Moon: 100 reviews, I'd thought I would never get this much again. Thanks for all of your support everyone! This chapter will be twice as long as thanks for everything. ^_^ I don't own FushigiBoshi no FutagoHime.

Rein's POV

"Eh, I'm really happy that you're eating again," I said as Fine was eating breakfast with me. "You've gotten your big appetite back again."

"Yep, after I made up with Milky I got really hungry for some reason," Fine said starting on her doughnuts.

"I see. Well that's good." I had that feeling that someone was watching me. I turned around to the side to see Bright-sama. Then I felt a murderous aura. I looked back down at my food, knowing who it was. I can't look at Bright-sama anymore.

"Nee, Rein are you sure that I can't just help you with Emily?"

"No, I'll handle it myself, so just worry about how you're going to make up with Shade," I said, smiling trying to reassure her. I can't be so weak, I have to get stronger somehow. I just have to do this on my own, but how am I suppose to do that? I walked to class with uneasy feelings. The bell rang and everything else seemed peaceful. At least it was until...

The Headmistress slammed the door opened. "Tanba Rin-sensei... What didn't you tell me this time?"

"What is...it?" She asked nervously, completely fazed by the Headmistress' anger. "I don't think that I did anything..."

"No, it's what you didn't do. Why is it that no one tells me anything anymore?"

"I still don't get it." I don't get it either.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT MY FORCED FIANCEE IS THE PRINCIPAL OF ROYAL WONDER ACADEMY? Oh, and there's going to be another meeting after school about all the teachers and what subjects everyone's going to teach next year." She calmed down so much... but her voice was really loud. I'm actually amazed that we're all not deaf yet.

"Oh I see, thank you for telling me," she said writing it down. "Well... for one thing, it was supposed to be a surprise."

"That's it. I'm calling that stinking Head Teacher of their's and finding out," she said walking out. I feel sorry for the Head Teacher person, but wouldn't it just be easier if she asks someone else? Then again, I wouldn't really know. Hm... the Headmistress is always able to speak her mind and doesn't worry about what she says. She may be crazy but she is also strong and really confident. I should ask her what to do about my problems.

I decided to go to her office after classes. I opened the door and said,"Um..."

"Rein, good timing. Please come in," she said. I walked in and sat in. How am I suppose to ask her? "They match your hair perfectly." I looked up and saw her holding up blue roses. They're pretty. It looks like a real rose. "You know Rein, blue roses mean attaining the impossible. What is impossible to obtain for you right now?"

"Headmistress, I came here because I have to ask you something. Why are you so strong?" She looked at me questioningly. "You can always talk to others without hesitating, you're not afraid of anything, you can clearing state your feelings. Even through people go to me for love help and other stuff, honestly I'm hopeless at this stuff. What's impossible for me, is to gain confidence and strength. "

"I am not that strong, I just say what's on my mind. That's basically it."

"Please give me some advice, anything would help. I really just want to be a little stronger. Strong enough to be able to say something back." I don't want to feel afraid by something like that anymore. I don't want to be trapped by the words of hatred and betrayal!

"Why do you want to become stronger?" Eh? "What will you do when you attain that strength? If you can't answer these questions, then your effort will be useless."

That's right...in the end it will all just mean nothing, if I can't even use it. Then what am I suppose to do now?

"Rein?"

"You know Headmistress," I started to say with my hands shaking. "I've been wondering for a while, is it wrong to fall in love with someone?" Tears were soon staining my skirt. I don't understand, why is it so wrong that I get bullied for my feelings? I mean what I feel, so is there something wrong with that? "Why did something like that happen to me? Is it really wrong for me to have these types of feelings towards someone?"

"It isn't wrong to love someone," she said, patting my head. "You know, the first thing you need is the courage to ask for help. You've already had that strength, you were just unsure of yourself and shocked. Strength comes in different forms, the form that you possessed was a strength to believe in others and to grab happiness for yourself. Friendship is a really important thing, so it's not that shocking that you lost yourself."

I've... actually had strength all this time? "Then why did she...?" I trailed off not knowing what I'm saying anymore.

"That girl, has been exposed to jealousy," she said simply.

"But why would she be jealous of me? She's pretty, confident, the perfect princess- and I... I've been doubting my love for someone, when I should have realized that I really truly love him and I'm not that smart, or perfect." I was even called one of the most unprincess like princesses in the history of Mysterious Star!" Wow, that is still a mouthful... "Why would anyone be jealous of me?

"Perfection is overrated. It doesn't exist." Then she just stopped talking for a minute. Finally she said, "You know, she actually has a fiancee, but... there are complications."

"She has a fiancee? Then why-"

"She hates her fiancee, it's just a political relationship so she thought if she found someone better, her parents would call it off. What I'm trying to explain very badly, I have three other people coming after you so, sorry, it's okay." I don't get what she's saying. "It's okay if you like Bright. There is no one who can force you what to do something, unless you allow them to."

"It's okay? I don't have to hold back my feelings and deny them? It's really okay?"

"Yes, you don't need permission from anyone to tell you that, just think about what is it that you want and then grab it when you have the chance."

At that time I felt calm, serenade. Like the heavy weight off my shoulders was gone. It felt so good. The lightness that I've wanted to feel for such a long time. Then I looked at her strangely. "Why do you know so much about this?"

"Heartbreak, can do so much to you, but then again, I never really had a chance aganist my sister," she explained, holding her heart. "So I decided, everyone should live a happy life while they're here, so that they can be free from the past. A happy school life with friends. A child should enjoy childhood, adulthood is nothing to be happy about."

I smiled at her. "You'll get happiness too. After all you're only my age, right Moon?"

"Yes. Now, go." I stood up and walked out of the room feeling happier and lighter. How long has it been since I felt this amazing? It must have been years, when everything wasn't so complicated. If only I could go back in time and relive my childhood so I wouldn't be in this mess, but I have to move forward, or else I won't be able to live with myself.

Bright's POV

I knocked on the door rather quietly, heard a faint come in, and opened the door. I saw her with a piece of white cloth in her hands. "What are you making?"

"Something," she said simply.

I sat in one of the chairs watching her as she continued to sew. How would I start the conversation? But do I even want to know what she's going to say? I'm a little scared to find out. Then my voice spoke with a mind of it's own. "Can you tell me what happened to Rein on Valentine's Day?" She froze in her stitch. "Anything, even if it's something useless, then I want to know anyways. Please...," I begged her. My hands had turned into fists and I could do nothing but stare at them. "I can't stand to see Rein like that."

"What does Rein mean to you?" I looked up at her. "Why is it that you want to know if she truly loves someone else?" Her voice was softer than I had expected.

"It's like you said all those months ago," I said recalling the first time she came to talk to Shade and I. " I'm in love with her," I said, not denying a word. For the first time in a while, my heart and mind were in agreement.

"What is in other thing that you're having problems with?" Other thing? "Like a person or something to do with school."

Does she mean..."By any chance, do you mean Emily?" True, she's a little annoying, but not that much of a problem, but... she's the only one who happens to be annoying me, wanting me to ask her out, for no one else to get close to me, and fall in love with her. Would that be consider a problem? "Um... she's just a little... she just seems to like me a lot. I don't really think that's too much of a problem."

"True, looking at it from your point of view it's not a problem at all." Where was she going with this? "But look at it from another perspective. Say Rein's, or her fiancee's."

"Wait a minute, are you talking about your fiancee again or..." Because everyone could tell that she was upset when she slammed the door open last time, so I don't think she needs to bring it up again. How does that relate to any of this though?

"I'm talking about Emily's fiancee, meaning the one that she's destined to marry, the person that she is going to marry... do I have to explain anymore? Just think about it."

Rein likes someone else, so I don't really see how that would make her upset... unless she was actually lying that one time. But why would she lie? And then there's Emily's fiancee, if she's already arranged to marry someone then... why is she in love with me? "I don't understand, was Rein actually lying then? And her fiancee...?"

"Okay, I'm sorry, I keep forgetting that instead of thinking through, you just think of more questions. My bad." Is she insulting me? Her words are insulting, but her tone is sad almost. "It is really confusing trying to help you and Shade and almost everyone else in this school with their love lives."

"So sorry then," I said, getting slightly annoyed. But I have to put up with it, so that there's a possibility of me being able to ask for help.

"But you know, it's better than thinking about how my life's been going down the drain."

True, she is getting forced to be married to someone she's never even met before. I was silent for a minute, then finally, I asked, "Why aren't you crying then?"

"Fine asked me something like that recently. There are no tears left for me to cry. There's no reason for me to be cry anymore," she said. I noticed that she had started to sew again. "Back to you, now. Think about it for a minute. Let's say Rein's your fiancee, how would you feel if you were in love with Rein and she was in love with someone else?"

"I would be upset and break off the engagement. What other reason would there be to keep a relationship with no love? If Rein didn't love me, then there would be no point. "Why would someone agree to a marriage without any feelings for one another in the first place? It's just weird. Unless it was arranged since birth, that's another story."

"That is her plan." Eh? "She doesn't love her fiancee and he doesn't love her back. Their engagement is only politics. No feelings at all, besides hatred. That's why she's trying to use you, the perfect prince, to break it. But that's wrong thinking on her part because there's no such thing as perfection."

"Then she was using me because of that useless title that people gave me." I've always hated that. What part of me isn't stained with imperfection? Besides, Shade is a better prince, than I am. "So then, her actual feelings?"

"For you, she has none, romantically at least. Now onto Rein. Do you honestly think that she's in love with someone else?"

"She said that she was really glad that we were friends when she gave me chocolate," I said remembering clearly. That... I didn't want that to be real, but it was better than the nightmare that I thought up. Still, it hurt. "I really don't get what's been going on lately."

"She regretted what she did, immediately after. You know, even through I normally don't say anything about the kids that I talk to, I'll make a small exception for you. That child was crying to me, asking if it was wrong to fall in love with someone. Was it right to deny the feelings that she had because she was scared?"

She was crying? Wait, if I get what she's trying to say to me, then that would mean... "She was actually lying about enjoying being friends with me. And that would also mean... she's in love with me and Emily scared her so she didn't confess her true feelings."

"Correct. Finally you got something right. It takes too long for you to figure things out. Ah, looks like Rein was right." I noticed that she was holding something in her hand in front of me. It's... a white rose? Now that I think about it Rein had given me a pin with a white rose during Christmas. "She wasn't threatened back then."

"She was threatened?" And over her feelings for me...

"Didn't I just say that? To get rid of someone that annoying, you need to crush her feelings completely, or make it really obvious that you are in love with someone that's not her." But I can't do something like that- "And don't think it's impossible either! Who's feelings are more important to you? Emily or Rein?" Rein, of course. "Look, I already told Shade that I had a plan to help you two, but I need time get gather all the materials. "

"Thank you very much in advance," I said bowing slightly to her.

I stood up and when I was about to leave, she said,"By the way, don't let jealously get in your way. It's not very attractive and it gets in the way of everything else." Does she mean that feeling when I saw Rein with that guy before? "What matters most is your feelings and Rein's feelings. Got it?"

"Yes, thank you very much," I said one more time before I left the room. I feel just a little better now. Well, now I know most of the truth, but how am I suppose to do anything with it right now?

"Bright-sama!" Oh shoot. Just smile, smile even through you don't want to. "There you are," the pale blonde hair girl said. "Good timing, I was just about to go to town. Would you mind accompanying me? It should be a lot of fun."

'Crush her feelings completely.' My smile fell. "No. I'm sorry Emily, but I would prefer if you not bother me about something unless it's absolutely crucial," I said rather coldly. That's new for me.

"Eh? Bright-sama? What are you-?" She suddenly stopped and realized something. "What exactly did that person tell you?" I didn't answer her. "You know she's just jealous of me, that I'm perfect and that-"

"Emily, I'm sorry, but I will never be able to love you. I know that you don't want a fiancee, but using me is not a good way to handle this," I explained to her. "Find someone you actually love then you might feel the same way." I walked away with my chest feeling lighter than before. It's a very pleasant feeling. Maybe now I can face Rein, knowing at least some of the truth.

The past has already happened, there's still going to be a future, so move forward or you'll be trapped between steps, in order to do that you must find out what is truth and what is lie through your own eyes, and not anyone else's