Hey all! I'm sorry it took so long to post another, but school likes to keep my mind occupied. Here in this chapter you'll see a bit a change. Hope you like it.

Disclaimer: Princesa Alisakura and I don't own SiH, but this is her story.

So far not much had happened at the emerald department had been doing ok. Disaster was gone thanks to Rika, but just barely. Masamune even gave her a bit of a promotion that she'll be starting in a few days. She seemed to be in a good mood.

Ring-ring

Rika's phone on her desk, she needed to make it quick, even though the cycle was just starting she didn't want to relive what happened yesterday.

"Hello?"

"Hello?" It was a male voice came up and Rika's eyes widened at the familiar voice. She looked at the ID that said Ken-kun. Her eyes quickly turned to annoyance and anger.

"Excuse me I have to take this call, I'll be back in a minute." She got up from her seat. 'If I stop myself from screaming at him.'

"Kay."

"Who do you think it is?" Hatori asked as soon as Rika was out of the room.

"Probably her boyfriend." Kisa may had been joking, but he didn't notice his boss's worried look.

Out in the hallway Rika took the call, but the conversation wasn't exactly light.

"Why did you call me?"

"Is it wrong for a man to call his fiancée?" He asked

"I am not your fiancée! You know that!"

"Ah, Rika-chan, that's cruel and to think that I came back all the way from Paris to get such a greeting. Your mother did tell you that I was coming back, right?"

"Yes she did." She through her teeth and how she hated that memory.

"And I still get treated this way every time you call. I'd figured she would have taught you some respect after all those punishments all those months…or maybe you just don't know your place. Just like when I heard you quit father's company."

'Enough of this.' Rika hissed in her mind.

"You know, I'm actually glad you called."

"Really? You finally realized that you love me?" He asked. She could just picture him lifting her chin with one finger, bringing her eyes to his, him coming in closer for a kiss.

"Yeah, I haven't had the chance to hang up on someone rudely in a while, so I wonder if I'm still good at it." And she did. And the fantasy continued with her kneeing him right in his 'safe deposit box' and him kneeling over.

"Was that your boyfriend?" She turned to see her boss.

'Oh no. He heard. Wait it doesn't matter anyway.'

"None of your business Takano-san, I'm sorry to take a personal call while working."

"That's not what I meant."

"I'm sorry, but I really do need to get to work and you need to get to a meeting."

She kept on trying to avoid him as usual. But that she could think about was that phone call.

Ken-kun was a childhood friend of hers emphasis on 'was'. Rika no longer wanted to speak to him after what happened when they were teenagers and that went for her father as well. He respected Ken-kun because he was Rika's best friend, but after he found out his true colors from Rika, he refused to do so anymore. However her mother adores him and sees him as a perfect match for Rika. Rika was pretty sure that she loved him more than she loved her because whenever they got into an argument she would always comfort Ken and tell Rika to apologize first even though she never knew what the argument. She even said a couple of times, 'I don't care what happened, just apologize!' like it was client that could had ruin the whole company under a bad first impression.

Which, technically he was, since his family runs a company that could expand her father's company greatly if they merged. But that was the reason that they got into this whole case, while her father did love her, he refused to love someone as cruel as Sanada and didn't want Rika to fall to his same fate unless she truly wanted to, and she didn't.

On the way back home Rika and Masamune ended up on the same train once again.

"You know you can tell me."

"Huh?"

"Don't you remember? I said you could come to me if you were troubled." He reminded her.

"Yeah, thanks, but I'm fine." She insisted.

"Then why have you been distracted all day?" he asked.

"None of your business."

"Argh, I hate people that go over something so useless." He declared.

"Oh, then please hate me." She insisted. Then the train stopped and the lights went out.

"The train has stopped due to safety reasons, we are sorry for any inconveniences." A voice said on the speakers.

Masamune saw his chance. He leaned in next to Rika, and kissed her. Rika was shocked since she literally couldn't see anything coming. By the time she registered what happened he pulled away.

"What are you doing?"

"Kissing you." He said bluntly.

"Were in a public place."

"That's why I did it." Rika didn't reply and just let her cheeks heat up.

"Look, about that call…" The lights came back on and they started to move. "Never mind."

"If you don't care then don't ask." She declared.

"Come over. Bring Mika too." He ordered.

"I can't." She needed to make it up to Mika for the other day, Mika was not happy only seeing her once that day and neither was she.

"I want to spend time with my girls." He explained. She just blushed.

They finally got off the train and could see the apartment. They walked side by side as the apartment came into view. He asked her if she was coming over and she gave no guarantee. She got distracted by the stars that he took a chance to grab her hand.

"Don't!"

"You'd never say 'I'm coming over' so it looks like I'll have to drag you there."

"Huh?! What are you talking about?! Let me go, Takano-san!" She kept moving her hand hoping to get her hand back, but he wouldn't let go. Instead he just gave her a gentle smile.

"Looks like you're focused again."

She stopped struggling and protesting, she didn't know why though. She could just try again and go home and yet she wasn't. From far away anyone would say these two make a cute couple from the way they were holding hands. And they were cute together.

"Rika-chan!" a male voice called their attention. They let go in shock to see a guy standing by the building with his face red. Masamune's eyes went wide when he saw a handsome young man that was around his height with a friendly smile. "Oh good, I thought you had the wrong place."

"What are you doing here?!" Rika screamed at him.

"Oh Rika cruel and hard as ever. Oh is this a friend?" He spotted Masamune.

"My neighbor, but why are you here? I don't care where you go, but you can't stay here!" She told him.

"Really Rika, and here I thought we could catch up."

"No thanks!" She grabbed Masamune's wrist and ran towards the building.

"Wha-Onodera!" He always dreamed of Rika running off with him, but not like this. She shoved him into the elevator and pushed the button for their floor.

"What's going on?" He asked

"If you see him again run. I don't care what you are doing, just run in another direction." She ordered him.

"Why? He seems nice." 'He's your fiancée.'

"Don't fall for that naïve, dashing, dapper little prince act! Once he gets you pulled in, you will get hurt! I don't need a boss who can't do his job right if he keeps thinking about useless rumors and lies!" She yelled at him. His eyes widened at the info, then he realized something.

"Wait, did he do something to you?" She tightened on her bag.

"My place. Come to my place in two hours. Mika should be asleep." The order was surprising to both, but Rika wanted to get things straight.

In about two hours Mika was sleep. Masamune knocked on the door and Rika answered. She stepped aside to let him come in. He took of his shoes and began to walk towards the main room. It was a lot cleaner than he thought considering he heard the rumors of Rika growing up with maids that cleaned for her and the fact she had a kid made him think that the place was going to be a bit messy.

"Would you like something to drink?" She went into the kitchen and got herself some juice.

"Um, sure." He sat down at the table and took another look around. He saw that books and a few DVDs covered the shelves, mostly books. YA's, children's, biographies, autobiographies and many more. He also notices a few pictures here and there mostly of Rika and Mika. He felt something prod his side he looked to his left to see a tabby kitten that was a few months old.

"Oh, I'm sorry I forgot to mention Hana." Rika came by to the table, set the glasses of juice on the table and sat across from Masamune.

"Oh no, it's ok. I love cats." He declared as he began to stroke Hana.

'Looks like I'll have to win over three girls now.' He thought and smiled as was stroking Hana. Though he won over one already since Hana was loving the stroking and scratching, from the stranger. She loved him already and wondered if this guy was going come over more often.

"Onodera? Are you sure you want to tell me now? You need to be relaxed so you won't be waking Mika. So you might want to take some deep breaths." He noticed that she was still shaking, so there was a good chance she might explode.

"Yeah," Rika took a deep breath in and out then began her tale.

"It started not long after we broke up. I was in shock so I didn't go to school and asked to be on a study abroad program that would be in England. My family said yes but I started to get sick and it just wasn't stopping after months, so my dad took me to the doctor to see what was wrong." She began. She remembered being incredibly tired she was throughout the days, her appetite increased and the vomiting that hit her every moment it could.

"Eventually I got the results back before a parents could see and it said that I was two months pregnant. I was going to tell you what happened, but I heard you moved. So I went to Ken-kun. He was the only one I could tell because we had been friends since we could crawl so I trusted him to keep it a secret." Masamune clenched his fist around the glass when she said that. If he had stayed in the area longer there could had been a chance of them getting back together.

"He told me that he wouldn't tell anyone, he comforted me. The very next day my mother confronted me in front of my father, saying that she got a phone call from Ken-kun, saying I was pregnant by the guy I broke up with. My mother slapped me and tried to drag me to a clinic, but my dad stopped her. I was afraid he would hate me, because he was the only one who truly cared for me. My mother's wasn't so shocking considering she loved me like a toy. He was disappointed that I was pregnant, but he said he would support me." She explained with a few tears in her eyes.

Masamune was shocked to learn that her best friend betrayed her, but he was even more surprised for her to say that her mother's reaction wasn't shocking at all, that she was loved like a toy and that her father was the only one that loved her. He felt like a brat wanting to hurt the girl who could light up the room with just a simple smile when the reason why she was smiling was because she was away from the problems at home.

"After everything settled some-what down I went to talk to Ken-kun," She remembered it all to well.

"You promised me! Why did you tell her of all people?! You said you would wait for me to tell them first!" She yelled. She trusted him, how could he betray her?

"I merely sped up the process. You brought this on yourself." He declared.

"What's wrong with you?! You're acting like my mother, what happened to the guy I knew for years?!" She didn't like this guy. It was like he had her best friends face, but she had no idea who he was.

"I'm still the same. You can make it up to me since we are engaged. I'll just say that we couldn't wait till we were married, so you got pregnant and if the little b*** turns out nothing like me then we'll just say you were raped, but I couldn't care." He explained his plan as he put his arm around her neck and he grabbed her hand to bring them closer.

Rika couldn't believe what she just heard. She didn't care what people called her, but when you insulted her baby, that is where she drew the line. She brought her free hand up and slapped him across his cheek.

"Don't you dare insult my baby! It has more innocence than you ever did or you ever will. When you confessed to me, I thought it was very sweet, but I was in love with someone else. You said you understood and I was so happy that we could remain friends even though my mother obviously wanted you in this family and loved you more than me. But that's all over!" She yelled at him when he hit the floor.

"That's true. Your mother even told me that she wished she could have me as a child rather than you. Of course what do you expect from a toy that their own mother didn't love or care if she aborted it." He told her. Rika was searing with rage.

"Get out!" She ordered.

"Fine, but," He got up and kissed her quickly and whispered in her ear. "You'll come around. I'll make you say you love me, be prepared Miss Denial." And he walked out.

Masamune couldn't believe what he just heard, he was so sure if he held the glass any tighter it would had shattered. His first love wasn't even loved by her own mother and hearing that his sweet daughter was called a b*** made him want to get up and track the guy down and make sure he needed a full body cast by the time he would be through with him. But Rika wasn't done yet, but did seem like she was going to breakdown.

"He calls me on my phone every other day and when I was working at my family company he kept calling their phone. So I'm telling you, stay away from him." Her tears were becoming bigger.

Hana sensed her mommy's sadness and hated it. She jumped on to her lap, climbed on her shirt a bit to reach her face and began to lick the forming tears away. Masamune got up as well and took a seat next to Rika. He wrapped her into a hug and Rika just let him.

"I don't know exactly what you have been up to these past five years, so tell me I want to know everything." He whispered into her ear.

Rika just couldn't get him. He is usually so sarcastic, he picks on her when he gets the chance and he is feared most of his underlings, but right now he was holding her as if she were his prized jewel. Rika finally let her tears out a silently sobbed into Masamune's chest with her heart pounding.

'I can't let him know, that he's still the only one that could make my heart pound. Please I can't let him know.' She prayed as she felt his hand soothingly rub her back and his warmth embrace her.

"Takano-san! Just leave!" She ordered very quietly so she wouldn't wake Mika though they were cutting it close.

Masamune spent the night at her place. Nothing happened between them, much to Rika's delight. Now all she had to do is get him to leave. Mika would be waking up soon and she didn't want to her to get the wrong idea.

"Alright, alright stop pushing." He usually would had fought back, but it was too early. He stepped outside and turned back Rika before she closed the door.

"By the way, since I'm the one picking up the phone, don't worry. He won't get a call through to you." He reassured her. He would never give her up willingly

"…Thank you." They said their goodbyes as she closed the door. She had her back on the door for a minute or two when Mika came out her room a little drowsy and rubbing the sleepiness out of her eye.

"Mommy?" She asked with a big yawn, big for Mika anyway. Rika smiled sweetly as she noticed how cute Mika looked with her Bed Head, pick pajamas with kittens on them, droopy expression and yawn.

"Gone on a sit at the table, I'll start breakfast." She said. Mika just nodded at went to the main room.

Right when Rika about to feed Hana, she heard her little girl.

"Mommy, why are there glasses on the table?" She froze.

She was so busy being comforted that she forgot to put away the evidence of company.

"Um…sweety…that's b-because…ah…"

'Why? Why?!WHY?! Why must I deal with this first thing in the morning?!'