(This is a fan fic based on the "public images" of various Hello!Project artists and is no way shape or form trying to imply anything about the personal lives of the real people behind the public images.)Note: This story was inspired by a description of a manga at http://niko-niko.net/shoujo/2009/07/14/abunai-paradise-by-hasegawa-jun/An Annoying Paradise ("serialized in sho-komi")Towa struggles to get to Junior High School. His mother and father had held him up
again with their endless fussing over him.
"Hey cutie, do you want a love love date?"
Towa cringes, this was the third time this week he had been approached by some creepy guy, a different one each time.
Towa motions for the guy to come closer to him and when he does Towa surprises him by grabbing his wrist and flipping him to the ground. A situation made even more surprising because Towa is only half the size of the pervert. "Listen up, baka. You just propositioned a guy. You also propositioned a boy in Junior High School. What do you think the cops would say if they found out?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
"See that sign over there. It's the sign for my Junior High School. Stop looking for dates around here."
"I understand. I won't ever again. It's just..."
Towa painfully twists the pervent's wrist a little harder. "Just what??"
"You complexion was so flawless, I really thought you were a grown up girl."
"Get out of here!"
The pervert runs away.
Towa sighs. Why were his parents so weird? They wouldn't let him cut his hair and they tried their best to keep him away from doing guy things.
Towa enters homeroom.
"Towa-kun you have to see this!" Santa waves a trade magazine at him.
Towa and Santa are on the softball team together. Although Towa is smaller than the other boys he gets on base often by walking and is considered solid in left field being able to cover a large area and being able to throw the ball well.
Towa cringes a little.
Gee, Santa is a wota, so the article is probably about some audition for girl idols. Maybe he's going to tease me and say that I should audition as a girl?Santa spreads out the magazine. "Audition tonight for male idols at the hotel. You would be a shoe-in."
"
Me?"
"You kicked some ass in the school play last year. With your long hair hidden under a wig everyone thought you had star potential."
Suddenly a thought strikes Towa. Even though most of the time at home he isn't allowed to be boyish, his room is kind of his male sanctuary. And, in the middle of this sanctuary is a poster of the glamorous pop idol Reina. The poster shows Reina in an atypical cute pose compared to her usual bad girl image.
Gee, Reina is close to me in age. If I could become an idol, maybe I could meet her?Towa shudders.
That's pretty far fetched."We don't have practice tonight. And, I can get you that wig from the drama club. You should give it a shot."
"Well, I suppose that if I didn't do it I would regret missing the chance later, right?"
Santa nods.
Towa is very careful to explain the situation to his parents carefully and truthfully. It's not that he was a bad liar, but his parents were both very sharp so lying to them would never work. They are at first enthusiastic but then are disappointed when he says that he will be wearing a wig for the audition.
Towa arrives at the hotel. Hundreds of guys have shown up to audition, almost all of them taller. However, Towa is not intimidated. He is used to be smaller than the other guys around him and is not afraid of standing out.
After a brutally long wait, his name is called to go on stage and sing. Towa hits the stage with energy and gives it his all with his voice.
Things go well until he trips over a loose wire and his wig falls off revealing his long hair.
Towa doesn't even see the two security guards coming and no amount of his protesting that he was really a guy prevents them from showing him the door.
Towa mopes around in the hotel hallway in shock. He had auditioned well! He was head and shoulders better than the guys who had come before him.
This wasn't fair!"Excuse me? May I talk to you?"
Towa half expects to see another pervert, but instead the person asking was a nice looking well dressed business man.
"What do you want?"
The man bows respectfully and carefully hands Towa a business card. It says among other things "record producer" and it was a name he had heard of! In fact, it is the producer of Reina!
Towa looks at the guy, and there is no doubt. Towa recognizes him from Reina's last television appearance. "Wow, this is a shock."
"I was in the audience as a guest. I thought you had some real spunk on stage. I think I could really do something with you if you signed with me."
"But, sir, I don't understand. I am a boy. Your company produces girl idols, right?"
"That is correct, but I was thinking of branching out."
"Oh my god. This is awesome."
"Are your parents available? I would like to discuss this with them."
Towa calls his parents on his cell phone. He had made them promise not to come to the audition so he wouldn't be nervous, but this was different.
Within a couple of minutes (much faster than they could have come if they were really at home) his parents arrive and the producer, a mysterious man who goes by the American letter "T," leads them to his hotel suite.
Towa's mom, a stunning former model, gushes with excitement. "I can't believe that my Towa won the audition."
T pauses a moment before speaking. "Actually, he was disqualified because the judges thought he was a girl. But, I'm from a different company than the one that sponsored the audition."
"But, you still want to sign our son?"
"Yes. But, I need to discuss one detail with you so I can get your approval. I would need for him to cut his hair."
Towa's mom's jaw drops. "His hair?"
"Yes, I think he would be much prettier with a shorter, more layered cut. I have some stylists with me now. The could demonstrate."
The stylists come over and give Towa's mom an idea of what he would look like with shorter hair.
Towa's mom starts crying. "Towa, your mom has failed you. I'm sorry I'm not as good as a professional stylist."
Towa starts getting very worried over his mother's approval. "Wait a second, I thought that you were thinking of branching out into boy idols. If my mother is approving, they must be making me look even more girly than usual."
T strikes an enigmatic smile. "Towa, I like you. I like kids who have quick minds. All right, I'll lay out my plan for you. I would like to put you and Reina in a singing duo."
"What?"
"However, Reina has a phobia about boys. I think that if she teams with you for a while without knowing that you're a boy, then she'll be able to overcome her phobia."
"So, you're signing me as a girl idol?"
"Yes."
Towa looks at his parents who are beaming joyously at each other.
Still, I would get to meet Reina. It wouldn't be the best of situations since I would be meeting her under false pretenses, but at least I would be meeting her. "Okay, I'll do it."
T brings out contracts for Towa's parents to sign.
"Okay, now that the legal stuff is out of the way, I am going to need you, Towa, to have your make over now, before I show you my company's headquarters. I can't let Reina see the before pictures, so to speak."
The stylists grab Towa and go to work on him. Fifteen minutes later, they are done. They show Towa his new look in a mirror.
"I don't understand, I look a lot more like a boy now."
T nods. "Before you looked like a girl trying to be a boy. Now you look like a boy who could be girl." T turns to the stylists, "Can we change the girl's lipstick?"
"I'm not wearing any! And, why are you referring to me as a girl?"
"From now on, you will be called a girl exclusively. I am also going to give you a new name. Your new name is Aika."
"This is so weird."
"But, it's necessary. To maintain the illusion you have to be Aika now."
Towa looks in the mirror at a stranger.
Well, at least I will be able to meet Reina."Okay, my name is Aika."
To be continued
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