Leaves of warm hues swirled through the cool, crisp air. Right in the middle of Tokyo situated a famous and posh bookshop, "Tokyo's Souls", which carried a wide variety of books and a cyber café, frequented mostly by teenagers and young adults. Two excited school girls came out of the bookshop, exiting the heavy oak double door with the twinkling of bells echoing throughout the place.
Two elated school girls came out of the bookshop, embracing two identical pastel colour books to their chests, "Just Across" printed on the covers.
"Ah! I am so happy! I can finally travel with Sasuke-sama through his world! Even though this book is based on shounen-ai, demo, the love is so pure and sweet and like all his other books ending in a beautiful yet sad tragedy. I always cry at the ending. Sigh... "
"It is so hard to get his books, with them being sold out everywhere! He sold one million copies in just one day, I should preorder like the others. How I wish to see in person, he writes so well and not to mention, very handsome too. Sasuke-sama is the special guest for channel 21 evening news, have to go home and catch the program!"
"Oh...Sasuke-sama..." both girls sighed dreamily, plaited skirts flattering standing in the breeze under a maple tree as they drifted from into fantasy land filled with one Sasuke-sama.
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(Television program)
A young lady with two long tied up blond hair of ponytails and a young man with a peculiar fondness of having a needle in his mouth, sat behind a wooden polished table in neat office clothing, the backdrop giving a sense of class.
"Welcome to channel 21, this is Tokyo Rush's evening news, time being 6.30pm sharp," the lady spoke politely.
"I am Tsunade."
"I am Genma."
"We are your hosts for tonight news program."
"Due to certain death threats from public..." Tsunade shuddered from memories of the earlier calls the media studio had received. "We decided to bring forward the special guest segment."
"Today, we have with us, famous novelist, Uchiha Sasuke-san about having one of his novels made into a movie. Let's welcome him," Genma added.
The studio and Tokyo immediately erupted into enthusiastic applause. Fan girls and guys squealed and shrieked with excitement and admiration, gazing at the television screen with star-struck eyes.
A dark shadow at the side of the studio walked in long confident strides into the light, towards the plush chair in the middle between the two news casters, facial features devoid of any emotions, wearing an expression of coldness. His sharp features, pale skin, dark midnight blue hair framed his face complementing his pale complexion and ebony eyes made him into a very handsome man with a slight tint of feminism.
He was stylishly donned in long sleeve dark blue sweater and ankle length black jeans with a black long coat with sliver trimmings, ending slightly below the ankle.
"Konbanwa.", Tsunade directed to the man settling himself into the chair. The man gave a nod to acknowledge the greeting.
The man's gaze swept over the studio before starting.
"Konbanwa, I am Uchiha Sasuke which I am sure all of you known already, recently written the work "Love from Next Door". My appearance on tonight show is to announce that my newest novel being made into a movie, with me taking on the role as Reiji and the role of Yutaka is opened to only those fitting the descriptions of him in the book, basically, blond spiky hair, cerulean eyes and of the male gender. All candidates for the role will be interviewed by director, Kakashi, then by me. No nonsense will be tolerated by me as the movie will consist of intimate moments with Reiji and Yutaka, of the shounen-ai genre. That's all, I am hoping to have overwhelming response from the public. Thank you."
With that, he stood up, bowed, promptly leaving the studio.
"Ah...how interesting, I am sure that all blond hair dyes and blue contact lenses will be sold out don't you think so Genma?"
"Yeah, well hurry now and try out for the role of Yutaka which promised many really romantic moments with the most handsome yet worst attitude man in the whole of Japan. To sign up for the interview, please fill up the form on and you may have a chance to be on the silver screen."
"Let's proceed on with the other news Genma."
"Right, producer, Umino Iruka of the rising new pop music band the 'NINS' had announced this morning at the press conference to anticipate the debut album of the band next year autumn. For more information on the uprising new band please look up . He apologized for the delay as the band is engaged into music making for Uchiha Sasuke first movie mentioned earlier. With two popular groups contributing to the movie, we can surely look forward to the movie."
"Yes, now we will proceed to other issues. Weather forecasters all over Japan had predicted the worst storm ever in Japan, bringing widespread damage, therefore please do the necessary precautions and keep updated about the time the storm most likely will strike..."
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The world outside the TV studio broke into a flurry of activities, mostly of fan boys with a few girls wanting to push their luck, rushing to supermarkets, shopping malls, and department stores to grab yellow hair dye and blue contact lenses, shoving their way through hordes of people to reach optician and hair care stores.
A young man of 19, walked along a familiar path through the park near the TV studio. With spiky blond hair and cerulean eyes, he approached a drink vending machine at a corner under a wooden shelter, oblivious to all around him, even the quaking announcement just made at the TV studio.
He inserted the money and pressed the cocoa drink button. Instantly, the Lucky column lighted up and flashed, instead of one, two cans of warm cocoa drink came out of the machine. Usually when this happened, he would be very elated, sharing his drink with his best friend Shikamaru. However, this evening with no one to share the drink with, it added to the sense of loneliness he had felt all day.
He sat down on a bench beside the machine, placing the cans carefully beside him, looking out at the deserted park seemingly in deep thought. He pulled out a notebook engraved with the words Uzumaki Naruto along the spine, he took out a pen, flipped to a blank page and put down his feelings into words in the notebook given to him by a person who was both his producer and father figure at the start of his music career.
The black pen danced across the page.
Sitting alone on this chilly night,
Nothing I do seem to be right.
Wearing a mask throughout the day wishing,
That round the corner will be someone special waiting.
The young man looked up from the page, tapping his pen against his chin, placing the notebook on the bench and picked up the can, pulling away the tab and taking a long sip.
He glanced at watch for a moment, and then returns his gaze to the watch's face. He stood up and rushed off, the can of cocoa in hand. Halfway through, he stopped suddenly, smacked his own forehead then ran back towards the shelter he had just evacuated.
He slowed down when he saw a tall and dark forbidding figure picking up his notebook, eyes scanning across the page he had just written on.
He felt entranced, before venturing bravely forward towards the figure.
"Erm... may I have my note book back?"
Then he remembered about the extra can of cocoa, he picked up the can and offered it to the dark figure.
"Would you like to have this drink? I was lucky and got an extra can."
The dark figure walked into the light, handing the book back to the young man. The young man realized that he possessed a sort of ethereal beauty, midnight blue hair framing a pale face with sharp features and piercing ebony eyes covered partially by his long bangs.
"I don't like warm drinks."
The tall figure inserted coins into the machine and pressed the button for an iced lemon tea.
"Demo, it is so cold tonight, don't you...'
"I dislike warmth and your lyric is of preschool standard. You shouldn't be writing a love song if you are not capable of it, baka. A no talent dobe. You should just give up on this."
"Y-Y-You, I don't even know you, who are you to insult me!"
The tall raven haired beauty gave a grunt of annoyance and left the shelter.
"Chotto matte! You haven't answered my question!" The young man called after the figure urgently.
"You weren't as lucky as you said you were."
And with that, the figure walked away, slowly becoming a dark speck in the distance.
The young man collapsed onto the ground, tear drops staining the ground.
"He knew...h-he saw through my mask...h-he un-understood..."
The unopened can of warm cocoa fell from his grasp, slowly turning cold in the chilly air.
