concerns you." She sneered.
"Actually, Ma'am," Ichigo smirked at the flinch she gave every time he called her ma'am, "It is my concern, I have business to discuss with Grimmjow and as said business does not include you, you are not welcome to join us."
"Business? What business could a pipsqueak like you have to discuss with a man like Grimmjow? You need to go ahead and go back to the playground." She turned away from Ichigo and addressed Grimmjow again, "So tonight after the auditions we are gonna all go out and party, I figured since it will be one of our bands that gets the job here we should probably come and check this place out." She sounded almost ditsy as she addressed the glaring blue haired man.
Ichigo raised his eyebrow as he watched the woman dismiss him as inconsequential, little did she know. Grimmjow saw the wheels in Ichigo's head turning and smirked at the evil glint behind the soft chocolate brown eyes. Grimmjow looked back at the woman for a second before addressing her, "Mila go have a seat with the guys, Ichigo and I have some things to go over, I'll be back in ten minutes or so." She pouted but finally turned back around leaving them alone. Ichigo already had his phone out texting all of his people telling them not to mention to the woman that he owned the bar, so Grimmjow did the same with the band members.
As they entered the office Ichigo asked "So that's the stalker chick huh?"
"Yup that's her in all of her irritating glory; I can't get rid of her! So what are you gonna do to her?"
"Nothing really, I sent Nel a message letting her know that the chick that pissed her off is here and I figured that I'd let her band audition then inform her that her attitude with the owner cost her the gig."
"You are so evil; I think that we have been a very positive influence on you."
"Yes, yes I am and yes you have. Let's get back out there so I can watch these bands play, so far the five I've seen suck. There are three more today and another seven tomorrow. Then we have to audition dancers to go with the bands. Fun fun fun!" Ichigo and Grimmjow laughed as they walked back out to join the rest of the group again.
As soon as Grimmjow sat down Mila attached herself to his side again and proceeded to rub her hand over his thigh through the entire song the band on stage played. Right before the song ended four more women entered the club and made a beeline for Mila. Shinji looked at them for a moment before turning back to the band finishing on stage. "Okay, thank you for coming we'll be in touch after we finish auditioning all the bands that applied. "Turning his attention back to the five women he addressed them, "I am assuming you are Tia's Girls?" They all nodded and Shinji motioned them to the stage to set up.
Ichigo leaned into Shinji and told him he didn't need to pay particular attention to the band because they weren't getting the job. Shinji smirked, he had seen and heard the encounter earlier, and nodded his head. Grimmjow was having a hard time keeping his laughter in almost fell off of his stool when Mila started playing up to Shinji thinking he was the one in charge. As the girls got their equipment settled Nel walked in with Rangiku and Karin, Nel immediately launched herself at her brother and wrapped him in bone crushing hug. "Grimmy! I missed you so much! You were supposed to come over yesterday and stood me up!" Mila's head snapped up at the sound of Nel's childish squeal and glared at the busty green haired woman her man was currently hugging. Shinji had heard the story about what had happened when Nel had called only to be berated by Mila so he watched the woman closely.
Mila made a move toward the siblings with a look of pure murder on her face and Shinji intercepted, "You have about 30 seconds to begin or I'm going to skip over you all together, we have too many bands to see to waste time." Mila sent the blond man a weak glare, not wanting to offend the man she thought was her ticket to a great gig.
"Hi I am Mila Rose, this is Sung-Sun, Appache, Menoly, and Loly we are Tia's Girls." The band began to play and Shinji couldn't do anything but stare, dumbfounded. The sound was supposed to be a rock/hip hop fusion but came across as more of techno sound, while it wasn't bad it wasn't the sound they were looking for either. The song ended and they began to clear their instruments as they waited to hear from the men they had just played for. Shinji and Renji had their heads together talking for a minute; Shinji was telling him that Ichigo was nixing the band based on the lead singers attitude and rude behavior. Renji snickered and they turned to the waiting girls, Renji spoke first, "You sound pretty good as a Techno band, but the sound you claim to play isn't there."
"You have pretty good stage presence though," said Shinji as he looked like he was seriously contemplating if they were good enough to get the gig, "Hey boss man, what's your opinion?"
Mila looked at the blond man in confusion, boss man? Wasn't he the one in charge? If not who was? Her eyes grew to comical proportions as Ichigo stepped up to where Shinji and Renji were sitting. "I kind of like the sound but I'm gonna have to say no to the band. I can't have an employee working for me that shows such a blatant disregard for common courtesy and lacks even the most basic of manners. I'm sorry girls but after dealing with Mila earlier I am going to have to pass on hiring you."
Mila looked thunder struck, "You? Who are you exactly? I thought Starrk was the manager here and it's the blond guy that I scheduled this with."
"Oh that's right with your mouth running away with you I never did get to introduce myself to you, I am Kurosaki Ichigo owner of Kurosaki Clinic. Starrk is my floor manager, Shinji is my entertainment manager, but I am the final say in all things pertaining to my club. You won't get very far in life if you don't learn some basic people skills, you know that right?"
Mila was fuming as she turned to Grimmjow, "Grimmjow I want to leave now! I forbid you to try to work here for that child! And you need to let go of whoever that slut is you're wrapped around!"
"Slut?" Nel asked innocently, "Who me? You don't know me and you didn't know me when you answered Grimm's phone when he was on tour, so you have no right to call me any of the names that you did or are about to." Mila's eyes narrowed as she watched Grimmjow's arm tighten around the woman's waist.
Mila jumped off the stage intent on ripping the woman away from her man when a smaller dark haired girl stepped in front of her. Karin looked up at the woman and scowled, turning her head slightly she addressed Nel, "Nel is this woman bothering you?"
"No Karin she isn't. I'd have to care about what she has to say for her to really bother me." She turned to Shinji completely ignoring the fuming woman, "Isn't Grimmy up next?" she squealed when Shinji nodded. She pulled Grimmjow to his feet and shoved him toward the stage. As Grimmjow and the band set up Mila continued to glare at Nel and Karin who blocked her from approaching the green haired woman.
"Hey Mila," Grimmjow called, when she looked at him he smirked, "Have a seat I have a song for you." Mila smiled and sat down, almost bouncing in happiness until she heard the song.
I've never been so happy to see a girl leave
Take your filthy little hands off my dirty ripped jeans
You told me you hated my G n R shirt
I should've known then
This was never gonna work
But like what ya like
It don't matter to me
Just leave the Jack and take your Hennessey
Take your Kanye out of my player please
That Zeppelin 45 is stayin with me
Hey ho
There ain't nothing LIL about rock and roll
Hey ho
Rap it up and hip hop down the road
Hell no
Don't turn down my radio
If you're a dirty little rocker baby
Come on and let it show scream hey ho!
You never liked any man song I wrote
You spent my money and smoked my smoke
Bumpin' lame ass beats in your foreign car
It ain't real music without guitar
I'm like Jimi Hendrix
Baby don't you know
I like getting high not ridin' low
You can wait in line at the club if you wanna
Shake your ass all night but I'm gonna
Find a rocker chick that I'll bang to nirvana
So yo…..ho…..you gotta go
Ain't nothing but a….hey ho
Never been so happy to see a girl leave
Take lil Wayne out of my player please
Should have never let you smoke my smoke
I like getting high not ridin' low
If you're a dirty little rocker baby
Come on and let it show scream hey ho
Shinji and Renji were in love with the band, the sound was perfect and they looked incredible on stage. Ichigo sat at the bar watching his incredibly lazy best friend/crush on stage come alive playing the guitar. Ichigo was glad that everyone was sitting in front of him because he knew that he was drooling. He was finally ready to admit it he had fallen for his best friend.
Mila glared at everyone in the club as the song ended and watched Nel jump on Grimmjow again. Nel walked the blue haired man back to the bar to get a drink and Mila approached them.
"What the fuck Grimm? Was that song supposed to mean something?" the pissed woman demanded.
"Of course it has a meaning, Mila. It means that we are completely over, go away and leave me alone."
"So you dump me in front of everyone and what now your gonna go and start fuckin this bitch?" she motioned toward Nel.
"EWW! You are so nasty!" Nel exclaimed, "Do us all a favor keep your mouth shut until you get the facts. I'm Neliel, Grimmjow's sister. Now I do believe that my brother has made himself clear and you need to leave." Grimmjow grinned at his sister with pride.
Ichigo watched as Starrk took a seat next to him, "Hey Ichi, should I have her thrown out?"
"Yeah, before Nel goes off on her we should. Hey Karin, why don't you and Rangiku show Mila out? Nel come have a drink with us. It looks like the next band isn't here so they have lost their chance." Ichigo called out and Mila glared at the two women approaching her before she screamed and turned storming out on her own. Starrk leaned into Ichigo, placing his lips almost against his ear.
"So I'm off tonight and I would like to finish my orders and get out of here. You promised to help me." Ichigo shivered and slid off his stool to grab the paperwork from behind the bar.
'I am so screwed.' Ichigo thought to himself, 'If he keeps doing things like that I'm gonna jump him.'
