Idol Training

As expected, Akane passed easily, her newly awakened piece really helped her with that.

"I'll call it 'Death by Glamour'."

Was the thing she declared after unlocking it, but she felt weird, she might have unlocked it, but it felt like something was missing, but she just chose to ignore it, when the time comes, the time comes. Her mind-/soulscape was like that.

A couple of weeks passed and Akane was currently on her way to the studio stage, meeting her seniors or so, she wasn't really interested, she could get famous on her own honestly.

She walked, skipping some steps, she was excited, excited about idol business, she was still thinking about signing the contract, she needed to hold it off as long as possible, else she could fall into a trap with the contract, she didn't really plan on that.

After a while of running she reached her destination, she chose to stand in front of there for a while, she was interested about how much sooner the other two would arrive, so she waited in front of the building.

Diving down into her world again, exploring the new location she unlocked. She dived down and down, until she reached the hud or that's what Akane called it. But on her way to the new location she stopped moving, she looked at a certain empty room, it was called the 'trash' room and until now it was empty, but she had the feeling that it was somehow different this time.

So, she entered it, the moment she entered it she had the that feeling she should lay down, after all it's her soul, nothing dangerous could happen here to her, right?

At first, she didn't feel anything, or knew any reason why she should lay down at all, she was confused at the situation. Until she heard a melody and many little lights appeared around her.

(Undertale OST 41, Chill, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Ximn7nZdc)

She slowly started to relax, vibing to the theme and sight that opened up to her, this was one of the rare moments in her life where she could see something and she was happy at that. So, she laid down and started to chill. This might be her most favorite room, ever.

"Hello? HELLO? Hel - lo - oh! Is someone inside there?"

Akane was surprised, so she could stay here, without getting as heart attack if someone tried to interact with her, neat.

She was outside of her soul again and tilted her head at the girl's antics.

"Yes, someone is up here, and? What do you want from me?"

The girl jumped back the moment Akane revealed to be sentient.

"Were you napping for real or did you act as if you were asleep, just to tease me?"

Akane just chuckled, this was a first to her, someone pointing out her closed eyes.

"Who knows? So, you passed the test and got a place in the idol group? See, what did I tell you about being confident?"

The girl was taken by surprise at my lively reaction, how funny.

"You, you were right, I passed thanks to your advice, again, thank you."

She bowed down to me, expressing her thanks, Akane sighed, she was the only girl with feelings that she considered 'pure'.

"Well, how about you enter, I intend to come a bit too late, don't ask why, just enter, I will be the one that will get scolded."

"Huh! That's fine, I'll enter, but don't come all too late, I don't want my first day to start so unorderly, did you hear me!"

Akane already pushed her through the door.

"Hmm, so what should I do for my flashy entrance?"

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Hoshi entered the studio, she was nervous, very nervous, simply because she would be meeting her senpais. She walked towards the studio she should enter and saw that she wasn't the first one to arrive. She saw the other girl that saved her on that casting day, she leaned on the wall, just like the other girl outside.

Hoshi walked towards her to talk with her.

"So, you are the other girl that passed the casting! I wanted to thank you again for saving me from these three girls. I hope we will get to know about each other more in the following months."

The girl just scoffed and looked away from her.

"Oh, I understand, sorry for being a bother."

Hoshi looked down dejectedly, she was sad at the rude reaction of the girl, maybe she really was a bother.

After a while of waiting a guy came, there to lead them to the stage where their future potential manager waited for them. He was a rather young man in a suit, wearing glasses and all, almost like the stereotypical corporate worker.

"Hello girls, I am Yamaguchi Masa, your future manager if you make it to a stage to perform! I will always be there for your emotional support if you need it! So, if you have any questions, just ask them."

He introduced himself beamingly, it almost blinded both Hoshi and the other girl.

"Excuse me, might I ask about your names and if you know where the third one in your group might be, we don't want to make a bad impression on your senpais, right?"

Hoshi wanted to answer, but she couldn't the other girl already opened her mouth.

"Tanaka Kameko, 15 years old, I want to be an idol, because it was always my dream to dance and sing in front of an audience. I don't know, were the third girl is supposed to be, she just didn't arrive yet."

The manager nodded at her statement. Hoshi followed after Kamekos' introduction.

"Uhm, Kaba Hoshi, I am 14 years old and I want to be an idol, because I fell in love with the shine and glimmer of idols as I saw them the first time on television! One thing followed another and now I am here, I hope you will take good care of me, Mr. Yamaguchi!"

He smiled at Hoshis' introduction, while Kameko was more of a wild and uncontrolled type with her own head on the shoulders, Hoshi was a more timid and shy girl, the two of them had the potential to be top class idols, he was excited, even if the third girl wasn't anything special he could at least work with these girls, their polar opposites would make a big selling point for this group.

"Tch, seriously that was your motivation to become an idol? It really is a miracle that you made it through the casting with such a feeble reason, you better don't pull me down with you, if you fail!"

"Don't just talk me down, just because your reason is supposed to be better than mine! I am just as serious as you in becoming an idol! Just because our starts were different, doesn't mean that the way to our goal will be a different one!"

Kameko grabbed Hoshis collar and pulled her up.

"Don't get to full of yourself, just because you passed, girl."

Hoshi didn't know why, but Kameko looked at her in anger, she didn't understand why, but her feelings to become an idol must be just as strong as hers! Else she wouldn't even have thought of entering the casting.

"Girls, girls, let's all calm down, we are a team here, right? We can't spend our first time together with an argument! So, let's calm down again, hehe."

Kameko just started to glare at him as a result, making the adult flinch back for a moment, Masa didn't know how to calm teen girls down, up until now he dealt with girls that were legally considered adults or at least almost with the ages of late 16 to young 17. He didn't know how to deal with girls in puberty, or at least at the end with it!

While the situation gradually reached escalation mode, the senior idol group came.

A tall girl with long black hair came in, she had sharp eyes and looked a bit disgruntled.

"How long do you want to let us wait? We have places to go, and appointments to follow too, you know, we don't have forever time to take care of our kohais, so can you hurry up?"

"I am sorry, but we currently have a little internal problem with our two little idols to clear out, so could you three please wait a moment?"

"An argument on the first day of meeting? These two will definitely not make it far, the most important thing in an idol group is group integrity and these two already hate each other, no worse, one is extremely angry at one and the other has no idea what's wrong, these two will never find a common point between each other."

This assessment was made by a cute looking girl with short brown hair, squatting right beside our two arguing girls, leaning her chin on her hands, smiling, before tilting her head.

Seeing this made Kameko very angry, what did that girl knew about her to make such an assessment? What did she know about Kameko? Absolutely nothing and she was already judging her. She wanted to one on one that girl right now, right here, but before she could make a move, she felt a shiver down her spine.

The girl looked at her menacingly, seeing this kind of gaze made Kameko step back.

"Hoh? How bold of you, you just tried to attack me, go ahead, try and attack me, quirk or not, just attack me, I dare you."

Kameko was getting angrier by the second, the girl was taunting her and she thought she couldn't do anything! She was going to show this girl, were the thoughts that ran through her mind, she compressed air in her hand and was about to send it after the girl, but she was stopped by another girl.

"That's enough, you teased the newcomers enough, go back to your corner or something, I'll deal with this situation."

Her blow was stopped by a girl that was completely covered in a blanket, only making her eyes visible. Kameko just scoffed, she didn't care about any of this.

"If you think I'll thank you for..."

"Let me be straight with you, you aren't idol material as you are now."

Kameko bit her tongue upon hearing this, her pulse was currently rising to unimaginable heights.

"Oh, you think I am arrogant, just because I think I am your senior? Just let me tell you how wrong you are, you are easy to taunt, too prideful to take anyone in you line of sight and you won't even consider using others to climb up, you think you are already better than all of us, just because you have talent. Let me just tell you, you are not. You said that your dream was to sing and dance in front of an audience, can you really do that without considering their tastes, likes, feelings and many more things? Do you really think you can stand on the stage with THAT kind of attitude? And don't misunderstand, the 'wild' type is definitely popular, but you are untamed, uncontrolled, rampaging around like a dog with rabies. Nobody would like to see that in stage, don't you think so too? This is just my advice as senpai, but don't you dare enter a stage like that, being just an idol is already difficult enough as it is, don't need someone like you around in that business."

Kameko was shut up in that moment, her senpai was right and she couldn't deny it one bit, she wanted to be an idol out of her own selfish volitions and she would probably insult everyone in the business if she continued to act like that in front of everyone. She grits her teeth in frustration. Seeing this, Hoshi wanted to cheer her up, but was quickly interrupted by the blanket girl.

"You too, you aren't better than her, what did you just try to do while I reprimanded your idol partner? Absolutely nothing. Instead of trying to cheer her up afterwards you should have tried to defend her during it, regardless if she wanted or not. An idol group is a team, they must hold together else they crumble and as that you must support each other. What did you try? Where you not doing anything, because you resented her for spitting at your resolve or where you too scared to jump before the tire? Anyways, you did nothing for your group and as such you too are no idol material, you won't be able to stay long in business, so you better give up sooner."

Everyone in the room was silenced, even the girl's partners couldn't say anything.

"Look, did you have to burn them so hard? I mean we all knew that they won't last long in business, but was it really necessary to crush their resolve so thoroughly?"

Blanket girl just chuckled.

"If they won't be able to give it their all, they shouldn't be trying at all. The third girl is probably not idol material too, I mean how many minutes is she already too late? Someone who can't even make it to an appointment right on time, doesn't even have the right to try anything in my opinion."

Suddenly all lights turned off.

"My, my, doesn't senpai know that it is rude to talk about people who are listening?"

All headlights shone on one spot high up in the air, but the location was covered by a thick smoke wall, created by the smoke machines of the studio. Just a silhouette was visible.

"I must inform you that I was here at the studio before everyone else was even here. I arrived at nine in the morning, standing in front of the studio, relaxing. Afterwards, after Kaba-san arrived, I entered right behind her and started to ask the staff around here to lend some props for my flashy appearance."

The smoke screen slowly faded, slowly revealing parts of her outfit.

"You know, I kind of was observing the entire argument, trying to deescalate the situation with my flashy entrance, but you senpai, you just had to waltz in and start roasting my group, crushing their will."

Slowly but surely Akanes entire appearance was revealed, showing that she was sitting on the weight sacks for the screen backgrounds', they were low enough, so Akane was barely over everyone's head. Akanes outfit consisted of a little crown from the props and a big red cape hanging around her back. Akane wanted to make a royal appearance at first, but after the display of her senpai she decided to appear like a vengeful deity.

"Let's be honest, you just didn't want to be here, because you are damn exhausted from something. These two girls have great potential, and you know it, but you planned from the start to crush the will of everyone that made it this far, it's just that these two were easier, because they are extremes, right?"

The girl under the blanket chuckled.

"Bold words for someone that came too late."

Despite just obviously wearing normal everyday clothes under the cape, Akanes' presence drowned all of the people in the room. She chuckled back at the girl.

"That all you have to say to me? Was my appearance so good that you just can't find any fault with it?"

The senpai started to sweat, this kohai of her was completely different than the other two girls in the room. While the other two were raw and unpolished gems, this girl was already refined and polished even beyond her, heck she was even a gem that would be better than her in its raw form!

She threw her blanket back, revealing a beautiful girl with blue hair and eyes, she seemed to constantly shine. Seeing this action Akane slowly jumped down from her position, slowly floating down.

"Talk is cheap, show through your skill that you are better than me!"

Her senpai declared to Akane.

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Right before the argument:

"Uncle, can I borrow some props for a moment?"

"Aunty, can I have a remote for the headlights for a moment, I want to impress my group?"

"Can I please borrow the smoke..."

Akane was walking around the studio, using her cuteness to charm everyone into giving her stuff.