For Pete's sake, I'd rather be anywhere than this practice room, I sighed so hard that I make Shikamaru look like a cheerful riajuu.

I looked at my members basically gleaming right now, eyes filled with excitement and glee.

"This is Chiba right?! Your hometown right?! This is where Hyung was born right?! RIGHT!?!" Sung-Ho inched closer to me and I reflexively backed away and looked to the side, he reminded me of Yuigahama so much it pisses me off somehow.

I was wearing a white t-shirt that had words and apparently was Thank you in different languages, my shirt was tucked in and I was wearing Adidas trackpants.

And you can't wear adidas without some Adidas kicks, they fit well as they both had three stripes, or tri poloski in that matter.

Most of my members had the almost same outfit, varying in different colors, Hwang Min-Soo had red, Han Ujin had Green, Jin had black, the text being white. And finally Sung-Ho wore a yellow one, the one who originally thought of having matching shirts was me, but I had bad fashion sense so I let Jin find some good ones. You'll never go wrong with Jin, best fashionista we have in this group.

"Yes it is, now personal space." I said with a hint of irritation, Sung-Ho did back off, as we were dragging our suitcases with us, a small crowd recognized us. Tsk. I even wore a cap and told my members to do so but they didn't even bat an eye! That's just mean! I feel hurt! A leader and oldest should be respected! HMPH!!

Okay I'll stop, I feel like dying of cringe like the time where my trainer told me to practice aegyos because at one point they'll force us to do so, TSK what a drag.

Unbeknownst to me, the once small crowd became a bigger one as cameras appeared and I unconsciously kept my head low, not feeling good about the unwanted attention.

There were an unhealthy amount of girls screaming our names, I noticed that most of them were my name? Is it because I'm Japanese? Yup, totally. That's why, I can't find any reason for them to -

"HACHI-KUN DAISUKII KOCHII MI TEE AHHNNNNM~" ...nevermind.

The girls scream widened some eyes of my members as their eyes went to me and I lowed my head more, before giving in and doing my practiced smile and small wave.

It'd be an understatement to say that the girl was dead, she was already post rigor mortis.

But I didn't expect alot of people here, SM entertainment's popularity and marketing strategies are too good, no wonder they're considered one of the biggest.

Now if you're wondering why I'm back in Japan, in Chiba even was that a certain Demon superwoman wench decided it'd be a good idea if they invited us for a charity event , she reasoned that it'll be a good popularity boost, since they're the ever so esteemed Yukinoshita family. I swear, this woman will be the death of me, I've been gone and miss Chiba and my one and beloved Komachi, BUT. What made this event and going to Chiba again was...

.

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I'd get to drink Maxx coffee again.

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Mi amore! Maxxu coffee! Like Jack and Rose, we're meant to meet once more! My Juliet!! It feels good that I'd be able to drink my one and only favorite coffee, nectar of the gods, I should buy one, no, two- no THREE packs! I won't disappoint you Maxx Coffee-CHAN! Going back on topic, I'll maybe visit some of my old acquaintances, although it sounds impossible, don't worry. I may be an Idol but that doesn't mean my loner side is gone, he's still here. Waiting for his turn, Muehehehehe.

After my admittedly long monologue, we made it into the van as I hop in and my members follow, the van's door closes and the camera flashes that were blaring at me, I felt a big sigh of relief. The van moves and I take in the scenery. Brings memories.

The familiar set of buildings were passing by, I even saw Makuhari when we passed by, the van stops into a stoplight. We were Infront of the road, I idly watch the people passing by, I turned my glance to the cars next to us, they were just normal sedans but I saw one car that oddly resembled that limousine, meh, it's probably just another model of the car.

The stoplights went blue and the van moved again, the whole ride was a quiet one, since everyone just took a flight.

The teaser was well received and garnered at least 2 million views in total. That's alot of views, considering it's just a teaser.

And our MV teaser would be released around 2 days from now. I hope it's well received like the last one, we filmed the Music video first before doing the photoshoot, it was a weird pace but I didn't mind it too much, still, to think I'm back here, and considering that the devil superwoman would be the host of this party..

It's inevitable that I'll meet them again.

I felt contempt and anger from them once but now...

I don't feel a single thing from them.

No anger, no sadness, no happiness, no yearning of contact.

I didn't feel anything like I did those nights ago, it was a spur of the moment kind of thing.

Right now it's the same as that empty void I fell in.

Just emptiness.

Nothingness I tell you.

I think it'll be good if I considered them strangers, but I don't wanna talk to them, but since we're talking about that devil neeneechan it'll be inevitable.

Before my thoughts would delve deeper, our van stopped in one a very lavish looking hotel that screams ' I'm rich. ' There was a row of guards and fences that kept back a number of people, as the door opened, the sudden flashes of camera invaded my vision.

I cover my eyes as I walk out of the vehicle first and let my other members out first, after they all went out I walked behind them and hang my head a bit higher for a change.

We were guided to an open space, as several cameras were placed, asked to take pictures we all looked at the camera in the center, several clicks later, my members changed gestures and went all cutesy, I make do with a V for Victory. And finally we did the finger hearts with index finger and thumb.

After all that, we were guided to an elevator, a hotel employee guided us to our rooms, once again I requested for the single bedroom, before my members stopped me.

"No, I'll be taking the single room." Han said with a commanding tone that didn't work.

"I won't allow that, I will be taking that room!" Min-Soo half yelled, glaring at us.

"Hell no to the no no are you gonna get that room, for it belongs to me!" Jin-Sang points a finger to himself.

Amongst the chaos, me, Sung-Ho and the poor hotel employee witnessed their argument, I assured the hotel employee that this was normal. Sung-Ho turned to me. "Hyung, let's just take the room for ourselves." I reluctantly nodded, before asking the employee to lead us to our rooms again. I told my members to settle their argument with janken, or gawi bawi po (1).

"AISHHHHHHH!" Min-Soo looked like his favorite manga character died. He was down and had to share a room with Jin, Han who won jumped in celebration of his victory, that ordeal finished, we were finally inside the rooms. It was the same as any hotel room, a small kitchen, filled with utensils and plates. White wall, some paintings on the walls, a TV, a couch and a very beautiful view of Chiba, we were in the 16th floor , as I began unpack, our manager told us that we'll have alot of free time and we were free to explore, my members had to rest first before making me their defacto tour guide since I lived here all my life. Not like I have a problem or anything, better yet I feel good since someone is actually curious about the best city in Japan, Chiba is numba one! Better than any city!

After a few minutes we changed our clothes Into more comfortable ones, it was summer so we had to wear light clothing, I opted with a light blue plaid shirt with a white tank top and sunglasses resting in the pocket of my plaid shirt, I also wore black cotton plain shorts with some black sandals. I also had a bucket hat and a facemask for people to not recognize me, although stealth hikki is still a part of my arsenal, but taking Into considering what happened when I arrived at the airport, I doubt my esteemed skill would work.

We were ready to embark, so we went to the mall first to get some clothes (and Maxx Coffee.)

"We should split up, so we can cover more ground, let's meet up at the food center, got that?" My members nodded.

"Well then let's split now, I'll see you later, and look at the map I gave you." They nodded again, satisfied, I walk away from them and I make my way through my faithful retainer and my one and only true love, Maxx COFFEE!!! I found a store that had these said beverages, I walk in and gather some eyes then going back to their previous activities, I found a fridge with a case of Maxx coffee, said case had a same layout of the can, with the ingredients on it's side, I look at my new credit card, then taking at least three packs, putting it on my shopping cart, 'I think I should get something for my members, if I recall Ujin likes sweet things... So I think he'll like my Maxx coffee.' Before I was able to get a move on someone called me from behind.

"Hikigaya?" I flinch and freeze, trying to ignore her calls.

"Damn is it you Hikigaya?" Pitter patter pitter patter, stop. " It actually is you! That's hilarious!" Out of all the people... why her?! Romcom gods be damned! I will drag you down through the heavens and beat you up reall good!

I kept silent for a bit, turning my head to not face her. "I think you've got the wrong gu-"

Before I was able to finish my sentence, she cut me off "No way it's not you! No one buys three packs of that drink and not look strange! And I can tell from your eyes that it's actually you Hikigaya." I sigh and turn to face the girl I had the hots for in middle school, Orimoto Kaori, she still looked the same, I won't get into detail on her outfit I might get weird stares, I spoke.

"How's life? Orimoto?" I ask keeping myself in composure. "So-so, what about you Hikigaya? I heard you were in an Idol group! I was like 'no way' but looking at you my doubts are actually gone! You look like an Idol right now! That's hilarious!" What part of what you said is hilarious? This woman is pissing me off.

"Well since you know that I'm... An Idol, you should keep your distance and don't come near me, I have alot of things on my plate right now, I can't accompany you."

"Eeehhh? Don't be like that Hikigaya, but okay, for one condition though." Oh no.

"What is it?" I gulped mentally as I watched her take out her cellphone and asked me to " Take a picture with me! No mask, no hat!"

...

...

... This bitch.

"No." I reject her request and I walk forward pushing my cart as fast as possible, before Orimoto stopped me by going Infront of the cart spreading her arms wide open as she had a mischievous grin.

"I won't let you till you take a selfie with me!" She said with a punchable face of a grin. I thought of it, thinking till I found the right solution "Fine, I will accept your request," she lit up she put her arms back down on her sides. "But!" She flinched then looked nervous. "... you'll have to keep it a secret, no telling anyone, if the internet caught of this a controversy might occur, people will do anything to bring down my group and myself."

I expected Orimoto to reject but she actually complied, as a precaution I took her phone number and took a picture with her, I did a peace sign , the phone did a clicking noise, I gave my farewells and made her promise that she wouldn't release it to the public, there was no guarantee but the thought of it counts.

I made my way to the cash register, carrying an assortment of food products that I handpicked for my members to indulge on, some daifuku, and alot of sushi and sweets exclusive to Chiba, I cashed out and had to carry all of them with both my hands, using the skill : Strength Hikki! #89th skill of my 108 skills, my training with Komachi and Okaa-san's when I carried their bags, I trained for this! I began to make my way through the food court, there were alot of people today, as I made it to the food court, the people surrounded the place, I slither my way using my skill : Subesube(2) Hikki! #34th skill! My years of being a loner gave me the superb skill of navigating through tough crowds, the best skill! I made my way through the crowd effortlessly, I finally saw my members sitting down on a lone table conversing, a handful of people eyeing them, walking in, they notice me as our youngest helped me carry one of the bags, I put the bags on the table as I took out two cans of Maxx Coffee for me and Ujin, giving me weird looks, Jin-Sang asked me "Hyung is that the Maksu coffee you kept talking about?" I nodded. "Want one?" He held his hand out and gave him a can of the sweet nectar of the gods my other members wanted one too, so I give them cans as well, taking out the sweets I bought for them and their food, they were surprised at first, I looked at them and asked "What's the problem? Don't like it?"

Ujin shook his head too fast and said "No no that's not the case Hyung, it's just that it's rare for you to do this, it's like the first time you did this to us." I looked at him weird and said "Well I bought these sweets since you guys kept yapping about wanting sweets from here so, I got you guys sweets. Did I buy the wrong kind?"

" Nope, it's fine Hyung, thanks by the way, we didn't expect it at all, tis all." This time Sung-Ho spoke up and Min-Soo and Jin-Sang nodded approvingly.

"Sure... Well glad you like it, now let's eat before we go back to the hotel, we only have a few hours left." They nodded and ate, I expected them to respond negatively to the beverage I gave them, but they took it pretty well, Ujin even asked me to give him a pack of them when we go back to the dorm.

A few more trips and we made it back to the hotel, I had to give my bags to my members and they asked if I was going anywhere, I just said I forgot something on the way back, they were looking at me suspiciously with a raised eyebrow, but complied anyways.

I walked the familiar path, it was still afternoon and I had a few hours to spare, I finally saw my house, there was light, probably Komachi since it's a weekend, I took out my phone and called my sister.

It rang for a bit, then she picked up.

Incoming barrage of the megaphone Imouto is coming in 3...2...on- "ONII-CHAN YOU FINALLY CALLED!! I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU'D CALL ME EVERYDAY!? IT'S BEEN DAYS! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!" she screamed on the call as I put the phone away from my ears to well.. protect myself.

"..sorry, can you forgive this poor ONII-CHAN of yours because of his foolishness?" I asked with a small smile of myself.

"Mmmmmmmmmmmmm...No! Komachi decides to not forgive her nii-chan because that gomii-chan didn't call me for a week!" I sigh, explaining "Look Komachi, I'm sorry for not calling but you know how it is in here, too many things to do at the same time, it's just how it is Komachi, at least try to understand, so I'm sorry for not calling, I really didn't find the time to call you, so as compensation, open the front door, Onii-chan has a present for you." I said, Komachi's line had a little bit of rustling and I heard little steps outside the door as I walked to the front door, it slowly jarred open, revealing my best imouto saikyou numba one plus ultra best sister.

Her eyes widen and she looked at me as if I was a soldier coming back home after a grueling campaign. "Yo, Komachi." I smiled at her since it's been a while since we last saw each other, other than video calls. She slowly opened the door fully, moments later I saw Komachi gone and look down, I saw that Komachi was hugging me so tight it hurt me a little bit, oh shit she's crying she's crying, I put my hand on her head, patting it like I once did, how I miss this.

She finally looked up and I saw her eyes with tears and her bloodshot eyes after all that crying. "Am I dreaming?" She said in a small voice, I take my hand off her head and proceed to pull on her cheek, man she's so cute, no wonder she's the best Imouto.

"Do you think you're dreaming now?" I kept pulling as she made the cutest face of the whole history of cutest faces.

"Ihm nwot sho let gho~" I let go of my grasp, she rubbed her cheek, it took a few moments before she let me in, we did the usual talk, we catch up as she told me that she's going for the Sciences, although it was her bad subject but she has the help of that Ice Bitch, I look at her.

"Well, that's good. Yukinoshita-san is a good teacher so you won't have any worries."

"Yeah, ANYWAY Onii-chan! I saw your video you were like." She stood up and copied my poses, I cover my face in embarrassment, and I looked at her.

"That session took alot of time though, glad it went well." I said, Komachi looked at me, asking another question. "So Onii-chan, how long will you be here?" I pondered, before taking out my phone and looking at the time. "I'll be only here for at least an hour, after this I have some things to do." "Can't you stay longer?" She gave me the puppy eyes, but I'm serious I can't really stay longer, I have to attend that god-damned party.

"I'm sorry Komachi, I really can't, sorry." I bowed my head a little. Before she pouted and it hurt my heart so, "Anyway Komachi, I thought you'll get mad so I got you something." I open up a bag and gave her a stack of clothes she wanted before, then an offering of sweets and a few thousand yen, for safety precautions.

"Sorry Komachi, that's what I can only get you, I'll only be here for a few days, I'm sorry, as much as I want to spend time with my dear imouto, oh, I bet that scored high in Hachiman Points!" I give a small giggle with a smile. I rarely do this Infront of anyone but if it's Komachi, she's the closest family I have, I care for her I really do, she's a good soul.

"...you really did change Onii-chan." I heard her mutter. Before shaking her head and saying "Boo-boo!! You scored low in Komachi points, for now the exchange rate of Hachiman Points to Komachi Points is a million Hachiman Points for 1 Komachi point!"

"Geh! What a terrible government! It's making it harder!" I play along, before we share a laugh for a long while. When we stopped Komachi just smiled at me and said that "You should keep being yourself, Onii-chan, Komachi is happy you changed, even if you aren't interacting nor are you interested in Yui-san and Yukino-san anymore, I'll still root for you since onii chan is Onii-chan afterall! Ah! I bet that scored alot of Komachi Points! Hehe!" She's too cute for her own good, I approach her and pat her head, before saying that " I have to go, I'm sorry Komachi, I'll call you tomorrow." She nods, "See ya Onii-chan! Give them hell! Komachi will always love you!" I smiled at her before opening the door and walking out of the house, turning one more time again, before walking off.

"I'll miss her." I say making my way to the hotel, the sun is slowly setting, I took a taxi and found myself in the hotel after a few minutes, paying the driver, I hop out and walking in, showing my identification card to the guard, letting me in, I go to the elevator and pressing the 16th floor and waiting for a while, it gave a lot to think of.

'Later, we'll have to perform what we practiced in that event, we haven't released our album yet but they requested for an album song, we disagreed and just asked if we can perform one of our favorite songs, they reluctantly agreed, the elevator door opened and I walk out and walk to my room tl find out that the youngest was doing a VLIVE , he looked at me the looked back at his phone display.

"Are you doing a Live?" I ask in Korean.

"Yeah, everyone say hi to Hyung." I lean over to the camera and saw myself waving, the viewer count was 3k, he had three thousand concurrent viewers, I looked at the chat and saw them greeting me as well, I did the usual "Annyeongggg~~" I put my bag and other belongings off camera as I took my jacket of and left with a tank top I sat next to Sung-Ho and looked at the live, "woah look at the viewers. There's alot of you today." Being an Idol is terrifying, very terrifying.

"You should cover up hyung, you are showing too much skin, the fans will see." I looked at him like he was telling me to get along with Yukinoshita, looking back at the camera, asking the viewers "We should get the opinions of our viewers first! Should I change my clothes?" I was only wearing a tank top, I had no muscles or anything but I do have a toned body, that didn't really seem anything much.

There was an unhealthy amount of yesses but there wasn't a single no. I looked at the camera straight, giving them a judging stare.

"Alright." The live went on for 20 minutes, before we ended the live, I saw the amount of views it had, it had at least 200k viewers, that's crazy...

"We should prepare now , Sung-Ho." He nodded before I went to take a short shower, drying myself off, wearing the suit the staff gave is, it was a normal suit, it was three piece suit with a blue suit, blue slacks and a blue vest with a black tie and a white undershirt, I also had a pair of black loafers.

Sung-Ho also had the same suit, but had no vest. He also had his buttoned up, all of us went outside our rooms and were leaded to a room in the hotel , when we went it was a makeup room, we got our make-up done and once again was surprised by it's effects.

Other members had different combinations of our suits, Min-Soo had no tie and no vest but wore a plain white shirt that had no buttons, it fit him well.

Ujin and Jin had the same combination as I did, same tie even.

We were once again lead to a limousine, a long one. We all went in and it drove, the trip didn't take long and we were already in a line with other limos, and we waited for our turn, when it was our turn, the door was opened for us and I came out first, before my other members followed, we walked in a line, the cameras kept flashing and flashing it was blinding, we finally made it inside the building, what we saw was a large ballroom on the lower floor, a massive circle filled with rich people.

I lead my members to a table, wanting to sit down, before I was stopped by a young woman with short black hair and purple tips, she wore a purple expensive looking dress that had glitters that were a lighter shade of purple shaped like it was hugging her body, she also had black long satin gloves that was shining, I saw a diamond, totally expensive. Her face was like handcrafted by the gods, perfect facial features that can put female idols to shame, and it was all natural.

I begrudgingly bow to greet her, she looked at me weird and said.

"It's been too long Hikigaya-kun, how is my little brother doing?" She gave me that annoying teasing tone, yes it's that woman, the demon superwoman wench.

"Well I can agree to that, it's been too long since we've last seen each other, Haruno-san." I bowed again.

The sister of Yukinoshita Yukino,

Yukinoshita Haruno.


A/N:and that's a wrap, I'll make sure to write longer chapters for my part 2, time to respond to reviews again!

8mexicanYeager: well it's fine, none taken, I am fully aware of that Hikigaya and Yuigahama isn't a good ship, and in the first place it was never my intention in the first place, I just wanted to give her some attention, then forget about her later on, either way thank you for being honest and giving me your thoughts.

Majin Othinus: I'm sorry bro but it won't happen, I know it's frustrating but, I wanted Hikigaya to be a different person and not cling to the past he had with his clubmates, they ignored him, shunned him, so he wanted to the same to them. You'll understand next chapter bro..

GUEST: sure, I'll give your suggestion a thought, sorry if I don't use it tho.

The encounter with Orimoto isn't really important, it's just there for the laughs and gags, even though it ain't funny...

Well I have nothing to say other than have a great day. And always give me your honest thoughts about the story, any criticism is okay and every single advice will be taken into consideration, thanks for reading my story! see ya later!!!

Once again I'll see you tomorrow!! (Maybe.)