So... If you are not only in the Utapri fandom but also in the Once Upon a Time fandom, you might have found a scene from the last chapter that was pretty similar to a Rumbelle one :P Yes, i have a ton of OTPs but i'm not sure i made any other reference...
So, anyways: Thank you to everyone who reads my story, favourites it, follows it, reviews and all that. I really appreciate it :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Uta no prince-sama or any of its characters.
8 a.m. (4 hours later)
Every day, the members of Starish would gather in the living room at eight in the morning to have breakfast together. So it was a surprise when they noticed the absence of a certain couple of redheads.
"Haru-chan must've been tired after writing so much. It's okay if she's sleeps through our meeting today" said Natsuki.
"Yes, but what about Otoya? Where is him?" asked Syo.
"Now that you mention it, he wasn't in his bed earlier, so I thought he had already come here…" said Tokiya.
"It doesn't seem like it" said Masato.
"Yes, we can see that" replied Ren.
A dark aura surrounded Cecil. He seemed quiet and mopy about the whole thing. This got the boys suspicious.
"What about you Cecil? What do you know about Otoya?" asked Syo snapping the boy back to reality.
"Eh? Me? What would I know?" replied Cecil.
"We don't know; that's why we're asking" Ren told him.
"Oh… I…" Cecil murmured unintelligible words under his breath with a crazed look on his face. This made Ren take it as a challenge to get the information out of the foreign boy. He observed him for a moment and noticed the bags under his eyes which gave him a bit of a clue about where to start his 'investigation'.
"Huh… say Cecil: where were you last night?" Ren asked.
"Wh-What?! Where would I be?! I was sleeping!" Cecil replied.
"Oh, really? Then why do you look like you haven't slept in ages?" said Ren. Then he continued "Guys, help me out here: poor little Ceshii is holding out on us and thinks he can't get away with it".
"Are you okay?" asked Natsuki in a worried tone.
"I… no, I'm not" he answered.
"Whaat? Why? Do you need a hug? I'm going to give it to you anyways" said Natsuki hugging the emerald eyed boy.
"Let… go…" said Cecil gasping for air.
"Oh, sorry"
"Now tell us what you know about Otoya" said Syo.
Cecil sighed and then said "Okay… it's not much but yesterday I couldn't sleep and I went to get a drink to the kitchen and-" Ren cut him off.
"Yes yes, very interesting: tell us about Otoya"
"I was just getting there!" Ren smirked and gestured for Cecil to continue. "Okay, the thing is that when I went to the kitchen Haruka was there, she was making herself some tea and we were… talking when Otoya came in. Long story short (because you're too impatient to hear the whole thing) I felt tired so I went to bed and they stayed together. Alone. God knows what they did" he finished.
"Do you think they…?" asked Masato.
"No, it's against the rules. Besides, Haruka doesn't like him that way. Does she?" said Tokiya.
"There's only one way to find out" said Syo.
"… And that is?" asked Natsuki.
"I'm pretty sure he means we should go check on her room" Ren replied.
"What? But we can't go to the girl's dorm without permission!" said Natsuki.
"Are you really that naïve?" said Ren. "The senpais are out this morning and the principal is nowhere to be seen, we can go".
"… But… ok, but we should knock first; she may be sleeping. If she doesn't answer, we don't bother her anymore" replied Natsuki.
"Yeah, sure" lied Ren.
They got up and walked their way to Haruka's room. Everyone was pretty silent all the way there and as they got to the door their doubts grew.
"I should knock" said Tokiya seeing as no one was as close as him to it. They all nodded and he proceeded to knock twice. Nobody replied to the knocks so after a moment they started to walk away when Ren stopped them.
"Where are you going? We are not giving up now" he said.
"What? But you said-" Natsuki was interrupted by Ren chuckling.
"I lied. Do you really think I was telling the truth? Come on, you know me better than that" Ren said.
"… I guess… but I don't think we should bother her anymore. If she couldn't sleep last night maybe she needs to sleep this morning…" replied Natsuki.
"Don't worry, the door is open. We'll walk in and if we see her alone sleeping we'll just walk away" Ren said.
"But what if she's not alone sleeping?" asked Syo.
"I guess we'll have to see" Ren replied.
He opened the door and walked in, gesturing for everyone else to stay outside. He spotted the bed and tip-toed towards it. When he got next to it, he breathed out (without realizing he had been holding his breath) relieved: Haruka was alone. He calmly went back outside and closed the door behind him.
"So?" said Cecil.
"She was alone". Everyone sighed in relief and then made their way back to the living room. But Ren still had a strange feeling in his gut that told him that something was off. Seeing his expression, Masato stayed with him.
When the rest of the guys were out of sight Masato asked "What is it?"
Ren looked at him and said "Something's not right".
"What do you mean?"
"I… I don't know. I have a hunch that tells me that there's something weird here".
"A hunch? I think you have been watching way too many detective shows" said Masato as he smirked.
"No, I'm serious. If Otoya is not here after we have a witness seeing him last with Haruka: where is him?"
"See, a witness. You are just too into those shows. But you are right in something: it's weird we haven't heard a sound from Otoya in all day. He's usually pretty noisy and energetic. Even if he didn't sleep last night" replied Masato. Ren just stared at him as he thought through the possibilities. "Why don't we go get changed now, we have a photo shoot in an hour and I don't want to be late. This mystery will still be here after we come back" finished Masato.
"Okay, but before we do we should talk to the principal about this. Maybe Otoya is in trouble and even though we are a big boy band we can't afford losing one member now" said Ren.
"Jinguji Ren, are you worried about someone other than yourself?" asked a smiling Masato.
"Shut up"
~o~h~~o~h~~o~h~~o~h~~o~h~~o~h~~o~h~~o~h~~o~h~
Meanwhile in Haruka's room ~
They had been sleeping soundly when Otoya heard a noise coming from outside the room that woke him up. When said noises knocked on the door he woke up Haruka and whispered "Someone's here, I'll go hide. Pretend you're sleeping and tell me when they're gone". Confused, Haruka just went back to sleep when he closed the door to her bathroom just as Ren opened the door to her room. After the boy walked back outside she sighed in relief, her heart was almost beating out of her chest when he got next to her bed. She jumped out of her bed and put her ear to the door to listen if they were still out there. She heard them say they were leaving and was about to tell Otoya to come out of hiding when she heard Masato's voice. After she heard the loud footsteps of the two friends grow quieter, she waited a couple of minutes and called her boyfriend.
"Otoya-kun! You can come out now!" said Haruka.
"Shhh… Are you sure?" he asked in a low voice.
"Yes, Jinguji-san and Hijirikawa-san just walked off to see Saotome-sama"
Otoya opened the door of the bathroom and walked back to Haruka's bed. He sighed in relief and said "That was close"
"Yes, it was" said Haruka sitting back on her bed.
"I don't know if we can tell them or not yet… the fans can't know but the principal didn't say anything about our friends".
"I know, but it's best if we play safe until we talk to the principal" she said grimacing. He nodded and held her hand making her look at him.
"Good morning" she said, smiling.
He smiled back at her and then he leaned in and kissed her lips. Shortly after, she kissed back and after a moment he pulled away and said "Good morning". This made her giggle, and urging for more, she kissed him again, putting her hands at the sides of his face as if to stop him from pulling away. He kissed back and held her by the hips getting her closer to his body. Feeling herself closer she moved one of her hands to his hair and her other one down to his chest. At that point they pulled away and rested in each other's foreheads trying to catch their breaths. When she started breathing normally again, Haruka whispered "I love you Otoya-kun". He gave her a quick peck on the lips and replied "I love you too Haruka-chan". They were about to kiss again when Haruka's cellphone started ringing. She snorted and checked the caller id. It was an unknown number but she picked up anyways.
"Hello?" she said.
"Haruka! How are you girl?" replied a female familiar voice from the other side.
"Tomo-chan?"
"Yes! Who else would I be?"
"Oh no… it's just that I have your number in my phone but it still popped out as 'unknown caller'"
"Ah… yes, I got a new phone. You should save this number 'cuz I won't use the other one anymore"
"Um… Okay…"
"Heh, sorry this call isn't going anywhere. I was just calling to ask if you wanted to come to my concert next week. And spoiler alert: you can't say no"
"Of course I'll go!" she looked at the redhead next to her and asked "But… can I bring someone?"
"Sure! But I just have space for two people so just bring one someone" she said laughing.
"No problem. You'll text me later the time and place?"
"Of course! Ok, gotta go, bye!" she hanged up.
Haruka put her phone back at her nightstand and took a deep breath.
"Is everything ok?" asked Otoya.
"Oh, yes… It's just… Tomo-chan is having a concert next week and I was wondering if you could come with me… Can you?" she replied.
"Um… I should check my schedule but I'll let you know" he said. Haruka didn't get the joke so she just looked dissapointed to the floor before replying anything.
"Haruka: I'm joking" She looked up at him with a bright look on her face and hit him in the arm "Ouch, what was that for?"
"What do you think it was for? I thought you were serious" she replied.
"I would never put you after my work, ever. Besides, I have the next week off" he said. "I'm sorry for joking about it; I didn't mean to hurt you"
"No, it's okay. I overreacted, it wouldn't have been that big of a deal if you had to work. Besides, it was in such a short notice and all" Haruka replied.
They stayed in silence for a moment looking around the room, thinking. The longer they didn't say anything, the more awkward the silence became. Otoya realized he had to work after lunch but the thick atmosphere in the room kept him silent. Haruka on the other hand, had saved the whole day to write songs in her quest to write a new hit. But she didn't want to waste her free time with Otoya just staring at the floor in awkward silence, so she decided to be the one to talk first.
"Otoya-kun…"
"Eh? Yes?" he looked up at her.
"I was just wondering if you wanted to… have breakfast with me?" she asked.
"Oh. Yes, of course" Then he realized something. "Um… But maybe we should wait for the rest of the guys to leave… I mean, they will see me coming from your room, and I'm wearing the same clothes as yesterday"
Before she was able to reply she yawned and rubbed her eyes. Not too long after, he did the same.
"I slept so little…" she said "little less than 4 hours"
"Yes, so did I… but at least we were together" he finished smiling.
She smiled back and said "Yes, well… we should take a shower and change our clothes before going to the kitchen… But you don't have any…"
"Maybe I can get out through the window?"
"Oh… yes, but I don't know how far you would have to go… And maybe there's someone outside that may see you"
"No, this is the back garden… And if I'm right: everyone else is either having breakfast or going to work right now… Besides, I'm fast as lightning" he finished, smiling.
She laughed at that and said "Okay flash, I'll meet you back at the kitchen"
He put on his shoes and opened the window when he turned back and said "I miss you already" in a sweet tone.
She ran to him and gave him a sweet peck on the lips before replying "I miss you too". After that, he got out of the window and into the grass at a fast pace, and checking the windows to see where he was going. Luckily, his bedroom window was open so he jumped in.
A/N: If you are wondering where my new cover picture for the story comes from: it's by novanoah on tumblr :). Thank you for reading and have a great day!