The streets of Fukuoka were busy, women's heels clicking on the pavement, and angry buisnessmen on their cellular phones shouting vigourously. A woman with long flowing red hair struts the sidewalk as if she was on the runway. Her eyes covered by designer sunglasses, her vera wang stilettos hit the street with a consistent rhythm. School boys stare in awe and girls squeel tapping their cells frantically, texting and snapping quick photos.

"Is that Mai?"

"OH MY GAWD! IT'S MAI HITSUYA!"

"Is that who I think it is? Why isn't she in Tokyo?"

They would say as she passed, Mai only smirked as she heard the catcalls and the hushed whispers. She makes her way to a revolving door and stops for a moment glaring at her watch and looking out into the busy street as if she was looking for someone.

"Mai?" A familiar voice came from behind the red-headed celebrity. She turns around removing her glasses, she looks at the woman. Her hair was shorter and dark...as usual, but she knew who she was. Mai smiled and embraced her with a warm hug.

"I've missed you Tyo!" Mai said still hugging her.

Mai lets go of her and smiles at her, "You look good!" Mai says looking Tyoko up and down. Tyoko smirks rolling her eyes, "Yea, ok!" Tyoko scoffs.

Mai slips her sunglasses back on, "Yea, I know I look better! But, what are you going to do about that?" Mai says playfully, wrapping her arm around Tyoko walking to the revolving doors. Tyoko laughs, "You haven't changed Mai!"

"Ya think I would? PFFFT!" Mai grins at Tyoko walking inside the doors, Tyoko smiles shaking her head following in after her.

***

"LIGHTS!.....CAMERA!.....And here we go!" The director shouted. The photographer begins snapping pictures, "Yea! Very good poses! Gimme a more innocent seduction look!.......YEA! THAT'S IT!"

The photographer stops for a moment, "Ok! Is he here?" he asks one of the producers, she nods and puts a radio near her mouth, "We're ready for Jin now." Jin walks onto the set in nothing but a pair of loose jeans on. He walks over to the photographer, "Ok, we need you for this shoot! Just jump in there Jin!"

Jin looks over at the set, there lied a very pretty young girl...hair gold like the sun and skin white like milk. Jin felt a little uncomfortable and looked over at the photographer, Jin stutters for a second, "T..t..thats..." Oh god, not that weeaboo, he thought.

"NIKORU!!!" The photographer shouted! "Japan's hottest and newest hip hop artist!" he goes on and on...but steps closer to Jin to whisper something to him, "Isn't she a hottie?" Jin blinks at him and looks over at Nikoru. The photographer let out a hearty laugh, "She's the new Tyoko!" Jin grits his teeth, thinking, Good luck trying to take HER place.

"Hey? Jin! Jump in there with her! We didn't ask for Tokyo's hottes model for nothing!" Jin gets into the photoshoot with the new celebrity. The photographer putting the couple into a few risky positions...then an hour later the photographer shouts, "AND THAT'S A WRAP!"

Jin walk over to his dressing room grabbing a shirt, "Hey Jin?" a soft sweet voice comes from his doorway. Jin turns around with him still undressed....

Nikoru stands there smiling, "It was a fun photoshoot!" Jin grimaced politely at her, hoping to get away before having to talk to her, but she walked over to him and continued looking at him, as if her eyes were going to devour him.

"I'm hopping we have more photoshoots together..." Jin smiled at her trying to think of something poliete, "Um..eh yea Nikoru-" she cuts him off, "Nik, call me Nik, all my friends do." she said seductively rubing his chair with her finger in circles. Jin rolled his eyes at her, but she didn't seem to notice or care.

"Nikoru! We're outta here in five!" one of the directors said to her, she nodded, "Well..." she said looking up at him with a sly smirk, "I had a great time with you today Jin...later?" She sweeps her hand over his slowly and made her way out of his dressing room.

Jin wasn't exactly sure what it was about Nikoru that bothered him so much. It wasn't so much the over-the-top flirting, he was used to that with younger models and his fans, but maybe it's that VOICE he thought, shuddering. He remembered when Nikoru had first moved to Japan, as he'd bumped into her at the Red Lotus.

He remembered how she bragged to him that she was becoming an "idol", and how he wanted to brush her off but Mai had asked him to "play nice" with her. The most he could manage was a grimace that was supposed to be a smile. Jin flushed with horror as he saw her walk into his agency months ago. Luckily, she wasn't signed with them, but remembered her posing with her fingers in her polaroids.

Trying to remember that he was young and foolish at the start of his career, too, he gritted his teeth and got dressed.

"Soon enough, everyone will forget about her, dear god," Jin thought.

***

"So, Tyo? What's been going on with ya?" Mai said with a mouth full of noodles.

Tyoko took a sip of her peach tea, "Nothing really...same pretty much. Anything new with you? How's you and Jin?"

Mai dropped her chopsticks down and took a sip from her wine glass...Tyoko looked at her confused..."I didn't say anything wrong did I?" Mai shook her head, and rested her head on her hand looking out the window. Tyoko took a bite from her plate waiting on Mai, "Do you not want to talk about it?"

Mai chuckles, "There's really nothing to talk about Tyo..." she takes another sip from her glass.

"What do you mean?" Tyoko asked, "What are you hiding?"

"What I mean is that the world is full of prissy little wannabe bitches that need to back the fuck off," Mai said still looking out the window.

Tyoko eyes widdened, "Huh? What happened?" Mai smacks her lips and sips her wine again, "There's a new model on the scene, and she wants to be Japanese." Mai said with no hesitation. "Not only that, she said at a press conference recently that she's happy to fill 'the great Tyoko-senpai's shoes' that she's seeing Jin." Tyoko sat there with not knowing what to say....

"Oh...wow..." Tyoko wipes her mouth with a napkin, "Is...that true? She thinks she can replace me? Is Jin seeing her?"

"HA!" Mai grimaced and pursed her lips, "Hell no. He can't stand her. He's tempted to bring our relationship out to the public but his agency won't let him. Your mom runs a tight ship."

"Oh god," Tyoko asked, "You guys actually ASKED her about it?"

Mai's face suddenly became dark, as if remembering some violent argument, "Yep. Your mother is alot of FUN."

"So what happ-" Mai cuts her off, "SO! When you coming back home? Alot of people are missing you! It's been two months..." Mai said abruptly.

"Oh...um...I've been looking to coming back at the end of this week! Tyoko replies.

"GREAT! I will be there to pick you up!" Mai says with a smile.

Tyoko smiles also, "Looking forward to it!"

What Tyoko didn't tell Mai is that she wasn't planning to get back to Tokyo so soon. But hearing that another young model was trying to steal her spot made her curious. Even if she didn't go back to modeling, she thought, Tokyo was about to get much more interesting...