Hey guys! I'm having difficulties writing Royal Secrets, so I decided that since this fan fiction is fresh in my head, I'll write it since it's a short chapter story. Here's the catch though...it's not a Gakuen Alice Fanfic! It's a Kodomo No Omocha fanfiction :) Anywho, I hope to finish royal secrets quickly, and I know I promised not to start writing another story until I finished the one I'm working on, but this one was fresh and I really like it so I couldn't help it. I do not own Kodomo No Omocha :) and enjoy!

Sana's POV-

"Oh no! I'm late! I can't believe I'm late today of all days!" I yelled as I ran down the stairs. Today was the last day of my first year of high school and I was extremely excited...but of course, like every other day, I woke up late. "Bye Mama!" I yelled as I passed the parlor, but she was too busy taunting Mr. Onda, yet again. Yep, another normal morning in my house. I couldn't help but giggle as I ran down the street, heading towards school, after all, who couldn't laugh with a family like mine.

Along with that, I have amazing friends. My best friend is named Fuka, I met her in the bathroom on my first day of middle school! My other best friend is named Akito Hayama. I use to hate him in sixth grade, but as I got to know him, I actually really liked him. In fact, between you and me, I'm totally in love with him. He dated Fuka for a while, which broke my heart, but they broke up before high school, and during the time they were dating, I started dating Naozumi Kamura, another actor who I work with from time to time, but he broke up with me around the same time Fuka and Akito broke up.

Now we're all friends and taking on high school together. After school I shoot commercials and guest star on TV shows very often. Hayama on the other hand has karate, which he is doing very well in, and Fuka is still in gymnastics and she even competes in state competitions sometimes.

As I made my way up the steps to the school, I couldn't help but get excited. I wanted to see if I caused a change in Hayama's expression when he saw me. I was wearing my hair down and I curled it, which was the reason I was so late. So instead of the usual straight hair style I wore, my hair was in bouncy loose curls. I was also wearing makeup, nothing crazy, just lip gloss, some eye liner, and a little bit of mascara.

"Good morning!" I yelled when I swung the door open, but froze almost instantly. Everything was just as it was every morning, except for the girl who was sitting next to Hayama, pushing herself closer to him as she talked. She was wearing a mini skirt and spaghetti strap tank top and her short red hair just barely brushed her shoulders."What the hell?" I muttered and saw Tsuyoshi and Aya walking towards me, both wearing a very grim and annoyed expression.

"Good morning Sana-chan, you look very pretty today" Aya said with a bight smile, and Tsuyoshi nodded in agreement, though he still looked quite annoyed. "We have a new classmate next year. Her name is Maki. She came to school this morning with her parents to check our school out, she saw Hayama-kun and she's been following him all day" she said, actually sneering while Tsuyoshi glared at the girl over his shoulder.

"Everyone knows about her, there are all these rumors going around from other school" he said then looked at me and motioned me to come closer. "They say she did 'it' in sixth grade, and has done 'it' with over fifteen guys. Worse of all, it's all true, there are people who know kids from other school whose done 'it' with her" he said and I blinked.

"What's 'it'?" I asked and both him and Aya blushed. They both started stammering and fidgeting. I looked over at the girl and I watched her move her body in a rather inappropriate way. As she did that I finally understood what they were talking about. "Oh..OH! You mean...sex?" I said lowering my voice as I said the last word and they nodded. "Oh my god! But she's so young!" I whispered and they looked at her.

"I agree, and now it seems she has her eyes set on Hayama-kun" Tsuyoshi said and I froze. There is no way I'm letting some girl come out of no where and take him. I let him get away once when he started going out with Fuka, I'm not gonna let him do that again, especially with this girl. With that I straighten up and walked over to where they were sitting, barely hearing Tsuyoshi say "oh no, she's jealous".

"Good morning Hayama-kun!" I said happily before recieving the deadliest glare from the girl next to him. He, however, looked up at me and I swear I saw his eyes widen in surprise, but by the time I blinked, he looked back to normal besides the slight warmth in his eyes.

"Oh your that girl Sana, from TV right?" the girl said and I nodded and extended my hand toward her, about to say it's nice to meet you, but she just laughed. "What a joke! I hear about you all the time, people think your so cool. Yeah right. Your just some pathetic bitch who wants attention" she said I froze. Why was she being so mean to me? I don't get it, I didn't do anything to her.

Hayama glared at her, the kind of glare he use to give everyone he didn't like. The kind of glare he'd give anyone when they really upset me. I couldn't help but feel happy that he would protect me like that, even if he didn't say anything, but then again, he never says anything really. And just like that he stood up and looked at me.

"Let's go Kurata" he said and I nodded, shooting the girl a glare, before following him out side to the roof where we would always hang out. As we left I could feel jealousy filling the room like a cloud of smoke. I couldn't help but look over my shoulder and smile at her, showing that I won, and even she couldn't change that.

"The nerve of that girl, what did I do to her? I said hi to you then went to introduce myself to her, she didn't have to say such mean things to me" I complained and crossed my arms as I leaned against the railing. Hayama walked over next to me and leaned against the rail as well, looking towards the sky, watching the clouds drift by. I couldn't help but admire him. He was just so...so amazing. I can't believe I use to hate him.

"Don't listen to that idiot, she's just some dumb girl who has nothing better to do then try to mess with people. Chances are she has a rich family and her parents are never around, so they substitute their love with material things, so she lashes out by being an idiot" he said coldly and I frowned and looked down as I thought about it.

"I actually feel bad if that's the case" I mumbled sadly. The poor girl...I would hate it if Mama didn't really love me and just used material things to make me think everything was all right. The idea caused me to start crying, much like I did when Mama was writing her book 'My Daughter and I'. Back then I was so nervous she would want to give me back to my birth mother.

"Idiot, stop crying" Hayama said softly and I looked up and saw that he was worried. "You shouldn't feel bad for her, she could easily change how her family is by talking with them, and she chooses to act this way. She's not worth feeling bad over" he said and I looked up at him. He looked at me and this strange look of realization came across his face before he sighed and pulled me into a hug. "Your not crying because you feel bad, your crying because you remembered how you felt when your mother published that book" he said and once he voiced it I started sobbing.

"I can't help but cry. Even though I know that's not what happened, what if Mama actually didn't want me? This girl actually has to go through this! How is that fair? Why are there families out there that are so...so horrible!" I cried, and my legs started buckling, causing me to fall onto my knees.

I could feel him kneel down next to me and pull me into a hug again, and I couldn't help but grab the front of his shirt and pull myself closer. I felt very secure when he would hold me like this, and this time he wasn't doing anything bad or perverted, he was simply holding me, trying to comfort me. I never really had someone who would do that for me. I always would cry by myself so I wouldn't upset Mama and make her want to send me away.

I don't know how long we stayed like that, but I do know that I didn't want to leave. In fact I wouldn't have left if my phone didn't start ringing, telling me that it was time for work. I mentally sighed, and I swear I heard Hayama say 'dammit' but I simply dismissed it as my imagination. I pulled away and pulled out my cell phone, flipping it open to answer it.

"Hello?" I asked and watched Hayama stand up and stare at the other students who were filing out of the school. "Yeah, I know, I have to work. I'll be down in a minute" I said and closed the phone. "I can't believe we spent the entire school day up here, and on the last day of school too" I said and Hayama shrugged.

"It's not like we do anything on the last day, and I'm sure Tsuyoshi got our homework for us. I'm glad we ditched, it saves me from being stalked by that psycho" he said and I laughed. As much as I felt bad for the girl, that doesn't change the fact that I don't want her anywhere near Hayama, especially now that I know about her reputation.

"Hayama?" I said and he turned and looked at me, a bored expression on his face, as usual. "Thank you for comforting me, it means a lot to me. Sorry I wasted so much of you time" I said and smiled brightly at him. His eyes flickered slightly with an emotion I couldn't place, but I just shrugged it off and waved good bye before leaving.

After work, I went straight home and had dinner with my mom and went straight to bed. I was exhausted from crying all day, and I had tomorrow off to do whatever I wanted, and I was thinking about telling Hayama how I felt, even though I doubted I would. Plus, I don't know what I would do, I didn't have my homework yet, and usually work lasted longer, but Rei made sure he didn't assign me that many jobs today since he figured I would want to relax a bit.

When I woke up the next morning, I felt great and energetic and ready to start my schedual, but then I realized I didn't have school, and Rei didn't assign me any work today. I considered laying in bed for another couple of hours, but I decided against it and instead, got up and got in the shower. After taking a thirty minute shower, I blew dry my hair like normal and put on a white mini skirt, along with a simple spaghetti strap tank top with a V neck.

"Mama I'm gonna take a walk!" I yelled to her before pulling on my silver flats and heading out the door. While walking down the street I couldn't help but think about that girl Maki. The simple idea of her just got my blood boiling and triggered my sympathy at the same time. "Maki, Maki she's a baki! I think she should go lolly lolly. Maki, Maki, her name should be Tommy, and Maki's a thief, a boring jockey" I before bumping my shoulder against someone because I wasn't paying attention.

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!" I said as I turned to look at none other then Maki who was looking at me like I had two heads. Naturally, I froze. She probably just heard what I was saying...well..singing, and now she's gonna kill me, but she simply wrinkled her nose and turned to face me.

"What are you, some psycho?" she said and I blushed brightly and looked at my feet, afraid to make eye contact with her. "Oh whatever, your not worth my time, now if you'll excuse me, I actually have a life, and I don't recall you being a part of it." She said before walking away, leaving me glaring at her retreating figure.

I don't get her! She treats me like trash but I've never done anything to her! The only thing I could think of was going up and saying good morning while she was talking to Hayama, but is that really a reason to hate someone? I would say she may be jealous of my career, but she doesn't seem the least bit interested in it, or in who I am. So what else could I have done to her? Perhaps she was a big Naozumi fan and got angry when I started dating him?

I sighed and started walking in the same direction as her, considering the park was that way, but I made sure to be at least fifty feet behind her. I didn't want to piss her off anymore then I already had. When we started approaching the park, I crossed my fingers and started praying that she kept going straight and didn't turn right and enter the park. Sadly luck wasn't on my side.

She turned right, walking straight into the park, and I was forced to follow her even longer then I wanted to. As I walked, I started thinking about what Hayama was doing about now, perhaps he was still on his morning run for training. After all he's bound to work a lot harder this summer. Summer. I can't believe the school year already ended, and it's so hot out! I was still sweating even though I was in a tank top and short skirt.

I looked up and smiled brightly when I saw Hayama up the path running in my direction. I was about to lift my hand and wave to him but Maki beat me to it by running up to him with a sickening smile that screamed danger. I stopped and quickly bent down and hid behind the bench next to me and watched them. I know it's wrong, but I couldn't help it, I wanted to see how Hayama reacted.

I tried to here what they were saying, but I couldn't catch anything whatsoever. Hayama's expression didn't change at all, and Maki kept a fake sweet smile on but there was a seducing look in her eyes. I then watched Maki put her hands on his shoulders, interlocking her fingers behind his neck and pull him towards her, placing her lips on hers.

I froze as I stared at them, and then, on instinct, stood up and started running as fast as I could in the direction I came. Tears started falling from my eyes and I started sobbing uncontrollably. It was so unfair, no matter what, I can't get him to be mine! It's like something out there just doesn't want us to be together. Does life really hate me that much?

"Whoa! Sana what's wrong?" I heard someone say as they grabbed my wrist. I looked up and saw Fuka starring at me with a worried look in her eyes. "Sana what's wrong? What happened?" she asked but I couldn't speak so I just looked down and sobbed some more. "It's Hayama isn't it...what happened?" she asked and I hiccupped and tried wiping the tears from my eyes, but they just kept coming.

"I-I saw ha...Hayama kiss the n-ew girl ma..Maki" I stuttered and she gasped before pulling me into a hug. She went on saying a bunch of different things, trying to comfort me, but I couldn't hear what she was saying. I was crying too much to hear anything in fact. The only thing that got my attention was my phone vibrating in my back pocket. I pulled in out and wipe my eyes before answering in a cheery voice.

"Hey Sana-chan, Ichigo Higurashi phoned me asking for you to perform a song on her talk show tonight, are you up for it? I know it's the first day of summer but Ichigo-san is very popular and many people watch her show 'What's up', So I think it would be a great opportunity for you and your career" Rei said when I answered, an excited edge in his voice. I thought about it, maybe working and performing would get my mind off this... incident...even a little bit.

"I'll do it" I said and hung up, without bothering to say good bye. I just wasn't in the mood. "I have to go to work" I said to Fuka and walked away, heading back to my house to change my outfit and get ready for the show tonight.

I curled my hair and put on some makeup like yesterday, before putting on a red strapless dress that reached mid thigh with a loose skirt, and put on black high heels to go with it. When I examined myself in the mirror, I didn't look like I had been crying, but I didn't look happy...in fact I really had no expression. A knock on my door then caught my attention. "Come in!" I called and did my best to put on a cheerful smile.

"Hi Sana-chan, my don't you look beautiful" Rei said and I smiled at him. "Why don't we head to the show then? I'm sure Ichigo-san is very excited to meet you in person, along with her guest stars" he said and I nodded in agreement, I had to get out and try to forget...as much as possible at least.

We drove in silence as I starred out the window, watching a blur of different colors go by. I wasn't even paying attention to whoever was walking on the streets. Then I had a great idea, I could sing a song directed at what happened and maybe they will see it! Maybe that could make me feel better at least.