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Kato: Welcome to Tokyo This Morning. I'm your host, Kato Fukujima. Today, we feature a very special guest, one, along with colleague Chiaki Nozomi, that has revived the culture of kogals, as well as the author of a number of well-known poetry projects. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm Tokyo This Morning welcome to Long Beach, California's Jo-Ryan Salazar!

JoJo: Thank you very much, Kato-chan. I'm delighted to be here.

Kato: Jo-Ryan, everyone knows about you poetry and prose collection based on the series GALS!, and are also raving about your fan fiction, "The Platform Surfers." Please tell me a little bit about these two works in the making, will you?

JoJo: Yes, Kato-chan. The poetry collection is called "Shibuya Poetry," and has some poems on many of the top characters in GALS!, but a good amount is on Ran Kotobuki, that dastardly kogal who rights the wrongs in Shibuya-ku, and packs a ferocious punch. *laugh* And "The Platform Surfers" is about the main characters collaborating on creating a surf rock band that naturally knows how to make the audiences feel good. In addition, Ayumi's spirit is enveloped in Ran, and this makes things a bit testy.

Kato: Yeesh. So Ayumi is dead, right?

JoJo: Oh, no, no, no. She is alive. She just got trapped in Ran's body, causing a fit of unconventional reactions, that cause some chaos among the dissidents, in humble speak.

Kato: *laugh* Yes, and Jo-Ryan, you also have a couple of other non-GALS! Projects, correct?

JoJo: Mm-hmmm. I have a running poetry collective on the unlikely, yet likely couple of Sonic the Hedgehog and Amy Rose of SEGA fame in "The Blue And The Pink," while I also have a one-shot-timer collective of sports poems and the like in "Citius, Altius, Fortius, Ludicris." *laugh* I just had to rub that in, only because it rhymes.

Kato: *laugh* Do you get paid for this?

JoJo: No, but it wouldn't hurt if I did. *laugh*

Kato: You seem to idolize your fellow GALS! Author, Chiaki Nozomi. Tell me more about him.

JoJo: Sure. Chiaki-kun is a natural when it comes to writing. His well-written GALS! Saga, "Forever," has a special, earthy, mature tone, something that I personally wish would be in a GALS! Movie, if there would be one. Also, he created a touching two-chapter Christmas special. Very fresh. He's just a natural when it comes to writing fan fiction. He's…just one to read.

Kato: I see. Jo-Ryan, are there any future plans concerning your writing, any thoughts, perks, flames?

JoJo: At this point, I'll take some time off from the Platform Surfers, and the other projects. Lately, I've been reading some stuff from this hip manga called "Chobits." It's by CLAMP, and it features this character named Chii, a persocon. Now, as you know, a persocon is a computer that is in the form of a person, usually female. So, I'm pondering to myself, how about I create a GALS!/Chobits crossover? It wouldn't hurt. So, right now, it's in the developmental stages, but it's coming around. I haven't put my other works to rest. I plan to continue adding more chapters to my current pieces.

Kato: Thank you, Jo-Ryan, for your time. Jo-Ryan Salazar, minna-san.

JoJo: Thank you. *applause*

*end interview*
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I really wanted to put Aya or Miyu as the persocon, but I decided to let to those three stay intact, since it would be insane. Since Yuuya plays the lecher whenever he is with Ran, or with any gal, I'm going to make Mamirin the persocon (Mami: Why, you bastard…*laughs*), and I'll see where it goes from here. Please review for any suggestions. Assuming that Ran has no rivals…except maybe Harue, but that's Miyu's matter. Damn! Ran-pyon got it easy…or does she? *evil laugh* Also, a persocon's eyes seem without a face, IMHO (damn Billy Aidoru), so, hence da title.
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Eyes Without A Face
Chapter 1

"Just my luck," said Yuuya, looking at his recent test score. Meishou Daiichi High School, of all place to have his education. Toudai seems very far away, he thought. 43 out of 100 in the recent exam. Such misfortune. He put a hand on his hair in frustration. Why is it always like this, he said to himself. At this point, even getting to the worst university in all of Japan seems like a distant memory.

"What's wrong, Yuuya?" Rei asked, looking at his test. 92 out of 100, sweet.

"I'm the second-best looking hunk in the nation, and my grades can't back me up!" he cried. "Oh, Rei, I feel like a complete jackass!" He bawled hysterically, sobbing, sobbing, even slobbering…

"Disgusting, Yuuya," he said with a blank expression. "Don't cry. It's only the first exam. We're like, in our second year here. It's only your first bad test. They'll usually throw stuff like that out."

"Yeah, but only one test. If you blow another, you're dead meat!" He was now on his knees, still bawling. "I don't want to get kicked out of this schoooooooool!!!!! Please, Rei, help me?"

"Yuuya, I've tried to help you with your work many times over, but you get cocky and say, 'I can do this myself, I can do that myself.' You're such a brat, Yuuya. Hell, you're even buying some dirty magazines, and even rubbing your you-know-what to them."

"DON'T SAY THINGS LIKE THAT!!!" Now everyone was looking at Yuuya as if he was some alien from the black hole of doom. "Ah, sorry…"

"Asou…" said his teacher, wearing an impatient expression.

"Oh, sorry, Mochi-sen," he said.

"It's not Mochi-sen, it's Mochizuki-sensei! First you come in here a nanosecond late, then you have the nerve to talk with your friend about Anna Nicole Smith…good gravy, what's wrong with you today, Asou!!?"

"Um, nothing, sir? I mean, I was just chatting about girls, and then I was chatting about computers, and about comics, and about this, and that, and this, and that, and-"

"DO YOUR CHITCHATTING AT HOME!!!" Mochizuki-sensei yelled, before calming down, then said, "Answer this, Asou. In the Imperial family household, a prince can marry any commoner woman that he wants. If the child is a girl, what will happen when that girl marries?"

"Hmmm, lessee, marries, marries, marries…oh, I got it! The dynasty will continue!"

"Wh-what!?"

"If the princess marries, she's going to continue the dynasty, and a whole new Japanese household is going to rule! YEAH BABY, I GOT IT RIGHT! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!"

Mochizuki whapped Yuuya with a large book. "Take this seriously, you bum!" he snarled. "I've had it. How about you, Otohata?"

"If the girl marries, she will lose her entire status as a member of the Imperial household, government stipend and passport, and so forth." His no-nonsense answer swept a wave of "OOOOOOOHHH!" from the class.

"Mm-hmmm, correct. A perfect answer from the most famous student in the class. Now why can't you be a bit more like him, hmmm?" He caught Yuuya reading Playboy Magazine again, drooling, to boot. "Hey! Stop reading those dirty magazines!!!!"

*****

"Hey, look at this!" said one of Yuuya's friends, turning on his notebook computer. Out popped a small, cute-looking doll that moved.

"What's that, Jun?" he asked.

"It's my mini-persocon Minamori!" exclaimed Jun.

"Minamori? What's a persocon?" replied Yuuya, drooling, while Rei read War And Peace.

"Well, a persocon is a computer that has the shape of a girl, and it can do wonders for you. You ask whatever you want, and she does it. Minamori, tell us the date and time." Minamori did a little dance while both waited. "This means she is processing the information," Jun explained.

"Jun, today is 13 April 1999. Time is 9:13 Japan time," said Minamori.

"This is now the trend for every ikemen!" said Jun gleefully. "Having a persocon shows your status and pride of being a modern-day ikemen!" He said this with a wink.

"I want…I WANT ONE TOO!!!" he yelled, waving his arms. "I want, I want, I want!! I'd want it more if it was at no cost! But I really want one!"

"He's really into it isn't he?" asked a fellow friend of Yuuya.

"Hideki, Yuuya is obsessed over stuff like persocons more than anyone else I know."

"What's going on here?" asked Rei with a snort. "Huh?"

"Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme!!" He yanked Minamori away from Jun, and the two began a tug-of-war. "Gimme, gimme, gimme!"

"No, no, no!" said Jun!

"Gimme, gimme, gimme!"

"No, no, no!!!"

"He's trying to yank it away," said Hideki.

"Looks like Yuuya is just not his cool self today," said Rei, letting out a sigh of disgust. "Just not himself…"

*****
After school, Yuuya and Rei had to do three interviews in three different locations around Shibuya. They were very long and tedious, but they were made easy by the fact that one interview required 15 questions, another 10, and the last 5. Once the last interview had been finished, Rei and Yuuya went to a coffee shop.

"Goddammit, I want a persocon badly," said Yuuya, tears forming in his eyes. "I want it so badly, I want it!!"

"Easy, Yuuya," said Rei. "Two Venti Café Mochas, iced, chop-chop?"

The waiter left to created the drink. "My misfortune," said Yuuya. "I basically used all my money on that new VPR Matrix computer, now I don't have any more, WAAAAAAHHHHH!" Rei just shook his head.

"Look, you shouldn't be worrying about perso-whatever those are. You should worry about whether or not you'll be able to pass the next exam in July, man. On top of that, you need to stop buying all those magazines of naked women in G-strings and what-not. Hey, are you listening to me?"

"Understood," Yuuya whimpered.

"Hey, you guys!" said Ran is a singsong voice, coming with her friends Aya and Miyu. "Number 2, how are you?"

"Fine, Ran-chan." he said.

Suddenly Ran took the cup of café mocha and began to sip it. "I'm so thirsty…oooh! Is this café mocha? Give it to me!"

"Waaaaaaahhhh! Hey, Rei, you friggin bastard. You let Ran drink yours, and not mines!? Dayum, with all those indirect kisses! God!"

"Huh. It's always like this," said Rei. "Ran, why are you drinking my coffee?"

"I am?" she said naively.

"So, what are you two doing anyway?' asked Miyu to the two guys. "Reviewing test material?"

"That, and something else. Actually," said Rei, "Yuuya's thinking about buying this thing called a persocon. Whatever that is, I think that's a waste of money. But he says everyone's now using it. I still think it's a waste."

"Persocon?" questioned Aya. "I've heard about that stuff before, but I've never actually seen what a persocon looks like. I bet it's cute looking, though," she said with a giggle.

"Not on your life. You're cuter that any persocon I'll ever see, Aya-chan."

"Oh, Otohata-kun…" She swooned into Rei's arms, and slept.

"Oh, with the dramatics again? Sheesh," groaned Ran unflinchingly.
*****
Later that day, everyone left, and Yuuya slowly walked back to his apartment.

"My misfortune. I really want a persocon…" he said to himself. He passed by a shop, where at the window, there was a display of persocons. He saw the price, though… "100,000 yen!? There's no way I can afford something like that…" He trudged back on the route home, a lonely, stoic figure among shadows.

Suddenly, he saw a figure lying in an alley. It was wrapped in bandage, and its eyes were closed. It had medium-long, blond hair, and rather seductive-looking eyebrows. "Kinda like Ran's, but it looks dead…big ears…" he thought. "Wait a minute…is this a PERSOCON!!? And nobody's decided to take it!? Hoo-eee! For real! I'm gonna take this home!" He grabbed the persocon, slung it around his shoulders, and took it home.

*****

"But it looks dead, though," Yuuya said, putting his backpack and the persocon down. "I don't know why it has been in the trash. Just ridiculous…heavy, too."

He then touched the cheek of the persocon lightly. "Strange, it has the feel of a young, regular girl, so cute and sugary, and pure-hearted…no, maybe this is a new model, they just scrapped this thing, forgotten, kaput. Now, where is the switch?"
Yuuya looked everywhere, only to realize that he looked down at the persocon's crotch, he saw the switch, still wrapped in bandages. In an instant he freaked out. "What the f…NO WAY! In there!? Dammit, whoever created this thing must have had a sick mind. But, then again…I have a sick mind too…aw shit, I gotta stop looking at those dirty magazines. Shit!" He gathered his mind together, and with composure, turned on the switch in the crotch.

All of a sudden, the bandaged covering her remove themselves, and the persocon becomes a nude figure, not unlike a Venus…Her eyes were brown, yet blank, and has a silent, reserved expression. "Ma…mi…mami…" the persocon said.

"Huh? Mami?" asked Yuuya. "Your name is Mami?"

At that moment, the persocon jumped on Yuuya and laid on top of him, pinning him down to the ground. "Mami," it said happily.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god…" Yuuya said crazily. "Is it just me, or is it by an act of God that I've DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN!!?" He pondered this, still pinned to the ground by the persocon, blushing, and laughing a bit, rather in embarrassment. It seemed that he was going to probably get a few more wet dreams tonight, without delay.

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End Chapter 1.
So, what do y'all think?
Review, but don't give me a bad rap, cause I'll knock you silly for that! And I mean it.