Title: Monarch Butterfly
Note to Readers: I know its been years since I've last updated and as of right now I'm more interested in starting a new fanfiction for Gauken Alice... but I think it'd be nice to finish a story so I've updated Monarch Butterfly. I'm still trying to figure out how I want things to work out and end, but hopefully this chapter will buy me some time. I hope you enjoy the story and I'm sorry about the lackluster performance in this story! I kinda forgot where I wanted this story to go since its been so long... ENJOY!
From the last chapter:
"Rei! The interview went well! Even if I was a bit late." Sana said happily, running her hand through her loose curly tresses.
"Naozumi got all the attention again, because you were late." Rei muttered angrily.
"Oh Hey! The mail box is open!" Sana exclaimed as Rei pulled their car up to the house.
"Go close it. Your mother probably forgot to close it after taking out the mail."
Sana scampered out. "Hehe- silly mother. Her head was probably up in the clouds again."
She peered into their mailbox.
"Weird- Mother forgot to take out one envelope... oh... it's for me?"
Sana stared at the strange white envelope. It had just her name on the front, nothing else. No return address.
"Hmm..." Whistling happily, she tore open the envelope.
What she read sent chills up her spine. She dropped the letter.
"Sana? What's wrong?" Rei asked as he strode to her side. "Did you get a letter?"
"... Rei..."
Sana turned to her manager with wide frightened eyes.
"That letter... what the heck is it?"
Dear Sana,
You are all mine. Li, Hayama, and Naozumi will not get in my way. You were talking with all of them today. I'm so jealous. I will take you and you will be mine. I look forward to finally seeing you, my lovely dear Sana. I will make you mine. Mind, body, and soul.
- X
Chapter Title: Himitsu's Bold Step Forward
Rei did not like the fan letter at all.
"This is harassment. I don't like this at all. This guy is obviously a stalker!"
The brown haired young man looked very angry as he held the paper between angry fingers.
Rei felt a sudden urge to protect the young girl that he has loved as a daughter for so long. He wanted immediate action. If he could, he'd have a detective check the fingerprints on the paper and track down the sick son-of-a-bitch and arrest the fan for even writing such a threatening letter to his Sana. He was sure Sana's mother would feel the same way.
"Wahahaha! My daughters first stalker fan letter!"
The crazy woman with the hyperactive chipmunk in her hair held up the letter with glee and immediately set to work framing it neatly and hanging it up on the wall.
"You should take it more seriously!"
Rei fell over on his face and yelled heatedly at Misako Kurata as he realized how lightly she was taking this whole situation.
"Oh Rei! Don't worry! It's just a letter! These kind of letters are just the consequences of stardom and most of them are not life threatening!"
"I think Sana is upset! She looked at me with such frightened eyes! We need to take some action here and think of your daughters safety! She must be frightened!"
Misako raised an eyebrow and opened a fan and covered half her face with it as she gave Rei a skeptical look.
"My Sana? Rei. Really."
Misako opened the door to the living room to reveal Sana happily chatting on the phone and laughing loudly as she watched TV in her room.
"Yeah! I got my first stalker! Isn't that hilarious? No… no… I'm not scared. It's all in a days work!"
Rei sweatdropped.
'Sana would never stay down for too long… in fact… it seems like she doesn't care about it at all…'
He watched as Sana and her mothers pointed at the framed stalker letter on the wall and laugh full-heartedly and joked about the letter.
'I must be getting old… I feel like a father…'
A tawny haired boy with light brown eyes glared at the boy in front of him in the lunch line.
The more he stared at the back of his head, the more he hated him.
"Hey, are you trying to burn a hole in the back of my neck with your glare."
The person he was glaring at turned around with a smirk on his face.
Akito wanted to hit Himitsu in the gut. He wanted to try a few new karate moves he learned in class on this red headed annoyance that had appeared in his life, and much less, in Sana's life.
He wanted to destroy his competition.
Himitsu's smirk grew bigger.
"Oh look, here comes your girlfriend with the weird accent. You better treat her right. Real men treat their women like queens. Betcha you've never done that before."
Akito was about to blow a casket. In fact, a large black cloud was gathered around his face as Himitsu turned around to pick up his lunch.
"Oh Akito!"
Fuka tapped Akito's tense shoulder with a finger and sensed his mood right away.
"Fuka. Get away from me."
"Why? Did I do something wrong?"
The black haired girl flinched as if someone slapped her across the face.
The usually stoic boy lost his cool. All he could remember was Himitsu confessing that he liked Sana to him and telling him to stay out of his way.
It all happened in slow motion.
Akito shoved Himitsu from the back.
Thankfully, due to many years on the streets, Himitsu had a fast reaction time and dodged most of the hit and turned around and landed a sloppy punch across Akito's jaw.
After that, time flew by as screams and the sound of fists hitting flesh filled the cafeteria.
"Stop it! Stop it willya! You boys are acting like a buncha thugs!" Fuka screamed.
Fuka was terrified, and angry. Grabbing carton of milk from the side, she opened it and threw it on the two fighting boys just as the principal walked in and the teachers came along to grapple the boys apart.
All of Akito's friends were shocked as the handsome boy walked into the room with a black eye and a scowl. He looked a mess. His uniform was soaked in dried milk and he did not smell pleasant.
"H-h-hayamamama!" Sana stuttered in shock as Akito walked into the classroom with Fuka stuck to his side like a bodyguard.
"What the HECK happened? I heard you got in a scuffle!"
Tsuyoshi stared at his friend.
"With Himitsu of all people!"
"Fuck Himitsu." Akito replied, turning to Sana.
"Since when have you've gotten friendly with that loser?"
Tsuyoshi already sensed the rising tension as Sana's worried face changed into one of irritation.
"Himitsu isn't a loser! He's actually pretty nice!"
"Okay. What the fuck did you do? Throw yourself on him? You think it's so easy to seduce a guy just because you're famous now?"
Tsuyoshi turned pale. So did Aya and Sana. Fuka stared in disbelief.
There was a resounding slap.
The usually stoic boy's cheek was burning bright red, almost as red as Sana's face as color swept up her pallid face and colored her face a cherry red. Her eyes were glimmering with angry tears.
"I did not do anything! I just helped him and took him out for lunch afterwards and met up with Naozumi, and we all walked home together! I don't know what you think of me, but this is uncalled for! In front of the whole class too! You JERK!"
"Now you're sleeping around with two guys? A pretty boy super star and a red-headed super thug."
'Akito, please shut up.' The dark haired boy with the glasses prayed as Aya tensed up beside him as she felt the rising tension in the room.
There was another resounding slap.
Fuka stood in front of Akito, her face looking appalled and enraged at the same time.
"Akito grow up willya! You're being a two-faced jerk! In front of your girlfriend! Am I even your girlfriend Akito? You sure know how to make women feel great about themselves!"
Akito glared at Fuka, and suddenly his face softened a bit. He felt regret creeping in as both Sana and Fuka glared at him with tear filled eyes.
"…"
The pigtailed girl turned away quickly and dashed away before he had a chance to open his mouth and apologize.
A murmur swept through the classroom.
"Ahem."
The teacher awkwardly tried to get the attention of his class back to the subject of math again.
"Wow… that was like watching a soap opera." A girl whispered to her friend.
Tsuyoshi watched silently as his friend sat down in the chair and glare at the girl who just whispered to her friend, making her shut up and look away. Tsuyoshi wished his friend would get his life together. But then he wasn't in Akito's place. He knew his friend cared too much about Fuka to hurt her. But he also knew that Akito's feelings for Sana was quite different than what he felt for Fuka.
'It's easier said than done… Akito needs a miracle. He's going to lose Sana and hurt Fuka at the same time if he's not careful.'
The black haired boy sighed as he pushed his glasses up with his index finger as he heard Fuka sniffle as she got into her seat.
'I'm a lucky man to have someone like Aya and love her at the same time…'
"And he accused me of being a slut."
The pigtailed usually cheerful girl bawled her eyes out in Naozumi's shirt, making him blush and smile nervously at the same time.
"Sana… you're not a slut."
If there were one thing this handsome pretty boy could do, it'd be sweet-talking the ladies.
"You're a beautiful young lady with many gentlemen who'd do anything for you at any given time."
"Beautiful? Ha ha ha...Don't you mean ugly?"
Naozumi sighed as his sweet words and handiwork on "operation make Sana feel better" was torn apart by his growing best friend.
"You perverted jerk!" Sana screeched as she looked up, holding a hammer to pound Himitsu's face in. But she was stopped by Himitsu's appearance.
His red hair was disheveled and his usually handsome face was marked with two almost symmetrical black eyes.
"K-k…. KYAHAHAHA!"
Sana burst out laughing.
"YOU LOOK LIKE A RACCOON!"
Naozumi looked shocked. "Sana! That's mean! Himitsu doesn't—" His eyes widened as he got a good look at Himitsu's face and he let out the longest snort followed by hysterical laughter as well.
The red heads face did look like a raccoon. The two black eyes didn't make it any better.
"Glad to see my pain is your amusement." Himitsu said with dry humor. He winced as he sat down across from the seat Naozumi and Sana was sitting from.
'Damn… that Hayama is good… my hits barely made a mark on his face and here I am with two black eyes.'
Sana calmed down after letting out one final chuckle.
"Oh wow… Himitsu… you don't look so tough with two black eyes."
"Thanks." Himitsu replied with a halfhearted smile.
Naozumi rubbed his head because somewhere in the process, Himitsu grabbed a textbook and slammed him with it to shut him up.
"I'm sorry Akito did that. Lately he's not been himself. He wasn't like this. Well, at least for a long while he wasn't… but he was a bad by when he was younger… BAAADDD."
Sana let out a giggle as she remembered the incident where she took a picture of him in his boxers to blackmail him.
Himitsu raised an eyebrow as he watched Sana giggling in her own world.
"How close are you to Hayama anyways?" he asked.
Sana's giggling died down.
Naozumi saw Sana's suddenly contorted face and knew she was struggling with the answer that Himitsu was looking for.
"Hey Himitsu! It's almost the end of our lunch break, lets walk to the lockers before any fan girls somehow manage to find our secret hiding spot."
Himitsu knew his answer wouldn't be answered today. Sighing a bit he got up and leaned forward on the table towards Sana.
"By the way. Thanks for that other time. You're one hell of a girl."
Sana was baffled by Himitsu's sudden sincerity and felt her face heat up.
"N-no problem." She muttered as she got up to start walking to her locker.
Akito had conflicting feelings. He did not want to hurt Fuka, but he just could not be the type of boyfriend he knew she wanted him to be.
It's been years since he last seen Sana, and his feelings have not changed at all. He had hoped that being with Fuka might make him forget, but after learning that Naozumi and Sana being together was just a rumor tabloids brought up for fun, he couldn't help but feel completely shitty.
The bell rang as the lunch break ended.
'I don't know how to get out of this one…'
Akito winced as a bruise on his rib screamed out in pain as he grabbed his wet shirt that he had been washing in the sink and started wringing it.
A couple young ladies gasped and giggled.
"Wow, his body is to die for… that Fuka is lucky…"
Akito sniffed his shirt. The smell of milk was gone.
'Well, I don't really have time to dry my shirt. Thanks to Fuka. Guess I should grab one of Tsuyoshi's extra uniforms…'
"Hey Akito."
Hayama closed his eyes and sighed.
"Fuka?"
His current girlfriend was standing behind him with a dry shirt and a sorrowful look on her face.
"I'm sorry about the milk ya know. But that was outta hand. I hope you can forgive me, you know, slapping you and all."
"It's ok. Thanks for the most part though."
He was a man of little words, and when he saw that Fuka didn't look any happier after he accepted her apology, he leaned forward and kissed Fuka on the forehead, let out a grunt, took the shirt from her hands, and quickly put it on.
The dark haired high schooler blushed at the small show of affection.
'Oh Akito, I really like you. I love you…'
"Monarch Butterfly is coming out the end of this week! We're going to see the preview of it in class!"
An excited fan boy chattered with his friends as everyone hustled down the hallway to make their way to class.
"I can't wait to see Sana in it! I heard she has a romance scene in it with Naozumi AND Vincent! Lucky her!"
"Oyy…"
Sana covered her face as many students whispered and pointed at her.
"I still can't get used to stardom…"
Naozumi laughed.
"Well, we're not swamped with fan boys and girls thanks to Himitsu being here and all."
Everyone was keeping a one-foot radius away from the two because of a menacing looking thug. Everyone couldn't help but notice his two black eyes.
'God damn I hate that Hayama…' Himitsu thought between clenched teeth as he helped his two friends get to class.
They dropped Naozumi off first.
"Oh Himitsu! You're nice but you don't have to walk me to class! I take care of my fan boys!"
He chuckled and shook his head.
"Just let me walk you. My classroom is right across from yours."
"Let me just stop by my locker real fast…" The bubbly audburn haired girl replied as she quickly turned her locker combo. As soon as she opened it a blue envelope fell out.
"Ara?"
Sana reached to grab it but Himitsu got to it first.
"To my Beloved Sana." He read outloud. Both his eyebrows shot up.
"This seems to be a love letter. I'm surprised a girl like you whose wearing granny panties today can actually hook a guy."
The blossoming movie star forgot all about her love letter as she hissed angrily at Himitsu.
"I'm NOT wearing granny panties today! I can attract a lot of cute guys! Just to let you know mister!"
Himitsu smirked at her reaction and nonchalantly flipped up her skirt.
A couple students watching from the sidelines got instant bloody noses.
"Oh, never mind. Seems like you've decided to wear something cute today… Is that a thong I see? Wow Sana, is this for me?"
Sana saw red.
"YOU PERVERT!"
A smack echoed through the hallway.
"WHAT ARE YOU AN EX-FELON ON MOLESTING? HOW DARE YOU FLIP MY SKIRT UP! HUH? HUH?"
A barrage of smacks came from Sana as she sobbed.
"I'LL NEVER GET MARRIED!"
She turned away.
"Good riddance! DON'T WALK ME TO CLASS I CAN GO THERE BY MY--."
She ran smack into someone she knew.
"…"
Akito Hayama stood there, wearing a shirt that was a ad bit tight (since it is borrowed from Tsuyoshi) with Fuka linking her arm through hers next to her.
"Oy. Sana…" Fuka said with a bright smile.
It didn't hide the nervousness in her eyes.
"We're gunna be late for class. Wanna walk with me and Akito?"
Akito looked down at Sana, his light brown eyes glinting gold in the sunlight radiating from the only window in the dark hallway towards class.
"Don't bother. Have fun with your new boyfriend." Akito said almost sarcastically as he shot a look at Himitsu.
"Nice look. Those bruises suit you well."
Fuka bristled and tugged at Akitos arm.
"Can ya stop being so dumb? I'm sure Himitsu is a great guy. But Sana and Himistu barely know each other, they prolly are not dating… so stop--."
"We're together." The red head said suddenly, pulling Sana towards him.
Sana's face looked very hurt, but no one but Fuka seemed to notice it.
"Sana is my new girlfriend. So stop getting upset."
"Wait Himitsu! You don't like me and we just met--." Sana interrupted.
Two green eyes look at her with all due seriousness.
"I like you Sana. Like I said, you're one hell of a girl."
He pulled her towards him and landed a big wet kiss on her lips in front of the infamous demon Akito Hayama.
Himitsu smiled as he loosened his uniforms tie with his index finger.
"I marked my territory. From today on, you can be my girlfriend."
Sana's mouth was open like a fish gaping for air.
He turned gave Akito a challenging look.
"Oops, seems I've made her so happy she can't speak. Well. I'm taking her to class. I'll walk with both of you."
The look on Akito's face was indescribable as he pulled away from Fuka and walked away quickly.
"You two lovebirds get out of my face. You two make me sick. Come on Fuka."
'Round one. I win.' Himitsu thought with a smirk.
The blue envelope in his hands was forgotten as he turned around and dumped it into the trashcan. He turned around to wait for Sana's late and explosive reaction.
To be continued...
R and R please.
Preview for next chapter:
The preview of the hit movie "Monarch Butterfly" is shown at school and brings even more attention to Sana and Naozumi. Unfortunately, the stalker somehow finds out about his love letter being thrown away and is even more angered that Himitsu has elf-professed himself to be Sana's new boyfriend and proceeds to send creepier and more threatening love letters to the bewildered new star. Akito battles against his feelings for Sana and his obligation to Fuka and becomes most concerned when he finds Sana falling apart as the barrage of nasty stalker letters start to ruin her life in school.