Kyon's little sister stared at Yuki, tilting her head. "Kyon." She whispered. "Kyon."
"What?" He walked over.
"Who is she?"
"Her name is Nagato."
"What's her first name?"
"Why do you want to know that?"
"Cause she's pretty." She giggled. Yuki was sitting on the opposite side of the room on a couch and couldn't hear what they were talking about. She had her hands positioned carefully on her knees and was looking forward at Kyon and his sister as though she might know what they were talking about.
"Yuki. Her name is Yuki."
She giggled. "Are you in looove?"
He messed up her hair. "Shhh. Now help me find it."
"Oh, that's boring. Ohh! How about this!" She pointed to the Guitar Hero box that was underneath the T.V. "Let's play this!" She jumped up and down on the floor while sitting.
"Don't do that, you'll hurt yourself." He looked at it. "And how do you know that Nagato would even want to play that?"
"Yuki." She said, bringing her face forward.
"What is the game?" Yuki was standing behind them. They both jumped. "That she talking about?"
"Guitar Hero!" She stood up, nearly jumping up. "It's awesome! We should play! I beat Kyon all the time."
"Does not! She cheats, that's all." He looked away.
"That's not cheating; it's the rules of the game." She stuck her tongue out.
She looked at the box. "Guitar Hero. Does it require a guitar?"
"Yeah." He walked into his room and then came out with two guitars, which were covered in the stickers provided by the game, and some not provided.
She looked at them. "I would like to play."
Yuki held one guitar and Kyon's sister the other. "Should we start on easy?"
Yuki looked at the guitar. "No. Let's just start on the last level." She turned to her. "If that's the level you are comfortable with."
Kyon looked over to her. "Well…yeah. Yeah, of course that's the level I'm use to."
"May I look at the rule book?" Yuki put her hand out.
"Sure!" Kyon's sister gave it to her.
Finally, the game began. There were two sides to the screen and Yuki had the left one. Kyon had the right.
Yuki looked down to her guitar. "It is very similar to the guitar I played when we screened our film."
Kyon turned to her. Oh no. He had nearly forgotten. She had played the guitar for the rock club. She was really good. She was really good. But, wait. This was different. This was keys and a game.
The music started. He looked to the screen.
"Hmm." She glanced up to the screen. As soon as the notes began to come up she hit them, perfectly.
Kyon had some trouble, but he hit most of them.
Then, Yuki realized that she had the power to hit a few notes and make it so that Kyon would have to hit his notes twice as hard to make them count. She shook her guitar upwards and hit the keys and then went back to playing.
"What was that?" He tried playing. "What?"
"You have to press your notes harder to make them count."
"What!?" Of course, he had lost a lot of notes trying to talk and play at the same time. He pressed harder and played. "This sucks!"
"Yes." She kept playing and got to 'Star Power' mode. Shaking her guitar upwards and pressing her keys, her side turned blue and her notes glowed.
"Dammit!" He kept having to hit his keys harder.
Finally it wore off and he could play normally, again. Her Star Power had worn off as well.
A few moments later she shook her guitar up again and pressed a few notes. He looked over then to his screen. It was then that he noticed that he couldn't use one of his notes. "What…what is going on. The guitar is broken!"
"It is not broken. I have made it so that you can not use that for the moment."
"Dammit! Why?"
She looked to him and blinked, still playing. "Competition." She looked back. It was the chorus, and she had it memorized.
"Gah!" He tried to keep playing, hitting that string over and over until it finally worked again.
Finally the song ended. He fell back on the carpet and closed his eyes. "That…was awful."
She glanced down to her guitar. "I thought it was enjoyable."
"Well, of course you did. I didn't even know you could do those things!"
"It is all in the manual."
Kyon's sister jumped up and down. "That was fun! Can I play?"
"No, you don't want to play. Seriously." He didn't want her to cry or something like that.
"I wanna!"
"Fine…but don't come to me when you're annoyed that you didn't win."
She smiled and grabbed his guitar.
"Yeah! Get ready for this, Yuki. My brother may be a push over, but I'm not." She looked to him.
"Sis!" He looked wide-eyed. "Don't say that! She's really gonna beat you, now."
Yuki blinked twice at her. They both looked at the screen. The song started and the notes started coming toward them.
Both hit them perfectly and it wasn't long before both of them shook their guitars and hit the notes to bring on an attack. Yuki looked over at her. They both had to hit their keys twice as hard. Yuki looked down at her guitar and so did Kyon's sister. They were both visibly annoyed though they tried not to show it.
Kyon smiled. Yuki was annoyed.
Finally it wore off and both of them were back to normal. They played like this for a while, it seemed to try to get to Star Power mode to make up for what they had just been through. Then, Kyon's sister pulled her guitar up and hit a few notes just as a solo was coming up. Yuki looked at her screen as twice the amount of notes came at her.
Her eyes widened. "Oh my." She stood still for a moment. But, luckily she was able to hit every note.
Kyon's sister got annoyed at this fact. "That's not suppose to happen!"
Yuki pulled her guitar up and pressed a note making Kyon's sisters' screen shake so that she could barely read her notes. Her mouth dropped open. "No fair!" She squinted her eyes and moved forward a bit, trying to play.
Yuki activated her Star Power and got extra points. "Aaa!" Kyon's sister stomped.
Kyon was just embarrassed that he was so terrible after seeing his sister.
Finally the attack and Star Power wore off and they played for a few moments before both of them had the chance to put an attack on each other. They both knew it, too. At the same time they pulled their guitar up and activated the 'Lefty Flip' making both of them have to turn their guitar's over and play them with their left hands. They both let out an annoyed sound and did it, trying to play.
This wasn't something Yuki was good at, and she missed notes just as Kyon's sister did.
Kyon's sister was happy about this.
The song was about to end and the attack finally wore off, letting them switch the guitar back and play normal for a few moments, getting their points up just a bit before it was over.
Kyon's sister let out a breath and Yuki stood still, then looked to the other two.
The screen said that Kyon's sister had won. She blinked. Kyon's sister jumped up and down, yelling, "Yaaay! I knew I could do it!" Then she ran to Yuki and hugged her, tightly.
Yuki's eyes widened. Then, she slowly wrapped her arms around the girl. "I knew you could do it, too. You were very good."
"Thank you, Yuki!" She smiled. "You're very nice."
"Alright." Kyon smiled. "Yuki and I are gonna go now. Do you have enough stuff to do and everything?"
She smiled. "Uh-huh!"
"Kay."
She skipped out of the room, very happy with herself.
Kyon had his hands in his pockets, and was watching Yuki as she watched his sister leave the room. "It made no sense. The only time you missed notes was at the very end. She missed notes throughout. How could she have won?" He walked up to her. "Did you talk to the game, Yuki? Did you tell it to have her win?" He looked very interested. "Can you do that?"
She looked away. "I do not know what you're talking about." She glanced back to him for a moment. "She won."
