A/N: Please note that I do not own Digimon: Digital Monsters, nor do I own the song "Miss Independent" performed by Kelly Clarkson @ American Idol. I was just going over the reviews on my other story, 'Just Help Me', and didn't feel quite satisfied with most of the reviews I had gotten. So, to make it up to you, this fic is entirely dedicated to all Rukato fans out there, including; Dark Child, Flamegaruru, DigiDestined of Courage, digi_clow, Sora-World07, Shrub, Capri, Shinikami Dragon, Warwolf, SparkyKnight, Riskbreaker, Strawberry Dream, Black Mistress, babyflare, James Potter, and everyone else that voted for Rukato on my previous fic that are not mentioned above. This is a simple alternate-universe Rukato songfic (and please just pretend for a while that Ruki goes to a boy/girl school).
--~*Miss Independent*~--
"All right, Miss Makino!! This is the third detention you are getting this week! You have very much upset me!" Mr. Fujimoto stated. Makino Ruki rolled her eyes. "Oh, have I?" she asked sarcastically, "I thought I was upsetting the walls... Oops! You ARE a wall. Bo-ring!!!" she yelled at her math teacher, as his face burst red with anger. "OUTSIDE! NOW!" he pointed to the door leading the way out of the classroom. Ruki shrugged, as if that was the only thing she wanted to do, anyway. "Okay, okay... just stop spitting while you talk," she said, pretending to wipe something from her cheek. She headed out the door as the rest of the students laughed at her remark.
Miss independent
Miss self-sufficient
Miss keep your distance
Ruki leaned against the wall, crossing her legs as she chewed a wad of bubblegum. She patiently watched herself blow a pink-colored bubble from her mouth, as it then popped right into her face. Ruki had trouble getting the icky gum from her face, but managed to do it right. She sighed and told herself, I love being me.
Miss unafraid
Miss out of my way
Miss don't let a man interfere, no
She couldn't take it
anymore. Ruki never knew that math would take so long. So she left, deciding to
skip classes for the day. God, it was so boring. But who cared? Life was easy.
She could do anything! The maroon-haired girl had a wide smile on her face as she
trotted down the narrow hallway of her high school. "Good day," Ruki said to herself, "Good day for no school, no over-crazed teenyboppers, and
no foolish guys!" This wasn't her first time skipping classes--she's had
this experience before. This was her, Ruki Makino--Miss Independent. She could do anything she wanted! She has been named 'Miss
Independent' ever since she was four years old. Ruki was so into her
thoughts, so into her decisions, that she hadn't realized something. She had
unexpectedly bumped into someone, that caused them both to fall down.
"I'm sorry about that, miss. Here... let me help
you," the guy she had bumped into had offered.
Miss on her own
Miss almost grown
Miss never let a man help her off her throne, so
The brownish-red headed girl groaned in anger. "Ugh! No... I can get up by myself," she yelled, standing up. "Boys!" she muttered under her breath. They're always the same, she thought, Boys... they're all the same! The guy shrugged, and picked up his books that had fallen out of his hands.
By keeping her heart protected
She'd never ever feel rejected
Little miss apprehensive
"I just thought you
might have needed some--"
"I said no already!" She gave him one short, fleeting
glare.
But instead of glaring back, the boy just... smiled at her.
"Okay," he responded. Sure, everyone said that to her--no one ever
dared to argue with her. But this guy... there was something about him. No guy,
that she ever talked to, would smile at her as if it was actually okay
with them.
With his
books in his hands, he turned and left to his class. Ruki blinked and watched
him leave. Why did he just smile at me?, she asked herself.
"Um," she muttered. He's leaving... what am I supposed to tell him?,
she thought. "WAIT!" she found herself calling the boy.
Said ooh, she fell in love...
He turned around, as his eyes
sparkled... at least in Ruki's point of view. He walked back to her, back to the
little girl who knew nothing about the massive world. He smiled. Ohmigosh,
he smiled, Ruki thought, Again!! "Um, I... uh," she
stammered. "I... I don't think I caught your name."
The mysterious guy chuckled. "My name is Matsuda Takato.
You're that Makino girl, right?" he asked. Ruki blushed. Ohmigosh, she
thought, he knows my name!! "Y-yeah," she said, "it's
Ruki."
"Nice to meet you, Ruki," Takato said. "Well,
I gotta get to class now, so I guess I'll see you again someday," he told
her as he turned his back to her, walking away. Ruki's eyes were now
glowing stars. "Yeah... someday," she repeated, "Someday..."
What is the feelin' takin' over?
Thinkin' no one could open my door
"Hey,"
Makino Ruki greeted her fashion-obsessed mother as she returned home from school.
Ruki's mom looked at her in surprise. "Ruki, daughter, it's only two
o'clock... what are you doing so early home from school?" Ms. Makino asked. "Oh,
the--" Ruki began. Normally she would have made up an
excuse, like, Oh, the principal told me I could go back home early today,
because of my well behavior at school--which she did all the time when she
skipped. But why, she asked herself, Why lie? There is no point in
lying... is there? She sighed.
The guy she had met earlier--Takato Matsuda, she could not
forget--was someone that would have never came to her before, like a gift from a
deity from far above the sky. It was not quite possible to believe, yet it was
the next best thing. The feeling was... so distinct. She looked at her mother...
she looked so sure of herself, as if everything was going to go
well, thinking, 'She probably won Best Student Prize or something'. But suddenly,
her heart somehow led her to the path of sincerity. But I don't want to upset
her! Look how proud she looks, Ruki thought. Frightened, she let out the
truthful, the pure, the sincere words, "I... I... I skipped classes,
mom."
Surprise...! It's time
To feel what's real
Ms. Makino gasped. It could have been worse. "My very own daughter, skipping classes?!"
Ruki's mom looked troubled.
What is it? What's so wrong?! Maybe I should have told them the truth in
first place, Ruki told herself. "But you usually come home early because of your well behavior at
school," her mom added. Ruki looked down at the floor, ashamed of her
old, foolish lies. "Which wasn't true," she admitted.
Ruki's mother covered her eyes with her hands. "What
have I done to you? What have I done to you, Ruki?!" she would mutter every now and then. "I...
I'm calling the principal," Ms. Makino told her daughter, not able to face
her. Ruki's jaw dropped. No!, she yelled in her thoughts. But her
mother had
already dialed the number to the school.
"Yes, Mrs. Kawakoto? This is Ms. Makino speaking, mother of
Ruki Makino. So they know she has skipped classes? What?
Since when? Mm-hmm.
My Ruki? My Ruki, getting detention? Are you sure? I never got a phone
call from you before. Oh... I see. Uh-huh. Okay, thank you very much, she'll be
returning in no time." With that, she hung up. "Ruki, you've had several detentions that
you never mentioned to me before, and this isn't your first time skipping?"
"Mom..."
"Ruki, how come you've never told me anything about this
before? I trusted you."
Ruki hesitated. She thought about the time when she yelled at
Takato. I said no already!, she had shouted earlier, which
suddenly became a huge piece of regret. She then responded, "I was stupid,
mom. I didn't think." She didn't think before she had yelled at Takato,
either.
What happened to Miss Independent?
No more the need to be defensive
Her mother had dropped her off at
school again, where she was found face-to-face with her principal. "Well,
hello, Miss Makino. How are you doing?" the principal, Mrs. Kawakoto,
asked. "Not so good," Ruki replied. Mrs. Kawakoto waited until she'd
hear various rude remarks coming from Ruki, like, Can I puke on your face?, or
something. But Ruki said nothing. It was like... a total change of self.
"Not so good? That's it? Tell me
something, Makino, I'm bored," Mrs. Kawakoto challenged, waiting for a
lame response from Ruki. But Ruki only gasped. Mrs. Kawakoto narrowed her eyes.
"What? What is it?" she asked, searching for any signs of stains on
her clothing.
But Ruki wasn't looking at the principal--she was looking
behind the principal. It was that Takato guy.
Goodbye, old you
When love is true
She wanted to wave at him, she
wanted to go up and say hi to him, to smile at him, and most importantly--she
wanted to see his smile again. Ruki looked up at her principal, wordless. "Makino...
aren't you going to say anything?" Mrs. Kawakoto asked. Boys!, she
could hear those words she'd always mutter in disgust, when she was younger.
Ruki looked at Takato. Takato is a boy, she thought. "What is there to say?" she asked.
Mrs. Kawakoto blinked in confusion. "Alright, Makino,
what is the matter?"
"Nothing is the matter, Mrs. Kawakoto," Ruki responded. "I would like to get back to class now." Mrs. Kawakoto
sighed and admitted her into the school. "Remember, Makino," she
warned, "I have cameras all over the school. If you insult the teachers one
more time, I'm going to talk to your mother."
Misguided heart
Miss play it smart
Miss if you want to use that line you better not start, no
"Welcome back, Miss
Makino," Mr. Fujimoto greeted. This was history period--Mr. Fujimoto
taught both mathematics and history. Usually Ruki would say, So what are we
learning about today? The history of the lamest teacher on Earth? AKA, YOU!?.
But she smiled. "Thank you, Mr.
Fujimoto," she said, and sat at her usual desk. Like Mrs. Kawakoto, Mr.
Fujimoto waited for any signs of insults.
But she didn't say anything.
Why do I feel like my life
finally makes sense?, Ruki asked herself, Why do I feel like I've been a
jerk all the time?... She kept asking herself those questions, even though she already
knew the answers to them.
But she miscalculated
She didn't want to end up jaded
And this miss decided not to miss out on true love, so
She looked at her history
teacher, so confused at the way he was teaching. He looked so... helpless, as if
he thought something wrong was going to occur. As if something very bad was
going to happen. Ruki looked down at her desk, as she saw the words 'Miss
Independent' written on it, with red tint. Suddenly, she felt so confused in
her own little world. She felt guilty, very guilty. Looking over at her teacher
she thought to herself, I should have never insulted you. You devote your
life to teaching, to helping, to improving our lives... you deserve so much.
"I'm sorry," she muttered. You show love to your students, and now
I must show love to the world. Takato...
She grabbed a pen, and removed its cap. Ruki crossed out the
words 'Miss Independent' already written on the desk, then at the bottom,
wrote, 'Miss Ruki Makino'.
By changing her misconceptions
She went in a new direction
And found inside she felt a connection
It was stupid enough she had
practically ruined her life, it was stupid enough she had practically ruined
herself. She didn't know how to flip her mistakes upside-down, she didn't know
how to cope with herself anymore.
History class was over; and so was school.
Ruki had heard stories before... real-life stories about how
teenagers would commit suicide when there was a colossal error that they weren't
capable of fixing. She shook her head. Suicide? No way. I've ruined my life, now
I have to put it back together. I've already destroyed fifty percent of my life,
and if I kill myself, then a hundred percent of my life will be destroyed. Ruki
sighed. She couldn't understand why people did that, why people would suddenly
kill themselves. True, she has made a number of people suffer before, but if she
killed herself, the suffering would worsen. The answer to mistakes were to fix
them back. She knew just how to do that.
Matsuda Takato.
"Hey, Ruki. Nice to see you again," he greeted,
flashing her the smile. Ruki smiled back. He remembers my name, she
thought. "Hi Takato. I wanted to apologize about last time, when I yelled
at you... I kind of wasn't thinking at that moment."
Takato chuckled. "Thanks, Ruki. I like the fact that you
came to me to apologize. That's very kind of you."
Ruki blushed. It was also very kind of him to change her, to
change her world.
She fell in love.
I love you too, she wanted to say. She no longer wanted to be alone anymore. She wanted his company, his pure encouraging company.
What is the feelin' takin' over?
Thinkin' no one could open my door
He's a man like no other. Ruki looked right and left, watching everybody gather around with their friends; some leaving school, some just chilling. Men... they're not all the same. They're different. Takato is different.
Surprise...! It's time
To feel what's real
"Hey mom," Ruki greeted her mother, her one and only mother, as she returned home with a visible bright smile on her face. Ms. Makino walked up to her, her arms disappointedly on her hips. "I hope you learned a valuable lesson today," she stated. Some people roll their eyes at that--but Ruki, this time, did not. Her mother had meant that statement, and she understood her error. She did, as a matter of fact, learn a valuable lesson, and she felt satisfied. Ruki nodded. "I did, mom, I did. Thank you."
What happened to Miss Independent?
No more the need to feel defensive
She sat on her bed, thinking... I guess this is how I'm really supposed to be.
Goodbye, old you
When love, when love is true
She sighed now, looking at her reflection in the mirror... He means everything to me... Takato. He changed her; he changed her life forever. She wanted to change his, somehow, as well. I'm Ruki, she thought, Ruki Makino. And I'm in love with Takato Matsuda.
When Miss Independence walked away
No time for love that came her way
She looked in the mirror and thought today
What happened to miss no longer afraid?
It took some time for her to see
How beautiful love could truly be
No more talk of why can't that be me
Smiling, she took out a piece of paper and began to write whatever came to her mind. She was full of ideas, full of emotion, she felt free to do anything. All because of one person...
I'm so glad I finally feel...
Ruki nodded in approval at her now completed piece of work. It's amazing how she truly felt, and hoped, that maybe, just maybe... Takato might have feelings for her as well. Ruki, full of passion, began to sing the words;
What is the feelin' takin' over?
Thinkin' no one could open my door
Surprise...! It's time
To feel what's real
What happened to Miss Independent?
No more the need to be defensive
Goodbye, old you
When love, when love is true...
A/N: So what do you all think? Personally, I kinda liked it. Educational--don't you think? LOL. Maybe I should write songfics more often. ^-^ Review!
