A/N: Hehehe... I'm sorry. I hope you can forgive me for taking so long. Enjoy?
I do not own Vocaloid or the song 'Angel with a Shotgun'.
I walked around the arts and crafts shop looking for more paints. Every once in a while I would put my silver hair behind my ear to get it out of my face. I love painting and had a few drawings around my room. The guys think that it's really good but I think it's just average. When I get older, I either want to be a famous artist or a famous musician or singer, more preferably the latter two. Music comes first to me, besides school and the guys that is. I fell in love with music when I was about 4. I got home one day and didn't have homework. My parents were out again because they were very busy and weren't home a lot like now. I decided to watch TV until they came back. When I turned it on, it was on a different channel than normal. It was a music channel. When I heardthe person sing I couldn't help but feel comfortable. I don't remember who exactly the person was but I remember that it was a girl with long blonde hair. Her voice was lovely and smooth and the song she sang sounded like it came from the bottom of her heart. I only remember a portion of her song.
Waratteitai yo hitori wa iya da yo [I want to smile, I don't want to be alone.]
Kotae ga kikitai kowakute kikenai [I want to hear your answer, I'll listen without fear.]
They were the only lines I remember clearly. I wish I could hear that song again.
I walked to the next aisle and found some good paints. I paid for them and walked out holding it in a bag. I caught sight of red hair and on either side blonde and black hair. They look like those girls. I didn't really have a problem with them being part of the band as long as they didn't suck at music. That would bring us down so much. Well, I lost them now. Oh well. It's not like that'll be the last time I see them.
I looked at the clock on a pillar near me. It's now 7:00. Guess I'll just stroll around until it was time to go. I might go into the grocery store and get me some snacks for the week. Oh! I have a better idea! I'll just go to the arcade to waste some time. Yeah!
Well, see ya!
"Now, what should I get for mom and Ryuto?" I pondered as I walked through the grocery store. I'm Gumi by the way. My mom's name is Sonika and Ryuto is my younger brother in sixth grade. They both have green hair like me. Who's our dad you ask? Well, he's always working overseas in America but we don't mind. We keep each other company.
I passed the carrots and I felt my eyes get big. "Only # dollars?! I have to get some!" I grabbed a handful and put them in one of the plastic bags provided. As I reached for more, another hand tried to grab some and bumped into mine. "I'm so sorry! That was inconsiderate of me. Please take some." I bowed to the person. "Wow. You're seriously polite." Huh? That voice sounds familiar. I straightened up from my bow and came face to face with the green haired Prince. "Oh. It's you." No offense but I wasn't really happy to see him. I remembered what Rui asked us. 'Please just give them a chance. They say you should never judge a book by its cover, right? So, please?' I sighed. Where does she get that kind nature from because it seemed to have passed over Rin.
"Watcha doin' here? What's with the carrots?" He asks a lot of questions, doesn't he? I made sure my breathing was even before I answered. "It's for my family. Do you have a problem with it?" I couldn't help but glare at him. I've been told that I have a bit of an obsessive love over carrots but they don't know what they're talking about. Never the less, Gumo (it's easy to remember his name since it's so close to mine) just looked at me. "Not really. I love carrots, too." I felt my eyes widen. "Really?" I asked, genuinely surprised. I thought no one liked carrots nowadays. Huh. Is he smiling? "Why are you sming?"
He grabbed the bag of carrots from my hand, put in a few more, tied it up, and gave it to me. I took it much to both of our surprises. "Thank you, I guess?" Now I'm getting suspicious. Why is he acting so nice? And why to me? Psh, and people think girls are confusing.
I shook my head and started walking further down the aisle. He walked next to me. "Since I have nothing better to do, can I walk with you?" I stopped and so did he. If he comes I won't look alone. If he comes he might be annoying me. But if I tell him 'no' I would sound like a cold, heartless person. That's not good. "Sure, come along. Just don't be annoying, please." He started smiling and grabbed the basket from me. "What are you doing?!" I don't even know what's going on anymore. I reached for my basket but unfortunately, he was taller than me and I didn't even get close. He started laughing. "Hehe. You're pretty cute when you're mad. Pretty short too." Ok, that's it. I stopped tryig to grab back my basket and started walking ahead. "Fine. You're carrying my basket from now on while I shop though, got it?" I tried to keep my voice calm voice but I was hard since he was being so uncooperative, not that I'm complaining about him holding my basket but still. He just nodded and smiled.
I turned around and went through the aisles, looking for things that mom and Ryuto needed. After about half an hour I was finally finished and the basket was filled to the brim. If it was heavy, Gumo didn't let on. He continue to carry the basket and follow me around the store. We didn't talk much.
After I paid for everything, Gumo offered to carry both of my bags. I knew that it was no use arguing with him but hey! I don't have to carry my bags now.
As we were walking back to the lobby I saw a clock as we passed a large open area. It was 7. "Fifteen more minutes until I have to go back" I heard Gumo say.
I turned around in surprise. "Really? Me, too. Where do you have to meet?" He looked down at me since I was shorter than him. "The benches in front of the lobby. You?"
"Same."
Huh. We both stood there for a while. Then, Gumo spoke up. "Do you just want to go there and wait fort he rest of them?" I nodded. "Sure. Unless you need to go somewhere first." He shook his head. "Nah. Took care of it already."
So we walked together back to the lobby, only this time, we talked a bit to each other. Not a whole lot but a little. It was actually pretty nice.
Why would I do that? Ugh, I'm such an IDIOT!
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Oh hello there. Don't mind me, just banging my head against the wall inside of the grocery store while getting strange looks from passerby people. Hmm? Why, you ask? Well because I was laughing with one of them. Ugh, I'm such an idiot. How could I let my guard down around those perverts? /sigh/ Might as well get some snacks like I said earlier except earlier it was just an excuse to ge away from that pervert. GRROOOWWWLLLLL
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Woops. Sorry, that was my stomach.
After walking past a few aisles, I reached heaven. No, I'm not joking. I mean, look!
Those beautiful sparkling potato chip bags, those whistle clean shining soda cans, and most importantly, look at those low prices! My eyes sparkled at the beautiful delectables in front of me, I was probably drooling as well but I didn't care. I was in bliss!
Grabbing a basket from a rack, I skipped through the aisles, picking from the variety laid before me, humming the entire time. It wasn't a necessarily popular song or an old-time song, it was a song that ma used to sing to me as a kid. You know, I might tell you about it later.
I grabbed a bottle of Ramune (they're delicious. You should really try some!) I realized that I reached the end of the aisle. Since I still have another two aisles to go through, it didn't seem like too much for now but once I was done going through all the aisles I finally decided to look at a clock.
I swear my eyes almost popped out of my head. It was already 7:13! I only had 2 minutes to buy all of my delectables and run back to the lobby to our meeting point. I didn't even have time to visit the bakery yet!
I rushed to the self checkout and at lightning speed scanned everything and paid for them in about a minute and a half. How can I do that you ask? Well, let's just say that this isn't the first time I've been running late, and when it comes to being late meeting with the girls... let's just say that Haku can be pretty serious at times.
I quickly paid for my food and ran out of the store, hoping that I would get there on time. I continued to run I and soon saw all the girls together but I also saw the guys there as well. Da fuq? As I slowed to a jog as I got closer I got sidetracked by a poster and ran into someone.
"Ouch!" I fell on the ground and dropped my shopping bag. Thankfully, it didn't sound like anything was broken or any bags popped but I was still worried. They were all the food I had since I didn't have time to go and get bread from the bakery.
"Oh! I'm so sorry! I wasn't looking where I was going." I quickly bowed to whoever I bumped into.
"Hehehe." Huh? I looked up and saw one of the Princes trying not burst out laughing. It was the one that I took food from. Ted, I think.
He managed to stop (almost)laughing and stood up, brushing dirt off of his shirt and pants. After a moment I realized that he held out a hand to help me up. I was about to slap it away when Rui's words rang through my head. 'Please give the Princes a chance. Who knows? Maybe they're not as bad as they seem at school. Like they say-never judge a book by it's cover.'
That girl was honestly too good to be. After a while we all agread to try and give them a chance. Rin was the most stubborn and the last to agree.
I took his hand after a moment and he helped pull me to my feet. I have to say, I was sort of surprised that he could because he looked to skinny and weak (no offense). He also picked up my bag and handed it to me as I brushed off the dirt from my uniform since we still had them on. I took it from him and we walked the few feet left until we got to the benches where the rest of our groups were. When I was close enough, I saw Haku starting to get impatient and cross her arms. Not a good sign. "Sorry." I quickly told Ted as I ran up to Haku. "I'm really sorry if I was late Haku. Can you forgive me?"
When I straightened up I saw Haku, arms crossed, looking at me. "Where have you been? You know I hate it when you guys are late for anything. I'm trying to help you guys prepare for the future so some of you slackers won't get fired. One day you will thank me for this. As for you Teto, you better be grateful that you were only ten seconds late or the consequences would have been dire." With that she walked off towards the elevator, since we couldn't find parking outside, while the rest of us watched her. "Is she always like this?" We turned to look at the oldest Prince, didn't want to remember his name, and Neru replied, while on her phone, "Nah, only when she's mad at us for something. She's actually pretty nice."
The only thing problem with how she said that was the fact that her eyes never left her phone screen and she was typing faster than normal people can type. I guess that's what happened when you type almost everyday.
Oh yeah, all of us have this large obsession over something. Neru's is her phone, mine is bread, and Gumi's is carrots. I'll leave you to figure out the rest of the girl's obsessions.
"O-Oh, thanks. Neru was it?"
"Yeah, that's my name."
The elevator finally came to our floor and we all heard Haku yell "You coming girls? I know you guys have curfews to keep. Might wanna hurry."
As she walked into the elevator, all of the girls ran up to get in before it closed. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Rui bow good bye to them. Polite girl, such a nice to be around.
After everyone got to the car Haku and Gumi split up to drop us off at our houses. I rode with Gumi, Neru, and Miki. Rin, Rui, and Miku rode with Haku.
After Gumi dropped off Miki, I got dropped off at my house.
"Bye!" I waved at Neru and Gumi as they drove off. Once I couldn't see them anymore I turned around and used my key to unlock the door.
I don't live in a huge house, but it wasn't too small either. Our house had two floors: four bedrooms, kitchen, dining room, living room, laundry room, three bathrooms, and a patio out back. Downstairs was where the kitchen, one bathroom, laundry, living, and dining room were. Upstairs was where the other two bathrooms where, my sister's, my parent's, and my room was. When you walk in you first see the stairs on the right hand side of the wall was leading upstairs and two doors next to the bottom of it leading to the dining room or the kitchen and laundry rooms where. At the end of the hall was the bathroom and a door leading to the patio.
"I'm back." I said as I took off my shoes. Once I stepped into my indoor slippers, I was immedietaly attacked by a large figure with dark red hair.
"Oh my dear Teto! Where have you been all this time? You're dear sister was so worried about you!" I had to pry off my 'dear sister' before she squeezed me to death.
"Geez, sis. I don't know what's your problem. I'm fine, ok? I'm gonna go do some homework before I go to bed." I started walking up the stairs. "Did you eat dinner already?" I heard her yell. "Yeah, I ate with the girls at the mall." I yelled back as I got to my room. My room is a pretty normal size. I had a bed in one corner, across from the foot of it was my closet, and in another corner was a desk with a chair, lamp, and various things needed for studying or homework. There was one of those brown boards where you can pin stuff on next to my desk. It had a lot of pictures of the girls during various activities. My sheets were a plain red color with many pillows, lovely, soft, pillows. They're always so comfortable to lay on. I put away my bags and got out the little devil.
Sigh, homework. The enemy of all kids everywhere. And today's homework was the worse: math.
I sat down in my desk chair and got to work right away. This is going to be a while.
"Miki, wake up! You have to go to school!" I felt someone shaking me.
"Five more minutes." I mumbled, pulling my sheets over my head. Mornings, you gotta love 'em.
"I thought you had something planned after school today. Something about the band you guys finally got to have." Something about the band? What was going on today?
"Miki?"
I jumped out of bed. "Today's the day we start practicing and see how good our skills are!" I looked at my clock and saw that I had 25 minutes to get ready and get to school before the first bell rings. Our school had an odd schedule. The first bell rings at 7:45 to let kids in and time to go to their lockers. At 8 we had to be at class or we would be counted as late. Classes lasted for 85 minutes, four classes a day. Awesome, huh? Technically, we have two days to do homework, but it's always a good idea to do it the day it's assigned. At least, that's what Haku and Gumo tell us. They're the smartest in our group not to mention the most mature, unless you get them really hyper. I've only seen it once, pretty funny but not something you want happening everyday.
So back to the odd schedule, first period ends at 9:25 and we get a 5-minute passing time to our next class which is from 9:30 to 10:55. From 11 to 11:30 was lunch and from 11:30 to 12:30 was free period. Third period was from 12:35 to 200, fourth period was from 2:05 to 3:30, and then we were let free to our lockers to get home. Some kids have to stay for club activities but overall, it was a weird schedule with that awesome upside of having only four classes a day.
"Are you leaving now, Miki?" I heard my mom ask, leaning out of the doorway leading to the kitchen. "Yeah, don't want to be late." I told her as I was tying my shoes on. "Ok, be careful." She said heading back into the kitchen. "I will." Turning the door knob and grabbing my bag I left to head for the train to come.
I live a while a way so I usually meet up with Rin and Rui on the train to school. Yep, we had our own stop on some trains. Some.
"Good morning, Miki!" I turned and saw Rui and Rin get on the train and waved. "Morning you two. Ready for today?" Rui nodded while Rin started jumping up and down. "I can't wait! Even if those Princes are there, I'll show them. I'll show them what it really means to love music." Rui got a hold of her shoulder and force her to stop jumping. "Ok sis, calm down. We have to wait for school school to end then we start evaluating how good everyone is at music." I sweat dropped as I watched Rui hold down Rin as the latter tried to continue jumping from all of her excitement.
We got to school and saw the rest of the girls. After a while the bell rang and we all decided to meet at the main doors after school so we can all walk to the principal's office together.
I was so excited about it, the day seemed to drag on forever before the last bell rang. Once it did, I ran out of the room and packed up my bag. When I finished I walked to the main doors and saw Rui, Rin, and Haku already there.
It didn't take long for the rest of the girls to get here and soon we were on out way to Mr. Sakane's office.
Rui knocked on the door and it flew open to reveal the man himself. "Great! You're here. The princes should be here soon so you can get ready if you need to." We nodded and went into the practice room a.k.a. the ex-storage room. I grabbed the electric guitar I brought and started tuning it. Looking around I saw Miku, Rin, and Rui doing what looks like vocal exorcises Haku practicing her flute and occasionally joining Gumi and Teto practicing dancing, and Neru practicing her drums. Suddenly, a thought occurred to me. "What song are we gonna do?" I asked. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at me. "Want to take a vote or something?" Haku asked. We nodded and started throwing out suggestions. None of them seemed good though. Then, I heard Gumi say "What about 'Angel With a Shotgun'?" I thought about it. It was a pretty nice song. "I'm fine with that." I told them. Everyone else agreed. "So 'Angel With a Shotgun' it is then." I heard Miku say. We needed someone to play piano so Rui and Rin went to get Piko to practice with us. I guess e agreed since he came in a minute later with Rin and Rui. We set out to practice our parts. Since there is no flute in the song, Haku was practicing the choreography with Gumi and Teto.
Oh! I never did tell you why we're doing this 'evaluation' thingy. Both the girls and the Princes didn't want to be in a band tougher unless they knew how good the other was. We decided that the girls would practice and go first today and the Princes would go tomorrow. Since both groups need someone from the other group for instruments we decided to play a song together after this is done to see how well we can play with each other. We're still trying to figure out which sing to play with eah over but that isn't until Thursday.
"We finished remembering the choreography over here. How are you guys doing?" Teto asked. Miku was the first to reply. "We've just about memorized the lyrics. How are you guys doing with the instruments?" Neru gave a thumbs up, I smiled, and Piko nodded. I took a look at the clock. It's 4, an hour and a half since we came here, and an hour of that was spent practicing this song.
"Want to practice all together now?" Haku suggested and we all said yes.
We practiced another half hour together then Rin and Rui went out to tell Principal Sakane that we're ready.
When they came back the principal and the rest of the Princes were trailing behind them. Suddenly, I started feeling nervous. I'm not used to playing in from if people. As if sensing my discomfort, Rui put a hand on my shoulder from behind. "Don't worry," she said, "Everything's going to be all right. We did great during practice a minute ago!" I smiled at her optimism.
The Princes and the principal it comfortable on some of the chairs and looked at us expectantly. "You guys better be good or else we won't agree to play with you." I heard Dell say. Harsh much? "Same goes for you guys tomorrow." Haku said with as much vigor. The rest of us sweat dropped.
Principal Sakane clapped his hands as if to ward off the tense atmosphere developing between the two oldest members of the groups. "What song did you guys choose to play?" Rin, practically bouncing in place, said "Angel With a Shotgun by The Cab." We got back into position and Neru started playing a beat on her drums softly. Rui started first.
Rui: (I'm an angel with a shotgun, shotgun, shotgun,
An angel with a shotgun, shotgun, shotgun..)
Piko and I join in. Gumi and Teto start dancing.
Miku: Get out your guns
Battle's begun
Are you a saint or a sinner?
Rin: If love's a fight
Then I shall die
With my eart on a trigger
Rui: They say before you start a war
You better know what you're fighting for
Well baby you are all that I adore
If love is what you need
Rin/Miku/Rui: A soldier I will be
I'm an angel with a shotgun
Fighting 'til the war's won
Rin: I don't care if heaven won't take me back
Miku: I'll throw away my faith, babe, just to keep you safe
Rin/Miku: Don't you know you're everything I have?
Rui/Rin: And I
Rui/Miku: want to live not just survive
Rin/Miku/Rui: tonight
Rin: Sometimes to win
You've to sin
Miku: Don't mean I'm not a believer
Rui: And major Tom
Will sing along
Rui/Miku: Yeah they still say I'm a dreamer
Rui: They say before you start a war
You better know what you're fighting for
Well baby you are all that I adore
If love is all you need
Rin/Miku/Rui: A soldier I will be
I'm an angel with a shotgun
Fighting 'til the war's won
Rin: I don't care if heaven won't take me back
Miku: I'll throw away my faith, babe, just to keep you safe
Rin/Miku: Don't you know you're everything I have?
Rui/Rin: And I
Rui/Miku: want to live not just survive
Rin/Miku/Rui: tonight
Rui: ooooohhhhhhhh
Miku: ooooooohhhhh
Rin: whoa whoa oooh whoa
Rui: I'm an angel with a shotgun
Miku: Fighting 'til the war's won
Rin: I don't care if heaven won't take me back
Rin/Miku/Rui: I'm an angel with a shotgun,
fighting til' the wars won,
Rin: I don't care if heaven won't take me back.
Miku: I'll throw away my faith, babe, just to keep you safe.
Rin/Miku: Don't you know you're everything I have?
Rui: (I'm an angel with a shotgun)
Rin/Miku: And I
want to live, not just survive, tonight.
Rui: (Live, not just survive)
Rin/Miku: And I'm gonna
Rin: Hide,
Miku: Hide,
Rin/Miku: Hide my wings tonight.
Rui: They say before you start a war,
you better know what you're fighting for.
Well baby, you are all that I adore,
if love is what you need, a soldier I will be.
As Rui's voice died down at the end, so did me, Piko and Neru. Once it was quite I heard applause and saw that the Princes (other than Piko of course) were on their feet and applauding us.
"That was pretty good. Looks like we have some work to do if we want to prove ourselves to be as good as you or even better." Dell steps forward and says.
I feel really proud. I always loved music but I never knew it could be this much fun to play in front of people!
"We're fine with playing with you. You're all pretty good and more thanks to that since Piko's there. Guess we'll see if you accept us tomorrow."
I can't wait to see how good they are! Well, I'm relieved that our turn is over.
A/N: How are you guys? Good? Good. Well, I do realize I haven't updated for about 2 months but I'm good. I'm in the middle of a huge project worth, like, half of our grade so if we fail this, we will most likely fail the semester. T^T I kind of guilt-tripped myself into writing this chapter. Once again, I listen to the nightcore version of songs so when I first heard the song 'Angel With a Shotgun' I thought it was a girl singing and I thought that for about 4-5 months until I decided to listen to the original. You should have seen my face when I listened to a guy sing. XD
Help me! I'm stuck on what song to use for when both the girls and the Princes sing together. I need for next chapter and I only have the song the guys will sing (no I won't tell you) but I need one for both of them to sing together so if you have a suggestion please PM me or put it in a review. Thank you (for waiting 2 months for this XD).
P.S. This bit makes the chapter exactly 5,000 words.
Please Review!~
(erm, for those of you reading 'After 10 Years' I'm putting that on hold for a while. This story is the only one I can concentrate on right now. I'll try to update 'After 10 Years' but I can't promise that they'll be fast or anytime soon. Sorry)