Take Me Out
by: ShinJinIchi23

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Disclaimers: Not mine. Higuchi Tachibana-sensei owned it. :D / Take Me Out is a TV show, I also don't own it!
Warning: Since English is not my main language, expect some confusing sentence and grammar errors. Sorry!


SCENE 1: LIGHTS!

A. Single. Guy. For. Single. Ladies

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Birds are chirping. Sun was shining brightly. The trees and plants sway together with the air. In the middle of the peaceful atmosphere, two guys are currently at the garden, sipping tea and eating some pastries. The man with shiny blond hair tells something to the other and it ruins the peaceful atmosphere arounf.

"YOU EXPECT ME TO DO THAT? ! ! I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT PIECE OF CRAP!" The other man with raven hair yelled loudly and furiously which made the birds flew away and totally changed the atmosphere around. He loosened his red tie and drank his tea.

"Natsume, it's the 2nd anniversary of the show I'm hosting. You gotta help me out. You're famous. It could make our rating skyrocket!" The blond hair guy pleadingly said. Natsume ruffled his hair in annoyance and his crimson eyes looked at his bestfriend annoyingly.

"I. am. busy. Ruka." Natsume emphasizing each of the word he said.

Ruka slapped his forehead in frustration.

"Imai's gonna kill me!" Ruka whispered in scared tone. Natsume unexpectedly hear this and the sighed heavily.

"Ruka."

"Yeah?"

Natsume signaled him to come closer. Ruka moved his seat and moved his face closer to Natsume.

"You are an idiot." Natsume whispered to him and poked him hard to the forehead which makes him fall down the chair. Ruka grunted in pain.

"Why did you do that Natsume?" Ruka asked with a glint of fury in his tone. Natsume stood up and looked straight to Ruka's eyes.

"Tell me what to do on that show of yours."

"WHAT?"

"Will you tell me or I'll called the security to dragged you out of my house?" Ruka's face lightened when he heard what Natsume said.

"Natsume! Thanks!" Ruka said cheerfully and immediately stood up.


PROFILE CHECK

Name: Natsume Hyuuga

Age: 20

Status: Single

Characteristics: Tall, Rich, Handsome, Raven colored hair, unique crimson eyes

Work: General Manager, Hyuuga Corporation which is owned by his father.

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Name: Ruka Nogi

Age: 20

Status: In A Relationship

Characteristic: Tall, Rich, Handsome, Blonde hair, deep azure eyes

Work: TV Host/Model/Actor, YMITv Broadcasting Company


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Noises can be heard anywhere. Someone was commanding, some were talking, someone was pleading. There were people everywhere. Some was carrying heavy lighting equipment, some were fixing the sound and technical equipments and some were cleaning and setting up the cameras. Ruka opened the door and saw how the people were working hard.

"Konnichiwa, Nogi-sama."

"Good Day Nogi-san!"

Different greetings can be heard as Ruka passes by. He just returned the greetings and went to where he was really going, the office that was coated with dark aura. A door with the nameplate: EXECUTIVE PRODUCER where everyone was afraid to enter and now he was going to enter it. Ruka took a deep breath and knocked at the door.

"Come in." Someone said behind the door.

Ruka hold the doorknob which almost give him an electric shock.

"God, save me." He opened the door to see this good looking but stoic and cold woman. Whenever he looked at her, it always gave chills to his bones. He closed the door and looked around. The place was like it encountered ten tsunamis and 20 tornados. There were papers everywhere. Wherever he looked, he saw papers.

"What do you want now, Nogi?" The woman who was sitting in an executive chair asked not even looking at Ruka. Her amethyst eyes were busy reading more papers. Ruka approached her and was about to sit.

"Who told you to sit?" She said, deadly. Ruka immediately stood up.

'God this Imai is really sharp.' Ruka thought.

"Just want to say that Natsume agreed on our proposal, Imai-san." The woman looked at him still with expressionless face, her shoulder length raven hair sway as she move.

"Well then, leave now." She commanded and went back to her work. She kept on crumpling papers and threw it anywhere she like and then back to read another again.

Ruka immediately exited the room. Exiting that room made him breathe freely again.


PROFILE CHECK

Name: Hotaru Imai

Age: 19

Status: Unknown and No one will ever know

Characteristics: 5'4 in height, good looking, raven hair, amethyst eyes, stoic, cold

Work: Executive Producer, YMITv Broadcasting Company

Audiences kept on coming, most were girls. They are excited to watch the show on YMITv after hearing who the guest was. They were pushing each other, determined to take the seat in the front area.

At the backstage, the crew was so busy on the preparation for the show. In the dressing room where Natsume was, he stared at his reflection on the mirror, and remembered what Ruka said to him.


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*FLASHBACK*

"Natsume I hope you watched my show even once."

"Yeah I did… ONCE. But I will never do what those guys did. Are they that desperate to get a date? And you know me; I'm not that type of guy."

"Of course I knew, but it's just a one day date Natsume. Just a day. After that, just forget it okay?" Ruka assured him.

"Fine. I'll just stand there and look at them, then tell who I am. No more, no less." Natsume clearly stated.

"But you should choose one. Don't walk out on my show! I might get fired if you do." Ruka pleaded.

"Ok. Fine."

*END OF FLASHBACK*

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Someone knocked and entered in his dressing room. Natsume looked and saw a guy wearing the YMITv uniform signaling him to get ready. He nodded and the man leaved.

He looked at the mirror and checks his face. He smirked.

"Perfect."

On the other hand, Ruka was also in the backstage waiting for the signal to start the show. He looked at the stage and saw the 30 ladies. Each them was sitting in a chair and in front of them was a machine with a buzzer on the top. After a short while, the cameraman raised his hands and started counting.

"5, 4,3,2,1 Shoot!"

Ruka entered the stage with a very energetic entrance, dancing with the show theme song and the crowd goes crazy. They are screaming like mad.

"Good evening ladies and to our audiences, we're here to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of our show, Take me out! The only reality dating game show in Japan!" Ruka announced. The audiences started to go wild again. His hosting ability was really good. He always wore his smile which showed that he really like what he was doing.

"We're here to help our single guy to find a date within these beautiful ladies." Ruka announced again as he looked on the 30 single ladies. But one of the ladies caught his attention. Why? Because she had her head low, wearing a cap and looked like she was sleeping. He just ignored it for the moment and continued.

"We have a very special single guy for the night to be part of our celebration. Let's welcome our single guy for the night!" Ruka said in a very energetic tone and the chorus of the song Replay by Iyaz started to play. Then the single guy started to walk out of a chamber where smoke was surrounding him. When the smoke started to fade the girls in the crowd almost go gaga on the guy.

Natsume was wearing an executive suit, and inside was a white sleeve and red necktie. He walked where Ruka is.

"Looks like all the girls here like our single guy for the night." Ruka commented as the studio was filled with screams, yelling how much they like the guy in the front.

"Single ladies, if you don't like what our single guy looks, you can press the button to turn your lights off." But no one pressed that button. They were all looking at Natsume with seductive looks in their face. Natsume looked at them with disgust. Natsume examined each of them and the girl with her head lows also caught his attention. Natsume took the wrong idea. He thought the girl was bored cause she didn't even bother to looked at him. This makes him smirked.

"Woah! No one turn the lights off. It's a good sign for our single guy. Let's ask one of them why." Ruka approached one of the ladies. She was beautiful, pointed nose, kissable lips and perfect body. Ruka looked at the nametag the girl had.

"Hi, Miyuki. Why you keep your lights on for Natsume?"

"Oh God, he's hot like hell." This girl named Miyuki answered and looked at Natsume with seductive eyes. She bites her lips to show Natsume how much she likes him.

"Tch, bitch." Natsume murmured. Ruka returned back to the stage.

"Now time for Round 2. Time to know our single guy for the night remember girls, if you don't like what you're hearing, just press that button." Ruka then gave a microphone to Natsume. Natsume take it.

"I'm Natsume Hyuuga, the General Manager of the Hyuuga Corporation. I don't like slutty bitches, gold diggers, social climbers and annoying girls." Natsume nonchalantly said. But he, being cold and serious made the ladies and the audiences think that he was so cool! They started to scream again. And no one pressed a button again.

"Wow, this is the first time it happened! No one press that button after the two rounds. You're a lucky guy my friend." Ruka said as he tapped Natsume on the shoulder.

"Let's find out what our single guy will do for the final round. Take Me Out will be right back." Ruka announced as he saw Imai on the transparent window of the control room upstairs, signaling for a commercial.

Ruka sighed and congratulated Natsume. Then Ruka looked at the girl with her head low. She looked familiar to him. But the dim light behind each lady made it a mystery. He went to one of the cameraman to ask.

"Why one of them is sleeping?" Ruka asked, the cameraman shrugged.

"Imai-sama said it was part of the show since it was a special day for the show."

Ruka somehow had bad feelings about this. He walked back where Natsume is.

"Ruka, who's that number 29?" Natsume asked pointing the girl at the number 29 seat.

"I don't know." Ruka said honestly.

"Looks like she's not interested huh?"

"It's one of Imai's ideas. I don't understand it either."

After 3 minutes, Ruka saw Imai signaling again. He prepared and started the show again.

"Time for the last round of our show, well are you ready ladies?"

SCENE 1 ENDS


A/N: If you want, review my story. =D But please, no flames, just constructive reviews. It might hurt my feelings and started to sulk in a corner. I just get the idea from the show Take Me Out on the Television.

Mikan will appear in Chapter 2.

~Lhai-Chii ^^