Title : Little Ghost
By : Shino45
Pairing : Kenhina, Hinata x Kenma
Summary : Hinata works as a lyricist that help bands that are in a pinch but something happens to the band called Nekos, their lyricist quit and a close friend of Hinata asks you for help but you have never done a full-time job before. Hinata has to choose what to do as well as the past that still haunts him.
Chapter 1 - Stolen Lyrics
Beep Beep
The alarm clock at the side of Hinata's bed noisily beeped away.
"Ugh. Just five more minutes…" Still half asleep, Hinata sluggishly dropped his hand over the clock and silenced it.
"Wait?! I-It's already this late? I've got to hurry!" When Hinata finally squinted a drowsy eye at the clock, the time it showed gave Hinata a fright.
"Shoot! I was supposed to help out with one of the company today!" Hinata hastily threw on come clothes and headed to his job as a freelance ghost writer. "I was supposed to be there bright and early today."
"Gosh I'm so late…" Hinata would just barely make it in time. But then Hinata recalled today he would be there so he didn't have much to worry about."
"I shouldn't be thinking about this now. I have no time to waste!" Hinata hurried to the studio but the alley out front was swarming with female fans.
"Kenma! Shake my hand!"
"Sign this for me please!"
"Me too! Over here!"
The rabid and zealous fans formed an impassible wall blocking Hinata's path to the studio.
"Why did this have to happen to me the day I'm late? I'm never getting to get through there."
"What's your name? I'll address it to you."
"Oh my god, really?! Thank you so much!"
"I've been a fan since you debuted! Sign this for me, please!"
"Here. Thanks."
"Wait. He looked strangely familiar but I'm not good with faces when it comes to a studio I don't usual go to. I remember now he's in that band called Nekos which basely meant cats.
Helplessly surrounded by the wall of women was the guy named Kozume Kenma. He was a singer in the insanely popular idol group.
As Hinata looked on, the cluster of fans around him grew and grew.
"Sign this! Sign this!"
"Can I get a picture with you?!"
It didn't look like Hinata could force his way though, but there wasn't any time to find a way around it.
"Hmm. I have to leave… I can't stay here forever…" Kenma glanced toward the studio building with some concern showing on his face. He was probably trying to make his way inside the same building that Hinata was.
"I'm going to be really late and if I am Suga-san won't be able to help me out. I have to do something…"
Searching through my bag, I pulled out a pair of black glasses.
"Hey! There you are Kenma! I finally found you!" Hinata mustered his loudest voice and shouted as he shoved his way toward Kenma. Scared off by Hinatat's brazen entrance, the crazy girls gave Hinata some room to maneuver. Hinata used that chance to plow through the crowd and get near Kenma.
"Come on! You're going to be late for shooting! Off we go!" Wrapping Hinata's arm around Kenma's ad rushing through the crowd, Hinata pretended to be from the shooting staff which clearing he wasn't.
"Huh?"
"We can force out way through to the studio come on!" Hinata whispered to Kenma in a mute voice as they pushed their way forward.
"Sorry everyone! It looks like I've got to go! Thanks for coming to see me! I'll miss you!" Kenma smiled and waved to his fans as Hinata dragged him away.
Hinata thought his cover would be blown there for a minute, but they made it through successfully.
"Thanks. You saved me back there." Kenma said after they were free from the view of the fans.
"Not a problem. I was in a hurry too."
"well, I'd better get going or Kuro is going get mad at me. Thanks again. I really appreciate it." Kenma waved his hand at Hinata as he ran off.
"If I was going to make it in time, I'd have to hurry up too."
Just then, my cell phone started to ringing in my bag.
"Hello?"
"Hinata."
"Suga-san. I know I'm late but there a completely good reason for that."
"I'm not mad but could you hurry up since I will need to see those lyrics."
"Right. I'll be there!"
XXX
Kenma arrived at the band room and there were already the other band members there getting ready since they had a shoot to get too.
"Sorry I'm late but some fan girls caught me."
"I'm not surprised with that." Kuro smirked. "It's good that you were able to get away."
"I actually had help from somebody, if I hadn't had any help I would still be stuck with those girls." Kenma sighed just thinking about what just happened. He liked his fans but sometimes they were a bit too much for Kenma and he didn't like dealing with others.
"I'm getting excited for our shoot." Lev had a bright smile on his face, a smile that never fades and that annoyed Kenma, since not just noisy but too happy.
"Shut up Lev!" Kenma yelled.
"You're so mean!" Lev mad his face into a pout.
"You're so loud, turn it down a notch." Kenma said, changing into the clothes that the designer had prepared for him.
Just then Manabu Naoi entered the room in a panic. The band knew something horrible had happened with the panic look on their manager's face.
"What's wrong?" Kuro asked, he wanted to know without delay.
"Your song writer has quit."
"What?" All of the members were confused to why something like this had happened.
"Well, I never did like that lyricist." Kenma murmured in a soft voice that nobody could hear him.
"Why did he quit?" Kuro asked, then he stared at his manager and spoke once again. "Wait, don't answer that since I already know the reason."
"There is also some good news."
"What's the good news?" Kuro hoped it was really good news.
"There is a mysterious genius lyricist that writes for bands that are in pinch. It says he takes any kind of job thrown his way."
"Then what's the problem get him to write for us!" Kuro yelled, he didn't care as long as they had somebody to write some good lyrics for them.
"There's a catch since nobody knows what he looks like and where we can find him expect maybe Karasuno might know where he might be."
So Kuro payed Karasuno a visit but the members didn't have a glue who the genius writer was. Kuro thought they knew since his manager had mention they might know.
"Suga-san might know who he is." Tanaka mention. "I'm not too sure but he was the one who got us a good lyricist when out got sick."
"Where is Suga-san?" Nishinoya looked around and saw the older male was no where to be seen. "I thought he was here."
"Anyway you should probably talk to Suga about the mysterious lyricist." Daichi said.
Daichi had told Kuro that Suga might be outside since he likes to get some fresh air once they are always finished with their shoots. And just as Daichi said Suga was indeed outside and he had just finished talking to a little guy with orange hair that he didn't recognized.
"Suga-san!" Suga turned around and saw Kuro walking toward him. He was surprised to see Kuro here.
"What brings you here?" Suga asked.
"There something I need to ask you. It's about that mysterious lyricist. Do you know about him? Because we really in a pinch right now and really need his help."
"You mean Hinata."
"Hinata? So you do know about the lyricist?"
"I do."
XXX
"Whoa! I had no idea how popular Nekos was! I don't really think of boy bands even though I write lyrics for them."
There are 60,000 eager fans going wild at the arena. There's still time until they hit the stage, but the fans are already excited.
"Well, yeah! No other boy band out there produces their own music." Yachi was a fan of the band like many others, so Hinata invited her since he had an extra ticket with him given to him by Suga.
"I can't believe I came here."
"I can't believe that I get to see them so soon!" She looked really excited, it's good thing that I invited her, also I didn't want to come alone. "I'm so lucky since your invited me! Not to mention these awesome seats!"
"How did you get these tickets anyways?"
"Well."
At that moment, the lights dim and the arena is enveloped in complete darkness. The members of the band were shown on the huge screen in the back and Hinata noticed one of the members that he had earlier met this morning when he was running late.
"Are you all ready for Nekos?!" Lev says in a loud voice.
"Yeeeeaaahhhh!" Jumping for joy, the audience crams the arena, waving their glow sticks in the air.
"It's Lev! Oh, I wish he could be right here so we could gaze into each other's eyes!"
"How you all doing?" Nobuyuki Kai the next member blows the audience a kiss.
"Kai is super dreamy!" Yachi says without looking away from the stage. "He's such a gentleman… So refined…"
"Hey! I can't hear you! Make some noise!"
"That's Kenma, isn't it?"
"He's also such a good actor! I'm sure he'll be a Hollywood big-shot one day."
"All you guys at the back! Can you see us?!"
"Yaku!" Yachi yelled. "He's pretty cute."
"She's right about that."
"Kuro! Over here!"
"Is he the frontman? The leader?"
"Yeah, that's him! I love all the songs he writes!"
The concert goes on and on with fans getting excited over the band.
"I heard they have other members but only few appear in stage just like Karasuno."
"This is our final song." Kuro says.
The moment that the song is sang Hinata's face goes pales and his face drains.
"This sounds just like something I wrote."
Hinata then recalls the day that he lost his small book that he writes songs just for fun. To think the lyrics that he had wrote is being sang from a boy band he hardly knew. They didn't even have permission to sing those lyrics.
"Hinata, what are you thinking about?"
"Huh? What was that?"
"You were daydreaming again, weren't you?"
"I like to call it creative thinking. Hey, does Nekos write their own lyrics?"
"Of course they do! I heard they had a song writer that writes for them."
XXX
After the concert there was an after party for famous people. Hinata was invited since he knew the company and Suga insisted him to come and bring a friend but he couldn't find Suga anywhere or the other members of Karasuno.
"Aren't you that infamous Hinata Shouyou?" An old man name of Tanji Washijō
"Yachi, go over there and have some fun." Yachi had a bad feeling and didn't want to leave Hinata alone but the look Hinata gave her made her leave him.
"To think you'll be in a place like here." Hinata used to be a famous but not most people know about him. He gave up his dream as a child and hadn't been heard ever since but this man seemed to know him.
"Let me get a picture with you." The guy smirked and grabbed Hinata by the hand.
"Let me go." Hinata yelled, as he tried pull away.
*thud*
"Huh?"
"Ow.."
"Oh no! I pushed him into Kenma! Then again it saved me."
"I-I'm sorry."
Kenma didn't say a word. Hinata's eyes lands on a strange object lying on the floor, and I realize…
"Is that a… toupee?"
"Nooo! The old man yells.
"This is actually funny." Hinata tries to hide his laugh.
Just past the lump of artificial hair is a shinny bald head.
People around started to stare at the old man with bald head.
"He's bald." A woman snicker.
Hey, don't laugh so hard." A man says to the woman who is laughing.
By now, all the party guests are transfixed by Washijo's bald head.
"How dare you make a fool of me." Washijo yelled in anger.
"I think that's enough."
"Nobuyuki Kai?"
"Mr. Washijo, you're only attracting more attention. You don't want that right now, do you?"
"Uhh…"
"And isn't there something more important you should do instead of yelling at him?"
"Ah!"
"He's right, he should so something about that toupee."
"You're lucky that Kai was here. I'll let this go… for now." Washijo glares at Hinata. He storms out, his head now shining bright red."
"That was close…"
"Yeah. He sure is your stereotypical creep, isn't he?" Kenma says.
"I'm so sorry for the trouble I caused. Are you alright?"
"I'm fine. You're the one who needs to be more careful. I'm sure that won't be the last time that pig in a wig tries something."
"P… Pig in a wig? Does he mean the toupee? How can a pop star talk like that? He's seem different then the time I met him before."
"Um, thank you for your help, Kai-san."
"It's nothing. I'm just glad you're okay." Kai smiles.
"Hinata, are you okay? I'm sorry I wasn't there to help…"
"That's fine, since I would worry if you were involved."
"Hinata…" Kenma speaks.
"You weren't… front row, center stage, were you?"
"Yea, I was…"
"No way! Could you see the faces in the audience?"
"No. this is special. I remembered you two because you're both so cute." Kai denies, Yachi is now blushing from Kai's words. "We'll be singing one song here at the party, so we have to get a move on."
"See you later, Shouyou." Kenma waved goodbye as the two leave.
"They're gone. I can't believe that just happened and apparently Yachi can't believe it either. Wait a second here. Did Kenma just call me by my name. How does he know my name?"
"Hinata!" Suga came running toward Hinata and Yachi with worried expression on his face. "I heard that something horrible happened to you." Suga was panting hard, looked like he had been running.
"How did you know that?" Hinata asked, confused.
"I heard some people talk about it out back."
"So that's where you were?"
"Suga-san, you don't have to worry about a thing since Nekos's Kai and Kenma saved the day."
"Did they now?"
Yachi went to get something to eat and it was only Suga and Hinata alone.
"There's something I need to talk about. That song that they sang. I'm sure that belongs to me."
"Oh, you found out." Suga scratched his head with a guilty expression on his face.
"You know something about it." Hinata stared right into Suga's eyes without looking away.
"Sorry, Hinata but I took your lyrics and gave to Nekos since they were in a pinch. Their lyricist just quit without reason and they had no song ready since the guy was supposed to write them the songs for today and the only idea I had was your lyrics that you wrote for fun."
"Seriously." Hinata couldn't believe this but he couldn't stay mad at the pop idol since he was just helping out a fellow friend in need, since they were in the same company.
"So about what I asked you about?"
"You mean helping them out and be their lyricist for the time being until they find a new one." Hinata didn't write lyrics that was full-time so he wasn't sure about it.
"Let me think about it a bit more."
"It's fine by me." Suga smiled.