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Chapter 3: Those were the days
Fantasia Idol was a really long and arduous journey, Kagami commented to himself as he was waiting in his room for his turn to perform his last song of the day. Kagami, who started off as a basketball idiot who was also the ace player of Seirin basketball team, realized that the competition was slowly turning his life over a leaf, and this time, his life now included more people in it: his fans (the Generation of Miracle immediately came to his mind- Kagami shivered at the thought); Kyoko Mogami, the cutest judge of all who thought highly of him, Ren Tsuruga with his vicious glare and severe scowl that Kagami suspected have something to do with Kyoko thinking Kagami as hot and sexy; Sawada Tsunayoshi, his strongest rival but also his best friend that helped him survive throughout the harsh competition, and his harem of dangerous men; Makoto Tachibana with his overly angelic aura and super sweet smile- it was so sweet that Kagami thought he was most likely to suffer from cavity and diarrhea when he got old; and many more that he couldn't bother to remember…
Kagami couldn't be happier; before he returned to Japan, his life was just black and white, with himself and basketball; when he joined Seirin basketball club, his circle got bigger with his teammates; and now, his life had become multicolor with so many people in it.
Sitting in front of the mirror, the redhead reminisced the two past months that led to today, the day of the final round that would determine the ultimate winner of the tournament. It was so hellish and unnerving that could put Riko's training to shame. Not only did he have to train vigorously for Fantasia Idol but he had to struggle with keeping his basketball skills intact- Riko insisted that he must spare at least two days for basketball practice. At least, the principal exempted him from school, with a good luck wish carrying his hope that Kagami winning would make Seirin school more popular.
Fantasia Idol truly lived up to its reputation as the most demanding and toughest singing competition in Japan, and probably the whole world, due to its strict judging systems, various forms of challenges and talented competitors. Well, glory and fame had its own price to pay. Throughout the competition, not only did Kagami have to sing but he was also required to participate in modeling, video shooting, photo shooting,…
Nevertheless, he had made many memorable memories with many new people he met and got to widen his vision to something outside basketball and food. Despite the stressful and nerve-racking environment, Kagami found himself slowly drawn to the joy of performing on stage and the smile and applause his fans showered after he delivered a good performance.
Kagami's singing, as noted by many critics, was fierce, powerful, sensational, yet somewhat soft and seductive at times. During his performance at the prelim round, many, including judges, had their jaws dropped at how smooth his voice was and the strange harmonizing echo effect it produced that the judges had to ask him to stop and sing without the music. They suspected that Kagami was cheating and the music must have been mixed with some effect. They were then proven wrong when the redhead sang without music. And here came priceless expressions.
His performance in later rounds had also left quite an impact on the judges and audience. On Top 6 night- the theme of the night was "Traditional-influenced", he was asked to perform "Yoshiwara Lament"- a song about a geisha mourning for her fate living at Yoshiwara District- and "Iroha Uta"-an ambiguous song that totally screamed sex slave to Kagami. "Yoshiwara Lament" was considered difficult to perform due to it being originally sung by woman, but he managed to nail it right without being too girly. However, the kimono was hot; it made him perspire like hell- how could the ancient woman survive wearing so many layers of clothes-, but the producer remarked that it brought out his inner beauty…and feminine charm- Kagami felt like puking at hearing that. The redhead couldn't be any more glad when he finished performing "Yoshiwara Lament" and proceeded to perform "Iroha Uta" at once. The Emcee said it was the purely the luck of the roulette, but Kagami was sure that it was a scheme of the producer that he was the only contestant to perform two songs in a row, and with that, he had no choice to take off the robe and strip off the sleeve, revealing his bandage-covered abs to fit the song he was about to sing. An awful lot of fangirls screamed. The song lyric added fuel to the fire.
(What Kagami didn't know, a certain group of rainbowheads also went crazy when it was Kagami's turn to perform. At "Yoshiwara Lament", Kise lamented loudly for Kagami's tragic(?) fate; Akashi pondered how much it took to buy Kagami from Yoshiwara District. When the redhead stripped, the rainbow decided that it was too hot to bear and rugby tackled the plasma screen TV, attempting to grope those delicious muscles and lick that sexy pink nipple- Kuroko blamed it on TV's level of realism. It was soon evidenced that they should make a visit to the bathroom for a private moment to themselves; it was lucky that Akashi's mansion had more than 5 bathrooms, or else it would be very awkward.)
When it came to photo shooting, Kagami's photo set was downloaded like hot cake; his feature photo, "Cherry Pie", aroused many good compliments for the light, the settings, the pose, the expression, the pie, and blablabla many other gibberishes that Kagami found necessary to forget blablabla that highlighted his innocence and virginity. Such was the popularity of the photo that the Internet was soon filled with a heavily edited photo of him covered in cherry cream while panting like a seductress, much to Kagami's horror.
(The edited photo soon entered the Hall of Fame, dedicated to Kagami Taiga, in Akashi mansion and Kagami-kun's shrine, built by Kuroko, and was later used for some specific private purposes that Kagami should never know.)
On the Top 4 night, Tsuruga Ren commented that one of the factors that contributed to the redhead's success was Kagami's trademark sex eyebrows, which was totally out of this world and defied all laws of physics that ever existed. Kagami retorted that the eyebrow ran in his family's gene and Tsuruga told that there was no need for him to brag. Somewhere between the comments, a request to make a nickname for his eyebrows was added in, and it soon escalated into a heated debate as to what to call Kagami's unique eyebrows.
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They decided to call them "Eyebrow-geddon".
Because they were destructively split.
Kagami could only facepalm.
After that night, Kagami's split eyebrow became a super hot fashion trend that encouraged service of implanting eyebrows like that of Kagami and sales of fake split eyebrows. Kagami nearly fainted when the Seirin team appeared at his doorstep… all with split eyebrows.
Oh, those were the days of both joy and horror.
TBC