It was the dead of night, light only to be found by the street lamps on the ends of the road. Shuichi Shindou was on his way to a department store to buy himself some snacks. He stared down the path thinking about why his stomach had to tell him that he must get some food now, at this time of night. He could have always gotten some food from his fridge over at Yuki's place, but unfortunately all that was in there were beer and some leftover fish.
He turned at the corner to see his destination. He sprinted into the store only to find a few people walking down the isles collecting their own items.
Shuichi quickly ran over to the junk food to find his favorite okashi ever. "Pocky!" It was a good thing he got there so fast, because that was the last one left. "But why does it have to be so high?" Shuichi asked himself under his breath. He reached up to it with much difficulty and found himself standing there for 4 min's trying to get the treat. Suddenly when he was only mere centimeters away, some one else grabbed it for them selves.
Shuichi looked at the empty space from which his Pocky was placed. "Hey! Whataya think your doin! That's mi-"
He turned around to see a gorgeous man with icy blue hair.
'Is this kid supposed to be a boy? No… She can't be…' The man found himself staring at Shuichi before he shook his head and smiled. "Here, I saw that you were having trouble reaching this, so I figured that I'd help you out" The young man handed Shuichi the strawberry pocky and asked "What could a pretty girl like you be doing out at a time like this all by yourself?"
Shuichi was mortified. Some one thought he was a girl… Again. "I'm not a girl! I'm a man!" Shuichi exclaimed viciously. The guy jumped at the yell.
"Oh, I'm really sorry. It's just that your…" The stranger put on a faint blush from the mistake. "Uh, well I'm sorry, my name's Hideaki by the way. Ichinose Hideaki." He stretched out his hand towards Shuichi hoping to get a handshake.
Shuichi grabbed Hideaki's hand and smiled. "It's okay, that's not the first time it happened… My names Shuichi Shindou!" He let go of his hand and stared down at the pocky. "Thanks for helping me…"
"No problem!" Hideaki looked down at his watch. "Oh! Sorry! But I gotta run. If I don't get back now, my friend's gonna lock the door on me!"
Shuichi just nodded and heard a faint yell from down the isle. "I hope I can run into you again sometime Shuichi!" He stood there lost in space when he cried out "Shoot! If I don't hurry, my Yuki's going to lock me out!" With that he got the rest of the items he needed and rushed out the door. Of course he paid too.
'Fwick'
Erie Yuki leaned back in his office chair, lighting up a cigarette. 'Damn… How long does it take that punk to get some snacks?'
He took a drag of his cigarette and glanced at his laptop screen. "Sigh. I can't think of anything else to write. What am I going to do now? Mizuki's expecting the manuscript in 3 days." He let out a puff of smoke and directed it up at the ceiling. "Oh well. I'll get it done sooner or later… I've been in tighter spots."
"Tadaima! Yuki!" Shuichi walked into the dark living room setting down the food. 'Probably in his office still' He thought.
Just then Yuki walked into the room. "What took ya' so long baka?" He looked over at the clock, "How can it take you an hour to get a couple things?"
Looking up at his lover he sighed. "But Yuuuuuuuukiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! Can't I admire the night sky sometime! And is it my fault I'm so short! And Yuuuuuuuukiiiiiiiiii!" He jumped onto the older man. Clutching Yuki's sleeve while pouting.
Yuki just looked at him, "Whatever. I'm going to bed."
Shuichi released the now stretched out sleeve and watched Yuki walk down the hall.
Sensing that Shuichi wasn't following, he called over his shoulder, "Aren't you coming?" And with that he heard soft little thumps of Shuichi quickly chasing after him.
Over at a hotel, there was a man lying on his bed thinking to himself. 'Shuichi Shindou. He's the guy I've been waiting for! Just perfect for my first film.' Hideaki sat up and looked at his friend. "Hey Souichiro! Are you awake still?" He whispered at his sleeping companion.
"Wha?" Souichiro opened his eyes and glared at the man who woke him up. "What the hell do you want at time like this? I'm tired." He rubbed his eyes and added, "Is it another spider? Cuz if it is you can just-"
Before he finished his sentence Hideaki cut in, "No! It's not that… I was just going to tell you that I found the star of our movie!"
Souichiro stared at him as if he were out of his mind. "You're telling me this now? Why couldn't you wait until morning? When normal people actually get up?"
Hideaki sighed. "Listen, since your up already can you do me a favor?"
Souichiro looked at Hideaki. Not having the energy to refuse, he gave in. "Fine. What is it?"
Hideaki got up from his bed and sat next to Souichiro on his futon. "Can you find some information on a Shuichi Shindou? He's the one I want."
"You need to go out more Hideaki…" He pulled out a magazine from under his backpack and opened it up to a certain page. "Your honestly telling me you don't know who this Shindou kid is?" Souichiro pointed to a picture on the page. "This is Shuichi Shindou, he's the lead vocalist in the hit band 'Bad Luck'."
Hideaki took the magazine out of his hands and stared down at the article. Souichiro also stated, "He lives with that one romance novelist… What's his name again? Oh yeah, Erie Yuki." He glanced over at his friend, "You can go over to see the kid in the morning at NG studios okay?"
Not taking his eyes off the picture, Hideaki just nodded slowly.
"Now, I'm goin' to sleep. So if you'll be as kind as to move over to your bed, I can once again sleep in peace."
Hideaki did as he was told and crawled onto his bed. Putting the magazine aside he laid down and closed his eyes. 'I can't wait to see you again…Shuichi…'
The next day…
"Where is he! Shindou-san was supposed to be here half an hour ago!" Sakano looked frantically around the room expecting to find Shuichi pop out of nowhere.
As if immune to the entire matter, Suguru just took a sip of his tea and placed it down on the table in front of him. "Sakano-san, you know how Shindou-san is. Now get down from the table and relax."
"Yeah that's right!" Agreed Hiro. "It's not like it's new or anything. It's like a normal routine of the day."
"But just once, I would like it if Shindou would make it on time." Suguru looked over at Hiro. "Maybe we should ask K-san to give him wake up calls again. Those seemed to work for a while."
Hiro nodded his head. "We might as well. But you know, wouldn't that be a little-"
Suddenly the door slammed open. "Shindou!…san?" Sakano turned and looked at the door to instead of seeing Shuichi, he found K grinning widely.
Everyone just went back to whatever they were doing until Hiro, being the only one to have the decency to greet his manager, broke the silence. "What's up K! Oh! Who's that behind you?" Everyone now kept their eyes on a man who was standing behind K.
"Hey! Where's Shuichi!" K looked under the table hoping to find his vocalist there.
Hiro looked away from the stranger to see his manager. "He's not here yet. You know how he is."
"Ah! Well any way, this gentleman behind me is Ichinose Hideaki. He's asking for Shuichi." K directed his hand over to the blue haired man.
After they all exchanged names, Suguru spoke up. "So, Ichinose-san, exactly why are you here to see Shindou? Are you guys friends?"
Hideaki cleared his throat. "Actually, I just met him last night at the department store. I was hoping to ask him a question."
"Oh, what do you want to ask hi-" Before he could finish he heard a loud 'Bam!' on the door. They all turned to face the door and saw Shuichi walk into the room massaging a very huge bump on his forehead. Suguru shook his head while smacking his hand onto his head.
"Hey guys sorry I'm late" Shuichi looked up and saw Hideaki. "Hey! What are you doing here Ichinose-san? Are you gonna work here now?"
Before Hideaki had the chance to tell him the real reason, Shuichi yelled out, "That's Awesome!" And then he found himself being suffocated by the pop star's deadly grip.
"No, you don't understand" Hideaki gasped out.
Confused, Shuichi let go and muttered sorry.
"There's no need to be sorry, I just wanted to ask you something." Hideaki smiled down at Shuichi.
"Okay! What's up?"
"Well," Hideaki started, "I wanted to know if you would like to be the star of my new movie!"
Shuichi stared up at him with stars in his eyes. "A movie! You're a director! How come I've never heard of you! That's great! I'd love to!" Panting, he waited for an answer.
"Yup! I want you to be in my film! The reason why you've never heard of me is because I just recently got the job. I'm no amateur though, so you don't need to worry. I've been making little homemade movies with my best friend, Souichiro Yoshida since we were kids. You'll meet him soon enough." Hideaki looked around the room. "So you're a singer huh?"
Shuichi grinned. "Yeah! And it's great!"
The door once again opened. "Hey Hideaki? You in here?" Souichiro walked in. "Sorry for just barging in here without knocking…"
Hideaki walked up to his friend. "It took ya' long enough!"
"Yeah, yeah… I kinda ran into this one guy and ended up being talked to death by him and his… Ummm… Pink Rabbit."
"Sakuma-san! Where? Where is he!" Shuichi was trying to shake the information out of the poor guy until he let him go to run out of the room. "Sakuma-saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!" But before he made it to the door, K took out his pistol and shot a bullet by Shuichi's ear. He stopped dead in his tracks and slumped back over to K.
"Shuichi, you have visitors, you can chase after your god later."
Shuichi looked at his manager and muttered an apology. He turned around and walked over to Souichiro. "You must be
Ichinose-san's friend Yoshida-san." He stuck out his hand for a handshake.
Shaking his hand Souichiro said yes and wondered, 'Man, this guy looks more like a chick in person… I wouldn't mind switching teams to be with this cutie…' Shaking the idea out of his head, he asked, "So did the idiot ask you to be in our movie yet?"
"Souichiroooooooo! Don't be so mean!" Hideaki whined while sobbing into his handkerchief.
"Whatever ya little baby. By the way Shuichi, please call me Souichiro."
"Me too! Me too! I want you all to call me Hideaki!"
"Hidebaka's more like it…"
"What was that Souichiro!"
"Nothin'. Now can we get all this stuff movin' along?" Souichiro looked at Hideaki annoyed.
"Okay! Now, Shuichi, will you be able to come over to our building tomorrow afternoon? That way I can get you familiar with the set and crew. Here," Hideaki gave Shuichi a card. " This has my work, cell, and hotel room number. It also has the room number that I'm stayin' in. And if you turn it over, you can see an adorable picture of Souichiro and me in our business suits! Isn't it just so cute? I was thinking of making a poster of it and-"
Bam!
Hideaki was now on the ground with x's for eyes.
Everyone stared up at Souichiro who just put down a chair with a huge dent on it. "Don't worry, he'll pay for a new chair." And with that, Souichiro dragged out an unconscious Hideaki out the door. But shortly after he popped his head back into the room. "Oh! And it was a pleasure meeting all of you guys! Maybe we can all go out for lunch sometime!"
Everyone's gaze fell onto the door and then turned to Shuichi. "Eh heh heh… Let's get to work now! I'm pumped! I can sing for hours! C'mon, c'mon! Practice makes perfect!"
After they heard Shuichi say that they all went to the recording room to get their newest CD done with.