Konichiwa mina-san. You know, I am really liking some of the ideas you guys are pitching me for the story. And it is just making things better and better. Keep up with the input guys, I greatly appreciate it.

Bzzzt! Bzzzt! Bzzzt! Honoka's alarm clock buzzed away that morning trying to get Honoka to wake up. "Eh?" Honoka groaned as she groped around the top of her drawers until she hit the clock. "Mmm….just five more minutes…." Honoka began dozing off to sleep again before she was interrupted by her cell phone. She reached over the side of her bed and picked it up. "What is it?" Honoka asked, yawning.

"Oi, Honoka-chan. Are you still sleeping?" Umi's voice blared out from the other end.

"Oh hi Umi-chan," Honoka said rubbing her eyes, "What do you want?"

"Don't tell me you forgot already." Umi scolded from the other end, "We have out photo shoots today for that magazine. It starts in one hour!"

"EH?!" Honoka swung back to look at her clock. It read 8:30. "Oh no! Sorry Umi-chan." Honoka cried as she lept out of bed, "I'm sorry I forgot, but I'll see you there!" Honoka snapped her phone shut and raced into the bathroom. After getting brushing her teeth and getting dressed, Honoka went downstairs to take something to eat on the way out.

"Wait Honoka-chan what's the hurry?" Honoka's mom asked as she ran out the door.

"Photo shoot!" Honoka yelled back, "I'm gonna be late!" She ran as fast as she could to get to the train station on time and board the train for downtown.

30 minutes later.

Umi tapped her foot while constantly glancing down at her watch. The rest of the u's girls sat on benches as they all waited for Honoka to show up. "If she is late, I swear I'm gonna…" Umi said gritting her teeth.

"Um calm down Umi-chan." Kotori said trying to calm her friend down, "I'm sure Honoka wouldn't let us down."

"Hey everyone, she's here!" Rin called out. Sure enough, the girls could see Honoka panting and running up the street.

"Sorry everyone." Honoka apologized between gasps of air. "I completely forgot about this." Eri sighed,

"Well at least you're here on time." She said turning towards the door of a big building, "Come on, they're waiting for us." The rest of u's followed suit.

Inside the lobby, they were greeted by the magazine's representative who directed them over to a changing room on the second floor. "Your outfits are hung up in order of the photos we're going to take." She said, "So don't worry about not knowing which one to wear. Be sure to be at studio 2C as soon as you change." With that the woman left the room.

"Alright everyone let's hurry it up." Eri said as the girls quickly changed and went for studio 2C.

After a morning of photos and various different sets of clothes, the girls collapsed onto a couch, exhausted.

"I'm wiped out…" Kotori groaned,

"Yeah who knew this would be so tiring?" Honoka complained as she reached for a bottle of water.

"Hmph you two are weak," Nico bragged haughtily, "Any good idol should be ready for stuff like this."

"Didn't you almost pass out halfway in?" Maki asked.

"That's irrelevant!" Nico cried back, slightly turning red.

"Hey where's Hanayo-chan?" Rin asked looking up.

"I think she's talking with the photographer." Eri replied, "They're supposed to be having a discussion on which photos to use on the poster that's going to come with the magazine."

"I hope she picks some good ones." Umi said, "She better not pick the one of all of us in those cat outfits, I wouldn't be able to handle the embarrassment."

Meanwhile in the back room in the studio

"Ooo the neko one looks good." Hanayo said pointing to the one of members of u's dressed as cats, "And I think that this one should go on there too." She said referring to the photo of u's wearing white sundresses. "They look perfect."

"Thank you Hanayo-chan." Thanked the photographer, "These are going to look great in next month's issue."

"Oh it's no problem," Hanayo said, "And I was wondering, could I get a copy of the photos from today?"

"Sure no problem," The photographer said, "I'll consider it as your payment for helping us."

"Oh thank you, can you put them into my camera then?" Hanayo asked holding up her metallic pink camera.

"Yeah that will work." The photographer plugged Hanayo's camera into the computer and within minutes had copied all of the photos into the camera's memory card.

"Thank you." Hanayo said as she left the room. As she walked back to the rest of her friends, Hanayo looked through the photos. "These are so cute." Hanayo mused to herself as she flipped through the rest of the pictures.

Later that day

"Hanayo-chan, it's dinner time. Come downstairs."

"Ok mother." Hanayo called back, "Just let me upload these pictures onto my blog." Hanayo plugged her camera in and typed into the new post box, "Hey everyone, these are from u's photo shoot from today. Some of these are going to be in next month's magazine issue so look out for it." Then she clicked the "Transfer All" button and the computer began uploading the photos. "Coming mother." Hanayo called as she left the room. Unbeknownst to Hanayo, the camera was uploading all of the photos from its memory card, and the last one to go up was a photo of a certain couple kissing in a classroom, before the screen flashed "Upload complete."

Alright that's it for this chapter, and things are taking an unexpected turn now ;). Special thanks to Major Mike Powell III for the photo leak idea. So until next time, have a nice day.