A/N ~ This was actually written on a whim. XD;; Hopefully this will get somewhere; I have a bit of a plotline planned out for it...

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Hero Superstar

Chapter One

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"Ivan!" called out a girl's voice from outside the said person's window, "Ivan! Are you home?" After a while, with no response, she soon gave up on thinking if he was home. "Maybe he's out," she wondered.

She was not alone; her sister was with her. "You give up so easily, Katyusha," she glared with a disappointed frown at the older sibling, turning her attention towards Ivan's window, "He's probably just hiding inside."

"And maybe he's not even home, Natalia," Katyusha still claimed, watching her sister walking up to the front door, "It's a nice day out after all."

"Don't be stupid!" Natalia growled intimidatingly as she started kicking and stomping at the front door, attempting to break it down, "I know he's home! My undying love for him can tell that he is!"

"But Natalia—"

"Shut up!"

After a few moments, a figure started to walk towards them. Katyusha was the first to spot the person. Her face soon lit up as she recognized who it was. "Ah, little брат!" she cheerfully called out, smiling happily to see that her younger brother had returned back home. She ran towards him to give him a hug as Natalia stopped kicking at the door.

"Katyusha!" he greeted, holding his arms out to welcome his older sister in a hug.

"Ivan!" Katyusha smiled, embracing him tightly, "You're home. Natalia and I wanted to visit and see if you'd want to go to the shopping plaza with us."

The youngest of the siblings had walked over to the two of them. She pushed her older sister out of the way so that she would be the one to face Ivan. "Yes, dear brother!" Natalia begged, holding her hands together and her gaze locked to Ivan's eyes. Her voice then grew low and dark. "Come with us," she added, "More importantly; come with me, Ivan... Just me and only me....."

Ivan was never at all comfortable with Natalia's possessiveness, and times like now only made him wish that he hadn't ran into her. And poor Katyusha dared not to cross with Natalia.

"Eh... Um... Okay," Ivan agreed, trying to hide the nervous tone in his voice from Natalia's ears. All in all, Ivan had really only accepted because of Katyusha's invitation rather than Natalia's demand. Unfortunately, his simple words merely gave a wrong impression to Natalia, feeding her ego.

"Oh, Ivan!" Natalia swooned, holding tightly onto her older brother's hands as if it were deathly forbidden for him to touch anything other than her.

Ivan brought his eyebrows together as he lightly tried to free himself from Natalia's grip. But his sister merely tightened her grasp. "Let's go then, да?" he suggested, hoping it'd give reason for his Belarusian sister to let his hands go. It worked.

The moment she had loosened her grip, Ivan wriggled his fingers to regain feeling to them. Natalia then nodded, and soon started walking ahead to lead the way for her older siblings. Ivan and Katyusha eventually followed along to the plaza.

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The shopping plaza that day was a busy hustle and bustle of people; a much larger crowd than what Ivan, Katyusha, and Natalia were used to before.

"I wonder what's with everyone here?" Katyusha wondered curiously, "It's like the whole town's here just to buy a couple things..."

Natalia just scoffed to herself. She wasn't all that interested in the crowd. "If they're not paying attention to my precious Ivan, I could care less at what they're gawking at over there," she simply stated, her eyes looking over to her Russian brother. She then walked over towards the other side of the plaza, with Katyusha soon following her.

Meanwhile, Ivan just stared at the crowd, but his interest soon dissipated when he heard his sisters started calling for him. He gave one last curious look before finally catching up to his sisters.

For the next couple hours, the three of them were busy browsing and shopping. And it wasn't long before the earlier experience soon faded away from Ivan's mind.

"I want to go get something over there!" Katyusha cheerfully exclaimed, pointing to another little shop in the distance. However, it was a ladies-only section, which meant that Ivan wouldn't be able to follow.

"How about you take Natalia with you, сестра?" Ivan suggested. Deep down, he was hoping that Katyusha would take her along so he wouldn't be stalked by her as he wandered around by himself.

Katyusha happily agreed; however, Natalia refused. "No!" she barked, clutching onto Ivan's arm, "I must watch over Ivan!"

"It's okay, Natalia," Ivan uttered, hoping Natalia would actually go along, "Go ahead. I'll..." He looked around aimlessly as he tried thinking of an excuse. "I'll go buy a surprise," he claimed, "And it wouldn't be fair if you were to see it before I were to give it to you."

His clingy sister quickly glanced up at him. "R-really?" she asked in awe.

"Да," Ivan reassured.

With that, Natalia released his arm and finally agreed to go along with Katyusha, granted that she were to really receive a gift from her older brother.

Ivan watched as the two of them headed in the direction to Katyusha's interest before he turned to head out on his own, wondering what to get for Natalia. Maybe he could get her a little trinket, but not enough to have her overly smother him.

The little shop that sold some of the perfect ones were near that huge crowd earlier. Ivan figured he could buy a little Matryoshka doll. He picked one out and as he paid for it, he looked over at the crowd.

"Sir, do you know what's happening there?" he asked the salesman, pointing out to the crowd.

"That?" he looked over, "That's the electronics shop. They have some promo going on that's taking everyone's attention. I've been in here all day, so I don't know what's happening. You'll have to go see for yourself." He put the doll in the bag and handed it back to Ivan. "Have a nice day," he smiled.

"Спасибо," Ivan said as he took the bag. He then glanced at the crowd when he left the shop and soon walked over to it.

He subtly pushed his way to the front to see this special "promo" that was going on in the shop. And his eyes soon lit as his eyes caught sight of a poster.

"This weekend only!

Worldwide singer sensation 'Hero Superstar'

Be the lucky one for a backstage ticket!"

This "Hero Superstar" sensation looked so strangely familiar to Ivan. "Alfred?" he quietly asked himself, his expression stuck in quite an awe.

Just then, the shop's alarms went off all around him. His first impression was that they were accusing him of stealing something, but he immediately realized that he hadn't even taken anything. However the alarms were not intended for theft, but for jubilation. The shop's gates began to close, making sure that no one else could come inside. "Such strange behavior," Ivan said to himself as he watched himself get trapped inside.

The shop manager went up to Ivan and gave him what looked like a ticket. "Look who won a chance at meeting the Hero Superstar," he congratulated Ivan.

Ivan was merely looked at the ticket and back to the poster without saying anything. He was still stuck in the surprise of finding out Alfred's fame. "It's been so long since I last saw him," he thought to himself, "Ever since we were both..."

"Hey!" the manager called out to Ivan, trying to regain his attention.

Ivan was soon snapped back into reality as he looked back at the man.

"You zoned out for a moment," the manager remarked. He pointed at the given ticket. "You won this to meet him," he continued, showing Ivan the poster, "Hero Superstar, backstage, up-close and personal."

Ivan glanced at the poster again, then back towards the crowd that stood behind him.

"Those people," the manager added, "They're after what you have in your very hands." He walked ahead, swaying his hand and gesturing Ivan to follow him.

"They are?" the Russian asked, noticing the manager and soon followed him. In all honesty, he was curious on why everyone behind him made such a fuss over—of all people he knew—Alfred.

"Of course!" the manager stated, weaving through the shop's aisles, "They all want to meet Hero Superstar, who's practically the world's current singing sensation."

Singing sensation? Somehow, Ivan found that rather hard to believe. Perhaps this Hero Superstar was someone else and not really the Alfred he was thinking of... Still, this fate-brought ticket he'd received will give him the answers.

"You're lucky to get that," the manager went on, finally stopping at a back door to the shop, "That crowd will tear you to pieces for that ticket. You know how fans get."

In all respects with that, the closest Ivan could relate was how Natalia would get around him; the mere thought of the concept caused him to shudder.

"Be careful out there, alright?" the manager said after a short pause, opening the door to the blinding day outside, showing Ivan a safer way out of the shop.

Ivan walked outside, quickly using his arm as a visor until his eyes readjusted to the outdoor light. He looked back down at the ticket quite curiously. He could still hear the crowd, now in a complaining tone than the excited cheers from earlier before he had walked in and stole what they've been idolizing longer than he's known of "Hero Superstar's" fame. He sighed and walked along the back allies of a few shops before revealing himself in the main center of the plaza, hoping he wouldn't get caught.

A few moments later, Ivan nearly jumped as he heard his name being called, but it was a familiar voice. He turned to see Katyusha waving and heading towards him with Natalia trailing behind her.

"What's that Ivan?" Katyusha asked, noticing the ticket in Ivan's hands.

"This? Just something I won from that crowd," Ivan explained.

"Other people touched my Ivan?" Natalia snarled lowly, glaring in the direction towards the crowd.

"They didn't," Ivan lied, hoping to calm his sister down. Natalia just growled quietly. "Here's that surprise I got you, Natalia," he added, handing over the bag he got from the trinket shop. With that, Natalia had a faint smile on her face. Ivan knew the possible thoughts that could be going on in his younger sister's mind, but it was something that he would much prefer not to venture into thinking into detail.

"So what did you win?" Katyusha asked, getting back on topic.

"It's a ticket to this concert to see 'Hero Superstar'," he explained.

"'Hero Superstar'?!" Katyusha exclaimed. Apparently, she happened to know of the famous singer.

"You've heard of him?" Ivan wondered, surprised from finding out his sister's interest.

Katyusha nodded. "He's very popular," she told him, "I listen to him all the time!" Ivan now wondered how he'd never noticed before, but he then found out why. "But it was only recently," Katyusha added, "He's only fairly new in the music world. I guess he was a quick success from his first."

So that must be it.

Ivan could see that Katyusha was a bigger fan than he was. "Would you like this then?" he asked, offering the ticket to her.

Katyusha's face blushed at the little gift. "A—are you sure, Ivan?" she asked rather sheepishly in her tone. She'd feel guilty if she were to take away her dear brother's luck. But still; she did want to get a chance to see her singing idol.

Ivan hesitantly nodded. "Да," he said, trying his best to keep a smile on his face, "You appear to be a much bigger fan of him than me." And with that, he gave the ticket to his older sister.

Katyusha didn't know what to say as she accepted the lucky ticket. She looked up at her younger brother, grateful for such generosity.

Ivan just stood in front of her, his smile still plastered on his face. "I may have missed out on finally seeing Alfred all these years," he thought to himself, "But at least Katyusha is happy."

The three of them then started heading back home for the day.

"And I'm pretty sure I might have another chance at meeting Alfred again anyway."

Translations:

"Брат" (brat) – "Brother"

"Сестра" (sistra) – "Sister"

"Да" (da) – "Yes"

"Спасибо" (spasibo) – "Thank you"

A/N ~ I hope this fanfic took a good start... I'm never really good at starting fics out. lol XD;;; And there was going to be another part to the end of the chapter, but I think I'll leave that for chapter two; it's too long and kinda away from what's happening at the moment. Anyway, yeah... Alfred's this big famous singer apparently. And don't worry; Ivan will get his chance at meeting him soon enough. :'3 This is a RusAm fanfic after all.....