A/N: Again, please refer to Operation: Make that Tomboyish Girl Feminine for some details and characters in this story. :D

Disclaimer: I own nothing, sadly.

Warning: Gender bender. Female Yukimura. A bit OOC.

I changed her name from Seiichi to Shiomi since Seiichi is a male name. :)

*In this story, Fuji and Yukimura are cousins, and Kirihara Akaya is Yukimura's younger brother. Since Akaya is her brother, I'll change Kirahara Akaya to Yukimura Akaya instead.

This hadn't been beta-ed. So please forgive me from some typo errors and some grammatical errors. Can someone be my beta-reader? :D

Summary:

Yukimura Shiomi was a girl who was still mourning with the death of her fiancé and because of that, she refused to fall in love again. What would happen to her when she met a stoic man named Sanada that catches her attention? Will she let him enter her life?


Operation: Make that Blue Haired Girl Fall in Love Again!

Chapter One

Yukimura stared at the closed door where her cousin and her boyfriend walked out of it. Really, her cousin, Fuji Shizuka, wouldn't stop drinking until she used her sadistic/dangerous tone to her. She might be fragile looking but once she used that tone, even the sadist Shizuka couldn't stand her wrath. Her gaze then turned to the black-haired stoic man that was busy tidying up the place. She smiled before she stood up and helped the man.

"You don't have to, Yukimura-san." He resisted as he grabbed the bottle of beer from her hand that was on the ground.

"It's okay. I'll help you." She said softly.

"No, you don't have too." Sanada said as he picked up the cordless phone and dialed a number. She just stood there while Sanada while making a conversation on the other line.

Sanada Genichirou, the man that she just met earlier because Fuji Shizuka's boyfriend, Tezuka invited her. She heard about this man a lot from her brother, Akaya because they were both on the tennis team of Rikkai during their middle school years. And she never met him. Though she loved to watch Akaya's tennis matches, she never saw him. From her opinion, he looked old than his actual age. From what she heard, he was three years older than her brother, meaning, he's 25 years old. Same age as Tezuka and Atobe.

She saw that Sanada's conversation had ended. She sat at the sofa again and waited for him to speak.

"Yukimura-san, we'll be leaving now. Your parents must be worried."

"No, it's okay. Take your time if you still have something else to do. They are on a business trip anyway. It's just me and Akaya in our house."

"Hn."

They heard a knock on the door and a man in a uniform of a waiter came.

"Sir, I'll clean up the place now." The man said to Sanada and Sanada just nodded in response.

"Come, Yukimura-san, I'll take you home." She followed Sanada and their feet brought them to the parking lot. There, his black car was parked. He opened the door of the driver's seat for her and she got inside. As they were on their journey home, they were both silence, hearing only the car's engine.

She looked outside the car window. Earlier, she went to Shizuka's house because she was feeling lonely. This day, should be the day of her wedding with Kei. Somehow, being with Shizuka, she would feel happy and cheery, just like her old self, given her cousin's cheerful attitude. And she knew her cousin wouldn't let her feel so sad and alone. Luckily, she got invited by Tezuka to join their date and they went to the bar that the three young men owned. Somehow, she forgot her sorrows and mourning. She enjoyed the night, really. And she got fond of Echizen Ryumi, her attitude somehow resembled that of her cousin, Fuji. They were both stubborn and strong-willed while she was always frail-looking, weak-willed and always concealing her true self behind her fake smile, trying to let everyone believe that she was fine, but deep inside her, she's screaming out on the top of her lungs but it seemed that no one would be even there to listen. She had done this to avoid everyone worrying about her.

For the first few weeks of Kei's death, she was mourning with all her heart. Nothing could compare the sadness, guilt, pain, longing and love that she had been feeling. She secluded herself away from the people and she was blaming herself for Kei's death. If she hadn't been so insisted on him going on their house for dinner, the accident wouldn't have happened. Slowly, her health deteriorated, the sparkle in her eyes faded away, her usual glow had turned into a gloom and she changed. Before, she was cheerful, always smiling, gentle and an optimistic person but after his death, all of those had disappeared. But when she knew how the people around her had been worrying about her, especially her parents, Akaya and Shizuka, she tried to go out of her shell. She tried to live normally, go back to the way she used to be. She tried to smile the way she was smiling before, full of gentleness and love. Somehow, she managed to do it but she was faking herself. She might be smiling on the surface, but on the inside, she felt broken. When Kei died, he took away a big part of her.

He was 27 years old and she was 23. She met him accidentally when she was 20 in a movie house when she dropped her coin purse while she was buying drinks for her and Fuji. Fuji, on the other hand was buying foods and tickets. He happened to be the next in line and he picked it up. It was love at first sight. He had this gentle smile, she was enticed by his sapphire eyes and he had a shoulder length blond hair. And you could say that the rest were history as their paths would always cross with each other and she called it fate

Oh, how she missed him. It had been three months since that accident happened. Slowly, she closed her eyes and relived the day that her fiancé was taken away from her.

Yukimura smiled as she looked over to the caller on her cell phone screen.

"Moshi moshi." She answered.

"How's my beautiful baby?" Asked the voice on the other line. It was a soft voice full of love and tenderness.

She smiled before she answered, "I'm doing fine. How about you? How's your day?"

"Uh, it's good but I've been busy writing songs." Kei was a musician. Their family owned a recording company.

"Hn. So, have you finished any?" She asked.

"Yes, but, my day is still incomplete."

"Why?"

"Because, I still haven't seen my love."

She blushed by his sweet remark and she heard him chuckled.

"My baby is still embarrassed, isn't it?"

"Kei.."

"Hn? Want me to go to your house?"

"Can you?" She asked, her voice full of hope. She hadn't seen him for the whole day. Though yesterday, they were just together, she still couldn't get enough of him. They always find time together. Ever since she started from her work a few months ago as an art exhibitor, she became busy.

"Sure, I can. I want to see you." He said with a soft voice and she smiled serenely. Kei had always been so sweet to her and she loved how he always made her love by his silly jokes and cheesy lines.

"Really?"

"Yes. Wait for me there, my princess, my baby." He said followed by a tender laugh.

She giggled. "Hai, hai. I'll prepare dinner. I'll wait for you, my prince, my baby."

"I love you, Shiomi."

"I love you too."

And the line went dead.

She was getting excited seeing her boyfriend again. Since it was almost dinner, she decided to cook for three. It was only her and Akaya in the house since their parents just left yesterday for a business trip with Fuji's dad. And the distance from Kei's recording company to their house was just approximately 30 minutes.

"Tadaima!" Akaya greeted when he got home.

"Okaeri, Aka-chan."

"Nee-chan, stop calling me that! I'm not a baby anymore!" Akaya complained and she just chuckled.

"Go and change your clothes, we'll have our dinner once Kei arrived."

"Oh, Kei-san will have dinner here?"

"Why? You don't want?"

"No, but nee-chan, isn't it too early for you to get married?" He asked. When her family knew about their engagement a few months ago, Akaya was shocked and he hadn't talk to her for a few days. She was puzzled by his actions and she didn't remember anything that she had done wrong. When she talked to Akaya, he said that he was against her "early" marriage. Though he liked Kei for her and they got along really well, he just didn't want that his nee-chan would be taken away from him. Akaya had always been close to her, though he had that devil side in him, he was really gentle when dealing with her. And since their parents were not always around, he was saddened by the fact that once she got married, he would be left alone, always. She was really touched by his brother. And she promised herself that she wouldn't leave Akaya alone even if she would be married and she's so sure that Kei would feel the same since he had gotten fond of Akaya.

"Aka-chan, didn't we discuss this already?" She asked the messy haired boy with emerald eyes.

"Demo.." He was about to answer when he saw her smiling at him sadistically. Akaya gulped in fear and dashed toward his room. And then she heard a loud bam.

She shook her head as she continued cooking the dishes to be served for dinner, Akaya was always immature. But she loved that devilish/immature brother of hers.

It had been an hour since Kei called and he hadn't show up. Maybe, just maybe, he encountered a traffic jam. But deep inside her, her heart was thumping hard, and she had this unexplainable feeling deep in her. She couldn't voice it out and her uneasiness was hard to bear with. Time ticked slowly as her heart was thumping irregularly. She was biting her nail which was unusual for her to do. She never felt this tensed before.

"Nee-chan, can we go eat now? I'm hungry." Akaya whined.

"You can eat first, Akaya. I'll just wait for Kei." Akaya obeyed meekly and started eating.

Two hours, three hours, it was already nine in the evening and still, there was no trace of Kei. He would usually call her when he would come late. She was about to go stood up and reach for her cellphone when she heard the doorbell rang. Her heart pounded and she quickly went to the door and opened it and her shoulders slumped down when she saw Fuji Shizuka, her face was really worried and she seemed to have been just done crying. She crossed the distanced between them and hugged her tightly. She was used to Shizuka hugging her playfully but this one seemed different, a very affectionate one if she may add.

"Shiomi, I have something to tell you." Fuji said in a very subtle voice, far from her personality. And her voice was a bit shaky.

"What is it, Shiomi?"

"Yamada-kun, he's…" she saw Fuji gulped and took a deep breath before she spoke, "he's dead."

Yukimura's eyes widened in disbelief. And she felt her hot tears streaming down her face. No, this wasn't true. Shizuka's lying. Kei was not dead. He wouldn't leave her. He promised her that he would stay by her side forever.

"T-that's..not..t—true.." She spoke weakly, she was trembling. Her knees felt week, her mind was clouded. She felt Fuji had embraced her tightly.

"I know it's hard to accept, but he's dead." Fuji whispered softly and from there, she fell on her knees causing a loud thud that made Akaya ran outside his room.

"H-how can that be? We were just talking a while ago." She said between her sobs and Akaya quickly approached them as he saw his sister crying.

"What happened, Shizuka-neechan? Why is nee-chan crying?" Akaya asked with so much concern for her.

"Akaya, please get a glass of water for Shiomi." Fuji commanded and Akaya just obeyed meekly. Fuji brought her to their living room, trying to calm her and let her seat. When Akaya returned, he was holding a glass of water. When finally, she was already on her senses, she asked Fuji what happened. Akaya was shocked when he heard the news and he too helped to calm her down.

"The accident happened three hours ago. Yamada-kun had a collision with a car. The driver who collided with him is safe and was currently being treated at the hospital but unfortunately, Yamada-kun's car had another collision with a post when he tried to avoid the car. His head had been damaged severely, hence, he was declared dead on arrival upon reaching the hospital." Fuji explained and she felt that her head was aching and her heart was being shattered into pieces. She couldn't comprehend it. Just earlier..they were just talking. And now, she never had a chance to see him again, to see his smile, his gentleness, his care and especially, his love. She palmed her face with both her hands and started crying again. When she heard the news, her tears didn't stop from coming out.

"Shiomi, please be strong. Akaya and I are here and so does our family." Fuji consoled her. She was grateful for that, she needed them. But Kei, she wanted to see him. She really wanted to see him. She wanted to see him with her own light purple eyes before she would believe. And this was all her fault, if she hadn't asked him to come, this wouldn't have happened.

"I-I want to see Kei. Please, let me see him. Shizuka, please, I'm begging you." She said softly and pleadingly, her head was down, trying to conceal her jerking tears from her eyes.

Fuji hesitated for a moment before answering. "All right. I'll take you to the hospital that he was in."

"Akaya, come with us." Fuji continued as she turned to the messy haired boy.

"Hai, Shizuka-neechan."

They were on the car of Fuji, her Amore as she named it, and they were journeying with silence. As they reached the hospital they asked for the receptionist to bring them to Kei and a nurse led them to the hospital morgue.

Slowly, she approached the corpse lying on the metal bed with his body covered with white sheet. She pulled down the covering on the head and her tears started to fall as she saw the lifeless face of her fiancé. Fuji and Akaya just followed and observed her from behind.

"No, Kei, don't leave me! Open your eyes. Please, please!" She said, crying. Though she saw Kei's lifeless body, she still couldn't believe this. It was too tragic. She loved him so much. And this was her fault, if she hadn't been so selfish. God, why did this happen? Why Kami-sama did take away the person she loved so much? She didn't know how to survive without him. She embraced the lifeless body of Kei and cried and cried until her tears dried up on the edge of the metal bed.


-X-

Sanada turned to the sleeping blue-haired girl beside him. They were already in her house. Since he knew Akaya's house, he didn't even bother to ask her for directions. He noticed that there were tears on her cheeks flowing from her eyes. She was crying in her sleep. She looked frail and delicate. When he met her earlier, he was swoon by her beauty, so simple and yet so alluring. And she had a very nice attitude that can draw any man toward her. Somehow, she and Akaya were so different from each other. Whilst his sister was like an angel in a form of a human, Akaya was like a devil dragged to the earth, especially when he was turning into a devil Akaya during tennis matches. Slowly, he reached for her face with his hand and gently wiped off her tears.

He never met her, not even once. His team mates in Rikkai had met her already and they kept on talking how beautiful she was but at the same time, she had a sadistic attitude in her, as Akaya had described it. Even in Akaya's matches, he never saw her. Maybe, she was there, but since he was a tennis freak and his full concentration was on how to beat his opponents, he didn't bother to look around the people watching them.

It was already getting late but it would really be a pity to wake her up. He just decided to ring the doorbell in their house. He rang it quite a few times before a groggy Akaya appeared on the door wearing his PJs with tennis balls print. He got surprised when he saw his Sanada-buchou in front of their door in the middle of the night.

"Sanada-buchou! What are you doing here?" Akaya asked, he must be dreaming. He rubbed his eyes to make sure that he wasn't dreaming.

"I'm here to send your sister home, but apparently, she fell asleep on the way here."

"Eeh? Why are you with my sister, buchou?"

"She was with Fuji earlier. Fuji got drunk and Tezuka had to bring her home so I decided to send your sister home." He explained to the scatterbrained Akaya. He might be thinking of something perverted that he had done something to his sister since Akaya was too naïve.

"I see. Where is she?"

"She's still at the car."

"I see. I'll carry her, buchou."

Sanada nodded and Akaya got out to go to his car where his sister was sleeping soundly. He just observed them silently as Akaya had lifted her sister and carried her in a bridal style.

"Buchou, go inside first." Akaya invited and he nodded. It was his first time setting foot on Akaya's house. It was a big traditional Japanese style house. His team mates would always go to Akaya's house but whenever they would insist him on coming, he would just refuse, saying he had important things to do than to hang out. Somehow, he felt that he regretted his decision of not coming with them. If he had just succumbed into the persistence of his team mates, he would have met Yukimura earlier.

As Akaya brought her sister into her bedroom, he helped himself as he was looking through some photographs in the living room. Moments after, Akaya went down and proceeded to the kitchen and offered him a black coffee and thanked him.

"Thanks, buchou, for bring neechan home." Akaya said as he was sipping through his coffee.

"Aa. It's nothing."

"By the way, you said that Tezuka-san had brought Shizuka-neechan home. Why would he do that?"

"Oh, don't you know?"

"What?"

"Tezuka is Fuji's boyfriend." He said flatly and he heard Akaya burst out laughing.

"Shi-zuka-ne-ee-chaa-an..has a b-boyfriend? A-and to th-think..that it is..Te-te-zuka-san..Hahahahahaha!" Akaya managed to say in between his laughs. Sanada just looked at him eerily.

"Yuuta must be delighted to hear that her sister already has a boyfriend!" Akaya said again and now, with a hint of teasing in his voice.

"Hn."

Sanada finished his coffee and bid Akaya goodbye. It was really late and he had to rest. Akaya nodded and sent him off until he was on his car.

As he was driving, he winced a little. He felt his left shoulder stung in pain. Three months ago, he had an accident. And that accident had damaged his left shoulder giving him an acromioclavicular joint injury.

He still felt lucky that it didn't damage his right shoulder, if that so, he won't be able to play tennis at all.

Apparently, he had a collision with a car when they both avoid the truck that almost hit them; but unfortunately, the two of them had collided instead. He heard from Atobe that the guy on the other car that he collided with was dead on the spot. He pitied the guy but he didn't have any chance to pay respect to him. It was Tezuka and Atobe who cleaned the mess for him while he was recovering in the hospital. And he was really thankful for his second life. He was on his way to their bar then when the accident happened.

Suddenly, he felt tired. But today must be his lucky day because he had finally met Yukimura.

TBC...


A/N: Okay, okay. For Alpha Pair fans, here it is! Hope you'll like it.

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-cayleyjanssen