Well, last chapter was really something I put a lot into. Hopefully for this one I won't need to do so much with the songs. So in this chapter, the guys get more noticed by the public but at the same time also come across some slight difficulties in the path. This chapter has a scene I've been planning on for a while now that occurs around the middle. Anyway read on guys.
( /xfWPqRtozh0)
Chapter 7: The Pros and Cons of Getting Noticed
Things have been going great for a while. Ever since that first performance at the Tiburon, Soul Society kept up their performing every single weekend and any weekday that they were able to. Each time they'd come up with a couple new songs or do covers of their favorite bands. The crowds and the applause really gave them a boost in their confidence and they were sure there was going to be much in store.
Besides doing performances, they also began to advertise themselves on social media. They had profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, where they introduced each other and put in videos of their work, mostly with covered songs and or videos of their skills.
They also had videos of comedic stints they'd do at each other's houses in the middle of jam sessions. Pretty much they'd do jokes and have parodies. They made these as a way to let off a humorous tone to their audience and to have fun.
Word had gotten out around the school about their deal and several students there would show up to the Tiburon every weekend to see them perform. Not just from Kuoh Academy, but from Karakura High, and Natsu and Lelouch's school.
Not only that, but their classmates would be constantly coming up to them giving them praise for their performances. It was very cool that they had gotten this, but it could get very annoying as well. Sometimes the attention would be getting in the way a lot. But what are you gonna do?
Issei got into school on Monday morning, and almost immediately was greeted with waves and compliments by all his classmates, especially the girls. If there's one thing that Issei learned from both TV and Urahara, it was that chicks love rock stars. Urahara told him that he had over five hundred girlfriends when he was performing as Tensai. Issei knew he was just exaggerating but he probably did get a huge bunch of fan girls.
"Getting noticed is a lot more fun than I thought," he said to himself before turning and seeing Simon chatting with a bunch of girls. He also noticed they all were giving him goo goo eyes. He must've been a real Casanova when it came to the ladies. Oh how he envied him.
"Well it seems someone's gotten busy."
Rias had appeared right behind him out of nowhere. Issei turned and let out a slight gasp, a little startled that she had snuck up right behind him without warning.
"Oh sorry, did I startle you," she asked innocently with a smile.
"Yeah you kind of did there, don't do that," Issei responded back to her. Rias just shrugged in response.
"So I heard a lot about your performances downtown, you really have made a name for yourself haven't you?"
"Well not just me, but Ichigo, Simon, Lelouch and Natsu as well. We just wanted to do something like this and we're glad we did. Hell we didn't expect we'd have this chance to be able to get a deal with a big name company like Espada. We were expecting to get in by some indie label, which would've been cool as well."
"That is true, chances like that don't come around very often," Rias agreed with him, "it is a huge commitment though isn't it?"
"Unfortunately it is," Issei said feeling down, "Rias, I don't know if I'll be able to do the shows again. I'd like to but it would be complicated to pull off."
"Hey, it's cool," Rias said quickly.
"Really?"
"Of course, I mean there's plenty of musicians and actors at Kuoh Academy. You have a bigger commitment now and I stay stick with it. Besides I..."
"OH MY GOSH, THERE HE IS!"
Issei looked and saw so many girls running up to him. He didn't have anytime to react and instantly found himself in the middle of a giant pit of girls. They kept asking him questions and we're giving him compliments as well. He tried to find his way out but he couldn't push through. He managed to get a glimpse and saw that Rias was walking away.
"Rias wait," he called out.
"It's okay," she called back, "you take care of that and I'll talk to you later."
"Okay, maybe getting noticed isn't as great as I built it up to be," he thought to himself, "oh well, I guess I'll have to deal," he then managed to find his way out of the pit of girls and made his way to the classroom.
Things fared a little better for Ichigo at school. He was getting asked a lot of questions but wasn't getting thrown into a giant pit. Nonetheless it was a large amount of unwanted attention for him.
Right now he was standing in the hallway talking to a lot of students. They were pushing so many questions at him. It was starting to make him very uncomfortable.
"So will you perform often?"
"I hope so."
"Do you write music?"
"Yes I certainly do."
"Are you the leader of the group?"
"I wouldn't really say that."
"Are you going to get famous?"
"Geez this is getting out of hand," Ichigo thought to himself, "I got to get out of this, but I can't just run away or I'll look like a total jerk."
Luckily his salvation came right by him. Orihime had been walking through the halls and noticed the line of people crowded by Ichigo. She had heard about the group he was in getting a lot of attention, but due to her commitments she hadn't gone to the Tiburon to see them. Seeing the nervous look on his face, she decided to take action. She walked up the line and grabbed his shoulder.
"Alright everybody," she said like a businesswoman, "Mr. Kurosaki has other matters to attend to. He does not need all of this unwanted attention." She then began to pull him away from all this.
"Oh and who are you," one girl asked in a very rude tone, "are you his manager or something?"
"Indeed I am," Orihime said with a smug tone and smirk as she continued to pull him away. The line of people decided to move away and went to their classes.
"Thanks Orihime, for getting me out of there," Ichigo said to her.
"It gets very annoying when people crowd around you, doesn't it?"
"You don't know the half of it," he mumbled.
"Actually I do," she said, "whenever I do a recital I'm always bombarded with questions. It gets very irritating, especially when they keep asking the same questions over and over. Luckily Sora gets me out of there before that happens."
"For a piano prodigy I would expect that," Ichigo said simply.
"Don't refer to me as that," she said glaring at him.
"Sorry."
While Orihime was indeed a prodigy, she did not like being referred to as that by anyone. She felt that the word made her seem arrogant and considering her disdain for people like that, she didn't want anything to associate herself with them. She made this clear around her friends who did respect that but if they slipped it by accident she would get annoyed. She simply wanted to be referred to as a person who plays music, nothing more.
"But anyway, I heard about your band and I saw a lot of the stuff on Facebook, I wanted to say congratulations."
"Thanks, it was a lot of work but we got it down," he said, "have you come to see any of our shows?"
"No, it's been hard because I have too many commitments," she sighed.
"Hey it's cool, you got your work to do that's fine," he said reassuringly, "but if you get the chance, come down and see us, it'd be fun."
"I'll work it out somehow," she said.
"Cool, see ya," Ichigo said as he walked away.
"You too," she said as she walked away as well.
On a Wednesday night, Soul Society met at Natsu's house to have some upcoming discussion. They decided to take a break from practicing and instead enjoy themselves a little by watching TV, or playing video games.
They sat in Natsu's living room. Natsu and Simon were playing a racing game on Natsu's Xbox. He had gotten the game recently and was playing it non stop, not as much as the drums though.
"Oh come on I'm almost there," Natsu yelled as he kept mashing buttons on the controller.
"Comeomcomeoncomeoncomeon I gota win this," Simon yelled out in a high pitched voice as he stood up on his knees furiously hitting the buttons.
Issei, Ichigo, and Lelouch sat on chairs, eating pizza and watching them. Actually Lelouch was on his laptop making some adjustments to their Facebook page.
Simon and Natsu neared the finished line in the game both side by side, but in the last second Simon slammed his car against Natsu's and finished in first place. Natsu's car overturned and was passed by the other ones finishing in last place. Watching his loss on the TV was mortifying.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO," Natsu wailed out as he ran up and clutched the sides of the TV
"YEESS I DID IT, I WON," Simon screeched in victory.
Ichigo, Lelouch, and Issei started laughing hysterically at Natsu's predicament. The way he was screaming like a little kid was downright hilarious.
"I WAS SO CLOSE," Natsu yelled out, he ran over to Simon and began to whack at him as Simon covered himself while laughing, "YOU CHEATER, YOU PUSHED ME OFF!"
"Hahaha, can't help being a sore loser can you," Simon playfully taunted him.
"YOU CHEATING BASTARD, TAKE THIS AND THAT AND MORE OF THIS!"
"Woah Natsu calm down," Issei said pulling him off Simon, "it's just a game for crying out loud."
He let out a sigh, "I know, damn I take these things way too seriously."
"Yeah but doesn't everybody. I rant out whenever I lose a match to Issei or my kid sisters. That's embarrassing enough," Ichigo said as he took another bite of pizza.
"I know how that feels, Nunnally beats me at Mario Kart every time," Lelouch said while still looking at his laptop. "Hey do you guys want me to upload that funny video we made earlier?"
"Which one," Simon asked.
"The one where Issei freaks out that R.E.M. disbanded and he runs around the neighborhood screaming."
"Oh yeah and then I reassure him he's still got Nirvana, but he realizes they're gone too and goes crazy again," Ichigo asked remembering the skit they filmed.
"Yeah that's it," Lelouch said.
"Yeah post that, it'll be hilarious," Issei said.
"Gotcha," Lelouch said as he went back to his laptop.
Natsu still sat on the floor lamenting his loss at the racing game.
"Oh come on it was one loss Natsu," Simon said, "get over it."
'Whats it look like I'm trying to do," Natsu said in a depressed tone,
"How about we watch some TV instead, we can watch the Breaking Bad marathon coming on in a minute," Ichigo suggested.
"Okay," Natsu said, suddenly getting very happy. Issei who had gotten up to change the channel got a little weirded out by that, but he decided to disregard it and switch the TV. As he switched from the gaming input to cable the TV was on the news right now.
In other recent news a new rock band by the name of Soul Society has been getting large notice around Karakura Town.
Issei was about to change the channel when he heard that first line from the news man. "They're talking about us," Issei said aloud.
"Turn it up," Ichigo said motioning to Simon to turn up the volume. They listened clearly to the announcer while clips of their performances were being shown on the TV.
At Karakura City's Tiburon venue where many up and coming bands perform, one band has frequented the place for a while and has grown a small fanbase as a result of it. The bands name is Soul Society, a rock band made up of five members Karakura Town. Since last month they've frequented the local Tiburon bar and grill and have given audiences a show to remember. We've had a chance to talk to their manager from Espada, Naruto Uzumaki.
"Oh boy, let's hope this goes well," Simon said.
"If he makes us look stupid, then I'm coming after him," Lelouch said threateningly. All the other guys looked at him with scared faces. He looked at them a little confused, "what, I was just joking?"
Naruto was on the TV standing next to an attractive brunnete news woman. Judging from the scenery, it looked liked he was near the Tiburon right now.
"So Mr. Uzumaki how do you feel about this group getting much publicity?"
"I think it's a very exciting process for these guys, they have worked very hard to get to this point and they love doing what they do so it really paid off."
"Well he does have that right," Natsu said. He was immediately shushed by the other guys. They turned back and continued to watch the TV
"So how did this start?"
"The four members had a demo sent in and the CEO of Espada Gin Ichimaru really enjoyed it. After that he contacted me and had me give the guys a few pointers and I suggested performing at the Tiburon. So far they've been going very good and they really love it."
"So what's their plan from here on in."
"They have plans to record a debut album soon, but we wanted to make sure they had a sort of following to do it. Seeing as how it's getting to that point now, it won't be long until getting to make that album comes."
"Well that's all we have now, thank you Mr. Uzumaki."
"Oh please it's Naruto."
"Well at least he's still casual towards the end," Issei said with a chuckle.
"Yeah," Ichigo said, "but still were being talked about on TV, this is friggin awesome."
"I didn't think it'd take this long to get noticed," Simon said astonished.
"Me neither, but we're this close to recording an album," Lelouch said, "wonder how that'd go out."
"Write, go in, play, sing, record, and mix," Ichigo said, "that's pretty much it. I always did want to learn about mixing and stuff."
"I hear it's a long process," Issei said, "but yeah it is very cool."
"Considering I can't sing, it's more like that," Natsu said.
"You know man, I honestly thing anybody can sing as long as you try," Lelouch said, "why don't you give it a try for a second?"
Natsu's face turned pale at that suggestion, "oh no you do not want to..."
"Come on Natsu, give it a try," Simon said.
"It's not that hard, just try it once," Ichigo said.
"Who knows you might like it," Issei suggested.
Natsu just groaned at their urging. He really didn't want to do this but considering their urging, there was no turning back here, "all right," just then he thought of something he could do to make them stop urging him. He took a deep breath and then...
"LALALALALALALALALALALALALA!"
What followed was probably the most horrendous of notes ever uttered. Purposely uttered to be more specific. Natsu just sang it out like a banshee and didn't care how bad it was, but if it would show them how bad of a singer he was then it was worth it. Eventually he stopped.
"So how's that for you guys," he said with his eyes closed before opening them.
Upon opening his eyes, he looked down on the floor and saw his bandmates were lying face up, their eyes pale and wide and their mouths wide open. He had screamed so loud with his terrible singing that he pretty much knocked them unconscious
"Was it something I said?"
They had another performance at the Tiburon on Saturday night. It was the same old crowd, same old cheers and applause. Nonetheless it was still enjoyable.
"Okay last song for the evening guys," Issei announced giving a thumbs up.
(Start)
Issei started playing the guitar for the rhythm. After some time of this Issei's singing started.
Issei: I get the same old dreams, same time every night, fall to the ground and I wake up. So I get out of bed, put on my shoes and in my head, thoughts fly back to the breakup. These four walls are closing. Look at the things you put me in.
Issei, Lelouch, Ichigo, Simon: Since you been gone, since you been gone, I'm out of my head can't take it. Could I be wrong but since you been gone, you cast a spell so break. Ohhh, woahh, Ohhh. Since you been gone.
Ichigo: So in the night I stand, beneath the backstreet light. I read the words that you sent to me. So I take the afternoon, the nighttime comes around too soon. You can't know what you mean to me. Your poison letter, your telegram, just goes to show you don't give a damn.
Issei, Lelouch, Ichigo, Simon: Since you been gone, since you been gone, I'm out of my head can't take it. Could I be wrong but since you been gone, you cast a spell so break. Ohhh, woahh, Ohhh. Since you been gone.
Another guitar solo was done, this time harmonized by Issei and Ichigo. As they played Lelouch sang over them.
Lelouch: If you will come back, baby you know you'll never go wrong.
Issei, Lelouch, Ichigo, Simon: Since you been gone, since you been gone, I'm out of my head can't take it. Could I be wrong but since you been gone, you cast a spell so break. Ohhh, woahh, Ohhh. Since you been gone.
As the song finished up, they just kept on playing and having fun. The breakdown hit and once again they got the same amount of applause. They took their usual bow and walked off.
"Thank you all, goodnight," Simon said to them in the microphone.
"Great job guys," Naruto said, "you really killed em."
"Thanks Naruto," they all said.
"Hey I'm gonna go talk to the manager, why don't you guys go out and put your stuff away in the car, I'll be out in a minute."
They all nodded and stepped outside hauling their gig bags containing their equipment. All the while chatting about their performance tonight.
"Hey great job on that solo Ichigo," Lelouch said.
"Years of practicing pays off," Ichigo responded.
"Yeah, but you did great too Issei," Simon said to him.
"Yeah but I'm not as great as Ichigo is, it's still fun though," Issei said thinking about his ability to play.
"Well look what we have here."
The five looked and saw a figure standing by the side of the building. It was a well built man in his mid-20's with blonde hair, and a scar on his face. He wore a smirk and was kneeling against the wall. Issei didn't know who it was but recognized him immediately.
"Riser," Issei uttered.
"If it isn't my former student," he said with an arrogant tone.
The other members were confused as to why this guy was here, except Ichigo.
"Who is this guy," Lelouch asked.
"That's Issei's former instructor, Riser Phoenix," Ichigo whispered, "this guy is a total jerk."
"He's the guy Issei was talking about in the store right," Simon asked.
"Yep, he is."
Issei stood face to face with his former teacher. A look of defiance and anger in his eyes. He thought he was finally rid of this guy and he shows up here.
"Why are you here," Issei demanded to know.
"Just checking up and seeing how you're doing," Riser said in a cool manner, "and you're still as half assed as ever."
"No thanks to you," Issei said coldly, "you made my life a living hell, constantly putting me down and not letting me express myself."
"I tried to teach you," Riser interjected, "but you had no talent. You would never get good and you're still not good. You're sloppy."
"Shut up," Ichigo snapped coming up next to Issei and facing Riser. Ichigo looked pissed off now. Issei had told him many times about this guy but never expected him to be this degrading.
"This guy is a talented person at guitar and piano. He worked very hard and he's better than anyone I know. All you did was just put him down and make him feel like nothing, that's not what music is supposed to be."
"Students need discipline to get proficient. I was teaching him the right way. Music is supposed to be hard and discipline is the way to achieve it," Riser declared.
"That is completely wrong," Simon interjected.
"Music isn't supposed to be completely hard," Lelouch said, "it may seem hard but you can make it less hard by making it fun and enjoyable, not vindictive and tedious."
"You know what else, you're all half assed," Riser said to them, "you put yourself in with this ruffian rock music, instead of being involved with sophisticated and dignified music, you're nothing but children and low life's who will never make anything of themselves.
His tone was so arrogant and snobbish, it was making all of them angry. Putting down them and the music they enjoyed, this was going way too far. Issei and Ichigo had the biggest urge to slug him right here.
"We're not half assed, you are," Natsu yelled, "at least we're getting a deal."
"What," Riser asked shocked.
"That's right," Issei said smirking, "we got a deal with Espada to write and record an album. We made an effort and we're going places, while your stuck in a broken down music shop on the corner of a highway."
At this point Riser was furious. His eyes had gone wide and serious with rage. He grabbed Issei by the collar of his shirt and pulled him face to face with him. Issei looked him straight in the face, not scared at all and instead defiant.
"You don't deserve this, I worked harder than you ever did. You little bastards don't deserve what I do," he yelled. He clenched his hand into a fist and got ready to punch Issei.
"Let him go."
They all turned and saw a silhouette in the darkness stepping forward. It was Urahara standing there with a serious look, which was much unexpected from him as he was mostly funny and comical.
"Urahara," Riser said as he let go of Issei who pulled away. Urahara walked forward and looked him straight in the eyes.
"It's been a long time hasn't it Phoenix," Urahara said sarcastically with a grin, "and you're still as much of an ornery little asshole as you were before."
"You, you didn't do anything for me," Riser shouted at him, "YOU FAILED ME."
"I never failed anyone," Urahara declared, "I tried to teach you the proper and good way but you disregarded my training. You would snap at me and always be negative. I let you go because you would never be anything. Your behavior is the sign of a musician that's a failure, which is exactly what you are."
"Shut up, you're nothing but a stupid old has been," Riser snapped, "I worked to become a professional, you're too laid back and now you're nothing."
"Well I may be nothing, but I have golden records, a successful music shop, and good friends," Urahara said, "all you have is a boring job with no chance of a future."
Riser was completely enraged now and he wanted to punch this man in the face. At this point Urahara's face went from sarcastic and smug to threatening. This caused Issei, Ichigo, Simon, Natsu, and Lelouch to shake.
"Now get out of here," Urahara snarled at him, "and if I ever see you bothering these five kids, I'll make sure you'll never touch a guitar again."
Riser then gave up and walked away. As he left he looked back at Issei with a threatening glare. Issei didn't react and all and stood firm as he walked away. He wasn't scared of him, and he never would be.
They met up back at Urahara's shop for a while to clear their heads about what happened. Riser showing up at their show and almost threatening them in a way.
"You guys don't need to worry about him," Urahara reassured, "he's just a loser who will never make it at all. His arrogance caused him to waste all of his talent."
"You actually took lessons from that ass Issei," Lelouch asked flabbergasted. Issei, who was sitting on one of the chairs in the shop drinking a cup of water, let out a sigh.
"Yes, I did."
"How did you survive that," Simon asked.
"For four years even," Natsu asked jumping in.
"Well I thought I wasn't good enough and he made me think that I wasn't," Issei muttered, "so I began to think that I needed to stay if I wanted to get better."
"Stuff like that happens," Urahara said with empathy, "when you're degraded so much then you really start to think badly of yourself."
"But you broke free Issei," Ichigo said patting him on the back, "that's what matters. Besides you didn't need him, you came to me and Urahara and we gave you a lot of tips."
"You know I'll never forget the day I quit those lessons. It was around last summer."
...
Fourteen year old Issei sat in the room where he received lessons. He had his electric guitar plugged in and right now he was doing a rendition of Moonlight Sonata on the guitar. Riser was sitting on the other chair in the room. As he was finishing the piece he added some improv to finish it.
"Terrible," Riser said, "do it again."
"What do you mean," Issei asked confused.
"You added that towards the end, it was wrong."
"Well I decided to add some improv to it," Issei said, "just try and spice it up a little."
"Spice it up," Riser scoffed, "sure, and mess up the piece. Improvisation means you're lazy."
"I just wanted to try and have fun," Issei said.
"Music isn't supposed to be fun Hyoudou," Riser said, "it's a lot of work, and I will not allow a student to play half assed at all.
Issei hated that word so much. He had been hearing it so long for four years in total and every time he heard it he just got more and more angry. Now it was the last time and his anger had finally hit the boiling point.
"Why do you constantly do this to me," Issei shouted out causing Riser to jump back. Issei was normally quiet and shy in class and never acted this way.
"I'm trying to teach you how to play guitar correctly," Riser said simply.
"You're always putting me down and never letting me play the music I like," Issei yelled back, "you always call it lazy."
"Cause it is, all this rock and roll crap is nothing but dumb ruffian music," Riser said in a snobbish manner, "it will never gain the same superiority of great pieces."
"Well it's much more fun and lively than you," Issei said. Riser turned to him with anger at being insulted by his student. Not one of his students would ever insult him before, mostly because they feared him.
"What did you say," Riser asked angrily.
"You're nothing but a asshole and a terrible teacher," Issei snapped at him.
"Well I'm still better than you'll ever be," Riser smirked, insulting him, "I can play many great pieces and you can't do anything. In fact you used to be good but I guess since becoming less of a fat ass you slacked off as well."
Issei had to deal with Riser mocking his weight for a long time before he got healthy. Getting criticized on guitar was one thing but being insulted because of your appearance, that was borderline verbal and emotional abuse. Issei then stood up and starting turning the gain on the amplifier up.
"What are you doing?"
Issei didn't respond and kept turning the gain up until feedback was coming out.
"You better not think abou it," Riser said pointing his finger.
Issei slowly began to lift his hand up in the air.
"Stop it right now," Riser snapped.
Issei held his hand high up in the air and he began to furiously play the guitar. He strummed a bunch of power chords with high overdrive in a punk rock kind of way. He didn't care if he got in trouble, he wanted to have fun and more show the skills he had that Riser hadn't known about. He finished after about ten seconds.
"I can do that," Issei said with a smug tone.
"GET OUT OF MY CLASSROOM," Riser screamed at him.
"GOOD, I'M DONE WITH YOUR CRAP AND I'M NEVER COMING BACK AGAIN, EVER," Issei screamed back at him. He was so enraged now at this man and had finally released his anger that had been pent up for so long. In a fit of rage he kicked over the overdriven amplifier, took his guitar and case, and walked off of the room in a huff.
His mom noticed he was upset on the car ride home but didn't say anything. When they got home, Issei went up to his room and sat on the bed. At the same time he was both angry and sad. He was glad he left lessons but he didn't know for sure if he was terrible or not at the guitar. He kept his head down for a couple minutes and didn't say a word.
"Issei, are you alright?"
He looked up and saw his mom standing in the doorway. She looked very concerned at him because of how quiet he was.
"I...I'm fine mom."
"Sweetie," she said walking over and sitting next to him, "tell me what's wrong."
Issei then told her everything. How from day one of those lessons Riser verbally abused and degraded him. Made him think lowly of himself as a musician. All those years since he was eleven going through all that crap. Issei's mother was appalled.
"How could I have been so naive, you're never going back there, that's for sure," she said firmly.
"It doesn't matter," he uttered sadly, "I'm not a good guitarist anyway."
"What?"
"I'll never be as good as Ichigo or Riser. I'm terrible at it and I can't do anything right," Issei muttered as tears began to fall down his face.
"Come here," Mrs. Hyoudou said to her son as she held him close.
"You are talented honey, it was Riser that made you think that way, but you don't have to worry because he won't hurt you anymore," she said to her son in the most caring way as he held him.
After a couple minutes Issei felt a lot better. He wasn't afraid and he wasn't going to look down on himself anymore. It didn't matter if he was great or not, he just wanted to play.
...
"And that was it. I left lessons that day and never came back," Issei said, finishing his story.
"That's hilarious," Lelouch said laughing, "you seriously lost it at him?"
"Yep," Issei nodded.
"I can't believe you actually did that to him, kicking over the amp," Natsu said, "I would've loved to see his face after you did that."
"Yeah it was funny," Issei said quietly.
"Either way, you did the right thing Issei, standing up for yourself was the best option," Urahara said
"Besides, Riser lost himself a bit of money didn't he," Ichigo said, "and we're going places, he's not."
"That reminds me," Issei said, "you guys just met our new technician."
They ll turned to Urahara who gave them a wave, "nice to meet ya."
"You got Urahara to be our technician," Ichigo asked in astonishment.
"Sure did, I figure he's the best guy," Issei said.
"It's been a long time since I've done anything major," Urahara explained, "I may not want to perform again but I do want to help out groups and if being a technician is it, then that's what I'll be. Just leave all your equipment to me and I'll give you the best. And you get it all for free."
They all laughed at this. Not only were they going to be professional musicians soon, but now they were going to have Urahara, formerly Tensai, as their technician. Things couldn't get any better.
Well they could, let's think about it. Hope you guys enjoyed. This is by far the longest chapter that I've ever written on fanfiction and a huge accomplishment for me.
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