[drabble] A Case of Mistaken Identity
Title: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Alternative Title: 5 times Hikaru was confused for Itano Tomomi + 1 time he did something about it)
Author: Luna (dreamweavernyx )
Pairing: None
Genre: Crack
Rating: PG
Summary: Hikaru is extremely annoyed that he keeps getting mistaken for a particular female idol.
Notes: For the JUMP fic-a-thon, prompt #40: 5 times Hikaru was confused for Itano Tomomi. (+1 time he did something about it)
Itano Tomomi is from AKB48. For reference, this is Itano Tomomi and this is Yaotome Hikaru.
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one
Hikaru feels the weird stares the moment he walks into the dressing room.
“Oh. My God,” Daiki shrieks upon seeing him. “Why didn’t you tell us?”
Hikaru blinks.
“…I’m sorry for not telling you I changed the pick for my bass…?”
Daiki scowls.
“No! Why didn’t you tell us you did a solo CM?”
“…What?” Hikaru is confused, and Daiki isn’t helping.
“We were totally shocked to see you on TV,” Chinen adds.
Yamada nods, joining in the conversation with a stick of strawberry Pocky sticking out of his mouth.
“I mean, even if it involved you crossdressing it’s still a CM! A solo CM!”
By now Hikaru is incredibly, incredibly confused and frustrated.
“I didn’t do a CM!” he yells annoyedly.
Yabu blinks.
“…You…didn’t?”
“No!”
Ryutaro pulls out his phone and plays a CM he’s recorded on his phone camera.
“Then what’s this?”
Hikaru watches the bad-quality recording for all of five seconds before everything clicks into place.
“That’s not me, you idiots,” he groans. “That’s Itano Tomomi. From AKB48.”
Daiki seems shell-shocked by this.
“But…it looks like you!”
“It says Itano Tomomi on the screen!” Hikaru wails. “It’s right there! What are you guys, blind?”
The makeup staff snicker, but he valiantly ignores them.
two
“E-excuse me!”
Tomomi turns to see a couple of high-school girls, running up the pavement to her.
She raises an eyebrow, expression hidden by her sunglasses and paper face-mask.
“C-could we get your autograph, Yaotome-san?”
At this, Tomomi mentally rolls her eyes.
“I’m not Yaotome Hikaru-kun, unfortunately,” she tells them, and sees their eyes widen at her feminine voice.
They nod, still looking rather unconvinced, but walk away.
Unfortunately for her the rest of Team K catches wind of this somehow, and she gets teased about it all through their rehearsals for the RESET stage performance.
three
Yaotome Hikaru of Hey! Say! JUMP is into crossdressing?
Hikaru stops dead, staring at the title of a post on a tabloid website. Scrolling down, he sees various snapshots of a teen with the same shade of hair as his, with elaborate nail art and a miniskirt-and-heels combo.
“Oh god,” he groans, burying his face in his hands.
One day, he promises himself. One day I’ll dye my hair some completely different colour so they stop confusing me for Itano Tomomi.
four
“I saw Itano Tomomi-san on the train!” Chinen spazzes to the rest of JUMP.
Yamada sighs.
“I thought you were more into Hello!Project?”
Chinen’s face flushes.
“I’m not! But it’s not everyday you see a popular member of Japan’s most popular girl group on the train, you know.”
“Right. How’d she look like?”
Chinen thinks.
“Well, she was wearing jeans and this thick blue down coat. And earmuffs. I guess she wasn’t wearing her usual miniskirt because of the cold weather and all…”
Daiki has a sudden epiphany.
“Hikaru was also wearing a blue down coat today!”
All eyes turn to Hikaru, who groans.
“Which train were you on?”
“The Yamanote line…?”
Hikaru heaves a sigh.
“Why does everyone think I look like Itano Tomomi?” he wails.
five
On Inoo’s birthday, somehow everybody except Hikaru seem to be busy. Hikaru ends up dragging Inoo out for yakiniku.
Hikaru ends up eating a little too much, and Inoo has to haul him all the way back to the train station because Hikaru’s complaining of a stomachache.
Somehow Hikaru thinks he sees paparazzi, but dismisses the thought. What rumours can the paparazzi make out of a couple of bandmates walking home from a yakiniku store anyway?
He conveniently forgets that paparazzi, as well as readers of the tabloids, are not the most observant people around.
A week later tabloids scream headlines about Inoo and his alleged girlfriend, AKB48’s Itano Tomomi, apparently seen on a yakiniku date a week ago.
plus one
“That’s it!” Hikaru yells. “I’m sick and tired of everybody mistaking me for Itano Tomomi!”
“Dye your hair or something, then,” Yabu laughs.
Yabu does not expect Hikaru to take this seriously, and spews his coffee all over his morning paper two weeks later when Hikaru shows up for practice with platinum-blond hair.
“This way I’ll look completely different from her,” Hikaru says smugly.
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“I was actually planning to re-dye my hair,” Tomomi confides to Sayaka.
Sayaka blinks, surprised.
“But you’ve had this colour since forever!”
“I know,” Tomomi sighs. “But recently everybody keeps thinking I’m Yaotome-kun from JUMP.”
“I see. What colour are you changing it to?”
Tomomi shakes her head.
“I don’t need to change it anymore,” she says happily. “Yaotome-kun went and dyed his hair a horrid platinum blond, there’s no way anybody will mistake him for me now.”
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She reconsiders changing her image once again two weeks later, when paparazzi take pictures of her coming out of a restaurant after Sayaka’s birthday celebration and spread rumours that Yaotome Hikaru is now dating AKB48’s Oshima Yuko.
fin.