[16] Fans

Third Person's Point of View

"Good morning..." Sugawara greeted upon opening the door to the gym.

"Morning!" Replied his comrades who averted their gaze from the net for a while. With the noise only half from what he usually got used to hear, the man's gaze fell over thr empty stadium.

"Its the third day." Takeda-sensei stated, approaching the silver haired male with his eyes also on the stadium.

"Have any of you heard anything from them?" Asked Daichi, particularly pertaining over to Shoyo and Tsukishima who only shook their head a no.

"I heard they are currently in a tight situation." Kiyoko state from the door, about to enter the gymnasium. "About the studio, that is."

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Three days before

"I think its better if you go back to school for now." Hiyori inquired, looking over to the girls whose still sitting at the meeting table with the Feline Band members. "Although I did sent an excuse letter to your schools but..." She trailed off, fidgeting in her place uncertain of the situation.

"I don't think leaving is a good idea." Megumi hastily quirked, sitting patiently on her seat waiting for whatever news to come.

"I agree teacher." Senri added. "We lack staffs and other whatnots since they all quit after Director's death. And since no one can take their places, we do all of it on our own." She continued.

"If so, we have to hear this news, cause in the first place, its us that'll find a way to solve this."

"I actually feel bad to say that our new members are part of a shabby agency." Sighed Rizumu, her actions immediately comforted by the first year's protest telling her that its all fine.

"So, what exactly is the big problem that caused us to skip a day of presence from school?" Almost immediately, all eyes fell over to the man sitting at the table, his crossed legs didn't help to ease the tension as his eyes are being shadowed by his brown hair.

"They want to close the studio."

"What?!" Almost immediately replied by everyone in the room excluding Riku who made the announcement.

"But why?! The studio is still licenced! And we didn't break any rules!" Protest Senri.

"It's not about that." Calmly replied Nagisa, whose quite aware of the situation being the current owner of the studio.

"Then its about what then?!" Exclaimed Megumi, almost in a panic.

"They want to remove all of the residing building in this area."

Shortly after Riku spout those words, it was then silent.

"Is there any specific reason for it?" Senri, who was the first person to take the situation calmly asked.

"They're planning to create a bigger studio and debut new members of the entertainment world."

"Then ALOST along with two more studios will be wiped out then." Akari marked.

"This is bad."

"What do we do."

Murmurs and questions was then passed from one person to another. The tension inside the room growing by the minute.

"There is a way." Senri suddenly claimed, causing the place to go quiet.

"What way?" Hiyori asked, desperation can be heard in them.

"Currently the three studios residing the area is we ALOST, Crimson Heart's studio RMS, and the idol studio Sterling." She started, her eyes glued over to her tablet.

"What of it?" Lyrica asked. "Even if we sign a petition, its still won't work."

A smirk then made its way to Senri's face. "Currently ALOST all in all from both Feline and Seiza has a total of Eight thousand fans."

"So small." Himitsu frustratingly sighed.

"Its because we just started the official band two years ago." Megumi informed, positively smiling at the depressed people inside.

"Crimson Heart has a total of four thousand fans. And the idol group, Shine has a total of three thousand." Senri continued. "True, they're all small, but putting it together makes it fifteen thousand."

The same smirk didn't leave her lips and her eyes darken as she lowers her head. "And if we add more."

"That's it!" Sakura of Feline bolted suddenly. "We have to increase the fans."

"For what purpose exactly?" Himitsu suddenly asked, not getting the gist of the situation at all.

"Did too much swimming replace your brain with water? Or did you loose it when you dived yesterday?" Asked Kaede with a smirk.

"What they mean is that if we make the fans do the petition, we can prevent the demolition." Riku explained with his still composed state.

"And how do we even manage to get our hands on those additional seven thousand from the othet studio?" Tsubasa questioned.

A dark smirk managed crawl its way to Senri, Megumi, Rei and Riku's lips.

"Call the other studio."

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Three days later

"So yesterday was the Sterling, and just now the RMS huh..." Sighed Himitsu, handing over an energy drink to Riku whose sprawled on the couch of the Director's office with Senri and Nagisa.

"And it took us a whole day to prepare all the needed files the day before yesterday." Groaned Rei whose on the office table with her laptop, rubbing her temples.

"Three days of absence from school huh..." Sighed Hiyori who was in charge of making the excuses for the students of ALOST to skip three days of school. Especially the student coucnil of Karasuno.

"Now that you mention it, they must be very confused of our sudden disappearance..." Akari trailed off pertaining to the volleyball boys.

"Ah! I forgot to inform Takeda!" Hiyori suddenly exclaimed rushing to the telephone in the other room with her students groaning at her forgetfulness.

"Three nights sleepover in the studio!" Kaede giggled. Her actions caused to others to follow in suit. "By the way." All eyes fell over to the green haired girl whose eyes are also glued to the member of Seiza.

"I'm actually quite curious of the boys volleyball team that you mention."

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"So that's what happened." Sugawara sighed upon hearing the news from his teacher.

It was already near after afternoon practice when Taleda received the call from Hiyori, informing him of their situation to which he immediately rushed to share it to the worrying volleyball boys.

"They got a lot on their shoulders huh..." Tsukishima inquired.

"I pity Riku who has left a lot of unfinished job in his office."

"I hope they have time to eat well  before they kill themselves of worrying about their studio."

"For now, the least we can do is support them on whatever plans they have." Daichi concluded to which they all come to agree on.

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"What they're like huh..." Members of Seiza simultaneously trailed off, a small smile plastered on their faces.

"If I were to say." Lyrica started, catching the attention of the people in the room.

"I'd say 'Crows with Halos' I guess."