"Japan, here we come" her uncle yawned.
"Yay" Akane yawned.
Akane just finished her last performance in China and they were giving her three days to rest after arriving in Japan. It meant that Akane would spend most of her time sleeping and practicing for her performances. But right now, everyone on the jet was sleeping and Akane decided to do the same. She pulled the hat bill over her eyes and slouched in the seat falling into a deep sleep. Unknown to her, her uncle was taking pictures to post on her fan website as she slept.
"Come on, one two three leg up and back, turn" her choreographer clapped to his instructions.
"Are you okay Pearl, you seem like your distracted" he asked.
It was true; Akane was distracted now that she had come to Japan. The fact that her sponsor was Kuno and they were now in the same country as each other was part of why she was distracted. Also the fact that she was in Tokyo and Nerima was not too far was also why she was distracted. She was just waiting for the doors to slam open and see a duck or cat with a redhead girl run through. Her concert was showing in billboards around Tokyo with her face all over the place. But instead of being truthful to her choreographer, she shook her head saying there was nothing wrong. Akane tried putting her attention into the dance she practiced but she kept thinking about her family.
Akane looked at herself in the mirror wondering if her family would even recognize her face even with white hair. Akane did do anything to her face to make it seem different but still with white hair, she looked different. Thought the style of clothes and her dancing style is stuff she wouldn't have tried years ago in Japan. Would that throw her family off?
"Well you better find two more tickets for me" Nabiki growled into the phone.
"But I can't, the tickets are sold out" a frantic man could be heard from the other line.
"Well then how about passes?" Nabik smirked.
"Passes? But those are for only staff" the man gasped.
"Do I need to remind you that you owe me for saving your butt, so I suggest you stop stalling and get me two staff passes" Nabiki said in a deep demanding voice.
"Yes ma'me, right away ma'me" the man yelped.
"Good, now I want you to hold onto the passes until the day of the concert where I will call you and meet me at the back door where you hand them to me" Nabiki instructed.
"Yes Miss Nabiki, I will keep them in a safe place until the concert" the man nodded furiously as thought he could hear his nods.
"I knew you would cooperate, now I'll see you on the day of the concert" Nabiki said before hanging up her phone.
Nabiki swirled around in her seat turning to Ranma who had heard everything before leaving her room. Nabiki turned to her computer looking at the pictures of the girl that's her supposed sister. Clicking on a picture of the white haired girl wearing nothing but a baggy white button up dress sitting down with her legs stretched out in front of her, Nabiki still had her doubts about this girl being her sister. But looking at the autobiography seeing that they shared the same uncle had Nabiki believing it was her. Nabiki sighed looking at the picture seeing the change in her sister; she could just tell that her sister was more confident in her pictures.
(Okay to let you know, this goes between Akane and Ranma POV's a lot, so I'm just warning you)
This was it; her concert in Tokyo was going to being in four hours. She was getting done up for her hometown concert that many people had bought tickets for. Akane had to wear extensions again and they were going to be curly with her bangs pinned and puffed back. Her stage outfit was black leather pants with a dark purple one shoulder blouse and black pumps. Akane didn't have to put on the outfit yet so she wondered around wearing sweatpants and a tang top before she had to get ready. Most of the time, she reviewed the dance over with the back up dancers to get all the little things perfect.
While Akane was wondering around, she saw a guy, couple years older than her, looking around frantic. He was medium height with shaggy brown hair and black framed glasses covering his dark eyes. Akane watched as he frantically looked left and right of the place and checking his phone every couple seconds. Raising an eyebrow, she was about to ask him what was wrong when she got pulled to practice the dance again.
"You ready?" Nabiki asked Ranma.
Ranma stood next to her checking himself over, since Nabiki had instructed him to wear a tux to look more professional. He tugged at the collar thinking it was too tight around his neck then went to untuck his shirt and loosen the belt. Nabiki slapped at his hands fixing his collar and letting him fix the waist since she didn't want to get to close. Nabiki had donned a woman's tux with a black pencil skirt, white off the shoulder top, and a black blazer. They were getting ready to go to the concert leaving a couple hours early to get there early and maybe talk to Akane.
"Yeah, let's go" Ranma nodded.
Everyone was out today. Kasumi was at a book club and their father's were at a bar, so nobody would notice them gone. They left the house and went into the limo that waited for them out front since Nabiki was able to get one. With the instructions of where to go, the driver was off and so was Ranma's heart. His heart thumped loudly thinking of what he would say to Akane after so long. Would he say what he wanted? Would he say it right? Would he sound dumb? But his biggest concern was; what if she said no? What if she said no to come back? What if she said no to his love? He didn't know what would happen after that.
Akane got pulled into make up after the announcement that people are started to form at the front of the theatre. Quickly her extensions were clipped in with them already curled as the make up artists put on smoky eye shadow, shiny black liquid liner, glossy lips, and sparkly cheeks. After that her hair got finished with her bangs pulled back and puffed before getting pulled into the dressing room. Her uncle gave her some medicine for her feet incase her feet would hurt because of the heels. One of the back up dancers helped Akane pull up the leather jeans laughing as the girl jumped up and down while Akane held onto a chair. The other back up dancers laughed as another stood in front of Akane and started tugging up. Finally when they were zipped up and buttoned, Akane thanked them both and helped them put on their black dresses as well as help make sure their hair didn't get messed up. Then they all practiced the dance in heels to get used to it.
"Starts in five minutes" a person told them.
"Okay, thanks" Akane said taking a sip of juice.
Akane left the dressing room and went to the side of the stage looking behind the curtain. There were people holding signs and conversing loudly with each other; they looked like they were really excited. Akane started to shift side to side mouthing the words of her songs making sure she wouldn't mess up. Her heart pounded, even if she performed almost a hundred times, Akane still got nervous. Especially if any of her friends or family were in the crowd. Then that's when she felt a hand on her shoulder.