A/N: Well, I am Zenophobiaz and this is my second La Corda d'Oro fanfiction. Yes, it's my second one because I have started writing one before this, and I just never wrote the beginning of that fanfiction and figured out a name for it so I haven't published it yet.

This fanfiction started out as a school assignment in October 2010, but I never finished writing this until today. I at first thought I should make this into a one-shot, but then I decided against it and I am going to make this into a full blown story instead. I probably shouldn't start another fanfiction, but I am going to anyways and this story is a little different then what I usually do. Because usually, I would have several chapters written before posting it since I usually can't find a name for the fanfiction and that's just my style of doing things, but yeah. I wanted to try something new.

Summary: ["I hate you, Yunoki-senpai! I can't stand you!" –Kahoko "Ah, Hino, but I like you a lot and enjoy being with you." –Azuma] A story of the classic love-hate relationship. AU and Azuma/Kahoko. Rated T for safety.

Disclaimer: Don't own La Corda d'Oro, the only thing I would ever own is probably this fanfiction idea. :D

Note:

oniisan = big brother

"-senpai" = an honorific used for upperclassmen

Watch out for 'slight' OCC-ness, grammar problems, and quite a few AU (Alternate Universe) things, but other than that, enjoy~!

Chapter 01 – The Beginning of My Hell

Ugh, he just infuriates me so much. Why can't he go bother someone else? Of all the girls in this school, he just has to choose me! Soon, I am going to make sure that he regrets ever meeting me! In just one week, the irritation that he has caused me is equaled to the amount my past 16 years has given me.

"I just want to get to know you better and become your friend," he said with that sparkly smile of his, and you know what? I don't believe him at all. That statement was probably the most palpable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. Yunoki Azuma, the school's most charismatic gentleman and so-called prince, wants to become my friend? That's as impossible as the sky snowing on a hot and humid day. Unless you are an unrealistic and gullible person or those fan girls of his, you will never believe that, especially if you are a mere grain of sand compared to him. No, I am not putting myself down or anything, I like myself. I like the way I am, the way I act and even the way I think. Yes, I do know I have my flaws and no, I am not a self-centered or self-infatuated person either. But it's the truth, Yunoki-senpai is actually treated like royalty everywhere he goes, the students bow to him in greeting and the teachers treat him with respect.

Confident in his ability to charm others and the impossibility that someone would say "no" to him or reject his request, he approached me one day after school and asked if I could help out the drama club. Normally, I would have said yes, but I really did have an appointment that day after school, so of course I said no! Isn't that a reasonable thing to do? I am not going to be forcing myself to cancel my appointment just to help him out. And that was the start of this big pain in the neck. Maybe I really should have canceled my appointment that day just so I wouldn't be as irritated as I am now. Actually, no, I would never have agreed to him. That day was the day that my oniisan was coming home for a visit and he rarely comes home now that he is in university and lives so far away.

Anyways, ever since that day, it's as if I have a shadow with me everywhere I go. I see him in places that I often go to, but have never even seen him at before. I mean, violet hair is pretty hard to miss and forget. I still remember how one day, I was doing my school work while enjoying a cup of mocha in a nearby café when he suddenly came up to me and asked if he could join me. So the naïve old me accepted without a second thought since I still felt bad for telling him that I couldn't help him after school that one time. And that was the start of my personal hell.

When I walked to school the next day, I bumped into him while turning a corner and being the clumsy and fritzy me, I just had to start apologizing like crazy. He asked if he could join me in walking to school and I, of course, said yes. It would have been rude to turn down that offer and awkward for the rest of the walk to school. We began talking and when I asked him how come he wasn't riding to school today like he always does, he told me that he felt like walking today, and I believed him without a doubt.

The exact moment I entered through the school gate, I could feel the stares/glares of everyone in the school and I began feeling uncomfortable so I quickly bided Yunoki-senpai goodbye before rushing away to my class. Within a few hours, the rumor of me being Yunoki-senpai's girlfriend spread through the entire school and everyone, I mean everyone literally, was talking about it, even the teachers. Some of the students were even brave enough to approach me directly and confront me about it. I, being myself, instantly denied it and a furious blush made its way onto my face when a certain blunt student asked whether we were "sleeping together last night" and if that was why we came to school together. And coincidentally, Yunoki-senpai just has to be walking by that exact moment.

Yunoki, being the 'shiny prince who is the gentlest thing in the entire world,' told them to "Please don't misunderstand our actions this morning. We just met up on the way to school and we are just friends" with his charming sparkly smile. I felt like cringing when I saw that smile of his and I even noticed him glancing at me a few times. I thanked him again with a bow before rushing off to the roof and skipping lunch altogether.

But I should have known that this wasn't over. A few minutes after I entered the roof, I heard the door open, so thinking it that particular kouhai of mine who enjoys sleeping pretty much everywhere, I turned around and began to say "Shimizu—" before it died on my lips.

It wasn't Shimizu at all. The person that met my eyes was a certain violet-haired senpai who has brought me nothing but trouble ever since he started talking to me. Still, I should be respectful towards my senpai, so that's exactly what I did.

"Yunoki-senpai," I greeted with a bow as my senpai began heading towards me. When I looked up, he was already only a foot or two away from me. How in the world did he walk so fast? "Thank you so much for helping me just now."

"Ah, it was no problem at all, but…" Yunoki-senpai's charming and princely smile turned into a sly smile. "…who said I was helping you?"

"E-eh?" I was dumbfounded. The expression on his face definitely didn't match anything I have ever seen before today.

"Hi-no-san," Yunoki-senpai emphasized every syllable of my name. "You are such a naïve girl. Did you enjoy all the attention that you have brought up on yourself?"

"H-huh?" I was definitely confused now. What is he talking about?

"Don't play dumb. This was what you were looking for when you declined helping me, wasn't it?" Yunoki-senpai was right in front of me now and suddenly, his arms caged around me with my back pressed against the metal railing. Cold chills were running up and down my back, but it wasn't from the metal railing, though I have to admit the railing was freezing cold and highly uncomfortable.

"Wh-what are you talking about, Yunoki-senpai?"

Yunoki-senpai's eyes narrowed at me in a menacing way. "You wanted attention and now you have it, so please drop your act already. I hate fake girls like you."

"H-HEY! What in the world are you saying? And what are you doing, Yunoki-senpai? This is highly inappropriate! What if someone saw us like this?"

"Then I would just say that I was trying to protect you, but you took advantage of my kindness and wouldn't let me go," Yunoki-senpai replied bluntly without batting an eyelash.

How can he lie straight through his teeth like that? So I voiced out exactly what I thought. "H-how can you lie straight through your teeth like that?"

"Ah, but would they think it's a lie?" Yunoki-senpai seemed to be piercing into my soul with his golden eyes.

"P-probably not. But still! What are you trying to say, senpai?" I admit, I might seem like an optimist, but I am more of a realist than most people think.

"I told you already, stop playing dumb!" Yunoki-senpai seemed like he wanted to throw me over the railing or something.

"And I told you! I have no idea what you are talking about! All I knew was that I denied you of one single request and then all of a sudden, I have a shadow everywhere!" I was reaching my limits.

Yunoki-senpai narrowed his eyes and looked like he was about to say something, but then the bell rung, signaling the end of lunch. He looked away and glared at the bell as if it had done something wrong before looking back at me. "We are not done. I will see you again soon, Hino Kahoko."

With that, Yunoki-senpai left the rooftop with the grace of a swan while I scrambled to get the movements of my body back before leaving with the clumsiness of a hedgehog.

Ugh! I can't believe him! And everyone thought he was such a perfect prince too! Well, I guess the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover" really is true after all! I hope I will never see him ever again! I thought to myself as I hastily returned to my classroom.

A/N: Well, that was the end of the first chapter, how do you guys like this? This is pretty short, and I haven't written first person POV in a while, so it might be a little rusty. (I am more used to writing third-person POV.) The next chapter is going to be Azuma's POV about this and then after that, it's going to go back to third person POV.

Chapter 02 – The End of My Hell

Thanks for reading this story and I would love to hear what you think about this. Until next time~

Best wishes always, Zenophobiaz

Published: 04/05/11
Edited: 7/29/12