No one's POV
Two female screams could be heard in the women's dormitory around 9AM in the Master Course. Currently, the two girls were sitting on the ground trenched in water while a certain pinkette was standing on one bed with a bucket that previously contained ice cold liquid. She grinned in satisfaction as she tossed the bucket aside and jumped down the bed, hovering above her two kouhais.
''Well finally! I was trying to wake you two for the past half hour, you two sure are heavy sleepers..-'' She trailed off with an evil smirk ''I'll have to fix that.'' The two shuddered and mumbled a 'devil' before standing up.
''Now, moving on to more important matters..'' She glanced at Haruka and smirked. ''What did you dream about last night Haru-chan?'' The emerald eyed girl tilted her head to the side out of coriousity and the said female flushed while the redhead looked at her in confusion and then smirked along with her senior. Sakura Haruno was one hell of a light sleeper so when Haruka jump out of her skin in the middle of the night while touching her lips, she knew something was up.
Seeing that the orange/red haired girl won't answer her she shrugged and walked to the door. ''By the way Haruka, Shinning-san wants you in his office so you both dry up and go have breakfast or something. If you need me I'll be in the kitchen..''
And with that she went downstairs where she could smell pancakes. She twitched when she turned a corner to see her ex-friends in the kitchen. Ai was on his laptop, well that's typical for him. Then there was Reiji cooking his trademark pancakes while Ranmaru was waiting impatiently for his food. The pink haired woman made a U turn to the fridge while trying to sink the uneasy feeling of eyes on her back.
''Good morning Sak-Sak~! Pancakes?'' Came the brunette's voice from the other side of the kitchen. The female grunted while taking out a carton of milk. She went to the cupboard next to the fridge to look for some cereal. Once she found it she cursed under her breath. Curse her small height! Just curse it! She was just an inch taller than Syo Kurusu after all. She reached up for the cereal but it was too far out of her reached. She tried on her tip toes. Failed. Jumping. Double Fail. She tried the combination of both. Still nothing. Until a hand clasped her precious cereal box. She glared at the cyan eyed boy who silently handed her breakfast. She glared at him before mumbling a small 'thank you..'
''39%..'' He mumbled before turning around and back to his work. She looked at him strangely. What? Shrugging it off she went to sit in the only unoccupied seat, which unfortunately was between the silver haired male and the brunette. Joy.
''I can't believe they're still sleeping, they have morning practice on choreography..'' Ranmaru muttered darkly and because of the awkward silence minus Ai's typing on his laptop, everyone heard it. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow; I could have sworn he'd be the one to wake his kuohai earlier in the morning, with rock music no doubt.
''Eeeh!? You didn't wake up your kouhais yet, Ran-Ran?'' The silver eyed male exclaimed in shock. He then shot a smirk at him ''You're getting rusty~'' He said in a matter-of-fact teasing voice. The pinkette rolled her eyes and continued eating whiles the silver haired male tsk'ed at his band mate.
''I woke Syo and Natsuki at 5AM. According to my data they went back to sleep.'' The cyan haired boy stated with a slight annoyance evident in his voice. The brunette turned his head to the only female in the room with a friendly smile. The said female shot him a look that read 'What are you smiling about.' But he pretended that he didn't see it.
''And how are your kouhais doing Sak-Sak?'' She looked at him skeptically before sighing and leaning on the table. They are her fellow seniors, so she might as well answer even if she despises these people the most. ''They should be down here as soon as they dried up..'' Came the pinkette's answer. Dried up? The question seemed to be hanging in the air and the woman blushed slightly before scratching her head.
''I kinda…well.. Dumped water on them..'' The female muttered before another wave of awkward silence took the room. ''You actually did that? Damn..'' The heterochromatic man muttered before receiving a smug look from the pinkette. She out bested his brutal waking up technique, damn indeed.
''EEH? That's not nice..'' The oldest man in the room whined, which was strange, considering he was the oldest. The emerald eyed woman huffed while standing up and grabbing her bowl. She went around the table and dunked the dish into the sink. She turned and glared at the smiling silver eyed idol that seems to have a permanent smile on his face.
''And how I handle my kuohai is none of your concern, Kotobuki-san'' And with that the woman left the kitchen. Reiji let his head fall on the table with a 'bang' catching the two other occupants of the room off guard. He started to cry anime tears while banging his head repeatedly on his table. The sliver haired male slapped him over the head making him groan in pain.
''Stop whining like a brat! Annoying!'' The heterochromatic eyed male barked in an annoyed voice. The brunette looked up at him with teary eyes.
''But Ran-Ran! Sak-Sak hates me! I tried everything to change that but it's not working!'' The silver eyed man yelled back. There was a silent click sound as Mikaze closed his laptop and looked at the two bickering men. They argue as much as Camus and Ranmaru sometimes.
''According to my data she hates us by 39%, that's a tiny bit progress after all.'' That one sentence seemed to make the silver eyed idol to beam in hope but the other male looked at the cyan haired boy skeptically.
''Since when do you care?'' He asked a little too harshly, because he was slightly jealous of the A.I. for some unknown reason. Maybe it's because their ex-composer didn't lash out on him yet? The other boy's eyes slightly widened before returning to his usual blank look. He looked down on the floor while his mind was somewhere else.
''…Care..?'' The brunette face palmed and he suddenly had this urge to hit Ranmaru. Now there's a chance that Ai-Ai could get an emotion overload, yet again. The robot exited the room and Reiji exploded on Ranmaru. While on the other hand the said silver haired man was expecting this so he quickly left the kitchen to wake up his kuohai, that will keep him occupied, for now.
''Well guys, nice work if I say so myself.'' The pinkette grinned brightly and gave STARISH a thumps up. To be honest, they look like zombies at the moments, that's to be expected considering they overslept breakfast and then practiced choreography from Sakura, and let me tell you this. It was not pretty. Well they should of known better, thought Sakura, it was a decision; me or Ranmaru. Poor kids, they didn't expect that the rocker was a tea party compared to me. She mused sadly as she watched how STARISH's shorty and redhead had to lean against a wall for support.
''Food~'' The two moaned in unison as they entered the courtyard fallowing close by their band mates and their senior. Suddenly Sakura picked up a warm voice from inside the forest; seemingly the six males also heard the voice as they listened in awe. But then their awestruck faces were replaced as they saw a fairly tanned man making way towards Haruka Nanami which stood next Tomochika Shibuya. Oh oh. Sakura thought as the brown haired male advanced towards the frozen composer.
''How dare he..'' Tokiya hissed as he and his friends got ready to strike if they had too. Suddenly the stranger kissed Nanami's hand. That did it.
''You!''
''What do you think you're doing to Nanami?''
The female idol sniggered and pulled out her iPhone from her pocket and started to record. It looked hilarious indeed; with the two younger girls (one of them squealing at the sight) almost fainting while the six band mates running towards Haruka then 'rescuing' her like a group of Power Rangers and then peeling off the oblivious tanned teen from the yellowed eyed girl that seemed to be frozen on the spot. Quite a sight indeed.
''Get away from her-''
''What the hell is your pro-''
''Don't you dare touch Haru-''
''Haru-chan I'm so jealous~!''
''Who are you anyway-''
'That's enough drama for one morning' The pink haired woman thought as she made her way back to the Master Course. Wait, is that a helicopter? Shinning, should've known.
Sakura sweat dropped.
''Sakura-san!'' The said girl turned around only to be faced with one of her blushing kuohai. She grinned and slowed her pace so that Tomochika could keep up with her. When she did she placed her hands on her knees and took several deep breaths, once she regained her composure she grinned back to her senior and then winked.
''Seems like Haru-chan has a real life prince chasing her too!'' The redhead squealed leaving Sakura to face palmed ''First a count now a prince? What next? A president?'' She asked to no one in particular and the junior just grinned. This day keeps getting weirder and weirder.
''And why don't you have fanboys?'' The older idol teased her junior while poking her in the ribcage and she flushed while looking away making Sakura giggle.
''And why don't you have fanboys?'' She asked playfully and the pinkette gave her a soft smile. '' Oh I had. But that time is long past me.'' She mused and then shook her head getting rid of unwanted memories. ''Anyway.. Let's go back to the Master Course, I'm starving!''
''Sure Saku-chan~! Err.. I can call you Saku-chan right?'' She asked with a light blush on her cheeks. Sakura nodded eagerly and tossed her arm over Tomochika's shoulder.
''Let's go get some food!'' She pumped her fist up in the air and dragged the giggling redhead back to the lounge.
''-And then he burned out the Home Economics classroom!'' The hyper redhead did a 'boom!' hand gesture and Sakura flinched. Rule number one; never let Natsuki near the kitchen, ever.
They were back in their dorm after retrieving snacks from the kitchen. Sakura was sitting crossed legged on the floor while resting her back on Haruka's bedside while Tomochika was splayed on the floor across from her with a pillow underneath her chest and reading an Idol magazine. She just finished a tale from the academy about Natsuki and his 'chef' leveled cooking.
''What about you? You never told me about your academy experience!'' The junior looked at her skeptically, while taking a bite out of her Pocky. The pinkette started to chuckle nervously and scratched the back of her head.
''W-What do you want to know?'' She stuttered as she saw her kuohai's smirk growing. The red eyed female stood on all four and leaned forward with a huge grin.
''The basics! Did you have a boyfriend? Was he cute?! Oh! How did you debut? What was your roommate like? What Class were you in? Did you-''
''Whoa whoa whoa! One at a time! Geez..'' The pinkette mumbled as the redhead scratched her chin sheepishly. When she regained her composure she smiled up to her elder and popped onto her bed.
''So how did you debut?''
''U-uh I sang a duet?'' It came out more as a question than anything really. Tomochika raised an eyebrow out of curiosity.
''With who? Your boyfriend~'' The emerald eyed woman literally chocked on air before she started to laugh uncontrollably. She rolled around the floor while receiving an incredulous look from her junior on the bed.
''I-I'm sorry..'' She trailed off as she wiped a tear from her cheek. ''I-It's just that me and Ranmaru wouldn't make such a good couple, beside, romance is forbidden, even if I would like him. You should remember that.'' She ended in a serious tone. Tomochika tilted her head to the side.
''Ranmaru..? Where did I hear that name befor-'' A flash of a silver haired male appeared in her mind and she gasped. ''The senior of Ren and Masato? Well damn..'' She muttered and the pinkette giggled slightly.
''Yeah.. Did you know I was once part of QUARTET NIGHT? They kicked me out thought and I was avoiding them ever since.'' She told her kuohai sadly and her eyes widen as she stared at her senior.
''Oh my god! Why did they do that?'' She asked. There wasn't a single mention in the magazines or interviews that she was a part of QUARTET NIGHT so she found it rather odd. ''Uh.. After the Uta pri awards, right off stage they said I should quit being they're composer, then that I didn't have talent in the musical world so I dropped out immediately after that. They were my only friends and they betrayed me, and for what? I will never know..'' She took in a shaky breath as Tomochika placed a gentle hand on her shoulder.
''Maybe they had a good reason?'' The redhead tried to reassure Sakura with a smile which she was thankful for. She stared of into space and felt a small smile tug her lips.
''We were all very close too. I remember how from the very start it was always me and Ranmaru because we were classmates. I was the composer, he was the idol. We were supposed to graduate, move on with our lives and see each other from time to time but because of Ranma-baka that didn't happen..'' Sakura muttered while dark aura consumed her making the redhead edge on her bed.
''Anyway, I wrote a song for him and he wrote the lyrics for a duet, so being as close as I was with him then he easily persuaded me to sing with him even thought it was against the rules. We were a pair of troublemakers I tell ya. That was the song's name actually..''
''Anyway, point is Shinning liked it even thought it was a duet so after a few weeks he brought in a new member – Reiji. Reiji was the sunshine of the group, always was if you think about it, even if he's the oldest. After that came Ai, a robot replica of Reiji's best friend that is in a coma. I used to teach him all about emotions and soon he became more human by time. Then at last came Camus. No man has a bigger love for his country than him. Thank god he isn't here right now, handling the four of them is too much for me.'' She finished silently with a humorless laugh.
Tomochika looked worriedly at her new friend but she just shook her head, signaling she was fine. After the pinkette stood up she walked to her desk and started to roam her drawer until her eyes lit up and she pulled out what seemed to be a photo frame.
''This one was taken on my twentieth birthday party..'' She mumbled and placed the frame into the awaiting hands of the red eyed woman. She glanced down at the frame and a smile graced her features when she saw the content of the photo.
There stood QUARTET NIGHT plus Sakura with birthday hats on. Sakura stood in the middle with a giant grin on her face; she had arms wrapped around Ai's and Ranmaru's shoulders. The A.I. smiled slightly while he stood there relax for once while on the other hand the rocker had his arms crossed over his chest and his chin held high while a light blush dusted his cheeks. In the left corner of the photo you could see Reiji peering into the camera lens, making the only thing visible of him is his upper head. Then in the right corner there stood Camus with the birthday cake while scowling the brunette and pointing his staff at him. All in all, it looked like they were having fun.
''Why don't we head downstairs? I heard yelling a few minutes ago, we could check it out.'' Sakura suggested, extending her arm out to reach the doorknob.
''Allright~!'' The redhead gave Sakura a closed eye grin and so they proceeded on their journey downstairs, well not before the red eyed female placed the photo on her senior's nightstand that is. Once they reached the lounge there weren't anybody there but rather there was a riot outside. Glancing out the window they saw huge ball shaped pieces of paper with kanji's on them laying around the grass in random places while there seemed to be a battle going on out there. STARISH vs Prince so it seems. Suddenly the pinkette released a frustrated groan.
''What is it Saku-chan?'' Toma asked her senpai who face palmed.
''Camus''
In this chapter we find out some of Sakura's and QUARTET NIGHT's past. Well I do hope you liked the chapter and I'm really glad that people actually read this! :) You can still vote on a pairing by the way! :D See you next time~