Hey everyone! I'm naruto'sramengirl, and I have started yet another story. Now I'm going to try to update quite regularly for ALL of my stories. Hopefully I can update them all at least once a month.
Anyways, this story is called Two Worlds One Heart. You've read the summary. It's kind of a Lady and the Tramp Vibe (but with humans) so let's just go along with that feeling. I've got high hopes with this fanfic. Hope you like it! And check some of my other stories!
Chapter 1: First Day for the Rich Girl
"I just don't understand why you two insist on going to this abominable public school." Mr. Ishiyama said to his daughter and his son.
"Oh, Takeo, be reasonable. They want to be like regular people. You know, they want to see how the majority of teens actually behave." Mrs. Ishiyama told her husband. "And I don't blame you two at all. Rich people tend to act like rich, spoilt brats. And I think this would be quite a humbling experience for you."
"There's nothing humbling about it! You two could get kidnapped—or murdered! Teens who go to public school—especially a school like Kadic—is bound to be filled with delinquents and future hardened criminals."
"Dad, please. You throw a fit no matter what we do." Yumi mumbled as she stared out the window of the limo. They were all in the back seat of the family stretch limo. Yumi and her younger brother, Hiroki, were about to start the school year at Kadic Academy. A public boarding school.
"Yeah, Dad. Poor people can't be that bad. Mommy's family was poor before she married you."
"We were middle class." Mrs. Ishiyama said through gritted teeth. "And don't say it like that. You make me sound like a gold digger."
"Akiko, I know you're not. I married you before I even got my riches. My family was a bit well off, but I definitely not the millionaire that I am today. I know you love me for me." Mr. Ishiyama doted. He kissed his wife on the cheek and snuggled up to him. Yumi and Hiroki were grossed out.
"Don't do that here where we can hear and see your every move!" Yumi said.
"Parents should be banned from lovey dovey stuff." Hiroki agreed.
"If it wasn't for 'lovey dovey stuff' you two wouldn't be born." Mrs. Ishiyama teased.
"WAY too much information." Yumi said.
"Well back to this public school business. I just don't like it."
"But we went to public school, and we turned out fine." Mrs. Ishiyama pointed out.
"True, but that was in Japan. I don't trust foreign education."
"We've lived all over the world!" Yumi exclaimed. "And we've lived in France for the past two years anyways. All I know is that I don't want to go back to that uptight Pine Hills Academy. It's too strict. You get detention if you don't walk straight!"
"And what's wrong with a little order?"
"Nothing. But I though you didn't like the idea of me having a teacher conference because I didn't know which spoon to eat my soup with." Hiroki added.
"Well they are uptight. But you do need to know proper etiquette." Mr. Ishiyama admitted.
"Well let's just give this a trial run now, Takeo. We did promise them."
"You're right."
"Now you two be polite. Don't show off just yet. Try and make some real friends. And if you think we're letting any of these teenagers into our mansion, we'll send you to the asylum to have your minds checked." Mrs. Ishiyama declared.
"Yes, Ka-san." Yumi and Hiroki chimed.
"Oh! And one more thing." Mr. Ishiyama said as the limo pulled up the front of the school. "No—and I mean absolutely—no dating! At least not until I have done a thorough background check on every boy that goes to this school!" he yelled.
"Don't worry, Dad. I will forever be your virgin daughter." Yumi mumbled. She was seventeen! What was with this third degree? See, this is why she hasn't had a proper boyfriend. They were either there for the money or they ran off by dad's military-spy entourage.
"That's all I ask." Mr. Ishiyama beamed at her. Yumi and Hiroki kissed their parents goodbye and stepped out of the limo.
They looked at the school grounds and the building itself. It was tall, old building. It looked more like the State Penitentiary than a local school. They didn't put eliminate the idea of future-criminals attending here just yet. Students were walking around, talking and just hanging out. Several did pay attention at the arrival and departure of the limo, and were now pointing and whispering at the two siblings . . . so much for not showing off.
"Well, sis. Good luck, to ya." Hiroki said as he looked up at his sister.
"We can do this, Hiroki. We're tough." Yumi reasoned. The truth was both felt like their insides were still on the limo with dear, old mommy and daddy.
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"Welcome back, students."
"Good morning, Mrs. Hertz."
"I hope you all had a wonderful summer. We have a new student joining homeroom. Her name is Yumi Ishiyama." Mrs. Hertz informed her homeroom class. "Miss Ishiyama, why don't you tell us a little about yourself?"
"Hi. I used to go to Pine Hills Acadamey. I have a younger brother who's also going here. He's a freshman. I'm a dog person, and love extreme sports." A boy with a goofy smile raised his hand. "No, I'm not Chinese. I'm Japanese." Yumi said flatly. The boy lowered his hand.
"Thank you, Yumi, you may take a seat next to Miss Knight."
Yumi made her way to the only seat available which was adjacent to a black girl with a red streak in her hair. She was wearing rather trashy clothes. They definitely weren't of the latest fashion. She reeked of poverty, tomboy quality, and indifference. Yumi liked this girl.
"Hey, I take it you're Knight." Yumi said as she sat down.
"Call me Sam." Sam answered as she busily carved a swear word into the desk.
"So, how's Kadic as a school?" Yumi asked.
"I guess it's like any other school. You got your idiots and your screw jobs."
"How are the teachers?"
"They're like any other teachers. Only a handful care, the rest are planning to torture us in some twisted way where they can't get fired.
At Pine Hills, all of the students pretty much came from the same background. They were either extremely smart and arrogant, or they were extremely rich, and well, still arrogant. As for the teachers, they were like personal servants who just happy to get paid three times more than a regular teacher's salary.
"I like it here already." Yumi stated. Sam raised an eyebrow.
"Really?"
"Yeah, my old school was lame, boring, and well just filled to the brim with arrogant jackasses."
"You said you went to Pine Hills, right?" Yumi nodded.
"So you're rich. So what's a rich girl like you doing here? Is daddy punishing you for wrecking his Mercedes?"
"No, my dad's probably have a heart attack wondering if I'm okay here, and it was the Lexis that I'd rather wreck because we're supposed to be getting a new anyway." Yumi joked.
Sam smirked. "I like you. You're not like the Prisses."
"The what?"
"The Prisses. They're these bunch of rich, snobby kids that go here for some strange reason that only God knows why."
"I thought I had escaped all of the crazy, looney rich people."
"Sorry, you high-classers are everywhere. This is France."
"France has plenty of poor people." Yumi said waving to the rest of the class.
"Yeah, but we're just outside of Paris. Of course High-classers are always swarming around the major cities of any country."
"True. So what classes do you have?" Sam gave Yumi her schedule, and held out her hand for Yumi to hand hers over.
"Looks like we got Math, Science, aaaand Study Hall together." Sam said.
"So you're in AP Calculus, huh? And I thought you were just another street urchin." Yumi mocked.
"And do you buy your A's?"
"No, I'm actually good at math."
"That's good, I could use a tutor." The bell rang. "Well I'll take you there. Come on."
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Yumi's day was going progressively well. She hadn't had any problems as of late. And looked like she now had a friend to rely on. Yumi was wandering around looking for her way to her Civics class when she bumped into a girl who resembled a pink elf.
"Oh, sorry." Yumi said. She took one look at the girl. "Wow, you have pink hair!"
The girl laughed. "Yes, I know. And if I'm not mistaken, you were the girl in the limo."
"Guilty."
"My name's Aelita."
"I'm Yumi."
"Oooh! Are you Japanese?"
"Yes!" Yumi exclaimed. Finally! Someone who realized that Asia consisted of more than just China! Where had this girl been all her life?
"If you're lost, I can help you. What class do you have next?"
"I have Civics class next."
"That's great!" Aelita chirped. "I have that class too! So does my other friend!"
"Oh, are you a senior too?"
"No, I'm in the advanced level so I'm actually ahead of my fellow Junior mates."
"That's cool."
"Your schedule says that you're in advanced level too. I'm guessing you just never got around to taking Civics then."
"No, my old school ran on a different schedule . . . and a different planet."
Aelita giggled. "Pine Hills?"
"How'd you know?" Yumi asked, curious.
"I was invited to go there."
"Why didn't you?"
"Why did you leave?"
"You've made your point very clear." Yumi admitted.
"And here we are!" Aelita said. Civics class. "You can sit with me and my friend Jeremie." The two girls made their way over to a table up front. It was occupied with a rather small and scrawny blond boy with glasses. He too seemed to be elf-size.
"Hi, Jeremie! We have a new partner joining us. Her name is Yumi."
"Hello, Yumi." Jeremie said as he flipped typed away on his keyboard. He looked away long enough to give Yumi a smile.
"So what are you typing?" Yumi asked.
"Jeremie's a computer nut. He likes to make computer programs and stuff like that. I help him out every now and then.
"Don't take this the wrong way, but you two are nerds."
Aelita giggled some more. This girl must have had a lungs that breathed in nitrous oxide because she seemed to laugh at everything.
"I take that as a compliment." Jeremie said nonchalantly. "Nerds rule the world."
"My dad would love you." Yumi stated.
"Why do you say that?"
"My father works for Sony. He's high up and deals with a lot of technology and computers. He's a die-hard nerd. I'll never understand how he met my mother."
"Is your mom a nerd?" Aelita asked. Now that's something people don't normally ask.
"No, she's bookworm. She loves to read. And to cook. She's written several cookbooks actually. She probably fawning over some French dish right now."
"So your dad works for Sony? And your name's Ishiyama?" Jeremie asked.
"That's what I said."
"Then you're daughter of Takeo Ishiyama! He's a genius!" Jeremie exclaimed.
"If you say so."
"He knows everything about computers! I have to meet him."
"Oh, well I'm not allowed to bring anyone over—not yet anyways."
Jeremie frowned. "Why not?"
"My mom thinks that anyone that wants to come over this early just wants to take advantage of the fact that I have rich parents." Yumi stated.
"That sucks." Jeremie said as he looked down at the table. "Well she's a smart woman. I wouldn't put it passed the Prisses (no matter how rich they are) or any other leech to want to visit."
"So who exactly are the Prisses? This the second time someone's mentioned them to me."
"And it won't be the last. The Prisses are a bunch of rich snobs who'll probably try to recruit you as a one of them."
"But I don't want to be one of them." Yumi protested.
"Then you decline fervently. And Jeremie and I will protect you. Right, Jeremie?" Jeremie looked flustered.
"I suppose." He mumbled.
Aelita glared at him. "Be a man, Jer."
"I just don't want to deal with them. They're like animals."
"But who exactly are they?"
"They're a bunch of girls." Jeremie answered. "They're leader is Sissi. She only goes here because her father is the principal of the school. She's got lackeys too. There are two other girls that are forced to share a brain with the witch (you can imagine how stupid they are). Their names are Amelia and Madison."
"Sissi, Amelia and Madison."
"You can't miss them. They have an entourage of boys and girls that follow them everywhere. Sissi is always in the middle. Amelia is a red-head, and Amelia is a dumb blonde." Jeremie looked hurt at that comment. "Well blondes are normally dumb. You're an exception." Aelita replied. The bell rang, signaling for lunch to start.
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Yumi got her tray that was filled with an assortment of questionable food items. She could hear her mother already. "They make regular people eat this? Well no wonder your dad thinks they have problems! The food itself is insane! If I were that meatloaf, I'd be ashamed to be even called meat!"
Yumi looked around the vast room filled with students lounging around the tables. She saw Aelita waving her arms like she was stuck in a burning building. Yumi chuckled and shook her head as she made her way to the table. She saw Sam on the way there. She sat with nothing but boys. Unruly boys. Two were brunettes. The other was a blonde. He was actually sitting in Sam's lap. If it wasn't for his hair that stuck straight up, he's definitely look a lot shorter—even shorter than Jeremie and Aelita even.
Yumi was almost at the table when her path was blocked by three girls. The girl in the middle was taller than the other two and wore a pink shirt and jeans with a skirt over them. The defining feature was a tiara that she wore. The girl on the right was a blonde. The girl on the left was a red-head. These must be the Prisses.
"Why hello." Sissi said.
"Hi." Yumi said as she started to walk around them, but Sissi slide in front of her."
"You're the girl who came to school in a limo. How classy."
"Thanks, my parents insisted."
"You know with that kind of confidence, I think we could be friends."
"How nice." Yumi said giving her strained smile.
"So why don't you come sit with us?" Sissi said as she pointed to the table at front. It had a table cloth and candles. It actually looked tacky when you take in the fact that the cafeteria looked like a giant garage.
"No thanks, but I was going to sit with my friends over there." Yumi said, gesturing to Aelita and Jeremie.
"The nerds?" Sissi raised an eyebrow. The blonde, Madison, guffawed, and Amelia just stood there rather absent-mindedly as she twirled a finger in her long, red hair.
"Maybe she's a nerd too." Madison said.
"And what's wrong with that? It just means I'm smarter than you three combined. And I don't have to be a nerd to do that."
"You better watch who you mess with." Sissi glared. "I'll have you know that my father runs this place. He does it out of the goodness of his heart because he knows these commoners need somewhere to learn."
"These commoners have more sense and dignity than you'll ever have."
Sissi looked taken aback. She'd never been insulted. Well there was another person who outwardly insulted her, but she'd let person slide. "Well fine. Sit with your nerd friends. Freak." Sissi spun on her hell and turned around, walking back to her table with her friends following closely behind.
Yumi said down next to Aelita. "Wow!" Aelita squealed. "I thought I'd never meet the day when a person would actually have the guts to put Sissi and her cronies in their places!"
"It was nothing." Yumi smirked as she took a bite out of her apple.
"That was social suicide." Jeremie stated.
"Oh come one, Jeremie. She stuck up for us."
"Thanks." Jeremie said.
"Really, guys, you have to know how to put these girls in their places. If you don't they'll get swelled head and explode . . . Maybe I should've let their heads get big." They all laughed.
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Yumi and Hiroki met up along their way back to the limo that was already parked at the front of the school. "So how was your first day?" Yumi asked.
"It was okay. I met this guy named Patrick. He's cool. Kinda dorky, but that's just how he comes off. I also met this really cool Junior who showed me around the school."
"Well that was really nice of him."
"Yeah. So what about you?"
"I made a few friends. Got confronted by three brats. So overall it was pretty good." They both looked at each other.
"But anything's better than Snobby Pine Hills." They said together and laughed.
As they entered the limo, their mother greeted them. "So how was your first day?"
"Good." They chimed.
"How wonderful." She beamed. "Your father will be relieved. He's still at work of course. He'll be home for dinner."
"So I'm guessing it'll be okay for us to stay here?" Hiroki asked.
"Yes." Yumi and Hiroki high-fived on that answer.
"And can we ditch the limo? I don't really like the idea of people pointing at us every time we step out of it." Yumi asked.
"Hey, I like the limo. A lot of kids were asking me about it." Hiroki said. His mother raised an eyebrow.
"It is a bit of a show-off. But it's your dad that requires it, and he won't budge from it just yet. Give him some time. We can wear him down."
"Well I'll tell you what, Ka-san," Yumi said as leaned back on the soft, leather seat. "It may be low-class, but feels great to be 'regular.'"
That's it! I'm done. This is the first chapter. It's just an introductory chapter. You know, to help you get used to the characters and the setting. The next chapter is still the first day of school, but instead, it's from Ulrich's point of view. And it's appropriately titled.
Chapter 2: First Day for the Bad Boy
The next story I plan to update is The Best of Times the Worst of Times. So keep a lookout for it. If some crazy thing comes up, that might change. You know with me, nothing's set in stone until after it's happened. That would make for a nice quote actually. Well hopefully I can update the story by the end of this week. If you've ever read it, you know how long those chapters can get.