Don't own PoT... If I did.. It would be mainly RyoSaku of course.

First fanfic post, but not first created story.. But still.. Be nice please. Hope you enjoy!

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CHAPTER ONE: JOB HUNT

Living by yourself isn't exactly easy. There are many things required before someone can live by their selves. A decent, steady amount of income is of course the most important thing, which is exactly what the problem was.

Ryuzaki Sakuno was once again-for the hundredth time in her life-troubled. Downright troubled. Troubled with one of the biggest troubles she's ever gone through before. She knew she should've given this a more thorough consideration. Her grandmother had warned her that living by herself would be extremely troublesome and she wished she'd listened more and actually gave the decision some thought.

"Mou! I never knew looking for a job was this difficult!" 19-year old Sakuno Ryuzaki groaned in frustration as she crossed off another one of her options. The newspaper offered many jobs but Sakuno only had so much experience in anything, plus the poor girl was still unbelievably clumsy.

"Wow.. I think that was the thirteenth one." Tomoka-her best friend since childhood-spoke in slight amazement as she looked at the list. Sakuno's shoulder slumped in disappointment and after noticing this Tomoka slapped her in the back. "No! No time for sulking! Hold your head up high and move on! You've already gone through this, you can do it again!"

"I don't know.. This is really tiring.." the long haired girl let out a sigh.

"Here, give me that list… Let's see.. So our next one is.. Waitress." she read out loud. "Uh.. You sure you want to try out for that one? I mean.. You've just been rejected from that job in four other places right?"

"Aaaugh!.. Tomo, what am I goin' to do!!" Sakuno panicked. "There are only five jobs left and two of them are waitress! I'm too clumsy for that job! The last three requires smarts and I have to at least know some English!"

"Ooh… And we know how much you suck at Eng-.." Tomoka began but never finished.

"I know!" she cut off before her friend could speak the harsh truth. She was hopelessly terrible at English. Downright bad.

"Let's see… Have you tried asking any of our sempais?" Tomoka asked hoping to find some kind of solution for this never ending problem.

Sakuno pouted and nodded. "Yeah.. Only Kaidoh-senpai, Fuji-senpai, Momo-senpai, and Eiji-senpai are the ones who live nearby. Tezuka-senpai's in Germany, Taka-senpai's helping his dad with the new business downtown, Oishi-senpai moved to Shibuya, and Inui-senpai's in America for research or.. Something.." a sigh escaped her lips. "It'd be a lot easier if they were all here, I bet they'd have something up their sleeves."

Tomoka nodded, remembering the over-hyper regulars. "Oh crap!…" she whispered and checked her watch. "Sakuno.. I am so sorry!! I just remembered that Kaidoh-kun was tutoring me today! Oh my god, how could I forget!!" she growled, smacking her forehead in aggravation.

Sakuno smiled. "Don't worry Tomo. I'll just go home for today, plus I'm tired. Maybe I'll look at the current newspaper and see if there's anything new." she replied reassuringly.

"I owe you so much! So sorry 'bout this though! I'll pay you back! Call me if you've found something new okay?" Tomoka gave her friend a hug before walking off across the street. "See ya later!"

Sakuno nodded and waved bye to her friend. After watching her disappear into the crowds she turned walked the opposite way. She had to admit, the thought of living by herself never really came up before until she realized how much burden it was for her grandmother to be taking care of her at this age. Especially at the fact that she's already old enough to live and take of herself on her own. Or at least, she supposed to be. Events now though prove that theory to be wrong. She was obviously not getting anywhere.

"Mou.. This is so frustrating." she sighed and she stopped by the convenience store to buy a few things but she froze when something caught her eye.

An electric post near the entrance of the store had small posters posted on it but one particular poster stood out to her. It was plain but the message was what caught her eye.

'Maid wanted.'

It read in black letters, a pretty mundane poster for someone trying to hire people, but she had no time to be picky, any moment that job could be slipped right under her feet and job hunting was starting to get annoying.

A number was written under it, Sakuno quickly took out a pen and scrap of paper from her purse and jotted down the number. She smiled victoriously and marched inside the store.

'All I'd have to do is clean and take care of the house right? It'll be that easy!' she thought to herself, a hopeful smile was plastered on her face as she bought what she needed and headed towards her apartment. 'Thank you kami-sama!'

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End of chapter one! Woo! Hope you like it so far, I think I pretty much know how this'll go but not sure..

Constructive critisizm would be good. Please review.