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Then, Yozora performed twice, and after M4 finished their final performance, Ms. Ran gathered all the stars together and told them that they would be taking the buses to a hotel to stay the night at.
When they got the the hotel, the girls were given their own room, and the boys their own as well. They ate dinner in their rooms, and soon were relaxing.
Their room was large, with five twin sized beds on both sides of the room, two couches near the front of the room with a large television screen, a dresser and vanity behind it, and a bathroom in the front near the door.
Yozora smiled at the girls. "You all did magnificent today! You should be very proud of your first tour show!"
Ako smiled into the mirror at the vanity as she brushed her hair straight, out of her ears style.
Yozora was braiding Mahiru's hair, against her initial will.
Laura and Yume were playing cards with each other.
They were all already in their pajama.
"Thank you, Yozora. It means a lot coming from you." Yume said.
"Of course." Yozora answered, twisting Mahiru's hairs. "All of you have a lot of potential. We should celebrate."
Mahiru brightened. "Let's get some chocolate muffins and chocolate cakes and chocolate milk from room service!" She suggested.
Yume cheered, her own sweet tooth acting up. "Yea! I agree!"
Ako rolled her eyes. "There are other ways we can celebrate."
"Yea? Like what?" Laura asked, her eyes light with humor.
"Like," Ako started, turning around from the mirror. "Watching a movie!"
"That's not a bad idea." Yozora said, a smile on her lips.
Yume jumped up. "I know the perfect movie! Night Watch!"
Ako shrieked. "Night Watch? How could you like such a thing?"
"What?" Yume asked. "I really like that movie!"
Ako crossed her arms, her hair brush in hand. "Of course you would like such a movie!"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Yume pouted.
Laura sighed. "Come on, you two. We can decide on something else."
Yume huffed and looked away. As she did, her eye caught sight of the sofa that she and Laura were playing near. A grin played on her lips.
Quickly, she grabbed hold of one of the colorful pillows and threw it across the room.
It sailed through the air slowly, hitting Ako square in the face.
Laura, Mahiru, and Yozora gasped, the room silencing suddenly.
The pillow fell to the floor with a soft thump, revealing Ako's stunned face.
Her face started turning red. "Yume Nijino..." She said in a low tone. As quick as Yume, she threw a pillow from the bed near her, at Yume.
Yume, expected this, and ducked with a laugh.
The pillow flew past Yume, but hit Laura.
Laura looked down, before lifting her face, her eyes dark. With a low whisper, she declared, "It's on."
She grabbed a pillow from the sofa and launched herself at Ako. Ako shrieked and dived for the bed to get a pillow for herself.
Yume took some pillows from the sofa and started tossing them at Yozora and Mahiru.
Luckily, Yozora had finished tying off Mahiru's hair into a single braid.
Mahiru dodged them. "Hey!" Suddenly, out of nowhere, she brought out some tiles and smashed through them with her hand in anger. She then took a pillow from the bed closest to her to begin her attack on Yume.
Yume yelped as Mahiru started smacking her with the pillow.
On the other side, Laura and Ako were evenly matched in their pillow fight.
Yozora smiled with a light laugh. "My, my..." She got her own pillow and went in to hit Mahiru, whose skills were overpowering Yume.
Mahiru stumbled back and looked up with surprise. Her eyes turned determined and she started attacking both Yume and Yozora.
All five girls continued their attacks. Laura and Mahiru ended up against each other in a serious fight, jumping from the beds to the couches, all over the room. They were giving off strong shouts of determination.
Ako fought with Yume and Yozora in a more playful and fun way, but were still messing each other up and screaming in delight.
Yume stepped back to dodge the swinging pillow from Ako. As she did, her foot landed on a cold, plastic like thing. Her eyes widened as she felt her footing slip. She squawked as her body shot backwards and she fell over onto the ground.
Ako and Yozora gasped and froze.
"Yume! Are you okay? What happened?" Ako asked in surprise.
Yume sat up, rubbing her head. "Looks like Laura and I forgot to pick up our cards."
Ako rolled her eyes and Yozora giggled.
Yume dropped back onto the floor, panting heavily and exhausted. Ako wobbled to a bed and fell over onto her back, while Yozora sat down on the couch.
Laura and Mahiru seemed to be tired out as well, both of the falling over to a bed.
"That was... fun." Yume panted out.
Laura laughed breathlessly. "I agree."
"You are a worthy opponent, Laura." Mahiru said.
They all laughed tiredly.
Yozora stood up and looked around the messed up room. "We should tidy up the room."
Each of the girls sat up, noticing their messy hair styles and clothes as well.
"Wow," Yume laughed. "We really got carried away."
Yozora gasped at Mahiru. "Mahiru! Big sissy's hair style got ruined!" She pouted but then smiled. "Don't worry, I'll fix it!"
Mahiru seemed to not agree with the idea, and began backing away.
They all moved and started fixing the sheets of the beds and arranging the pillows of the sofa properly again.
Yume brushed off the cushion on the couch and fixed the position of one of the pillows.
She was about to go straighten her tousled up hair, when a knock sounded on their door.
"I'll get it!" Yume said, as she was closest to the door.
She hopped over to the door and swung it open.
As she did, two pops were heard and she had something falling on her.
"Good job!"
"Congratulations!"
Yume blinked and saw M4 standing in front of her, Asahi and Nozomu being the ones popping party streamers on her. "Eh?"
The boys too, blinked at her appearance; her messy hair, along with her pink pajama hoodie and striped leggings.
Subaru burst out laughing.
Yume frowned. "What?"
He pointed at her hair, still laughing. "Your hair... You look like a real octopus!" He continued laughing.
Yume was not amused, instead ignoring him and looking at the others. "What are you doing here?"
Asahi smiled. "We came to celebrate your first tour performance!" He lifted his arms to show a basket that he held filled with stuff.
"May we come in?" Nozomu asked politely.
Yume glanced back at her roommates, who were all paying attention. They smiled at her, so Yume turned back to the boys. "Sure!"
They shuffled into the room, settling on the couch and around the girls.
Asahi set the basket on the table in front of the couch and went to his sisters. "Mahiru! Why is your hair so messed up?" He cried, outraged.
Yozora laughed. "We just had a pillow fight. And of course, Mahiru went full out on it."
Asahi grinned. "A pillow fight! Sounds fun!" He narrowed his eyes mischievously at Mahiru. "Well... Since your hair is already messed up, that means I can do this!" He threw his arm around her neck around rapped his knuckles upon her head as a noogie.
Mahiru shrieked. "Bro! Stop it!"
Yozora laughed at her two siblings, her camera out as she took discrete photos of them as they wrestled and laughed.
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Ako was sitting at the vanity again, her hair messy and her blushing face ducked down behind the hair brush in her hand. She was spying at Subaru's reflection off the mirror through the corner of her eyes.
She didn't notice another figure approach her from her other side.
"You look different."
Ako jumped in her seat and spun her head around. When she recognized Kanata, she turned her gaze away to look over herself in the mirror. Her yellow-green loose long sleeve shirt had a print of cat ears and whiskers, but no eyes or nose as a design. The matching shorts were pale green with colorful cartoon kitty faces. Her hair was fully open, but not straight as she didn't brush it out yet after their big pillow fight.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Ako growled in response with a frown.
He lifted his hand and gestured into the air near the top of his head. "Your hair." Kanata continued.
Ako looked at his funny actions and returned her gaze to herself. She realized he was talking about the ears she styled her hair in usually.
"Well I don't sleep with my hair done!" Ako snapped back. Neatly, she began running her hair brush through her tangled hair.
He hummed in response, tucking his hands into the pockets of his dark grey hoodie. "I like it."
Her eyes widened slightly and flickered at him through the mirror. She noticed that he wasn't looking at her anymore, instead staring off somewhere else. It seemed like he said that without thinking. Ako felt her cheeks start to get hot, yet she didn't know why. "Thanks?" Ako replied calmer than before, confused on whether or not it was compliment.
"You seem to like cats." Kanata said.
Ako deadpanned and rolled her eyes. "Really?"
Kanata smirked at her attitude. "Do you have any?"
"I do." Ako smiled to herself at the thought of her cats. "Two, their names are Purrsephone and Meowlody."
Kanata blinked. "You gave them pun names?"
Ako turned light pink. She defended, "I was seven! Don't judge me!" She crossed her arms angrily.
He laughed and turned to lean on the wall beside the vanity. Kanata gazed at their friends in the room, all of them smiling and joking. "This... is nice." He mumbled softly.
Ako glanced at him through the corner of her eye as she returned to brushing her hair. "Did you say something?"
Kanata hummed back, but didn't reply.
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Yume went to her bag and pulled out her hair brush. She quickly ran the bristles through her locks to straighten it.
"Do you usually have messy hair like that?"
Yume turned her head, unimpressed. "No, I don't."
"Then why's it like that now?" Subaru asked again.
"Because we were fighting." Yume answered.
Subaru paused. "Fighting?" He imagined the girls with boxing gloves in a ring.
Yume nodded, tucking her brush back into her bag. "Yea, pillow fight." She swung her arms like she was swinging a pillow as an example.
"Oh." Subaru responded. That made more sense. His eyes wandered to the basket they brought. "Hey we brought some sweets and games to play." He informed.
"Sweets?" Yume asked, her eyes brightening.
Subaru nodded. "Yea. For your first performance on the road."
Yume stared at him deeply and silently.
"Um..." Subaru fidgeted under her gaze.
Yume snapped out of it and laughed. "Oh! Sorry! I was thinking, right before we had out pillow fight, we were talking about getting some treats and watching a movie!" She continued to laugh. "You guys were a step ahead of us!" Yume gave him a cheeky grin.
Subaru felt his face get hot. "Y-yea..."
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Nozomu inched forward towards Laura, who was sitting on the ground. "What were you all doing before we came? You all look roughed up."
Laura looked up at him. "Oh, we had a pillow fight." She grinned. "We were just cleaning up."
"A pillow fight?" Nozomu blinked. "Interesting."
Laura raised an eyebrow. "Is that unlikely?"
"No, no." Nozomu raised his hands with a calm smile. "It's nice to see you girls. You all seem close."
Laura hummed. "Do we? We're still pretty new friends."
"It's not how old your friendship is, but how strong it is." Nozomu quipped.
Laura closed her eyes with a smile. "Yea, it is."
"Let's get everyone to come get some snacks." Nozomu said with a smile. He straightened up. "Everyone! Let's have a snack and play some games!" He announced.
Everyone came to gather around the coffee table as Nozomu took out the snacks.
There were different flavored muffins and brownies, enough for all of them.
After everyone got a snack, Subaru another box out.
"Who wants to play?" He asked.
They all agreed to play, and played in teams of two; Subaru and Nozomu, Kanata and Asahi, Yume and Laura, and Ako and Mahiru. Yozora sat out and watched them play.
They all played together, sharing many laughs and stories.
About a half hour later, there was a knock at the door.
Yozora stood to get it. When she opened it, Ms. Ran was standing there. Yozora let Ms. Ran inside and she spoke.
"I see you all are gathered together. That's good." Ms. Ran said. "But it's getting late. We have to hit the road again tomorrow. You all have two performances." Ms. Ran ran her eyes over everyone. "Make sure you go to bed on time."
Yume raised her hand. "What time are we leaving in the morning?"
"Eight thirty." Ms. Ran answered with a smile. She gave a wave to them and left them.
Yozora closed the door and returned to the group. "I think Miss Ran is right. We should clean up and go to bed."
The others agreed, so then began to clean up their mess. The boys took the basket back and said good night.
The girls snuggled in each of their beds, falling asleep almost instantly, eager for their next performance.
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I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Believe it or not, chapters 10, 11 and 12(this one) were all supposed to be in one chapter! But… that would've been way too long… Leave a review! Which part did you like the most? Thanks!