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Chapter 1 – Preparations.
Utau lay on her bed, lost in thought. She was silent, the only noise in the room being Eru and Iru as they bickered about something unimportant. The Idol sighed, glancing at the magazines littered across her bed. They were flipped open to various pages, some giving tips about make-up, other about gifts to give to girlfriends, how to throw a party...
The only one that interested her, however, was the article about sleepovers.
She was torn; she wanted to have a sleepover, but with who? Only one person came to mind. Any other girls that she knew - which wasn't much to begin with - were shallow, spoiled brats that she has been forced to work with while modeling and singing. Their immaturity had sickened her, and she had no intention of seeing them again anytime soon if she could help it.
Her charas soon got bored of their bickering and floated over, looking at Utau's thoughtful expression. "Utau-chan?" Eru asked, curious as to what the girl could be thinking about.
"Eh? What's this?" Iru wondered aloud, landing on top of one of the open magazines, the one that talked about sleepovers. "Ew! It looks girly!"
"How can you say that?" Eru shouted, distracted from her previous wondering about Utau. "Sleepovers are so nice~ You can talk about love!"
"To heck with your love!" Iru yelled, giving Eru a swift kick. She avoided, which only made Iru try harder.
Utau smiled slightly at her charas. In truth, it did sound rather girly, and it wasn't in her character to be interested in these sort of things...
Which brought her back to her previous problem - who to invite. Amu was the only other girl that came to mind, and possibly her other two female friends. She knew Yaya - at least a little bit - from months ago, during their make-shift rescue operation against Easter. The young girl had been determined to do her part in their plan, and Utau liked that about her. She knew there was another one - a small girl with long flowing golden hair - that she had only meet once. She didn't know much about her at all though...
Utau sat up, determined. Who cared if she didn't know them well? It wouldn't kill her to try to get to know them, would it?
She pulled out her phone, selecting Amu's number.
"Utau?" Amu answered her phone, curious as to what the older girl wanted.
"I need your help with something." Better to get straight to the point.
"Me? With what?" She sound slightly surprised as to why Utau would need her help.
"I'm having a sleepover, you're invited."
"Really? When? Who else is coming?" She sounded excited, and Utau could hear her charas' on the other end of the phone, also excited at the latest announcement.
"Actually...I don't know who else I can invite," She felt embarrassed admitting she had no other female friends besides Amu. "I was hoping you could maybe ask someone..." It would most likely be rather boring if it were just the two of them, and even if she wasn't too familiar with Amu's other two friends, she could always just follow their lead. They were bound to get into the mood of the sleepover quick enough. They probably knew how to act during one better then she did.
"Yaya and Rima? I can ask them. When will it be?"
"Saturday afternoon I guess. Around 5." Her parents would be out for the night, so they would have the whole house to themselves.
"Sounds fun! I'll be looking forward to it." She could almost see Amu smiling about it.
"Don't worry about the food, I'll deal with it." She was the host, after all. She shut her phone off, grabbed the magazine and got ready.
Kukai silently cursed his brothers. He had been booted out - again, it was the third time this month - and now he had to be their shopping slave once again. He jogged through the aisles, grabbing whatever nonsense his brothers had demanded he get for them as fast as he could in hope he would get home faster. He slowed to a walk when he spotted Utau not too far away, glancing at the assortment of boxed noodles on the shelf. She had sunglasses and an over sized hat on, but the posture and blond hair that stuck out in an untidy mess gave her away. Not to mention Eru and Iru were floating around near her.
"Heh, I thought you liked take-out better?" He asked, walking up to her and leaning against the self. Utau turned, glaring at him. "I don't have time right now." She grabbed a few boxes and tossed them into her chart.
"And why is that?" He asked, grabbing a few boxes for himself as he walked next to Utau. He stole a quick glance into her cart - full of boxed noodles, bags of chips, candy, ice cream, pastries and various other junk food.
"None of your business."
"Is that all for you?" He pointed at her cart and the food instead it. "I thought idols had to watch their weight?"
"No, it's not for me," she ignored the second question and kept pushing the cart, stopping by quickly to grab a few bottles of juice.
"Your Manager on her period?" He joked. Utau's lips turned upward just a bit, slightly amused.
"No, it's for my guests," she replied, her previous annoyance gone.
"Guests?"
"You ask too many questions," Utau said, stepping in line to pay for the cart full of junk food. Kukai stepped in line behind her.
"You having a party?"
She sighed, annoyed again at his constant questioning. "If I tell you, will you stop questioning me like a five year old?"
"Sure," he grinned. It was surprisingly fun to annoy her.
She sighed, biting her lip as though she was thinking of a way to properly say what was on her mind. "Hm...?" He leaned in, making her blush slightly.
"A sleepover, are you happy now?" She snapped, turning away so he couldn't see her reddened face.
"That's cool, who's going?"
"Amu... and two other girls I don't know."
"Ah, Rima and Yaya?"
"Yeah," she muttered absentmindedly, paying for the groceries.
"When are you having it?" Kukai asked, piling all his stuff out from the cart.
"This Saturday, since my parents will be out. Why do you ask...?" She glanced at his suspiciously.
"Eh, no reason, just curious," he replied, giving her his most innocent smile. "I'd wait for my bro's to be long gone too, if I were throwing a wild party," he added a few seconds later, laughing at her expression.
"It's not a 'wild party', they know I'm having it. I just don't want to bother them with whatever we'll be doing during the night, so I decided to have it then, when they were out." She turned away, a slight blush on her cheeks again.
"That's nice of you," Kukai said as Utau picked up her bags, bid him farewell and walked outside. Daichi groaned and Kukai looked up to see his chara with a big bump on his head.
"Iru," he explained, holding his head in pain. He had been so into his conversation that he hadn't heard the charas had all.
"Heh, this is going to be fun..." He muttered to himself, a grin on his face as they made their way home.
After dropping of the groceries he'd gotten for his brother (thankfully he had gotten all the right things, even with being distracted by Utau) he made his way toward Nagihiko's house, running in excitement at what he would tell the younger boy.
Nagihiko stood outside his gate, waiting patiently as Temari and Rhythm floated nearby, talking amongst themselves. Kukai caught up, catching his breath as Nagihiko looked on, amused. "So, what is so important that you couldn't tell me over the phone?"
Kukai looked up, grinning, "The solution to our boredom."
Nagihiko titled his head, curious. "And what would that be?"
"We crash Utau's sleepover."
Nagihiko's amused look disappeared, replace with a look of shock. "You want to do what?"
"Crash. Their. Sleepover." Kukai elaborated. "And I need your help."
Nagihiko still looked a bit shocked. "I don't think you want to do that..."
"Aw come on, why not? It's not like we're going to do anything bad. Maybe take a few water balloons or something, some silly string and toilet paper..." He didn't understand why the younger boy was so freaked out by this, it was perfectly normal for boys to screw over a party hosted by a bunch of girls. At least that's what one of his brother's said.
"That's not what I meant... I meant that girls can be rather... how do I put this... evil?"
"Evil?" Kukai asked, trying to picture a sweet girl as Rima evil. Unfortunately he could picture it quite well. "Well I guess you could be right... But if we get in and out quick enough, they'll never find out. We'll be as sneaky and devious as her brother."
"Yes, that's another problem..." Nagihiko trailed off, hands on his hips. "Kukai, take if from someone with experience, a girl's sleepover is rather... weird. Strange things happen sometimes, and they're never good for a guy."
"What's the worst thing that could happen?" He knew that Nagihiko was a pro at dealing with girls - heck, Nadeshiko had probably been invited to some sleepovers back then too - so he thought Nagihiko would offer some tips as how to crash Utau's party. But instead, he was trying to stop Kukai from even attempting his "suicide mission", as the long haired boy was making it out to be.
Nagihiko sighed, obviously his warnings weren't getting through at all. "It's Utau's party, and her house. If she or her brother finds us sneaking ar-"
"So does that mean you'll help me?" Kukai asked, catching the 'us' in his words.
"Well, I..." Nagihiko looked at his charas. Temari had a frown on her face, obviously not happy at what Nagihiko was thinking about. Rhythm, on the other hand, was giving Daichi a high-five in approval of their soon-to-be party crashing plan.
"Aw come on! I need your help. I promise we won't do anything too bad," he begged, giving Nagihiko his best pleading look.
He sighed. "Fine. But I'm only coming to make sure you don't do anything stupid," Nagihiko shook his head, what on earth had he gotten himself into?
"All right! This'll be entertaining," Kukai grinned, ready to begin their sleepover crashing operation.
Hello. I don't think anyone would know me in this section (unless I favorited or subscribed to your stories), since I don't review much. I've been meaning to write this out for the longest time, and finally kicked myself yesterday to do it. I hope you enjoy it.