*a/n: okay, one person has been kinda...impatient about the lack of action...well, let me explain why I didn't jump instantly into a battle with this one as I did with "From the Fox's Eyes"...see, this story revolves partially around the following generation, which doesn't exist in the YYH series, and partially on Kurama and Hiei...and I first had to establish what these new characters were like...but don't worry...by the next chapter, violence will occur...muahahaha!!*
*p3...2 minutes before Anemone's band, Corrosive, is set to play...and Anemone's just barely starting to sober up*
Anneliese: dammit Hiei! At least when she was hyperventilating, she wasn't acting like a freak!
Hiei: what the hell did you expect?! She's Irish! She gets drunk easily!!
Anemone: *hic* oo...migraine...zaza...woo...OOH! LOOKY! PEOPLES!! Lotses...woo...teehee I'm dizzy...weee! *collapses into Mirai Trunks*
Ellen: what are we going to do?!
Mirai Trunks: hmm...oh! I've got an idea!
Kurama: what?!
Mirai Trunks: I'll go back in time, and stop Hiei from getting her drunk!
Kurama, Ellen, Anneliese: *long pause, blinks at Anemone, Anemone wobbling* DO IT!
Mirai Trunks: okay, here goes nothing...*whips out his time-machine capsule, pops it, and climbs in...presses in coordinates and disappears*
*118 minutes into the past, Trunks runs out of his time machine to backstage*
*Mirai Trunks hears part of the conversation replaying*
Kurama: Mones! Please, breath! In, out...in, out...in-
Hiei: you fools...you obviously don't know what it takes to calm a human's frazzled senses...
Mirai Trunks of the past: *grunting from pain, Anemone still gripping into his arm* DO TELL!
Hiei: *blurs in a run, reappears with a bottle of Irish Whiskey*
Kurama: alcohol?!
Hiei: trust me, Kitsune.
Mirai Trunks of the Future: *runs out at them* NOO! Don't trust him!!
MTOTP: what the-?! Me?!
MTOTF: yeah, me, it's me...listen! Do NOT give Mones the Irish Whiskey!!
Hiei: why not?!
MTOTF: BECAUSE! She gets drunk and we can't perform!! It's going to ruin our big break!!
*brief pause*
MTOTP: *looks really serious* are you sure...? How can we know you're really me? I've had androids claim to be the future version of me before...*brief pause, MTOTF staring at him like he's an idiot*
MTOTF: YOU IDIOT! Don't give her the whiskey!!
Anemone: don't...I...have...a...say...in...this?!
MTOTF: you wanna have a successful band?
Anemone: *still hyperventilating* ...yeah...
MTOTF: that's your say...in fact...*takes whiskey from Hiei, blasts it with ki* HA! Now she can't get drunk! *goes back to his time*
Everyone: *side-glances, Anemone still hyperventilating...118 minutes later*
Mirai Trunks: okay! Just two more minutes!
Hiei: I still say we should've given her the Whiskey...*turns to Anemone, who's cowering behind Kurama, still hyperventilating*
Kurama: Mones? Please, calm down!
Anemone: ...CAN'T...BREATH...! *Kurama helps her hold a paper bag to her mouth*
Anneliese: maybe we should've given her the Whiskey after all...
Hiei: SEE! SOMEONE agrees with me! It would have worked!
Ellen: okay, team! We're on in one minute!
Anemone: *bag pops*
Ellen: *heavy sigh* *takes out pills* Here, Mones...take one of these-*suddenly, MTOTF appears again, and rushes over to them*
MTOTF: people, please! Don't give her anything! That'll make things even worse than the Whiskey! *ki blasts the pills, and angrily goes back to the future*
Kurama: erm...apparently we shouldn't give her anything at all...
Anneliese: then what are we gonna do?!
Mirai Trunks: hm...Mones, sweety? *takes her aside* please calm down...we need you...please? *puppy dog eyes*
Anemone: *still hyperventilating, clasps onto his forearms* I...CAN'T...DO THIS!!
Mirai Trunks: c'mon...you'll be fine...pwease? *bigger puppy dog eyes*
Kurama: we're on.
Anemone: AHH! *tries to run away, but Mirai Trunks scoops her up against her will and carries her right to the edge of the stage*
Mirai Trunks: Honey! We'll be fine! Just go out there, and don't make any eye contact with any of the audience, okay? Focus on the floor and the far wall, only make it LOOK like you're interested in looking at everyone...okay? Please?
Anemone: *about to black out*
Hiei: Onna! We have to go out onto the stage, now...get your guitar or taste my Katana!
Mirai Trunks: don't threaten her!
Anemone: eep! *scared of his Katana, rushes to get guitar and runs out onto stage along with Anneliese and Kurama*
Mirai Trunks: *blank look* Mones...?!
Hiei: hn *smirk* get to your post, Saiyan...
Mirai Trunks: er...heh, *slight timid smirk* right...*walks out onto stage heading for turn-tables*
Ellen: YAY! Everything's working out! Wait a second...Hiei! Get to the drums! NOW!
Hiei: *glare* hn...*slowly walks to the drum set*
Ellen: Yay! Okay, *turns to readers* go into the chapter...chappie 4, enjoy!!
Chapter 4: Brothers
"Ry...Ryooki?!" Ai quivered in astonishment, completely allowing herself to sink in an abys of her scared emotions. "...the, THE, Ryooki?!"
"You've heard of me, Missy?" he smiled gently, the girl pressing a step back in a defensive stance.
"Yes, I have..." she glared narrowly. "Ryooki...brother of Yoko Kurama, son to Jiaanti and Grapko..."
"...if you know of me, why are scared?" he inquired in slight confusion.
"How do I know you're not being controlled by one of those demonic devices?" she countered firmly. Hiei growled, bowing in stance in preparation to dash to her aid. "You battled against my father, in an attempt to kill him!"
"Do I give off the sensation of evil to you, Missy?"
"You may not seem it, but how am I to really know you're not being manipulated?!" the teenager growled half-calmly with narrowed eyes. "You were yourself, but fought my father! How am I to truly believe that's not your reason for seeking him, now, after all this time?! To kill him, while being under another's control?!"
"You're good, Missy," the fox-wolf smiled calmly. "...you're good to not trust anyone. That's an expected trait of demons."
"I am only half demon!" she spat. "I am not one of you!"
"Missy..." he breathed sternly, a tone that sent a ripple of goosebumps to roll smoothly over her flesh. "...we are more alike than you could possibly know."
"We are not!!" she roared in anger. "I'm not an easily corrupted demon!"
"Ai!" he half-growled in frustration, his dagger fangs partially exposed. Pause, a blink of time untainted by words or breaths. "I need to speak with Kurama! Where is he?!"
"I will not tell you! I cannot betray him in such a way!"
A pause, silence laced between the stubborn girl and the patient fox-wolf. Slowly, Ryooki's eyes pressed shut, and, with his right ear pinning to his scalp briefly, he turned briskly in his footing and began a leisurely stride away from his headstrong niece. "Missy, you're too much like Yoko."
"Hmpf!" she grunted firmly, refusing to move until her uncle was beyond view and ki readings, no matter how long that was to take.
"Missy," the fox-wolf suddenly stopped in his slow walk, lacking in any and all motion towards her. "I merely need for you to tell him this message if you so refuse to allow me near him. Tell him..." he threw a wolf-like glare over his shoulder, a corrosive sting to the burning emerald. Ai's stare naturally fell narrow in sync to his, sternness burning the pink of her eyes violently.
"Tell him to meet me here, in this park." his tone was monotonous and low. Both Ai and Hiei eyed him with tugging eyebrows of confusion. "It's urgent."
"How urgent...?" her raspberry glare sharpening acutely in suspicion.
"Imagine everyone you know and love being murdered for merely being of some level of intimacy with Yoko and Hiei."
"Oh shit...!!" Hiei gaped. "That...that could only mean...!"
"What is that supposed to mean?" Ai asked slowly, her narrow eyes tampered with a raised brow.
"If you've heard of me, then I can only think you know who else is in the picture..." he countered slowly, his stinging emerald eyes narrowed with the intensity of the situation.
"Who?"
"Simply tell your father..." his eyes faceted with a layer of hatred and loathing for the briefest of flashes. "...that Grapko is back." and with that last, bitter remark to roll off his tongue, the fox-wolf again stalked away from the girl, the daughter of Kurama now stunned of words and feeling.
Her knees buckled, and her candy eyes rolled lazily back into her head. Before her entirety collapsed against the ground, she fell limp to another form right in front of her. Hiei had managed to blur straight before her and stifle her fall, but his stinging eyes focused solely to the fox-wolf stalking calmly away.
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Hiei's steps were beyond furious in supreme speed. The fainted Ai slung to his back, he raced frantically for an opening to the Spiritual Realm in this part of the city. Fear tainted Hiei's senses to smogged swirls of clarity and blurriness...Grapko, the horror that required no less than Yoko Kurama's fiercest to kill...was in truth alive.
Ai had been stricken with stories of the beast, of her demonic grandfather...she had been terrified by his actions, by the words that seemed to be merely stories...but the stories were reality, history in her father's life...and the stories were arisen again, in the present...about to overshadow them all with a mist of incurable insanity...and slaughter.
Hiei sped ferociously in his vain attempt to locate another link from the human world to the Spirit World. "DAMN!" he roared angrily. "Why can't that fool Koenma just let there be some obvious portals?!"
Night...the only light being the glowing moon and the unnatural illumination of man to taint the city. He skid to a roughly-smooth stop on a random rooftop, his Jagon swelling in ki as he strained to locate the newest gateway in Southern Tokyo. A breeze ruffled through his disheveled hair of spiky blackness, that same wind combing through the unconscious Ai's bushy mane.
The burning of his third eye nearly singed through his smooth silk bandana. "C'mon..." he grunted to himself in partial frustration, then pricked with a sense. "Yes! A portal!" he instantly jerked from his footing in a blurred run, heading straight for the signal.
He stopped in his bolt right before a huge, brick wall, his senses swelled in the sensation of a Spiritual gateway. "Oh joy..." he growled to himself. "Now I've got to kick through this wall without sending a brick to Ai's head..."
The unconscious girl was slumped lazily over his back, the Dragon's arm securely wrapped under her legs and pinning them to his side. Her cheek was snug to his head, brushing against his jagged mane, and her slender arms slung limply over his shoulders.
"Here goes!" he roared, and bashed his heel to the stone. Sharp jags and splinters of red brick snapped loose via Hiei's violent kick, the Dragon crouching low as to prevent chips from stabbing the girl's temple.
Instantly a broad ray of stunning light poured through, stinging to the Dragon's narrow eyes. Hiei bowed slightly in stance as he kicked off for a stabbing sprint, his speed barely forming jags in the air as he strained to race through the dimensional link.
His feet skid to a rough halt on the smooth marble floor of Koenma's brilliant palace. Straightaway he kicked into a violent sprint yet again, rushing vigorously for Kurama. "KITSUNE!" he yelled deeply, a tone that rang poisonous in frantic sincerity. Ogres winced and pricked at the echoes of frustration, well aware that the situation must be on the cusp of grave or embarrassing for the Dragon to sound angry with Kurama.
"Kitsune! Where the hell are you?!" he growled sternly into the bowels of Koenma's endless stream of luxurious palace. His sprints were hardly slowed by the teenager pinned to his back, the Dragon racing to beyond his calves's limits. He searched with frantic motives, sweat tearing loose from his temple as he sped ferociously in search for Kurama.
"Hiei?" a familiar tone breathed into hearing, confusion smogging the voice slightly. Instantly the Flame Koorime stabbed his feet roughly against the ground, skidding to a fierce halt, and whipping his ruby glare over his shoulder. Yusuke jogged into view, his chocolate eyes immediately widening at the sight he was met with. "Oh my God! Ai!"
The Detective approached the Dragon in a sprint, coiling his arms steadily beneath her limp form and dragging her from Hiei's hold. He secured his hands steady under the bends of her knees and to her shoulder-blades, eyeing the stressed girl in his grasp. "Dammit Hiei!! You were supposed to keep an eye on them!!"
"I know, Detective..." the Dragon seethed in a dangerously low tone.
"Then what the hell happened?!"
"She fainted."
"WHY?!" the Detective growled in frustration.
"Stifle yourself and reveal the whereabouts of Kitsune!" Hiei barked.
"...Kuwa's looking for him..." Yusuke wrinkled his nose in reluctance. "Would you mind telling me what's going on?! And where's Kisho?! You were supposed to watch them BOTH!"
"I KNOW THAT!" the Flame Koorime roared in frustration.
"Then tell me what the freakin' hell is going ON!"
"Imagine this, Detective..." the Dragon's dagger eyes sharpened acutely, the vivid redness corrosive and painful to absorb oneself in. "...Yukio, Gakilei, Keiko...slaughtered right before your very eyes!"
The Detective pricked alert in confusion. "What are you talking about?!"
"Your children, Ryuuhayai, my nephew, Kitsune's son and daughter...all our mates, and all of us...murdered!"
"You're scaring me, Flames...tell me what happened!"
Hiei growled viciously, the Detective instantly drawing back in shock. The Flame Koorime stared narrowly at his comrade for an instant of bitter silence, and breathed an acute tone "Watch over Kitsuna...I have to locate Kitsune immediately." and with that, he blurred against visibility, and sped violently away, leaving a baffled Detective with the unconscious Ai in his arms.
Yusuke slowly bobbed his broad chocolate eyes for the limp girl. "Ai? Ai please wake up! ...c'mon, please?!" a deep groan rolled within his throat as she responded without a single motion. "This is the second unconscious woman I was abandoned with today! UGH! Kurama's gonna kill me just because of stupid Hiei..."
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Five teenagers stalked the streets slowly, each sagged slightly in worry. They were heading for the theater, but each was hesitant without the presence of one of their best and closest friends.
"It never takes Ai nearly this long to complete an assignment," Kane grunted softly.
"Kane, she was lying," Gakilei half-smirked to the tall youth.
"Apparently, something important was up..." Yukio deduced calmly. "Kisho...she hasn't contacted you at all?"
"Nuh-uh..." the youngest of the team eyed the brunette with calm eyes. "She hasn't called or anything..."
"Wasn't Kurama wicked worried?" Gakilei glanced to the bluette strangely.
"Dad wasn't home..." the boy shrugged slowly. "...neither was mom."
"Our father wasn't home either..." Yukio clicked his tongue to his teeth in thought, and threw his caramel stare upward for the tall Kane. "Was Kazuma?"
"Nah," Kane's shoulder's sagged slightly. "And Mom was out visiting Genkai."
"Weird...Ryuu, what about Hiei?" Gakilei tipped her chin slightly for the side, the short demonness walking briskly a bit of a ways beyond. "...Ryuu?"
The demi-dragon lacked herself of words, focusing her acute glare straight ahead.
"Hey Ryuu..." Kisho jogged slightly for the girl walking a bit ahead. "You okay?" he asked softly once he had reached her immediate space, tipping his chin in her direction and focusing calm eyes for her delicate, milky complection.
"Yes."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Are you positive...?"
"YES..." the girl grunted acutely, Kisho backing off instantly.
"...sorry, Hayai..." he muttered meekly, drawing his steps timidly from her personal space. A singe of redness sparked to the slope of her nose, her gaze awkwardly pinning against the ground. 'Hayai' had been his personal nickname for her since they were children...no one else knew of it...it was their private connection. Ryuuhayai grunted softly...and a faint smile brushed across her lips. She rolled a side-glance over her sharp shoulder, the acuteness of her ruby glare falling in clash with the roundness of the bluette's emerald eyes. He instantly sped up again, a smile about his face as his steps fell into sync with her own, the two walking calmly side by side, not really ignoring each other, yet not really paying attention to the other.
Gakilei smirked deviously to herself, and jerked her chocolate leer towards her side. Yukio noticed the shot of a stare in his immediate direction, and he two smiled in knowing. Both knew...it was obvious that son of Kurama and daughter of Hiei both held an emotion beyond friendship for each other. The Urimeshi siblings each stifled their smug knowledge, calmly continuing onward in their slow trudge for the movie theater.
Kane was aloof...he ignored the presence of his life-long companions. His onyx glare bobbed lazily upwards, locking to the engulfing mass of navy night sky. "Stars are so intriguing..." he breathed faintly, completely lost within himself. Gakilei blinked her broad gaze for the tall youth, his mint hair blowing loosely through a mild wind.
"Kane?" she piped lightly. Yukio instantly felt in awkward disposition, and sped up slightly, just a few yards trailing after Ryuuhayai and Kisho, and walking in brisk, short steps ahead of his sister and Kuwabara friend.
"...something is going to happen..." the boy's brow tensed, his eyes never tearing from their lock to the sky. "...I can feel it...something that supposedly was dealt with a long time ago...it's going to come back."
"What're you talking about, Kane?" the black-haired punk eyed her friend in bewilderment.
"...Ai isn't alright..." he breathed lowly. Instantly the clicking of Yukio's brisk steps stopped, the brunette frozen in the sincerity of Kane's words. Ryuuhayai and Kisho too paused in their walk, throwing ruby and emerald over their shoulders towards the mint-haired demi-demon.
"...what do you mean...?!" Yukio stuttered in fear. "...where...where is she?!"
"...she's not in this dimension..." Kane breathed roughly. "...she's in the Spirit World."
"...why is she there?!" Kisho's brow narrowed over tensed eyes as he whirled around to face the calm youth. "What happened to my sister, Kane?!"
'Ryuuhayai!' Hiei growled sternly to his daughter's head. Ryuuhayai broke to a torrent pain, the sensation of multidimensional conversation stinging against her mind in rough, jagged strokes. The girl clenched her head firmly, stifling grunts of pain. Instantly her companions clicked from the topic of Ai's whereabouts instantly to Ryuuhayai's obvious agony.
"Hayai?!" Kisho braced his hands firmly to the pained girl's shoulders, Ryuuhayai throwing her head back and gripping firmly in the intensity of the pain. Her Jagon was still undertrained in comparison to Hiei's, and telepathic links cutting through various dimensions caused pulses of pain with every second.
'What!' she barked back, frustration and pain tampering with the tone of her thoughts.
'Listen to me,' the Dragon growled promptly. 'This is extremely important...remain with Kisho and go home to protect your mother!'
'What?! Father what's-'
'Do it! To explain further from my location here in Spirit World would only cause your young Jagon more pain...I'll clarify everything later...STAY WITH KISHO!'
A tight wince played greedily to the girl's fragile face, her knees threatening to buckle beneath her. By now all her companions were by her immediate side, Kisho bracing firmly to her arms, the girl biting back stutters of pain. Ryuuhayai finally released the pain bottled in, and gasped a breath of agony, her tense expression flashing loose and her eyes sagging.
"Ryuu! Are you okay?!" Kane eyed his cousin firmly, the burning onyx of his narrow eyes fixing stern to the tired demi-dragon.
"I'm fine..." she scoffed half-bitterly, her Jagon swelling in pain and sending pulses of soreness throughout her entire head. She wavered dizzily as she pried herself forcefully from Kisho's hold, and stood stubbornly to her own terms.
"What happened?!" Yukio stared to his friend with throbbed concern.
Ryuuhayai slowly flashed her comrades a very Hiei type of glare, the group drawing back slightly. She only allowed her scarlet eyes to facet in such a way when a truly serious matter was at hand. "Kisho..." she locked her ruby glare dead straight to his emerald one, the boy responding slowly.
"...yes, Ryuu?"
"We have to go...now."
"What? All of us?" the bluette blinked in slight confusion.
"No. Merely you and myself."
"What...?!" Kane eyed his short cousin with a look of bafflement.
"What's going on, Ryuu?" Yukio stepped up calmly, his caramel eyes soft and friendly but narrowed in a concerned frame. "What was going on in your head just now?"
"You got a message from Uncle Hiei, didn't you?" the mint-haired youth of the group piped in knowing, having managed to probe his cousin's mind without her immediate knowing. "In Spirit World?"
"Is that why you were screaming? Cuz your Jagon can't take that type of distance?" Gakilei concluded half to herself and partially to the actual group.
A spark singed in the ruby of her eyes, a slit of morbid secrecy. Ryuuhayai simply grunted Hiei's trademark "Hn," and clasped to Kisho's wrist, instantly sprinting off with the startled bluette dragging along in confusion.
"W-ahh!!" was all Kisho had managed to breath into hearing before his form was torn from his immediate footing. The others merely stared after wordlessly, gaping at their friend's rash action.
"Why is she ALWAYS so damn vague?!" Gakilei growled in firm irritation.
"Because she's almost exactly like Uncle Hiei..." Kane wrinkled his nose slightly. "...we've only got Aunt Hinegeshi to blame, letting him play with her THAT often..."
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*p3...everyone's on stage, Piper walking out to introduce the band...Hiei's in back with the drums, Mirai Trunks is on the right side of the stage with the turn-tables set, Anneliese is in front of Mirai Trunks with her bass guitar, Kurama's to the left with the keyboard, and Anemone's just in front of him and is just on the cusp of passing out...*
Piper: hey! Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! Tonight, we've got a newbie set up for ya, but don't worry...cuz they're gonna rock the house!
Cloud8.9: *tch* *mutters under breath* like the last band you had did? *gets elbowed by Sycogerl* jeez can't I have my own opinion?!
Sycogerl64: flap it shut, baka...I wanna hear them!
Cloud8.9: hmpf...
Ellen: *back stage, crossed fingers, what Mr. Simmons did in the episode of Hey Arnold with Romeo and Juliet* please don't be bad...please don't be bad...
Piper: so, without any more delay, p3 welcomes...Corrosive!! *applause...a/n: following song= "faint" by Linkin Park*
Anemone: *breathing hard* I think I can...I think I can...I think-
Hiei: *telepathically* Onna! You freakin' can, alright?! Now shut up and get ready!
Anemone: *narrow glare*
Mirai Trunks: *revs against turn-tables with a violin effect, slow up, faster up, quick down, quick down, quick down—starts in with another sound effect, repeats with violin sound, stops*
Anneliese: *four-beat vibrate* *instantly breaks into Hiei at drums, Anneliese playing the smoothest beat, Anemone at lead, and Kurama at keyboard...Anemone mainly heard*
Mirai Trunks: *repeats*
Kurama: *only drums and violin heard distinctly, Anneliese making a smooth moan noise with the bass throughout the lines* I AM *lead rev*...a little bit of loneliness, a little bit of disregard...handful of complaints, but I can't help the fact that everyone can see these scars...
*Mirai Trunks, Hiei, and Anneliese still continuing their parts as he goes*
I AM *lead rev*...what I want you to want, what I want you to feel...but it's like no matter what I do I can't convince you to just believe this is real...
*Mirai Trunks, Hiei, and Anneliese still continuing their parts as he goes*
So I *lead rev* let go, watching you, turn your back like you always do, face *lead rev* away and pretend that I'm not, but I'll *lead rev* be here cuz you're all that I got*four-beat vibrate*
Anemone: *intense lead, drums, no violin, mild bass, mild keyboarding to match the bass's sound* I, can't, feel! The way I did before!...don't turn your back on me;
Hiei: -I won't be ignored-
Anemone: Time, won't, heal! This damage anymore...don't turn your back on me;
Anneliese and Hiei: -I won't be ignored! *drums calm slightly and continue smoothly, bass falls into distinct verse play, lead guitar dims, violin again*
Kurama: I AM *lead rev* a little bit insecure, a little unconfident, cuz you don't understand, I do what I can, but sometimes I don't make sense...I AM *lead rev*...what you never wanna say, but I've never had a doubt, It's like no matter what I do, I can't convince you for once just to hear me out...so I *lead rev* let go, watching you, turn your back like you always do, face *lead rev* away and pretend that I'm not, but I'll *lead rev* be here cuz you're all that I got...
*echo 'got' four times, violin stops, keyboard falls in sync with bass for refrain, lead guitar four-beat vibrate...blasts in intense lead, drums, turn-tables without violin, mild keyboarding and bass instantly as Anemone breaks to sing*
Anemone: I, can't, feel! The way I did before!...don't turn your back on me;
Anneliese: -I won't be ignored-
Anemone: Time, won't, heal! This damage anymore!...don't turn your back on me;
Hiei and Anneliese: -I won't be ignored! *longer '-ored', breaks into even harder lead, bass, drums and turn-tabling, keyboarding stops*
Anemone: No! Hear, me, out, now! *millisecond pause, blasts again* You're gonna listen to me like it or not...right now!! Hear, me, out, now! *millisecond pause, blasts again* You're gonna listen to me like it or now...right now!!-
Mirai Trunks: *no lead or bass guitar, no keyboard, nothing but violin effect, VERY mild drumming, and slight beat turn-tables; calmness* -I, can't, feel...the way I did before...don't turn your back on me...
Anneliese and Hiei: *no violin, no drum, nothing but one type of beat on turn-tables* I WON'T BE IGNORED! *builds up the one turn-table effect, blasts with everything but violin*
Anemone: I, can't, feel! The way I did before!...don't turn your back on me;
Hiei and Anneliese: -I won't be ignored!-
Anemone: Time, won't, heal! This damage anymore!...don't turn your back on me;
Kurama and Mirai Trunks: -I won't be ignored!- *continues everything heavy, no violin*
Anemone: I, can't, feel!!
Hiei and Anneliese: don't turn your back on me-
Kurama and Mirai Trunks: -I won't be ignored!
Anemone: time, won't, heal!!
Mirai Trunks: don't turn your back on me-
Anemone and Kurama: I won't be ignored!! *everything fades abruptly, nothing but rubbing beat on the turn-tables as song closes*
*rabid applause, all of p3 roaring in cheers...Hiei twiddles with his drumsticks, thrusts arms in air*
Hiei: YEAH!
Mirai Trunks: *cracks neck as he removes the headpiece* That was great!
Anneliese: *laughter* I can't believe we did it!
Kurama: Mones don't you feel better about going through with it?
Anemone: *standing frozen, blank expression*
Kurama: er...Mones...?
Mirai Trunks: Mones...?
Anemone: *blacks out*
Mirai Trunks and Kurama: Mones!! *kicks off for her direction, props her up*
Ellen: *bounces onto stage* YOU GUYS! That was AWESOME! It was SO much cooler than during rehearsal! *suddenly realizes everyone is crowded around Anemone* er...guys?
Sycogerl64: *rushes to edge of stage, only Hiei and Anneliese turning their attention* Oh my God that was SO cool!
Cloud8.9: I'm inclined to agree.
Sycogerl64: hey is she okay...?
Hiei: *growl* none of your concern...
Anneliese: *elbows him, he eyes her half-narrowly and rolls his eyes* Yeah she'll be fine...
Cloud8.9: so what's the deal with you guys?
Hiei and Anneliese: ...?
Sycogerl64: excuse me, I'll translate...Mr. Vague here simply meant...any couples in the group?
Hiei and Anneliese: *prick, blush, grunt*
Sycogerl64: ...! You two...?!
Hiei: hn...*still blushing, turns back to Anemone* so what if we are...?! It's not your concern, human...
Mirai Trunks: ...Mones?! Please wake up!!
Anemone: *gurgling to consciousness* I...I did it...
Mirai Trunks and Kurama: *relieved sighs*
Mirai Trunks: yeah, honey, you did!
Anemone: ...I...I really...really did it...!
Kurama: indeed you did, Mones...we're very proud...you came through for us!
Anemone: ...yay...! I, I did it...!
Ellen: now you just gotta perform six more songs! *brief pause, Anemone blacks out again*
Anneliese: Ellen!
Piper: um...is everything here okay...?
Everyone but Anemone: *instantly clicks to attention, trying to seem casual* yes, yup we're fine, uh-huh, yeah...
Hiei: *turns to audience* care to review?
Audience: YEAH!
Hiei: then go...NOW! *scares the hell out of audience*
Anneliese: Hiei!
Hiei: what?
Kurama: please review...au revoir!
*p3...2 minutes before Anemone's band, Corrosive, is set to play...and Anemone's just barely starting to sober up*
Anneliese: dammit Hiei! At least when she was hyperventilating, she wasn't acting like a freak!
Hiei: what the hell did you expect?! She's Irish! She gets drunk easily!!
Anemone: *hic* oo...migraine...zaza...woo...OOH! LOOKY! PEOPLES!! Lotses...woo...teehee I'm dizzy...weee! *collapses into Mirai Trunks*
Ellen: what are we going to do?!
Mirai Trunks: hmm...oh! I've got an idea!
Kurama: what?!
Mirai Trunks: I'll go back in time, and stop Hiei from getting her drunk!
Kurama, Ellen, Anneliese: *long pause, blinks at Anemone, Anemone wobbling* DO IT!
Mirai Trunks: okay, here goes nothing...*whips out his time-machine capsule, pops it, and climbs in...presses in coordinates and disappears*
*118 minutes into the past, Trunks runs out of his time machine to backstage*
*Mirai Trunks hears part of the conversation replaying*
Kurama: Mones! Please, breath! In, out...in, out...in-
Hiei: you fools...you obviously don't know what it takes to calm a human's frazzled senses...
Mirai Trunks of the past: *grunting from pain, Anemone still gripping into his arm* DO TELL!
Hiei: *blurs in a run, reappears with a bottle of Irish Whiskey*
Kurama: alcohol?!
Hiei: trust me, Kitsune.
Mirai Trunks of the Future: *runs out at them* NOO! Don't trust him!!
MTOTP: what the-?! Me?!
MTOTF: yeah, me, it's me...listen! Do NOT give Mones the Irish Whiskey!!
Hiei: why not?!
MTOTF: BECAUSE! She gets drunk and we can't perform!! It's going to ruin our big break!!
*brief pause*
MTOTP: *looks really serious* are you sure...? How can we know you're really me? I've had androids claim to be the future version of me before...*brief pause, MTOTF staring at him like he's an idiot*
MTOTF: YOU IDIOT! Don't give her the whiskey!!
Anemone: don't...I...have...a...say...in...this?!
MTOTF: you wanna have a successful band?
Anemone: *still hyperventilating* ...yeah...
MTOTF: that's your say...in fact...*takes whiskey from Hiei, blasts it with ki* HA! Now she can't get drunk! *goes back to his time*
Everyone: *side-glances, Anemone still hyperventilating...118 minutes later*
Mirai Trunks: okay! Just two more minutes!
Hiei: I still say we should've given her the Whiskey...*turns to Anemone, who's cowering behind Kurama, still hyperventilating*
Kurama: Mones? Please, calm down!
Anemone: ...CAN'T...BREATH...! *Kurama helps her hold a paper bag to her mouth*
Anneliese: maybe we should've given her the Whiskey after all...
Hiei: SEE! SOMEONE agrees with me! It would have worked!
Ellen: okay, team! We're on in one minute!
Anemone: *bag pops*
Ellen: *heavy sigh* *takes out pills* Here, Mones...take one of these-*suddenly, MTOTF appears again, and rushes over to them*
MTOTF: people, please! Don't give her anything! That'll make things even worse than the Whiskey! *ki blasts the pills, and angrily goes back to the future*
Kurama: erm...apparently we shouldn't give her anything at all...
Anneliese: then what are we gonna do?!
Mirai Trunks: hm...Mones, sweety? *takes her aside* please calm down...we need you...please? *puppy dog eyes*
Anemone: *still hyperventilating, clasps onto his forearms* I...CAN'T...DO THIS!!
Mirai Trunks: c'mon...you'll be fine...pwease? *bigger puppy dog eyes*
Kurama: we're on.
Anemone: AHH! *tries to run away, but Mirai Trunks scoops her up against her will and carries her right to the edge of the stage*
Mirai Trunks: Honey! We'll be fine! Just go out there, and don't make any eye contact with any of the audience, okay? Focus on the floor and the far wall, only make it LOOK like you're interested in looking at everyone...okay? Please?
Anemone: *about to black out*
Hiei: Onna! We have to go out onto the stage, now...get your guitar or taste my Katana!
Mirai Trunks: don't threaten her!
Anemone: eep! *scared of his Katana, rushes to get guitar and runs out onto stage along with Anneliese and Kurama*
Mirai Trunks: *blank look* Mones...?!
Hiei: hn *smirk* get to your post, Saiyan...
Mirai Trunks: er...heh, *slight timid smirk* right...*walks out onto stage heading for turn-tables*
Ellen: YAY! Everything's working out! Wait a second...Hiei! Get to the drums! NOW!
Hiei: *glare* hn...*slowly walks to the drum set*
Ellen: Yay! Okay, *turns to readers* go into the chapter...chappie 4, enjoy!!
Chapter 4: Brothers
"Ry...Ryooki?!" Ai quivered in astonishment, completely allowing herself to sink in an abys of her scared emotions. "...the, THE, Ryooki?!"
"You've heard of me, Missy?" he smiled gently, the girl pressing a step back in a defensive stance.
"Yes, I have..." she glared narrowly. "Ryooki...brother of Yoko Kurama, son to Jiaanti and Grapko..."
"...if you know of me, why are scared?" he inquired in slight confusion.
"How do I know you're not being controlled by one of those demonic devices?" she countered firmly. Hiei growled, bowing in stance in preparation to dash to her aid. "You battled against my father, in an attempt to kill him!"
"Do I give off the sensation of evil to you, Missy?"
"You may not seem it, but how am I to really know you're not being manipulated?!" the teenager growled half-calmly with narrowed eyes. "You were yourself, but fought my father! How am I to truly believe that's not your reason for seeking him, now, after all this time?! To kill him, while being under another's control?!"
"You're good, Missy," the fox-wolf smiled calmly. "...you're good to not trust anyone. That's an expected trait of demons."
"I am only half demon!" she spat. "I am not one of you!"
"Missy..." he breathed sternly, a tone that sent a ripple of goosebumps to roll smoothly over her flesh. "...we are more alike than you could possibly know."
"We are not!!" she roared in anger. "I'm not an easily corrupted demon!"
"Ai!" he half-growled in frustration, his dagger fangs partially exposed. Pause, a blink of time untainted by words or breaths. "I need to speak with Kurama! Where is he?!"
"I will not tell you! I cannot betray him in such a way!"
A pause, silence laced between the stubborn girl and the patient fox-wolf. Slowly, Ryooki's eyes pressed shut, and, with his right ear pinning to his scalp briefly, he turned briskly in his footing and began a leisurely stride away from his headstrong niece. "Missy, you're too much like Yoko."
"Hmpf!" she grunted firmly, refusing to move until her uncle was beyond view and ki readings, no matter how long that was to take.
"Missy," the fox-wolf suddenly stopped in his slow walk, lacking in any and all motion towards her. "I merely need for you to tell him this message if you so refuse to allow me near him. Tell him..." he threw a wolf-like glare over his shoulder, a corrosive sting to the burning emerald. Ai's stare naturally fell narrow in sync to his, sternness burning the pink of her eyes violently.
"Tell him to meet me here, in this park." his tone was monotonous and low. Both Ai and Hiei eyed him with tugging eyebrows of confusion. "It's urgent."
"How urgent...?" her raspberry glare sharpening acutely in suspicion.
"Imagine everyone you know and love being murdered for merely being of some level of intimacy with Yoko and Hiei."
"Oh shit...!!" Hiei gaped. "That...that could only mean...!"
"What is that supposed to mean?" Ai asked slowly, her narrow eyes tampered with a raised brow.
"If you've heard of me, then I can only think you know who else is in the picture..." he countered slowly, his stinging emerald eyes narrowed with the intensity of the situation.
"Who?"
"Simply tell your father..." his eyes faceted with a layer of hatred and loathing for the briefest of flashes. "...that Grapko is back." and with that last, bitter remark to roll off his tongue, the fox-wolf again stalked away from the girl, the daughter of Kurama now stunned of words and feeling.
Her knees buckled, and her candy eyes rolled lazily back into her head. Before her entirety collapsed against the ground, she fell limp to another form right in front of her. Hiei had managed to blur straight before her and stifle her fall, but his stinging eyes focused solely to the fox-wolf stalking calmly away.
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Hiei's steps were beyond furious in supreme speed. The fainted Ai slung to his back, he raced frantically for an opening to the Spiritual Realm in this part of the city. Fear tainted Hiei's senses to smogged swirls of clarity and blurriness...Grapko, the horror that required no less than Yoko Kurama's fiercest to kill...was in truth alive.
Ai had been stricken with stories of the beast, of her demonic grandfather...she had been terrified by his actions, by the words that seemed to be merely stories...but the stories were reality, history in her father's life...and the stories were arisen again, in the present...about to overshadow them all with a mist of incurable insanity...and slaughter.
Hiei sped ferociously in his vain attempt to locate another link from the human world to the Spirit World. "DAMN!" he roared angrily. "Why can't that fool Koenma just let there be some obvious portals?!"
Night...the only light being the glowing moon and the unnatural illumination of man to taint the city. He skid to a roughly-smooth stop on a random rooftop, his Jagon swelling in ki as he strained to locate the newest gateway in Southern Tokyo. A breeze ruffled through his disheveled hair of spiky blackness, that same wind combing through the unconscious Ai's bushy mane.
The burning of his third eye nearly singed through his smooth silk bandana. "C'mon..." he grunted to himself in partial frustration, then pricked with a sense. "Yes! A portal!" he instantly jerked from his footing in a blurred run, heading straight for the signal.
He stopped in his bolt right before a huge, brick wall, his senses swelled in the sensation of a Spiritual gateway. "Oh joy..." he growled to himself. "Now I've got to kick through this wall without sending a brick to Ai's head..."
The unconscious girl was slumped lazily over his back, the Dragon's arm securely wrapped under her legs and pinning them to his side. Her cheek was snug to his head, brushing against his jagged mane, and her slender arms slung limply over his shoulders.
"Here goes!" he roared, and bashed his heel to the stone. Sharp jags and splinters of red brick snapped loose via Hiei's violent kick, the Dragon crouching low as to prevent chips from stabbing the girl's temple.
Instantly a broad ray of stunning light poured through, stinging to the Dragon's narrow eyes. Hiei bowed slightly in stance as he kicked off for a stabbing sprint, his speed barely forming jags in the air as he strained to race through the dimensional link.
His feet skid to a rough halt on the smooth marble floor of Koenma's brilliant palace. Straightaway he kicked into a violent sprint yet again, rushing vigorously for Kurama. "KITSUNE!" he yelled deeply, a tone that rang poisonous in frantic sincerity. Ogres winced and pricked at the echoes of frustration, well aware that the situation must be on the cusp of grave or embarrassing for the Dragon to sound angry with Kurama.
"Kitsune! Where the hell are you?!" he growled sternly into the bowels of Koenma's endless stream of luxurious palace. His sprints were hardly slowed by the teenager pinned to his back, the Dragon racing to beyond his calves's limits. He searched with frantic motives, sweat tearing loose from his temple as he sped ferociously in search for Kurama.
"Hiei?" a familiar tone breathed into hearing, confusion smogging the voice slightly. Instantly the Flame Koorime stabbed his feet roughly against the ground, skidding to a fierce halt, and whipping his ruby glare over his shoulder. Yusuke jogged into view, his chocolate eyes immediately widening at the sight he was met with. "Oh my God! Ai!"
The Detective approached the Dragon in a sprint, coiling his arms steadily beneath her limp form and dragging her from Hiei's hold. He secured his hands steady under the bends of her knees and to her shoulder-blades, eyeing the stressed girl in his grasp. "Dammit Hiei!! You were supposed to keep an eye on them!!"
"I know, Detective..." the Dragon seethed in a dangerously low tone.
"Then what the hell happened?!"
"She fainted."
"WHY?!" the Detective growled in frustration.
"Stifle yourself and reveal the whereabouts of Kitsune!" Hiei barked.
"...Kuwa's looking for him..." Yusuke wrinkled his nose in reluctance. "Would you mind telling me what's going on?! And where's Kisho?! You were supposed to watch them BOTH!"
"I KNOW THAT!" the Flame Koorime roared in frustration.
"Then tell me what the freakin' hell is going ON!"
"Imagine this, Detective..." the Dragon's dagger eyes sharpened acutely, the vivid redness corrosive and painful to absorb oneself in. "...Yukio, Gakilei, Keiko...slaughtered right before your very eyes!"
The Detective pricked alert in confusion. "What are you talking about?!"
"Your children, Ryuuhayai, my nephew, Kitsune's son and daughter...all our mates, and all of us...murdered!"
"You're scaring me, Flames...tell me what happened!"
Hiei growled viciously, the Detective instantly drawing back in shock. The Flame Koorime stared narrowly at his comrade for an instant of bitter silence, and breathed an acute tone "Watch over Kitsuna...I have to locate Kitsune immediately." and with that, he blurred against visibility, and sped violently away, leaving a baffled Detective with the unconscious Ai in his arms.
Yusuke slowly bobbed his broad chocolate eyes for the limp girl. "Ai? Ai please wake up! ...c'mon, please?!" a deep groan rolled within his throat as she responded without a single motion. "This is the second unconscious woman I was abandoned with today! UGH! Kurama's gonna kill me just because of stupid Hiei..."
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Five teenagers stalked the streets slowly, each sagged slightly in worry. They were heading for the theater, but each was hesitant without the presence of one of their best and closest friends.
"It never takes Ai nearly this long to complete an assignment," Kane grunted softly.
"Kane, she was lying," Gakilei half-smirked to the tall youth.
"Apparently, something important was up..." Yukio deduced calmly. "Kisho...she hasn't contacted you at all?"
"Nuh-uh..." the youngest of the team eyed the brunette with calm eyes. "She hasn't called or anything..."
"Wasn't Kurama wicked worried?" Gakilei glanced to the bluette strangely.
"Dad wasn't home..." the boy shrugged slowly. "...neither was mom."
"Our father wasn't home either..." Yukio clicked his tongue to his teeth in thought, and threw his caramel stare upward for the tall Kane. "Was Kazuma?"
"Nah," Kane's shoulder's sagged slightly. "And Mom was out visiting Genkai."
"Weird...Ryuu, what about Hiei?" Gakilei tipped her chin slightly for the side, the short demonness walking briskly a bit of a ways beyond. "...Ryuu?"
The demi-dragon lacked herself of words, focusing her acute glare straight ahead.
"Hey Ryuu..." Kisho jogged slightly for the girl walking a bit ahead. "You okay?" he asked softly once he had reached her immediate space, tipping his chin in her direction and focusing calm eyes for her delicate, milky complection.
"Yes."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Are you positive...?"
"YES..." the girl grunted acutely, Kisho backing off instantly.
"...sorry, Hayai..." he muttered meekly, drawing his steps timidly from her personal space. A singe of redness sparked to the slope of her nose, her gaze awkwardly pinning against the ground. 'Hayai' had been his personal nickname for her since they were children...no one else knew of it...it was their private connection. Ryuuhayai grunted softly...and a faint smile brushed across her lips. She rolled a side-glance over her sharp shoulder, the acuteness of her ruby glare falling in clash with the roundness of the bluette's emerald eyes. He instantly sped up again, a smile about his face as his steps fell into sync with her own, the two walking calmly side by side, not really ignoring each other, yet not really paying attention to the other.
Gakilei smirked deviously to herself, and jerked her chocolate leer towards her side. Yukio noticed the shot of a stare in his immediate direction, and he two smiled in knowing. Both knew...it was obvious that son of Kurama and daughter of Hiei both held an emotion beyond friendship for each other. The Urimeshi siblings each stifled their smug knowledge, calmly continuing onward in their slow trudge for the movie theater.
Kane was aloof...he ignored the presence of his life-long companions. His onyx glare bobbed lazily upwards, locking to the engulfing mass of navy night sky. "Stars are so intriguing..." he breathed faintly, completely lost within himself. Gakilei blinked her broad gaze for the tall youth, his mint hair blowing loosely through a mild wind.
"Kane?" she piped lightly. Yukio instantly felt in awkward disposition, and sped up slightly, just a few yards trailing after Ryuuhayai and Kisho, and walking in brisk, short steps ahead of his sister and Kuwabara friend.
"...something is going to happen..." the boy's brow tensed, his eyes never tearing from their lock to the sky. "...I can feel it...something that supposedly was dealt with a long time ago...it's going to come back."
"What're you talking about, Kane?" the black-haired punk eyed her friend in bewilderment.
"...Ai isn't alright..." he breathed lowly. Instantly the clicking of Yukio's brisk steps stopped, the brunette frozen in the sincerity of Kane's words. Ryuuhayai and Kisho too paused in their walk, throwing ruby and emerald over their shoulders towards the mint-haired demi-demon.
"...what do you mean...?!" Yukio stuttered in fear. "...where...where is she?!"
"...she's not in this dimension..." Kane breathed roughly. "...she's in the Spirit World."
"...why is she there?!" Kisho's brow narrowed over tensed eyes as he whirled around to face the calm youth. "What happened to my sister, Kane?!"
'Ryuuhayai!' Hiei growled sternly to his daughter's head. Ryuuhayai broke to a torrent pain, the sensation of multidimensional conversation stinging against her mind in rough, jagged strokes. The girl clenched her head firmly, stifling grunts of pain. Instantly her companions clicked from the topic of Ai's whereabouts instantly to Ryuuhayai's obvious agony.
"Hayai?!" Kisho braced his hands firmly to the pained girl's shoulders, Ryuuhayai throwing her head back and gripping firmly in the intensity of the pain. Her Jagon was still undertrained in comparison to Hiei's, and telepathic links cutting through various dimensions caused pulses of pain with every second.
'What!' she barked back, frustration and pain tampering with the tone of her thoughts.
'Listen to me,' the Dragon growled promptly. 'This is extremely important...remain with Kisho and go home to protect your mother!'
'What?! Father what's-'
'Do it! To explain further from my location here in Spirit World would only cause your young Jagon more pain...I'll clarify everything later...STAY WITH KISHO!'
A tight wince played greedily to the girl's fragile face, her knees threatening to buckle beneath her. By now all her companions were by her immediate side, Kisho bracing firmly to her arms, the girl biting back stutters of pain. Ryuuhayai finally released the pain bottled in, and gasped a breath of agony, her tense expression flashing loose and her eyes sagging.
"Ryuu! Are you okay?!" Kane eyed his cousin firmly, the burning onyx of his narrow eyes fixing stern to the tired demi-dragon.
"I'm fine..." she scoffed half-bitterly, her Jagon swelling in pain and sending pulses of soreness throughout her entire head. She wavered dizzily as she pried herself forcefully from Kisho's hold, and stood stubbornly to her own terms.
"What happened?!" Yukio stared to his friend with throbbed concern.
Ryuuhayai slowly flashed her comrades a very Hiei type of glare, the group drawing back slightly. She only allowed her scarlet eyes to facet in such a way when a truly serious matter was at hand. "Kisho..." she locked her ruby glare dead straight to his emerald one, the boy responding slowly.
"...yes, Ryuu?"
"We have to go...now."
"What? All of us?" the bluette blinked in slight confusion.
"No. Merely you and myself."
"What...?!" Kane eyed his short cousin with a look of bafflement.
"What's going on, Ryuu?" Yukio stepped up calmly, his caramel eyes soft and friendly but narrowed in a concerned frame. "What was going on in your head just now?"
"You got a message from Uncle Hiei, didn't you?" the mint-haired youth of the group piped in knowing, having managed to probe his cousin's mind without her immediate knowing. "In Spirit World?"
"Is that why you were screaming? Cuz your Jagon can't take that type of distance?" Gakilei concluded half to herself and partially to the actual group.
A spark singed in the ruby of her eyes, a slit of morbid secrecy. Ryuuhayai simply grunted Hiei's trademark "Hn," and clasped to Kisho's wrist, instantly sprinting off with the startled bluette dragging along in confusion.
"W-ahh!!" was all Kisho had managed to breath into hearing before his form was torn from his immediate footing. The others merely stared after wordlessly, gaping at their friend's rash action.
"Why is she ALWAYS so damn vague?!" Gakilei growled in firm irritation.
"Because she's almost exactly like Uncle Hiei..." Kane wrinkled his nose slightly. "...we've only got Aunt Hinegeshi to blame, letting him play with her THAT often..."
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*p3...everyone's on stage, Piper walking out to introduce the band...Hiei's in back with the drums, Mirai Trunks is on the right side of the stage with the turn-tables set, Anneliese is in front of Mirai Trunks with her bass guitar, Kurama's to the left with the keyboard, and Anemone's just in front of him and is just on the cusp of passing out...*
Piper: hey! Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! Tonight, we've got a newbie set up for ya, but don't worry...cuz they're gonna rock the house!
Cloud8.9: *tch* *mutters under breath* like the last band you had did? *gets elbowed by Sycogerl* jeez can't I have my own opinion?!
Sycogerl64: flap it shut, baka...I wanna hear them!
Cloud8.9: hmpf...
Ellen: *back stage, crossed fingers, what Mr. Simmons did in the episode of Hey Arnold with Romeo and Juliet* please don't be bad...please don't be bad...
Piper: so, without any more delay, p3 welcomes...Corrosive!! *applause...a/n: following song= "faint" by Linkin Park*
Anemone: *breathing hard* I think I can...I think I can...I think-
Hiei: *telepathically* Onna! You freakin' can, alright?! Now shut up and get ready!
Anemone: *narrow glare*
Mirai Trunks: *revs against turn-tables with a violin effect, slow up, faster up, quick down, quick down, quick down—starts in with another sound effect, repeats with violin sound, stops*
Anneliese: *four-beat vibrate* *instantly breaks into Hiei at drums, Anneliese playing the smoothest beat, Anemone at lead, and Kurama at keyboard...Anemone mainly heard*
Mirai Trunks: *repeats*
Kurama: *only drums and violin heard distinctly, Anneliese making a smooth moan noise with the bass throughout the lines* I AM *lead rev*...a little bit of loneliness, a little bit of disregard...handful of complaints, but I can't help the fact that everyone can see these scars...
*Mirai Trunks, Hiei, and Anneliese still continuing their parts as he goes*
I AM *lead rev*...what I want you to want, what I want you to feel...but it's like no matter what I do I can't convince you to just believe this is real...
*Mirai Trunks, Hiei, and Anneliese still continuing their parts as he goes*
So I *lead rev* let go, watching you, turn your back like you always do, face *lead rev* away and pretend that I'm not, but I'll *lead rev* be here cuz you're all that I got*four-beat vibrate*
Anemone: *intense lead, drums, no violin, mild bass, mild keyboarding to match the bass's sound* I, can't, feel! The way I did before!...don't turn your back on me;
Hiei: -I won't be ignored-
Anemone: Time, won't, heal! This damage anymore...don't turn your back on me;
Anneliese and Hiei: -I won't be ignored! *drums calm slightly and continue smoothly, bass falls into distinct verse play, lead guitar dims, violin again*
Kurama: I AM *lead rev* a little bit insecure, a little unconfident, cuz you don't understand, I do what I can, but sometimes I don't make sense...I AM *lead rev*...what you never wanna say, but I've never had a doubt, It's like no matter what I do, I can't convince you for once just to hear me out...so I *lead rev* let go, watching you, turn your back like you always do, face *lead rev* away and pretend that I'm not, but I'll *lead rev* be here cuz you're all that I got...
*echo 'got' four times, violin stops, keyboard falls in sync with bass for refrain, lead guitar four-beat vibrate...blasts in intense lead, drums, turn-tables without violin, mild keyboarding and bass instantly as Anemone breaks to sing*
Anemone: I, can't, feel! The way I did before!...don't turn your back on me;
Anneliese: -I won't be ignored-
Anemone: Time, won't, heal! This damage anymore!...don't turn your back on me;
Hiei and Anneliese: -I won't be ignored! *longer '-ored', breaks into even harder lead, bass, drums and turn-tabling, keyboarding stops*
Anemone: No! Hear, me, out, now! *millisecond pause, blasts again* You're gonna listen to me like it or not...right now!! Hear, me, out, now! *millisecond pause, blasts again* You're gonna listen to me like it or now...right now!!-
Mirai Trunks: *no lead or bass guitar, no keyboard, nothing but violin effect, VERY mild drumming, and slight beat turn-tables; calmness* -I, can't, feel...the way I did before...don't turn your back on me...
Anneliese and Hiei: *no violin, no drum, nothing but one type of beat on turn-tables* I WON'T BE IGNORED! *builds up the one turn-table effect, blasts with everything but violin*
Anemone: I, can't, feel! The way I did before!...don't turn your back on me;
Hiei and Anneliese: -I won't be ignored!-
Anemone: Time, won't, heal! This damage anymore!...don't turn your back on me;
Kurama and Mirai Trunks: -I won't be ignored!- *continues everything heavy, no violin*
Anemone: I, can't, feel!!
Hiei and Anneliese: don't turn your back on me-
Kurama and Mirai Trunks: -I won't be ignored!
Anemone: time, won't, heal!!
Mirai Trunks: don't turn your back on me-
Anemone and Kurama: I won't be ignored!! *everything fades abruptly, nothing but rubbing beat on the turn-tables as song closes*
*rabid applause, all of p3 roaring in cheers...Hiei twiddles with his drumsticks, thrusts arms in air*
Hiei: YEAH!
Mirai Trunks: *cracks neck as he removes the headpiece* That was great!
Anneliese: *laughter* I can't believe we did it!
Kurama: Mones don't you feel better about going through with it?
Anemone: *standing frozen, blank expression*
Kurama: er...Mones...?
Mirai Trunks: Mones...?
Anemone: *blacks out*
Mirai Trunks and Kurama: Mones!! *kicks off for her direction, props her up*
Ellen: *bounces onto stage* YOU GUYS! That was AWESOME! It was SO much cooler than during rehearsal! *suddenly realizes everyone is crowded around Anemone* er...guys?
Sycogerl64: *rushes to edge of stage, only Hiei and Anneliese turning their attention* Oh my God that was SO cool!
Cloud8.9: I'm inclined to agree.
Sycogerl64: hey is she okay...?
Hiei: *growl* none of your concern...
Anneliese: *elbows him, he eyes her half-narrowly and rolls his eyes* Yeah she'll be fine...
Cloud8.9: so what's the deal with you guys?
Hiei and Anneliese: ...?
Sycogerl64: excuse me, I'll translate...Mr. Vague here simply meant...any couples in the group?
Hiei and Anneliese: *prick, blush, grunt*
Sycogerl64: ...! You two...?!
Hiei: hn...*still blushing, turns back to Anemone* so what if we are...?! It's not your concern, human...
Mirai Trunks: ...Mones?! Please wake up!!
Anemone: *gurgling to consciousness* I...I did it...
Mirai Trunks and Kurama: *relieved sighs*
Mirai Trunks: yeah, honey, you did!
Anemone: ...I...I really...really did it...!
Kurama: indeed you did, Mones...we're very proud...you came through for us!
Anemone: ...yay...! I, I did it...!
Ellen: now you just gotta perform six more songs! *brief pause, Anemone blacks out again*
Anneliese: Ellen!
Piper: um...is everything here okay...?
Everyone but Anemone: *instantly clicks to attention, trying to seem casual* yes, yup we're fine, uh-huh, yeah...
Hiei: *turns to audience* care to review?
Audience: YEAH!
Hiei: then go...NOW! *scares the hell out of audience*
Anneliese: Hiei!
Hiei: what?
Kurama: please review...au revoir!