It's time for Natsume's birthday. We are going to bring all of the lover boys to her birthday to make things more exciting. Of course, Toma is going to question Natsume for leaving them at the amusement park. Don't worry chapter 5 is still being written. I have been lacking off lately. Idk why I am, but I guess I lost some motivation from my past life. I want to bring it back, but it's hard to get it back. I need motivation to help me move on with my life. I hope I can get it back soon.


Natsume woke up from bed and looked at the calendar. She is going to have fun today, but who knows. It could be hell or fun depending what they do. Today is July 12th on the calendar. Everyone has decided something special on that day.

"Today is my birthday. Tenn and Riku's birthday was 3 days ago. I wonder what they are doing to celebrate our birthdays today? It's going to be interesting. The place that has a big space is Clash's apartment. We can do it there." Natsume said, excitedly. She can't wait to see what everyone brought from her birthday and the twins as well.

The empress got up from bed walking towards the bathroom to get washed up. She turns on the sink water to wash her face. The sound of water pouring down from the sink was warm and smoothing. It was an image of a waterfall. Natsume looks at herself in the mirror. There was the eye of a predator starting at herself. It's like staring at your dark self in the past.

She shook her head and washed her face with cold water. She shouldn't worry about that anymore. She has family and friends to support her. Today is her birthday. This is a special day for her. What will they surprise her today?


The empress left her apartment. She walked to the elevator to go to Clash's apartment.

She arrived at the destination floor of Clash's apartment. The door opened from the elevator. Natsume walked out, heading towards Clash's apartment. She stood in front of the door. It was quiet on the other side of the door. Maybe they are prepping for Natsume's birthday.

The empress didn't want to bother them. She backs away from the door and leaves.


She arrived at the lobby of the hotel. There she sees two figures sitting on the couches. Natsume didn't think the two of them would be there. She thought they would go out of their way to surprise her, but they are here in the lobby.

The platinum blond-haired turned around to the elevator. He smiled as he saw her. That made him feel all happy. "Hayabusa-chan, you're here."

The dark red-haired also turn around. "Natsu, how are you?"

Natsume couldn't help but smile. Minami greeting her feels so smooth today. Toma saying the usual. "I'm doing fine today. How's the two of you doing?"

"I'm doing fine." Toma said.

"Wonderful." Minami said.

Natsume smiled as she heard that from the both of them. "Glad to hear. So, what brings you guys here?"

Toma and Minami looked at each other. They thought she forgot what today is. They got worried.

"Did you forget what today is?" Toma asked.

"Today is an important day..." Minami hesitated.

The empress shook her head. "Today is my birthday. I didn't forget. What? You thought I forgot my birthday." She lifted her brows.

The Leader of ZOOL rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah." Minami nods.

She chuckled softly. "You boys are silly."

They were happy to see her smiling. It's making them feel warm inside. Toma remembered something and pouted.

"Natsu, Mina," the two of them looked at Toma. They probably know what it is. "Why did you leave me with Tora and Haru at the amusement park during Mina's Birthday? We're supposed to celebrate it together."

Toma would be mad if she told him. Natsume looked at Minami to give him a message. Minami got the message and pats her head. Toma started to get jealous. He just watched Minami patting Natsume's head. He wanted to pat her head too. Minami stopped patting Natsume then chuckled. He sent another message to her. She started to blush lightly.

Toma sees Natsume blushing. He wanted to know what Minami said to her, but how are they doing it? What is their secret?

The white empress snapped out of the comfort zone. She looked at Toma, still blushing. "Minami wanted to spend time with me alone. I saw in his eyes. So, I told Tora as bait to flirt with the girls as a distraction. After that, Minami was happy to spend time with me. We have fun at night too."

He couldn't believe what they did. Did they actually do it? Did Minami make his move already? "D-Did you two al-already… you know?"

"Yes!" They both said sarcastically.

Toma was priceless and upset. "Oh, okay. I won't bother you."

Natsume didn't mean to upset Toma. She sighed deeply. "Toma, we didn't even do it. It was sarcasm."

Minami sighed lightly. "I guess we took it too far for Inumaru-san. I guess he wants to be the first. I can't let that slide." He threatened Toma if he was the first to do it.

Toma flinched. Minami is scary when he threatens someone, but he feels delighted. He still has a chance to play with Natsume.

"So, what should we do on your birthday, Natsu?" He asked.

She started to think. They wait for her response.

"I don't have anything specific to go. Anywhere is fine." She answered.

Minami and Toma looked at each other. They don't know where she wants to go. Toma remembered what Tsukasa told him.

"Wait. I think I know where to go."

They looked at Toma as they blinked. Minami didn't think Toma had something already for the empress. He needed to step up his game.


They arrived at a japanese arcade. Minami looked at Toma wondering why he chose this place out of anything else. Toma waved his hands defensively. They have to wait for Natsume's reaction.

Natsume was already playing the crane machine. Minami was dumbfounded. Knowing Natsume, he's learning something new about her. He chuckled.

"How cute."

They went up to Natsume wondering what she's trying to get. She was trying to see a stuffed animal in the machine, but she couldn't get it. Natsume had no choice but to give up. She wanted that stuffed bear.

Toma and Minami saw the empress' depressed face. They didn't want to see that face from her. It was breaking their hearts. They decide to get it together. Toma will play the crane machine while Minami gives the directions.

Natsume looked at the boys. She watched them play the crane machine. It was impressive how they were able to coordinate perfectly. It must be them growing as true members. She was proud they are growing as a team. They got the stuffed bear from Natsume.

Minami grabbed the stuffed bear out in the machine. He gave it to the empress as he smiled. She can't help but to smile once again. Grabbing the stuffed rabbit from Minami's hand and hugging it like she was going to cherish it.

"Thank you, Minami, Toma. I'm going to cherish it."

"You're welcome." Minami said.

"No problem. We don't want to see your sad face… It was making us feel bad ourselves." Toma smiled.

The platinum blond-haired nodded. "We can't let you feel sad. It's your birthday, my empress. We'll do anything to keep you happy."

"You didn't need to do that for me." Natsume said.

Toma walked up to Natsume to pat her head. "We want to do it. We want you to be happy. It's our job to keep you smiling."

She can't say anything else. No matter what she says, they will reply with a positive attitude. It can't be helped.

"There's nothing I can say. Shall we continue our date?" They nodded.


The next stop, they arrived at an owl cafe. There were many different types of owls in the cafe. Natsume has never seen so many owls. She went up to a baby owl who is sitting on the shepherd hook. She starts to pet the owl under its beak. It was enjoying being scratched under its chin.

"You looked so adorable." Natsume smiled.

"Another cafe, Mina?" Toma looked at him, curiously.

He chuckled softly under his hand. "Hayabusa-chan is enjoying it. She loves animals. You can't deny her cutest, can you, Inumaru-san?"

Toma looked back at Natsume. Natsume was having fun and smiling. Minami was right. She was too cute to deny. He can't stop looking at her. It was making him blush softly.

"What are the two of you doing? Come, they are waiting for you." Natsume said as she walked up to them, grabbing both of their hands.

"We can't keep the empress waiting." Minami said.

"Yeah." Toma nodded.

The white-haired empress dragged them to the table to relax with the owls. The owl on Natsume's shoulder looked at Toma… hooting. It flew to his shoulder. The Leader of ZOOL stared at the owl curiously what it wanted. He reached his hand towards the owl and pet it. The owl was enjoying Toma's touch. Toma smiled as the owl was comfortable with him.

Minami stared at the owl. The owl started to shake. It can feel Minami glaring at it like a prey. It flew to Natsume's shoulder, hiding. Minami was dumbfounded. He didn't know what he did. He reached his hand to pet it, but the owl moved away from Minami's hand. He was getting worried.

"It looks like you're scaring it, Minami." Natsume said as she looked at the owl.

He hesitated. "I don't know what I did wrong."

"I think you made him think you're his food. Snakes are predators to birds. Or it could be the opposite depending on the size of the bird. But as of now, this is a small owl. So, you're the predator, Minami."

"What can I do for it to feel comfortable towards me?"

Natsume reached her hand to the baby owl for it to move to her arm. The baby owl flew to her arm and looked at Minami. It was still scared at Minami. He turned to Natsume wondering what she was doing. She smiled.

"It's okay. He won't eat you," Natsume adverted to Minami. "Try and pet him."

Minami was still hesitant. He reached out once more to pet the baby owl. The baby owl watched Minami's actions wondering what he was going to do. Minami started to pet on the head slowly. The owl no longer feels scared. It feels comfortable when Minami is petting it. Minami notices that the owl was no longer scared. He smiled.

"I think it's not scared of me," the baby owl flew towards Minami's shoulder and cuddled on his cheek. "It likes me."

Natsume smiled. "See? It takes time."

"Thank you, Natsume-chan. I didn't think it would work, but you made it happen.""It's no problem."

Toma turned to them. He was getting jealous of Minami. He's getting all of the attention. He wants attention too from Natsume. "So, Natsu," Natsume turned to the source of Toma's voice. "Can you teach me how to feed these guys?"

"Sure. It's easy to do." She replied as she grabbed a piece of small meat in a small bowl. Natsume hands over the meat to the owl. The owl grabbed the meat using its beak and used its feet to hold the meat.

"That's all you do?" Toma was amused.

The empress nodded. "They do the rest themselves."

Now, Minami was getting jealous. Toma took Natsume away from him. He hid his jealousy. Of course, Minami is an actor. It would be hard to tell if he is jealous or not.

Suddenly, someone's stomach started to growl. The Leader of ZOOL and the actor turns to the source of the sound. Natsume started to blush in embarrassment. She has her hands on her cheek. They can't help but to laugh.

"It seems the empress is getting hungry before us." Minami said, smiling.

"Let's go and eat!" Toma stood up from his chair.

The white-haired empress nodded as she smiled. "Of course."

"There's something you need to do first before we go eat." Minami chuckled.

Natsume was dumbfounded. She had a bad feeling about what they are planning.


They arrived back at the hotel. Natsume was blindfolded as she was holding both Toma's and Minami's hands. They lead her to a room. She can't tell where they are taking her too. They arrived at their destination.

"You can take off the blindfold, Natsu." Toma said.

Natsume takes off the blindfold and gasps in amazement. The entire room was filled with balloons, food, and such with birthday parties. The whole group was here in Clash's apartment. IDOLiSH7, TRIGGER, Re:vale, and ZOOL. Not only that, it's Riku's and Tenn's birthday. Well, the twins' birthday was 2 days ago.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

"NATSUME, RIKU, and TENN!"

"NATSUME-CHAN, RIKU-KUN, and TENN-KUN!"

"HAYABUSA-CHAN, NANASE-KUN, and KUJO-KUN!"

The empress and the twins smiled. Everyone was appearing not just for Riku's and Tenn's birthday, but for Natsume's birthday.

"Thank you everyone!" Riku smiled.

"Thank you!" Tenn said.

"Thanks for everything you guys did!" Natsume said.

"Natsu!" Minato runs up to the empress and hugs her. "We got a present for you from us!"

"Oh really? I'm curious to know what it is."

"Here you go, my empress." Tsukasa had the present on his hands and gave it to her.

Natsume grabbed the present from Tsukasa's hand. She looked at Clash dumbfounded. They nodded with a smile. She tears off the wrapper around the gift. Then she opened the lid of the box and smiled.

"This is a photo for all us at Drift." Natsume grabbed the photo frame from the box and looked at the photo.

Mitsuki walked up beside Natsume and smiled. "Wow! You guys were so young. Minato still looks like the youngest."

Minato nodded. "Yeah! I grew big too!"

"Ehh? How tall are you?" Mitsuki asked, jealousy.

The youngest member of Clash started to think his height. "Umm…. Oh! I'm the same height as Haru-chan!"

Mitsuki turned to Haruka then back to Minato. "Yeah. You two are the same height."

Minami looked at the photo frame of young Clash. "Fufu. My, you guys are so cute. How young were you guys?"

"Takumi was 12. Tsukasa, Shinobu, and I were 11. Hayate was 10. And Minato was 9." Natsume replied.

Riku walked up to Natsume and saw the picture. "Yeah. Hmm… how come Akatsuki-san isn't in the photo?"

"He wasn't in Drift. 2 year ago, that was when Akatsuki joined Clash. It was rather a fun experience." Tsukasa answered, smirking.

"It was not a good experience." Akatsuki remembered as he curved his forehead.

Shinobu crossed his arms. "It was fun bullying the little junior."

"Hey!" Akatsuki pouted.

"And bullying Minato for no reason." Hayate said.

"And stalking him." Takumi said,

"You have 4 people that would have attacked you and me." Natsume smirked.

"You guys are so terrified." Akatsuki said.

"Ahem. We are here to celebrate Nanase's, Tenn's, and Hayabusa's birthday. If we don't eat, the food will get cold." Gaku interrupted Clash's playtime.

Riku smiled. "Yes. Tenn-nii!" He runs up to his older twin.

Yamato smirked. He thought it would be a great idea to do it on Natsume's birthday. He walked up to her and smiled. "So, Hayabusa. Should we have fun together?"

The empress knew what Yamato was up to. She chuckled. "Oh, what kind of fun?"

Toma, Minami, and Mitsuki notice that Yamato is trying to get Natsume all to himself. Toma and Minami know how Natsume acts. She's no fool to fall into Yamato's trap. Mitsuki wanted to stop Yamato from flirting with the empress.

He was stopped by Tsukasa. Tsukasa looked confident. Mitsuki turned to the other members of Clash. They also looked confident.

"You know? We can eat, play, and such together. Maybe even sleep on your lap too." Yamato smiled.

"Are you Tsukumo now?"

"What are you talking about?" Yamato was dumbfounded.

"He wanted to sleep on my lap too. Only specific people can sleep on my lap." Yamato was about to open his mouth. "It's not you. If you want to get a woman, you need to play it safe not steal, Let's go and celebrate! I'm famished." Natsume walked towards the table of food.

"Don't underestimate the empress. She's no fool." Tsukasa smiled.

"You guys were so confident of her too." Mitsuki was amazed.

"Natsume-chan has been like that since she was young." Sogo remembered.

"Yeah. I remembered too." Torao recalled.

"ANYWAYS! Let's eat! We have been stalling too long! I'm hungry!" Natsume exclaimed.

Everyone smiled and agreed.


Everyone all passed out sleeping in the apartment. It was crowded seeing them sleeping like a bunch of sheeps.

Natsume was on the balcony watching the city lights. She was enjoying the view of the city lights. She was interrupted by a sliding door from behind. The empress turned around to see who it was.

"What brings you here, Toma?" She asked.

Toma started to rub the back of his head like he was nervous. "Well, I umm… I have a present for you." He took out the present as he was blushing.

The white-haired empress grabbed the present from his hand. She teared from the wrapping paper around the box. Then opened the box and gasped in shock. It was an ornament tiger lily hair pin. Natsume took it out of the box.

"It's beautiful, Toma. Thank you." She said as she smiled.

The Leader of ZOOL couldn't help but smile. He grabbed the hair pin from Natsume's hand and put it on her left side of her hair.

"Now, you look more beautiful." Toma reached down to touch her cheek.

Natsume can feel Toma's warmth from his hand. He wanted to hold her. He doesn't know what Minami and Natsume did during his birthday. Did Minami get a special treat from her?

"You look jealous. Is something bothering you?" Natsume asked.

"What did you do on Mina's birthday?" Toma replied with a hint of jealousy.

Natsume chuckled softly. "You were jealous of that? How cute."

The dark red-haired blushed deeply. "He had all of the fun with you. I want to spend time with you on your birthday. I don't want any interruption from Mina or anyone else."

"I had fun spending time with you and Minami today. I shall remember it forever." She smiled.

Toma couldn't hold it any longer. He hugged her. She was being too cute for him. Natsume hugged Toma back. Toma started to nuzzle her cheek. The empress started to laugh softly from the nuzzle. It felt like she was being loved by her dog as a master.

Toma stopped what he was doing. "Sorry! I didn't mean to! I got carried away from your cuteness!"

"It's okay," she reached her hand on Toma's cheek. "You have been a good boy. So, what kind of treat do I get from my dog?" She licked her lips.

The Leader of ZOOL took a deep breath. He wrapped his arms around Natsume's waist and leaned closer. Their lips touched as one. Toma decided to deepen the kiss. Natsume can feel Toma's passionate feelings on the kiss. They separate the kiss from each other. They were both out of breath. Toma nuzzled on her cheeks. She starts to giggle.

"There's your treat from me, my empress." Toma answered, smiling.

"You sly dog. I didn't think you would do that."

"So, did you have fun? I'm going to have to make it a little more rough next time." A dark voice from behind.

Toma flinched as he turned around. He knows that voice. "Mina! I thought you were sleeping!"

"You think I would be sleeping when you have fun with Hayabusa-chan. I can't let that slide. If you like, I can give you a fortune, Inumaru-san." Minami smiled devily.

"No. I'm good. Your fortune feels too real." Toma shook his head. He didn't want to feel Minami's fortune again.

Mitsuki comes in and attacks Toma. "Stay away from Hayabusa-chan! She doesn't belong to you!" He pouted.

"Hey! You did nothing for Natsu's Birthday!"

Minami walked up to Natsume reaching his hand out for her. "Shall we get going, my empress?"

Before Natsume could reach her hand, Mitsuki and Toma stopped Minami from taking her away. They started to argue to each other.

Natsume sighed lightly. "Well, I guess I'm going to bed now. It's getting late. Love is a blinding force." She leaves the balcony for the three love birds to fight over the empress.


I know this a late chapter for Natsume's birthday. Her birthday was July 12th. It's 2 days after the twins birthday. Now, I can start doing chapter 5. See you guys in the next chapter.