By Empyreal Melody
Author's Note: Hello! Empyreal Melody here, but call me San! In this fic, Sana is 14 and just starting high school. She hasn't met Tsuyoshi or Akito yet, but she will eventually. Aya and Fuka are with her as well, Fuka having already dated Takaishi. Not much to say for the first chapter, except for you to read on with the story!
Disclaimer: Most unfortunately I do not own Kodocha, but I'd like to! After all, who wouldn't?
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Chapter 1 – Looking At Those Pictures
A girl let out a long yawn and stretched her arms on her bed as she started to wake up. Her brown hair was a mess and her eyes could barely remain open. Slowly looking over at her clock she found out that school started in fifteen minutes. Figuring she had enough time to get ready she crawled back into her blanket.
"What?!!!!!" Immediately her chestnut brown eyes were opened wide and she jumped out of bed. She threw open the doors of her closet and pulled out her uniform. After that she slipped on her shoes and took two elastic bands.
"Mom! Rei! Why didn't anybody wake me up?!"
"What? You're not a baby anymore. You should learn how to get up on your own," her mother said, laughing as a fan covered her mouth. On top of her head was her squirrel, Mako, who was currently playing with the net of the mini-basketball court. She handed Sana a slice of bread already coated with butter when she spotted her downstairs. "Now hurry up and eat. You don't want to be late for your first day of high school."
Sana ran over to the nearest mirror to tie up her hair, but failed to do it nicely. Knowing she didn't have enough time either, she grabbed the scissors closet to her. "What do I do first? My hairstyle or my bangs?" She looked over to her mom in question.
"Good question. Let's see now…" She took Mako off her head and put it on Sana's. "There, now your hairstyle is done. Quite fascinating don't you think?"
Sana blinked in confusion as she watched Mako through the mirror try to score a basket with its tail. Hearing Rei call her name made her take Mako off her head and placed it back on her mother's.
"Sana!" Rei called out again. He looked at his watch, straining his eyes to look at the little clock handles through his sunglasses while holding the door open.
"Sorry Mom gotta go!" She gave her mother a quick kiss before getting her backpack. "Come on Rei!" she said, pulling him to the limo. "Step on it!"
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While Rei was driving her to school, Sana tied her hair up in pigtails with her bread hanging from her mouth. When she glanced out the window she saw an old lady walking by. She blinked, noticing how fast that woman was to be able to keep up with a car. Then she stared closely. That woman seemed to be walking very slowly…
"Rei! What are you doing? I'm going to be late for the opening ceremony if I don't get there fast! What's taking so long?" she whined, hating to be late for something she thought to be of importance.
"I'm driving for your safety. The slower we go, the less chances we get for getting into danger," he answered in a somewhat fatherly tone.
"Ha! I laugh in the face of danger!" She popped up from the open space in the limo and stood on her seat, laughing the way her mother would with her hands on her hips.
"Sana! Get down!" Rei panicked and yanked Sana back down to her seat. She plopped down and sat straight, a cocky smile on her face. "I laugh in the face of danger," she said, starting to give Rei the creeps. "Move over! I'm driving!" She crawled into Rei's lap and stomped on the pedal.
"Sana! What do you think you're doing?!"
The car zoomed and flew through the air as they reached the hills of the streets. Sana laughed as she drove while Rei was clinging onto his seat with tears about to come from his eyes.
"Yeah! Now this is what I call driving!" she exclaimed, looking like a mad driver.
"Stop! Sana! How are you even reaching the pedal?"
"That doesn't matter. With my unique skill, we'll get there in no time!"
"Whatever happened to safety?"
"Oh that's old news. I laugh in the face of danger."
They hit a bump that made them bounce in their seats. "Whee!" Sana then let go of the wheel, throwing her hands up and letting it drive on its own. Immediately Rei tried to take over. "Get back in your seat, Sana."
"Aww, but this is fun!"
"Stop now or I'll call your mother," he warned, but his warning proved to be of no use.
"Haha! My mother laughs in the face of danger!"
"Stop saying that!" Rei exclaimed while Sana laughed the rest of the way there.
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The car swerved into the parking lot with a loud screech. Rei was panting, his face pale from exhaustion and fright. That had to have been the scariest experience that has ever happened to him in his entire life. Sure it may have been a bit like a roller coaster, but that was nowhere near fun. Sometimes, that girl was too energetic for her own good. He felt as though he could have died from that car ride.
"Okay. I'm off to the ceremony now. Bye Rei!" Sana got out of the car joyfully and skipped away as if that ride was nothing at all.
"Sana!" A blonde girl her age came running up to her. She had a very calm aura to her, and asked how she was. "It's good to see you here on time, but I guess that's because today is important." She laughed at her own joke as Sana put her hand behind her head.
"As true as that may be, I will not admit it!" she exclaimed, holding her head up high.
"Um, Sana, you just did."
"Oh I did?" Her face went completely dumb while Aya was giggling softly at her. "Oh well! Let bygones be bee-gones! Let's go!" She then pulled Aya to the school doors, leaving Rei still paralyzed.
"I am never going to let Sana drive as long as I live," he muttered to himself.
"What was that?" A dull voice came from the window as Rei looked straight into the face of Sana. He jumped; more scary sparks emitting from his already frightened self. That girl just seemed to pop in and out of nowhere.
"Sana! I thought you already left." He held a hand over his heart, barely able to handle anymore shock from that girl.
"I did. I came back," she said.
Rei gave off a teardrop as he watched her suck on her thumb. No matter what age she is, she still acts like a child. "Sana, that's unhealthy. I read in a book that you can get germs from doing that. It also mentioned that-"
"Okay! Bye Rei!" She ran back to where Aya was and charged to the school doors once again. Rei leaned back into the leather seat and covered his face with his hands. 'Someone needs to help her,' he thought to himself. Regaining his composure he drove slowly, but safely back home.
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"Hello students! For some, welcome back to another year at Jinbo! For others, welcome! Most of you should know that this school runs from pre-school to 12th grade. So whether you are new or not, you may see a lot of familiar faces. My younger brother was the elementary principal, so most of you should be able to recognize me from him. Our school has ideals, but most of you should know that they don't really matter. No one pays attention to them anyway! Hahaha! Have fun!"
The students laughed as their principal went off stage with the assistant principal running after him. "Wait! Principal! That was too short! Come back!" Sana knew that she was going to like her school. Her best friends Aya and Fuka were going to be in her class as well. Since the speech was too short, they were sent to their homeroom classes where her teacher introduced himself. Being their first day, they didn't have any classes. In fact, it was just an orientation. So they received their syllabuses for all their classes and went around introducing themselves.
"Hi! I'm Kurata Sana. It's nice to meet you all." She smiled with her brown eyes shining with laughter. She knew that there really was no point in introducing herself. She was a star after all. Though to make things even and give her self an equal participation in their group she decided that it wasn't so bad being normal.
"Thank you, Miss Kurata. You may take your seat." Other people who haven't introduced themselves yet came up to the front of the classroom while Sana chatted with Fuka. Aya was on the other side of the classroom talking to some other students from their elementary classes. It was nice that some of them could get together again, like a little reunion.
"Hey girl! What's up?" Fuka greeted, holding her hand up in the air for a high five. Her black hair was straight as usual but there was something about her bangs that just weren't right. Sana hit her hand back and noticed what was wrong with her hair. It was cut too short!
"Didn't have enough time to cut your bangs right, huh Fuka?"
"Well I don't see how yours is any different. I say that you were late this morning and didn't have enough time to cut your bangs at all." As usual, Fuka used her smarts to counter Sana's comment. Sometimes Fuka was just too smart for her own good. Got annoying sometimes, really, but she was a great friend so Sana didn't bother making a fuss over it.
"Yeah well I have no idea why I didn't get up. Ever since I got that new alarm clock, I just slept through the music. After all it is classical." Fuka got a teardrop when Sana said that. "Of course she didn't wake up," Fuka thought. "That's classical! No one can wake up to classical. Unless it was Beethoven or something but even that is boring!" All of a sudden a light bulb turned on and Fuka started rummaging through her bag.
"Oh! Before I forget…" She pulled out an 'M' magazine from her bag, flipped through a couple of pages and showed it to Sana. "Look! There's a new hot actor! Have you met him?"
Sana looked at the page to see the picture of a guy with dirty blonde hair. In her opinion he didn't seem that hot. He practically had no emotion on his face and looked so dull. Though she did have to admit, his eyes did give off a certain interest.
"Nuh-uh. Never seen him before. Who is he?"
Fuka rolled her eyes at her friend. "Don't you ever read? His name is right on the bottom. Akito Hayama. She took the magazine and read the short description provided on the page.
'Check out our hottest star because this cheetah is on the loose! Akito Hayama
is now Japan's best actor when it comes to action. He recently played in
Director Kaiyuki's 'I Will Never Die' and Director Ionio's 'My Way of Karate.'
Who 's interested out there? You should because he's right here in your city!'
"Can you believe this? Another actor!" she practically squealed while Sana sweat-dropped. Ever since Fuka and Takaishi broke up, she started looking at all the famous hotties. Sometimes she made Sana wonder just exactly how much alike they were.
"How are things going between you and Naozumi?" Fuka asked, pulling out another magazine. "You know, this guy." She pointed at the page where pictures of Naozumi were all over the place. "No wait, this one is much better." She pulled out yet another magazine from her bag and unfolded the poster that was inserted. "Well? What do you think?"
Sana's mind raced with question marks and flying ducks as she looked between pictures. It seemed as though wherever she went Naozumi would always be there. She would occasionally see him at work and when she didn't, she would see him on television. When she didn't see him on TV she would constantly hear about him from other reporters and definitely the girls at her school. He was everywhere! The idea annoyed her, but she figured that probably some people felt the same way about her too. "It's not like we're going out or anything. It's just those tabloids, always making things up. You know how they are."
Fuka nodded knowing that most of the things said in the media were mostly always not true. "But what about the picture? I only collect the pages and magazines that I like so you better say it looks good." She gave Sana an evil glare that made Sana laugh nervously. Hearing that she said that the pictures looked okay Fuka brightened and continued her chattering.
During her talk Sana felt like sleeping. Of course Fuka was her best friend, but she felt so tired and she knew that she was going to have to go back to work the following day. Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to fall asleep in school. It wasn't like she was going to miss anything. If something important came along someone would wake her up anyway. She yawned, stretching her arms out before slumping against her seat and then leaning her head against her desk.
"-and I knew that he was going to make it in that movie. He seemed like the perfect guy for the role… Are you listening to me? Hey! Wake up!" Getting quite annoyed by her already snoring friend she took out her trusty fan from wherever she keeps it and hit her.
"Ow! That hurt! Who did that?" She turned her head sideways in that quick anime style characters always do before slowly staring at Fuka. "Fuka…" She used her dull, scary voice again on her.
"Oh stop that Sana. I was talking to you about Hayama! You should listen. You might meet him someday." She became starry eyed, imagining Sana introducing him to her. That would be wonderful!
Sana just waved her hand and shook her head. "I don't think so Fuka. I'm not interested."
"What do you mean by that?" she asked her in shock. After all, who wouldn't be interested in a guy like Hayama? He was a major celebrity with looks and talent. Sometimes that was hard to find. Sana could be a bit dense, but not to like Hayama? She was appalled!
Sana rested her elbows against her desk in thought. She wondered herself why she wasn't as interested in guys as her other girl friends. While they were looking at those tabloids she would sit there with no care in the world. Maybe it was because of that whole sixth grade incident. The boys in her class were always causing havoc and gave the teacher a hard time. Naozumi, though more mature than the others, was too annoying. It could all just be considered as a bad experience, but still, she wasn't interested. She chose to ignore Fuka's question in the end and fell back asleep…
"Sana? You okay?" Fuka waved her hand in front of Sana's face to get her 'out of space.' When she didn't reply she fell off her chair in sudden realization. "Sana! Don't tell me you fell asleep with your eyes open! You didn't answer my question! Sana!"
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Author's Note: Well there's the first chapter. Did you like it? If it was too short, don't worry. I'll make it longer in upcoming chapters. Though, of course, that would be if you review. Other authors have used the great idea of having a certain number of reviews before updating. I'll be taking that in as well so review to your heart's content! I'll be updating as soon as I can. Arigatou! ^^