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What the Future Holds...	By : LunaValentine Category: J-Rock/J-Pop & K-Pop > S.K.I.N. Views: 1562 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. I do not know the members of S.K.I.N. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Okay. chapter 1. it's a little long, i know, but it's good. i swear ^_^
and thanks to Yunalesca Of Zanarkand ^_^ she wrote the second half of this, she's so talented ^_^

i'm arse at summaries, but please just read on ^_^ i'm sure it's not too bad.

and after you read, you can review and tell us if you like it or not, we take suggestions, or if you can't be bothered to review, at least rate... please ^_^

thank you! Happy reading!

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‘It’s not midday yet, I’m not late!’ Miyavi exclaimed as he burst into S.K.I.N’s dressing room.

S.K.I.N had been appointed as the opening act of Shibuya’s 2008 ‘666 Festival’ that night and they were almost ready for the last rehearsal – only some members were still missing.

‘No you’re not.’ Yoshiki said, glancing at their youngest member from the mirror in front of him as he fixed up his make-up. ‘Gackt’s gone missing though.’

‘Where’s Sugi?’ Miyavi asked, after noticing Yoshiki was alone in the dressing room. ‘And the make-up people? And Rei?’

‘I told them we don’t need them today. Gackt already had his make-up done at home, so did Sugi.’ Yoshiki said, twitching his left eye, evening the eyeliner. ‘Rei called me about half an hour ago, she’s around somewhere, as long as she’s ready for rehearsal it doesn’t matter.’

‘So Gackt’s here… just not… here?’ Miyavi asked, confused.

‘Yeah.’ Yoshiki turned around to face the younger man. ‘I’m done getting ready, I’m gonna go find Gackt, Sugizo’ll be here in a minute, he just called to say he’s close by.’ Yoshiki said. ‘You hurry up and get ready. Last minute rehearsal in twenty minutes, all the other bands have already done theirs.’

‘Okay…’ Miyavi said, taking Yoshiki’s place in front of the mirror as the older man left the room.

Okay, Yoshiki was annoyed now.

He’d been walking around backstage for ten minutes now and he’s been into every other band’s dressing room, and still there was no sign of any of them having had seen Gackt in the past hour – Gackt and Yoshiki had arrived together two hours ago, and after an hour, Gackt had disappeared, he said he was coming back at least half an hour before rehearsal time, but still, nothing.

‘Ah!’ Yoshiki almost walked into someone just as the guy was coming out of his band’s dressing room. ‘Yoshiki.’ Kai (the GazettE) sighed in relief. ‘Wow… you look tense.’ He smiled, showing his signature dimples.

‘Yeah, have you seen Gackt?’ Yoshiki asked, frowning. ‘He’s not in there?’ He peeked into the GazettE’s dressing room – Reita seemed like he was panicking, looking for something, Uruha was still doing his hair, Aoi was asleep on the couch and Ruki was still trying to decide which shirt to wear.

‘Hi Yoshiki!’ Ruki saw Yoshiki standing at their door.
Yoshiki only waved back.

‘Nope, Gackt’s not in there… we haven’t seen him at all, actually.’ Kai said. ‘Try L’Arc~en~Ciel.’

‘Thanks.’ Yoshiki said cursing himself for not going there first – of course Gackt would be there.

‘Yoshiki?’ Hyde opened the door for Yoshiki.

‘Hi.’ Yoshiki smiled down at the shorter man. ‘How’s it going?’

‘Not so good, I think I’m losing my voice…’ Hyde frowned – right enough he was sounding a little croaky. ‘What’s up?’ He asked.

‘Gackt’s not in there, is he?’ Yoshiki asked. ‘We’ve lost him. He left about an hour ago and promised he’d be back by now… and we haven’t rehearsed yet, and –‘

‘Actually, I haven’t seen him either. He said he’d come by before the rehearsals too…’ Hyde said.

‘Yeah, and well…’ Yoshiki continued on his previous sentence. ‘We need to rehearse in like ten minutes now… if you see him, tell him I’m angry.’

Hyde let out a small laugh. ‘Okay… I’ll see you later then.’ He said as Yoshiki nodded, dismissing himself.

Just as Hyde closed the door, Yoshiki heard Gackt’s illustrious laugh coming from the room just next to L’Arc~en~Ciel’s.

Yoshiki sighed, though just as he went to open the door to the next room, the door flew inwards, showing a shirtless Gackt and a slim, petite girl with long crimson hair (fully dressed, thankfully) – S.K.I.N’s new bassist, whom Gackt found two months ago. At first Yoshiki didn’t agree with having a female in the band, but she was more than good enough a bassist and she agreed on being called ‘support’ instead of being a part of the actual band.

‘What’s going on?’ Yoshiki glared at Gackt, whose smile had turned upside down at the sight of the authoritative leader of S.K.I.N.

Rei, the bassist looked as if she was wetting herself, scared shitless of the angry Yoshiki.

‘Gackt?’ Yoshiki kept his eyes on Gackt, only glancing every couple of seconds to the girl.

‘I’m sorry Yoshi-kun.’ Gackt finally said, breaking the creepy silence.

‘Sorry just doesn’t cut it, it’s now five minutes before we’re supposed to rehearse and you’re not ready.’ Yoshiki said coldly. ‘You too.’ He added to Rei.

‘I am, everything is ready, I’m dressed and I’ve done make up.’ Gackt protested.

Yoshiki sighed – he was afraid Gackt was right. ‘Fine, just hurry up and get your arse up there, five minutes, no more.’ He said, before leaving.

‘Wow, that was intense…’ Gackt said, turning around to face Rei, who was red in the face.

‘I’m so going to get kicked out.’ She said, breathing heavily.

‘Hey hey, no one’s going to get kicked out…’ Gackt snaked his arms around her, holding her close to him, kissing the top of her hair.

‘He was glaring!’ Rei whispered, her arms around Gackt’s still bare waist.

Gackt let out a small laugh. ‘He’ll get over it, he’s not as bad as everyone thinks he is.’

‘Well we should go, before he gets angrier.’ She kissed his collarbone – that was the only part of him she could reach when he was standing straight as he was. ‘Come on.’ She pulled away from him. ‘Your shirt.’ She held out his white button up shirt.

‘You’re such an angel.’ He smiled down at her as he took the shirt from her before bending down a little to give her a swift kiss on her rosy lips.

Her face had returned to its right pale colouring as she pushed him away playfully, shooing him.

‘Ahh, there he is!’ Miyavi grinned as Gackt got onto the stage – the rest of S.K.I.N were in place and all ready to go.

‘Sorry.’ Gackt apologised as he took his place by his dragon microphone.

Rei followed in quickly and took her place with her bright pink bass near Yoshiki, slightly hidden away unlike the rest of them who would be right within the audience’s view.

They were playing at Shibuya AX, and it was an odd sight to see the place empty, but soon there would be a massive sea of people before the stage.

‘Where’ve you been?’ Miyavi asked, standing next to Gackt, their backs to Yoshiki who was still glaring at Gackt, who was adjusting the microphone.

‘Tell you later, shoo.’ Gackt smirked, turning around to give Yoshiki a nod, indicating he was ready.

Miyavi let out a small laugh as he walked away from Gackt to take his position on Gackt’s right.

‘I don’t understand sometimes… why do we have to rehearse waaay before the show?’ Miyavi asked, walking next to Gackt in a playful manner on their way back to their dressing room after the rehearsal.

Yoshiki and Sugizo were walking just a little ahead of the two, deeply in whispers of discussion, whilst Rei was still on stage, doing little touch ups on her amp amp and bass.

‘Sshhh.’ Gackt put his index finger to his lips, shushing Miyavi so he could eavesdrop on what Yoshiki and Sugizo were discussing.

‘He’s fucking her for god’s sake! He can’t keep it in his pants…’ Yoshiki whispered.

‘Well, you thought it was a bad idea to take her in and I guess you’re right. I mean she’s good, but if this keeps going on… we might have to…’ Sugizo never got around to finishing his sentence as the four of them heard yelling from the room they were passing.

‘You incompetent fool! This isn’t your show, you can’t decide whether or not it’s too much lighting or how high or low the video screen should be! You’re only meant to supervise and make sure they’re doing what I say!’ A man was yelling.

‘You arrogant arse!’ A female shouted back. ‘How dare you speak to me that way! Do you want perfection or just good? I don’t settle for just good! Good is for people who don’t know how to reach any higher.’

‘I hired you dammit! You will listen to me!’ The man shouted back.

‘If I quit the entire staff will quit on you!’ The female shouted. ‘Let’s see you run a show without me! If you can’t stand me so back why do you hire me for every performance?! I know this theater better then you do! Shut up! Let me work and then take the credit for it after a show gone well like you always do!’

Quite a crowd grew outside the door listening to the argument. Yoshiki, Sugizo, Gackt and Miyavi had stopped to listen too.

‘Do you recognize the voices?’ Miyavi asked Yoshiki.

Yoshiki only shook his head.

The man was shouting again. ‘You will do as you’re told!’

‘Fuck off or do it your damned self!’ The female shouted and the door swung open.
A tall, slim but not model slim female stood in the doorway. ‘Back to work or everyone stays until the theater looks like it never had a concert!’

Everyone standing around immediately scurried out of sight, and back to work.

‘Tori.’ The man inside the room said. ‘This is my theater.’

She glanced back at him, and the members of S.K.I.N could clearly see her sneer. Her waist length pink streaked brown hair swinging with the motion. ‘Then by all means. I quit.’ She slammed the door behind her and way in the process of storming away when the door was wrenched open and a short fat man hurried out. It was the owner of the theater Mr. Hachiko.

‘Tori! Wait!’ He hurried after her.

S.K.I.N in all curiosity, followed them. By the time the fat man had caught up to Tori, she was already standing on the stage.

Rei was startled out of her work when she saw the two. She was crouched next to the amp and had her bass in her lap.

‘TORI!’ The fat man grabbed her hand. ‘You can’t quit. You’re in the middle of an assignment. Please.’

Tori looked down at him with disgust. ‘Look you said your piece I said mine. I don’t work with less then perfect, I don’t create less than perfect and you know it.’

Yoshiki took that moment to intervene and stepped into their line of sight. ‘Mr. Hachiko.’

Both Tori and Mr. Hachiko turned to look. Mr. Hachiko released Tori’s hand and took a few steps towards Yoshiki. ‘Mr. Hayashi.’

‘Yoshiki.’ Yoshiki smiled. ‘I want to thank you for such a well-run theater. I’ve never experienced a nearly perfect running theater before. You must be pleased.’

Tori snorted at the comment and walked over to Rei. Ignoring both men.

‘I have to thank Tori for the smoothness that the theater runs. She takes care of it when I cannot.’ Mr. Hachiko stated.

Tori looked down at the still crouching Rei. ‘What’s wrong?’

Rei shrugged feeling slightly intimidated by this still very anger person.

Tori sighed in anger ‘Look I’m not going to bite, but if there is something wrong I need to know.’

Rei shrugged again. ‘The bass is a little off that’s all.’

‘May I?’ Tori held out her hand expectantly and Rei reluctantly handed over her bass noticing how well it matched the colors streaked through the woman’s hair.

Tori cradled the bass a moment and held her ear to the neck just caressing the strings a moment. Then she slung the bass on and played the complicated chords of X Japan’s Orgasm. Everyone’s jaw dropped in shock. Tori smiled when she was done and handed the bass back to Rei. ‘It’s not the guitar, it’s the player.’ And she smiled.

After Yoshiki’s anger, Rei couldn’t take it and burst into tears fleeing the stage.
Gackt gapped and made to move past Tori. She waited until he was just slightly in front of her.

‘Mr. Camui.’ Tori’s voice was ice cold and he stopped in his tracks. He turned and looked at her.

‘What?’ He asked rather rudely.

‘This is a place of business, not a hotel. If I hear of your ‘activities’ again in this theater I will ask you to leave and not come back. I work with perfection, not whores.’ Tori turned and walked away from him.

Gackt was sputtering and Yoshiki smiled. She had slapped Gackt in the face, without even touching him.

Mr Hachiko was stuttering. ‘Tori…’

‘No it’s alright.’ Yoshiki held out a hand to Tori. ‘I apologize.’

Tori looked at him with the same ice she gave Gackt. ‘Control your band or leave. Perfection.’ She walked past him.

Yoshiki laughed softly. He had just been put completely in his place.

‘I apologize for Tori’s abruptness. She will be reprimanded…’ Mr. Hachiko stuttered.
Yoshiki waved a hand. ‘Forget it. She is completely right.’

Backstage, Tori came across Rei before Gackt did, although everyone could hear Gackt calling her name. She was hiding in an unused dressing room, that Tori was actually intending to use to yank control of her anger.

‘I’m sorry.’ Tori said to Rei. ‘I wasn't intending to be harsh.’

‘You just told me I couldn’t play.’ Rei retorted, ‘I’m not understanding how that would be anything but harsh.’

‘No I said it wasn’t the guitar that was off. It is you. You’re nerves are so obvious it’s effecting your playing skills.’ Tori amended her earlier comment.

‘It shows?’ Rei asked hesitantly.

Tori nodded. ‘And the fact that you spend more time with Gackt then actually practicing.’

Rei flushed. ‘It’s obvious?’

‘My dear, sex is always obvious.’ Tori grinned mischievously to herself – why light a match when you can use a blowtorch? ‘He is gorgeous, but still, Yoshiki might not be so fond of Gackt’s distraction. After all, bassists are easy to replace.’

Rei went pale. ‘Do you think Yoshiki would replace me?’

Tori shrugged. ‘Yoshiki goes through bassists. He’s replaced Taiji with Heath, and Ju-Ken with you… why not again?’ Tori patted Rei on the shoulder. ‘When at work, work. In the hotel, do whatever you want. Don’t give him a reason to replace you, ne?’

Rei chewed on her lower lip but nodded. Gackt’s voice could be heard still shouting for her.

‘That is embarrassing,’ Tori shook her head.

‘Thank you.’ Rei said suddenly.

Tori glanced at her, ‘For?’

Rei smiled. ‘For being you.’ She left the room closing the door behind her.

Tori shook her head and before realizing, her anger was gone. She looked at the door. The girl had eased that pain without her noticing it. Tori sat in a neglected chair and mused to herself for a few moments.

In one of the hallway Rei let Gackt find her.

‘Rei are you okay?’ Gackt looked worried. ‘That woman was mean.’

Rei smiled at him. ‘I’m fine.’

Gackt leaned down to kiss her.

Neither one of them saw Yoshiki and Sugizo at the end of the hall.

‘If they do that here….’ Yoshiki whispered angrily to Sugizo. Before either of them could intervene Rei had placed her fingers against Gackt’s mouth.

‘We’re at work.’ Rei said softly. ‘We should be working.’ She turned and walked away from him.

Gackt looked like a fish out of water. Rei disappeared behind a corner and Tori seemed to materialize from nowhere. She gave an elaborate bow to Gackt, who in turn was noticeably angry with her, and then she walked away.

Yoshiki laughed. ‘I don’t know what she said to Rei, but I think we’ll actually get better work done from now on.’

Sugizo nodded. ‘Tori seems to be an imposing figure.’
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