Yu-Gi-Oh Marching Band

To the reviewers:

sephiroth-is-1 aka Chris: Yea for Tubas and Baritones! But really you flatter me..er..us. What is with Band people and quoting Larry the Cable guy?

Yami Adritha: It's okay. You don't have to compleatly get Bish-O-Man. Chenoa will kill him in the end. As forTenor Sax boy, me thinkie Truth or Dare?

Weirdo: On to the story!

Ari held her clarinet in her left arm, right next to Ryo in the back. As many times as she had run the show, she was still a bit nervous. After all, this was finals.

Ryo sensed her nervousness and tapped the top of her shako the way everyone else was doing in an effort to pump each other up. Ari looked to see who had done it and Ryo smiled. Ari smiled back and smacked the top of his shako. Before he could do anything, they heard Kaiba call out. "Mr. Caster!" as the drums started tapping off.

Ari turned her attention to her marching as they started moving forward. As they marched onto the Astroturf, she judged the way it bent under her, trying not to fall. Turf was different than grass. The first show they marched on it, not one person did think they were going to fall at least three times during the show. Thankfully, they were a little more used to it, having had their last rehearsal on a turf field.

"Band, ready halt!" Tamia yelled. "Break."

Ari walked to her place in the scatter, Ryo going to his. "Good luck." She said as she passed him. Rachel made a face at Ari and Candy as she hurried to her spot. She unfurled her flags, stripped them and placed the flags in the right spot. She kept her orange flag, and placed her hula-hoop on the 40. She stripped her orange flag and walked quickly to her spot, making a face at Chenoa as she passed by her. She placed her orange flag where she thought it went (A/n I put it in the worng spot slaps herself), and show folded it (fold in half, then again and again and again and again Roll the bundle under the pole). Rachel took a deep breath and looked up at the drum major. She remembered something Elena and Claire had said.

"If you have cute guys in your band, and cute guys in your guard (which they didn't), you have to have a cute drum major." Rachel walked over to where Mighty Mouse was folding her flag.

"Drum Majors Hannah Johnson, Tamia Crisp, Stephanie Likkis, and Seto Kaiba, is your band ready?" The announcer asked. Stephanie sent glitter flying with a hand gesture.

"Chaparral/ Domino Platinum Sound Marching Band and Emerald Guard, you may take the field in four A Competition." The crowd cheered as Stephanie took off her shako and held up her hands to conduct.

"Five Six. Five Six Seven Eight."

Ari watched Stephanie's hands intently, counting the beats under her breath. Forty-eight counts later, people began moving to their dots, everyone at different counts. On count eight, she started moving forward to her dot, remembering to leave space on her left for Anna.

The rest of the show ran by in a blur, it had become habit by this time. They'd gotten to the ending part if the third tune before Ari realized it. This was the 'Party Hearty' set, which just meant they didn't have to play nor did they have to marching to their spot. There were some people freaking skipping to their spot. Ari just concentrated on getting to the right dot in sixteen counts. But then…

"I am Bish-O-Man!"

'Not again.' Ari thought, rolling her eyes. She saw Kaiba do the same thing, shaking his head as he walked to the stand that the drum major stood on, and Bish-O-Man had just ran past.

Without a word, four of the color guard people who were using rifles in this set stepped up and raised them, looking like they were going to shoot the wrapped pieces of wood or whatever they were made out of, but Bish-O-Man didn't know that. He screamed and ran off the field. The Guard girls stepped back into their spots and Kaiba starting conducting the song. Luckily, Bish-O-Man had run in at a spot where they weren't playing for a moment. The drum majors could hold that moment as long as necessary.

Another two or three minutes, Ari couldn't believe that, after playing it so many times before, their last show was over. They marched off to get their picture taken, thankfully without Bish-O-Man's interference, and got changed to go to 'dinner.' Being two in the afternoon, Ari would have called it lunch, but she didn't complain about it as she settled back in her seat next to Rachel. They'd done it. They'd gotten the highest score that the school had ever gotten at a competition. A score of 78. It probably wouldn't be enough to make finals. Natalie, a trumpet player, said that they would have to beat five of the Five A band to do it, but it was still a record.