Sorry its been taking me so long. Damn that science project; its taking up all of my time! Grrrrrrrr! Well anyway, the winners to the contest…..First, the answers.

Ichigo. She said this to Tart after he called her an old hag, which resulted in her calling him a midget.

Chewing gum is really gross, chewing gum I hate the most. There were lots of people who got the three questions right, and I'm sorry, but I narrowed it down to the people who had the phrase exactly as he said it.

Yuu Watase has been known to write Shojo manga for ages T+. So far from what I know, she has written Imadoki, Fushigi Yuugi, Ceres, Alice 19th, and Absolute Boyfriend. (If you have never read Absolute Boyfriend, its in the magazine Shojo Beat. Its really cool; I suggest it to people)

And now, the winners, and then I will answer reviews!

Liz-Sakura

Mayalen

Cheri Saru

Yoshiru

BlueButterfly aka Darkmistress

Karli

Sadly, the final part of the contest was to tell me the name you would like to be given if you won. And I only got names from 2 of the 6 winners. I congratulate all winners, but I have decided if there was one or more winner, there will be two who are added into the story. Those two are Liz-Sakura, who will be known as Kaguya, and Mayalen, who will be known as Mayalen.

Thank-you time! Today I will be giving out….uh…Rubba Ducks! Cause they rule! I collect them, they're like Rubber Ducks, only not made out of rubber, and they are dressed like things! They're awesome!

Niirososhi

Mew mew Fox

Hikaritenshi2000

Liz-Sakura

Emerald Fox Fire

Mayalen

Kat

Chibi Strawberry Neko

Mew Lizzy

Cheri-saru

Mew Kelcita

Kay1fire

Puddie1011

Ravefan

Mew Fire

Yoshiru

Firediva

Nekoxlove

RyousRayne

Kaya324

BlueButterfly aka Darkmistress

Koiree

Sakura14o

Karli

MusicLovaGurl

Oh my…..YAY! Thank you so much everybody! This story has finally reached 100 reviews! And it's only on its 9th chapter! You can all help me out-review my sister! Her most is a total of 140-something. Anyway, thanks everyone, that was one of my first goals when I came to Fanfiction . net; to reach 100 reviews. And now my second goal; to beat my sister!

I do not own TMM. It took me an hour to write a reply to all the reviews. It'll probably take another hour to write this. Oh dear; at least it's Sunday. Nor do I own Carol of the Bells.

"Come on Ichigo. We have to get back," Ryou said, getting up. Ichigo was still dazed from it all, she had had such a good time; a much better time that when she had been with Masaya. This was just the thing that had cheered her up. "Thanks Ryou for taking me out tonight. I had a great time."

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Ryou and Ichigo walked the rest of the way to the hotel. A soothing melody was playing inside of Ichigo's head. "Wow, whoever that person is, they can really play a saxophone."

"Eh? Ryou, you can hear the melody inside my head too?"

"What do you mean inside your head?"

"Uh…nothing," Ichigo muttered. She noticed the music was getting louder and louder. And after they passed an apartment building, it got softer. It was really bugging Ichigo to know who was playing that music. "Um…Ryou…you go back to the hotel by yourself. I wanted to check out a shop I saw." She turned around and was gone before Ryou could stop her. "Just be careful, Ichigo."

She was in the exact spot she was minutes ago, and was standing where she could hear it the loudest. But she couldn't see anyone in sight. And then she looked up to see a girl with short brown hair playing the saxophone, while a girl with long brown hair watched her.

"That was brilliant, Mayalen!" cried the long brown haired girl. "You are sure to win the talent show, no doubt about it!"

"If you don't beat me with your singing, Kaguya! I mean, everyone is always saying you have the voice of a goddess! I know that playing this thing isn't going to get me far. I mean, how many people do you know like jazz?"

"I like jazz" Ichigo said. The two girls looked down at her. "I thought that was really good playing."

"Well thanks," Mayalen said. Kaguya got up and climbed onto the bars of the fire escape. "Wait, Kaguya!" Kaguya jumped from what looked like four stories, landing gracefully onto the ground.

"Kaguya! You shouldn't be so reckless!" Mayalen said, climbing down the ladder, clinging onto the bars of the ladder and onto the saxophone. She jumped from the ladder, trying not to land in the puddle. "I hope it doesn't rain again," she said, knowing that water and saxophones don't mix.

"You are really good at playing the saxophone! You are so good, I thought when I first heard it, a professional was playing!"

"Oh please, stop it, your making me blush," Mayalen said modestly. "I really am not that great…"

"Not that great! Mayalen, are you crazy! You are the best saxophone player around! I mean seriously, you are the best! You are so much better than that Scott Joplin guy or whatever!"

"Um…Kaguya…Scott Joplin is a pianist…"

"Oh yeah…but you can play piano better than him too!"

"You play piano too?" Ichigo asked with great interest. Back home, she had learned to play piano, violin, and clarinet.

"Yeah, I do."

"And she can play trumpet, baritone, clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax, baritone sax, oboe, guitar, I mean, she spent her whole life dedicated to music, and she's been playing instruments since she was five!"

"Kaguya!" Mayalen said, turning a deep crimson color.

"Mayalen, you are too modest. If I were you, I'd hold my head up proud that I could play all those instruments. But sadly, I can't."

"Oh but Kaguya, you are so good at sports, and can sing really well too!"

"Well geeze, once you put it that way…"

"My name is Meo!"

"Hiya! If you haven't noticed, our names are Kaguya and Mayalen! We've been the best friends since kindergarten!"

"Hey Kaguya…can I hear you sing?"

"Huh!"

"I want to see how good you are! The way Mayalen says, you're really good! I want to see too!"

"Well, if you really want too…and since it's almost Christmas…yeah, why not?"

Hark how the bells

Sweet silver bells

All seem to say

Throw cares away

Christmas is here

Bringing good cheer

To young and old

Meek and the bold

Ding dong ding dong

That is there song

With joyful ring

All caroling

One seems to hear

Words of good cheer

From everywhere

Filling the air

Oh how they pound

Raising the sound

O'er hill and dale

Telling their taile

Gaily they're ringing

While people singing

Songs of good cheer

Christmas is here

Merry Merry Merry Merry Christmas

Merry Merry Merry Merry Christmas

On how they send

On without end

There joyful tone

To every home

"Stop!" Ichigo said. Kaguya immediately stopped, Ichigo's head looking down at the ground. "Oh come on! I am not that bad!"

"That's not it…..that was…that was…" Ichigo slowly lifted her head, to reveal tears of joy, "Beautiful! I've never heard anyone sing Carol of the Bells so beautifully! You hit every note and you had the timing perfect and…wow!"

"Well when you can't think of a song to sing for a total stranger, sing the song you're using in the talent show."

"I have an idea! Both of you come with me!" Ichigo said. She grabbed both of them by the wrist and tugged them along toward the hotel. "I can't wait to see the look on Ryou's face when I bring these two girls in!"

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Ryou sighed. Since Masaya had left, they hadn't found anyone to take his spot in the concert. "It would be a miracle if someone would just jump up and say…"

The door slammed open.

"Ryou! I found replacements for Masaya!"

"Wait a minute…you mean the concert Masaya Aoyama was in?" Kaguya questioned

"Yeah!"

"Oh…….oh my….Oh my fricken….."

"Kaguya, please don't start swearing," Mayalen said. A huge smile crossed Kaguya's face. "No, don't you get it, Mayalen? This could be our big break! I mean, a school talent show is a school talent show, but a concert! With thousands upon thousands of people! This is huge!"

"Woah, wait a minute!" Ryou said. "Meo, who are these people, and why did you say they're replacements for Masaya?"

"Hey, if we are, can we get our money back? We bought tickets for that concert to see you guys and Mizakuse, but we think Masaya is a total pot-head!"

"Kaguya! I am sure Aoyama doesn't use pot…"

Ryou broke out into hysterical fits of laughter. "Masaya….a pot-head…" he said between laughs. "Well so far, they qualify. But the question is, are they good enough?"

"Are they good enough! Ryou, are you insane? Mayalen was the one we heard playing the saxophone!"

"Hmmm…well then, she's in…..but what about her?"

"Hey, I have a name you know!" Kaguya said. "Do I need to sing again? You know if I get picked and I have to keep singing, I'm gonna wear out my voice!"

"Just sing," Ryou demanded.

"Touchy, touchy! Don't worry blondie, I'll sing. What do you want me to sing?"

"Eh….sing….something from this country….that's not classical….something modern…."

"Well sit back and prepare to be amazed as I sing the second verse and the chorus of Broken by Seether featuring Amy Lee!"

The worst is over now

And we can breathe again

I wanna hold you high and steal my pain away

There's so much left to learn

And no one left to find

I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken

When I'm open

And I don't feel like

I am strong enough

'Cause I'm broken

When I'm lonesome

And I don't feel right

When you're gone away

Ryou was silent as he pondered what to do with Kaguya. He looked deep in thought and minutes passed before he finally gave an answer. "Well…I must say strawberry, you picked out some pretty good applicants…"

"I know, aren't they both amazing!"

"However….Masaya had only one block of singing worth 45 minutes…"

"Hey, is it possible we could extend it by about 5 minutes? Then Mayalen can have 25 and I'll have 25."

Ryou thought this over, but this didn't take him as long. "That sounds pretty fair. Welcome aboard, girls."

Mayalen and Kaguya high-fived each other. "We did it! Our first concert!"

"Now the question is, do you want to continue on the tour with us?"

"Huh?" Mayalen and Kaguya asked at the same time.

"You see, we have a whole world tour. The concert tomorrow night isn't the only concert. This could interfere with your studies…"

"We'll tell the school we're going on vacation!" Kaguya declared. Mayalen looked worried, which included her famous line following Kaguya's declaration, "Kaguya, don't be so reckless. We should really think this over. He means that we'd probably have to drop out of school."

"Well since you put it that way…..I say we still do it!"

"But Kaguya….I really think we should think this over…."

"Mayalen, it wouldn't be the same if you didn't come with. We've got the whole rest of our lives for studying, but this? This is our one big chance to make it big like we wanted to so badly when we were little. So are you going to come with me and make our dreams come true, or are you going to ignore it and keep on going with our dull lives."

"Wait…our?"

"Yeah, because if you're not going, then neither am I."

Mayalen thought long and hard, and this thought had always come up in her head a thousand times in her wildest dreams. But now her dreams were becoming a reality. "I want to go….and if I don't anyway…I'm dragging Kaguya away from her dreams…."

She grasped her best friend's hand. "Ok. I'll go. You can count on it!"

Wow! That took me forever! I hope I don't write one this long anytime soon. This was pretty much murder on my eyes! Anyway, read and review, over and out! -Nibzo