Track 2:
IronyThe meeting went off without a hitch…Well, that is… if you don’t include two women lost in their own world—or as the others claim: lost in each other’s eyes? But in the eyes of Takahashi Ai and Min Sun Ye, they were thinking a certain thought:
SHE’S the leader!?Last thing that Ai registered, Gaki-san and a crimson-haired woman on the Wonder Girls’ side seemed to do most of the talking while she and Sun ye were still staring blankly at each other, evidently still stunned.
In a sense, Ai
did remember thinking that Sun Ye looked too pretty to not be a star… Come to think of it, the other also exuded a confident aura about her that threatened to consume her own whenever she spoke. The devotion of work inside them both were similar, but it worked a lot more for Sun Ye than it did for Ai.
She really is like a leader…Ai fiddled with her thumbs nervously,
I’m not even a quarter of what she is…let alone a leader…“Are you alright with this, Ai?”
“Y-yes! I’m fine with anything, really!” the said leader perked up, looking up at her manager alarmingly. He scrutinized her expression before sighing in discontent.
“You’re really too passive… you really don’t want to object to singing in Korean?” the manager bit back his lip, scratching his brow.
“It would be a pleasant challenge for all of us, but it will be for the better to tie us closer, right?” Risa added in, nudging Ai with her knee.
“Yes, if my sub-leader agrees with it, then we all really shouldn’t have a problem, right?” Ai replied right after, suddenly realizing what the conversation was about. It could be a challenge for the others who weren’t as Korean-savvy as Risa, but for someone like Ai who had already shown interest in English, perhaps the transition to Korean wouldn’t be too bad.
Besides, they were singing, not making conversation in it, so it shouldn’t be that bad, right? If they needed help with pronunciation, then they all could just go to the Wonder Girls for help, that’s all. If Goto Maki could sing in Korean, so could she if she tried hard enough.
“And I’m assuming you girls have no trouble singing in Japanese?” the manager turned to look at the Wonder Girls sitting on the other side of Morning Musume, looking incredibly concentrated at the meeting save for one woman who seemed to be fascinated at the function of her fingers, interlacing them in and out of different hand positions. “Excuse me?” the manager said aloud, catching the said woman’s attention.
She looked at him with large doe-like eyes before replying with an soft “gomen.”
Ai wasn’t sure if she was seeing correctly, but she could have sworn that the bored teen sitting next to the doe-like woman scrunched up her nose before she heard a subtle
thud and the brunette twitched her lips a little, as if silencing a grunt of pain? Dismissing that, she returned her attention to the manager.
“We are set. We understand the language perfectly fine as well, do we not?” the crimson haired woman spoke up again, eliciting ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ from the other Momusu members, chattering quietly amongst themselves at this woman. Ai glanced paid no attention to her though, and instead, watched Sun Ye. The Wonder Girls leader caught her gaze and smiled, causing Ai to reciprocate the action shyly.
“Well if there are no further questions…” the manager began, but was soon interrupted.
“Can I schedule our practices?”
Everyone looked at the two leaders who managed to miraculously say the exact same words at the exact same time. Even Ai and Sun Ye looked at each other with a sort of ‘what the heck?’ look before Ai spoke.
“I want to try and concentrate everyone on the practices to give a top-notch performance.”
“We have to be able to awe everyone, so we need to put as much effort as possible to deliver the charismatic aura to the audience,” Sun Ye added.
“In fact, pack our schedules until the performance date!”
“Yes, I agree, we must definitely work very hard.”
“We must refine our moves as much as possible.”
Everyone else watched as the two continued to finish each other’s sentences, staring in awe and bewilderment. Out of the corner of Ai’s eye, she noticed Reina whispering something like
‘is your leader… a workaholic too…?’ to the other side of the table. The other four wonder girls widened their eyes and nodded slowly,
really exaggerating a ‘yes’ to the question.
Next to her, she heard Risa muse “So
this is what happens when two super workaholics team up…”
“We’re doomed…” the young teen on the far end of the table groaned.
Eventually, the finalized schedules were all set after insistent encouragement from the two group leaders.
“…Then we should be all set for now. The next meeting is due tomorrow morning. That is when we will give out the set list for this special collaborative stage. Look forward to it,” the manager said, keeping his chin up high. All of them acknowledged the end of the meeting and with that, all of the managers shuffled out of the room one by one.
Left alone to fend for themselves, the girl groups looked at each other. Risa was the first to crack a silly grin. The contagious smile began to spread one by one uncontrollably until giggles began to fill the room. It was almost like a game of chicken—who would talk first?
The sub-leader (at least, that’s what Ai thought since the red-haired lady spoke the most over Sun Ye) of Wonder Girls won the game with a chuckle before saying “so we are working together…”
“Yeah, definitely looking forward to it~!” Reina chimed in.
“So uh, we need introductions?” Eri piped up, “the managers did our introductions too fast…”
“I suppose w-we will start first,” Ai stuttered slightly, “I am Takahashi Ai. Leader and main vocalist.”
“Niigaki Risa. Sub-leader, sub-vocals, harmonizer, and energy specialist.”
“Kamei Eri. Main dancer, sub-vocalist, back-up vocals, and the atomic aho at your service!”
“Michishige Sayumi. The cute one!”
“Tanaka Reina. General-everything chick and main vocalist.”
“Kusumi Koharu! Miracle and sub-vocalist!”
“Mitsui Aika, the one who brings food!”
“Junjun, the mood-maker~!”
“Linlin, the one who eats everything~!”
“Yoroshiku onegaishimasu~!” all nine of the members bowed respectfully to the other band.
“Wow… A lot of names to remember…” the dark-skinned Wonder Girl raised a brow.
“Don’t worry, you’ll get used to us in no time flat!” Risa waved her hand dismissively, “So now it’s time for your introductions!”
Ai watched carefully this time, making sure not to miss their names like she had earlier.
“Should we go oldest to youngest or the other way?” Sun Ye asked no one in particular, looking around at her band mates. “Start with the youngest then,” she confirmed all by herself, much to the confusion of the others, but they followed through anyway.
“Ahn So Hee…” said the aloof teen, her lips forming a perfect triangle. In a sense, Ai thought she sort of resembled Risa back in the pigtail days, with the way that So Hee had no bangs and had a rather bean-shaped head… or would that be dumpling shaped? “Sub-vocalist and main dancer…” she added further in. Her voice was rather quiet and incredibly soft, so Ai figured that one,she was the quiet one, and two, she must be the soprano of the group.
“Sun Mi,” giggled the brunette. Ai remembered her as the one who was rather spacey throughout the main meeting. She almost looked like a pretty deer in a sense with the way her large dark eyes brimmed with countless curiosity. “I’m also sub-vocals and the proclaimed ‘weird’ one.” The more she talked, the more Ai was convinced that Sun Mi had alto singing voice much like her own.
“Is that it? Wouldn’t you have three names? What’s your family name?” Risa asked.
“It’s Sun.”
“So your name is Sun Sun Mi…?”
“Nope, it’s just Sun Mi.”
“Funny, I asked the exact same thing,” Sun Ye laughed. “Anywho, I’m Min Sun Ye, leader and main-vocalist~!” Ai would always remember her, she met her first anyway. The smiling eyes would give her away any day.
“Park Ye Eun,” that crimson-haired woman announced, “main-vocalist and song-writer.”
At that, the Momusu members looked at each other zealously before Sun Ye retorted, “Ye Eun, you only wrote like, two songs, one was a single B-side and the other wasn’t even released officially yet.”
“Still, I’m gonna continue composing songs anyway,” Ye Eun patted Sun Ye on the shoulder, “I don’t care if I get carpal tunnel from playing the piano too much.”
At the words ‘composing’ and ‘piano,’ the Momusu members leaned forward more. Ai found the enthusiasm alarming, but couldn’t help but also be drawn to the talented ‘sub-leader’ of Wonder Girls. Last but not least, everyone’s eyes fell on the dark-skinned woman with wavy shoulder-length black hair.
“Kim Yoobin~!” she drawled in a low, husky voice, surprising the members, “the main rapper.”
“Whoa! Rapper?” Reina slapped her hands on the table and leaned forward, “that’s really cool!”
“Do a rap!” Junjun called out.
“Yeah! I wanna hear!” another threw in.
The other wonder girls could only laugh, for Yoobin looked pleasantly overwhelmed at all of the requests. Poor woman seemed so lost.
“Well uh… kay. I’ll do a rap from one of our songs…”
oneuldo neor barabodaga
nuni myeotbeonina majuchyeotneunde wae
geureohgedo moreuni
wae nunchiga eoptni
cheog bomyeon tiga nar geos gateunde
nae eolgure sseoitjanha
saekkkari byeonhajanha
ppalgahge niga nar barabolttaemada
dapdaphae imanhamyeon arayaji
eotteokhae naega gidaer marayaji
eojjeom geureohgedo dunhani
eo gajyeogaraneunde
wae moreuni
mwor deo eotteohge pyohyeonhaeya doeni
naneun niga joheunde
wae neon gyesog moreuniEveryone was astounded. She managed to rap it fast
and efficiently… within twenty seconds. It must have been the naturally low and husky voice that Yoobin had which added to the already amazing flow she had while she rapped. Everyone broke out into applause of claps and multiple “SUGOI!!” amongst the stunned members.
“That’s it, we might need to get a piano in here in case they ask for your skill too,” Sun Ye laughed as she placed her elbow on Ye Eun’s shoulder.
This entire group seems so amazing… Ai thought to herself as she observed the others oogling Wonder Girls, still praising Yoobin’s amazing rap ability.
Do we even measure up to them? Her eyes went down the line of the Wonder Girls until they stopped at a certain leader.
Leader and main vocalist… I wonder what she sounds like when she sings… When Sun Ye caught her gaze, Ai perked up slightly and gulped.
“Gaki-san, maybe you should talk to them in Korean~!” Aika nudged the said person in the elbow.
“Aw, come on guys…” Risa laughed nervously.
“Gaki-san…” Sun Ye muttered quietly to herself, staring at the gokkie.
Uh-oh…“Congratulations on your marriage, Niigaki-san!” Sun Ye declared aloud before bowing her head.
“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?” Risa waved her arms like crazy as her eyes went as large as plates, “Since when did I get married?!?!?!?! And to WHO!?!?!?”
Oh dear…“Kim Eric?” Sun Ye tilted her head, genuinely confused.
“Eric?” Sayumi repeated as she raised a brow, “Hey Eri, isn’t that your character?”
“I’M MARRIED TO ERI!!?!?!?!” Risa stood up and clasped her hands to her head, “ERI WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!?”
“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!?!?!” Eri’s eyes nearly burst forth from her skull.
“Y-you…!” Ai stood up and pointed at Sun Ye, “Come with me for a second… to that corner…”
Sun Ye obliged confusedly and the two leaders huddled over in the corner of the meeting room.
“Sun Ye-chan, that was all a lie!” Ai knit her brows upwards in panic, “I only said that ‘cause I thought you might have known who I really was!!”
“Eh… Oh…” Sun Ye placed the tips of her fingers to her lower lip, “er…. Oops?”
“When did
they get so close?” Koharu thought aloud, causing the two leaders to perk up in surprise.
“Come to think of it, weren’t they staring at each other for almost the entire thing?” Aika commented.
“It’s not what you think!” Sun Ye shook her head vigorously, “We just happened to run into each other before this meeting, that’s all!”
“Riiiiiiiight,” Yoobin commented lazily as she stretched out her arms.
“Seriously!” Sun Ye huffed in frustration. “Do I ever lie to you all?”
“Come to think of it…” Ye Eun paused momentarily, causing Sun Ye to look like she was just slapped with the hand of scandal, “…Just kidding,” the crimson haired woman smirked.
“Yaah! Ye Eun!” Sun Ye placed her hands on her hips authoritatively.
“So are you two going to stay in that corner kissing or are you gonna come back here and join the conversation~?” Junjun called out teasingly.
Ai wasn’t sure about Sun Ye’s reaction, but she knew for sure that her own face became the same shade as Ye Eun’s hair.
“Know what, let’s just go out!” Sun Ye said frustratingly before grabbing Ai’s hand.
“Eh?” Ai blinked incredulously, “G-go out?!”
“Not like that,” Sun Ye twisted her face into bewilderment, “I meant outside!”
“Ah… AH!” Ai was practically yanked behind Sun Ye strongly, nearly flying out of the door and down the stairs. She struggled to keep up with the fast Sun Ye, darting around the halls until the both of them finally made it outside onto the busy streets.
“So where are we off to?” Sun Ye turned her head to face the shorter.
“Pardon?”
“I don’t know my way around here…” the Wonder Girls leader stared blankly, “So you’re gonna have to point us out somewhere…”
“Hmm…” Ai rolled her eyes to the right, “you’re an active person… why not a walk? I suppose I’ll show you around then.”
“Okay!”
And so they walked.
“I apologize for my band members, they could run their mouth off at times…” Ai sighed as she scratched the back of her head.
“Likewise…” Sun Ye replied, “forgive their rudeness, I keep reminding them that while we’re here, we have to be polite as possible because of cultural differences in politeness levels…”
“Ah yeah…” Ai agreed, “though… it’s fine for you to not be so formal with me, if not a little at least…”
“No, it’s just… our Japanese instructor really emphasized the whole politeness speech thing, so I’m a bit paranoid that I might come off as rude even though I don’t mean to…”
“To people like Reina, it would matter,” Ai mused, remembering all the incidents where Reina would get angry just because the –san was omitted from her name. “For me, I’m a little more tolerant than that.”
“I see…”
Feeling the vibration in her pants again, Ai swiftly took her phone out and very briefly glanced at the screen.
Kissy kissy, Leaders~! I hope you use the lingerie I bought for you the other day~!
-SayumiShe erased the message and slipped it into her pocket once more, pretending that such a lewd message didn’t show up in the first place. Sun Ye looked on warily, but Ai simply waved her hand dismissively.
“Prank text.”
“I see…”
Ai thought she heard a vibration, and was about to reach for her phone when Sun Ye pulled out her own, evidently checking her text. The Momusu leader wanted to laugh as she saw the younger furiously smashing the buttons of her phone before throwing it back in her pocket in a blushing mess.
“Prank text?”
“Prank text.”
The two looked at each other before bursting into a fit of laughter.
“Mine was like ‘kissy kissy, leaders~! Use the lingerie I bought you!’ how ridiculous is that!?”
“Can’t beat mine! It was ‘Japan’s notorious for love hotels, why not take your new date there?’ Man, our group members are so perverted!”
“No kidding!” Ai managed to say in between laughs, leaning her head against Sun Ye’s shoulder. “Let me tell you this… We have a song called Love & Peace Hero ga yattekita…”
Meanwhile…“Are you kidding, I’m much cuter!”
“Nuh-uh! I’m cuter”
“Yuh-uh~ it’s all me!”
“I’m the cutie patootie tangerine of Wonder Girls!”
“I’m the adorkable bunny of Morning Musume!”
“…Shouldn’t we stop them?” Aika asked languidly, finding herself twirling a pen once more.
“No way, this is better than all the Korean dramas~!” Reina laughed, but suddenly stopped, “No offense,” she said to the other three Wonder girls.
“None taken,” Yoobin raised both of her hands in a very chill and laidback manner.
“Eririn!” Sayumi faced away from Sun Mi amidst her argument, “Who’s cuter!?”
“So Hee! I’m the cuter one, right?!” Sun Mi turned desperately towards the younger.
“Er…” Eri glanced nervously between the respective bunny and tangerine, their demonic gaze shaking her to the very bone.
So Hee merely left out a pained sigh. “I have no part of this insanity.”
Sayumi has met her match…So ends that chapter xD
The rap that Yoobin did came from a song called Take It from their old 2007 album. Here's the 'official' MV to it xDDD Her rap's at 2:22
Wonder Girls _ Take it!Ye Eun has written two songs, Saying I Love You which came in the Nobody mini album last Fall and an unreleased song called For Wonderful which was dedicated to their wonderful fans! :B Here's a live of Saying I Love You~! And if you're looking to see which WG is who, check this out since it's the hair styles I've had in mind when I wrote this story~ Minus Sun Ye, her hair's just a tad bit longer now xDDD
Wonder Girls - Saying I Love You [Mnet My favorite 08.10.27] HQ
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