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third person POV

Starish, Quartet Night, Haruka and her friends were sitting quietly on the long dining table for about half an hour. The teachers were sitting on the next long table, trying to break the silence but...

"It's been really a long time since the voting had started..." Ringo said as he leaned his head onto the table.

"Well, we can't just sit here and wait for it right?" Hyuga asked. "I mean, today is Haruka's birthday!" and whispered to Ringo's ear.

The two teachers looked at the idols, who were sitting next to their table.

'Such tension!' Haruka thought in silence. 'When the voting went on...none of them said a thing...'

Sitting right beside her was her best friend, Tomochika. She was also shocked by the tight atmosphere surrounding her.

"*Yawn*...guess I'll just grab a bite to stop myself from yawning..." Ranmaru said as he got up from his seat.

"Me too...I'm going for the sweets," Camus said as he stood up from his seat.

"I'm going to prepare the Kotobuki's special karage. Wanna try them?" Reiji asked happily and cheerfully.

None of them replied except for Satsuki. He stood up and said:

"I'll try the food you made. If it tastes bad compared to Natsuki's, hell shall break lose."

Reiji gave him a shaky closed eye smile. Syo, who was sitting beside Satsuki, somehow looking petrified at his supposed-to-be friendly friend. Syo had Natsuki/Satsuki's pair of glasses ever since the time when they knew about the voting game. He couldn't get his old friend back to his senses and all he could do was looking at his friend with scared eyes.

"Hm...if that's so, then I shall let you try some of my cooking," Masato said with a smirk as he had some scheme planned in his back.

Ren realised this followed by Shibuya.

"We'll help!" the pair said in unison.

Haruka didn't know what to do so she decided to give a hand but was stopped by Ai.

"You'll be a bother to their schemes, birthday girl."

"Eh...but..." Haruka began.

"We'll just sit here and watch what they are trying to do to make Satsuki back to normal. This oughta be fun..." Ai said as he somehow enjoyed the scene, "sounds like a movie's about to start."

"I guess I'll join them, Natsuki needs his pair of glasses in order for him to return back to his normal self," Syo said with a smirk and stood up from his seat while taking the pair of glasses with him.

Basically, their seats were partly isolated but with Haruka, Kaoru, Cecil, Ittoki, Ai, Ichinose remained seated. The others went to the table located beside an open kitchen(where people could watch someone cooking from the outside as an entertainment).

"I guess we could show off our cooking skills here, right,Masa~?" Ren said as he winked at his member.

"Hmph...I guess this will be a showdown," Masato said with a smirk.

"I'll be the instructor!" Tomochika assisted happily.

"I'll be the taster...I need meat!" Ranmaru said as he looked like he can gobble up an elephant for dinner.

"I'll be the taster on sweets," Camus said as he took out his scepter and whack it on the floor, "whichever peasants fail me, you peasants will need to become my servant for a week!"

Masato, Reiji, Ren and whoever were the cooks, gulped in a scared way.

"Servant...f-f-for a week?! I mean we have practices for our latest song and we have to serve you at the same time?!" Reiji stammered.

"So what? I am the Count of Permafrost AND don't you dare to defy my words!" Camus said as he pointed his scepter onto Reiji's face.

"O-o-of course I won't because we are comrades!" Reiji replied with a few sweatdrops.

Masato and Ren exchanged petrified looks with each other. Camus saw that and pointed his scepter at the two.

"You heard me right? Get on with your cooking, peasants," Camus said with a glare.

Satsuki just glared at the three and walked to where the tasters sat. Guess he was also tasting the food anyways. Shining Saotome heard the sudden commotion and began dancing and twirling towards where the tasters were at. This startled Camus until he almost choked onto a cup of SUPER SWEET Darjeeling tea, that he had kept with him since the morning.

Hyuuga and Ringo quickly followed Shining without making weird movements. Haruka and the others decided to take a seat, near the open kitchen to anticipate the show.

"Konbawa minna! Tonight, there will be a special event held by the three cooks, who are Ren Jinguji, Masato Hijirikawa and Reiji Kotobuki desu! I, Ringo Tsukimiya will be the host and the instructor for today is Shibuya Tomochika desu! Yoroshiku na~!" Ringo announced as he faced the camera which was being held by Hyuuga, with a smile. "Guess who's birthday is today?"

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a screen popped out magically, showing fans of Starish cheering in a concert hall.  Millions of LED colored lights glowed as the fans held them high like fireflies in the darkness. They all yelled Haruka's name as the answer towards Ringo's question. Suddenly, the view changed its direction and pointed to a group of boys, familiar boys...it was HEAVENS!!! Haruka was deliberately shocked. She didn't know that she had fans too! Even towards the sudden appearance of HEAVENS!

The crowd cheered wildly as if the window's glass os about to burst from the high frequency and amplitude of the fans' voices. The tall guy in a pair of glasses snatched the mic from the host and began:

"Hello angels! Otori Raging here. We hosted this concert specially to celebrate Haruka's birthday and of course, we all loved to listen to your voices too~"

The fans squealed wildly and crazily, making thr whole concert hall to echo with voices.

"Correct desu!!!! We are all glad that all of you remembered her birthday! I mean without her, no STARISH would be formed! We are very happy to have her!" Shibuya said to the video camera. "Sa~ fans, let's greet her through this screen! She's watching you all here~!"

Hyuga turned his video camera to Haruka's direction, who was sitting right beside Ai and Ichinose, and was shocked due to the sudden unfold of events. Haruka was so happy that she had so many fans like the STARISH. She waved back at her fans and thanked for their support. After that, Ringo instructed Hyuuga to point the camera to the tasters.

"Why is it always me...?" mumbled Hyuuga in  disatisfaction as he pointed the camera towards the table, seated with the tasters.

"And we are the people who will taste the food cooked by your idols, madmosielles!" Shining announced as soon as he pulled a microphone from nowhere. "I will be one of the food critics aka tasters of the food!"

"I will judge the meat. Meat is the source of my life!" Ranmaru said as he balled his hand into a fist and raised it up.

Camus raised an eyebrow in annoyance but soon returned to normal. He spoke, as usual, in his 'royal' way...

"I, the Count of Permafrost, shall taste the sweets you peasants made and if it tastes too sweet or the other way, it'll be a failure."

"I shall judge the overall of the food, tastes bad, hell unfolds right in front of you all!" Satsuki declared once again, radiating his dark aura.

The fangirls squealed loudly due to Satsuki's charismatic way of talking...more like a horror to everyone here. Soon after that, HEAVENS declared that they will be at their serviec by performing some songs while enjoying the event. Shining did not refuse the service but instead, he accpeted it with a loud laugh. The camera pointed to the open kitchen, where the three cooks and their instructors were at.

"Alright, let the cooking begin!" Ringo declared. "you all will have 5min of discusssion and 1hr for cooking!"

In the open kitchen...(dialogue mode)

Shibuya: Alright, Masato will deal with the desserts...maybe something like Japanese sweets! Reiji will deal with the karage while Ren will deal with the french cuisine...is that clear? All the ingredients are a]well prepared on that counter and all you need is to cook them. Also, decorating the food is crucial, so please do it right before...Satsuki..

The cooks: Yosh! Gambatte masu!

*splitter* *clanking* *cracking* *chopping*

Ren: Pass me the tamago(eggs)!

Reiji: Where are the spices?

Masato: Which one is better? Anko or pandan?

*30mins passed*

Shibuya: We forgotten something important! The cake!

Masato: I'll handle it, Ren, decorate the cake after this.

Ren: Roger!

*mixing* *smashing* *chopping*

Reiji: I'm going to prepare some steak!

Shibuya: Isn't the karage enough?

Reiji: We ran out of those spices! I had to cover it up somehow!

Shibuya: Ok, go do it

*Fireflickered* *clankingofpans* *chopping*

*25 mins later*

Ringo: Such a tense battle we have here...

Satsuki: I smell the hell's fire in the house soon....

Reiji: *gulps* we better get the cake done soon!

Camus: It will be a failure soon enough if these people were to rush...

Shibuya: 1 more minute!!!!

Masato and Ren: Done decorating!!

Ringo: AND times up!

End of dialogue

"This will be our queue now," Ranmaru said as he looked at the cooks, who were coming out of the kitchen.

"Alright, let's sing HEAVENS Gate!" HEAVENS declared as the cooks served the food.

Masato served a piece of cake together with some mochi. Ren served some lagsana while Reiji served the karage and steak to all the tasters. The tasters began to have the food while the song played. As soon as they took a bite, their eyes were filled with shock.

"Ko-kore wa...," Ranmaru stuttered as he took a bite of the steak.

"This is perfect!" Camus said with a smirk.

"I love it...tastes better compared to Natsuki's cooking," Satsuki said as he enjoyed the food.

"Marvelously done!!!! These food are fantastic Babe!!!" Shining said as he chewed on some karage.

The cooks were relieved to hear that. Haruka and the remaining clapped in excitement. Soon after that, HEAVENS stopped singing and declared that they would want to taste the food with the birthday girl but their schedules are really hectic. Thus, they continued to perform for their fans and this ended the event.

Syo sneakily snuck behind of Satsuki, who was busy eating the food and put on Natsuki's pair of spects as swiftly as possible. Natsuki then returned to normal, leaving him confused by the happenings that occured without his knowledge.

"Let us all taste your cooking!!" Hyuuga declared as he set his camera carefully onto the table.

Immediately, STARISH and their friends began to eat happily while waiting for the results.

"Comeon, let's grab a bite!" Ichinose said with a gentle smile.

"We don't want you to miss the food!" Cecil said happily.

"I'm glad that you enjoyed it yourself, birthday girl!" Ai said with a smile.

'I'm glad that everyone enjoyed themselves instead of just waiting for the results...I guess this will be the best birthday present ever!' Haruka thought as she stood up from her seat.p

-To be continued