Chapter 2: Brother…

It was finally one of those days Nami got to stay in her house and just literally relax for once. She hadn't felt like that in a while and she was glad that the Quartet men were letting her have this moment. For the past few days, Quartet Night was busy taking care of the STARISH members, and working together on events they have been assign to. To Nami's knowledge, each STARISH members had to see what Quartet Night's abilities were to please the crowd and becoming a greater idol. She rubbed her head once she got up from bed and looked around to see that her room was clean. She remembered leaving a mess everywhere because she was going all over the place, rushing heself out to work and then come home not bothering to clean anything up. Nami then smelled something tasty that was being made in her kitchen and she knows for sure that she did not bring anyone home. She got up quickly, grabbing a robe from her closet to head downstairs to see where that scent was coming from. The scent was a mixture of sweet blueberry panckakes, and well cooked eggs, with also a bit of scent of cinnamon. Once she got near the kitchen, she grabbed a baseball bat out of the small closet next to it, holding it near her chest to see who it was. She walked in slowly and almost hit someone. When she looked up, she see's Reiji holding the the top of the bat, protecting himself.

"The princess is awake, and she almost hit me!" Reiji started to whine. He got a strong grip on the bat and took it out of Nami's delicate hands and hid it behind his back. He started to pinch her cheeks.

"That's not a good way to give a morning greeting, miss."

Nami pushed Reiji by the face so he can get out her way and once she did that she see's Ai and Camus at the table already eating breakfast while Ranmaru was still cooking. How the hell did they get in her house, that's the question? She put both her hands on her hips.

"Why did you guys break into my house? I thought I can have peace without being around you guys for a day." Nami told them, and Reiji started to tilt his fedora on his head.

"You left your front door unlocked, Nami-chan." Reiji says.

"What kind of idiot leaves their house door open?" Ranmaru says and then turns off the switch on the stove and walks over to set more pancakes on to the plate.

"Forget your whining about us being here, come and eat."

Nami crossed her arms and tried to remember if she left the door unlocked. She remembered walking in, with her keys and throwing her bag onto the couch. She then went over to the kitchen to get a water bottle and started drinking it and headed upstairs and plops down on the bed and fell asleep. Nami figured out she totally did forget to lock the door and she facepalm herself for it. But that didn't mean that these guys had to come over, in fact how did they even know where she lives?

"If you are wondering how we got here, the president told us your address and told us to come to you today and let you decide who you want to work with first." Camus started to explained.

Wow. That destroyed her nice day off. She wasn't used to the rush, yet and she had to learn how to adapt to it. She sat down between Reiji and Ranmaru and then started eating the breakfast Ranmaru made. To her surprise, it was actually good. She never believed that a man can cook this good.

"Mmm..Wow. Impressive. You're the first guy to show a woman that you know how to cook."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Usually guys fail at cooking and it would taste horrible."

Ranmaru glared at her for a bit and Nami waved one slice of the pancake piece in his face. She quickly forgets about them even barging into her house and just starts playing around with the members.

"Cut that out, just be glad I made you food. It's not good to start work with an empty stomach."

"RanRan is totally right about that! I hope you enjoy it!"

Nami continues to eat and obviously was enjoying it. Usually she would be the one cooking the food when Aine and her lived together. When Aine tried to make food it was either, too salty, too sweet, too disgusting or that he didn't put the right ingriedient, and she would always take over to work in the kitchen. To Nami's thoughts, she was glad that a man can cook. She started to giggled a little bit and they all looked at her.

"What's so funny?" Camus asked.

"She's laughing at us." Ai says.

"We are not doing this to entertain you." Ranmaru added in.

Nami stops giggling and then she finishes her plate and gets up and heads

"You guys are a weird bunch, you either continue to stay cool but when you are around somewhere privately you can see each others different personalities in all of you and so far, I can see the difference. It's surprises me how you all don't even have a girlfriend at this point, how old are you guys anyways?"

Nami see's Camus accidentally spitting his tea at Ranmaru's face, Ai's expression stayed the same and Reiji literally went red at the words on why they all don't have a girlfriend. Ranmaru was wiping of the spit, Camus did on his face with a towel that was near him and Camus was wiping his mout with a napkin. Reiji cleared his throat.

"Ha-ha..what an interesting questiong you have there, Nami. We are basically just…living our idol lives and don't really have time to settle down. Plus, not to mention if we start a relationship with any girl, we can't go public with it. It's a rule, plus Shining had told us not to fall in love with anyone, especially with women we work with, including yourself" Reiji explained clear and Nami just listens to his explaination. He didn't had to add her into his sentence. It wasn't like she was going to fall for any of them.

It made perfect sense, though. Once you are a pop idol, sometimes relationships get really out of hand. Fans would go on a wild spree, paparazzi's will always bug you, and even you would be super busy with what you do as an idol that the relationship won't work. In Nami's case, she didn't have to worry about that, but she never really wanted to be in a relationship because she didn't want to deal with a broken heart. To tell the truth she never had a boyfriend for the 24 years of her life. Yes. Nami was a 24 year old virgin. *coughs*. Nami took her mind out of the gutter to not think about it and ask them their age once again.

"So if that's the case how old are you guys then?"

Reiji, Camus, Ai, and Ranmaru looked at each other and then to Nami.

"I'm 22 years old," Ranmaru says.

"15." Ai says.

"I'm a 20 year old," Camus says and takes a sip of his tea.

"And I'm 25!" Reiji comes around the counter, and puts an arm around Nami. Nami was wide eyes about their ages. At first, she thought Camus was the oldest and that Ai was a bit older than 15. When she looked at Reiji, she just watched him smile and talk about his age in a young man's body, considering how old he is. Reiji looks at her this time and their faces were close together. Everyone in the kitchen were in complete silence and you can just hear a small tink of Camus's teacup be placed on the small plate. Nami pushes Reiji away and continues to clean up the kitchen, ignoring what happens.

"How about you, Nami. How old are you?" Reiji decides to ask. Nami turns and faces them.

"I'm 24 years old, and I don't look it." Nami mentions. Reiji looks from side to side on how Nami looks and then touches his skin.

"Really? You are only one year younger than me. When's your birthday?"

"July 15th."

"Ehhhh?! Mine's July 13th. We can share our birthday's on the same day if you would like! That would be fun!" Reiji got overly excited, and Ranmaru threw a crumpled napkin at Reiji so he can stop. Nami just smiled at that request and maybe it would be okay. She never really celebrates her birthday but maybe being around Quartet Night can be different. So she taps Reiji's shoulder and just nods and Reiji smiles back at her, knowing what her answer is. They were getting along pretty quickly. Nami takes everyone's place and then she looked at Ai for a moment, who was staring out into the balcony outside while the other guys were watching tv in the living room. After she finished cleaning up, she joined Ai outside.

"You seem to enjoy my view."

"It's soothing actually."

Nami looked at him seriously. This boy looked a lot like her brother Aine. He had the same colored hair as him, his face looked the same and his voice sounded exactly like Aine. She wasn't sure if she was staring at an illusion but she knew that Aine and Ai had to be two different people. She looked out to the waves in front of them and then a thought hit her mind. Did her uncle do something?

"I have to keep his fame up somehow." Nami says before she walked away to leave.

Her uncle stops her and says.

"I can help with that, Nami."

She remembered it clearly and then notice Ai, tilting his head looking at her.

"Is something wrong?"

"Eh? Oh! ahaha no you just really look like someone I know, it's actually pretty funny."

"hmmm? Someone you know, huh?"

Nami scratched the back of her head, not bothering to mention her brother's name to him and then she looked out to the sea. I guess it didn't hurt to talk to Ai about some stuff. She had to set up a good example of giving each of them some sort of respect and get a little closer.

"He looks a lot like you. He sings. He has that knowledgable mouth of his and he can be very slow at certain times. He was an idol just like you, Ai."

Ai just stares off to the distance, looking as if he didn't hear her. Nami shrugged and then just pats Ai on the shoulder, and goes back inside to get changed since she's been in her robe the whole time. Once she got inside, Ranmaru was busy playing with her game system, playing rock band while Camus was busy trying to look for an interesting book to read. Where was Reiji at? She looked around the house and he was no where in site. She went into the garage and she see's a Fedora hat on a chair and some tools laying out around the place. She bended her knees and then looked under her FRS. Reiji had a tool in his mouth and another tool in his hand, fixing the exhaust of her car.

"HEY! I didn't ask you to touch my car!"

Reiji looked at her, and took out the tool out of his mouth.

"I told you I'm going to help you out, you helped me out with my car. I'm showing you my gratitude. Don't be such a rude lady."

Nami stood up and walks over to Reiji's leg, trying to pull him out of under her car but once she did that, her robe opened up and she falls on top of him. Nami completely forgot she was just in her black lace bra and underwear and the way she was on top of him, looked like she was trying to seduce him. Reiji opened his eyes and noticed that and she immediately covers his eyes with both her hands.

"You know, if you stayed on top of me like this, you might feel a buldge in my pants."

"Shut up. Shut up!"

Reiji moved both her hands away and then raised his messy hand and puts it on her waist. Nami flinched for a bit and Reiji gets up slowly.

"You know, this is the first time I get to be up close and personal with a pretty lady like yourself."

Nami immediately stands up and stomps her way back inside and Reiji just giggles at her flustered actions.

"She get's so embarrased quickly, what a shame."

He goes back under her car and continues fixing it.

Nami's face was still pink and she looked at her waist, seeing a dirty oil spot left on her body and she throws the robe into the basket and then goes into the shower just to cool off. She touched her face, thinking to herself this shouldn't be happening. Reiji was such a pervert and she hoped that he wasn't trying to hit on her. She's glad that the other guys aren't doing anything but still, out of all people Reiji was the one who thinks he can touch her just like that.

"You might feel the buldge in my pants. Oh shut up Reiji, I will rip that sensitive part out if I had the chance to." she said in anger. She finally finished showering and puts on casual clothing and heads downstairs with her bag. She see's all the guys just waiting in the living room quietly and once they saw her, Ranmaru starts to speak.

"So, who will you work on first for their solo?"

Nami was silent for a bit and then she got a glance from Reiji. He waved at her with a smile and she ignored him because of what he said earlier and especially for what he did. She looks at Ranmaru, Ai and Camus first and then thought for a moment. Who would she like to compose a song first? Everyone was waiting for her to answer and then lean her elbow on the counter.

"Is it alright if you all could go home, so I can think about it. I can't really think right now."

They all looked at her and Ranmaru stood up right away.

"Well, geez. Way to make us come here for nothing."

"You better hurry up and figure something out. We will be taking our leave."

Nami watches both Ranmaru and Camus with an attitude in their voice and she just rolled her eyes. She looked over to Ai and Reiji.

"You guys can go, too. I'm not stopping you."

Ai stands up and then walks out quietly, and Reiji was about to walk out but instead he closes the front door. Nami gave out a sigh and rubbed her head.

"I was supposed to have a time for myself but you guys kind of ruined that day for me."

Reiji's face showed an expression of concern and then walked over to Nami. He put his hands on her shoulders and started to give her a massage.

"What the heck, Reiji?"

"Calm down. I'm not going to touch you this time."

He continued to massage every spot that hit the nerve for Nami. She closed her eyes while feeling a bit of pressure from Reiji's fingers, rubbing her shoulders. It felt really good and she was thinking how good Reiji's hands were. Nami thought of something interesting on how Reiji probably knows how to please a girl. She put her hands on the counter and started to tilt her head from side to side. Reiji raised his eyebrows a bit and then look down to her butt for just a second. He looked at what Nami was wearing. A sort of sleeveless top but her arms were covered, and then her bottoms were some tight shorts and he gulped for a minute and Nami opened her eyes to that.

"Did you see something nice from behind me, Reiji?" She started to tease.

Reiji was quiet for just a second and then he puffed his cheeks and ignore what she just said. He didn't want it to get to him. He continued to massage her shoulder but he started to feel a bit uneasy. Nami brushed his hands away from her shoulders and turned around to face him and put her hands on his tie. She looked at him in his eyes and tilt her head to the side.

"I just want you to come to me,

Come to me,

I'm beckoning to you..~~"

Reiji heard her voice from the little words she started to sing, and he continued to look at her. He gulped again this time and then he watched as she went down while swaying right and left, dancing a bit seductively and he was starting to sweat. Her voice was beautiful.

"I just want you to give your love, hurry and show me your heart~~"

"Ahaha…Nami….you…I.."

Nami stops singing and let's go of him, goes behind him and starts pushing him out the door.

"Time for you to go, Mr. Touchable."

Once she kicked him out, she fixes herself up and decides to change her outfit again. She only sang to Reiji for a bit just to get him out of her house. Sure, it was messed up just to tease him but it was pay back from what happened earlier. One hour later, she wore something more sophisticated and head to her car. She opened the garage and then she noticed that the back of her car was all fixed up. She was about to take it to the shop but then she see's a note, which was from Reiji.

I thought it would be nice of me to fix this dent for you, becareful when you drive around next time? The next time you do something, please do let a man know, and that man you need to call is me. I'm going to leave my number on this note and my house address in case you need some car help. Sure, you are our composer but I would be glad to help you, Nami.

-Reiji (^-^)

Nami just keeps the note in her purse and then feels the new piece he added in. She gives it a little tap and then gets inside her car.

"Thank you very much, Reiji."

She starts the engine, puts on her glasses and then drives off.

Nami was going to visit Aine today, and see how he was doing. Once she arrived, her uncle looked at Nami.

"I heard from your father, that you decided to become a composer. That's great news."

"It's a bit difficult, uncle. How's Aine?"

Her uncle and her went to Aine's room and Nami sits next to him, giving her greeting.

"So far, he is breathing fine. Still hasn't woken up. I'm hoping he wakes up from this coma soon. His heart rate is at good standing but other than that we are hoping he wakes up."

"I see."

Nami touches Aine's face and then starts to speak.

"Aine I've become a composer for a group called "Quartet Night". They are some interesting guys in that group, and they are a bit hard to handle. But I'm holding up so far, and continue what I need to do."

The uncle crossed his arms and then thought for a moment and taps her on the shoulder.

"You said Quartet Night, correct?"

Nami looked at him.

"Yes. I did. Why?"
"hmmmm."

Their uncle went to his desk and picked up a picture and then passed it on to Nami. Once Nami turned it over, her heart stopped for just a second. It was Ai on the picture.

"What's the meaning of this? Why do you have one of the member's pictures with you?"

The uncle went on the other side of Aine, and then started to speak.

"I made Ai, Nami."

Nami grew quiet and then thought about Ai. Ai was very similar to her brother a whole lot and this was the answer to it. She couldn't believe her own uncle actually made him.

"Wait..made him as in…he is a robot?"

"Yes. I was going to tell you sooner but I wasn't sure if it was okay to tell you."

"Wow….uncle. I can't believe you thought of that."

The uncle gave out a sigh and then spoke some more.

"Ai was made to be just like Aine, his personality, his looks, and his voice. I know it seems like it's a very bad idea to make Ai be the replacement for Aine, so he was called Ai Mikaze. I bet you were surprised to see him."

Nami stood up from her chair and then crossed her arms.

"I actually was but I'm more surprised that you decided on doing that, uncle. What happens if my brother wakes up, how are we going to put him out in public if Ai Mikaze is out there. Does Ai know he was made?"

Her uncle got quiet at that question and then rubbed his forehead.

"Well, there is a downfall that he can lose energy and that he does not know of Aine and thinks of himself as just him. If you even tell Ai about it, he won't get it."

"Oh boy."

Both the professor and Nami continued to talk about Ai and Aine. As Aine was asleep, this was the only way everything has to be. Aine was asleep while this robot was roaming around, singing just like her brother. Nami really wanted to think this was really ridiculous to go through but this is the best she can do for now. Now, that she was someone important for Quartet Night, she had to do her best. She said her goodbyes to her uncle and drove out. While on her way to the beach just to think about what her decision is, especially on who to work with first. She thought maybe Ai was the best to work with right now. She wasn't sure how she was going to handle it, but she was willing to try something with the look a like brother. She got out of the car and sat on the hood and watched as the sun was going down. She touches part of her hair, while it flew in the wind.

"What shall I do Aine? Do I give up here now, or keep on going? Can I really be the one to compose a song for the members of Quartet Night with all these weird nervous chills go around my head?"

She looked through her phone and thought a bit more. She had a piano app on her phone and started playing with it. During her moment of playing the piano app on her phone, she was getting an idea of how Ai's song was going to be played out. She had to think a lot about this and try to compare Ai with how her brother would sing it. Nami never had a chance to make a song for her brother, so this was her first time actually giving it to someone other than someone important in her life. She stopped playing around for a bit and took out a piece of paper and pencil out of her purse and started writing music notes of what Ai's song could be. Then it hit her in the head.

"Crap. I have to let them know I'm working with Ai first."

She looked through her phone to find Reiji's number to ask if he can get a hold of Ai, but when she was in the process of going to call Reiji, she was touched by her wrist and she swiftly turned around and see a certain cyan haired boy in front of her.

"AI! whoa…why are you here?"

"I would ask you the same question."

They both looked at each other and then they both crossed their arms at the same time. Nami looked at him and thought of her brother right away. They would be able to act alike and for that reason is because her uncle made Ai that way. Aine's mind was in Ai's brain. Nami picked up the paper again and started to write more into it. At the corner of Ai's eyes, he looked at how focus she was and then what caught her attention was when she started to say the words and hum something at the same time.

tsubasa ga hoshikatta tsumetai HATO janaku

(I'd felt as if there was always pieces missing)

Sonna BOKU e to kimi wa uta o..

(Where are the fragments of my heart?)

Ai gave her a serious look and then closed his eyes and was about to sing until two men came up to them. Nami looked at where Ai was looking at and she dropped her pencil.

"Aine….."

"Nami, why didn't you say you were with your brother, you didn't call us?"

Nami was in front of two of Aine's friends, Kei and Hibiki. Ai looked at Nami from this incident, and then gave a glare to the two guys and put Nami behind him. He may be the youngest but he was able to protect, Nami.

"I apologize, but your information is incorrect. I'm not her brother…"

Nami held onto Ai's sleeve and Ai looked behind him.

"Ai, get in the car. You don't need to hear this."
"Wait, what? Why?"

"Ai, just do it."

Ai looked at the two guys again and then went to sit in the passenger seat.

Kei started to shake his head and give off a pissed off look.

"What's wrong with Aine, he can't remember his friends."

Hibiki held on to Kei. Nami glared at Kei.

"That's not my brother. That's Ai Mikaze."

"Are you trying to replace your missing brother over that doppleganger idol?"

"OF COURSE NOT!" Nami yelled at Kei. Kei grabbed her wrist and Hibiki tried to break them up.

"Hey! Hey! You two stop.."

"Yeah. You told us that you can take care of things on your own, but seeing that Quartet Night idol with you. I thought you didn't want to compose a song for anyone. I can't believe you can't even do that for your own brother."

Nami slapped Kei across his face and he looked away.

"Don't you dare speak to me that way. I'm here to help Quartet Night for their big Triple S event and you don't have to blab because you didn't get there."

Kei looked at her pissed and went face to face with Nami. Nami wasn't afraid to defend herself. She clenched her hands and was about to give him another hit but then a certain layered brown haired went in front of her and held her by the waist.

"Sorry, Kei. But this girl is mine~~~~"

Nami looked straight at Reiji and Reiji picked her up and put her in her car. He tapped on the roof and then spoke to Nami.

' "Nami, how about you leave me to this and take Ai to safety, or go start working on his song together. I'll take care of this because there are certain paparazzi's around so I don't want to see some bad news get on TV. Don't you worry about me."

Nami just nods, she looked at Kei and Hibiki for a bit but then started her engine and drove off with Ai in her passenger seat.

Reiji took off his hat and then looked at both Kei and Hibiki. Kei gave a stuck up look to Reiji and Reiji's expression was serious, and not like his other happy expression.

"It's been a long time, Reiji. Did you find Aine yet, or is that Ai a better replacement for a best friend."

"Kei, don't bring up the past." Reiji said his words in all honesty and with a clear mind. He didn't want to start a scene and he didn't want Nami to see him like this. Not to mention, now that they both had crossed each other's lines. Nami and Reiji don't know that they both know Aine for their own reasons. Nami wanted to go back to pick up Reiji and but she had to listen to him. She questioned herself on how Reiji knew about Kei. But that wasn't the case right now. She looked at Ai, who was asleep and she pictured Aine in her mind.

"Oh brother….please wake up soon."

I can't believe I actually decided to write like this again. Back in 2009, this was my old style compared to Half-Crazy and DRAMAtical InSaNiTy. I'm glad I can actually work with these characters for the UTA PRI fandom, and especially using Quartet Night because I barely see much fanfics about them. Hope you enjoyed the story so far, chapter 3 coming up soon.