The fanfiction post Thread
Chapter 1
One day, scrolling through the internet I ended up finding it. It was a very simple and modest forum. The members were very nice to each other, which made the place really pleasant to stay. There were almost no haters on the forum; and when there was a comment that suggested the person was a hater, a moderator would always reprehend the person politely. These were the main reasons I signed in to that forum. To every idol or idol group that were announced, a thread about them was created; and if they became too popular, a board was created. Soon, the forum became very crowded and full of a great variety of topics.
As I followed the threads and posts of the idols I liked, I noticed that there was a global moderator called H_Korisu that was active in almost all the topics in the forum. It was informed in the profile that that moderator was a girl. I wondered who that person was. She must be that ugly fat girl with acne all over her face who do nothing in life and just spends her entire day in front of the computer.
With few weeks of hanging around there, that H_Korisu created a fanfic board. And it was a total hit. In a matter of months, the amounts of posts were so big that she had to create child boards to every idol or idol group who had more than fifty fanfics. And that was how I ended up reading fanfics. To my surprise, I found myself enjoying it. The global moderator H_Korisu was one of the most active writers, and all her fics were really nice. They were almost all about what the idols do in their free time or the goings on backstage.
Soon, I entered into the discussion threads, giving my opinion and having arguments with other members. They were friendly though because in the end, there were no feelings of resentment between us. The funny thing was that H_Korisu and I always ended up disagreeing. And one day, she sent me a personal message. It really startled me. She said she wanted to be friends with me because she had that feeling that we hated each other and she didn't like it. In agreement, we started to send each other more messages. When the servers couldn't handle the number of messages we sent between each other, we shared our skype accounts.
At first, we only used the instant messaging system, but one day, we decided to call each other. We would have used the cams if hers wasn't broken; but she had spent her entire savings buying things of her favorite idols so she had no money to buy a new cam. Still it was nice like that, because if we had seen each other faces, it would lose part of the charm. We also agreed to not talk about our personal life and even with the limited subjects for conversation, we managed to talk every day. The time passed by and I became friends with other members too.
At that time, being an idol was only a dream. A dream that I worked for an extremely large amount to make true. I did a few modeling works, but nothing that launched me. I also attended lots of auditions before finally being chosen. To my luck, the producers didn't want very young girls. I was over twenty already, which is quite an advanced age to try to become an idol. They wanted to make a group of mature girls, who were yet to take the step into full womanhood. In the end, I was chosen along with two other girls.
The three of us began an intense training regime. We had dance classes, singing classes, photo shoot sessions and many other things to burnish us into the perfect idol. With that, we improved our performance skills. The producers created a mysterious aura around the group, just showing parts of our bodies and parts of the background of our first promotional video. They arranged us to debut in quite a popular TV program. We were nervous because it was a program we always watched. In the waiting room, I was at a computer that they lent us, checking the updates of the forum and what they had added on our page.
"Asahi, what are you checking so much on the computer?" My coworker and now friend asked, approaching from behind.
"It's nothing, Nami. It's just a forum I follow." I said without turning my gaze away from the screen.
"She always seems distracted with it. Don't tell me you never noticed it?" My other coworker said, almost in a mocking tone.
"Shut up, Hinata! It's too personal what a girl does on a computer!" Nami countered. And I finally turned to face the girls.
"Come on girls, you are as much fan of idols as I am. I don't believe you don't know this forum." As I said this, Hinata approached too. And both looked attentively at the screen.
"Oh! I know this!" Both said at the same time. I just smiled.
"See. So, what are your nicknames?" I wondered why I never asked them about the forum. Nami smiled and Hinata blushed. "Tell me! I'm curious! Mine is NekoMimi."
"Eh! Uso!?" The two reacted again at the same time. They looked at each other with curiosity.
"I'm BowLover!" Nami said.
"I'm GachaGirl!" Hinata said. It was my turn to be surprised. Together with H_Korisu, these two are the people I talk with the most on the forum. There is also Hannahchan, who is actually a nice person, but is not active much lately. Until now I had never intended to meet any of them in person but it turned out that two of my friends on the forum were my new coworkers.
"No way! You were my friends before we officially met!" I exclaimed. It genuinely made me happy. Then I started to wonder how Korisu-chan could look like. Since Hinata and Nami were pretty girls, what's wrong in believing that Korisu might be a pretty girl too?
"Yeah, yeah!" Hinata agreed. "Wait; let me ask you this, what is going on between you and H_Korisu? You seem to be really close." She asked teasingly. I couldn't help but blush to the question.
"N... Nothing. We're just friends." The two looked at me doubtfully. We are just friends, but I don't know why, every time I heard her laughing through my speakers my heart skips a bit differently. It's a nice feeling, so I always try to make her laugh.
"But Hinata, don't you have the same kind of relation with TrollMaster-san?" Nami asked. I was curious about that too. GachaGirl and TrollMaster are always playing with other members and writing the craziest and nonsensical fics.
"What's the TrollMaster's gender?" I wanted to know, because there is no information on their profile.
"We're forum mates. I don't know if it's agirl or aguy. We only talk through pm." She said shrugging. When Nami would say something, the stage assistant knocked on our door warning us that we would be onstage in five minutes.
"Let's go! We'll have plenty time to talk about it later." I rushed logging out the forum. The two nodded and we walked to our position. We huddled in a motivational gesture and waited for our name to be called.
After that, everything passed in a mix of high speed and slow motion, if that's even possible. We gave our best. Then, I saw myself sat between Nami and Hinata, having an interview. It was that young MC who was leading the interview, Jurina. She was so young with so much talent. I couldn't believe it when she flirted with Hinata. And Hinata countered! Watch out, Hina-chan! Just don't get arrested.
The girl also teased me. Iwas so nervous that I couldn't help but crossing legs from time to time. She said I had beautiful long legs, and then asked me how I kept my form. I work out and take my dog out for a walk every day. And the rehearsals helped too. Satisfied with my answer, MC Jurina turned her gaze to Nami and asked her about how she felt being so small. She pouted and right after that she smiled nervously. If there was a thing she didn't like to talk about then that would be her height. She answered trying to be nice. Few more questions to everyone and we were done.
We were lucky that this time we only participated on the serious part of the program. But each of us knew that this was just the start of our careers. Today we were free from the strange games, but there would be plenty of time from now on to be in one of those programs. I was anxious about that. I always wanted to be in a variety program. It will be so fun!
When a voice announced a break, we hugged ourselves with euphoria. But I immediately remembered the thing I was most addicted to. I hurried to our waiting room and noticed that the computer was still in the same position I left it. Without even logging in, I checked the No3b thread. To my surprise, the slim and modest topic that No3b was had turned into abig and complete board. Astonished was the right word to express myself. My heart skipped in a weird discomposed way when I read who the main moderator of the board was, H_Korisu.