AUTHOR'S NOTES – This is my first story for my favorite anime of all time, Clannad. (mostly because of After Story) I hope you'll enjoy. If you find anything I can improve upon, please leave some feedback. This is only my 2nd attempt at a story and I want it to be as good as it can be. Takes place right at the beginning of After Story Episode 2. So please enjoy!

DISCLAIMER - All characters, images, and anything to do with CLANNAD or it's sequel, CLANNAD: After Story is a product of Key and Kyoto Animation.

CHAPTER 1: Another World

Youhei's sister, Mei, was coming into town in just a couple of days. So Youhei, being the foolish yet considerate brother he is, decided to look for a fake girlfriend to impress her. Where does he start? None other than class rep Ryou Fujibayashi.

"Come on Ryou, please? You know you want to!"

"U-um... it'd be too embarrassing!" Ryou would always blush in situations like this. She was the very shy, sensitive type of person person. To prove it, she started tearing up right in front of them.

"R-Ryou... are you... okay?", Youhei, along with Tomoya and Nagisa, started getting a little worried.

Oh, and there's Kyou. Opposite day anyone? She throws an encyclopedia at Youhei's face, hitting him dead on.

"Kyou!", Tomoya and Nagisa are a little shocked by her sudden appearance.

"Hey! What were you doing to my sister?", Kyou was steaming, for someone who was so harsh she definitely loved her sister.

"Nothing! We were just trying to find Sunohara a fake girlfriend..."

"And you think I'd just stand by and allow that? Well guess what, NO! So don't ask again.", with that Kyou ask her sister if she's okay.

After rubbing the tears from her eyes, Ryou responds with, "I'm really just fine Kyou, I just overreacted a little, that's all..."

"C'mon Ryou, let's go...", with that, Kyou grabs hold of Ryou's hand and wanders off somewhere else.

Youhei was finally back up, "W-what happened? I was just asking Ryou if she could-"

Before Youhei could finish, Tomoya said "Kyou's what happened."

With that, they walked away to try someone else.

After trying with a few more girls and negative results. Youhei finally collapsed. "No one wanted to be my fake girlfriend!", he was trying to hold back over exaggeratory tears.

Tomoya responded to that in a more casual tone, "Come on Sunohara, we have to keep looking. Nagisa, do you know anyone that might want to play fake girlfriend with him for a few days?"

"Well... it's a long shot, but the only one I can think of is my mom...", Nagisa replied.

Then Ryou came bolting down the hallway, "S...Sunohara... There you are, I've been looking for you for the past 10 minutes!" she was wheezing in breaths of air. Slowly returning back to normal.

"Ryou? What did you want to tell me? Come on spit it out!", Youhei zoomed in on Ryou's face with a cheeky grin on his.

Ryou started blushing at what seemed to be embarrassing thoughts again, "W-well, I decided that if it's for your sister... I can be your fake girlfriend for a couple of days?"

Youhei's expression quickly went from cheeky to stunned, "What? Why? Won't your sister get mad at me again? Besides I just can't-"

Speak of the devil. As if it were a triggered event, Kyou came rushing down the hallway.

"Did you just MENTION the possibility of having my little sister being YOUR girlfriend?", Kyou was steaming, it looked like a volcano was about to go off. She had pinned Youhei in a pretty deadly position.

"N-no Fujibayashi! It was your little sister I promise, I promise!", Youhei was crying at this point. To be fair, he really didn't do much to deserve this today.

With that, Kyou dropped Youhei to the ground and asked, "Ryou... is that true?"

"O-only to pretend for his little sister! I'm not REALLY interested in him!" Ryou responded nervously. Youhei was put down by that statement.

Kyou had a mischievous smirk on her face, she went up to her sister and asked in a whisper so no one else could hear, "You're just doing this to get at Okazaki. Am I right?"

"M-maybe..."

Kyou started her sadistic laugh up again, "Well, good luck with that. Have fun!" and with with that, she ran off.

"What was that all about, for the second time today!" Youhei was more annoyed than scared now.

"I-I'm sorry Sunohara, I won't do it again..." Ryou started crying again.

Youhei replied to that in his reassuringly funny voice, "Aw come on Ryou, cheer up! I'm not annoyed with you, it's your sister I'm annoyed with!"

Ryou sucked up her tears and responded, "But I'm not crying!"

"I didn't say you were. But now that you've said so, I'm starting to think you were crying!", once again Youhei responded in that same tone of voice from before.

"...Fine then, I'll cheer up.", Ryou stood up, forcing a smile, it's clear she was crying just a second ago.

"Well come on, Ryou! We have to discuss what we're going to do!" Youhei said.

"Yeah Fujubayashi, this is his sister we're talking about. You're going to have to convince her you're his girlfriend." Nagisa added.

"W-well okay then..." Ryou blushed even harder this time.

"Are you still embarrassed by the thought, Ryou? That's okay, no need to be embarrassed!", with that, Youhei wrapped his arm around her shoulder, causing her to blush even harder than before.

"I-I was blushing because you called me by more first name...", Ryou didn't look very sure about this.

"Aw, I was just practicing. You have to lighten up and try it too!", Youhei said once again with that cheeky grin of his.

"Well... fine. H-how are you doing, Sunohara?", with that, Ryou smiled with the most genuine, prettiest face anyone had ever seen. Even if it was just practice.

"I didn't mean for you to do it that good!", now Youhei was blushing, making Ryou laugh a little.

Then Tomoya joined in the conversation, "But we seriously need to discuss how we're going to pull this off, for now, just follow us. Okay?"

Ryou responded with, "Okay." and they were off.

At least, they were going to plan how to pull this off. But unfortunately, no one actually knew what to do.

"So... what now?", Ryou asked.

Youhei didn't know either, "I don't know, Okazaki, quick! What do you do when you go out with Furukawa?"

"Well, last time we just walked in the park, but I don't think-"

Youhei cut Tomoya off, "Then it's settled! We go walk in the part for our first real test after school! How about it, Ryou?"

"Well..."

"Then it's settled, we go for a walk in the park an hour after school, get to know each other AND discuss how to convince Mei I'm really your boyfriend. It's killing two birds with one stone!", Youhei was really hyped up for this.

"Well, okay then..."

With that, they walked off to their classrooms to finish the day.

Well, that's it for the first chapter. That took quite a while. So I hoped you enjoyed. More will be coming out, sooner or later, for better or worse! Please leave a review.