Title: The next step
Author: Ree
Theme: Starlights (Kinky)
Genre: General
Version: pre-Manga
Rating: G

Starlights and Kakyuu are, of course, Takeuchi Naoko's. I just requested them to spill their guts for a while and tell their story.

Seiya plopped on the couch and looked at the calender on the wall. Yaten was out working in the gardens, and Taiki was in class. She marveled over how all these people believed they were older than they truly were. If they knew her real age, she would have to be in high school right now, or at least have tutors. 'Well, they don't know our gender or our age. They don't even know our true last names, or where we were born. There is so much they don't know.'

Leaning further back on the couch she thought about all the events that happened at the photo shoot. She had enjoyed the beach, and hadn't minded all the girls draped over her. 'It was hard to keep hidden the fact I am a girl, but somehow I did it.' What had really caught her attention was some of the girls' hair. For some reason in the morning it was all kinky and curly, but come time for the photo shoot it was straight. It had taken her most of the trip to discover that they sat for an hour just to have their hair straightened with an iron. Seiya still felt the wonderment over that. 'All that effort just to get rid of a few curls and waves. Okay some of them had very kinky hair, but still that is a lot of effort.' She decided that she would tell the others over dinner. They could all enjoy a good laugh at the silliness of it all.

Her mind continued to play the events of the trip through her head. The only other one that stood out as strange was when she was caught singing. The photographers, the other models, and even her manager had seemed to think she was good even though Yaten and Taiki had not been there with her. Mr. Ryoku was now trying to talk her into becoming an idol. He pestered her the entire way home. She finally told him she would try only if he let her, Yaten, and Taiki try as a group. She didn't think she could do it alone. She hoped that would dissuade him from following up on it, but she figured that she had better tell the girls tonight as well. Hopefully they wouldn't be too mad.

As dinner ended, Seiya found her courage to tell Yaten and Taiki what she had done. Both of them listened quietly. Taiki was the first to comment when she was done. "Being idols will take a lot of time."

Yaten looked over at the calender. "And I have a number of meetings to go to, and I don't want to lose this apartment. If the idol thing doesn't work, we'll need a roof over our heads to come back to."

Seiya nodded in agreement to both statements. "But I think we should try. I don't think it could eat up all of our time at first. We have to become famous for that to happen. But it would put all of us out into the media. She will have a much better chance of finding us. And Taiki, you at least should remember how much she liked boy bands."

Taiki sighed. "She does, and you're right we will be more in the public eye if we succeed."

Yaten interjected. "I still don't want to chance not having a place to stay."

"Okay, if we get the chance, then we strive for it, but not at the loss of all that we have already earned. Agreed?" Seiya looked both of them.

"Agreed."
"Agreed."

Taking a breath Seiya continued, "Now for something funnier." and proceed to tell them about the girls that spent an hour to straighten their kinky, curly hair.