Part Two- The Cast


Sano had thought he'd seen everything that was completely out of the ordinary. What with his former career as a XXX Star, he figured everything that could be weird or insane had already been seen by him. Boy was he wrong. This cast was the nuttiest group of people he'd ever met. Sano was kinda scared of them. He'd only heard names of who would be playing who. And the rest of the time Sano had been going over his lines. He wasn't in the first few episodes so he had more time to memorize them. But the director insisted on a dress rehersal. Well the first person he noticed was the lead. Himura Kenshin. In the script this was supposed to be a semistoic semifemmy semidork semibadass kinda guy. And when Sano saw who was playing him he nearly fell onto his ass and laughed. It was that goofy popstar who sent chills through prepubesent girls with his lame choreographed dances and even lamer lyrics. Sano liked to call him Corporate Logo Star. But Sano being new to this didn't want to start making fun of the guy on the first day. God knows what his bodyguard henchmen might do.
Kenshin wasn't all that bad to look at though. Nice hair, pretty face, even if it was a little too girly for Sano's tastes. He was kinda short though, but maybe Sano only thought this because he was so tall. Was he the tallest guy on the set? It seemed so. The guy had a femmy voice too. Sano was two seconds from running over to the guy pulling down his pants to find out. But then that would have been remincing from his old job. He wasn't really wanting that. Anywhy, he started getting bored looking at this guy so he started looking around to the rest of the cast.
Two young women were gabbing incredibly fast at each other. Even with sano's voice training for his accent he had almost never heard anyone talk as fast or enthusiastic about something. He wandered a little closer to the pair. One was Misao and the other was Kaoru. "OHM'GOD~!HE'S GONNA PLAY AOSHI!? CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? AND HE'S SO FRUITY! I MEAN HE WONT SITIN A CHAIR IF IT DOESN'T HAVE A SATIN PILLOW!" "AHAHA! YEAH I KNOW! OH! and you know what"Kaoru lowered her voice as she noticed Sano meandering over"I heard...that we have not only a porn star in our cast, but that famous Shakespearian actor is going to play Saitou Hajime!" "AHAHA! Our cast is so mixed up! ahaha! the bottle of the barrel to the cream of the crop! ahahahaha" The girls giggled and walked away leaving poor Sanosuke heartbroken. The knew about him! Or did they actually know it was him? He of all people was not pleased with his past. He'd really love to forget it. Well all he could do was hope they didn't know exactly who was that sorta star. He looked at the two girls in their costumes. Misao was rather cute. She was really squeaky and her braid was amazing. Sano liked the shorts she wore. The other girl Kaoru wearing a kendo outfit seemed kinda butch. He would have giggled to himself about the two being a pair when he heard the most irritating scream.
"NO MURRAY! I REFUSE TO DO THIS ROLE UNLESS I GET A HIGHER PAY!" Sano whipped around and saw a tan spiky haired kid screaming at an older man in a brown suit. The man had probably only been about thirty something but he had an old face. He must have been with this kid forever. Murray mumbled something to the brat to which the kid replied"MURRAY! HOW COULD YOU SIGN ME TO THIS WITHOUT MY CONSENT! IM A FRIGGIN CHILD PRODIGY! HOW MANY KIDS HAVE BEEN ACTING SINCE THEY WERE THREE MONTHS IN THE WOMB!" Sano was confused as he could be "Three months in the womb? was that possible? He must have been a baby on a tv show that involved an ultra sound" "FINE MURRAY! FINE! I'll do THREE episodes and if I dont get the pay I JUSTLY deserve I'll quit! And then I'll sue you AND YOU AND YOU AND YOU AND YOU!" The kid spun around pointing at people including Sano with his threat.
"Yahiko" Sano was startled as Kenshin had silently come up to him and suddenly spoke to him. "What?" Sano asked. "That kid is gonna play Yahiko. Yahiko is some kid Kenshin goes and saves from some bandits or whatever and he hangs with them for the rest of the series. It's gonna be hell working with him. What a way to start my acting career. Sheesh" Kenshin spoke in a nice calm voice. Sano liked his tone. "This is your first thing you've been in?"Sano pondered to the littler man. "Yep. My agent Frank told me that I should start up an acting career because my music wasn't doing to well. Not that that bothers me. I really don't like Pop music. I'm more of a classic rock fan myself. Thin Lizzy. Yep. I only did it to break into show business. They chose me cause I was quote "pretty". Feh. I wish I didn't have to do that. What a crappy way to start out a career." "There are worse things...." Sano broke Kenshin's babble with a timid sound. Kenshin just looked at Sano curiously. Then brightened up and said "Well It should be fun working with you. Ahaha I can already tell we're going to get insane fangirls if this show makes it past first season" "Fangirls?" Did Sano already have fangirls? Or fan*gulp* guys? God knows who watched what he was in. He looked reassuredly at Kenshin who gave him a friendly grin.
This cute kodak moment was cut off quick as a girl with short black hair and a striped kimono with an apron came bouncing right through them. She had a walkman on so she was dancing and singing." LETS GO SHOPPING ARE YOU ALRIGHT! COME ON JOIN US A TO Z!!!!!" Kenshin was knocked off balance and Sano was pushed into a table with a big juice jug on it. Sano was shocked and squeaked out "What was that!?!" "Tsubame"Kenshin replied as he got up off the floor.
"This cast is insane." Sano blurted in a frustrated tone."You bet your sweet ass it is." Sano looked behind him. Kenshin grumbled something. Sano looked to see the short woman with a shirt with over elongated sleeves with a big Chihuahua peeing picture on her shirt with knee high boots and her red and orange hair pulled into short round pigtails. Sano remembered her. She hired him. This was the casting director. A close friend to the writer and film director. She was short but she scared the daylights out of Sano. "SO! I see our Sano and Kenshin have met. Don't get TOO cosy with each other remember! THIS ISNT YAOI! but I wish it were. Then again I'm only cast director. So! I'll see you two later. I have more people to hire! JAANAA!"
"Sometimes I really hate her." "She scares me"
OH there is SO MUCH more yet to come. I mean. I haven't even gotten to my favorite characters yet!
Next - Back Stage Tension