The Brother's Arrival and Toma's New Rival!
Third Time's The Charm-----------------------------------------------------------
(Stuttering- Ben's Brother: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jfK8WjapHtU)
DAY I
6:00 AM
Koyama walked the hallways of Eitoku's dormitory in the early morning. It had been suspiciously almost too easy to sneak into his sister's school grounds. Almost as if they allowed people to walk in and out like this. He'd have to get Mao to move if that was the case. He wasn't going to allow predators like himself to be allowed inside so utterly easy.
He grinned happily at the image of Mao that Ryo had planted in his head. Ryo had probably ended up exaggerating every single thing about her but the two brothers couldn't help but fawn over their only sister. According to the image that Koyama had in his head of Mao she seemed as if she'd grown up to be quite the girl. She probably made the boys chase after her and teased them. Usually he hated this kind of girl but he was glad Mao was this type because that way he didn't have to worry about beating up a guy who may or may not knock her up.
Now if only he could figure out which side was the girls and which side was the boys. It was early enough that he wasn't going to get caught by any teachers and even if he did it wouldn't make that big of a deal to him.
He walked past a girl who was looking down as she rushed past him and he decided to ask her before following the way she came from. After all she could have been returning from a guy's room. He tapped her on the shoulder and she looked up at him and he grinned his gentle yet charming smile that had won him his position in the Disney Kids ten years ago. No wonder he was able to take so many vacations off school.
Just to show off he started speaking English to the girl. The girl grinned back and nodded as if she understood but Koyama was so sure that she didn't understand a word he said.
"Could you tell me where the girls dorms are? I'd like to visit my sister." He said and the girl looked at him and smiled toothily while her face slowly came to start resembling a bit of a tomato and her feet tapped as if she'd like nothing more than to run away from him.
She was probably in awe of his good looks, how predictable. Oh well he supposed she wasn't bad looking herself now that he stared at her. Obviously she had woken up mere moments ago. That had to be the reason her hair was covering most of her shockingly red face. He almost laughed but reminded himself it wasn't polite. It wasn't the poor girl's fault he was so utterly gorgeous he made everyone blush.
"Uh—hai! I mean yeah…I totally know what you mean. If I had a brother I'd want him coming to visit me but are you…sure? Cause you know you could just be trying to meet a girl there…and then you could get in rubble and I don't want to get in rubble but I may too you know?" She said fast and started turning around but then turned back to face him as if changing her mind.
"Rubble?" Koyama asked her doubtfully raising a brown confused by the words that had exited her lips which were currently biting on her hair nervously. She seemed not to have a focused mind and she didn't seem to think much before she spoke either. She immediately pulled her hair out of and moved it aside.
Her eyes seemed to dilate slightly as she stared into his and Koyama felt his heart slow down from it's previous fast rate. She definitely wasn't bad looking now that he saw the hair go off her face and stared at her with more attention to her hidden looks. It wasn't obvious at first sight; at first sight the girl came off as plain and boring.
He would have continued on with his thoughts if he hadn't realized something had happened within him. She'd calmed him down, he realized. How odd, he'd never really been in the calm state that he was feeling right now. Women made his heart beat faster. Whether the girl was ugly or beautiful in his mind it usually didn't matter his heart would rival the speed of a Formula 1 Race Car on a normal basis. So how come it was as slow as a hospital patients? With Masami he'd felt like he might have died from a heart attack every time he saw her. Of course Masami didn't give a about him, and why should she? She had Ryo, but not for long. He remembered as Ryo had told him about the plans he had to get back together with Aya.
"I meant trouble." She said bowing apologetically and starting off away from him. Koyama couldn't help but stay rooted to his spot looking at her as she rushed away and turned a corner and disappeared from his view.
It was only then he realized that she'd never ended up answering his question and he raced after her. His heartbeat surprisingly stayed the same, not even a run could break the spell she'd placed upon it apparently. It was the most assuring heartbeat he'd ever heard ringing in his ears. Like there was nothing else he'd rather do and nothing he was scared of. It resembled to him a form of courage.
He raced after her almost bumping into walls. Soon coming across a lone figure in a yellow hall. This figure he recognized as the girl from before, her back with the pin drop straight black hair shaking as she moved forth. He grinned widely remembering how she'd been chewing on it as she'd looked at him. It had been so utterly childlike and- adorkable.
"OI! YOU!" The girl turned around to look at him curiously but she grinned as she stared at him and Koyama couldn't help but grin back.
"What's your name?" He inquired instead of asking for where the rooms were. He was surprised at the words leaving his mouth. Nevertheless this one time he was glad he hadn't thought his words through.
Erika Toda had never been chased after like this. So she savored the moment of having a cute English Japanese boy chasing after her albeit it was probably for the location of his dear sister. She stared at him for a while, noticing his flushed face. Well it wasn't like she was going anywhere too important either. She was just going to brush her teeth in the public washroom because the sink in their bathroom wasn't working.
"Erika." She said finally after 10 seconds or so of staring at him with an adoring look on her face. She offered him one of her shaky smiles, not talking much because her breath probably stank like crazy. She turned around and started walking away. That was good, she'd talked to a guy somewhat normally. This was progress, who knew? Maybe she didn't really need Kamenashi-sama if guys like this started chasing after her regularly. After all Kamenashi-sama obviously had someone else as well.
"Don't you wanna know my name…sparrow?" Koyama wanted to beat himself up. SPARROW!? Where on earth had that come from? Sure she resembled a sparrow but still it was so utterly corny that even Walt Disney wouldn't go for it. He cringed slightly as he stared at his feet and looked up at her and saw that she'd stopped walking and was looking at him with a confused expression on her face, as if she couldn't quite figure out what he was doing behind her still. He slowly started moving forward and immediately he saw that the blush from before started up on her cheeks again and she started backing away.
Erika felt close up automatically. It was typical of her body in such situations. He was probably just coming over to talk to her like boys did with girls. But no her body had to freak out. She could feel her feet start inching backwards as if they would start running in less than a second.
And here she'd thought she was making progress. Well actually all she'd had to do so far was open and say her name. But…but…she probably wouldn't be able to talk and she had stinky breath…they were both against her in the war in winning the cute English Japanese boy's smile! (and taking revenge on Kamenashi-sama)
He neared her front, trying to look directly at her face and deep within her eyes for an answer that would please him. So she opened to say yes she'd like to know his name but suddenly she realized that she could smell the onions from last night on her tongue and shut up promptly and started to walk away from him once more.
She might as well not make a fool of herself. Besides where would this go? She only had eyes for her Kamenashi-sama in the end, even if he didn't want her. You couldn't change the one you loved so easily. She'd obviously seen proof of that on the floor last night though hadn't she? She could admit easily though that this boy who was near her right now was one of the few boys that she found quite…dare she say it? Hot, among others of course, like her Kamenashi-sama, Toma-kun, and Brad Pitt and now unknown boy.
"It's Koyama," He said easily as he slid into the spot beside her and stared at her easily coming in front of her and somehow she felt herself voluntarily move back towards the wall so that she wouldn't fall back in front of him without support, like one of those shojo main characters she read about in mangas. When she felt the cold surface hit her back she immediately started feeling a light wooziness and as his eyes moved closer to hers and her eyes flicked downwards daringly yes she wasn't dreaming. This guy was going to actually kiss her…his lips inched closer with every second and she stopped breathing. The side effect of the lack of oxygen in her body, a hot guy beside her daring to kiss a girl who could barely talk to men, and lack of breakfast ? She fainted.
Koyama looked at the girl who had fainted and crumpled onto the floor with a somewhat amused expression on his face.
No girl had ever fainted for him before. He immediately started laughing as he turned away from her. Even as she was fainted he felt like he didn't want to laugh at her in front of her. After getting it out of his system he turned around and bent down so that he could pull her up on his back and wrap her arms around his neck. Before he stood up he noticed a student ID lying beside the towel she'd carelessly dropped on the floor.
"Quite the odd one aren't you Erika-chan?" He said picking up the card, which seemed to have her room number written on it, With a message on the back. "OMG PLEASE RETURN THIS HERE! GOMEN FOR THE TROUBLE!"
"I don't feel like returning you though," He mused happily as he started off towards room 103. Lifting the girl that was as light as he light headedness.
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7:15 AM
Maki got up sluggishly realizing that it was time to go ahead and get ready anyways. Her head was hurting again…what on earth was it that she'd done last night?
All she remembered from her dream was that she was dancing with Toma but the ground was constantly moving and they were on a disk and there was another disk around them with everyone pointing at them and yelling and howling.
And then she remembered that at the end she'd felt Shun's kiss fall upon her lips but even in the dream it hadn't seemed right like it usually would have.
God she hoped she didn't do anything too stupid last night. This one time was odd, why on earth could she not remember anything that happened? She'd been able to remember what happened with Yamapi after drinking…but for the life of her she couldn't recall what had gone down last night after their exit from the club when the alcohol had entered her system.
She really had to stop drinking. Two weeks since she'd started and she'd already gotten hung over twice.
She went towards the door realizing that Erika must have locked it and left like the bit of a dumb she was when she went to brush her teeth.
As she opened the door she found an extremely cute guy who looked the slightest bit like Toma because their hair color was extremely similar and for some reason found herself getting nervous at the thought of simply Toma's name…or was it the man in front if her?
But all of those thoughts went out of her head when she saw the girl's face that was sleeping soundly on his shoulder. Maki almost fainted herself as she looked at Erika and scream slightly.
"Oh no! What did you do to Erika? Is she okay? Holy Jesus. What happened? We haven't got all day usher your buttocks into the room!" She spoke quickly taking charge and pulling the two into the room by grabbing his free shoulder. Sure she sounded like an old British woman but who cared about that when her best friend was lying fainted on a guys shoulder? The boy looked at her as if she was slightly mad and then looked back at Erika with a fond smile on his face and Maki knew immediately what happened.
"Erika you really are an idiot aren't you?" She said silently to herself shaking her head as she ushered the boy over to the bed, indicating that it was Erika's, staring at the unconscious Erika. If she was fainting at the sight of boys this was quite enough. Something needed to be done about Erika's inability to talk to boys, cute and ugly alike.
"So…who are you and how'd you make Erika faint?" Maki asked as he laid her down on the bed gently and he shrugged.
"I'm Koyama, my stage name's Koyama Keiichiro but my real name's Inoue Koyama…yoroshiku. I'll be on my way actually I don't really have a lot to do right now but I have to get going before my sister leaves because school starts well because… I need to find my sister. Do you have any idea who Inoue Mao is?" He asked and Maki looked at him oddly. Now that she looked closer, and she was really leaning in and all examining his features he resembled Mao quite a bit. It was the initial shock of the hair that caused them to look extremely different.
"Oh my god! Koyama? Koyama as in Mao's brother? She's been gabbing about you forever. Especially when she first started attending this school. She was like 'oh my brother studies in America. Isn't that cool?' Does she know you're here?" Maki said smiling widely at realizing whom this person was. Perhaps that was why Erika had fainted. Because she'd thought she was hallucinating and seeing Mao as a guy.
A hot guy.
"Hai ore-wa Mao no onii-chan. No she doesn't know though so could you keep quiet about this, at least for like 30 minutes until I see her. Don't text her as soon as I'm out of the room neh? I wanted it to be a surprise you see. So if you could just direct me to her room I'll really be on my way." He said feeling kind of awkward as he stared at the fainted girl and the somewhat odd-looking girl that he couldn't bring himself to talk to normally. He wondered if she was one of those girls that you fell in love with the moment you talked to her.
She seemed like that type of girl for sure, just like Rosa. He remembered Rosa far too well for his liking. Just like Rosa as well with her personality, all he needed was a few seconds Rosa with her open mindedness, and her charming manners, and her harsh background. So he'd try to ignore her, Erika's roommate, cause it would for him being hurt by the same type of girl twice.
Here he looked towards Erika and looking at her sleeping form he realized she was muttering something so he leant closer towards her and tried to hear her mutters.
"Kame-sama is going to be all oh noooz how could my Erika baby like someone else? COME BACK ERIKA! But then maybe he'll finally grow some and ask me out right right? So yes I should like Koyama-san he seems like a nice dude. He doesn't seem like a jerk at all…like Shota, . Not just either…SUPER !" Here Maki pushed him away from her and giggled uncomfortably as she tried to keep Erika's pride alive. Koyama struggled to keep a straight face after hearing Erika talk.
"Yeah Erika talks in her sleep and if she finds out you listened she'll probably freak out and start crying and…yeah she's just naturally very childish. Mao's room down the hall." Maki said pointing to the door and Koyama nodded appreciatively as he headed out and paused once more to look at Maki full on and then look at Erika. Yes, they resembled each other in no way so he found it hard to believe the two were extremely close friends.
"Ja ne?" Maki said pointing to the door and Koyama bowed a little shy as he exited and went down the hall and looked for a room that would seem exactly oppositely down the hall from Maki's room.
He knocked and saw another girl open up. "Yo, I'm in no mood right now." She said as she scratched her hair lightly looking as if he'd woken her up at three rather than 7:25.
"School starts in an hour. You should probably get up anyways." He said to the girl pretending to take on the role of a student here. It would help his acting skills anyways if he wanted to get into the movie that the director of Letters of Iwo Jima was planning on shooting soon.
"Ahh…honto? Well come in then- Wait…I don't know you! Who the are you anyways thinks he can wake me up at this time?" She muttered rudely glaring at him as she got up in his face and Koyama backed away slightly.
"I can be whoever you want me to be really." He said in a manner hoping to . She looked pretty innocent and fun to tease anyways. The girl immediately started laughing far too happily for someone who had woken up mere moments before.
"Ahh this is funny…wanna be my slave?" She said looking at him directly with a now much steamier gaze that shocked Koyama. What kind of girl was she? Her personality changed every minute, from lazy, to happy, to vixen? Truthfully, she scared him a little bit now.
"Scared you didn't I? Well whatever. I wasn't serious anyways. Having a boyfriend is a lot better than having a slave. MUCH BETTER! YOU HEAR THAT PI! I DIDN'T CHEAT ON YOU! EVEN NOW! BE PROUD OF ME BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE NEVER HELD BACK FROM A WILLING SLAVE FOR ANYONE ELSE!" She yelled a little too loudly for Koyama's ears, shutting the door in his face. Koyama realized she resembled the girl that had come in with Blair last night into the club and he was about to knock on the door again to ask her where Mao's room was but now he was a lot more afraid.
So he decided he would wait it out until Mao came out of her room willingly. After all…it was better than meeting the weird girls of Eitoku Gakuen.
8:15 AM
Mao stepped out of her room easily staring at Jun who was still sleeping on the bed peacefully and felt a little mean for leaving her in bed and not waking her up, thus making her late but…she felt a little odd waking her up. After all, she'd just sold Jun's secret.
Or part of the secret, she just hadn't been able to remember the last initial and had really randomly picked one out. With any luck it would be published in a week or so.
She turned back to glance at sleeping Jun on the upstairs bed and gave a small smile, maybe Jun would forgive her? Like Megumi!
Mao realized then that Megumi had never really told her she'd forgiven her, she'd just kind of…fit with Mao and they'd never really talked about what happened later. Mao wondered what Aki would say if she saw Mao now. Sneaking out of her room selling secrets for power.
She would make an awesome tabloid person wouldn't she? She was like the Perez Hilton of Eitoku. As she shut her door extra loud so that Jun would wake up with the bang. She found herself looking directly in front of her. She saw a boy staring at her intently, squinting his eyes as if to make out if she was who he thought she was.
She quickly pushed past him her hand pushing his shoulder and walked away. She saw from the corner of her eye he cracked a smile and Mao let out a frustrated sigh as she looped her bag over her shoulders and sped up her step towards the lounge but the boy continued following her.
"Wow…you really have grown up haven't you?" He said and Mao stopped for a second curious now as to the identity of the red head behind her. Mao turned around slowly and put her hands on her hips looking at the boy closely to catch a resemblance to anyone she used to know before.
She found a resemblance to herself.
Then she remembered that last night she'd seen Ryo-nii. broke into a smile as she jumped into the boy's arms just as Toma stepped into the lounge from the boy's side as well and immediately screamed silently as he saw Mao in another boy's arms.
"Onii-chan!" She said sinking her head into his neck happy to smell the familiar scent of her brother after so long. "Does Mom know you're back? If she doesn't I know she'll get extremely mad that you came to your sister before you showed up there. I can't believe I saw Ryo-nii before you too. It pissed me off greatly." She said happily, as she punched his arm as she usually did and hear him wince like he would. Toma narrowed his eyes behind the two not knowing what was going on, and shocked that Mao could be so utterly oblivious to her boyfriend's presence in the same room as she embraced another man.
"Oh where do you think I'm staying anyways Meow Meow. I know I'm a Disney kid but that doesn't mean I'm that big a star yet to live in a hotel in my hometown" He said pinching her cheeks as he set her down and Mao giggled girlishly in a way that could only be achieved by her brother. Once again Toma wanted to go cry in a corner at the lack of attention, and might he say lack of affection after being apart for a whole night, he was receiving from her.
For a moment he remembered Maki's face as she twirled around on the subway station in her ballet flats. Looking as perfect as usual and immediately erased the idea from his head and stared on in anger at Mao and her new beau.
"Onii-chan you embarrass me! Did you come with Ryo-nii? I saw him yesterday." She said pinching his cheeks back.
Onii-chan?
The great Ikuta Toma could not have been jealous of a mere brother could he?
"Hai, that idiot saw you and didn't even tell me anything? Wait till we get back to our house. I'll kill him." Koyama said wrapping his arms around Mao and Toma narrowed his eyes. Oh no he could obviously be deathly jealous of a mere brother. Except this brother was a formidable enemy for Mao's sole affection receiver. Yes…Toma would have to think of a way to get rid of this guy's arms around her.
But he couldn't help but feel happy as he realized that Mao had pulled Koyama's arms off her by herself. As she kept to herself and stayed a friendly distance close to him. Toma grinned widely and couldn't help but want to swoop her into his arms with pride. She liked him enough to keep away from her brother?
That was really something. She didn't even know he was in the room and yet she stayed away. Maybe they'd have dinner tonight together?
"Ryo-nii is staying with us?" Mao asked a little shocked and Koyama shook his head.
"Of course not. But last night he crashed out at our place. He needs to think somethings over before he goes to go visit obaa-san. He should be out by today afternoon. And dinner today's with obaa-san. I don't care what you have planned all right Mao? It's family time. Mom can't make it because of her part-time job but you can make it neh?" Koyama would have spoken more but he heard a crash behind him and he turned around a little shocked and saw Mao scream loudly and race towards the slumped down figure on the floor.
"Eeehhhh Toma-kun daijobu?" She said racing away from her brother without a second thought and patting his head lightly brushing his bangs away as he stared at her with weak eyes.
"I wanted to take you out to dinner." Toma said softly and Mao couldn't help the smile that came on her face.
"Gomen ne Toma-kun…it's family time but I'd be delighted if you can come with us-"
"Okay you know how well obaa-san will react to this guy. The idea of Shun and her kawaii Mao chan not getting together will give her a heart attack." Koyama scoffed as he held out a hand for the fallen guy to get up off the floor. Raising his brow suspiciously. Maybe he should stick around with Mao today and make sure these guys were worth being in her presence. He didn't want Mao to hang out with anyone who wasn't worth her.
"I'm Inoue Koyama." He said bowing slightly and Toma grabbed his hand and pulled himself up as Mao lifted herself off the ground by herself a little miffed that her boyfriend had gotten help and she hadn't.
Well then again her boyfriend was so much prettier than herself. So it really made sense.
"Ikuta Toma." He said bowing slightly as he grabbed Mao from the shoulders and pulled her into his side showing that he wasn't at all shy of making it apparent that he was dating Mao in front of her brother. Koyama didn't look all that intimidating after all.
"Hey you know what I just realized guys?" Mao said slightly in shock as she came to a realization about something that hadn't hit her before.
"What?" The two said in synchronization and Mao looked a little afraid as she giggled lightly.
"You're both actors!" She said grinning widely as she started walking off and the two stared at each other.
Mao turned around and saw the two staring at each other blankly as if they felt it was an insult to their profession to have people like each other working there.
She burst out laughing and the two looked at her with the same confused expression as she grinned widely and explained. "You're both star struck!"
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A/N: Sorry this chapter might have been slow but I wanted to introduce two relationships in the story and I did! =D Mao/Koyama(Brother/Sister relationship) anddd the other one better have been obvious Koyama/Erika!!
I don't really remember what paired those two in my head but I just remember liking the pair a lot when I thought of it.
Little Erika/Kame/Koki thing for you guys that if you follow Cartoon KAT-TUN you must have seen: http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f164/Lillith_Evans/KATTUN40Erika.jpg
Erika was a guest on their show and the subtitles below were spoken by her and lol look at the looks on Kame and Koki's faces! They're all shocked that their on-tv girlfriend would choose her career over a man!
And did anyone notice the major JinRika pairing up!? I swear that it was Maru pairing them up but I could be wrong.
Andd at the end of the show Erika was doing some exercises which were rather okay seeming but I guess on J Tv were a little posture wise...ty? I don't know...BUT it was hilarious!! Cause Kame kept asking: Is this really fine with your agency?
Lmao poor guy this revealed a lot about his co-star neh?
Thanks for the reviews guys!: fallenserendipity, Zing, Calliope, nad_skyblue91, Zing, makitear-chan, Ichigokut3, deppfan, reukerz, Calliope, yulyachen13, mala, andddd gl!!
Some of you guys were twice but I thought I should give you twice the thanks so your names were up there twice =D
Ohh and if you guys could help out mala I guess? She asked if the photo was real and I couldn't really tell.
WARNING: Do not click on link if you are of the faint hearted type after seeing your favourite JE boy snogging someone (may or may not be true):
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PREVIEWS FOR NEXT CHAPTER!!:
“MoshiMoshi Shunn-nii!”
“It can’t be ‘no one’ Shun. I could hear the soundwaves from over there. No one doesn’t have no soundwaves.”
“Get ready I’ll be at the Ritz in exactly 10 minutes. You’re any later I’m not hanging out with you.”
“THIS WAY MAO-CHAN WON’T BE TALLER THAN YOU WHEN YOU GET MARRIED! GANBATTE THAT’S YOUR TENTH GLASS OF MILK TODAY! GANBATTE DON’T PUKE YET SHUN-CHAN! MAO PROBABLY DOESN’T LIKE GUYS WHO PUKE!”
“If it doesn’t hurt too much get on my back Aya-chan.”
“EHHHHHHHHHH! What are you doing here? What the- I thought you’re a visitor…you aren’t supposed to be here anymore. And you were extremely close to my-“
“And yeah and of course we’ll have to add some chocolate cause chocolate is like the best aphrodisiac and-Jun…jun…you’re not listening to me. JUN!”
“What the hell are you talking about you crazy ?”
“You and I. Duh.”
Thanks for reading guys!! This was Preview plenty to make up for the late update as well.
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