Disclaimer: I do not own any characters...just the stupid story...I just hope Ryoma-kun would own me...^_^

Author's note: Well, there you have it, another chapter...Not much lemon yet but I showed some points...hope ye like it, feel free to review on what you think about it and what you want for the next chapter...^_^

Chapter 2---

New Perspective

"Ryu-Ryuzaki!"

Ryoma sat up so suddenly that both their head collided and Sakuno ended up being thrown backwards and she landed on her butt. Both of them got really surprised but Ryoma got the most surprise because of the view he just saw.

Sakuno's skirt was hiked upwards revealing more of her legs and a little of her plain white underwear in direct view between her thighs. Ryoma thoughts just suddenly went blank in. Sakuno must have realized her situation because she suddenly adjusted her position while blushing furiously.

"D-did you see?"

The voice of Sakuno brought Echizen back to earth, "Nani?"

"Iie, nandemonai." Sakuno heaved a deep breath and stood up.

"By the way Ryuzaki, what are you doing here?"

"Ah…ano…" Sakuno felt her heart skip a beat faster. She just realized that she was all alone inside a guy's house with a person she's crushing on for all these years. Sakuno just shrugged off the thought momentarily and pointed at a table where bags of groceries are placed. "Eto…I met your father earlier this morning while passing by at the temple and he suddenly gave me those bags of groceries. He said your cousin had to go somewhere urgent because her friends called her so she will not be back until tonight so she handed the groceries to your dad. But uncle Nanjiro said he can't cook either so he handed me those…He became weird though because while giving me the groceries, he was smirking and when I was leaving, I heard him laughing hysterically…"

Ryoma suddenly had a weird expression on his face, "That old man…"

"Something wrong Ryoma-kun?"

"Iie, it's just my stupid father being lazy…" being the son, he knew his father too well and his scheming plans behind those evil smirks. 'Whatever he's trying, it's not gonna work oyaji…' his thoughts trailed off.

"So I guess I'll start cooking then…" Sakuno started walking back to the kitchen, "based on the ingredients, I think it's a sukiyaki."

"Just why does that old man keep on doing this…" Ryoma whispered to himself. "I'm not like you oyaji."

Just as Ryoma was about to go back to his peaceful slumber, he caught a glimpse of Sakuno in the kitchen. She was standing at the sink, her back at him. She was probably washing the ingredients. Ryoma then recalled the time when Sakuno prepared a bento for him. 'She cooks really well…' Ryoma thought. He was still wondering though why she disappeared, he didn't say something bad, isn't it?

He continued to stare at Sakuno while she was doing her cooking. Unaware, Ryoma became suddenly interested at her. The way her body would sway gently even though she was only cooking. He recalled her years ago as a very shy and clumsy girl who would blush and stutter whenever he is around, he always think she's weird but his senpai Eiji told him that Sakuno liked him but Ryoma just shrugged off the thought thinking that she was just clumsy. That was years ago though, she gained more confidence now although she still stutters a little. She was always there to support him in his matches, until now that they were high school seniors. Since then, she really did grow a lot. Ryoma just noticed how her body curved in the right places. His eyes wandered off down to her legs, 'they're long and perfect,' Ryoma thought.

Just then, an onion fell off, snapping Ryoma away from his deep thoughts. He looked at Sakuno as she bent down and crawled to look for the onion. Just then, Ryoma just felt something harden in him as he saw a view that he wouldn't expect to see, not even in his wildest dreams.

Unknowingly, Sakuno was showing off most of her legs in plain sight for Ryoma to see. Even though he already saw this type of scene in one of the magazines his father would force him to read, he never felt this huge impact on him before. Just then, a lot of thoughts raced through his now not-so-innocent-mind. He couldn't look away nor take his eyes off of her because he doesn't want to. He wanted to see more, he was so tempted to go there right behind her and hike up her skirt even more.

As if being granted by his wish, a breeze just swept in and blew down on her skirt looking as if she was now only in her underwear. Ryoma smirked a little by what he saw. Normally, he wouldn't have thoughts like this before, but heck like he cares. He liked what he was seeing, in fact, he wanted to see more than that. He wanted to take off all her clothes and lay her down on his bed. He wanted to see her pure innocent face as his hand would trail touches on different parts of her body. To her lips, neck and collarbone down to her voluptuous chest, the way she would gasp when he touch her there. Then his hands would trail down to her smooth stomach and even further down, down to where his hand would long to touch…down to her—

"Ah! Found it!" Ryoma suddenly snapped back to reality as it looked like Sakuno found the long lost rolling onion.

"Oh shoot…I'm starting to think too much", Ryoma whispered to himself. He was blaming his father for all of this. He tried to get back to sleeping but somehow, he went back to staring at Sakuno.

It's a good thing that Sakuno was oblivious to this.

I'll update pretty soon for the next chapters...It'll surely contain lemons. Ja ne!

-Kurogane Hime