It's stupid!
Contagious!
To be broke and famous!
Can someone please save us
From Punk Rock 101?!
My dinky!
Your sweatpants!
My spiked hair!
Your new fans!
Let's throw up our rock hands
For Punk Rock 101!
~Punk Rock 101- Bowling For Soup
"So this is what he meant." Amu said to herself standing at the entrance of the parking lot, twitching at the scene in front of her. She could defiantly tell which van was Ikuto's. It was kind of hard to miss being surrounded by giggling fan girls! Some how, she knew she should have expected something like this, but still, she was unprepared for it. She was just staring at these girls in amazement, "This is why he such a big ego." she muttered under her breath feeling herself begin to pulse with anger.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Amu turned her head slightly to see her friend Rima swiftly switch her gaze between her and the group of girls, "If they see you get into a car with their beloved boys and you can consider your life at Seiyo High hell for the next four years." Rima advised making Amu sigh in annoyance.
"Great." Amu muttered the complaint to herself under her breath, "What am I suppose to do now?" She knew she had to get in the van to get to band practice, but she didn't want to be seen by those girls. They got her to stay after school just from "bad mouthing" those guys, Amu could only imagine what they would do if they knew she was their new singer.
"I had a feeling you may have this particular problem." Rima told her with her monotone voice just staring at the girls in disinterest, "Follow me." she commanded Amu turning to walk towards the gymnasium, the only building close to the parking lot.
Amu followed her, unaware of what Rima was planning, at least she had an idea, Amu was on the verge of panicking before Rima showed up. Amu wanted to know what all the girls at this school saw in those guys. So she was willing to admit none of them were too bad to look at, but looks aren't the only thing a girl looks for. Tadase was a kind prince-like character, any girls dream guy. Nagihiko was a pure gentleman with consideration of others feelings, and could dance on top of that. Kukai was clueless, but in a cute lovable way and was an all around jock. Ikuto was the supposed bad boy type that was hated by all parents, which in turned made him more desirable.
Now that I think about it, I guess there isn't really a reason why girls wouldn't go crazy over these guys. Amu thought just as Rima stopped in the space between the boy's and girl's locker rooms. Rima looked between the two before walking towards the door marked with the symbol of a boy.
"Rima," Amu put her hand on the girl's shoulder just as she had her hand on the on the door, ready to push open. "Wrong room." Amu told her, gesturing with her thumb towards the girl's locker room.
"Not in this case." Rima answered simply pushing the door open and walking in. This of course was an action no one would expect of the school's angel. Amu knew Rima enough to know she was as sweet and innocent as she looked. She knew that Rima could get an attitude, and used it well. Although Amu did know Rima's sweet side too, that's how they got to be friends in the first place. She hadn't known Rima for more than five days, but she knew her better than other people anyway. Even then, she was surprised by her friend's sudden action.
"You can't go in there!" Amu complained kind of embarrassed for her friend for being in their.
"Why not?" Rima asked in her monotone voice again, as if this was no big deal, "All the boys are gone, so what's the problem?" It amazed Amu how she could be so carefree and bored with the situation, but she was also more curious than before on how entering the boy's locker room was going to help her in the slightest.
Rima waited, impatiently tapping her foot, for Amu to follow her. Reluctantly, Amu entered keeping her eyes veered towards the ground, slightly afraid to look up. "This should work." Rima said throwing something on Amu causing her to fall backwards onto a bench nailed to the cement floor. Once she was balanced again, she was about to glare at Rima, when she noticed what was thrown at her. A heavy jacket that was a few sizes too big for her.
"What's this?" Amu asked, confused on Rima's actions. She just noticed what Rima had been doing ever since they entered the room. She was going through different open lockers, pulling out different things, examining them, and then throwing them back into the locker where they came, "Uh... What are you doing?" Amu asked blankly staring at her friend, beyond confused on her friend's actions.
"Put that on." Rima commanded her throwing her a black baseball cap. "They're jealous of girls that hang around those guys, but not of guys that hang around them." It took Amu a moment to register what Rima was telling her. She stared at the jacket and cap for a second before staring back at Rima again. "You want me to cross dress?!"
"That would be the basic idea." Rima answered annoyed at having to explain her plan to her. "You already have jeans and sneakers on, all you need to do is hide your hair color and your upper body long enough to get into the van."
"This is insane." Amu answered in disbelief, not that this was the plan Rima had come up with, but that she knew she was going to do it.
"How long are we supposed to wait?!" Kukai asked to no one in particular waiting beside the van. He always hated the routine of getting into Ikuto's van, there were always so many loud girls around. He had often wondered why they all choose to meet each other in the senior parking lot in between the cars around theirs. The poor naive sap.
"Well, we can't just drive off without our singer, now can we?" Nagihiko answered keeping up his posture around the girl's especially. He had always been told to keep up a positive image around females, both for showing class and to indirectly promote his family's dance academy. Sometimes though, it was just too much to handle, and his irritated band mates surrounding him weren't helpful in the least.
"I know!" Kukai complained banging his head back against the black van, currently full of all their equipment. "I wish she'd hurry up though." he mumbled under his breath.
Ikuto nodded his head in agreement, scanning the crowd of girls for a hint of her presence. Then he noticed someone. A small girl, not far away from the crowd began to approach the group with another guy beside her. He recognized the girl that Amu was always talking to in the halls when he saw her pass. He thought they were friends possibly, but there's no telling with Amu.
He thought the guy walking beside her was her boyfriend or something, but he couldn't identify him. The guy looked as if he was trying to be conspicuous, with a heavy leather black jacket and a baseball cap, he even kept his face down as he walked. He wasn't much taller than any of the other girls in the crowd, and he seemed to stay close to that girl. There was something about him that seemed familiar to Ikuto.
It didn't hit him until the guy approached the van and stood right in front of them. "Let's go." the guy mumbled quickly as he gestured his head towards the van. It took them all a minute before they understood the situation. They all smiled wide trying hard not to laugh until they were all safely in the vehicle.
"Shut up!" Amu yelled at them taking off the baseball cap and throwing it at Kukai, who was practically rolling on the floor of the van.
"I-If we'd known," Kukai began laughing in between his explanation, "Oh, man, that was worth the wait!" he commented only laughing harder, receiving a kick from Amu, that failed to quiet his laughter.
"Sorry Amu-chan," Nagihiko apologized trying to stop his laughter, "But I actually thought you were a boy." at this, Tadase nodded in agreement as he stopped trying to hid his laughter. Even the prince, who was usually sensitive to people's embarrassment couldn't resist.
"Great." Amu commented sarcastically, who at the moment slid low in her seat, hoping she may be able to hide in the big jacket. It surrounded her like a shield or something. She really wanted to zip it up and hide in it until they shut up.
"I just didn't see you as the type of girl who had this kind of hobby." Ikuto commented as he drove down the street both watching the road and the mirror to see them all in the back.
"Shut up!" Amu shouted acidly at Ikuto, who only smirked with victory, "Just wait till one of you cross dress, and I get to make fun of you." Amu threatened just to make herself feel better more than anything.
"Yeah, when that happens." Ikuto answered teasingly to get a glare that went straight through his back, "If you're done with my jacket, I'd like it back."
"This isn't yours!" Amu told him
"Well, I left it in my locker at gym class and forgot to get it out, but I'm pretty sure that's mine." Ikuto replied cooly with a smirk, as if he knew what Amu and Rima had done. Amu tried to hide her blush with a frustrated expression as she removed her shell and threw it at Ikuto's head causing the van to swerve. Allowing the laughter to become panicked screams.
"Just kidding." Ikuto tried to calm them down from the scare of his prank, unsuccessfully with a hit to the back of the head from Amu, "Idiot! Your going to kill us!"
You think you're on top of the world
When all the eyes are on you
Just wait until your heart breaks
And you'll know how I felt when I wrote
...
This song goes out to girls
Who we haven't met just yet
This song for stupid girls
Who think that every boy is all about them
About them
Once the song ended Amu glared back at the band who were enjoying practice more than they should. "Why have I been singing songs with male singers all day?" Amu asked annoyed by their sense of humor.
"We thought you just wanted to be one of the guys." Kukai explained, hiding behind his drums once he saw the death glare coming towards him.
"That's good for now," Ikuto said putting his guitar on the stand, "You got anything to eat here?"
"Yeah, until my brothers get home anyway." Kukai answered walking towards the door that entered his house. They had been practicing in Kukai's garage since they arrived.
They all followed Kukai through his house and into the kitchen. Amu noticed it was much bigger than her family's apartment. Thinking about it, they were all probably wealthier than she was. She made a note to never invite them over to her place, the last thing she needed was more jokes about her between "the guys".
"Break time!" Kukai announced running into the kitchen and moving through the fridge, "You guys can go into the living room."
"His living room's the size of my first floor," Amu muttered under her breath as they all settled into different seats. Amu felt herself sink into their leather couch, Tadase seeming to have the same trouble beside her. Nagihiko settled in a chair that allowed him to keep his posture, Amu couldn't believe how he could keep that up all the time. Especially with Ikuto lounging in the chair across from him setting his feet onto the coffee table in the middle of them. "Now what?" she asked seeing all their bored expressions.
"You can play the game in the player!" Kukai answered from the kitchen surprising Amu with his hearing. Nagihiko, who also seemed surprised by the reply, went to Kukai's game system and turned it on. On the screen showed a soccer game.
"Figures." Ikuto commented seeing a sports game. He didn't think Kukai played any other games. "Who wants to play?" he asked grabbing one of the two controllers.
"I'll pass." Nagihiko answered, not being interested in sports games. "Me too." Tadase agreed, not so much about the game, but he knew he could never beat Ikuto in a video game, no matter what the game was.
"I'll play." Amu said sounding bored as she took the other controller.
"I'm not going to go easy on you." Ikuto warned her as he set up a two player game.
"Yeah, yeah." Amu answered bored with his attitude. She could only imagine what it would be like if she lost to him. Just that thought got her more in enthusiastic about the game.
"I got pizza rolls!" Kukai said entering the room just as their game began. "Who's playing?"
"Amu and Ikuto." Nagihiko answered watching them begin, both putting in hardly any effort. "That should turn out well." Kukai muttered sarcastically to Nagihiko. He knew Ikuto was just too good at these games, he didn't even have to try.
"You say something?" Ikuto asked Kukai looking away from the game for a safe moment, the ball being on Amu's side and a few defenders in front of his own goal.
"Nothing really- GOAL!" Kukai began only to be interrupted by the game that made them all look blankly at the screen. Apparently, in that moment, Amu had managed to score with a kick from half way into Ikuto's unattended goalie. They all shifted their glances to Amu.
"What?" Amu asked, mimicking Rima's monotone voice. She had always played video games with her dad ever since she was a kid, and she just managed to get good.
"That's cheating." Ikuto complained amused by her bored expression, as if she already knew she was going to win anyway.
"Not really." Amu responded with the same tone as the game started up again, only for Amu to score again with Ikuto being distracted.
"Oh, so that's how it is?" Ikuto asked with a smirk as he began playing with more enthusiasm himself. Amu couldn't help wearing a satisfied smirk of her own having gotten the upper hand on a game. Even if it was something this trivial, it could still mean she was better than Ikuto at something. The other members even got into the game, watching Amu score then Ikuto and everything, They had never seen Ikuto play someone that gave him a challenge, so it was interesting to watch.
About half way through the game, Amu decided to strike up a conversation, regarding something that had been on her mind for a while. "Hey, can I ask a question?" she asked keeping her eyes on the game. "Shoot." Ikuto responded not looking away either.
"You keep saying things about the band, but what's the band called?" Amu asked as the other members turned their attention to Amu. "What's the name?"
"Uhh..., about that," Nagihiko began to answer, slightly embarrassed for the other members in regard to the problem, "We don't have one." Kukai just blurted out before Nagihiko got the chance.
"You've been a band for awhile, and you still don't have a name?!" Amu asked in disbelief, most bands thought of the name before they even started playing. How were they supposed to get promoted if they had to refer to themselves as "the band"?
"Well, we tried thinking of one, but we could never agree on anything." Ikuto answered, he'd forgotten all about that detail, not having to need it for a while now. After Amu brought it up though, it started to bother him, along with the other members,
"Well, you might want to try again." Amu answered as if she were talking to immature children, which wasn't that far off.
"How about "The Fierce Cobras"?!" Kukai asked having the name just come to him. Even Ikuto and Amu paused the game just to stare at Kukai with Nagihiko and Tadase. "What?"
"I don't think so." Ikuto stated flatly just hearing that name. "You got anything better?" Kukai asked offended by them just staring at him, at least he came up with one.
"We could do like a statement, like "Fight the System" or something." Tadase suggested to get looks towards him himself.
"Ummm... I think that's a little-" Nagihiko began to explain rationally only to be interrupted by Ikuto who was just blunt, "Stupid." Nagihiko sighed, he never could get anything out around these guys without being interrupted.
"Better than Fierce Cobras." Tadase answered glaring at Ikuto, "Hey!" Kukai complained at Tadase pointing that out.
"What about a symbol?" Nagihiko suggested, thinking about other band names.
"What symbol would we use?" Ikuto asked to get his answer not from Nagihiko, of course, but from Kukai, "Oh! A cockroach with it's head cut off."
"What?!" Amu asked annoyed by the first thought that came to his mind, and why was it so disgusting anyway?
"Come on guys, focus." Ikuto tried to reason with them.
"Yeah," Nagihiko backed Ikuto up determined to finish his sentence, "We need something that shows what kind of music we play, and is both masculent and feminine." Amu shot him a look at the word feminine.
"And by feminine, of course we mean Tadase." Ikuto commented getting a glare from Amu and Tadase, "Hey!" they both complained in unison.
"No offense." Ikuto shrugged at Tadase, still glaring at him, "Taken."
"Come on man, it's nothing personal." Kukai tried to comfort Tadase with words, a failure from the start, "It's just your hair."
"What about my hair?!" Tadase asked getting offended by them using him as a joke, again.
"It's just so shiny." Kukai answered looking closely at the shine it reflect. Even Amu had to admit their was something girlish about it.
"Yeah, how do you do that?" Ikuto asked with his teasing smirk seeing Tadase's face full of rage. "Shut up!"
"Yeah, come on guys." Kukai said trying to defend Tadase, in a way, "We all know Tadase uses Sunsilk, now lets move on."
"I don't use Sunsilk!" Tadase complained hearing snickers from the members, even Amu couldn't help laughing slightly at the blonde boy's luck.
It continued like that for a good few minutes:
"Busted Locker?"
"Hotel For Losers?"
"Bullet Holes?"
"Dry Water?"
"Purple Pandas?"
"Oh my God!" Amu yelled after hearing name after name. She quieted them all who were just complaining about why the hell Kukai would think they should be referred to as "Purple Pandas?" "No wonder you guys are nameless."
"That's it!" Kukai announced with realization, "We should be called "Nameless" that's cool!"
"No!" they all answered in unison.
"Think a little guys, it's not that hard." Amu told them trying to get them to actually think about the name and not just blurt out random things that came to mind.
"Oh, well you haven't thought of one." Kukai defended himself. "So what do you suggest?"
"I don't know." Amu answered honestly, thinking, "Probably something that sounded so weird, it was interesting, like "Biting the Bullet" or something like that."
"That could work." Ikuto answered thinking about the name as he answered. It sounded like a band name, a little metal sounding, but not bad. Better than anything the rest of them had come up with. "Works for me." he answered shrugging.
The rest band just nodded in agreement, they just wanted the madness to end. Amu kept a confused look on her face as she heard another goal scored on her from the game. Some time during the fiasco, they had started the game again, and with that point, Amu had lost.
"That was cheating." Amu told Ikuto with a fierce voice. "I don't think so." Ikuto answered acting innocent with a smirk.
A/N: Warning: Mild Rambling Will Occur To Whom It May Concern
Ok, This chapter cost me a buck to write, so you all owe me! I just spent over six hours at the public library on the computer, granted most of the time was spent reading other fanfiction (I've been depreived! :( )
Well, anyway, I've gone to spend July with my grandmother, who lives far away from where I do. She also has no Internet connection. I want to know how the woman has every English Translated version of Naruto, Bleach, Death Note, and Ouran High School Host Club in her library, but no computer?!
I've have managed to introduce my grandmother to Shugo Chara, and now, she's addicted to it! She's trying to buy my manga off me and everything! Well, this is an announcement that she gave me a great idea for a new fanfiction and so I will develop it with her when I'm not writing this one. I will try to get this done as much I can while I'm with her though!
Also, the song Amu sings is "Boy Crazy" by New Found Glory and my grandmother came up with the name Biting the Bullet, so if you don't like it, she's going to kick your butt (her threat not mine). Enjoy :)!