Title: Life Is Not Fair, But There Is Always A Chance for Happiness.

Author: Sakura Moon

Disclaimer: I do not own this cause if I do, I would have made Ichigo paired up with Ryou instead.

Chapter 01

Life has not always been fair to him. Ryou will admit to that. With his parents' death and all this shit that has been happening with him—looking after five girls while making sure that they do not die on his watch, running a café aimed toward teenage girls, the girl he is crushing on is crushing on 'Mr. Perfect', it seems like nothing can get any worse than that. In fact, it does not look like it will get better.

Lounging on his comfrey chair, Ryou frowned. Pencil tapping across the sheet that was lying on the table. Statistics, calculations and probability written all over the sheet--waiting for him to do his thing. His eye caught sight of a picture frame. Ryou picked it up. The corners of his frown slowly went up; if only a little. The picture was of him and the girls; out on their few special occasions. Ryou's thumb caressed gently on the image of the red-haired girl from the group. 'Ichigo….' His eyebrows frowned as he remembered the stabs of pain he received from her every time she mentioned Mayasa all while complaining and moaning about how he, Ryou Shirogane, was nothing but a complete arrogant—she forgot to mention handsome Ryou noted—bastard who was stingy with money all because he would not give her a raise that she demanded from him.

'You just want money so you can spend more time doing frivolous things with him, don't you?' Ryou mentally sneered at that thought.

Just once, he wants to have something in his life. Sure his Mew Project worked and all but that was mostly for the benefit of the world rather than for him. 'This is just an infatuation. Nothing more, nothing less. I am after all a teenage guy with hormones. I can't really prevent that.' Ryou reminded himself; strengthening his resolution as he leaves his mathematical work and head into the parlor where he would face his obstacle of getting over this ridiculous phrase.

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Many months had passed and not once did Ryou Shirogane thought of Ichigo at all. Nope, not once. At least that was what Ryou would like to claim. He thought that he had gotten over with Ichigo. But it was not until the revelation of the Blue Knight and what happen following that did it shook him to his very core.

The day of damnation occurred just right when he was sitting in one of the chairs in the café watching the other girls performed their tasks.

"Oh my gosh!" A loud squeal from Pudding. "So are you guys a couple or something?" Ryou raised an eyebrow in curiosity as it seems that he was forgotten by the other girls. Still, he could not help but wondered who was with whom.

Ryou was sipping his tea when he received his answer. "Yeah. Masaya and I are together now." He nearly wanted to spit out his tea when he heard that it came from Ichigo's mouth, but pride and dignity restrained him from doing so.

"When did this happen?" Mint glanced from her tea cup and stared unwaveringly at Ichigo.

"Just yesterday. After that battle we had and he revealed to us his other identity." Happiness radiated from Ichigo as she started to go off into her dreamland. 'Probably reminiscing about that date she had yesterday.' Ryou grumbled remembering how much she demanded to leave early because she had something to do.

As Ichigo recalled her dream date, numerous excruciating pains hit Ryou. Removing himself from the audience, he went to his room; curious as to why he feels like he was being stabbed really hard with plastic forks. Closing the door behind him, Ryou sagged against it. 'Why. Why is it happening right now?' He clenched his heart as he closed his eyes. 'My heart shouldn't be hurting this bad.' For once, he truly felt lonely as he succumbed to darkness; forgetting that the world continued to move without him on the first floor.

Author's Note: Depending on the # of reviews, I might or might not continue this as this was really a spur of the moment. Unlike my previous stories, this one will probably be short as it's just a story without a plot. If I do continue this, this story might be about 3 chapters.