Mana here. This one's going to be a long one. Which is good, since I made the last chapter so short.

"Hikaru, what is the meaning of this?" The man asked Yuki.

Yuki scanned the picture one more time. The door to my room was locked and everything! This is impossible! Unless someone was already inside since a while ago!

"Well, Hikaru?" The man said, "is that you in this picture or not?"

"Yes sir, it is me." Ayame gave a dramatic gasp in the background. "But we celebrities need our privacy too!"

"I understand that, Hikaru, but whether or not you're in full privacy, you must always be careful."

"This is so unfair! How would I know if some stalker is stalking me?" Yuki fumed about in a very out of character way. (of course it's out of character…he's Hikaru!) The man sighed.

"Hikaru, now you'll have to do a press conference this afternoon to tell everyone, ok?"

Yuki sulked in a very Hikaru manner.

"Ok…"

Later that Afternoon

"And we're live today at a press conference with Hikaru concerning the latest story with his 'secret love life.'"

The camera showed Hikaru on a podium with many microphones attached to it and several camera flashes.

"Hikaru! We have heard word from a local high school that that girl with you is Machi Kuragi! Is that true?"

"Yes, it's true." (Hikaru is currently calm)

"What is you're connection with this girl?"

"She's a very good friend of mine from school, but I'll leave it at that."

"Have you seen her outside of school?"

"No. I already told you that we only see each other in school." (Hikaru is slightly agitated)

"Do you have any other relationships with her?"

"No!" (Hikaru is pissed) "Leave me and her the hell alone! You reporters have nothing better to do but mud-sling me, don't you? I oughta have you sued in court for slander!"

Yuki kicked the podium over at full force and proceeded to attack the audience until Ayame grabbed him and pulled him off stage.

Later in Hikaru's dressing room

"Yuki! What in all that is bright and beautiful were you thinking? This is an outrage! You'll get even more slandered today than usual! What will become of you in the future???"

Ayame went on but Yuki just sat in his bath, clothes still on, and unconcerned.

"Answer me Yuki!!"

"I'm sorry, what did you say?"

Ayame sighed. "Yuki, you can't keep blowing up like that. Especially in public."

"Why not?"

"Because, dear brother, people will think you're weird and childish."

"But niisan, that's the reason I took up this Hikaru thing. I want to become a whole different person and do things I would have never done as Yuki."

"Like go to clubs and drink and hug girls?"

"NO!"

Yuki sighed and sank lower in his bath.

"Yuki, you're ruining really expensive clothes, do you know that?"

"Go away, Aya."

The next day at school all the girls were in uproar about the press conference.

"OMG did you see Hikaru? He was so cute!"

"But what about Machi? Are we leaving her alone now?"

"Well…if Hikaru says so…then I guess we could spare her."

"Oh, but that's so cool! She knows Hikaru!"

Yuki ignored them.

"Yuki-kun, did you see Hikaru's press conference?" Tohru came up to Yuki's desk along with her friends.

"Ah, no I didn't, Honda-san. How was it?"

"Aw, he was so cute! You should have seen him! He was all defensive and he even knocked over the podium, but I'm glad he stood up for Machi-san."

"Hikaru can act like such a fool sometimes, but I understand if you think it's cute."

"Thank you, Yuki-kun!"

Then, Kyo walked in the classroom, obviously pissed about how everyone's talking about Hikaru.
"Jeez, what's so great about him?"

"Oh, good morning, Kyo-kun!" Tohru said brightfully, "we were just talking about the press conference. Did you see it?"

"Ah, only a little. But Hikaru is so immature! How could everyone like him?"

"Oh, I'm sorry! I guess we shouldn't talk about him then."

"Nah, you can talk about what ever you want."

"Indeed, I'll have to agree with Kyo, but Hikaru is rather immature, and I don't see why everyone think he's so great," Yuki said, trying to join in.

"Hmph, I don't see why you have any right to talk, rat boy."

Yuki looked puzzled. "What are you talking about?"

"I think you should know. Or are you scared that everyone will find out?"

Yuki gasped and mouthed out the words 'you don't know, do you?' Kyo took the opportunity to punch Yuki in the stomach once his guard was down.

"Hah! I gotcha!" Kyo sneered while towering over the fallen angel, er, I mean Yuki. "But I'll warn you, have fun being a little pop star while you still can."

Kyo left the classroom. Tohru, who is now very confused, helped Yuki up and tried to aid his bruised stomach.

"Yuki-kun, what was that about? What was Kyo talking about?"

"Ah, oh, it's nothing, Honda-san."

The rest of the day, the thought of Kyo rang in Yuki's head. It was a very uncomfortable feeling, indeed. Even during his photo shoot as Hikaru he still didn't feel better.

"Hikaru, try to look happier," the photographer told him.

Yuki tried to move around a little more and smile his cute smile but he didn't think it looked honest.

Pretty soon it came to the point where he couldn't stop shaking. Suddenly, when he was posing in front of an electric fan, he fainted.

"Hikaru!" Everyone rushed toward him.

"He has a fever," one of the photographers felt Yuki's forehead. "No! Now he's going to sue us for pushing him to hard!"

"Come on," another photographer said, "Hikaru wouldn't do that."

"STAND ASIDE!!" Everyone knew that was Ayame. They gave way to him while he picked up Yuki and ran off.

Once they arrived in Hikaru's dressing room, Hatori, who had been waiting there, gave him shots filled with medicine.

"MY POOR BROTHER!!!" Ayame wailed dramatically.

"Calm down, you," Hatori said, "he's just stressed out. Poor guy's all worked up."

"Ok."

After five minutes Yuki woke up.

"Hatori?"

"Hey. You shouldn't overwork yourself so much."

"How do you know I'm Hikaru?"

"We all know. Well, just me and Ayame and Shigure."

"Does Kyo know?"

"No. But I have to know because I'm your doctor."

"You won't tell anyone, will you?"

"Of course not."

Hatori helped Yuki up and walked him to his closet.

"Are you sure you don't want to perform at your concert tonight?"

"I do want to perform! I don't want to disappoint anyone."

"Well, if you say so. Just don't get yourself mobbed if you faint on stage."

Yuki stuck his tongue out at Hatori.

At Shigure's house

"Hey, Tohru?" Kyo asked at the table.

"Yes, Kyo-kun?"

"I was thinking…maybe I will go with you to the Hikaru concert tonight."

"Really Kyo-kun? I'm so happy! Thank you so much! But you're not just coming with me because you don't want me alone, right?"

"No, I wanna check out this Hikaru guy, to see how great he really is."

"Ok, thank you so much!"

At the concert

"Hikaru you'll be on in ten minutes," the stage manager told him.

Yuki waved at him and proceeded into putting on the rest of his outfit. It consisted of blue faded jeans, a white transparent shirt, and a thin scarf.

"Yuki, aren't you the least bit nervous?" Ayame asked him while sitting on Hikaru's couch. "Aren't you scared you'll faint on stage? Then you'll be swept away by fan girls and the next thing you know it, you'll awake to find yourself in a small room with thousands of men ripping your clothes off and forcing themselves upon you! That's what it says in this fan letter of yours."

"No, I'm not worried about that, but there's something that doesn't seem quite right. I have this nervous feeling for some reason. But I'll try my best anyway." He couldn't tell him about Kyo. He'd have Kyo arrested and he'll tease Yuki for the rest of his life of how he hides behind his brother.

"That's the spirit Yuki! I remember once in this play I was the lead and all of the sudden someone said 'Macbeth' and the set crashed, the lights exploded and the singers all of the sudden got sore throats, including myself, but that didn't stop us—" Ayame went on and on after Yuki left his dressing room.

Once he appeared on stage everyone cheered. Yuki forgot he was Hikaru for a moment when he just smiled and said nothing. Then the music started and he remembered himself. He sang like a chorus of jpop angels.

The concert went on with a success. Yuki felt a little faint, but that didn't stop him. Suddenly, the music stopped. The lights completely shut down, leaving the house pitch black. Everyone screamed while Yuki stood in confusion.

Yuki heard everyone running this way and that. Then, he felt a something like a club or a baseball bat slam against his head, knocking him unconscious. The one brandishing the club then dragged him away.

When Yuki came to after about an hour or two, he found himself in a small room, chained to a chair. The room was dark with nothing but a single light and it stank like low tide.

"Hello, Yuki-san," a voice said. The figure came closer into the light.

"Kyo?"

Yes! I finally finished that chapter! Sorry it took so long. Blame school. And writer's block.

I'm sorry it was so like this. Please review!