UtaPri – Disco WarChapter 1: Stolen belongings
You had been sitting in the lounge reading a book for quite some time now, when it suddenly hit you that it was immensely quiet. Living with 11 boys was always lively, and never quiet, but today it was. It kind of made you feel out of place, but something deep down inside you, told you that it wouldn't last for long. And right you were.
Just as you were about to dig into the exciting world of your book again, the doors flew open, and in stormed an enraged Camus. Now this wasn't very surprising, considering what he had to deal with on a daily basis, but since you had to deal with him sooner or later, being Quartet Night's manager and all, you might as well get the rage flip over with.
So you asked: "What happens to trouble you, Count?"
This earned you a displeased glare from the tall man, but he decided to answer you anyway.
He cleared his throat before saying in a calm voice: "Somebody stole the key to my candy cabinet"
For a split second you thought you had heard the Count wrong, but the look he was giving you was absolutely not the one of joking, he was dead serious.
You realized that you had been starring a little too long at the annoyed man, and that now would be a pretty good time to answer before feeling the wrath of Camus.
"Uhm, do you have a clue of who did it?" you asked, uncertain of your words.
Camus narrowed his eyes, and looked at you in disbelief.
"Of course I do!" He exclaimed, taking you a little off guard "It was Reiji, that damned fool!" and just as he had said those words, Reiji walked into the room.
"That's mean Myu-chan, I haven't done anything bad today" He wailed out.
Camus turned to the brunette and grabbed him by his shirt collar, lifting the short, but older, man off the floor.
"You haven't done anything today?!" Camus yelled in the poor bewildered man's face "Then explain to me why the key to my candy cabinet is missing"
The look Reiji had on his face, was the look of utter confusion blended with a little bit of pain.
"Uhm, Camus" you started, putting your book down on a table "Maybe you put it somewhere else than you normally do" you said in an uncertain voice, fearing the worst.
Camus turned his head to look at you, he didn't even have to say anything, his face said it all, and you immediately regretted ever talking.
He gently let go of Reiji, who took a few steps away from the blonde, then slowly, but steady, walked over to you. He stopped right at your feet, bowed down to your face, and said in a calm voice: "Don't you think I have considered that possibility, Manager?" You nodded slowly, afraid of the rage storm that was about to erupt.
"Then you must also know that I already searched through my room at least three times, without any results" he continued in a menacing voice. You tried desperately to dig yourself further down in the soft cushion of the couch, but it was impossible, you couldn't hide further away from the Count's ice cold stare, and all you managed to do, was nod.
Camus stood straight up again, looked down on you, then over at Reiji, who made a frightened look, then back you as sighed.
"I suppose none of you know where it is then" he started out, you both nodded, afraid of what he would do if you said anything to make him even madder. He sighed deeply again and said: "Then it must be that stupid kid to Aijima"
You and Reiji looked at each other, both feeling sorry for what was about to hit the unknowing prince.
Just as Camus were about to leave, to let his rage fall upon Cecil, Otoya came into the room with a confused look on his face. He didn't say anything, he didn't even look at you, he just headed right to the couch you were currently sitting on, lifting the cushions one after one while mumbling: "it's not here" over and over.
After lifting the last cushion you were not sitting on, he looked at you for a moment, clearly wondering what he should do. You got the hint that he wanted you to move, but before you even had the chance to get up, he lifted you above his head, with such ease it was almost unbelievable. A little shriek left your lips as you were up in the air in mere seconds, and then gently placed down on the couch again.
Otoya looked at you with sad eyes, as he again said: "It's not here" in a sorrowful voice.
It almost broke your heart seeing the always smiling and happy Otoya be so down over something, and you couldn't help but place a hand on his shoulder and asking: "What's not here?"
He looked at you again and took a deep breath before saying: "My guitar pick, it's gone, and not only my main one, but all of them" He looked like he was about to break down right then and there.
Upon hearing this Camus let out a displeased snort, clearly thinking that his missing item was more important. But to you it didn't really matter right now, you just wanted Otoya to smile, so you did the only thing you could think of right now, and said: "Well, if they are all gone, why don't we just go buy a new one?" Otoya looked at you slightly happy slightly sad and said: "I thought about that too, but all of them just have a different story, and it's just not the same" he covered his face with his hands and started sobbing. You tried your best to comfort him, but it didn't really work. Reiji of course had a hard time too, seeing his kohai so distressed, so he decided to try and talk to him too: "Don't worry about it Otoyan, we'll find your guitar picks again" he said in an uplifting tone, while patting the boy on his back.
For a moment Otoya stopped his sobbing, but only to look up at Reiji, with his big red eyes and said: "But Rei-chan, your maracas was gone too" This made Reiji's face drop, and he let out a long and dreadful yell while falling to his knees.
You were beginning to find this situation pretty strange, but you didn't have time to think about it, because of Ren barging into the room, dramatically throwing himself on the couch, howling out: "The pressure, I can't take the pressure!"
You looked at Otoya, who now was sitting on the floor with Reiji, crying over their missing instruments, he would be ok for now. Then you looked at Ren, and with a deep sigh asked: "What's the matter, drama queen?" Ren looked at you between his fingers and almost screamed out: "My hair is wrong! Look at it!" He stood up so you could get a better look at his hair, and it indeed looked different.
"Can you see what I mean Lady?" Ren said, pulling on a bunch of hair.
Taking advantage of the situation, you said in a taunting voice: "Yes, I can indeed see that your hair looks less shiny, less golden, more dark, more boring, more flat and is that a grey hair?" Reaching for a strand of Ren's hair.
Ren looked at you in disbelief, and frantically ran a hand through his hair, in a desperate attempt to cover up the 'grey hair'.
You couldn't help but laugh at his reaction, and Camus obviously found it funny too, as he let out a slight chuckle.
"Now Lady, that wasn't very nice, you had me scared for a moment" Ren said with a cheeky grin, but with his hair looking so dull, it didn't really have any effect.
"What happened?" you asked curiously.
Ren let out a long sigh and said in a soulless voice: "Somebody took all of my hair products, and my shampoo" his face was that of a dead man, it looked like his soul were about to leave his body.
You didn't really know what to do, you were aware of the man's incredibly large amount of hair products, but you couldn't really help him, since your consume weren't that extreme.
Just as you thought that things were about to calm down a little, you heard two loud voices arguing in the hallway.
"I'm telling you it's not there!"
"Well what do you want me to do about it?"
"I don't know! Just fix it!"
"How? If you don't know where it is, how should I?"
"I don't know! You just always know stuff like that! Besides aren't you missing something too?"
"That's out of the question. Now let's just go ask some of the others"
And with that said, Ranmaru and Masato walked through the door, clearly not expecting the scene before them.
"Why the hell is that idiot on the floor?" Ranmaru asked, referring to Reiji.
Camus cleared his throat and said: "Apparently his maracas are gone, the same goes for my candy cabinet key, have you seen it?" Ranmaru glared at Camus for a moment and shrugged him off with a: "The hell I care, and by the way, aren't you on a diet, ice queen?" Camus looked displeased at Ranmaru, but just as he were about make a retort, you said: "Ranmaru, you were talking about finding something, are you perhaps missing something too?" looking curiously at him.
Ranmaru looked down on you, furrowed his brows, and said: "Isn't it obvious?"
It took you a moment, but as you stared into his eyes, it hit you, both of them were grey.
"Your contact" you started
"Is gone" he finished "and apparently Mr. Scarf over there is missing something too, but he won't tell me what" he continued in an annoyed tone, referring to Masato.
You looked over at Masato, who was indeed wearing a big scarf around his neck and the lower half of his face, which was very abnormal since he never wore things like that. His face kind off said it all too, he didn't wear it because he wanted to. But you didn't really get a chance to ask him what he was missing or why he was wearing a scarf, because Tomochika came running down the stairs towards you screaming: "(y/n)! Have you seen my hair brush!? It's missing!" in a distressed voice. It took you a second to comprehend what she had just asked, mostly because of her appearance, she was also wearing a scarf around her hair, was this a new trend? And desperately holding it down with her right hand, almost as it would fly off if she didn't. You shook your head "no, not that I know off" you said in a worried tone. She let out a discouraged scream and sat herself down on the floor in defeat.
"Uhm Tomo-chan what's wrong" you dared to ask, a little afraid of the answer.
She looked up at you with big teary eyes, removed the scarf, and revealed her wild red hair, even wilder than before. It stood out all over the place, you couldn't tell head to toe in that mess.
"Can you see this? This is what happens without my hairbrush" she said with a discouraged voice, grabbing some of her hair to demonstrate.
You sat yourself down beside her and started patting her back, mumbling uplifting things to her.
This situation was getting weirder and weirder, but again before you had any time to think about it Tokiya, and was that Cecil? Entered the room.
You all had to look at least twice on the always brown and beaming idol, his skin was in a total different shade, it was paler, not as pale as Tokiya, but paler than normal, and he didn't seem very happy about you all having to see him like this.
There was a complete silence in the room, everyone thinking the same thing.
Ren was the one to break the silence: "What happened to you Cesshi?" He said in a wondering tone and with a sly smirk.
Cecil looked displeased at him, his gaze almost as cold as Camus', but then, you could see a faint blush on his cheeks, almost as if he were embarrassed.
He cleared his throat looked around on all of you and explained: "Ever since coming here to Japan, my skin has been getting paler because of the different climate, so I have been using concealer to keep my normal skin color and my charming looks, but today it was missing"
You all had to restrain your laughs, but it was hard, even Masato were at the brink of breaking.
But to think that Cecil used concealer to keep his skin in the right tone, it was almost unbelievable, but it was true.
To avoid a disaster, you all shifted your gaze to Tokiya, who didn't look too pleased with the situation either. None of you had to say anything, he caught the drift, sighed, and said: "Normally I'm not interested in you knowing this about me, but it's an emergency" he looked around on all of you, took in a deep breath and said: "I lost my teddy bear, Mr. Fuzzle, and I would very much like to get him back"
That was it, that was the last drop, none of you could hold it in any longer and you all bursted out laughing, Cecil's skin tone being fake was one thing, but Tokiya having a teddy bear was on a totally different level, and it was too funny for words. You all held your stomachs, some of you even dropped to the ground, you and Tomochika started crying out of pure laughter, all the while Tokiya and Cecil were taking deep breaths, considering what would happen if they killed you.
When the laughter finally stilled of, you looked over at Masato, still wondering what he was missing, and hiding, but it turned out that you weren't the only one wondering.
Ren slyly made his way over to Masato, slid a hand around his shoulders and said in a teasing tone: "Well now Masa-Masa, we don't know what you are missing, and we are all curious, so please tell us, it can't possibly be as bad as that" referring to Cecil and Tokiya, who gave Ren a strong glare of hate. Masato looked at Ren with eyes so cold they would be able to freeze Agnapolis, and tried to shrug him off, but the playboy wasn't budging. In the end it seemed like Masato had given up, and came to the conclusion that we would have to figure it out sooner or later, so it might as well be sooner. He took a deep breath, looked down at his feet, and said in an almost inaudible voice: "My makeup bag is gone" It took you all a moment to catch his words, but as soon as you did you all fell to the floor half dead from laughter.
"I knew your skin was too perfect to be natural" Tomochika said between laughs, and it just made all of you laugh even more.
But the laughter was suddenly disturbed by a frightful scream.
You all stopped laughing, looked at each other knowing exactly whose voice it was, and exactly what would make him scream like that. You all turned to the door, expecting it to fly open any minute, but nothing happened, instead Syo came running down the stairs with Natsuki right after him, but at a closer look you all knew that that wasn't Natsuki, it was Satsuki.
"Save meeee!" Syo yelled out as he ran past you with Satsuki right in his heels.
You all exchanged looks for a brief second, and decided to do the only thing that was right, throw yourself at the enraged man.
You made a hand gesture to Ranmaru, Reiji and Camus, making them run to the left of Satsuki, then to Tokiya, Otoya and Cecil making them run to his right, and then to Ren and Masato, making them run behind him, and at your command they all leaped over the fearful alter ego of Natsuki, with a horrendous battle cry.
Normally Satsuki would have avoided that, but this time he wasn't expecting eight boys to throw their entire body at him, so he ended up buried beneath them. Now you only had very little time to act, before he would break free of the human pile, so Tomochika threw a pair of reading glasses at you and placed them as fast as you could on Natsuki's face.
He looked around for a second, blinked a couple of times, and then asked: "Why are you all on top of me? If you want a hug so bad I have enough love for all of you" with a beaming smile. You all sweatdropped at his ever so happy comment, but you were delighted that the horror was over.
Now it was clear what Natsuki was missing, to everyone's displease, but Syo's not so clear.
"Thank you for that, I thought I was gonna die" Syo said
"Don't worry about it" you said with a smile "if we didn't butt in, we would have been victims too" you finished, making Syo sweatdrop
"Uhm, Syo are you missing something?" Reiji asked curiously, scanning over the small blonde boy
Syo looked at him in confusion, but then his face lit up like Christmas lights.
"How did you know?" He asked in a surprised voice
"Well right now we are all kind of missing an important thing, and I just wondered if it were the same for you" Reiji said, with a hint of sorrow in his voice, probably over his lost maracas.
Syo looked around on all of us, then down at his hands.
"My nail polish is gone, all of it" he said in a silent voice, looking up on all of you.
It wasn't really a surprise, everybody knew that the boy had a fetish for nail polish, but still hearing him say it was funny, so some of you had to muffle some laughs.
"What is all this noise about" you heard a calm voice ask from above.
Upon looking up you all spotted Ai, walking down the stairs.
"Ah, Ai-Ai, what are you missing?" Reiji said to the younger idol, assuming that he, like the rest of you were missing something too.
Ai looked at him with an emotionless expression, and said in a monotone voice: "I'm missing a very important USB-drive, and to be frank, if I don't get it back, it might have consequences"
You all looked scared at each other, when he said it like that, it sounded like the world was about to go under.
"Uhm, Mikaze-senpai, what exactly is on that USB-drive?" Otoya asked, scared of the answer
Ai looked over at him with an expressionless face, and said in the same monotone voice as before: "My feelings"
You all looked at him in disbelief, yes you were all aware of the cyan haired boy being a robot, but that his feelings were on a USB-drive was news.
He sighed at the confusion on your faces, and said: "They don't normally belong there, but someone transferred them to a USB-drive while I was charging, and now they are gone, and I would probably be pleased to get them back, they held a lot of data that I would like to get back"
You all let out an understandable noise. But with that solved, there was only one person in the room who still wasn't missing anything, you.
Everybody's eyes diverted to you taking you aback.
"Oh no I know what you are thinking, but it wasn't me, even though I find all of this quite funny, I wouldn't be able to all of that" you said defending yourself.
"We see your point (y/n), but if it's not you then who?" Ranmaru asked in a stern voice.
Just as you were about to answer, you heard a resounding laughter, that only one man was capable of doing. Shining.
And right as you all thought that, the man himself came swinging down from the ceiling, still laughing. As he landed elegantly on his feet he, without warning, yelled out: "I see that you too have been victims to this crime of stealing, younglings!" You just stared at him knowing that sooner or later he would get to the point.
"Well you see, I too have been robbed!" He continued "My diary have been taken, and as silly as it may sound, it is very important that I get it back, because if it get's in the hands of the wrong people, it can reveal secrets that might make us bankrupt" he exclaimed without looking the least worried about it. You all stared at him in disbelief, was he serious? What kind of person writes such important stuff down in a diary?
"And you miss (l/n), you might think that you have not been a victim to this case, but I would like for you to check your phone and tell me what time it is" he said pointing at you. You looked confused at the man, but did as he asked you to, or you would, but you couldn't find your phone, anywhere. You checked all your pockets, your shoes, even your bra, but it wasn't anywhere to be found, and then it hit you like a ton of bricks, it was missing too. You looked at Shining who seemed to be proud of his knowledge, but the only thing you could think about was all the missing data you needed to manage Quartet Night's schedules, this was serious.
"We have to get all of our stuff back" you said calmly
"Ah yes indeed miss (l/n), but aren't you all forgetting something, or should I say someone?" Shining said, putting extra volume on the last word.
You all looked around in confusion searching for this missing 'someone', and then you realised it.
"Haruka" you said out loud.
All the boys stopped for a moment when the realization hit them.
Shining started laughing, and exclaimed: "Indeed miss (l/n), miss Nanami is missing, she has been kidnapped by the same person who took your stuff"
"And who is this person you are talking about, Shining?" Camus asked rather annoyed.
"That is a very good question indeed Mr. Camus. And here is the answer" Shining said throwing a little piece of paper at you. You slowly went and picked it up, turned it around and read the name it said out loud: "Raging Otori"