Author: Gleaming Ruby
Disclaimer: I don't own SM, MG/HYD, or Fanta (which by the way
is not sold in Canada).
Note: The plot is based on a drama/manga called Meteor Garden/Hana Yori
Dango. Get it? THE PLOT IS BORROWED FROM A MANGA/DRAMA, NOT FROM FELLOW
WRITERS! I CANNOT stress this enough…
I'm a lazy bum: I'll admit it. I suck. I'm lazy and inconsiderate.
puts arms up There I said it. But it's not my fault, I swear it! Anyways, I
felt like revising the chapters to give me more inspiration for future ones
(and I take an extremely long time to check it over)…plus it'll make more sense
this way because there is a fragment of plot, however small as it is. I have
the next two new chapters written on paper… perhaps someday I shall type
them up :D if I get lots of reviews… REVIEW=MOTIVATION! :D So hurry, hurry!!
Summary: [AU] [UsaMamo] MGxHYD plot with a twist. Chiba Mamoru is a rich
boy, a very rich boy who always gets what he wants. What will happen when he
sets his sights on Tsukino Usagi and she sets her sights on, Motoki, his best
friend?
Pairing: Definitely UsaMamo
Thank you to everyone who read this! EVEN more thanks to those that reviewed, here are a couple of replies…if you have a question, REVIEW!!
Azura1: Ha! See, there is a next chapter! See? :D
DarkSun: Good catch! Her last name is Aino.
Don't eat yellow snow: LOL, funny name, anyways… aren't you impressed I got off my lazy bum?
Kai: Go read my note.
katana-hime: This is going to be a Usagi/Mamoru pairing. Motoki is going to end up with someone else…
MistressMoon: I mean Mamoru, all the way!
rosie: Are you sure? Because Usagi wanted him to hear her say it but he didn't...
roswellachick: Thanks, Usa is funny to write. But Mamoru will change soon…and that scene you suggested was interesting…I might consider it but I don't think it will work because Mamoru has way to many siblings right now and adding another one? Urgh…and ya, Seiya will show up near the end of the story…or should I say the very end…lol… have fun imagining the scenario!
Serenity's Angel In Heaven: Well, thank you for your longest review ever, and you're right, people haven't been updating. I'm sorry I personally haven't been updating but it's a busy world. Sucks, doesn't it? Sorry…bear with me? I'll try my hardest to finished PLRB… psst! I have written the last chapter!
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Poor Little Rich Boy
Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End
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"…kino Incorporated has made a new pact with many foreign companies in the United States to allow the-" The plasma television was then abruptly shut off.
Mamoru moved a lock of dark curly hair behind his ear and started massaging his temple.
"Why is there always nothing interesting on in the morning?" he questioned loudly to nobody in particular. His eyes were cold and his face a blank mask. He was alone in his large spacious bedroom.
He threw the universal remote across the room. Nothing was working! He just couldn't take his mind off that damn Odango girl that had the guts to challenge his authority. Even Rei wasn't that stupid…
Never in his life had he been challenged by a girl, except for his mother and sister (of course), but that didn't count…
He could not understand why Usagi-Odango didn't fall at his feet. After all, he was dashingly handsome, rich, and had such a great personality. (Jadeite coughed uncontrollably when he asked/told him this. Nathan turned beet red and ran way shaking and mumbling about the washroom. And Motoki, his bestest friend, had even dared fall asleep when he was plotting his revenge!)
The Odango wasn't ugly, a little plain… He shook his head wildly wondering why he cared about her appearance.
She was so poor! Mamoru hated poor people because they were all gold digging leeches in disguise.
He had shaken off his emotionless mask for one second to display a look of repulsion.
She had to learn he place. Her place was beneath his. She could never be his better, or his equal for that matter. After all, she was a poor plain duckling compared to his rich swan like qualities (Jadeite, Nathan, and Motoki all made a mad dash to the washroom when he made this comparison, for some god knows reason).
But he knew one thing: she was going to pay!
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Usagi had heard many wild tales about E4 from Ami. Many, well most, she didn't believe but now she would find out for herself.Surely now that Usagi had… upset…the leader of E4, the-almighty-up-tight-pain-in-the-ass-Chiba, she was surely in big trouble.
Azabu Academy was only attended by the richest in Japan and all of Asia. The high school/college was very prestigious to say the least. Its property was as huge as well…50 football fields. There were 6 main buildings where core subjects were taught, 2 gyms, an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a stable with 50 of the worlds best horses, 16 tennis courts, many shops and restaurants, a park with woods, a huge auditorium, music rooms, and so much more that could only be built by money.
That was the source of power at Azabu. Money. Azabu had the best teachers, the best academic standings, the best arts, and sports program, and so on because they had all the money to spend on it.
Where did they get the money? The students, of course. Azabu only accepted the richest so the Academy would thrive with the high tuition fee.
On top of that, E4's parents made annual donations to Azabu,
a VERY generous donation. This rendered E4 with the power to do as they please
at Azabu. Azabu's staff was so scared to displease E4 and their donation that
they did not care what kind of trouble they caused, as long as a large
donation was made annually.
Their money, power, and good looks made the whole school idolize and fantasize
about them. Everyone loved and respected them for a reason unknown to Usagi.
But they were also scared of them.
E4 had so much power at Azabu that if someone manages to piss any of them (it happened quite often with a temper like Mamoru's), they would be pranked on, scared shitless, and tortured until they decide to transfer to another school.
The students also loved to do E4's bidding because they were
too scared to get on their bad side. Therefore they choose to get on E4's good
side by scaring away whatever students were unworthy to be in E4's presence. Enraging
of E4 was not a smart idea especially since even the principal himself was
scared of them.
"Usa? Why did you save me? Maybe you can still apologize to Chiba-san. Do
you know what kind of trouble you caused for yourself? You have a zero percent
chance of surviving at Azabu now, you now how everyone's loyal to them…"
Ami babbled on and on.
Usagi loved to tune her out at times like these.
It was just a can of pop, right? How bad could it get? And maybe not every
member of E4 were self-centred jerks, Furuhata Motoki seemed at least a bit
apologetic. And he has such dreamy blue eyes…
"…aggravated E4, and when poor Mikado opened his locker the next day a tub
of honey fell on his head and somebody released a bunch of bees… Usa? Usagi!
Are you even listening?"
"I know! I know. Pissed E4, tub of honey, bees, crazy deranged fans,
horrible shame, transfer of high school, yadda yadda yadda. Ami I doubt those
E4 fans are half as bad as you make them out to be. Why in the world would
someone be loyal to a bunch of no-good snobs?" Usagi asked Ami with a huge
smile as she walked out of Azabu.
Ami just shook her, giving up on her stubborn friend and followed her out of
the school.
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Apparently the whole school was part of the E4 fan club, teachers included. And
apparently they were very loyal to those no-good snobs.
Usagi couldn't understand why. She shook her head in
revulsion. "Stupid…"
As Usagi entered Azabu the next day, she noticed a pathway cleared for her.
People were avoiding her as if being even a good five meters radius of her
could lead to their painful demise. But just because they were avoiding her did
not mean that they couldn't talk about her. Oh, no, no, no, they were talking
about her. She could tell because they weren't doing a wonderful job of
whispering.
"…and poor Mamoru…"
Your darling Mamoru is anything but poor, and you know it, she thought angrily.
"… can you believe that whore?"
Whore? WHORE? Look who is talking! She glowered.
"…probably just to get his attention…"
She snorted, I wouldn't want his attention even if he were the last man on
earth!
"…gone before the week ends…"
We'll see…
At this point, Usagi had to remind herself that speaking her mind would not be a bright idea at the moment. 'Learn from your mistakes and make sure never to make them again.' her father had always taught her. So instead of yelling at her hearts content to Azabu's overflowing population of snobs, she held back.
I knew I should have gone to a normal high school. But
noooo, Mina had to insist I come to this hellhole. At that moment she decided
to buy a mina doll and put a voodoo curse on it. She grinned evilly.
As she walked up to her locker she noticed many people were starring at her
openly. She slowly dialled her combination and prayed to the Gods for the best.
The worst happened. Water balloons flung to her and before she could duck she
was covered in orange liquid. Fanta! The irony of it all…
A dyed red weed was tapped to her inside locker door. The head of the flower
was cut halfway off the stem, limping as if it was a doll whose head was
halfway cut off by a guillotine. Tagged…so it has begun…she chuckled to herself
mirthlessly.
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"Usa-chan, if you're smart, you'll stay away from E4." Ami lectured
as they ate their lunch under a sakura tree.
"Why?" asked the ever-curious Usagi.
"Trust me. It's a terrible idea to get on their bad side. They'll torture
you, they'll hurt you, and then they'll kick you out of Azabu." Ami
shuddered at the thought.
"Ami-chan, that's crazy! Why would anyone do that? Anyways we're just
kids. They can't hurt me!" Usagi said cheerily.
"Just make sure you don't get tagged."
"Tagged?" She raised an eyebrow.
"When you annoy them, they tag you. Not in the game sense. . . but they
put a weed in your locker. A red weed. From then on you become a school
outcast."
"But I'm already a school outcast. Everyone hates me because I don't have
a lot of money, remember?" She smiled joyfully.
"But this is worse. Anyways the weed, its head is cut halfway off the
stem. From what I heard, the weed is what E4 is comparing the person who
receives it to, an annoying pest. The red signifies the blood you will bleed
for what you did to them. And the head limping. . . I think it's suppose to
mean the person will be dead."
Usagi laughed wildly. "Ami-chan, you have a wild imagination!"
"Just watch out Usagi, I don't want my best friend to be tagged. . ."
Ami begged softly.
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I'll be dead…
"…knew she'd be tagged…"
Somehow I did too.
"…I heard…"
"…maybe she…"
"…deserves everything she…"
Bitch.
She was covered head to toe in Fanta. Her ugly school uniform was soaked (she
wasn't very sad at that fact). She had just received a death threat, kind of,
and everyone was walking around as if it was an every day occurrence.
It probably is with a temper like Chiba's. She glared defiant. Come on, get up!
Get to a restroom! Prove to them that you are above childish games.
'Don't lose your cool! Prove to them your are better than them. Money isn't
everything, Usa! They can only hurt you if you let them. Remember, sticks and stones
can only hurt your bones.' came her dad's soothing voice in her mind.
Usagi smiled sadly as she thought about her parents. I wish they were here. . .
She lifted her head up as she headed to the nearest restroom to wash up and
change into her second set of uniforms. Strong and proud! These snobs cannot
hurt me!
"Bring it on…"
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Usagi enjoyed gym, mostly because it was easy. On a normal day all you had to
do was run laps and participate. On that day however, Usagi hated gym.
Normally the gym uniform consisted of a white t-shirt and shorts with the Azabu
crest printed on it. Today however was not a normal day for Usagi. When she had
pulled out her gym uniform from her gym locker she noticed that somebody used
spray paint and turned the white t-shirt into an almost black one. The bold
words 'I'm an ugly whore' was spayed on the front and back of her shirt in red.
"Sons of bitches..." she muttered angrily. Usagi could hear the
snickering of her fellow classmates in the background as she thought of a way
to get out of gym.
"Dammit!" she cursed as she realized that she had brought her second
set of gym uniform home for a wash.
It was too late to borrow Ami's. Her classmates were no
help. The teacher hated her because Usagi had embarrassed her the first day of
school, and it didn't help that she was as blind as a bat and was slightly
obsessed with that Chiba jerk. Skipping was a sure detention…
"Things cannot get worse!" Usagi muttered angrily as she spent a
whole period making a fool of herself in the itchy gym uniform. Usagi spent the
whole period in a dark mood.
As she left gym she could have sworn the teacher muttered something along the
lines of 'poor Mamoru-kun'.
Argh! When will they learn that Mamoru is anything poor?
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One minute she was walking calmly down to algebra, down the stairs that had become her least favourite, and the next minute she was soaked is water.
Sewage water.
She looked above to where to boys high-fived each other.
She glared and muttered swear words in all the languages she knew.
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"Assholes!" Usagi muttered to herself as she closed her lunch box. Dead cockroaches had been placed inside her delicious lunch. Usagi who loved food very much was beginning to get very pissed. Mess with my lunch of all things!
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English Language Arts was horrible. Usagi had been placed in grade 12 ELA even though she was in grade 11. Mamoru was in grade 12 and coincidently in her ELA class. Had Usagi known this fact she would have definitely objected when they had placed her in the advanced class. Or failed the language test… Her dark mood reigned again.Usagi currently was knocking her head against her wooden desk hoping that she would hit her head enough to pass out therefore getting her out of the dreaded classroom.
"You know, Odango, you shouldn't damage what little brain cells you have…" Mamoru said with his a handsome boyish grin he and his friends walked passed Usagi towards the end of the classroom.
"You know, Chiba no baka, you're a real asshole!" Usagi mumbled softly mimicking Mamoru's tone.
Of all the classes not to skip, they had to pick this one…
Chiba Mamoru had decided to sit in the back of the classroom rendering him with a full view of the classroom, Usagi included. He was staring at her. She was sure of it. His gaze was never wavering and meant to burn a hole in her back, it was really starting to get quite annoying!It was driving her insane! Why was he starring at her? If he thinks I'll break so easily, he's dead wrong! she thought wanting desperately to turn her head back and glare but she didn't want to him to think he had any effect on her whatsoever.
Memo to self: sit it the back next time.
And so, Usagi had sat through seventy-five minutes of constant staring. Well,
things cannot get worse, she thought optimistically.
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He stared at here. His gazed was unwavering as he stared.
The Odango was so weird! She had been to hell and yet she had not been broken. She had a much stronger will than even many older male students that were quite popular. How was it possible? What was the source of her power?
Mamoru's perfect eyebrows meshed together as he stared.
"Gosh, he is so handsome…"
"…wished I was his girlfriend…"
"…Rei is so lucky…"
Mamoru rolled is eyes. Those girls were such gold-diggers, it disgusted him to no end.
He continued his staring session. What was the Odango's weakness? Hn… she looked kinda cute when she licked her lips in nervousness. Argh…what was he thinking?
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Anything that can go wrong, will. By the end of the day, she had been glued to her seat twice, showered with chalk dust, and drenched in ice-cold water."Usa! I heard what happened," Ami said as she ran up to Usagi, "I'm sorry I didn't meet you for lunch but I was researching something. . . How are you? I told you, Usa, you shouldn't have messed with them, and this is just the beginning-"
"Ami! Stop being such a worrywart. I WILL BE FINE. They can't hurt me emotionally with these childish games. Come on, Ami-chan. Let's walk." Usagi said firmly still trying to get the sticky liquid out of her hair. Anything but the hair...She pouted.
Ami's right though, this is just the beginning. The beginning of the end...
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Next Chapter: Usagi encounters E4 at the Crown Arcade, her work place.
Makato make's an appearance! More pranks of course…and help from an unlikely
saviour. And another beloved English Language Arts class!
Anybody confused? I might have not explained well enough because I know what the characters are like. . . so anyways REVIEW!!! Please? By the way, does anybody know Allan's full Japanese name? Hugely appreciate if you tell me!
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