(I'll get around to proof reading (and possibly changing a few details) later, okay?)
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"I-I was talking about my math grade!" stuttered Genai, turning even redder; Bi-kun laughed at him.
"AHH!" the two boys stiffened at the cry; it was Charlene.
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In the Life of a Rock Star
Chapter 21 part 3A: I got flipping lazy on this chappie! Sorry…
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"Leave me alone!" cried the girl as she was thrown to the ground.
"I told you this wasn't over!" shouted a boy three times her size; it was the fifth grader from several days ago and this time he brought friends.
"What do you want, you jerk?" shouted RiRi-chan helping her friend up.
The bully snorted, cracking his knuckles. "What do I want? You just piss me off, that's all!"
"Stupid answer from a stupid kid!" grunted RiRi-chan.
"And that's exactly why you piss me off," growled the bully, waving his friends over. "Let's just see how that attitude of your holds up when you're crying for your mommy." The boy grabbed RiRi-chan's arm and jerked her backwards, then he locked both her arms behind her back painfully, making her holler.
"Leave her alone!" cried Charlene, bolting to her feet to try to save her friend. The fifth grader held out his hand in her path; before she could stop, her face smashed into the hand. Charlene stumbled backwards and fell to the ground once again, grasping her nose.
The bully laughed stupidly. "Not so tough without your little bodyguard, are you?" he sneered, twisting RiRi-chan's arms in painful directions.
That's when a fist hit him square in the face. The bully tottered for a moment, trying to regain his footing while cupping his cheek. "What the hell…?" he grumbled, peeling his eyes open; he groaned, for there was Bi-kun, showing him two tightly balled fights ready to fight. "Oh, it's just you, brat," laughed the bully nonchalantly. Bi-kun scowled, but before he could do anything, two of the attacker's friends came up behind him, grabbed him under the arms, and pinned him to the ground. "Not even a threat anymore," sneered the brut.
Then, from out of nowhere, Genai rammed the older boy, smacking him in the gut. But due to his smaller form, he just bounced right off and into the enemy's hands to be slammed against the wall. The fifth grader laughed at them again; "Pathetic!" He then turned his attention to Chrono, who was cowering under a bench. "Let's not forget Miss scaredy-skirt, shall we?"
Chrono puffed out his cheeks and whispered harshly "I am NOT a girl!"
Hardly a second before the bully reached out a hand to grab the small boy a pebble came flying at his head; needless to say it made painful contact. The boy quickly swiped away the trickle of blood it left. "Who throw that?" he yelled as another pebble came whizzing by his face.
"What a loser," drawled a boy a few feet away; he was juggling several pebbles in one hand; his other was stuffed in his pocket. "What kind of low life has to pick on a bunch of girls to make himself feel important?"
"I'm not a girl!" growled Chrono again, clenching his fists.
"And just who the hell are you?" demanded the bully.
The other boy tsk-ed, hurtling another pebble at him, this time hitting his stomach. "Look, I could stand here all day beating the crap out of you, or you could just leave these girls alone; it's your choice."
"Just who the hell do you think you are?" yelled the older boy again.
"Uchiha-senpai!" shrieked RiRi-chan all of a sudden. (A/N: "senpai" means "upper classman"). Everyone looked over at her; she was swooning over the new boy, her eyes were even sparkling.
"U…chi…ha ah ohhh…" repeated the bully nervously; he blanched. "Well, sorry for the trouble! We'll be seeing you all!" he squeaked, waving goodbye. With that, he ran away with his freakishly large friends as fast as they could.
"What just happened?" asked Genai after a moment of complete confusion.
RiRi-chan squealed. "Uchiha-senpai happened—that's what!" she ran over to the boy and took hold of one of his hands. "Thank you so very, very much! If there's anything you would ever want us to do for you, we'd do it in a heartbeat!"
"We?" grumbled Genai hotly.
"Yes oh yes, we'd be delighted to do anything!" squeaked Charlene, also running up to the boy and taking his other hand into her own.
Genai stared wide-eyed at them. He felt his hands twitching, suddenly wanting to tear this pretty-boy limb from limb. But unfortunately, his was still winded from being thrown against the wall and couldn't stand up.
"Well," started Uchiha slowly, "there is one thing you could do for me."
"Anything—name it!" chirped RiRi-chan, blushing madly.
"I was over at a friend's house a little while ago and I heard you playing in your garage. You're pretty good."
"You like my music?" she practically screamed. "Oh thank you so much!"
"Yeah, anyway, I as wondering if you'd like to write a few songs for me?" He said smoothly. "My friends and I are working on, let's just say, a sort of home movie collection and we need some 'theme songs', if you will." He smiled suavely at her. "Would you care to do the honors?"
RiRi-chan almost fainted. "Of course!" she shrieked. "I can have them for you by Monday!"
He chuckled at her. "That's alright, take your time; we'll be presenting our 'movies' in April at the Cherry Blossom Festival. So until then," he turned around and waved at her.
"Ohh, Uchiha-senpai…" sighed both the girls.
"Sasuke!" shouted a streak of orange as it pounced on Uchiha. "Where've you been?"
"Dammit, Uzumaki-kun," grunted the other boy, standing back up, "you're lost without me!" he took the boy's hand and started dragging him away, losing the coolness factor that he'd built up with RiRi-chan; the new boy laughed maniacally. "You need a babysitter… where's Sakura-chan?" the other boy shrugged.
"He's… still cool…" squeaked RiRi-chan.
"R-right…" murmured Charlene, nodding her head slightly.
Suddenly, RiRi-chan spun around and pointed an accusing finger at the boys. "Some help you all were!" she yelled haughtily. "If Uchiha-senpai hadn't come along when he did, ChaCha-chan and I would've been killed!"
Bi-kun stood up, walked over to RiRi-chan, and slapped her hand down. "Just shut up," he hissed, stomping away.
"What's up with him?" asked RiRi-chan curiously; Charlene shrugged. "Hey, brat!" she called over to Genai. "What's your excuse?" Genai just snorted and stalked away; RiRi-chan looked over at Chrono; "Well?"
"Don't look at me," he chirped cutely, "I'm just an innocent little girl!" he too left.
"Jeez, what's wrong with them?"
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"Stupid Uchiha…" grumbled Genai, still furious after school. "What's your excuse?" he squeaked, imitating RiRi-chan poorly. "What the hell is wrong with her—is she blind?" he screamed, waving his arms wildly. "Feh, see if I come to her stupid band today! I might as well go home and—" he stopped; "Now that'd be just flat at stupid," he muttered, starting to walk again. "Maybe I'll just loaf with Chris—" he stopped again. "Dammit; she'll be there, too!"
"Nowhere to go?" asked a voice from behind him. Genai slowly glanced backwards to see Bi-kun. "I myself am going to go hide at the park; wanna come with?"
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Genai sighed, he knew that he would never be found at the park, but, "It's soooooooooooooooooooo boring here!" he yelled tiredly.
Bi-kun also sighed, slumping down on the bench they were sitting on. "Oh, quiet…" he mumbled. He lazily turned his gaze away from the pond he had been staring at for the last twenty minutes and gasped.
"What?" asked Genai with apathy.
"What the hell is he doing here?" he screamed; Genai looked over to where his friend indicated and tsk-ed.
"It's just Chrono—get over it."
"Not him," grunted Bi-kun, rolling his eyes. "That guy he's with—it's An-chan!"
Genai once again glanced over at the two boys. "An-chan? Nah, that's just Dillon-san's little brother An…ton…" Genai looked away. "I'm starting to see the resemblance."
Before Genai could say anything else stupid, Bi-kun hopped up and marched over to the other boys. "Why are you here?" he practically screamed at the taller of the two.
"And you are?" he asked sarcastically.
Bi-kun scowled. "I'm pissed at you for hitting on RiRi-chan."
"What're you, her boyfriend?" he replied smugly; Bi-kun instantly lit up.
"N-no—you st—why I oughtta—" sputtered the boy, failing to say anything coherent. Luckily, Genai caught him before he could attack the older boy and cause any real damage.
"Chrono, why are you hanging out with this guy anyway?" he asked while restraining Bi-kun.
"Chrono? Is that what they're calling you these days?" chuckled An-chan.
"Yes it is. Thank you, Aion." grumbled Chrono, still hating his new name.
The boy snorted. "I like my nickname, thanks. I even spell it with an 'A' just coz I'm cool!"
"More like stupid," muttered Chrono.
"Again; why are you hanging out with him?" repeated Genai, still keeping Bi-kun in check.
"We've known each other for, like, ever." Chrono shrugged, "I guess we just felt like seeing each today."
"Chrono," snorted Aion, laughing at his friend. "That's from Chrono Trigger, right?"
"Yes…" groaned the boy irritably. "What of it?"
"My sister loves that game."
"Just call me Chrono!" declared the boy, blushing and laughing.
"He's obsessed." said the other three together.
"She's too old for you," sighed Genai.
"I'll never let you have her!" huffed Aion stubbornly.
"Who're we talking about?" asked Bi-kun, totally out of the loop; the others groaned.
"Our babysitter," said Genai.
"My sister," stated Aion.
"The love of my life!" cheered Chrono.
"Oi…" muttered Bi-kun; it was going to be a long day.
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"In retrospect, perhaps you shouldn't have yelled at the boys." sighed Charlene. "Since, after all, you're the one who wanted a band."
"Oh, shut up," grumbled RiRi-chan. During lunch time, she hadn't expected the boys to actually get mad at her, so for the past hour, she and Charlene had been sitting in her garage doing absolutely nothing. "It's not my fault they're not as cool as Uchiha-senpai."
"Maybe if you'd just apologize to them, they—"
"For what?" screeched the redhead. "I didn't do anything!"
"You insulted them!" screamed Charlene back. "You pretty much told them they're weak! That's a huge blow to a boy's pride!"
"So what? They got beat up!"
"Protecting us! It's even worse for them because now they think their efforts went to waste!"
"Who cares what they think? They're boys!"
Charlene shot to her feet, balling her hands. She scrunched up her face, at a loss for words—and a better comeback. She just glared at RiRi-chan a minute and then stormed away.
RiRi-chan didn't even try to stop her.
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After a while, Genai, Aion, and Bi-kun (I'm sorry, "Viede", as dubbed by Aion because it "sounds really cool"), had managed to lead Chrono off the subject of Ma-chan and before they knew it, they had begun to wander over to RiRi-chan's house. Probably because Aion had told them that if they were real men, they would stick it to the girls for making fun of them; Viede said that that would be just plain mean, but nevertheless they felt like going to see the girls.
Unfortunately, once they got there, neither of them was in the garage. Viede knocked on the door and RiRi-chan poked her head out. "What do you want?" she huffed.
"We came to talk, that's all, Sweetcheeks!" chirped Aion; RiRi-chan turned bright red right before slamming the door in their faces.
Viede slowly turned around and glared at the older boy. "Hey, you can't blame me for trying, can you? She's just such a cutie!" Viede glared even more menacingly.
"RiRi-chan?" called Genai, knocking himself this time, "Come on out, okay?"
"No!" she yelled from behind the door, "I'm not apologizing and that's that!"
The boy sigh; "What if we all just forget about the whole thing, how's that?"
"…But why's he with you guys?"
Genai took a step back, slightly confused. Then he remembered Aion and rolled his eyes. "Aion—err… 'An-chan' said that he'd like to join the band, too."
"Really?" cheered the girl happily, swinging the door wide open. She hopped down the steps and got close to Aion. "And just what do you play?"
"Guitar," he said shrugging.
"Wonderful!" cooed RiRi-chan.
Viede grimaced; "Don't you think that we already have enough guitarists?"
"Well… I've always wanted to try bass guitar," she giggled; Viede sighed and Aion grinned.
"Hey," said Genai, suddenly realizing something, "where's sh-…sha… bah! Where's ChaCha-chan?"
RiRi-chan glanced over at him, slightly annoyed that he had interrupted her moment with An-chan. "She left a while ago." She said simply before turning back to the taller boy.
"Left…?" asked Genai vaguely. "What do you mean left?" he demanded, taking hold of RiRi-chan's shoulder.
"Left!" she shouted back, "As in went, walked away; is no longer here!"
"…Tell me she didn't go alone," he growled darkly.
"So what if she did?"
Genai moaned and let go of the girl, running out to the front of the garage. "Which way did she go?"
"The same direction she always does, why?"
Genai looked over his shoulder at her and gave her a very nasty look. "She's very absent minded—she'd get lost if she tried to go anywhere on her own. Why do you think I came with her here yesterday?"
"Because she asked you to?" Genai groaned and shot out of the garage and down the street. "What's his problem?" asked RiRi-chan indignantly.
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Genai impatiently tapped his foot while waiting for a crosswalk. It had been well over an hour since he had left RiRi-chan's house, and he still hadn't found Charlene. "Where the hell did you go?" he mumbled tiredly. A man behind him pushed him forward roughly as the light changed. Genai stumble over the curb and barely regained his balance before he could be trampled by the crowd of people on their way home from work. Once onto the other side of the street, the boy flopped down onto a bench that was in front of a brick wall. "I'm never gonna find her…" he sighed heavily.
"Find who?" came a voice from behind the wall.
Genai did a double take, jumped up onto the bench, and stood on his toes, trying to see over the wall. "WHAT THE HELL?" he screamed, glaring down at Charlene.
"Hi," she chirped, waving up at him.
"How long have you been sitting here?" he grumbled angrily.
The girl shrugged; "I got lost, found this place, and so I just sat down."
Genai looked over at the building she was facing; the ice cream shop; he groaned. "Look, just come on, and…" he stopped; he had lost balance and started to fall over the wall. "AAH!" he cried as he did a face-plant into the bench she was on. She laughed as he slowly squirmed into a normal seated position. "That wasn't funny," he grumbled, grasping his bleeding nose.
"I-I know," she gasped, still laughing. "Y-you just fell, like you were in slow motion…!"
Genai turned bright red as the girl continued laughing at his blunder. "Hey," he started after a minute, "don't run off like that again, okay?"
"Why does it matter if I do or not?"
"Because!" shouted the boy, whipping around to face her, "You said it yourself; you got lost! What am I supposed to if you get lost forever?"
"Get a new tutor?" asked Charlene bluntly; Genai fell over.
"Think about the big picture!" he screamed, totally flustered.
Charlene put a finger to her bottom lip in concentration. "Umm… My family would miss me?"
'Does she REALLY not get it?' thought Genai crossly. He groaned and hung his head; "Exactly," he sighed. "But don't forget that your friends would be sad if you disappeared, too."
Charlene snorted; "Are you saying that you'd be sad, too?"
"Yes!" squeaked the boy, turning red again; she began to laugh at him again. "C-come on," he ordered, taking her hand into his own, "the others are waiting for us!"
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"Alrighty," barked RiRi-chan once they had all assembled, "at the start of April, as most of you know, there is an annual Cherry Blossom Festival that's held in the park. Uchiha-senpai and his friends are working on something for the festival, and he's asked us to create some music for it. He asked for four songs, all of them are to be rock/pop. We have nine months to do this; any questions?"
"Uh, yeah," said Viede, raising his hand. "Why are we doing this?"
"Because," said a voice, coming into the garage from the house, "it's your big break through!"
"What the hell are you doing?" cried Aion.
"Mom sent me to get you," said Ma-chan casually, "but that's not the point! You guys are rising stars! You're gonna be big, I just know it!"
"Why do you even care, Sis?"
"Well, Baby Brother," Ma-chan paused a moment. "…I want in on it." She said bluntly. "I'll damned if I'm going to be a babysitter, or a nanny, or a convenient store clerk for the rest of my life. I want fame, fortune—the works!"
"Sorry," sighed Aion uninterestedly, "we have enough musicians as it is."
"Oh no, no, no…" she cooed evilly, "I don't wanna play—I wanna manage you all!"
"You want to be our permanent nanny?" asked RiRi-chan.
"NO! Not like that! I mean like do the bills, set up recording sessions, stuff like that."
"The bills…?"
Ma-chan sighed; "So you all can drop out of school and focus on the music."
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"WOOHOO!" cheered the little kids. "All hail Ma-chan! 'Manager-chan'!"
"But I like school…" whimpered Charlene.