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Gig.2: Meetings: Fake Bonds Part I

Two days after Kurogane obtained the MusicDriver and transformed into Musician and fought against his old bandmates, turned monster: Red Wrecker aka Rin, Shocksounder aka Kyou and Electrod aka Akashi and won, Akane let Kurogane live with her and Tsubasa in the Inosaki Mansion since he was homeless, including Ryuko and Koji, which Tsubasa reluctantly agreed to.

Kurogane and Koji had gotten the guest room which was extremely larger than they expected. It was like the size of a man cave, no, that was an understatement, it was like a penthouse. Their room was littered with comic books, music notebooks, two large Queen Size beds, wall pictures of girls in skimpy, revealing bikinis (those were Koji's, Kurogane was more of a gentleman and less of a pervert), a Foosball table, old arcade machines that were in quite perfect condition, and a dartboard. On Kurogane's side, he had a whole collection of different types of guitars and a perfectly handcrafted ukulele on his best, which he played to ease his mind to sleep and three record albums on the wall that contained his favorite songs from his favorites band: The Beatles. On Koji's side of the room, Koji had a collection of pianos and both of them had two soda machines and snack machines. Each of the boys had desks and new laptops, an enormous red sofa, a swimming pool and Jacuzzi in their rooms and a large Flat screen TV on the wall. It was like a boy's heaven in there.

At the moment Kurogane was writing a new song for his band: The Masked Riderz to perform at the House of Players tomorrow night. He was still stuck on the chorus and Koji was annoying him to no end.

"Come on, Kurogane, for the last time, can I please use your belt, just one time alright," Koji pleaded as he tried to snatch the Music Driver from Kurogane, who was strumming on his guitar, writing a new song for their band. Kurogane, of course, wasn't budging, "Just once…will you please…?"

"I already said no, Koji, this is my rider belt, not some plastic toy. This is the key to fending off the Scream and I think you can't use it anyways," Kurogane stated as he plucked the strings on his guitar.

He began to sing, "I was down in the dump, didn't know what to do. I was defeated, couldn't even see the blind truth. "

He stopped singing once he heard Koji groaning loudly. Koji was pretty pissed that he couldn't put on Kurogane's MusicDriver and try it out, but then an idea popped into his devious head.

Koji pretended like he was going to go get a comic book near Kurogane and quickly snatched Kurogane's MusicDriver and looked at it in wonder and excitement, "Sugoi…I can't believe this…"

"Oi, Koji! What did I just say to you?" Kurogane roared as he leapt up out of his seat and went to tackle Koji to ground for the Driver.

Koji put it behind him and moved out of the way; letting Kurogane trip and fall onto the soft carpet that cushioned his hard fall.

"It's too late Kurogane! Henshin…!" Koji shouted, placing the MusicDriver on his waist. Of course, it didn't appear around his waist after he slammed it on his waist.

"Huh, what the hell… c'mon, is this thing is broken or defective?!" Koji shouted loudly as he kept placing the MusicDriver on his waist, but it was futile.

"Just give it to me Koji!" Kurogane shouted, snatching the MusicDriver back from Koji, "Do I have to repeat it again, this is not a toy. The Driver is supposed to be used by the rightful user of it, which it recognized it was me," Kurogane stated as he carefully placed the MusicDriver on his waist, and the belt worked on the first try.

"Mou… I want to be a Kamen Rider like you," Koji said as he jumped backwards on his messed up bed.

Kurogane sat back in his spinning chair near his desk, "Koji, look dude, I'm sorry, but do you know how serious it is to be a Rider?"

"Yeah… you're right," Koji admitted as he picked up his signature bass and started playing it. "You know… maybe I can watch you transform; don't worry, it'll just be one time," Koji asked nicely, thinking about how cool it would be to see Kurogane transform into Musician in front of him.

"No, Koji. I don't want to play with the Driver. Besides the spirits are asleep and Aka-Aka wouldn't want me to be playing around like that with the belt," Kurogane said.

"Come on dude," Koji asked as he stopped playing his bass, looking up at Kurogane, "Just once, it won't kill you."

Kurogane really needed to finish this song and Koji just wouldn't let him. He sighed as he agreed to it, "Fine, fine, just once and you have to stop bugging me so I can finish our song, deal?"

Koji's face lit up with glee, "Sure, sure, just transform already! Go Kamen Rider Musician!"

Kurogane chuckled at Koji, "Fine… but don't be so loud… you are going to wake up the spirits,"

"Whatever," Koji whispered happily.

Kurogane drew his MusicDriver and placed it on his waist, letting it extend all the way around his waist. He grabbed his red guitarpick from the left side of the belt and flipped it into the air like Eiji does from Kamen Rider OOO. He caught it with ease with his left hand and looked at Koji with a serious face, "Let's Rock!"

Kurogane strummed a harmonic tune and slid the red guitarpick forward and cried, 'Henshin!' and then he pulled it back and transformed into Kamen Rider Musician.

GUITAR FORM!

He cracked his knuckles and neck as he prepared to say his catchphrase, "It's time to rock out, wouldn't you say?"

Koji squealed in excitement. He felt like he was about to pass out from the excitement that built up within him.

"You're so awesome, Kurogane!" Koji said as he jumped up and down around Kurogane. Koji was such a child…

Musician chuckled. "Well since I'm in my armor, maybe I could play around for a little bit!"

"Yeah, that's the spirit. Relax a little," Koji encouraged as he admired Musician's crimson red armor.

"Yeah," Musician unsheathed his red Gibson guitar and started swinging it around, "Red Wrecker… prepare to meet your end with the power of music! Hi-yah!"

Musician began thinking of his first fight with Red Wrecker, Shocksounder and Electrod. He started swinging the guitar around and slashing thin air. He then imagined Red Wrecker was about to slash him, and he dodged it and kicked him, in reality, mistakenly kicking Koji, knocking him to the ground. Musician was too busy air fighting to notice him on the floor, unconscious upon contact with Musician's foot.

Musician did several backflips, knocking over the desk that held their comic books, splattering them all on the floor and breaking the desk.

He then flipped the guitar in front of him and strummed, "Guitar Wave! Let's Rock!" Upon saying that, he knocked over Koji's treasured posters, smashing some of them. He then rose his foot up and then slammed it down in front of him, smashing half of his guitar collection. He then dodged an imaginary electric blast and hit their large Flat screen TV, leaving a huge hole in it. Lastly, he drew the golden guitarpick from the right side and he strummed it across on the MusicDriver. He began to spin into the air, until he stopped at a certain point. He then extended his leg and held his hand out as he prepared to launch the kick right into the two.

"Let's rock!" Musician flew down with grace and swiftness and crashed through the door to their room, going right it and sticking the landing. A huge explosion occurred he smashed a hole through their door as he said his victorious words, "Game Over!"

Musician laughed. He had won the battle and defeated the monstrous trio… or so he thought. He withdrew the MusicDriver and his armor vanished and reverted back to his normal human form.

"Well, are you happy now Koji?" asked Kurogane.

He got no reply.

"Koji…Koji, why aren't you…?" Kurogane turned around to see Koji on the floor, unconscious and the room basically ruined because of him. Kurogane's eyes widened in horror.

"Oh… no… Akane's going to kill me. Then Tsubasa's going to revive me and kill me another time!" Kurogane began to panic as he thought of ways to hide this from Akane.

"Oi vey… I mind as well dig my grave now," sighed Kurogane. He came up with nothing.

=== Musician ===

After Musician's first battle with the heavy metal band trio, Ryuko decided to move in with Akane. Today, Akane had helped Ryuko unpack and set up her side of the room. She had to admit, she was happy with the product. She smiled at Akane.

"Well, we're finally finished setting up your side," Akane stated as she smiled at Ryuko.

The room was large as Kurogane and Koji's room, if not larger. There room had two bunk beds. The first one was where Akane and Ryuko slept and the other one is where they kept Ryuko's empty boxes. They had a master closet that they could just walk in and access a whole library of clothing, kind of like the Gaia Library. There were two desks, both of them containing Akane's laptop and Ryuko's laptop. They had a huge mirror and a whole makeup counter and a huge pink TV on the wall. Ryuko had an orange lounge chair and Akane had a library of books near her bed that she liked to read. They also had an indoor pool and Jacuzzi like the boys. Near the door they had an old, yet working jukebox and a sundae maker by the TV.

Ryuko smiled at Akane, "Thank you for helping me move in here."

"Don't worry about it. I mean, we're friends now and friends help out each other, right?" Akane replied, giving Ryuko a thumbs-up and her signature cherry smile.

"So, how do you think Kurogane is doing? I mean, he has been through a lot in just two days," asked Ryuko.

Akane sighed, "Yeah, you're right. He has been chosen to protect humanity, forever changing his life. He could die too…"

They stood there in silence for a while. Ryuko broke the silence.

"Hey, don't worry about him. He'll be alright. He's tough…"

Akane stood there silent. She then smelt something burning. She looked at Ryuko.

"Do you smell that?" Akane asked.

"Yeah," Ryuko asked.

The two nodded to each other and ran out of there room. They ran down the hall and made a right and saw where the smoke was coming from. It was coming from Kurogane and Koji's room door. It had been knocked off and fire was on it from Musician's Rider Kick.

"What…the…hell happened!?" roared Akane as she stomped into their room. Kurogane was knelt down on the floor, slapping Koji in the face until he woke up. "K-K-Koji, wake up," Kurogane whispered anxiously. He turned around once he heard Akane's angry voice.

"H-H-Hey there, A-Aka-Akane," Kurogane stuttered.

Akane's mouth gaped open when she saw the extremely damaged room. "WHO CAUSED THIS MESS!?"

Her voice was so loud that it caused Koji to wake up. Koji looked at Kurogane, "Hey, dude… what happened?"

"Now's not the time," Kurogane answered as he pointed at Akane. Akane started stomping towards Kurogane, scaring him beyond words. He closed his eyes as he prepared to face Akane's wrath. Seconds passed by and Kurogane thought he'd gotten off the hook when...

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…

…

WHACK!

"Iteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…!"

=== Red ===

- *cue Opening #1: 200 Miles by Jang Geun Suk* -

=== Yellow ===

*cue Episode Title: Gig.2: Meetings: Fake Bonds Part I*

=== Blue ===

"How many times do I have to say sorry," Kurogane asked as he and the others were doing some heavy shopping at the local mall. He was carrying about ten large bags full of clothes.

"Sorry is not going to cut it," Akane huffed, "You shouldn't have been playing around with your powers."

Koji decided to step in, "Akane, it's not his fault. I was the one who kept pestering him and I pressured him into doing it."

"So you made him destroy the room?" Akane asked.

"Well…no…" Koji answered.

"Then it is his fault."

Ryuko hit Kurogane in the head, "What was going through your head when you were destroying the room?"

Kurogane stared sheepishly, "I was imagining myself fighting."

"So foolish," Tsubasa commented harshly.

"Agreed," Ryuko replied.

"Don't be so hard on him," Koji stated.

As the five walked through the mall, Kurogane began to ponder on whether he should work to earn money. He felt guilty for ruining the room that Akane gave to him. She was letting him live with them and he went and ruined the room because he was playing around. That was until an idea popped into his head, "Akane-chan! How about I get a part-time job to help and pay for all of the damages I caused."

"You have to be joking if you think that getting a part-time job is going to make up for a million dollar room," Tsubasa laughed.

"It's do-able Tsubasa," Koji frowned before turning to Kurogane, "And I'll help him do it since it was somewhat my fault as well."

"Thanks Koji," Kurogane smiled.

Suddenly, the five colored musical spirits appeared from Kurogane's MusicDriver and flew around Kurogane. "What's with all of the noise?" Aka-Aka asked while stretching his long red body.

"Good morning guys, we're just about to head off and go find a job," Koji answered.

"What for?" asked Ki-Ki.

"We'll tell you on the way," Kurogane said.

Ryuko was shocked, "You're going now! Come on, you guys can't be serious about getting part time jobs, can you?"

Kurogane chuckled, "Hey, you know I never go back on my word, Ryuko," Kurogane through the bags he was holding at Tsubasa, who barely caught every bag.

Koji did the same, but he threw his bags to Ryuko, who caught them with ease unlike the young butler, "Sorry Ryuko-chan! I gotta go too!"

With that, Kurogane and Koji ran off to complete their goal that they had set together, leaving a baffled Akane and an angry Tsubasa and Ryuko.

"Those bastards! They'd be get back here!" Tsubasa shouted.

=== Black ===

While our heroes were doing their thing, our story pans to the next scene.

"I know you can feel my pain… when the stage came crashing down. Tearing through my skin, everything, I felt defeated. Blood flying through the night, fists pumping! Dark demons rising in the name of HEAVY METAL! YEAH! HEAVY METAL! YEAH! HEAVY METAL! RAZOR SHARP BLADE CUTTING INTO MY BRAIN! POUNDING ME EVER SO LIGHTLY!" shouted Red Wreaker.

"Yes, finally!" cried Arfione, shouting through all the loud playing and screaming coming from his band he recently owned, Metallica. Shocksounder was strumming so loudly that Arfione's ears almost popped and began to bleed. Upon hearing their manager's voice, Red Wreaker, Shocksounder and Electrod stopped playing and put their attention to him.

"What's going on?" asked Electrod.

"Red Wreaker… please watch the loudness in your voice. You'll make everyone deaf and then our band wouldn't have even fans at all and we would be a failure," Arfione replied.

"Yes Manager-san," Red Wreaker replied respectfully.

"Now that, that's taken care of, I wanted to show you guys something. You'll love it," Arfione said, "Shocksounder, come over here on the stage and play the power chord Dm slowly."

Soundshocker raised an eyebrow, "What for?"

Arfione growled, "Don't ask questions! Just obey my orders!"

Soundshocker immediately obeyed after hearing the hint of seriousness in his manager's voice. Shocksounder stepped on the stage and the lights beamed. Arfione went backstage for a second and booted up his recently built monster chamber, which creates monster after Soundshocker plays a power chord on his guitar. The Metallica band members watched as Shocksounder began playing the tone. After a moment, the band members hear the crackling of electric.

The band members gasped as a monster appeared from behind the stage. It was a humanoid monster that took the appearance of a dog from hell… A Hellhound, with black horns and he wielded two purple drum sticks. It's color was black and it had skeleton-body parts all over him and it had blue shimmering eyes. His breathing was hard and smoke erupted from his mouth.

"Everyone, this is Drum Scream," said Arfione, "He's going out to seek a new victim."

The Metallica band members nodded as they looked at the awesome, threatening monster. Hound Scream laughed manically as he jumped off the stage and pounded a nearby rock. They immediately split in two upon contact with the demon drumsticks.

"Great. Drum Scream, head down to the Shibuya District. I sense a vulnerable Target there," said Arfione.

Drum Scream nodded respectfully and went to leave their cave headquarters, but not before Arfione grabbed his shoulder. He turned around and saw Arfione giving him a serious look.

"Before you leave, I would like to give a piece of knowledge. To summon the Headbangers, just do a simple flick of your wrist and they'll be your loyal servants and aid you in facing Musician since he will most likely show up to ruin our plans."

With that, Drum Scream marched off and disappeared off to the Shibuya district.

=== Pink ===

"Pink! Blue! Go on! Fight, fight, fight!" Kurogane sang while strumming his guitar, "Black! Yellow! Go on! Fight, fight, fight! Red, go on, fight!"

"Eh, that's kind of a good start," Koji said.

At the moment, Kurogane and Koji were wandering in the crowded streets of Shibuya, going job hunting to make up the money to repair their room. Kurogane decided to bring his guitar since he needed to prepare a song for the House of Players.

Mo-Mo giggled, "That's a good tune, Kurogane."

"Yeah, just keep on expanding on it and it'll be a big hit at the House of Players tomorrow night," Aoi-Aoi smiled as he floated around Koji.

"Thanks, but I might not have it finished by tomorrow since I'm in desperate need for a job," Kurogane sighed.

"Oh yeah. You never did tell us what happened this morning," Ki-Ki said. Kurogane began to explain what happened and boy did the spirits get a kick out of it.

"Hahaha, I can't believe you pretending you were fighting the Scream. You must have a serious case of chunnibyou!" Koji replied with a laugh.

"Hey, I'm not like how I was in middle school anymore. I don't swing my father's guitar around, shouting 'Guitar Lord Metronome!" Kurogane blushed, remembering the days when he was a kid and how he used to imagine himself wearing a cool black and red cloak with a red guitar as his weapon.

"Wait, what kind of job are you two looking for?" asked Kuro-Kuro while flying above them in the air. Almost as if purposely, a man's voice was heard from somewhere close around the two boys.

"Looking for wanted help! We are low on workers! We here at Kai's Odd Jobs need your help!"

Kurogane and Koji spun around and saw a man wearing an all-blue jumpsuit and cap with the words "Kai's Odd Jobs!" planted on it. He was waving a white "Help Wanted!" sign. Koji grinned, "I think Kami has just blessed us. Let's go check it out, Kurogane-san!"

Kurogane nodded and he followed closely behind Koji. However, in the corner of his eye, he saw a short boy with an orange basketball running through the crowd of people. He could've sworn he saw a tear drop from his left eye and tiny tattoo on the back of his neck…

=== Musician ===

Those bastards… they don't understand the pressure that ways down on my shoulders… DAMN THEM ALL! The little boy thought by themselves.

The little boy that Kurogane had seen at the corner of his eyes, looked to be at least ten and had shaggy black hair and wore black shorts and white sneakers. He had made it into a nearby alleyway, which was full of garbage, weird and filthy odors and some stray cats. The little boy soon stopped walking in the middle of the alley. He looked to his left and saw a upside down cardboard box and a stray cat, who was eating some week old canned tuna-flavored cat food.

The boy sat down on the cardboard box, beside the cat and picked him up in his arms after tucking his basketball between his legs. He cradled the furry cat while he wiped his face, which was streaming with tears.

"I tried…. I tried my hardest to get into the junior high basketball club… but I couldn't do it. I'm sorry I'm such a failure… such a disappointment, Otou-san…" The boy thought.

The cat cuddled in the boy's arms, taking in all of his warmth. The boy smiled at the cat and petted his head gently and with care, "You're just like me… trying your best to make it and survive in this harsh, cruel planet we call Earth."

Suddenly, he began to reminisce on an event that took place in his life…

=== Red ===

"Slam… DUNK!" A childish, male voice cried out.

BAM!

"Iteeeeeeeeeee!" The boy who just cried in pain was the same boy from before, but he was younger. Three years younger. He was currently at the basketball park, practicing his lay-ups, dunks and perfecting his free throws. However, as you could see, he was failing miserably at the dunks and lay-ups part. But his free-throws were already mastered at this point.

"Dammit. I wish I wasn't so short," The boy sighed, "Then I'd be able to reach the hoop easily."

He lifted himself off the ground and ran towards the basketball that was below and next to the hoop. He bent down to his knees to pick it up, but a hand grabbed the ball before him.

The boy looked up and his face turned to a look of horror and fear. In front of him were three kids. There was a chubby kid, a lanky kid and a tall muscular boy. They were all smiling maliciously, giving off a killer intent towards the boy.

"If it isn't Kazuma back again to practice when he know he can never be than us," The chubby kid cackled, cracking his knuckles.

The short boy, now known as Kazuma, stood up after getting over his fear and reached out for his basketball, only for the tall muscular boy to reach the ball over Kazuma's head.

The tall muscular boy grinned, "How about you reach for the ball? Or are you that short that you can't get it?"

Kazuma growled at the boy. He clenched his fists together before jumping up to catch the ball, but barely touching it. He kept on trying several times, until he got sick and tired of it and stopped to look at the boys who were laughing hysterically at him.

"Come on, this isn't funny. Why do you always have to mess with me," Kazuma said.

"Shut up," The lanky boy swung a punch at Kazuma, nailing him in the face. Kazuma fell to the ground with a loud, solid thud. Kazuma began lifting himself off the ground, the shock of the punch nearly knocking him unconscious, "I…I just want to be the greatest I can be… like my dad…"

The muscular boy stomped on Kazuma's ground, pushing him back on the ground and kicking him repeatedly in the ribs, "You're a pathetic piece of trash. You're nothing like you your dad. How could the legendary basketball player Shinichi Watanabe have such a short and sucky son. You're a disgrace to him and he knows it as well," The chubby kid laughed while stomping on Kazuma's head repeatedly while the muscular and lanky boys kicked him in the chest and ribs.

Why… why can't this torture stop…, Kazuma thought to himself.

After a while, the kicking, laughing and cruel growling stopped and the boy's walked away after becoming bored with the boy. However, they left the basketball near his bruised and battered body, but wrote: See ya loser in kanji.

Why… why pick on me…, Kazuma kept asking himself…

=== Black ===

Drip, drip.

A tear fell from Kazuma's face and onto the cat's face, "Well forget them. At least I have you…"

Kazuma hugged the cat tight, while tears dropped from his face. The cat cuddled with the depressed, bullied boy, until he saw something come out of the shadow, something that scared the living daylights out of the cat…

"Meow!" The cat shrilled before leaping out of Kazuma's arms and running off somewhere in the alleyway. Kazuma sighed, he wasn't surprised. "I understand… it seems I'm meant to be alone… all by myself…"

WHAP!

A fist came barraging into Kazuma's face, knocking him into a wall. Kazuma hit the floor with a thud. He just laid there, paralyzed with fear.

Please, please…. Don't let it be them…, Kazuma thought to himself. Suddenly he was lifted up and thrown against the wall. In front of him were the same three bullies from the flashback, however, the chubby kid had thinned a little since the three year period. They were surrounding him.

"W-What's going on… Shiba…?" Kazuma said, a hint of fear lingering in his words.

Shiba, the tall and muscular boy from before, snapped his fingers and the other two grabbed a hold of Kazuma and held him down so Shiba could do his business with him.

"Please, please, no!" Kazuma cried, "Someone help me! I'm being…"

Kazuma's words were interrupted with a quick jab to his gut, knocking the wind out of his chest. Kazuma gasped in pain and agony.

"You think you can just run away from us when we're talking to you, huh?" roared Shiba. He delivered another devastating blow to Kazuma, but this time it was a kick.

"Say you're sorry!" spat the lanky kid.

Kazuma felt like he was going to puke, "I-I-I'm sorry…"

"I couldn't hear you!" roared Shiba, punching him in the face again.

Kazuma looked at Shiba, his vision starting to become blurry. He could feel himself slipping unconscious. He saw Shiba cocking his fist back and thrusting it right at him. Kazuma closed his eyes, preparing himself for the impact of the boy's fist. That's when it all happened…

"AHHHHHH!" screamed Shiba, "What's that thing?"

Kazuma opened his eyes and saw a familiar monster standing in front of Shiba, impaling him through the chest with one of his demon drumsticks. Kazuma gasped in horror as he saw Shiba drop the ground, limp and still. Drum Scream looked at the two other boys and threw his both of his drumsticks, hitting them in their throats as well, killing them. Kazuma stood there as the Drum Scream approached him, taking his drumsticks from the throats of the two dead boys.

"P-Please don't hurt me," Kazuma pleaded for his life.

"Hey there, little boy," The malicious voice called, "My name is Drum Scream…"

Drum Scream cackled as he made his way towards a frightened Kazuma, "If you bow down to heavy metal… then I will be your friend…"

Kazuma just stood there. The monster that had just saved his life… actually wanted to be his friend. He had actually made a friend, "Y-Yes… okay… let's be friends…"

Drum Scream laughed, "That's good. Now how about we get rid of that damned basketball…" Kazuma looked down at the basketball that was next to the monster's foot.

"But…" Drum Scream interrupted him.

"Do you want to have a friend or not…?" asked the monster.

Kazuma pondered on the thought once again. Then he made a decision. He wanted a friend… this monster that had just saved him actually wanted to be his friend. Kazuma dribbled the ball and jumped into the air and shot the ball, successfully making the shot inside a nearby garbage cart.

He turned to look at Drum Scream and smiled, "…I will bow down to heavy metal… if it means gaining a friend…"

=== Pink ===

"So you two are looking for jobs…" The owner of the odd jobs business, Kai asked while fanning himself with his blue cap.

"That's right, sir. We are looking for part-time jobs and we're pretty much looking for almost any job," Kurogane replied with a respectful tone.

Kai tapped his chip with his right hand's index finger while meditating on what Kurogane had said. For seven entire minutes, there was complete and utter awkward-filled silence between Kurogane, Koji and Kai.

Koji lent over to his friend and whispered in his ear, "What's talking him so damn long? If he doesn't want us for the job, then why doesn't he just let us off quickly and painlessly?"

Kurogane replied in a whisper, "Just give him some time, okay?"

Kai's face turned stern as he examined the two boys' expressions, "Have you two had any job experience before?"

"Actually yes, when I was in my middle school, I used to work at my uncle's ramen selling cart. That counts as job experience, right?" Koji asked.

Kai nodded and turned to Kurogane, "What about you?"

Kurogane scratched the back of his head nervously, "Um… actually no. When I got to middle school, I didn't necessarily think about working… but I did a form a band called the Nightwings with my former friends. Does that count as job experience?"

Kai shook his head as he chuckled at Kurogane's idiocy, "Nope, of course not. Playing in a band is not a job… wait, did you just say you were in The Nightwings?!"

Kurogane chuckled, "Yes, I did. I was the lead guitar and vocalist of the band. However I am no longer a part of the group… they have formed a new band named Metallica, a heavy metal band…"

Kai wasn't listening to a word Kurogane was saying. All he was thinking about was Kurogane and The Nightwings, "Me, my wife and my daughter all love your inspirational lyrics. You always picked us up when we were down. You were a real inspiration to us. The youth needs more people like you."

Kurogane blushed, "Come on, I'm not that good of a vocalist. I would give myself a B+ at the least."

"No, no. Just for being who you are, I will hire you and your friend!" Kai replied before calling out to his daughter, "Rena-san! Come here, I've got a surprise for you!"

A sweet, innocent voice called back, "I'm coming Father. Just let me finish wrapping up Mother's hair."

A few moments later, a young girl stepped out of the door and walked over to her Father, smiling brightly. She had long shoulder-length black hair and her height was 5'3" and had red ruby colored eyes. She was wearing the standard blue jumpsuit like her father and had the same blue cap on. She stopped on the side of him.

"What were you calling me for Father?" asked the young girl. Kurogane blushed at the young girl's beauty. He hasn't a girl beautiful like her… well except Akane and Ryuko, but she also looked so pure and innocent. Koji caught sight of his friend's sudden attraction to the girl and whispered into his ear, "Isn't that girl a total babe?"

"W-W-What the hell are you talking about, Koji? I don't like her if that's what you are trying to say," Kurogane gawked while denying the truth.

The young beautiful girl giggled, "Well who might you two handsome boys be?"

Kurogane blushed madly while he stammered on his words, "My name i-i-s Kur-Kuro-Kurogane and this here is Ko-ji… we are applying for a job here…"

"Nice job at playing it cool," Koji grinned, with Kurogane punching him in the arm.

"Shut up," Kurogane growled while trying to hide his emotions.

Koji winced in pain, "Ow. That hurt man…"

The young girl gasped once it had finally hit her, she ran up to Kurogane and beamed in his face, "Wait, you're Kurogane, the vocalist and guitarist for the Nightwings, right? I love you and your voice!"

Kai walked over in between Kurogane and Koji, "And they're the newest members of our family business. Rena, meet Kurogane, Kurogane meet Rena, Koji meet Rena, and Rena meet Koji!"

She extended her hand to Kurogane, "My name is Rena, but you my dad already told you that. I'm glad to be working with one of my role models."

Koji stood there, looking at Rena. He whispered, "What about me..?"

Kai smacked his two hands together, "Let's get you two some jumpsuits and a cap…"

=== Blue ===

Fifteen minutes later, Kurogane and Koji had finally finished getting their blue jumpsuits and caps organized and ready, when a call came in…

Kai walked over to the phone and sat in his office chair and picked it up, "Hello, this is the family business "Kai's Odd Jobs" and this is Kai, you the owner of this business, that you are talking to, how may I help you?"

…

"You have a bad leak in your restaurant…" Kai said, "And you need us ASAP? Alright, I'll be sending a team to help out with your problem, sir. Okay… okay… alright, bye."

With that, Kai hooked the phone back onto its charger and looked up at Kurogane, Koji and Rena, "Well it seems that you already have a job and you two just joined. Alright, Rena, our odd job is at Crème Vanillè and they are experiencing a major leak in their roofs due to busted pipes. Get over there ASAP and get the job done. Rena, handle the rookies," Kai stated in a stern tone.

"Alright," Rena turned around to look at the boys, "Let's get going to the Odd Jobs van."

=== Yellow ===

Meanwhile, Akane, Ryuko and Tsubasa were inside of the mall, doing some clothing shopping and some extensive furniture buying.

Akane sighed. She kind of regretted being so harsh towards Kurogane and Koji and she didn't exactly mean entirely what she had said to both of them. Ryuko saw her face which was full of guilt and decided to say something, "What's wrong?"

Akane sighed, "I don't think I should've been that harsh as I was to them. I know that they trashed the room, but they didn't do it on purpose. Maybe I can take some money from my banking account and use it towards the damages of their room…"

"I say you should let them continue on with their plan to get jobs," Tsubasa laughed.

"As much as I want to feel sorry for them, I'd say that they do deserve it…" Ryuko answered, agreeing with Tsubasa.

"I don't know…" Akane responded. All of a sudden, Tsubasa's stomach growled loudly, causing Ryuko to giggle.

"Sounds like someone is hungry," Ryuko giggled.

Tsubasa blushed at Ryuko's giggle, "Shut up…"

"How about we stop by Crème Vanillè to sit down and enjoy some food. Besides, I am kind of hungry as well," Akane replied.

=== Scream ===

Our story now switches back to Kurogane, Koji and Rena. They were riding in the all dark blue "Odd Jobs" truck and were heading to Crème Vanillè to complete their assignment: fixing the busted pipe. Kurogane was riding shotgun while Koji rode in the back, with his arms crossed.

Damn that Kurogane… he always gets all the girls, Koji thought angrily.

Kurogane looked at Rena, "So… how old were you when you joined the family business?"

Rena smiled as she steered the wheel, moving over the next lane and then back to cross in front of a car, "Actually I started working when I was just ten. I'd go with my Kaa-san on every job and be her little helper. I'm sixteen now."

Kurogane smiled, "That's nice. You must be good at this thing by now since you've had tons of experience."

Rena blushed, "I'm really not that good as my Kaa-san. I'm alright, I guess."

"If you two are done being so lovey-dovey, you're in the wrong lane!" Koji yelled. Rena snapped around and saw a car was heading towards them. They were in the wrong lane.

"Dang it!" Rena said as she swerved the tire to the right quickly, barely avoiding the car. Once she turned the corner, she moved in the wrong lane again, but moved over immediately before the car and the truck crashed with each other. The car began to slip and slid, until Rena finally got her control of the car and quickly parallel-parked into a space.

Everything was silent in the truck. Koji was the first to break the tension-filled silence.

"Will… it looks like we're here," Koji smiled as he pointed at the sign that read: Crème Vanillè. The restaurant was located right beside their truck. Rena chuckled nervously, "G-Gomen… alright, let's get out and get to work. We are probably getting lots of calls from different people with problems."

Kurogane and Koji nodded as they opened their respective doors and jumped out of the trucks and went to the back of the truck to get their working materials and toolboxes. While Kurogane grabbed his red toolbox, Aka-Aka and the rest of the spirits surrounded him, all of them sporting worried faces.

Kurogane looked at them and said, "What's going on guys? Why the long faces?"

"I know this isn't the best time, but we're sensing Scream activity going on near this place. We need to exterminate it as quickly as possible before it wreaks havoc."

Kurogane nodded, "Alright, let's go!"

Kurogane turned around to tell Rena and Koji, but Koji patted his back and whispered, "I got you covered, go kick some Scream ass."

The music-themed rider nodded before running off to see where the Scream monster was active. Rena turned around and saw him running away. She turned to Koji, "Where is he going?"

Koji responded quickly, "He forgot his wrench back at the shop…"

"Oh… well he's lucky this job isn't gonna be that hard…" Rena replied.

=== Metallica ===

While Kurogane was running, Akane, Tsubasa and Ryuko saw him running past and stared at him. Tsubasa was the first to speak, "Where is he going?"

"And why he is he wearing that blue jumpsuit?" Ryuko asked.

"Maybe he and Koji actually got jobs," Tsubasa replied with a hearty laugh. Akane saw the determined look on Kurogane and knew what was going on.

"A Scream must've showed up…" Akane whispered. She dropped her bags full of different bras, smell goods and clothing and ran after Kurogane. Tsubasa ran after her with urgency, "Wait, Miss Inosaki-chan! Where are you going?!"

Ryuko sighed and grabbed Akane's bags, running after them as well…

=== Musician ===

"Where do you sense the monster's presence?" asked Kurogane, running past the many residents of Shibuya.

"Uh… turn left and make a right and keep going straight…" Aoi-Aoi instructed.

Kurogane obeyed and made a left turn and ran down the street with urgency, "Damn… I hope I'm not too late!"

He hit the right turn quickly, flipping over a kid who was running with a balloon in his hand, avoiding crashing into the kid.

"Nice flip Kurogane," Kuro-Kuro exclaimed.

"This is no time for compliments; we're rolling up on the Scream monster!" Mo-Mo cried as she pointed to where the Scream activity was supposed to be. Kurogane stopped running and, "Where is the monster at?"

Ki-Ki looked around and examined her surroundings. The entire place was filled with hundreds of people.

"Where is the Scream at?" Ki-Ki turned to look at Aoi-Aoi, "Can you still sense the Scream activity, Aoi-Aoi?"

Aoi-Aoi was surprised, "Actually, yeah… but it's really faint, but it's still in this exact area… let's look for anyone suspicious…"

"Why would we do that?" asked Kurogane.

"I guess we never explained to you…" Mo-Mo began, "You see, Scream monsters can transform into human forms and can co-exist with the environment and can choose when and who they will strike… and either kill them or corrupt them with heavy metal music and turn them into heavy metal monsters called Headbangers."

Kurogane clenched his fists, "Hell no, I won't let them corrupt anyone with metal!"

Suddenly, the six heard a loud, screeching male's voice, "Demons…are flying around throughout the night. The devil is upon us, in all of his dark and malevolence! Reality is crushed by millions of shadows to ravish and praise the Underworld of Death!"

Kuro-Kuro flapped over to Ki-Ki, "That's it! Someone is being corrupted by the Scream!"

Kurogane nodded and made his way through the large crowd of people, who were disturbed and weirded out by the shrill voice. He then stopped once he saw the same young boy from before. He was sitting on a bench with earplugs in his ears, screaming his little head off. His eyes were purple now. Kurogane knew he was being influenced by the heavy metal and went to pull the earplugs off, but a head grabbed him before he could do it. He turned his head quickly to see a black-haired teenage boy wearing a ripped gray tank-top and black cargo shorts and black sneakers. His hair was styled in a Mohawk. He smiled at Kurogane with an insane look on his face, "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

He then kicked Kurogane in the stomach, throwing him into a table. He cried in agony at the pain that was just inflicted on him.

"Kurogane!" Mo-Mo cried as she flew over to her master's side, "Are you alright?"

The black-haired boy transformed into Drum Scream and cackled evilly, scaring the people away while crying and screaming in terror.

"It's the Scream!" roared Aka-Aka as he jumped in front of his fellow spirits and Kurogane.

Kurogane lifted himself off the ground, "Yeah… thanks for the concern, Mo-Mo, but defeating this Scream comes first."

"Right!" The spirits cried.

BGM Begins Playing: (*cue Henshin/Battle Theme: Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer by ONE OK ROCK*)

Kurogane took out his MusicDriver and slapped it on his waist, the belt expanding around his waist. Kurogane said, "Let's Rock!" he then grabbed the red guitarpick from the right side and did what Aka-Aka said and strummed a harmonic tune and when he finished the simple, but graceful tune, drew it forward and backward again, like he originally started. He looked at the Drum Scream with a fire in his eye.

"Henshin!"

GUITAR FORM!

He transformed into Kamen Rider Musician. He quickly flipped his red Gibson guitar around to the front and charged towards the Drum Scream and swung the guitar at the monster like an axe. Drum Scream just stood there and took the hit sparks flying around upon contact. Musician was surprised. He kept slashing and slashing, but nothing was happening.

Drum Scream laughed, "You bastard, you are too weak!"

Drum Scream slashed Musician across the chest and made him fall to the ground. Musician cried as he fell to the ground, smoke coming from his battle armor.

"No, master!" Aoi-Aoi cried while blasting a blue beam at Drum Scream. The drum-themed monster went to block the attack with his drumsticks, but was too late as the beam blasted him. Sparks flew all around. Kazuma looked up to see Drum Scream fall to the ground and gasped, his eyes lighting up with anger.

"No!" Kazuma replied, "Don't hurt him!"

BGM: (*cue Henshin/Battle Theme: Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer by ONE OK ROCK*)Ends.

He ran next to his "friend's" side to check on him, "Are you alright, friend?"

Drum Scream jumped up, "I'm alright!" Drum Scream charged back at Musician, who jumped up off the ground and started strummed a tune on his guitar and shouted, "Guitar Wave! Let's Rock!"

His guitar blasted an energy wave at Drum Scream, blasting him backwards with ease. He then charged towards him, but Kazuma jumped in front of Kurogane with his arms spreaded out in front of him, "I won't let you touch my friend!"

Musician stopped immediately at the sight of Kazuma, "Who are you and please get out of the way, I really need to get that monster or he'll endanger the world!"

"I don't give a damn!" Kazuma roared with his purple eyes flaring up, "He's my friend and I won't let you hurt him!"

Kuro-Kuro flew in front of Musician and screeched at the kid, "How about you fuck off?!"

Drum Scream noticed that Musician and his spirits were focused on the angered Kazuma and decided to take this opportunity to attack. He quickly flicked his wrist and that's when the Headbangers appeared in front of Drum Scream. The Headbangers appeared to be foot soldiers where who wore black rocket jackets and all had Mohawks. Their bodies were purple and had demonic tattoos and tribal markings all over them. Their hands were making a "Rock On!" sign and lastly, they had gleaming purple eyes and red jagged teeth.

"Attack them!" roared Drum Scream. The Headbangers charged forward to attack Musician who bopping their head as heavy metal music began to play loudly.

"Shit! Kurogane, Headbangers incoming!" cried Aka-Aka. Musician quickly flipped backwards to gain cover and jumped forward.

"Guitar Smash! Let's Rock!"

Musician quickly slammed the flaming guitar across one of the Headbangers' chest, making it fly down upon contact. He then kicked one in the face and headbutted the one next to him. He then flipped his guitar around once again and slashed two across the chest, making sparks upon contact. He then jumped in the air and delivered a devastating kick into a Headbanger's face, shattering its entire body.

Kuro-Kuro blasted a black wave of energy towards a pack of Headbangers, quickly destroying them with ease. Ki-Ki flew closer to one of the Headbangers and blasted a beam through several Headbangers, while her husband Aka-Aka and bit a Headbangers hand off and slashed two across the chest. Aoi-Aoi charged a blue orb from his hands and once it was complete, he let it go and it destroyed his swarm of Headbangers. Mo-Mo shot pink venom at the Headbangers, burning their bodies to crisps.

After each of the spirits defeated their own sections of Headbangers, they all regrouped with Kamen Rider Musician. Musician was ready to end this. He quickly drew the golden guitarpick from the right side and he strummed it across on the MusicDriver. He began to spin into the air, until he stopped at a certain point. He then extended his leg and held his hand out as he prepared to launch the kick right into the two.

"Let's rock!" Musician flew down with grace and swiftness and crashed through the remaining Headbangers and sticking the landing. A huge explosion occurred as he said his victorious words, "Game Over!"

Musician looked around his surroundings and saw that Kazuma had fled… and so did Drum Scream. He took off the MusicDriver, demorphing into his civilian form. He gritted his teeth, "Dammit! The Scream got away… and with the kid as well."

Mo-Mo slithered around his foot to comfort him, "It's not your fault, Kurogane. You were busy fighting the Headbangers."

"Still… I'm supposed to be the successor of some big hero…" Kurogane sighed.

Aka-Aka scowled, "That boy was listening to the heavy metal and was getting heavily influenced by it. If we don't stop him then he'll turn into a Headbanger. Damn that Scream… damn him…"

Akane appeared behind Kurogane and saw them standing there with a defeated look on their faces. She knew that something bad had happened.

=== Red ===

- *cue Ending #1: 7 Seven by Flow x Granrodeo* -