Ghost Rule ・ Backstory

Professional Actor

Zato brings me up into a small, square room. The walls are soundproof  so we could make all the noise we like. He sits down but tells me to keep standing as I need to practice my posture, according to him. This shouldn't be too hard anyway because I'm a celebrity! I act all the time! This'll be an ace.

He raises his hands up like a conductor and starts waving his around to direct my movements. His hands move slowly and gracefully because that's how I need to look. Slow and graceful. After a few tries, he stands up.

"Not bad, not bad, but there is a lot to improve. I do also kind of need you to be out on the field though, I think you're decent enough."

Huh? What happened to all the "acting" training? He basically just wants me to sway my hips and flirt!

I get confused so I say, "You've barely taught me anything! Just how to sway my hips like I'm on the catwalk!"

Zato smiles.
"I think you're a natural anyway.,"

Whatever that means.

Zato pulls out his phone and googles something. He turns around his phone so I can see the screen. It's a location to a club. It appears to be called Otakuro Club.

"Is this where I'll be starting out?"

"Yep! I'll drop you off there in the SUV. You have a limit of 5 hours to get at least 5 million yen."

5 million yen?! I can't pull this off! Now i'm nervous.

I simply don't reply to him.

3.5 hours later, I'm standing in front of the club. The shining LED lights on the sign in front make my eyes shine brighter than the lights itself. I don't even know if I'm old enough to be here but above all, I'm a bit excited and nervous. But, why am I feeling excited? I'm only doing this to spare myself. I take a deep breath and push open the club door. Everyone in there looks just as beautiful as I do. Maybe even prettier. A security guard approaches me and asks for ID.

Shoot, Zato didn't cover this over with me! I'm pretty sure I'm underage and I have no idea what to do in this type of situation.

He grumbles, "Identification, please."

Great, now I have to think of something to say. I need to do something smart. I finally get an opportunity to try to leave that nasty old mansion and I can't disappoint Zato's standards. Not if I want to leave.

"I- uh- w-would you like some money? I-i don't have my ID on me.,"
What the hell? Did I really just stutter?! And bribery with money?! No security guard is falling for that! I'm so stupid!

He rolls his eyes. "I said, identification please."

Now, I'm angry. This will be one of my only chances to get my normal life back! I need to do this for Zato so I can just leave!

I'm pretty sure I snapped right then and there because I starting going off on him.

"I need to get in there. I am Hatsune Miku if you were unaware, and I am one of the most popular celebrities in Japan. I can end your career in a flat second because I could claim anything. I could even get you in prison for god's sake! I'm pretty sure almost this entire country is wrapped around my little finger. Heck, I even have a song about that! So, I'll ask again. Let me in the damn club or you're fired, buddy."

He shakes his head and says, "I don't care who you are or how successful you are. I abide by the law and I won't let a minor in this club. If you continue, Ms, I'll have to call for backup. So please do us all a favour and leave."

I didn't even have a process going through my head when I did what I did next but, I grabbed him by his tie and screamed my lungs out.

"YOU LET ME IN THIS CLUB NOW. I CAN END YOUR MEASLY STUPID LIFE IN FLAT SECONDS."
I violently screamed while pulling his tie and with my other hand, punched his chest over and over again. This definitely was overly dramatic and went way out of proportion. Really, I sound extremely bratty using my fame as an excuse to get in a club. But I mean, I was under pressure and just wanted to go home. After a bit more screaming, I had enough. I collapsed on the ground and started to cry. People from in the club were gathering around to see what was going on.

Great, my reputation as a celebrity is dead. People starting taking photos of me and everyone was gossiping.

"Is that the real Hatsune Miku?"

"But she's so wholesome? Is this what she's really like?"

"What a shame. She ended up like the rest of the celebrities around here. Letting the fame get to them."

I try to block everything and just have a moment to myself. Then, I have an idea. I just walk straight out of the club like nothing had ever happened. I walk, further and further down a stretch of road as the sun set. I wander into an old liquor store and buy a few bottles of wine. Nobody questioned my age and I don't think they knew who I was. That seems to be a good thing. I start drinking and drinking. This is the first time I had alcohol. My goal was to gain the mindset of a drunk person. I wanted to seem more like an adult.

God, I'm so stupid.

I start vomiting everywhere since this is the first time I had a drink and I was really sick considering how much I drank. I then smile, vomit dripping down my chin. I trot down the street with the biggest smile you'd see on a person. I skip into stores with my huge smile, simply just walk up to the cash register, grab a few thousand yen and leave like nothing happened. Police cars starting following me and they had tried surrounding me but it seems my smile had scared them off.

I has seriously gone over the edge these last couple days and there was no recovering from this. This was the new me. This is how the world would see me from now on. A disgusting thief, alcoholic and a manipulator.

This all seems like a stupid story, a lie even. It all happened so fast that it just seems like a crappy online fanfiction plot but that doesn't even matter. This is my life, and I wish I couldn't associate with it, but I have to.

This is only the beginning of the new me, the mere backstory. From here, it gets worse. So much worse.

b ruhhh did you like how i low key broke the fourth wall by saying that it seems like a crappy online fan fic plot hh.
because a crappy fan fic is what this is. nothing moreee. how are you even still reading this tbh. hh