Chapter Four: Prodigy's Rejects
GG: i don't really have anything to say... enjoy!
Disclaimer: see 1st chappie
Rose bounced down the stairs, notes exploding from her lungs.
"Thanks to you now I get/I get what I want/Since you been gone/Since you been gone/Since you been gone," she sang. Hakkai laughed at her little performance.
"Maybe you should become an opera singer," he said as he flipped the frying pan.
Rose pouted, "I'm not that loud!"
"Yes, you are," Sasuke yawned as he walked sleepily down the stairs. Hakkai laughed again as the twins glared at each other.
"ROSE-CHAN!" screamed the two bolts of color hurling out of Rose's room and down the stairs. Rose blinked.
"If I'm an opera singer, then they're banshees," she whispered. Nataku and Goku smiled up at her, mischiviously.
"What?" she said suspicously.
"You know what today is?" they asked. Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Saturday?"
"EXACTLY!" they smiled. "YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE SCHOOL TODAY! NOW, YOU CAN SPEND ALL DAY WITH US!" Sasuke sighed.
"Okay, okay, okay," Rose replied. "Just... stop yelling." The two boys nodded their heads vigourously and ran to the kitchen for breakfast.
Later that Day
Ray whistled a random tune as he walked along the sidewalk, twirling a pair of keys on his finger.
"Hey, Ray!" Mariah called out. She came from behind and walked beside him.
"Whatcha doin?"
"Oh, just going somewhere."
"Where are you goin?"
"To visit a friend."
"Who's your friend?"
"Well, I have to pick Tyson and Max up, first."
"So, who're you visiting!" Mariah asked, becoming impatient with Ray's evading of the question.
"Rose," he replied, somewhat timidly. He looked at her as if expecting her to explode. She didn't. She did something much more terrible.
She followed him and, as they got Max and Tyson, she fetched Hillary and Kai. Emily was out with her family at the time.
"It'll be fun with more people to greet the new kid on the block!" she insisted. Ray sighed and gave up, mentally begging Rose for forgiveness.
They reached her address. The house wasn't all that big. It looked like all the other houses: cream-colored with a brown roof and two levels.
Ray walked right up to the door, but, instead, he picked out a key from the ring he was twirling and unlocked the door. "
Rose gave you a key!" the Hillary screeched.
"Er... yeah. She said that if we just knocked, it would take forever for someone to open the door. Didn't tell me why, though," he explained. The inside of the house was anything but ordinary.
The floor was tiled with beautiful white stone. There were beautifully exotic plants in gorgeous chinese-style pots.
They saw Hakkai tending one of the plants. He looked up and blinked as if he had just noticed them.
"Oh. Hello. How can I help you?" he smiled with a little bow. The two evil preps were obviously into this guy and made no effort in hiding their attraction.
They went up to him and tried to engage him into a seemingly friendly conversation with questions like, "Who's the youngest girl you've ever dated?" or "Which type of girl do you like better: the gorgeous & outgoing or the silent beauties?"
Ray decided to save the poor man.
"Um. Excuse me, sir. Is Rose home?"
Hakkai gave him a look of gratitude and replied, "She's in her room. It's up the stairs and in the right hallway. The eighth door on the left with all the pictures and stuff of anything that has to do with rock. You can't miss it."
Ray thanked Hakkai and began his attempt in prying the girls off the bishounen. Gojyo just happened upon the sight. After a few perverted comments from him, the girls were happy to let go of Hakkai and rush up the stairs to torment Rose.
After a while of wandering the hallway, it was pretty long, they finally had a door that had Rose's name written all over it... literally.
Rose's name was intricately carved into the frame. Upon the door were pictures of many cute men, Rose, people doing funny faces, famous rock musicians, Rose posing with famous rock musicians, you get the point. Laughter could be heard coming from behind the door. Frowning, Mariah shoved open the door. Music suddenly blared into their faces.
"I'm with the sk8er boi/I said see you later boi/I'll be backstage after the show/I'll be at a studio/Singing the song we wrote/About a girl you used to know" Rose sang.
She wore a black tanktop that extended to cover her neck and a pair of baggy black pants with an intricate silver chain running from her belt to her back pocket. Red ribbons adorned her wrists and a gold dragon armlet was twisted around her right arm. her hair was tied into a braid instead of her usual bun.
Her band consisted of Sasuke on guitar plus two others, a frizzy carrot-top on drum set, and, of course, Rose as vocals.
One of the guitarists, a girl, was watching them. She had short, spikey red hair except for a small ponytail at the base of her neck that went down to her knees and calm green eyes. She wore a pair of dark green cargo pants and a dark purple shirt that clung to her frame and was cut right above her navel. A pair of goggles acted as a headband on her head. Her wrists were covered with spikey wristbands.
The other guitarist was a boy with blue hair gelled up into a mohawk and laughing brown eyes. He wore a pair of black jeans and a light blue t-shirt that said, "I Do All My Own Stunts" in red.
The drummer had wild orange hair that stuck up in all directions. He was staring at them with his sharp silver eyes and a crazy grin on his face. He wore an orange t-shirt that proclaimed "Reality Sux" in black with a pair of torn up jeans.
There were random people, including Sai and Itachi, who were sprawled on the bed, the floor, or random chairs. Rose finally noticed them.
"Oh. Hey, guys. Nice to see you again." Rose walked over and gave Ray a friendly hug.
"Band and company, these are my friends, Ray, Max, and Tyson, and my enemies, Kai, Hillary, and Mariah. Enemies and friends, these are my crew. My band, Prodigy's Rejects, consists of Sasuke, my brother, Eddie," She pointed to the girl who nodded, not showing any sign of enthusiasm or happiness what-so-ever.
"Maurice," She pointed to the mohawk dude.
"And Fred." The crazy drummer waved enthusiasticallly at them.
"The others," she waved a lazy hand to her audiance. "are people whose names are not essential... other than Sai." There were a few snorts of protest from the crowd.
"Neways, what're you guys doin' here?" Ray shrugged. "Just a visit, I guess." Rose's face lit up.
"Great! You guys can be our audience! Cuz, most of my audience right now aren't our age, so I'm not sure if anybody'd like it. This is really great."
She dragged the whole group so that they stood/sat somewhere in front of their band. Rose walked over to Maurice and said something in a different language to him.
He nodded and set aside his guitar. Rose picked up her own guitar, a red one with a yin yang sign on it, while Maurice walked up to the mike. They all began to play and sing:
It's a new day, but it all feels old
It's a good life, that's what I'm told
But everything it all just feels the same
At my high school, it felt more to me
Like a jail cell, a penitentiary
My time spent there, it only made me see
That I don't ever wanna be like you
I don't wanna do the things you do
I'm never gonna hear the words you say
Cause I don't ever wanna
I don't ever wanna be
YOU... don't wanna be just like you
Oh, what I'm sayin is
This is the anthem
Throw all your hands up
YOU... don't wanna be you
Go to college, a university
Get a real job, that's what they said to me
But I could never live the way they want
I'm gonna get by, and just do my time
Out of step while, they all get in line
I'm just a minor threat so pay no mind
Do you really wanna to be like them
Do you really wanna be another trend
Do you wanna be a part of that crowd
Cause I don't ever wanna
I dont ever wanna be YOU
Dont wanna be just like you
Oh, what I'm saying is
This is the anthem
Throw all your hands up
YOU... don't want to be you!
Shake it once that's fine
Shake it twice that's ok
Shake it three times your playin with yourself again
YOU.. don't want to be just like you
This is the anthem throw all your hands up
Now you can feel me
Sing if you're with me
YOU... dont wanna be just like you, just like you
This is the anthem
Throw all your hands up
Now you can feel me
Sing if you're with me
Another loser anthem
Another loser anthem
Another loser anthem
Another loser anthem
Hillary and Mariah stared at them with their mouths wide open. As much as they'd like to deny it, that song was actually pretty cool! Everyone else, 'cept Kai, applauded them.
"So? Whaddiya think?" Rose laughed.
"That was great!"
"It was so cool."
"The best ever!"
"You could make it, big time!" Kai was emotionless as ever. No one could really tell what was going through his head at the time.
"Let's hear you sing," he finally said.
"Yeah!"
"Do it!"
"We wanna hear you sing!" Rose shrugged and switched places with Maurice.
"By the way, that song was 'The Anthem'. This song is called..." She trailed off, staring at Kai.
"What?" he snapped.
"Nothing," she mused. "I'm just trying to think of a song that fits you." She paused.
"Okay, I've got it. I'm going to sing 'Numb'. (a/n/blah/ means sasuke says that part, okey dokies?)
Tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
/Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow/
Everystep that I take is another mistake to you
/Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow/
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
Become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
Can't you see that you're smothering me?
Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control
Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart, right in front of you
/Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow/
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
/Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow/
And every second I waste is more than I can take
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
Become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
And I know I may end up failing too
But I know you were just like me
With someone disappointed in you
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
Become so tired, so much more aware
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
The song finished, slowly fading away into the silence that had enveloped the room. She smiled and scratche the back of her head.
"Like it? One of our band members wrote that song, but he's not here right now. Me 'n Sasuke wrote 'The Anthem' with the help of our nii-san, Itachi, of course." The door suddenly flew open.
"Sorry," the newcomer said. "Am I late?" A boy with spikey orange hair stood in the doorway. He was bending over, trying to catch his breath. His hair covered his face.
"Of course you're late!" Rose frowned. The boy looked up to reveal a pair of sky blue eyes on a very, very familiar face.
"Brooklyn."
GG: well... hope u liked it! i think that's the perfect cliffy, don't u? Review please!