Hey guys! So I decided to change the name, sorry for any confusion, since this one seemed more fitting. And as I said here's the rewrite of Broken Smile since I wasn't satisfied how the first one ended up and thus decided to rewrite it a bit differently. So yes, there are going to changes (duh else there'd be no use of making a new one). Not everything will change though, there will definitely be some things that stay the same… Some. Now, without further ado, enjoy reading!

Broken Facades

Facade; a facade is a front people put up emotionally
Broken; fractured, imperfect, not functioning

Prologue

High heels made a clicking noise as they hit the cold, clean tile floor of the huge mansion. Making her way through one of the grand hallways of the mansion the maid found herself standing before the door of her mistress.

She straightened out the skirt of her uniform and tightened her bright pink hair in a side ponytail.

The maid took a deep breath and opened the grand door leading to the bedroom of her mistress only to find the king size bed that dominated the well decorated room empty. She sighed taking a deep breath and slammed the door shut.

"Where is she? Always running off?!" She asked no one in particular.

Not quite knowing where to find the girl she decided to check the kitchen. After running down many stairs and through even more hallways she ended up standing in front of the door of the kitchen to find their sweet chef cook on the floor with flour all over her apron.

"Su what happened in here?" She heavily sighed. Not only did she have to find their mistress but now she also had to help their clumsy cook.

"Sorry Ran," The maid held out a hand that Su gladly accepted "I tried to reach for the flour but it was too high on the shelf so I ended up tripping ~desu"

Once she finished dusting off her hands Ran went straight to business "It's alright Su, have you seen her?"

Su giggled "She ran off again ~desu?"

"Yes, now please tell me you know where she is!"

"I'm sorry Ran, I haven't seen her ~desu" Ran groaned and continued her search.

Maybe Dia knew where she was. Dia just had a thing for people, she surely knew where their mistress could be, at least Ran hoped so.

Another flight of stairs and a whole lot of hallways.

"Dia!" Ran exclaimed in a whiney voice.

Dia giggled already having a feeling where this was going "Sorry Ran, I don't where she is"

Ran groaned "Ugh, this sucks! Why do I always have to play hide 'n seek with her?!" She exclaimed, childishly stomping her foot to the floor. "Don't you have single clue?"

"Sorry, try Miki"

"And where is Miki?"

"Still in her room"

She angrily stomped her way up another flight of stairs. "Geez, I love this job and everyone here but sometimes it's a real pain in the behind" She muttered.

She threw the door open not even once considering that the levelheaded artist could be sleeping. "Miki! Have you seen Amu?!" She exclaimed much to Miki's annoyance.

Ran heard a groan coming out of the dark room before a pillow was flung at her head "Shut up! You're noisy…" A grumpy voice said from beneath the bed sheets.

Ran quickly shut the door before an alarm clock hit her. She sunk to the floor leaning against Miki's door. "Geez where could she be?!" At this question Ran nearly pulled her pink hair out of her skull. Then it hit her. "Of course! How could I have been such an idiot?!" She got up and quickly ran towards the huge garden. She prayed that her mistress was in the garden since she was starting to get sick of this game of hide 'n seek.

"Good work, Ikuto" His boss praised him.

"Thanks manager, have a good night" He had just finished cleaning the last table and could now, after a long night go home.

"You know Ikuto, I could switch your shifts so you could come here earlier"

"Thanks, but no thanks. I enjoy my nightshifts here. Besides only a few work at night so I think it'd be best not to change my shifts"

"Come on, son. It's dangerous this late out and this can't be good for your academics either"

"I'll be fine. You worry too much manager! See you tomorrow" With that Ikuto left.

He heavily sighed, back to the hell hole it was. Standing in front of the house he frowned. It looked so normal as if a happy family lived here, but in truth he was stuck in here with a alcohol addicted head hot that he was forced to call is foster dad.

He was never home around this time anyway. Usually Kazuomi went out at night, drinking in some bar while trying to hit on a girl that could be his daughter.

Ikuto just hoped Kazuomi hadn't locked him out. He tried opening the door only to find it locked and all the windows were closed as well. He cursed inwardly, he had jinxed himself. He seriously needed to get a spare key. Oh well, to Kukai's it is. Too bad Kukai lived 6 blocks away.

Once he stood in front of Kukai's house he climbed through his friend's bedroom window. Kukai had gotten used to Ikuto occasionally crashing at his place so always left his window open for him. His brothers had come used to it as well, so he could've easily come through the front door but Kukai's brothers were… Well, annoying. Thus Ikuto tried to avoid them.

"Hey Ikuto!" Kukai greeted him.

"Yo"

"Forgot your key again?"

"…Yeah" Though that was a lie, Ikuto didn't have key to begin with. Kazuomi never gave one to him nor did Ikuto ever find the time to get one.

"Man, you've got to stop that! What if I go on vacation? Or move? Where would you go?"

Ikuto shrugged "I'd figure it out" He sluggishly walked over to Kukai's closet and pulled out a futon. Yes, that's how often he came over here. You know when people say 'Just make yourself at home'? Well this practically was Ikuto's home.

"You're way too careless"

"And you worry too much"

"Whatever just go to sleep kitty cat"

At the nickname Ikuto groaned. Somehow Kukai had once found Ikuto playing with a ball of wool and since then Kukai called him that.

"I hate you" Ikuto grumbled

Kukai laughed "Love you too, sweetheart!"

Ikuto rolled his eyes getting comfortable on the futon. Kukai might've been his friend but he sure was strange. Snuggling within the sheets of the futon he let sleep overtake him.

"There you are!" Finally, after all this searching her mistress was indeed in the garden.

"Hey Ran" She absently greeted, watching from behind the big stone fence. She saw teenagers and kids merrily making their way to school while adults went to their job or simply roamed around the street. Some rode bikes, some walked and others were in a car. She sighed before finally turning her attention to Ran.

Ran frowned, she knew how badly her mistress wanted to go outside but still had to scold her for making Ran look all over the mansion for her. "Geez ma'am you had me looking all over the house for you!"

At this she giggled "I told you Ran, stop being so old fashioned! My name is Amu"

"Fine, Amu-sama"

"No just Amu"

"Amu…" Amu smiled "-sama" And there went her smile.

"Geez never mind," She fumed "why are you looking for me?"

"Well, your parents sent you a letter" Ran suddenly pulled out an envelope from who knows where.

"A letter for me? About what?"

"Dunno I'm not allowed to open it"

Amu opened the envelope and began to read.

Dear Amu,

We have made a very big decision that can change a lot

Now don't be scared this doesn't necessarily have to be a bad change

What we are talking about, well perhaps we should first tell you our reasons since you will probably be pretty surprised

You are going to take over the Humpty Association when you are older and we kept you inside to kept scandals or rumors about you from leaking, those could be bad for our name after all but you have never been outside and therefore don't know much about society and the people in it

Now we don't want anyone to know who you are. Anyone!

You… Are going to public school.

And the letter fell on the floor. "Oh my god…" Amu whispered, eyes widening.

"What is it?!" Ran was worried, who knew what was in that letter. She picked it up, read the contents and had the same reaction as Amu.

They looked eyes and screamed. "Oh my god I'm going to school!" She ran around the mansion and kept yelling this until she was out of energy.

"Oh no, what are we gonna do? You've never been outside! With so many kids and in school! Teenagers suck! High school sucks! Oh my poor baby!" Ran panicked.

Amu was up in her room and smiled at the now nearly empty streets and then eyed the nearest school. Seiyo Academy, it looked like a castle but indeed was a public school. "Maybe things will get better"

"Damn Kukai, bastard never wakes me up!" Ikuto complained as he jumped out his friend's bedroom window. He rushed over the streets to find them nearly empty it seemed everyone was already at school. Luckily Ikuto knew a shortcut. Through a few alleyways and some rich neighborhood.

He made his way through the alleyways as if he was a cat, Kukai's nickname for him was quite fitting after all, he then ran through the rich neighborhood passing a lot of mansions and it seems each got more impressive than the one before.

What caught his eye was a pinkette on a balcony in one of the biggest and grandest mansions in the whole neighborhood . She looked around his age and was rather pleasing to the eye. But wasn't she supposed to get to school? Well, that was none of Ikuto's concern. The only thing he should worry about was getting to school on time.

What neither knew though was that they'd be seeing each other a lot more often…

Done! I know it took a while but my keyboard decided to fuck me over so some of the keys didn't work making it terribly difficult to type just about anything, especially a story. I tried copy and pasting the letters through Youtube's keyboard but after a while got a little tired from doing so all the time but my keyboard works again and I was able to type this! Yeah! So, I find this one better than the first one since I actually got Ikuto in the first chapter and he isn't so OOC. We didn't get too much of a look into Amu's personality but don't worry it'll happen ;) I just hope the characters won't fall into the background and stuff like that, since that was what mainly bothered me in my first attempt. Well enough of my chitchat. This was a rather long AN after all, haha. Hope you enjoyed. Review Please!