Disclaimer: As much as I wish I did, I do not own Maid Sama.
Background: After graduation, Takumi and Misaki got married. Having proven his intelligence and prowess in the business world, Takumi had finally been accepted back into his mother's family. He had been selected to run the local branch of the family business. This story is set 16 years after their high school graduation.
Chapter 1: Early Morning Ramblings
It was early morning and all was quiet in the Usui household. Unbeknownst to her parents, asleep in the next room, a young woman was lying in her bed unable to sleep. Her name was Manami Usui and she was starting her first day of high school in the morning. Over the summer, she and her parents had pored through catalogs of local high schools, trying to find the perfect match. Her parents' only requirement was that she find a school where she would be happy. They trusted her judgment in this matter completely. Like her mother, she'd always been extremely reliable and competent. Like her father, she'd proven to be extremely intelligent. She absorbed everything with a speed that often astounded those around her.
"What else could you expect from Misaki and Takumi's child?" This was the explanation usually given by anyone well acquainted with her parents.
The only thoughts that were going through Manami's mind at this moment were of all the changes that would be occurring over the next couple years of her life. Her parents met and fell in love at Seika High and she grew up on stories of their escapades when they were her age. Truthfully, that was one of the reasons that she'd chosen to go to their old school. She'd grown up believing in fairy tales and she'd always been taught that her life was what she made it.
'Will I find love there, like mom and dad?'
However, she was practical and knew that it was pointless to try to live a fairy tale.
'Well, time to get some sleep.
I need to get up early and I've got a long day ahead of me.'
As she drifted off to sleep, a thought popped in her mind.
'It never hurts to dream a little though, does it?'
The thought disappeared as quickly as it had appeared in the first place.
Across town, someone else was also having trouble sleeping and for similar reasons. Just like Manami, he was also starting Seika High in the morning. Just like her, he'd grown up on stories of his dad's time at the school. That wasn't all, though. He remembered seeing a dreamy look in his father's eyes when he talked about his childhood love and also of his greatest rival. They'd all been friends through high school, of course, but that didn't lessen the pain when she'd eventually chosen between the two. This particular young man wanted to see the place and people that made his father into the man that he'd eventually become.
'I wonder if dad was anything like me?'
The name of this young man? Toshio Hinata, the son of Shintani Hinata, Misaki's childhood friend. His father had grown up loving Misaki and competing with Takumi for her affections. It appeared that even though they've never met before, their lives had been connected since the day of their birth. Would these two ever meet and what would happen when that time came? That was yet to be seen.