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Niki was really excited for his next acting job. He had to play a blunt character with a foul mouth, pretty far from his actual personality. He struggled with it at first, Crazy:B often went freestyle with their performances so this was unusual for him. Well, aside from that one time he performed with A to Z, they were trying really hard to give that flirty charm to the audience. Not like Crazy:B aren't trying hard at performances, it's just that they are a bit more ... chaotic. Niki sighed and looked over the script again. "Well Shiina-kun, we seem to be childhood friends in this play. Are you done reading the script?" Eichi tilt his head to the left and held his hand out to take the script for himself. "Uh, Yup. You can have it now." Niki gave him the script and fixed one of his buttons after he no longer had the script. Eichi smiled again and started to practice. Eichi called Hajime over and they reenacted a scene. Hajime was wearing a brown coloured wig, he really looked like a girl. Niki looked over to the others, Natsume and Madara were discussing their next move. He sighed and saw that the cameras were ready to film. Everyone went to their designated spot to film their dating-game-style introduction. Hajime smiled at the camera and started walking down the hallway. Eichi came towards Hajime and complimented him (or her, in this case).
Rinne sat in front of a TV in the ES building and saw every second of the MV. Kohaku and Aira sat next to him and we're cheering Niki on. While they were having a private conversation, Aira started talking about the game based off of this MV. Kohaku looked confused, "What kind of game?" he asked. "Well ... It's a dating simulator. You know what that is right?" Aira said and blushed for some reason. "Yeah, I do. Honestly, I thought they wouldn't have any budget left fer a game out of all things." Kohaku responded and Aira just nodded. "A dating game? With Niki?" Rinne thought and stared at the TV. "Well, are ya gonna download the game?" Kohaku asked. "No ... It would be kind of weird to fake-date a colleague. Haha." Aira said, the fake laugh not convincing Kohaku. "Yeah. Rinne-han, wadya think of the MV? Ya look out of it." The MV had ended and Rinne looked up to meet Kohaku's eyes. "Niki was good, that acting of his is cute♪" Rinne replied, grinning. " 'course ya would say that. Don't dream about Niki-han for too long, or you might get attached to his fake personality." Kohaku smiled and took Aira's hand. "Nothin' could ever replace the real Niki-kyun, not even a fake personality of himself♪" Kohaku nodded and both went out of the room. Rinne had no reason to stay there anymore, so he also went to his dorm room. He opened the door only to realize that both Kanata and Hiyori were out there doing something, he had the dorm for himself. He got on his bed and took out his phone. "Won't hurt if I just try a little bit, right?" Rinne mumbled to himself as he made himself comfortable on his bed. His phone lit up and cheesy sound effects started playing.
"Choose your date." Yeah, Rinne had only one option. He clicked on the Niki in a beige-pink school uniform. The story started and he was greeted by Niki sitting next to the main character and writing something on his homework.
"What do you want, new student? You wouldn't be able to help me with this, right?"
Option a: I can try to help. Option b: Let's do something else.
Rinne thought about it and picked b. Helping with homework would be way too boring. Taking a risk with "doing something else" is way more exciting.
"Hm. Okay, what should we do?"
A: play a card game B: go home
He clicks on B.
"Right, school is almost over. Let's go."
Niki and the main character go towards the exit before Niki stops.
"It's raining. Do you have an umbrella?"
Rinne grinned, knowing what's about to come.
A: No. B: Yes.
He obviously clicked on A.
"Uh... I guess we could share one?" Niki looked away, blushing. The main character seemed to nod. Niki acted really nervous and both of them were cramped together under the umbrella.
Rinne didn't realize he was smiling while playing before the screen changed to the home screen again. His smile quickly faded as he realized Niki only had two endings. There was only one left. He let his phone fall on his pillow. "Would Niki-kun really act like this if he were inlove? No. That's not my Niki-kyun..." Rinne thought as he rolled over to the other side of his bed."If only I knew how it would feel to be loved by Niki-kun." he whispers to himself. He starts thinking about it, and contacts Niki to come to his dorm.
A few minutes later, Niki knocked and opened the door. "Niki-kyun!" Niki looked annoyed at him and said "What?" The red-head looked at him confused, "What ya so mad for? I haven't even done anythin' yet!" Niki sat on the mattress, "So? Why did you call me here, Rinne-kun." Rinne got to his knees and embraced Niki from behind, "What's wrong? Did the MV not go well behind the scenes?" Rinne said, genuinely worried. Niki sighed, "Nha... Everything went fine, it's just that I was really nervous about messing up, so I reread the script over and over again. You watched the MV right? I hope my acting was convincing." Rinne gave him a kiss on the cheek, "It definitely convinced me to play that new game Ai-chan mentioned." "You what?" Niki's face turned red as he looked over to Rinne's phone. "Rinne-kun! That's so embarrassing!!!" Niki punched Rinne lightly on his arm. "Sorry, Niki-kyun! I couldn't resist seeing ya act like that! Gyahahaha!!!" Rinne laughed and gave Niki his phone, "Look, I even got one of the endings, why can't ya do that with me?" Niki remembers voice acting for that scene, "Ugh. I would never offer you an umbrella, you can just go into the rain without one, bitch." Rinne's mouth formed to an "o" and he gasped loudly. "Ow! You're hurtin my feelings!" Niki put Rinne's phone down and stared at him. "Let's get something to eat, im hungry after all that!" Niki said, stomach growling loudly as ever. "Mhm. Make sure to share a plate with me, since I already got the good ending.♪"