Time Heals All Wounds
Summary: Set in the future. Growing up without a father wasn't easy for 16-year old Makino Kaori, yet she had managed to live a normal life. However, little did she know that her mother, Makino Tsukushi, has been keeping her real identity for the past 16 years. A rui x tsukushi x tsukasa fic
Author's note: This is my first HYD fanfic…im not really sure about the characters' real age so but I made Tsukushi 3 years younger than the F4 so as to have realistic events in my story. If there are any comments and suggestions, please do tell me. It'll really help a lot. Thanks!
Disclaimer: I do not own Hana Yori Dango, so please don't sue me…
Chapter 1: Offsprings
A tall, pretty girl silently took her time walking her way towards the gates of Eitoku High. Her long, straight, dark hair was hanging loosely behind her back, accentuating her slender, yet curvaceous figure. She had taken the bus to school, though she could have asked her mother to drop her off at the campus on her way to work. These times were precious to her, for she could think about so many things when she was alone while enjoying the scene of cherry-blossoms dancing in the wind as she passed by them.
It was the first day of school, yet she wasn't really enthusiastic about another schoolyear of being with shallow-minded people. She hated that school for the reason it was a place where money and status were placed above everything else. She thought the students were superficial, those kind who would only let a person into their social clique as long as he was rich. True, most of the students who attended Eitoku were children of wealthy families belonging to the elite circle of Japan, but then again, Makino Kaori despised most of them. She hated the way they look down upon the poor students in the school. It's not that she was poor herself. In fact, she, her 7-year old brother Ichiro, and her mother Makino Tsukushi, were living a life that can be called anything but poor for the past years. She could have gone to another less-snobby highschool, but given the academic standards, nothing compares to Eitoku.
Kaori sighed as she entered the building. Students were scattered along the hallway, eagerly chatting about their lavish summer escapades or bragging about their latest Gucci or Prada they have acquired over the break. She was disgusted at the sight of this. Petty conversations filled the halls of Eitoku. Nothing has ever changed. Her mother had told her what it was like before in Eitoku. The Eitoku her mother knew was pretty much the same as the Eitoku Kaori knew now.
"Have you seen Hanazawa Keitaro yet? I heard he's back from France." Kaori heard a girl say as she neared her locker. "I heard he's even better looking now."
"Oh yeah, his father pulled him out of school last year. He went to a boarding school in France." another girl supplied.
"Oh Geez! I'm glad he's back! I'll have something to look forward to again everyday!" a third girl chirped in, sounding very excited.
Hanazawa Keitaro. She hadn't seen him for a year now. The last time she saw Keitaro was the last day of school of junior high. His father, Hanazawa Rui had sent him to a boarding school in France to take his highschool there. Now, she didn't even know he was back, and why he was back. Why didn't her mother tell her this?
She rolled her eyes at the thought of him. What do these girls see in that egoistical jerk, anyway? Granted, he was extremely good-looking. But that did not mean he was the perfect guy for any girl. He was considered the King of Eitoku High, even though he was still in his junior year. Almost all of the female population swooned over him. He could make any girl's heart melt with just flashing a smile at them. Well, almost. Count Makino Kaori out.
For Kaori, Keitaro was probably the most annoying, egoistical, self-centered ass she ever knew.
Physically, Keitaro looks very much like his father: tall, lean, and attractive. She had to admit to herself that Keitaro's well-chiseled features deserved to be admired by everybody. This dark brown-haired lad can carry clothes well, even the plain-looking Eitoku uniform hung perfectly in his equally perfect, sculptured frame. He got everything except his father's dead marble eyes. Kaori had assumed Keitaro's playful and lively eyes were from his late mother, Hanazawa Shizuka.
However, his personality was nowhere near his father's. They were total opposites, as far as Kaori knew. Keitaro's father was a man of few words, but talked with great sense. Having all the attention centered to him was not his thing, but being a Hanazawa and a former F4, many still gossip about him. On the other hand, Keitaro was a playful and talkative teenager. Flirting was his game. Changing girlfriends every now and then was part of his routine life. Hanazawa Rui had often teased his son being the descendant of Nishikado Soujiro and Mimisaka Akira, the two other members of F4. Of course, being a son of an F4, Keitaro had gained a status he never worked up for, not mentioning he owns one of the most handsome faces in school.
Expect Kaori's name to turn up whenever students talk about Keitaro. They were an item in Eitoku way back in junior high---but not in a romantic way. Their daily banter in the hallways or in the cafeteria anytime of the day was the source of entertainment by some innocent passer-bys. Being the cocky boy he was, Keitaro amused himself by annoying the hell out of Kaori. He knew which right buttons to press in order to get the rise out of her. Everytime when both of them would have their verbal sparring, Keitaro would tease Kaori by forcing her to admit she likes him: "C'mon Kaori, admit it…" he would smirk. " You like me, don't you? You don't have to be ashamed of it…" But Kaori was assertive and strong-headed as he was, and quick-witted too. Never did she fail to spat an equally good comeback. These two may seem to be mortal enemies, but no matter how much they try to escape from each other, there will forever be a connection between them. Makino Kaori and Hanazawa Keitaro never shared the same bloodline. However, they were sharing the same blood through their younger brother.
Hanazawa Ichiro was Tsukushi's son with Rui. He was born a year after those two met again for the first time in seven years since the time Tsukushi disappeared. Until the present time, they hadn't got married yet but they constantly saw each other. Kaori had gotten close with Rui, of course because of the fact that he was the father of his younger brother. But aside from this, he was very gentle and good with Kaori. She was very grateful for that.
It took her five minutes to gather her books needed for her first few classes. As soon as she had shut the locker door up, Kaori was startled at the tall figure leaning lazily beside her locker, with both his hands inside his pocket. Kaori stared at him for a few seconds, then she realized his lips were slowly curving upward forming into a smirk.
"Missed me, Makino?"
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So, Kaori and Keitaro are "step-siblings". What happened between Rui and Tsukushi before? Who was Kaori's father?
A/N How do you like it so far? Sorry if there wasn't any much action going on in this short chapter. I'm still trying to introduce the characters in the story. And don't worry; there will be rui x tsukushi and tsukasa x tsukushi action in the future chapters. I'm sorry if so me you are getting confused with the plot, but as you read on with the story, you'll slowly get the gist of it. Don't forget to review!!
