Love Hurts 5 Ways (OUTDATED STORY)

by Aloubell

This is an outdated story and the beta version for the current Destiny Song series. The story premise is generally the same, but in this beta version, things just kind of happen without much of a plan. I'm keeping it on this site as a record of what used to be. Please check out "Destiny Song" if you want a more coherent story. Thank you!

7. Dear Universe, WTH!

ATTENTION READERS: This is the Beta version of LH5W, if you want to read the official, updated version of the story, you'll have to go over to DeviantArt. com and head on over to my page. My username is Aloubell. You can also get there by going to my fanfiction. net profile which provides a link over there.
In any case, this Beta version is basically the rough draft of LH5W, my first attempt at it. Much of the plot points from this version will be the same in the official version, but there are significant and consistent characterization changes, a few (but very important) plot differences, expansion of past ideas, and overall better quality in storytelling.

All of this will be done over on DeviantArt. I no longer will write the story in traditional prose nor submit/update it here to fanfiction. net. The Beta version will remain here, just know that it isn't the 100% official story.
The official version will be written in a lazy prose mixed with play-writing elements (you'll get what I mean when you see it).
This is the new format for the story from now on.
So please head on over there if you're interested in updates to the story! Thank you for stopping by =D

-Aloe

PLEASE NOTE: The official version is being written somewhat out of order. The official version will start on chapter 46, the place where the Beta version left off. The official version will go on to complete the last chapters of Season 2. Once those are done, I will redo the story over again from Chapter 1 which will be the official version.

Having said that, if you choose to continue on reading, I hope you enjoy the Beta version and look forward to the official!

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Dear Universe,

WHAT THE HELL!

Why would you put me in the same house as some insanely hot guy? You know how I am around guys like that! It's impossible to be tough and sarcastic when I turn into goo around Kyo like that. Now he thinks that I'm some shy girl with the occasional outburst. Occasional outburst? A normal Aki outburst would usually end up with a few broken bones and explosions, not just some yelling. I absolutely hate that!

It also turns out that Kyo and Yuki are both a year younger than me. I usually don't go for younger guys, but…c'mon, it's Kyo! He kind of reminds me of Inuyasha. Damn! It still stings a little that I won't see him again. But now, you've introduced me to Kyo. Does this mean that I'm meant to be with a guy with this tough-bad-boy-with-issues type? I'm not completely sure.

After learning about the "Sohma family curse", I learned it was called, Shigure enrolled me into the local high school that both Kyo and Yuki go to. So now I have to wear this frilly, girly school uniform. I hadn't been in Japan for a while, so I momentarily forgot what it was like to wear one of these. I was REALLY grateful to public American schools that we could wear whatever we wanted. This whole ordeal just reminded me of one of the lesser reasons as to why I wanted to leave my school in Japan. Anyway, it looks like a typical sailor uniform, with a frilly skirt, mostly dark blue except for some white lining here and there along with a white handkerchief. Not really my style, but…there you go.

After explaining to Shigure that even though I'm seventeen, I was a senior—just young for my grade. It's just the result of being born in October and starting school early. Yuki and Kyo were a grade down from me, meaning that we weren't going to be in the same class—which was unfortunate considering they were the only people I knew at the time. While on that subject, even though Yuki is a bit girly looking, he is cute in a charming way. He kind of strikes me as one of those princes in a fairy tale. That was no surprise especially when the guy has his own fan club filled with girls who absolutely adore him. Some of the girls there don't like me much just because I'm living with him. If only they knew I wasn't attracted to him as much as I am Kyo.

Luckily, I haven't pissed him off as much as I did on that first day—mostly because I can barely speak around him anyway. He offers to be my escort in a lot of places since I don't know the school or the town.

You just love teasing me don't you? You get a joy out of watching me freeze up like an iceberg.

It's been sort of weird not fighting anything. Taiitsukun told me to try not to mention my powers. Well, why tell them anything at all if I'm not using them to begin with? It feels like things have been too quiet, though. Almost like someone is just waiting for something to happen. I kind of have my suspicions that Shigure knows that there is something different about me. He saw my wand, and probably that gust of wind I produced the day I got here. Is he really just pretending to not know, or is he waiting for me to say it? Dude is really putting me on the edge with the constant guessing.

I suppose you enjoy that too.

Meeting new friends outside of the Sohma family has proven as somewhat of an issue. I was never very good at it before, which made this that much harder. It's not really a concern for me, but as a result, people either think I'm real shy or just really antisocial. Whenever I tried to regain my intimidating status, Kyo manages to show up to turn me into this soft-spoken sheep. Gosh, I hate it so much! Something has to go down to where I can show my true colors: as a girl who can stand her own ground.

I've had the honor of meeting some of the other members of the Zodiac, but it would take up waaaay too much space in this entry to describe them all with detail. I was definitely right before in saying that they are all colorful characters.

One that is worth mentioning at this moment is a guy named Hatori Sohma. Tomorrow, he is apparently gonna wipe my memory of ever knowing about the family secret. I suppose I had to agree to it so that I don't cause any more problems for the family.

Do I like it? No.

Is it ironic? Totally. ( I sure hope that Taiitsukun is reading this somewhere)

Will it be fun? Absi-darn-lutely!

Love Always, with a HUUUUGE amount of sarcasm,

Aki

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ATTENTION READERS: This is the Beta version of LH5W, if you want to read the official, updated version of the story, you'll have to go over to DeviantArt. com and head on over to my page. My username is Aloubell. You can also get there by going to my fanfiction. net profile which provides a link over there.
In any case, this Beta version is basically the rough draft of LH5W, my first attempt at it. Much of the plot points from this version will be the same in the official version, but there are significant and consistent characterization changes, a few (but very important) plot differences, expansion of past ideas, and overall better quality in storytelling.

All of this will be done over on DeviantArt. I no longer will write the story in traditional prose nor submit/update it here to fanfiction. net. The Beta version will remain here, just know that it isn't the 100% official story.
The official version will be written in a lazy prose mixed with play-writing elements (you'll get what I mean when you see it).
This is the new format for the story from now on.
So please head on over there if you're interested in updates to the story! Thank you for stopping by =D

-Aloe

PLEASE NOTE: The official version is being written somewhat out of order. The official version will start on chapter 46, the place where the Beta version left off. The official version will go on to complete the last chapters of Season 2. Once those are done, I will redo the story over again from Chapter 1 which will be the official version.

Having said that, if you choose to continue on reading, I hope you enjoy the Beta version and look forward to the official!