All right! Back to working on this story again. I'm kinda just jumping between stories by now, and don't really know how to do either since for some reason I decided to make them both romance based, which I am shit with. Really should've done one of my fantasy ideas for the other one. Oh well, what's done is done and I'll just have to roll with it. So, onto the story! Also, time skip. Deal with it.

-Shining's Office, one week after deadline-

For some reason, Shining called me, QUARTET NIGHT and STARISH to his office, and he still hasn't told me exactly how many units I sold of my newest CD, that bastard. I had gotten the album out on time, despite my injury and did my best with advertising it, so now it just left to the results. So here I stood, waiting in Shining's office, for this annoyingly awkward silence to break by telling us if I passed and why the two groups are here as well. I mean, I know we're all good friends and stuff, but he really doesn't need them to be here for something that really doesn't involve them at all!

"Just spit it out old man! Did I pass, or am I being fired!?"I finally broke the silence by yelling out, fed up with the tense atmosphere and waiting.

"Nagamine-san! I suggest you do something about that temper of yours," Shining said, annoyance coloring his voice.

"And why the hell are STARISH and QUARTET NIGHT here as well?"

"Because!" Shining yelled out in his weird stage voice, implying for me to shut up.

"Nagamine-san, you failed to sell all 3000 units you were supposed to sell in the allotted time."

"So just how many did I sell?"

"2997. You were 3 short."

"Wait, you're firing him because he was 3 short?! Can't you cut him a bit of slack? I mean, he did almost give himself a concussion as well! Even then, just 3?! It's just 3 short! Ain't that close enough?!"

"He was given a goal, and he did not reach it. No matter how close he was, he did not reach that goal, and therefore will face the consequences!"

There was a pause of silence before I spoke up.

"Hm, interesting choice, Shining," I said, "Did you know Otori Eiichi-san and I get along pretty well, mainly because of our mutual love of watching people below us suffer, but never mind that. I bet I could get his dad to hire me and I would move to Raging Entertainment, your biggest rival's agency. That would just end up backfiring right in your face. I could see the headline now, 'Returning Idol, NAGAMINE, Fired From Shining Agency, Moves to Raging Entertainment!'. It would bring more light on both of you, of course, but the light on you would be negative, while Raging would gain more popularity," I said with fake exaggeration and drama.

"Wha-?" Ittoki asked, but I just kept going.

"There's also the fact that I might even got him to hire my sister, under some circumstances I set up of course, to compose songs for HEAVENS. As you know, she composes songs just like the ones I made while pretending to be Nanami Haruka, actually she helped me with quite a few of them. And remember how the crowd reacted to the song they sang that we composed? Just how big of a blow would it be for you to lose both me and my sister, I wonder?" I asked in a sly, menacing voice.

"Are you blackmailing me?" Shining asked. I could hear the danger in his voice.

"You can call it that, but I'm just saying one of the possibilities of what I can do. Of course, I could just go back to my grandmother's farm and hide out there with my sister. What do you think? And remember, you have nothing you can use against me. I haven't done anything I regret since I became an Idol, nor do I regret my past. It may make me lose a few fans but I already have the bad-boy persona, so it would just add to me. You don't know my real name, so it's going to be hard to connect me to anything from my past, so I wouldn't have to deal with the many gangs and delinquents I pissed off. I actually gave them a different fake name, so nobody really knows who I am. There are only two people, possibly three, I don't know really, who know my real name."

"How good of a lawyer do you think he could be?" I heard Ittoki whisper to Syo, but I chose to not hear the answer.

"So, Shining-san. What's your decision? Will you still fire me, or what?"

"Fine! You may continue to work here!" Shining said after a second.

"But?" I asked, getting looks again.

"What? There will almost always be a 'but' with this guy!"

"But! You must make an album of songs with Ranmaru and Ren! There is to be one of each of you individually, a duet of each of the possible combinations and two songs with all three of you!"

"What is with you and extremely large albums? Normally albums only have one or two songs, possibly more for off vocals, but 8? Ain't that a bit overkill?"

"Hisamitsu, any album you're in is exceptionally large," Ranmaru called from the couch.

"So what? Hey, is there any minimum for units sold this time around, or is it only for publicity? Any deadline as well? You always have a deadline."

"There will be no limit for how many you three need to sell, but I do expect you three to be working together a lot more to promote the album. You will have four months to complete this album, got it?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we get it. Hey, I need a bit of a break as well. I'll still do my normal work like photoshoots and interviews, but for the next month, there will be no big projects, no starting new albums, no movie or play appearance or anything long term, got it?"

"When I say you-" he started to protest, but I cut him off.

"Remember, if I choose to, I can leave of my own accord."

"Fine! But only because you sister and you are valuable for composing and it would be a big hit to the agency if you were to leave!" He growled.

"Thanks, now I'm going to pass out for the rest of the afternoon. I haven't had a decent night of sleep since the night these guys finally dragged me out of my room while I was still in the composing stages."

"That was more like a day and a half of sleeping, idiot," Ranmaru said, but I ignored him and trudged off to my room.

Let's see here, four months, so a month on the singles, a month on the duets and a month on the trios then we'll be a month early, so we'll take that month to focus on advertising. Knowing my sister, she probably already has enough songs for these groupings for ten of these albums so I can call her to have her mail some here, I won't have to go into another composing flurry, I thought as I pulled out my phone. I dialed the farm's number, since she didn't have her own cellphone yet. The phone rang, and rang, and rang, until finally, Grandma picked up.

"Hello?" she asked.

"Oba-chan! How are you and sis doing?" I asked her, faking sounding cheerful for her sakes. She still thinks I'm nice and sweet like everyone was when we were kids, so I basically need to act like Ittoki when around her.

"Hisamitsu-chan? Is that you?"

"Yup, it's me, Oba-chan."

"How have you been doing? You haven't been sending any letters lately, and it's been worrying your sister and I."

"Sorry, I've been busy with the whole 'returning Idol' thing. Anyways, speaking of sis, is she busy? Or can I talk to her for a minute?"

"Of course! I'll go find her. I bet she's composing another song for you and your friends! One second," she said before taking the phone away from her mouth and calling for sis to come to the phone.

"Nii-chan! It's been awhile since we've talked. How are you?" She asked enthusiastically.

"I'm fine, you?" I asked, returning to my more mellow and much less cheerful voice.

"Oba-chan and I have been doing just fine! It's been pretty quiet around the farm lately. How has it been returning to Idol work?"

"I'm on my way to my room to pass out for a day and a half for the second time already. Anyways, I'm guessing you have a ton of songs you composed for is all, right?"

"Yeah, why?" She asked, a little bit surprised.

"I need a song for me, Ren and Ranmaru individually, a song for me and Ranmaru, me and Ren, Ren and Ranmaru and two for all three of us."

"Wow, that's a lot of songs. All for one album?"

"Yup. I would write them myself, but I know you have a lot of songs you want us to use. Should I even ask how many you have already finished in just those categories?"

"You know me well. When do you need them by?" I could hear the smile she had on her face and noticed how she ignored my question, probably for a good reason.

"I have a month for the solos, two for the duets and three for the trios, but I can get them whenever."

"I'll send them to you as quickly as possible, okay?" She said excitedly.

"Alright, just don't strain yourself to get them to me, got it?"

"I know! I'll be fine!"

"Alright. I shall eagerly await your creations."

"My pleasure, Nii-chan!"

"Thanks. I'll talk to you later, alright?"

"Okay, bye."

"Bye," I said before hanging up the phone.

Shining's probably going to ask for a concert for both of the new albums a month after deadline, so we should talk about the dance before hand. Ugh, I should've gone for two months of rest… I thought as I unlocked and opened the door to my room, locking it again behind me.

I did my usual routine of taking off my headphones and putting them away, plugging my mp3 player in because it's almost always down to at least half power by the time I'm back in my room and plugging it into the portable speaker I keep in my room. I looked at my bathroom door before yawning, saying to myself, "Might as well shower before going to sleep. Don't want to smell like I shit myself in my sleep."

Wow, that took longer than needed, mainly because I worked on five future chapters, finishing several of them before finishing this one for whatever reason. Don't know how I'm gonna build up to them, nor how I will do any of this, but I'm just rolling with this. Well, Hisamitsu will be wishing he had gotten the spare key back from Camus before he goes to sleep. Anyways, enough with my blubbering and not very well hidden hints and onto the next chapter!