In the Sunlight

By: AdorableChibi09

CH. 2. MORE INTRODUCTIONS:

Author's Note: Hey y'all! I updated... Yay! Sorry it's taken so long, but I've had some stupid plant drying project I've had to do... Really pointless... ANYWAY! I hope you enjoy the chapter!

Bronwen woke up the next morning to Satoshi waking her up by nudging her awake. "Two more minutes, Lakyle." Bronwen said before she got up depressed looking. "Sorry, I didn't mean to call you that."

"It's almost time for school. I assume you don't want to miss it?" Satoshi asked.

"No. I'll get up." Bronwen said.

"If you don't mind me asking… How did Lakyle die?" Satoshi surprised her with that one… she honestly thought Riku would ask that.

"Well…" Bronwen prepared herself. "She was caught in a drive by shooting and the next thing I know is that she's in the hospital. I never felt normal after she passed away. I still don't."

"Hmm." Was all Satoshi said before he got up and walked out of the room.

"Why was he so curious all of a sudden? He didn't take an interest in it yesterday." Bronwen said to herself while putting her hair in a ponytail and trying to get dressed at the same time… She figured out, it's not as easy as she thought it was.

She came out ten minutes later and walked with Satoshi out the door up to Azumano Jr. High. Eating apples and bananas while drinking juice.

"There are three servings of fruit down." Bronwen said throwing away her juice carton at the doors.

"Bronwen!" Bronwen looked up to see Riku waving from her spot on the bench next to Risa. She could tell because she was identically looking to Riku.

"Hey, Riku." Bronwen walked over to the twins and sat down on the bench.

"So you're Bronwen." Risa said. "From what Riku tells me, you're a great artist."

"Well, that's purely opinion." Bronwen said. "It really depends on taste how you look at things."

"I guess that's true. I also learned you were auditioning for the play Cinderella. I am too." Risa stated.

"Really? What role?" Bronwen asked interested.

"The step mother and Cinderella."

"What if you make both parts?" Bronwen asked.

"Huh?"

"If you make both parts you'll have to make a choice of who you want to actually play… So what role are you really auditioning for?" Bronwen even looked confused as she said it.

"I guess I want the evil step mother." Risa said.

"Then I'll go for Cinderella." Bronwen said. "Although it would have been fun for some friendly competition-" Bronwen began before someone with red spiky hair interrupted.

"Good morning Riku! Good morning Risa!" Daisuke greeted.

"Good morning Daisuke, how are you today?" Risa asked.

"Oh, I'm very tired." Daisuke said. "Are you the new girl?" Daisuke asked acknowledging Bronwen.

"Yes, I am." Bronwen said. "And an American to boot!"

"Well, I'm sure we'll be seeing each other in class." Daisuke said smiling.

"Just not in Gym." Bronwen corrected. "Well, I don't want to waste anymore time, I still need to look around the school."

"We'll see you later!" Riku said. Bronwen walked off leaving the twins and Daisuke to talk amongst themselves.

"Gee, she's just a barrel of fun!" Risa said sarcastically.

"What's wrong with her?" Riku asked.

"She was just… just… just so nerve racking! She even had the audacity to make remarks about her American heritage and didn't even wear her uniform to school today!" Risa complained. "She's not a very good person someone should look up to. She's probably the reason they got bombed in the first place!" (Referring to 9-11-01).

"Risa!" Riku scolded. "You're just jealous because she's a theatre rival and I talked about her last night because she is the one that's living with Satoshi!"

"W-Well, I'll be seeing you two in class this morning. Talk to you later!" Daisuke left feeling very uneasy.

First Period:

"Class, I would like to introduce a new student to the class so please be courteous to our new American friend, Bronwen Skye." The teacher introduced to the class.

"Yo!" Bronwen said. "I hate awkward moments so I'll break the ice by saying that I'm not a rebel and I'm sorry if it offends you that I'm not wearing my uniform, but I didn't get it in the mail yet and I don't know when it's going to come in… So can you please stop looking at me like that?" Bronwen says nervously. 'This is going to be a looong day.' Bronwen thought to herself.

After lunch in Theater class:

"Now that we've introduced our new guest…" The sensei paused. "Now we can get into the auditions!" She said very excitedly.

"Yes!" Bronwen mumbled excitedly making some of the students around her chuckle. "Heh. Heh. Sorry."

"Is there something you would like to discuss with the class, Miss Bronwen?"

"No sensei." Bronwen apologized.

"Now then, I would like the ladies who are auditioning to stand up." Of course all of the girls stood up.

"The ladies that are auditioning for the evil step-mother go to the door. The ones for either of the evil stepsisters stand by the window. Fairy Godmother's go to my desk-Don't touch the papers! And finally I would like Cinderella's to go to the closet right over there." Once the ladies were separated the men got in their wanted parts… However, Satoshi was forced to audition for the part of Prince Charming since all he wanted to do was backstage and the sensei would have none of it.

" Now then I would like to know who all in these groups can sing." The teacher immediately cut the people who couldn't sing.

Bronwen turned to a girl who was beside her and asked, "Did you know that Daisuke and Satoshi could sing?" The girl looked at her as the sensei was going through the guys.

"No, but we both heard it for ourselves, didn't we?" The girl whispers back.

Bronwen nodded and waited until it was the girls that were being analyzed to start worrying. The girls who were hoping to play the evil stepmother were lucky… they didn't have to sing! Bronwen wrung her hands in anticipation. Apparently Satoshi was watching her and when she looked at him he just stared at her, which kind of caught her attention long enough for her to stop fidgeting.

"Skye, is there a problem?"

"No ma'am."

"Then please come up here and sing."

"Yes ma'am." Bronwen walked up to the miniature stage that was in the back of the room.

"You have a choice of three songs… Dearest, Princess Why Do You Cry, or Yura Yura."

"I guess I will sing Yura Yura, Sensei." Bronwen bowed respectfully.

"Very well, I'll give you five minutes to look over it and then I will begin playing the music." Sensei said.

"Okay." Bronwen studied everything on the paper and was pretty focused on the music when the teacher called her name to sing.

The music began and she waited until she was supposed to come in and sang:

Awai sora ga utsushita
Omoi ga kezu me ni tonde kita houseki

Hokori kabutta mama no zutto nemutteta kokoro ga madarete yuku
Kemuri no naka sagashimotometa koi no ANTENA
Negai komete kumorizora o tsukinukete Hikari o sashita

Daremo shiru koto no nai aoi hoshi o Yura yura oyoideku

Kedaku mo habataku tori no you ni
Jiyuu sae mote asobu gurai no kiseki

Jareru ka no you ni warau kimi no manazashi ni tokimeki o oboeta yo
Kimi ni deaeta koto wa heibonna boku no nani yori mo mirai de
Kusatte ita nurui kisetsu ni yokotawari
Sabotte ita ukemi darake no seikatsu já Nani mo kawaranai

Daremo shiru koto no nai aoi hoshi o
Yura yura oyoideku

Kono omoi itoshii kimi no moto e
Toumeina boku ni umarekawaru kiseki

Kemuri no naka sagashimotometa koi no ANTENA
Negai komete kumorizora o tsukinukete Hikari o sashita

Sore demo kitto,
Fuan ya kanashimi o kesayashinai keredo...

Semayoi nagara mo aoi hoshi o Yura yura oyoideku
Kedaku mo habataku tori no you ni
Jiyuu sae mote asobu gurai no kiseki.

"Thank you Skye. You may step down now." The sensei said.

"Thank ma'am." Bronwen breathed in a sigh of relief. Honestly, she could've sworn she saw her own hands shaking her nerves were so bad. The rest of the class period was taken up by song analyses. Thank goodness that was her last class that day. Now she had to go home and worry about her geometry homework… and Pythagorean theorem wasn't very hard to understand. Triangles were easy to her! When she got home, she found Satoshi already there doing his homework.

"I'm going to beat you home tomorrow." Bronwen vowed jokingly.

"…"

"Fine, don't accept my challenge." Bronwen huffed. "And I never knew you sang, although I am sorry you were forced to audition for the part of Prince Charming."

"Don't you have homework?" Satoshi asked obviously wanting to do his homework.

"Yeah, but I only have one more problem left." Bronwen set her things down by the door next to her shoes.

"Dark is going to strike again tomorrow night. Do you still want to come?"

"Of course, and I promise you I won't be in the ay either. In fact, you won't even know I'm there." Bronwen reasoned. "Now I'm going to start some dinner if I can find something that can be cooked besides ramen." Bronwen began raiding the fridge and found some rice that she could put in a rice cooker, beef, soba noodles, and that was about all she had to choose from. "Who the heck buys your food?" Bronwen asked.

"My father." Satoshi answered.

"Oh." Bronwen said. "Well, you better not complain about what I'm making or next time you can cook something that isn't Ramen and doesn't go in the microwave." Bronwen said.

"I never said I was going to complain."

"But that's because you didn't get a chance to!" Bronwen defended.

With Daisuke:

"So mom, why were you smiling last night?" Daisuke asked.

"Well, honey, you know the purpose why you and Krad are here right?" Emiko smiled when she saw Daisuke nod. "Well, Twyla is another one of their kind, but she exists to keep them in line and to maintain some order of peace."

"Okay, I get it now." Daisuke said.

"There's more sweetie." Emiko said. "Well, Riku and Risa are the holy maidens, right?"

"Yeah, does Twyla have a person she's supposed to love?"

"Nope. Women are independent beings, but the transformation works just the same way. Anyway, she also is a neutral power so that's where that note came from last night. She tries to balance the yin-yang part, if you will, out." Emiko answered. "One of the Maidens will have some hostility towards her, but other than that she's perfectly like you and Satoshi."

Daisuke tried to process all of this and very soon understood it all. "So will we know who it is when we see her or do we have to figure it out for ourselves?" Daisuke was curious.

"You'll find out sooner or later." Emiko smiled at her son and walked off.

Daisuke was thinking it over until he thought of something then yelled out. "Hey, what did you mean by the woman comment!"

"It has to do with Twyla, Daisuke. When you figure it out… it might be best to protect her."

Daisuke walked up to his room and thought about things.

I don't get it Dark. Maybe you could help me find who Twyla's host is. It'd be better to know if she went to my school or not. Daisuke sighed.

Don't worry about it Daisuke, she does.

What! You knew who it was all along?

Yes… Oh come on, Daisuke! It's so obvious!

Tell me who it is?

Nope. I'll let you figure it out for yourself. Besides you might be faced with this again sometime.

Man! Not you too! Fine, I'll show you that I can see the obvious- if that's what you call it. Daisuke plopped down onto his bed. Everyone's acting so weird lately and you're no exception.

Just relax and it will all come to you sooner or later.

Daisuke sighed again. "That's just the question. Will it be sooner or later?"

With Riku and Risa:

"You did so great on your audition today, Risa!" Riku praised.

"You think so?" Risa asked. "I think you would make a very good Fairy God-mother, Riku. You just have that certain…" Risa couldn't find the right word for her sentence.

"…Profile?" Riku finished.

"Yeah that! But there are a few people who shouldn't even think of playing major roles." Risa stated.

"Like who?" Riku asked. "Oh, I know who you're talking about. Yes, Seahara (A/N: I think that's how you spell it.) shouldn't try being a mouse… he should be the king's assistant!" Riku said. "But it's his choice." Riku shrugged her shoulders.

"Yes, him too. But no, I'm talking about Bronwen."

"Bronwen, but why? She has the blonde hair to play the part, while any one of us need wigs."

"That may be true, but just because we're producing an American fairytale doesn't mean that she can call rights to the lead role!" Risa said.

"Risa! You're jealous!" Riku exclaimed.

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not! Just concerned about how she represents her country."

"You're jealous…" Riku said. "That's the only explanation. I really expected more maturity out of you." With that, Riku walked off to her room and left Risa to deal with her own flaws.

Back with Bronwen and Satoshi:

"So, Satoshi, my uniform is coming tomorrow right?" Bronwen asked putting up the dishes.

"Yes." He answered.

"It's not going to be a boy's uniform is it?"

"No." He answered in the same voice as last time. "I'm going to get in bed. Goodnight."

"Goodnight! Sweet dreams!" Bronwen said. Satoshi walked into his room and closed the door. Bronwen walked into the living room and started cleaning. It was getting late but she just wasn't tired at the moment. She had only been here two days and it already had a guy's touch to it. Bronwen was piling books up on the shelves when she spotted her sketchbook. Oops… she must've accidentally taken it from school. Oh well, might as well do something productive, right? Before she knew what she was doing, she had grabbed her sketching pencils and opened the book to the next blank page. Bronwen just started dragging and etching on the paper until she knew exactly what it was that she wanted to draw. She was so rapt it her drawing during the night, that she hardly noticed the light of dawn slowly leaking through the windowpanes.

Author's Note: Thank you for reading! Please review and flames are welcome... just make them polite ones... please? Until next time... AdorableChibi09 out!