The dark-haired vocalist let out a long drawn out yawn as the early morning rays penetrated the giant window in the hotel room. He blinked to open his eyes, and right there..
"Boo!"
"AAAHHHHHHHH~!!!"
Hovering above his face was his blonde haired prince. As usual. Grinning like an idiot.
"Dan! Geez..!! Don't do that to me, you nearly made me pee my pants!"
"Dazza, Dazza.. you're not WEARING pants." Daniel teased, winking at Darren. The singer blushed furiously as he remembered their *cough* activities last night. A fully mischievous grin spread on Daniel's face as his lover's face reddened.
Darren stuck his lower lip out, "Stop that!!"
"Look, he's pouting again.." Daniel thought as his grin grew even wider. Darren always looked like a lost puppy dog whenever he did that.
"Oh, you're so cute!" Daniel whispered into Darren's ear, nipping it lightly.
"I'm cute?" Darren asked giggling.
"Of course." Daniel said as he bent down to kiss Darren's cute little pout.

*giggle*
"oof!"
"ohh~!"
"Hey! That tickles!"
"mmmm... darling, I love you."
*XXX*

2 hours later:

*knock*
*knockknock*
"You guys!! You have that TV promo appearance today remember? Get up!!" (maybe they are already "up") Leonie screamed at the door.

"AAHHH!!!" Darren and Daniel both screamed.
"We're coming!!! We're coming!!!" (*cough* it's a silly fic we're allowed.)
Darren shouted in the general direction of the door.
Daniel gave Darren a panicked look.
"We're going to be late!"

-----

Meanwhile, across town at the television studios (MS is on WHAT channel? ^^;), the members of LUNA SEA milled about their state-of-the-art dressing room, waiting for their cue to go on.
Sugizo sat in front of a mirror, making ridiculous faces at himself like only Sugi could do. Shinya and Inoran were off in a corner pretending not to notice that the guitarist was sticking his tongue out at himself for no apparent reason (they dismissed it as a normal, everyday occurrence). J wandered around smoking up a storm, and Ryuichi played with his hair while he absently read an article on the purple of life by a Canadian author (*snicker*).
After a moment, Ryu leaned over and picked up the set lists for the show. He noticed that an Australian band was making their debut on the show. Knowing Sugizo was the most knowledgeable about the international music scene, he turned to him and asked, "Do you know anything about Savage Garden?"
Sugizo stopped scrunching up his nose and answered, "They're an Aussie band . .. pop-dancy-type stuff." He rolled his chair closer to Ryu. "Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason. I've just never heard of them before."
"Oh, sure you have! 'I Want You'?"
"Well, I want you, too, but . . . ."
Ignoring that, Sugizo ventured forth. 'Truly Madly Deeply'?"
Ryuichi blushed. "Sugiiii~! Not HERE!"
Now this was just silly. "'Break Me, Shake Me'!!!" Sugi draped himself over Ryu.
"Sugi! Everyone's watching!!"
"We are not!" J snorted and lit a cigarette. Sugizo laughed and Ryuichi sat there, a bit clueless. "I still don't know who Savage Garden is!"
Inoran piped up with, "They use lots of synthesizers, I hear . . ."
"Yeah, and their ballads are SO sappy!" Sugi swooned.
"Sappier than Ryu's solo works?" J grinned, walking by again. Ryu automatically grunted. Sugi wrapped a loving arm around him. "Of course not! Ryu has the sappiest songs in the world!" He pinched Ryu's cheeks. Ryu stared at him with his *killer eyes* (TM). Sugi returned the look with his almighty pout (patent pending).

*super killer eyes*
"My darling Sufi . . ."

*extreme pout*
"Monkichi . . ."

*XXX~*

"HEY!!"
"G'AH~!"
J was in both of their faces, making them jerk away from each other almost instantly. "This isn't a love hotel, save it for the bedroom!" He shook his head and walked away to tune his bass. Just then there was a knock on the door, and a PA poked her head in to let them know they needed to be out in five minutes.
"And Ryuichi-san," the PA continued, "we need you out here to check your microphone."
"Hm?" Ryuichi got up. "Okay." Glancing at his Sugizo lovingly, he headed towards the door and--

*SPLUT~!*

. . .  walked right into it and fell to the floor.

Sugi jumped up and exclaimed, "OH!! MY DARLING~!" as he ran to his side. The rest of the members just stood there.
"I don't know them, do you?" J turned to Inoran and Shinya.
"Nope. They were here when we came in," Shinya replied, heading down the hall.
"I'm scared of monkeys," Inoran murmured.

-----

While all that craziness was taking place in Luna Sea's dressing room, Savage Garden was buzzing about their own preparations too.

"Darren!!" Daniel fumed. "How much longer are you going to be in there?? I need to get my hair/makeup done too!"

Just then Darren pranced out in full costume.
"Like it?" Darren, pale faced, eyeliner-ed with a hint of sheer pink lipgloss twirled around, hand on his hip.
"AAAHHH~" Daniel yelped, his jaw hitting the floor.
Well, Daniel's reaction is understandable, after all Darren was in shiny *tight* black patent leather pants, pointy 2" heeled black boots and a long sleeved mesh shirt.
"I'll take that as a compliment, cupcake." Darren winked at the still slack-jawed blonde guitarist.
"gaahhh.. gahhhh..." Was all poor Daniel could utter.
Darren let out a laugh and gave Daniel a gentle push towards the makeup room and blew him a kiss and grinned.
"Wait till you see your costume."

A quick flash of what can only be described as intense fright crossed Daniel's face for a split second before he sprinted from the room.
"Daniel~!!!"
"DANIEL COME BACK HERE!!!" Darren chased after him, arms waving frantically.

"Look at those two! I'll bet you the blonde one is uke." A backstage hand whispered to the makeup artist. (uke=bottom. oh, hoho~!) The stage hand and makeup artist stared back at the pair of foreigners. The dark haired one had captured the light haired one and was dragging him back.

"Darren~ don't make me.. you know I can't stand being dressed up."
"Oh stop whining you big baby! I had to dress up and so do you! Besides um.." *giggles* Darren leaned in to whisper into Daniel's ear "..think of how much fun leathers, zippers and straps can be!"
Daniel perked up. "Oh, hee hee, okay!"
Darren smiled, put his index finger on Dan's chest and pushed him into the room.

The makeup artist spoke up, "Who knew the gaijin are like this too, ne? And we thought we were the only ones to get these. Thank god I was not assigned to help in Luna Sea's dressing room today." The stage hand and makeup artist both shuddered at the thought of what must be happening in *THAT* room right at this moment.

--in the makeup/costume room--

"Ah, Jones-san, we have your costume prepared." The costumer said as she pulled Daniel's costume off the rack.
There was an audible *THUD* and the next thing Darren saw was an unconscious Daniel lying on the floor.
"Oh, cupcake!!" Darren ran to his beloved.

--45 mins later--

The door swung open to reveal..
Daniel. But Daniel as never before.
He had on similar makeup to Darren except for a tinge of purple on his lips and was in similar boots with flat heels, black leather pants, a black motorcycle leather jacket and a flimsy black tank top cut to show off his perfect chest.
(that you could eat off of. *coughs*)
"oohh Daniel..." Darren purred while draping himself on his prince.

--break--

Leonie made her way to Darren and Daniel.
"Whoa. I almost didn't recognize you two! You look fabulous!"
Daniel looked down, blushing. Darren jumped back from his comfortable position as human suction cup to Daniel.
Looking back and forth from the blonde guitarist to the dark haired vocalist, Leonie rolled her eyes and let out a knowing sigh.
"..well, I only came here to give you this list in case you're interested. It's the show's lineup." With that Leonie departed.

"Hmm.. look here Daz.." Daniel pointed to the list.
"V6, something I can't read (Namie Amuro), us, Morning er.. whatever that is (Musume), and Luna Sea." Darren read off. "Recognize anything?"
"Not really, no. Although this band," Daniel pointed to Luna Sea "..has a funny name don't you think? It's like the moon and the salty water band!"
"Jonsey!" Darren chided, "Don't make fun of other groups! When you think about it, we're savages who like gardening." Both men laughed at their stupid joke.

Suddenly a harried looking assistant made their way to the boys.
"Ah, Hayes-san and Jones-san, it is 15 minutes before the show starts. We kindly ask that you please make your way to the waiting room at your convenience."
Bowing, the assistant left Darren and Daniel.

*****

The members of LUNA SEA made their way to the waiting area just outside of the stage. Sugizo leaned up against the wall while Ryuichi went to check out his microphone. The rest of the groups started gathering around with their assorted PAs. Aya from Morning Musume gave a shy smile to Shinya and he blushed. J choked
on his cigarette and did several double takes. "Y-you . . . with HER?!" he stuttered. Shinya only turned a deeper shade of red and J screamed.
"Dammit, I dunno what's worse, Ryu and Sugi or you and . . . . and that . . . ARGH!"
"Calm down," squeaked Inoran, hugging a Totoro plushie.
J glared at him. "Don't even get me started . . ."
Inoran looked down and squeezed his plushie tighter. J grunted, lit a cigarette, and started mumbling . . . "This whole band is going to pot . . .*grrr* . . ."

*J needs to take some anger-management classes,* Sugizo thought. He stood there, watching all the bands gather and gab with each other. He liked observing them. The V6 boys, all in matching suits, giggling like a bunch of
schoolgirls. The Morning Musume girls, giggling like a bunch of schoolgirls on helium, Namie Amuro gigg-- . . . . wait, where is Amuro-san?! Sugi scanned the crowd again and caught sight of her conversing with two Caucasian men . . . both wearing garish leather and fishnet outfits and a lot of make-up. J walked over
to him.
"What're you so in deep thought about?" he snorted. Sugi just nodded in the two strangers' direction.
"Oh," J said. "Is that Savage Garden?"
"I guess so . . ." Looking over them, Sugi concluded that they weren't fully used to wearing such outfits. "It looks like they're trying too hard to fit in!"
"Yeah, those pants seem a bit tight on the blonde one . . ." J mused, taking a drag on his cigarette. Sugi looked at him.
"What?!"
" . . . ."
Sugi shook his head and sighed. Still wanting to know what was on Sugi's mind, J continued, oblivious to the dark shadow looming over him.
"What?! He's got PANTY LINES, man!! S'gotta be uncomfor--"
*WHACK!!!*
The dark shadow beaned J over the head with a  . . . Totoro plushie. "Who's going to pot NOW, huh? HUH?! You think he WANTS to wear those?! They probably MADE him wear it to look CUTE! It's no FUN wearing cute things when you don't wanna LOOK CUTE, DAMMIT!! You jerk! You totally UNCUTE man! Badtz-Maru!! Nyaaah!!!"
"What the hell . . . ?" Ryuichi walked up to the others to find Inoran throwing a fit on the floor and J with a big plastic-eye welt on the side of his face. "Didn't he take his medicine? Somebody get Ino-Chan his medicine . . ."
"I'm not cute, dammit!! Don't call me cute!!!" Inoran wailed into his Totoro.
"Has he always been like that?" Aya asked.
"Who? I don't see anyone," replied Shinya the beet.
*Maybe I can get them into couple's therapy,* Sugizo grimaced.
J squealed, "MAKE-UP!"

****

"Is this your first time in Japan?" asked Namie (er, hey, it's a fic, she can speak English, too! XD) to the two Aussies.
"Actually, it's our second. We were here for a promotion a few months ago. We had fun, right, Dan?" Darren turned towards his bandmate, who seemed to be very enthralled by his leather pants.
"Dan?"
He kept feeling his pants.
" . . . Daniel, I asked you a question!"
*mutter, grumble, mutter*
"DANIEL JONES!"
"What?!" Dan looked up.
"Weren't you listening?" Darren gave him noogies.
"OH . . . no, sorry . . . it's these pants . . . you can see my panty lines!"
Namie stood there biting her lip.
"They're too tight, see?" Dan turned around and pointed to his backside. "I can't go out like this!"
"Hm, well, they are a bit tight . . ." Darren ran his hand up and down the leather. "But in a way, it's kind of sexy . . . but you should've gone commando for the full effect. Hey, ma'am, what do you think?" He turned to
where Namie was standing, only to find an empty space and Leonie staring at them dumbfounded.
"Hey, where'd she go?" Darren blinked.
"She left," said Leonie. "About two minutes ago."
"Oh . . ." Darren smiled nervously. Dan fidgeted.
"Anyway, it's just about time to go on. You're going to be performing second, and there will be an interview. Don't worry, it'll all be in English . .
."
"No sweat!" Darren smiled. He stood back and stretched, and looked at the other groups. Eight or nine girls huddled in one corner, six guys huddled in another corner, and . . . a man bawling, clawing at the floor and . . .
hugging a stuffed animal . . . ? He raised an eyebrow.
"What is THAT?" Daniel asked, pointing to them. A PA walked by and said,
"One of the most respected bands in all of Japan."
" . . . . somehow, I find that hard to believe . . ." Darren whistled. He turned his attentions to Leonie. Daniel still looked at the strange group of pseudo-gothic monstrosities on the other side of the room. He couldn't tell if
one was a male or a female . . . s/he had light hair and a really ugly red polyester suit on. Its lips were painted a dark red and it was staring right at him. He averted his eyes as the person smirked and spoke to his bandmate, a
tall, white-trash-looking man with a bandanna and big belt-buckle. *Those guys look like bad news,* Daniel thought. He felt a little nervous and hoped everything would go well. Darren patted him on the back and brought him out of his trance-like state. "Gotta get moving, Danny."
"Uh, right . . ."
"Nervous?"
"Uhm, a little . . ."
"Aw, don't be! You'll do fine, cupcake!" Darren gave his bandmate a big squeezy hug as the groups lined up. The two hosts of the show, Tamori and Sayaka, got ready for their cue. The scary group headed past Savage Garden
and the guy(?) in the red suit smiled at them, holding up the Vulcan Peace Sign. Darren smiled, and Daniel's head hung. *Oh, no . . . don't tell me he's(?) a sci-fi fan . . . please, god . . . !*

-----

"Daniel!! Daniel!!" Darren squealed excitedly, "Another sci-fi fan~!"
*bouncebounce*
"Kill me now. -_-;" Daniel thought but instead said, "I guess so.. isn't he.. er.. she..?" Daniel's brow furrowed in confusion.
"Um.." Darren shrugged "I can't tell."
Just then, Daniel noticed Leonie waving frantically at them, looking like she was ready to pop a vein.
"Uh-oh.. um, Daz, I think it's time for us to walk out"

*****

"Savage Garden!!!" The cheesy MStation announcer's voice called out; Darren and Daniel walked down the stairs, their boots making a *clickclick* sound.

Ryuichi stared at the pair. "Ah.. Sugi-chan? Is that the dance/pop group you were talking about?"
"Yeah." Sugi blew out as he absentmindedly picked at a gel-stiff lock of hair.
"They don't look like any dance/pop group I know of.." Ryu mused, observing the leather-clad duo. "In fact..they remind me of..us a couple years back."
"Oh puh-lease!" Sugi drolled out, rolling his eyes, "we carried off the look perfectly! Those two.." he pointed to Darren and Daniel "look like they're itching to get their clothes off!" (um..)
Sugi and Ryu turned to watch the tall blonde looking like he was trying to feel up his own arse (actually he was trying to smooth out his panty lines), while the shorter man kept bouncing up and down like a 3 year old who had had too many cherry colas. (oh shush, I couldn't help it.)
"Kowai." 0_o they observed.

Standing back, looking at Ryu and Sugi trying to grope each other while the camera focused on V6, Shinya shook his head. "They're ones to talk. -_-;"
Hanging his head in post-fit depression, Ino muttered "I don't wanna know." J just pretended he didn't see anything as usual.

*****

Luna Sea was first to perform, playing "Shine" to a mob of screaming fangirl Slaves.
"AAhhhhhh~! Ryuichi-sama!! Sugizo-sama!!!" several girls yelled.
"Ah, our *adoring* fans~!" Sugizo thought, nose in the air, putting on his best stage pout. Ryuichi glanced over at Sugi prancing and posing like a.. well.. like a Sugi did and decided he didn't want that egotistical maniac hogging the limelight. Ryuichi turned on his killer eyes to 100watt power.

*______* "Ryuichi-sama~!!!! Ryuichi-sama~!!!" The fangirls squealed out.

"Hey!!! >_<" Sugizo fumed, this is WAR!! It was time for his guitar solo and he decided to raise his leg and contort himself in uncomfortable-looking positions.
"Eat your heart out monkichi!" He thought while he winced trying to bring his body back to a normal stance.

J and Inoran just looked at the competing pair and rolled their eyes, instead *oohing* into their shared microphone suggestively.
"WAAAIIII~!!! J!!! Inoran!!!!" the slasher Slave fangirls were hypnotized. #_#

Shinya drummed away pretending that nothing was happening and that it was all perfectly normal. "Oh hell, who am I trying to kid? My band is full of IDITOS!!" Shinya thought and drummed harder.

As the song ended Sugi and Ryu were pretending to not notice each other, each mock-annoyed that the other tried to focus the fans' attention on himself.

*****

"Oh my god~" Darren squealed out.
"That looked painful!" @_@ Daniel agreed as they watched the lead guitarist of the psycho-group unwind himself from his microphone stand.
"..hmm.. they seem to be awfully popular though, maybe they are.." Darren trailed off.
"Maybe that are what..? The most respected band in all of Japan?" Daniel finished off. "That is just.. SCARY."
Darren nodded in agreement. For a band that dressed like *that* they sure played a bright and catchy tune.. Darren paused and looked at himself and Daniel.
"oops." He thought, blushing furiously.
"oh.. what's on *your* mind ..hmm?" Daniel asked in an insinuating tone.
"What???"
"What 'What???' you're blushing! Are you thinking of something.. hmm..d-i-r-t-y?" *^__________^* Daniel asked smugly.
"I was not!!"
"Was too!!"
"Was not!!!"

As such, Luna Sea was walking back for their interview.
Sugizo looked up and saw the arguing leather-clad pair.
"Fou~fou~" He thought while flashing them a decidedly mischievous grin.
*ulp!* Darren and Daniel froze, frightened by the look this scary.. er..man? woman? gave them.

-----

"LUNA SEA no mina-sama arigatou gozaimashita!" Sayaka smiled as the group sat down next to Savage Garden. *LUNA SEA,* thought Darren. *So THAT'S who they are!* He was seated next to the androgynous creature in the red polyester. Darren didn't look at him, but he felt the other man's (?) eyes boring a hole into his head. He was starting to feel as uncomfortable as Daniel had been feeling in his pants. Speaking of Daniel, the blonde guitarist was constantly crossing and recrossing his legs because of the (for lack of a better term--poor Daniel ^^;) wedgie that had formed underneath the constricting leather. *How am I going to perform like this?!* he wailed to himself. He didn't even notice the host, Sayaka, leaning over him a bit to talk to the scary people. *I hate this . . . . in America I didn't have to talk much,* Dan grumbled, *but here? I'm gonna be expected to speak! I don't like interviews, I'm scared of these people, and why can't I just run off and set up my OWN guitar?! Why did I have to wear these annoying pants  . . .*

" . . . right, Daniel?"

* . . . and good grief, why did we have to go this, anyway? Nobody I know will see it . . .*

"Daniel?"

* . . . I hate to complain, even to myself, but--*

"DANIEL!"
"Eh?"
The audience died laughing. Apparently the questions had shifted to Savage Garden and Darren had been trying to get Daniel to answer something for a couple of minutes now.
"Oh, sorry, what was the question?" Daniel piped up. Sayaka laughed nervously and continued her questions. Darren nudged Dan in the ribs.
Turning to face Darren, and holding a slip of paper, Sayaka asked, "It says here your hobbies include Star Wars . . . ?"
"Uh, yes, I'm a big fan!" Darren smiled.
"LUNA SEA's Sugizo is also a big fan." Sayaka nodded to the polyester man. Darren turned his head and saw him grinning at him. Darren smiled shyly.
Daniel looked down, flustered. *I'm in for it,* he thought. *At least they haven't asked me anything but god, if we start off with Star Wars . . .*
"Have you seen Episode One?" Sugizo asked, in perfect English. Darren's eyes lit up, and replied, "About a million times already! Natalie Portman is my wife!"
"NOOOOOO~!" Sugizo wailed, in his best Obi-Wan. Darren cracked up, and nudged Daniel again, who grimaced. For some odd reason, this Sugizo seemed like bad news to him . . .
Politely interrupting the sci-fi geeks, Sayaka said, "And your nickname in high school was . . . "
"MONKEY!" Daniel piped up, hoping it would shut Darren up. "He was called MONKEY!"
*The audience shrieked.*
"Daniel!!" Darren turned indignantly towards his bandmate. Daniel only smiled. His pants didn't seem as uncomfortable now.
"Oh . . . " Sugizo started. "Don't worry! Our vocalist Ryuichi is also called a monkey . . . ne, Ryu?" He turned to Ryu, who had been silent up until now and was flustering in his seat. He grunted. Sugizo smiled.
"Monkichi~!!" He poked Ryu in the nose and the audience squealed. He turned back to Darren. "It's because he has big ears!" Sugizo tugged on Ryu's ear happily. The audience squealed again! Darren wondered why they were so loud, but couldn't say anything as Sayaka had turned to the camera and was introducing them.
"And here is Savage Garden, with a special medley, their new single 'I Knew I Loved You,' and a favorite, 'Break Me Shake Me'!"
Sugizo continued to make monkey noises as Darren and Daniel left the center stage. Ryu hung his head. "Monkey Monkey Monkeeeey! RyuRyuuu~!!"
"Grrr . . ."
Sayaka and Tamori tried not to notice the grown man making 'oog-oog' noises next to them.
"Do we know them?" Shinya said.
"Know who?" J said. "I don't know anyone."
"I'm scared of monkeys," Inoran cried.

-----

Darren walked up to the microphone stand as Daniel adjusted his guitar strap.
The gentle melody began to play and Darren started to sing, "Maybe it's intuition..."

*****

Jaw on the ground, J turned to Sugizo (the band's most internationally well informed source) and said, "That.. is almost as sappy as Ryu's 'Love is..' what idiot stylist put them into those clothes?"
"Oh, J.. it's an image thing, I guess the stylist decided to make them more appealing to the Japanese audience, after all you know how EVERYONE loves men in makeup!" Sugizo grinned while batting his (mascara-ed) lashes.
Ryuichi grunted. Sugi was his guy! Why did he have to flirt with everyone? >_<
"Oh, darling! you know I only have eyes for my monkichi~!" Sugi turned to Ryu and patted him on the head. Ryuichi turned on his killer eyes (tm) again, purring out, "My dear Sufi~!"
"Monkichi~!" #^__^#
Sugizo and Ryuichi began to *XXX* until they realized Shinya glaring at them.
"oops" ^^;
"..forget it. I never knew them, they just followed us home." J muttered.
"uh.. yeah." Shinya added. Inoran just looked down.

*****

Sauntering over to Daniel and hugging his best buddy, Darren purred out, "I knew I loved you before I met you.. I think I dreamed you into life~!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh?" a VERY audible gasp came from the audience.
Darren continued singing, oblivious to the murmuring from the crowd, most notably from the slasher Slave girls. Daniel too was oblivious as he was making an effort to not squirm too much since the more he moved, the worse his wedgie got. (poor Daniel.. ^^;)

--pause--

The sound engineers prepared to raise the volume as Savage Garden completed IKILY and started up "Break Me Shake Me".

The thundering bass line began.
"AAAhhhhhhh~!!" came the shock from the rock fans who had fallen asleep during IKILY.
"I never thought I'd change my opinion again..." Darren belted out, grasping the microphone for dear life as he thrashed about the stage, mugging this camera and throwing kicks towards that camera.

*****

V6, jaws on the floor watched in stunned silence.. they seemed like such a nice, unoffending group before.
Morning Musume all let out little high-pitched school girl squeaks, horrified with the sound invading their ears.
Namie just stared in shock.
Only Luna Sea were throwing out audible comments.
"Ha~! See, my songs are sappier than theirs!!" Ryuichi hissed out in J's general direction.
J, Shinya and Inoran watched, transfixed.
"What a f$&ked up band." J observed. Shinya nodded in agreement, "If we ever tried to have such a dramatic sound change as that our fans would have our heads!" (*coughs* ^^;)
Sugizo ignored all the comments, still making *oog-oog* noises at Ryuichi.
Sayaka and Tamori hung their heads and wondered what they had done to deserve having to interview Luna Sea more than once a year.

*****

As the guitar solo for BMSM started, Darren dropped to his knees in front of Daniel, bobbing his head up and down with the beat. (ahhhh~!!! the visual!!! *faints*)

"GGGYYYYYYYYAAAAAA~!!!" @___________@ The slasher Slave girls squealed with delight. They would have to scour the doujinshi shops for this foreign group tomorrow! (authors' note: if you know of any SG doujinshi that exist tell us~!!! Pllleaasseeeeee~! *gets down on knees and begs*)

Darren rose from his position in front of Daniel's guitar as he belted out "Break me, shake me, take me over~!!"

The audience squealed loudly, delighted with this "new" yaoi couple they've discovered!

*****

The 5 Luna Sea men (appologies to our friend Naru ^^;;) watched, a grudging respect growing for this foreign band and an even greater sense of annoyance at being upstaged by 2 wanna-be rocker poseurs.

*****

~~Epilogue~~
(the next day)

Back at the Luna Sea mansion:
*SLAM* Sugi raced into the living room, madly waving a little doujinshi in his hand.
"Look at this!!" the eccentric guitarist yelled, "that..that.. POP duo's taken over the 'hot titles' in all the local doujinshi stores!!" >_<
"Oh Sugi, don't worry, they're just a passing fad, before you know it we'll be back on top" Ryu reassured the frantic man. ^^
"Really..??"
"Really."
"Oh monkichi~!!" *huggles*
"Sugi~" *killer eyes*
*XXX*

"That's it, I'm leaving!" J yelled and stalked off to the general direction of the nearest pub, Ino following him closely behind. Shinya rolled his eyes and went to his room to listen to his latest Morning Musume cd.

Meanwhile D&D went to explore the city:
"Harajuku" called out the PA system in the railcar.
"That's our stop Jonesy."
Daniel nodded and held onto Darren's hand as they fought their way out of the crowded station.

"WOW." Both men stared in awe as they strolled down Takeshita Dori.
"Uh.. Dan.. did we just land into goth central?"
Daniel was about to answer as a group of 5 crossdressing teenage boys in evening gowns, all chained together, passed by the pair of foreigners.
"Darren.. I'm scared."