Like a Demon

Jayne woke late the next day to the sounds of laughter, and Dex begging and pleading for someone to stop Mei. She looked around and couldn’t remember where she was until she heard Kyo ranting about being hit with “Disgusting woman products”. After remembering that she was in Japan, in a hotel suite with Dir en Grey, she realized that this was not the room she was assigned to share with Ray, but Die’s.

She quickly got out of bed, thankful to find that she was still wearing her clothes from yesterday, and joined everyone else in the main room right as Mei combat rolled out from behind the couch, and threw a tampon at Dex, hitting him right between the eyes.

“He’s hit! Medic! MEDIC!” Drew howled, rushing to his side and pretending to care for a dying friend.

“Quick! Ray, he needs the medicine bag!” Karou laughed as Ray gave a sort of salute and ran to grab his backpack, and go to work to fix his downed friend.

“Shinya!” Mei shouted, pointing to the shirt that was on the table. The drummer nodded and ran to grab it, only to be tackled to the ground by Toshiya. Mei was going to grab the shirt, but was trapped by Drew, who had left Dex to protect the orange article of clothing.

“I LIVE!” Dex roared, making Ray giggle as he and Kaoru went to capture the sock that was hanging on the doorknob of Kyo’s room.

“HAH!” Die laughed, catching Dex by the arm and pinning him down as Shinya tripped Karou, sending him falling to the ground. However, Ray made it through and grabbed the sock, winning the game.

“What were you all doing?” Jayne laughed.

“Playing a game.” Die and Dex answered in their own languages as Mei frowned “Losing” and Drew grinned “Winning”. After that, it was renewed laughter until Kyo opened his door long enough to order them to silence.

“Sorry.” Jayne sighed, ending her laughter quickly and picking her son up, sniffing his head and making him giggle. “You, have already taken a bath.” She smirked in surprise. “With Man Shampoo!” he added excitedly, making everyone laugh as Die sat down on the couch beside them.

“Hmm… you smell just like Die…” she pondered, letting Ray giggle more thinking that she couldn’t figure out that he had used Die’s bathing supplies. The others in the room were smiling as well as she continued to try and solve the mystery of Ray’s new scent.

“Wait, you don’t just smell like Die,” she gasped, sniffing his armpit and making him laugh more, “You smell like… I don’t know… not Drew, not Dex… not Mei… not me…” she smirked, leaning over and sniffing Die’s pit, “DEFINITELY not Die…” Shinya probably laughed most at that comment, aside from Ray’s giggling.

“Who else let you borrow their things?” she questioned, finally “giving up”.

“Shinya, and Karou, and Toshiya!” he answered happily.

“We were going to let him use Kyo’s clothes, since they’re small enough, but he wanted to wear that outfit instead. He was very demanding over it.” Toshiya shrugged.

“Hah, that’s because we have that interview today.” She smiled, standing up and letting Ray sit where she was before.

“Why does he have to wear those clothes for us to do an interview?” Kaoru questioned, worried that he thought he was going to be on camera with them.

“Because we all wear similar clothes when we go somewhere that we can’t keep an eye on him. If you remember, we were all dressed in white pants, and the same Dir en Grey shirts when we first met, except Ray’s jacket.”

“So you will all be wearing black and green shirts, and black jeans?” Shinya asked, raising his brow.

“Pretty much. So if he gets lost, he can tell someone what we are all wearing, what we all look like, and things like that.” Mei shrugged.

“Yeah, but if he gets lost, we’re going to need a new manager.” Jayne smirked while heading to her shower.

When she was done she realized that she had made a huge mistake, and forgotten her clothes in her bag. When Mei had come in and taken her dirty clothes to be washed she hadn’t been thinking about the fact she would have nothing to wear when she was done.

She wrapped up in her towel, and opened the door to listen for the others. Luckily, all was silent, so she quickly headed to her room, rounding the corner and catching the corner of her towel on the guitar that was resting on a stand beside the couch. Overly thankful no one was around to see her fully exposed, she quickly covered herself and turned around, only to see Kyo sitting in a chair, staring at her with his mouth open, holding a notebook and pen.

“What?” she demanded, knowing that her blush was probably covering her entire body.

He just grunted and went back to writing in his notebook.

With a heavy sigh she quickly finished her trip to her room to get dressed. After taking her own sweet time putting on her black cargo pants, tight lime green tank, and black fishnet over-shirt, and brushing out her long hair so that she could regain her confident composure, she rejoined him in the living room with her head held high.

He rolled his eyes when he saw what she was wearing and smirked.

“What, you want me naked again?” she challenged, throwing him for a second before he answered.

“Drew and Toshiya made a bet that you would wear that. Toshiya doesn’t think you and Mei share a brain. Dex and Drew both say you do… obviously Toshiya is wrong.”

“She’s wearing this too? Figured. Dex is wearing his black jeans, and green shirt with black paint splattered on it, right?”

He nodded and raised his eyebrows.

“Drew is wearing black jeans, and black shirt, but with a green jacket, or a green shirt with a black jacket?”

“Green shirt, black jacket.”

“Mei is wearing this, but her black shirt is torn off to show her stomach, and used to be long sleeved, but she ripped the sleeves off.” She nodded.

“You planned your outfits together?”

“No, I just know my band. You can’t guess what your band will be wearing before you go on stage?”

“I don’t really care what they’re wearing. They could go naked.”

“You’d like that, wouldn’t you?” she smirked.

He was about to growl something at her when both of their phones buzzed, signaling a call for Kyo, and text for Jayne.

“Mother fuck, Dex!” she growled as Kyo started speaking rapidly to Kaoru. Jayne’s text was just a picture from Mei of Dex being arrested.

Seconds later, Shinya called her.

“Is he really getting arrested?” she demanded, not even bothering to greet him.

“No, it was a joke. But Kaoru and Toshiya didn’t know about it, and now Toshiya is calling your manager, and Kaoru is on the phone with Kyo, to get a hold of you. I just wanted to make sure you were okay, and not worried about him.”

“He’s dead!” She laughed loudly, making Kyo jump as her voice squeaked around the room.

Shinya jumped too, since she squeaked directly into his ear, earning strange looks from everyone around him as he quickly recovered. “They were going to let you think that he was in prison, and unable to make the interview, or go on tour.” He informed.

“Well, they’ll get what’s coming to them. Hurry up with the food, I’m starving and Kyo won’t help me.”

“Why not?”

“Because, he’s mean.” She pouted with a laugh, making sure Kyo heard her and earning another muttered insult before he returned to his conversation with Kaoru.

“We are on our way back. Ray misses you, and is pleading for me to tell you he says hello.” He laughed.

“Hi baby!”

“She says ‘hi baby’.”

“I’m not a baby.” He pouted, and continued to walk with Dex and Toshiya, ignoring Shinya until they returned to the hotel.

“Ray, get your bag ready. We’re leaving soon!” Jayne ordered after their lunch. “Okay Mama!” he beamed and took off to stuff his bag full of cars, coloring books, and snacks. When he got done, he grabbed Mei’s hand and followed the bands off to their interview.

“I’ve never been on TV before… what’s it like?” Jayne asked Karou worriedly as they sat waiting for the show to begin.

“Very simple. We sit, they ask questions, and we answer them. There is nothing to worry about.” He answered, not really noticing how on edge she was.

“INTERNATIONALLY LIVE?!” Dex demanded in a half whine, half shout, turning white as a ghost.

“Yes, this show is broadcasted internationally, and live. Drew you’re speaking only in Japanese.” Robert answered. Jayne’s nerves got worse with that knowledge, leaving her looking up at Karou with the most pleading of expressions.

“It’s really that simple, just answering questions? What if I mess up my words, and say something wrong? Or make you guys look bad somehow?”

“You will do fine. This is the easiest part of being in a band.” Die laughed.

“Mama!” Ray called, handing her the rock he had given her the night they opened for Dir en Grey. “Do I wear plugs?” he questioned with a frown as Robert announced the interview was about to start.

“Not this time. Stay with Robert, don’t go anywhere you can’t see him. Understand me?”

“Yes Mama. I love you!” he beamed, hugging her tightly before she and her band followed Dir en Grey onto the set to the sound of applause and cheering.