Ohmigod. OOOOOhmigod!! I think I'm updating!
And a little warning, this chapter is a bit nonsensical (well MORE so) so before you go "WTF is this crap?!" just try to get through this chapter, I can't seem to get past this for some reason…twitch
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"Hellloo!" a cheerful voice sang into the phone, "You have the honor of speaking to the one-and-only Ayame—genius of anything stylish and trendy!—to whom do I owe the honor?"
Shigure grinned into the phone, "Ayame, you sound positively radiant today"
A happy gasp was heard on the other end of the phone. "Shigure?! What a delight! Any more updates on Tohru and the Hiroko boy?" he asked excitedly. Mine, who was passing by (yeah, they're in the shop) Ayame, eyes' glowed, she too was eager to hear the latest news involving her favorite live dress-up doll.
"None yet" Shigure said, with a slight sigh of disappointment. Leaning back in his chair, Shigure inspected his nails before continuing to speak. 'Ink under my nails…how troublesome' he thought.
"I'm calling you for a different reason now" Shigure said with one of his infamous mischievous grins.
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Kyo and Tohru froze as they entered the rowdy cafeteria. Both seemed stuck to the floor, paralyzed with terror and shock.
Tohru's eyes widened, "Wh…what's going on?" she stammered out. Her eyes darted nervously from side to side, seeing her fellow students grinning eagerly at her and Kyo.
Kyo's eyes also widened—in fear.
"No!" he yelled, as he turned to make a run for it. "There's no way in hell I am doing that again!" he dashed past the cafeteria doors they had just come through, but was promptly brought back by two other students, who grinned at him good-naturedly. Each one holding an arm, they escorted Kyo back to the front of the cafeteria.
In front of them…was a set.
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"Mm-hmm…" Ayame made a little noise of approval as he nodded into his cell phone. His expression was quizzical for a moment, but then quickly transformed into one of delight.
"Ah Shigure, you're positively devilish!" Ayame squealed.
On the other side of the conversation, Shigure gave a small half-lidded grin as he leaned back into his chair, "It was nothing" he assured his friend and cousin, "I've taken care of all the preparations" he said, "the only thing left is if you will assist me"
Ayame's smile glinted with good-natured mischief, "Of course, of course" he said with a flip of his wrist, "I am completely at your service" he announced.
"And Mine is too!" Ayame's assistant exclaimed as she passed by with a roll of shimmery fabric. She saluted with one hand as she excitedly told that she would also readily make herself available for the plan.
Ayame relayed the message to Shigure, and then after a few last tidbits of conversation, Ayame closed his phone with a flip.
"Oooh Mine-san, this shall prove to be most entertaining"
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"No!" Kyo yelled! He struggled against his guards, but they didn't budge.
"Come on!" Kyo begged, he tried to appear weak and helpless, but it didn't work. The glare in his eye was too fierce, and what he had hoped would be a pitiful pout—turned out to be a rather menacing snarl.
His captors had flinched for a second, but their grip still held fast.
'Fuck it' Kyo thought. Turned out that he'd have to go with Plan B, and if that didn't work…
"Get the HELL offa' me!" Kyo yelled, as he tried to remove the seeming dead weights that were attached to each arm. He swung around wildly as he desperately tried to shake them off.
Another student made a motion as to come near him, but a ferocious growl from Kyo made him change his mind.
Kyo turned wild eyes back to his captors.
"Release me or I'll kill you!" he said, his voice dripping with lethality (Holy crap…that's a real word?!).
As deadly serious as Kyo was, the two boys just laughed and thumped Kyo on the back in good humor.
Kyo gave another grunt of frustration. 'Looks like it's time for Plan B…'
For a second he closed his eyes as he prepared himself. He really didn't want to do this.
"Look!" he announced suddenly. Even with the additional weight of another person, Kyo still managed to bring his arm up enough to point in a random direction.
The other students looked at him with renewed curiosity.
"Ohmigawd! It's Britney Spears!" Kyo cried with a look of faked euphoria.
"Did Kyo-kun just say 'ohmigawd'?" a student asked.
"What the heck?" another asked.
"Who's Britney Spears?" asked some oblivious kid.
Apparently, Britney Spears wasn't the sensation that she was in America here in Japan to Kyo's disappointment. Kyo had never been much of a People magazine person, and the only television he watched were action films.
Actually, Kyo himself didn't really have a clue who Britney Spears was.
Flashback
"Hi Kyo-kun!" Tohru greeted the cat with a smile, as Kyo sauntered inside the Shigure's home. Hands in his pockets, Kyo merely grunted in acknowledgment. He was about to (angstly) trek up the stairs to his room when something on the television caught Kyo's attention.
Tohru was seated (for once) comfortably on the living room couch watching television. Kyo hesitated for a second before coming over to where Tohru was.
"What is this?" he asked. The bright and flashing images of some American girl getting out of a limo with a censorship to where her extremely short dress rose up over her uncovered privates, kept replaying on the screen.
Kyo continued to watch in confusion as the shot switched back to the anchor, an unnaturally tanned woman with bleached blonde hair and blinding white teeth proceeded to elaborate the events that were happening.
Then the shot switched again, this time Britney spears was in her car and was being followed by what looked like an army of paparazzi.
In every clip showed of this 'Britney Spears' there was screaming, hysteria, and just utter chaos. Swallowing his pride for the moment, Kyo asked Tohru as to the reason for such pandemonium over this person.
Tohru just shrugged as she proceeded to watch. "That's why stars are stars she said simply, then her eyes glowed as she got a dreamy smile crossed her face. "I would love it if people would yell and go crazy every time they saw me…"
A strange expression crossed Kyo's face as he watched Tohru twirl around in circles, imagining herself as a celebrity.
"…at the grocery store…at the library…" Tohru sighed happily at the fantasy.
Kyo merely shook his head, he didn't understand it, and he didn't think he ever would.
End of Flashback
'Crap, that didn't work' Kyo thought with a bit of panic.
"Please guys!" he begged, Kyo was considering going into tears when a newcomer came into the cafeteria.
"No need to fret Kyon-kichi," a booming voice announced, "We are ready" and with a dramatic flourish of fabric he revealed something before continuing, "to begin!"
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Oh gosh! I feel so bad! I'm really sorry I haven't updated in so long! I can't believe how long I neglected this—ALL—of my stories. Crap, I bet no one remembers what's going on. Heck, I had to reread my last chapter too xP. Well I hope that you aren't feeling too murderous with me. There are two reasons why I updated. One: ILiketospin who sent me this review in January, about…five months after I updated xD. Thanks to him/her, I had the beginning of my latest chapter; I had actually forgotten that I'd written it. And the second reason was because I was about to write a new story for Death Note (BOW to it's awesomeness!!) but…for reasons unknown to me, I couldn't bring myself to make up a plot with the one for this chapter still unfinished. Please review! Toodles!!
