Hello, hello! It's never to late to update a fic, so here's the update after a great amount of writer's block. I just hope it happens less frequently…
Looking back at one of xblackrosefirex's reviews, I have finally come to choose the lead singer for this band fic. He's from the YYH cast, and he will be making his act on the next chapter. Until then, I'll leave you guys guessing the 'he' lead singer of Deadly Elements. Muahahaha.
Okay, onward!
Disclaimer- I don't own Yuyu Hakusho in any shape, size or form.
Chapter 4- Contest Announcement
After finally recovering from an infernal ear bleeding thanks to Shishiwakamaru's high note 'singing', the witness victims—the rest of the elemental masters had made their decision of practicing their mad skillz in the garage around four hours ago.
"When do I get to sing!?" Shishi began to throw his tantrum like a four-year-old. "I haven't sang anything at all whatsoever!!"
While they were practicing with their instruments some random songs: Touya with the vocals, Jin with the bass guitar, Rinku with the synthesizer, Chu with the drums, Karasu with the electric guitar, and Suzuka (since he's not currently using the DJ tool) as the only-audience, never gave Shishiwakamaru the chance to sing his parts due to the catastrophe from the previous chapter even is he's (supposed to be) the lead singer.
"How about… not anymore?" Suzuka asked as he looked at Shishi hopefully.
"Okay…WHAT!?" Shishi flared up his horns at him.
"Let him be." Karasu said.
"But--" Suzuka gets cut off--
"Okay, from the top!" Shishi chirped, "A la one, a la dos, a la three!"
"Let's call it a D.A.Y!" Karasu announced and the rest of the element masters followed him inside the house in a hasty pace, leaving the bird-samurai demon alone singing a bad version of Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake.
When they have finally reached the kitchen, Suzuka speaks, "We must do something about Shishi's...um, 'singing'."
"We!? What do you mean by we!?" Rinku was in the verge of hysteria.
"Damn right! The bird brain sings so badly that he sobers me right away!" Chu also complained of the idea of helping the bird samurai.
"Now you guys, Suzuka's right. Shishi's part of the band, and as band in development, we must all work together as a team and help each other out if we want to provide our future fans a good quality of our talents altogether." Touya voiced out his opinion to the others, and receives stares from them, "What?"
"Besides that you'd spoke longer than a fragmented sentence, you are right, Touya." Jin says, "I also agree there...but you guys, there must be a way to solve it, or it'll be the end of everyone's precious ears facilities! All who's in favor raise yer hand; all who opposes, I'll sic a hurricane on yer bum."
Therefore, without any further ado, everyone's hands, including Jin's, went up to the air with any hesitation whatsoever.
Now this is what I call: when great minds think alike.
Then, after the hands lowered down to their sides, "So...what are we gonna do?" Rinku asked, and this sets the minds of the others to think for a moment.
"I have an idea of helping our troubled fellow band member." Karasu began to speak his mind, "I know someone in this room who can help him out in no time at all."
In effect, it makes them to look at each other. Who is the lucky demon that will help Shishiwakamaru…? They wonder on and on…
"Oh there you are guys." Everyone has stopped looking at themselves after hearing the bird demon's voice, whom just came into the room. "What is going here? You all look as if you were going to look at someone for I-dunno reason."
"It's nothing, Shishi!" Rinku said.
"Like the little guy said!" Chu said, pointing down at Rinku.
"Yeah..." Suzuka nodded.
"Totally absolutely!" Jin said.
Shishi raises a suspicious eyebrow at the four elemental masters, "Okay then...anyways, it's almost dinner time: whose turn is it to cook?"
"I'll cook dinner for everyone." Karasu offered himself to help with the food for the entire household once more.
"No really, Karasu, you'd already made breakfast this morning; besides, it's Friday—" Shishi turns to look at the yo-yo kid master, "the brat's supposed to cook."
"Oh yeah…" Rinku said slowly in realization.
After the six masters moved in within the household, they have established an agreement upon many things: and one of them was the cooking and the kitchen. So let's see the week cooking menu that was established by them after they've reached for an agreement on the issue:
Mondays: Touya's turn to cook. He cooks decently, yet his meals can become mildly frozen at times. Watch out if your tongue gets stuck at your frozen spoon as told by a certain testimonial.
Tuesdays: Suzuka's turn to tinker dinner. Proceed with caution.
Wednesdays: Chu's turn to do his drunken cooking--next week is Beer and Peanuts. No comment.
Thursday: Shishiwakamaru's turn to do his notorious cooking of only vegetables. No meat allowed since he is a strict vegetarian (Thursday suck-socks for Jin and Rinku, so they get wasted with candy before the meal).
Fridays: Rinku's turn to cook if he doesn't screws up the kitchen or make candy-like dinner. Take out foods is highly an option; fast food also comes in handy. Or eat immediately Shishi's cooking leftovers.
Saturdays: Jin's turn to blow up the kitchen—I mean, to do his infamous cooking. May history never repeats again as last time. Then again, take out is an option.
Sundays: Either choose take out or Touya'll do the cooking since Sunday is a boring day and everyone else is lazy to even train their respective bums.
"So what's for dinner?" Jin asks to the young master.
"Well..." Rinku thinks for minute or so, "Dinner will be spaghetti and meatballs with breadsticks and water."
"Sounds good." Karasu said
"Err, Rinku's version of the meal is: Twistlers as the noodles, bubble gums as the meatball, melted cherry-flavored Airheads as the tomatoe sauce, Twinkies as the breadstick and Sprite as water." Chu deducted the meal.
Rinku nods to his father-like figure hastily.
Oh the cavities…
"Um...Take-out anyone?"
At A Local Bar, After Eating Dinner...
"I had no idea this bar sells dinner...Now I wonder, the bar's policy states only older demons are allowed within the establishment; Rinku isn't supposed to be here." Touya wondered.
"Yeah, I know that, Touya. That's why I wear this!" Rinku pinched the side of a fake brown moustache he was now wearing between his nose and his upper lip, "Nifty, isn't it?"
"Could've fooled me." He said dryly.
Then a young waitress reaches to their table and gasps! "OMG! Do you guys know him!?" she pointed at Karasu.
"Uh..." the masters started to back away from the table, "…no..."
"Whatdaya mean by that? This demon is Raven Crow-- he used to be the lead guitarist from the legendary band: The Dark Crows of Midnight!" The young waitress exclaims excitedly, "Raven, I'm your biggest fan! Can I please have your autograph?"
"Sure, why not."
And the girl hands Karasu her pencil and her notepad so he can give her an autograph.
After he signs his message and autograph, he gives the girl back the pencil and the notepad.
"Thanks a million bunch! All the things you all have ordered will be on the house! Before I leave, here!" She gives to Touya a piece of paper, "I'm gonna tell all my friends!" and with that, she leaves the table.
"Well, if that's the case then, we don't have to use Suzuka's discount coupons anymore; we must come with you more often, Karasu." Shishi said.
"It depends on the place, of course." Karasu said.
"Hey, Karasu, could you tell us about of your old band?" Rinku asked with curiosity, which this makes the other masters to lean in their chair to listen to the story.
"Well, The Dark Crows of Midnight stated on the lead singer's garage, back on my high school days. We performed on every chance we had gotten. Little by little, we became famous, almost through out the entire Makai territory hitting the number one charts every week... two years later, the band separated because they wanted to pursue a college education. I was very disappointed...after that, I dropped out of school and discovered the joys of sadism, homicide and explosives."
"According to the MTV documentation of The Dark Crows of Midnight, the reason of the separation had been left unknown..." Shishi adds his two cents.
"Hmm…" the newfound information leaves Karasu wondering momentarily before changing slightly the subject, "Let's leave the past behind us now, shall we? Let's concentrate on our new band!"
Jin looks at Touya, "Hey, Toy, what'cha readin'?"
"This paper the waitress gave me-- I'll read it out loud:" And the ice-nin proceeds to read out loud the paper given by the waitress earlier, "The Makai Bar is proud to present The First Annual Makai's Battle of the Band Contest...The Grand Youkai Band Prized Winner will win exclusive passports to the Human World without getting deported by Koenma or the Rekai Tentei."
"We must enter this contest! The Ningenkai's is a good place to start out our career--I mean it has Hollywood, American Idol, the US of A and Japan!" Shishi says eagerly, having to interrupt the ice-nin, "Who else is with me?"
"You know for once, I agree with him!" Suzuka said.
"Yeah!" Rinku also agrees with Suzuka.
"Good point." Chu said, nodding.
"So righteous." Jin agreed also.
"True." Touya nods.
"Then that's settles it: we'll enter the contest first thing by tomorrow morning." Karasu said, seeing the rest of the masters also in agreement to Shishi's idea, "Now, a toast for the band!"
The Next Day In The Morning...
Shishi goes downstairs to the kitchen's direction and when he got there, he finds Touya cleaning the dishes by the sink.
"Hey Touya, where is everyone?"
"They went out to register for the contest since early this morning." He answered without taking his eyes of the sink.
"Oh." Shishi said in understanding, going to the refrigerator to find food for his empty stomach.
"Shishiwakamaru." Touya called out just when he had finished with his task, "I'm going to teach how to sing properly."
Shishi pauses his search in the fridge to look at Touya, "Excuse me? Take singing lessons from you?" he laughs for a moment, "That's friggin hilarious, ice boy! I can do well without your lessons. Seriously." he then said seriously and arrogantly.
"Listen, Shishi, you do sing well and everything, but the high note is killing every object capable of hearing."
"My high note is killing even the deaf?" Shishi gets a little annoyed with Touya's statement, "Hmph. I'm gonna demonstrate that my high note doesn't affect anything. In fact, it's as melodious as a lullaby."
"Okay, take the glasses for example, and you will see what I mean for yourself," Touya pointed where the china and the ice figurines oak furniture was.
Shishi smirks before clearing out his throat, "Your call." He begins to sing the do-re-mi-so-fa piece in his high note, which it sounded somewhere in between what the fat lady sings in the opera, a bird singing and an Irish yodeling.
Meanwhile, Touya had covered his poor ears for protection of this obnoxious sound, not wanting to experience again last time.
When Shishi stopped his 'singing', he checks for any aftermath damages, "See? Nothing broke down." he grins.
Touya took out his hands from his ears before agreeing with him. Scratch that.
The two demons thought about it twice: that's when the china and the ice figurines immediately dropped dead.
Touya's eye twitches: that was his china and his ice figurines! "You think!?"
Not wanting to admit it openly (and not wanting to pay later for the expensive fallen china and ice figurines, not too mention Touya's icy temper), "All right, Touya, I'll take your lessons…" Shishi hears a sigh of relief from the ice-nin before he continued speaking, "…and then you'll realize that I don't need them!"
This makes Touya to slap his forehead, 'Then again...' after the short thought, he nods, "All right, let's go somewhere appropriate like the garage…AFTER cleaning up the broken pieces of the china and the ice figurines."
Finally, Shishi had accepted Touya's lesson. Maybe there he will learn more about the ice-nin mysterious singing, and even surpass him?
So what's next to happen in the fic?
Well, this happens!
TIME SKIP: A month goes by…
"Hurry yer arses up! We're gonna be late for the contest!" Jin yelled to the stairs' direction that led upstairs.
"I'm right here, wind mate. Not so loud, will ye; I have the mornin' hangover." Chu was sitting on the sofa with a headache.
Jin looked where the drunken master sat, "Oh. He he he. Sorry 'bout that, Achoo."
"It's Chu." He corrected him.
"Bless you!" And this makes Chu to roll his eyes before Jin continued, "Touya, Suzuka and Rinku are almost done loading everything in the car; they sent me to get the car keys, get some other stuffs and to tell the rest of you that we're leavin' soony."
"Ah, okay then." Then Chu looks to his surrounding for a bottle, "Hey, where's the rum gone?"
"I can just barely wait for the contest!" Shishi said excitedly as he and Karasu were washing their hairs for the upcoming event that would change their lives, "Oh tell me, Karasu, what should I do!?"
"Chill out." Karasu said as he rinsed out with water the conditioner out of his long black hair.
"Chill out?" Shishi blinked his eyes, pausing to brush his blue-violet hair, "That's it?"
"Yes. It is important for an artist to be cool, calm and collected before and during the main event." The crow said out of wisdom and experience.
"Hey, you are right...Thanks! I'll keep it in mind."
Suddenly, there were many knocks on the door, "We are about to leave for the contest! Are ya two ready or not?"
"Hold the IPhone, will ya!" Shishi replied from the room to Jin, who was outside, "Karasu-sama and I are washing our hairs, so we can't go out to the contest without proper hair care!"
"Oy, this is gonna take an eternity...now we'll never make it to there."
"What did you said!?"
"Nothin', bakamaru!"
"Say that to my face, windbag!"
"So much for the calm..." Karasu says to himself, 'Note to self: I must ask Touya to chill Shishi out, literally, before we leave the house.'
Uh-oh! Now that there are two demons left doing hair maintenance, shortly before show time. Will the elemental master ever make it on time to the contest, especially to make their first presentation as a soon-to-be-a-band and go to the Human World to carry out their talents?
Find out about it on:
Chapter 5- The First Debut Ever!
Here's a sneak preview:
"Last demon band, you're on in a minute!" a staff of the contest event announces to them.
"Wee! This is it, ye guys! We're almost up next!" Jin's ears wiggled in excitement. At last, after all the practices in the garage, using their instruments during the idleness and singing in the bathtub, they will be performing before a fictional live audience! And the readers too, of course!
"Before we go out there, I want to say a few words—"Touya was cut off when:
"Screw the corny speech!" Chu said, "Let's just go out there and have fun!"
"Woo-hooo!" Rinku whooped.
"Well I hate to burst the happy bubble, but I cannot go out there." Apparently, there was not a happy camper among the rest of them.
"What's wrong, Shishi?" Suzuka asked at him. "You have stage fright?"
End of sneak preview
Well about the instruments, I thought they are suited for them for the following reasons:
Rinku- with all the yoyo finger movements he does, I bet he can do the same in a piano and the synthesizer. On the other hand, maybe he just strikes me as the type of guy to play said instruments.
Chu- he seems like the type pull up fast tunes and hit the drums and bongos senseless, and plays the violin in the fiddle tune. Enough said.
Suzuka- he's like technological type, so that machine that the DJ's use are suited for him, or anything that involves the computer.
Touya- he seems like the type to play soft tunes with instruments, and a great capacity of singing or chorusing.
Jin- he has great lungs capacity and I'm sure he can play almost anything that requires oxygen in order to be played, like the whistle! lol Hence his air element. I bet he can even rap with his fast-talking. The bass guitar is a nice addition to him.
Shishi- birds loves to sing, obviously, so why not a bird-demon?
Karasu- he's bad ass, so he owns the electric guitar. And the saxophone...I'm not so sure why.
Now here comes the part that any author\authoress likes: leave a review, yo.
Later!