Ok, here's the next A Real Life Lucky Star. This is the continuation of the Musical. Last chapter took me about 4 months, I SWEAR on my LIFE that this one won't and hasn't, if It took more than 2 days I'd be SCREWED! (Notice I write this A/N BEFORE I start to write this chapter.) Anyways, this chapter is MUCH more exciting, and even a bit fast paced, just like how the next Quarter Life, and the next 3 chapters of Love is War. Even the One-shot I have planned for the final day of this is gonna be a bit fast paced, but you'll have to wait for that! The only things during this update that ISN'T fast paced is the One-Shot update of the first chapter of Runaway Otaku, and the next chapter of The War Inside My Head! Anyways, go read! I have nothing more to bore your lives with about my procrastination of being forced to write a half an update every day until the day I put the updates out! READ! NOW! I COMMAND YOU!
"Read! NOW!" Tskune yelled to the actors and actresses on stage "The show is coming in a day and you all need to brush up on your lines by then!"
They had been going at the play for a week already, and Tskune had forced the people to work beyond what ever thought capable, not only that, but he had also tried to take control of the Stage Crew. Mr Otou and Tskune had a fight the day before because Tskune had threatened to fire the one girl on Stage Crew for dropping a prop and breaking a piece off. Kyon was busy looking over Curtain times when Kagami walked into his "office", or in real world terms, the place where the Curtain was opened, and closed.
"Hey there, Kyon." Kagami said in a bit of a whisper trying not to be heard by Tskune.
"Oh, hey Kagami. What's new with you?" Kyon said, not expecting a visitor
"Oh you know, dealing with terrible directors while trying not to strangle the actor behind you for stepping on the back of your foot." she said rolling her eyes "Same old, same old."
"Oh I know how ya feel." he responded, putting the script down on the machine that was used to open and close the curtain. "He's been pretty strict on me too, being the Stage Crew Manager. I swear the next time he yells in my face after eating curry I'm going to punch him in the face."
Kagami just laughed at that, she knew of Tskune's bad eating habits and everyone had smelled his curry breath once in their time on stage. Kyon just made funny faces to mimic the director and Kagami just kept laughing, before they heard a yell from on stage.
"WHAT IS SO GOD DAMN FUNNY?" Tskune yelled as Kyon grabbed his script quickly and Kagami went back to her place on the floor, reading through her script also. "Fine! If no one wants to admit to whats funny, how about we at least get SOME work done! Tsukasa!"
"Y..y..yes?" came the sound of Tsukasa from on stage, not expecting to be called
"Get up and do song number 5!" He yelled sitting down and taking some pills that he had in his bag.
"Uhh, ok!" she said as someone brought out the set pieces needed for the song.
After a little while, the song finally started and Tsukasa was singing her heart out.
"Man she's good." Kyon thought aloud
"Yeah, she is, but of course I'm better." Kagami said standing behind Kyon, listening to her sister sing.
"Don't let that modesty get to your head, it won't do good things." Kyon said a bit surprised by her response
"Well it's true." she said listening in again
Kyon thought how she was being a bit too modest and that it would eventually get her, but he didn't think too much of it. How bad could she become? She'd know better.
Tsukasa just kept singing on stage while the lights dimmed and the spotlight fell on her. Her singing was amazing and kept the people in the audience sucked in.
Kyon watched amazed at how well she sang, Kagami, now in her costume, watched alongside him.
Finally the song came to an end, and the entire audience exploded in clapping. Now it wasn't the other actors and actresses watching in the seats. It was the audience for the show.
It was now the second day of the show, and the first show had gone magnificently well, getting a lot of ticket sales, and other candy bars and soda sales brought up even more money. A couple days before, some people came in and took pictures of everyone, then they put them on the candy bar wrappers and those were selling in the hallway outside of the Auditorium. They were selling pretty well, not surprising by how many of the students came to support the show.
The one girl, Gumi, was playing another part, but she had the best voice out of all of them, and was also a good friend of Kyon's, and her one solo was next, so Kagami go on stage with Tsukasa and they said some lines before the two had to get off and the scene switched to another scene.
Kagami came off with a bored look on her face, which screamed "I'm done with this play already"
"Other side of stage for the next one. Ok Kagami?" Kyon said giving stage directions like he was supposed to for his job.
"Yeah, yeah, I got it the first million times." she said with an attitude running to the other side of the stage so she could get ready.
"Yeeaaaoowwcch, talk about grouchy." one of the ensemble members said when she knew that Kagami couldn't hear her.
"She must be having a lot of stress." Kyon said waving it off
Suddenly clapping arose from the audience as Gumi walked off stage and the ensemble moved on for another scene.
After Kyon was done herding the actors and actresses on stage he turned around to see Gumi facing him.
The girl was about his height, which for most girls that age was about normal size. She had green hair, the most beautiful green eyes, and had the biggest smile that could light up the world. Kyon had always had a crush on her, since he first moved to the school district when he met her, but of course as the years went on, so did every other guy in the school. She was popular, an actress, a great singer, beautiful, and in Kyon's eyes, pretty much perfect. Unlike most of the guys at their school, though, she and Kyon were close friends, and he was closer to her than even her current boyfriend was, but he didn't really care about their relationship very much anyways.
"Good job! You did GREAT, Gumi!" Kyon said as she looked into his eyes. They weren't quite Emerald green, like his friend, Konata's eyes were, but they were light, and you could find yourself lost in her gaze often, which by chance, is what Kyon was doing at the moment.
"Uh... Kyon." Gumi said waving a bit
"What?" he said dazed and confused
"Whats my next scene again?" she asked with a giggle
"Oh that's with Tsukasa, Kagami, and the ensemble for the end of Act 1." Kyon said, embarrassed.
Suddenly, the door swung open and in rushed one of the other actors, looking around madly.
"Where's Tsukasa?" he asked in a panic
"The other side. Why?" Kyon asked now in a bit of a panic
"Oh, I think she needs to be on this side for the end of Act 1! She goes on with me!" Gumi said, remembering the stage directions
"Ok I'll go for her!" Kyon said sprinting out trying to get to the other side.
"Wait!" said the kid, but Kyon was already gone "Dang it! That wasn't it! Her mic's not on." with that the other kid ran off too, leaving Gumi in a bit of shock at her mistake.
On the other side of the stage, it was more cramped, and much more difficult to walk around, let alone run through. He looked around the stage and finally found her and Kagami in the one little pocket that led out to the stage.
"Tsukasa!" he practically yelled running through and opening the door
"W.. w.. what?" Tsukasa said, startled.
"They say... you're supposed... to be... on the other side... whew" he said, tired from the run
"No she's not!" Kagami said grabbing Kyon "You idiot, trying to mess us up."
"Huh?" Kyon asked confused
"Cmon you're in charge back here!" Kagami said angrily "You're the one that's supposed to know that we're going on NOW from THIS part of the stage to sing a song! Now go and get to the curtain!"
Before he could even leave the room, the two went on stage for the next scene, and he noticed the confused face on Tsukasa's face too as she walked on.
On his way back, Kyon ran into the kid who had come in asking about Tsukasa.
"Hey did you find Tsukasa?" the kid asked
"Yeah, she just went on stage." Kyon said
"Augh! That's terrible!" the kid yelled in anger "Tsukasa's Microphone wasn't turned on! That's what Tskune asked me to find her about."
The kid had to run on stage for the end of Act 1, and left Kyon there in shock, he had just been yelled at by Kagami AND he made a mistake that would probably not go down well with Tskune or Mr Otou.
At the intermission when the Audience went out into the hallway, Kyon used it as a time to clean up the stage and make sure everyone's props were in order. Everyone had gone off to the changing rooms to get ready for whatever part was next, but he heard some yelling coming from the one side room that separated the Left side of the Auditorium. He knew that it was Tskune, and that he was probably yelling at someone about the Microphone situation.
'Why can't that ass hole just get over it and move on.' Kyon thought 'We're only Teenagers, what does he expect, a Tony nomination!'
Tskune then came onto the stage looking completely fumed. He was there to check on the Stage Crew, which he wasn't supposed to, because that was Kyon's job.
"Hey, manager!" Tskune yelled at Kyon, not even bothering to use his name.
"What is it?" Kyon asked resisting the urge to just hit the older man.
"There was a spill in the hallway, get a mop and clean it up." Tskune said, and left through the other door without even speaking another word
Kyon knew that if Tskune caught anyone else mopping up, t even worse, so he walked over to the closet, grabbed a mop, and went to the Left Side Stage Exit.
Then he saw her. Tsukasa was curled up in a ball sitting against the wall in the room that led from the hallway to the stage. She wasn't crying, but she was obviously upset.
"Hey, Tsukasa, what's wrong?" he asked, sitting down next to her. He didn't really have much experience cheering girls up, but he knew enough.
"Tskune yelled at me for not having my Microphone on." Tsukasa said sadly
"Oh, don't let Tskune bother you, he's just a big idiot." Kyon said, patting her on the back, helping her cheer up a bit
"But now he's gonna stay angry at me and he swore that he wouldn't let me in any play that he ever did again." she said sad again
"Well don't worry, he's lying, he wouldn't do that. He was just angry." Kyon said as he got up and held up his hand to help the girl up. "Now I have to go, come on, it's not the end of the world."
"Yeah, you're right." Tsukasa said taking his hand and getting up "Thanks, Kyon."
"You're welcome." he said as they hugged and walked off, both blushing a bit.
The spill was obviously some Coke that someone had dropped while moving around, and it was a pretty big puddle too. It took Kyon a while, but he was finally getting it clean, and was just about done when Tskune came around the corner.
"Finally! It took you long enough to clean that up!" Tskune said as Kyon just looked at him for a moment and went back to cleaning
"Yeah, it was a lot too." Kyon said gritting his teeth, trying not to lose it
"Well of course the idiot that spilled it obviously wasn't paying attention, I hope they didn't ruin a costume. Those things are freaking EXPENSIVE." Tskune said sitting down, finishing off the little amount of Coke that was in the Can he held.
"Yeah, I can imagine." Kyon said, slowly getting angrier and wondering if the person who spilled the Coke all along was Tskune himself.
"I just wish this entire cast wasn't so worthless. They're all lazy pricks that don't do anything." Tskune said, pushing Kyon over the edge.
"THEY ARE NOT WORTHLESS!" Kyon yelled throwing the mop down
"Hey don't damage the..." Tskune started to say before getting cut off
"THESE PEOPLE HAVE DONE MORE TO TRY AND PUT ON A GREAT PERFORMACE THAN YOU HAVE! ALL YOU'VE DONE IS YELL AT THEM!" Kyon yelled directly in Tskune's face
"If it wasn't for me we wouldn't HAVE a great performance!" Tskune said
"No! If it wasn't for you, this play would be NICE! All these people want to do is to put on a GREAT performance and they have, but YOU just yell at them for mistakes!" Kyon yelled angrily
"If I didn't point out the mistakes, nothing around here would be improved!" Tskune yelled back
"Then yell at YOURSELF! THATS the one thing that needs improving around here!" Kyon yelled
By now they were attracting a lot of attention, the kids from the dressing rooms were coming out, and Tsukasa had come out from the room she was in. No one dared to go near the two though, in fear of being hit.
"Why I never...!" Tskune said before Kyon shot back at him again.
"You made Tsukasa sad over some stupid mistake with a Microphone, when it was actually an accident that I MADE that caused her to not turn her Mic on!" Kyon yelled
"So YOU'RE the one who made the mistake! That's it! You are the most worthless Stage Crew Manager! YOU'RE FIRED!" Tskune yelled
"FIRED?! YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT!" Mr. Otou yelled stepping in from the sidelines.
"Of COURSE I have the right! It's my play!" Tskune yelled back.
Now Kyon knew Mr Otou more than most of the other students did, and he knew Mr. Otou was a former Air Force pilot, and those guys were tough, VERY tough, and for Tskune to be going up against him, meant 1 of 2 things, either he was going to come out of this with a bloody nose, or he was going to lose the argument, or both.
"You are in charge of the Actors and Actresses, NOT my Stage Crew! I have sat back and watched you yell and make terrible mistakes, then take your God Damn pills like the ass hole you are for YEARS! That's IT! I'm DONE watching you make terrible mistakes, and praise yourself for all the god damn bad work you've done!"
"What're you gonna do about it old man?" Tskune asked waving his hands asking for a punch to the face.
"I'm not gonna punch you, but I'll make sure that you NEVER come back to this school again!" Mr. Otou said as he stormed off, but stopping at the corner to yell back "Curtain in 5 minutes Cast."
Tskune just turned around and stormed off, most likely to where he had his bag stored so he could get another dose of pills. Kyon walked back to his "Office" to get ready for Curtain.
"Kyon." said a voice behind Kyon. He turned around to find Tsukasa standing there looking down. "I just wanted to say thank you. You didn't have to do that."
"No, I did, and I'm glad I did too." he said as she stepped over to him
"Well thank you." she said as she planted a kiss on his cheek, then left.
"He... he... I can die happy." Kyon garbled on for a minute before getting snapped out of his thoughts again, this time by Gumi
"You're brave." she said walking over to him "Tskune has been the schools director for 4 years now and nobody has ever had the nerve to stand up to him like that."
"I do what has to be done." Kyon said, shrugging
"Well good luck with Tsukasa then, lover boy." she said laughing a bit
"Whaddya mean?" he asked, wondering how she knew Tsukasa had kissed him
"You shoulda seen her staring at ya during the fight, she looked like she was about to jump straight into your arms and say yes to the propsal that never happened." Gumi said, laughing.
Before Kyon could respond, though, the music started playing, and Kyon had to raise the curtain.
In the end of the play, they called up all the people that helped lead the play, all but Tskune, who had left the building to go to the hospital for a drug over-dose. They just gave the gift card they had set aside for him to Mr. Otou, who now had two gift cards instead of one. At the end, they had put on a great play, and had gotten rid of an enemy during it.
After everything was done, Kyon had a couple of dollars, so he went to the snack bar, grabbed a soda, and a bag of chips, but then remembered his mom wanted him to buy one of the candy bars with his face on it, so he went over to the table, and bought one. Then as he was about to leave, he remembered he had one extra dollar left, and looked back down to all of the pictures there were, bought a candy bar of Tsukasa's face, and left the building.
There ya go! This took me a lot less time than I had thought it would! Now, I DID put a bit of a lie in there about Tskune, and he never was a pill addict, but he smoked some stuff that he wasn't supposed to be, and halfway through the play, was found outside after an over-dose of some Coke (Not the kind he was drinking either) Mr. Otou (Real name was Mr. Tribbit) was actually an Air Force member, not a pilot, but a repair man, and they still trained those guys HARD. The stories that Mr. Tribbit told were HARD and sounded like HELL. While I think the guy who was Tskune STILL works for my Middle School, I don't have to look at his ugly mug again! Hooray for me! This is now the end of the FIRST day of the 4 day extravaganza! Tomorrow expect another Love is War, and Quarter Life! Also I have UNFORTUNATE news! Tomorrow I leave for New York, but I have time to upload the two new updates for tomorrow! On SUNDAY however, I won't have access to this computer! So I have to upload the one Love is War, and War Inside TOMORROW instead! I'm going to go see Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, though! This unfortunately takes away some time I might have to write some updates though. Oh well! :D See ya later people!