June 6, 2011
Forecast... Sunny
Monday
"So… freaking tired…" The heared something slam against a desk causing me to jump almost all the way outta my chair. I quickly looked up to see Yu with his head against his desk.
"Bad day?" Yu sighed heavily, so I stretched my arms out over my head. You could see the bags in Yu's eyes at that moment. It was obvious that one of the culprits was little sleep. Though, from the look on his face, there was something else bothering him. "Come on man, what happened?"
"Nanako got sick last night, she was running a fever." I nodded, I could understand the way he was feeling right now. When Em was thrown into the TV, I was flipping out. There was no way in hell I would let anything like that happen to her again. "We gave her the medicine but I'm still just a little worried about her."
"She'll be fine." I leaned forward and continued to stretch my arms more. "After all Nanako-chan is a fighter. She'd pull through almost anything I bet you!"
"Yeah, I guess you're right…" Yu shrugged and just as he was about to sit down, Yosuke came in. I knew the first thing he was gonna say, so I beat him to the punch by standing up and pointing at him.
"Kanji's back, we gotta talk to him after school!" Yosuke and Yu just stared at me for a moment. "What, can't I say it for once?" I shrugged at them with a huge smile on my face.
Time Change: Earlier Morning to After School
"I'm telling you, guys and girls would totally flip out if they knew you made this thing." Yosuke was holding a small stuffed bunny. I got closer to take a good look at the thing, it was almost like a chibi anime character, and it was pink… to be honest, it reminded me of the bunny in the beginning of Summer Wars. "It's crazy!"
"It's actually very good." Em said looking at it from under Yosuke's arm, she almost looked like a scared little girl. Still Kanji quickly snatched it out of Yosuke's hand, he was blushing at that moment.
"Drop it!" I quickly got into a standing position, instead of the weird ass hunched over position I was just in. "I don't really care about that crap anymore!"
"That's good to hear." Leave it to Yu to say anything and everything all calm like nothing had happened. I put my hands behind my head and crossed one leg behind the other and started tapping my foot on the ground.
"Yeah, would suck if you still hated yourself." This of course got me a quick slap on the wrist from Chie. Literally…. "Ow, what was that for!?"
"Don't be mean!" I raised my hands in defense in the 'okay okay, I get it.' stance.
"I owe you guys though." Kanji's voice instantly softened up the moment the words first came out of his mouth. Chie looked up at him from her usual spot by the school's air vents.
"You're being awfully polite to us." Now who's being the mean one?
"Well you guys are the seniors here." Em got her evil smirk and leaned out from behind Yosuke.
"Especially me!"
"Not in age little sis!"
"Shut up!"
"Look all," Now he was getting serious, or at least sounded like he was getting there. "I really wanna know is who that jackass was that threw me in the TV in the first place!"
"We don't know," Yukiko spoke up from her spot next to Chie. "But that's what we're trying to find out."
"You're looking for this bastard?" I grinned and nodded at the question. We certainly were, the only thing is… we still had no leads whatsoever. We were getting nowhere fast. "You guys mind if I tag along and help you with that? I owe this guy a major ass-kicking and then some."
We all just looked at him. We were surprised… yet, Yosuke was the first to speak up, literally just as Kanji finished his sentence. "For real!? That's great! Our team could use some brown!"
"I could go for that, less work for us!" Em laughed as she understood what I was doing, but I about got hit by Chie again. "Joking of course!"
Chie sighed at me, but quickly refocused back to the task at hand. "Sweet! What do you think Narukami?"
"Yeah of course."
"Well kickass!" Kanji brought his hands as fist up by his face as if he was getting ready to block a punch, of course he just a little excited. "And if push comes to shove, I'm willing to lie my life down for you guys!"
"Let's hope that will never be necessary!" I turned to walk away, but go figure, I tripped over my own feet. "SHIT!"
"Well, with how clumsy you are Bro, he might need to with just you!" Everyone started laughing, and after a moment, so did I. It was funny, just that kinda hurt.
"What are you guys doing up here?" All of us froze, well that can't be good for us… I turned around and looked to see mister Bond, oh, god… now I'm doing it! Yes James was just standing there staring at us. I'd have no idea why he was, all I know is, he heard something… "Bloody hell, Kreed, why are you on the ground?"
"I… fell…" It was try but it was hard to believe right there… great, now we're dead. James just shook his head at me. Well, at least he believed me. Then he started to snicker a bit at me. "Hey, its not the best footing up here!"
"Its flat lad!" Everybody started laughing again, well as long as James didn't know we were going after the killer, of course though, the one we should have been worrying about was Kanji. Though, he seemed like he was gonna be pretty good to go again, so… meh.
Time Change: After school to Afternoon
Location Change: Yasogami High to Junes
"So I already have a guitar and Yosuke has a bass, we already have the amps for the two, but…" Em stood there for a moment, then her face just lit up like a Christmas tree! "I want it!"
She was looking at a very impressive… and very expensive guitar. I looked at the price tag for a moment and instantly… I was on my ass. "Not for that much!" The guitar itself would set us back a year! Or was it with the amp? Meh, I couldn't tell. "Look, we just need mics, and a drum set, which that alone could set us back a while…"
I scratched at the back of my head for a moment. "I know, but I'm like a kid in a candy store right now!"
"Wow," I turned to see Chie looking at a poster of an American girl with long brown hair and a violin in her hand. I knew the artist well, I had a few songs from her. I didn't realize they made posters for her. I slowly walked up behind her, as I stepped up besides her, I slipped my hand into hers. "She's…"
"Anything you can say about her I can counter it using you." I smiled looking at the poster, I didn't need to look at Chie to know that she was blushing now. I turned my head now to look at her, and I was right she was blushing, so I did something to make her blush even more… I kissed her on the tip of her nose.
"Sweet!" And Yosuke ruined the moment, go figure! I leaned back to see Yosuke looking at some of the biggest amps I have ever seen… and that's saying something, I've seen Scott Pilgrim in theaters. "These things are huge!"
"And more than we need, or afford!" I sighed heavily, we did need just a few more things, but if we got some of the stuff, we'd be set back for sometime… that would not be good, aka, no way to pay the house, no wat to get food, no entertainment money. "This is getting harder to do now…"
I looked around the small section that we were in currently… there were a few small amps, that would work for a garage band, a keyboard that was about a thousand, that would work. Then the mics, which were all kinda pricy, yikes… "Sorry, so we just need drums, keyboard maybe, two mics and speakers."
"Yep, still a crap ton of money…" I rubbed the back of my head, I should have gotten a job when I moved her. Man… this is was gonna suck more than anything..
"I can help with that." I froze, great, now it seemed like he was following us. We all looked near the counter to see James standing there with his wallet in his hand. This was going to be-
"Why should we expect your help!?" Holy crap, I had almost forgotten what the English language sounded like, but still, this wasn't good, Em was in pissed mode! "After all, my brother doesn't like you!"
"Em, calm down, look." I tried to reason with her, but you know how she can be… Welp, we're dead…
"You are egotistical, over-"
"Calm down now, look I just want to help."
"Crap… this is not gonna end well here." I started to rub my forehead. "Em! Calm down you just need to listen to me right now!"
The fight stopped at that exact moment. "Me and James are cool now, got it! So calm down and let him pay if he wants, but we will pay part of our own."
God I was never gonna hear the end of it.
Time Change: Afternoon to Evening
Location Change: Junes to Kreed's House
Garage
"I peeled off my face, I tore up my room." We were able to get a drummer the moment we walked through the door, which go figure… was Will. So we currently only had a guitarist, Em, a bass player, Yosuke, a drummer, Will, and a vocalist, me. It was gonna be a bitch to find someone to be the pianist, anyway, we all named songs to practice, and put them in a hat, they went as such. Em: Hell Yeah by Zebrahead, Yosuke: a Risette song (blah!), Will: Bullet by Hollywood Undead, me: Summertime by Sex Bob-omb from Scott Pilgrim vs the World. So fortune was on my side (even if my and Naoto got off on a bad foot…). "I read my own rights and I filled them with glue. I turned the commercial into a creepshow."
"I peeped at the gods with their bodies all day-glo." It took a few hours for us to get the song down, and now Chie and Yukiko, who was over here watching an anime, go figure, but I was surprised that Yukiko was watching it. They were watching us do our brand new thing, they were our first audience! I wouldn't have wanted anyone else there at that moment. "It's summertime. And it's that time, To strut and strum. I'm gonna strut strut strut."
I'm gonna. I'm combing my braids, I'm sneezing my brain." We were all doing our own little thing, I was jumping slightly to the music, Em was kinda just being Em, so rocking the fuck out! Yosuke was just bobbing his head slightly and Will was having a blast banging his head. "Drinking shampoo and I'm tasting my grave. I'm wearing myself inside out. And I'm wearing my welcome inside out. It's summertime. And it's that time, To strut my stuff… Woo."
"People getting touchy when I touch my thighs, And take a vacation under friendly skies." I was having the best time of my life, all of us were being ourselves up here. There were no worries in our lives right now, not a single thing could or would go wrong. "With my peacock hard I wanna grunt and groan. Cut and paste all I've ever known! It's summertime, And it's that time, To strut and strum. I'm gonna strut my stuff, Oh oh oh oh oh. With my peacock hands and my tangerine skulls, And my grizzly bear face and my voice from Target. Summertime! Gonna strut my stuff. I'm gonna strut strut. Going backwards in time, With my questionable eyes, And I'm drinking my grave, And I stood on my face."
"That was really good!" Yukiko clapped and Chie was just smiling at me, all four of us just kinda cheered a bit. This was gonna be so freaking sweet! Or at least I thought that until I went to sleep…
CLIFF HANGER! Here is the new update! Finally, I am so sorry that this took so long, work, my new friends here, and my classes have been keeping me busy. So I sincerely apologize for making you guys wait for this! I am in college though, so more spread out updates will help with the quality of each chapter, still I will try to update as soon as possible, also we have finally hit chapter 50! Three cheers for us, hell yeah! Anyway until next time, I hope you enjoyed and I hope to see you on the comments page!
Song(s):
Summertime by Sex Bob-omb
Mentioned songs:
Hell Yeah by Zebrahead
Bullet by Hollywood Undead