A/N: For those who were reading 'The Lie in July', I am SO SO SO SO sorry for deleting it. I ran out of ideas after the very first chapter was written and I couldn't stand to write the whole thing out to the ending-if you watched the original anime of which I based my story on, 'Your Lie in April', I'm sure you understand what I mean. Anyways, I'm also sincerely sorry that I was on hiatus for about a month. I had finals so yeah. But now that summer's here, I'll be writing a lot, so expect updates once or twice a week! And without further ado, here is the very first chapter of my new story!

"I'm...sorry, but I decline."

The orange-haired beauty bit the bottom of her perfect, pale pink lip, and looked down, determined to not look at the male in front of her to see that her chocolate, brown eyes were brimming with tears. She clutched onto the hem of her sleeveless yellow sundress tightly, almost making her pale knuckles even paler if that was humanely possible. Letting out a shaky sigh, she looked up at the male in front of her with her tired, determined eyes, though her vision was clouded by her tears.

Alice had not slept at all ever since Shun had been brought into the medical room of the hospital, which was just three days ago. For Alice, it was unendurable for her to close her eyes to drift off to sleep when the idea of Shun caked in his own blood haunted the poor girl, thus making her unable to sleep. Her selfless heart was longing to help the unconscious ninja, but she could not help. She was neither a surgeon nor the person he wanted to see the most. The person he doted on was his girlfriend, Fabia Sheen, who was with him at all times, clutching his hand, acting like a protective barrier. Alice could not disrupt Fabia's duty as his girlfriend, which led her to this idea. Unfortunately, it needed a doctor's permission, which Masquerade refused to allow.

"Please, Masquerade..." Alice swallowed a lump in her throat, her voice shaking, though she was trying to hide it. "D-Don't you think that it's painful to just...lose your sight?"

The blonde male was unable to look into her dark eyes and looked away. Shun had been in an extremely dangerous battle that nearly had him dead. Though he had deep wounds, which eventually will all heal in time, his opponent did something far more sinister. The enemy had used a dangerous ability card on his bakugan, which left Shun's own bakugan to coil back up into a ball, along with some cuts, but the ability that the opponent's bakugan used was powerful enough that it slashed across Shun's eyes to make him blind. Unfortunately, there was no way to restore his vision, but to find a willing eye donor as soon as possible, except that was proving to be nearly impossible. Doctors only took eye donations from people that had already died or to find an eye donor that had already passed away, but to find a willing eye donor in Wardington was proving to be difficult.

"Look, Alice," Masquerade crossed his arms. "It isn't right to just give up your eye when you are perfectly fine. If Shun and everyone else found out that you want to donate an eye to him, do you really think that they'll let you?"

"I-It's fine, if you don't tell them," She slowly got up from her seat. "T-They won't ever know if neither one of us says anything!"

The blonde scoffed. "You don't think they'd notice? You'll have to wear an artificial eye or an eye patch for the rest of your life."

Digging her teeth into her bottom lip once more, Alice refused to look away from the male in front of her. She wasn't one to have things her way, but this had to be an exception.

"I'll check up on Shun. I'm going to pretend that none of this happened." He replied coolly, turning on his heel to the direction of Shun's room. Alice fell on her knees, causing a thud, which caused the blonde to look back at her.

Gripping her knees and with a shaking voice, Alice croaked out, "Please...just please listen to me. I-I've never been useful before, a-a-and just..." Looking up at the doctor with tear-brimmed brown eyes, the girl nearly cried out, "Please just let me be help Shun! Just this once! Please!"

The blonde's lips formed into a thin line before he parted them to reply...

End of Chapter 1

Note: So, whaddya think? Wow, I've just realized that this sounds really angsty. So, LOL, in this fic, please just imagine that Masquerade's a doctor-I could not think of another character to play the role of a doctor besides Dr. Gehabich but I didn't want to use him for this. So, please review and tell me your opinion on this. Which one did you like better: 'The Lie in July', or this one?