I AM SO FRICKEN SORRY I DIDN'T POST EARLIER! You all must have suffered terribly! When we got back from FL, our comp wasn't working. We took it in and turns out we had a few viruses. Only a few. They said they stopped counting at 300.

Me: O.O

So, once again, SO SORRY! But before I forget... Awards "Sangoirss" a rare Nami plushie (w/ painted guitar ) Awards "I SO drunk am not" a plushie set.

To Vash the Stampede:

1. I played 50 Cent

2. I will include ToboexLeara

And to aragorn's-girl04074:

All the Japanese words are rephrased in what the next character says (except for chikusho, which means 'damnit')

Love you all so much!

Momo

P.S: I am already working on chappie 7

.:Chapter 6:.

Hige, reluctantly, let Nami drag him through the crowd. He couldn't dance alone, let alone with someone!

I. Am. So. Freaking. Dead.

He was about to object to being pulled in between bodies when he realized they had reached the stage.

"What are you waiting for? C'mon! Let's dance!" she said, giving him that melting smile.

"I...can't dance..." he muttered to himself.

"Huh? What'd you say?" she asked, a little concerned now as she leaned in to hear him.

"I said I can't dance!" he shouted. Normally, he would've been completely embarrassed. Lucky for him, the DJ was blaring 'Breaking the Habit' out into the crowd.

Nami thought, "Well, you want me to teach you?"

Hige looked around at all the other couples grinding around him and blushed.

Don't start. Don't start. Don't start...!

"...drums instead!"

Nami's perky voice pulled him back to reality.

"Wuh?" but before he could ask, she had pulled him onstage.

She plunked herself down in front of a drum kit and began to tap out the beat to herself. The DJ, seeing that Nami had come up, called her over as if he knew her.

Flipping stray hair out of her eyes, she set down the sticks and walked over. The DJ motioned for Hige to follow too.

"Hey girl, you sing?" Hige heard him ask Nami, jokingly as he approached the stereos and equipment.

Nami shrugged and laughed back, "A llittle"

Wait...I'm missing something here...

"And what about you? You think you can play to this song?" asked the DJ, referring to 'Breaking the Habit' and Hige on the drums.

"Sure" he responded, not wanting to be out done.

Besides, the drums are the only instrument I can play.

The DJ handed him a freshly painted pair of drumsticks.

As he was heading back to the kit, he heard Nami ask about a guitar. 'Her' guitar to be exact. About five seconds later, any questions he had were answered as the smiling DJ reached behind the curtain and handed her a painted guitar with wet, painted strings.

Smiling to herself, Nami walked back over towards Hige.

"A guitar?" he asked, raising an eyebrow, "Since when do you play?"

"Since now."

"What?!"

"I'm kidding! I've been playing since I was about 7" she said turning back around with a smile.

Some people backstage brought out a microphone for Nami and set a second one by his drum set. Surprisingly, they brought out a third mic, too.

"Do we have anyone who knows the bass to 'Breaking the Habit'?" the DJ asked.

Since when was I in a band? Good thing I know the song though. Wait a minute, where did all this come from??

"I play here a lot"

"Huh? What?" said Hige, snapping to attention.

"I said, 'I play here a lot'. Incase you were wondering why we were doing this. I used to play with my best friend and another guy on...bass..." she explained but trailed off when she saw who their new bass player was.

Hige thought she was going to drop the guitar when she squealed out, "Aki-han! Where the hell have you been?!"

The guy just smiled, hooked up his guitar and said, "You ready for a blast from the past?"

Nami started cracking up. Apparently this was the guy who played bass with her.

Hige felt a tinge of jealousy.

A tinge. Only a tinge.

"Ready?" asked the DJ.

Nami answered by shouting into the mic, "Are you ready to rock, New York?!"

Surprisingly, the crowd cheered back. It was louder than anything Hige had ever heard in his life.

Must've been pretty popular.

Start us of, Hige!" Nami whispered.

Hige counted off two measures before blasting into the drum set.
Nami had an amazing voice. He never knew she could sing like that.

Then again, I just met her today.

As Nami slammed on the final chord, she unplugged the AMP from the base of her guitar and fell backwards into the crowd.

Hige almost panicked, thinking they weren't going to catch her, but she floated up as if on water.

"C'mon, kid! You gonna break the tradition?" shouted Aki, following suit.

Hige gulped, and walked over to the stage edge.

What if they don't catch me?

But it was too late for that. He was here, Nami was waiting for him, and he had just blown the crowd away. What else was there to do?

Taking a deep breath, Hige turned around, clutched his drumsticks, and fell backwards.

I'm not part of their band! They're not going to catch me!

He seemed to fall for an eternity, like he was going to hit the ground any second, when he felt people holding him up. He couldn't describe the sensation; it felt like bugs and individual spring-like things at the same time.

Whatever. All that matters is that I'm not dead.

Hige was waving his arms around and giving people upside down high fives by the time the crowd set him down by the front of the stage.

Smiling, he asked Nami, "Did they do that every time you guys performed?!"

"Most of the time. At least after we got good," she laughed.

She and Aki started laughing when she said, "So, you wanna learn to dance now, Hige-han?"

"Wah? Erm, yeah I guess..." he stammered, knowing that there was no avoiding it now.

"Hey Johnny! Gimmie, ah, how about a simple line dance or something?" she shouted up to the DJ.

Smiling as he bobbed his head to Beastie Boys's 'Ch-check it out'. He flipped a few switches, making the song fade out and let the 'Electric Slide' take its place.

"Alright. This one's easy," Nami explained. "It's cross-back, cross- front, and then do the same on the other side...yeah that's it. Okay, now you forward two beats...back two beats, now a step-kick--"

She was about to go on, but during the 'step-kick', Hige had tangled his legs and fallen down.

Nami giggled and said, "Maybe line dancing isn't a good thing to start off with..."

"Johnny!" Aki shouted to the DJ, "Spin me some 50, will ya?"

With a nod, the DJ waited for the song to end and then started to play 50 Cent's 'In Tha Club'.

At first Hige didn't get what the point of the song was, but when he saw what the other couples started to do, he felt a surge of jealousy. Nami was going to be grinding with that, that scumbag!

Control. Control. Control. Control...

Hige impatiently waited halfway through the song, but the guy was just enjoying it too much!

She's just dancing...but that guy...what the fuck is his problem?! He's all over her!

"Okay, OKAY! I get how to do it!" he snapped, surprising Nami a little.

"Good, 'cause I'm ten minutes for an appointment already. See ya around, Nam-chan," he said with a wave, heading off in the crowd.

Bye!" she shouted back, returning the wave. Then turning back to Hige said, "C'mon! Are you gonna dance now?"

"Uh, sure!" he said, voice cracking slightly as he blushed.

Nami moved up against him, hips swerving in small circles to the beat of Black Eyed Peas' 'Hey Mama'.

Shit, can this girl dance.

It was like she had the whole dance choreographed. Since she knew all the words, so some of the moves she did matched the lyrics. It was almost too much.

Oh man. Oh man. Oh man. Oh man. Oh man.

Eventually he fell into the rhythm of things and was dancing almost as well as her.

Nami had grabbed a Cosmo off a tray that was going around, while Hige grabbed his third.

The DJ played another BEP song, 'Hands Up', and Nami and Hige got more and more intimate.

I could die happy now...

Hige's soon-to-be-learned lesson: Never EVER say crazy things like that.

Just at that moment Tsume came up behind them, tapping Hige on the shoulder.

Stupid, Hige! Stupid, stupid, STUPID, Hige!!!

"Aw, but we were just starting to have fun!" Nami whined as she wrapped her arms around a blushing Hige.

Tsume explained Toboe's situation and (as much as Hige hated to hear it) they had to leave. As Nami skipped ahead of them, wavering slightly, Tsume whispered in Hige's ear, "The twins are having some trouble in that gated community. Kiba thinks we should go check it out."

Hige just nodded drunkly and followed Tsume out the door after grabbing one last Cosmo.

.:End Chapter 6:.