Chapter 6. ~Misaki~
Shoujotachi yo, mou sugu yoake ga kuru
„That alarm is pretty ironic right?" I heard Minami from under me.
„I had to laugh and that was first time I laughed at 5.30 am. Thanks Minami!
„Sorry, but I love the song" Aya mumbled.
„It's ‚'Shoujotachi yo', right?"
„Yes" Aya yawned.
„Well, itwas a silly question she just sang that" Minami laughed and swang herself out of her bed.
How could she be that energetic at this time?
Zenryoku de hashirunda
Aya turned the alarm of and swang herself out of the bed too.
„Kaa-o-ri! Are you awake?" I shouted.
Kaori turned to the side and looked into my face.
„You look creepy…"
That was unexpected. Kaori laughed and got out of her bed too. Since I was the last one I also climbed down my the ladder from my bed and managed somehow to to a mirror on the wall. Kaori was right I DID look creepy. My long thick blue hair was all over my head in my face and I had big shadows under my eyes. Minami had captured the bathroom first so I decided to first do my make up, which I needed a LOT. I almost used the whole concealer and needed about 10 hours to get my hair in the right position.
What should wear?
„Girls, what will you wear?"
„I have a lot of stuff, I think I'll wear just a skirt and a top, but I don't know which one" Came out of the bathroom.
„I don't have many things, I just have a dress and jeans and t-shirts. I've never worn a skirt, do you think I can go with jeans?" I heard water splashing in the bathroom.
„Minami, are you okay?" I giggled.
The door opened and a shocked Minami went out. „You don't really want to go to AKB final auditions in jeans right? I missunderstood this, right?"
„What's the matter with that?" Kaori has gotten angry. I knew it, she was always bullied because of her boyishness, but Minami couldn't know that. There was so much she didn't know.
„Minami please stop, you know, Kaori doesn't like skirts much and that's why-"
„Wait, Misaki thanks but I can tell her on my own, sorry Misaki I didn't react fair it's just…I'v gotten bullied becaue I look like a boy thats why…"
„I don't really get it…" Minami started. Would this turn out in a fight? Kaori had still an angry look on her face.
„I mean, you're so cute with that hairstyle and beautiful. I didn't want to hurt you but I think you should wear something girlish and cute. I just think you would look great. But it's nothing wrong with that."
„Kaori when you'll become an idol, you have to wear skirts everyday. Don't you want to practice? I'm sure you'll be super cute." Aya rested her hand on her best friends shoulder.
Kaori sighed.
„Well, you might be right, you three, but like I said..I don't have any skirts."
„That can be helped! I have about a hundred. Let's look through my bag." She was all excited and looked through her bag laying every skirt on her bed, holding it onto Kaori, shaking her head.
I decided to go finally into the bathroom and brush my teeth. Aya had now captured the other mirror and I continued my makeup mission here. My hair was now softly falling down my back. I looked acceptable, I mean I had just one hour of sleep.
„This is ittt!" Seemed like Minami found something for Kaori. I smiled quietly and hoped Kaori thouht too that this was „it".
When I got out of the bathroom I almost fainted.
Kaori looked pretty cute. She wore a pink skirt and black overkneesocks with a matc hing top. In5 years, I've never seen her that beautiful. Aya and Minami were already dressed as well so I was the last one. I threw myself quickly into a blue dress and again we hurried to the cantine…at least without a crash with Yuka…
„How long did the four of you sleep?" Umi asked with a grin. They were sitting at they're old tables behind eggs and bread.
„One hour" I said „But better than nothing. And you?"
„Well, we didn't sleep…Yuka and Hime were snorting soo loud…went into the practicing room and practiced for today. Some of the steps are difficult, right? Does everyone danceto the same song?"
„We dance to River, you too?" Minami said with her mouth full.
Umi and Yui nodded. Their mouths were also too full to speak.
I wasn't hungry at all. Maybe it was because I wasn't hungry very often in the morning. Maybe it was because I was too nervous, but I really had to force myself to eat.
„Girls?" I looked was standing at the door with a megaphone.
„Can everybody hear me? You probably can't see me since I'm a bit on the small side." She sighed. „But at least you should hear me." A giggle went through the cantine.
„I'll now make some announcements about how you'll go on here. I'll try to make it short, I promise. So, today we'll split you in groups of seven, than you'll have to sing one song from AKB that you can chose by yourself, while your group is listening and then you will dance together to River, my part. We want to see if you're synchron. If a group is synchron the first time they all dance together it sure is an advantage for you. Today we'll let 20 girls pass.
We change some things in AKB, you won't take the place from an former AKB member….well, me and Kanata were the last Takaminas…we hadn't had a Takamina for 10 years now"She sighed again. „But that's not important now. We want to make new stars of you so it doesn't count anymore if you're similar to acchan or yuko, you have to be someone on your own. Remember that."
The cantine was now all quite. Nobody had expected that. I was a bit disappointed, just a bit. I won't be the next Chieri, but it was also a good feeling that maybe I would become someone new, someone great…if I pass.
„We also have again teams, for a few generations. Many graduated from team a so we stored them all into team K and team B. In each team are 15 members. We haven't got many members as you see and we need new ones. We decided that we won't do this Kenkyuusei stuf this year. Nine of you will pass the last test and nine of you will form Team A." She said the last sentence in such a dramatic voice that everyone was even more shocked. But sure that were shocking news. We won'tbe Kenyuusei. We just need to pass two tests then we're official members of AKB. We could do this right? I was sure.
„So that was everything. I hope all of you are good with maths. We'll go after your numbers. The first ones are at seven o clock, well, it's in five minutes. Mariko, I said you should stop me if I talk too long.
„You can stop yourself…"
Only the first three tables heard that. We were at one them. They had to be such great friends. I could feel in the way they talk, but they have been together for like 15 years.
„The first seven should come with us now. We'll announce when the next seven shall come and then you should be in position…In your position AUDITION!" ***
The hall was all quiet. I think it was meant to be a joke. It wasn't even that bad when I thought about „Beginner" but somehow she got the joke to fail…
„Takamina you won't get funnier with the years" Mariko shook her head.
„Let's get going, the numbers 1 to 7 please, come with me.
I hadn't eaten much but now everything was too late. We got up and I took a deep breath before we left the cantine. With us were three girls. I didn't really notice them until we sat in the waiting room after they took Minami with them in the audition room.
One had pink shoulderlong hair and her name was Hikari.
The second girl, Kana, had one light brown ponytail and the third ones name was Sachiko. She had long purple hair and looked kind of mysterious.
I knew therir names from signs on their chests. None of us spoke, we were all too busy with our own nerves. After maybe…30 seconds (the clock told me it were 10 minutes, but I didn't believe it), Minami went out of the room with a big smile on her face. I entered the practicing room and saw five faces looking at me. It was kind of an uneasy feelinf to be looked at that carefully by Takamina, Yuko, Mariko, Sayaka and Tomochin. I saw them all at the concert and on poster and I wanted to jump on them and beg for signs but that wouldn't realy fit to the situation. I just stood in the middle from the room and looked at them.
„Shall I sing now?" Silly question.
„Yes, that would be a great pleasure" Mariko said sarcastic.
„Mariko! After that seven girls I get you a coffee, please pull yourself together" Takamina said. The other three women next to them laughed and Misaki laughed with them. She wasn't as nervous now as when she waited for her audition.
„Before you sing, we want to ask you something" Takamina said.
„Why have you decided to become an idol?"
That was a bad question. The story with Rin was moving but that wasn't the right place for that and before her death she wanted to become an idol too. But didn't she just wanted to be an idol because Rin wanted? No, she loved idols, she loved AKB, but she couldn't say this either.
„Have you lost your voice or don't you have a reason?" Mariko said in a strict voice.
„Give her time to think, that's not an easy question" Tomochin answered in a reassuring voice.
„I want to!" It was the only answer that fit even though it wasn't very meaningful.
Takamina and Tomochin smiled.
„Well you want to sing River?" Yuko asked.
„Yes"
„The stage is yours"
The playback started and I couldn't go back.
***if someone doesn't understand this joke just listen to „Beginner" then watch Majisuka gakuen report by takamina part 2…. Takamina sure is the best xDD