[ voice | Japanese ]

[ There's a sound of rustling paper and someone muttering about how Kuma-chan is wrong that kanji SO not the one for horse does he need glasses? for a moment of two. Then Ryuichi is speaking directly at the communicator, his Japanese is - as usual - a little slurry as if he is permanently drunk. ]

So I got a bunch of stuff written up but not really have the melody all worked out. That's okay though cuz that's how music works - you don't just throw stuff out and expect it to suddenly be all ready to go! Unless you are really that desperate to sing something like winning a bet or something!

Anyways, I think this work, what does everyone else think? LET ME READ IT TO YOU!


A small bird with closed eyes says "Even like this I can still fly"
Because straining its ears, if it listens to the wind, it has nothing to fear.

A raising voice in the news says "Lies are wrong"
A kitten with hidden claws holds its belly and laughs.

Knowing the meaning of loving, while I get frightened of loving.
Even if it's unnatural, without the filthiness of my heart
I can't walk now.

Seeing dreams about you.
But still tomorrow will come.
But still...

I will be able to get to somewhere.
But still tomorrow will come.

In the dream known as "Eternity", feeling giddy,
I covet for the rotten fruit.
Taking the way to survive and throwing it away,
I wait for tomorrow.

I guess that's it!


[ooc; OOPS! I forgot to mention that the lyrics are from the song Chaos by the band SCARECROW. It is a pretty song even though the words are a bit bleak. I feel that it fits with how things are in the city right now. ]

[ video ]

[ Ryuichi is bored and Tohma-less. He could go do something productive, like build a new hospital or play poker with the boys, but instead, Ryuichi has decided to sing a couple songs. For your listening pleasure, the first song is Predilection and the second one is Gather Roses. When he gets done singing both songs, Ryuichi, looks at the communicator and sticks his tongue out. ]

I'm done so there.

[ voice | Japanese ]

So I've been working on a whole bunch of songs with Tohma! It's been really cool and interesting and say, here's some lyrics!

Take apart my love through this silent pain.
Slowly melting within a collapsed star, forever entangled
Light sucking sound I draw closer forever connected in this endless void.
Your voice pressing deeper I cannot pull away...

Cool right? Well, I think it's cool. So it's cool!

OH! Souji! Hang in there and don't let the doctors poke at you too much!

[ video ]

[ Ryuichi loves the video function of his communicator a lot, doesn't he? This time around, he is sitting on the edge of the stage at the High School auditorium, strumming his guitar. He's got a fuzzy pink jacket on over a worn shirt and his hair has been combed back into a sloppy ponytail. A few strands have escaped free and they curl against his cheeks. The communicator is pointed up at him, although the body of a guitar covers half of the view. After a few moments of strumming a few chords, he launches into an acoustic version of this song. That song morphs into another song before Ryuichi gets tired of that and sets the guitar down. Unfortunately for the viewing world, he sets it down on top of the communicator, but at least he didn't turn it off. ]

So another year older, huh? That makes it what? Same age as him? Older? No... younger. But still...

Winter marches on.

[ video ]

[ The dynamic duo are at it again, this time they are sitting on the stage of the High School auditorium. Ryuichi is sitting spread eagle on the edge of the stage, a mic stand between his legs, and Tohma is standing at the key board plugging something into the computer. Ryuichi leans back, sliding his hands down the pole and licks his lips, and Tohma just shakes his head at the display and flips a switch. ]

Are you ready?

I have been waiting forever and ever, Tohma!

Now, Ryuichi. Do not make me put my synth away.

You wouldn't, right?

I would not if you behave.

Okay! I'll be good!

[ Tohma nods, his usual plastic smile not so plastic as it is satisfied and starts playing this not-so-work-safe song. As Ryuichi sings with the song, he also acts it out, but he at least keeps his clothes on in the end. He nods once the music is done, picks up Kumagoro and tosses the pink bunny at the communicator. It falls over, giving everyone a nice view of the ceiling and a pink ear and muffles the murmuring of two voices in the background. After a while, it times out. ]

[ video ]

[ Ryuichi is sitting on his very big bed, playing his guitar and wearing a mis-matched outfit that's a rock star's idea of comfortable in fur and torn jeans, and with a pink rabbit sitting on top of his head. He looks a lot more healthier then he has been thanks to Tohma's mother-henning nagging, but it's clear that he isn't eating as much as he should. Not that he really cares. After a minute or so, he starts singing this song.

Once he's done, he puts the guitar down, picks up the communicator and grins at the camera. ]

Cheer up, everyone! The world hasn't ended yet and spring will be here. We'll make it, right? RIGHT!

\ video end

[ video ]

[ Yes, it might be cold and snowing and all crazy outside, but Ryuichi is not a man to let such little things like the elements, wild animals, and not having enough food to keep him inside his apartment. Maybe driven by his own inner problems, or by an insane need to sing, he left the warmth of the large shared bed in his apartment, and went across the frozen tundra that was a city and into the High School.

The video opens up to show the singer at an angle, his features gaunter than normal and his hair a wild tumble of half-dried wisps against his pale skin. He is playing around with Tohma's prized synthesizer, his usual companion of a pink rabbit no where in sight. After a few moments, he flicked a couple switches, starting a drum track and a simple loop of four keys. Then spreading his fingers over the keys, he plays and sings this song. Once done, he shuts everything off and just stares at the communicator. ]

It's not that hard, is it?

[ Reaching over, he covers the camera with something bright pink and fuzzy and patterned with several neat stitches. ]

[ video ]

[ It is late but still the two boys from Nittle Grasper are working on music. The communicator first shows the high plain ceiling of the high school's auditorium and then it swings around, showing the floor and then the cleaned top of the piano and then there was the slightly less clean surface of the stage. The communicator is set down and we see that the person holding it was none other than Ryuichi, who goes to sit at the piano. ]

Okay, I think we're good to go.

[ Tohma is sitting at the piano, his hands in his lap. He shakes his head but he still starts playing. First comes this song, and once he finishes it, he turns to his synthesizer sitting on a nearby table while Ryuichi swings his legs around and straddles the bench. ]

There, it's set.

[ Tohma leaves the snyth and turns back to the piano. When the music starts, both him and Ryuichi start performing this song. When done, they both wave at the communicator. ]

Merry Christmas!

\end transmission



[ooc; Borrowing a couple more songs for the amazing duo's performance. As a special note for those people who didn't know, the guy playing the piano in the second video is Daisuke Asakura who is the real life inspiration for Tohma. So, yeah got to pick stuff that he has worked on for Grasper stuff. Also red= Tohma and blue = Ryu.]

[ action ]

[ Ryuichi is sitting on the edge of the high school auditorium's stage, beating his feet against the wood while strumming a guitar. If he has noticed that there were branches of mistletoe all around him, he doesn't show it. Instead, he seems far more interested in his guitar, and after a few starts, he starts to sing this song. ]

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall,
The holly branch shone on the old oak wall;
And the baron's retainers were blithe and gay,
And keeping their Christmas holiday.
The baron beheld with a father's pride
His beautiful child, young Lovell's bride.
While she with her bright eyes seemed to be
The star of the goodly company.
Oh, the mistletoe bough,
Oh, the mistletoe bough.

( more of the song here )

[ After he finishes that song, he puts the guitar down and stretches, looking up. ]

Well, I guess I'm surrounded. They must have been really good ninjas to sneak so much mistletoe around me.


[OOC: Okay, so anyone in the high school or who just wanders on in can interact with Ryuichi. Otherwise he will respond in voice for everyone else. ]

[ voice | Japanese ]

[ First there's the sound of a beat, probably a foot tapping hard against an empty can. Then a guitar joins in - nothing too great in the line of guitar playing, but it is obvious that whoever is playing is using the music as background for the singer, who is going over the words, changing the melody, changing the words. And then it stops, there's a sound of paper cracking, and then the song is back. ]

nijuuhachi-ji no yoru wo kiritoru
mado wo toshimetara hajimaru
ichido shikaketara tokenai wana wo
ma ni awanai PROTECTION

tatoeba kimi wo kizutsuketai
jiorama ni tojikomete
tataitemita tte sakendetemo
kikoenai sa PREDILECTION

iki mo dekinai
joukyou shita de wa
sugureta ai wo musaboru

can't get enough
kotoba yori mo motto
don't let me down
tashika ni misete hoshii
one more night
kusuka ni kizutsuita
kimi wo mitsumeru me sono saki ni ...

[ The music stops and there's a soft sigh. ]

Are we done yet, Tohma? Can we go back to the room and near the fire?



[ooc; Predilection comes from the Gravitation Song Story and is a Nittle Grasper/Ryuichi song. For anyone in the music audition log/auditorium, Ryuichi decided to work on his own song, which this is a piece of, so feel free to have heard him singing it/commentlog or whatever!]

[ voice | Japanese ]

[ There's a rustle of paper and then you hear Ryuichi singing. ]

yasashi sa yori tsuyoi chikara wo
suketa ai ni kanjiteru
doko demo yuku nan ni demo naru
kimi no yami ni furesasete

OFF kara ON ni kiri kaeta machi ga yoru wo te guri yoseru
akke nai kyou no ketsumatsu wo tsuki tsukete

So what does everyone think so far? It sounds good, right? Course, we'll need to work on the arrangement first to really play it... So back to work we go! If you wanna hear more, you'll have to wait until we're done, but I can sing other stuff.


[OOC; The song's by a nice little J-pop group called Iceman.]

[ video ]

[ And here is Ryuichi standing on a stage, wearing a jean jacket over a black tank top and some torn jeans, his hair a stylish mess and his grin as wide as ever. The stuffed rabbit he takes with him everywhere is not in sight, but there is pink fuzz surrounding the camera - Kumagoro is holding the communicator. Ryuichi waves, and then goes down in a full split, springs back up, does a flip, lands in a split and comes back up. He jumps a couple times, spins around and falls flat on his stomach, laughing, as he presses his nose against the camera. ]

See Kumagoro? The stage is too safe. Pfft!

[ He springs back to his feet and stretches, eyes closing and fingers reaching up. Holding that position, he runs through a couple of voice exercises, all of them pitch perfect even with the way he's stretching out his rib cage. Then dropping his arms, he twists, sings a few bars of 'Sleepless Beauty' then he goes off into 'Ava Maria' for a few short verses, before sticking his tongue out and looking up at the ceiling. ]

Okay, so the acoustics are a little wobbly, but it'll be okay. Now, to figure out what to do for lights if it's dark...

[ He wanders off-camera, muttering in Japanese. The camera times out after a minute or two. ]

[ voice | English ]

HEY DISCEDO! Does anyone own the High School Auditorium? Can anyone use it or are there scheduled events there? Would it be okay if a group of people used it to stage a couple things?

THANKS FOR ANY ANSWERS IN ADVANCE!

[ Ryuichi repeats the questions in Japanese and then hangs up.]