A/N: Hello! Minna-san, I love you very much! Thank you for the reviews and follows! Thank you very much again, wahh I am so happy! To yuki0123 thank you so much and strawberry idol thank you very much too you.
Okay, so this is the second chapter, hope you'll like it.
Six years old Kinomichi Hotaru ran across the hallway of their mansion. She wore a pink frilly dress with lots of ribbons. If you really asked her, she's more of a baggy pants and a big t-shirt kind-of a girl. Ugh. The whole mansion is in chaos because they are preparing for a party. Yup, that's right a party.
She sighed. She doesn't really like parties. No. She doesn't enjoy parties. Even a birthday party, with full of annoying, spoiled, rich brats who only want to outdo each other.
She halted when she saw a guy her age, no, older than her. Maybe two or three years. She stared at him, this is the first time she sees a boy who not only just sit and not being annoying, but also handsome.
She flinched when he caught her eye. They stared at each other for a while, then she saw her dad and another old man.
"Ah, Hotaru-chan, come here," her father motioned her to come. "This is Atobe-san and his son, Keigo-kun."
She stared at the old man, then looked at the other kid again. "Nice to meet you, Atobe-ojisan, Keigo-kun."
"Hmm, nice. Your daughter has a very good attitude and personality." Her father laughed.
"Now then, won't you play with my daughter for a while, Keigo-kun?"
The boy stared at her, then stand and walk out of the room. She ran to catch up with him, and fell silently beside him. The boy walk until he got to the entrance. "Why are you following me?" he asked. He seems pissed off. Instead of being scared, Hotaru smiled at the boy. Then she smiled more, eyes twinkling and hands together, she sway from here to there like an annoying fly or something.
The boy just glared and show his back to her and began walking again. But she silently followed him.
Ugh. He thought. Atobe Keigo was annoyed at the girl who was following him. The eight year old boy disgruntled and glared at his back, but the girl will annoyingly smile at him and he want to smack her pretty face.
His father brought him to this very small mansion for a party and they, no, he is going to stay there for the whole weekend. His father said that it's to know and become acquainted with his fiancee, and that fiancee is the little muffet behind him. Fiancee, he thought again. He's just a little boy of eight and he already have a fiancee.
Hah, what can he do? Ore-sama is just great. He tried to remember her name, Kinomichi Hotaru. What a pathetic name is that?
"Ahmm, Kei-kun," he heard a whisper in his back. He whipped his head off to see the girl who just talk. Kei-kun? How bold. She just met me and she's already giving me a nickname. "Would you like to play with me?"
"Hahaha, you expect ore-sama to play with you? Who do you think you are talking to?" he glared. He saw her looked in the ground. He thought that she's going to cry, but then she raised her head with a sheepish smile, then she laughed. Creepy.
He was caught off guard when she pushed him to the ground and run away laughing. She looked at himself and at her running form. Then, swearing, he stood. She thought I am going to run after her? She thought wrong.
Hotaru slowed down. She was in her front of the tree where her tree house is. She climb the rope made ladder and sit in her love seat that was put there for her own benefit. The tree house has two room. A room for her with a bed, a circle red carpet with lots of love seats and pillows, and a book-case full of stories, mostly adventure and fairy tales. The other room serve as a living room or receiving area with more books and a little table set, for kids.
She sat down in the corner of her small bed. She put her legs in front of her and wrapped her arms around them. Tears flowed in her eyes. She wanted him to run after her but she was glad he didn't. If he did, she doesn't know if she could stop herself from crying.
She's not a weak child. Her grandfather own a dojo, and her family is known to have a great students of both martial arts and kendo, that's why she's not really weak. But being someone who is going to be an heir of both the dojo and his father's company, it is hard for her to make a friend, someone who can she talk to. And now, she's initiating to be that boy's friend and he just ignored her.
Well if that is what he wanted. She will never going to try to push herself on him. If he doesn't like her, then no. She's not someone who is good with rejections, and she's not going to tolerate it either.
She dried her tears and look for her 'more comfortable clothes' in the basket. She put them on and went to the playground at the back of their mansion. Her playground consists of sandbox, slide, see-saw, monkey bars, custom-made rock climbing, and swing. At the back is the swimming pool of two different sizes, a tennis court and a little open hut with a table and a chairs.
She was playing silently when a the 'boy' who made her cry walk passed the sandbox to the tennis court. He has his tennis shoes on, a t-shirt and a shorts. He has a big bag that look something like the shape of a tennis racket. Curious, she walk quietly behind him, a few feet away.
He went to a bench and put his stuff there then open the bag and pulled out a tennis racket and three balls. He put the two other ball in his pocket and held the other one in his left hand. He threw the ball in the air, and with speed, he beat it with his racket. The ball fly across the court and hit another guy, older than him, maybe one of her dad's guest. The guy glared at Keigo and angry, he walk to where Keigo is.
"What are you doing brat?" he growled. "Did you do that on purpose?"
"And what if I am?" Kei-kun said, rather cockily. Hotaru was afraid for him. The other guy is bigger than him, taller than him. She began to run to ask for help but she heard Kei said, "What? You want to play with ore-sama?"
She stopped, what the heck is he doing? Did he really want the other guy to hurt him?
"Huh, cocky. Then come, on. I will beat you, and you will see. I will make you do a dogeza."
"Hmm. Ore-sama will never do such thing. Not now, not ever," Keigo said.
Interesting, Hotaru thought. Keigo is winning 5-1 and it is already the point match. Keigo is really goood. No, he's great. He gave is all and he seems to be different inside the court. Still cocky, but he has something. His sweat flies all over him, but instead of making him look disgusting like the other guy in the opposite side of the court, it makes him look rather shining. Hotaru clean her eyes many times to make sure she's not dreaming, but God, the boy seems to have roses around him also.
"What? You are losing already. You still want to continue? Do you really want to be a laughingstock?" Keigo said, taunting.
"I am not going to be a laughingstock, you are," the other guy said.
Hotaru laughed out loud and pointed at the guy. She laughed so hard that both boy and guy glared at her. "S-sooryy..haha.. I..Just..haha..want..to make..a point," she laughed again.
Atobe smirked. Hmm, this girl is interesting, he thought. Not the same with the other one awhile ago.
The reason Atobe didn't recognize her is because of her outfit: baggy shorts and t-shirt, her hair is in a ponytail and she has a cap on. Her ponytail is inside the cap's little hole.
Atobe shot his last one, and "Atobe wins the game. 6-1 game ends."
"See, told you, Ore-sama is not the one who's going to do a dogeza," he said, then turned his back.
Enrage, the guy raised his racket and threw it to Atobe, Hotaru who is in the sidelines saw this and ran to cover for him. The racket hit her in the back of her head and a swished of blood flowed down her face. Atobe who turned to look in time saw this and he catch the falling body. "Dammit, call the ambulance, call somebody!" he shouted.
"I-it's okay," she whispered, a little out of breath. "It's not really hurt, ouch." she said.
"What the heck are you talking about? You are bleeding," Atobe shout at her.
"Do not yell at me," she glared. "It is your fault, you know."
"Why does it became ore-sama's fault?" he glared too. "You didn't need to do that. Who said to run and meet that thing for ore-sama?"
"T-then, it's my body's fault. A reaction," she said, then gagged, her eyes is closing.
"Oh no, no you don't," Atobe was worried for another being for the first time, and it's because she was so stupid. "Hey, don't die on me." He realizes that this is the girl in frilly dress before.
"Lol, what the heck are you talking about? I am going to live and marry you, we will have four children, you know," she said, grinning.
The ambulance arrived and get her to the hospital. The doctor checked her head and everything. She was in the hospital for about three days and Atobe was there everyday, with foods, dvds, and games he can bring so that they could play together. It is the most amazing childhood they both have, it is fun for both of them, and Hotaru will never forget it. Never.
"Kei-kun," she called out.
"Hn?"
"Do not forget about us okay? Promise me you'll love me forever. Because Kei-kun, I love you." she said with a smile, her eyes twinkling like the first time they met.
"Yes, Ho-chan, Ore-sama promise to love you forever and ever. And ore-sama will never forget about you, my little fiancee."
Never did they know that the last time they will see each other was that. And that with everything that will going to happen in the future, one of them will forget the most important promise they ever made for each other.
A/N: Yosh, second chapter is done! So this is what happened on their childhood. The first time they met. Apparently, Atobe will forget about her when he went to Europe, because he focused on tennis more and how to become a graceful, but manly heir of the Atobe Enterprise and Company. So when they will meet again after nine years, he will think that it was the first time he saw her, and Hotaru will change at this time, not the tomboyish, or the girly Hotaru he didn't remember, but a cold one, or more like an expressionless. Because her the permanent thing in the world is change, although Hotaru doesn't like it one bit. She need to do it, for her sake, her family and for her love for Atobe. She need to become perfect for him, even if it means becoming a doll of her father.
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