Ongaku Academy: Spring's beginning

❣ Chapter 19 backstage ❣

Third POV

IDOLiSH7 members entered their room and greeted with the water bottles on the table and Kotori.

"Great job guys! I could hear the cheers from here"she praised handing the water to every member.

"Arigatou" thanked Yamato as he starts drinking the water, everyone else thanked her and immediately started drinking.

"It's the least I could for what I'm putting you in, they also wanted an encore I thought they would but I had a slight doubts"

"It's okay Kotori-chan we're fine and ready to do the next one" Sogo assured wiping his face with the towel that was provided for him.

"Yea I want to dance more" cheered Tamaki as he was spinning around still had energy left, Tamaki had the most stamina out of the group so no wonder why he had so much energy left.

"I want to see who's coming and we are already getting notice with that show who wanted us to perform at the train station." remembered Mitsuki as he was drinking his water.

"Ano, I'm going to the bathroom, I'll be back in no time"

"Sure Riku but try and not take to long we need to start heading" pointed out Mitsuki

"Nanase-san are you sure your okay?" asked Iori as he was concerned for Riku

Riku smiled and looked at him sincerely. "Arigatou Iori but I'm fine" assured Riku as he was opening the door and closing it.

Riku walked down the hallway to the restroom whiles panting and sweating. "If I can wash my face then I should be okay and maybe I can quickly get hot tea at the serving stall near the cafeteria" thought Riku as he carried on walking.

Suddenly a hand grabbed Riku and covered his mouth, grabbing his body and pulling Riku back to the hallway leading to the bathroom entrance.

"Mpfft!....mumth...hufmt!!" Riku tried to speak but it was futile, the hand was covering his mouth so only muffled noise came out.

"Shhh! Riku it's me" said the voice. Riku slowly looked behind to the familiar voice. It was Tenn. "Let's go in the bathroom" suggested Tenn as he was still covering Riku's mouth and dragged him to the toilet. 

When they entered the toilet Tenn let go of Riku's mouth. "Tenn-nii why are you here?" wondered Riku

"I wanted to talk to you"

"Oh sure, what do you want to talk about Tenn-nii?"

"You've already done three performance Riku. That's enough before you might have an attack and collapsed and I won't be there this time" Tenn was obviously worried and possibly worried while Riku was performing.

"I'm okay really! I just need to wash my face and I'll be fine"

Tenn still had a little doubt about what Riku was saying, "Riku...I'm going to tell your members then. I have a feeling you haven't told them yet"

"I have don't worry" lied Riku. Tenn raised an eyebrow and looked at Riku but sighed, "Fine. But if they told me you've collapsed then I'm taking you and never letting you do this again" he warned

"Hai!" smiled Riku

"Oh and here I almost forgot to give you this" Tenn then grab something out of his pocket and handed it to Riku. It was a handkerchief that there mother gave to Tenn before he left, on it there was a small picture of them together smiling and on the left hand corner there was the name written on it saying 'Riku and Tenn'.

"Isn't this...."

"Yes. It's the handkerchief that mother gave me before I went, her last word for me was 'keep this safe and it will protect you'"

"But it's yours Tenn-nii"

"I think you need it more, think about this, the handkerchief is a small part of me, mother and father that in spirit we are supporting you"

"Tenn-nii" Riku's eyes started to tear up a bit and Riku jumped at tenn making them fall on the ground.

"Wahh. Arigatou Tenn-nii, I'll treasure as well" cried Riku. 

"Mou, you don't need to cry" Tenn then hugged Riku and patted his head. A few minutes later Riku had stopped crying and was ready. He didn't need to wash his face or take his inhaler he has energy from Tenn and everyone else who will be cheering him and I7.

"Alright I'll be going now, do your best Riku..." smiled Tenn

"Bye Tenn-nii" waved Riku

"Bye-bye"

They both headed off in different direction. Riku walked a bit faster and entered the room.

"I'm back~"

"Hello Riku what took you so long?" asked Kotori a bit worried because she knows his illness.

"I'm okay I just talked to Tenn-nii"

"Okay thank goodness" she sighed in relief, she would probably of guess that she'll also get murdered by Tenn if he knew Riku would collapse any second doing that performance, "Anyway is everyone now ready?" 

"I think everyone is ready right guys?"  Yamato glanced around the room seeing everyone smiling 

"Hai!" 

"Okay then let's go!" declared Kotori

They quickly hurried and went into Kotori's van, she doesn't usually drive the van but only if she has a large group of people. They went in and quickly sat down with all their casual wear and drinks

"Has everyone got their seat belt on and ready?" asked Kotori whiles looking at the reflection on the mirror

"Hai~" everyone replied. They went off to the train station which was only 30 minutes away

At the van everyone was casually talking and thinking of whats going to happen at the next concert. Will there be an Encore?

When everyone was talking Riku looked at the handkerchief that Tenn gave, Riku was really happy and confident that he can do it and knew he didn't need his inhaler from the start so on that morning he left his inhaler on top of his desk.

"Wish me luck, Kaa-san, Tou-san and Tenn-nii" thought Riku as he was gripping onto the handkerchief.

"Rikkun~ what are you holding?" asked Tamaki whiles he's eating his pudding.

"It's a gift that my brother gave me" replied Riku putting it back into his pockets

"Oh I see"

"Minna~ we're nearly here" mentioned Kotori as she was about to park the car.

"Hai~"