Disclaimer: Still don't own them...how about now?...nope...now?...still no.

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Studio Peach, at some empty office.

Saying that Tetsuya was uncomfortable was a gross understatement at the moment. Saying he was uncomfortable was like saying a winter in Alaska was a bit nippy. The smiling face of his junior sitting on the opposite couch across the small coffee table in front of them wasn't making things any easier. His eyes alternated looking at Kagami and the red binder in his hands repeatedly.

To put in perspective how nervous he was, Tetsuya actually kept scanning the room as if looking for a quick escape route. But unfortunately there was none. The door into the office was behind where Kagami was sitting. Thee was a closet door to the side, and the window in the room leads to a five storey drop.

"Well..." Tetsuya tried to break the ice. "I'm kinda glad that you're exploring other opportunities in business and...uh...diversifying your genres but..."

"Is there a problem, Tetsuya-kun?" asked Kagami with all the innocence of a kindergarten student.

There was his first name again. Somewhere in the back of his head, he was telling himself that he should be glad that Kagami was showing that she was starting to think better of him, that they were getting on friendlier terms. Gods knew he wanted to get a little closer to her but the situation seemed off to him.

"...I...didn't really expect someone like you to pick something like this, that's all."

"Oh? Why wouldn't you expect something like this from me?"

There were so many ways he wanted to answer that question but he couldn't even force himself to say a single word. Kagami looked at him with bright, sparkling eager eyes as if she was actually waiting for a legitimate answer. Tetsuya felt like he had a frog stuck up his throat...A very restless frog at that.

After a slightly awkward silence, Kagami continued. "You told me yourself that the most important part of being a voice actor is expressing feeling and emotion. I think this kind of project will help me a lot on that front. Don't you think so?"

Tetsuya stared at the binder. "Oh yeah...most definitely."

Kagami clapped her hands enthusiastically. "Great then let's get started then."

Before Tetsuya could protest, Kagami had already opened her own red covered binder to the first page. She looked up at Tetsuya with an expectant look. He soon realized she was waiting for him to open the binder in his own hands. He grumbled a bit and followed suit. His eyes glossed over the first page again, not really wanting to pick up the details.

The binders were copies of a script as it would seem. Tetsuya had seen enough of the writing format in his time on the job to spot a script a mile away. It was also short, too short to bee a full-length episode, and only seemed to encompass once scene. Enough for an audition's worth, he supposed. But this wasn't just any script as he assumed. The first page was enough to give him a clue about what the scene was about.

"It's my line first," said Kagami. "Okay, here I go..." Kagami took a deep breath. Tetsuya swallowed nervously.

"Oh, onii-chan...this is...this is really making me nervous. Are you sure about this?" said Kagami in a really cutesy, innocent, and nervous voice.

There was a measurable time where Tetsuya hesitated before reading the lines his character was supposed to say.

"Don't worry about it. Just do as I say, and you'll be fine..." said Tetsuya trying to sound confident as the script said to do but not really succeeding. Kagami didn't seem to mind it.

"I-I will, onii-chan. What should I do first?"

"First, take it out. But be careful not to damage it."

Tetsuya read at that point that Kagami's character takes 'it' out of it's 'package' and 'fondles it caressingly in her hands'. He tried to control the twitch in his eye.

"Wow, it's bigger than I thought," said Kagami. "Are you sure it will fit?"

"It will with enough lubrication."

"Oh, I see. Alright..."

Tetsuya read further into the script as Kagami's character was supposed to 'apply a generous amount of lubrication on to the shaft with her hands in preparation for insertion'. That twitching eye of his was getting worse now, and a knot was forming in his belly. He wondered what it was doing to his voice work.

Tetsuya swallowed nervously and continued onwards, trying to stay in character. "Ok, good...spread around more...up and down just like that..."

"Onii-chan, this feels really gross."

"Don't worry, you'll get used to it."

"How long do I have to do this?"

"Just keep rubbing it more, I'll tell you when to stop."

The script said said that this action continued for a while. Tetsuya thought this would be a nice time to catch his breath a bit. He made the mistake of looking up and saw that Kagami, in a likely attempt to better her acting, was emulating the actions with her free hand described in the script. His face turned a couple of shades of red and decided it was best continue this now and finish it as soon as possible.

"Alright, that should be enough," said Tetsuya, barely staying in character.

"Uh...Alright...So what do we do now?"

"Now it's time to insert it, I guess"

"Will it hurt?"

"Don't worry, We'll be careful about it."

At this point the script simply said that the 'act of insertion' has started with Kagami's character doing most of the effort. Again, Kagami tried to emulate the actions in the scrip using the hand not holding the binder. Tetsuya couldn't help but look. To complicate things for him more, Kagami started...making certain sounds.

He looked down at his script. Kagami's character was supposed to moan, groan, and breath heavily while doing the whole 'insertion' process. And Kagami, to her credit, was doing an excellent job at it too, as evident by Tetsuya's reactions to her performance.

If Kagami was taking note of Tetsuya's reactions, she wasn't showing it. "...uugggh...unnn....urrrr...it's...ahhh...pretty hard.....aack!"

As Kagami continued to moan and groan, that twitch in Tetsuya's eye was threatening to turn into a full blown epileptic seizure. his hand was now crumpling the binder in his hand with a vice-like grip. That knot in his stomach has now traveled up to his throat. He couldn't believe what was going on here. Almost three years in this business and he had manage to completely this...genre of a script. three years he stayed clean of this stuff, refusing offer after offer.

And now how did this happen? How did he ever agree to do this? Sure it's not really being recorded and he's just helping a fellow sieyuu in her work but of all the scripts to use...and of all people. Why Kagami? Never in a million years would he peg her to be someone who would do soemthing like this. She just didn't seem the type.

Or maybe that was just him. Maybe it was all a preconception. A very wrong preconception. After all, he never really did get to know her properly and maybe this was that hidden aspect of her personality. So did that mean Kagami was secretly a closet per--no way! He refused to think about it like that. But why was he so stubborn? Why would he refuse to accept that side of Kagami?...and why won't she stop all that moaning?! It's in the script, yes, but she's been doing it for like half-a-minute already! What is she waiting fo--oh, wait.

Tetsuya reviewed the script. It was his line next. "Try not to force yourself if it's to hard." By then, Tetsuya's voice was breaking up.

Kagami with a determined yet still cutesy voice. "No, I can't stop now...I'll make sure this goes in...ARGHH!"

Tetsuya cringed as the script said that at that point the 'shaft' was now fully inside its housing.

Kagami let out a relived sigh "Aaaahhh...I can't believe it's finally in..."

"Good thing...I was worried something might break."

"It feels pretty good once it's in there, huh?"

"Eh...right, I suppose it does."

"Onii-chan, can you turn it a bit to see if it's fitting just fine?"

"Uh...sure."

Tetsuya read the script and it indicated that his character 'turns the shaft left and right' and 'spreads the lubricating fluid about'. He briefly considered trying to emulate the action just as Kagami did. A nanosecond later, he dismissed the thought (and by that he actually mentally thew it in the back of his mind and pounded it with a mental hammer until he couldn't think about it anymore) and simply waited for Kagami's next line.

"Now...all that's left is to insert the cylinders then connect the transmission."


"Yeah, after that we'll...wait, what!?"

Kagami looked up from her script and stared and a bewildered Tetsuya. "Uh, Shimakage-san, I don't think that's your line."

"Hold on a second here. What did you mean about cylinders and transmission?"

"Well the whole scene is about tuning an engine. Our characters just finished inserting a new camshaft into the underside of the engine and now it's time to put in the cylinders and transmission assembly...or didn't you read ahead?"

"But...I thought--"

"Oh c'mon. After all, what rating did you say this fic was?"

Tetsuya stared at Kagami who was comfortable to simply return Tetsuya's gaze with an innocent look that would make one assume she had nothing to do with his confusion. Tetsuya then looked back down on his copy of the script and began skimming across the remaining few pages. Kagami was right.

Tetsuya's eye twitch got so bad that it looked like his eye might fall off. His jaw practically fell off its hinge.

He was so flabbergasted that he almost didn't notice Aoi walk out of the closet, one arm over her stomach and the other with the hand covering her mouth trying to hold back a cackle of laughs. Tetsuya's gaze quickly shifted to the laughing Aoi then back at Kagami who by then had started to show that she too was holding back fits of laughs. After a one second thought process of figuring out what was going, a vein popped on his temple.

Kagami was the first to speak up, it a humored but genuinely apologetic tone. "I'm sorry, Shumakage-san. But Aoi-san talked me into it."

Tetsuya's neck creaked as he slowly turned to stare at their producer and acting manager. Aoi had git written all over her face but she was not the least bit trying to hide it. "Oh, don't look so upset! You had this coming for being so mean to Kagami-chan! I wanted to see you take your own medicine for once. I knew this would be the ticket."

More veins popped all over Tetsuya's head. Aoi, no longer holding back, was now on her butt on the floor cackling away. It took a short while but eventually Kagami also let out a fe laughs but was modest enough at least to look away from Tetsuya. And that was apparently the last straw.

Tetsuya, in a loud huff, dropped the binder on the table and promptly walked out the door.

Kagami's sight followed him as he exited. Her humor now gone, she was able to note that he looked pretty upset. She turned to see that Aoi was still laughing her head off. Kagami sweat-dropped at that. "Looks like he's really mad."

Aoi stopped laughing long enough to respond. "I can understand. Tetsuya-kun hates adult-themes scripts. The one I gave you guys is actually a rejected filler episode script for some older anime. The joke is obvious but I knew it would still make Tetsuya cringe. I loved that look on his face!"

"Why does he hate it so much?"

"I dunno. That's just the way he is. All this time, ever since he started his career, he avoided doing work like this."

Aoi may have still been humored but Kagami seemed to be getting less so. She looked out the door where Tetsuya exited in a huff and started thinking about what she should do know. She was starting to think the little prank may have affected him a little too much. More than what Kagami wanted anyway. It didn't take too long for Kagami to decide on an action.

Without saying a word to Aoi, Kagami dropped her binder as well and went after Tetsuya out the door before the producer of the room could stop her.

Aoi manged to stop her fits and relived herself with a long sigh. She had a knowing smile on her face. "I swear...those two..."

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Outside the building.

Tetsuya had just left the building, still rather bothered by the whole ordeal. Like he really needed more reasons to not like this day. What ere they thinking?...Actually, no, what was Aoi-san thinking? She knew how sensitive he was to that kind of stuff and she set it up with Kagami of all people! Wait, why does he care so much that it's Kagami anyway?

"Hey wait!" called out a familiar voice.

Tetsuya didn't need to turn around to see who it was. A few seconds later Kagami showed up waklking next to him. He tried his best to ignore her, trying to show he was still mad at her.

"C'mon, wait up," said Kagami sounding a little more pleading.

Tetsuya let out an exasperated sigh and stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. He rested himself against the railing that separated the sidewalk from the road. Kagami took a spot next to him.

"Look, I'm sorry," said Kagami. "I didn't know it would affect you like that."

Tetsuya knew he wasn't really mad at her. He was just mad in general. Mad at the fact that his integrity was dented a bit today. He knew it wasn't Kagami's fault.

"Don't beat yourself up," he said reassuringly. "Aoi-san just likes to play pranks on me like that. You should be sorry she managed to con you into doing one of them."

Kagami flashed him a wry smile. "Well, it's not like I didn't enjoy it myself."

Tetsuya became visibly irked and was threatening to go off in a huff again. Kagami, instead f being sympathetic, seemed almost annoyed. This guy was hard to reach. Kagami elbowed him on his arm to get him out of his funk.

"Geez, you're really sensitive about these things aren't you? All that tough act and you can't even handle something like this? Man you're weak."

"So you're telling me you enjoy that type of stuff?"

Kagami's eyes went wide and her face turned a few shades of red. "No! No way! I'm not into that kinda stuff!"

"With the performance you gave back there, I'm not so sure."

Kagami grumbled. "I told you it's not like that!"

"Fine! Sheesh..."

A long moment of silence passed with neither of the two speaking or trying to look at each other. Tetsuya, who seemed ready to storm off, actually didn't move. Kagami was sure he would've taken this time to go home and simply end the day there. She slowly turned to take a peek at him. Coincidentaly it was the same time Tetsuya decided to take a peek at her. Their eyes met and both blushed a second later then quickly averted their gazes again. Another long moment of silence passed.

Kagami broke the silence. "...Look, it was kinda my fault that happened back there. It was because I went to Omori-san and asked some questions that she got the idea to do that."

Tetsuya slowly turned to her. "Questions? About what?"

"About you."

"...Why?"

Now Kagami turned and met his gaze. He expression was completely sincere. "Because I wanted to know more abut you, that's all."

Tetsuya would be lying if he said he wasn't taken aback by that. But he managed to maintain most of his composure. "To know more about...Why do you wan't to know more about me?"

"Because...one minute you're like this really disagreeable teacher who keeps finding all the wrong things in my work, another minute you don't seem to care about me at all, and the next minute you take my side when someone else makes fun of me...and sometimes...you genuinely seem like a nice guy...I just don't get you. And I want to know more about you."

Tetsuya blushed and turned his gaze away. Kagami also shyly turned away. More of that familiar silence.

This time it was Tetsuya who broke it. "Well...the truth is I also wanna..."

Kagami turned to him and waited for him to finish what he was gonna say but he never finished it. Instead he went off a tangent. "Well, you already treated me to dinner the other day...I guess I should at least return the favor...Maybe then we could..."

Kaami waited again, for him to both finish his statement and to look at her. After a while it was clear he wouldn't do either until she said something herself. She let out a quiet sigh and had a slightly bemused expression. I suppose this is good start, she thought.

"I'm pretty much free tomorrow after work," said Kagami. "How about you?"

"Um, yeah, that would be fine."

"Then...I guess I'll see you tomorrow then."

"Um...sure thing."

They stayed there looking at each other for quite a while but neither of them seemed to have a sense of the time. But before things can get awkward again, Kagami, somehow being the sensible one today, gave him a smile and a quick nod before heading back the the studio building, presumably to get her stuff so that she could also go home. At that thought, Tetsuya suddenly realized how orange the sky was, indicating an already late after noon. It was about time he headed home as well so he turned towards that direction and started walking.

It wasn't until much later at his apartment did he realize that had somehow just asked a girl out on a date for the first time in his life.

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Author's note: Not much to say here. Sorry for breaking the fourth wall...again. It's sorta like an inside joke that only I would get. You see, when I originally thought up this story, the original idea was worthy of an M rating and had little sense to it. But I scrapped that idea and came up with something with a bit more story that could stick to a K+ rating for a wider audience. Also, sorry about this being late. Plot bunnies have been at it again and I've been writing pilot chapters all month. I'm currently deciding which projects are worth pusuing. Anyway, as usual R&R!