Chapter three, wheee. The missing element will be coming back in this chapter (or else I couldn't make it very long). Yay. Oh and the FujixSakuno is...more one-sided? I dunno. The whole marriage thing throws me off on the pairings. Underlying pairing: Fujicest and MomoxAnn. -is weird?- I might change things as the story progresses. Anyway... Enjoy and R&R.
Summary: AU. In the modern day, even princes and princess exist. A hasty marriage causes a conflict within the palace walls. And what's more, the new princess is falling inlove with the second in line for the crown instead of the one she has married. FujixSakuno, Fujicest, one-sided Sakuno and Yuuta, one-sided Ann and Fuji, and MomoxAnn.
Disclaimer: I do not own prince of tennis. I do not own the song at the beginning, it is Bo nael soo uhb neun sarang (A Love I can't let go) by Just. It's from the Korean Drama Nae Ireumeun Kim Sam-soon (My Name is Kim Sam-soon). It is, of course, translated from Korean to English. The only things I own are Sakuno's friends Akari and Kaori.
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Don't be sad. As time passes we'll become
I can't live without you
I hate you because I love you this much
Without saying anything, just hold my hand
So you don't recognize me, don't keep any memories of me
School was so different, so unusual. Everyone knew of the marriage between Fuji and Sakuno. Sakuno was trying to keep everyone off her back, but she was slowly regaining composure. And more and more were getting over the fact that Sakuno and Fuji were to get married, or did get married, and were accepting her back into school life.
"I can't believe you're a married woman now, Sakuno-chan. It's so hard to imagine." Tomoka sighed and leaned against her friend's desk. Kaori was more interested in her book than the conversation. Akari leaned forward to lean against Sakuno's shoulder.
"Maybe you'll hook us up with the Princes friends, yah?"
"I wish. I don't even talk to them." Sakuno sighed, but all eyes looked up at someone who decided to talk to Sakuno.
"Fuji-senpai sent me to remind you that you'll be dining with the Queen tonight and to not get too dirty." Ryoma didn't bother to look up from his video game.
"Eh? I totally forgot." Sakuno freaked out.
"You are aware that video games rot your brain, right?" Kaori glared at Ryoma, who glared back.
"It's not like I'm gunna take any advice you give me." Golden orbs looked to Sakuno. "Don't forget or Fuji-senpai will get annoyed." And with that, Ryoma was out of the room.
"Oh my god, he openly talked to you. Ryoma Echizen talked to you!" Tomoka freaked out to Sakuno before pointing to Kaori. "And you glared at him and insulted him. How could you?! Ryoma is so cool!"
"Just chill out. He's not all that great." Kaori pushed up her glasses, going back to her book, not even noticing that Tomo's jaw was on the ground from that comment.
"Sakuno-chan, did you hear that? She insulted Echizen-kun." The female had started to shake Sakuno, still freaking out.
"I heard, Tomo-chan. I heard." Sakuno swore she could feel her frame snapping with every shake.
"Tomoka-chan, we don't abuse the crown princess." Everyone stopped what they were doing as the teacher entered the room.
"Yes, mame." She released Sakuno, who was so glad to be let free.
This seemd to set out her day. It was just one event after another. Their theatre class learned that they would be gaining a new student sometime soon, or so they expected if everything went alright. This excited Sakuno, since she would get to be the official greeter. She figured it was because she was the crown princess. But no matter the reason, she'd do her best not to forget and do her best. She even told Fuji about it on their way back to the Palace, but he didn't really seem that interested, in her opinion.
The afternoon was spent with doing homework. Until the newly wed couple had to dine with the Queen. She was quite good company, talkative and good at keeping Fuji's attention. She wasn't the Queen Queen, whom Sakuno had thought they'd be dining with, but was quite glad to find it was Fuji's elder sister. Her husband also seemed interesting, liking to question Sakuno about her interests.
"Hm, Syuusuke-kun, have you heard any news from aunt?" Fuji would shake his head at his sister's question.
"Nothing. I'm quite certain something is amiss, but it could also be a false feeling." Yumiko sighed.
"Is something wrong?" Sakuno would speak up.
"No, Sakuno-chan, nothing is wrong." Yumiko would smile. Blue orbs would look at the elder female before looking down at the table.
"How is your majesty's health?" Fuji would question is brother-in-law.
"Same old, same old. I'm doing better though." Fuji nodded. Conversation held similar just to this and the two couples seperated. Fuji collapsed on his bed as soon as he got into his room. The silence didn't remain, for within a couple minutes, Sakuno was in his room. She was looking around as she walked in, almost walking into his telescope.
"What're you doing?" Fuji looked over to look at Sakuno. She took a seat on his couch.
"I've never been in your room before. I really like it." Fuji was too nice to push her out of his room.
"Mhm."
"Fuji-kun, if anything bothers you, you know you can tell me, right?" Blue orbs looked at the female.
"Yes." The girl nodded before getting up.
"I'll be going." And she left. Fuji then swore she had to be the oddest girl he knew.
A week passed between the first day of official marriage and life seemed to become routine. But today would be different. Sakuno was walking down the hallways with her friends. Sakuno bumped right into a student she didn't even notice. Both toppled to the ground.
"Hey. Do you know who you just knocked to the ground. She's the crown princess." Tomoka huffed, blaming the boy for being at fault.
"Sorry. It was my fault." Sakuno got up, the other getting up.
"It's fine. I'm looking for classroom 1-A." The boy wasn't in their uniform. His blazer was a dark blue, with a different emblem on the breast. His kahki pants were even different. The school's blazer was a kahki cream color while the boy's pants were black. The girl's uniform being a black skirt and kahki cream colored blazer top.
"We're from 1-A. We'll accompany you." The group suddenly became friendly.
"I'm Tomoka, that's Akari and Kaori. And the one you bumped into is the Crown Princess, Sakuno." Tomo took it upon herself to introduce the others.
"Ah. Fuji Yuuta. Pleasure to meet you." The group walked down the hallways.
"You must be a tranfer. Where're you coming from?" Akari was curious.
"The Royal Academy in England. It's a boarding school." Yuuta remarked.
"Ah. That's so amazing. So you're from England?" Sakuno questioned as they arrived at the classroom.
"Not really. I was born and raised in Japan before I moved to America for a couple years, but I disliked it there so I moved to France for some time, than Germany, and ended up in England for a while." The girls were amazed at his traveling history.
"This must be our new transfer student. You'll only have to bother being in our class for this week. They're still awaiting all your files and test scores and then you'll most likely be moved to class 2-B, so please be patient with us." The teacher would bow. Yuuta would then bow.
"It's an honor to be in this school."
"Yuu-kun, you're really a second year?" Yuuta nodded.
"Yah. I'm a second year, but due to the weird grade differences, I have to come as a first year for a little." The girls nodded. "And Yuu-kun?" The boy twitched at the nickname.
"Yah. It's adorable and cute." Akari giggled before walking into the classroom. The others filed in behind her. The teacher tugging Yuuta to stand at the front of the room.
"Class, this is a new transfer student to the school. He'll only be in our class for this week before moving to another. So please make him feel at home." Yuuta bowed.
"I'm Fuji Yuuta. It's a pleasure to meet you." There was a little silence from the room before murmoring broke out.
"Why don't you go take the empty seat next to Sakuno-chan." The boy nodded before taking the said seat. Sakuno watched him. Fuji was a popular last name, or so she had encountered growing up. She wouldn't think twice of him being related to the crown prince.
The shocker came when Sakuno and friends left for the auditorium, Yuuta tagging along with them.
"Yuu-kun is in theatre?" Yuuta nodded.
"Yah. Theatre always sounded fun." The girls welcomed Yuuta into their group. As soon as they got into the auditorium, Yuuta was greeted by a quite creepy theatre teacher. He was more than excited to see Yuuta and quickly place him as the role as the crown prince in the school's production that would take place near the end of the school year. Yuuta seemed a little surprised at getting such a role right away, or more maybe he was shaken because he was a real life prince, but few knew. Sakuno was placed in the role of Princess, with Tomoka as her guardian angel. Kaori played the role of Queen. Akari, happily, got the role of Yuuta's brother, and she actually made a pretty good prince. With roles handed out, the teacher went about to get some of the kids to help with staging.
"So, Sakuno-chan, you need to tell us all about the palace. Even Yuu-kun would like to hear it." Was everyone now calling him Yuu-kun? He felt like it was going to stick if it got too out of hand. That would not make out well for him.
"Well. It's really big, and I often get so lost. But the maids help me find my way back. Oh and Fuji's room is so big and nice. It's a little plain, but it makes it so comfy. All the buildings are so huge and filled with so much expensive stuff. I don't want to touch anything in fear I'll break them. And get this, you don't even need to remove your shoes while indoors." The other three girls gasped.
"No way. There's no genkan?" Sakuno shook her head.
"Nope."
"No way. They do that?" Akari asked Tomoka.
"I think some newer built houses are more Western styled and don't have them. But I've never seen them before." The group was actually amazed.
"Oh and the Queen is really beautiful. She's so young and pretty. She's also really nice. She's the head of the family. The other Queen, Fuji-kun's elder sister, is also nice. She's helped me out so much, especially when it comes to my studies at the palace. I swear my head will burst and she'll come about with tea and excuse the attendent who's my instructor. Oh, but her husband is also nice, too. But they said something about him being sick and Fuji-kun often asks him about his health. Her majesty said that her husband is really ill and dying." Sakuno was trying to recall exactly what was said.
"The king is dying?" Yuuta's eyes were wide.
"Yah." Why didn't his aunt tell him about this? Yuuta tugged out his phone and flipped it open. The four girls looked over his shoulder as he sent a simple text to his aunt, only asking if she was unaware of her nephew's state of health.
"Who'd that go to?"
"The King's aunt in England."
"Hm. Oh yah. You haven't gotten the school uniform yet. How long have you been in Japan for?" Yuuta blinked at Kaori's question.
"Since yesterday. I'm going after school lets out to go get my uniform."
"We should have a party at Yuu-kun's house to celebrate his arrival to our school and a welcome back to Japan." Tomoka cheered.
"Yah, let's do it." Akari agreed.
"Is it fine with you, Yuuta-kun?" Atleast someone wasn't calling him Yuu-kun.
"Yah, it's fine." He tugged a piece of paper out of his notebook and wrote down his address four times and tore them apart to hand to the other girls. "Here. My address. Just tell me beforehand."
"Roger." Tomoka saluted.
"Hey, Yuuta, Sakuno, come here." The teacher called the two students over to have them learn the plot of the play.
The day was quite interesting. The group so friendly. They were exiting the school together.
"How about friday evening. We don't have school till afternoon on Saturday. So we can stay there late. Is it alright with your parents?" Akari spoke up.
"I'm currently on my own. So it's fine."
"Wait. You're living alone? Where are your parents?"
"Living elsewhere. I'll probably be moving back to live with them in a couple weeks, but I like being on my own right now." The others nodded.
"Oh. Anyway, then friday is agreed. Sakuno-chan, you should drag the prince and his friends along."
"I'll try."
"Anyway, the uniform store closes soon, so I better get going. I'll catch you guys up later." Yuuta then would take right off.
"He's an interesting guy. He'd fit in well with the Prince's group." Tomoka nodded.
"What about my group?" Fuji popped up out of nowhere.
"Nothing." Sakuno sweatdropped.
"Then let's go." Fuji would then drag Sakuno off to the car.
The week passed by really interestingly. Sakuno actually came to admire Yuuta, finding him really different. She actually grew interested in his random outbursts and random anger at the Fuji. But he was interesting because he made such a good prince when acting. It was like he was a born actor or something. Sakuno had been pulled away during a small break in their practice by Eiji, who dragged her off to Fuji.
"Rumor is floating around you hang out with a new kid in school." Fuji was relaxing on a bench. Sakuno wondered if he was skipping class or something.
"Yah. Tomorrow is his last day in my class before he's moved up to a second year class. He's also in my theatre class." Fuji nodded.
"You like him?" Sakuno blinked.
"Eh? He's just cool. Yuuta is so interesting and there's so much to learn about him." Blue orbs gazed at the female.
"Did you just say Yuuta? As in Fuji Yuuta?" Sakuno nodded.
"Yah. Oh yah.. We're throwing a party for him tonight at his place. You guys are invited." Sakuno totally forgot to invite them.
"Fine. Return to class." Sakuno blinked as she returned back to class. What was that all about?
The party was so nicely done. Tomoka had sat about and decorated. Yuuta was actually surprised by all they did. Sakuno felt the need to appologize because it would just be the five of them, but Yuuta didn't care. The party went with music, food, and drinks. Yuuta actually enjoyed himself. The group of girls left about tenish, Sakuno being picked up exactly at ten, the others just departing following that. Yuuta would then clean up his apartment. He felt it to be rather large for just him. But he was only renting it for a month, and he told the landlady that, who was quite nice about it. After cleaning up, he just collapsed on his bed and went to sleep.
Yuuta's sleep was disturbed by the alarm clock going off. He sighed as he got up, too out of it to really look at the clock. He pulled on his new uniform, blinking at the look of himself in a cream blazer. He kind of liked it. He was exactly on time for school.
"Hey, Yuu-kun. Sakuno-chan was telling us more about the people at the palace. Come listen." Yuuta took a seat at his desk.
"Yah. The King is really nice. He's sweet, too. He's a little stern with his role though and wants the best in Fuji-kun being a great king. But he's dying and it makes me sad." Yuuta felt like he was having deja vu.
"The King is really dying?" Didn't Yuuta ask this the first day of his return back to Japan?
"Yes." Sakuno looked down. Yuuta could only nod. He blocked out all other words that left the younger female's lips.
Lunch time rolled about and Yuuta rushed right out of the classroom. Sakuno and her friends quickly followed him. He rushed about looking for him, wanting to find him right now. As he exited the building, he finally saw the object of his search. The elder male was with his friends, talking. Yuuta rushed over and tackled the other to the ground and sat on him, the other's blazor clentched in his fists. The guards, who usually watch over Fuji, rushed over and so did Fuji's and Yuuta's friends, and some spectators. Just like the ones around him, Fuji was quite shocked. He wasn't shocked about the action, more like the person who he now faced.
"Why did no one tell me about Nee-san's husband?!" Yuuta shook Fuji.
"Yuuta..." Blue orbs opened to look at grey orbs. Yuuta let go to get up. He looked right at the guards who bowed right to him. He seemed to ignore the third year and the guards, returning back to class. He even ignored the fact that the school had started to talk about him attacking the prince. No one understood, no one knew. They all figured him out to get the Prince. Even as the school day ended, he ignored everything; his brother, Sakuno, the other students, everything.
But somehow the news of the fight and all of it made the newspapers and media. And it made horrible trouble for the younger Fuji.
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Another chapter down. I don't exactly know right now where I'm heading with this. Haha, makes me feel stupid. But I have some idea (a vague idea). Anyway, R&R.
