Chapter 6
Forget About It


"Hello!" Aiba greeted every crew he met as he and the rest of Arashi went into the dining hall of the hotel where they were staying. First nights are always spend having dinner with the whole staff and crew to the hotel where the idols are staying.

"Let's eat Arashi!" One of their choreographers invited.

"Yeah, can't wait. We've been dancing our asses off, we're quite hungry." Sho said.

"I'm really hungry..." Ohno dragged Aiba with him as they headed to the buffet table.

"How's the foot Jun-kun?" Sho asked Jun. The three Arashi left by Ohno and Aiba, already picked a table as they brought their duffel bags with them. From the concert venue, they headed straight to the hotel to have their dinner. They still have a Mago Mago episode to shoot tonight and fortunately, the episode will all just be talking and does not require to go to other places or to do tasks. They were pretty exhausted after the extensive rehearsal they made a while ago, practicing so many new dance steps that their choreographer and Ohno taught them.

"Fine, it wasn't that bad." Matsumoto replied while pinching his foot.

"Told you. You're still breathing so that's got to be good." Nino stretched out his arms and put his hands at the back of his head as he leaned into his seat.

"Shut up Nino. You were the one who looked like an idiot when you tripped in front of Jenisha making you, Riida and Aiba fall into my sore foot." Matsumoto rolled his eyes at him.

Nino's heart jumped when Jun mentioned Jenisha's name. His eyes automatically searched for her in the dining hall and saw her talking with some crew and with their male back-up dancers.

"Good evening!" Aiba greeted the people on Jenisha's table while holding his plate full of food.

"Hello, Aiba." Jenisha grinned and gave Aiba a high-five.

"Aren't you going to eat?" Ohno asked her who also slapped her palm.

"In a while, the line is starting to shorten though. I'll be up in a minute."

"There's Jenisha." Matsumoto pointed to the table where Aiba and Ohno were standing.

"Hi Jenisha!" Sho waved at her when she turned to look at the Arashi table. Jenisha also waved at them and let her gaze passed across Nino.

"Come sit with us!" Nino suddenly exclaimed. Jenisha's eyes immediately went back to Nino the moment that she heard him said that.

What the...did he just...?

Jenisha's mouth almost hanged open when Nino talked to her but forced a smile with a combination of a small frown on her eyebrows.

Did I just...? Dammit! I have to normalize things between the two of us! Nino thought.

He noticed that Jenisha became awkward because of his unexpected invitation and turned to grin at her.

"Yeah, come sit with us for a moment!" Aiba urged her.

"Sure, sure. Go ahead, I'll just get some food." Jenisha stood up when she recovered from her shock.

"We'll just borrow her okay?" Ohno bowed shortly to the people on the table.

"Let's get something to eat." Nino said to Sho and Jun.

"You go ahead." Matsumoto replied.

"Sakurai?" Nino asked.

"Go first, have to rest for a moment."

Nino shrugged his shoulders as he stood up after Aiba and Ohno arrived in their table.

He headed to the buffet area, glad that the long line of people a while ago was gone. In fact, there is only one person in the table looking thoughtfully at the food and Nino felt that same thumps in his chest again.

Jenisha was staring at the food in the buffet table seriously thinking what she was going to eat when she heard someone cleared his throat. She caught her breath at the sight when she turned to look who it was.

"Hi." Nino said and stood beside her and scanned the food.

Jenisha let out a slow deep breath becoming aware of their close distances. Her quick glance made her noticed that Nino changed into a blue shirt and khaki shorts plus a pair of black flip flops. That quick glance also made her take note of the small beads of sweat forming on his forehead with his dark brown growing hair tossed in every direction.

"Hello." Jenisha smiled thinly at him and frowned back to the pure Japanese foods on the buffet.

Nino kept glancing at her when he began to pile food on his plate. The atmosphere around the two of them is too much to bear. He needed to make it normal so that they could work together properly. Fortunately, they were only the two of them in the buffet area.

"Jenisha." Nino started as both of them continue to pick up foods from the table. Well, Jenisha was mostly scrutinizing the food and just taking a piece or two by her fingers.

"Hmm?" Jenisha said without looking. She was still concentrating on what food to eat.

"Anou... about last night..." Nino began to say and he anticipated her action.

She swore her heartbeat stopped for a couple of seconds when she heard Nino starting to bring up what happened between them last night. However, she just remain her composure and just calmly picked up two pieces of an orange-ish stuff which she recognized as tempura and put it on her plate.

"Hmm?" Nino slightly frowned at her reaction but it gave him the encouragement to continue.

"Forget about it." Nino finally said.

He saw Jenisha just stared into the plate full of gyoza not giving a single blink. She slowly turned to stare at him and given their close distance, Nino fully noticed how black her eyes are. Those eyes which reminds him of a dead night sky was staring at him blankly.

"Uhmm... I said forget about last ni-"

"I just did." Jenisha did not even gave Nino the chance to finish.

Nino's eyes are lighter brown than I thought...

Her mouth said what she must say but her thoughts sure said of another thing.

It was Nino's turn to stare at her a bit dumbfounded. He was quite caught off guard with her response.

"What do you call those?" Jenisha suddenly pointed to out to the plate of gyoza she was staring a while ago. She needed to push away any emotions that were threatening to spill within her.

"Huh?" Nino stared at her curiously and followed her finger.

"Uhmm...that's gyoza."

"Are they good?" She asked again.

"Yes they are." Nino found her behavior weird. Her moves were rather calculated and awkward or maybe cold a while ago then she completely changed into acting...normal. Like he did not brought up a sensitive topic that just happened last night.

Maybe she really did forget about last night...

Nino just scratched his head and let out a small sigh. She was opening a pack of chopsticks and was examining for a moment before she put it aside on her plate.

"Excuse me, do you have a fork?" Jenisha asked one of the attendants.

"Yes ma'm, I'm going to get one for you."

The dining hall was reserved for the whole crew and staff of the Arashic tour for that night and since most comprised of Japanese, the hotel only provided chopsticks and spoons in the table.

"You don't know how to use those?" Nino asked Jenisha.

"No and I haven't eaten lots Japanese food before." She said as she was testing the chopsticks herself.

"Let me teach you." Nino grabbed her hand and guided her in using the chopsticks.

Jenisha swallowed on her throat when she felt Nino's hand on hers. His warm skin was gliding on her fingers as he was lecturing her on how to use the thin sticks. She find breathing rather difficult.

"You only move the stick that your thumb and your index finger is holding."

And he wants me to forget about it?!

"I cannot learn how to use it just like that." Jenisha pulled her hand quite harshly away from Nino.

He stared at her quite taken aback by her sudden movement of pulling her hand away. Nino could see that she was a little irritated and pissed.

"Well you could do it if you'll listen closely and follow closely." Nino said. His usual cocky self surfacing as he looked at her with slight arrogance and a little playful smile on his lips.

What the...
Jenisha frowned at him. He sounded like a know-it-all punk when he said that and looked like a spoiled brat when he was giving her that stare.

"Ninomiya! Your phone's ringing." Aiba shouted.

"See you." Nino gave her a salute and went to the Arashi table.

This is one way to get things normal between us. Nino thought as he walked away from her.

What the hell... he's a lot different when he's drunk from sober... and how dare he touched me after he just asked me to forget about it?! Is that way too Easy for him???!!! Bastard! Jenisha thought and let out a sharp breath as irritation took the best of her.

Her fork hasn't arrived yet and since she couldn't get to use the chopsticks properly, she took one of the stick and stab the piece of gyoza to put it on her plate.

"Let me get that for you." Sho chuckled, who arrived together with Matsujun beside her to get food, got another piece of gyoza to her plate by using chopsticks.

"Thanks." Jenisha muttered.


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Chapter 7
I Prefer You Drunk

Nino rubbed his eyes as he put aside his game controller after playing. After the shoot of the episode for Mago Mago Arashi, they headed out for a short drink then went back to their own rooms to get ready for tomorrow's rehearsal and sleeping will be hard for Nino if he won't have a game of playstation first. He had been playing for two hours when he sensed his tiredness settling in. He finally turned off the television and plopped down to bed when he happened to glance by his table.

He saw the black flip phone still lying there and Nino immediately got up to take a look at it.

He turned it off a while ago when the phone kept ringing as he took a cab to go back to the hotel. Nino had not realized that he had brought her phone by mistake. He flipped the phone open and turned it on, there were 11 missed calls and 20 messages on her phone right now as Nino was getting lost in his thoughts.

Who am I fooling? It's not easy for her or for me to forget all about what happened last night. She must be thinking what an a** I am right now...

He decided to go further and clicked on her Gallery-Images. He saw pictures of her with her friends, 4 girls and a lot of different boys, and there was one weird folder which labeled as 'Maje' all containing different pictures of a black racing car. He was about to open another folder called 'first of summer' when the phone suddenly became battery empty.

Nino closed the phone and stared at it for a couple of seconds. After battling with his thoughts, he suddenly made a decision and got up from his bed.




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He's an a**!

Jenisha thought angrily as she stretched her neck when she was inside the hotel elevator. After dinner, she went back with the crew and staff to the concert venue and polished some of the stage settings. She also has her inputs regarding the stage designs after she has listened to some Arashi songs that they will be playing for the concert and therefore they finalized the set-up for tomorrow's stage rehearsal.

The dinner a while ago was kind of interesting and at the same time a disaster. After Ninomiya said straight to her face to forget about last night, her mood was definitely at its worst level towards him, if it weren't for professionalism's sake she would have said what her thoughts contain.

Sitting with Arashi during dinner was fun but she and Nino would constantly swiped at each other, throwing sarcastic remarks here and there, mostly containing inuendos of last night's one-night stand.

Nino: Eh? You're ticklish Jen-kun?
Jenisha: Why do you sound so surprise? You should know that.

She earned some weird stares from Sho, Ohno, Aiba and Matsujun while Nino's eyes got wide and was staring at her dumbfounded. He knew perfectly from last night that she was indeed ticklish and he was quite shock that she was giving this implication about what happened to them for Jenisha was giving him this knowing look.

Matsujun: Huh?
Jenisha: You should know that because you're skinny. Usually, skinny people are ticklish.
Sho: Hmmm... I'm not that ticklish.
Jenisha: You don't look skinny to me Sho.
Nino: Oh yeah, they are. Maybe you're ticklish in your waist and on the knees ne? Am I right?

Jenisha nearly choked on what Nino said and saw him smirking at her. Nino could still remember what body part is her weakness and he was also moving along with the game.

Jenisha: You missed out another part.
Nino: I forgot! The ears!

Nino exclaimed and grinned at her. Jenisha glared at him and tried to hide the pinkish color that is crawling on her cheeks. She glanced at the others who were thankfully oblivious about their conversation.

Aiba: Really? I'm ticklish in the ears too! Especially when someone's blowing it!

Nino and Jenisha turned to stare at each other the moment that Aiba said this and quickly resume to eat quietly.

Jenisha sighed and leaned her head on the elevator wall.

And he's asking me to forget about it? How can i forget it when he was the most amazing lay that I have. Her thoughts echoed once again. That's basically what she wanted to say in front of Nino when he asked that damn favor. She understood that he did it so that it would normalize their relationship as a director to idol but

Why does he have to put it so bluntly?

Nonetheless, the dinner went well and she grew fond of the Arashi members. She just couldn't believe that they are way older than her, with Matsujun being 2 yrs.older and Ohno with a five year age gap. Its a blast to be with them acting like idiots and just being immature. Their real age shows when she was able to have a chance to talk to them regarding work. Each of the Arashi's work ethics are great. No wonder they have successfully reached this stage of their career.

And speaking of work, she was able to forget about the whole Nino-issue after dinner when she went back to the concert venue together with the staff and crew who are also equally fun to work with. The back-up dancers that she was able to have a chat with before dinner, some of them are even the same age as hers. They remind Jenisha of those rock bands she have directed their videos and got to be her close friends.

She finally reached her floor as the door of the elevator opened and started heading to her room.

I think I'll have fun working on this project, just as long as I don't screw things up for myself I'll be extremely fi-

Jenisha's thoughts were cut off and she suddenly stopped in her tracks when she saw someone standing in front of her hotel room.
She swallowed as he turned to look at her.

"Hi."

"How did you kn-"

"The reception area." Nino immediately answered like he was expecting the question.

"What are you doing here?" She asked once again. Her face betrayed her firm voice as she stared at Nino, her expressions were soft and nervous.

Nino was leaning beside her hotel door and brought out a black flip phone from his pocket.

"That's my phone." Jenisha walked towards him and got her phone.

"Did you take a look at it?" Jenisha asked suspiciously.

"Nope, the battery went empty before I could even take a peek." Nino said and raked his hair by his fingers.

"Thanks. Goodnight." Jenisha muttered and was about to enter her room when Nino held her arm.

"Can we talk?" Nino asked and was staring at her eyes intently. His were determined to make her say yes.

"Fine. Let's talk here." Jenisha crossed her arms in front of her.

"If you don't want someone from the staff or crew or from any Arashi members to see us then we should not talk here." Nino said.

"Where do you suggest then?"

"Inside." Nino pointed at her door. Jenisha raised her eyebrow at him and frowned suspiciously.

Nino rolled his eyes and got the key from Jenisha, he opened the door as he gently pushed her inside her room.

"I'm lazy to drive and go outside just to find some place to talk." Nino said as he closed the door behind him.

"Well you're the one who wants to talk not me." Jenisha shortly glared at him.

Nino can't help but to scan her room. He has to admit that hers was quite messy for a girl. Her laptop was in the middle of her bed together with lots of books. He saw Arashi cds spread on her bedside table and another stack of random cds on the dresser. A suitcase just beside her closet was left open, two pairs of high-cut Chuck Taylors (one was green, the other is brown) and was surprise to see a playstation 3 on the floor in front of the television.

"What games do you play?" Nino asked.

"Huh?" Jenisha frowned curiously at him.

"Playstation. What games do you play?"

"Oh. Assassin stuff. Sometimes I play Dawn of the Dead on my laptop or The Punisher. Anything that involves killing...RPGs..those stuff." Jenisha replied.

"I see."

Anything that involves killing? Interesting.

"I thought you want to talk."

Nino sighed and scratched his head.

"Well in that case, let me start. That was so kind of you to say that I should forget about what happened last night." Jenisha said. Her chest was starting to pound inside her as of the moment.

"I just want to make it normal between us. So that you won't feel unease working with me and vice versa."

"How can I actually forget about last night when you were the most amazi-"

Dammit! I can't say that to him!

Nino blinked his eyes when Jenisha cut her words off. His breathing stopped for a couple of seconds when assumptions start to form inside his head regarding what she was about to say.

I am the most amazing...? at what? His mind race with thoughts.

"When you said it so amazingly blunt straight into my face. Do you think that was too easy? I was expecting something, like 'sorry' or something proper..."

"Well I never expected that it would turn out this way. I never expected that the girl I had s** with last night would be our director the next day." Nino uttered.

"So do I. Did you think I planned this out?"

"A lot of girls would."

Jenisha's eyes squinted the moment she heard that from Nino and took a deep breath to calm herself but to no success, she was already pissed off.

Nino saw the reaction on Jenisha's face and instantly thought of a way to calm her down.

"The coincidences overwhelmed me so it cros-"

"You're such an arrogant, conceited, egotistic, pompous a** bastard! From those behaviors, I prefer you drunk than your normal self if you wou-"

Nino was now staring at Jenisha in a different way that made her stop in the middle of her ranting.

"You prefer me what?"

"I prefer you drunk." Jenisha repeated. She remembered that kind of stare. The way Nino was looking at her right now was just exactly the same when he was staring at her last night.

"From what I remember, the first and last time that you saw me drunk was just last night." Nino was slowly walking towards her and Jenisha just kept walking backwards as her back touched the door of her closet.

She was trapped.

"Nino-" Jenisha said warningly.

Nino closed in their distance with their faces an inch apart from each other.

"You're right, we can't easily forget about it." Nino stared at her eyes.

Somehow, the dead night sky got some flicker of fire in it.

"Yes...w-what do you suggest then?" Jenisha asked. Concentration is difficult to do with his eyes staring like that, his face that close and his warm breath fanning on her skin.

Nino's fingers began to trace her jaw with his face slowly coming to hers.

The familiar warmth of moist skin was felt once again as Nino's mouth enclosed hers moving it sensuously. Jenisha automatically closed her eyes to feel his lips demanding more from her. She opened her mouth to grant access to his tongue as her hand played with the strands of his black hair and gave it a soft forceful tug.

Nino proceeded to move further with his hand crawling inside her shirt to feel the warm skin of her stomach while he pulled her waist closer to his body.



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Chapter 8
Wrong reasons and definitely hard to correct.




Oh my god, oh my god, let it be a dream, oh my god, please...

Jenisha opened her eyes and saw the familiar design of the ceiling of her hotel room.

I'm in my hotel room... that's good right?

She rubbed her eyes as she saw the clock striked 4:00 am and suddenly the thought of her naked came rushing in. She was now fully awake as she took a peek under the blanket and saw a hand wrapped around protectively on her bare waist.

She slowly turned to her right and saw a sleeping Ninomiya who was equally naked as well.

sh**...we did it again.Great.

Their noses gently bumped with each other when Jenisha turned to stare at him. He was sleeping really peacefully, with his mouth slightly open and his little moles on his face looking quite attractive. She wasn't able to see him sleeping the first time and he looked like an innocent kid rather than the spoiled brat she saw last night during dinner.

He is irritatingly cute... She thought.

Jenisha slightly froze when she felt Nino's hands slowly moving up and down on her body beneath the blanket.

She gently got the pillow beside him and smacked him hard on the head.

"Nani?" Nino groaned as he struggled to open his eyes.

"Get up. If they don't see you in your room, you're dead. You're suppose to have a meeting with me at 8 before your stage rehearsal." Jenisha said and pulled out Nino's hand fom the blanket.

"Uhh... gomen..." Nino looked at her while slightly blushing. Jenisha tried so hard to hide her smile when she saw him blushing.

"What time is it?" Nino asked as he slowly gathered his clothes and started wearing it. Jenisha took small and fast glances at Nino while he was doing that.

"4 o' clock. I have to go to the venue by 5 anyway." She replied and yawned.

"That's too early. Why do you have to go there at that time?"

"Have to double check everything so that we could finish early today and can solve any problems earlier if one occurs. Tomorrow's the concert ne? You should do good." Jenisha said and was staring at Nino who just finished wearing all of his clothes.

"Of course." Nino was also staring at her too. They both know what they did and they do not have the alcohol to put the blame on. They also know that what happened tonight will lead to many things that both of them might regret. However, as they look at each other, they want to watch and wait for things to unfold infront of them, together.

"Seems like we can't forget about this easily huh?" Nino said before going away.

"Seems too" Jenisha whispered.

"Are you ---" Nino started to say hesitatingly.

"What?"

"Are you willing to hold on into this with me?" Nino asked.

Jenisha stared at him not sure what to say.

"I want to" Nino said and was looking at her hopefully.

"Well...might as well join the club" Jenisha uttered and Nino smiled and leaned forward to peck her lips.

"You're a guilty pleasure Ninomiya." Nino grinned at what she said and started heading to the door.

"Its suppose to be like that. See you." With that, he closed the door.

"Jenisha you idiot!" She cursed and wanted to hang herself for agreeing with Nino's proposal

"Are you willing to hold on into this with me?" Nino asked.

"He just asked me to engage into this sin and I just said yes! Great!" Jenisha muttered. Her head was buried on her hands as guilt began to take over. Once was enough for her conscience to explode because not only did she engaged in one-night stand but she rather enjoyed it. Twice, its the end of the world for her. She knew that if it will happen again, she'll fall into a dangerous addiction and it did happened again, for the second time.

Maje...sh**...I'm so sorry...

She can't help it if he is charming.

Wrong reasons and definitely hard to correct.



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Chapter 9
Maje

I hate to show that I've lost control
Cause I keep going right back
To the one thing that I need to walk away from
-Walk Away by Christina Aguillera


Nino has found every reason to be fond of sleep and that's not because of exhaustion from work. The second time that it happened, that's where the act begins; pretending that everything's normal between the two of them. Both of them managed to act as professionally as they could and they behave with each other like regular buddies. He treated her like what the rest of the Arashi treats her - the older brother role - and she treats him like she treats the rest of the Arashi.

We look normal and we act normal... Nino thought as he was sitting on the stage floor when they had a 1 minute break from dancing.They are currently having their stage rehearsal on their third location of the tour in Nagoya.

On the other hand, there were lots of moments where stolen meaningful glances, stolen kisses, brief make-out sessions were shared discreetly. Nino got used to waking up to her scent on mornings, sometimes when they couldn't possibly find a chance to be alone, both of them would sneak out from everyone else and would go to places to spend the night together and they have been going to a lot of beaches lately.

He smiled secretly when he remembered their moments at the beach. It was his first time to do it on the sand under a night sky full of stars and the silent crashing of waves and he likes doing it with her there.

Their replationship has certainly reached the level of addiction. It seems like he enjoyed the way they practice their relationship in secrecy. Nino told Jenisha once that since of both of them are game addicts, adventures such as their kind of relationship is somehow enjoyable for both of them. The addiction makes them disregard the endless consequences that they will face once they are discovered.

He let out a sigh and wiped his sweats. The other Arashi members were doing their own thing on the stage. Matsujun was testing out the moving stage from the back while practicing his solo "With Me", Sho was huddled in the corner somewhere adding lyrics for songs which he always does, Ohno making up another batch of choreography and Aiba was talking to some of the crew and staff about a certain red spotlight. As of now, Nino's positive that the other members doesn't have a clue about it. Whenever he and Jenisha would seem to flirt a little, Arashi would take it something Nino usually does which is flirty and sometimes harassing the other members.

He felt a little regretful for keeping things to them. Eventhough he could say that he is happy with what he has been doing, looking at it from different angles will always turn out wrong. He lie, he cheat and he could lose everything from his friends to his work and what's the reward? A girl.

I must be insane...


A white spotlight was centered on Nino and he shielded his eyes as he looked up to where the control room was, and where the director is currently managing and testing the lights and sounds. The white light turned to blue and was still centered on Nino. He smiled towards the control room and waved his hand at the director who put the lights on him.






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"Is that all you're going to eat for lunch?" Sho asked Jenisha who was happily licking a large cone of choco mint ice-cream which she bought from a very far convenience store.

"I ate after I bought these." Jenisha smiled.

"That's her fifth one on this day alone." Nino said. He was with her when she started to demand some ice cream and drove to a quite distant convenience store to buy a whole box of it, and it was also one of their strategies to be alone, just in case there will be some media/press lurking around.

"Eh??? You might have poo problems if you eat only those." Aiba looked at her anxiously. They were currently having lunch right above the stage together with some back-up dancers and crew.

"Stop it Aiba, some of us are eating here." Matsujun slightly slapped the back of his neck and resumed eating.

"I've got one question though."

"Shoot it Jen." Matsujun said.

"Are idols really being mobbed by fangirls when you walk into the street?" Jenisha asked. The five men stared at her unbelievingly.

Sho and Nino laughed at her question.

"Uhh..." Aiba was thinking of an answer while Ohno was also pondering on it.

"The automatic answer is yes." Matsujun replied.

"What made you ask that question?" A small smile played on Sho's lips.

"Well, lots of people were telling me about you being mob by fangirls if you go to the streets. I just want it to confirm though. I mean, its quite unbelievable to me."

"It depends on the place but most of the time, based on our experience, yeah we're being mobbed." Nino said.

"I have been constantly around rock bands, famous or not, when I was in the Philippines and mostly, they don't give a sh** about everyone and so does the people don't give much attention whenever they stroll around the streets. I'm curious on how does fangirls mob boybands. I want to see it."

"Eh??? No way. Our worst experiences come from being mobbed by fans. You wouldn't want to see it, they can be pretty dangerous." Sho shook his head.

"But at least, Johnny has enough policies to protect all idols. He read that to me when I accepted this project, first I thought it was weird."

"Maybe Johnny should make another policy." Aiba said.

"Like what Aiba?" Matsujun looked at him.

"Like idols should not have a relationship with their directors."

Nino coughed and was slapping his chest as he choked on his food.

"Oi Nino! Chew slowly..." Ohno said and handed him a bottle of water which Nino took instantly.

"What made you say that?" Sho asked and patted Nino on the back.

Nino met Jenisha's eyes and saw that hers were asking: Are we caught yet?


"Well, if Johnny will continue to hire directors like Jenisha, the idols might not be able to concentrate on their work." Aiba shrugged his shoulder.

Jenisha's stare was starting to get nervous as Nino also glanced at her secretly.

"Aahh.. I see. Aiba-chan got a point there. I heard KAT-TUN is eyeing to get Jen-chan as their director for their upcoming tour." Matsujun patted Jenisha and smiled.

"I don't think so." Nino snorted and Jenisha raised her eyebrow towards him which he just ignored.

"They were talking to Johnny about it." Ohno confirmed.

"Nani?!" Sho and Nino and Aiba said in unison. Jenisha was just beginning to calm down since she and Nino were not busted yet and she was nonchalant about the KAT-TUN thing because she don't know who they are.

"You see, that's why they need a policy like that." Aiba said.

"No way." Nino whispered under his breath.

"What's that Nino-kun?" Matsujun asked and was frowning at him a little.

"H-huh? Uhh...nothing." Nino replied and glanced at Jenisha. She looked at him with a warning and Nino let out a deep exhale.

"You're getting in demand Jenisha." Sho teased.

"It's because I work with Arashi." Jenisha grinned at them.

"Hey, this is way out of the topic but do you have a boyfriend?" Matsujun asked.

Nino suddenly stopped in the middle of eating and stared at Jenisha who also stopped licking her ice-cream.

I haven't asked her that myself... Nino thought.

"Umm..." Jenisha glanced towards Nino direction before she answered a resounding "Hai."

Nino just stared at Jenisha and his appetite started to decrease.

"I knew you would say that. What's his name? How long have you been going out?" Aiba continuously asked.

"Don't sound too eager Aiba." Ohno teased.

"Umm...His name's Marco." Jenisha replied and took out her cellphone.

Nino was not participating in the talk because he did not like every bit of it. If he could, he want to walk out of the concert hall and hit some things.

"Here." Jenisha showed Arashi a picture of a black racing car.

Nino looked up and saw the picture. It was the car he saw on her phone that has a label named 'Maje.'

The car is her boyfriend?

Nino's hopes started to rise when he saw the picture.

"This is your boyfriend?" Aiba asked with a weird expression on his face.

"That's Maje. Marco's car. He's a drag racer and he-"

"So your boyfriend's a drag queen huh?" Nino said sarcastically as his hopes went down.

So there really is a real boyfriend.

Jenisha glared at him and rolled her eyes.

"A drag racer Nino. He usually join those underground race competition in Tokyo and we customized the car together."

"Drag racing? Sugoii. I want to try that too." Sho said.

"How long have you been going out?" Matsujun asked.

"A year. After a few weeks since my arrival in Japan, he followed shortly to fulfill his racing dreams."

"What he is doing is illegal." Nino said.

"Underground racing doesn't necessarily mean illegal Nino." Jenisha squinted her eyes towards him.

Nino glared at her and is starting to get pissed off because she talk about that Marco infront of him without any considerations, like she and Nino doesn't have something going on with each other.

"You got a photo of you and him?" Sho asked as he was looking at the pictures of the car.

"Its in the 'first of summer' folder." Jenisha continued eating and ignoring Nino who was beginning to sulk.

Nino remembered that folder too but her phone went battery empty when he was about to take a look at it.

"Sweet." Sho grinned at her. Nino wanted to grab the phone from Sho and smash it on the wall.

Nino snorted and frowned at the girl in front of him who was eating her ice-cream leisurely.






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Chapter 10
Close Enough



"Why didn't you tell me that you have a boyfriend?" Nino asked as he followed Jenisha going to her hotel room. Everybody went into their respective hotels and hotel rooms and Nino was left behind at the concert venue after the rest of Arashi invited for a drink which he decline. When Jenisha was finished, Arashi attempted to invite her too but after receiving a sign from Nino, she also turned them down. As soon as everybody was gone, both of them drove together to the hotel with Nino being silent the whole time.

He was still pissed off by the fact that she has a boyfriend and she did not tell him a single thing. Nino can't say he is jealous about it, but the idea of her with another guy was making him frustrated. That, and jealousy are two different things right? Nino thought a while ago.

"Well, you didn't ask." Jenisha said as she fished for her keys inside her body bag.

"Nani? I didn't ask?! Now that's my freaking fault?" Nino exclaimed. Jenisha secretly rolled her eyes because Nino has definitely started his bitching once again.

"And you were talking about him like y-"

"You want to get caught?" Jenisha faced him and Nino immediately shut his mouth.

"Then let's not talk here." Jenisha opened the door of her room as both of them entered. And true to Jenisha's thoughts, the moment that the door was closed, Nino started his bitching.

"You were talking about him like you and I do not have something going on." Nino said and followed Jenisha with his gaze, as she took off her coat and shoes and lay down on the bed, with her arms raised on the back of her head and staring at him nonchalantly while he was bitching.

"You're the one who proposed about this whole let's-use-each-other thing. My boyfriend is the official one so i have to talk about him in that way." Jenisha stared at him as Nino rolled his eyes, removed his shoes and crawled to the bed.

"You were gushing over him." Nino just ignored her when she mentioned the 'lets-use-each-other' part. He knew that's exactly what their 'kind of relationship' is called but it sound so wrong to his ears.

"Well, you have to live with it. Do you want me to say to Arashi that I have a more awesome lay other than Marco?" Jenisha smirked at him and Nino grinned at what she said. He crawled towards her and straddled her hips with his legs trapping hers in the middle.

"Its...frustrating..." Nino gave her his puppy eye stare. Jenisha kissed the tip of his nose and smiled at him.

He reached for her mouth to kiss her softly then leaned his head on her chest while his nose nuzzled her neck.

"I felt guilty the whole time I was talking about him..." Jenisha whispered. Nino looked up to her and softly bit her neck, then he was slowly opening each buttons of her blouse.

"Poor guy, he doesn't know what awesome things his girlfriend is doing..." Nino teased while he helped her removed her shirt.

"Shut up or I'll kick you out of here." Jenisha slapped the back of his neck and pulled Nino's head for a kiss.






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"Hmm..." Jenisha groaned as she felt something ticklish.

"Wake up..." A voice that was deep and husky whispered and blew her ear.

"Stop." Jenisha tried to slap Nino's face away but he avoided it.

"You'll be late." Nino said and blew into her ear once again.

"Nino." Jenisha growled and covered her head with a blanket.

Nino squinted his eyes and pouted when he was left ignored. Then with an evil smile, he reached under the blanket and started tickling her on the waist.

"Ni-no!" Jenisha squirmed and was swatting his hands away.

"You told me to wake you up. It's 4:30 already... come on...wake up..." Nino's fingers went down to her knees and continue tickling her.

"Stop! sh**... Nino!" Jenisha was now fully awake as she giggled and then laughed so hard when Nino was tickling her. The waist and the knees are her most sensitive spot.

"Aarrghhh!" Jenisha went on top of him and started tickling him too in his armpits.

"Hey! That's unfa-! S-stop!" Nino was also laughing as Jenisha pinched his stomach and continue tickling him on the sides.

"You brat! You don't have to wake me up like that!" She was laughing at him as both of them battle on the bed tickling each other.

"Yoshi! Yoshi! Stop...doing tha-...hmmpphh..." Nino's words were cut off when Jenisha covered his mouth with her hand.

Both of them heard soft knocks on the door and a faint voice called her name.

"I'll just take a look okay?" Jenisha whispered to Nino.

"Hey! What am I suppose to cover?!" Nino said to her as Jenisha got the whole blanket for herself leaving the idol naked. Jenisha just signalled him to shut up and she peek at the small circle of her hotel door.

"Jenisha." The knock continue.

"sh**! Nino, hide!" Jenisha frantically whispered to Nino and threw his clothes at him.

"Huh? Who's that?" Nino immediately stood up and caught his clothes.

"Jen?"

"Just a second Tendai!" Jenisha shouted and got herself a bathrobe to put it on.

"sh**! Where should I hide?" Nino began to panic as well. He can't be seen by Tendai or by anyone in Jenisha's room at this time and at his current state. Both of them will be dead.

"Closet! Hurry!" Jenisha opened her empty closet and practically pushed Nino inside.

"Kuso!" Nino glared at the closet door as he rubbed his forehead. Jenisha pushed him quite harshly inside and bumped his head at the corner.

Jenisha kicked Nino's shoes under her bed and shortly fixed her hair before opening the door.

"Goodmorning Jenisha." Tendai greeted her.

"Morning. Sorry, I was in the bathroom." Jenisha wiped the sweats on her forehead as she closed the door behind her.

Jenisha nervously glanced at her messy bed sheets and towards the closet where Nino was quietly and carefully putting his clothes on and was listening to them.

"Its okay, I came here by your request. Where are your requirements for your application?" Tendai asked.

"Oh! I almost forgot. Let me get that." Jenisha went to her luggage and got a folder which has the logo of the University of Tokyo.

"Really busy huh?"

"Umm...yeah. Have to shoot some backstage clips of the guys before jumping on to their actual concert for the DVD." She gave Tendai the folder and was glancing at the closet from time to time.

"All complete?"

"Yup. Thank you so much Tendai." Jenisha smiled at him.

"No problem. Hope you pass."

"I hope so too."

"Umm...before I go, can I use the bathroom?" Tendai asked her.

"Sure, sure." She pointed the direction of the bathroom and as soon as Tendai entered there, the closet door and Nino appeared fully dressed.

"Why did you go out?!" Jenisha whispered.

"I have to go, where are my shoes?" Nino searched for it and avoided making noise.

"Here." Jenisha handed him his shoes after crouching and getting it under the bed.

"See you." Nino grinned mischievously at her.

"Yeah. You have to go NOW." Jenisha said and Nino pulled her waist to kiss her. They suddenly heard the bathroom door opening and Jenisha pushed Nino out of her room.

"sh**! Go now!" Jenisha whispered frantically as Nino silently chuckled and ran out of her room as quietly and as fast as possible.

Jenisha released a deep sigh of relief as she closed the door.

"My bladder was about to explode a while ago. That was a relief." Tendai said as he went out of the bathroom.

Yeah...I agree. Jenisha thought as her pulse slowed its rate after almost being caught.






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Chapter 11
The Other Side



"Uhmm...why do you have to wear those?" Jenisha was leaning on the door of the Arashi dressing room as the boys were preparing for their concert. They were wearing these shiny ninja outfits with each of the Arashi in different colors: Sho in pink, Aiba in purple, Nino in red, Ohno in green and Matsujun in yellow. They reminded her of Power Rangers or Mask Man and she can't help but let out a laugh when they were shamelessly dressing in front of her.

She was in the dressing room together with her camera and was filming the boys backstage.

"Ask our stylist." Nino passed in front of her and tossed a feathered scarf on her face.

"Whatever, that's not my job. What's this scarf? A costume for Ohmiya SK?" Jenisha rolled her eyes at him and threw the scarf back at Nino which hit him on the head.

"Nande? You don't like it?" Sho posed in front of her like a 6 yr.old ballerina.

"You look...silly..." Jenisha bluntly said and scratched her head. Aiba faked a gasp.

"That was cruel! Where was the ever supportive director we had?!" Aiba said while Jenisha took a shot of him. She was just recording some backstage baka-ness of the Arashi before they have their third concert of the tour in Nagoya.

A high-pitched voice could be heard screaming around the dressing room as Nino was being chased by Ohno. Jenisha made sure she took a shot of them but rolled her eyes at their immaturity.

"Stay away from me!!!!" Nino let out a shriek as he ran behind Jenisha. She followed Ohno with her video camera as he reached towards Nino who was using the director as a shield.

"That wasn't a fair share!" Ohno said and was pulling Nino's arm.

"Baka..." Jenisha whispered as she tried to stay away from the two but focusing the camera on them.

"Riida! You haven't signed the post cards yet!" Their manager shouted.

"Oi! I'm coming!" Ohno released Nino's arm and ran back.

Nino suddenly kissed Jenisha on the cheek and she turned to stare at him quite startled with his unexpected action.

"Don't do that again." Jenisha said seriously. There were many people in the dressing room and they were fortunate that no one noticed.

"Gomen...now don't frown...okay?" Nino gave her this puppy dog face like the one he put up the other night. The only thing she can do is sigh.

"Kick a** on the concert." Jenisha said and offerd him a thin smile.

Nino grinned mischievously at her.

"See you later."

Jenisha clicked off her camera when Nino went away and started to walk out of the dressing room.

"Jenisha! Where are you heading?" Matsujun asked.

"I'm going to take a shot of the fans." Jenisha smiled at him.

"Oh okay, be back here 5 minutes before the show. We want you to be there when we pray alright?" Matsujun winked at her.

"Hai." Jenisha said and gave him a thumb up before going out of the dressing room.






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Jenisha went out to the entrace of the concert hall and saw thousands of fans lined up. There were lots of girls but what amazes Jenisha were the number of families who attended the concert, with their kids in tow and she took a shot of two little boys wearing Ohmiya SK costumes.

You rarely see that in a rock concert...

"Anou...are you that director of Arashi?" A group of girls asked her as she was taking a shot of a long line of fans.

"Umm...hai." Jenisha answered not really used to being asked like that.

"We saw you in some magazine...heard you're a girlfriend of one of the Arashi..." This one girl said and Jenisha was speechless that she ignored the rude tone of the girl.

sh**! They know? B-but how? Where did the-

"Are you really going out with Matsujun?"

Matsujun huh? Wait. What? Matsujun?!?!

"Eh???? Matsujun?" Jenisha turned to the other girl who asked it.

"Hai. We saw it on the magazine, where you and him are always in the picture together."

"Uhh...sumimasen... I have to go..." Jenisha said and walked away from them. The girls were getting on her nerves. Fangirls can be rude, so they say.

That magazine they were talking about was taken during a report about the boys' tour and some of the shots actually saw Jenisha and Matsujun together and they were just merely talking. Both of them found it ridiculous the moment they read some tabloids using the photos and gave other meanings to it.

Jenisha sighed as she transferred to another line of people and began to shoot them.

I thought we were busted! Nino and I should not sneak out that often, some media people might follow us. I don't want Nino to be in trouble...

"Nice shot huh?" A deep voice said behind Jenisha while she was filming a line of fans piled near the entrance.

She knew that voice so well that her heartbeat stopped for a couple of seconds before she turned around to greet him.

Well, when she confirmed who it was, she just stared at him speechless with her mouth hanging open.

"Hey...you look so surprise to see me."

"M-marco...hi." Jenisha stuttered at the grinning boy in front of her. She almost dropped her videocam when she saw him.

"Oi! You must welcome me!" Marco snapped her out of her hypnosis and embraced her in a bear hug, she also automatically flinged her arms around him.

"You really look so surprise."

"Huh?... umm... I am." Jenisha answered and forced an enthusiastic smile.

"You missed me?" Marco slipped an arm around her waist.

"Umm...yeah..." Jenisha said and saw the guy pouted.

"That was a happy answer huh?" Marco chuckled and rolled his eyes.

"Eh?? Umm... I was just so surprise to see you. What the hell are you doing here by the way?" Jenisha asked.

"I'm going to watch the concert." Marco grinned towards her.

"Huh? That's not your type of music right?" She raised her eyebrow at her boyfriend.

"That's not yours either." Marco replied. Both of them loved progressive and hard rock songs since both of them belong in rock bands too.

"Well...I'm beginning to like Arashi's music." Jenisha muttered.

"You told me on your mail that you'll be in Nagoya so I went here and I miss you, you know." Marco stared at her and kissed her full on the mouth in the middle of the crowded entrance of the concert hall full of Arashi fans.

Jenisha closed her eyes and felt that she somehow have missed Marco as she savored the kiss.

"That was awesome." Marco smiled at her and felt dazed after the kiss.

"Yeah..." Jenisha only managed to whisper and glanced at her watch.

"Marco, I have to go. The show's going to start in 10 minutes."

"Alright, I'll wait for you here after the concert." Marco waved at her as she begin to walk inside the hall.

sh**...he's here...he's here... Jenisha thought, somehow she became in panic mode because of Marco's arrival.

"Jen-chan! Come on, let's pray!" Aiba tugged her arm the moment she arrived at the backstage where the back-up dancers, some crew and the Arashi members were gathered in a circle.

"What took you so long?" Nino whispered beside her.

"Uhh... have to squeezed in... there were lots of people..." Jenisha replied, avoiding his eyes. Nino grinned and reached out for her hand as the group began to pray and started with the A.Ra.Shi. cheer.

Oh god...you could kill me now...

Jenisha thought as guilt of having two boys at the same time came pouring in.








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Chapter 12
Maybe I am



"I'm still hyper!!!!!" Aiba exclaimed.

"Yeah, it’s obvious." Matsujun rolled his eyes and sling his duffel bag on his shoulder. They just finished their concert in Nagoya and they'll have dinner together with the whole crew and staff at a nearby restaurant.

"Haven't seen Jenisha since the concert finished..." Sho said and looked around for the director.

"Yeah, she would usually drop by in the backstage after the show." Ohno wondered.

"She left earlier a while ago, she said she'll follow us later." One of their staff told them.

"Thanks. Guess we'll have to leave without her. See you there." Nino muttered as all of them went into the van.

"The crowd was so awesome a while ago ne?" Sho grinned at all of them.

"Hai. The fans were lovely and we pulled out a great show tonight."

"I definitely agree." Nino turned to smile at the rest of Arashi.






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"You seem pretty busy huh?" Marco said to Jenisha as they were eating in a restaurant. He waited up for her until the concert finished and after Jenisha has wrapped up some important things with her crew for the next stop of the tour then they proceed to the place.

"Ummm...yeah... I'm kind of stressed out actually." Jenisha smiled at him. Since both of them arrived in Japan, this is the first time that they have seen each other, and as much as possible Jenisha wanted to make the most out of it and she kept on shoving her issues regarding Nino away from her mind and just wanted to concentrate her attention to Marco.

"So, where's the next stop?"

"Kyoto. I'm going there at dawn." Jenisha replied.

"Tsktsk...Really working hard huh? Don't stress yourself too much." Marco patted her head and pinched her cheeks.

"Maje's looking pretty bad-a**." Jenisha stared out to the window where the black racing car was parked on the opposite side of the road.

"Of course. I told you through mail that I won two nights straight and if I won the third time around, my chance to enter an official race will be huge."

"You're going back to Tokyo? When?"

"Tomorrow morning. As much as I want to follow you in Kyoto but I have to go back as soon as possible." Marco said.

"Let's meet up when this tour is finish, okay? If I pass Tokyo University, I'm going for my graduate studies after this project."

"Sure...hope it finishes up as soon as possible."

"Yeah...it’s tiring but I'm enjoying every bit of it." Jenisha said as she took a spoonful of ice cream on her mouth.

"Still have the same addiction with the ice-cream..." Marco chuckled as he observed her.

"Of course! Good thing they have decent flavors of it here in Japan, I thought it wou-"

"Jenisha!!!!"

Jenisha did not continue her sentence when she heard her name being called loudly and turned her gazed towards the entrance.

The 5 males of Arashi entered the restaurant together with the whole staff and crew of the tour. Jenisha's mouth hanged opened as she saw them began piling up inside the restaurant. She didn't quite catch the name of the restaurant the staff would be reserving for dinner and Jenisha didn't know it would be the same place where she and Marco would stay.

"Hey, you're here." Jenisha waved at them.

Nino saw Jenisha the moment that they went inside the restaurant but he stopped in his tracks when he saw the guy who's with her. He just stared at the two of them until Ohno called out Jenisha's name.

"You left early ne?" Sho grinned at her.

"Ummm..." Jenisha tilted her head towards Marco and Arashi turned their gaze to him, Marco also turned his head to stare at Arashi.

"Jen-chan!" Staff and crew greeted her. They all went to sit down on their chosen places.

"Anou...is he?" Aiba pointed towards Marco and Jenisha nodded.

Nino only stared at them the moment he sat down and he sensed that Jenisha's been avoiding his gaze.

"Jenisha, introduce him please????" Junichiro, one of her production staff said and everyone started teasing her. Marco chuckled when he saw Jenisha blushing.

Nino heaved a deep breath as he played with his chopsticks, trying not to get irritated.

"Umm...guys this is Marco Sebastian, my boyfriend. Marco these are my beautiful staff and crew and those boys are Arashi." Jenisha announced. Marco stood up and bow to them after being introduce.

"Hajimemashite." Marco said and the people greeted him warmly except to one boy in the Arashi table who was blank during the whole introduction.

"Kakkoii ne?" Yuki, one of the stylists of Arashi said and most of them continue the teasing.

"Hai." Jenisha chuckled and was oblivious of Nino who scowled when he heard Yuki's comment.

Kakkoii???

Nino glanced at Marco and began sizing him up.

The guy has tanned skin just like Jenisha's, wearing a black hooded jacket and loose pants. His black hair reminds Nino of Matsujun's hair in Hana Yori Dango but just a cleaner cut, has a growing goatee and he is as skinny and as tall as Aiba. Marco has this aura of looking gangly and more of the bad boy type contrary to Nino's boy-next-door or childish-prankster image.

Nino snorted after he took a look of Jenisha's 'boyfriend'.

"Oi...what are you snorting at?" Aiba elbowed Nino.

"H-huh?" Nino asked quite startled that he was heard.

"Marco?" Sho said with a thin smile on his lips. Nino frowned at them.

Are they sensing something?

"Yabai?" Aiba asked and Nino just shrugged his shoulders.

"...but kakkoii. Seems like Jenisha's types are bad boys huh?" Sho commented.

"What makes you say that?" Nino raised his eyebrow. If they only knew... Nino secretly smirked to himself.

"Well, remember those music she always listens to? So loud and full of screams? That guy looked like one of the singers from the music she's listening..."

Nino looked once again into Jenisha's table and his appetite decreased when she saw her patting Marco's cheeks. He became more irritated when Nino saw that both of them wear the same kind of bands on their wrist. The bands were two thin black bands intertwined with each other and Nino saw that Jenisha wearing the band most of the time and he was starting to get piss off because he saw Marco wearing the same thing.

Jenisha could feel those pair of eyes observing her every move. She began to feel conscious about her action and tried to ignore it as much as she can, right now, her only focus is Marco. She'll just face Nino's bitching later.

"Maybe while we're here in Japan we could live together...get a house or something." Marco said and Jenisha almost spit out her ice cream back into her bowl.

Nino frowned when he heard Jenisha choking and saw her wiping her mouth. She must have been surprised by what Marco has said to her.

What could that be? Nino thought as Matsujun passed him a bowl.

"Nino! Eat!" Ohno motioned to him and Nino just gave him a quick nod. He slightly stood up to his seat to get himself some noodles when he took a glanced at Jenisha's table and he automatically dropped his bowl together with his chopsticks and it clattered with the rest of Arashi's utensils. His chopsticks ended up taking a swim on the soup.

"Oi! Nino...baka... been clumsy lately huh?" Matsujun took out the chopsticks from the soup and called out a waiter to clean some spilled noodles on the table.

"Gomen..." Nino muttered.

Nino breathed heavily and finally met Jenisha's eyes which were staring at him frowning curiously at the mess he made.

When he turned around, he just saw Marco reaching out to Jenisha and kissed her mouth, with Jenisha responding willingly and even hooked her hand on his neck. They didn't even care if the whole staff, crew and Arashi themselves were there. Nino instantly gaped at them and almost did the first thing that came into his mind: hit the guy on the face, but the realization was also fast enough that he doesn't have the right to do that. That's why all of his tensions went into his hands and made him dropped his bowl and chopsticks altogether.

"Here's a new bowl for you." A waiter handed Nino a new bowl and a pair of chopsticks.

"Is your left wrist having this twitch again?" Sho asked starting to be concern.

"Uhh...yeah..." Nino lied and stole a glance from Jenisha.

"Going already?" Ohno asked and Arashi turned their gaze to Jenisha and Marco who stood up from their seats.

"Yes. I have to go back to Tokyo early morning." Marco said to them and bowed.

"Good luck to your racing." Sho saluted him.

"I'll just walk him outside." Jenisha smiled at them.

"Okay, join us for drinks later!" Aiba called out to her as both of them went outside the restaurant.

Nino was secretly following them with his eyes. Jenisha and Marco stopped in front of the black car. They talked shortly and Nino saw Marco slipped his hands on her waist and kissed her once more.

Nino bit the inside of his cheek and stabbed the chicken meat with his chopstick. He was trying his best to hide his frown because there were two Arashis who can read body languages very well, it's Matsujun and, nobody would believe it but the second one is, Aiba and he doesn't want to be obvious because once they suspect, the questions will be unstoppable. He was almost caught when he snorted at Marco a while ago.

When Nino turned his eyes back outside, he saw Jenisha being pinned on the car door by Marco and both of them were kissing shamelessly on the streets. It’s past midnight and there were no people passing in front of the restaurant that's why both of them were encouraged to heavily make out on the street.

"They are so openly showing their affection in public right?" Ohno commented.

"Yeah, guess we have to tell Jenisha about it. I mean it looks kind of awkward for a girl like her." Matsujun glanced at the couple.

"Well, I think we shouldn't interfere with her personal life, she's still our director though." Sho said.

"But, she's like a sister to us. What can you say if you see your younger sister making out like that on the streets?" Aiba asked them.

"I agree." Ohno said and Aiba grinned at Riida.

"...with Sho."

"Eh?!?" Aiba frowned at him and rolled his eyes.

"I do think we should let her do her own thing. She's not an idol like us to make her relationship discreet. Jenisha could kiss anyone anywhere without getting herself in trouble. Plus, I don't think she will like it if we say that she should stop kissing Marco on the streets. Looks like she's enjoying it, you want her to kill us?" Ohno chuckled.

Its Nino who wanted to strangle Ohno for saying that but Riida has a point. Jenisha's not an idol like them that's why she can make out in public anytime she wants.

And I can't do that with her... Nino thought and his insides was really boiling right now because Marco and Jenisha kissed like there's no tomorrow.

His fists clenched when he saw Marco's both hands inside Jenisha's jeans back pockets and his face buried on her neck. Nino's really sure that he doesn't like the idea of having another guy groping at Jenisha but the irony of it all, he - Kazunari Ninomiya - is the 'another guy.'

Nino has been staring into his bowl for a full minute when he heard Jenisha's name being called out. He looked and saw her approaching the entrance door with Marco and the black car already gone.

"Jenisha! Come on let's drink." Aiba said to her. Jenisha grinned and glanced at Nino who was following her with his eyes and his facial expression is dead serious. From entering the door when she went back to the restaurant until she sat down on the seat Matsujun offered, Nino's eyes were just concentrating on her.

"Are you going to get stoned tonight?" Jenisha asked as different kinds of heavy drinks were served for the whole crew and staff and for Arashi.

"Why not? Did Marco tell you not to get drink too much tonight?" Nino said as he took a first full shot of tequilla right in front of her. Jenisha didn't like the way Nino asked the question to her and she could tell that he is pissed off.

"Yes he did and I'm following that." Jenisha answered and Nino scowled at her. She was giving him a what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you look and just rolled her eyes.

"Okay, we'll just give you 5 shots of different drinks so that you'll not get that drunk." Aiba grinned at her and passed her a shot of Jack Daniels.

"Slow down Nino." Ohno said to Nino who was finishing his 6th shot of tequilla.

"Nino becomes manly whenever he's drunk." Sho chuckled.

"Yeah, I can attest to that." Jenisha whispered under her breath and was left unheard by anyone.

She was staring at Nino whose cheeks flushed and eyes starting to get lethargic and he was staring back at her with the same expression she remembered seeing during the first time they got together.

"I'll just go to the bathroom." Jenisha stood up from her seat and headed to the girl's bathroom unaware of the pair of eyes following her.

She took a look of herself in the mirror and washed her tired face. Its been a rough day for her. The concert, Marco, Nino and everything else were making her exhausted.

I was so damn lucky seeing the guy I'm supposed to be in love with and the guy I'm secretly sleeping with in the same place! Jenisha sarcastically thought.

She was happy when she was with Marco, somehow her old feelings didn't change for him but being with Nino was a blast as well. It would have been much better if she just lose all her feelings for Marco so that she could break up with him easily. However, she chose to stick with the guy and stick with Nino more.

Jenisha sigh after she wiped her face and fixed her hair then headed outside. When she outside the bathroom, she saw Nino standing just beside the men's bathroom obviously waiting for her.

"Nino?" Jenisha said as she approached the man who looked up to her the moment she went out.

"You...look drunk already." Jenisha whispered when she walked in front of him and observed his face.

"Why didn't you tell me you're bringing Marco here?" Nino suddenly asked.

Okay, now is the time to face Kazunari Ninomiya's bitching...

"I didn't called him up to be here. He surprised me a while ago before the concert." She replied and earned a snort from Nino.

"Yeah...you were really excited to see him." Nino stared at her and Jenisha rolled her eyes.

"Of course, he's my boyfriend. What do you expect?"

I was expecting you to dump him right infront of my face. Nino thought.

"You look like a slut kissing him out in the street." Nino said.

Jenisha stared at him dumfounded at what Nino said.

"W-what?" She whispered and she can't practically think properly because Nino had shot her with his words.

"Well... maybe I am a slut. I wouldn't let you use me in the first place if I wasn't. Right?" Jenisha said.

She was breathing heavily now.

Her eyes conveyed pain and anger and when Nino saw it, he realized the cruelty of what he said to her.

Jenisha was staring at him, trying very hard not to spill a single tear in front of Nino.

I knew this would happen... Her mind accused her.

"Je-"

"Hey! You're here! Le'ts go back there, alright?" Ohno saw both of them and cut off Nino's apology before he could say it.

"This guy's drunk." Jenisha said to Ohno and walked back to the table. Her voice firm and at the same time shaky.

"Time to go already?" Matsujun said when they saw Jenisha getting her body bag on her chair.

"Yeah, I'm quite tired and I ha-"

"Where are you going?" Nino asked when he arrived at the table together with Ohno.

Jenisha looked at him and she's obviously angry right now, she didn't even tried to hide it.

Screw professionalism!

"Be the slut that I am and go to Marco's hotel to sleep with him." Jenisha said. Fortunately only Arashi heard what she said and before anybody could utter a word, Jenisha hurriedly went out of the restaurant after briefly saying goodbye to the crew and staff.

"What the hell was that Nino?" Sho asked Nino who was just staring at the door where Jenisha left.

"Did you talked to her regarding making out in public?" Aiba also asked but still no reply from Nino.

"You scolded her? You didn't have to tell her she's a slut." Matsujun said and Nino just sat back on his seat and drank his 12th shot of his drink without supplying an answer.



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aah..it's d chapter when nino got jelous becoz marco n jen were kissing....
haha...

i want more...hehe...

p/s:ganbatte on updating d fic... ^^;v

ahh i kinda like the story
waiting for your update~

OMG YAY U FINALLY POSTED HERE!!! I was reading your story on arashian and it was soo good!! I LOVE IT TEEHEE and then arashian blocked ppl I couldn't finish reading!!! yay thankz for posting!!!

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Chapter 13
See You



Its getting really frustrating!

Nino thought for the fifth time as he stared at the director who was sitting on one of the seats in front of the stage while Arashi practice their dance steps. The director was busy working on her laptop for two straight days in Kyoto and she didn't even spoke to him a word - except during work. She got big headphones on her head listening to the same noisy rock music also for two days after she received a call from her country during their first day in their fourth location.

Jenisha was still obviously angry at what Nino said to her when they were in Nagoya and she was just interacting with him professionally. Nino is highly irritated when she's in professional mode infront of him while she joke around with the other Arashi members. He tried to wait up for her in her hotel room last night but got the news that she went somewhere to 'conceptualize' on something which Nino did not fully understand what the heck it meant.

She didn't even joined them for lunch or dinner for she will disappear somewhere and sometimes, they will see her sitting on one corner with her laptop and her headphones working really hard.

She have to be busy to avoid me... and she's doing it successfully! Nino sighed and was following the new set of steps that Ohno was teaching them.

There are two things that both of them always face in this kind of relationship aside from the adrenaline rush they feel because of hiding and the adventure, fear and frustration.

Fear of what they can lose the moment it will be discovered and fear of letting go.

Frustration of not being able to show their affections openly and frustration of seeing the other one in the hands of another person.

"That's a break!" Haruko announced and people started leaving the concert hall for lunch.

"Jen-chan!!!" Aiba called to her.

"She will not hear you." Ohno chuckled.

"Jenisha." Matsujun walked towards her and tapped her shoulder. She looked up at him and removed her headphones.

"Hmm?"

"Come on let's eat." Sho invited her.

"Umm...you go ahead, I'll just finish this." Jenisha smiled thinly.

"Umm...okay...we'll see you there." Ohno patted her head.

"Don't stress yourself too much." Aiba grinned at her.

"Same to you too." Jenisha said.

Ohno, Sho, Aiba and Matsujun all turned to look at Nino, their eyes were asking: "You haven't said sorry?!?!"

Nino stared back at them innocently and they just rolled their eyes at him as they began to walk away.

Nino and Jenisha's eyes met and she just casually turned her gaze away and put back her headphones.

He sighed frustratingly for the umpteenth time that day and followed his bandmates for lunch.





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Jenisha rubbed her eyes as she felt her stomach grumbled. She have been working non-stop, directing the concert and at the same time conceptualizing for another project and also making the efforts to avoid Nino. She was really pissed at what he said and she haven't heard a single 'sorry' from him. Well, that's because she haven't given him the chance to say so.

Avoiding him was not just because of what happened back in Nagoya, she wanted to end what they have little by little. Two days without the usual sneaking out and sleeping together in her hotel room has been unbearable but its the thing she must deal with. As long as she's busy, then the burden of not being with him would lessen.

She turned off her laptop and began packing her things to go and head for lunch.

As she started walking out of the concert hall and passing the corridor backstage where the buffet area was located, a hand gripped her arm and pulled her into a narrow alley that happened to be a storage room for the spotlights.

"sh**!... N-nino? What's going on?" Jenisha asked the Arashi who was checking outside if there were people who saw them.

When Nino turned to stare at her, he immediately kissed Jenisha's mouth. No movement of protest came from Jenisha the moment she felt Nino's lips softly kissing her and she automatically responded with the same energy Nino was giving her.

She did miss him that bad.

Jenisha hesitatedly stopped him when she felt his hands began crawling inside her clothes. She instantly remembered that they were just in backstage with all of the staff and crew present and there's no way they could do that there.

"N-nino...stop." Jenisha pulled out his hand and stared at him.

"I'm sorry." Nino finally blurted out.

The moment that he grabbed her a while ago and kissed her, Nino felt he was going to burst because of excitement. He missed her too much it hurts and this thing they have right now is definitely getting way out of hand. He never even thought that such thing is possible and what's worst is, Nino doesn't give a damn about anything, all that matters is for him to touch her.

Jenisha just continue staring at him when Nino said that.

"I was jealous okay? And to add insult to the injury, I can't do it anything about it because I know I have no right." Nino said and he sighed exasperatingly once again.

"Forgiven." Jenisha replied and smiled at him.

"Good. Now don't you avoid me like that again, it makes me insane." Nino smiled back and kissed her.

"Hai."

"You should eat. Go out first, I'll follow later." Nino said and gently pushed her outside.

"Okay..." Jenisha checked first to see if there was anyone looking before she went out.

"See you." Nino called out to her.

What happened to 'ending what they have little by little?'

Another attempt to normalize and forgetting about their whole let-use-each-other relationship failed.

'See You'... when he always say that to me it means that he's looking forward into committing the same sin again and again with me...

Jenisha sighed but a vibrant smile is well written on her face.






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Chapter 14
Escapade


"Where could I get a pole dancer?"

Nino instantly turned his head and stared at Jenisha with his mouth gaping.

"A what?!"

Jenisha rolled her eyes at him and sat up on the bed while clutching the blanket on her chest.

"Pole dancer. You know, strippers who danced with that long shiny pole on clubs and ba-"

"I know what a pole dancer is." Nino said, also sitting up, lit up a cigarette and put his other hand around her shoulder.

"What for?" Nino asked and handed Jenisha the lighter as she lighted her own stick.

"This hotel has a no-smoking policy in their hotel rooms." Jenisha commented.

"I don't smoke inside my hotel room."

"Really? What do you think you're doing now?" Jenisha raised her eyebrow.

"Your fault. You always smoke inside your hotel room."

"I've been smoking in hotel rooms since I was still in college. Anyways, we're getting way out of the topic." Jenisha puffed out smokes and Nino chuckled. Whenever both of them talk, it would always turns out to be so random.

"So, where could I get a pole dancer?"

"What for?" Nino asked once again.

"I have a band flying from the Philippines on Wednesday. We will be shooting their video while they're having their vacation here."

"Is that the reason why you always hibernate somewhere to conceptualize?"

"Yeah, I was formulating their video concept. So, where could I get one? You have to go with me."

"We could go to this place where Sakurai took us, when we arrive tomorrow in Osaka."

"Eh??? Sho? I think he must be the person I should be asking regarding this thing. They have such thing in Osaka?" Jenisha eargerly asked getting excited.

"Hai. Does the song has a sexually implied concept?"

"Ummm...yeah...especially when he sings it." Jenisha said and reached out for another cigarette.

"Hey Nino, you know what? During my 21st birthday before I came here to Japan, my bandmates gave me a stripper for a present."

Nino threw the empty cigarette butt on the ashtray and his eyes went wide at what Jenisha said.

"Eh?!?!?! A male stripper???" He exclaimed. For all he know, male strippers are only hired when girls are hosting a bridal shower and here, Jenisha received one on her birthday!

"No. It was a girl."

"Why do you sound so disappointed?" Nino frowned at her.

"I'm not! I don't like male strippers, they give me the creeps. Anyway, she ended up sleeping with our drummer though. They were the ones who benefit from my gift and I didn't appreciate that..."

"You walked out?"

"Nope. I asked the girl to dance for us while I was filming her. I might use it for future purposes." Jenisha shrugged her shoulders.

"Your bandmates are crazy ne?" Nino kissed her hair and removed the cigarette from her fingers.

"Hai. They'll be flying here to Japan together with the band I'm going to work with. You'll meet them if time permits. So...let's get that pole dancer tomorrow shall we?" Jenisha smiled and kissed him.

"Hai."







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"Where are you two going?" Sho asked when he saw Nino and Jenisha in the hotel lobby. They were clasping each other's hands and when they heard Sho's voice, Jenisha was about to let go of his hand but Nino grasped hers firmly. He gave her a look that told her to act normal and should not be nervous.

"There you are! I was about to ask you where can we find the club where you took us the last time we're here in Osaka?" Nino smiled at Sho.

Sho briefly frown at their hands but just disregard it since its Ninomiya the-Arashi-who-always-flirts-with-other-Arashi-and-now-in-this-case-its-their-director-he-flirts-with.

"Why? Its too early too go there."

"We're going to hire a pole dancer." Jenisha said.

"Eh?! For what?" Sho raised his eyebrow and started to get really interested.

"I've got a music video to shoot." Jenisha answered.

"I want to go with you, come on!" Sho said excitedly.

"No need Sho. Its okay just tell us where is it." Nino slightly push Sho and Jenisha was obviously casting Nino a weird look.

"B-but I-"

"What club is it again?" Nino asked, definitely ignoring Sho's desire to go with them.

"Its on the corner of a Korean restaurant near the shopping district. I really want to go." Sho pouted a bit.

"Well you ca-" Nino squeezed Jenisha's hand real hard making her flinched and not continue to agree with Sho.

"Ummm... you'll have 100% backstage access on the shoot where you can see the dancer. How's that sound?" Jenisha instead offered.

"Okay! I would love that! You go now, just be back okay? Hey, you're our director you should be back immediately." Sho said and Jenisha rolled her eyes.

"Okay okay... bye!"

"Ja ne Sho-kun!" Nino grinned at him and both of them hurriedly went out of the hotel and went inside the car.

"Why didn't you want Sho to go with us?" Jenisha asked as she started to drive the car.

"Well... don't you want to be alone with me?"

"As if we could hold hands and smooch up while we're walking on the streets. You're not even on disguise." Jenisha started to run the car as they drive going to the park.

"Hey... now that's an idea..." Nino's face brightened up and Jenisha frowned at him.

"What is?"

"Disguise! I Haven't done that for a long time. Stop there." Nino pointed to the shopping district and Jenisha just followed eventhough she's totally clueless of what's going on with him.

"Come on." Nino said enthusiastically as soon as both of them went out of the car and he dragged her to a nearby boutique which sells sweatshirts, winter caps and other clothes.

"What the hell are we going to do here?" Jenisha asked as Nino grabbed a jacket, a black bonnet, a red baseball cap and 2 aviator shades without even examining all of it and immediately paid for the items.

"I thought you're stingy when it comes to everything? Why bother buying all that?" Jenisha pointed to the clothes Nino had as he began putting on all of it.

"These are cheap don't worry." Nino grinned at her after he put on the aviator shades.

"Here put these on." Nino gave her the baseball cap and the other aviator shades. Jenisha did as what Nino said and both of them went out of the boutique.

"Chotto matte. You're still detectable." Nino stopped infront of her.

"Detectable?" Jenisha sniggered while Nino tucked her black curly hair inside the cap.

"Now, we could hold hands (Nino reached for Jenisha's hand) and smooch up (Nino pecked her lips) while we're walking on the streets. The club is just near here." Nino said and Jenisha just stared at him speechless of his actions.

All these efforts just to act normally? I'm impressed...

"Come on." Nino tugged her hand and both of them began walking on the street. He was totally unrecognizable in his outfit. The thick green jacket hides Nino's hunchback posture, the bonnet covering his noticeable funky haircut and the aviator shades big enough to conceal his eyes and half of his face.

"This is too dangerous." Jenisha said but this just made the two of them both grinning at each other. Anyone could recognize Nino or even Jenisha on the streets and they'll be dead if that happens.

"I'm beginning to sweat because of the jacket." Nino whispered and Jenisha chuckled. She took the risk by cupping Nino's jaw and kissed him full on the mouth in the middle of the street. Some people turned to stare at them, mostly old people glaring at their behavior.

"We're making the obachans angry." Jenisha said softly as both of them laughed and turned to the right corner.

"We're here."

Both of them were standing on a building just behind the shopping district. The Red Loft stood empty and its the first club that could be seen among the long line of bars and other clubs present in that corner of Osaka.

"Gaijins mostly hang out here." Nino tried to open the entrance but its lock.

"Maybe we should try going to the back." Jenisha suggested as both of them went to the back entrance of the club.

They went inside the dimly lit club and saw a girl at one of the tables.

"I'll be the one to talk." Jenisha said to Nino who was removing his jacket because he's getting really hot and at the same time he also took off his shades and bonnet.

"Ummm...ohaayo gozamaisu." Jenisha took off her shades and cap and bowed shortly to the girl.

"Ohaayo gozamaisu." The girl said and looked at her questioningly.

"I'm Jenisha Salvior... I'm actually wondering if I could hire one of your dancers."

"Murasaki. Is it for a stag party? We ask double for those kind of occasions." Murasaki asked and happened to glance at Nino with interest who walked inside and sat on one of the couch.

"I'm directing a music video and I'll be needing a pole dancer for it." Murasaki turned her attention back to Jenisha when she said that.

"Oh...I see...you negotiate it with the dancers themselves." Murasaki answered.

"Really? Umm... do you have one right now? Whom I can talk to?" Jenisha asked.

"Aira!!!" Murasaki got up from her seat and it did not escaped to Jenisha the suggestive glance Murasaki gave to Nino. Jenisha tried to hide her snigger when she saw that.

"Nani?" A girl whom Jenisha can't comprehend what kind of race she comes from, came out from one of the rooms.

"Somebody wants to talk to you." Murasaki pointed at Jenisha and the Aira came walking towards her.

"Ohayo." Aira greeted and also glanced at Nino who was examining his nails.

"Ohayo." Jenisha smiled at her.

Aira has a long straight black hair, creamy white skin and her age plays between 23-25.

"You're one of the dancers here?" Jenisha asked and she received an affirmation from Aira.

"I'm Jenisha Salvior and I'm a director going to make a music video coming this week. I'll be needing a pole dancer as part of the video concept and I was wondering if I could hire you for that." Jenisha said.

"Music video? Cool! I'm in. What kind of music video?"

"Its a rock video."

"Rock video ne? That's a different one, most of the time I saw strippers on hip hop videos."

"Well...the music is really heavy rock and since you're in, I'll be giving you a cd of the song for you to practice." Jenisha handed Aira the cd.

"Okay, this is awesome. Wait, ummm...maybe you want to try me first. Like, I could give you an impromptu dance." Aira said.

"As in right now? Sure!" Jenisha grinned.

"Okay, maybe you can show me what part of the song I'm going to dance." Both of them went to the sound system of the club and played the cd. A heavy rock song encompassed the empty club as Jenisha past forwarded the song while Aira positioned herself on the pole.

"The heavy guitar part." Jenisha called out and when she nodded at Aira, she began to dance.

Nino sat up straight when the girl began working herself up to the pole and she was doing one hell of a job with it.

Jenisha smirked at Nino's full concentration on Aira.

He's definitely enjoying the show...

Jenisha and Nino applauded when the song finished and when Aira finished her spontaneous dance.

"That was cool! You're in!" Jenisha exclaimed.

"Thanks. I never tried dancing to that kind of music before. So when's the start of the shoot?" Aira said and shoot a smile towards Nino who also smiled back.

"I'll contact you as soon as possible. Maybe we can exchange numbers." Jenisha and Aira exchanged cellphones and began typing each other's contact numbers.

"Thanks. Umm...anou...about the fee, we'll be paying you 35% before you dance and the rest after your performance. It will be given to you on the day of the shoot. Is that okay?" Jenisha asked.

"Hai. How about him?" Aira asked teasingly and Nino raised his eyebrow. Jenisha turned to look at him and a mischievous smile appeared on her face.

"Oh Nino? You can spend one night with him, how's that?" Jenisha said and Nino scowled towards her.

"Eh??!?" Nino exclaimed.

"Sure, that would be satisfactory. You don't have to pay the 35%." Aira winked at Nino and both girls laughed.

Nino kept on scowling at Jenisha.

"Thank you so much Aira. I'll just contact you okay?" Jenisha said.

"Alright. I'll wait. And...ummm...Nino-kun...one night okay?" Aira threw a kiss towards him as he and Jenisha went out of the club.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!?!" Nino exclaimed using this high-pitched voice to her as both of them walked back to where their car was park.

"Nino, I could cut my expenses that way." Jenisha still continue to pissed him off and can't erase the naughty smirk on her face.

"Nani?! Now, I serve as a payment? No, I serve as the 35% talent fee for her? Kuso..." Nino was pouting right now.

"Aww... come on, you have to admit she's a great dancer. She doesn't look perverted to me. The way she danced at the pole a while ago was really a form of art in my opinion, and besides you were gaping at her performance. Practically drooling over her."

"Shut up...that wasn't a go-"

"Ninomiya?"

Both of them turned around to see who called Nino and saw a group of girls which were totally unknown to him.

Uh-oh! Somebody recognized.

Nino offered a thin smile and turned back to kept on walking.

"Just keep on walking Jenisha." Nino muttered beside her.

"Nino! Can we get an autograph?"

"Keep on walking Jen."

"Nino of Arashi? Where?"

"Don't look back..." Nino said to Jenisha and both of them increased the speed of their walking.

"Arashi!!!!!!!"

"Walk calmly." Nino whispered and Jenisha frowned curiously at him. He was getting agitated, she could tell.

"Kazunari Ninomiya?"

"There he is!!!!"

"Walk...walk..."

"Ninomiya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Run!!!" Nino shouted to Jenisha and both of them sprinted to a run. Jenisha took the chance to look back and her eyes went wide to see hundreds of girls and women running after them, more specifically after Nino.

"sh** Nino! They're too many!!!" Jenisha said and Nino grabbed her arm as they ran to a different direction.

"Nino!!! Autograph!!! Please!!!!'

"I love you Neener!!!!!!!"

"Oh please...." Nino groaned as they kept on running and the large group of females were also catching up with them successfully.

"Nino! Just a picture!!!"

Jenisha could hear some obachans shouting as they continue to run. Their feet is starting to get sore.

"Nino! Nino! Nino!!!"

"sh**! We're trapped." Nino stopped and looked around for a place to hide.

"They're near." Jenisha said as she could see the mob of girls running in their direction.

"In here!" Nino grabbed Jenisha and ran inside a restaurant before the girls saw them.

Both of them went inside a Chinese restaurant and headed straight to the unisex rest room.

"sh**...I'm so dead when they know this." Nino panted as he wiped his sweats.

"You forgot to put back your disguise outfit." Jenisha said and leaned on the bathroom wall.

"I think we lost them..." Nino whispered.

"So...its proven huh? Idols are really being mobbed by fangirls when they're on the street..." Jenisha grinned at him.

"Huh?.... hey...wait a minute...y-you brought me out here so that you could perform your little experiment if an idol will be mob by fangirls?!?!?" Nino looked at her ridiculously.

"Hmm...something like that." Jenisha grinned even more and chuckled when she saw Nino totally getting pissed.

"First you want me to give as payment to the pole dancer, now you let me be mobbed by fangirls? I can't believe it." Nino shook his head and Jenisha was just forcing herself not to laugh.

"So...how was the experiment?" Nino asked sarcastically.

"Success. The fangirls are crazy ne?" Jenisha said.

"You're the one who's crazy here." Nino replied.

"But you love me." Jenisha pinched his cheek and kissed the tip of his nose.

"Sheesh..." Nino rolled his eyes but wrapped his arm around her waist and kissed her lips.

"Let's get out of here." Jenisha said and Nino put back his disguise and she did the same.

"That's a great idea."







note: The Red Loft is an invented place... never been to any parts of Japan (i wish...)

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Chapter 15
I Guess So


Good thing she has an assistant director that she could trust with while she do her own project.

"She left? For what?" Matsujun asked Nino regarding Jenisha who wasn't around in the venue, with Hideki the assistant director giving instructions and overseeing the stage set ups.

"She has a video shoot. She'll be gone for the whole day." Nino replied. He and Jenisha were together last night until dawn when she received a call that got her all squealing with excitement and immediately contacted Aira, the pole dancer she hired yesterday. She later on explained to him that the band arrived and so were her own bandmates and they wanted to shoot the video immediately.

Jenisha left at exactly 7:30 in the morning after she gave her instructions to Hideki and dropped Nino back to the hotel.

"A video shoot? What kind of video?" Ohno mused.

"Its a rock music video and she hired a pole dancer!" Sho said and Aiba's face suddenly lit up as he have this stupid smile.

"I.want.to.go!" Aiba exclaimed.

"I want to see her directing the video." Matsujun also became interested.

"See her directing the video or you want to see the pole dancer?" Nino asked sarcastically. Matsujun looked at him then a shy grin formed in his lips.

"Both."

"Riida, what's the itinerary for today?" Aiba asked.

"Umm...photoshoot and a short rehearsal, since yesterday we did a lot of rehearsing and a mago mago shoot." Ohno replied.

"That's it? No more? Free time already? Can we go to Jenisha's shoot????????" Aiba's eyes has this sparkle as he looked at the other Arashi definitely pleading.

"I want to." Matsumoto said and Aiba beamed at him because the youngest Arashi RARELY agrees with Aiba.

"See? Jun-kun wants to. Come on, Sho-chan! Don't you want to see the pole dancer?" Aiba insisted.

"Of course I want to!" Sho smiled.

"Well... I agree... how about you Nino?" Ohno turned to the smallest guy of the group who was just listening to them nonchalantly.

As usual he looked uninterested and nonchalant about the whole thing.

"Come on Nino, this will be fun." Aiba tugged at Nino's sleeve.

"I think he's being lazy again. We'll support Jenisha this time." Sho said to convince Nino.

"Fine. Whatever." Nino responded lazily.

"Yosh!" Aiba exclaimed and as the plan was made, a grin appeared on Nino's face while the four Arashi walked ahead of him.

Who's being lazy? You just gave me the opportunity to see her...






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Aiba, Nino, Ohno, Matsujun and Sho walked into a 1 hectare studio that was filled with heavy music, air smelled of cigarette smokes, and Japanese crew walking to and fro around the place carrying large equipments and furnitures. They saw the studio divided into three set. The first has a background of white with the instruments; the second was made into a bedroom with a queen size bed with the dim lights, a chair, a dresser, etc; and the third set has so many yellow lights set up on the back with a translucent wall on the front where the shadow of the pole could be seen.

"That's definitely where the pole dancer is!" Aiba exclaimed.

"Shut up, Aiba." Matsumoto said and he was also trying to conceal his excitement.

Heavy guitar riffs and drum tracks echo in the studio as RailQueen position themselves in front of the camera while their song "Shallow Driven" continuously play in every take. It's getting hot inside the studio because of the different spotlights lighted up on each set.

"Roll playback!" Someone shouted from the megaphone and when Arashi turned to look, they saw the director intently watching on her own monitor while eagerly puffing out smokes on her cigarette.

"There she is." Sho pointed out and they began to walk to her.

"I didn't know she smoke." Ohno said.

"Me either." Added Aiba.

"Uhh...yeah, she does." Nino answered absent-mindedly and Ohno stared at him.

"You know a lot huh?" Ohno teased and Nino chose to kept his mouth shut.

That was only a joke Nino...stop being so paranoid...

"Jen-chan!" Aiba shouted and many people who were sitting on the sides watching the shoot turned to stare at the Japanese who came running to her and was shouting her name.

"sh**, Aiba! Keep quiet!" Sho ran after him. Jenisha turned her head and saw Aiba of Arashi running to her and enclosed her in a hug.

"Uh...A-aiba?...w-wha-" Jenisha was utterly speechless as the guy embraced her.

"Sorry, Jenisha. Aiba quit it." Sho was removing Aiba's hands from her.

"The whole troop is here?" Jenisha asked and saw Nino, Matsujun and Ohno approaching.

"Hi." Matsujun waved his hand towards her.

"Hello to you too. Uh... wait... Cut!!!" Jenisha shouted once again through her megaphone and the music stopped.

"That's a 15 minute break for all us!" Jenisha said and turned to Arashi.

"Wow... all of you are here." Jenisha grinned at them and glanced at Nino.

"Well...support is what we will give." Ohno smiled.

"Where is the pole dancer?" Aiba asked eagerly and Matsujun hit his head.

"OH... I see... support ne?" Jenisha rolled her eyes but has a smile playing on her lips.

"They were too eager to go when they knew that you hired a pole dancer." Nino said.

"Uh-huh and so does my boys." Jenisha threw her cigarette on the ashtray and pointed to the band and to a group of guys who were drinking beer and smoking near the set.

"Jen!!!" One of the guys ran to her and messed her hair and ended putting his arm around her.

"What Eric?"

Arashi watched in amusement as two other guys approached her and all of them were cuddling her, embracing her and kissing her on the cheeks and they were talking in a combination of English and Filipino.

"Ummm..chotto matte!" Jenisha said to the three Filipino guys and they just stared at her clueless because they didn't understand what she just said.

"I want you to meet Arashi." Jenisha switched back to Filipino and she said that once again in Japanese. She introduce the five boys to her bandmates named Eric, Dylan and Jed and to the band RailQueen by saying everything in two language, in Filipino and in Nihonggo, to bridge the language gap. She breathed with relief when the introduction was finished but Jenisha still served as an interpreter as both parties converse. Good thing Jed, Jerome (RailQueen's drummer) - who took Nihonggo classes - and Sho, helped her because he could speak English but one downside of it was that they were able to interpret to Arashi that the lead vocalist of RailQueen was Jenisha's ex boyfriend - because of her bandmates constant teasing - which got Nino's eyebrow to raise.

Surprisingly, Ohno developed an instant crush to the girl who star in the video who was introduced as Trish.

"Kawaii ne?" Ohno said to Jed as the two of them were talking.

"Hai. She's my older sister." Jed grinned at him.

"Eh??" Ohno blushed.

"All of you look younger than us huh?" Jed said with a bitter laugh.

"Hey, you can just get food if you're hungry alright?" Jenisha said to them and was glad because they were all interacting with each other despite of the difference in culture. It was like a one big family reunion.

Jerome serves as the 'linguist bridge' talking with Paul (RQ's lead vocalist), Matsujun, Aiba, Dylan and Chris (RQ's bassist) while Nino, Eric, Aries (RQ's percussion), Archer (RQ's lead guitarist) and Jeff (RQ's rhythm guitarist) were also conversing, with Sho as their interpreter.

They were enjoying to the fullest.

Now that's the true essence of shooting a video! Fun!

Jenisha thought as she was helping some of the crew changing the lights on the second set.

"Jenisha-chan, there's a girl searching for you." Toshi said and when Jenisha turned to see who it was, she saw Aira waving at her. She hurriedly went down of the ladder and went to Aira.

"Hey!!!" Jenisha greeted her and briefly hugged each other.

"Sorry, I'm late."

"Not really. Just in time for your shot. Sorry for the early call I made a while ago, I was so excited because of my friends' arrival."

"I'm fine with it." Aira grinned at her.

"Come on, I'll introduce you." Jenisha said and picked up her megaphone.

"Everyone!!! Meet Aira, she'll be our resident dancer for the video!" There were greetings and applause as Jenisha lead Aira to her friends.

"This is the band RailQueen." Jenisha introduced Aira.

"Hello, nice meeting you." Aira said in English.

"You can speak English!" Jeff exclaimed.

"Ummm... the club where I work at has so many foreigners attending the place." Aira replied.

"At least we can have another interpreter." Jerome joked.

"Yeah, there are only four of us who were making all of these guys talk to each other." Jenisha chuckled and lighted another cigarette.

"That's cool." Aira said.

"And these are my bandmates. We have a band back home. This is Eric, Jed and Dylan."

"How are you?" Jed asked.

"Fine. I'm excited to dance." Aira grinned.

"And... you might be familiar with them." Jenisha pointed at Arashi.

"Arashi." Aira said and winked at Nino. Jenisha sniggered as Sho, Aiba, Matsujun and Ohno stared at Nino with weird expressions.

Nino just shortly waved at Aira and frowned towards Jenisha.

"Ummm...are you ready?" Jenisha asked Aira.

"Yeah I am."

"Good. Meet Tania, she'll take care of you. We'll start in five minutes." Jenisha introduced her to the make-up artist.

"Guys! We'll start in five minutes. Let's get the lights ready for the third set okay?!" Jenisha said through her megaphone as her voice enveloped the whole studio. She switched on to her professional mode as she continuously puffed out smoke from her cigarette.

"She's ready." Tania said to her and Jenisha went towards Aira.

"Come on let's go there."

Both of them headed to the set and went behind the translucent wall to where a gold pole is located behind it.

"Can we test out the lights here?" Jenisha shouted on the megaphone and the hundred small yellow bulbs were lit, showing only their shadows on the front.

"Jenisha dance for us!" Eric teased.

"Yeah do the pole dance!" Jed added and RailQueen together with Sho were laughing.

"What are they saying?" Nino asked to Sho.

"They want Jenisha to pole dance!" Sho chuckled.

"Eh?!" Aiba exclaimed.

"Shut the f**k up, will you?" Jenisha said on the megaphone and flashed her middle finger through the shadow. All of the people in the studio laughed at the gesture.

"She must be pissed." Ohno smirked.

"Hope this outfit's okay." Aira said and took off her trenchcoat and revealed a two piece black bikini.

"Umm...yeah, that's excellent. Nice choice actually. Your figure can be shown in the shadow clearly." Jenisha smiled and was unaware of the crowd of boys outside getting silent.

It just so happened that the males shut their mouths the moment that Aira took off her coat, and since they could only see her shadow, the s**y curves were really noticeable.

"I prefer you barefooted though." Jenisha pondered on.

"Oh, yeah...you're right." Aira removed her shoes and was already gripping the pole doing some warm-up.

"Okay, you'll hear my cue first then the music. You can start dancing to it but give your all at the heavy instrumental I assigned to you the last time. Okay?"

"Yup, got it." Aira grinned.

"Goodluck." Jenisha and Aira exchanged high fives as she proceeded outside and saw most of the guys gaping at Aira's shadow who was snaking her hips at the pole.

"RailQueen! Be ready for your individual shots!" Jenisha suddenly shouted startling the gaping guys out of their daydream.

"You don't need to be harsh Jen." Paul said and Jenisha grinned at him.

"Ready Aira?" Jenisha asked through her megaphone and Aira gestured an 'okay' sign on the shadow.

"Play music!" Jenisha said and 'Shallow Driven' was once again played.

"She's hot huh?" Jenisha whispered to Nino and she gestured a coca-cola bottle shape with her hands matching with a whistle.

"Stop it you're scaring me." Nino stared at her shocked.

"What?" Jenisha raised her eyebrow and threw her fifth cigarette on the floor.

"You sound like a lesbian."

"What?! I just know how to appreciate a girl. What the hell is wrong with that?" Jenisha shrugged her shoulder and watched at the monitor intently.

When the heavy instrumental came in, all of them were just staring at the third set. Aira was powerfully tossing her hair, snaking her hips, doing those pole stunts and was dancing so sexily and so matched with the music that everyone was literally gaping at her including Jenisha and Trish (the lead girl who Ohno has a crush on).

It was only a minute after the music finished and after Aira stopped dancing that Jenisha was able to say the word 'cut!' out loud.

"Wow." Aiba whispered.

"Too bad, I was only able to see her shadow." Matsujun muttered.

"What was she wearing?" Sho wondered out loud.

"..." From Ohno.

"Okay! That's a wrap for Aira!!!" Jenisha exclaimed on her megaphone. She doesn't need a re-take because Aira did one hell of a great job with it.

"Let's give it up for her!" Jenisha said when Aira went out of the wall with her coat on. Applauses, cheers, hoots and whistles can be heard.

"That was hot!" RailQueen was saying.

"Thanks!" Aira beamed at them after exchanging high fives.

"That was great Aira!" Jenisha hugged her.

"Thanks, I enjoyed it. Love the song!" Aira said to RailQueen. Jenisha's bandmates and Arashi went to Aira and also gave her some high fives.

"We don't need to re-take it. Go ahead feel free to get some food." Jenisha led Aira to the buffet area for her to eat.

"Thanks, Jenisha-chan. Is it okay if I stay for the rest of the shoot? I want to watch."

"Of course Aira!" Jenisha said.

"We don't mind actually." Dylan grinned towards the dancer and Jenisha rolled her eyes.

"Yeah they won't." Jenisha said sarcastically.






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"It's.a.freaking.wrap!!!!" Jenisha finally declared at 1:30 in the morning and the whole crew, the band and everyone else in the room cheered.

She was stunned to see that Arashi stayed for the whole duration of the shoot without even going out or even saying that they're bored. They have enjoyed the company of their new-found friends while they shoot the video. Even Aira stayed just chatting and laughing with the boys.

"It's a wrap for the RailQueen's video! Thank you so much! I enjoyed working with a group of very motivated and passionate people! From the crew to the band, thanks!" Jenisha made her little speech on the megaphone and everyone was happy that it was finished.

Jerome also gave a speech in thanking the Japanese crew, Arashi, Aira and Trish for being part of the video in Nihonggo as he speak on behalf of the band then after that, they started packing.

"Where are you heading next?" Jenisha asked her bandmates.

"Hiroshima."

"Eh?! I want to go there too."

"Then go with us. You were the one who badly wanted to go there right?" Eric said.

"I'm going there because of the tour but that would be like...in a week!" Jenisha sighed frustratingly.

"Yeah, we will be having our show in Hiroshima in approximately by next week." Sho patted Jenisha.

"Tsktsk...we will visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum just like what we planned." Jed teased.

"Oh...just go without me and bring me pictures okay? I'll be going there myself." Jenisha pouted.

"Why do you want to go there?" Sho asked.

"First of all we are history freaks, especially that girl. We really wanted to visit it and just experienced the whole place where history happened." Dylan answered.

"...and for fun, maybe ghost hunting." Eric added.

"Eh?! We never tried ghost hunting there...hmmm..." Sho pondered on the idea.

"Guys, we have to catch the train going to Hiroshima." Jed said.

"We have to go Jen. Inform us where you're heading next, we might meet you up." Dylan hugged her and kissed her on the cheek.

"Okay. So, RailQueen will be heading to Tokyo? God, it sucks not to go with you."

"Yup. Next time will do, you have work. We miss you." Jed said. Jenisha hugged all the boys as they started gathering their things. They also exchanged goodbyes and numbers with Arashi and Aira as all of them departed.

"Be safe okay!" Jenisha shouted after she walked them to the door. She walked inside feeling sad that she won't be able to go with them for vacation.

RailQueen was still left talking to four Arashi and the crew were still continuing to pack.

"Oh sh**... I'm really tired." Jenisha slumped down to the couch beside Nino.

"You should be. You've been working your a** off for the whole day." Nino looked at her and ached to kiss her.

"Jenisha-chan. I have to go." Aira said.

"Oh...yeah. Thank you so much Aira." Jenisha walked up to her and hugged her after she handed Aira her fee.

"Thanks too. Come on Nino." Aira motioned Nino to get up. Nino was staring at her dumbly.

"Huh?"

"Oh! I forgot! Nino remember you're suppose to go with Aira? The 35%?" Jenisha instantly remembered and was grinning mischievously.

Nino squinted his eyes at Jenisha and was beginning to scowl.

"Gomen...gomen..." Aira started to laugh real hard at Nino's reaction and Jenisha joined in as she went to Nino and patted his head.

"I was just kidding!" Aira wiped her eyes as she tried to suppress her laughter.

"Girls..." Nino rolled his eyes and Jenisha messed his hair.

"I think Ninomiya's in a cranky mood right now, Aira-chan." Jenisha said.

"Hai. Thank you so much." Aira bowed and Nino also did the same.

"Take care." Jenisha waved her hand when Aira started to go out of the building after saying goodbye to the band and to Arashi.

"That was fulfilling." Jenisha was massaging Nino's hair and her hand slid down and hooked it on his neck.

"Yeah, you look tired but happy." Nino smiled at her. His hands crawled to her waist as he pulled her closer.

"Hai." Jenisha closed her eyes as her face went near his when suddenly she popped her eyes open and stared at him shocked. Nino was also staring at her and they blinked stupidly in front of each other.

"I almost kissed you." Jenisha whispered.

"Yeah..." Nino said in a soft voice. Their whole body froze when they realized that they have been cuddling at each other and almost engage in a make-out session in front of their friends. They totally forgot that Arashi was there, RailQueen was there and a whole lot of Japanese crew was there.

"I guess...no one noticed... right?" Jenisha asked, still afraid to move.

"I...guess so..." Nino replied and slowly both of them removed their arms from one another and fell silent. They observed their surroundings and felt that everything was normal.

"I really guess that no one noticed..." Jenisha said trying to convince themselves.

"Uh-huh...I agree." Nino let out a slow deep breath.

However, it escaped to Nino and Jenisha the frowning curious looks that Aiba and Ohno shot at them when they were cuddling each other.

Aiba and Ohno stared at each other when they both saw what they saw.





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