Heat Haze Agency

Chapter 3

Annoying Kids and Unspeakable Names

A/N: I seriously love every single one of you! Yayy for new chapter!

"That old man is such a useless jerk!" Ene seethed as she ranted on, looking at the road in front of them from her passenger seat with a glare. She added, "I really don't understand why he HAD to be our producer. If only he wasn't Ayano's dad and Azami-san's not there or I would have punched him in the face-"

Konoha cut her off as he patted her head with his arm, the other one concentrated on driving. He said in that gentle, familiar voice of his, "Calm down, Takane."

"Hmpf." Ene looked down as soon as she heard her real name from Konoha's mouth. A name that she hasn't used for ages. And a name that she won't use anymore. After all, she's Ene now. There was silence in the car and Ene gave a wistful smile as she nostalgically commented, "It's been a long time since I used that name ah."

"Yeah." A faint smile was placed on the white-haired boy's lips as he glanced sideways towards her and returned his attention to the road afterwards. He mused, "Ne, shall we eat out tonight?"

"Mhmm?" Ene looked at him and said, "Sure. But let's drop off at our apartments first. Let's get changed with some wigs so that the paparazzi and fans won't hound us."

"No." Konoha replied unexpectedly, which made Ene looked at him curiously. He pulled towards the driveway of a familiar favorite restaurant and then he met Ene's blue eyes with his red ones and he said, "I want to try going as us for once. Please."

"Wha..." Ene's words escaped her lips as she met his puppy look and looking at everywhere but him, she puffed her cheeks and murmured, "Fine, just this once."

"Thank you." Konoha smiled at him and Ene sighed inwardly, she really has a weak spot for this boy. When Ene was about to get out of his car, he gave a silly smile as he offered, "No, I'll open it for you."

Momentarily stunned and flushing at Konoha, Ene got out with Konoha opening the door for her and she commented, "Turning up the charm already, Kokonose?"

Konoha looked a little unpleasantly surprised at the name and it seemed like everything was drained out from him as he muttered, "Um."

"You still hate that name mhm," Ene stated with a small, sad smile. She held Konoha's hands and placed cheeks as she murmured into it, "Don't worry about it anymore, Konoha. If you want to forget it, forget it. I will never ever leave you, understand that?"

Konoha smiled as he continued to let his hands be caressed by Ene's cheeks and he looked at the girl with eyes that looked almost tearful. He was about to say something but was interrupted by a shout.

"Ahh!" A female voice was heard shouting, just a few feet away from their direction. At this, Ene let go of Konoha's hands, resulting in the boy to tearing up. The unknown girl ran to them, with a boy of her age following. She gave an excited grin as she looked at the two and said, "You guys are Konoha and Ene right?! That announcement was just so cooool!"

"Thanks," Ene said as she patted the girl's hair and ruffled the boy's hair, which resulted into the latter huffing indignantly. She gave a smile as she asked, "You've heard of us, ah?"

"Yep," the girl's eyes were almost beaming. She continued to rant on fangirlishly as she added, "Konoha is just the most perfect, dreamy guy in existence! And Ene-chan, I just want to be like you when I grow up."

Konoha mumbled something like 'Ene's actually a pretty unique exception,' but kept it to himself when he felt the blue-haired girl's glare. He smiled at the children instead and patted both of their shoulders as he commented, "That's nice."

"Hmph," the light-haired boy crossed his arms as he muttered, "I don't know any of you."

"What are you saying, Hibiya?" The girl gave a small smirk as she dropped a personal information on him, "I wonder which of us is the die-hard fan of Headphone Actor?"

"Uh-whatever Hiyori-chan!" The boy almost shouted in indignation. He pointed at Ene and shouted, "So what if I like it? At least, the Actor isn't a blue-haired bimbo like this one..!"

There was silence and crickets chirped all around as the light of the streetlights gathered around them flickered. Konoha's eyes gleamed dangerously, Hiyori was close to punching the lights out of the boy and Ene... Surprisingly, Ene just laughed. She looked at him, her eyes currently a familiar red and she flicked the boy's forehead as she grinned, "Well thank you for both complimenting and insulting me, sprout."

At this, the boy just looked confused and then he looked at Konoha's silent dangerous stare to Hiyori's irritated expression to Ene's amused grin and then he gaped, "Wh-what?"

"I'm the Actor, Ene, entertainment prodigy, I go by a lot of names actually," Ene elaborated with an amused smile on her lips. She ignored everyone's reaction and continued on with a grin, "and just now, according to you, a blue haired bimbo."

"I-i can't believe-" Hibiya paused as she made an eerily accurate imitation to his favorite actress and he breathed out, "...oh."

Konoha was about to say something himself but a wave of light was streaming at them, signaling that paparazzi and whoever else has arrived and Ene pulled Konoha back as she whispered, "Let's scram."

She winked at the kids as Konoha nodded and went to the car, starting it on. Just a few seconds before she entered it, she shouted, "Let's meet again, indignant sprout, cute little girl."

They drove off, leaving two very confused fans and hounding media at their wake and a few meters away from that chaos, Ene gave a laugh as she stated, "That was kind of fun."

"But he was insulting you, Ene." Konoha disagreed from his driver's seat, his lips forming into a pout as he glanced at her momentarily.

"Ko-no-ha, konoha," Ene poked his cheeks playfully and she said, "It's normal in this kind of business, alright. Besides, that kid was just tsundere, anyway, hahaha."

Konoha sighed as he gave in and wondered aloud, "Fine but still, I wanted both of us to eat dinner together today."

"You're so spoiled," Ene offhandedly commented with crinkles in her eyes. She glanced at the rearview mirror as she casually suggested, "How about I cook you dinner tonight?"

"Really?" Konoha's expression seemed to lighten up from its dampen state and his eyes were literally beaming as he glanced towards her. He repeated it, excitement dripping in his statement, "Really, Ene?"

"Hai." Ene nodded her head and then she gave him a smile as she said, "We can't eat out tonight but maybe I can cook you something for once. I don't think that it can beat eating out but-"

"No, no, it's great." The car weaved through the highway with astounding speed, signaling Konoha's joy and then he suggested, "Cook negima for me?"

"Sure-" Ene's eyes widened as her jaw dropped, "Don't go crashing into cars!"

"But honestly," Momo looked between her brother and her friend and then she gave out a squeal as she said, "I bet Ene and Konoha are dating!"

"Stop your irritating seal-like noises," Shintaro commented as he pulled her sister towards the gate to their house. He looked over at Ayano and nodded to her, "Thanks for bringing her home, Ayano."

"Geeez!" Momo crossed her arms as soon as she managed to detach herself from Shintaro and then her lips formed into a pout as she shook her head, "At least try to be nice and invite Ayano-san for tea or something."

"Uh, right." Shintaro placed his hands in his pockets and almost casually looked up to meet with Ayano's eyes as he offered, "Want to go in?"

In the background, Momo can be heard muffling her snickers and laughter but Ayano pointedly ignored it and decided to bow her head as she said, "I'll take your offer for another time, Shintaro-kun. My father's waiting for me in the car after all."

Without waiting for any reply, Ayano turned around and ran to where her father is in top speed. Momo, on the other hand, patted her brother's shoulder's consolingly as she teased, "At least you tried your best, onii-chan."

There was a remarkable pause and Momo couldn't help but add, "But it seemed your best was not enough."

"Shut up, Momo." Shintaro shrugged off her hand and then turned around, muttering to himself, "Did that devil Takane influenced you or something, geez."

"Takane-san, eh." Momo's face almost dropped as she looked at the night sky. She whispered to no one in particular, "How long has it been since anyone actually called her that mhmm."

Her frown being replaced by a practiced smile, she stormed into her household quite happily as she announced, "Onii-chan, you're cooking dinner tonight~"

A few minutes later, a nervous Momo was running all over their apartment, which - in turn - made his older brother look at her like she just lost her sanity and decided to pry, "What's wrong?"

"My, my notes for this event!" Momo's eyes went large - almost to the point of bawling - and she tried her hardest not to let her gleaming tears drop. She shook her head as an image of a sadistic Azami popped in it and she gaped, "Azami-san is totally going to kill me! She'll torture me, feed me to her snakes, skin out my fle-"

"You're letting your imagination get the best of you." Shintaro cut her off with a sigh. He walked towards her and placed his hand on the top of her head and suggested, "How about you talk to Takane or Ayano about that?"

"It's Ene, not Takane, onii-chan." Momo instinctively corrected. A few seconds after, her bawling stop and she ran towards her room to call on a certain blue-haired sadist.

"Etoo, Ene-chan?" Momo was fiddling with her hair as soon as she had her line connected. When there was a small yawn of response, she cleared her throat and asked, "C-can I copy your notes?"

"Hm?" Momo noted that tonight's Ene wasn't so aggressive and sounded a little bit tired. She immediately thanked all the deities she knew when she heard the affirmative, "Sure."

"Thanks, Ene-chan, I love you!" Momo said as she gave a small squeal of delight and pumped her fists in satisfaction.

"I'll send it to you first thing tomorrow morning," Ene informed her with that dependable - though at times, sadistic - tone of hers. The older girl also commented randomly, "Ahh, it's so hot."

"Of course it is~" Momo laughed from her line as she looked at the stars in the night sky. She continued on, "It is summer after all."

Momo jumped from her place when Ene shouted, "That's it!"

Momo had to recover her ears for a minute before she cautiously asked, "What's it?"

"The theme for our audition." Momo can just picture that triumphant smile on the blue-haired's face. She waited with bated breath as she heard the next statement.

"Never-ending summer."

A/N: Well isn't that a good theme. Lolll. ANYWAY OMG HEADPHONE ACTOR IS GOING TO BE RELEASED TODAY I CANT EVEN *coughs* so yuh. That's why my KonoEne HaruTaka feels are all over the place in this one. I'm really hoping that the episode will be good. Read, review and subscribe.