Jmusiclover and Chari-chan were sitting in the car that would take them to the restaurant where S.K.I.N was waiting. "Alright, you remember what to do right?" Jmusiclover asked, feeling the need to go over the plan again.
       "Just blend in and act like I belong. Will you relax. I got this." Chari replied sound really self-assured. 
"Alright, you got the batteries?" J asked double checking all the supplies.
      "Batteries, Check." Chari answered holding up a pack of batteries and a two way headset.
    "Like I said. Relax. Now put these in your ear and this in your person somewhere." Chari explained handlin J a small transmittor to go with the ear piece. "And where did you get this again?" J asked while concealing the transmittor. 
"Don't ask and I won't tell." Chari answered for the fifth time. Jmusiclover  just gave her a quizzical look but didn't bring the subject up again. Not long after the car pulled up to Yoshiki's favorite restaurant and the two girls got out.

 Back at the hotel everybody was beginning to settle down and start getting ready for bed. Except for Flip and iheartjrock who was now having a discussion over how many people were in the Epic Hug. "Well I counted 862." Flip said circling her third number.
 "Well I counted 789." iheartjrock replied underlining her third number.
 "Well we could say something in-between." iheartjrock suggested after taking a look at the numbers.
      "Or we could count it again." Flip persisted.
"Or you could try giving it a rest and just round the number. Nobodies asking for perfection." ReBl commented.
"We are asking for perfection." Flip shot back, pulling the pictures towards her again.
  "You are asking for perfection." iheartjrock corrected. 
"Well either way we can't make an announcement until we have a matching number." Flip explained, starting to count for the fourth time.
"Why don't you let somebody else count and see what happens." aoi suggested.
 "You can have it." iheartjrock replied, pushing her pictures towards aoi.
         "Thank you." Flip said getting up to get something to drink.
 "No problem. Rine-Tau you look like you need something else to do." aoi suggested handing Flip's stack to her.
    "Definitly." Rine-Tau sighed throwing down the history book she was suppose to be reading.
aoi and Rine-Tau were about half way through counting when Beauty and Tooru came jogging down the hall from the elevators.
     "Have any of you seen Seven or Beaver?" Beauty asked.
      "Thought they said something about going to bed with everyone else." Jessie said, looking up from the news that was covering the line that was from the JRR Concert.
       "Well we just came from there and their not answering." Tooru explained.
 "I thought I saw them heading out the back of the hotel about five minutes ago." Taisho Tears said, walking into the room after over hearing the conversation from the hall.
  "That doesn't sound good." JRockReality said. Which lead to everyone heading back up stairs for a second look.
      After waking everybody up Ana ran down stairs to the clerks desk to ask for some spare keys to their rooms.
 As expected Beaver's and Seven's room was empty but on  a closer look the girls found a note.
                Dear Gang,
                          Went to meet some boys. Be back in a few.
                                                                     signed 
                                                                     Seven and Beaver
"Do you think when they say boys they mean." Shintotchi asked.
      "That's who I'm thinking they meant." Pulele Hua replied already heading out the door and down the hall like everyone else.
   "Here's the keys, thanks for the help." h-chan said leaving the hotel bell man in a state of confusion.

 Two blocks away Seven and Beaver were impatiently waiting for a cab when Amara and Karakatakatari showed up looking a bit flustered. "What's the matter with you two?" Seven asked while Beaver waved down another taxi.
"Jrock outting are all lies." KaraKataKatari explained. 
 "What?" Seven asked even more confused. 
"We had heard there was going to be some after parties. Let me tell you now, there are none." Amara said turning towards the way to the hotel.
        "Your telling me you two have been out all this time." Beaver exclaimed holding open a taxi cab door.
 "Yeah, pretty much."  Both said in unison.
       "And where are you two going?" Lilith asked running up the street from the hotel.
"Wanna find out?" Seven asked, a small glint in her eyes.
         "Sure."  was the reply all three gave as they climbed into the cab and Beaver started explaining their small plan to them.

  "What is all the noise about...and where is everyone going?" Saki-Chan asked. She too had been out looking for after parties with Oh_messy_me and BlameMisery. 'Seven and Beaver are missing and we think they are on their way to the restaurant with S.K.I.N and so we are all going to try and find them." JrockReality explained making a quick fix of her hair.
"Wait for us!" Elffy's exclaimed, who was right behind BlameMisery and followed by Peacewing.
          "Well if everybody else is going, I guess I'll go as well." BlameMisery said turning to head back outside.
"Wait, how are we all going to fit in a cab." Saki-Chan asked counting people off on her fingers.
 "Well some people already left so it's just a few of us that have to catch a cab." Jrock Reality replied heading out the door.
"Alright." Saki-Chan shrugged and followed JrockReality and Blame Misery out the door along with Elffy's,Peacewing and oh_messy_me.

At the restaurant Jmusiclover and Chari-chan were walking in the front doors, completely unaware of the chaos reigning at the hotel. "Alright, ready?" J asked double checking and triple checking everything.
 "Ready? Tsh, I was born ready." Chari-Chan replied giving a small wave of her hand.
Jmusiclover just looked at her but continued on. "Can I help you Ma'm?" the hostess asked. 
       "Yes I'm here to meet with..." J began but was cut off by the hostess.
 "Oh you must be with Mr. Yoshiki and the rest. Yes come with me." The hostess exclaimed leading J to her seat with Yoshiki, Gackt, Sugizo and Miyavi. While Chari-Chan casually walked on into the restaurant and sat within viewing range of the table.

       "Okay we're there everybody understand the plan?" Seven asked getting out of the cab, followed by Beaver, Lilith, Amara, and KaraKataKatari. "Got it." Beaver replied while everyone else shook thier heads. "This is gonna be so much fun." Lilith exclaimed with a huge grin on her face. "No Doubt.": Kara agreed.
       "Okay, mission time." Beaver announced. In which Seven then went into stealth mode and started sidling the wall while whistling the mission impossible theme song.
"Seven, seriously." Lilith said quietly walking towards the restaurant's back doors. 
      "Sorry, just getting into the mood." Seven shrugged but continued humming the song to her self as Kara checked to see if it was clear for them to enter. "Okay, all clear." Kara announced and together all five girls snuck into the back door.
     Inside ther was cooks every where with orders going out left and right.
       "Hey! Those carts need to go out!" shouted one chef to a waiter while pointing to two push carts with Salads on top.
    "Okay two too a cart and then some else can stay as look out."  Seven suggested.
 "Well, I'll be look out you guys go ahead." Amara volunteered.  Seven and Beaver then crawled under one cart while Lilith and KaraKataKatari crawled under another cart and Amara hung back a bit when she noticed two waiters coming to take the carts away.
  "Man these things are heavy." The first waiter said taking one salad cart.
      "No joke those boys can eat." Agreed the second waiter.
 Underneath ther was a light high five and triumphant grins coming from four friends.
          'Hey you get out of here!" hollered a chef who had just noticed a stray inside his kitchen. Amara took off after the waiters into the main dining hall.

 "Okay just breath. Now make simple conversation. Like you would talking to us." Chari-Chan said through the mic while holding up a menu. Jmusiclover shook her head and then turned toward Miyavi who was on her left. "So, Miyavi, how are the songs on your new album coming along?" J asked ignoring Chari's sarcastic breathing sounds. Miyavi was about half way through his explanation when Chari exclaimed "Good God $150 for a bit of steak!" Making Jmusiclover drop her own menu and ring out her ears. 
"Are you okay?" Sugizo asked. J looked around to find all four of them staring at her.
        "Yeah...Yeah I'm fine just got a slight spaz in my arm, that acts up from time to time." She explained trying to pretend like it was nothing. "Oh, I got one of those...only it's in my leg, you know I could give a good treatment that could help keep it from acting up like that." Miyavi explained. Then looking up in time to see that the salad was arriving. "Finally I was beginning to think they forgot about us." J looked over to get an apologetic look from Chari then focused on what looked to be tomatoes being tossed in the salad bowl at Miyavi's request.

 The rest of the group was stuck in a small traffic jam about two blocks away. "Sir, isn't there any way around this?" Flip asked climbing over the back seat to sit up front. "Yeah, seriously we are kind of in the middle of an emergency." iheartjrock said poking her head into the front seat with aoi behind her shaking her head in agreement. "Well, I'm sorry. You said the shortest way and this just so happens to be the shortest way." The cab driver said obviously annoyed at the impatience of his passengers. "Well at this rate whatever their planning will be done and over with." Beauty exclaimed. 
 "Well it's only two more blocks that way. You will be there in no time." The cab driver answered back.
      "Yeah right...in this traffic." aoi said under her breath.
 "Wait...did you say only two blocks that way?" Tig3r asked pointing up the block.
 "Yeah, two blocks that way." The driver confirmed. 
 "Well what are we waiting her for." Tig3r said handing the driver his money then jumping out. After a few minutes of confusion so did every one else and urged the other's in the other two cabs to do the same.
            After a few minutes of confusion on the street which included people honking and screaming at the crowd for getting in their way.The now large group of friends were running towards Yoshiki's Favorite restaurant.
       
Upon exiting the Kitchen's the first thing Amara noticed was that this was an extremely large retaurant. Second was Chari-Chan sitting at a reserved table by herself. Making a quick dash towards the table she sat down and whispered "Hi, What are you doing here?" Which made Chari-Chan jump and scream "God, where did you come from?" Which in turn made Jmusiclover drop her fork that was holding the tomato she was carefully picking out of her salad and was now rolling on to Sugizo's lap. "Sorry it was that spazzing arm thing again." J said, taking a quick glance behind her. "You know, I'll give you that recipe right after dinner so you won't have that problem anymore." Miyavi said patting her on the shoulder. All J could do was laugh nervously and say thank you.
     "What are you doing here?" Chari asked a bit more quietly.
 "I asked first Chari." Amara reminded her. 
       "I'm here helping J out. She didn't want to come alone." Chari explained. hurrying to put the menu back up.
          "Well that's just sweet of you."d Amara Exclaimed giving Chari-chan a small hug.
"And you, what are you doing here?" Chari asked still a little suspicous.
 "Oh, just following those two." Amara said pointing towards the table with the band S.K.I.N and J and then to another one not far from their own table. Where Chari was able to see two pairs of feet slipping under S.K.I.N.'s table and two heads poking out of the other table.  
      "Oh, No. Why are you guys here?" Chari asked jumping up in front of Kara and Lilith who was on a direct path to S.K.I.N's table.
 "Cause we agree with Seven and Beaver, we should be able to meet them too." Lilith explained.
      "Yeah what they said." Lolly-chan exclaimed walking over from the kitchen door.
 "Where did you come from?" Chari asked. 
      J was now only half listening to the conversation at the table cause Chari had disappeared from view and J couldn't see who she was talking to. "Where did who come from? Chari? Who you talking too?" J asked ducking down, pretending to have dropped her napkin. "Nobody don't worry about it." Chari answered back. Which of course only made J worry more but didn't have time to show concern cause Yoshiki was then saying somebody had kicked him and J noticed a hand slip under the table and so picking up the cloth she looked under the table to find Seven and Beaver waving at her and smiling. "What are you two doing here?"  J asked shocked at finding them there but didn't give them time to reply before saying "Never mind, scratch that...get out of here. They've noticed you."  Seven waved a hand at Jmusiclover and began crawling out from under the table. 
    Mean while Chari was still getting answer's from Lolly-Chan. "I had over heard them and decided to follow. " Lolly-Chan explained. All Chari could do was shake her head and began motioning everyone to leave when she heard a loud bump from S.K.I.N's table but what had really caught her attention when looking in that direction was not who was crawling from under the table but who was standing in the front doors. For at that time Flip, Rine-Tau, Reina, Pulele Hua, Servant777, h-chan, Taisho Tears, Ana, Jessie,  Beauty, 2ReBl, aoi, JRockReality, Berryy, Shintotchi, iheartjrock, Tig3r, Tooru, oh_messy_me, blamemisery, Saki-chan, Elffy's and Peacewing came running through the front doors in enough time to see Seven and Beaver crawling out from underneath the table. Everyone trying to get their attention to stop cause Seven's belt was caught on the table cloth and slowly but surely all came sliding off with the food landing on Yoshiki's and Sugizo's lap. Small wine and food stains landed on Gackt and Miyavi's clothes. 
       The room was in utter shock, All J completely headdesked, Sugizo was attemtping to calm an upset waiter, Gackt was ranting about something but was drowned out by Miyavi's laughter and Yoshiki was looking at a shocked group of friends.
          "Care to explain?"  Yoshiki asked in an overly fatherly tone towards Seven and Beaver who could only stand there and stare.
 "Yoshiki-sama...I am so sorry,  I only invited Chari cause I didn't want to be here alone but as for the rest I don't know why thier here but ...." J went off but was interrupted by Lilith.  "Actually Seven, Beaver, KaraKataKatari, Amara, Lolly-chan and I only came cause we wanted to meet you to. We never meant to mess up your dinner."
     "Okay, what about them?" Gackt asked pointing to the group on the stairs.
      "We only came to stoop them." Saki-chan explained in their defense, pointing towards Seven and Beaver.
"Yeah none of us really meant any harm." Ana said.
       "You know you really can't get mad at them..." Sugizo began then rethinking his statment after looking at Gackt. "Okay, maybe you can, but why would you. Their friend got to meet us, do you really blame them for trying to do the same?"
         "Actually this whole thing is quite amusing. How about we talk about how it came to this over at the hamburger joint a few blocks down." Miyavi suggested, finally getting over his laughter.
   "Fair enough, Come on, the whole lot of you. Dinner on us and this way we can hear how this whole thing got started." Yoshiki said heading out the doors.
 
          After a quick change of clothing for the four guys the rest of the night was filled with jokes, laughter and lasting friendships.

  The line alternated between slow and exhausting to fast and exciting and took a good amount of time to actually get in but everybody eventually reached the ticket booth and was able to turn in their tickets and for those entering the contest, their contest drawings.
         Small talk continued inside while waiting for the second revolution concert to begin.  When the lights finally dimmed and the stage shone bright as the mist rose, blanketing the floor with it's exciting mystery the crowd quieted down a bit. The air was filled with the all to familiar sound of beating drums and fine tuned guitars, playing a melody that enchanted minds and called to each individual soul  A sound that opened up a flood gate of roaring cheers and long sighs from the crowd.  From the hard rock tunes that had you thrashing around to the soft calming classics that brought tears to your eyes. Each band brought a piece of themselves to the stage and left with that piece forever implanted inside each fan's soul and memory. As the concert continued the crowd became louder and more excited but still keeping that semblance of calm, like a wave the drifts towards the shore. Some bands that played were seeing the land for the first time and others who were glad to be back. Each were welcomed enthusiastically by music lovers from all over.
           At the end of the concert the members of S.K.I.N walked out on the stage. Welcomed by thousands of screaming fans. Each attempting to be louder then the first but sadly out done by another, mainly cause most were already going hoarse.
        Yoshiki was of course the one to walk up to the microphone, greeting the people there and thanking them coming.  
 "And after a 24hr long discussion...including going through those pictures just entered today at the ticket booth, we have come up with a winner."  He announced which of course quieted everyone to the point where you could hear a pin drop. His pause seemed an eternity in which you could hear every bated breath, every heart skipping a beat, there were those who were holding their breaths, others you could see the pulse throbbing in their wrists as the clamped tight to the neighbors hand.
 Then he continued on with the announcement of the winner. "Could those who entered pull out your ticket stubs." There was a small rustle while people pulled out the stubs they were told at the front to hold on to. "At these point I would like to say that each drawing was beautifully done. There is some truly, remarkably, wonderful talent within these hall tonight. And I promise it was not an easy decision to make however could the holder of number 36582 make their way to the backstage please." There was sad disappointing sounds being heard through out, some had literally burst into tears others screaming no, other just a simple "Ahh man." was enough but a very distinct scream rang out, drowning all other sounds out. Which caused those within a few inches to make sure their ears weren't bleeding.
       "Can you go any louder J?" Flip asked tapping her ears trying to get the ringing to stop. "I won, can you believe I won!" J shouted disbelief etched in every feature of her face and heard clearly in her the sound of her voice and then as disbelief turned to excitement a second scream rang out, possibly louder then the first. Tears cascading down her face, while she bounced up and down waving the ticket in the air. "Congratulations to you miss...please when you can come to the backstage." Yoshiki said a smile across his face. He then thanked everybody for coming the concert and said another contest might be happening at the next Jrock Revolution concert. 
       Jmusiclover was still bouncing on the balls of her feet when they reached the  next hall where the memorabilia was being sold.
 "Congratulations sweet heart, you have fun." Seven said giving yet another hug in which J graciously accepted and returned her hug. As she did with everyone who was kind enough to say such words.
           Looking around there was a booth setup for each band performed not to mention a separate booth setup for the Jrock Revolution merchandise being sold. The hall was filling quickly and the lines to each booth were already outrageously long.
      "Hey are we still up for the Epic hug?" Tig3r asked iheartjrock.
    "Definitely, just need to find someone with a microphone, megaphone, something to get people's attention." she answered starting to look around.
       "There's one of the admins over there." Kei announced pointing towards the Jrock Revolution booth. Tooru looked over and then began ducking through the crowd to the front of the line where the admin was standing holding a megaphone. Jumping up on top of the table she grabbed the megaphone and turned towards the crowd. " For everybody who doesn't know what's going on, it is now time for our Epic Group Hug to take place, so if you would like to join us in the biggest hug ever, please follow the girl with the neon colored lights."  Tooru finished pointing iheartjrock who was holding two laser lights one pink with the word "Epic" shining on to the wall and the other neon green with Hug shining right below "Epic".
      Those who had already made their purchases started following iheartjrock outside and to the front where they Jrock Revolution sign was. Tooru of course followed and handed the megaphone to iheartjrock. "If everybody could stay centered under the Jrock Revolution sign and face towards the building across from you where you should be able to see our kind photographer Ana."  iheartjrock instructed pointing the laser light towards Ana who was indeed on top of the building across the street. 
      It took nearly forty-five minutes to get set up being as people were positioning themselves and then repositioning for those who were just making it outside.
        "You have somebody ready up there Ana? These people won't stay much longer."  Shintotchi asked over the cell phone.
       "Yeah, I'm heading down now." She replied. A few minutes later she was down and crossing the street. 
"Who's up there anyways?" Rine-Tau asked.  
         "One of the security guards for that building." Ana replied smiling at the idea.
"Okay everybody on the count of three say VIVA LA REVOLUTION!" Flip instructed over the megaphone that she had acquired from iheartjrock. Which of course got everybody laughing. "Okay seriously, on the count of three just smile." She said this time actually meaning it. iheartjrock turned towards the security guard on the top the building and using the laser light flashed 1,2,3 to where he could see them while Flip and aoi lead the count on the ground. As promised on the count of three you could see the camera flash, at least six times.

          Later on the small group of friends went back to the hotel and started going over the concert details and wondering what would happen to the other drawing that were entered. 
         "Well maybe we could get J to ask them what's going to happen to them." Pulele Hua suggested.
"When she comes down, she's been up there for nearly three hours now." Reina reminded looking at her watch.
  "Well, you can't really blame her. this is a big thing, dinner with S.K.I.N! What would you be doing?" Berryy asked.
 "I would be up there with new clothes, shoes, hair professionally done, eighty dollar nail job, the works." JRock Realty replied using hand gestures for each listing. Everybody laughed at the comment but agreed the would all be doing the same.
    "How are those pictures coming out, Flip?"  h-chan asked looking over Flip's shoulder.
 "Well their big enough...but that was to be expected but other wise they came out really good." Flip replied, noting something on the notepad. "How many people actually joined us in that hug." iheartjrock asked.
       "Well so far I've counted 326...but that's only the first two pics. You can recount if you like." Flip answered turning the screen towards iheartjrock. "No thanks. I'll upload them on to my comp and count them then." iheartjrock replied giving an exaggerated sigh.
      "Hey here comes the big winner now."  Tooru announced pointing towards the elevator.
 "Hey guys...what do you think? Everything look okay." Jmusiclover asked walking over to the group and sitting down.
      "Yeah everything looks great. But J you do remember that this is just S.K.I.N right. The four crazy brother's. I don't think there's much to worry about appearance wise." Kei said. Her, Shintotchi, Rine-Tau and Jessie had been playing Jen-ga for some time now and were on their fifth round. "I know but that's just it. It's S.K.I.N. Nobody really knows what their like but the people who see them everyday. That's why I've asked  Chari to go with me. So I wouldn't be so nervous."  Jmusiclover admitted and that's when everybody noticed that Chari to had changed and done her make up and hair. 
    "Now wait. When did they say you could bring some one with you?" Seven asked looking a little confused.
 "They didn't. Chari and I already have it all planned out." Jmusiclover explained waving it off like it was nothing that she had invited a friend with her. " Yeah don't worry about it. We have it all planned out." Chari assured giving a small smirk and a wink towards everybody else. 
         "Why don't I get a good feeling about these?" Beauty asked leaning over too Tig3r and Servant777.
 "Cause we don't either." They both said in unison.

 "Another day, same weather." Beauty commented on for the fifth time in an hour while standing up and pulling hair blonde hair into a pony tail. "Why does it have to be so hot, and today of all days." Rena asked pulling out yet another rag from her bag and dabbing the sweat off of her face while perfecting her make up.
        "Well look at it this way, only two more hours before the concert starts." Beaver exclaimed in hopes to raise everyones spirits. But only received rolling eyes and long sighs. "There goes red car number five. "  Announced Seven, who had been counting red cars since six that morning.
      It was Jrock Revolution's Second concert and was once again held in L.A. in mid May. The line had started filling early on Monday morning for an event that was taken place on a Friday evening and was now wrapped around two blocks with people all over the world uniting to experience something that while maybe small and insignifant to some but to others meant acrossing over land and sea to see.
     A small group of friends had met up a few days before and through great planning and a dash of luck had managed to get within earshot of the front doors. Taking turns going to the hotel room for freshing up and other such necessities, they had managed to keep their good spot.
  Every one was excited and anxiously awaiting for those doors to open. It was like an electric spark that drove each and every person to the brink of insanity. "Man this side walks killing me, Kei want to come with me?" aoi asked standing up and strectching her legs.
     "Where you going?" Kei asked looking up and shading her eyes from the sun. 
   "Just for a drink." aoi answered checking her pockets for her wallet.
     "Why not, it's better then doing nothing out here." Kei agreed, standing up and strecthing a bit.
    "Hey count me in too." Berryy exclaimed pocketing her ipod.
       "Oh my gackt...she speaks!" Exclaimed tig3r in an exaggerated gasp.
    "Hahaha, very funny." Berryy retorted slapping tig3r on the shoulder.
 "Hey could you bring me back a water?" asked Rena who was digging in her pockets for money.
 'Yeah me too." Flip piped in raising her hand which was holding a five but never looking up from her laptop, which had captured the attention of every passer by due to the glitter out lined pics of J-Rockers.
        Taking the money from both Flip and Rena, Kei graciously said "Anything for the princesses."
 "You better watch yourself Kei, that's not an angel stare." Beaver pointed out which was followed by two empty soda bottles flying after Kei. Who was already out of reach and followed by aoi and Berryy.
 Finally unable to read any more of her book cause of the gimmicks of her fellow fans, JrockReality closed her book and started looking around at everyone else.  
 There was Tooru and Beauty having a whispered conversation over what looked to be a couple of drawings but to far to actually make out , Rine-Tau and Pulele hua who seemed to be absorbed in a magazine article, Beaver who was writing in her notebook, Seven was bent over what looked to be a sketch book. Getting stiff from sitting for so long JrockReality got up and walked over to Shintotchi and asked "What you doing?" 
Shintotchi looked up "Just drawing a pic of the concert."
  "Can I take a look?" JrockReality asked leaning over a little.
   'Yeah sure." Shintotchi replied adjusting the sketch pad so she could see it. The pic was of S.K.I.N playing on stage and a large crowd of cheering fans but a small group in the center crying. " That's funny, and probably true." JrockReality replied without noticing h-chan sneaking over and peeking at the drawing. "Ohhhh, yes I can see that happening." Which of course got the other two girls laughing and peeked the interest of everyone else so much that they didn't notice Servant777 sneak over to Pulele hua and Rine-Tau and sitting next to them to see what they were so absorbed in. 
         Looking over she saw a pic of Yoshiki and an interview underneath. "Again? How many times are you going to read that?" Servant777 asked.  "What? It's a really good interview." Rine-tau said in her and Pulele hua's defense.
      "Leave them alone Servant777, Since S.K.I.N came by yesterday with coffee for everyone that's all they've been doing." Tig3r announced in hopes to settle the endless discussion. Pulele hua looked up at this comment. "Oh yeah and what have you been doing but reading the S.K.I.N article all day."  Tig3r began a retort but was cut off by Seven with " Enough, we are all getting restless sitting here and will entertain ourselves in our own way."
       "Amen." Was replied in agreement by all.
 A few moments of silence went around while everyone went back to what they were doing. "It's finished!" Seven Silently whispered holding up her piece of paper for her own amusement. Reina snuck over and snatched Seven's drawing away then ran over to Tooru and Beauty who took the paper and began looking it over. Seven immediately got up and followed Reina over and was only beaten by Beaver who had jumped up to help retrieve the stolen sketch but was knocked bakward by Tooru who was attempting to get up. Beaver knocked into Seven who fell back and knocked Flip out of her chair and the chaos only ended after Beaver had managed to get up and was helping Seven and Flip back up with Flip muttering "Irresponsible, immature..." but was drowned out by Seven hollering "Give it back."  After taking a look at the glare on Beaver's face  Reina said " Calm down you can have it back, we just wanted  a looks-ie." Holding out the drawing. 
           "It's a drawing contest, No one's suppose to see it." Seven replied placing the drawing inside her folder for safe keeping. "We'll show you ours." Tooru offered holding out her drawing followed by Beauty doing the same. Beauty had a drawing of S.K.I.N on stage waving to the fans and Tooru had a pic of Yoshiki thrashing his drums and the other members of S.K.I.N still playing but moving out of the way. While Seven had a pic of Miyavi and Sugizo doing a guitar duet together. 
 A drawing contest had been announced on the S.K.I.N fan-site three days before with instructions to leave the drawings at the ticket booth and a winner would be chosen to go to dinner with them at the end of the  concert. When they we're scheduled to perform. Thanks to Flips continuous vigilance on watching the on-line news everybody waiting in line was able to come up with something in time.
        After everything had been settled and started calming down  a discussion began on what the bands were doing back stage and what preparations were being made for their performances. In which time aoi, Berryy and Kei returned with Flip's , Rena's and their drinks and settled down. After sometime of getting an idea of what was being talked about started slipping in their own thoughts and ideas about the whole thing.  
           "Do you think anybody else is going to come by?" asked aoi. Who was watching red convertible number six drive by.
 "Probably not today." Pulele Hua replied continuing to read and not really noticing the two people walking up the street.
          "Hey, thought we might run in to you all." Jessie said walking up to the group with TaishoTears.
 "Hey, where are you heading from?" Rine-Tau asked standing up and giving hugs which was followed by Everyone else. "We were just walking around seeing what was going on in the line."  TaishoTears answered while finishing her round of hugs. "Yeah we're actually just around the corner." Jessie explained
        "Did you hear about the drawing contest by S.K.I.N?"  Jessie asked.
 "Yep, thanks to Flip's constant instance on staying with her laptop." Seven said giving Flip a quick hug to assure her that she was just teasing. "Who else is suppose to keep you guys informed on updates and reports while we are in scorching L.A.?" Flip retorted returning Seven's hug.
         "That reminds me!" iheartjrock Exclaimed jumping up and taking off.
   'Where is she going?" Jessie asked giving everyone a quizzical look.
      "Who knows anymore." h-chan shrugged her shoulders going over to where her and iheartjrock were sitting and continued painting her nails.
       "Do you guys have any idea what Jmusiclover is up too?" TaishoTears asked looking concerned.
 " No why?"  Asked Tig3r.
      "Well we just saw her, Chari and Ana with three heavy looking boxes over at the gift box." Jessie explained with TaishoTears nodding to confirm their sighting.
       "No but she's been gone for nearly an hour, we've been getting concerned ourselves." Beauty piped in glancing over at the doors.
      "Ah well, she should be showing up here soon." Jessie replied giving Beauty and Tig3r a reassuring hug. 
 "Yeah you probably right. " Beauty said and Tig3r shook her head in agreement.
        "Well we're heading back. See you after the concert." TaishoTears said giving another round of hugs and then her and Jessie took off.  
        And sure enough five minutes later Jmusiclover, Chari and Ana all show up looking exhausted. 
 "Where did you three disappear to for so long?" Beauty asked.
        "Well J here decided she wanted to get every band member a gift." Ana explained collapsing on the floor while Chari took a seat on the arm of Flip's chair.
       "Not everybody." J started in her defense and then went straight into explanation "See originally I was just going to get a gift basket for Miyavi and Yoshiki but then figured why not for Sugizo and Gackt as well. Then I remembered this was Gazette's first time in  America  and so I got them each a basket and then remembered Pata, Heath and  Toshi were here to help out and so I got one for each of them as well. So it wasn't for everybody just a few people. " J finished completely out of breath but with a satisfied smile on her face.  "And how big were these gift basket's exactly?" asked servant777. 
        "Well they were only this big," J answered, extending her arms to full length "not that big really." 
 Everybody just kind of stared for a moment in disbelief until Berryy leaned over and whispered , none to quietly, in Reina's ear "Mad I tell you absolutely bleeping mad." In which Reina turned around and gave Berryy a small slap on the shoulder. Getting up she gave Jmusiclover a hug and said " I would have done the same thing given the chance."
           "Yeah, I'm sure they'll love them." Seven said patting her on the shoulder.
 Everyone agreed to that and began packing up thier stuff due to the Jrock Festival was fixing to start in Thirty minutes. Those who had things that they wanted to put up in the made a quick run to their hotel rooms. Most were back before anybody even noticed they were gone.  iheartjrock returned with what looked to be cards and explained they were for the bands and made a quick dash to the gift box before returning and joining everybody in line.
         All around you could feel the excitement rising. You could see people jumping up and down on the balls of their feet, anxious to see what this years concert would bring and what new stories could be told.  When the security guards came out and cleared a path to the ticket booth , a wave of cheering started up and echoed through the streets that was sure to be heard across tow