By Your Side Forever:
A Shinshi Doumei Cross Fan Story
Chapter one: First Impressions, Worst Impressions
By: xsaiyuki.shizukax
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Italics Thoughts
Underline Written, such as letters being read out.
Living with Haine and Takanari, brought many feelings for him. Some were wanted, others were simply jealous based. Haine and Takanari had been married for a year, and the twenty-one year old Shizumasa, felt badly for intruding on their married life. He has been looking forward to visiting the latest emperor association meeting, even though it had been Takanari all along. He was fascinated about the new emperor, or maybe empress. Rumour has it, this time; the gold of the school was a girl. She was from a wealthy and well known family known as the Hitomiya, and her academic achievements are well known. But, most of all, he had heard of her beauty, they say her hair was black as then ravens, and her skin as fair as the moon itself. Of course, he didn't believe this, no one in his eyes, was as beautiful as Haine. How wrong he would be.
Saiyuki Hitomiya, felt someone shaking her, she lazily swatted at the person.
"Give me five more minutes…" she murmured.
The shaking didn't stop, instead it picked up in urgency.
"Saiyuki," a voice said softly, "You're going to be late for the Emperor Association meeting!"
Her eyes shot open, and she sat up right in her chair. She blinked as her office swam into focus, the seventeen year old shot up from the chair. Her black hair was loose, and she quickly grabbed a hair tie from her pocket. She swiftly tied her hair up in a ponytail, and ran towards the door. The door suddenly slammed open, she had stopped just before the door could hit her in her face. A boy poked his head into the room, her eye brows snapped together, and her face was cold.
"You almost hit me in the face, Aki," she said coldly.
She glared and was just about to demand an explanation, when her eyes caught sight of the clock hanging outside the office. Her eyes went wide, and she ran out of her office.
"I wish our ice queen would stop being an Ice Queen," Aki said to the other girl in the office. The girl shrugged and sighed.
"It can not be helped, since she is the first female heir to the Hitomiya, she has to act that way." The girl paused and added. "That's what she thinks she has to act like, anyways."
Aki sighed, and looked at the girl, he shook his head.
"But, she's a pretty person, one with good manners, well off family and one who is smart. After all, you live with her, being her closest friend and maid. Right, Rin?" he asked her thoughtfully.
Rin smiled and turned to leave. "Right." she said softly.
The room was full of older men, some as old as her grandfather, she sighed. She lifted her chin up, and looked steadily ahead. She was after all, representing not only the current school, but also her family. I am the current Emperor, I role this school and represent this school, her boots made soft click-click noises as she stepped onto the polished marble floor. She wore a smile, she hated to smile, but today was one of few occasions in which she can and be seen smiling. She wore her stylish glasses, and glanced around the room with her silver eyes. She hated the colour of her eyes, but it was something that she had to put up with. The other former Emperors, made haste, introducing themselves and their businesses, do I care? She thought. She mentally sighed and began to greet them with that smile on her face.
So the rumours do speak of some truth, Shizumasa thought, as the current Emperor stepped in. Her hair was the blackest he had ever seen, and her eyes were an unusual colour of silver. She walked as if she was someone important, but there was an air of coldness around her. Curious about her personality and her family, he stepped forward to be introduced to her. He bowed before her, and introduced himself.
"It's an honour to meet you, Hitomiya-sama. I am Shizumasa Togu, heir to the Togu clan." he said with a smile on his face.
Saiyuki looked at the new comer, and sighed again. Another one, she thought, trying to get to my parents through me. She smiled as if she never had that thought, and bowed politely back.
"It's an honour to meet you too. I have heard plenty about you and your family at this school."
They soon talked about school and the usual topics, when she saw Rin enter the room. Rin immediately ran towards her, and smiled. She murmured a quick apology and looked at Shizumasa. Saiyuki noted with a faint interest, that her friend was blushing. Love struck again? She thought. Rin had boyfriends, even Rin herself have lost track of the names. One week it would be this boy, the next it would be someone new. She introduced Rin to Shizumasa, and she quietly slipped away, when they started to chat. Better leave now, Rin can talk until the cows came home, she thought.
She quietly entered the balcony of the function room, and looked outside. The sun was fairly high in the sky, and the day was cool and refreshing. Her mind wondered, she just stood there thinking of many things, from her parents to the school itself. There was one thing that bothered her the most, What am I doing as the Emperor? she thought. Easy, I'm doing this for my parents. When the answer came to her, she felt uneasy, somehow it just didn't feel right.
"Nice day out isn't it?" a male voice said.
She turned around, and saw Shizumasa standing next to her. Stifling another sigh, she smiled and simply nodded.
"Yes, it is." she said softly.
There was a moment of silence as a breeze flew by them, then Shizumasa started to talk again.
"You know," he said "I'm surprised that a girl became the new Emperor, especially one from the Hitomiya family. A family, from what I just gathered is known to be patricidal family."
She stiffened at the last comment; she felt anger boiling within her. How dare he! She thought, it's alright for him to say that stuff; after all, he's a boy!
She felt her composition losing; there was a sudden burning at the back of her eyes. She knew she was about to cry, holding back her tears. She turned to him, no longer the warm person, but the renowned ice queen.
"Everyone's entitled to their own opinions," she said in a cold voice, "But, I will not be insulted. Simply because I'm a girl, I have equal rights to do as I please. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some urgent mattered to attend to."
She gave a stiff bow, and left the balcony.
Shizumasa saw her leaving the balcony, he wasn't offended by her last comment, and in fact it was the opposite. He was intrigued with the girl, and planned to make a formal apology. She's interesting… he thought, and smiled to himself. Maybe a banquet of flowers would do, as an apology, he thought. He got out his phone and dialled a number. He kept on smiling, as if he knew a secret that the others don't.
Whoooo, so long since I wrote anything. I got addicted to Shinshi Doumei Cross, it's such a cute story, but it did raise a lot of issues I never really thought about. Onwards! If you would like for me to continue this story, please review! I will try and answer all of your questions, and critique to the best of my abilities. Also critiques are loved! After all, how else are you going to improve? XD On a side note, OMG! The series ended! Nuuu! I want to know what happens in the future!