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Chapter 4: Free and Dream

Since the start of Kagami's participation at Idol Fantasia Contest, the Generation of Miracle, Kagami's self-proclaimed number one fans, had been paying utmost attention to the adorable sexy redhead. They watched every of his performance on stage, collected posters of his angelic smile and downloaded all the photo sets that had Kagami. Such was their dedication that some of members had built various constructions, which included the notorious Secret Chamber in Akashi Castle, which was notoriously rumored to be guarded by a tiger hologram; Hall of Fame in Akashi Mansion which was dedicated to the darker aspect of Akashi's admiration of Kagami's beauty; Kuroko's infamous Kagami's shrine. The list could go on for a while, so let's get back to the main story.

Tonight was night of the final round to determine who would emerge victorious and claim the first place. However, this year's final was different from that of previous years: instead of the usual two contestants competing for the first place, this year had three. By a stroke of unprecedented miracle, three competitors of the Top 3 night, after scores and votes had been added up, turned out to have the same score. The organizer quickly seized this opportunity to *cough*P.R*cough* make this contest the most memorable night in the history (of course, there was speculation that the organizers wanted to take advantage of the situation to sell more tickets and merchandise, but whether it was true or not was kinda confidential).

The declaration at the end of that night was that the final night would have, instead of the usual two, three contestants competing for the championship and the competition format would have a few alterations in order to, according to the program producer, spice things up. The final night would be like a "simulation concert" for the contestants who had to pick a theme for their performance. Each was required to give out three songs, in a way similar to a 3-course feast, as commented by Tsuruga: one song as "appetizer", stimulating the audience's interest; one as the "main course" to elaborate and express the theme and the final for the "dessert", the final touch of the show.

Aside from singing, the competitors were required to do a "surprise" contest, the content of which wasn't revealed, and a "Answer-questions-from-your-fans" session in which those three answered questions sent by their fans through telephone line. To make things more difficult, the three finalists were required to make three videos accompanied with three song performances, and they only had one month to do so.

For the following weeks, Kagami Taiga, Tsunayoshi Sawada and Makoto Tachibana became the most searched items on Nihon-Goggle searching engine.

Tickets sold like hot cakes; the forum discussions about the competition flourished like mushrooms and this season was quickly regarded as the most interesting, as well as the most sexist, contest in the history of Idol Fantasia with three finalists being all male. So far, this season had the most attractive and hottest participants ever, and being labeled sexist just couldn't do. However, they sold, so the organizers didn't give a damn about the public's opinion. Nevertheless, even the public couldn't resist long before succumbing to those three's charm and talents. Really, who could resist Tsunayoshi's adorable innocent uke face-he was plainly demanding people to molest him (his dangerous harem vehemently agreed that), Makoto's holy smile with his sexy body- just look at those back muscle (his underwater harem totally appreciated that) and Kagami's infamous drool-worthy abs and pecs and angelic aura- seriously, just look how high he jumped (his Miracle (not) secret admirers more-than-willingly agreed)?

Fantasia Idol final night became the most anticipated TV show of the year. Everyone was looking forward to seeing that their favorite stars had in store for them.

Somewhere along those four weeks of waiting, a joke was made and then became a universally agreed truth. Those three definitely had great potential and future of them, and if they ever joined force, they would definitely rule Oricon Chart. Yaoi soon sprung out of nowhere, and those three quickly found their own niche within the yaoi fandom; it didn't help that everyone, except those three, realized that they had their own respective harem to ship. Fangirls had acquired the perfect material (backed by real-life evidence) for their own fantasy, or delusion.

Those three were eventually called The Golden Triangle, also known as the Illuminati of Uke, due to their irresistible uke face and sexy body. Three ukes with so much power and might!

The final night eventually arrived, to everyone's anticipation and the three's participants' horror. The producers had really outdone themselves this time, for every ticket was completely sold out with price three times higher than normal; however, demand just kept on coming. Due to the unexpected rise in spectators' number, the organizer decided to move the location to a bigger place, the National Stadium. Within one month, the once sport stadium was turned into a magnificent grand stage for the singing event, attracting more than 5,000 spectators. Television continued to advertise the competition and the three finalists, anticipating a spectacular night with explosive performance.

Such was the expectation that three finalists found themselves in constant stress and nervousness. Before the show started, all three of them gathered in the waiting room and tried to calm their mind by talking to someone. Kagami let his eyes roam around to take in his surroundings. Tsunayoshi Sawada, or Tsuna for short, was conversing with … a baby in black suit and shaking like a leaf when the baby kicked him in the head. Kagami internally cringed; it gotta hurt judging from his friend's expression. Darting his gaze to the other corner, Kagami found Makoto Tachibana- the boy insisted everyone call him Makoto- talking with two black-haired boys, one constantly looking at the mini aquarium with interest, the other with droopy eyes that seemed to be keen on invading Makoto's bubble. On closer inspection, Kagami could see that one arm of droopy-eye was circling around Makoto possessively. The redhead made no further look or comment.

As for him, to his surprise, the only one showing up was Tatsuya and Alexandra, who had traveled from America to support Kagami and send his parents' good luck wish and promise to cheer him during the show. Kuroko, despite having been invited before, didn't show up, which upset the redhead a bit.

Truth be told, Kagami was terrified inside. Through random raffle, he was the first one to perform and open the night. Three finalists would take their turns to perform their songs, and the order would be switched in rotation.

A drum roll accompanied by loud cheering sound was more than enough to alert everyone in the waiting room it was time for their performance. The other two competitors glanced at Kagami before giving him an encouraging nod as the supporters were led out of the room.

Once they were alone, Tsuna and Makoto approached Kagami and Tsuna spoke.

"We have come a long way, Kagami-san. It's my honor to be friends with both you and Makoto-san. So, a good luck from me to both of you. May the best one win tonight!". Tsuna smiled brightly.

"Me, too. Without you two's support, I wouldn't have gotten this far. I'm very happy to be friends with you. I hope after tonight we can still stay in touch with other", Makoto said and Kagami quickly interrupted.

"Of course, we'll stay in touch. There's no fucking way I'm gonna forget you two so easily."

"Woa, three months and your language hasn't changed much. I'm impressed", Tsuna commented teasingly, earning a laugh from Kagami.

Makoto laughed along and then his eyes hardened, "Anyway, like Tsuna-chan said, may the best one win. Just to let you know, I won't back down so easily without a fight".

"The same for me", Tsuna chuckled, "I'm aiming for the championship tonight, so expect the best from me."

Upon hearing his friends' determined declaration, Kagami couldn't help but grin his competitive smirk. The tiger in him immediately rose to the challenge.

"Yeah, like I'm gonna lose tonight. Prepare to get your asses kicked by me."

The three finalists erupted into joyful laughter before a man arrived and informed Kagami of his time to perform.

Adjusting his leather jacket and dusting the imaginative dust off his clothes, the proud tiger made his way to the stage, eagerness shown clearly on his face.

Tonight was his night to shine.

"And now let's welcome our favorite red-haired tiger, Kagami Taiga, and ready to be thrown into a battle of a lifetime for your belief with his chosen theme, "FREE AND DREAM""

The Emcee's introduction was followed by an explosion of applause, fans going crazy as they saw the redhead appearing on stage.

"And his first song, composed by none other than our Kagami, also the first song to be performed tonight, is…. Guren no Yumiya "

Music flooded out, overwhelming the audience's cheering, and with eyes of a predator preying on victory, Kagami began his powerful epic performance that totally blew everyone away.

(Unknown to the singer, upon hearing Kagami's singing in Germany, the Generation of Stalkers were totally hard and went into crazy fangasm for the rest of the show. It was fortunate that Akashi had booked a private watching booth with splendid view of Kagami's performance and smoking hot body- just look at that tight leather outfit; oh, how much Kagami's number one fans wanna be that shirt, or that pant. It would be awkward if other people spotted the wet stain on their pants or the freedom of their pants later. Kagami had done a good job in stimulating the audience.)

TBC

Guren no Yumiya by Linked Horizon, Shingeki no Kyojin OP 1