You are my Super Star
Chapter 21—Joey, The
Cyber Heartknobs!
by YYY
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.
"First of all, I'm not Seto. I'm his cool brother Noah, my Ni-san and my Oto-san is too busy to bother with the like of you. Second of all, Voize isn't the most powerful media, I AM. This is the new age. TV and radio are going down. Nowadays, the cyber space rules the media. And I am the cyber space." Noah says. "Let me ask you a question, sir. Starr idols are on 3 TV shows and 5 radio shows, right? What's your rating? How many audiences are you banking?"
"What are you talking about?" The Voize president says.
"How can you not know your ratings? Let me see…according to my computer you have around 6 million people listening or watching your stars right now. Well, guess what? Right now Bakura and Ryou is having 7 millions listener and viewers." Noah says, "and Joey has over 13 millions listen and viewers."
"What the F-ck are you talking about?"
Naoh says, "I'm just saying what's my computer is telling me. I put Joey and Bakura on the Internet. They are being broadcast all over the Cyber Space right now. The whole Japan, I mean the whole world, is watching Joey now. By the end of this week Joey will be the most popular person on earth. So you can shove your stupid power up your as…"
Seto covers Noah's mouth and scorns, "If you think I'm going to use that kind of language you don't know me very well, young mister."
"He say the F word first." Noah says. He get back to the phone, "well, Joey have fan mails form Hong Kong, Korea and even united state coming in. Hey, there are some from America, France and England too. I have no time to talk to you, have a good day! Bye Bye." Naoh smiles as he hangs up the phone.
"How did you get the password for my computer?" Seto asks.
"I'm the number one hacker in the world!" Noah grins, "aren't you glad that I'm here? Check out all the Joey's stuff I put on the Internet!"
Noah has put Joey's yesterday performance on the Internet. "I even got into Starr's computer folders where you keep the image files of Joey's bisho cards. All the image files are on the Internet now. Fan girls all over the world are downloading them like crazy." Noah says.
"These are good." Seto looks at the Joey's stuff on his computer screen.
"I know you don't want anyone's help. But since you legally own half of my company, you're not using anyone's help. You're just utilizing your own assets." Noah says.
Noah always loved designing games, and he designed a lot of computer games when he was growing up. Seto encourages Noah to be a professional game designer. Seto even set up a company for Noah and put the games Noah made into production.
"I'm owner of half of your company to make it easier for me to handle the legal matters for you. I don't become half owner of your company so I can use your company to solve my agency's problems." Seto says.
"You used your money to start my company, you use your time to push my company to the top. You can use my company to do anything you want. Besides, Joey is gold. I want him to be the main character of my new game." Noah grins. "The marketing department sold over a million already."
"Your new game? What new game? You didn't tell me you're writing a new game!" Seto says.
"Well…hmm…I didn't write it yet." Noah says.
"You didn't write a game that has already been sold?" Seto asks, "what are you doing here? You should be in America writing you game!"
Joey comes in and puts a coffee down in front of Seto. He then turns to Noah and give Noah a hot chocolate. "Here you go, Mokuba asks me to give you extra whipped cream." Joey says to Noah.
"Seto! I miss you!" Mokuba runs up to Seto and hugs Seto. Seto lets Mokuba sits down on his lap.
"I miss you too. Good job getting the highest marks at school." Seto says, "I'm really proud of you!"
"I brought you your saxophone." Mokuba says as he points to a saxophone at the corner of Seto's office.
"You play saxophone?" Joey asks Seto, "will you play for me sometimes?"
"Sure." Seto says.
"Wow, you're good, Joey." Noah says, "my Ni-san never plays Saxophone for anyone! He only play by himself when no one is around."
"Who I play my saxophone for is not your concern." Seto says to Noah, "Did dad know you two left America?"
"Dad is in London for a business conference. School is bored so I sneak out, grab Mokuba and come see you." Noah says, "I heard you got yourself a boyfriend. I have to come and check him out."
"Go back to America, I don't have time to babysit." Seto says.
"Come on, I know deep inside you really wanted to see me." Noah smiles to Seto, he then turns to Joey, "Hi, I'm Noah, computer expert and the best electronic game designer ever walk to earth. Everyone on cyber space think I'm a god."
"Nice meeting you." Joey smiles.
"Well, Seto, you have tons of people e-mailing you. Better get to work." Noah says. "Come on, Joey, you will take your two cute and wonderful future brothers-in-law to play, right?"
"Now hold on a second!" Seto says.
"Don't worry! He is going to be alright!" Noah grins says as he pulls Joey away. "Come on, Mokuba. Seto has to work." Noah calls.
Mokuba smiles to Seto, "goodbye."
"I'll be back tonight. You're going to take us out to dinner, right?" Noah asks Seto.
"Why would I want to treat you dinner?" Seto asks.
"Because you love me!" Noah grins.
Seto can't help but smiles too. "Fine, I'll take you out to dinner tonight, you're such a pain in the butt." Seto says, "hey, thanks for coming to help me."
"Don't mention it. You come and help me all the time when I'm in trouble with my teachers." Noah says as he leaves.
"I'll miss you while I'm gone." Mokuba says to Seto. Seto pats Bakura's head.
"Joey, be very careful when you're out there." Seto says.
"Oh, Seto. Call papa and tell him I'm here." Noah says, "come on, Joey! Take me to Laox!"
"Laox!" Mokuba cheers.
Pegasus opens the door and tries to get into when Seto's two younger brothers run out. "Laox! Laox!" They cheer as they run to the stairs.
"There is an elevator, kids!" Pegasus says, "You guys have too much sugar."
"Hi, Pegasus." Joey says, "bye, Pegasus."
Pegasus gets into Seto's office and sees Seto on the phone. "Hey. Who are you calling?"
"My father." Seto says.
"Seto?" His father picks up the phone on the other side.
"You don't have to pick up the phone every single time I call. I can just leave you a message. You're in the middle of a conference." Seto says.
"Well, if you call me more, than I might not get so excited every time you call me." The father says, "so, you need something?"
"Yes, I need Joey back. Your son came in and snatched Joey away."
"Noah went to Japan again?"
"Yes, sir. This time he takes Mokuba with him."
"I'll come and pick them up right now."
"It's okay. Joey likes them. Let them stay for a week or two. Noah wants to work on something with Joey too. I'll take them back to America after I'm done with my work." Seto says. Gozaburo can tells Seto really misses his brothers and he wants to spend some times with them.
"Hey, Seto. I have a lot of things I need to do. Do you think Joey will mind take care of those two for me for a month or so?" Gozaburo says.
"Sure." Seto says.
"Alright, I'll call your brothers' schools and tell the schools your brothers are gonna be out for a while. You take care of your brothers as long as possible." Gozaburo says, "and call me more!"
"Don't work too hard."
"You too." Gozaburo says before hanging up.
Seto's phone starts ringing, When Seto is answering the phone, Ryou and Bakura come into his office. "Seto, there is a whole bunch of good looking boys down there at the lobby wanting to join the agency." Ryou says.
"You want me to beat them away with a baseball bat?" Bakura asks.
"NO!" Seto shouts.
"Relax! I'm just kidding." Bakura says, "I'll go ask them to fill in some forms or something. Do you have any forms?"
"It's okay. I need to take a shot of them. Let me go do it." Seto says as he stands up.
"I can get it." Bakura says, "I like shooting people."
"I mean shooting them with camcorder! Get out of my office. I'm busy." Seto says.
"Fine, just keep talking on your phone and gets that gag for your Joey." Bakura says.
"Joey isn't mine and this gag is yours!" Seto shouts.
"For me? Thanks! You're the best, Seto!" Bakura says while doing an impression of a cute Joey.
"Okay, you acting cute is really freaky." Seto says. "I think you just convince me that you are good for this job."
"What job is that?" Ryou asks.
"You are going to do a horror movie, being a multi-personalities psycho who is cute one second and crazy the next." Seto says. "If you get the part your brother will be in the movie too."
"Do I get to kill someone?" Bakura asks.
"Get out!" Seto shouts.
"I'm going to be scarier than that girl in Ringu." Bakura gets out of the office and says, "Pegasus! Can you tell me where can I shoot someone?"
"What?" Pegasus says.
"With a camcorder." Ryou clarifies.
"Oh…" Pegasus sighs, "I'm getting too old for you guys."
"Come on, Ryou. You can take the video while I ask them question." Bakura says.
They let the boys who want to be a Starr juniors comes in. Bakura smiles to the first boy, "hello, did you fill in your application?"
"Yes, and here is my portfolio." The boy says.
"Good, have a seat in front of the camera." Bakura smiles, "tell me, have you ever wanted to beat up Santa and the Easter Bunny?"
"Bakura!" Cecilia shouts, "I heard that!"
"Just kidding! You guys are no fun!" Bakura says, "okay, seriously, tell me why do you want to be a star, and sing a song of your choice afterward."
"You two are doing a great job." Cecilia says to Ryou.
"Well, they won't be doing it for long." Pegasus says. "I just saw Seto's calendar. Their schedules are all filled up until forever."
"If things keep going like this we'll be able to hire people to do interviews for us." Cecilia smiles.
Yugi and Yami get back to the manga studio. Everyone is really surprised to see Yami. "No way, we thought you're dead, boss!" Everyone says.
"No, I was just in a coma. Someone else was dead and the hospital thought it was me because the paperwork got mixed up." Yami says.
"We saw the body, that guy really looked like you." The stuffs say.
"That's how the hospital made a mistake." Yami says.
"We're happy to have you back! Yugi almost went crazy. We were afraid that he might kill himself!" The stuff says.
Yami hugs Yugi. Yugi's workstation telephone rings.
"Oh, yeah. Someone want to order a Drama CD base on your Manga, Yugi. They have been calling you for days now." One of the girls says.
"That's wonderful!" Yami says. Yugi goes and picks up the telephone.
"Hello? Yes, I heard about your plan to make a Drama CD for my manga. I love to do it." Yugi says, "Seiyuu? Yes, I got a perfect person for it, Joey…Yes, I can get Joey…He is my best friend. He will do it for sure."
Yugi puts down his work phone and picks up his cell phone to call Starr. Yugi's work phone rings again. Yami smiles, "you talk to Joey. I'll get this call."
Yami talks on Yugi's work phone while Yugi talk on the cell phone. "Hello, Seto? Is Joey there?" Yugi asks.
"No, he is babysitting my brothers at Laox. Is there anything I can get you?" Seto asks Yugi.
"Someone wants to order a drama CD based on my manga, I want Starr to produce it. Just wondering if Joey and Starr has the time." Yugi says.
"Sure thing. We'll love to do it for you. Joey will be thrilled to be your seiyuu. Congratulation." Seto says.
"Thanks!"
"Before you know it, the anime series will be coming out."
"That will be cool. I sure hope so."
"I will schedule some times in for your CD, how much time do you think you're gonna need?"
"A couple of hours. Joey is very good at his job. He got things done before you know it."
Yami puts down Yugi's work phone. "Better pencil in some extra time. This people want a live movie for your manga. You're going to need more than a couple of hours from Joey if he is going to be the main actor of your movie." Yami says.
"No way! Seto! Did you hear that?" Yugi asks.
"Yes, I did. Congratulation." Seto says, "I'll make up the schedule for Joey to do your movie."
"I'll call Joey and tell him about it."
"Alright, I'll talk to you later."
"Don't work too hard, Seto." Yugi hangs up. He tries to call Joey but Yami stops him.
"Let's go join Joey at Laox and tells him the good news." Yami says.
TBC…
