Once again, thanks to all who reviewed!
To OrangeKyo: I'm glad I got his character right! I was a bit worried that I was overdoing it.
To Skyerider: Yes Akito is coming and I hope you like what happens…
P.S. I don't know if I mentioned this before but this story is a collaboration with a friend of mine who gave me ideas and also convinced me to post this so say thank you.
I own nothing.
On the day of the show, the school auditorium was packed. Tohru peeked out nervously from behind the curtain. Rows and rows of faces stared back at her. Suddenly, she felt a hand on her shoulder that nearly made her jump.
"Calm down, Miss Honda," Yuki said from behind her. Tohru smiled at him, still trembling nervously. Slowly, she took a deep breath in and out.
"Thanks, Yuki," she said, "I'm just a little nervous. There are so many people out there. I see Ritsu and his parents, and Momiji's dad and…" Tohru looked out again, then turned back to Yuki who looked terrified by what the thought she was going to say.
"Actually," Tohru said, "I don't see Akito, maybe he couldn't come." Yuki seemed to relax slightly at the news. A few minutes later, the act on stage finished and the children (plus Shigure) walked out and began to set up their instruments. Hana quickly made her way to the sound booth and made sure everything was set for the performance. Once everything was ready, they began to play.
"One, two, one two three four!" Kyo yelled, slamming his drumsticks down. Hiro and Haru soon joined in along with Momiji. As the intro came to a close, Kisa and Tohru began to sing. The first and second verses went by without a problem, but as they entered the bridge, an obnoxious scream could be heard from the left side of the audience.
"Damn! You guys suck!" yelled a male voice, "Get off the stage. That sissy music has no place here." The band stopped as more and more people joined in until a clump of about twenty boys was screaming. The rest of the audience was silent, stunned by the cruelty of the hecklers. Suddenly, their attention turned to Hatsuharu.
"You're the worst," one yelled, "degrading the grace of that instrument by playing with those wimps!" Haru looked from the boy to Tohru and Kisa and back again. As the shouts continued, the girls began to cry and Haru could feel himself getting angrier and angrier.
"That's enough, bastards!" Black Haru yelled, "What the fuck is wrong with you assholes?" Like hell this is degrading! You want to see some damn good playing, you mother-fuckers got it!" Suddenly his fingers flew down the neck of his guitar. Screams and a combination of notes and quick changes that made John 5's Soul of a Robot look like amateur nonsense rang through the room (A/N: if you don't know the song, look it up). The crowd sat stunned as the rest of the band stared wide-eyed at their guitarist.
"Suck that, bitches!" Black Haru side, smirking, "Now let these girls finish or get your worthless asses out." The hecklers slowly sat down in stunned silence. Haru nodded and, with a big smile, turned to the rest of the band.
"Shall we continue?" he asked. They nodded and the song finished without any other problems and immediately received a standing ovation.
"Encore! Encore!" the crowd shouted. Tohru and Kisa looked to the rest of the band for help.
"How about that song Haru showed us?" Momiji asked, "The one by Paremore." They nodded.
"Alright let's go!" Kyo yelled, once again slamming his drumsticks down.
At the end of the show, the school principal came out with a large bowl full of ticket stubs.
"And now for the raffle!" he said excitedly, "I hope you held onto your tickets." With that he reached into the bowl and, as he dug for a ticket, a snare drum roared to life, adding to eh marginal suspense.
"37821!" the principal yelled, "Number 37821 come on down!" The students back stage peeked out from the side to see who had won or in the case of Kyo, glare because he hadn't. Sadly, his anger only escalated when he saw who had.
"You have got to be kidding!" The rest of the band quickly turned to see Akito slowly walking up to the principal, a small pink ticket in his sand. Once, he stood next to him, Akito handed over his ticket, staring at the man.
"Con-gulp-congratulations," the principal said, suddenly feeling very scared of the thin young man staring at him with black eyes that looked like pools of malice and psychopathic, bitter hatred, "You have won a fruit basket!"
"Oh darn," Akito said smiling, "I was hoping for some kind of bladed weapon." A few members of the audience laughed at what they assumed (or hoped) was a joke. As a student walked up the steps to the stage with the basket, the principal turned to Akito.
"So…what did you think of the childrens' acts?" Akito's eyes rolled over the audience and back to the stage, finally resting on Yuki who was standing on the side of the stage, behind the curtain. Akito smirked.
"The re-enactment of the Saw movies was wonderful," he said, "However, the rest of the show was two hours of my life I'll never get back. Especially the last act," Akito said, eyes gazing pointedly at Yuki, "my family has been disgraced by that raucous noise in ways you can't even imagine." Akito glared at the band members, challenging them to attack him, to contradict him.
Sadly, Kyo was more than ready to accept and, before anyone could stop him, ran onto the stage Akito smirked and held out his fist, hoping the cat would run into it. Luckily for Kyo, he noticed and was able to stop just before the force would have broken his nose. Suddenly, Momiji, who had run onto the stage after Kyo, slammed into him from behind, causing him to crash into Akito's fist. Both the cat and the rabbit tumbled to the ground as Haru arrived to break up the ensuing fight between Kyo and Momiji. He glared at Akito who simple smirked back. Just then Hiro ran on stage too in an attempt to help Haru stop the fighting. Tohru was the last to run over, concern evident in her eyes as she looked from the fight to the now glaring Akito and back again.
Yuki and Kisa stood on the side of stage, concerned for the safety the others but to afraid of Akito to go any closer. Haru and Hiro soon had the fight broken up, Haru holding Kyo while Hiro tried to get Momiji to stop whining. Tohru tried to comfort Momiji without touching him lest he transform. She glanced at Akito who was laughing quietly, chuckling to himself at the physical and emotional pain he had caused. With one final malicious smirk directed squarely at Yuki who trembled, terrified, Akito walked off the stage, chuckling all the while.
He sat next to Hatori who had his head in his hands, once again questioning the value of the Hippocratic oath when one's patient is a sarcastic, sadistic psychopath.
"Do you want to leave?" Hatori asked after a few deep breaths. Akito shook his head, grinning wickedly as the children on stage slowly pulled themselves together and walked off.
"No," said after a few seconds, "this is finally entertaining."