Title: BRAND

Standard Disclaimer: I do not own Rurouni Kenshin or anything

Summary: A.U Misao is Japan's top leading female Managing Fashion consultant while Aoshi is the bad boy who rebels against his father a/m. Lots of OOCness

I don't know why I wanted to join the fashion line but what inspired to join was my late mother's Dion White silk blouse. She had died of Stomach Cancer three ago before I joined that fashion line. Now here I am I in the backstage of Dion's Winter Special, as a Managing Fashion Consultant, adjusting the model's outfit, which was a black silk bustier dress with silver, rose at the left hip region. "Makimachi-san?" The model spoke up as I walk a few steps backward to see whether it still needs adjustment. "Hai?" "This is my first time on the catwalk and I don't know how to walk." I patted her reassuringly and said "Okay, I just have to teach you then. Watch me carefully." I began to do a catwalk for her "1,2,1,2,1. Just let your feet move in the rhythm to the music." She nodded at me and followed "1,2,1,2,1,2. I did! Thank you so much!" "Good, now show your walk up there! Just relax and do the walking." The model nodded her head before going up the stair to the catwalk. I sighed deeply and run outside, hoping that I would be able to see the success of the whole event that I had organize on my own.

The event was going smooth as I had hoped, nothing had gone wrong. I felt someone standing beside me and I turned to face him. "Soujirou" He nodded his head in greeting and I returned the nod. Soujirou was my ex-boyfriend, was nearly my husband and my colleague. That baka had the nerve to go for a one-night stand after he proposed to me and while waiting for me to think. He had given me a week to think and just when I wanted to say 'yes' that baka confessed to me that he had a one-night stand. I was so pissed off that I broke off the relationship so now we are just good friends. "Misao, the event is smooth all thanks to you and also you got on a nice outfit." I had on a black sweater with a vest and long pants with black Nike track shoes while he had on a blue suit with a black tie and black leather shoes "Nice combination." I told him and went on watching the show "Thanks" Soujirou pardoned himself to go somewhere probably to mangle around with the models while I went back to the backstage where I go on busy doing my work.

The event had ended smoothly, with no complaints or trouble and I was called into the managing Director's office. That morning I had on, a black sweater with black trench coat, a red scarf and a black pants with boots. I knocked on the door before entering. "Omasu-san, you wanted to see me?" Omasu was a lady in her early-forties, a strict but kind lady. "Hai. Well, the show went great yesterday. Congratulation." "Thank you." I bowed "And not only that." She dumped a file on her table and she seemed angry. "Misao, this is your medical report. You have low blood pressure from over- working and I am angry with you for that." "But…" "No buts, I going to give you one-week leave starting this very minute." "But my colleague can't coped without me." "With this leave, you can give them a chance from under your wings and be more independence." I looked at her pleadingly but from the stricter look from her face, I know that I could not argue with her so I turned and left the office for home quietly.



Meanwhile outside the Dion building was the morning rush hour. A taxi was struck in the Jam. "What a luck to stuck in a jam at this hour." The taxi driver sighed heavily and looked at his passenger in the mirror. "So where did you just came back from" Aoshi stopped staring at the Silver Dion building and looked at the driver "America" "Ah…America…so how long have you been away?" "Five years" Aoshi went back staring at the building to the big billboard beside it. On the billboard was an advertisement on the latest Dion's handbags. "I don't understand why ladies paid so much for just a branded bad?" said Aoshi "I have no idea too." What caught Aoshi's eyes was the lady with long hair, wearing all black coming out of the building then suddenly turning around and going back into the building. "Ah, we are finally moving."

Twenty minutes later, outside a traditional wooden gate with a sign written 'Shinomori Tea Mansion' "Young man, I don't understand why you are here because I know this mansion belong to the Shinomoris and they are famous for their tea ceremonies. If I am not wrong, the current heir is the fourteen generation or is it the fifteen?" Before closing the door, Aoshi popped his head in and said, "The current heir is the fourteen generation and I am the fifteen generation." He shut the door and left the taxi driver with his mouth hanging. "Well I am back!" Aoshi walked across the traditional Japanese garden to the tearoom where he knew where his father would always be. He quickly slides opened the shoji to see a camera crew filming his father in the middle of a tea ceremony. Everyone turned and looked at him. Behind in another room, a lady of the name Sayo grasped "Aoshi-kun" "Oops…" Aoshi quickly bowed and shut the shoji.



After the tea ceremony, Aoshi and his father Aoyama was in the room. "So you are finally back?" Aoshi nodded his head. "After spending five years away from home, without a letter that I can forgive you but turning up during a tea ceremony in a t-shirt with leather jacket and jean with boots and also a pierced ear that I cannot forgive you." "I am sorry." "Sorry? Do you know that responsibility is included when you take over this tea business?!" bellowed his father. There was silent between both father and son until there was an "Excuse me" Both heads turned toward the direction of the shoji was Sayo with a tray of two cups of tea. She left the tray on the table and left the room. "Sayo is a respectable girl" "So?" "She is your fiancée as her parents and I had arranged the marriage." "No way am I going to marry her and I think I am not going to take over this tea business. I go and find a better job than this." Aoshi stood up and left the room.

TBC

How and where would the both meet??

Find out in Chapter 2…Please read and review…Thanks…