• Through the darkness, I see light…

    Click. Click click.
    “Hmm?”
    Shuichi Shindou, lead singer of the band ‘Bad Luck’ in Japan. Recently, he and his band had gotten very popular throughout the whole world, although Shuichi claims in his interview, ‘I won’t stop until we are best in the universe!’.
    Shuichi checks his fansite every day at the recording studio (of course he made it, knowing the fans would love a site dedicated to him) to see what is going on in his fanbase. Are they mostly girls? Is there an incline? Decline? For the most part, the last one never happened, since Shuichi’s life is a total soap opera in itself, which tends to interest people.
    Today was unlike the others. One of the comments actually stood out from the rest, mostly because it was a paragraph longer then the rest.
    Shuichi obviously wasn’t the only one in the studio. Hiroshi Nakano, or also known as ‘Hiro’ was sitting in the corner eating pocky, and their manager Sakano was pacing, nervous for no reason. Suguru Fujisaki was frantically writing a paper about ‘the idioticy of managers’, not quite aware of the sadistic ‘K’ reading over his shoulder, itching to pull out his gun at the cute pianist. Also, Ryuichi, the leader of the band Nittle Grasper had come out for a surprise visit.
    At hearing Shuichi’s voice, Ryuichi rushed over with his pink teddy-bunny in his hand, reading over his shoulder. That boy just didn’t get the values of ‘privacy’.
    “This is a strange comment,” Shuichi thought out loud.
    Suddenly, it seemed like no one had any respect for personal privacy as they rushed over to the computer, reading the comment. It began:

    ‘Hello, this is Kyo. Ever since I heard your music for the first time, I knew I had to have you’

    All of the boys looked at one another with strange looks, and then back to the comment.

    ‘I know you get thousands, if not millions of people saying ‘I love you’ every day, but how many of those are really legit? Not the one from the lover you have now, I’m sure.

    Tears began to well up in Shuichi’s eyes.
    ‘How could some random person say something like this?’ He thought.

    ‘When I say ‘I love you’, I promise to you, it is not just words. It is the true emotion, pure and wonderful.
    I have watched your blog ever since you had made it, but it took a lot of time before I finally got enough courage to tell you how I really feel. I want you. I want you now and forever. I’ve done so much for you. I’ve learned Japanese, even though my ancestors lost touch with their roots long ago. I learned it just so I could tell you how much I love you.
    It sadness me to know that in our situation, our love could never exist. We live in different countries… actually… we live in different worlds entirely. But either way, I love you, and I always will.’
    They all stared at the screen, blinking several times, before they all let out an ‘ehhhhh?’ in sync with each other.
    “Wow, what a creeper,” Suguru said, rubbing the back of his head.
    Ryuichi saw the tears in Shuichi’s eyes and frowned. He stuck his bunny in front of Shuichi’s face, causing him to almost fall out of the chair.
    “Shuichi’s face is sad. Did that person make you sad, Shuichi?” Ryuichi said, changing his voice, bouncing his bunny up and down in the air.
    Shuichi shook his head, but there was no hiding it.
    “Shuichi, you shouldn’t take it personally. It was just an obsessed fan,” Hiro comforted, putting his hand gently on Shuichi’s shoulder.
    Shuichi’s face was blank for awhile, and then a small smile appeared.
    “You’re right. I’ll just ignore it.” Shuichi agreed.
    “THAT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!” Ryuichi yelled on the top of his lungs, throwing his bunny at Shuichi’s head, knocking him off his chair.
    Shuichi rubbed his head.
    “Ryu-Ryuichi?” He stammered, looking confused.
    “He might be a danger to you! Look everywhere! He must be found!” Ryuichi said quickly, running about the studio.
    Everyone else sighed, except K, of course.
    “You know, Ryuichi is right. That fan might go crazy and kill you! He must be found and destroyed! What is his IP address?” K asked, rushing to the computer.
    Shuichi got up, brushing off his pants.
    “He’s not the only crazy one around here…” Suguru said under his breath.
    “You know guys, it’s completely fine.” Shuichi insisted.
    “Ah ha! He’s in Canada! I knew it, people from there are always crazy!” K yelled, and then he took out his gun.
    “Hurrah! We are going to go kill the creepy fan!” Ryuichi shouted in an excited voice, running out the door.
    K followed him quickly.
    “Ah…. Never mind then.” Shuichi muttered, and Hiro just shook his head.