2025-07-01: Put Your Hips Into It
- Log: Put Your Hips Into It
- Cast: Eikichi Mishina, Ichika Kawase
- Where: Sumaru Prison, Hirasaka Ward, Sumaru City
- OOC Date: July 01, 2025
- IC Date: June 03, 2012
- Summary: Ichika drops by the Prison just in time to see Eikichi and his band practicing. ...Their moves, naturally. Eikichi and Ichika have a chance to catch up after the festival.
<Pose Tracker> Eikichi Mishina has posed.
Sumaru Prison. Once a conveniently located prison, the building has seen better days and use. How this dilapidated space ended up as teen hang is a story for another day. The biggest draw is a stage that had been set up just for a certain group of delinquents to use.
"Right! Today we need to work on our poses guys"
"We need to practice boss" Takeshi says from the drum set, leaning over to give the boss a look of concern for how bad they were going to look.
"Nonsense! You guys are practicing on your own right? We'll be fine! So fine so sexy in fact!" Eikichi grins, throwning out his butt as he poses sensually for the boys. He is sure this show is going to rock just as he is sure he has the talent to become a rock god.
The blue haired punk finds a bench to park his butt as he looks over the group on stage. "You guys are worrying too damn much!"
"Eikichi, we should probably practice as a group...Don't bands need to jam out together."
"Bands also need to pack a powerful punch! WAM! BAM!" Clearly inspired, Eikichi clenches his fist, throwing it out triumphally. "We need to wow them. There are a billion bands and some of them are girls. I mean I can compete with them but can you, Ken? Hmmm? So we do this and we do it loud and proud! We really get the audience to love us and we'll be on our way. Now pose."
The other punks sigh as they do their best 'Eikichi style' pose.
<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
Ichika was going to hang out with Mahiro today--but some gang business came up for him, and he had to go. Maybe he'll be able to meet up later, maybe not... But Ichika Kawase is left without her PLANS closer to the SCHOOL, which means of course--if she's going to be out, she might as well be out somewhere interesting.
She spends time at Sumaru Prison too, just like a lot of Kasugayama students, and today is no exception. So it is that a GIRL arrives at the area in front of the stage, Ichika stepping down into the floor.
She's dressed as per usual for a sunday--a skull-marked tanktop that shows her midriff, baggy green cargo pants, sneakers, makeup. It takes a lot of work to look good. Her bleached hair is just part of that; she's also probably the tallest girl at Kasugayama... and if not, she's close.
"Some of them are girls," she agrees.
Then a beat, "Hey, Boss. Keeping up morale?"
She steps further along, towards the bench. "I definitely want to be 'wowed'."
<Pose Tracker> Eikichi Mishina has posed.
"See?!" Eikichi gestured at Ichika and nods. "So practice those poses already!" He clears a space for Ichika, nodding again. "How you doing Kawase? What brings you to our not so humble little practice?" The Death Boss grins, looking back to the stage for a moment. "Damnit, Shogo! Hips at an angle! You want the women to swoon! Like 'OH MY GOD WHO IS THAT HUNK?' and they might mean me...But I am spoken for!.. so we gotta get you to my level. ANGLE THEM HIPS!"
"I'm gonna fall if I----woah!!! AH" Shogo falls, taking Ken and Takeshi with him. Eikichi stares for a moment before sighing.
There is a pause before Eikichi stands. "Ok! Guys take a breather. We're getting there but more sensuality!"
"Yeah yeah, boss. We're gonna go get drinks."
"Get me a water if you can and try to do it in a way that wows people." Eikichi sighs again before laughing. "Progress is a slow thing but we are going to make this a show to remember."
FOOD
<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
"Good," Ichika answers. "Gotou had some business to take care of," she answers, "So I'm on my own 'til he's done. I thought it'd be more fun waiting here. Looks like I was right."
Watching a bunch of boys pose with hip-angles trying to make women swoon is definitely more fun than dropping by a cafe or something.
"Hmmm. At least the outfits are working..."
A smile, then. A water, with wowing. Ichika appreciates that Eikichi always wants to do his best; it's part of why she isn't inclined to push him.
"I'm good," she says to forestall any offers. But, "I'm looking forward to it," she says instead of the concert. "I was going to go with my guy," she says, the one relevant, "But I might bring my sister, too. You met her the other day--she's really into music."
"Not that she spends a lot of time out here--she's got a nice thing going out in Tatsumi. But still."
<Pose Tracker> Eikichi Mishina has posed.
"Heh. Is that right?" Eikichi says as he looks back to the now empty stage. "Yeah, we still have a ways to go but we've been practicing our asses off tryin' to get this dream off the ground." He hears mention of the outfits and grins. "Right? The school theater club is loaning us some stuff. After I had a talk with their director, we got free reign..."Eikichi leaves out the fact that they were scared of him...a lot of people were for some reason.
"Your sister seems like a good kid so yeah bring her! Especially if she's into music! I'm eager to hear what she thinks." Eikichi says, completely missing how this could backfire. After all, he was sure Gas Chamber was going to sky rocket after this show.
Tatsumi is nice but that's a long train ride isn't it?"
<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
A dream... It's really something, to see a dream out of someone at Kasugayama. Ichika admires that. She has trouble relating, ,though.
"Oh, that's where they came from?" she wonders. "Nice." She imagines, for a moment, Eikichi and the director. She laughs a little. "Well, that's good," she says. "Always nice when the clubs contribute."
But her sister? "She is. She's not trouble like a lot of us are--she's got good grades, goes to a nice school... She plays piano and guitar, too. If you want feedback, she's serious about it."
She misses how it could backfire, too.
"Yeah," Ichika says. "That's why I stay in the dorms, instead of back with our parents. ...Too far to commute for school every day. She was over here early so I could help her with her yukata, instead of having to sweat it out on the train in it."
"Festival was nice, right?"
<Pose Tracker> Eikichi Mishina has posed.
Yeah, a dream to come out of Kasu was a rare thing but Eikichi was one of a kind. He is going to see this until the end. Maybe past Kasugayama. He isn't sure yet.
"Yeah we have quite a few organizations contributing thanks to Kasu's community. Maybe not the Student Council but those guys are kinda...you know." Eikichi imagines the Student Council President and frowns hard. He doesn't hate the guy but he finds the Council President to be..kinda a jerk.
"So she has a lot of training. That's awesome but how are you going to live that rocker lifestyle without a little trouble?" Eikichi thinks for a moment, letting out another sigh. "Still I wish I could've had some of those lessons. Everything we're doing is self taught....except Shogo. I think he learned a little piano when he was a kid."
"Yeah Festival was great! You don't get to dress up that much..."
"Yeah I had Miyabi help me before she had to go to the Newspaper Clubs thing. Shame. She would've looked amazing in a Yukata...Ah well. Next time for sure."
"So hows the gang? I've been too busy to check up on things but then again when you're at the top, only so much you can do without causing a stink."
<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
"...yeah," Ichika agrees, thinking of her relationship with the student council. "Jinushi-san's OK," she says, referring to the Secretary, "But you kinda get the idea she's always watching."
"Guess that's true," Ichika admits of the rocker lifestyle. "Yeah, we grew up pretty lucky on stuff like that. ...They'd have given me lessons too, but I never had the talent." A pause. "Oh, yeah? That's useful." Piano!
"You really don't," Ichika agrees, but Miyabi? "She would've. You've got a pretty one, Boss." She likes Miyabi. It helps that Miyabi doesn't spill her secrets, even though Ichika's pretty sure she knows a number of them. "How's she doing?"
But the gang is a question. "Good," she says. "Nobody gave us trouble after all after the festival, so that was nice. Tsubasa-kun I'm hoping to get to see some art this guy's doing--You know the son of the dry cleaning guy does tags? I didn't." A beat, "Same stuff as usual, otherwise. Kato's just been away with her boyfriend ...Yeah. People get nervous when you come around."
<Pose Tracker> Eikichi Mishina has posed.
"Those guys think of us as the troublesome peasantry. Especially that Inoue guy. But yeah, Jinushi-san is ok just part of that mess, ya know?" Eikichi places a hand under his chin in thought. "But I guess that's Kasu for you."
"Eh. you were meant for different things. Like knocking heads together. Nothing wrong with taking a different path from your sister."
Upon hearing her name, a stupid smile comes to Eikichi as he thinks about Miyabi. "She's doing good. Just busy. She'll occasionally come here to see us practice and maybe bring some snacks for the fellas and me." He relaxes some, crossing his legs as he leans back on the bench.
"That's good...I didn't know that. I should check out his work and get some inspiration for my own work...Heh, it's tough being the boss. Sometimes you just want to be normal...but I gotta keep these knuckleheads in line or the whole place would fall apart. Which is why it's good to have gangs like yours over some of these other chumps who just like to give me a headache. Kawase, I don't have to have grey hairs from stress! I'm too pretty!"
<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
"I don't like him either," Ichika answers of Inoue. "He's a creep. Don't think I don't notice the way he stares at me." A shake of her head. "Guess so. If it were perfect, it wouldn't be ours."
"...Heh," Ichika vocalizes. She's not sure how she feels about knocking heads together as a 'path', but... it's true that she does have a talent for it. "Yeah," she answers. "We've got our own ways."
That stupid smile is part of Eikichi's charm--the way he's so clearly smitten with his girlfriend. "That's nice of her," she says. "Everybody loves snacks."
He didn't. "You should! He's really good. I figured an 'adult' would've been done with all this by now, but no,, he still does it."
The boss... Ichika gets it to an extent--she is a boss, after all. "I think you'd be bored with 'normal'," Ichika points out. Then she laughs. "Well, I do my best. I'd rather have someone like you running the show than someone who's going to tell me what I'm allowed to get up to. I know Gotou feels the same."
Then she smiles. "Confidence is sexy. I guess she's lucky too."
Then she considers, a moment. "So the show's going to be pretty big, huh? You're really going all-out for it. I wonder if we'll get other schools showing up..."
<Pose Tracker> Eikichi Mishina has posed.
"He stares at you?" Eikichi's face grows serious for a moment. "Tch, better not do that when I'm around. I expect my school to be filled with gentlemen...well gentlemenish. You know how everyone is at Kasu...Point is, let me know if it's a problem and I'll handle it."
Eikichi can already picture Inoue slimey little face trying to talk him down. It would not be the first time he's had to have a 'talk' with that particular asshole. Even if he doesn't get physical, Eikichi knows how to deal with Inoue using just words if he has to.
"Yeah. Maybe normal isn't really what I meant. I guess it's that ol wondering how life could be different...Heh, yeah I run a tight ship, don't I? Probably good that I do too since I can't imagine how a lot of these guys would function without some sort of order. I heard stories of what this place was like before I got here and well...sounds more like what this place used to be." Eikichi gestures around at the Prison, catching a glance at one of the vacant cells. Most of which were functionless, lest some teenager lock themselves in accidently...again. It probably happened at least once.
"You're damn right it is and no one is as sexy as moi"
"I wouldn't put it past some other schools to show up eventually. I'm going to make Gas Chamber into the band that rose from the ashes of Kasugayama High School. Bet Gekkoukan doesn't have something like that." Eikichi laughs triumphally, sweeping his hair back with quick slide of his hand.
<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
"Yeah," Ichika says. "It's not like I mind if a guy looks, but he's creepy about it." A pause. "...It's fine," she says. "Nothing I can't handle just now." If she lets Eikichi handle it for her, she might look bad. Still, "But I'll let you know if that changes."
Inoue sucks. That much is sure.
The wondering... Hmm. "You always wonder," Ichika says, in the 'general' you. "I do, for sure."
"Agreed," Ichika says. "It could be a lot worse. ...I didn't really see it the old way," since she only came in winter term last year, "But I think that's better off."
The prison how it was. ...Ichika has been in some of these cells before, too. Just here. Luckily she hasn't been locked in. ...But she's heard the rumors of people who have.
Ichika smiles about being right, there.
"Hmm..." She considers. "...if Sevens shows up," she says, "I wanna be on the other side of the place. I've got..." She shakes her head. "I don't want to see some of the people at Sevens."
The ashes, is it? Ichika nods. "But that sounds good to me. ...People may get down on us," she says, thinking of a girl from earlier, "But we do more than OK."
<Pose Tracker> Eikichi Mishina has posed.
"Yeah, lemme know if becomes an issue." Eikichi says as he takes a look at Ichika. Miyabi mentioned a past with her but left out the details...Something he didn't need since prying wasn't his style. He knew she wasn't lying which was all he cared about.
"Avoiding Sevens. Got it." Eikichi doesn't question her request since the Prison was huge and avoiding a school wasn't unheard of for people at Kasu. There were all sorts of grudges and prejudices that Eikichi could barely keep track of. "I mean depending on the crowd we might not even know who is here."
"Yeah, we do pretty good when we put our muscles in it. We might not have the scenery of Gekkoukan or the prestige of Seven Sisters but we got a lot of heart and guts."
<Pose Tracker> Ichika Kawase has posed.
Ichika nods. She doesn't say more about that for now--but she does notice Eikichi's scrutiny. ...Some people would take issue with a younger guy being the Boss, but... Ichika doesn't mind it. She certainly doesn't want to do it herself.
"That's... true," Ichika admits. She's not sure she likes the idea of not knowing if the person she's thinking of is here. But, there's nothing for it for now.
"That's right," she says. "Heart and guts. That's what counts for us."
Her phone goes 'beep beep' then, and Ichika says, "Sec, Boss." She pulls it out and checks her message and...
"There we go, that's my guy. He wants to meet up after all." A smile. "Good luck with practice. Tell 'em there's lots of girls out there who'll be watching."
Ichika waves, and starts to move back up the arena floor towards the exit.
<Pose Tracker> Eikichi Mishina has posed.
"I'll let the fellas know! They need to get girls of their own so my gal can stop making them snacks!" Eikichi grins and waves as he watches Kawase make her way out of the Prison. He stands, looking around his venue for a moment. He wants to picture a crowd of screaming fans but there is a little voice in the back of his head that doubts it. Eikichi shoves that voice down for the moment as he throws out his arms and spins once. "This is going to rock!!"