Chapter3: The new rival?!
Blast members seem to have a good start up in Tokyo; having their daily practices and high paying part-time jobs. The only thing that is missing is the live performance which will tell their performance.
To what happened to the dinning table, when Ren went home from his part-time job, Nana made a nice piece of table and bench set (Just like the one in the manga). Then Ren asked where did she got all the materials with her bony arms. Nana answered: "Young men from the construction site helped me out." Guess how did Ren react? He said: "You already me so why do you have to ask other men? Are you not satisfied with me?"
Yasu is always busy; cramming & stressing in his work, band practice & leader duties and everyday chores. He has no spare time to play Mah Jong with the rest of the members; so lonely!
Nobu, on the other hand, is always free. To make good use of his time, he composes new songs. It's because he also wants to write songs too; Ren always writes the songs for Blast.
April 22…
"LIVE?!?!" yelled Nana, Ren and Nobu. Their voices vibrated inside the studio.
The person who announced is Yasu, "We've got a slot in Lifehouse. The day is May 5." Yasu smoked his Black Stones cigar then said, "Better practice hard if we really want to be no. 1"
Every strum of Nobu' guitar; every strum of Ren's bass guitar; every hit of Yasu's drum; and every letter of Nana's singing vibrated in the studio in full spirited. It's their first live in Tokyo!
May 5…
Finally, the day they longed for; Black Stone's first Tokyo Live! In the backstage, the members of the Blast are preparing their instruments. Every instrument is in good condition. Nobu's guitar seems to be more shiny than usual; maybe he wiped his guitar last night.
In 7 minutes, they will be performing (hey, why 7 again?) under the colorful lights. It's not their first live in their life so you will notice that they are not panicking nor nervous.
Everything is going well; well, not too well… why? After the live performance of Kuroi Blood, the band before Blast's turn, tried to pick a fight on Blast!
The first to come in the backstage is Ban (26 years old) the drummer. He's the scariest man I ever saw! The band name Kuroi Blood must be from him; his face has a large scar which has a clotted blood-like marking. The second is Takeshi (26 years old) the bassist; he's rather thin. The third band member, which is really unbelievable, is our adorable Okazaki Shinichi (15 years old)! He's playing the guitar. As usual, he's really young for the band and this time, he's really extra small since his band members are all tall.
The first to spoke is the bassist, Takeshi (26 years old). "Well what do we have here, a newbie band! Poor things, all of you will be trash after you get on stage! We will hear boos from the audiences!" he walked around Nobu, looking down from his height to the short Nobuo.
"Don't mind them" Yasu quickly grabbed Nobu the walked to the stage.
Nobu is greatly pissed. He mumbled "I will show them!"
"You better chicken out kid-os. This place is no place for darn bands like yours!" The sexy Yumi (23 years old) spoke with great pride.
Nana couldn't take it anymore; she grabbed Yumi's tops then told her "Don't judge a book by its cover, darn woman!" She released Yumi then went off to the stage. Ren followed her.
"That's cool, Nana." as he caught up Nana.
"Ren, let's show then who's the best band!"
Ladies and Gentlemen, Black Stones is now starting their Live performance!
First one to enter is Nobu then followed by Yasu. Everyone awed from the two punk dressed musicians. Just after Nobu and Yasu positioned, Ren entered with Nana beside him; Ren's right hand on Nana's right shoulder, he accompanied her to her microphone then when to his position.
Nobu is wearing a plain gray t-shirt but rather not plain since it has a rugged feature plus it has a red scorpion design on his lower right side of his shirt. In his waist and left arm, he loosely knotted each with a red bandana; the bandana has black blood-like design in its edges. His pants are plain black and it has his favorite style, a long cloth connecting his legs. To look a bit taller (hehe!), he wears his bluish-black high hills shoes.
You won't find Yasu's outfit any special but he's extra special for Blast fans! He wore his usual white polo and yellow neck tie which are over coated by a nice neat black suite. To make it un-business-like, his collar of his polo and his neck tie are loose from his neck. In addition to his supposed-to-be formal attire, he wears his metal wrist watch; maybe to check the time so he won't be late for his work.
Punk prince Ren still wears his usual outfit; his jet black leather jacket, his leather jet black pants and his black boots. Today, he puts on his plain rugged-edged white shirt under his jacket. Both of his wrists are covered with spiked wrist bands; his left wrist has an extra thinner spiked wrist band dangling beside the thicker one. To add in his Ren look, in any way he won't be able to add in his outfit since it won't come off, he wears his Sid's padlock.
Nana wears really scary. She's wearing a plain white rugged-edge t-shirt with a spaghetti-strapped black shirt on top; the bottom edge of the spaghetti strapped shirt is rugged and shows more of the right part of the white shirt under it. Her Ren flower tattoo exposed since the sleeves of her shirt is very short plus the edge is rugged torn. Her waist is covered in thick spiked belt. Below the belt is her favorite blue, green and black checkered miniskirt. Her legs are covered with black socks; but her left leg's sock has a ripped part in below her knee and her right leg as a ripped part above her ankle. Her high hilled shoes have black ribbons tied around her ankles. Here's the scary part: she wears a lot of chains! One of her right earring is connected to her spiked belt and one chain from her left ear is connected to her shirt with a safety pin. It's scary to move around with kind of clothing!
Started with Yasu's signal, Nobu played his piece; followed by Yasu and Ren. Nana took a ribbon from her pocket and wrapped around her microphone, "Konbanwa, Blast des!" (Translated as: good evening, this is Blast!)
When I was darkness at that time fueteru kuchibiru
Heya no katasumi de I cry
Mogakeba mogaku hodo tsukisasaru kono kizu
Yaburareta yakusoku hurt me
The audience aroused from their positions to see and hear more from Blast. Every single people in Lifehouse cheered loudly that made Nana sings her song in the fullest power.
Nobody can save me
Kamisama hitotsu dake
Tomete saku you na my love
I need your love
I'm a broken rose
Maichiru kanashimi your song
Ibasho nai kodoku na my life
I need your love
I'm a broken rose.
Oh baby, help me from frozen pain
With your smile, your eyes, and sing me, just for me
-instrumental-
Nana moved around the tiny space; waiting for her last chorus.
I wanna need your love...
I'm a broken rose
I wanna need your love...
I need your love
I'm a broken rose
Maichiru kanashimi your song
Ibasho nai kodoku na my life
I need your love
I'm a broken rose.
Oh baby, help me from frozen pain
With your smile, your eyes, and sing me, just for me
I wanna need your love…
I was a broken rose
I wanna need your love…
"Thank You!" yelled Nana.
It seems that Kuroi Blood lost; they sunk back and never came back to face Black Stones, the new star of Lifehouse; except for Shin, he shake hands with all the members of Blast. After all, Kuroi Blood didn't become Blast's rival. They're destined to beat Reira which now the top singer in Japan; not to beat a tiny band that doesn't match them.
Midori-chan: Waaa! Why Shin-chan is on the bad band?!?! I'm such a bad Daimaou (Demon King)!!! I hope the story is on track. I don't know any places in Tokyo so assume fictional places. I'm really sorry for Hachi fans that I didn't include her in this fanfic. She couldn't butt in the story since Ren's here. I will try to make her in the fanfic in the future; maybe a NobuxHachi!