“Listen up everyone!”

The members of Starish were gathered in the room of Cecil due to the request (read: demand) of Tokiya. At first, Cecil was reluctant in using his room as the meeting place because he and Syo (because he took Cecil’s form) were doing the assignment Camus left for the prince, but Tokiya threatened to take off the glasses he was currently wearing – and may the higher beings above have mercy on the others if the perfectionist did – thus forcing Cecil to agree.

“Do you know why I called you here?” Tokiya asked sternly.

Some members simply shook their head for they had no idea but one particular naïve red-head took a guess.

“Oh! Is it movie time already?” Otoya asked with excitement, but only to have that emotion shatter once his roommate disapproved.

“No Otoya, we are not watching a movie today.” Tokiya responded as he rubbed the side of his head in annoyance. “The reason why I called all of you here is because you guys are terrible actors!” the teen announced which immediately caused uproar from the group.

“T-Terrible actors!?” Natsuki choked.

“What’s that supposed to mean??” Otoya asked with a pout.
“Yeah! I wouldn’t be casted as part of Prince of Fighting if I was bad at acting!” Syo said to his defence which earned him looks from his group. “What’re those looks for? You know it’s true!”

“I’m not talking about showbiz.” Tokiya clarified. “I’m referring to our temporary appearances.”

“Eh? What did we do wrong?” Otoya questioned to which the other sigh upon.

“Just this morning, Nanami-san stumbled upon me and she mentioned how strange you guys were acting.”

“Hmm? In what way did the little lamb find us strange?” Ren asked while twirling a rose.

“I’ll tell you! First and foremost, Otoya does NOT play with roses nor does he go around flirting.” Tokiya exclaimed as he snatched the rose away from Ren. “Syo is loud and out-going, Ren flirts with just about anyone, and Masato will NEVER be seen with that!” the vocalist pointed to the large Piyo-chan stuffed toy brought by Natsuki.

The group remained silent for a while. The T in Starish was close to losing his cool – the dark aura being emitted was already an indication – and it honestly scared the others.

“Ne, Tokiya’s right.” Otoya was the first to speak up since he was already accustomed to his roommate’s temper. “We are bad at acting as the person we currently are.”

“What do you suggest we do?” Masato asked while squirming uncomfortably and unsuccessfully out of Natsuki’s iron grip.

Cecil chimed in with his idea. “Why don’t we regroup? In that way, we could learn how the other behaves!”

The whole reason why Starish was stuck in their current situation was because of Cecil’s wish to know the others better so the prince might as well make use of what the muses gave him.

“That’s not a bad idea.” Tokiya agreed as the dark aura disappeared, thus restoring peace and freedom in the room

“Aren’t you clever, Cesshi.” Ren added.

“You’re not as stupid as I thought!” Syo commented which earned him an annoyed ‘hey!’ from the prince.

“Yosh! Let’s regroup!” Otoya exclaimed. The rest cheered in unison: one problem down,….probably many more to go.

~

The members of Quartet Night (excluding Camus) were also having a meeting of their own. While Starish discussed their plans, the sempais were at Ai’s room and were practically abusing the cyanette’s PC in an attempt to hack into the security cam.

“I told you 10 times that it’s impossible to hack into the security system!” Ai exclaimed. He was getting irritated by the fact that he had no access to his own computer because Reiji and Ranmaru wouldn’t get their hands off the device. “Maybe they’re just stressed. Their work load had been piling up ever since they won the UtaPri award.”

Of course, his words fell into deaf ears because the two continued to click random files.

“Oi! Click that one!” Ranmaru pointed to a folder.

Among the sempais, the silver-haired rocker was the most disturbed about his kouhais’ behaviour. He was convinced that his students were drugged since he was sure that neither would resort to such low-life act on their own free will. Reiji, on the other hand, thought that maybe Tokiya finally warmed up to him or perhaps Otoya’s sunny demeanour finally broke through the other’s cold walls. Speaking of Otoya, the clown sempai was about to let his flirty act and dart-playing skills pass when Ranmaru mentioned drugs so it got Reiji really worried. Ai couldn’t care less since his kouhais obeyed his rules, did their tasks flawlessly, and were very tamed….

‘I miss the noise though.’ Ai thought while recalling the times Syo would come complaining and Natsuki babbling about cute things/people/Syo. ‘Why do I feel like this?’

A few minutes passed and it was enough to get the two older sempais into an argument.

“Reiji, you’re too slow! I’m taking over…” Ranmaru exclaimed as he tried to shove the other away.

“No way RanRan! I think I got the hang of this!” the eldest protested as he snatched the keyboard away from his bandmate. Soon it became a game of tug-o-war with neither of the two letting go of the keyboard.

“Hand it over Reiji!” Ranmaru barked.

“Nu-uh! Give it to me RanRan. Listen to your elder~” Reiji protested.

“Exactly what’re we trying to accomplish here?” Ai began.

SNAP!!!!

The duo managed to break the cord connecting the keyboard to the PC due to the force applied therefore causing a system failure.

Oh no…

 Reiji and Ranmaru turned to the source where a murderous aura radiated. Their normally emotionless companion had a scary look in his eyes which in no doubt was caused by the other two.

“AiAi?” The brunet whimpered.

Fuck was what Ranmaru wanted to say yet no words came out of his mouth. He had never been so terrified about someone 7 years younger than him until now. The rocker would gladly volunteer to eat Natsuki’s cooking if it meant surviving the hell he currently got himself into.

“Reiji, Ranmaru…” the cyanette said darkly. “I hope you two know that you will be severely punished for your actions.” Ai continued as a grim and malicious smile made its way to his lips.

Reiji and Ranmaru indeed feared for their lives. The duo went back to their respective rooms, tired and with bruises – and probably with their souls scarred too. Their experience made them develop some empathy towards the cyanette’s kouhais for enduring such detailed penalties. The two sempais vowed to treat Syo and Natsuki more kindly and with good food as their way of applauding them for their bravery.

 Who knew Ai was such a sadist?

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BECAUSE AI IS HUMAN TOO >:D Well, at least in the anime. Hello my lovely readers~ Chapter 5 is finally out. Are the characters OOC? Hard to say since they're not themselves apparently :p I wanted to imagine what Tokiya's like if he did lose his cool and is it so bad for Ai to show some emotion? xD Haha...it'll be a while for the update due to school so here's a preview:

"Anyway, I don't hate Hijirikawa. We might be rivals in the business world but I could never hate him."

"If you don't hate him, then what do you really feel about Masa?"

Ohohoho....just a little something to tease your brain ;)  Until the next chap~!