They must have sat there in the sun, enjoying the soft hum of the people talking around them and conversing when the band finally took their places on the stage and everyone suddenly shut up as Haruka walked out from behind the curtain wearing a new outfit.
She had her hair up in twin ponytails on both sides of her head again, light makeup, a mint green mesh and cotton lace up bodice shirt underneath a short leather jacket, and a pleated light blue, mint green, and aqua skirt over black leggings with tears in them and black, ankle boots with small heels.
"Hello New York!" She greeted as soon as she had the mic in her hand. There was a series of loud whistles, shouts and screams of excitement from the crowd. Haruka smiled for everyone and put a finger to her lips, automatically quieting everyone. "It's good to finally be back home again after a long tour with the bozo's standing behind me. I kind of missed the peace and quiet that doesn't come from a series of guy shouting curses at a TV screen and snoring like bears."
Everyone laughed while some of the band members shook their heads as she continued.
"And I'm sure that the guy's are happy to finally be back home for other reasons." She said before the guy at the drums shouted,
"She shaved her legs with my razor!" Followed by several others yelling out.
"She shaved my head with the same razor!"
"She permed my hair and dyed it green!"
"She stole my boxers while I was sleeping-"
To which Haruka said, "Let it go guys. Let it go." Followed by a series of 'Never's' causing everyone present to laugh and whistle some more as Thor leaned over and whispered to Tony,
"Friend Tony, they are quite humorous."
"Yeah- Yeah they are." Tony said before whisper/shouting to Bruce, "Lookit that, you get a girl who isn't just beautiful, but has a great sense of humor. I bet you could Hulk out on her and smash her car and she'd just laugh about it!" Bruce shot him a withering glare for a moment and then went right back to listening.
"So- before we get started here, first of all I want to say that I noticed that we have some couples out in the crowd with little kids. And we have a ballot box set up here where if your little one would like to hear a specific song from their favorite Disney or Pixar movie, you can write down the name of the song or the name of the band and the guy's and I will play a song for you're kid-" She was cut off by one of her bandmates suddenly saying into his mic.
"Haruka of course being a huge avid fan of all things Disney and Pixar, has a large collection to draw on for entertaining the kids. We tease her about it constantly, but really she's absolutely adorable when she's practically bouncing around while watching her favorite movies from the How to Train your Dragon series and the movie Brave."
"Jimmy! You swore on your first bra that you would never speak of that in public!" Haruka practically mock shrieked as her face turned a fetching shade of pink. 'Jimmy' sputtered and turned a peculiar shade of red while the crowd practically howled with laughter before settling down again as Haruka grinned and turned and walked over to an instrument and picked it up before coming back to her spot behind the mic and saying, "Now that the comedy routine is done- lets get this mother started! Boy's gimme a beat!"
The band started to play and Haruka started to play her instrument and sing in Japanese with two of the guys in the back singing some cool back up vocals as some people out in the audience got up and started swaying and dancing while others tried to sing along with the semi fast paced song.
Once the song finished the band changed up their tunes and started to play a Bon Jovi song, It's my Life. That Haruka nailed perfectly. Next up was a Tina Turner song, Simply the Best. Followed by a song where Haruka had to change out her instrument for a harmonica.
Bruce was blown away. Figuratively and literally.
Haruka's talent was simply that spectacular. And that wasn't a compliment that he gave to many people easily. Sure he had expected all kinds of things when he had come to this concert. Usually what was expected was some hippie with some pot brownies- which he wasn't going to lie, he'd sort of not only expected but looked forward to.
Kids and their angry music tended to unsettle him and the other guy. But this was all kinds of different. He could actually hear the other guy cooing and crooning along in nonsensical words in the back of his mind. He felt...mellow.
Mellower than he usually did when he had himself a pot brownie. Which was a tad bit weird. And yet at the same time not because he was genuinely enjoying himself.
Feeling a small smile curve his lips as the latest song ended and Haruka set her harmonica aside and took a box from some unknown guy that had just walked up on stage, she quickly explained that they had a few kiddie song requests from some of the parents in the audience.
After which some of the kids and parents were brought up to the stage and Haruka knelt down and exchanged a few words before then standing up and signing something to her bandmates before the music started up again. The song wasn't familiar to Bruce, but he liked the rhythm of it nevertheless.
It had an almost Scottish based rhythm that had him slowly moving his head from side to side as he listened to it and watched as some of the kids were let on stage to hang out with the band. Haruka, herself was swarmed by the little munchkins.
Some of whom were attempting to sing along while others danced.
It was so utterly adorable that he couldn't help but melt at the sight of such happiness and joy on the children's faces. Then like all of the other songs before, the current one ended and a more familiar one began. It was the song from the movie Frozen.
The kids and many of the adults around him and the others went absolutely crazy the moment that the song started. Haruka nailed the pitch and tone of the song perfectly. So much so that even Bruce found himself quietly singing along to the song as his girl sang.
The excitement that he had felt from before began to come back full force as the concert finally began to reach it's end, and he began to have some difficulty sitting totally still. All he could think was, It's almost time. It's almost time.
And then the concert finally ended and the band took it's bow and said a jovial goodbye to everyone and Bruce felt the other guy move in closer to the surface of his mind, he could feel the familiar burn in his eyes- indicating that the color had changed from brown to radioactive green- even if it was just for a few moments before he heard Tony say.
"Well that was better than I thought it would be. Who's up to meeting Bruce's girlfriend?"
