The Switch II

Bright green eyes widened in absolute horror. Slowly, the terrified prince of Agnapolis took a few steps back until he felt the unforgiving coldness of the wall. He gulped as the other figure in the room approached him with eyes that pierced through his very soul. The final member of Starish never wanted this situation at all to happen yet here he was, staring at his own demise in the form of an angry Count. All this time, the former cat wondered just what kind of sin he committed in his past life that placed him in life-threatening situations.

For once again, Cecil's plea to the muses did not turn out so well.

"AIJIMA!!!"

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A month passed since the switch incident. Tired feet dragged themselves to the living room where equally tired idols, except for two, were resting on the couch. The seventh member of Starish, Cecil, plopped down on the empty spot next to Ren and let out a long sigh.

"You seem beat up, Cesshi." Ren pointed out, though the same could be said about the flirt.

"Camus made me do a lot of work. He made me watch programs in Japanese without subtitles. I had to translate it all before I could actually watch." The legit prince of the group replied. "You guys look overworked too!"

"We don't just look overworked, we are overworked!" Syo exclaimed. "Ai added more to our schedule and just as I thought it was impossible! Hell, it's even more detailed!"

"Ran-chan's been bossier than usual. Plus, he seems to be monitoring our actions lately. He wouldn't even trust me when I handed him a glass of water." Ren supplied.

"Our sempais must be punishing us." Masato stated solemnly, to which a certain shorty quirked an eyebrow.

"All of us?"

The attention of the group diverted to their two fellow idols named Otoya and Tokiya. The lovable red-head was listening to some tunes while the cool perfectionist was reading a novel. Neither paid heed to the chit-chat and stares of the others until Syo spoke up.

"You two sure are relaxed." The blond munchkin said rather bitterly.

Otoya took off his headphones and grinned. "Well Rei-chan gave us the day off since we'll be going to Tokyo for work."

"We'll be there for a week so Kotobuki-sempai minimized our workload considering the many tasks we'll do once we get to Tokyo." Tokiya continued. "It's only natural of him."

"You guys are lucky! I wish Reiji-sempai was my sempai!" Cecil whined.

"He can be annoying sometimes especially with those pranks he pulls on people." Tokiya voiced out, grudgingly recalling the time a bucket of ice cold water was dumped on him.

"Tokiyaaa~ you're still not over that?" Otoya chimed in, remembering the water bucket incident.

Until now, Tokiya had no idea that Otoya was an accomplice to the prank. All blame was directed at his bubbly senior who surprisingly became a martyr and kept his mouth shut about Otoya suggesting using ice water.

The guitarist laughed nervously when Tokiya narrowed his eyes at him. "Ehe..."

"At least he doesn't make you brew tea in the middle of the night or complain that there's not enough sugar cubes in it!" Cecil protested.

The shortest of the group joined in. "And he doesn't have you wake up at five in the freakin' morning!"

"Or take away your tatami..." Masato muttered.

The others started to throw their complaints and the two were desperately searching for the right words to say. They found none. Luckily, they were saved by an unlikely hero.

"Our sempais aren't that bad. They're just doing what sempais are supposed to do. I'm sure they have even tougher jobs." Natsuki chimed in, which frankly surprised the others for his sentence did not contain the word 'cute' in it.

The living room had never been so dead. The occupants of said room were too caught up with their own thoughts that no one noticed the two females who entered the scene.

"Whoa, what's with the low energy level?" Tomochika began thus bringing the idols back to reality. When she got groans for replies, the red-head chuckled. "Well Haruka and I whipped up some bento for you guys."

"I hope you like it." Haruka said with a smile. She was back to her normal self after realizing that the cause behind Starish's odd change in behaviour last month was due to a movie they starred in.

Of course, that wasn't the real reason, but what Haruka didn't know wouldn't kill her.

The boys miraculously became lively again upon hearing homemade bentos and Haruka.

"Sankyu! You guys are the best!" Syo exclaimed with a grin.

Ren winked. "This is very thoughtful of you, lady-tachi."

Tomochika flashed a smile. "Don't mention it! Now if you excuse us, we have business to attend to!"

By business, she meant shopping then getting some ice cream with her best friend. The two girls bid goodbye and left the group of handsome, young idols to eat. While munching on their boxed lunches, a thought crossed the mind of the cheery red-head.

"Hey guys, what if Nanami was a sempai?"

The question evoked various responses.

"Haru-chan will make a cute sempai! Just imagine her teaching her kouhai!" Natsuki gleefully said.

"Surely she's the sweet type of senior. She'll least likely to get mad as well, although she is passionate about composing and music. Her student will learn a lot from her." Masato added.

"Heh, lady will most likely get flustered when teaching especially when she makes a mistake." Ren remarked.

"I bet she's the gentle type too! Haruka wouldn't snap at you for taking too long to wake up!" Cecil supplied.

"Yeah! And she wouldn't make jokes about your height!" Syo exclaimed, a little too excited.

Among the chatter, the voice of understandable reason gave his thoughts regarding the matter. "I don't doubt that Haruka will make a good teacher. She has the heart after all." Tokiya continued, "But she still has a lot to learn before she can have her own kouhai."

"Can't our teachers be like her for once, attitude wise? I wish we had nice sempais!" Syo complained.

"But Ai-chan's nice...in his own way..." Natsuki was unsure of his statement. After all, his sempai was pretty brutal despite his sweet appearance.

"It'll be refreshing to have a sempai who wouldn't treat you like you tripped over his bass guitar." Ren supplied.

Masato glared at the Casanova. "You did that once and it wasn't even accidental!" The pianist then sighed and mumbled, "Although I wouldn't mind having a mellow sempai."

"A more disciplined senior is much more favourable. He needs to act his age." Tokiya said, to which his roommate reacted.

"Oh come on! Am I the only one who likes our sempais!?" Otoya exclaimed in concern.

Cecil watched the scenes unfold. He truly wished to help his friends, though it proved to be difficult considering he couldn't even stand his own two-faced senior.

Only the muses could help him now.

"Well we better get back to work." Ren started. "Ran-chan will be pissed if he knew I haven't finished the work he assigned to me."

"Yeah, I don't wanna get punished by Ai!" Syo agreed and got up. "Let's go, Natsuki!"

"I better pack my things for tomorrow's trip." Otoya thought aloud.

"You do that. I'm done with mine." Tokiya stated.

"Eh??? Tokiya, why didn't you tell me!" The red-head whined.

The once occupied living room became empty with silence and the day was ready to retire. Before long, the sky became dark and the stars and moon took their place.

"Bye minna~!!!"

Quartet Night, Haruka, and two members of Starish were found in the lounge area of the Master Course dormitory. Reiji was giving his farewell to his bandmates who weren't anywhere near disappointed with the clown's temporary absence.

"I'll do my best to get everything done so I'll return sooner!" Reiji exclaimed cheerfully.

"Oh no – don't hurry back! In fact, why don't you stay there for a month or maybe even a year?" Ranmaru began.

"Go. We will not perish without you." Camus supplied.

"Aww...won't you guys miss me?" Reiji teased.

"No." Ai deadpanned. "Hurry up or you'll miss your flight. You already wasted 3 minutes, 54 seconds and counting."

Reiji felt unloved. "So mean~"

"Goodbye minna-san! Have a safe trip!" Haruka said with a smile.

"Bye Nanami! See you after a week!" Otoya beamed.

The Genki team bid the others goodbye before getting in the taxi that was waiting for them. The remaining Quartet Night and Haruka headed back to their respective rooms and continued with their business.

In Ai, Natsuki, and Syo's room, the cyanette was not really surprised to see his short kouhai cramming on the work he had.

"According to my data, you only have five minutes before nine o'clock." Ai pointed out once he noticed his kouhais to be awake.

Syo huffed. "I know that! I wouldn't be up if it weren't for this damn workload!"

"Now, now Syo-chan...let's just finish Ai-chan's assignment. It's the last for today!" Natsuki said in an attempt to calm the munchkin.

In Ranmaru, Ren, and Masato's room, the trio were generally doing fine.

"Oi Ren! You done with the thing I gave you?" The grouchy rocker asked.

Ren winked. "Yeah. Wouldn't want to keep you waiting, Ran-chan."

"You know that doesn't work on Kurosaki-sempai." Masato stated as he eyed the neat pile of paperwork with a single rose placed on top.

"Hell it doesn't!" Ranmaru exclaimed before chucking a pillow at Ren.

In Camus and Cecil's room, the two royals were getting ready for bed.

"I have an interview tomorrow which requires your assistance." Camus boomed. "Make yourself presentable and no fooling around!"

"You say that as if I will!" Cecil muttered to himself.

The prince was restless and twisted and turned on his bed. Truthfully, he was desperate to have a kinder sempai – one who was not a slave driver – so he silently prayed to the muses for help.

"Oh muses! Hear my plea! I pray that our seniors will turn into the seniors we wished to have!"

"Aijima, quit your mumbling and go to sleep!" The Count demanded.

"Help us please..." Cecil said in a wee voice before closing his eyes.

The inhabitants of the dorm were soon asleep, unaware of the mysterious blue glow that enveloped the area.

Morning came and Cecil knew something was off. The young royal got up and checked his surroundings. His sempai was still fast asleep – which was odd since the blond usually woke up earlier – rather than being up and telling his kouhai to move his lazy ass.

'Is this the muses' doing?' Cecil thought, aware of the request he made last night.

The magical idol decided to continue with his everyday routine and headed to the bathroom for a quick shower. All was fine and well, and just as the prince was about to exit the shower, the bathroom door was slammed open by an unlikely visitor.

Right there and then, Cecil knew he made a mistake when he locked eyes with infuriated ones that belonged to the lovely composer.

Cecil gulped. 'What have I done?'

At the top of her lungs, Haruka screamed.

"AIJIMA YOU FOOL!!!!"

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I bet you weren't expecting this ;)

HELLO MY LOVELY READERS! THE SWITCH II IS FINALLY HERE! Hahaha...I am in so much joy to finally start on this!

Ohonhonhon~ who's who this time?

Cecil is a poor, poor boy T_T

Stay tuned for the next chapter~!

Oh, and here's a crack version of the part where Natsuki said something reasonable :P

"Our sempais aren't that bad. They're just doing what sempais are supposed to do. I'm sure they have even tougher jobs." Natsuki chimed in, which frankly surprised the others for his sentence did not contain the word 'cute' in it.

"Whoa." Was the only word that Syo could say.

Natsuki was confused. "What?"

"It's just that...you said something sensible. It's...it's amazing really!" The shorter blond explained.

Cue the OOC speech of the tallest member of Starish.

"Oh am I not allowed to!? Is it because I'm Natsuki and the things that run in my mind are only cute things and Piyo-chan therefore I can't say ANYTHING serious!?" Natsuki snapped. "Oh don't mind me! I'll just go sing that Piyo-chan song because saying something sensible is totally fucked up for me to do!"

The rest of Starish were completely dumbfounded as their usually mild-mannered bandmate continued his rant.

"I should just go play dress up with Syo-chan because apparently, that's a much more acceptable thing to do than defend our sempais! Oh, or maybe I should have just smiled like an idiot in the background because I'm expected to be a damn airhead! Oh joy!"

Otoya was the first to speak from the group. "Are you alright?"

"Everything's fucking dandy 'cause I'm Natsuki!"

"Satsuki? Is that you?" Syo whimpered.

Such question only enraged the tall blond.

"Oh, so only Satsuki's allowed to get mad! Not Natsuki - he's a precious cinnamon roll that thinks only of cupcakes and sugarplums! Bah!"

Needless to say, Starish never looked at Natsuki in the same way ever again. They assumed that he was probably high.

He was, and somewhere out there, Satsuki was laughing his ass off.