Sorry for the long wait everyone! I've had a bit of a writers block, but I must say, there were hardly any other fictions updated while I was struggling with this. Anyway, next one should be better, so I hope you'll be able to forgive me (puppy eyes)
And also, I thought I'd put this up a few days ago, so I wondered why I hadn't gotten any reviews yet, and so I checked the site and found out I hadn't put it up yet! I'm sooo sorry! Hope you'll be able to forgive me that one, too!
"Hnnn…" Tatsuha stretched his limbs, popping various joints.
"Don't do that. It's bad for you."
"Yes, mom."
Suguru glared at him. "Cut the smart remarks, or you're not getting any breakfast."
Tatsuha pouted, but shut up. He wrapped his arms around Suguru and sucked his neck. He smirked. That was gonna leave a hickey. He doubted Suguru even knew what a hickey was, else he was sure he would have said something about it.
"What are we going to do today, Su-kun?"
"We'll need to try on the costumes, finish the scenery, and when that's finished, we can start the real rehearsals. Everyone should know their lines by now, so I hope we can get a move on."
"I see."
They stood there in a comfortable silence, Suguru leaning into Tatsuha's embrace as he prepared breakfast (bacon and eggs)
"Hey, Su-kun, how long have you lived on your own? You really seem used to it."
"Technically, I don't. This is my parents' house, but they are never, and I mean never home, and haven't been for the past, well, some eight years I think. I used to have a nurse, but she died two years ago."
"So when was the last time you saw your parents, then? If you don't mind me asking, of course…"
"That's okay. I honestly can't even remember what they were like, but they sent me enough money to survive, and if they don't want to know me, that's fine with me. Though, I must say, it is nice to have someone around again…"
Tatsuha stared at him.
"What? Don't feel sorry for me, I'm doing perfectly fine on my own."
"Oh, I'm sure you do, you seem healthy enough. But what really bothers me…You've had the house to yourself since you were fourteen, and you didn't have parties all the time and bring girls over for the night and stuff!"
Suguru slammed him over the head with a frying pan. Here he was, coughing up his tragic past which he thought he wasn't going to tell anyone about, and that was the reaction he got! Come on, Tatsuha!
"Shut up and eat, Tatsuha."
"…Was it something I said?"
"Helloooo, Shuichi-kun!"
"Huh? Wha?"
"Hmm… You still don't get it, do you?"
K sighed and shot him.
"whhaaah! Alien attack!"
"Relax, Ryuichi, it's just me an' my gun! And Hiro!"
"Oh. Okay na no da! Shu! Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu Shu WAKE UP NA NO DA!"
Waking up Shuichi with huge amounts of noise and chaos, which everyone seemed to find perfectly normal, scared the hell out of Hiro. K told him to get used to it. On the way to the studio they nearly crashed into everything they could. K told him to get used to that, too. Hiro sighed. Being around K for a whole day was going to be very tiring, if not lethal.
"You're late, K-san! I told you to be on time today!"
"Aww, we're not that late."
They continued bickering.
"Ohhh! Let's try on the costumes na no da!"
"Yeah, costumes!"
Hiro sighed as he stopped Maiko from making pictures of the two singers changing. This was going to be a long day indeed.
"Hirooo! Try on your costume too!"
"Okay, okay! Shuichi, keep an eye on Maiko, I don't want a picture of me changing all over the internet."
"Got it!"
It wasn't long before they were all in their costumes. After several cases of nose-bleeding, Maiko set up everyone for a picture. "I need a picture of all of us in costume to put on the ticket site!"
"Okay, okay, make the damn picture already…"
"Yaaaaay! It's a photo shoot! We're taking pictures na no da!"
Hiro spotted Suguru taking some aspirin, even though they had only been there for a few minutes. He was going to need some of that too in a little while…
"Hey, Eiri-san, who do you think I could get to be my cast? Nakano and K are with Fujisaki-kun; and after the whole torture thingy, I don't think they'll want to come back… Then there's Mika-san, whom I also don't think will be joining us, so I need three more people…"
"How would I know? You're the one with connections."
"Well, I was thinking about Ayaka-chan and your father-
Eiri nearly crashed into the car before him. "No. Fucking. Way."
"Ah…I see…"
It was quiet for a while.
"But-
Didn't you hear me!"
Tohma sighed. "You know that promise about him leaving you alone after this play is still going, don't you?"
Eiri stared at him. Cars honked because he was blocking the road, but he ignored them. "Even if I agreed to that, which I won't, don't you think they want to cut all binds with you now that you and Mika are getting divorced and all?"
"Well, I did, but I got a message just now saying he didn't want that to interfere with the play."
Eiri stared at him some more. "Aren't there some random sound technicians you could get?"
"I suppose, but…"
"But you like to see me suffer."
"No! I don't!"
"Then why do you want them to do be your cast so desperately? You could hire professional actors and you wouldn't even miss the money!"
Tohma stared at him. "I suppose so…"
"Just so you know, if you get them to be your cast, I'm out, deal or no deal."
"I see."
The drive to the NG records building continued in silence.
Suguru banged his head against a coconut tree (which still had nipples on its coconuts). He knew he should have never taken those costumes!
"Su-kun, stop banging your head against that tree! You said yourself that we didn't have enough material to waste it!"
Suguru ignored his boyfriend (I keep writing lover, but they're not lovers yet! It's so annoying!) and continued banging his head.
"Su-kun!"
Tatsuha dragged him away. "Aww, c'mon, what are you so stressed about anyway? Sure, Ryu-chan hasn't stopped groping Shuichi-kun ever since they put on their costumes, I'll admit Maiko trying to get them to have sex is annoying, and that's K-san how many-eth bleeding nose? But we're rehearsing, right? We've gotten the whole play done already! And it didn't even go that bad. Almost everyone knew their lines."
Suguru stared at him. "Yeah, the only one who didn't know a single one of his lines was Shuichi-kun, who very inconveniently has by far the most lines. I don't think he's even capable of remembering all those lines!"
"That's true, I guess…"
"So shut up about how it's going well."
"Su-kun, you need to see things more positively!"
"With a cast like you guys? How?"
"Well…"
"I said, oh father where are you na no da!"
"My cue! And stop adding 'na no da' and all that to your lines, Sakuma-san! Erm, I am here, dear son, what do you need of me?"
"That one has a nice ass."
"Yes, but it says here she's a terrible actor. I need someone that can act properly if I want to win."
"None of your opponents can act properly, so then what makes you think they'll win?"
Tohma sighed. "You know that all too well."
Silence fell as they skimmed through a catalogue of actors (or whatever you use when you need to hire an actor). Suddenly, Tohma jumped. "I have an idea!"
Eiri looked at him questioningly.
"We could call Judy Winchester! If K-san and Nakano-san are together, that means K-san is going to divorce her. I don't know her that well, but I think she would want revenge on him. And while we're on it, we might as well ask Rage to come as well. Oh, and Ark. Hah! Problem solved!"
Tohma immediately pulled out his phone and began calling lady Winchester.
"Hey, hey, wait a minute, those crazy Americans freak me out! Besides, that Rage may blow up your building again, and should it come to a full-force war between that woman and her ex-husband, I'm sure Tokyo will survive!"
"Oh, what's a city or two when I have to win? It's not like I can't pay it."
"Yeah, well, I still don't want it!"
"Hello, lady Winchester? Yes, it's Seguchi Tohma. I think you should know something about K-san."
"When did you get her number anyway…?"
"Say, Hiro-kun, when did you get all those wounds? Was K-san a little rough on you…?(Hint hint wink wink)"
"You…You missed that bit? Seguchi-san tortured us then tried to kill us, but Shuichi and everyone managed to save us in time."
Maiko looked at him unbelievingly. "Yeah right. Anyway, don't you think he looks so sexy in that costume? I've got a great picture, I'll sell it to you for 10 bucks!"
"What makes you think I need a picture...?"
"Well, I managed to sell o-nii-chan a picture of Ryuichi from below, so I was hoping his stupidity had rubbed off on you. But I guess not. Oh well, I'll just stare at it myself…"
Hiro grimaced as the crazy girl began drooling over said picture (which, he had to admit, was pretty good, she had definitely improved) and inched away from her. He didn't need a picture of him from below circulating over the yaoifangirl-network.
"Maiko-san, have you gotten a place to perform yet?"
"Yeah, I sold enough tickets to use Zepp Tokyo."
"What! We have to dance about in these costumes for so many people! Zepp Tokyo is the biggest place you could reasonably perform a play in!"
"Yeah, there were actually enough people who wanted a ticket to get some place bigger, but the people in the back wouldn't be able to see the screens anymore, never mind the actual actors. So I figured this was best."
Suguru stared at her.
"That's no good? I really wouldn't know where we could fit in more people… Perhaps if we set big screens outside and also sell tickets for that, we could-
-NO! No, erm, it's okay as it is… So, um, when are we going to do the play?"
"Tomorrow. We were doing great so I figured it would be okay."
Suguru passed out.
"Oh, that's no good either… And I thought I was doing okay…"
Everyone in the room stared at her. K burst out laughing.
"What! I was supposed to get as big an audience as possible, right!"
(Wipes sweat from brow) Phew, another chapter done. Next one will be: The play! It's finally going to start! And I can't wait to get this fic over with 'cause I've got this great idea for a sequel! Yay! It'll be SuTats!
Yuri Yuki: Okay, I'll try my best!
rebelyell59: Then this chapter would be the ride upwards, where you hold your breath, and the next will be the actual thing, right?
Annie loves it: Just you wait until the play is finished… Tatsuha's got something great in store for Su-kun! Muahahaha! (Evil laughter!)
qwerty54: Tohma in a maid's uniform? I'll try my best to fit it in somewhere. Oh yes, I know! That'll do just great! (Loves to keep her readers in ignorance of what's going to happen)
HyperRyu-chan69: You're probably on of the youngest yoai-fan I've ever met. Though I guess I was only thirteen when I first stumbled upon a yoai website and was infected with the yoai-virus… And I wouldn't have it any other way. And (sob) nope, two females… No yoai offspring there.
just one random reader: (love the nick) crying for merci… Now that you point it out… (blush) yes, very, very wrong. That's got to do with the fact that English is also not my native language (I'm dutch) Anyway, I'm too lazy to change it, so bear with it. It won't happen again though.
And review again, everyone, it makes me write faster!
