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I was walking through the hallway when I heard his voice…

Stepping firmly in our teenage blues
If you walk around town in your new t-shirt
And unevenly torn sneakers
What you'll feel is unexpected hope

I'm really clueless who it is, but I'm sure I heard his voice from somewhere…

Back then we were trying
As hard as we could
But that day my heart was stolen
When I coincidently heard your voice

H-heard my voice? When?

I'm dreaming on the radio
There, always, I was looking at tomorrow
Dreaming on the radio
I really want to hear your voice tonight

Wow. His voice is really powerful. I wonder whose voice it is….

I'm in love with you, DJ
My heart going Round & Round
Knowing I can achieve something new
You cast a magic spell for me
I'm in love with you, DJ
Sometimes going Up Side Down
Let all my thoughts on the verge of exploding
Reach you
That's my request for today

Ryuzaki.

Ryoma-kun…


"Ryoma-kun?" A teenage auburn-haired girl whispered and opened her eyes, breathing deeply as she stretched out her arms. Her short bob cut hair flowed through the air which passed by under the cherry blossom tree. She fixed the paper on her lap while rubbing her chocolaty eyes with her other hand. After she did, her sight took its attention at the mini-radio beside her. "I took a nap again. I wonder where I got that habit."

"Ah, maybe that's just the radio." Sakuno smiled and yawned again. She put her hand over the button to turn it off.

"That is Japan's new Pop Star from America, Ryoma Echizen." The DJ from the radio spoke. Sakuno pulled her hand back to her when she heard the name.

Her eyebrows narrowed. "Umm… new Pop star Ryoma Echizen? I wonder who he is." She smiled and stood up under the cherry blossom tree; she picked up her items, and walked towards her house.

Sakuno picked up her cell phone and saw that she have a message to be read. She pressed the right button of her cell phone.

Sakuno-chan, we are going to have a new recording for your third album. Be here at 10:00 A.M sharp. Wait me there. I and obaa-chan will just welcome your new album partner. –Kikumaru.

Sakuno blinked several times after seeing the message. Sigh, being a new pop star isn't that so easy. So many musicals, solo recordings, pictorials and scandalous showbiz links always come by her way.

10:00 A.M sharp.

"T-Ten A. M. sharp? What time is it?" Sakuno asked to herself. She looked on her wrist watch after stuffing her cell phone inside her pocket. "I-It is… 9:45…" she blinked several times.

"KYAAAAAA!!!!!!!"


Sakuno ran quickly at the road while trying to call her manager's cell number.

-RING!

"Hello?" Kikumaru's voice visited her ear.

"Anou, Kikumaru-san! I'm sorry I think I won't make it on time!" Sakuno explained as she stopped by to wait for some bus. "I'm still here at the bus stop. I think the next bus will arrive a few minutes later so-"

"Don't worry Sakuno-chan. The person that we are going to pick up isn't here yet, or maybe he already headed his way towards the studio. Hmm, I still wonder who he is because I still do not know him personally." Kikumaru explained without even blinking an eye.

"Ah." Sakuno breathed deeply. And then a new bus came in front of her. "Anou, Kikumaru-san-"

"Nya, Sakuno-chan! Don't call me Kikumaru-san. Just call me Kikumaru-chan or Kikumaru-sempai. I'm still used to that name even though 8 years had already passed by."

Sakuno hopped in the bus and exhaled deeply. "But Kikumaru-san, we are already in show business. We are no longer in Seigaku." Sakuno said with a smile while sitting at the front seats.

Kikumaru mimicked. "Nya Sakuno-chan, as humble as ever!"

"Okay, okay. I'll call you Kikumaru-chan now." Sakuno smiled while putting on her shades. It would be a hard time for her if a fan comes by and requests her to sing. "Kiku-chan, I'll be there maybe after 10 minutes. Ja."

"Ja." Sakuno and Kikumaru shut off their phones.

Sakuno looked at the window. "I wonder who that Ryoma Echizen is. But his name… it seems like familiar…" she exhaled deeply when she remembered herself calling that name in her dream. "I called him Ryoma-kun. Are we close?" she whispered, and suddenly fell asleep.

Fighto!

"Ah!" Sakuno woke up, her forehead full of sweat. She doesn't know why, but her head is aching so much.

"Miss… we are already here at the terminal…" the driver of the bus tapped her shoulder. Sakuno looked up and saw the old man's face.

The youngster blinked several times.

"Kyaa!" Sakuno stood up and dropped her shades and looked at her wrist watch with such anxiety in her eyes. "It is already 10:00! I'm late!" she said and quickly jumped off from the bus. "Anou, Arigato gozaimasu!"

The old man saw Sakuno's face.

"Ah, Is that Sakuno Ryuzaki?"


"Oh my… I am really late!!!!" Sakuno said as she ran towards the train terminal. She paid her ticket, and quickly got inside the bullet train.

She looked at her wrist watch anxiously. "It is already 10:05… I am really late…" she murmured and sunk herself on her furred hood.

"Look oka-san! That is Sakuno Ryuzaki!" a little girl called loudly to her mother. The little girl caught so many attentions so many people inside the train saw Sakuno.

Sakuno blinked several times when she looked at the girl.

"Oh yes! She really is Miss Ryuzaki!" the persons inside the bullet train came over her while murmuring her name repeatedly.

"Anou… chotto matte kudasai-" Sakuno waved her hands in a no-sign.

"Mama, she really is Miss Sakuno Ryuzaki!" the girl enthusiastically smiled and held her mother's hand. Sakuno looked over the child again and remembered her own mother.

I wonder if my mother held my hand like that when I was still a child. Oh well, no time of thinking of her! I need to go now or else, these people will dump over me! Gah!

And the people came by quickly over her. Sakuno closed her eyes. "Mah!" she exhaled and quickly ran over the next part of the bullet train. She ran as fast as she could just to escape those people who fandom her. And at last, after a few seconds, she already found a quiet place inside the train.

She sat at the left seat of the train and sighed deeply as she looked at the window. "Haa… I think I could breathe now…"

"Anou… Miss Ryuzaki" a little girl tugged her sleeve. Sakuno looked down and saw the little girl.

Sakuno looked around her and saw her fans looking for her. "Eh? What's that?"

The little girl gave Sakuno a pink autograph book. "Anou Miss Ryuzaki, could you please sign in?" she said with a tint of blush on her face.

Sakuno smiled. "Ah, okay. But please, can you just call me Sakuno nee-chan? I'm not used with little kids who call me 'Miss Ryuzaki'. And another thing…" she said as she signed in the autograph book.

The little girl looked at Sakuno. "What is it, Sakuno nee-chan?"

"Just keep this a secret. If your mom asks where I am, please tell her that I already hopped off at the last station." Sakuno winked at the little girl.

She blushed with a smile. "Hai! Sakuno nee-chan!"

"Good girl." She said with a smile. "Here you go…" she handed the autograph book to the little girl.

"Arigato gozaimasu, Sakuno nee-chan! I wish I'll see you at some other time!" the kid bid goodbye.

"Ah, I also want to. Maybe your oka-san is already finding you. Ja'ne, umm... What's your name?"

"My name is Yume. Ja'ne, Sakuno nee-chan!" Yume bid goodbye.

"Take care, Yume-chan. See you!" And then Yume walked out.

"Aah, I wish she won't tell…" she sighed. And then she took out her comb to fix her bob cut auburn hair.

"Hey guys, isn't that Miss Sakuno Ryuzaki?" a guy called out loudly. His friends took a look over Sakuno. "Hey, what an opportunity! We have a ride with Miss Ryuzaki here!"

Sakuno bowed her head in fear that she will be dug on a human pile again. Kami-sama, please. I wish they won't recognize me!

The guy with black hair came over Sakuno, who instantly touched and lifted her chin to examine if she is for real. "Wow, minna. She really is Miss Ryuzaki." He said and let out a smirk plaster his lips.

The friends of the black haired guy grinned evilly. "Heh. Miss Ryuzaki. Do you want to play with me today?" he said and lifted her chin once more. The group laughed cockily.

Sakuno closed her eyes. No Kami-sama. Please, help me!

"Oi." A guy wearing a red jacket called by from the right side of the train.

The guys bullying Sakuno looked behind them.

"You guys are really noisy…" he said as he tugged his white Fila cap.

Sakuno opened her eyes. "That voice…"

"Who are you, bastard!" the guy with black hair let off Sakuno's chin fiercely.

"Itai!" Sakuno yielded and rubbed her chin. She looked over the guy who distracted the bullies. "Who is he?"

And then the doors of the bullet train opened.

"Oi, let's go now." The friend of the black hair guy said. "I'll remember this day!" the black haired guy grunted and walked off.

Sakuno sighed to release the nervousness from her heart. When she lifted her face to look around her, she saw the guy who helped her already walked out from the train.

"We are already in Shibuya." The speaker announced.

"Ah!" Sakuno was snapped back. She stood up and looked at her wrist watch and… "Kyaa! It is already 10:15! Ahhh…" she said and ran off the train.

Where is that guy? She asked to herself. And then he saw the said guy looking at the Shibuya Directory.

She walked towards him and, "Anou… hey!" Sakuno called. The said guy turned around and looked at him.

Sakuno walked nearer towards the said guy. "Anou… I want to thank you for saving me from those bullies…" she bowed respectively in front of the lad.

He blinked several times. "R-Ryuzaki?"

Sakuno stood up straight and looked closely at the guy. "Anou, did you called me?"

The said guy rubbed his eyes.

It is impossible that she is Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki has long hair, while this one doesn't have. And…they told me that she's been on an accident. Maybe, she already died…

Sakuno noticed the guy's look on her. "Anou… do I have a dirt on my face?"

The said guy turned off his sight from her. "You don't have."

What am I thinking of? I am here to meet Kikumaru-sempai.

He looked at her again. "Do you know where the Cat's Studio is?"

Sakuno looked at him and nodded. "Yup. Actually I'm going there too."

"Ah… okay. So can you take me there?" he asked.

Sakuno smiled. "I'm glad to!"

He noticed that smile. It was really the same- Ryuzaki's smile is just the same as this girl does.

He turned around and started walking. "Thank you."

Sakuno saw the bag of the said guy and saw his name on it.

R-Ryoma E.? Hmm…

Sakuno walked beside him and started thinking again. Where did she hear that Ryoma name again?

The auburn-haired youngster stopped.

"Ah! You're the new Japanese Pop Star from America!" Sakuno pointed Ryoma with her index finger.

Ryoma blinked several times. "Y-Yeah I am."

"Wow! I never thought that you are Ryoma Echizen! Nice to meet you! I am Sakuno Ryuzaki!" Sakuno smiled over him and tried to reach his hand.

"Eh?! S-Sakuno Ryuzaki?!" Ryoma stared unbelievably at Sakuno.

She looked at him when she noticed that Ryoma isn't taking her hand. "Anou Echizen-kun, please tell me if I have dirt on my face." Sakuno said in disappointment.

Does this man think that I am a fake?

Ryoma closed his eyes. "I said there's nothing."

But, if she is Ryuzaki, she must have recognized me earlier. And she will call me Ryoma-kun instead of Echizen-kun. Ah, the hell I care.

"Well then Echizen-kun. Let's get in Cat's Studio now!" Sakuno said happily.

Ryoma tugged his cap.

Ryuzaki… I wonder if that's really you…


A/N: Hello minna-san! I missed typing here in my computer! Waja! Ahehe, Thanks for reading. Seems like I didn't take some rest, ne? Heh. I really can't take some because my head still thinks of some things about this story. For the first time, I didn't write them in my notebook. I wish I improved a lot after my last story. And I also wish that I'll complete this story as well as the other one. I wish you liked the first chapter! Off to the next! And oh, you will see the lyrics of this song in my profile page. And please, tell me if you better like the Japanese Version than the English Version. Oh, before I nearly forgot, PM me if you can't understand my summary. Lol summary aches, nyeehee. Or visit my profile, maybe you'll see the answer. .

Thanks for reading! 'Til Next Time! Ja'ne, minna-san!

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