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“Nanase Riku faked ratings for his radio show?” Riku was surprised on seeing that headline, it has been a while since he has gotten into a scandal, he wanted to scroll more but he promised Iori that he won’t see these things on Rabbitwitter. Riku felt a pang of guilt in his heart, he knew that the PR team and his manager would be working overtime to get of this scandal. He set aside his phone and walked out of the room for a change of pace when he stepped out, he saw all his friends crouching over something in the living room.
“What is everyone looking at?” Riku asked curiously he expected an answer from somebody or perhaps they would scoot a bit so he could peer down on what was intriguing but what he didn’t expect was the startled jerk from his friends as they quickly made haste to hide whatever they were seeing.
“Riku are you hungry? I made your favourite bear pancakes” Mitsuki didn’t wait for Riku’s response and pushed him to take a seat on the chair. Riku’s attention was immediately drawn towards the pancakes, he forgot about the strange incident and took a big bite of the pancake.. He let out a small delighted squeal
“Thank you Mitsuki your Pancakes are always tasty!”
“Thank you Riku”
He was so happy eating and enjoying his pancakes that he had failed to notice the scrutinising looks that were directed at him.
While he was almost halfway down he realised that he was the only one eating he paused his eating and looked up from his plate, he beckoned the others to take a seat, they looked reluctant but took a seat next and started eating. The atmosphere was a bit awkward but Riku just chalked it up to everyone being tired from a day’s hard work. Riku helped Mitsuki take the dishes to the sink while Sogou helped him wash it. The idols heard the door bell ring.
“I’ll go get it!” Riku opened it and saw that it was their manager
“Manager-san!” He smiled, Tsumugi returned it with a stiff smile of her own. “I have come to pick you all up for your gig”
“Ah! That’s right I’ll go and call everyone”
“Ri-“ Riku didn’t wait and ran back to the hallway “Everyone! Manager is here to pick us up”
The group acknowledged and got ready putting on their jackets, Riku donned on his hoodie and met with the group in the hallway but Tsumugi stopped him “Riku-san” she looked at him apologetic “You don’t have to come today”
“Eh?” Riku was confused, he was sure today was a modelling shoot with all the member of Idolish7. He wasn’t aware that the plan was changed why didn’t anybody inform it he wondered “Why not manager?”
“T-tha-“
“Are you seriously asking because you don’t know!” Tamaki growled startling him, Riku wasn’t sure why Tamaki was being so hostile towards him all of a sudden.
“Tama” Yamato placed a hand on his shoulder placating the younger, he whispered something in his ears which effectively calmed him down.
“Riku” Yamato looked at Riku his face was blank but Riku caught a glimpse of disapproval flashing through them “You need to look at Rabi twitter”
“Eh but Iori told me-”
“Look at it” Iori interrupted Riku “If what she said is true then I have really poor eyesight’’ he muttered to himself which all the members heard except for Riku. The others kept quiet an unsettling feeling had set in Riku’s stomach he felt that his friends, his groupmates were all going far away from him.
“Take care Riku-san” Tsumugi closed the door, Riku had failed to realise that the others didn’t say their goodbyes to him. Riku was worried he sat on the couch and went through Rabbi twitter and what he saw made his eye widen.
Idolish7 centre a true villain: Revealed to have manipulated fans to do his misdeeds
Sabotaged fellow colleagues to get on top – from inside sources
Get out Nanase Riku!
The bane of the entertainment world
Riku felt that it was getting harder for him to breathe, he dashed to his room and rummaged through the drawers trying to find his inhaler,, his eyes were blurry and he was trying to find it all using his feeling when he felt the familiar hard cylinder, he pulled it out blindly and shoved it in his mouth and took a deep breath. After a few agonising minutes his breath had slowly steadied but his hands were still trembling.
“Is this what they meant?..dont tell me they believe this?..no they wouldn’t we have been through so much…this cant destroy our bond” he muttered to himself
“They wouldn’t abandon me..would they?”