Authors Note: Okay, this is my first story, BUT DON'T RUN AWAY!!!!! There is a first time for everything. This is going to be a RyoSaku story so if you don't like, walk away. And my Japanese sucks, so please correct me if, I mean, when I am wrong.

Warning: This will have an OC but she won't be with Ryoma, and this may be a song fic. But I promise: NO MARY-SUES.

Disclaimer: Oh come on, we all know I don't and never will never own PoT.

Now on with the story.

Tell Me You're Kidding

Chapter 1

Sakuno was having a bad day.

No, the worst day of her life.

First, she tripped and sprained her ankle on an attempt to actually get passing marks in Gym the other day, so she had to walk on crutches. Also, Ryoma and walked – No, carried her home, so now his fan girls were trying to kill her. And since she was on crutches, it would be next to impossible to run away from them. Looks like Tomoka was going to have extra glare duty today.

To add more to her troubles, Sumire took her to the hospital to get the ankle checked up on, and it seemed everybody and their mama was up in there. Was it the national holiday "Hurt yourself in any way shape or form" day. Even though she didn't know about it, she ended up participating. They line was so long she wasn't in bed until like 2:00am.

So now she was trying to get dressed and do her hair at the same time.

"Sakuno," her grandmother yelled, "Hurry up or we're going to be late!"

"Hai Oba-san."

She rushed down the stairs and frantically looked for her crutches.

"Sakuno, I have them right here." Sumire said holding up the said ogjects.

"Arigatou oba-san."

"Now hurry up and get in the car Sakuno, unless you want to walk to school."

Sumire was driving her to school for the next the week or so, just until her ankle healed. There was no way she would ever let Sakuno walk to school with a hurt foot by herself.

When they arrived at school the first thing Sakuno heard was, "SAKUNOOOOOOOOOO-CHAAAAAAN!!!!!!!"

Tomoka rushed over to her friend.

"Hi Tomo-chan!" Sakuno said brightly.

"Oh My God, you are soooo lucky!"

"Why?"

"Ryoma-sama carried you home!"

Sakuno blushed. "A-Ano…Ryoma-kun was just being nice, h-he only d-did it because no o-one else w-was there."

But Tomoka didn't seem to hear her. "That is so romantic. Our prince carrying you away in the sunset." She sighed. "I'm so jealous of you." She pouted.

"N-No way!" she said frantically waving her hands in a no sign. "Ryoma-kun doesn't like me like that."

"Whatever you say Sakuno-chan." Then she looked around noticing no one else was there.

"KYAAA!!!! We better hurry up or we'll be late, come on Sakuno!"

When they reached the classroom, they actually had a few minutes left so Tomoka decided to ask about Sakuno's ankle.

"It's nothing big," she started. "Just a little sp-" But was cut off when Tomoka screamed "RYOMA-SAMA!!!!"

The Prince had just entered the classroom seconds before the bell rang.

"Ohayou Ryoma-kun." Sakuno said softly.

He nodded his head in acknowledgment then stopped and said, "How's your ankle?"

To say Sakuno was surprised was an understatement. She immediately started blushing.

"I-It's just f-fine. It w-was o-only a little s-sprain. A-Arigatou for taking m-me home yesterday."

Ryoma shrugged then smirked. "How did you sprain your ankle anyway?"

Sakuno then put Clifford to shame. "I t-tripped over a h-hurdle in g-gym class."

"Mada Mada Dane, Ryuzaki." Then walked to his seat.

During the English lesson Sakuno could barely concentrate. Since she stepped out the car this morning, she could feel glares piercing her back.

So now instead of memorizing the different types of "there", she was memorizing an escape route that would get her to her next class on time, and unharmed.

When the bell rang, Sakuno bolted out of her seat to get a head start to her next.

During the day, she managed to avoid any mishap and hobbled to each class safe and sound. Until lunch that is.

As she was walking to lunch, she decided to go to the bathroom, because with her avoid-all-crazy-fan-girls schedule, she would not have another opportunity all day.

While she was washing her hands a few girls walked in, then a few more. They were huddled in a group whispering. Sakuno wasn't paying attention, just working on her "after lunch" escape plan when one of the girls grabbed her.

"Ano...I need to get to lunch. Could you please let go." But even as she said that, she knew they did not intend to let go.

One of the girls, who was probably the leader, said, "Stop with the little miss innocent act. We all know you've been getting all personal with Ryoma-sama."

They started to back her up against the wall. What am I supposed to do now? Sakuno thought.

Just then, the door opened and a girl who looked about her age stepped in. No not another one! Sakuno was really scared now. She was injured and couldn't run away, and now crazy fan girls were attacking her.

But the girl just looked between Sakuno and the band of girls surrounding her then laughed.

"It looks like I stepped in a little meeting or something. I'll just another bathroom or something. Only I would interrupt a meeting on my first day. Man, sometimes I wonder if I was dropped as a baby or something." Then walked out.

Sakuno was crestfallen. Everybody else was probably at lunch, and her only means of escape just walked out the door. She knew this was the worst day of her life.

"Sorry for that little interruption Sakuno-chan." The girl sneered. Then the look on her face was replaced with a glare. "What do you have to say for yourself?"

"I didn't mean to-"

"Shut up." Then she raised her hand as if to slap her when the door opened again. It was the same girl from before.

Her voice was low and dangerous. "I'm not an idiot. I knew what you were doing the moment I stepped through this door. I thought about if I should get someone or take care of this myself. It would probably take to long for someone to come so I'm going to deal with it."

The leader of the group looked amused. "What's a little freshman going to do about it."

The girl at the door raised an eyebrow. "I'm sure the principle and the school board would like to hear about a group of girls cornering an already injured pupil in the bathroom."

Then she said, "Plus, I have a photographic memory, it would be quite easy to describe each and every one of your faces."

Each of the girls backed away from Sakuno and headed through the door.

The leader was the last one out. "Don't get to personal again Sakuno." Then walked out.

Once they were gone, the girl rushed over. "Daijoubu?"

Sakuno nodded.

"Hai, they didn't do anything to me."

The girl smiled in relief.

Sakuno then got a good look at her.

She had long legs, and was about an inch or two taller than she was. She was pretty, but not beautiful. If she tried she could be even prettier. She had dark brown hair that looked black, dark brown eyes, and a few round scars could be seen on the side of her legs. Sakuno could tell she liked to run.

"Dude, I thought I was going to be to late." Then she laughed. "Man, I wonder if they could tell I was lying about the photographic memory."

"You were?" Sakuno was amazed. "I couldn't tell." Then she looked downcast.

"I wish I could lie that well."

The other girl laughed again. "Practice makes perfect!"

"Ano…what's your name?"

"Oh, I'm so sorry, Zoe Kaye." She put out her hand, "What's yours?"

Sakuno shook it gratefully "Sakuno Ryuzaki desu."

Then Zoe stepped back, opened up the door, and motioned her out. "We better hurry up if we want to eat before lunch is over."

While they were heading to the canteen, Sakuno stopped.

"Hey, what's wrong?"

Sakuno blushed.

"Ano…you're not Japanese, are you?"

She giggled.

"No. My dad is here for some doctors meeting for new technology. Something to do with robots."

Then she added, "I'm going to school because I said I needed to brush up on my Japanese, and the meeting thingy is long and he's staying about a month later since I said I always wanted to go to Japan."

Sakuno nodded, "I didn't mean to be rude or anything it's just that…" she blushed and trailed off.

Zoe started to giggle again. "I know I'm a little dark to be Japanese."

Then they continued walking.

"You know, you're the first person to ask me that up front."

During this whole day, they all just decided to leave it alone."

"Gomenasai!" Great, she just saved you, and now you offend her. Sakuno no baka!

"No, no! I'm glad that you did. It feels nice to know at least one person isn't looking at you funny."

After lunch while they were walking down the people filled hallway Zoe suddenly asked.

"What did you do to make those girls so mad."

Sakuno did her famous fire hydrant impression.

"I hurt my ankle so…so Ryoma-kun carried me home. And they don't like it when anybody who isn't in the fan-club gets to close."

Zoe snorted. "They're just haters." She mumbled. Then all of a sudden her eyes widened. "Who did you say carried you home." She said in a voice that was barely a whisper.

"Ryoma-kun." Sakuno was really confused now.

"I thought so."

"Ano… is everything okay…"

She looked up and smiled. "Don't worry about me, you're the one on crutches. I was just thinking, I do it all the time."

Just then, they heard a sound that made their ears ring.

"RYOMA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!"

They both looked up to see the said person standing about seven meters in front of them looking irritated.

Zoe stopped, stared, and then pushed through the crowd until she reached him.

They stared at each other for about 5 seconds then she threw her arms around his neck and cried, "I missed you so much koibito!"

Yep, this defiantly the worst day of her life.

Thank you for reading! Sorry if this chapter was too long. The rest of them I'll try to keep in the 1,000 range. Also, sorry for the bad Japanese, I'm pitiful T.T.

R&R please!