Sing a song on day twenty-two.

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"Okay, Rika! Are you ready?"

The pink-haired idol smiled at her younger sister as they prepared to start practicing.

"Why are we doing this again, Neechan?" asked Rika with a confused look.

Mika returned the look of confusion. "Why? Rika, you said you wanted to be an idol and you're asking why?"

"Hai! What does writing our names have to do with being idols?" questioned the twelve-year-old, still confused.

The seventeen-year-old could only facepalm at the question being asked. "Rika…how can you say you want to be an idol if you don't even know about autographs?"

"I just want to be an idol like you, Neechan. You're the coolest person I know, so why not do what you do!" exclaimed Rika, her eyes sparkling in admiration for her older sister.

Hearing this, Mika started tearing up a bit before bringing her baby sister into a big hug. "Why can't you be this precious more often?!"

"N-Neechan! Let go!" squeaked out Rika as she struggled to escape Mika's grasp.

"No, you're getting hugs and you will like it!"

As Mika continued to hug and nuzzled Rika, she missed the pout on her sister's face.

"Neechan! I thought we were supposed to be practicing!" said Rika with a whine, wanting to be let go.

Mika let out a sigh as she let go. "Fine. Let's see your signature. Remember, if you really want to be an idol, you need to make your autograph standout! For example…"

The idol quickly signed her name on the paper, the 'M' of her name in the shape of a heart. Pushing the paper towards Rika, she waited for her sister to sign her name. She waited as Rika sat there in thought before the younger girl gave off a beaming smile and signed her name.

"How's that, Neechan?"

Looking it over, Mika saw that the signature was in Japanese instead of English, but had a bunny right before it. She did tell Rika that an autograph needed to standout after all.

"It's perfect, Rika! Now that you've got the basic idea of how you want to sign things, write it down as much as you can until signing autographs become second nature."

A frown appeared on Rika's face. "That sounds like a lot of work, Neechan."

A sigh escaped Mika at this. "I'm not going to lie, Rika. Being an idol is a lot of work, no matter what. Now if you're having second thoughts, I wouldn't blame you, nor would I be disappointed if you wanted to do something else. This is your life, your decision."

She was surprised when Rika immediately responded. "But this IS what I want to do, Neechan! I want to be like you and if that means working hard, then that is what I'll do!"

This only caused Mika to tear up again and bring Rika into her death grip. "Rika!"

"Neechan! Stop!"

The hugging continued for quite a bit this time, much to Rika's annoyance. It was quite a while before they got back to practicing writing out autograph, but Mika couldn't help but be proud of her baby sister.

FIN

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Second time writing out an iDOLMaSTER story and it's surprisingly more fleshed out than the last one. I think it has to do with the characters this time around.