Merry Rockin' Christmas!

[guitar_voodoo]

Mick and the Spiders, Billy, Joe, Erik and some of the other tour members had been busy decorating out the communal area in the apartments transforming it into a festive space. A Christmas Party! There were decorations, baubles hanging from a make-shift tree that Erik had bought from a local garden centre. It looked really Christmassy and fun. Weird and Gilly had been putting up more decorations, including hand-drawn snowmen and other Christmas characters drawn by none other than Erik himself.

"Fuck yeah! It looks great! Wait until everyone else sees what we've done."

Joe jumping around the tree and swigging his bottle of Jack Daniels, happy to show Aarne once he sees him. Billy was just pinning up pieces of mistletoe around every high place so he could get a kiss on Rik once he saw him. No doubt everyone would be using the mistletoe as an excuse just to kiss their partners. Why not? It was fun.

"Ok, lads. We've got the food and drink table set up with loads of stuff on it."

Mick now adding a load of glasses, mugs, tankards to the table so people had enough to take. The food had been bought and some made by Elsie, Mick's mother, which included some nice little Christmas-themed cup cakes. Those looked so good! The Danes would surely devour them first.

"How about some streamers above the door?"

Erik now touting some streamers around the doorways when people walked in. Joe laughed and put some onto the Swede's head, which caused the guitarist to shove Joe away playfully. Mick nodded in agreement and wanted this to be a special time for everyone to let their hair down. It was for new tour members and those who had been travelling since the start, family members invited along with friends too. There was also a free table with some presents already wrapped for certain band members. Of course those would be given by their respective partners.

"Looks good, mate. Ok, lets message everyone to come in and have some fun."

Mick pulled his phone out and sent a tour-wide group message to everyone to get their asses into the communal area and have a party. Joe screamed and began filling up glasses full of booze already to get the evening started.

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[itmeanstruth]

Minoru nodded gratefully, in a way that resembled a traditional bow.

"It'll have to be somewhere in my world." he explained. "There's a lot of places all around Seattle to freerun. I guess any of those would be good, right?"

At least for the action shots. He didn't know what really made a good headshot for a portrait, so he'd let Erik make suggestions on that.

"When I'm in my world, there's always a couple here and there. Nothing big. Yet."

Yet was apparently the operative word. He got to do a charity run with American Ninja Warrior this month, which was on TV. He'd been approached to do events. The company that made his favorite freerunning shoes was asking about appearing in an ad. Things were just starting to heat up!

[rockandroll_swede]

Erik bowed back because that was the custom in the Far East, wasn't it? At least he'd come to understand that seeing a few martial arts films and the like. Minoru was one of his best friends so he'd respect the man's traditions.

"Your world? Ok. Yeah, I'm sure you'll find a decent enough drain pipe to scale or roof to run across, as long as it's not too high of course."

No falling off. Nope.

"It's still cool you're getting autographs though because it shows people love and respect your skills. Maybe one day I'll get to sign something if I ever join a rock band."

[itmeanstruth]

Bowing was a Japanese custom, one that merged into Minoru's usual mannerisms a long time ago. A deep nod of the head with a handshake was pretty common for most of the Uchiwa family. (He also wasn't Grandma Mikoto. He wasn't going to bop you on the head with a piece of bamboo or anything.)

"Hey, I should be able to get pretty high with that new lens." he laughed. "But yeah... I guess I shouldn't be too far off the ground, or you'll get some really funny angles."

[rockandroll_swede]

Erik really didn't want to be whacked around the head by Grandma Mikoto wielding a piece of bamboo for performing a traditional greeting wrong. The young Swede now wanting to test out his new lens because it felt really sturdy in his hand. The cactus lens case was the cherry on the cake!

"Yes! Maybe I could take shots of you up other high places. Only ones that won't cause any danger of course."

No huge skyscrapers or---was that out of the question?

[itmeanstruth]

Unless he planned on traveling to a small town in Yamagata prefecture, in Minoru’s world not his own, Erik would be pretty safe from the wrath of Grandma Mikoto.

“We’ll find some good spots. As much as I’d love to climb the Space Needle… I probably shouldn’t try to get arrested in MY world.”

What he did in Ziggy’s world was highly illegal, and while it didn’t have any serious ramifications for him there, it would if he did it in a world where he was poised to become the new face of a sport.

[rockandroll_swede]

Erik loves sushi so perhaps one day he'd actually go to a real Japanese fish market and get authentic sushi instead of pre-packed stuff they sold here in LA. There was of course restaurants but a real fish market was even better.

"I'd love to go to a real Japanese fish market one day to get some pieces of fish to make sushi."

The boy loved his fish.

"Yes, don't get arrested! We'll keep you out of the police cars."

Erik patting Minoru's arm.

[itmeanstruth]

Minoru chuckled. “If you want fresh fish, after we’re done with the shoot, I know where to take you.”

He obviously didn’t eat meat, and that included fish, but his mother always bought her fish at one place and one place only.

“There’s a fish market about… about a twenty minute walk from the Space Needle. World famous. Mama swears by it.” He grinned. “We do the shoot in the morning, get to the market by ten, you’ll have your pick of fresh fish thrown at you!”

[rockandroll_swede]

"I'd love that. Maybe we could pick up some squid and octopus too. I like those."

Whatever fish they could find, Erik would be there wanting to spend his dollars on some really good fishy things. Going with Minoru would be even better!

"Maybe I'll ask advice from Ziggy for the sushi and then Joey to see how to prepare it best since he's the tour chef and works at Jerry's bar."

[itmeanstruth]

“They have those there.” He nodded, sure of it. Some of those were hard to come by unless you knew where to go.

“I mean, you could always as my mom. She’s no chef, but she has been cooking Japanese food all her life.” He volunteered. “I bet she’d be happy to cook something up for you while we’re both in town.”