Name: Atsutoshi Yumehiro

Age: 26

Birthday: July 19

Hair color: Red (Think about the shade of Ben Affleck’s hair in Daredevil.)

Eye color: Blue

Height: 5’11"

-0-Atsutoshi Yumehiro is very successful in everything he does. He grew up in a very rich family and is the eldest among five children. As his father was getting old, he took over his father’s company. It’s been 3 years since he started running his father’s company and everything was going well. Atsutoshi never really gave a second thought when he would spend money for unnecessary things. That is until he met Reika.

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Name: Reika Setsuki

Age: 24

Birthday: September 18

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Green

Height: 5’5"

-0-Reika is the second born in the family. Arumi, Reika’s sister, left her child in Reika’s care as she went abroad to work as a nurse to support her child. Reika has this habit of getting nervous about little things. Even though she has enough money to take care of the child, she still works really hard to earn money for the kid. Even though she has a problem, no one notices it because she always carries a smile. Because of a certain event, she was able to meet Atsutoshi. At first, she called Atsutoshi a heartless, good for nothing, obnoxious guy, but as time passed, she learned that there was more than money to this guy.

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Name: Arumi Setsuki

Age: 29

Birthday: August 10

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Green

Height: 5’3"

-0-Arumi is Reika’s sister who is working in the U.S. as a nurse to help support her child. Her husband left her and she was now struggling to take care of her son. Arumi thought that she could help her child by going abroad and leaving him in Reika’s care. Soon though, she would return home to Japan to find out that a multi-billionaire, handsome guy, is courting Reika.

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Name: Touji Setsuki

Age: 8

Birthday: September 13

Hair color: Black

Eye color: Brown

Height: 4’1"

-0-A silent and smart boy for his age. He doesn’t like people who take advantage of his Aunt, Reika. He has a pet turtle that goes by the name of Dot. Everytime he gets mad, he tends to bite the nearest person near him. Touji is also known to be a bookworm. He doesn’t like to be around people he doesn’t know and he loves his Aunt’s company, who is also the only one he really talks to including his mom.

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Name: Jitsume Chigako

Age: 21

Birthday: April 10

Hair color: Black

Eye color: Black

Height: 5’5"

-0-Jitsume also grew up in a rich family. She’s the second to be born among three children. Her family are good friends with the Yumehiros. Growing up with Atsutoshi, she ends up falling in love with him. Because of a misconception, she thinks that Atsutoshi is in love with her. However, she doesn’t know that Atsutoshi’s brother, Hajime, is the one who is on love with her.

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Name: Hajime Yumehiro

Age: 23

Birthday: March 15

Hair color: Red (Think about the shade of Ben Affleck’s hair in Daredevil.)

Eye color: Ocean Green

Height: 5’9"

-0-Hajime is the second born in the Yumehiro family. Although he and his brother are close, Hajime gets jealous with the love and affection that Jitsume gives to Atsutoshi. Everybody thinks that he is a woman hater but in real fact, he is in love with Jitsume.

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Reika Setsuki looked at the paper that she was holding one last time. With a sigh, she stood up from where she was and prepared all her stuff as she snatched her bag from a chair near her.

"Three more weeks and we’ll be able to pay the rent." She said to no one in particular. "Touji is out in school already. Have to go to work."

She glanced at the paper one last time and was about to leave but stopped when she heard her telephone ring.

Irritated, she walked to where the telephone was and answered it. "Hello, Reika speaking."

"Thank goodness I was able to catch up on you! This is Lyn." A girl from the other side of the telephone said nervously.

"Oh, its you. What’s wrong?"

"It’s the landowner of the restaurant. I heard that he’s selling the place today!"

"What!? And he didn’t even tell us!?" Reika said surprised.

"I know! The man who’s gonna buy the place is gonna arrive today . . ."

"Ok, I’ll be going now. I have to talk to the landowner before the guy arrives."

"Then you have to hurry Reika. I heard that he’ll be arriving anytime soon."

"Got it. Bye!" With that, she grabbed her keys to her apartment and hurried outside.

Reika was working as a manager in a restaurant not far from her apartment. It was an old shabby place but it was great there. Lots of people go to that restaurant but this month it seems that there have been a few customers. That didn’t stop them though. This happened before and they didn’t have that much of a trouble then because the customers always came back. But today was different. Why would the landowner decide to sell it now? And more importantly to whom will he send it to?

Reika continued to run as she pondered her thoughts. She was about to cross the street but she didn’t notice that the traffic light turned green. When she noticed however, it was too late. She was already in the middle of the road and a car almost hit her. Reika was so frustrated that she slammed her fist in the hood of the car. "Watch it!" She screamed at the driver not even caring that the driver’s window was closed.

Because of her actions, the driver stepped out of the car. "Lady, please. Hit anything but the car!"

"You shut up you reckless driver!" She yelled back at him.

"Reckless? You were the one who crossed the street when the light already turned to green!" He said as he heard honking cars from the now impatient people who were in the same lane as he was.

"Oh shut up! You’re just wasting my time!" With that she ran off again to her destination leaving the man to watch her retreating back.

Reika arrived at the restaurant in time. The man who was supposed to buy the place wasn’t there yet. Reika approached the landowner and spoke to him. "Sir, why are you selling this place? We were doing great!"

"Setsuki, if you would only understand . . ." The old man said as he sighed.

"Why don’t you tell me."

"Reika, you haven’t paid the rent yet . . ."

"Mr. Himakawa, this happened before and it was even worse then! I didn’t pay you the rent for five whole weeks! Just give me three more weeks and I’ll be able to pay it."

"I can’t anymore. The man who is gonna buy this place made me an offer that I can’t refuse."

"Mr. Himakawa, please re-consider."

"I can’t. I’m an old man. I have to take care of my family and this is the only place that’s giving me income. Desperate times call for desperate measures. If you want, talk to the man who’s gonna buy this place."

"You bet I will." She said with a determined look on her face.

After a few minutes, they heard someone come in. Reika turned around and saw an all too familiar face. "You again! Mr. Reckless driver!"

Mr. Himakawa looked surprised at the outburst of Reika. "Well, Reika. This is the man who’s gonna buy this place."

Reika looked at the man to Mr. Himakawa. She looked at the man again. Tall, red hair, blue eyes and nice smile. He was wearing an Adidas jacket and some blue jeans and Adidas rubber shoes. "You must be joking."

The old man smiled. "No, this is him." He looked at the man. "This is the manager of the restaurant, Reika Setsuki." He pointed to Reika.

He smiled at her. "I see. My name is . . ."

Reika cut short what the man was about to say. "I have no intention of knowing your name. The only thing in my mind is this restaurant. You can’t be serious that your gonna buy this right?"

"Oh, I am. I need to build a house not far from where I work and this is the only place big enough to fit my accommodations."

She smiled sarcastically. "So your gonna buy this place and let 28 people, not including myself to lose their jobs?"

"Well, that was the agreement."

"You cold-hearted, son of a . . ."

Mr. Himakawa cut her short. "Reika! Don’t speak to him like that! You don’t even know who he is!"

Reika looked at the old man seriously. "And I intend to keep it that way." Then she looked at the man. "What will happen to the people that work here?"

He thought for a while. "I don’t know. I guess they’ll start looking for new jobs."

"And you won’t help them?" She asked amazed.

"Why would I?"

"I don’t know. Probably because it’s the least that you could do after taking there jobs away." She said sarcastically.

"Ok, fine I will. I will need a list of their names and their resumes. I will find them good jobs when I get the list. Happy?"

Reika was speechless for a while then she spoke. "Make sure that you do find a job for them."

The man smiled at her. "And as for you." He gave her a card. "Go to this place and look for this man. Tell the guard at the lobby your name and he’ll send you right up."

"Atsutoshi Yumehiro." Reika read the name in the card and looked at the man. "Who the heck is this?"

"You’ll find out when you get there. Now, if you’d excuse me. I have someone to attend to." The man approached Mr. Himakawa and they started to talk.

Reika looked at them both then sighed. She left the restaurant feeling bad about what happened. ‘I have to call everybody up and tell them that they have no jobs anymore. Look on the bright side, the guy did promise that he would find them jobs’ Reika told herself.

When she arrived home. She started calling all the employees from the restaurant and told them that the place was sold to some guy. Some of them cried, some cursed, but all in all they all felt really bad.

Reika sighed as she finished with her last call. "Now what?" She looked around the living room and noticed that it was all dirty. "Better clean up. This place is a tad messy." She got up and started cleaning up.

As the afternoon approached, Reika found herself restless. So, to amuse herself, she played with Dot, Touji’s turtle. But sad enough, the turtle couldn’t do anything amusing enough other than to walk slow or hide its head under its shell. Soon though, she heard someone come in. A smiling Touji greeted her.

"Your home early today. No babysitter." He said happily as he approached her.

Reika smiled at him. "Yes. No babysitter today." She opened her arms to hug him.

When Touji was already in Reika’s arms, he looked at her worried. "What’s wrong? You don’t look too happy."

Reika smiled sweetly at him. "Well, I lost my job today but don’t worry. I’ll find one soon. I promise."

Touji smiled back at her. "Don’t worry, Aunt Reika! Job or no job, me and mommy will always love you!"

Reika kissed him in the forehead. "That’s right. You want to go out and it some ice cream?"

He looked at her as if inspecting her. "Your treat?"

Reika giggled. "Yes, my treat."

"Ok then, let’s go!" Touji held her hand and they left.

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The following day, after walking Touji to school, Reika decided to go to the place that the man told her to go to. When she arrived though, she looked at the business card again then at the building in front of her. ‘This is a huge place! I hope I got it right.’ She told herself.

She walked inside the building and was amazed at the vastness of the place. She approached the guard. When the guard looked at her she got nervous. "Um . . .hello there…I’m Reika Setsuki and umm . . ."

The guard smiled at her. "Oh yes, your just in time. Mr. Yumehiro is expecting you."

She smiled weakly at him. "He is?"

"Yes. Right this way Ms. Setsuki." He started walking towards the elevators and Reika followed suit. The guard entered the elevator and so did she. Soon, they were heading to the top of the building. After awhile, the upward moving of the elevator stopped and then the door opened revealing another beautiful room. Again, Reika followed the guard. Then they approached a place where an old man was waiting.

The man looked up then smiled. "Ah, Ms. Setsuki I presume."

Reika smiled. "Yes."

"Well then, follow me." The man started walking.

Reika said thank you to the guard and followed the old man. Soon, they approached a door. The man opened it and gestured for her to go inside.

When she walked in she looked at her surroundings and found that the room was beautiful. She looked at the desk and was surprised to see the man that she saw the other day. "It’s you again!"

He smiled at her. "It’s good to see you too."

"Your Atsutoshi Yumehiro? Why didn’t you tell me!?"

"Well you didn’t want to know remember?"

She looked at him carefully. He was wearing a suit. His hair was more fixed than it was yesterday. And his smile looked more stunning. "You own this building?"

He smiled at her. "Yes. I do."

She raised an eyebrow. "What would a person like you, want to buy a small place for?"

"It’s not really for me. It’s for my brother. He needed a house near his school so I’m gonna stay there too so that I could look after him. So, when can you start?"

"Start in what?"

"To be my assistant." He continued smiling.

"You haven’t even seen my resume. And how about the other employees."

"They already have a job and I’ve already seen your resume. You’ll be perfect for the job."

"So soon?" She asked surprised.

"Yes. Now, when can you start?"

"I can’t believe this . . ."

He sighed. "Can you please answer my question."

"I don’t know when I’ll start. I don’t even know if I’m gonna take this job!" Reika said angrily.

"Well, I do remember Mr. Himakawa telling me that you needed money, badly. I’m only here to help." He smiled again. "Well, you can start tomorrow."

She was about to protest but he just continued speaking. "Remember to wear business attire alright. Good, see you tomorrow."

Reika knew that arguing with this man would just be a waste of time. She then decided to leave and just head home. When she was finally out of the building, she sighed. ‘Look in the bright side, at least you now have a job.’ She told herself then she started walking again.

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