Korisu, incoming!

"Yo, min'na! My name is Kimishima Hikari , the current Oshima Yuko the 9th! I'm cheerful, positive, and always ready to go! Let's have some fun!" //RP blog associated with the AKB0048RP group, but will RP with any fandom. All images images belong to their respective owners and all credit to them. This is a sideblog. If I follow you back, it will be on my main RP blog, 'takamiyu'.

[yukorisus]

Yuko looked at the results for the preliminary voting skeptically. She was somehow sitting at fourth on the rankings, despite not having done much since she had returned from her disappearance. In all honesty, Yuko had been trying to fade away a bit into the background and let the new generation step up, but it wasn't in her blood to do so - being so ultra competitive meant that 'fading away' wasn't a part of her mindset. Her emotions were rather mixed - happy that she was still sitting so high on the rankings despite her inactivity, but disappointed that she wasn't first.

"What to do, what to do..." Yuko muttered to herself. She sighed and set up a webcam, streaming it live to her Nico Nico channel.

"Hiya guys! I know that I haven't been doing much lately, but I'm still so happy that everyone's voting for me! You're the greatest fans ever, really - so keep it up! Your Yuko isn't going down that easily - let's aim for number 1 again!"

[tanemura-hinata-blog]

Training by observation, with hot chocolate on the side.

[yukorisus]

Yuko laughed at the way the younger girl was calling her. 'Yuko-sama?' she thought, giggling to herself. It wasn’t new by any standards - she had gone by ‘Yuko-san’, ‘Yuko-senpai’, ‘Yuko-sama’, sometimes even ‘Yuko-sensei’ by some of the really young girls. It was rather interesting for her - the honorific added seemed to change as she became more and more senior, and was an indication of it. And right now, she was likely the most senior member in the group, albeit not necessarily age-wise.

Nevertheless, suddenly she felt rather old.

"Of course I’m way cuter in real life! Sexy~!" she said jokingly, posing.

"Besides, that was from a looong time ago. You won’t learn anything watching the rookie me from back then!" she said, indicating towards the screen where the past her was still grinning stupidly back at the two girls, oblivious to all the mistakes she had just made in the dance as a rookie.

"Well, you clearly know who I am. But I haven’t seen you around!" Yuko gasped, remembering that today was the day that a certain event was taking place. She couldn’t believe that she didn’t remember. ”Are you one of the new 79th generation kenkyuusei? What’s your name?”

[tanemura-hinata-blog]

Of course the young Yuuko was not the only person Hinata was studying, but a wise person back home had told her the wisest people learned from others’ mistakes. And so she did. “Yes, I am!” She replied, smiling brightly. “I’m Tanemura Hinata! Please take care of me! Oh yes!” She had almost forgot about the jar of hot chocolate waiting at the table. “Would Yuuko-sama like some chocolate? I made it myself”.

[yukorisus]

"I'm never going to turn down something made by one of my cute kouhais!" Yuko said teasingly, sitting down next to Hinata, not really paying attention to the fact that she had just sat beside someone who was clearly a huge 00 fan. If it was the younger her and Acchan had done that, Yuko would've screamed in excitement and bear hugged her. But that was Yuko.

"Hinata-chan, hmm?" Yuko said, sipping at the hot chocolate. "I don't know much about you yet, but you make a fantastic hot chocolate!" She took another sip, savouring the taste of hand-made hot chocolate compared to the stuff that the shops sold.

"So what are you watching these old tapes for?"

[itano-tomoyo]

"The original Yuko certainly had determination! The original Mayu was like that too. Be honest about what you want and go for it at full force!" The original members were truly wonderful. Perhaps she was biased, but those from the first three generations, those who paved their names down as amazing idols and paved a path for their groups, were on a whole other level. "The original Tomochin too, had a strong spirit. She was never afraid to hold her tongue!"

"Exactly. We’re never forced into becoming Tomochin, but we are forced to go to a few concerts and the like, so we have something to make a decision on. It’s nice, having shared experiences. Some of us even have the same fans, and they help us along our path." Chuckling, she added, "Though we all want ourselves to express different parts of Tomomi, which annoys some of the fans."

"00 isn’t always treated kindly. We go where our parents can’t protect us, we can be arrested, be seriously injured… It’s no wonder parents aren’t always willing to accept 00 as a career." Tomochin tilted her head. "I’m sure I’ve bored you enough with my past. You don’t have to keep things to yourself." Her family did like to gossip (though they were never share private information!), so Tomo was more than a little curious, but to take the pressure off, she laughed, “But if you do want to hear more about my past, I could try to recite the Scrolls of Tomochin for you~”

[yukorisus]

Yuko laughed. "She certainly wasn't!" The original Tomochin was quite well known for saying what was on her mind, regardless of the circumstances. It had made for several hilarious moments on AKB's late night AKBingo shows, when Tomochin would do things from harsh comments to the hosts to negative critique of special guests - she always spoke what she was thinking at the time, and it was what her fans loved about her.

"I guess trying to be the entire original would be a bit overwhelming, wouldn't it?" Yuko pondered. "You could only go for trying to emphasise that bits of her that you feel are the most special. It's the same for Yuko - I feel as though trying to be exactly like the original would be too much for one person to handle. Also, we want to keep our sense of individuality as well, don't we?"

Yuko's eyes lit up. She had heard of the scrolls of Tomochin before, and had even heard a bit of it from the previous Tomochin - it was always something that intrigued her. How exactly did the Itano family stay so...Itano-like?

"I'll tell you about me if you tell me the scrolls!" Yuko said, grinning.

[megu-of-the-76th-gen]

-「 M u s i c 」-

[megu-of-the-76th-gen]

Megu glanced at where Mayuyu and Jurina were sitting at and shuddered, thinking that now Chef Papa might be having it tougher since that there are now two people with stomachs like black holes.

"Hey hey, I don’t barge in to people’s rooms! I just…pay them visits. Uninvited."

'I swear, Yuko might be arrested one day because of her perverted mind and actions… if she wasn't already an idol,' she thought. “Please don’t pay anyone sudden visits ‘uninvited,’ Yuko-san,” Megu said. The thought of having future surprise visits from this girl had scared her a little.

"Development in all sorts of areas?" Megu repeated slowly. 'Come on, they aren't that small. At least I'm not flat,' she thought, getting more nervous by the seccond. She subconsciously started to put some distance between her and the successor. “What kind of ‘development’ do you mean?” she asked in a small voice, knowing full well what she was referring to.

[yukorisus]

"Oh, don't worry! I won't be coming around to your room again any time soon!" Her lips twitched, almost in a smirk. "I mean, gotta make the full rounds, right? It's unfair if I'm only paying attention to one of my kouhai. Unless you want my...full attention."

"Oh, you know what development I'm talking about," Yuko said while grinning, as her hands moved in a very specific perverse action as though she was squeezing something. "Don't worry though, you're still growing," she said while winking. "I'm sure you'll have...developed more the next time I check up on you."

[cherrychieri]

Wondering

[cherrychieri]

Chieri sighed. This was all getting so complicated! “So I guess its a mutual road then? We watch them, they watch us. We give them what they want, our aura, so we continue to shine for them, and they… give us the kirara drive in return? All in an effort to understand each other? But I wonder then, when we do finally understand each other, or they understand us before we understand them, what happens? Will they abandon us? And what if the kirara are sinister?”

She hadn’t truly come out and said ‘we’ll you know, they actually have human-type forms and kinda grab for you and they do look pretty freaky’. She wasn’t sure if she wanted to either - was that a smart thing to let all the kiraras know? Did they have a shared consciousness? Chieri shook her head and continued speaking.

"Miichan said she was scared, remember. There weren’t any major battles at the time, nobody was about to claim her title, of Miichan or the center nova, and she enjoyed her position. Could it be the kirara that scared her?"

"My generation had my father’s interference. He was trying to create artificial kiraras." Yasunaga had kept her up to date on some things after her father’s death, though the legalities of the company were still causing everyone strife. "Even without that, my generation does have a lot of kirara… Do you think its because we’ve been around so much dualium in such a short amount of time?"

[yukorisus]

Yuko sighed. "Sometimes I do wonder why they want our aura so badly. Is it a necessity for them? Do they need it to live? Or is it like some kind of...Alien high?" She absentmindedly stroked her kirara which was resting on the table, seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that they were discussing its kind. She looked down on it, thinking.

"They observe us, but do they even understand us? Are they observing us in an attempt to understand us? Or are we like pets to them? You know, I always thought of mine as a pet, but what if it's the other way round?" She shuddered. "Kirara are kinda freaky once you think about it."

"I don't think Miichan will tell us if it truly were the kirara that scared her - she wouldn't want us to worry without any concrete evidence either. I feel like she was scared because she didn't want to disappear like the other Centre Novae, but what if she really was scared of the kirara? What if they are the cause of the phenomenon?" She ruffled her hair, frustrated. "It doesn't make any sense! They watch us to find which of us shine the brightest, and then...Kidnap those people? But Acchan told m-" Yuko stopped. She hadn't really told anyone what Acchan had said to her in the space theatre before, even though many of the group already knew what happened there, she had only given vague details to everyone but Tsubasa.  "Well, when I disappeared, there were no kirara in that area, but there appeared to be a lot in the space theatre. Could that be their real home? And why are they only taking a select few of us there?"

She laughed nervously. "Perhaps you'll find out if they ever decide to kidnap you." Chieri certainly shone bright enough - she was more radiant than Yuko ever was. Her and the current Acchan...It was a bit of a coin flip to decide who was more radiant. And their generation? Well, they were on a complete different level from all the other generations that had come before them. "Dualium could be the case, but that would mean that the priestesses in the underground chamber would have kirara flocking to them more so than idols." Woops, wasn't supposed to say that to someone who hasn't succeeded yet. "Uh, ignore that. But dualium could be a small part of the equation."

[itano-tomoyo]

"I pick my battles wisely! Even if they do challenge me, I won’t make it easy for them! And I certainly won’t let them keep my spot for too long if they do win!" The good thing about being Tomochin was that there was loyalty to the name. Perhaps it wasn’t always to the girl, like most other fanbases, but the fans did try their best, so she needed to do the same and not give up too easily!

  Tomochin nodded. “Even when I was just Itano Tomoyo, there were already so many expectations. It was honestly a lot and like I said at the elections, I wasn’t really interested in becoming Tomochin until I saw how much my sister’s fans loved her… I actually have two sisters, both who were Tomochin, and my mother was as well. Everyone thought I’d enter 00 and become like them. But mama also has sisters - one became a successor of Nontii, but her children became Tomochin, and mama’s other sister was Tomochin after her, with her children following her foot steps… We’re known for not really being effected for competition within the group; I guess it’s because we have plenty of our own competition.”

"I sometimes wonder what it would like, not being Tomochin, but being someone different, like my Aunt. But I love Tomochin. I love being able to talk to everyone at home, and we all instantly understand each other. It’s tough having so much to live up to, but I have a somewhat instant fanbase to help me through tough times, and it’s nice continuing the family legacy~."

[yukorisus]

"That's the spirit!" Yuko said, grinning. "Even if you're gonna be number two sometimes, just keep fighting till you get that number 1 spot! The original Yuko was like that, right? She was always second to Acchan, but she never gave up! That's what I tell everyone! Never give up! The fight ain't over till you say it's over!"

Yuko cocked her head to one side, listening to Tomochin talk about her family...While in her mind imagining how big Tomochin's family was. And how everyone would look the same. She had visited the Itano house once - the four generations of Tomochins there all talked the same, looked the same, acted the same. Of course, they all had their own unique traits, but it was still rather amusing to witness.

Suddenly, Yuko really wanted to go to a full Itano family gathering.

"It must be really nice, having continuity like that. I mean, it's kinda like you already have the name prepared for you, you just gotta decide whether or not you love Tomochin enough to take it up, right? Like you said, you could've succeeded others if you really wanted to as well, I guess." Yuko, for one, had never considered that - she had always imagined the Itano family as just one huge line of Tomochins. "But hey, at least you got people to talk to about your work and life, right? For the rest of us, some of have families that didn't even support our decision at first to join 00, like the current Acchan. I for one..." Ah. "Don't worry, don't worry~ I don't want to start talking about the past!"

[megu-of-the-76th-gen]

-「 M u s i c 」-

[megu-of-the-76th-gen]

Megu made a mad dash towards the main staircase. All her training as an understudy helped as she reached the top of the stairs first. The brunette concentrated and put all her strength into winning this match against her senpai. Finally, she reached to the dining room. When Megu looked up, realized that Yuko was right in front of her.

"Yuko! You… beat… me!" she said in between huffs from running. The brunette felt slightly annoyed that she was beaten to her own challenge, but was quite happy that she knew that she had room to improve. "Now I’m really hungry! Let’s go grab some food!" Megu exclaimed. She walked into the dining room feeling slightly proud of herself, not knowing exactly why she felt that way, but accepted it nonetheless.

"Oh!" she turned around and looked at Yuko. "It was fun hanging out with you today. Let’s listen to more Vocaloid music some time, and don’t barge in like you did earlier again!" Knowing Yuko, she would most likely burst into her room uninvited again even if she were to promise not to, but said it anyway.

[yukorisus]

Yuko stood tall, pretending not to be winded even though she was huffing a little. It was nice to have competition once in a while, but as the senpai she didn't want to look weak or anything. "Of course! I'm the best, Oshima Yuko!" She proclaimed jokingly, posing. "Losing isn't part of my DNA!" That much was true, at least - Yuko hated losing, and everyone in 00 knew that.

"Food, food~" Yuko sang, waltzing into the kitchen and waving to everyone there. As usual, the two giant eaters Mayuyu and Jurina sat at their own tables, surrounded by plates. Neither appeared to give Yuko or Megu even a glance - they were too concentrated on their food. 

"Hey hey, I don't barge in to people's rooms! I just...pay them visits. Uninvited."

"Gotta check up on the development of my juniors, right?" Her eyes scanned Megu head to toe, with a slightly mischievous glint in them. "Development in all sorts of areas."

[itano-tomoyo]

Tomochin laughed, glad that Yuko’s determination was still strong. “E-eh?! Me? Challenge the top?! No way! Of course Takamina can, she’s already on your heels, she’s been around forever and is respected by everyone, but I don’t have that kind of star power!”

"I mean, I’d love to be at the top. But those two girls are something. I’m not sure if my own something is quite at that level yet." She felt a little guilty, but Tomoyo didn’t think they’d be able to challenge her for long - Acchan’s were quite quick to come and go, and if Chieri was as bright as the last Acchan, she’d disappear within a few years. For a Tomochin, she herself was quite young - and she wasn’t going anywhere for a good five or more years yet!

Tomochin hmmed. Even though she grew up surrounded by 00 (sometimes literally - at one point her sister thought it was a brilliant idea to invite what seemed to be every member over for a sleepover), she tended to see 00 as the members who were around when she joined. Teasingly she said, “I had to wait until my sister had her time in the spotlight, otherwise I would have been your senior!”

[yukorisus]

Yuko scoffed. Tomochin was definitely underestimating herself - even if she only ranked 8th in the previous elections, she was third in the early returns. It was like every Tomochin, even the original - they always had an extremely devoted fanbase, and were always a dark horse in the elections. It certainly helped that because the Tomochin lineage was carried exclusively through one bloodline, lots of fans also shared that lineage - if their parents were fans of Tomochin, they likely would be as well, and so on.

Yuko giggled. It was like the Itano family had their own cult.

She poked Tomochin in the cheek. "Hey, hey, where's that confident and mature Tomochin that we know and love? Say what's really on your mind! You think they have no chance against you, right?" She asked jokingly.

Yuko considered it. "I guess that's true." Tomochin was only a year or two younger than her, certainly. And if her sister had graduated earlier, she definitely would have succeeded almost immediately - Tomochins seemed to be bred and raised just to be the next Tomochin. They would be ready the moment the former one stepped down. It was like a systematic machine with no faults or errors. She sighed, and lay her head on the table.

"I've been Yuko now for 5, almost 6 years now though, y'know? That's almost a third of my lifetime." She stared dreamily at the wall. "Sometimes I forget what it was like being just Kimishima Hikari." She laughed and glanced at the other girl. "Though I guess you wouldn't understand that too much, since you were pretty much Tomochin the moment you were born, just with a different name."

[tanemura-hinata-blog]

Training by observation, with hot chocolate on the side.

[tanemura-hinata-blog]

It was off, how the sound of the video had changed just a little. It was almost like it had gone to full stereo, but it also felt like one of the voices had multiplied itself… did the chocolate had really mellowed her down to that level, though? That sounded like a real person behind her back! Hinata turned around to find the exact same face she had left on the screen, looking right back at her. “Eeek!” She jumped a little, and the chocolate danced precariously inside the mug. “Y-Y-Y-Y-Yuko-sama! In the flesh!” The startled expression, oddly, quickly changed to a huge stupid grin as she left the mug on the table and kneeled on the seat to face the older girl. “Are you really Yuko-sama?” she said, alternating between looking at the smiling face in the screen and the smiling face in real life. “You’re like super-duper-cute! Like, a hundred times cuter in person!”

[yukorisus]

Yuko laughed at the way the younger girl was calling her. 'Yuko-sama?' she thought, giggling to herself. It wasn't new by any standards - she had gone by 'Yuko-san', 'Yuko-senpai', 'Yuko-sama', sometimes even 'Yuko-sensei' by some of the really young girls. It was rather interesting for her - the honorific added seemed to change as she became more and more senior, and was an indication of it. And right now, she was likely the most senior member in the group, albeit not necessarily age-wise.

Nevertheless, suddenly she felt rather old.

"Of course I'm way cuter in real life! Sexy~!" she said jokingly, posing.

"Besides, that was from a looong time ago. You won't learn anything watching the rookie me from back then!" she said, indicating towards the screen where the past her was still grinning stupidly back at the two girls, oblivious to all the mistakes she had just made in the dance as a rookie.

"Well, you clearly know who I am. But I haven't seen you around!" Yuko gasped, remembering that today was the day that a certain even was taking place. She couldn't believe that she didn't remember. "Are you one of the new 79th generation kenkyuusei? What's your name?"

[taehyunks]

yuko heaven / i of iii (listen here)

(( part one of three oshima yuko mega-mixes ))

to celebrate the amazing, wonderful woman that is oshima yuko - a mix of every song she has participated in on akb48 singles. this adds up to an astounding total of 70 songs. more mixes (with her contributions to stage songs and album/unit songs) to be published soon.

// separate paragraphs for easier reading //

♡ 01. 10nen zakura / 10nen zakura ♡ 02. noel no yoru  / ue kara mariko ♡ 03. saigo no seifuku / sakura no hanabiratachi 2008 ♡ 04. heart ereki / heart ereki ♡ 05. give me five! / give me five! ♡ 06. eien yori tsuzuku you ni / eien pressure ♡ 07. sakurai no sora no shita de / 10nen zakura ♡ 08. zero sum taiyou / ue kara mariko ♡ 09. oogoe diamond / oogoe diamond ♡ 10. mirai no kajitsu / boku no taiyou ♡ 11. everyday katyusha / everyday katyusha ♡ 12. sweet & bitter / give me five! ♡ 13. totteoki christmas / eien pressure ♡ 14. majisuka rock n’ roll / sakura no shiori ♡ 15. saigo no door / koisuru fortune cookie ♡ 16. sakura no hanabiratachi 2008 / sakura no hanabiratachi 2008 ♡ 17. kaze wa fuiteiru / kaze wa fuiteiru ♡ 18. virgin love / seifuku ga jama wa suru ♡ 19. keibetsu shiteita aijou / keibetsu shiteita aijou ♡ 20. yasai sisters / heavy rotation ♡ 21. flying get / flying get ♡ 22. dakedo… / aitakatta ♡ 23. romance, irane / romance, irane ♡ 24. scrap & build / uza ♡ 25. uza / uza ♡ 26. how come? / sayonara crawl ♡ 27. sakura no ki ni narou / sakura no ki ni narou ♡ 28. boku no taiyou / boku no taiyou ♡ 29. mosh & dive / suzukake nanchara ♡ 30. seifuku ga jama wo suru / seifuku ga jama wo suru ♡ 31. sayonara crawl / sayonara crawl ♡ 32. party is over / suzukake nanchara ♡ 33. baby! baby! baby! / baby! baby! baby! ♡ 34. viva! hurricane / yuuhi wo miteiru ka? ♡ 35. heavy rotation / heavy rotation ♡

♡ 36. aitakatta / aitakatta ♡ 37. koisuru fortune cookie / koisuru fortune cookie ♡ 38. alive / chance no junban ♡ 39. gingham check / gingham check ♡ 40. 109 / oogoe diamond ♡ 41. only today / bingo! ♡ 42. yuuhi wo miteiru ka? / yuuhi wo miteiru ka? ♡ 43. lucky seven / heavy rotation ♡ 44. seishun to kizukanai mama / flying get ♡ 45. kore kara wonderland / everyday, katyusha ♡ 46. ai no moufu / romance, irane ♡ 47. yasai uranai / flying get ♡ 48. yankee soul / everyday, katyusha ♡ 49. mae shika mukanee / mae shika mukanee  ♡ 50. river / river ♡ 51. ponytail to shushu / ponytail to shushu ♡ 52. sasameyuki regret / heart ereki ♡ 53. sakura no shiori / sakura no shiori  ♡ 54. iiwake maybe / iiwake maybe ♡ 55. choudai, darling! / manatsu no sounds good! ♡ 56. so long! / so long! ♡ 57. bingo! / bingo!  ♡ 58. kimi no tame ni boku wa… / manatsu no sounds good! ♡ 59. yume wo shinaseru wake ni ikanai / baby! baby! baby! ♡ 60. namida uri no shoujo / keibetsu shiteita aijou ♡ 61. beginner / beginner  ♡ 62. ice no kuchizuke / flying get ♡ 63. manatsu no sounds good! / manatsu no sounds good! ♡ 64. yuuhi marie / so long! ♡ 65. namida surprise! / namida surprise!  ♡ 66. yoyaku no shita christmas / chance no junban ♡ 67. namida no seijanai / koisuru fortune cookie ♡ 68. majijo teppen blues / ponytail to shushu ♡ 69. yume no kawa / gingham check ♡ 70. kyou made no melody / oshima yuko’s graduation song ♡

[taehyunks]

[tanemura-hinata-blog]

Training by observation, with hot chocolate on the side.

Living in the Ultimate Entertainment Haven had its advantages. One of this was the obscenely easy access to all sorts of footage of AKB0048. Up until then, Hinata had only ever known the absolute basics. Who was usually standing at the front, recent developments like the siege of Akibastar. Mariko the 8th, Acchan the 14th and Center Nova Sono Chieri, and the shining stars that bloomed after them. The main lineup, the most representative songs. The Legends that had come and were already gone.

But now, she had free access to information someone like her wouldn’t have known otherwise. She started to watch concert footage she had never seen before. She recognized faces she had seen in the Center Nova portraits , the best of the best. She started to search for patterns and analyze their dance routines. If she could become like some of these extraordinary girls, it would be amazing. Alas, it was still a dream that was far away.

She sighed and took a sip of her foamy hot chocolate. While sighing didn’t make anything better, the sweet and bitter beverage did improve her mood. It was silky smooth and super fluffy, and even though it had taken a lot of work to make it that way just by hand, the results were really worth it. She smiled gleefully, her left hand on her cheek, and let escape a second sigh of happiness. On the screen, the beautiful lights danced and sang. Right… this is what everything is about~ <3

[yukorisus]

Yuko stared intensely at a picture on the wall, one that hung in the line of Centre Novas. It was right beside the one of Chieri, who currently held position 0, and Acchan the 13th, who was arguably the greatest Centre Nova of all time. Right in the middle of these two incredible people hung the portrait of a girl who was very familiar to Yuko.

It was herself.

She hadn't realised they had put a picture of her up on the wall - of course, she had attained Centre Nova status at one point, but hadn't truly been one like Chieri currently was, or like Acchan had been. She was flattered, but being stuck between those two was rather...Demoralising.

She sighed and headed further down the corridor, looking for something to take her mind off things. Hearing some noise from one of the film rooms, Yuko peeked in and saw a girl she didn't recognise.

She appeared to be watching old footage of 0048 performances, and Yuko instantly spotted herself in the lineup. The video appeared to be a concert on Akibastar, with the group performing what seemed to be "Heavy Rotation", which explained why Yuko was in the Centre...As a rookie, no less. She was rather horrified at some of the mistakes there were in the dancing, but this was several years ago when she had just succeeded...She shuddered nonetheless. Did I really look like that back then?

The performance reached the chorus, and the girl still hadn't noticed Yuko standing in the doorway. Grinning, she snuck up behind the girl and sang along with the Yuko who was on the screen.

"Janjan afureru itoshisa wa~ hebii rooteeshon!"

[itano-tomoyo]

"Mm, maybe. I don’t doubt them, but can they really boot the regulars? I don’t think our fans will let that happen too quickly!" She laughed slightly before adding, "I’ll do my best again this year too. I’ll work harder as both myself and as Tomochin, and I know I’ll climb closer to the top this year!" Laughing louder this time, Tomoyo added, "I guess its not just the new girls you have to worry about, is it Yuko?"

Stirring her ingredients, she added some sauce, as well as some spices. “You don’t mind spicy stuff, right?” It was a bit silly she was adding them really, as the successor had an awful habit of adding more when she sat down to eat. Maybe thats why my sense of taste is weird..?

Wiping her hands on her apron, she turned to her teammate. “I don’t know about that either. You’re… eccentric, but you care about the new girls, and always are kind yet stern. I was certainly glad when we started talking!”

[yukorisus]

"Hey, hey, don't think it'll be easy! I ain't relinquishing the top just like that to you young'uns!"

Truthfully, Yuko knew her time was over from when she entered Centre Nova status and failed to reach that pinnacle properly. She had spent much too long in that other dimension, too long away from her fans and 0048. So much was changing around her, and she felt as though she should be like Nyan Nyan and gracefully graduate...She missed her long-time roommate, even though she still saw her around in the staff position. It just wasn't the same.

"Well, if anyone were to take challenge the top with Acchan and Chieri, it'd be you and Takamina!" Yuko said it earnestly; she truly believed that her two long-time friends had enough in them to take on those two polarising presences...Which would meanwhile allows for Yuko to slowly fade out of the spotlight, if she wasn't already.

She grimaced a little when Tomochin mentioned spicy. While Yuko could handle spicy food, Tomochin's view on spicy was...On a whole other level. What she ate that was 'mildly spicy' for her would probably cause someone else to breathe fire. But seeing as the other girl had already added some spices...She let her continue, but braced herself for an attack on her tastebuds.

Yuko laughed outright at Tomochin's statement.

"Eccentric, huh? Guess that describes me pretty well! Come to think of it...I was already a successor when you succeeded, wasn't I?" It was weird thinking that way - she had once been a sort of mentor to the girl she was talking to, who was now already considered a sort of veteran presence in the group. Yuko had hung around for several generations already..."I feel kind of old now," she added, giggling slightly.

[yukorisus]

AU - Yuko meets Alberio!

[ac-archived]

"Oshima Yuko.." He muttered softly, "So, THAT is your full name." With a wide grin, he reached over and ruffled Yuko’s hair, "I am happy to hear that you have regained your memories. It must have been hard for you without having them."

Alberio pulled his hand back for a moment, before taking her hand and having her back away from the gateway. For, which Yuko may not have realized it, had she come in contact with the Dirac floating in the middle of the gateway itself, she would have been absorbed by it. A fate that is far to cruel to any whom were not ready for it, as not keeping a sense of oneself within the sea causes any individual to be turned into Dirac themselves.

[yukorisus]

"Well, it's not really my real name," Yuko started explaining, but shuddered as she felt the air around them seem to get...colder. "I'll explain after we get out of here, it's starting to give me the creeps."

She made a turn towards the exit, but still felt her eyes drawn invariably towards the gateway that Alberio had pulled her away from. It probably wasn't the way home, but just seeing something like that gave her some sort of hope - if such things could exist, even in this world, there had to be something that was also similar to the Centre Nova phenomenon.

[yukorisus]

'Well, it looks like she knows what she's doing…I think?' Yuko wasn’t exactly a cook herself, so she wasn’t sure whether Tomochin was really making curry…The ingredients themselves looked edible, at the very least. But she couldn’t let her guard down around the famous taste-budless queen.

"Me?" Yuko sighed, and sat back in her chair, gazing at the wall.

"Not much, to be honest. Ever since I came back during that big Akibastar concert, the staff seem to be trying to stop me from doing anything too…Extreme." That much was true - Yuko had noticed a considerable drop in her activities and workload since she had come back from that ‘other world’. "It’s like they expect me to go all supernov- Er, Centre Nova again and disappear if I push myself too hard again. I appreciate it, but it’s gotten kind of boring on my end not doing as much as I used to."

[itano-tomoyo]

Tomochin nodded as she continued preparing things. “That must be difficult. I can understand the staff being worried - we were all so frightened and confused when you left, but… you’re not a pet. Keeping you under watch isn’t going to help anyone. Its not like you purposefully went off, and… honestly if you were to go Center Nova again, or if Chieri were to disappear, I don’t think management could stop it. We were lucky to get you back.”

Heating up a pan, she started adding vegetables. Smiling, she added, “Well, I’m sure they can’t keep you down too long! The 79th generation will be accepted shortly, so they’ll need mentors, and hopefully, we’ll have another election this year. We’ll need to do a lot of promotions for a new single!”

[yukorisus]

'Not like I purposefully went off, huh?' There was some truth in that statement - she didn't exactly aim to disappear. But she had shot straight for Centre Nova despite knowing the risks, and in the back of her mind she had always wanted to meet Acchan again - perhaps that had influenced her disappearance, perhaps it hadn't. All she knew was that she hadn't shone brightly enough to reach Acchan, and it hadn't been for her...She probably would've been stuck on those steps forever.

Yuko laughed at the statement. "Well, I think my time is over. Chieri and the new Acchan are firmly poised to take over the top now! I'm not going to fade away without a fight though! They're not going to take number 1 in the general elections away from me that easily, at the very least!"

Realistically, Yuko was well aware she didn't stand much of a chance against those two - they were too popular, too well-liked now after their huge growth during Yuko's disappearance.

Yuko smiled. "Mentor, huh. Well, I'm not so sure who'd want me as a mentor~" She added the last part a little playfully - it was well known that Yuko could be a bit of a joker at times, especially with a camera in her hands, and was prone to taking...Inappropriate images.

[megu-of-the-76th-gen]

-「 M u s i c 」-

[megu-of-the-76th-gen]

'Yuko probably just wanted to take a few embarrassing photos of everyone else,' she thought, laughing inside her head.

"It looks great!" Yuko exclaimed, genuinely impressed.

"You really think so? Thank you so much, Yuko!" Megu said, glad to have pleased someone with her artwork. She hadn’t shown her art to many people, but Megu was glad that one of her senpais appreciated her work.

"No, it’s fine. Chef Papa’s food is better than any restaurant’s!" Megu exclaimed, "And yea, once Mayuyu had 5 servings and she was still hungry!" Mayuyu had threatened Chef Papa to make more food, claiming that 5 servings was nowhere near enough. She was starting to wonder how it is humanly possible to eat that much in one sitting.

"Well, Iet’s race downstairs!" the brunette challenged. She hopped off of her bed and opened a drawer of her desk to place her sketchbook in. 'I hope she doesn't steal it one day… I'd better relocate it after dinner…' she thought. Megu then pocketed her phone and motioned for Yuko to stand outside her room. When she herself had exited the room, she closed the door. “Now, no elbowing or anything, alright?” Megu said, “1, 2, 3, GO~!”

[yukorisus]

Yuko shuddered at that. It was well known that Mayuyu ate a lot, and five servings were probably nowhere near enough for her. Yuko herself had seen Miyuki - the new Jurina - try to outeat Mayuyu once, and had given up at 7 servings. The cyborg girl had still been going strong. And if that superhuman eater Jurina couldn't eat more than Mayuyu...Well, noone could. Although Tomochin could certainly give them both a run for their money on what was eaten - Yuko had a lingering suspicion that the pillows in the lounge that had gone missing had been eaten by Tomochin. It was ridiculous of course, but knowing that girl...

Yuko took a note of where Megu had placed the sketchbook. She was determined to steal it at some point, or at least try to - the drawings had really caught her eye.

When offered to race downstairs, Yuko grinned. "I never turn down a challenge!" That was true, and well known...As well as the fact that Yuko hated losing.

On "go!", Yuko raced off down the corridor, making a beeline straight for the steps. Showing the remarkable agility and poise that had propelled her to the Centre Nova position, she almost danced down the stairs, taking them almost an entire flight at a time but making it look graceful...Somehow. She laughed along the way, not really checking to see if Megu was in front or behind her - she was having fun and giving it her all. If Megu beat her to the finish line, so be it.

[yukorisus]

Yuko laughed at Tomochin’s joke, though not sure if it really was a joke. For all she knew, Tomochin really did eat the pillows in the dorm rooms. Yuko made a mental note to watch for any strange disappearance of pillows.

Yuko tentatively sat down at a table, looking at Tomochin with a hint of curiosity in her eyes.

"If you say you can cook, I’ll believe you," Yuko said, still a bit afraid at what the blonde might conjure up. 'For one, how is she going to taste test the food if she has no taste buds?' Yuko thought, puzzled.

But she wasn’t someone to back off from a challenge.

"Bring it on! Whatever you want to make, I’ll eat!" 

'There's no way she can screw up curry, right?'

[itano-tomoyo]

"Alright then!" Smiling, Tomochin went to put on an apron and rolled her sleeves up. Washing her hands, she set to preparing everything, taking extra care. If it was herself she was cooking for, she’d haphazardly cut things, but if it was for someone, they deserved the extra effort!

"So what have you been doing lately, Yuko?" Tomochin enjoyed concerts and practices and events, but quiet off time moments where she could relax and talk to her team mates? Those were the best!

[yukorisus]

'Well, it looks like she knows what she's doing...I think?' Yuko wasn't exactly a cook herself, so she wasn't sure whether Tomochin was really making curry...The ingredients themselves looked edible, at the very least. But she couldn't let her guard down around the famous taste-budless queen.

"Me?" Yuko sighed, and sat back in her chair, gazing at the wall.

"Not much, to be honest. Ever since I came back during that big Akibastar concert, the staff seem to be trying to stop me from doing anything too...Extreme." That much was true - Yuko had noticed a considerable drop in her activities and workload since she had come back from that 'other world'. "It's like they expect me to go all supernov- Er, Centre Nova again and disappear if I push myself too hard again. I appreciate it, but it's gotten kind of boring on my end not doing as much as I used to."