Idol Practice

Everyone was surprised for different reasons as Akane revealed that she was the famous music prodigy.

Hoshi was surprised, because she was a big fan of Akane, she heard her music the first time at the age of seven, where she watched the world contest for pianists for the first time in her life. She fell in love with her music that played on that day, it just had a certain refined note. She tried to follow her career through the years, but it was rather difficult. She appeared again in various violin contests, but getting a hold on her appearances was very difficult.

She didn't really go on tour. She performed on some tv-shows or variety shows, but that rather scarcely. The most she played for, was on radio and even then, she mostly played old classical pieces, almost never her own created ones. After many years of scarce appearances, she then announced to the entire world that she is going to retire and ended it with publishing one album with her playing classical pieces in her own style.

Her few hardcore fans were disappointed with this end and desperately wanted more, there was even a community of people that tried to get some of her personal information! But they found nothing. They didn't know how, but her identity was completely concealed and no company ever published even a bit of her personal information, beside her name. So, the creeps gave up quickly.

At the end Hoshi gave up and just accepted the end of the career of the mysterious girl. She bought the album in physical form and listened to it since then, whenever she felt down.

But now the girl was in front of her and she was so excited about it!

Kameko was completely surprised because of another reason. The first time she heard about her was a couple of months ago. It was one of the few days that her brother went out with her, normally she had to drag him out if she wanted him to see sunlight since he lost his quirks to All-For-One. But on that particular day he asked her to go out with him.

She was surprised, it would never go like that. Kameko asked her brother why he chose to go out today, he answered her with a 'because I felt like it today'. This didn't really answer her question yet, so she continued to follow him on that day. After spending some time with her brother, she found out that he went out on that day to buy an album of some musician.

He went to the store and listened to the sample of the album, it took a while and apparently, he switched back and forth, but after a while he put his headphones back down and sighed dejectedly. He still bought the CD, but apparently, he wasn't really happy with it.

Kameko asked what the problem was, and apparently the track he wanted to listen to wasn't included in this album. The album just consisted of some old classical pieces she played in her own style, but none of her own written pieces were on it. He confessed to Kameko that he planned to give up on life seven years ago. But at the end he chose not to, because he somewhere on tv heard a piece that resonated with his heart. Apparently, it gave him some newfound hope.

She was horrified at the prospect of her older brothers' suicide, she chided him, scolded him, was angry at him for not talking with his family, he took the reprimanding of his sister without resistance. Until she decided to insult the music, he took a liking to, he defended it, protected it, showed what it meant to him.

The argument in public ended with her agreeing to at least try the music. Back at her parents' home she started to listen to her music album, a second one that her brother brought for her as a present. She had to admit that even her just playing some old classics was rather special, but she still couldn't understand the prospect of it being so good that it saved someone's life, but know she had the opportunity to listen to that piece.

Minako was a fan of classical music, it helped her with insomnia and the disk she bought a couple of months ago was her favorite up until now, it really helped her sleeping.

Masa was the weirdo in the manager business world, that would look for potential clients, no matter the ridiculous probability of employment, Seigi Akane was one of the people he looked a bit more into, obviously he never had the possibility to talk to her, until today.

The last two girls in the room didn't know who she was, so Minako had to explain it to them, it took a while.

Meanwhile Hoshi approached her for an autograph, while Kameko was excited to tell her brother that Seigi Akane might possibly bring an album with that song he wanted to hear out. Before she knew it, she was beside her and tugged her sleeve.

Akane turned around and looked at her with a nice smile, a completely different image than the girl from before that beat the ever-living crap out of her.

"What do you need Tanaka?"

"Akane, you kind of already know about my brother as Jet, turns out that he knew your music and was saved by one of your tracks you played in the past. A track that you created yourself and never really published. I mean you only have that 'classical pieces' album."

Akane tilted her head, as if she asked 'and?'.

"Well, I wanted to ask if you could play that piece? I never heard it and it apparently it prevented my brother from suiciding himself, so it must be good, right?"

Kameko asked wryly, she didn't exactly know why, but she felt like she just insulted Akane right into the face and is now shamelessly asking for something. She felt really uncomfortable right now.

"Sure, I see no reason why I shouldn't play, but uhm..."

She started to fidget, apparently there was a problem.

"Do we have a piano in the studio? I would feel uncomfortable playing 'Save our Souls' somewhere else."

Everyone looked at the manager, which resulted in him shaking his head rapidly, causing Akane to look a bit sad.

"Do we really have no piano in this big studio that I could play on?"

Masa just shook his head again.

"I am sorry, Seigi-san. But this big studio was only made for dancing and practicing choreo, beside some props, lighting effects and some other neat technology we don't have an instrument. Music that we dance to here, is either prerecorded music, or mixed with a sound mixer."

Akane nodded, she had to accept that here is no piano.

"Well, then I guess I have to play with this violin it must be enough for now. Tanaka, please forgive me if I don't meet your expectations, 'Save our Souls' was just a piece that I preferred to play on the piano and not the violin, I hope you understand."

Kameko immediately shook her head and hands, as long as she played it was good enough for her.

Akane laid her violin on the neck again, put the bow on the strings and started to play. In that moment Kameko understood her brothers' feelings, this piece really was a piece showing empathy, understanding, it was a piece showing salvation for someone, she was glad that her brother heard this piece all these years ago, if not he wouldn't be here anymore.

Everyone in the room was taken away by Akanes' piece, it was truly beautiful, until she started to sing. At this point nobody could believe anymore what they are hearing.

To put it in terms, her musical genius C- already grew into the B category and just showed everyone all the more how good just her music was. They were fully entrapped into the music, each of them had the feeling that they are fighting against a loved one, to bring them back to the right path.

After a while Akane ended her piece and looked at everyone in the room scolding them, they wasted enough time.

"We goofed around enough already! We still didn't really do anything today, beside resolving internal issues, I still want to practice today! After all, reaching the top isn't easy! Go, go, go, GO! I want to make my pieces into idol material, so you all better give me some fitting choreography and lyrical suggestions for it! We don't have forever time, so let's hurry up already!"

The next moments were spend with cleaning the mess they created in the studio, getting some advice from their senpais, dealing with some legal problems with the manager and the contracts for them, resulting in Akane saying that she won't sign anything, until her lawyer looked over it. And some rather intense dancing and posing practice.

The practice day ended and Hoshi felt like dying, while Kameko was all sore over her body and barely could move. The practice today was way harder than she expected, she was sure she danced her foot almost bloody today, well Hoshi definitely did. Her feet were bleeding.

She was currently being treated outside of the studio by Akane, cleaning her wounds, bandaging them properly up, the normal stuff you need to do for a busted blister.

"Geez, Hoshi are you an idiot? You could have asked any of us for a break and you wouldn't have busted blisters now! Do you think wounds are fun and games? How do you expect us to practice tomorrow without you, while you are recovering for injuries!"

"I am sorry! I'll promise that I will try better next time!"

Akane just sighed, hopefully the two of them would survive Akanes' hellish training, today was just the warm-up.

"I am inviting you two to the WcRonalds today for the good practice, if you want to come with me that is."

Hoshi just jumped up at the prospect of free food and Kameko just silently followed with them. Today was the day that they will get surprised at Akanes' insane appetite.

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After the weekend was over the girls from the QMC had a girl talk with each other, Majeta was for whatever reason there too:

"Well, what did our couple here do on their weekend?"

"Shut up, Aki! It's none of your business!"

"Hey, it's rude to talk to the Shiba Inu like that! Apologize, Yui!"

"I am sorry, but still, what we do is our private thing!"

"Oh, come one! How about this, I'll tell you what I did on my weekend last week and you lovely couple are going to tell us what you two did on the weekend."

The on Akitas' lap sleeping Touko suddenly woke up, crashing her head against table edge, hurting herself, before immediately calming down again.

"Yui, KanKan, accept that offer for the club! We never know what she is doing on weekends! She is completely on radio silence the moment we let her leave from our eyes after school on Friday! We all want to know what she does, right!"

"Aki didn't knew that Touko was so interested in Akanes' weekend! Aki guesses that mysterious things turn your thirst for knowledge on, right Touko?"

The loli just nodded. The couple was now in a difficult situation, on one side they really wanted to know Akanes' weekend, but on the other side they didn't want to tell them what they did on weekend.

After long contemplating the couple looked each other in the eyes, before nodding. They accepted the deal.

"Fine! But you tell first!"

"All right, KanKan. You all overheard Majetas' proposal to me two weeks ago, right?"

"WHAT!"

The people that were originally not supposed to be involved in that business nodded.

"Well, I chose to be an idol, before I shoot that add, so on that weekend I went to an idol casting an won a place into a new idol group and last weekend I met my other two partners in the group and practiced a bit, nothing special."

The girls couldn't believe how casual Akane said that, she was going to be an idol for an add? She won a casting? Once again, Akane just blew away their common sense.

"And what did you two do on the weekend?"

"Yeah, what did YuiKan do?"

Sadly, their club members just wouldn't let the situation go. Yuiko tried to bolt, with Kanna in a princess carry, out of the clubroom, but today Akane sadly chose to block them.

Seems like they won't get away with it today. Embarrassed they sat back in their position and both gulped at the same time.

"We - we, did it."

Could be heard as a whisper from Yuiko.

"What did you two do? Come on, just say it, you know how good my ears are, don't try to hide it."

Nobody expected it, but Kanna chose to speak.

"We, we did the scissoring in a love hotel."

Everyone in the room suddenly just started smiling at the couple.

""""Nice.""""

Each of them gave the couple a thumbs up, they were embarrassed to death that day.