*A/N* Yes this is self insertion...Again. It's also AU. Some of the characters have different roles than they did in the original RGU. We both hope that you'll enjoy the story, it's very much fun to write and we only hope it turns out to be a good read...Please review!

There was once a little girl, no more than five years old. Her parents decided themselves unfit for parenthood. It was unfair to the child they had waited so long to discover this, but life, as all know, is not always fair. They gave the little girl up for adoption. With a pat on the head and a cheerful smile, they left her life forever.
The girl was young, but not too young to realize that her parents no longer wanted her. She was told that she would have new parents soon, but why would she want new parents when the old had abandoned her? She slipped from their clutches and ran; ran as fast as her little legs could carry her. She ran out into the street, where the driver of the oncoming car could not see her and did not slow down.
She froze in the glare of the headlights and she could not move. Suddenly, she felt herself being scooped off the ground by strong, but gentle hands. She was set down at the side of the road and a man knelt before her. She did not pay much attention to his appearance, being so young, but his voice touched her. For a long time afterward she remembered it, though it did eventually fade. It was a deep and powerful voice that sent shivers up her spine, but somehow it was soft and pleasant. His voice was like his hands; strong but gentle.
"Nothing is worth getting yourself killed. You are brave and strong; I would like to see you again one day, when you are grown. Take this ring and remember me."
He slipped a ring, a perfect rose seal ring, on to her finger. It was too big, but she knew that she would guard it with her very existence and never let it fall. She began to thank the man for the generous gift but he was already gone. Though the details of that man faded, she never forgot that day.

Kim walked in Ohtori Academy and looked around her. The girls were dressed in their little school uniforms, short skirts and ties. They reminded her of sailor suit with the light blue trim. She walked up the steps and down a hallway. There was a courtyard to her right and she leaned on the ledge to look down onto a green house. She say two people quarrelling. The tall man was practically twice the girl's height, and had long green hair, which was held back in a ponytail. It seemed to be just a simple argument until he raised his hand and slapped the girl in front of him. Kim clenched her fist and jaw, anger running through her veins.
Until another boy, equal in height to the green-haired, intervened. His hand caught the other boy's wrist before he slapped the girl again.
"Be careful, Saionji," the newest boy warned. His hair flowed halfway down his back and it was a brilliant red color. His uniform and the other boy's were slightly different, indicating that they were somehow different.
"What's wrong, Mr. President?" The green-haired boy, Saionji, sneered.
"Nothing, Mr. Vice President. Be there tonight at the student council meeting, Saionji." The President's face showed no expression, and he swept away. Saionji took the girl's arm roughly and led her away.
Kim watched them go and shook her head. So the president of the school was unfeeling, and the vice-president was a woman beater.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Kim asked herself, and continued to her class.

Saionji took Holly and kissed her fiercely. He then released her form his arms, and headed off to his class.
Holly tried not to show her anger. She was the Rose Bride; anger was unacceptable. She had to do whatever the champion duelist told her to do. Those were the rules.
Damn the unwritten rules that my cousin insists on throwing in my face. One day one of the duelists will treat me right...At least, I hope they will. I wish that I could be a normal girl.
Holly scolded herself for thinking such thoughts. She was not really allowed to be independent. She entered her class with her head down, the perfect and meek little mouse that she was expected to be.

"Saionji, I think that you have been mistreating the Rose Bride," Touga said. His expression was indifferent and he let no emotion creep into his voice.
"What do you mean? She is mine! We are engaged. You are merely jealous that you lost her Touga."
Touga allowed himself a brief smile, but what amused him was not apparent. "If that is what you think, maybe it is true." He regarded Saionji's grip on Holly's arm.
"I will do whatever Master Saionji tells me," Holly said. She kept her voice steady and managed to refrain from mumbling. She regarded the other members of the student council with an expression dangerously close to rebellion. Juri, the other girl who was never nice to anyone if she could help it, and Miki, the absolutely adorable blue haired boy who always carried his stop watch wherever he went.
"So, you give up the fight that easily? Have you come to your senses Touga?" Saionji sneered.
The smile on Touga's face changed slightly. "Perhaps, Saionji. I will take this up with Akio later. This meeting is finished." He turned and walked away, the quite grace of a feline in his steps. Saionji pulled Holly away again.
"That was...interesting," Juri commented to Miki. Miki was the only one she seemed able to stand.
"Very. I've never seen Touga react so much to something that was said. Very interesting." He clicked his stopwatch, and forced the vision of the rose bride from his head.
"I think he's afraid that Saionji will damage the rose bride, and he won't have his chance to bring the world revolution," Juri said in a bored tone. "Anyway...The meeting is over. See you later, Miki."
"Good day Juri." Miki smiled, and headed back to his dorm.

Kim walked through the halls again, exploring her new home. She happened upon the boy with green hair again. He was practicing kendo, with the girl sitting watching him. The girl looked a little uncomfortable, and the man yelled at her.
"Are you just going to sit there? Are we not in love?" He snapped.
Kim growled and grabbed a sword off the rack, coming to stand in front of him.
"Stop!" Holly cried. She stepped out in front of Kim, and said quietly. "You don't know what you're doing."
Saionji grabbed Holly and pushed her out of his way.
"I want to fight you after school. I want to show you that you are not as good as you think." Kim glared at him.
"Ahh so you must be the new duelists Touga was talking about." Saionji sized her up.
"Duelist?" she asked quietly. "I...I don't..."
"Meet me in the Tree arena after school."
"But that's off limits."
"Do as I say!" he growled and Kim dropped the practice sword. She left quickly, heading to her last class.
Please, Holly thought. Don't let her be the new duelist. She seems so nice and normal...Please, don't let it be her.

Kim walked up to the out of bounds arena. She wondered how to get in, until she saw the handle. She grasped it with her right hand, the hand where her rose seal ring had been for eleven years. She had come to Ohtori, the school that bore the identical rose seal, to find her rescuer and finally thank him.
The door seemed to be locked. She heard a faint splashing noise, and an impossible droplet of water landed on her finger.
"What the?" The door then swung open and revealed in front of her an impossible staircase. She climbed it and felt grim resolve to beat Saionji fill her. She reached the top and Saionji stood there waiting with a smug grin on his face. Holly came out of the shadows, dressed in a red dress that billowed outward from the waist. It gave Kim the impression of roses for some reason.
Saionji looked at the girl in front of him. The most pathetic excuse of a duelist he had ever faced. She would not take from him what was rightfully his.
"You wear the rose..." He explained the rules to Kim, while Holly placed a white rose in the front pocket of her uniform. "Once the rose is cut, you lose the duel." He said, sounding as though he expected her to lose.
"Which will not happen." She glared at him over Holly's shoulder as she placed a green rose on his breast.
What happened next would probably be the weirdest thing that had happened that day, which is a lot considering. Holly stood off to the side, and spoke the name of Dios. A white light emanated from the center of her chest, and Saionji leaned her over, taken a sword from inside her. Kim picked up her practice sword and prepared.
"You will fight me with a wooden practice sword?" He mocked her.
She charged. He quickly took a step back, and she passed by him. She turned and charged again, seeing the blow he was preparing to strike. She quickly covered the rose, and fell to the side.
"See you are learning. It is not your life, but the rose that matters." Saionji said, the closest thing to praise in all of his existence.
Kim stood and charged him one last time, but she was considerably more successful. She stood and watch as his rose shattered and the petals fell to the ground.
"But how? How can this be?" Saionji cried.
Kim smirked and dropped the kendo sword to the ground.
"I hope that you will now think twice before you terrorize women," she growled, and she left him on his knees.