Everyone excited? I hope so!

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Before Junichiro realized it, it was just passed dawn of the next day.  He heard his alarm ring wildly but was still feeling wore out from the previous day.  “Another long day ahead,” he grumbled as he sat up and rubbed his face.  He pulled off his blanket and found he was in the clothes from the night before.  No matter what, he would need a shower this morning.  Checking the time, he had about twenty minutes to prepare.  He grabbed the clothes he planned on wearing and took them into the bathroom, setting them on the counter.  He the cold water like the day before to help bring him to his senses.  He eased into the warm water to take care of his aches and pains.  He finally got a chance to think about what had happened at the meeting.

“Is it really true?” he questioned the showerhead like it was his friend.  “It’s almost too crazy to believe.  Should I believe it?  I’ll need to ask Noriko more about it later.”  He lathered, rinsed and repeated the shampoo to give his short brown hair a nice shine.  No matter if any of this conspiracy was true or not, he wanted to look good around his hyungs and noonas.  He still had to present an idol appearance along with his impressive powers to make it into the forces. 

“I must do my best today,” he told himself as he shut off the water and left the shower.  He threw on his clothes and grabbed his normal knick knacks, then headed to training.

He arrived a bit later than the day before but was still early for training.  As he was about to enter the gymnasium, he noticed the woman from the meeting talking outside on a cell phone.  He walked over to her quietly, curious about her conversation. 

“But Sang Hyun oppa,” she whined over the phone, “I’m only doing what I have to do.”  She pouted her lips and rolled her eyes at the voice on the other end.  Junichiro could faintly make out the words the other person was saying

“But I don’t want any other guy to touch you.  This is totally unfair you know.”

“But oppa, you know you’re the one I love.  I can’t help if other men like to look at me.” She didn’t seem to be winning the argument.

“You’re the first girlfriend I’ve had you know,” the voice responded.  “I don’t want to lose that.”

She smiled and confidently replied, “Don’t worry oppa.  You’ll always have me! Hwaiting!” 

“Be careful.  I don’t care if those are my hyungs, I’ll hurt them if they do anything.”

“Oppa saranghae!  I need to leave now though.  I have a job to do.”  Her and the voice exchanged goodbyes and they hung up.  She turned and noticed Junichiro standing there and having heard a part of the conversation.

“Men.  They can’t live without me,” she smirked.  Junichiro smirked back, still unsure of what to think of her.  He then thought for a moment and realized he never formerly introduced himself.

“Sorry, I don’t think I ever introduced myself.”

“You’re Junichiro, right?”  Junichiro nodded.  “Yeah, I’ve heard all about you.  Sorry you’re stuck being half demon and all.”  She reached for a lollipop out of her Pikachu backpack.  She took it out of the wrapper and stuck it in .  Junichiro wasn’t sure how to respond.

“Why exactly are you here again?” Junichiro asked as he scratched his head.

Michiko thought for a minute while the candy on a stick.  Before she could reply, they saw the trainees gathering inside the gymnasium.  There were only 40 of them left.

“We should probably go,” Michiko suggested.  Junichiro walked ahead of her.  “Time for my fun,” she said to herself then stepped on in the room.

The Super Junior members were spread across the middle of the floor.  As Leeteuk walked forward, the crowds of trainees got silent.  He began to speak.

“Hello.  To anyone that I didn’t get to talk to yesterday, I am Leeteuk.  I will be leading today because TVXQ have a major photoshoot.  I will do my best.”  He waved to the trainees.  “As you can see there are only half of you here now.  Congratulations on making it through round one.”  The audience clapped then focused their attention back on the Super Junior leader.  “Today, we will be focusing on projectile magic.  Many of you have probably not tried this before, but all of you are capable of this ability.  Today we will bring out those powers.  By the end of the day, we will keep those that have potential.  Is everyone ready?” 

“Ne,” the crowd collectively responded. 

“Okay,” Leeteuk made the ‘okay’ symbol with his right hand while smiling at the group.  “Let’s split into groups fo-“

“Wait, oppa!”  Michiko shouted as she ran up in front of Super Junior.  “I’m sorry to interrupt, but it appears I missed the memo on training.  May I be in the running?” 

The Super Junior members all were rather puzzled.  “Wait, what?” Leeteuk wasn’t sure if he heard correctly.

Michiko made her best aegyo face.  She rested her cheeks on her hands and made eye contact with all of the members.  “Please, oppas?”  This time, it almost appeared to be hearts forming in the eyes of Leeteuk, Yesung, Kangin, Sungmin, Donghae, Eunhyuk and Kyuhyun.  They seemed to be in a trance from her dainty facial expressions.  Siwon, Ryeowook and Shindong weren’t affected.

“Well, I’d be okay with it,” Eunhyuk murmured to Leeteuk.

“We can’t turn down a cute face like that,” Sungmin added.

“There are less trainees here left than expected so she helps the numbers,” Yesung remarked.

“Plus she COULD be powerful,” Kangin claimed.

“Everyone deserves a chance,” Donghae declared.

“I wish she were StarCraft so I could play her all night,” Kyuhyun voiced his thought, clearly not paying attention to what the others said.  The trainees were standing in the crowd, confused by what was going on.

“Whoa! We can’t just let some random woman try out!” Shindong complained to his comrades. 

“Shindong hyung is right.  She seems like a sweet girl but it’s unfair to the others,” Ryeowook responded.

“Yeah, I’m not sure about this one, Leeteuk hyung.”  Siwon observed Michiko.  It was up to Leeteuk what would happen.  Being he was another one that fell into her beauty, it only took a moment to consider.

“Let’s give her a shot,” he announced to his dongsaengs. 

“Thank you,” she said as she blew kisses to each of the men.  The dazed ones all blushed.  Leeteuk turned his attention back to the trainees.

“Okay, there will be a slight change of plans.  Since we have an extra trainee, I think we should mix up the groups.”  At this announcement, Junichiro scanned the room with his eyes for Noriko.  She looked back in his direction, showing concern that she couldn’t be his leader today.

“Here are the groups,” Leeteuk starting listing off names.  When he got to Junichiro’s name, Junichiro and Noriko listened intently.  “Junichiro will be in Taemin’s group.”  Noriko seemed a bit relieved.  She knew Taemin was probably one of the easier of the 2^nd seats.  Noriko kept listening to Leeteuk for Michiko’s position.  When Leeteuk got to her name, Shindong whispered something to Leeteuk.  Leeteuk nodded then proceeded to announce.  “Michiko will be with 2^nd seat Amber.” 

“Amber?” Michiko was surprised.  “From F(X)?  Oh but I can’t use my ability on a girl!”  She began to mutter. “Stupid Shindong, he just wants me under her to he can keep an eye on me.  It means I actually have to try.  I’m so annoyed.”  Noriko could see Michiko’s frustration and couldn’t help but snicker. 

“I hope they both do well,” Noriko said to herself.

Training was finally beginning.  Junichiro hustled over to his new group leader.  It was odd for Taemin to be his leader while Junichiro knew he was slightly older than Taemin.  He always knew Taemin as the adorable maknae of SHINee and had no idea he could have any powers.  Junichiro made sure to show him respect however, unlike some other members of that group.

“Today I will help you with projectile magic.  Please do your best and listen to everything I say.”  Two of the group members snorted at Taemin while sharing a private joke.

“What’s so funny?” Taemin’s expression was serious.  The taller of the two looked right into Taemin’s eyes with an evil grin on his face.  “You’re the one teaching us?” He recklessly responded.

“Ya, is there a problem?”  Taemin’s eyes widened as he got angrier.

“So you’re telling me some girlish boy is gonna tell me what to do?” 

“Excuse me?”  Taemin gave the guy a chance to apologize.

“You heard what I said.  You look like a woman for your long hair and wimpy body.”

“Say that one more time,” Taemin was about to burst.

“What you gonna do about it, woman.” He pushed Taemin back.  Taemin jumped back a little farther and formed his hands into a heart shape.  The two guys started laughing. 

“What the hell are you doing?  You’re just proving my point,” he blabbered. 

A devilish gaze sprung in Taemin’s eyes.  Before any more words could be said, something shot from the heart shaped hands of Taemin!

KAZZZZOOOOOOMMM!!!!!

The sound blasted as a terrifying large pink laser shot from the formation.

 
“WHAT THE HELL!?!?” the two men jaws were dropped.  They felt the laser burn off a side of both of their hairstyles.  There was a huge zigzag now on the sides of their heads.  Taemin intentionally missed.

“Whoaa,” Junichiro and the other trainee in the group remarked in awe. 

“As you were saying?” Taemin death glared at the two men.  Terrified, they both apologized and zipper their lips shut.

“Okay, let’s start training,” Taemin now had a smile on his face and was back to the image that he was known. 

***

Meanwhile, Michiko was stuck training with Amber.  While she highly respected her, this would make her mission much harder. 

“Let’s go through each person starting with you,” Amber pointed to Michiko.  Amber had already reviewed the basics so it was the trainee’s turn to demonstrate what they had learned.  Amber had taken the group outside and to a target practice field.  Michiko positioned herself 30 feet away from the target

“Anytime you’re ready,” Amber told Michiko.  Michiko nodded.  She set her Pikachu backpack on the ground and focused on the target.  She raised her arms in front of her to form the shape of a gun.  “Sorry target, but you’ll have to die today,” she said under her breath.  Her eyes were glowing as she increased her focus.  “Goodbye,” she told the target as a red blaze fired from her pointer fingers.  She hit the target dead center.

“Wow,” her fellow trainees applauded, admiring her skills.

“Very impressive,” Amber retorted.  “Who’s next?” 

***

The morning training session was going well for both Michiko and Junichiro.  Michiko had already mastered many skills from being with a former company.  She knew that SM was a higher level so she decided it was best to show all she had.  Junichiro on the other hand, was completely new to the craft.  He was going at about the same rate as his fellow trainees.  His projectiles weren’t running as smoothly as he had hoped, so he was worried.  Before they knew it, lunch time rolled around.  Junichiro grabbed his meal and sat on one of the bleachers.

“How’s it going?” Noriko asked as she snuck up beside him.  Junichiro jumped not noticing her there until she spoke.

“I’m not so sure.”  He watched his feet as he shuffled them on the ground.  Noriko patted him on the shoulder.

“From what I could see so far, you’re doing fine.  Most people won’t be able to fire anything today.  It takes a lot of practice.”  Junichiro felt reassured. 

“Thanks.”

Noriko gave him a look, pondering for a moment.  “You know, you should really be more formal with me.”  She sighed.  Junichiro smirked at her.

“You’re right.  I’m sorry, Seonbae.  I’ll respect you more often.”  Noriko was delighted with the title.  They shared a smile.

‘Give it to my Y

Listen to my Y’

Noriko’s phone was singing in her pocket.  She quickly answered it.

“Yoboseyo?”  She was silent while the other voice responded. 

“Wae? Okay, I’ll be there soon.”  She hung up and threw her hands in the air in frustration.  She sighed then glanced to Junichiro.  “It appears I have an emergency I need to attend to.  I’m sorry I have to leave you.” 

“What’s wrong?”  Junichiro was worried. 

“One of the dumbest issues I have to deal with all the time.  I’ll tell you when I get back.”  She reluctantly rushed off, first stopping to tell Leeteuk the situation.  The members of her group would need to be dispersed throughout the others.

***

Noriko reached the entrance to SM Studios.  While swiftly walking to her car, she ran head on in Lee Joon.  They conked heads and fell over.

“Aish,” Joon rubbed his cranium and stood up.  He put out a hand to help Noriko up.  When she was standing, he reached down to get a package he dropped.

“Oppa, why are you here?” She stared at her feet.

“I brought a box of cookies I made.”

“Cookies?” Noriko was pleasantly surprised.  Unexpectedly, an idea popped in your head.

“May I take those?” She asked with a glow on her face. 

“Erm..” Joon thought for a moment. “Sure. They were for yo-“

“Thank you so much oppa!” She interrupted him and took the box from his hands.  “This is just what I need to resolve an issue.”  She bounced away to her car without another word.

“I was gonna give them to you anyways,” Joon quietly remarked to himself.  He shrugged his shoulders and pouted while he continued into the SM studio.

***

Noriko arrived at her destination.  It was a large building right outside of Seoul.  She groaned at the TVXQ signs plastered all over the place.  She rushed to the entrance past the mob of screaming fans and into the building.  Paparazzi tried to push their way in but the security held them off.  Carrying Joon’s box of cookies, she rushed photoshoot area.

“I can’t believe this,” complained a familiar voice.  She walked right in to witness Changmin standing with his arms folded in front of the staff.

“Why is there no food?”  He was painfully frustrated.

“We’re sorry,” one of the staff members apologized.  “We didn’t know it was a necessity.” 

Changmin wasn’t backing down.  “Are you serious?  I haven’t eaten all day because we had to sit through makeup and hair and clothing.  I can’t work on an empty stomach!”  Yunho sat there in the corner with his head in his palms.  “Everytime,” he muttered.  Noriko rushed over.

“Changmin oppa!” she shouted to get his attention.  She smiled as politely as she could while she opened the box.  Changmin’s face lit up.

“Cookies!” He sounded like a kid at Christmas.  “What kind?” He intently asked Noriko.

“They’re,” she looked at the cookies for a minute. “Chocolate chip.”  She had no idea if that was correct.  It didn’t seem to matter if she was correct or not because Changmin attacked the sweets.

“Here, you can have them all,” she said as she handed the box over the Changmin.  He tried to say thank you but his mouth was full of the delicious treats.  She glanced over at Yunho that gave her thumbs up.  “Thank you,” he mouthed to her.  She nodded then started to leave.  Just as she reached the door, she was stopped by the photographer. 

“You’re a lifesaver,” he sighed in relief.  “Next time their manager schedules a photo shoot though, make sure they arrange to keep this from happening.” 

Noriko paused for a moment. “May I ask who arranged this?”

“Park Kyeong Ji.” 

“Thank you,” Noriko remarked as she left.  Park Kyeong Ji?  She never heard of him before.  How odd.

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Another chapter done.  The fun is only beginning!