You Are My Super Star
Chapter 11—Ryou and
Bakura, the Angel and the Killer
by YYY
Seto gets into the back room of Starr Agency and sees Joey ironing a shirt. "What are you doing here?" Seto asks.
"I'm just cleaning this suit so I can return it to you." Joey says.
Seto watches as Joey hangs the white suit up and puts a cover over the suit. It's the suit that Seto gave to Joey the first day they met.
"I tried to not get it dirty, but it's hard when I'm dancing on the stage. I made sure I clean all the stain." Joey says, "I know you said to throw it away, but I can tell you love this suit. You were just saying that the suit is for trash so I will wear the suit."
"You put too much thoughts in it. I don't want this suit anymore." Seto says.
"Alright, then. I will leave the suit here anyway. You can put the suit away later. I'm gonna get out of here." Joey says.
"Wait." Seto says, "that suit was really important to me. That's the first suit I got. I brought it for my job interview at Starr. I kept it as a memento."
"Thanks for letting me borrow it." Joey smiles.
"Come on, we're going out for dinner."
"Yay, dinner!" Joey cheers. He follows Seto and the two of them walk to a Vietnam Restaurant. The two of them have noodles in a bamboo room.
"I love Vietnamese noodles. Thank you, Seto. You're so nice!" Joey cheers. Seto just yawns.
"Are you tired?" Joey asks Seto.
"Of course I'm tire. I was looking for you the whole night last night!" Seto answers.
"You were looking for me?"
"Yeah, the boss wanted to see you so bad. Listen, Joey, do you want me to make you a super star? A star bigger than Ricky?" Seto says.
Joey stops eating. The blonde stirs the noodles with his chopsticks. "This is the first time you didn't call me mutt." Joey says.
"What?" Seto asks.
"I was wondering why you will take me out to dinner. You were being so nice to me. Calling me by my name. You want me to be a star for your agency and to make your boss happy and to make Ricky jealous, is that it?"
"I do want you to be a star for my agency, but…"
"It's okay. You don't have to be nice to me, I'll be the lead singer for Raiders!"
"Is that what you think I'm doing? Being nice to you and sweet talking you so you'll be my star?"
"I don't mean it that way!"
"I'm not blaming you. I can understand why you think that way. I'm twisted. Ricky said today that I would hire people to hurt you if I can get some publicity; and I really would. I'm very demented person."
"He must have hurt you really bad." Joey says.
"He didn't hurt me. I never loved him. We're just together cause we want to see who can upset the other one more. It was a sick relationship."
"He did hurt you. You loved him. It pains you deeply when he played you; so you pretend you were playing him too and you don't care. But you do care about him a lot. If you don't there is no way you can write a song like 'overreacted'. Deep inside you still love him." Joey continues to play with his noodles.
Seto watches Joey and grins, "are you jealous?"
"What?" Joey looks up.
"You love me and you are jealous of Ricky cause I went out with him before, right?"
"I…" Joey blushes.
Seto says, "my boss…I mean…my dad really loves me."
"Huh?"
"My dad always gives me everything I wanted. When I was young, I wanted to be a singer, so he hired Pegasus and formed Starr to promote me. My dad spent lots money on me, and he used a lot of connection to get me to the top. At the peak of my career I fell for Ricky. And you know the rest."
"You stopped singing so you can be Ricky's manager, Ricky became famous and left you for Voize because Voize is bigger than Starr."
"Since Ricky was our only big star, my agency pretty much go bankrupt afterward." Seto says, "my dad comes to my rescue at once. He was going to fix Starr. But I don't want him to. I wanted to fix it myself cause I messed it up. I wanted to use my own power to put Starr to the top."
"That's admirable."
"Right now, the most important thing to me is Starr. I want the best for Starr. And Joey, you're the best."
"I am?"
"From the first moment I saw you, I know you're best of the best. You're mesmerizing, people just drawn to you. If I have your help I can take Starr to the top. I'm not asking to be your manager because I want to get back at my ex. I'm asking you to be your manager because I believe in you." Seto says.
"Seto!" Tristan comes in the restaurant.
"Hey, Tristan!" Joey smiles.
"Hey, sorry Duke and I missed the challenge this afternoon. We supposed to be there to support you. But we were out last night the whole night, we didn't get up until the challenge started." Tristan says.
"Don't worry about it. I managed." Joey smiles.
"You were great." Tristan says.
"What are you doing here?" Seto asks Tristan.
"I came here to look for the two of you. There are a whole bunch of e-mails addressed to Joey after this afternoon performance." Tristan says.
"Yeah," Tristan says, "we don't want to open Joey's e-mails, but the mailbox is going to max pretty soon, so I come to see if Joey wants to go back and read those mails."
"Sure." Joey says.
"Let's head back then." Seto says. They head back to the agency and Joey starts reading e-mail.
"So, what did the mails say?" Tristan asks.
"They want my song's lyrics, and they wants to know when will the single of the song comes out." Joey says.
"So, Joey, What do you want to do about it?" Pegasus asks.
"I would love to stay here and make a single for the song; but I come here to look for someone. I need to go and find him." Joey says.
"Then go." Seto says.
"You'll let him go?" Pegasus asks Seto. "You're the one who said we need to find him. Now that we find him you want to let him go?"
"I went to look for him to ask him to be our star, not force him to be our star. If he has something he need to do, we can't force him to stay." Seto says.
"Give me a couple of days. If I'm able to finish what I wanted to do I will come back to make a single for you all. I promise." Joey says.
"You're worth waiting for, boy. We'll have the recording room ready for you." Pegasus says.
"I'll try my best to come back here, Sayonara." Joey bows and leaves.
"I hope he does come back." Cecilia says.
Seto puts on his jacket and heads out the door. Pegasus asks, "hey, going home already?"
"No, I'm following that clueless mutt. He is so naïve, he might be kidnapped by someone if I just let him loose on the street. If he is looking for someone he can probably use some help too." Seto says before he leaves.
At the Voize Agency, a pretty boy with silver hair knocks on the door of Ricky's office. "You want to see me, sir?" The boy asks.
"Hey, Ryou. Come on in. How are you doing?" Ricky asks.
"I'm doing fine, sir."
"Have a seat. You want something to drink?"
"No thanks." Ryou sits down, "what can I do for you?"
"When I walked pass you earlier, I heard you singing the song Joey sang at the challenge. Do you like Joey?"
"No! I'm a junior of Voize. I'll never listen to the songs of the singers of other agency." Ryou says at once. The truth is, Ryou really loved that song.
"Don't worry. I don't mind. I'm not as good as Joey at the challenge; I'll accept my defeat. Joey is really good, is he?"
"Joey is really good. He is so talented and he got such an amazing voice." Ryou smiles.
"Ryou, you got an amazing voice. You can be as good as Joey. I want to make you a big star, even bigger than Joey."
"I can never be as good as Joey!"
"Trust me, you can. You're sweeter and cuter than Joey. I'm gonna make you a big star." Ricky says to Ryou, "now, go home and rest. We'll talk about it tomorrow."
"Thank you, sir. Good night." Ryou bows and leaves the office.
"Bakura, your brother is gone. You can come out now." Ricky says. Another silver hair boy walks out from behind the curtains. Bakura looks just like Ryou, except Bakura is neither sweet nor cute. Bakura looks dangerous.
"I'm sorry I can't let your brother see you; but if they found out I took you out of the institute, they will catch you and bring you back." Ricky says to Bakura.
"It's okay. I don't want him to see me anyway." Bakura sits down at the table and asks Ricky, "do you really mean it when you say you want to make my twin brother a star?"
"Of course! It's Ryou's dream to be a singer, and I really want to help him achieve that dream. However, Ryou can't do it if he keeps thinking he is not as good as Joey."
"Who is this Joey?"
"Joey is someone that Ryou really, really like. You heard what Ryou said. 'Joey is really good! Joey is so talented! Joey got an amazing voice!' It's not good for Ryou to worship Joey like that."
"Ryou worshipped Joey?" Bakura asks.
"If Ryou keeps obsessing Joey like that, Ryou will never be the best. Sometime I wish there is no Joey. If Joey isn't here then I can really make Ryou a star."
"Are you saying that if Joey disappear, Ryou will be a star?"
"Yes! I will make Ryou the biggest star in music history if Joey isn't in my way."
"That can be easily arranged."
"What do you mean?"
"You don't need to know. Just concentrate on making Ryou the biggest star on earth. I'll take care of Joey for you." Bakura stands up and leaves the room.
Ricky sits back and lights a cigarette. "Making Ryou a star? Ha, don't make me laugh." Ricky says as he puffs out a cloud of smoke.
Ricky hates Bakura. In Ricky's opinion there is no way in a million years will Bakura become a singer. Ricky just said that because he wants to get rid of Joey.
Ricky always knew Ryou had a twin brother who is really mentally unstable and very violent. There was this one time the school newspaper made fun of Ryou's acting in a school play; and Bakura burns down the whole office of the school paper. Bakura is obsessed with Ryou and he will do anything for Ryou. If Joey is in the way of Ryou stardom, Bakura will not hesitate in killing Joey.
Ricky intentionally tells Bakura that Ryou worships Joey so Bakura will be insanely mad at Joey. Bakura likes Ryou and it makes Bakura extremely jealous if there is someone Ryou like. And the mad and jealous Bakura will most certainly kill Joey. That is why Ricky tracks down the metal hospital that Bakura stayed in and free Bakura.
"Go, Bakura. Go kill Joey!" Ricky laughs. This evil man is using Ryou to lure Bakura into killing Joey.
"Where did that silly mutt go now?" Seto grunts as he walks down the street trying to find Joey.
"Hey, mind if I join you?" Pegasus asks Seto.
"What are you doing here?" Seto asks.
"I come to help you look, of course. You're still a kid. I can't let you walk on the street like this at night."
"I'm fine." Seto says.
"We'll look for Joey together. Let's go."
Pegasus and Seto walks down the busy night streets of Tokyo. There are people everywhere. "This place is too crowded. I can never find Joey in here." Seto says.
"Don't worry. We'll find him. We just have to be a little more patient." Pegasus says. "He is Joey, everyone will not be able to forget a guy like Joey if they lay eyes on him. We just have to ask around and we'll find him."
"Seto?" someone calls. Seto turns around and sees Yugi standing there.
"Hey, you're the Manga-ka who got Joey's cell phone." Seto says, "What are you doing here?"
"I come to return the cell phone to Joey." Yugi says.
"That's nice of you, thank you." Pegasus says.
"Actually, I come to talk to Joey. You see, Joey was trying to help me, but I was too stubborn and confused to see I need help so I shoved Joey out of the door and lock the door. " Yugi says, "so I want to apologize to Joey."
"Well, Joey had gone off somewhere, and we're still looking for him." Seto says.
"Can I look for him with you guys then?" Yugi asks.
"Sure. Thanks for you help." Pegasus answers.
After about half an hour of searching, Seto finally find a girl who saw Joey. "Tall, blonde, with a pair of big brown eyes, right? I remember him, he had a big smile. He went to the Shinbashi Rainbow Inn Capsule Hotel." The girl says.
"Poor thing. He must be too tired and wanted to rest before he goes and find his friend." Pegasus says.
"Let's go and check on him." Seto says. Yugi nods.
TBC…