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Chapter 2- Discovery
Shuichi woke up around seven the next morning. He sat up and stretched and got up and went to the bathroom. He yawned and got a quick shower and dressed himself.
He was looking forward to their performance at Tokyo Dome next month, but not the preparations leading up to it. All the rehearsals, stage rehearsals, plans, photoshoots, and costume arranging was going to be tough.
He smiled and left the bathroom and went down the hall to where Yuki's bedroom was. He quietly opened the door and peeked inside. He smiled softly as he saw his precious lover still sleeping. He smiled and blew him a silent kiss and turned and headed out.
He took his time getting to N-G studio. He left a little earlier so he could go by and get him some snacks for the day. He made sure he put his disguise on before he left the house, he didn't want to be be trampled by a stampede of fans, that happened several times in New York and then in Washington and California, he learned his lesson by now.
Shuichi walked inside the convience store about a block away from the studio. He looked around and thought of some things that Hiro and Fujisaki might like and bought them. When he finished he had three bags in his hands. "Maybe this was to much." he mumbled to himself and walked down the street.
He walked inside N-G studios and ran to catch an open elevator up to the third floor. He hummed as he waited to reach his floor. He smiled and then hummed louder. He stopped suddenly when he felt a shock go through his throat. He doubled over and caught himself on his knee's and clutched his throat. He swallowed hard and flinched. "Ugh." he groaned.
He panted a little and tried to soothe the sharp pain in his throat. After a few more moments, it managed to dull out and then finally went away. He stood up and shook his head and picked up the bags he dropped.
'This isn't good...this is the fourth time.' he thought to himself as he walked to meeting room 4. He went in and sat down.
"Oh Shindo-san, you're here a little earlier than I expected." Sakano said.
"Yeah. I just felt like coming in a little early, Yuki was asleep anyway." he said and pulled a drink out of one of the bags he brought.
"I see you came with plenty of snack. So you should have no reason to leave the studio until we finished." K said walking into the room with a gleam in his eyes.
Shuichi laughed nervously. "Maybe I should have waited." he said and smiled. "I'm all fired up. Just two and a half weeks until the concert, there is not time to rest." he said and smiled widely.
K grinned and leaned against the wall. "That's the spirit. Now, there is someone who is bugging me to see you. It's good you got here earlier, it's better to get it over with now than have him interupt us later." he said sighing. "You can come in Ryuichi." he said.
Shuichi turned to face the door and smiled. "Sakuma-san?" he said happily as Ryuichi walked into the door dressed in his Kumagoro costume.
"Shuichi, it's been so long, I thought you were never coming back." Ryuichi said and pounced on Shuichi playfully.
Shuichi laughed and gave Ryuichi a high five. "It has been awhile." he said smiling and ran a hand through his hair.
Ryuichi nodded. "I can't wait to perform with you guys at Tokyo Dome!" he said smiling widely.
Shuichi nodded. "Me either, it is an honor." he said. "But of course we aren't going to go easy on you guys just because you're Nittle Grasper." he said.
Ryuichi smiled. "Our feelings are the same." he said smiling.
The door opened a few seconds later and a purple haired woman walked in. "Ryuichi! Stop running from me! There isn't any time for playing, Touma is going to be real upset if you don't come to rehersal right now." she said.
Ryuichi blinked and laughed and ran out of the room. "You got to catch me first Noriko-chan~!" he said and ran out of the room. Noriko sighed and waved and walked out.
Ryuichi popped his head back in a second later. "Oh, see you later Shuichi!" he said and laughed. Noriko growled and grabbed him by the ear and drug him off.
"Ouch Noriko-chan, that hurts~!"he complained and waved bye to Shuichi.
Shuichi smiled and sat down.
"So how did it go with Yuki last night, Shuichi?" K asked and sat down on the sofa near the t.v.
Shuichi sighed and smiled. "I didn't get to talk to him last night, he was busy working and I didn't want to disturb him, so I just slept on the couch. He probably didn't know I was home." he said softly.
K blinked. "So Yuki doesn't know you're back yet?" he asked.
Shuichi shrugged. "Unless he saw my bags or came into the livingroom last night, then no." he said smiling. "But it's okay, I will see him tonight, if this doesn't take all night." he said and sighed.
Sakano nodded. "If everything gets done smoothly, we should be done by this afternoon." he said.
Shuichi groaned and laid his head on the table. "Hopefully sooner than that." he said.
"Yo, Shuichi! It's a surprise to see you here early." Hiro said and walked in the room.
Shuichi sat up. "Just thought I'd get here early, if Fujisaki will hurry, we can be done earlier than this afternoon, that is if we start early." he said.
Fujisaki walked in. "I've been here since six o'clock this morning, I was the one waiting on you guys." he said and yanwed.
Shuichi stuck his tongue out. "Well let's get this over with, I want to spend time with Yuki." he said and stood up. "What is first?" he asked.
Sakano looked at the schedule book. "First of all we have a photoshoot session, I will call them and telling them we are ready a little bit earlier than expected. Then after that we need to rush over to the mall where you're going to be having an autograph session." he said.
Shuichi nodded and jumped up. "Yeah! Let's get started!" he said, excitement in his voice.
Hiro chuckled. "Yeah, let's do it." he said and followed Shuichi and the others out of the room.
They rushed into the car and headed down to the photoshoot area. They quickly got there and got their outfits and hair done. They walked into a room that had a white screen and floor.
Shuichi and the others moved in the way the photographer told them to and did the poses that were requested by some fans. They took solo pictures, and tons of group pictures.
After they were done with the first section, they went and quickly got dressed in the second session. This time they were all wearing black.
Hiro was wearing a black dress shirt that was unbuttoned down to his lower stomach and was tucked into his pants, a black chain dangled freely on his chest. He had on black shoes and black jeans that had tears in them slightly above the knee's.
Fujisaki had on a black turtleneck long-sleeved shirt that had tears up and down the arms and sides. He had a silver chain necklace hanging down to his stomach. His pants were tight and had a tear in one of the legs. His shoes were black and were the same style as Hiro's.
Shuichi was wearing a black, long-sleeved belly shirt that had a rip in it from one shoulder to the middle of the shirt. He was wearing long black dress pants with a gold chain hanging from his belt to one of his back belt loops. His shoes were the same as the others, but had a slight gold trim around them. He had a long black jacket that almost touched the floor as well.
They posed for those pictures that were taken with different colored backgrounds. Finally after three hours of many costumes changes and posing, they were finished with the photoshoot.
They quickly got dressed and ran to the van, avoiding the screaming fans that surrounded one side of the van. They were guarded by their body guards as they entered the van.
Shuichi waved to the screaming fans as they drove off. He sighed and sat back in his seat. "What is after the autograph session?" he asked, already slightly tired from all that standing and fast changing clothes session.
Sakano looked at the schedule and sighed. "Then we have a private interview at the restaurant, Zepp, near the clubhouse you opened up for ASK last year." he said. "You won't be eating anything until after the interview, so please hang refrain from eating until then." he said.
Shuichi sighed and groaned. "How long is this interview going to last and how much time will we have to eat afterwards?" he asked.
K smiled. "The interview is only thirty minutes, you'll still have about twenty minutes to eat before we have to be at our next location." he said.
This time Hiro, Fujisaki, and Shuichi sighed together. "This is going to be a long day." Fujisaki said.
Hiro nodded. "So much to do, so little time in the day." he mumbled.
Sakano smiled. "Oh come on guys, if we answer all their questions quickly, we might just finish early." he said.
Shuichi looked out the window as they drove. "Yeah, yeah." he said. He stared into space, thinking of what he and Yuki would do if they got some time to spend together this afternoon. He knew that he would tell Yuki about his time in America, but he would try not to talk so much, he didn't want to talk Yuki's head off. He did have work to do himself after all.
'Ah, because of our jobs, we don't have a lot of time to spend together...Yuki, hopefully we can just relax one day soon, our next time off maybe.' he thought to himself.
Sakano cleared his throat, bringing Shuichi back from his precious daydreams of Yuki. "We're here, be careful there are a lot of people out here waiting to see you. Stay close to your guards or you may get trampled." he said laughing nervously.
Shuichi and the other two grinned at each other and gave each other a high five. "Let's do this." they said and got ready to get out.
The body guards got out first and cleared a space for them to walk down. The door to the white van opened and they got out.
The fan's began to scream loudly when they saw them step out.
Shuichi smiled and waved to the screaming girls and boys. He even high-fived some of them.
They walked inside and the guards shut and locked the doors until they got ready and got to their seats.
Shuichi, Fujisaki, and Hiro were getting their face powdered and ready for the signings.
Hiro smiled. "The best of luck guys, may our hands still be intact when we leave." he laughed.
Fujisaki nodded and laughed a little. "You got that right, the session in America gave me major finger cramps." he said.
Shuichi smiled and laughed. He looked at Sakano and K. "What are you guys going to be doing while our hands slave away?" he asked.
K shrugged. "What we always do, stand and monitor, make sure no one takes a picture until it's the appropriate time." he said.
Shuichi nodded. "Sounds good." he said and smiled widely. He loved meeting his fans face to face. The sparkles in their eyes told him that they really liked his songs, the songs that he himself wrote. A star's fans is their biggest priority, to him at least.
"Are we ready sir?" one of the guards asked.
Sakano looked at his watch and nodded. "We're ready." he said.
The guard nodded and walked down to the doors and opened them up.
Fans came running in screaming and holding papers and camera's. Some even had cellphones out, ready to take pictures when the time was right.
Shuichi smiled at the first people in line and waved. "Hello, what is your name?" he asked.
"Meiko." the girl said, trying hard not to scream. She bit her lip and smiled widely with a blush on her face. "It is an honor to see you Shindo-san." she whispered.
Shuichi smiled. "It's nice to meet you to Meiko-chan." he said and signed a group picture of him and the others. "Thank you for your support." he said smiling.
Meiko moved down the line and got the other's signatures and then stepped out of line.
Shuichi smiled at the next person. "Hello, thank you for your support!" he said cheerfully and signed the picture of him and greeted the next person.
Shuichi and the others kept signing for what seemed like forever when a buzzer went off.
"Alright, attention please. This session is now over, the next session will begin in fifteen minutes. Please excuse us while we take a short break." Sakano said and bowed.
Shuichi and the others got up and bowed and then were guided to a small break room down the hall.
Their fans were calling out their names to get their attention. They wanted to follow them so badly, and that made the others smile.
Shuichi walked into the room and sat down at the table. He sighed and slumped into the chair. "My hands...ugh." he mumbled.
Sakano chuckled as he handed them some drinks. "Just a little bit more to go, we've already reached the halfway mark. We've locked the doors to others, we told them to come to the next session next month." he said.
Shuichi smiled and laughed and stood up with a victory looking face. "Man, fans are amazing!" he said happily.
Hiro nodded. "Yes they are." he said.
Fujisaki sighed. "Where does he get his energy?" he mumbled in more of a statement than a question.
Hiro shrugged. "No idea." he said and sat back in his chair to enjoy his drink.
They rested for the rest of the fifteen minutes and then headed back out. They sat down and stretched their fingers some and waved to their fans.
When Shuichi sat down, he felt a little lightheaded. His throat throbbed slightly. He motioned for K to come over.
"I think I need another drink." he whispered to him.
K nodded and left the room for a second and came back with a water. "Is this good?"he asked.
Shuichi nodded and took it, he drunk a little from it and then sat it on the table.
"May I have your attention please!" Sakano called throughout the room. "This is the second and final session for this month's autograph session here at the mall. I'd like to remind you that we will be holding more sessions in other malls throught this week, so if you aren't able to get one today, please go to another mall during the times on the papers we handed you. Thank you!" he said and then went and stood by K.
Shuichi smiled at the person in his line. "Hello there." he said to the young girl.
She blushed and smiled at him and handed him a picture of himself. "Hello Shindo-san." he said.
"And who might I be writing this to?" he asked.
The girl smiled. "Yuri-chan." she said.
Shuichi smiled. "Well Yuri-chan, it was a pleasure meeting you." he said and signed the picture and handed it back to her.
She nodded and waved and went to the others.
Shuichi leaned over in his chair to see how many he had left in his line. He had maybe sixty left to do. He sighed and smiled at his next person.
He continued to sign the pictures until his last person showed up. He smiled at the last girl and signed her picture. He noticed the girl was eyeing his water bottle. He blinked and stared at his water bottle and then he looked to the girl.
Shuichi looked at K and K winked and nodded. Shuichi smiled and looked to the girl.
He picked up his waterbottle, causing the girl to jump a little as if she'd been staring into space. He smiled and signed his water bottle and held it out to her.
"Would you like to keep it, I have plenty more." he said.
The girl's eyes lit up and she looked like she was about to cry. "Oh my god! Thank you Shindo-san, I swear I will take good care off it!" she said and wiped her eyes.
Shuichi smiled softly. "Thank you, please continue to come to our concerts!" he said smiling at her.
She nodded and went to the other's pannels for signatures.
Shuichi sat back in his chair, feeling a little bit better than he had before. He smiled. That was the first time he'd ever given a personal belonging to another fan. He smiled as he saw the girl glance at him once more and waved before she got into another line that was for the picture taking.
Shuichi and the other stood up and stretched. They then walked over to another side of the room where there was four areas with red rope in the shape of a rectangle that were connected to the wall.
Shuichi and the others went and stood in their seperate rectangles and waited for the lines to come over.
"May I have your attention please, we have some rules to go over before we start taking pictures with the idols!" K said, his voice quieting the loud talking.
"Now, first of all, those of you who want group shots, need to make a line against the wall over to the right, you will be going last. Those who want single photo's please make lines in front of the person you want them from." he said and watched as girls and boys ran to each of the the members.
They were pushing and shoving each other to get first.
K sighed and then cleared his throat and stood up in a chair to get their attention. "Please do not push or shove, everyone will get their picture, so please remain calm. Please do not pass anyone and wait your turn. Now please remain quiet while we go over a few short rules." he said.
"First of all, please do not cling to the members. Only two pictures will be allowed with each member, and only one with all of them together." he began. "If you are with a group of friends, only three may be allowed at a time, no more than three please. Please refrain from touching them in inappropriate ways, anyone who does, will be escorted out immediately. so keep your hands to yourselves" he said.
"And last, please do not harm the members, anyone who physically harms any of them, will be escorted out and will be permantly banded from all concerts and autograph sessions, so please be respectful." he said and stepped off the chair and stood against a wall behind Shuichi and the others.
Their guards were standing close by if anything was to go wrong.
Shuichi smiled as a highschool girl walked into the rectangle with a die-hard fan look on. "Shindo-san, oh my god this is to good to be true!" she squealed.
Shuichi laughed and smiled. "Hello." he said, his voice cracked a little. He cleared his throat and shook it off and fought off his dizziness as the girl stood beside him.
"C-can I hug you?" she asked.
Shuichi smiled and nodded and put his arm around her shoulder as they took a picture. "Thank you for your support." he said and welcomed the next one. This time it was a group.
He glanced over at Hiro and Fujisaki's lines and grinned at them. They were really popular to. He smiled and kept taking pictures.
Finally after all the pictures were over, they were able to go to their next scheduled job.
They pulled up at the restaurant and got out. There were no fans lurking about, since this was a private interview.
Shuichi walked into the restaurant and sniffed in the good scent of food, causing his stomach to growl loudly. "Aw man, I want to eat now." he sighed. He clenched his fist and patted his chest. "Yeah, alright next job! Let's do it!" he said cheerfully.
K nodded and led them over to a table where a woman with brown hair was sitting. She stood up as they approached.
"Welcome, Gravitation, thank you for accepting my request." she said and invited them to sit.
Once everyone sat down she clicked on her tape recorder.
"This is Kuranuma Sakura, here with the much talked about Gravitation. So tell me boys, how did your group come to be?" she asked.
Hiro smiled. "It started when we were in highschool, well Shuichi and me at least, Fujisaki here didn't come in until later." he said.
Shuichi nodded. "We were at my house watching some of Nittle Grasper's concerts on tape, and then out of nowhere I had an idea to create a band of our own. Of course it just started out as a hobby, but then we got better and then we decided to try it as our career." he said.
Hiro nodded. "As you can see it worked out pretty well, although it was difficult in the beginning, only a few gigs here and there at restaurants. Finally Sakano-san finally found us and told us he would manage our band if we decided to go further. So naturally, we accepted." he said.
Shuichi nodded. "Then a few months later, Fujisaki came along. At first I didn't like the idea of him joining, not because of him, but just because I was so used to it only being mine and Hiro's band. But we became friends and everything is working out smoothly." he said.
"I see, very interesting indeed. How old are you guys? You look fairly young." she asked.
Shuichi smiled. "Despite what I look like, I just turned twenty last month." he said.
Hiro smiled. "I am twenty as well as of two months ago." he said.
Fujisaki smiled. "I am the youngest of the three of us, I just turned nineteen three months ago." he said smiling.
Sakura smiled and nodded and looked down at her notepad. "So guys, where do you see yourself two years from now?" she asked smiling.
Shuichi smiled and put up a victory sign. "Of course we will be number one in Japan!" he said.
Sakura smiled. "Oh really? I look forward to it." she said.
Shuichi laughed and smiled. "Me to." he said.
Sakura looked down at her pamplet. "Shindo-san, it would seem that you are dating Yuki Eeri, how is life with the famous author?" she asked smiling.
Shuichi faltered and glanced at K, who shook his head no.
"No comment, sorry no questions about my personal life." he said.
Sakura nodded. "I'm sorry." she said.
Hiro cleared his throat to break the silence.
"Do you guys have any upcoming plans for the summer, I hear that a band's most busy time is during summer, will you guys be taking a break any during summer?" she asked.
Sakano spoke then. "Gravitation has a lot planned for this summer, so vacation time hasn't been decided yet, but we hope to finish some things early this spring before summer hits. But as of yet, we have no plans for summer vacation." he said.
Shuichi groaned inwardly, less time he had with Yuki. He sighed and looked at the clock. It was almost five-thirty in the afternoon now. He looked at K who smiled.
"Well, that is about it for our time." Sakano said and looked at Sakura.
Sakura looked a the clock as if she wanted it to go back in time a little bit. "Thank you for your time and this is Sakura-san with Gravitation, see you next time." she said and turned off the recorder.
Sakura stood up and shook hands with all of them and then left after gathering her things.
Shuichi then picked up a menu and ordered himself something to eat along with the others.
They ate quickly and then got ready to leave for their final event for the day.
Shuichi smiled as he sat in the car. Finally, the last thing until he got to go home to Yuki. He hoped that Yuki wouldn't be to busy. He smiled and bit his lip in happiness.
He then winced as he felt another shock go through his throat...this time was worse and more stronger than the others. He felt slightly feverish, but he pushed it aside. He kept thinking of a waiting Yuki at home to keep himself going. He smiled again and attempted to get some rest before they arrived at their next area.
WHOA, my fingers hurt OwO. Anyway, sorry that was a long chapter, I feel like I stretched it out to long, I don't want to bore you guys! So please hand in there, the next chapter won't be as drug out as this one, I promise. I just wanted to add what I thought went with an idol's life, what their jobs were like and stuff, but the good stuff is next.
NEXT TIME: Shuichi finally gets home after all his events and rushes home. Sadly, Yuki had to go to an interview of his own, and won't be back until late that night. While waiting for Yuki, Shuichi has a bad spell with his throat and ends up passing out in the floor, what will Yuki think?
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