CREDITS TO: UTA NO PRINCE SAMA

CHAPTER 2

Two months ago...

It was a typical morning for STARISH members (except Tokiya and Otoya who for some reasons were late for their breakfast). They enjoyed themselves eating a delicious meal, made by Masato.

Why STARISH though? Other than the fact that each letter stands for their names, (Shinomiya Natsuki, Ichinose Tokiya, Aijima Cecil, Jinguji Ren, Ichinose Otoya, Kurusu Syo and Hijirikawa Masato), they were also a bunch of hot and talented students who were close to each other.

"What a great breakfast... as expected from Masato oka-chan," Cecil exclaimed excitedly as he took a bite. However, his frank praise gained himself a glare from the said mother figure.

"You guys should make your own breakfast sometimes."

"But Masato, your meal is really delicious. They are irresistible to our tongues. Your sushi, your coffee... even raw chicken can be tasty. You are really good with your hands, Masato," this time, Cecil nailed it. You could see it from the way Masato let out a fake cough as an attempt to conceal his red face.

Well, no matter how serious and cold someone can be, they are also a normal human being who naturally loves compliments.

"Shut up and eat."

"Ara, Hijirikawa, you are blushing," Ren exclaimed. He did not even flinch when Masato scowled at him, considering that was bound to happen anyway.

"Want me to shove the bun into your big mouth instead?"

"Otoyaaaaaa!!!!!" an ear-splitting scream managed to distract the harmony in the cafeteria. Everybody turned to the source of the voice but there was no one could be seen.

"You are so noisy, Tokiya!"

"Whose fault is that, you jerk!? What the hell did you do with my uniform!?"

Here we go, the next obligation or typical task that only a mother like Masato would manage to work out.

"Here we go," Ren gave a smirk to Masato who just sighed for nth time just to take care of his friends...

Or his fake children.

"Is that Tokiya-kun?" Natsuki asked innocently.

"Who else, though? The one who is hardworking enough to train his vocal this damn early," Syo scoffed while taking a sip of miso soup. "Hijirikawa, are you not going to do anything? I am afraid Tokiya will really.. I mean, really slice Otoya into pieces."

"You are right, Kurusu. I guess I have to do that," Masato left them, dragging his tired feet to the dorm.

"It's tough to be a mother. You basically take care of everything from scratch," Cecil commented, suddenly feeling the longing for his mother in Agnapolis.

"Why do we always make it sound like Hijirikawa is the real mother, though? He didn't even give birth to us," Syo remarked when in fact, he also treated the said blue head as one. "I bet he also doesn't wish to have this kind of destiny when he is supposed to be an idol."

"Said someone who always comes to Masato whenever his shirt is torn or whenever he's hungry," Cecil bashed.

"Shut up!"

"It can't be helped, right. Masato-kun is too hardworking. He even refuses whenever I want to lend a hand," Natsuki interrupted.

"That's called being safe, not being hardworking," Syo mumbled while his mind created a terrifying image of Natsuki's chocolate cookies.

They are too disgusting, enough to take your life away.

Meanwhile...

"Say that you will sing a duet with me and I will give you back your uniform."

Masato was served with the unsightly sight of Tokiya, who wore a singlet and a purple towel wrapped around his waist. He bit his lips in anger as he glared at Otoya who properly dressed but sticking his tongue out at his brother.

"Not even in your birthday, sweetheart," Tokiya mocked, completely unaware of Masato's presence. All he cared was he should ravage Otoya if this kiddie continued being childish and ludicrous.

"Did you just call me sweetheart? How sweet are you, Tokiya oni-chan!"

"What.. What did you call me?" Tokiya was sure that his ears still functioned well but those words were a downright taboo for him so he just needed to make sure that his brain absorbed the information well.

Oh, no! Masato gasped in alarm. Even he was not supposed to get involved with this immature and baseless bickering, Masato could somehow smell the upcoming death as Tokiya would go berserk which led, like Syo had said, Tokiya to kill Otoya eventually.

Masato knows how much Tokiya hated the word 'Oni-chan' once it comes out from Otoya's mouth.

"Tokiya oniii.."

"Stop!" Masato suddenly closed the read head's mouth, much to the siblings' shock.

"Masa...I cannot breath.." Otoya muffled desperately as he gasped for oxygen.

"Masato, what are you doing here?" Tokiya asked, innocently.

"What do you mean 'what am I doing here'? You guys just cannot be quiet when you are around each other, can't you?" Masato pulled away. "Otoya, give me your closet key."

"Ehhh, Masa, why all of sudden.."

"Just give it!" Masato insisted sternly, enough for the read head to hand him the key.

Without saying anything, Masato unlocked Otoya's closet before taking out Tokiya's already-ironed uniform in the midst of Otoya's clothes which are similar in color, much to the siblings' shock.

"Ehhh? Masa, how did you find it?" Otoya asked, sending the said blue head rolling his eyes.

"Given that you are not smart enough to have your own secret base or something, that is bound to happen anyway," Masato scoffed as he crossed his arms.

"Mou, that's mean. I am not that stupid, you know. Masa is just too smart."

Masato sighed in annoyance before turning his attention towards the still perplexed Tokiya. "And you, Tokiya, put on your clothes or you will get late to the school."

"Thanks, Masato," after looking daggers at the cheeky Otoya, Tokiya went to his room side before starting dressed.

"What the hell are you doing this time, Otoya? Can you just leave him alone for the God sake?" Masato murmured.

"Hey, that's not fair to scold me alone, Masa! Tokiya is the one who mean to me first. I asked him to teach me singing but he just brushed me off. I asked him to sing together with me but he called me crazy! But with you, Masa, he even cross-dressed to help you with your acting. That's not fair!" Otoya deliberately shouted, just to make Tokiya became more annoyed.

"Do you have to remind with that disturbing scene, Otoya? Just knock it off!" Masato massaged his forehead. It was not like he enjoyed himself seeing Tokiya cross-dressing, though. In fact, it gave him a nightmare. "You can ask Shinomiya to teach you instead. Just please stop bothering your brother, won't you?"

"But Masa.."

"Hey, I am not his brother!" apparently, hearing that somebody addressed him as Otoya's brother is much more depressing than hearing somebody reminded him with the cross-dressing activity.

"You want me to call you oni-chan instead, Tokiya oniii.."

"Do it or you never make a chance to debut," Tokiya instantly emitted a purple and menacing aura.

"Oi, omaera!" Masato flicked their foreheads as a last resort.

"It hurts!" the siblings shouted furiously as they glared at Masato.

"Forcing me to do something like this every freaking morning...I am not your oka-chan for the God sake!"

"Eh, you're not?" Tokiya asked, seemingly not afraid to die.

"You want to die?"

"Sorry.." Tokiya felt his body shrunken.

"Stop fighting or I will report this to your father. Oh my.. Kazuki ojisan, apparently, it is impossible for me to look after your stupid sons.." Masato looked into the sky, rather sad with this tough task or to be exact, his destiny when in fact Tokiya is the same age as him and Otoya is just one year younger than him.

Yet, dealing this pair of his childhood friends just took his youth away. Whoever ended up marrying him would be so lucky because apparently, he was more suitable to be the mother instead.

"Tokiya, after breakfast, I want to talk to you," with the remark which sounded more like a mandatory order, Masato left the siblings by themselves.

"He really resembles our mummy," Otoya commented, not aware that he received a death glare from Tokiya.

'Our' mummy, huh?

"You should be considerate with Otoya, you know," Masato advised as soon as Tokiya was done with his breakfast. They were currently talking in a very silent corridor, hoping that they would not bump into anybody.

"What? Me? Are you.." Tokiya showed an exaggeratedly shocked face. As if he never realized that he had been too harsh to Otoya all this time.

"Yes, you and yes, I am serious," Masato replied, rather grimly. "You are the brother so you should tolerate his personality."

And this time, as predicted, Tokiya gave a very dissatisfied look that Masato was so accustomed with before...

"Masa!" Tokiya exclaimed with his infamous and childish tone. He only used 'Masa', Masato's childhood nickname when he complained.

"Toki!" meanwhile, Masato only used 'Toki' when he demanded Tokiya to listen to him. "Either you like or not, Ittoki Otoya or Ichinose Otoya is your family. You should do something about your relationship."

"But, Masa.."

"What I am telling you is I want you to open up to him. Take your time to get chummy with him, not making bigger obstacles when he wants to get close with you. Don't you pity him? He tries so hard to win your heart and yet, you just brush him off. Please act your age for the God sake! Whatever you do, your late mother will never be alive again..."

The atmosphere suddenly become menacing as Tokiya's striking face turned fierce. Apparently, it was enough to creep Masato out. To be honest, while the others perceived him as the only one who Tokiya would listen to, Masato had this side when Tokiya could scare the living daylights out of him when he saw this particular side of Tokiya.

Nobody including Otoya ever saw how insane Tokiya could get when he reached his last straw.

Nobody knew that after their mother just died, Tokiya swore that he would never forgive the red head. Instead, he would find a way to take his revenge on Otoya.

Oh my... that beast-looking face! I should come up with something else before Tokiya gets more barbaric, Masato thought in desperation as he met eyes with Tokiya.

"Er.. By the way....What happened with Shibuya? Do you.."

"Nope," the menacing atmosphere suddenly turned flowery, much to Masato's disgust but at least, his attempt to make Tokiya stopped angry worked out. Instead, the vocalist from S Class suddenly turned sheepish.

Since when did this idiot can make these flowers floated, though? Masato's blue orbs scanned the animated roses, orchids and many types of flowers that appeared out of nowhere around him.

"Eh? Last night you said that you wanted to confess to her. What happened? Did you finally realize that you have the least possibility to go out with her, considering your personality is not that good so you decided to give up on her and let her be with a much better guy than you?"

The fact that Masato blurted out those lines in just one single heck of breath was one thing but what made Tokiya feeling more insulted than amazed was...

This so-called nice childhood friend of him literally insulted him for having a series of bad personality traits.

"You could put it in nicer way, Hijirikawa Masato," Tokiya noted with a poker face that suggested his annoyance, much to Masato's satisfaction.

"What do you mean? Did I put it wrong? I don't think so, though. Even you are my best friend but your personality is really terrible, Tokiya."

Apart from both of them, nobody really knew that Tokiya is actually a hot-tempered, selfish, childish, thick-skinned, foul-mouthed and rude human being. In fact, their principal was the one who suggested him to portray himself as a cool, considerate, mature, humble, soft-spoken and polite idol-to-be. Thanks for the suggestion, everybody in the school was deceived by his flawless image.

"Then, what about your feeling to Nanami-san!? I bet you don't even confess to her yet! Instead, you keep pretending that you accidentally bump into her every time she is sad! You even act like you are a prince from a Disney movie when in fact, all you have to do is teaching her how to play piano! No need to be so narcissistic about that!" Tokiya deliberately shouted childishly about every single cheesy thing that Masato would probably do as an attempt to take his revenge on the blue head.

"Hey, don't make up your own version of Cinderella story! I never done that!"

"Said someone who is so desperate to be Nanami-san's Prince Charming! I warned you, please don't feel safe enough when I am around!" Tokiya's voice got louder, much to Masato's panic. What happened if somebody eavesdropped on their immature bickering which contained their top secrets? It would be a complete doom, of course.

"You..! Can you please do something with your loudspeaker voice!? What happen if anybody hears us?"

"Then, please declare to everyone that I am the angel of this school," Tokiya crossed his arms while shamelessly threatened his best friend.

"Declare to everyone that you are the angel? How thick-skinned!" as he is also a student with singing as his speciality, Masato did not have any problem to match Tokiya's vocal ability.

"Masato, do I look that low to you? Which part of the 'calling me an angel' makes me thick-skinned, though?"

"Are you asking me because you don't know, Tokiya? Like seriously?" Masato tilted his head, out of disbelief. "For the last time, just accept the fact that you are not angelic! You are actually far from it. You are just a perfect idol-to-be who will be a jerk when it comes to his own brother."

"I told you he is not my brother and just so you know, I will treat an angel angelically but for a curse like him.. of course I will treat him the worst!" Tokiya stormed out, leaving the perplexed and dejected Masato behind.

Seriously, just for how long do you intend to resent Otoya, Tokiya? Masato sighed in frustration.

"Waaaa, what a delicious curry we have here!" Cecil exclaimed as Haruka opened the lid, revealing a mouth-watering Japanese curry. "Our group is so lucky, right? While the others need to queue up in cafeteria for their foods, we have Masato and Haruka who are very good in cooking."

"You said that because you just want to eat," Syo muttered.

"Please dig in, minnasan," Haruka offered as she scooped rice for the boys. "And Tomo-chan too.."

"Yeah.. thank you, Haruka.." Tomochika, the so-called best friend of Haruka curved in a fake smile.

Here she goes, the frigging damsel in distress with her ability to show off just how 'Mary Sue' she is. It must feel nice, right? All the hot guys ended up throwing themselves into your net, the long-haired girl said internally. Believe it or not, Shibuya Tomochika held an extreme and critical jealousy in her heart when it comes to Haruka. Sure.. when it was their first rendezvous, Tomochika was the one who got way too friendly with Haruka to the point of they became best friend as she requested. Haruka, being nice and innocent she is, treating Tomochika as she is the most precious friend that she ever had which is true because growing up in a small village, suffered from an illness, Haruka did not grow in a beautiful childhood with a lot of friends.

She never knew that the only reason why a hot chick like Tomochika got interested with her all of sudden was because making friends with a nerd like Haruka means Tomochika would be complimented with;

"What a good girl. With her look, she can hang out with much popular friends, but she chose to hang out with the dork. That's rare!"

"Obviously Shibuya hangs out with the nerd because she empathizes her. The nerd should be grateful to Shibuya."

"Shibuya is like a goddess. She is gorgeous, stylish and popular. That Nanami should learn from her instead!"

However, Tomochika's 'Regina George' life just lasted less than a month when suddenly, a bunch of hot guys with the STARISH as their group name suddenly got interested with Haruka. According to them, they were drawn to everything about her. Even she was not sure either all of them secretly love Haruka or vice versa, it still...

savagely destroyed Tomochika's pride. She is the symbol of elegance in the school but in the eyes of those guys, Haruka is like a blessing that they never found anywhere.

Not to mention that recently, she just found out that she and Haruka loves the same person and the person is STARISH member.

"So delicious!" Natsuki, who was the first to eat exclaimed cheerfully. "Haru-chan, can you teach me how to cook this?"

"Yeah, sure.." Haruka agreed awkwardly as she could see the rest of them gave her a carefully but desperately 'don't teach him or you'll never see the sunset again' look.

"Nanami, whoever marries you must be the luckiest one. You will be a good wife," Otoya blurted out a casual but sincere compliment to the rosette while he was still busy chewing the meat.

"Ah..thank you," everybody excluding Otoya could see how Haruka's cute face turned so red.

They just smiled suggestively at each other except Tomochika. She bit her lips as she stirred her curry. Apparently, this hot chick could not and did not bother to learn how to cook so it was impossible for her to win Otoya's heart with her cooking.

You're such a bitch, Haruka! She insulted her best friend in her mind as she could see how happy Otoya and Haruka were.

"Congratulations. You have a rival," Tokiya whispered cheekily to Masato.

"Shut up."

When the fact that Tokiya shared his love problem with Masato is because he only believed in the pianist, Masato only let the vocalist knew about his feeling to Haruka because he did not want to ruin their friendship. Apart from Tokiya and Cecil (who looked more suitable to be her brother because of his protective gene), he knows that the rest of his friends also loves Haruka.

He did not know about Otoya, though.

"Actually, Otoya, Haruka cooked it in such as big portion because she knows that you love curry!" Cecil exclaimed happily, much to their shock.

Hm..no. 'Much to their shock' is not the right term since every single soul in their group know that Haruka loves Otoya since a long time ago so..

The 'much to their shock' term could only be applied to Otoya, the typical guy who would automatically act innocent with his admirer's unusually affectionate treatment to him when the rest of his group members know it.

Yet, come to think of it, his naivety did make sense because nobody.. I mean a normal human being normally does not have that enough confidence to claim that every girl who treats him nicely actually loves him in secret.

"Is that so? Thank you, Nanami! You are the best girl that I have ever met!"

"You sure know how to make a girl flattered, Otoya.." Syo remarked in awe.

" I just said the truth, though. Nanami is a very nice girl. One of us should date her or she will be took away," Otoya remarked casually, totally unaware of the 'you are the one who talk' look from the others.

"You heard that, Masato? One of us should date her or she will be took away," Tokiya muttered.

"Are you really that desperate to die, Tokiya?"

Meanwhile, Haruka was busy glaring at Cecil who smirked at her. Well, at least 'glaring' is the most suitable verb in the eyes of others but for the pairs, it was a war of telepathy.

Haruka: Why did you state something like that, Cecil-san?

Cecil : I just want to help you, Haruka.

Haruka: I thought I can trust you to not reveal my secret. I don't want him to know.

Cecil : Haruka, just so you know, you don't have much time left. We only have two months before our debut. Since the 'love is forbidden' rule is lifted, you should do something about you and Otoya. You should go and grab him before someone else, who is looking daggers at you right now takes him away first.

Haruka: Eh, what do you mean? Who is looking daggers at me?

Haruka looked around but she could not see anyone in such category.

Meanwhile, Cecil stared at Tomochika who eventually pretended to eat the curry. Somehow, he could guess what Tomochika plotted all this time. Since the first day he saw Tomochika and Haruka hanged out together, he had this bad feeling whereby he had to protect Haruka from the sly fox. Yet, so far, he did not have any solid evidence which could convince Haruka that all this time, Tomochika was not being sincere with their friendship.

In fact, she just found the right time to humiliate Haruka.  

That's it for chapter 2! I deliberately made Tokiya and Masato addressed each other as their first names since they were already a pair of close childhood friends. And also I deliberately made Tokiya OOC with a lot of bad personality traits for the sake of the plot. Just like how the summary said, his hatred for Otoya eventually led to something unforgivable. Hope you like this story and feel free to leave a review. Thank you!