Title: The Poor Prince's Smile
Author: Snow_guardian
Pairing: JunDa, TaNaka and Akame (but have a bit of JuKi at the beginning)
Genre:Romance and Fluff
Rating: PG13
Flame?: maybe... not sure
Summary: The world is full of surprises and fate sometime play with people. Junno is a poor boy with nothing and yet he manages to smile everyday even when life comes to its worst. Ueda is from a wealthy family, who can have anything he ever dream of and yet he had lost his own smile; his happiness to his status. Soon fate will let these two meet, but would they believe they were meant to be? Is there such a thing as fate, or destiny? Only those who truly believe will know, because it brought them together.

A.N.: wow... i'm so happy people read this... well thank you to all of you! i'll try to write more! Like i said if you're confuse about a certain part please ask! cause i need the experiment! -_-


chapter 1


*chapter 2*

“Arigatou! Even though this could be our last meeting, I hope I would meet you in the future!” the smile of the cheesy boy flashes through Ueda's mind. What was it about that boy that kept Ueda thinking about him?

Ueda didn't know why he had helped the boy out, he don't usually help out others, what was it about Junno that caught him off guard? Was it something about Junno that amuse Ueda? Flashes of him kept popping up and it was irritating Ueda, he couldn't concentrate in classes, so he gave up and left during class changes. He wasn't sure why he had to go to the University, he didn't want to and yet he went everyday because of the high hopes of his parents.

He got into the car and drove off, the rain hasn't stop since that morning and it was frustrating Ueda, making him more piss off the usual, as the street light turned red, he speed off, ignoring it.

When he went pass Sunny Smile Restaurant, something deep inside urged him to stop and visit but he resisted that urge and continue until he reached his house.

His home was a mansion, with lots of empty rooms and lots of servants, but through out his life, it was always lonely. His parents was always overboard, working and hardly visit. His only brother is always off somewhere oversea, he doesn’t seem to like Ueda much and for that reason he left Ueda alone when they were younger and would always choose to study overboard.

Ueda had lost most of his feeling, what he want, he gets, yet, it was never enough to fill in that lonely hole of his. That was how life was for Ueda. He had gotten use to being alone.

As he entered his mansion’s doors, the servant all stood, greeting him in two perfect lines as he walked through them and up the stairs, he didn’t say anything and everybody was too afraid to ask why he had came so early.

He entered his room, closing the door behind him, inhale, and suddenly through his jacket fiercely to the ground. He didn’t know why he felt so annoyed, maybe it was because of the weather, whatever it was, it was making Ueda tire.

Ueda just laid there in bed gazing into the blank ceiling, trying hard not to think of anything, especially not Junno, but before he knew it, he had dozed off toward his own dark world, where all he felt was coldness, every once and then he would see a little fairy flying by, and yet whenever he try to catch it, it was always out of his gasp. Suddenly he heard a knock at the door and snapped back to reality, looking at the clock, it was already past noon and almost toward dinner time.

“Yes, come in.” he said as he sat upward straight in bed.

“Master Ueda, Miss Yui and Mister Yuichi Nakamaru are here to see you.” The maid said.

“Oh… tell them I’ll be down in a moment.” and with that the maid left closing the door behind her.

Ueda glanced at the darken sky with the falling rain tapping lightly on the windows and decide to go downstairs.

Yuichi Nakamaru was a friend of Ueda, well that was what he had told Ueda over and over again, and they practically grew up together. Even though to Ueda, Maru was just a person who wants to be in good business with Ueda, he did accept the “friendship” they had, because Maru never try to change Ueda, but the big problem was Maru’s cousin, Yui, she had a thing for Ueda and wished to marry Ueda one day. Maru, who always spoil his little cousin, always tries to get them together. So even when Maru respect Ueda privacy, he also want to do everything for the cousin of his.

As Ueda reached the bottom step of the stairs, Yui ran over and clung to his hand, but Ueda only react to this with a quick swing, and pulled away from her.

“Aww, now don’t be like that.” she said as she try to reach for his arm again but, Ueda gave out a cold glare making her back off.

“Tat-chan, you should be nicer to Yui, she came all the way here to see you.” Maru said with a smile on.

Ueda didn’t care; he knew what was on Maru’s mind, instead of answering Maru, Ueda asked, “Why are you two here?”

“Can’t a friend visit?” was what Maru always answered whenever Ueda ask him this question.

Suddenly Yui answered, “Where were you during science? You just all of a sudden disappear, I was worry. I thought you were sick or something! So when I got home, I made Maru bring me here! Aren’t you happy to see me?”

Ueda stared at her and then walked toward the couch.

“Master Ueda, dinner is ready, will Miss Yui and Mister Yuichi Nakamaru, be joining you?” said a maid as she stood by the side of the doorway toward the living room.

“Yes, we’ll be!” said Yui.

“I guess if Yui say so, then we’ll be.” said Maru with a sigh.

Ueda stood up and walked toward the dining room as Yui quickly run to his side and Nakamaru followed.

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Junno had made it home safely without the landlady seeing, Koki had walked him all the way home and offered to stay with him that night but Junno had refuse the offer, because Koki had already did enough for him and so Koki had left feeling disappointed.

Junno took out his futon and sat on it, he hadn’t eaten at all that whole day and he didn’t feel hungry either. Even if he was, there was no food to be found. He sat there thinking about how terrible his day had been, but as he thought about it, he quickly remembered Ueda.

Junno gave out a smile, “I guess my day wasn’t that bad, I got to meet a new person.” but Junno remember his face and somehow felt sad. When Junno first saw Ueda‘s eyes, those eyes of Ueda was enchanting, yet at the same time, he felt a sort of loneliness from it. Junno gave out a sigh and whispered, “Try to forget him, it’s not like I’m going to ever see him again.” and with that he buried his head in his pillow.

The next morning Junno woke up earlier then usual and quickly put his futon away and got dress. As he opened the door he noticed the rain haven’t stop so he grabbed his only umbrella, He was trying to avoid the landlady, so he sneaked out of the apartment quietly.

As he entered the busy street and walked on, he didn’t notice that Koki, who was carrying bags of food, walked pass him and up the stairs toward his apartment nor did Koki notice that he already left; their umbrellas had blocked each other face, both would never thought that this was what fate had plan.

Junno continue on down the busy street, looking for another job, but luck wasn’t on his side.

He searched on until his stomach growled of hungriness, which was when he noticed that it was already past noon, he looked in his wallet to see if he had money to buy food but there wasn’t even a yen to be found.

As he was looking through his pocket, a car had driven by and again muddy water splashed all over him.

Junno quickly look up to see if it was Ueda, from the day before, but the car already speeds off, that was when he noticed a limo stopping.

“Why did that limo stop? It didn’t do anything…” he thought as he tries to look away, suddenly the driver seat door opened, an umbrella was released and the driver of the limo came out and walked over to Junno.

“Excuse me sir, but my master would like you to come into the limo.” he said as his arm led the way.

“Huh? Me? But I didn’t do anything wrong… did I?” muttered Junno, as he was getting nervous.

“No sir, you didn’t, it is just that master want you to come into the limo.” he said again.

“Uh… thank you but no thank you, I don’t want to get the limo wet, as you can see.” he smile pointing to his wet muddy t-shirt.

Suddenly the black window from the back seat of the limo roll down and Junno mouth dropped, it was Ueda.

“Just get in here you idiot!” he yelled. The driver quickly held on to Junno and started pulling him toward the limo.

“W-wait, but this is- I can’t, wait-” but all his excuse were not heard and before he knew it he was already inside the limo. The driver took Junno’s umbrella with his own and went back to the driver seat and continued driving.

Ueda sat there staring out the window, Junno sitting across from him was feeling uncomfortable, he wanted to say something, but this was way too awkward, and Ueda didn’t care about saying anything.

Junno gave out a sudden outburst, but it didn’t come out as a word, it was just a quick ‘ak’ kind of sound. Ueda sat staring at Junno.

Feeling embarrass, Junno looked down, “Um…. Can I ask why… I’m here?” he asked.

“Aren’t you late for work?” Ueda said as he again went back to looking out the window.

Junno gave out a kind of awkward smirk, “Uh… I got the day off today…” he replied, Ueda glanced at him and looked back again, “Well where do you want to go?” he said.

“Huh?…” but Junno didn’t know what to say because he didn’t know where to go, suddenly his stomach growl. Ueda glanced down and knocked on the black window screen behind him. The window rolled down and the driver was on the other side.

Junno notice Ueda saying something to him but he wasn’t sure what it was, then the driver nodded and the black window rolled up again.

There was silence in the limo, Junno didn’t know what to say and he kept trying to keep eye-contact with Ueda but Ueda only looked out the window.

Suddenly Ueda turned, making Junno jumped, “Uh… don’t you think it’s funny, whenever we meet there always a stain of mud on my shirt…” laughed Junno, but he quickly stop since all Ueda did was stare at him with a poker face on.

“We’re here” Ueda suddenly said.

Junno looked out the window and notice they had stopped in front of a big hotel.

The limo’s door was opened by the driver, who was holding an umbrella and Ueda stepped out. A servant came running with an umbrella to fetch Ueda. Junno wasn’t sure what was going on so he remain seated, the driver noticed and bended down.

“Aren’t you coming?” he asked.

Junno looked confuse, “Uh… I’ll wait in the car.” He said with an unsure smile on.

The driver was puzzled and stood straight to look for Ueda, but Ueda already entered the hotel, he then bend down again.

“Sir, the master is waiting for you inside.” He said.

Junno looked at him then at his muddy shirt, suddenly that was when he noticed a waiter running out.

“Sir, the young master had order me to come and get you.” He said as he also bended, Junno felt confuse, why do they all call Ueda ‘master’, it was perplexing.

“B-but, my clothes… they’re dirty, I can’t enter a high class hotel, with these on.” Junno said as he showed the mud stain to the waiter.

“Sir, you don’t need to worry about that, the young master had order a change of clothes for you.” He said as he held out his hand to receive Junno’s.

“Uh…” Junno wasn’t sure what to do with the hand, for he thought only girls were the one that men offer their hands too, “hmm… maybe this is what high class people do…” he thought as he finally decide to accept it. The waiter took his hand in his own and held the umbrella toward Junno, so Junno won’t get wet and walked quickly into the hotel; Junno glanced back and noticed the driver going back into the limousine, “How come he’s not coming?” Junno asked the waiter, but the waiter didn’t answer.

The waiter brought Junno into a room and as they enter, Junno notice a bunch of maids waiting, before he knew it the door closed and they were undressing him.

“W-what’s going on here!? Wait! Don’t! Hey-!” Junno yelled as he tried to escape from the hands that were taking off his clothes, but there was too much and he couldn’t flee. His dirty t-shirt was ripped off, his pants were forcefully pulled down, and his shoes were taken off, luckily his brief boxer wasn’t pull off.

Before he knew it the maid already left, and the waiter from before held the door for him. Junno quickly looked down and saw that they had force a kimono on him, the torso was red, the kimono was black with red bands and red flowerily design on it, the munehimo was also black to blend in with the kimono. His hair was tied back with some tresses hanging down on his shoulder and he was wearing tabi with geta.

The waiter motioned Junno to come out of the room, but Junno wasn’t sure how he was going to walk in the geta. He walked slowly out. “Um… why am I dress like this?” he asked as he strolled gradually.

“Those are the clothes that the young master requested.” The waiter answered.

Junno looked down, “I’m happy for the consideration, but did it have to look this girly?” he thought, not daring to say a word, thinking it was just a thing that the superior do and wear often.

The waiter led him into the restaurant part of the hotel, where many guests were. Junno felt eyes gazing upon him. He looked around and noticed he was the only one wearing such clothes, and even more unusual, it was a feminine-looking kimono.

The waiter stopped at a table that was beside the window view and said, “Young master, he had come.”

Suddenly the person that was sitting on a chair that was faced the other way from Junno turned. Ueda’s eyes widen, “You look funny…” he murmured.

Junno smiled but he could feel his face burning, rage boiled in his blood, did Ueda bring him here just to make fun of him?! Junno looked around, noticing the guest snickering and the kids pointing.

“Well, sit…” said Ueda as his hand shift forward toward the empty seat across from him. Junno gulped down his fury and sat down. He was too embarrass to look up so he remain looking down, both his hand had bolted up into fists; resting on his knee, his shoulder felt tense, he was holding in his anger.

He heard some whispers, some were not clear and some were said loudly on purpose.

“Why is Mr. Ueda sitting with that?”

“heheh, who wear that nowadays?”

“I bet, he thinks he’s so high and mighty, talk about no style”

And it continued on, Junno try hard not to take in the words but it felt like high school all over again; when every one seemed against him.

Junno glanced at Ueda, but as he looked up their eyes connected, both quickly look away, as if they were guilty. Ueda cleared his throat with a cough, “Um… so what do you want to eat?” he asked.

Junno didn’t dare look up, “I’m fine.” He answered.

“I heard your stomach growl.” Ueda murmured.

Junno face got redder, “Uh… I think you just misheard…” he muttered.

Suddenly Junno felt the ground shook; well it was his own delusion, but he really felt it. A lady stopped in front of the table.

Junno glanced up, a rather beautiful lady stood, her hair curled from the very tip. Yet her beauty was ruin by her sleeveless, plunging neckline blouse and her mini skirt, but she was rather tall with long smooth legs, although she was already tall her Jodhpur boots were at least five inch tall.

“Oh, Ueda! What a coincident!? Meeting you here!” she yelled, giving off a sexy smile. She glanced at Junno, “And you are?”

Junno bowed nervously, “Junnosuke Taguchi…” he said quietly.

She glimpse at Ueda, “You can call me Yui…wow, Taguchi, I just love that kimono! It looks so feminine on you. And that color, it’s abhorrent, you look revolting.” she said. Junno looked at her, the first part was in Japanese but the second part was in English, Junno’s worse subject was English, sure he understand only parts of what she just said, but the big words were the problem, other then ‘on you’, ‘color’, and all the little words the others were unknown to Junno.

“If you must make fun of him, why not use regular words like ‘ugly’.” Ueda said to Yui, turning her smudge look into a wrath. Even though Junno was bad at English, he knew the words ‘make fun of’ and ‘ugly’. Junno suddenly looked up at Ueda, mistaking his poor English; he had thought that Ueda was the one making fun of him.

With the remark that Ueda gave Yui, she suddenly got so mad, grabbed the red wine that Ueda had and spill it of top of Junno’s head, giving out a little laugh, “Well you date is ruin now.”

Junno rapidly, grabbed the bottle of wine and pour it on top on Yui’s head, making her scream, “You CREEP!” Ueda seemed surprise, yet amuse to this action, but Junno wasn’t finish, he quickly walked over to Ueda and did the same, but Ueda just sat there.

“I DON’T CARE IF YOU MAKE FUN OF ME! BUT MAKING FUN OF ME IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE IS COWARDLY! JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE RICH, DOESN’T MEAN YOU CAN TAKE AVANTAGE OF THE CLASS LOWER THEN YOU!!” yelled Junno out of rage; he had bottled it all until now.

At the sight of her lover having wine poured on him, Yui ran over and slapped Junno, her first reason was for what Junno did to her and the second was what he did to Ueda.

“You piece of trash! How dare you treat Ueda-sempai like this!?” she screamed.

Junno held the cheek that Yui slapped and without farther thinking, he ran out of the room, trying to find his way out of the hotel.

As he was running, he tripped on the stupid geta that he wasn’t use to; he quickly kicked the geta off and ran with only the tabi on.

He was full of rage and his head was spinning, he couldn’t think straight, but somehow he found himself at the entrance of the hotel. The driver waited outside.

“Sir, is it already time to leave?” the driver said as he ran up to Junno with the umbrella. That was when he noticed Junno’s red cheek and the red wine dripping off of his hair, without saying more, he led Junno to the limo and drove off.

As Junno sat, his mind finally calmed down, that was when he realized what he did, and what just happen.

“Um… Mr. Driver? What about Ueda?..” he asked as he tapped on the black screen that separate the driver and the passenger. The driver heard the tap and rolled down the black screen.

“Yes sir?” he asked.

“Um… what about Ueda?” he asked again.

“Oh, master Ueda will be fine, I just called him and told him that I was taking you home and will be coming to pick him up later.” He answered.

“…Mr. Driver, wouldn’t you get fire for doing that?” Junno asked.

“Oh yeah, I forgot to introduce myself, sorry! I’m Kazuya Kamenashi, you can call me Kame.” Kame said as he looked up at the rear view mirror.

“Okay, um… Mr. Kame, wouldn’t you get fire for doing this?” he asked once more.

“Ah! Just Kame, Mr. Kame sounds weird.” Kame fussed.

“Okay…Kame…wouldn’t you get fire?” he asked the third time.

“Nah, master Ueda might look mean but he’s actually thoughtful, he even agree when I called.” Kame said with a smile on.

“But I poured wine on him… he need to change and-“ but before he could finish, Kame laughed out loud, “You pour wine on the young master?! Really? Why? Hahaha! Whew! I should have been there! Haha.” Kame wiped the tears and calmed down.

“Well, it was because; he bought me in there to humiliate me. He even bad talks about me in English.” Junno pointed out, “But that’s not the bad part, this girl name Yui or something was there to make fun of me too. I bet Ueda told her to pour wine on me… I think…”

“You think, but do you know?” asked Kame.

“Uh… I might not be good in English, but I can still understand parts of it… kinda.” Junno muttered, feeling guilty now.

“Hmm… that don’t sound like Ueda, I know he could be cruel sometime but I don’t think he could ever do a thing like that and with Yui at the farthest.” Kame said as he nudged his head a little.

“Then I must have overreacted for no reason…” thought Junno, feeling guiltier then ever.

Kame noticed this and suddenly said, “But, you don’t have to worry about his change of clothes, he basically owns that hotel, he could just tell them to get him a change of clothes.”

“Wait a minute… he own that hotel!?” asked Junno amazed as he stuck his head right next to Kame.

“Oh, you didn’t know? Master Ueda’s father is the head of the most luxurious hotels in Japan, that just one of the hotel he own.” Kame said.

“What? Really!? I knew he was wealthy but, wow…” Junno muttered, finally realizing where he was, he suddenly said, “You can drop me off here.”

“But sir, this was where I picked you up? Don’t you want me to drop you off at home?” asked Kame.

“Nah, I’m fine, I feel like walking…” Junno said as he glanced out to the raining night sky.

“If you say so.” Said Kame as he stopped the car and handed Junno’s umbrella to him, Junno got out and bowed to Kame, Kame gave out a nod and left.

As Kame disappear far into the distance, Junno finally realized that his feet felt wet, he looked down and remember that he kicked his geta off, the tabi he was wearing were all wet and muddy now, it was soaked.

Junno gave out a sigh, “I’m so slow…”

As he walked through the empty street, across the opposite street Koki walked the opposite direction. But this time he was different from that morning, something was missing. But exactly like that morning, they missed each other again.

As Junno walked on, Koki glanced back to see if it was Junno, but to his eyes, he knew Junno would never wear anything like that and without shoes on? So Koki just kept on walking.

As Junno got to his apartment, he finally realizes his keys were in his jeans, and he wasn’t wearing his jeans, luckily he hid a key under the mat. That was when he noticed an open umbrella and under the open umbrella was a plastic bag of foods, with a note saying, ‘Take care of yourself –Koki’ Koki had left his umbrella behind as he walked through the rain. Junno felt a sink in his stomach, he been gone the whole day, was Koki waiting long? Junno grabbed the food and umbrella and went inside quickly, he forced the kimono off and went through his luggage, grabbing any change of clothes, he search though the hidden zippers and found some money he had been saving for an emergency and grabbed enough for a call and ran to the nearest phone booth.

“How could he be so stupid?! He could get sick!” these thought went through his mind as he was dialing the phone.

“Koki… you idiot.” He whispered as he listens to the phone on the other line ring.

The phone ranged once… twice… and on the third rang Koki answered.

“Hello?”

“Koki! Were you at my apartment? How long did you stayed? Why did you walk home without your umbrella!? You idiot! You could get sick, you could had-“ but before Junno could finish, Koki answered, “Whoa, hold on, I was at your apartment, but I only stayed for a minute or so, I left when the rain stopped for a bit. I knew it was going to rain again, that’s why I left the umbrella so I’m fine, when I got home that was when it rained again, so I’m fine, I never got wet,”

Junno sighed of relief, “Good, sorry about today… tell you what, tomorrow we’ll hang out, my treat!” said Junno.

“Okay… but aren’t you broke?” asked Koki.

“Hmm? No, I’m not, I saved some money… I’ll be fine.” Junno said.

“Okay then…” answered Koki.

“Okay tomorrow, I’ll come over.” Said Junno and suddenly the phone shut off. Junno’s minutes were over, so he hung the phone and walked back home, “Well at least he received the message.” Junno thought.

On the other line, Koki stood there listening to the beeping of the phone, he was standing in front of his house when Junno had called, his clothes drenched. He had lie to Junno, actually he waited the whole day for Junno’s return and at the very last minute that was when he left, just moment before Junno called. Koki suddenly gave out a smile, “YAH!” he yelled so loud the dog started howling.

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After Junno left him cover in wine, he stayed there for a while, just sitting there, why Yui fussed and protested. Then Ueda just stood up and walked off. That was when he heard his cell phone rang, it turn out to b Kame, taking Junno home.

That was when he noticed the pair of geta, apart from each other. He walked over and grabbed them. Suddenly a servant came running.

“Young Master! Your hair, your clothes! Here, let me open a room for you to change!” he yelled as he opened the nearest room with a card key.

“I’ll bring you a change of clothes.” He said as he close the door behind him.

Ueda stood there as his dark raven hair dripped with red wine, his shirt also leaked. The words that Junno yelled out kept ringing. He felt guilty somehow, even though, Junno mistaken him, he wanted to apologize, something he never did before.

He took off his clothes and took a shower, when the shower was finish and he got into a bathrobe, while drying his hair with a towel there was knocking on the door.

“Young Master, may I come in?”

Ueda walked up and opened the door. “Here’s your change of clothes, but what should I do with these, it was that rebellious boy’s clothes. Should we just throw it away?” He said as he handed the change of clothes to Ueda.

“No, give it to me…” he said as he grabbed the bag that had the clothes inside.

“We washed the clothes, but these were found in there.” He said as he also handed Ueda Junno’s wallet and keys.

“Okay, thank you, call me when Kame come.” He said as he close the door.

Ueda glanced at Junno’s wallet, nothing but his id, which was when he notices a picture of what seem to be Junno at the age of 15, next to a boy, a little bit older. What Ueda didn’t know that the boy next to Junno was Koki. He put the picture back and threw the wallet and key to the bed as he changed clothes.

To be continue...