ME: Hey yall! This is my first story and...

Butch: yeah yeah yeah you don't own anyone from ppgz and all that

ME: Q _Q man you just had to ruin all the fun

Butch: that's what I'm here for

ME: why don't you cuddle up with your girlfriend... oh wait you don't have one

Karou: he doesn't have one yet

ME: "yet" ... well enjoy the show ^^

(A/N I've revamped this story (2014) because in 2011 I was young and naive and didn't have much sense grammar wise.)

Butch's P.O.V

"She's mine!"

"No she's mine Butch! You just have to deal with the fucking facts that's Karou is better with me then you could ever be in your entire life! SO BACK THE HELL OFF!" Mitch was pissing me off now.

"Karou is the one that has a huge crush on me! She changed her ways because of me. Instead of being the hard core mean girl, she's more open to people and caring, especially to me." It was a long silence and I had felt like I've won this war until he started to speak again.

"Well I was the one that she liked in the kindergarten and up.. while she hated you. I bet you didn't know she had a crush on you when she liked me. She was deciding which of us would be her 'soul mate', and when you disappeared all of a sudden, she chose me."

'Ouch that hurt a little.'

"Well that time is up because I'm back. Just stay away from us... as a matter of fact stay away from her." I pushed Mitch out of the way trying to exit out of the classroom but he turned around and laughed silently.

"Don't forget I know your little secret Butch" I pause from grabbing the door knob and turned around.

"What secret?" I was starting to get worried. I know I've done a lot of bad things, I am a rowdyruff boy.. but if he knows what I think he knows, i'm screwed.

"That you were the one that crashed the plane Karou's dad was on. If she found that out-" I ran up to Mitch and lifted him up by his collar.

"There's going to be a little problem with us." I threatened, finishing his sentence for him. "You don't want that to happen- right?" I was nearly about to choke him when he smirked.

"Threats won't work Butch. You're going to have to try harder than that." I let go of him making him fall face first to the ground. He got up and dusted himself off.

"I'm really close with Dai by the way... one little phone call could change everything." He smirked and I shrugged it off.

"Whatever." I left the classroom making the room go silent. He knows too much, but I'm not going to let it cause me to lose to Mitch. MITCH! Come on now he's a douche bag and a huge pervert. But I not afraid of him since I'm Butch from the Rowdyruff boys.

KAROU P.O.V

"Hello?" I said after picking up my phone, not bothering to look who was calling me.

"Hey Karou." I smiled because I knew it was my best friend Butch. It's been a few years now since I started to have a crush on him again. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't have crushes, let alone for this long.

"What's up?"

"Nothing much... just calling to see if you're ready to go to camp." Butch and I signed up to be counselor at a camp in America.

"Well you know how much I love to be outside... but the freaking high school brats I have to take care of..." I said groaning to myself.

"Well at least you got girls! I'm getting snot-nosed 3rd grade boys... do you know how rowdy they are?!"

"Really? Are you really asking me that Butch?"

"Right..." I heard him chuckle. "This is going to be a piece of cake... but I would rather switch..."

"I know right..." I nodded but then realized what he meant. "Wait a minute..." butch started to laugh. He had a really cute laugh.

"Well Momoko and Miyako gave me some stuff and some tips on how to deal with them so I should be ok..."

"Good... well I should be at your house in 15 minutes."

"Alright then see you then."

"Kay."

"Kay."

"Later then."

"Bye." I hung up. I fell back on my bed and looked up at my ceiling. I sighed loudly and closed my eyes.

'Why do I feel like a complete idiot?' I asked myself.

'Its butch... my best friend that I have a crush on.' I huffed.

'I just hope he likes me back or that could change everything between us. I really want to be his friend... but I want to be more than friends with him. I sound like Momoko..' I groaned.

'But at least it's going to be just me and him for a week.' I opened my eyes to see the picture when me and Butch went to the arcade. I remember the good times we had there. We would play the same game all the time and then get ice cream. I remember that one time when it rained and I got all wet...

FLASHBACK

"Oh great I'm soaked..." I looked down at myself, but then shrugged. "Oh well he's going to be waiting for me." I walked out of the bathroom to the front of the arcade.

"Hey Karou..."

I looked up to see Butch. He had actually tried with his outfit, which isn't something he usually does. I blush because he looked so different. I looked down embarrassed that he had to not only see that I didn't try with my outfit, but i'm soaked too.

"What's wrong? Did someone do something to you?! Who was it?! I'll kick their ass!" He's so protective when it comes to someone hurting me. No where near Brick with Momoko but darn close to it.

"No it's just... I'm soaked and look bad right now."

Butch smiled and grabbed my hand, causing me to blush a deeper shade of red.

"It doesn't matter to me... you're still the same pretty girl. And I'm wet too." I felt his arm and he was dry until he ran to the fountain and jumped in. He splashed me with water. I got into the fountain and started to splash him back. After a couple of minutes we got out of the fountain soak and wet laughing. But that's when everything goes downhill when I see my d-dad...

END OF FLASHBACK

I tried to hold back the tears that were trying to escape my eyes until Dai calls me to come downstairs. Butch should be here soon so I just brought everything I needed to leave with. once I got downstairs I saw Dai reading a book and when he saw me he slammed the book on the coffee table and walked up to me.

"Dang.. was that book really bad or somet-" Dai slapped me really hard causing me to fall on the ground.

"You... YOU BITCH!" I looked at him with confusion.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR YOU BAKA?!" I screamed at him.

"Y-you're the cause of dad dying aren't you... you stupid bitch...how could you kill our own father?!" I turned around to see him with rage in his eyes. Now I was starting to get scared and tears started to pool in my eyes .

"W-what are y-you talking about? How could I possibly kill dad?" He didn't even face the direction of me, he was so upset and angry.

"As soon as you come back from camp you're kicked out from this house."

"WHAT! What the hell Dai! I didn't kill dad! I was next to you when he lef-" My phone started to ring and I looked at it to see it was butch. Dai grabbed my hair, pulled me up, and threw me across the room. I rubbed my head 'what is wrong with him? What was he reading?' before I could get up and defend myself, Dai kicked my gut as hard as he could. He got down stand started throwing punches at my head, arms, shoulders, and legs. It was so painful I couldn't do anything else but cry. Before he could do anything else we heard someone honking their horn. I knew it was Butch. Dai got up and dusted himself off. He shot a glare at me.

"Don't you dare tell anyone what I did to you or else... now fix yourself and get out of my sight." He picked me up and pushed me against the wall, walking upstairs. I straitened my clothes and fixed my hair. I wiped the tears off my face. My whole body was in pain but I made an expressionless face to make it seem like I wasn't in any pain at all. I am very good at this because I'm Buttercup, and we had gotten in serious injuries before. We didn't want people to suspect that we were PPGZ, so we learned how to pretend we weren't in pain for at least the rest of the school day.

It was pretty painful to walk, but his punches weren't as bad as the kick. I clutched onto my stomach as I felt this stinging sensation starting to build up. I grabbed my suitcase and limped out of the house. The first thing I saw was Butch leaning against his car. When he saw me, his face brightened up.

"Karou!" he ran up to be and gave me a hug.

"Oowww!" I hissed in pain and butch quickly retrieved from hugging me.

"Are you ok?"

"Uhh.. yeah. I was really excited and me being my clumsy self tripped down the stairs... it still hurts but i'll be okay." I bit my lip, hoping he would buy my lie, putting my hand on my head and half smiled.

"Oh ... let me take that from you." He said grabbing my suitcase. "get in the car and make yourself comfortable " I smiled at Butch's kindness and got in. I looked up at my house to see Dai glaring at me from my room window. I turned strait so I wouldn't be looking or facing him. Butch hopped in the driver's seat facing me and smiled.

"Are you ready to go?"

I was silent. I was too focus on Dai starring at me.

"Hello? Karou... are you sure you're ok?"

"Oh..- yeah" I nodded rapidly. "I'm ok. We can go now."

"Ok whatever you say." Butch started up the car and started to drive.

I couldn't help but to think about Dai, what he did, and what he said to me. Just thinking about how he kicked me made my throbbing gut get more and more painful. I grabbed my stomach imagining him kicking me again and again and again but harder. I imagined what he would do next if I refused to leave. He might just throw me down the stairs when I came back home. I shut my eyes trying to forget all of this. All the pain for what I didn't do.

Closing my eyes only made it worse. Tears were starting to form and as soon as the first one fell, I wiped it off quickly. Another tear fell and I wiped it away until I was repeating wiping both of my eyes. I let out a low gasp which was loud enough for Butch to hear. His eyes widened when he saw tears rolling down my face.

"Karou... what's wrong?" I looked down to my leg to see it was starting to become a big bruise.

"It-it's nothing..." I sniffed, looking in the glove department for a tissue.

"Karou I know when you lie to me. You just don't cry without a meaning-." butch saw the bruise that was on my arms and legs. I covered it before Butch could make any conclusions. But he already did. He pulled over and looked at me. He lifted my sleeve to see a big black bruise. I covered it and looked away.

"Falling down the stairs wouldn't make these big of bruises... who did this to you? If it's who I think it is I'll kick his ass so hard there's going to be a huge dent in it."

"No one butch... You know I bruise easily. I was just clums-" butch grabbed my hand and I blushed.

"Please, you're scaring me Karou. I don't want you to experience this any longer. Who did this to you?" I felt more tears run down my face.

"d-d..." butch had widened his eyes now. He got out of the car and walked to my door and opened it.

"Come in the back seat" I got up and went to the back of the car. He got in and closed the door.

Butch P.O.V

'I swear if Mitch did this to her I would have no control over myself and kill him. I've never seen Karou cry this much...not even when her dad died.' As soon as we both went in the back I looked at her with pity in my eyes, still wondering who did this.

"Butch..." she started to cry harder.

"Shh its ok don't talk...-"

"Dai..." I felt my heart skip a beat. Her own brother...Dai... abused her? This is impossible...Why would he..?

"Why?" I put my arm around her and pulled her closer to me.

"I-I don't k-know." She sniffed. "He only said," More tears escaped her eyes. I wiped them off her almost red face.

"That I w-was the cause of m-my dad to die." My eyes widened and I swallowed hard. It was really me that killed her father and she was getting blamed for this... I was about to speak but she hugged me from the waist and she was crying on my stomach. I felt really guilty now and I'll regret if I didn't tell her the truth. Especially when Mitch knows about this. Him of all people telling her. She'll hate me then...but she'll still hate me because I didn't tell her sooner. My heart was beating faster now. I don't know if I should tell her or not.

"Karou... I have something to tell you..."

'I'm real closed to Dai by the way... one little phone call could change everything...'

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. Once I open my eyes I saw her looking at me. I wiped the tears off her face and she smiled. 'So cute...'

"Mitch-" Karou flung up with rage in her eyes.

"Don't tell me... did he-."

"No... He told your brother that you're buttercup and crashed the plane when you were mad at him." Karou looked shocked.

"H-how does he...how did he... how do you know that-"

"Oh come on. Do you think I'm as dumb as the people that live in Tokyo? The minute I saw you as buttercup, I knew you were... well Karou." Karou had smiled and sighed.

"But wait.. how do you know it was Mitch that told my brother all of this?"

"Because the day of graduation... we had a little argument and he said some stuff... and I said more stuff... and he said he was close to Dai and one phone call could change everything."

"What made him say that?" I sighed and shook my head and took a deep breath. I pushed Karou off me and scooted to the other side.

"Karou.. I-I'm the cause of the plane crash..." I looked at Karou and tears were running down her face again. I sighed, running a hand through my hair.

"I didn't mean to.. I was really mad and I accidentally shot a laser or whatever... and it hit and took the plane down. I tried to save it I really did... but the plane was too heavy and it fell on me killing everyone on the plane...including me... but I'm so sorry I didn't even know your dad was on the plane I swear if I did I would have fought for my life..."

"What are you talking about...you're not dead though..."

"Brick and Boomer took me to the monkey...uh Mojo? Yeah him. He was the one who fixed me up. I found out he died when you told me...I'm so sorry Karou...I don't even deserve to be your friend anymore..."

"Butch...it's ok-"

"No it's not! You got hurt because of me... I ruined your life and could have gotten you killed and-" Karou kissed me on the cheek.

Karou P.O.V

"It's ok, you would have died for real if you would have saved him...and I would have died if you died butch really... I don't even know if you know how important you are in my life."

Saying that make Butch smile. He cupped my face with one of his hands. He stared into my eyes and I couldn't help but look into his Evergreen eyes. He started to lean closer to me. So many thoughts were running through my head, but I leaned closer to him until I felt his soft lips pressed against mine. I slowly closed my eyes, feeling him wrap an arm around my waist to get us closer to each other.

Even though I was in pain from what Dai did to me, it seemed like all of my troubles melted away once Butch kissed me.