Bright Lights - Chapter 6
Title - Bright Lights
Chapter - 6/? Multichapter
Rating - PG for now.
Genre - Romance, Drama, AU, School Life,
Warnings - Fanboying, dancing, dreaming. Not beta'd & too busy to proof read so there WILL be mistakes :P
Bands - The GazettE, Dir En Grey, Alice Nine, Miyavi, OC's and more..
Pairings - ?/Reita, more to be revealed.
Summary - What does it take to reach the bright and shining stars? The answer is to become one.
Disclaimer - The story is from my dreams of real characters :P
Chapter Word Count - (3,849)
Notes - This is the first story I've posted up, so I really yeah, tell me what ya'll think ^_^
Author's comment - AWWW YEAHH, A little less than a year later, Chapter 6 is now out~ My Baby LIVESSS!!! More comments below~
Previous chapters: Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5
~Chapter 6~
After about 10 minutes walking, following the idol’s directions further down from the higher end of the fashion street, they ended up at the more bohemian and trendy part of the district.
Walking down the trendy streets, Akira still pondered quietly about his hair. He looked at the shorter boy right next to him and studied his hair once more.
“Hey Ruki. You mentioned at the restaurant that the company didn’t like Day One’s hair choice. What exactly do they approve of in the company?” Akira asked, again trying to not seem to eager.
“Hmmnn…” Ruki looked up and though for a bit,
“Well like we said, we look more like a rock group more than anything now” He giggled,
“…but I guess they don’t mind too much since we are doing well at the moment.
They were only concerned about my appearance when I first entered the company as a trainee.”
That caught Akira’s attention.
“Before I went in PSC, I had my hair kinda in dirty blond color.” Ruki continued. “As soon as they took me in as a trainee, I had to cut all the blond hair off, and grow it out with my natural black hair color.
“I assume that they wanted to see me in my most natural state as they can. It’s weird how they do that to all the trainee’s but once those trainee make their big debut, it’s as if they become totally different people. Care of the management of course~” the idol giggled again, his face as if reminiscing his trainee days from not so long ago.
“I see.” Akira mumbled, his mind flying away again in thought, considering the idol’s words.
Soon enough, they arrived their destination. The two story shop they stopped in front of was painted half black and white, and the other half was painted in a bright hot pink color. Above the store front’s mirror-like windows were the bright white flashing words ‘Kathy & Barbie Design,’ the name of the store Akira assumed.
“Let’s go in!” Ruki chirped excitedly.
Ruki led the way, and entered through the glass doors followed by the older teen. Just like the outside, the chic shop was painted black and white, and one wall at the back painted in pink. The rest of the shop was decorated with matching black and white furniture, with a pop of pink here and there.
Someone must really love their black, white, and pink, Akira thought. Overall the shop looked hipster… a very chic type of hipster. Apparently that can exist in such a city. There was a person sitting at the counter in front of the doorway. Whom Akira presumed was the receptionist, but he couldn’t tell whether it was a man or a woman.
The person and a very thin figure, accentuated by an all black long sleeved body suit with ripped sleeves. Hair was shaved almost all clean off the head, except for shoulder length bangs brushed off to the side, and colored bright orange. The person’s face in full makeup with nude lips. Akira found no obvious bumps anywhere that would indicate the person’s gender. It was the first time he’s seen someone so androgynous to that extreme.
“Good evening Nancy, looking beautiful as ever.” Ruki greeted the receptionist smiling brightly.
“Why thank you Ruki” The receptionist Nancy’s voice boomed deeply, grinning, which didn’t help Akira’s confusion. “I see you’ve made an appointment today. Barbie is in her office upstairs. You can go on up. I’ll let her know you’re on your way.” Nancy said and focused her attention back on the gigantic computer screen in front of her.
“Thanks!” Ruki pipped. He turned to Akira and pointed to the white winding staircase towards the back. They passed by a few people which Akira assumed were customers and stylist producing their hair art.
When they reached the top, Akira was greeted with the site of a large and extremely hipster offices divided into three sections. It was basically a huge bright loft divided into three sections by completely see-through glass walls. Farthest office to the right had again purely black and white modern furniture and unconventional art pieces all over; it was empty and the lights were all shut off. In the middle was an office of busy stylish people on their MacBooks on several circular tables, having heated discussions, looking very serious with their perfectly bronzed and highlighted faces.
The last see-through room over to the right was decorated in mostly in a blindingly pink color, which didn't surprise Akira at all. They knocked on the glass door and entered the room, Akira following Ruki. There was a really young looking thin blonde woman in a short tight summer dress seated on big fluffy white office chair on her phone, and beside her another androgynous looking shop worker focused on an iPad tablet that they were holding.
“Hi Barbie!” Ruki greeted sweetly with bubbled cheeks. The blonde woman noticed their presence, waved at Ruki and bid her farewell to the person at the other end of her phone line and hung up.
“Why if it isn’t my favorite little Day One idol. Here to check up on your outfit for the concert? Correct?~” Barbie asked rhetorically.
Akira’s heart tightened at the mention of the concert.
“Yes please! And also, I brought along a friend” Ruki pointed at the older teen right next to him. “This is Akira. He wants to do something new to his hair.”
“Pleasure to meet you Barbie!” Akira smiled shyly “You have a beautiful shop.”
Barbie eyed him with one of her well shaped eyebrows raised, scrutinizing him from head to toe and then back to his face. It seems she made up her mind about the older teen when she smiled at him warmly, “Though it looks like you’d definitely benefit fit from a brand new hairstyle, you still still have a very handsome face.”
Akira coughed, as if to distract them from his madly blushing face.
Barbie turned to her helper in the room, “Go get find someone not busy take care of Akira right away.” she instructed. The worker nodded headed to the next room.
“I see Kathy isn’t in today? I thought the both of you are usually around in this office during this time of the month.” Ruki asked, sitting on one of the pink lounges in the room.
“Oh you know that busy bee. Then again, who isn’t busy these days? In this industry, to stay relevent, you just gotta keep going, you know~.” Barbie grinned.
“Kathy is working right now with the boys of Shadow621 at their hiding place, wherever that is…”
Akira’s heart tightened hundred times more at the mention of Shadow621 and the fact that, their stylist owns this exact office he’s in at the moment!!! What are the odds?!
“I swear, those boys and their manager are such perfectionists…” Barbie continued, “I absolutely love it!”
They were interrupted by Barbie’s assistant and a new stylist entering the room.
“Liza, that’s Akira, Ruki’s friend. Please take care of him th best you can.” Barbie instructed.
The stylist named Liza nodded and turned to Akira, “What would you like to have done to your hair?” she asks. Wearing a simliar black bodysuit top to Nancy, except she wore a long leather skirt with a very high slit at the side. Her face had simple makeup on, except for the added red blush below her eyes, and above her cheeks (know as the drunken look).
Ruki stepped in stood next to the stylist, hands folded across his chest, studying Akira’s head.“Can you make his hair layered, but leave his bangs, and make him into a blonde, then style it with thick wavy spikes. I want him to look like an anime character!” The idol decided.
Liza gave Akira a questioning look. Akira just stares at the young idol. He did tell him that he would trust him with his hair… He couldn’t take it back now, and Ruki is doing him a big favor bringing him to the best stylists. Why not?
“Anything Ruki says.” Akira told the stylist decisively.
“I’ll meet up with you in a bit.” Ruki told Akira before Liza led him out of the office.
Downstairs, he was seated on an empty barber’s chair in front of one of the white work stations with bright lights and large mirrors.
“You’re pretty lucky to have Ruki with you. Not even our regular customers get to see Barbie or Kathy in their office.” Liza tells Akira while putting a black barber’s cape around him over his clothes.
"Ruki really is nice," the teen mumbled more to himself.
“For the blonde, is it possible to make it temporary? I kinda don’t wanna shock my parents when they see me when I go home next week… but I still want it to be there for tomorrow evening.” Akira told her with a sheepish smile.
The stylist contemplated for a second.
“That’s possible and a much quicker process too. It will be a darker, more brown type of blond since we won’t be using any bleach. Are you okay with that?” Liza asked.
“That would be great!” the teen replied.
“Anything special happening tomorrow evening?” The stylist asked.
“Yes… In the afternoon, I will be at the grand opening event of the brand new SoundWave Store and Cafe at the mall tomorrow. My best friend is the owner, and I actually went here with his family.”
“Oh, is that right? And Day One will be there for the opening too, I heard. How about during the evening? You’ll be at the Shadow621 concert right? I’m sure you already know that Day One is the opening act, since you seem pretty close to Ruki.”
“Yes I actually am!” He meant that he was going to the concert part, not exactly the ‘close to Ruki part, but h'd rather not mention that part to the stylist. “That’s exactly why I’d want to look good for tomorrow. Hehe. Will you be at the concert too?”
“I will, but I’ll mostly be at the back fixing up the boys of Day One, doing their hair etc.
When showtime starts though, I’ll be able to sneak off to crowd at the side. You’ll probably be able to see me there tomorrow.” Liza laughed as she started working on his hair.
“Hehe…” Akira wasn’t exactly sure why the stylist of idols would be telling him all these behind-the-scenes details; he was a nobody who happened to make friends with a popular young idol. He didn’t dislike it, in fact, he was getting excited knowing those juicy details that he didn’t have to dig so hard to get. It just played out in front of him, just because of Ruki. He wondered if Shadow621’s stylist will also be out to watch during the concert at the side.
Even if he wasn’t able to see Shadow621 and his idol behind the scenes and in person, whatever he learned today was enough to keep himself and his fanatic friends happy for the rest of the summer.
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“Wooow” Kouyou, Midori, and Lexy said in unison, eyes wide and staring at the new dirty blond. He still had long bangs, the sides of his head was cut into wavy layers, and styled sharply like an anime… exactly how Ruki said he wanted. Liza really knew what she was doing. When Ruki headed downstairs after his talk with Barbie, he was delighted the way Akira’s hair turned out, faking wiping a tear from his eyes at how proud he was to come up with such concept while Akira just grinned at him.
Akira found his friends at the hotel’s pool having a night swim when he returned from his hair appointment.
Kouyou was reaching out to touch his hair with his wet limbs.
“Don’t touch! The blond is only temporary!” He dodged Kouyou.
“Why didn’t you just get it bleached and permanent?” Midori asked.
“One thing would be it would probably take more than one session to make it blond the way I want it to be. The other thing is that I heard from Ruki that PSC really prefers potential trainees in their most natural state, so I can’t have colored hair when we audition.”
“Ooohh that makes sense.” Midori nodded, “Good thing you went with Ruki. He’s so nice.” she cool cutely.
“Even if your hair gets back to black, the cut still really suites you!” Lexy said, while observing Akira’s hair, walking around him, her bathing suit now covered with a towel.
“So how was your little date with the youngest Day One idol?” She asked teasingly wiggling one eyebrow.
“Oh yes, please do tell~” Kouyou dragged Akira to sit on one of the pool side lounges and three surrounded him.
“It wasn’t a date you guys, he just went with me to get my hair done.”
“Daaaate~” Kouyou teased again, the two girls giggling and Akira just rolled his eyes.
He thought a bit as he settled on the lounge, “Oh guys I do have something juicy to share with you guys!” He eyes sparkled brightly.
After telling the other three that the salon he went to was owned by both Shadow621’s and Day One’s stylists, that he got to meet one of the owners, the mention of Shadow621 currently in the city working with the owners, the three friends all in their wet swim suites shivering from the cool summer night air and excitement, all mirrored the same bright sparkling eyes Akira had on his face.
“Woah Aki…” Lexy grabbed his shoulders with both hands. “…you got a glimpse of the inner circle….” She uttered slowly in awe.
They all just stared at him for 1…
2…
3 seconds…
then it came…
“WAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!” They all started flailing around grabbing to shake one another, squealing high pitched nonsense so high that only other fangirls and fanboys nearby would be the only ones to hear such high frequency.
Akira was part of it too of course, but he flailed carefully to not get his hair wet, though his shirt and shorts suffered and got wet from his friends piling ontop of him and continued flailing.
He kept his cool the entire time he spent with Ruki and at the salon earlier until his ride home with Ruki and his management’s driver. It was especially hard when the young idol was absolutely ecstatic seeing Akira’s new haircut and style after his discussion with barbie, having to go back to the office upstairs to say good-bye and to thank Barbie with Ruki, and the idol’s never faltering stare at his new hair even as he paid at the front counter, or during the car ride back to the hotel. All that tension built up was now being released with the people he was most comfortable and he felt at home with. Akira loved his friends so much, and they loved him; they all understood each other even without the fangirling, and he was so thankful that they were always there for him at the end of the day. Literally.
Three floors above with a perfect view of the pool from the large hotel room windows, unseen by the happy flailing teens below, a figure was watching them with a smile on his face.
“Ruki, you’re back! How’d your errand go?” Miyavi called loudly as he entered the large hotel suite, seeing his bandmate by the window.
The said young idol hummed and turned his face away from the window, a smile still on his face. “It was good. All our outfits are ready to go…” he said distractedly.
“We have to go. Manager man told us to meet him in the lobby in 5 minutes. Dinner with the big bros~ but more like a dinner-slash-last minute meeting with the staff and crew about the concert tomorrow.” Miyavi said while entering his room to grab some stuff he needed.
Ruki hummed again, “coming…” he called.
Miyavi came out of the room and saw the younger boy still looking out of the window, so he decided to see what he’s been staring at.
He sees flailing figures and happy familiar faces. He had to laugh to at how ridiculously funny they looked like that. It’s even funnier that they didn’t know that they were being watched.
“A silly bunch aren't they.” Ruki told the older teen.
“You almost couldn’t tell that they’re that kind of people from the way they acted during dinner last night.” Miyavi continued grinning “C’mon we’re gonna be late. We’ll see them again tomorrow at SoundWave.” Miyavi said, dragging the shorter teen out of the room to head downstairs.
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Later that evenring, the four friends all decided to have dinner outside the hotel at a nearby highly rated Korean BBQ restaurant that was open late at night, and took a few shots of soju Korean rice wine. They were in such high spirits on a Thursday night, a little buzzed from the very strong rice wine, they decided to walk it off around the blocks by the hotel, chatting happily with each other (mostly making their own fiction of what if’s about their idols).
It was getting late, but none of the teens wanted to go back. Walking past a few bars, they came across a really long line of fashionable people lined up in front of a building connected to another fancy hotel with large Space Age font with the words 'NEON FUTURE'. Giggling in their buzzed state, the girls insisted to line up along with them, and the guys just agreed to whatever, not caring. Some time later, they all ended up inside a loud and chic futuristic type night club, blaring loud house electronic music. The girls got in for free while the two boys each had to pay 30 bucks each. Reluctant at first, the two boys just went ahead and paid since they didn’t want to separate from the two girls who were already inside.
The high tension up-beat music was enough for all of them to get really excited. They pushed through the tight crowd to end up by the stage in front of the hot DJ of the night, and started dancing, jumping, sweating like crazy like no one was watching, cheering on the DJ and the Go-Go dancers in their tight skimpy futuristic outfits next to him. They were definitely able to burn off their KBBQ dinner off that night. The faster the song, the faster they would dance. The sexier the song, the sexier their bodyrolls became.
They mostly kept to themselves, but some girls would try to dance with Kouyou and Akira. When the two turned their attention away to dance with other girls, other guys in the club at the side waiting, gathered the courage and were finally able to ask Midori and Lexy to dance. A little friendly dancing later, the two girls left their partners and went to the restroom, leaving Akira and Kouyou on the dance floor with their partners.
In the bathroom, the two girls wiped their sweat off with napkins and fixed their appearances and noted the time was already past 1AM. They went out of the restroom with the intention of grabbing the boys, Kouyou and Akira, to go back to the hotel, until they heard the DJ switch the song to their favorite electro dance remix version of a song by Shadow621.
Of course, they looked at each other with extremely excited expressions,
“ONE MORE SONG!!!” The two girls screamed against the loud thumping music, and ran and squeezed their way to the middle of the dance floor. There, they danced with each other crazier, throwing their hair around, rolling their bodies and sweating even more, and dancing on whoever came close to them.
When the song started, the Kouyou and Akira looked at each other with similar excited faces and understood each other, they left their dance partners, and as if by instinct, danced their way to the middle of the dance floor and found the two girls.
The four danced together shouting against the music at how happy they were couldn’t believe they were gonna their see most favorite idols in just a few hours. They were already fully sober since earlier that night, but the great music, ambience, bright flashing strobe laser lights, and excitement for Shadow621 was enough to make them lose themselves.
For teenagers, they danced so well throughout the night with such passion, it caught some people’s attention nearby whom started cheering them on as they danced. Their youth gave them the energy despite the overbearing heat in the club from being surrounded by crushed bodies against one another.
Unknown to them, they’ve attracted attention from even the people in the private booths on the second floor with a clear view of the dance floor below. There, figures were able to watch every movement the four made, able to see every expression that flashed on those dancing figure’s faces while the observer sat in the comfort of the leather couch in their VIP room.
“Oh, it’s those four, and their at it again.” A tall teen said grinning amusedly while combing his colorful locks with his fingers to tie it up into a ponytail “They never fail to surprise me. You know bro, they’re going to the concert tomorrow?” The teen mention still grinning.
“You know them, Miyavi?” The one attentively watching the teens from his spot asked the other.
“Yeah, it’s the the owner of SoundWave. Well, the son of the owners anyway, and his friends. We had dinner with them last night.” Miyavi continued watching them, then taking out his phone.
“Oh man, too bad Ruki went back to the hotel early and missed this. I think he has a bit of a crush on the dirty blond... but I don't remember him blond yesterday... but yeah I think thats him on the floor.” Miyavi chuckled louder and went to the camera app on his phone and pointed to the teens below.
The other guy looked at him with a sternly, and Miyavi looked at him.
“Ah don’t worry bro, I’m only gonna do this so I can tease them when I see them tomorrow.” He grinned maliciously.
“Shin-chan come here and look at this!” he called to the back, and slowly, but steadily, a drunk Shinya made his way next to his bandmate, holding a large glass filled with wine.
Recognizing their faces, the drunk Shinya started chuckling loudly and stupidly as Miyavi was earlier. “How cuuuuteee!!!~”
The other person just turned his attention back to the four teens, watching their captivating dancing as he drank the alcoholic beverage in his hand, ignoring the others in the VIP room noisily cheering and laughing at any random stuff they're talking about. His peircing dark eyes watching every movement, and every hairflip they did. He found it amusing watching those four people on the dance floor moving wildly to a song he helped produce, and a little pride at that too.
The song ended, and it switched to another electronic song. The four friends all hugged each other in the end, and trying to scream loud enough telling each other that it was time to head back to the hotel. If they only knew who those figures upstairs were, they would probably wouldn't have gone as crazy as they did. If they found out that those figures have been watching them, entertained by their dancing for quiet a while now, they would most probably have the urge to kill themselves from embarrassment (figuratively anyway..)
The four made their way back to the hotel by foot, worn from all the dancing, tiredly walked to their rooms, took their showers and fell dead asleep until late morning the next day.
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Author's Note::: YASSS BITCHESSSS I DO WHAT I WANT, HOW I WANT. Lolz. Been hella busy the past year with school, and traveling abroad, and my other hobbies etc, but I finally took the time finish CHAPTER 6!!! The story is slowly unfolding. WHO is this mysterious figure in the VIP box with the other DAY ONE members? What's gonna happen Next?! :O
I love how I wrote a piece of Night Club scene without the dirty grunge and drugs. I like to dance and party like hell, and THAT is how I like my clubbing: clean and fun with a large focus on Actual Dancing~
Also, I decided that after Chapter 7, I will friends-locking every EVEN numbered chapter. It's just nice to know who's reading, ya know? I mean, you don't really have to worry about adding me, cuz all I really post up on the journal is FAN FIC... I already started chapter 7, so It will be posted up Next Week for sure~ Thank's ya'llz. Don't forget to comment just to let me know you've read this.... weird piece of fic.
See ya'll next chapter~ ^_^
Chapter - 6/? Multichapter
Rating - PG for now.
Genre - Romance, Drama, AU, School Life,
Warnings - Fanboying, dancing, dreaming. Not beta'd & too busy to proof read so there WILL be mistakes :P
Bands - The GazettE, Dir En Grey, Alice Nine, Miyavi, OC's and more..
Pairings - ?/Reita, more to be revealed.
Summary - What does it take to reach the bright and shining stars? The answer is to become one.
Disclaimer - The story is from my dreams of real characters :P
Chapter Word Count - (3,849)
Notes - This is the first story I've posted up, so I really yeah, tell me what ya'll think ^_^
Author's comment - AWWW YEAHH, A little less than a year later, Chapter 6 is now out~ My Baby LIVESSS!!! More comments below~
Previous chapters: Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5
~Chapter 6~
After about 10 minutes walking, following the idol’s directions further down from the higher end of the fashion street, they ended up at the more bohemian and trendy part of the district.
Walking down the trendy streets, Akira still pondered quietly about his hair. He looked at the shorter boy right next to him and studied his hair once more.
“Hey Ruki. You mentioned at the restaurant that the company didn’t like Day One’s hair choice. What exactly do they approve of in the company?” Akira asked, again trying to not seem to eager.
“Hmmnn…” Ruki looked up and though for a bit,
“Well like we said, we look more like a rock group more than anything now” He giggled,
“…but I guess they don’t mind too much since we are doing well at the moment.
They were only concerned about my appearance when I first entered the company as a trainee.”
That caught Akira’s attention.
“Before I went in PSC, I had my hair kinda in dirty blond color.” Ruki continued. “As soon as they took me in as a trainee, I had to cut all the blond hair off, and grow it out with my natural black hair color.
“I assume that they wanted to see me in my most natural state as they can. It’s weird how they do that to all the trainee’s but once those trainee make their big debut, it’s as if they become totally different people. Care of the management of course~” the idol giggled again, his face as if reminiscing his trainee days from not so long ago.
“I see.” Akira mumbled, his mind flying away again in thought, considering the idol’s words.
Soon enough, they arrived their destination. The two story shop they stopped in front of was painted half black and white, and the other half was painted in a bright hot pink color. Above the store front’s mirror-like windows were the bright white flashing words ‘Kathy & Barbie Design,’ the name of the store Akira assumed.
“Let’s go in!” Ruki chirped excitedly.
Ruki led the way, and entered through the glass doors followed by the older teen. Just like the outside, the chic shop was painted black and white, and one wall at the back painted in pink. The rest of the shop was decorated with matching black and white furniture, with a pop of pink here and there.
Someone must really love their black, white, and pink, Akira thought. Overall the shop looked hipster… a very chic type of hipster. Apparently that can exist in such a city. There was a person sitting at the counter in front of the doorway. Whom Akira presumed was the receptionist, but he couldn’t tell whether it was a man or a woman.
The person and a very thin figure, accentuated by an all black long sleeved body suit with ripped sleeves. Hair was shaved almost all clean off the head, except for shoulder length bangs brushed off to the side, and colored bright orange. The person’s face in full makeup with nude lips. Akira found no obvious bumps anywhere that would indicate the person’s gender. It was the first time he’s seen someone so androgynous to that extreme.
“Good evening Nancy, looking beautiful as ever.” Ruki greeted the receptionist smiling brightly.
“Why thank you Ruki” The receptionist Nancy’s voice boomed deeply, grinning, which didn’t help Akira’s confusion. “I see you’ve made an appointment today. Barbie is in her office upstairs. You can go on up. I’ll let her know you’re on your way.” Nancy said and focused her attention back on the gigantic computer screen in front of her.
“Thanks!” Ruki pipped. He turned to Akira and pointed to the white winding staircase towards the back. They passed by a few people which Akira assumed were customers and stylist producing their hair art.
When they reached the top, Akira was greeted with the site of a large and extremely hipster offices divided into three sections. It was basically a huge bright loft divided into three sections by completely see-through glass walls. Farthest office to the right had again purely black and white modern furniture and unconventional art pieces all over; it was empty and the lights were all shut off. In the middle was an office of busy stylish people on their MacBooks on several circular tables, having heated discussions, looking very serious with their perfectly bronzed and highlighted faces.
The last see-through room over to the right was decorated in mostly in a blindingly pink color, which didn't surprise Akira at all. They knocked on the glass door and entered the room, Akira following Ruki. There was a really young looking thin blonde woman in a short tight summer dress seated on big fluffy white office chair on her phone, and beside her another androgynous looking shop worker focused on an iPad tablet that they were holding.
“Hi Barbie!” Ruki greeted sweetly with bubbled cheeks. The blonde woman noticed their presence, waved at Ruki and bid her farewell to the person at the other end of her phone line and hung up.
“Why if it isn’t my favorite little Day One idol. Here to check up on your outfit for the concert? Correct?~” Barbie asked rhetorically.
Akira’s heart tightened at the mention of the concert.
“Yes please! And also, I brought along a friend” Ruki pointed at the older teen right next to him. “This is Akira. He wants to do something new to his hair.”
“Pleasure to meet you Barbie!” Akira smiled shyly “You have a beautiful shop.”
Barbie eyed him with one of her well shaped eyebrows raised, scrutinizing him from head to toe and then back to his face. It seems she made up her mind about the older teen when she smiled at him warmly, “Though it looks like you’d definitely benefit fit from a brand new hairstyle, you still still have a very handsome face.”
Akira coughed, as if to distract them from his madly blushing face.
Barbie turned to her helper in the room, “Go get find someone not busy take care of Akira right away.” she instructed. The worker nodded headed to the next room.
“I see Kathy isn’t in today? I thought the both of you are usually around in this office during this time of the month.” Ruki asked, sitting on one of the pink lounges in the room.
“Oh you know that busy bee. Then again, who isn’t busy these days? In this industry, to stay relevent, you just gotta keep going, you know~.” Barbie grinned.
“Kathy is working right now with the boys of Shadow621 at their hiding place, wherever that is…”
Akira’s heart tightened hundred times more at the mention of Shadow621 and the fact that, their stylist owns this exact office he’s in at the moment!!! What are the odds?!
“I swear, those boys and their manager are such perfectionists…” Barbie continued, “I absolutely love it!”
They were interrupted by Barbie’s assistant and a new stylist entering the room.
“Liza, that’s Akira, Ruki’s friend. Please take care of him th best you can.” Barbie instructed.
The stylist named Liza nodded and turned to Akira, “What would you like to have done to your hair?” she asks. Wearing a simliar black bodysuit top to Nancy, except she wore a long leather skirt with a very high slit at the side. Her face had simple makeup on, except for the added red blush below her eyes, and above her cheeks (know as the drunken look).
Ruki stepped in stood next to the stylist, hands folded across his chest, studying Akira’s head.“Can you make his hair layered, but leave his bangs, and make him into a blonde, then style it with thick wavy spikes. I want him to look like an anime character!” The idol decided.
Liza gave Akira a questioning look. Akira just stares at the young idol. He did tell him that he would trust him with his hair… He couldn’t take it back now, and Ruki is doing him a big favor bringing him to the best stylists. Why not?
“Anything Ruki says.” Akira told the stylist decisively.
“I’ll meet up with you in a bit.” Ruki told Akira before Liza led him out of the office.
Downstairs, he was seated on an empty barber’s chair in front of one of the white work stations with bright lights and large mirrors.
“You’re pretty lucky to have Ruki with you. Not even our regular customers get to see Barbie or Kathy in their office.” Liza tells Akira while putting a black barber’s cape around him over his clothes.
"Ruki really is nice," the teen mumbled more to himself.
“For the blonde, is it possible to make it temporary? I kinda don’t wanna shock my parents when they see me when I go home next week… but I still want it to be there for tomorrow evening.” Akira told her with a sheepish smile.
The stylist contemplated for a second.
“That’s possible and a much quicker process too. It will be a darker, more brown type of blond since we won’t be using any bleach. Are you okay with that?” Liza asked.
“That would be great!” the teen replied.
“Anything special happening tomorrow evening?” The stylist asked.
“Yes… In the afternoon, I will be at the grand opening event of the brand new SoundWave Store and Cafe at the mall tomorrow. My best friend is the owner, and I actually went here with his family.”
“Oh, is that right? And Day One will be there for the opening too, I heard. How about during the evening? You’ll be at the Shadow621 concert right? I’m sure you already know that Day One is the opening act, since you seem pretty close to Ruki.”
“Yes I actually am!” He meant that he was going to the concert part, not exactly the ‘close to Ruki part, but h'd rather not mention that part to the stylist. “That’s exactly why I’d want to look good for tomorrow. Hehe. Will you be at the concert too?”
“I will, but I’ll mostly be at the back fixing up the boys of Day One, doing their hair etc.
When showtime starts though, I’ll be able to sneak off to crowd at the side. You’ll probably be able to see me there tomorrow.” Liza laughed as she started working on his hair.
“Hehe…” Akira wasn’t exactly sure why the stylist of idols would be telling him all these behind-the-scenes details; he was a nobody who happened to make friends with a popular young idol. He didn’t dislike it, in fact, he was getting excited knowing those juicy details that he didn’t have to dig so hard to get. It just played out in front of him, just because of Ruki. He wondered if Shadow621’s stylist will also be out to watch during the concert at the side.
Even if he wasn’t able to see Shadow621 and his idol behind the scenes and in person, whatever he learned today was enough to keep himself and his fanatic friends happy for the rest of the summer.
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“Wooow” Kouyou, Midori, and Lexy said in unison, eyes wide and staring at the new dirty blond. He still had long bangs, the sides of his head was cut into wavy layers, and styled sharply like an anime… exactly how Ruki said he wanted. Liza really knew what she was doing. When Ruki headed downstairs after his talk with Barbie, he was delighted the way Akira’s hair turned out, faking wiping a tear from his eyes at how proud he was to come up with such concept while Akira just grinned at him.
Akira found his friends at the hotel’s pool having a night swim when he returned from his hair appointment.
Kouyou was reaching out to touch his hair with his wet limbs.
“Don’t touch! The blond is only temporary!” He dodged Kouyou.
“Why didn’t you just get it bleached and permanent?” Midori asked.
“One thing would be it would probably take more than one session to make it blond the way I want it to be. The other thing is that I heard from Ruki that PSC really prefers potential trainees in their most natural state, so I can’t have colored hair when we audition.”
“Ooohh that makes sense.” Midori nodded, “Good thing you went with Ruki. He’s so nice.” she cool cutely.
“Even if your hair gets back to black, the cut still really suites you!” Lexy said, while observing Akira’s hair, walking around him, her bathing suit now covered with a towel.
“So how was your little date with the youngest Day One idol?” She asked teasingly wiggling one eyebrow.
“Oh yes, please do tell~” Kouyou dragged Akira to sit on one of the pool side lounges and three surrounded him.
“It wasn’t a date you guys, he just went with me to get my hair done.”
“Daaaate~” Kouyou teased again, the two girls giggling and Akira just rolled his eyes.
He thought a bit as he settled on the lounge, “Oh guys I do have something juicy to share with you guys!” He eyes sparkled brightly.
After telling the other three that the salon he went to was owned by both Shadow621’s and Day One’s stylists, that he got to meet one of the owners, the mention of Shadow621 currently in the city working with the owners, the three friends all in their wet swim suites shivering from the cool summer night air and excitement, all mirrored the same bright sparkling eyes Akira had on his face.
“Woah Aki…” Lexy grabbed his shoulders with both hands. “…you got a glimpse of the inner circle….” She uttered slowly in awe.
They all just stared at him for 1…
2…
3 seconds…
then it came…
“WAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!” They all started flailing around grabbing to shake one another, squealing high pitched nonsense so high that only other fangirls and fanboys nearby would be the only ones to hear such high frequency.
Akira was part of it too of course, but he flailed carefully to not get his hair wet, though his shirt and shorts suffered and got wet from his friends piling ontop of him and continued flailing.
He kept his cool the entire time he spent with Ruki and at the salon earlier until his ride home with Ruki and his management’s driver. It was especially hard when the young idol was absolutely ecstatic seeing Akira’s new haircut and style after his discussion with barbie, having to go back to the office upstairs to say good-bye and to thank Barbie with Ruki, and the idol’s never faltering stare at his new hair even as he paid at the front counter, or during the car ride back to the hotel. All that tension built up was now being released with the people he was most comfortable and he felt at home with. Akira loved his friends so much, and they loved him; they all understood each other even without the fangirling, and he was so thankful that they were always there for him at the end of the day. Literally.
Three floors above with a perfect view of the pool from the large hotel room windows, unseen by the happy flailing teens below, a figure was watching them with a smile on his face.
“Ruki, you’re back! How’d your errand go?” Miyavi called loudly as he entered the large hotel suite, seeing his bandmate by the window.
The said young idol hummed and turned his face away from the window, a smile still on his face. “It was good. All our outfits are ready to go…” he said distractedly.
“We have to go. Manager man told us to meet him in the lobby in 5 minutes. Dinner with the big bros~ but more like a dinner-slash-last minute meeting with the staff and crew about the concert tomorrow.” Miyavi said while entering his room to grab some stuff he needed.
Ruki hummed again, “coming…” he called.
Miyavi came out of the room and saw the younger boy still looking out of the window, so he decided to see what he’s been staring at.
He sees flailing figures and happy familiar faces. He had to laugh to at how ridiculously funny they looked like that. It’s even funnier that they didn’t know that they were being watched.
“A silly bunch aren't they.” Ruki told the older teen.
“You almost couldn’t tell that they’re that kind of people from the way they acted during dinner last night.” Miyavi continued grinning “C’mon we’re gonna be late. We’ll see them again tomorrow at SoundWave.” Miyavi said, dragging the shorter teen out of the room to head downstairs.
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Later that evenring, the four friends all decided to have dinner outside the hotel at a nearby highly rated Korean BBQ restaurant that was open late at night, and took a few shots of soju Korean rice wine. They were in such high spirits on a Thursday night, a little buzzed from the very strong rice wine, they decided to walk it off around the blocks by the hotel, chatting happily with each other (mostly making their own fiction of what if’s about their idols).
It was getting late, but none of the teens wanted to go back. Walking past a few bars, they came across a really long line of fashionable people lined up in front of a building connected to another fancy hotel with large Space Age font with the words 'NEON FUTURE'. Giggling in their buzzed state, the girls insisted to line up along with them, and the guys just agreed to whatever, not caring. Some time later, they all ended up inside a loud and chic futuristic type night club, blaring loud house electronic music. The girls got in for free while the two boys each had to pay 30 bucks each. Reluctant at first, the two boys just went ahead and paid since they didn’t want to separate from the two girls who were already inside.
The high tension up-beat music was enough for all of them to get really excited. They pushed through the tight crowd to end up by the stage in front of the hot DJ of the night, and started dancing, jumping, sweating like crazy like no one was watching, cheering on the DJ and the Go-Go dancers in their tight skimpy futuristic outfits next to him. They were definitely able to burn off their KBBQ dinner off that night. The faster the song, the faster they would dance. The sexier the song, the sexier their bodyrolls became.
They mostly kept to themselves, but some girls would try to dance with Kouyou and Akira. When the two turned their attention away to dance with other girls, other guys in the club at the side waiting, gathered the courage and were finally able to ask Midori and Lexy to dance. A little friendly dancing later, the two girls left their partners and went to the restroom, leaving Akira and Kouyou on the dance floor with their partners.
In the bathroom, the two girls wiped their sweat off with napkins and fixed their appearances and noted the time was already past 1AM. They went out of the restroom with the intention of grabbing the boys, Kouyou and Akira, to go back to the hotel, until they heard the DJ switch the song to their favorite electro dance remix version of a song by Shadow621.
Of course, they looked at each other with extremely excited expressions,
“ONE MORE SONG!!!” The two girls screamed against the loud thumping music, and ran and squeezed their way to the middle of the dance floor. There, they danced with each other crazier, throwing their hair around, rolling their bodies and sweating even more, and dancing on whoever came close to them.
When the song started, the Kouyou and Akira looked at each other with similar excited faces and understood each other, they left their dance partners, and as if by instinct, danced their way to the middle of the dance floor and found the two girls.
The four danced together shouting against the music at how happy they were couldn’t believe they were gonna their see most favorite idols in just a few hours. They were already fully sober since earlier that night, but the great music, ambience, bright flashing strobe laser lights, and excitement for Shadow621 was enough to make them lose themselves.
For teenagers, they danced so well throughout the night with such passion, it caught some people’s attention nearby whom started cheering them on as they danced. Their youth gave them the energy despite the overbearing heat in the club from being surrounded by crushed bodies against one another.
Unknown to them, they’ve attracted attention from even the people in the private booths on the second floor with a clear view of the dance floor below. There, figures were able to watch every movement the four made, able to see every expression that flashed on those dancing figure’s faces while the observer sat in the comfort of the leather couch in their VIP room.
“Oh, it’s those four, and their at it again.” A tall teen said grinning amusedly while combing his colorful locks with his fingers to tie it up into a ponytail “They never fail to surprise me. You know bro, they’re going to the concert tomorrow?” The teen mention still grinning.
“You know them, Miyavi?” The one attentively watching the teens from his spot asked the other.
“Yeah, it’s the the owner of SoundWave. Well, the son of the owners anyway, and his friends. We had dinner with them last night.” Miyavi continued watching them, then taking out his phone.
“Oh man, too bad Ruki went back to the hotel early and missed this. I think he has a bit of a crush on the dirty blond... but I don't remember him blond yesterday... but yeah I think thats him on the floor.” Miyavi chuckled louder and went to the camera app on his phone and pointed to the teens below.
The other guy looked at him with a sternly, and Miyavi looked at him.
“Ah don’t worry bro, I’m only gonna do this so I can tease them when I see them tomorrow.” He grinned maliciously.
“Shin-chan come here and look at this!” he called to the back, and slowly, but steadily, a drunk Shinya made his way next to his bandmate, holding a large glass filled with wine.
Recognizing their faces, the drunk Shinya started chuckling loudly and stupidly as Miyavi was earlier. “How cuuuuteee!!!~”
The other person just turned his attention back to the four teens, watching their captivating dancing as he drank the alcoholic beverage in his hand, ignoring the others in the VIP room noisily cheering and laughing at any random stuff they're talking about. His peircing dark eyes watching every movement, and every hairflip they did. He found it amusing watching those four people on the dance floor moving wildly to a song he helped produce, and a little pride at that too.
The song ended, and it switched to another electronic song. The four friends all hugged each other in the end, and trying to scream loud enough telling each other that it was time to head back to the hotel. If they only knew who those figures upstairs were, they would probably wouldn't have gone as crazy as they did. If they found out that those figures have been watching them, entertained by their dancing for quiet a while now, they would most probably have the urge to kill themselves from embarrassment (figuratively anyway..)
The four made their way back to the hotel by foot, worn from all the dancing, tiredly walked to their rooms, took their showers and fell dead asleep until late morning the next day.
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Author's Note::: YASSS BITCHESSSS I DO WHAT I WANT, HOW I WANT. Lolz. Been hella busy the past year with school, and traveling abroad, and my other hobbies etc, but I finally took the time finish CHAPTER 6!!! The story is slowly unfolding. WHO is this mysterious figure in the VIP box with the other DAY ONE members? What's gonna happen Next?! :O
I love how I wrote a piece of Night Club scene without the dirty grunge and drugs. I like to dance and party like hell, and THAT is how I like my clubbing: clean and fun with a large focus on Actual Dancing~
Also, I decided that after Chapter 7, I will friends-locking every EVEN numbered chapter. It's just nice to know who's reading, ya know? I mean, you don't really have to worry about adding me, cuz all I really post up on the journal is FAN FIC... I already started chapter 7, so It will be posted up Next Week for sure~ Thank's ya'llz. Don't forget to comment just to let me know you've read this.... weird piece of fic.
See ya'll next chapter~ ^_^