Chapter 8 – Individual tutoring
It has been a few weeks since Corvus started to live with the members of STARISH. He was placed there by Shining Saotome to help the boys rise even higher as stars of the idol world.
"Individual tutoring." mentioned Corvus to the seven boys.
"Why do we need to do that?" asked Ren who seemed to be unnerved by sitting in the same room as the black haired male.
"It's to improve individually." stated Corvus, the smile on his face not faltering. "As a group, you function really well. Rarely will other groups have that special bond that all of you share."
The others seemed to be happy that Corvus had taken note on that.
"Unfortunately, if one person fails in a group, the rest will fail too."
Cecil winced at the rather harsh statement.
"That's why I would like to tutor all of you individually for at least an hour and a half a week. Are you all fine with it?"
Seeing as Corvus was doing his best to help the boys os STARISH, they nodded.
"Great!" He pulled out a thin piece of paper from his black folder which he kept secured on his clipboard. Carefully, he slid on his black-framed glasses.
The more Syo looked at Corvus who usually wore shirts and was now wearing a pair of glasses and holding a clipboard, the more he was convinced Corvus is a teacher.
"Here's a list of the days and times to have the individual tutoring sessions. Since there are seven of you, I had to plan over the Saturdays and Sundays as well. Sorry about that."
The plan noted as follows:-
Sunday: Hijirikawa Masato [Afternoon]
Monday: Ichinose Tokiya [Afternoon]
Tuesday: Ittoki Otoya [Afternoon]
Wednesday: Jinguji Ren [Morning]
Thursday: Aijima Cecil [Morning]
Friday: Shinomiya Natsuki [Morning]
Saturday: Kurusu Syo [Evening]
"Um... Corvus-kun?" asked Otoya as he raised his hand. "Why aren't there any exact times?~"
Corvus adjusted his glasses which were slipping down. "That's because you guys are idols. You have a very busy schedule right?" A few nods. "I just put down the time of the day. Just come see me when you're free during that time of the day! I'll clear out my schedule for you!"
Tokiya scanned the list carefully. He was on a Monday afternoon. He'd have to make that work somehow.
"Would you like me to change anything?" asked Corvus who was looking at the boys who crowded around the paper.
"Corvus-san, can we make it two hours?" asked Masato. He needed more time to make use of the individual tutoring. It was hard to come by a chance like this.
Ren arched his eyebrow. "So eager, Masanyan?"
The bluenette pushed Ren's face away. "Shut up."
"I'm okay with it, but you'll have to ask your teammates first." Corvus couldn't help but look at how close Ren was to Masato. Of course Corvus wasn't a total idiot. He knew from the way they acted and his inquiries on them from Camus that the two were in a relationship. Still, there was just something that made it impossible to keep his eyes off Masato.
A heated debate was going in between the boys. Somes said yes and somes said no to the two hour period. After getting nowhere for five minutes, they decided to draw lots.
Otoya, Natsuki, Syo and Masato voted yes while Tokiya, Cecil and Ren voted no because of their own reasons. Tokiya was afraid that he couldn't make it, since he still had to perform as HAYATO. Cecil and Ren were just too lazy.
All the while, Corvus just stood there, waiting for their answer with a smile on his face.
"The answer is yes." Masato said.
Taking a pen from his pocket, Corvus crossed out '1, 30' from the paper and put down '2,00'. As he took the paper, he felt his fingers brush against Masato's. A tiny jolt of electricity went up his arm at the contact, but Corvus just feigned nonchalance. For Masato, the brief touch didn't go unnoticed either. Somehow, Corvus' fingers felt warm.
"So, it's decided! We'll have a two hour period on individual tutoring a day starting from next week!" Corvus said happily as he clicked his pen shut.
Thank you, minna-san! Please don't forget to favourite and/ review!
P.S.: Masato singing 'sanctuary' sounds so good! XD
