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Chapter 3: The Last Two

Recap

He glanced toward the stage to see Luna strutting up, winking, and blowing kisses at him. He shuddered, as unnoticeably as possible. 'Goddamn. I should've brought my Ipod.'

Recap: End!

"Please introduce yourself, Koizumi-san and tell us why you joined this contest." A brown hair judge (Misaki) quickly spoke into the microphone to avoid any screams of support for Koizumi from her friends/fans.

"Hi everyone! I'm Luna Koizumi, sixteen years old. I like to go shopping, going to the spa, hanging out with my girlfriends, singing, and acting! And I'm the ex-girlfriend of Natsume-kun!"

There was so much prep in her voice it gave Mikan the shivers. Who knew someone like her can be so loud and preppy as well as acting like a snob? She recoiled from the edge of the curtains for a moment before sticking her head out again.

Offstage with the judges, one named Jinno directed Luna. "Please demonstrate your skills. Either in singing or acting."

Nodding like a bobblehead, the blond looked towards one of her cronies and gestured for her to start the music. The song started and Koizumi started her singing.

(Lollipop Luxury by Jeffree Star)

S-T-A-R

S-T-A-R (What?)

S-T-A-R (Queen bitch)

S-T-A-R

I'm on the top

There's no luck

Never turned around to stop

Make my move

Make you move

Make you wanna hear me talk

See me walk

See me fuck

See me suck a lollipop

(Mmm) Wanna get messy

I'll make you hot

Make you rock

I'll leave the world in shock

I'm your tease

I'm your fuel

I just wanna see you drool

On your knees

Pretty please

You wish you were my main squeeze

L-L-L Luxury.

Fuck me, I'm a celebrity

Can't take your eyes off me

I make you fuck me just to get somewhere

Fuck me, I'm a celebrity

Can't take your hands off me

I know you wanna suck me

Whachu waiting for

Lip gloss and lollipop

Let's rock I wanna pop

Can't take your eyes off me

I'm all that you can see

Lip gloss and lollipop

I'll make your (booty drop)

Can't take your eyes off me

I'm everything you wanna be

Hot damn, here I come

Tell me how you want it done

At the mall, in the hall, on your mama's bedroom wall

You can choose, either way you will end up on the news

(Yeah, just like you wanted, right?)

Do I make you wet

It's all about the C-U-N-T

I wanna hear you say

Love my pink knife

You wish you had a slice of me

(I'm a celebrity)

Fuck me, I'm a celebrity

Can't take your eyes off me

I make you fuck me just to get somewhere

Fuck me, I'm a celebrity

Can't take your hands off me

I know you wanna suck me

Whachu waiting for

Lip gloss and lollipop

Let's rock I wanna pop

Can't take your eyes off me

I'm all that you can see

Lip gloss and lollipop

I'll make your (booty drop)

Can't take your eyes off me

I'm everything you wanna be

(x2)

O-M-G, L-O-L

It's true but sex will always sell

Now it's time for you to go

So what? So what?

(x2)

Oh my god

Can't you tell my (Mmm)

Makes you wanna sweat

Am I all set?

Not yet, not yet

(x2)

(Mmm)

Lip gloss and lollipop

Let's rock I wanna pop

Can't take your eyes off me

I'm all that you can see

Lip gloss and lollipop

I'll make your (booty drop)

Can't take your eyes off me

I'm everything you wanna be

(x2)

Everything in the room was silent now. It wasn't that the blond's singing was bad, but her choice of song was.....does she have any shame?! The first judge to recov er from shock, was unamazingly, Narumi.

"That was wonderful, Luna-chan!! You have a beautiful voice! You should become a singer one day!!" He exclaimed. "And what bold choice to sing this song! Bravo!!"

Basically, all the people with common sense who wasn't the prize, a blackmailer, a certiain contestant, and a strict judge, sweat dropped. Really? Bravo?! If you put it together, the song is just translates to a simple "Natsume Hyuuga I want you to fuck me!!" Period. It's that simple.

Giving a smirk, she bowed her head and headed offstage. But not before saying into the microphone. "I doubt any can sing better than me." What confidence! Than she strutted herself offstage, in her way too mini miniskirt and 2 sizes to small halter top. Talk about fitting image! (Especially for that kind of song.)

Most of the judges, gave a sigh as the blond was gone from the stage. 'Thank god that was over. Let's hope the next girl isn't another slut like her. I can't take another one of those!' Natsume thought. He closed his eyes in a silent prayer, before turning his crimson eyes towards the stage. Once again.

This time, out came the last contestant. Mikan. Giving a sigh, Misaki gave her the instructions. "Introduce yourself, tell us your skills and tell us about your reason for joining the contest."

The brunette tilted her head cutely while thinking, 'What should I say!? I can't think of a good reason for joining the contest! Should I just tell them the real thing?!' Inside Mikan was panicking like never before.

"Ahem. Sakura-san?" Narumi cleared his throat.

Snapping back to attention, Mikan smiled. "Please to meet you. I'm Mikan Sakura, age 16." That ended her introduction.

"Any skills, Sakura-san? It says on your entry form that you're quite smart and athletic." Misaki commented. From his tone, you can clearly tell he was tired from a day of judging.

"..Well...you see...I don't really have any specific talent..." the emerald eyed girl said sheepishly, while scratching the back of her head.

Suddenly, from offstage, came a giant "BAKA!" and a fluffy pink ball that came racing towards the brunette and hit her in the head. "Such an idiot.." Hotaru mumbled offstage.

"HOTARU-CHAN! You meanie!" Came through the loud speakers. While scanning the crowd, our protagonist couldn't find her best friend anywhere. But then...

"BAKA!!BAKA!!BAKA!!"

'Guess I found Hotaru-chan..' the tangerine named girl grimaced while rubbing her sore head. Meanwhile, the audience down below were confused.

"What was that 'baka' noise'? It came out of nowhere!" and "Is it me or was that a pink fluffy thing that hit the girl up there?" was heard from all over the auditorium.

Then, came onstage, a raven haired girl with amythest orbs. Walking up to Mikan, she nudged her aside and spoke. "Mikan Sakura. Age sixteen. Loves to sing, dance, do gymnastics, play the guitar, violin, flute, and piano. Also loves to cook, go shopping, reading, writing, and gardening. Is skilled at martial arts, modeling, and singing. Heir to the Sakura Industries."

Mikan stood there as her best friend introduced her to the judges. Nodding at everything Hotaru said, but was struck stone still as the second to last sentence came out of the inventor's mouth. 'Shoot! I didn't want people to know I modeled! OR did karate! Damn you Hotaru!!'

Trying to cover up that sentence, Mikan grabbed the microphone before the judges could tell her to demonstrate. "Eto...I'm actually not that good at karate! I've only taken a few lessons on it. Besides, I haven't done it in years!! And..and I DON'T model either. It's not like I'm pretty enough right?" She smiled hoping the the four judges, (Jinno, Narumi, Misaki, and the silent Serina), would buy it. (Plus Natsume Hyuuga of course.) Then, Hotaru silently and quickly walked off stage and came with a special invention.

Immediately, it ran towards the lying, or over modest, aiming a metal fist at her head. On a natural instinct due to almost six years of training from proffessionals, she raised a palm to stop the attack. "Amanatsu?! Hotaru, you brought AMANATSU OF ALL INVENTIONS?!" she yelled.

(In this story, Amanatsu's a fightin partne. Still robot though.)

While she continues to defend herself from Amanatsu's attacks, and attacking herself, Hotaru managed to say to the judges, "Exhibit A: Martial Arts. Learned and mastered karate, judo, fencing and kendo." And at the exact moment, not knowing if it's a coincidence or not, (knowing Hotaru, it must've been planned), Amanatsu whipped out a wooden kendo sword, and started attacking.

Ever so stoicly, the inventor tossed the active brunette a sword and let them continue the fight onstage. They were flipping and twirling all over the stage, it got every member, except Hotaru and the prize himself, dizzy. By that point, Hotaru turned the "off" switch to her invention.

Mikan wiped the sweat off her forehead and quickly whirled around, pointing a figure at Imai. "You....! You set me up Hotaru!! So mean!" Everyone who was watching sweat dropped at the fast mood change. Fighting furious to childish blaming...talk about being bipolar, right?

"Now the idiot will sing. Her dancers have just arrived." the onyx haired teen said plainly, before Sumire, Anna, and Nonoko climbed onstage. (Everyone forgot Anna and Nonoko were here right? I guess that's my fault...)

Once again, "the idiot" pointed a finger at Hotaru, shaking in fury. "Y-y-YOU!! You...argh! Ugh...ACK!"

"Sakura-san, could you please proceed with your performance?" Serina said, finally speaking up.

Remember she was onstage, she grinned sheepishly before throwing a glare at her best friend. She was handed a hands free microphone (attaching by putting over head like a head band) and Hotaru pressed a button a remote that magically allowed the speakers to play a song.

Right before the song started, Anna took a quick moment to grap the mic on the stand, and announce, "This is an original song by Mikan herself, and we made the dance moves!" As the tune begun, Anna and Nonoko each took a different side of Mikan, as Sumire and Hotaru did the same thing.

(Drama Queen/That Girl by Lindsay Lohan)

There was a girl I knew who always wanted to be the one to stand out from the crowd

Always believed that she was gonna live her dreams

That what went down was gonna come around

For all the doubters, non-believers, the cynicals that once were dreamers

One of these days you'll open up your eyes

And you'll realize

Risers, that Hotaru might've most definitely installed before the contest, appeared from under the dancers as they all got pumped up. The shocked faces of people were hilarious! Narumi was in his gay-ish (no offense) admiring mode, Jinno's jaw dropped at the sudden event, Misaki's eyes just widened and Serina seemed to be enjoying herself.

On the other hand, Natsume had on a smirk. 'This girl is interesting..'

[Chorus:]

That girl was a one time teenage drama queen

A hot, tough everyday wannabee

But she'll have changed her destiny

Now she's a somebody

That girl was a wild child dreamer but she'll find herself

'Cause she believes in nothin' else

And you'll look back and you won't believe

That girl was me

Getting more confident that this performance was going to be a sucess, she strutted down the risers, friends right behind still dancing and in sync.

Armed with an attitude that she knows how to use

She's gonna get there any way she can

Now she knows what she wants

No one is gonna stop her

Nothing's ever gonna hold her back

For all the doubters, non-believers the cynicle that once were dreamers

One of these days you'll know that you were wrong (who would've know)

[Chorus]

That girl was a one time teenage drama queen

A hot, tough everyday wannabee

But she'll have changed her destiny

Now she's a somebody

That girl was a wild child dreamer but she'll find herself

'Cause she believes in nothin' else

And you'll look back and you won't believe

That girl was me

Everyone one stage backed away from the brunette as she started on the bridge of the song. It was spoken, but it had good sense of rhythm going on.

[Spoken]

Life is a work of art- you gotta paint it colorful

Can make it anything you want

Don't have to stick to any rules

You don't need a high IQ to succeed in what you do

You just gotta have no doubt just believe in yourself

Doubters, non-believers, once were her dreamers

One of these days you'll open up your eyes

And you'll realize

[Chorus 2x]

That girl was a one time teenage drama queen

A hot, tough everyday wannabee

But she'll have changed her destiny

Now she's a somebody

That girl was a wild child dreamer but she'll find herself

'Cause she believes in nothin' else

And you'll look back and you won't believe

That girl was me

As soon as the song ended, the group froze with a pose. (Ooohh! It rhymes and I wasn't trying!) Mikan with a hand on her hip, while the others surrounded her, with arms stretched to her direction.

There was a good moment of silence in the room before the contestants, judeges, and spectators, broke out into applause and cheers. On the wooden stage, Mikan and the rest, moved frmo their pose to bow.

"That was terrific, Sakura-chan~~! Absolutely lovely!! Splendid! Brilliant! If you ever need a recording company to sign up for a contract, I will absolutely get you one! That was terrific!!" Narumi shouted into his microphone happily. "And to think you wrote that all by yourself! So wonderful~!" The judges, including Jinno, had to agree. Mikan's got talent!

"Since we have the introduction and skills settled, can you tell us why you wanted to join the competition, Sakura-sama?" (She IS the heir to one of Japan's top companies.)

Without thinking, the words came out. Truthfully and honestly. "Because my entrance form was submitted by my best friend! It was either I join the competition or I get pictures of my private life sent to the fanclubs! And I have the feeling she wants the prize money. It's 50,000 yen afterall..."

Realizing that came out, she quickly raised her hands to her mouth, hoping the judges didn't catch any of that. Apparently, four judges being deaf or hard-of-hearing is hard to find in a competition. Heads snapped up as everyone in the audience and Hyuuga, gaped at the teenager onstage.

"..." Doesn't seem like Hotaru has much to say about this.

It's all scarily silent in there....let's travel to a certain someone's head in the mean time.

Natsume's POV

She really is interesting. The only reason she joined is because of her best friend...now one of the three girls I know who doesn't go gaga over me. My sister Aoi, Imai, and now her. Mikan Sakura was it? I'll remember that..it's a hard name to forget considering it translates to Cherry Blossom Tangerine...

Let's see how she does in the rest of the competition. Hopefully she's the one who wins. I don't need another fangirl to date. Well, since it seems like this round of the contest is ending, I might as well go. I promised the guys to sub for their basketball game.

Normal POV

Into a minute of silence, the object of hundreds of girls' desires, still up from his chair, and walked his way to exit. At the BACK of the auditorium. Which meant that the creepy fangirls are currently ogling at him, and let's not get to the drooling part...

"Ahem..alright. That reason was a bit surprsing, Sakura-sama, but it wasn't invalid. Most girls enter the competition because they WANT the date with Hyuuga-san and be blackmailed into it. Anyways, my vote for you to go to the second round is valid!" the female blond judge announced.

"I have to agree with Serina-san. Your reason for joining was a little off than what we expect but who cares? Your performance was AMAZING~~! I vote for Sakura-chan to go too!~" Narumi chimed in. "What about you, 'Saki-chan? Jinjin-chan?"

"Don't call me that!" the two said in unision as their veins popped. 'How annoying..' they both thought.

"Sakura-san will go to the second round." Misaki decided. "Jinno-san?"

The judge with black hair and a frog on his shoulder just nodded...and so did the frog.

"Well then, I guess you're on your way to the second round, Sakura-chan! See you in two weeks!!" the overly happy judge bid his farewell.

"Thank you! See you soon, Narumi-san! Serina-san, Jinno-san, Misaki-san." Mikan said, bidding her farewells to each and every judge. Then she walked off stage, friends behind, out of the auditorium before anyone one of Hyuuga's fangirls can recover from shock.

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