You are my Super Star
chapter 20—Please stay with Me
by YYY
Joey keeps signing autographs on CDs and bishop cards for his fans at the signing booth. Pegasus walks up to him and says, "sorry, Joey. We have to get you back on stage now." The autograph section is supposed to take an hour but Joey has been signing autographs for over two hours now.
"I'm sorry. I have to get back on stage now." Joey says to his fans.
"Aww…" All the fan girls are disappointed.
"Please listen to my song." Joey smiles.
"We love you, Joey." The fan girls shout.
Joey gets back to the back stage and says to Gokuu, "Gokuu, since it's my last song do you mind, do you mind if I wear something that I choose myself?"
"Of course I don't! You go right ahead." Gokuu smiles.
"Thanks!" Joey gives Gokuu a hug and then gets into the changing room. He changes into the white suit that Seto let him borrow.
"Hi." Seto comes into the room.
"Hey, how do I look?" Joey asks.
"You look great." Seto says.
"After this song, I'm going to go back home."
"It's better if you stay in moon kingdom. There are a lot of bad people on earth who tries to hurt you." Seto says.
"But there are a lot of nice people on earth too! If I haven't been on earth I won't be able to meet you and the others." Joey smiles, "well, I have to go sing my song and tell the fans that I'm leaving."
"I don't want you to go." Seto says.
Joey looks at Seto.
"I want you to stay with me," Seto says, "I love you."
"Seto!" Joey cries and hugs Seto. "I don't want to leave you too! I love you! I'll go and ask the emperor to let me come back to earth and stay with you."
"That won't be necessary." The old man who talked to Seto earlier comes in and says.
"Your majesty!" Joey shouts, "What are you doing here?"
"He is the Jade Emperor?" Seto says.
The Emperor smiles to Joey and pats Joey's head. "My daughter asks me to come see your performance and meet Seto. You're a great singer and Seto is a wonderful boy." The Emperor says, "I never see you smiling and crying like that before. I was wrong when I think you shouldn't stay on earth."
"Does that mean I can stay?" Joey says.
"Yes, you got the best voice in heaven. It's no fair for me to hog it. I want to share you voice with the rest of the world." The Emperor says, "besides, you never laugh or cry when you're at the moon kingdom. You were like a little doll. When you're on earth you are alive."
"Seto! I can stay!" Joey beams.
"I put the bunny in your hand. You take good care of him now. Don't let anything happen to the bunny, okay?" The Emperor asks Seto.
Outside the changing room, Gokuu walks up to Sanzo.
"I know you are getting your memories back. You remember everything, did you?" Sanzo says to Gokuu.
"Yeah, I remember how much we used to love each other. Why didn't you say anything?" Gokuu says, "were you going to just leave with Joey without even talking to me?"
"You haven't remembered everything yet, have you?" Sanzo asks.
"What do you mean?"
"They erased your memories and cast you out of heaven because of me!" Sanzo says. "I broke the heaven seal and you took the fall for me! That's why you're here on earth now!"
"That was an accident! You didn't mean to break the heaven seal. It's better to cast me out of the heaven. Your whole family is there, and I have nobody." Gokuu says, "nobody except you."
"I wanted to say something so bad that day, when they took away your memories and make you get out of the heaven gate, but I'm too coward to say anything. I was afraid that if I say something they might know I'm the one who broke the seal." Sanzo says.
"You were young at that time, and the Jade Emperor is your uncle. You have so much pressure. You can't do anything wrong. I felt so bad for you. You can't even take a step without make sure that step you make is going to be perfect. If they found out that you were the one who broke the seal the punishments were going to be a lot worse. I'm just a silly monkey, people expected me to make mistake; But you're the nephew of the Jade Emperor, if you did something wrong you're gonna get punished harshly. We did the right thing!"
"I'm sorry about what happened." Sanzo says.
"I'm not. Taking that fall for you was the best thing that I ever did!" Gokuu says, "I don't want to hear you say sorry! I just want to know if you still love me or no?"
"Of course I do!" Sanzo says.
"Well, then let's find a way to get the two of you back together again, okay?" Gokuu smiles.
"I have a way." The Jade Emperor says as he walks out from joey's changing room.
"Your majesty!" Sanzo shouts.
"I decided to let Joey stay here. Since that bunny is very good at getting himself into troubles, I want you to stay on Earth to watch over him. And Gokuu, you better stay with my nephew too. He is going to take need all the help he can get. We're talking about Joey after all." The emperor says.
"Thank you, uncle." Sanzo smiles.
"I'm really proud of you. Gokuu, I know you will not fail my nephew. I know you will remember him." The Emperor ruffles Gokuu's hair.
"Thank you, your majesty." Gokuu smiles.
"And you! Don't you lose your monkey again." The Emperor says to his nephew.
"Thank you, you majesty." Sanzo says. The Emperor smiles kindly and tells Sanzo, "Call me uncle. You're my nephew after all."
"Congratulation, Sanzo! We're so happy for you! We're going to miss you at heaven." Hakkai and Gojyo say.
"Why don't you two stay around, too. Take care of my nephew for me." The Jade Emperor says.
"Can we?" Hakkai and Gojyo cheer, "That's great!"
Joey comes out of the changing room with his white suit on. The Emperor says, "Joey, I leave them all here to watch you. Don't you misbehave now or they will tell me."
Joey bows to Gokuu and the others, "please take care of me from now on."
Gokuu bows back, "We'll do our best in taking care of you."
"Joey! Joey! Joey!" The fan girls shout.
"Go on, the fans are waiting for you." The Jade Emperor says.
Joey runs out to the stage and sings his second
You're the only thing I ever want
the only thing I ever need.
The most important thing for me is you.
I won't trade you for all the treasure of Tutankhamen.
Because you're the only one can make me happy.
When you're around bread taste like ambrosia
and water taste better than elixir.
I don't want anything else but you.
I don't need anything but you.
As long as we're together I'm in heaven...
" Seto! This song is totally about you!" Yugi says.
" You don't have to worry about him not being happy on earth. He is happy as long as the two of you are together." Yami says.
After Joey finishes his song, he comes back to the backstage. The Emperor smiles to him, "Well, I'm going back to heaven."
"Thank you for everything. Your majesty." Joey says.
"Thank you, uncle." Sanzo says also.
"Heaven is going to be dull without you guys." The Emperor says.
"Please tell the princess I'll get back to the moon garden to visit her every chance I get." Joey says.
"And I'll be back to see you." Sanzo says to the Emperor. The Emperor gives Sanzo a hug and leaves the back stage.
"Seto!" Tristan runs in and shouts, "looks at all the single we sold! The HMV just ordered a whole bunch more!"
"Your cell phone is ringing like crazy! Other CDs retailer wants to order the Single, too!" Cecilia says.
"Now what?" Pegasus asks, "are we going to burn more CDs or make a special new edition? We need more bisho cards, too. Maybe we need to be more bisho cards too. The fan girls are trading those cards like crazy. What should we do first?"
"Party!" Gokuu shouts, "Party first!"
"Party! Party!" Joey shouts.
"Well, you guys earned some party time." Seto says.
"You're the best!" Joey cheers as he gives Seto a great hug.
The next day, Seto gets up early in the morning and get dressed. Joey gets up and rubs his eyes. "What time is it?" Joey asks.
"It's still early, go back to bed." Seto says. He kisses Joey's blonde hair and gently pushes him back to bed.
"How come you're up so early?" Joey asks.
"Because you did wonderful yesterday, and I need to get all your work in while your hype is still high up." Seto says. He starts calling TV and radio stations.
"I want to be up with you." Joey says. The blonde gets into the washroom and get ready for work. When Joey comes out of the bathroom, he hears Seto talking on the phone. "What do you mean you have no spot at all?" Seto asks.
"What's wrong?" Joey asks.
"It's not anything that you need to worry about." Seto says. "Are you ready to get back to the office?"
"Yes!" Joey says. The two of them get back to the office.
"Seto, why don't you go and work? I'll get you the coffee." Joey asks.
"Thanks." Seto says and heads to the office. Joey gets into the kitchen and sees a young boy standing in there. The boy sees Joey coming in and cheers, "bunny!"
"Mokuba!" Joey smiles. Mokuba runs up and hugs Joey.
"I miss you, Joey. The moon garden is so boring without you." Mokuba says.
"I'll go back more time. So, are you here to see your brother?" Joey asks. Mokuba is Seto's younger brother. Mokuba nods.
"Let me make you some hot chocolate and then we will bring your brother some coffee too." Joey says.
"Can you make another cup of hot chocolate for my brother Noah?" Mokuba asks. Noah is another brother of Seto.
"Noah is here too?" Joey asks, "what is Noah doing here?"
Noah sits at Seto's desk with his feet up on his desk and a cigarette in his hand. The telephone in Seto's office rings. "Hello?" Noah answers the phone.
"Noah, what are you doing in my office?" Seto asks. He takes away the cigarette in Noah's hand. The cigarette is actually a chocolate candy that shaped like a cigarette.
"Can't you see? I'm answering the phone?" Noah says.
"Seto, I know you're there. Is your boyfriend really disappointed that you can't get any job for him?" The president of Voize Agency calls from the other side of the phone, "I got all the media spot for the next 3 months. By that time no one is going to remember who he is."
Seto grunts. Voize is declaring war with Starr now. "This is a world of power, kid. Voize is the most powerful agency in Tokyo, we practically control the media. You're stupid to think that you can go up against one of Voize's star. I don't care about that loser Ricky, but I do care how bad you make Voize looked. You're going to be really sorry…" The president says.
"Oh really? Ohhh…I'm so scared." Noah makes a face at the phone.
"Give me the phone." Seto says to Noah. Noah makes a face at Seto.
"You should be scared, Seto. This is going to be the end of Starrs." The Voize president laughs and says, "so what are you going to do? Go crying to you daddy?"
Seto grunts. Seto biggest dream is to use his two hands to make Starr the best music company in Japan without Gozaburo's help. If Seto doesn't call Gozaburo, Voize will crash Starrs; if Seto calls Gozaburo, Seto fails himself. Call Gozaburo or not, Seto looses already.
TBC…