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Byul So Hoshi was only two days late this time =_=
Hoshi I only have one word in my defense.
Byul And that is?
Hoshi SKYRIM.
Byul ….dammit. You win.
Hoshi Damn straight. I'm only human! D:
Byul I just noticed that we spend way too much time on author's notes and babble.
Hoshi And I just noticed that I'm much better at writing angst o.o It makes me kind of sad xD
Byul :goes back to read the chapters: Whoa! You are xD
Hoshi I told you so
Byul ….you're going to write a shit-ton of angst now aren't you? D:
Hoshi You know me too well mwahahahahahaha!
Byul ….well guys, let's hope you enjoy the chapter o.o
Hoshi NOT A CHANCE kekekekeke

Show Biz: Act I

Scene IV:
Lord, What Fools These Idols Be

Where is that fucking idiot? Don't tell me he got lost? …No…no someone MUST have found him by now…right? Yeah…Yeah that idiot should be fine… Kanda thought as he paced around the practice room. The main dancers hadn't arrived yet so he'd been practicing on his own. It had been at least half an hour since he'd gotten here. He had been expecting the moyashi to storm after him. To grab his arm and tell him to wait like he usually did. Not just stand there like an idiot. If Moyashi got lost, it wasn't his fault. Nope. No sir. But…

Che, that idiot. It's almost time for practice to start. If he's gone it'll make me look bad since he's my partner so I'll go look for him, Kanda tried to convince himself as he walked out nervously. But as he did, he bumped into none other than:

"Moyashi? Where the fuck have you been?" Kanda asked. Then he looked to the side and his anger swelled. Some stupid redhead had his arm over his….partner's shoulder. He couldn't explain this sudden surge of disdain. Nor could he explain why he suddenly grabbed the guy's arm and jerked it off of the moyashi's shoulder.

"Kanda! What are you do-" Allen yelled indignantly.

"Moyashi," Kanda cut him off, his voice dangerously low. He didn't even look at Allen, opting to glare at the redhead instead. "Who the fuck is this?"

"I'm sorry, what?" Allen asked after a few seconds of silence. Maybe he had heard wrong.

"I said, what about me then?" Lavi repeated.

There is no way this guy is serious...is he? No, he probably means it as a friend, Allen thought as he began to reply.

"Sure I like you. You're my friend, right?" Allen said, just to be safe.

Lavi was quiet for a second, his face blank. Then the moment passed and he said, "Yeah! Now, let's get to practice. I'll lead you there."

Lavi slung his arm around Allen's shoulders, then lead him through the halls.

Allen was left feeling like a total idiot when Lavi turned two corners and stopped.

"Here we are!" the red-head chirped.

"...Are you kidding me?" Allen groaned.

"Nope! Let's go in, it's almost time for practice to start."

Lavi opened the door, and was surprised to find an extremely pissed off Japanese man giving him death glare. However, what really shocked him was when the man grabbed Lavi's wrist and moved his arm roughly off of Allen.

"Kanda! What are you do-" Allen started.

"Moyashi," Kanda growled menacingly as he cut Allen off. "Who the fuck is this?"

"If you must know, Bakanda, this is one of the people dancing with us today. His name is Lavi. And if you aren't going to be nice to your own damn partner, at least be nice to him," Allen hissed, his dark side creeping out a little.

Kanda had never seen Allen so pissed.

Shit. I fucked up. But I am NOT fucking apologizing. Damn. Fuck.

As Kanda tried to think of a way to "apologize" without saying the words "I'm sorry" he loosened his grip on Lavi's arm. Allen noticed this and took his own hold on Kanda's upper arm. It wasn't forceful, but his gaze was. And it told Kanda to stop. Now.

Kanda sighed and let Lavi go completely.

"Che...listen, Moyashi...I was...listen about earlier...I shouldn't have...che, I mean, it's your own damn business if you like Lenalee anyways," Kanda finished with a scoff, failing to get his point across.

However, Allen had been hanging out with Kanda too much. He understood the "I'm sorry" hidden underneath the scowl. What he didn't understand was:

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait just a minute. What made you think I like Lenalee?" Allen asked in complete confusion.

"Do you think I'm stupid? Why else would you be so interested in her boyfriend?"

Allen refrained from answering the first question and skipped straight to the second.

"I was only teasing her about it. You're the one that likes her. You kept pressuring her about Bak, so don't try and hide it!" Allen argued.

"Che, stupid Moyashi. I only asked because I thought you wanted to know and you didn't have enough guts to ask."

"Wait. So you don't like Lenalee?" Allen asked.

"No, I don't do relationships," Kanda replied.

Allen winced and muttered, "Oh. I see."

There was an awkward moment of silence to which Kanda was oblivious before he said:

"Che, well we just wasted a lot of time we could be practicing. Let's get started."

"Ah, okay!" Allen said as he joined Kanda.

During this entire conversation. Lavi just kept looking back and forth between the two, observing them. It was a bad(?) habit of his. He picked up quite a few things from the conversation.

One, Allen and Kanda had very good nickname-ing talents.

Two, Allen had lied. He actually did like Kanda. And he was in denial.

And three, Lavi was extremely, extremely jealous.

A few minutes after that, the main performers came in and it was handshakes and introductions all around. They finished an hour of perfect practice, then said their goodbyes and started off towards their respective dressing rooms.

Allen and Kanda walked in silence, and as soon as they opened the door, they were dragged in by a very frantic Lenalee.

"Okay people, we've got two hours to get you sexy."

"Eh?" Allen and Kanda said together.

Ignoring their confusion, Lenalee started pushing them across the room.

"First of all, you two need to take a shower. NOW."

"WHAT?" they said in unison, both of them starting to blush. Allen went red while Kanda tried to hide it with his hand and wondered why he was blushing.

"Me, take a shower with Bakanda?"

"I should be saying that to you Moyashi."

"Use your brains both of you!" Lenalee cut in. "There are like five different stalls in there. Geez, now go!" she shouted as she shoved them in the shower room.

They looked around and there were indeed five stalls. But they were all completely open, with walls on only three of their sides and no curtains. This left the major question:

"I'm not stripping first," Allen said.

This statement flipped on Kanda's argue switch. "Che, the hell you aren't. You might try and peek at me if I start first," Kanda teased, assured in his sexiness.

"How do I know you won't?" Allen joked back, albeit a bit indignantly.

"Che, don't flatter yourself Moyashi. Your sex appeal is zero."

"How would you kn-"

"I don't hear any water running!" an angry Lenalee said from outside.

"...Rock?" Allen asked tentatively.

"Paper." followed Kanda.

"...Scissooooors!" They both yelled. Allen's hand was a rock, while Kanda had paper.

"Dammit!" Allen said, muttering something like 'what idiot made paper beat rock?' as he then started to take of his shirt in a hurry, expecting Kanda to turn around.

Only he didn't, leaving Kanda with a full view of Allen's six pack.

What the hell? How the... Kanda though, not realizing he was staring.

Seeing this, Allen said in a rare dark-Allen leak, "So, what was that whole thing about sex appeal Kanda? You might want to turn around, before it becomes to much for you."

Kanda sputtered and quickly spun around indignantly. "Che!"

Once Allen was completely stripped he walked into the farthest stall and told Kanda he was done. Then turned on the hot water to enjoy the quick shower.

Meanwhile, an extremely confused Kanda just stripped and walked into the first stall...and turned on the cold water.

What the fuck?

Kanda finished first, still trying to name the weird feeling he got around the Moyashi, and saw that Lenalee had put their performance clothes by the door. He changed after telling the moyashi about it then walked out. As soon as he did, three people were on him, dragging him to a chair in front of the long counter with mirrors.

He didn't protest, because he had sort of expected this.

It was make-up time.

They combed his hair, they plucked his eyebrows, they freaking put eyeliner on him, clipped, filed, and painted his nails black, colored his lips a shade darker, thank god he had clear skin, so they chose not to do the foundation or powder.

All this was happening as Allen walked out of the showers. He spent a whole three seconds laughing at Kanda before he was dragged off to the same fate.

"What the?" Allen sputtered as they plotted him down next to Kanda, who only snickered at his expense. Allen shot him a glare, but then his face was turned forward and he felt people messing with his hair. They pulled and they teased, until all of the back was spiked upward.

Hey, this actually looks kind of cool, Allen though to himself.

Then he thought about something that should have occurred to him long before this. Something he'd been planning to do anyways.

"Excuse me, ma'am," he said as he tapped one of the make-up artists on the shoulder. "Could you paint over my scar with silver?"

"Okay," she said as she did as he had asked.

"One more thing...could you remove the black paint from my right hand?"

"Why would you want to do that?" she asked in confusion. Where have a seen that before? She thought to herself.

Allen just smiled at a fond memory and said, "It's part of the look."

Kanda and Allen's stylists finished at around the same time. As soon as they did, Allen and Kanda were dragged out by Lenalee. She hauled them through the corridors until they reached the backstage entrance. She shoved them inside with a "break a leg" then rushed off to find Bak before the show started.

All the other dancers were there, including Lavi, who rushed over as soon as he saw Allen.

He was thrown off balance when Lavi glomped him. This guy had no sense of personal space.

"Allen~! You're here!" Lavi said making Allen blush from his close contact. "Eh? You're blushing! Could it be you're attracted to me after all?" he teased.

"Why do you have to be so fucking hyper all the time? You're like some stupid rabbit!" Kanda said angrily as he shoved between the two, breaking them apart.

"Bakanda! Geez, what's his problem?" Allen asked himself.

"We're on in five!" A random tekkie shouted to everyone backstage.

"Come on Allen! Let's go!" Lavi said, holding out his hand to Allen.

Allen smiled warmly at his friend and said, "Yeah!"

"Hello everyone! I'm Bak Chan! Thank you for watching The Ark, where we have one female group and one male group performing every day! Our guests tonight are 2NE1 and 2PM! First up we'll have 2PM with a live dance! Let's go!" Bak said as the show went on air. He ran off the stage as smoke started to appear and the lights went down. The fangirls screamed as a spotlight appeared in the middle of the stage, revealing all the dancers in an arrow formation, all wearing white, and looking down so their fedoras were covering their faces.

They started to sing and dance and the crowd went wild. They were twisting and turning, lights everywhere, and in the back were Lavi, Allen, and Kanda, dancing their hearts out as support dancers. None of them thought they were going to be popular. They thought 2PM would overshadow them. And they were right...that is...until the one part where everyone in the back line switched with the front line for a few seconds. The screams doubled as people started staring at them too.

"So cute!" someone shouted at Allen, who smiled at the crowd.

"So hot!" someone exclaimed when they saw Lavi, who winked in the general direction.

"So sexy!" someone screamed when they saw Kanda, then fainted afterwards.

Damn straight, they all thought.

Allen and Kanda were getting cleaned up in the dressing room when Lenalee burst in. She was doubled over trying to catch her breath, her pigtail in a mess, as she tried to tell them something in between gasps.

"Lenalee? What's the matter? Are you okay?" Allen said in concern as he walked over to her with Kanda in tow.

As soon as they were in reach, she grabbed one of each of their shoulders in a death grasp and gasped, "Kanda...Allen..."

Oh no, she's mad! What did we do now? Allen thought as he braced himself for the pain that was sure to come.

Instead he got a pleasant surprise when he was wrapped in a tight embrace.

"Eh?" said Allen.

"Che?" questioned Kanda.

"I knew it! From the moment I first laid eyes on you two, I knew you'd be great! I'm so proud of you two! Oh, my kids are growing up so fast!" Lenalee said with joy in her eyes.

Allen smiled at her and said, "Why do I have this funny feeling that you aren't talking about the dance we just did?"

"Because I'm not, although that was really good too!" Lenalee said.

"Well, get on with it. What the hell are you so damn happy about?"

But even Kanda's less-than-chipper attitude couldn't bring Lenalee down as she told them, "You two have already gotten an offer!"

"And?" they both asked. It wasn't that uncommon for rookies to get a few little offers after their first performance. Albeit it was still pretty quick but...

"And it's for the new, highly anticipated drama, The Demon!"

Kanda and Allen still had the annoying "And?" look on their face, so she decided to ruin the surprise for them.

"Did I mention it was for the lead roles?"

[Scene end.]

T. B. C.

Byul "Che?" questioned Kanda. xD hahaha cracked me up.
Hoshi What? I've learned to interpret the many 'ches' of Kanda.
Byul Well done, well done indeed. But didn't you say the chapter would be long?
Hoshi I decided to split it in two. It would make that more dramatic.
Byul Yes, it would make that better, wouldn't it?
Hoshi Yes, THAT. xD mwahahahaha
Byul They shall have to read the next chapter to find out what THAT is!
Hoshi Agreed!

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PS - If you want, we will post videos of what Kanda's 'Sexy Back' audition dance looked like and what Allen/Lavi/Kanda's recent performance looked like. Take the poll on our page and if enough people vote "We want sexy Korean dance videos!" then we'll put the links on our profile :D You can also just review if you want it or not xD