Ryoma woke up. No alarm, no beep, but he woke up to the sound of his cousin asking his mother about breakfast. He looked at the time. His alarm hadn't even gone off yet, and it wouldn't for another 10minutes. He smiled at the extra time. 'Maybe...just maybe...' He got up quickly, got dressed, went down for breakfast and ended up taking an energy bar. He would need the energy to run that far. He took his backpack and ran to school quickly. He searched everywhere, praying that she'd be with her grandma, since Ryuzaki-sensei usually taught classes during the morning. He looked around, but she wasn't there. "I give up. She hates me now anyway. Might as well forget it. I better just forget it." He sighed. "forget what?" a voice asked. 'Man she has bad timing.' "huh?" The school bell rang. "Tell you what, I'll talk to you at the end of the day, I need a favor anyway, and we can go home after. Okay? Good. See you later." Sakuno stared dumbfounded as he walked away. 'Did he just ask me to walk home with him? No, he didn't even ask. He demanded.' Some how she didn't even care. She smiled. 'Maybe he doesn't hate me.'

At the end of the day she met up with Ryoma. "So...um, what was that favor?" Ryoma looked at her funny. "Oh, that? I was just going to see if you'd let me take you to the barber. It's only like 5 minutes from here and normally they do only cut guy's hair, but I'm sure they could attempt to cut some of that long hair off. They're going to need very big scissors though. Probably like the ones that mayors use to cut big ribbons when they're opening new things like bridges and stuff." "Uh!" her heart shattered. She had nothing to say. 'Why the nerve of that little-' She stopped herself. She didn't want to say anything to that. Mostly because she didn't know what to say to that.

"Um...Ryoma...about earlier when you said you'd tell me later..." Sakuno said, trying to break the silence. "Hm?" "'You said, 'well forget it, just forget it.' And I asked you what it was about, and you said you'd tell me later" She replied. "Oh yeah, uh long story. Besides, you're really nosy, Ryuzaki." He smirked. "Ryoma Echizen! Ugh! I've had enough of this. You were standing on school grounds, where I happen to go to school, and I happened to overhear you, so I asked you a simple question. I'm tired of you making me feel bad about how long my hair is, how slow I walk, or how nosy I am or how I always-" He put his finger on her lip. "Ryuzaki, you talk too much." Her faced turned extremely red, and he removed his finger and continued to walk. "You coming?" she nodded but still remained stationary. Then all of the sudden she felt the gaps between her fingers be filled...by his. He held her hand and started to walk along side of him. "Ryoma-kun why are you...doing this?" she managed to ask. "You said yourself that you're slow. I'm just making sure you can keep up, but if you really want I'll let go, and you can just-" "No, no, I...I...just" he looked away and continued to walk ignoring her, so she didn't bother finishing her sentence. With her free hand she started playing around with her braid. Analyzing it. Feeling it. Looking at every individual twist. "It's bothering you, what I said?" Ryoma finally acknowledged. "H...Hai. Were you really going to...to take me to a barber?" she sighed looking down. He let go of her hand, stopped walking, and stood in front of her. He then touched the braid she had been messing around with before, and felt her soft, gentle hair. "No." she sighed with relief when he said that. "Only I can touch your hair, Sakuno." He flashed her a smirk, and grabbed the hand he had been previously holding and continued to walk, dragging the one girl that he loved more then anything in the world, home, for hopefully not the last time. After all, to her, she was his princess.

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I hope you like. Reviews are appreciated since this is my first story. I hope you enjoy. I do appreciate criticism, and yes I know this story isn't perfect, but I hope you enjoy.
Anyway, here are the words and translations for all the Japanese I have used in this story:

-Mada mada dane: you still have a long way to go (Ryoma's favorite phrase...hopefully if you watch the anime, you probably already know that)

-Hai: yes

-Daijobu: are you okay?

-Ja ne: see you later

-Senpais: seniors

-Ano: excuse me

Well that's it. Finally the end of my first story. Hope you like. :)