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Chapter 5:
Rock
Oh why the hell not. It's not like he had anywhere to go. Besides, that girl, Aiyu would be expecting him to come back. The door dinged happily at him with its odd little ring, but it was soon overcome back a blast of rock music blasting from inside the store. And it didn't sound like it was coming from a radio.
"The sweetest sound that I have hear
was a dove chirping to the air
and then the sunset
took my breath
and I dared not move or speak
for then I saw the last moon rise
the last moon rise of earth.
Where have all my sunsets gone?
Why are the stars lost?
Have I lost my mind?
Have I lost your trust?
The sun it burs so carelessly
Not a friend to boy or girl
It lords up above, sneering (sneering)
Down at the ants (we ants)
And the stars are so distant
Like a fairy tale I heard as a child
Earth it seems has abandoned me and
Where have all my sunsets gone?
Why won't the moon rise?
Did I miss something important?
Did we just say good bye?
I know that I sound strange
My words just don't apply
To the situation
That I've created
But I'm just so tongue-tied
So confused
What did I do?
Where did all my sunsets go?
Why can I see the sky?
Why have you left me here?
When was it that you died?"
He walked in cautiously. Perhaps he was intruding on something. Something illegal? He almost laughed at that. Illegal music in a music store. Yes, that made a lot of sense.
He hadn't realized how tiny the store was when he had come in yesterday. But he supposed it made sense. Yesterday there had only been two people here…and yesterday he hadn't exactly been in a place to be thinking. At all. Much less about the size of a room. The only reason he was commenting on it now was that it seemed really cramped with five other people in there. Aiyu, obviously (he was fairly certain she had been the one singing) and four others who…who
"No fucking way," he said louder than he intended. With Aiyu it was coincidence. Everyone in the universe had a doppelganger right? But all of them, looking exactly like they had before- well before- in the same room. It was too big a coincidence.
Wasn't it?
"Hey! It's you!" Aiyu said, smiling at him. "Did you hear us? What did you think?"
"The drums sucked didn't they," he said. It was him. The other voice that haunted him as much as she did, more than the others. He had the same pony tail, the same bleach blonde hair, the same dark green eyes. It sounded so much like him too. Not like Aiyu who sounded drastically different. He sounded, similar. And it wasn't possible.
"No, it was the guitars, am I right Sakura?" the other man said, the one with spiky black hair. And it was him too…
"Yep, the drums were excellent. We guitars sucked," the second girl agreed emphatically. Same short black hair, dark blue eyes-
"Well I'm only back up vocals in this song," the auburn hair girl groused. She was tall, only the second man was taller. Of course the other three were short. "So what are you lot complaining about? I'm not even really needed in this piece!"
"What the hell is going on?" Vegeta asked to no one in particular.
"Oh right," Aiyu said. "This is my band- said whiny drummer is B, the two sucky guitarist are Caillin and, as you heard, Sakura. And Miss Back Up Singer, also our resident violinist and pianist, is Tayla. Mind you, her violin playing is now where near on par with yours."
"I'm more a cellist," Tayla said, shrugging.
"If you say so," Caillin said, smirking.
"I am," she said, glaring at him.
"Let's try not to kill each other, children," B said, rolling his eyes. "We won't make it big if we're dead."
"Fine. He just had to apologize to me."
"No, why should I do that?"
"Because I told you to."
It was like being back. If he closed his eyes he wouldn't even know that he was still on earth.
"So what are you doing here anyway?" Aiyu asked him. He was jolted back to reality for a moment.
"Oh. I, well, I guess I'm looking for a job," he said without really thinking. "Not to mention a place to stay. They just don't tell you to have these things ready when you decide to leave our house."
"You left?" Aiyu said, sounding utterly delighted for some reason. "Good for you."
"You need a place to say?" B asked. "Well then you can stay with me."
"You don't even know me and you're offering me a place to stay," Vegeta pointed out. At least you shouldn't know me, unless you really are…
"Hey, Aiyu seems to like you, I've got an extra room," B shrugged. "I don't see the problem."
"You have to work here!" Aiyu said, jumping up and down excitedly. "I'm the only one on staff right now. We young folk must band together." Young folk?
"How old do you think I am?" Vegeta asked curiously. Thinks were definitely…disturbing…the kind of thing that would put another twenty years of therapy on his tab…but still, he had to know…young folk?
"You're our age, right? Twenty-two?" Twenty-two? That was how old…no way. Something very wrong was going on.
But he couldn't ask. If he did, everything might fall apart again.
He couldn't handle that.
He couldn't.
"Yeah, I am. I always though I looked older though. There you go ruining my self image." What was he doing? Lying about his age? Sounding jokingly again? What was it when he was in here.
Or was it when he was around her? Maybe now around them?
"And it would be great if I could stay with you until I can get my place," he said to B.
"Sure, I can take you to see the place right now if you want. I think we're done here?" B looked at Aiyu.
"Yeah, and since we're all coming with you it doesn't matter."
"Closing up shop already? You open, what, two hours?" Sakura said sniggering. "Hey, it almost my store. I can do whatever I want."
"Almost," Tayla pointed out. "Is not the same as owning it."
"And your point it?"
Vegeta had really missed this. Not one of them could carry on a conversation like this. No one had around him for a very long time.
A/N: And here is a new chapter, only Vegeta and some OCs who have been floating around in my head for a very, very long time. You have no idea how long. Of course its mostly cause three of them are based off character in an original story I'm writing and intend to get published some day (if I ever finish it) but that's not the point.
I don't know if I liked Vegeta in this chapter. Next chapter I think I'm definitely going to have to have some Goku/Vegeta randomly meet up on the street. Or actually, no, that would be chapter six. Next chapter I think though what I will have more Goten. And definitely some Gohan. I wanna get around to him. Who knows? Trunks might even say "Hi". Yes he had a large part in this fic…well, maybe later. Maybe not.
Anyway, as always thank you all for taking the time to review this story, since there are certainly much better stories out there in the world. So all the more thanks to you guys for taking the time.
ZacktheSayajin: Well, I e-mailed you…hope you got it…oh, and I don't know if I'll be fixing the first song…but I would like all subsequent ones to be write…lets just say the first song was pure Sayian…yes, I am a slacker…it's a flaw…I learned to deal with it….
Kit-kit: Thanks
Anjanka: You know, when I was first watching the Buu saga I always wondered who Goten had as a father type figure in his life. I mean, Goku was dead before he was born? I just couldn't believe that Gohan was the only older male in his life, and Goten was such good friends with trunks, I just felt it made sense. Glad someone liked it. And about Gohan? Well I'll get to that (at least I'll try) next chapter. I hope Goten and Vegeta continue to have a good relationship too (and sine I'm the author, there's a very good chance of that happening –grins slightly-) Guitar girl- Aiyu. Romantic interest? Welllll….you'll have to wait and find out. Maybe it's her, maybe its someone else. But trust me there is one. But it is not Bulma (obviously) so the world is okay. But Aiyu will definitely be a main character type thing.
So, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. It's certaintly not my favorite (chp. 2 is my fav) but I kinda like the song from this one. Dunno why. Oh well. Remo
