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It was a lovely morning in a small rural town with identical two story, white houses lining the streets, in a very Stepford Wives-ish manner. A white van with the logo of a television station drove down the road, the people inside staring skeptically out the windows, "You sure it's here?" one of them asked, secretly a bit frighted by the exact symmetry of the houses, "These all seem too small, and normal."
"Normal?" The driver repeated, "This isn't normal, they're like clones of each...other." The last word faltered as the two men stared in front of them at a looming mansion with cherry blossom trees growing in the front yard in a stark contrast to the dark and gloomy paint job of the building.
"I think we found it." The man in the passenger side concluded. The driver merely nodded as his partner got out of the car, "C'mon, Ayer, they're a rock band. Were you expecting to be greeted at the door by a nice old lady wearing a flowery apron and handing out muffins?" He laughed at his own joke and opened the back of the van as Ayer got out of the vehicle and stood at the start of the walkway, waiting for his friend.
The guy was still laughing when he had taken out the camera and turned it on, walking up next to Ayer.
"Get over yourself, Rob." Ayer said, rolling his eyes.
Rob straightened out his face and suddenly looked serious, "Brace yourself men, we're going in." He started cracking up again as they walked towards the door. Ayer rolled his eyes as he knocked on the door: once, twice, three times. No answer. "Their manager said we could come over today." Ayer recalled, raising his hand to knock on the door again as it slowly opened of its own accord.
"Do do do do do do" Rob sung, hitting the notes of the Twilight Zone theme. Ayer hit him on the back of the head and stepped into the house, "Hello?" he called uncertainly. As soon as he had taken another step forward he was pushed into the next room by a n unseen force. Another force knocked him into a wall, and he heard a high-pitched yelp, causing him to automatically look down to see if he had accidentally stepped on a dog. Instead of the animal he expected to see, the man found Sakura laying on the floor, glaring up at him.
"Who the hell are you?" She inquired, seeming quite agitated, "Why are you in my house?"
"Our house!" someone yelled from what seemed to be a living room. Sakura blew a raspberry in the general direction of the voice before standing to glare at Ayer from a more dignified angle, though she still had to stare up at him- she was much shorter than he would have guessed.
"I'm Ayer, and this" He said slowly, motioning towards the camera man, "Is Rob."
Sakura stared wide-eyed into the lens of the camera, resisting the urge to poke it. Damn the pharaoh's genes. She shook her head to clear it of the thought and repeated, "Why are you in our house?"
"We're here for-" Rob began to explain, but was cut of as Kenshin suddenly appeared, nearly tackling Sakura. The girl screamed, dropping to the floor and holding something against her chest. Kenshin sat on top of her, fighting to get whatever it was she was holding.
Ayer and Rob stood by, watching in a mix of fear and confusion.
"Do you think we should help?" Ayer asked, glancing at his partner. Rob shrugged and began edging his way into the living room, "Where are you going?" Ayer hissed, attempting to stay as far away as possible from the two teens wrestling on the floor.
"There are two others in the band, let's go find them instead." Rob offered, lifting an eyebrow as Kenshin somehow got ahold of whatever it was that was being fought over. Sakura was now on his back with her arms wrapped tightly around his neck, apparently trying to strangle him. Ayer nodded quickly and hurried over to the other room. Once he stepped into the living room Ayer let out an exasperated sigh, "We haven't even seen more than the front hall and I'm already tired." he announced, looking over at Rob. His partner's face was twisted once again in confusion, but this time instead of fear, he looked a bit amused.
"Found 'em." He said with a grin, pointing towards two more people, sitting on a black leather couch and more or less eating each other's faces. It was almost possible to see Ayer's will to continue drift away as Sakura came stomping into the room crying, with Kenshin following and shouting in an incomprehensible tongue. Roxxy and Hikaru broke apart to glare at their bandmates' deafening entrance. Sakura sat on a loveseat that was placed opposite the matching couch. She folded her arms over her knees and rested her forehead on them, now babbling away in a mix of at least three different languages, seeming to be switching from one to the next in mid-sentence. Kenshin shut up (having gotten a vase thrown at him by Roxxy), and took the seat next to Sakura, wanting to keep his distance from the other two people in the room. It didn't seem as if he noticed Rob and Ayer. Hikaru acknowledged the two visitors by giving them a talented look that was half glare, half suspicion.
"I was going to feed it to Popsicle, too." everyone heard(and understood) Sakura mumble, only for her not(?) to notice they were actually trying to listen and switch to Russian.
Kenshin looked at her skeptically, "Sakura." The tone of his voice resembled that of a father who had found a slice of bologna in the new expensive DVD player.
She looked up slowly, dried tears were still on her cheeks though now she just looked mad, "What?" A demon answered with a small wave of power emanating just for show. Kenshin was unaffected, "When you say 'Popsicle' do you mean..."
A smile spread across the wolf's face, "Yup!" She exclaimed, suddenly cheerful, "Rave! He's in the basement." She nodded happily before noticing her mistake. Kenshin stared at her as if trying to process what she had just said. He closed his eyes and was visibly getting angrier by the second as the clock hanging on the wall suddenly clicked to 12.
"Sakura..." he repeated slowly, twitching slightly as she stuttered and backed as far from him as possible without standing.
"I made muffins!!!!" Keiichiro Akasaka broke the tension as he burst through the door located next to the loveseat, Ryou stepped out behind him, looking quite tired. The two guests near literally died of confusion as he stood there looking absolutely ridiculous wearing both a large grin and a pink apron with little yellow and white flowers on it.
"Well." Rob said matter-of-factly, "He's not an old lady." Ayer just shook his head.
"Sakura..." Kenshin repeated darkly, bringing the fear back into the room, "What. Did you. Do?" each word was it's own threat. Sakura looked around frantically before reaching up and grabbing a muffin from Keiichiro's tray. The world seemed to stop as Roxxy looked directly into Rob's camera and recited, "Need a moment?"
Life came back as the demon shoved the muffin into her mouth and mumbled an explanation about exactly what had happened to her bifl's gypsies. Everything stopped again as Roxxy returned to the spotlight, "Try Cafe' Mew Mew. We'll keep your secret." she ended the mini-commercial with a wink, and once again everyone was alive, "Could you stop doing that?" Hikaru asked, a bit distressed at the constant destruction of the 4th wall. Kenshin twitched a bit more as Sakura accidentally spit crumbs at him while she was talking, then decided he really didn't care all that much and stood up to leave the room. He stopped in front of Rob and Ayer and stared at them for a few seconds before turning back to his friends and asking, "Who the hell are they?"
The two men twitched and ran out of the house, leaving Keiichiro quite heart broken. "They didn't even try a muffin," he whined as he stared out the window at the white van speeding back down the street.
"Normal?" The driver repeated, "This isn't normal, they're like clones of each...other." The last word faltered as the two men stared in front of them at a looming mansion with cherry blossom trees growing in the front yard in a stark contrast to the dark and gloomy paint job of the building.
"I think we found it." The man in the passenger side concluded. The driver merely nodded as his partner got out of the car, "C'mon, Ayer, they're a rock band. Were you expecting to be greeted at the door by a nice old lady wearing a flowery apron and handing out muffins?" He laughed at his own joke and opened the back of the van as Ayer got out of the vehicle and stood at the start of the walkway, waiting for his friend.
The guy was still laughing when he had taken out the camera and turned it on, walking up next to Ayer.
"Get over yourself, Rob." Ayer said, rolling his eyes.
Rob straightened out his face and suddenly looked serious, "Brace yourself men, we're going in." He started cracking up again as they walked towards the door. Ayer rolled his eyes as he knocked on the door: once, twice, three times. No answer. "Their manager said we could come over today." Ayer recalled, raising his hand to knock on the door again as it slowly opened of its own accord.
"Do do do do do do" Rob sung, hitting the notes of the Twilight Zone theme. Ayer hit him on the back of the head and stepped into the house, "Hello?" he called uncertainly. As soon as he had taken another step forward he was pushed into the next room by a n unseen force. Another force knocked him into a wall, and he heard a high-pitched yelp, causing him to automatically look down to see if he had accidentally stepped on a dog. Instead of the animal he expected to see, the man found Sakura laying on the floor, glaring up at him.
"Who the hell are you?" She inquired, seeming quite agitated, "Why are you in my house?"
"Our house!" someone yelled from what seemed to be a living room. Sakura blew a raspberry in the general direction of the voice before standing to glare at Ayer from a more dignified angle, though she still had to stare up at him- she was much shorter than he would have guessed.
"I'm Ayer, and this" He said slowly, motioning towards the camera man, "Is Rob."
Sakura stared wide-eyed into the lens of the camera, resisting the urge to poke it. Damn the pharaoh's genes. She shook her head to clear it of the thought and repeated, "Why are you in our house?"
"We're here for-" Rob began to explain, but was cut of as Kenshin suddenly appeared, nearly tackling Sakura. The girl screamed, dropping to the floor and holding something against her chest. Kenshin sat on top of her, fighting to get whatever it was she was holding.
Ayer and Rob stood by, watching in a mix of fear and confusion.
"Do you think we should help?" Ayer asked, glancing at his partner. Rob shrugged and began edging his way into the living room, "Where are you going?" Ayer hissed, attempting to stay as far away as possible from the two teens wrestling on the floor.
"There are two others in the band, let's go find them instead." Rob offered, lifting an eyebrow as Kenshin somehow got ahold of whatever it was that was being fought over. Sakura was now on his back with her arms wrapped tightly around his neck, apparently trying to strangle him. Ayer nodded quickly and hurried over to the other room. Once he stepped into the living room Ayer let out an exasperated sigh, "We haven't even seen more than the front hall and I'm already tired." he announced, looking over at Rob. His partner's face was twisted once again in confusion, but this time instead of fear, he looked a bit amused.
"Found 'em." He said with a grin, pointing towards two more people, sitting on a black leather couch and more or less eating each other's faces. It was almost possible to see Ayer's will to continue drift away as Sakura came stomping into the room crying, with Kenshin following and shouting in an incomprehensible tongue. Roxxy and Hikaru broke apart to glare at their bandmates' deafening entrance. Sakura sat on a loveseat that was placed opposite the matching couch. She folded her arms over her knees and rested her forehead on them, now babbling away in a mix of at least three different languages, seeming to be switching from one to the next in mid-sentence. Kenshin shut up (having gotten a vase thrown at him by Roxxy), and took the seat next to Sakura, wanting to keep his distance from the other two people in the room. It didn't seem as if he noticed Rob and Ayer. Hikaru acknowledged the two visitors by giving them a talented look that was half glare, half suspicion.
"I was going to feed it to Popsicle, too." everyone heard(and understood) Sakura mumble, only for her not(?) to notice they were actually trying to listen and switch to Russian.
Kenshin looked at her skeptically, "Sakura." The tone of his voice resembled that of a father who had found a slice of bologna in the new expensive DVD player.
She looked up slowly, dried tears were still on her cheeks though now she just looked mad, "What?" A demon answered with a small wave of power emanating just for show. Kenshin was unaffected, "When you say 'Popsicle' do you mean..."
A smile spread across the wolf's face, "Yup!" She exclaimed, suddenly cheerful, "Rave! He's in the basement." She nodded happily before noticing her mistake. Kenshin stared at her as if trying to process what she had just said. He closed his eyes and was visibly getting angrier by the second as the clock hanging on the wall suddenly clicked to 12.
"Sakura..." he repeated slowly, twitching slightly as she stuttered and backed as far from him as possible without standing.
"I made muffins!!!!" Keiichiro Akasaka broke the tension as he burst through the door located next to the loveseat, Ryou stepped out behind him, looking quite tired. The two guests near literally died of confusion as he stood there looking absolutely ridiculous wearing both a large grin and a pink apron with little yellow and white flowers on it.
"Well." Rob said matter-of-factly, "He's not an old lady." Ayer just shook his head.
"Sakura..." Kenshin repeated darkly, bringing the fear back into the room, "What. Did you. Do?" each word was it's own threat. Sakura looked around frantically before reaching up and grabbing a muffin from Keiichiro's tray. The world seemed to stop as Roxxy looked directly into Rob's camera and recited, "Need a moment?"
Life came back as the demon shoved the muffin into her mouth and mumbled an explanation about exactly what had happened to her bifl's gypsies. Everything stopped again as Roxxy returned to the spotlight, "Try Cafe' Mew Mew. We'll keep your secret." she ended the mini-commercial with a wink, and once again everyone was alive, "Could you stop doing that?" Hikaru asked, a bit distressed at the constant destruction of the 4th wall. Kenshin twitched a bit more as Sakura accidentally spit crumbs at him while she was talking, then decided he really didn't care all that much and stood up to leave the room. He stopped in front of Rob and Ayer and stared at them for a few seconds before turning back to his friends and asking, "Who the hell are they?"
The two men twitched and ran out of the house, leaving Keiichiro quite heart broken. "They didn't even try a muffin," he whined as he stared out the window at the white van speeding back down the street.
So yeah, now that you're confused, if you ask what the hell it was about you'll get a long, very likely disturbing, explanation.
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