sorry if this is trashy

valt was weirded out when noel squealed in excitement while in the elevator with him. he noticed this and stuck out his tongue. "what? i'm just excited to show you around!" a ding sounded and the doors opened as they stepped off onto the first floor. "besides, shu's one of our idols; if he sees potential in you, well, that just fires me up!"

"well in any case, where are we headed now?" valt asked out of curiousity, looking around for any possible clues. the brunette male shifted his glasses and chuckled. "i thought about heading on over to the studio to check up on lui, xander, and orochi, but it's too soon, so change of plans."

a few minutes later, the two of them stood before a regular looking door

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a few minutes later, the two of them had walked over to a large building; a director's set building if valt knew anything from watching movies in the process of being made on beytube. they'd already entered and were met with set designs of all sorts. at one point, a fake palm tree over toppled over valt if a crew member hadn't catched it swiftly.

valt followed close behind noel, who kept talking to various people. he only picked up a few words before the brunette ran off somewhere after hearing "broken crate of glitter". valt shrugged and looked around, beginning to explore the intriguing place.

"it is i!"

before he could jump back, someone had literally jumped from the cieling and landed inches away from valt. he fell back in shock as the person laughed and yelled, "zac the sunrise!"

"zenkuro kurogane, you scared the poor boy!" noel practically shrieked, running to help valt up. the blonde chuckled, adjusting his harness and responding, "sorry about that lad, i just couldn't pass up the oppurtunity for an entrance."

valt sweatdropped. "uh, that's okay i guess." he looked at him and vaguely remembered seeing the over the top idol at shu's concert. "wait, you're zac aren't you?"

he nodder and grinned, his pearly whites capable of blinding an adult man. "why did noel call you zenkuro kuroga-"

zac harshly coughed, his grin faltering slightly. "ah, that's not important! what is why you two are here! i can't believe today was the day you were visiting our fine establishment."

he wiped the small beads of sweat from his forehead. valt replied, "well yeah, dunno, guess i just got curious about idols and stuff." noel nodded and stared more closely at him. "hmm.."

before valt realized it, noel had lifted his arms up and examined him. this totally didn't creep valt out. "uh, what are you doing? this kind of creeps me out.."

noel let him go and grinned mischievously.

since getting here, valt had learned that when noel gets that look, it usually spells out trouble for someone or himself. "he seems like the perfect size," noel muttered to zac. "you thinkin' what i'm thinkin'?"

valt flinched, suddenly feeling dread. "i don't know why i suddenly have a bad feeling about something."

noel smiled like nothing was wrong and tugged him along, zac smiling as well behind them too. "don't worry about it, i just had an idea! let's go test it out while the crew cleans up the pile of zac's glitter that fell over."

"wait, what did you say?!"

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xander left noel's paradise of takis so that he could catch up to what they were all up to, and from the looks of it, nothing good.

the building made for creating the set's of the idol's music videos was eerily quiet; something that should be impossible as tinkering sounds were always a must. his voice echoed as he yelled, "uhh, hello?"

his hand made noise as he shoved his hand into the bag of chips he brought along. then all of a sudden cutting through the air was a loud sound, which slowly fazed into a piano melody that faintly resembled traditional japanese music. xander nodded in aprroval of the tune, as it reminded him of cherry blossoms.

the light fixtures began glowing, and noe xander could see all crew members crowding a set of what appeared to be a forest of cherry blossoms. "called it," he muttered.

noel stumbled through the audience and snatched xander's takis. he protested but the way his friend looked freaked him out. "he's perfect, i tell ya! he looks like a boy and a girl with his hair down and wearing a kimono!"

xander frowned, swiping his chips back from noel before asking, "so what exactly is going on?"

noel raised a finger to his lips and pointed at the set. "just watch."

they watched as valt peeked from behind a tree and stepped out wearing a light blue kimono. his face was red, most likely from embarrasment, but nonetheless he kept walking.

his acting was somewhat lackluster, but from what noel had whispered to him, he was supposed to act like a villager, just walking around. xander was in disbelief when valt somehow sang, "senbonzakura yoru ni magire~"

then zac walked onto the set wearing a kimono as well, but his was more extravagent. he waved the fan in hand and gracefully circled around valt.

"oh my, zac looks as good as ever!"

"yeah, and so does that new boy! he's just so cute, my heart can't take it!"

noel and xander sweatdropped at the fangirling crew members. the music stopped and all the lights flickered on. the brunette clapped his hands and jumped onto the set. "that was perfect, yes!"

valt sighed and tugged at his kimono. "can i just take this off already? i think i'm starting to sweat."

"oh sure! zac, can you help him out?" the blonde nodded and ushered valt away. xander crumpled up the now empty takis bag and placed in his pocket to throw away later. "how did valt sing that so good?"

noel, without changing expressions, said, "oh, he just lip synced it."

the red head looked at him in disbelief as noel explained further. "well i wasn't gonna let him sing for me just yet. besides, we were focusing more on the performance."

xander just chuckled. "that does sound like something you would plan. well anyways, where are you going ne-"

"noel!"

they looked and saw fubuki running uo to them, out of breath and panicked. "something happened.. lui's mad, a-and i think it's gonna end badly."

noel's eyes widened. he grabbed fubuki's shoudlers and looked into his eyes to try and calm him down. "what exactly happened?"

fubuki panted, and with one deep breath, responded with, "it's one of the new music pieces." they waited for more.

"it's uh.. it's somehow missing."