I'm back! As a great thanks to my first reviewer I am adding her OC in!
Disclaimer: yes let us all think about this…
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"You two," Hiei pointed at Kurama and Ana, "are with me, and you- flute with red hair, yeah you, over here." She had red hair to rival Kurama's, lightly tanned skin, green eyes, and was wearing a green tang-top and black jeans. She smiled pleasantly, Kurama recognized her immediately.
"Her name's Rose." Kurama said with a smile as the girl met his eye.
"Here I am thinking you forgot me!" Rose said with a grin, "Oh! I missed you so much!" the pair hugged for a minute then Hiei cleared his throat.
"Now, if you all follow directions this will go smoothly," Hiei handed each of them a sheet of paper. His had twelve lines of drum sticking. "I want, one at a time for each of you to stick that page, best you can, starting with Ana."
Ana nodded and started with a measure of eighth notes, she got about a quarter of the way down the page before she started to mess up noticeable.
"Restart here," Hiei ordered pointing at the measure she first messed up in. she started again there, better and made it to the last line before she totally messed up again. "Here" Hiei pointed to the last measure on the 11th line. Ana kept stumbling through it but at last got it, sort of, and quickly finished.
"You didn't keep a steady tempo. Also you messed up too noticeably too many times. Ana, you will not be making the drum line."
"YES! - Oh I mean, that's too bad," Ana said with false sadness, she burst out laughing and danced across the band room to bother her fellow 'ignorant woodwinds'.
"Kurama you next." Hiei ordered. Kurama began he played it almost effortlessly. He made a minor flaw in the last measure, speeding up and missing the final sixteenth note, but other than that it was perfect. "Go join Ana, you are pending." Hiei wrote Kurama's name down on the back of his music. Kurama went and joined Ana in her harassing.
"Rose," Hiei said calmly. Rose played her piece as accurately as Kurama, she, too, dropped a couple notes in the final measure. "Join the other two." Hiei wrote her name down under Kurama's.
Hiei dumped their equipment in the box and walked over to talk with Aaron. The two spoke for a few minutes then Hiei walked away.
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"Rose, I didn't think I'd see you again. When you stopped writing I thought something was wrong." Kurama said to Rose.
"The price for stamps went up. Other than that, well, I figured we'd never see each other again, so I didn't feel a need to write to you anymore. But now that you're here, I'm so happy you're here! When'd you get here?" Rose said the delight in seeing her childhood friend again was obvious.
"This morning, that's okay," Kurama scratched the back of his head nervously, "To tell you the truth, until I saw today I had completely forgotten about you! Too think, its only been 8 years!"
"Only? You say that like its nothing!" Ana practically shouted at them, receiving wry grins from both of them. As if to quickly change the subject she exclaimed, "Hey, look, everyone's done and our ever so liked drum major is going to speak to us!"
"Hello again! We have seen that five of you are apt enough to be part of our elite section!" shouts of "Boo!" and "Get on with it!" where here during his pause. "Being that some of you are to impatient to wait! The lucky five are, drum roll please," one of the girls standing next to the bass drum did a roll with her hands, "Tory Cioccolato! Eric Salisbury! Kurama Minamino! Rose Épine! And Alexia Guarnição! Congrats to those who made it, sorry to those who didn't! The drum line must stay, there rest of you are free to go. New member stay, too! Bye!" he waved cheerfully.
"Good going!" Aaron congratulated the five newest members of his section. Now, we have another sectional tomorrow, two hours, at one, be on time! Tardiness is unacceptable! Now, you are free to leave." He turned and walked away from them.
"Is the other drum major as… cocky?" Kurama asked Hiei who had joined him a moment ago.
"No, she's crazy. She's a senior and plays the French horn." Hiei conceded.
"She isn't crazy. She's really nice. Aaron is, thankfully, also a senior! So at the end of the year we get to elect two new drum majors! Aaron is the best, that's why he's drum major." Rose contoured.
"Ok, I guess that clarifies things. I'll see you in class Rose. Hiei, lets get back to the dorms. This is going to be fun! How much do drum sticks cost?" Kurama asked.
"Another time," Hiei sighed and took off running Kurama waved good-bye to Rose and took off after him.
'Does he still care for me?' she asked herself silently, 'Yeah, of course he does!' she walked in the direction of her dorm, thinking the entire way.
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Translations of last names:
Cioccolato: Chocolate in Italian
Épine: Thorn in French
Guarnição: Trim in Portuguese
Now that that's cleared up, how do you like this so far? I will update again as soon as I can! This is the last update of the year, though. I hope this makes sense, I'm still hoping for a beta reader. Thank you to my wonderful reviewers! Have a wonderful new year!
Kait