Okay a few things before this story starts:

I have no idea if they do plays and musicals in high schools in Japan but let's say they do.

I know at least one song was translated into Japanese from the High School Musical series but I'm unsure if they all were. But for the sake of this story, lets' just say they did!

I believe Kai and Rei are about two years older than the others so obviously Kai's gonna be in college if Takao's 18. I'm not sure how old Max is but let's say he's Takao's age as well.

As far as uniforms go: the boys wear all black in winter and a white shirt with tie and black pants in summer. Girls wear a…blue and white uniform! There! I just made that up on the spot b/c I don't really care what uniforms they wear!

Oh yes, if you didn't figure it out yet: I'm using Japanese names. It's pretty straightforward of who everyone is since their names don't change much. It probably won't happen, but if I ever mention a name that doesn't sound like the original name, I'll let you know who they are.

Takao laid in the grass watching the clouds go by. He didn't realize it at first, but…in reality: he can't beyblade forever.

It sucked. That was all he ever thought about. Takao is now 18 years old and on his last year of high school. Where will he go after that? He is not sure.

What's worse is that all of his friends seem to know what to do. Max is in America, with his mom, they're both discussing where Max will go. He said 'probably community college first.'

Kai is still hanging around with the gang in Japan but he's already in college so he's hasn't been 'hanging out' with them for while. Rei stayed in Japan, living with Kai, and is not in school. Apparently, Kai doesn't want Rei to worry about these things too much saying Rei can live him for as long as he wants. Although Rei at first wouldn't settle for that, saying he felt like a housewife for staying home all day…

Kyoujyu and Hiromi both attend the same high school with Takao (Takao was surprised he got himself into the high school they both chose). Hiromi seems to be undecided either but her top 3 choices are: Actress, lawyer, and teacher.

Daichi went back to the mountains to be with his mother…until he came back again and while attending a different school, he's living with Takao much to Takao's annoyance. Since Daichi's not as old as the rest of them are, he does not understand the fact that they're growing up now and spends more time beyblading than doing homework.

Takao sighed again as he stared at the sky. So many things seem to be going on right now in his life…

If he's going to stop beyblading…what's he doing to do with that empty space in his heart?

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Takao walked into his classroom the next morning and flopped down on his desk.

"Good Morning!" Hiromi greeted by Takao's desk,

"Hey," he replied back. Takao just realized how loud everyone was being this morning. No wonder he had a headache along with his tiredness.

"Don't tell me you stayed up all night playing video games!" Hiromi half-scolded with her hands on her hips.

"No…hey, why is everyone screaming for?" Takao finally asked and Hiromi shook her head.

"You forgot already?! Ming-Ming is attending this high school! Ugh!" While Hiromi is one of the few that hates Ming-Ming, a majority of the school loves her as much as…

"Uh oh…where's Kyoujyu?" Takao asked,

"Don't ask," said Hiromi and walked away. Takao got up from his desk and squeezed his way between his classmates to get to the window. Perfect timing: a limo pulled up. But before Takao could watch the famous beyblading star come out (since all the guards come out first), he spotted Kyoujyu already being taken away by Ming-Ming's body guards. Takao slightly sweatdrops,

"Oh boy…"

Although Kyoujyu wasn't the only fan boy, he was definitely the biggest fan at the school, no arguing that.

"Hello everyone, I'm Ming-Ming!" Ming-Ming introduced herself to the class. Hiromi nearly got in trouble for screaming after finding out they were in the same class. Takao giggled on the inside when this series of events happened and was wondering how disappointed Kyoujyu was since he was in a different class. Although Takao himself might be the only one not screaming over Ming-Ming. He doesn't dislike or love her. After all, she is a really strong beyblader and he respects that. If he likes her for anything, it's for her beyblading skills. Well, at least she doesn't have to worry about life after high school, she's already living it!

Hiromi spent the rest of the day complaining about how she and Ming-Ming are in the same class; it was bad enough they were in the same school. It wasn't until after school that the subject changed.

"Where are you going, Takao?" Hiromi asked when he started leaving.

"Home, where else?" he replied.

"Aren't you going to watch me audition?" Hiromi asked catching up with him.

"Audition for what?" Takao asked, not really caring about any kind of audition.

"Duh! The school musical!" Hiromi reminded, "We're doing High School Musical! That's probably my favorite American movie!"

"Ew, no, you know I don't like musicals in general!" said Takao with slight disgust.

"Come on, Takao! I need support!"

"Why me?"

"Like you have better things to do!" Hiromi countered and pulled him along while he protests.

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"It's hard to believe! That I couldn't SEE!"

The first thing they heard when they walked into the auditorium was some off-tune screeching, er, singing.

"This feeling's like no other…"

"Oh my gosh! It's Kiyoshi Sato!" Hiromi nearly squealed, noticing a long blue-haired boy with some red streaks on his bangs and bright green eyes standing in line for the auditions.

"Who?" Takao asked. Kiyoshi retied the down ponytail he had and he shoved his hands in his pockets.

"How do you not know him?! He beyblades too! He's also a great soccer player and snowboards too! He's so cute!"

"Oh…yeah, I recognize him," said Takao who vaguely remembers him.

"It's too bad he's gay, all the girls love him!" Hiromi pouted and Takao's eyes widen,

"Wait, how do you even know that?!"

"Ugh! He confessed he's gay! Everyone knows that!"

"Oh…"

"And he's still popular with the girls! All of us wish he was straight!"

"What if he is straight and is only pretending to be gay to get girls to stay away from him?" Takao thought out loud.

"What? That's not like him! And it's obviously not working!"

"Well okay, I'm just saying…"

"NEXT!"

Kiyoshi walked onto the stage and Hiromi had to resist squealing unlike most other girls in the room who let it all out. Kiyoshi stood there for a bit before Ming-Ming joined him on stage from backstage with a couple of guards.

"Hi! Kiyo-Kun and I will be doing a duet!" Ming-Ming announced cheerfully. Everyone in the auditorium started to chatter until they were silenced.

"What?! Isn't Ming-Ming famous enough?!" Hiromi exclaimed.

"You should get in line," Takao suggested since the two have seen standing there the whole time.

"Oh! Right! Can't let her beat me!" Hiromi dashed off and Takao took a seat when music started playing.

"Mucho gusto!" Kiyoshi started out.

"Aye que fabulosa!" Ming-Ming joined.

Takao jumped when Hiromi grabbed his arm for his attention.

"What?"

"I need a partner! I need to outshine her!"

"Hell no!" Takao answered without even needing her to ask the request.

"PLEASE! We'll sing the revised version of 'What I've been looking for' so it'll be short and painless for you as possible!" Hiromi begged.

"I don't know the song!"

"It's easy! I'll help you in line! Let's go!"

"Ugh…" Takao wasn't sure how gets into these things.

"Yeah we're gonna-"

"Bop, bop, bop, bop to the top!"

"Slip and slide and ride that rhythm!"

Takao couldn't believe it. He was actually going to audition for a musical. All because of Hiromi's silly 'rivalry' with Ming-Ming.

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"Oh, so you're auditioning for Troy and Gabriella?"

"Yes!" Hiromi replied.

"Wait a minute, aren't those two-"

Hiromi nudged him to keep him from finishing the question,

"We're ready!"

"Oh boy…" Takao just realized…he never sang in front of a crowd before. He started to get slightly nervous when the music started to play. This was way different than beyblading in front of the world! He started to choke but when seeing how desperate Hiromi was, Takao took in deep breath and thought about beyblading for a cause and the nervousness started to go away.

"It's hard to believe…that I couldn't see…" Takao scanned the crowd, "That you were always there besides me…" no one was laughing yet, "Thought I was alone…" he must be doing a pretty decent job.

"What?! NO!" Takao exclaimed when seeing the callback list. His name was under Troy's and he couldn't believe what he just got himself into.

"Yes! I got a call back for Gabriella!"

"YES! Ming-Ming is in the callbacks!" Kyoujyu cheered when he saw the board too while the other two sweatdrops.

"EEEEEK! Kiyoshi-Kun is in the call backs for Ryan! We gotta go watch him!" Kiyoshi's fan girls started to squeal among themselves. Takao didn't really care who was in or not, he just couldn't believe he was in the call backs! He's never acted a day in his life!

…

Okay, he has but not in front of a crowd!

"And I thought I had enough to worry about!" Takao thought as he read the list over again to make sure that was his name he's looking at.

Takao Kinomiya

Yup, definitely him.

Notes:

-Kiyoshi appeared in one of my Gou/Makoto shonen-ai stories(a next generation shonen-ai story). He's probably my favorite gay OC…okay he's probably the only gay OC I've created. So that's why I brought him back in this story even though it's the wrong generation! Lol!

-If you don't know Japanese culture that well: In Japan students don't move around like U.S. high schools so. The teachers are the ones moving around. So Hiromi is stuck with Ming-Ming for the entire day except lunch.

Please R and R if you want a next chapter!