A Heart Wishing For More

Summary: Meet Darien Chiba, the most prominent heir to the Chiba Inc. at age 25, thought he could be a bachelor forever, but he was proven wrong when his grandfather request Darien to wed before taking over Chiba Inc… and that's not it. He has six months to find a wife or the company will be sold for charity. Meet Serena Tsukino, a well known author under the pen name of Usagi Wasaki, she gave up on looking for love and the only thing she thought she could look forward to was growing old alone with her cat, Luna- and boy, was she ever wrong… Read&Rate

Disclaimer: I do not, in any way, own Sailor Moon's characters… nor am I responsible for any likeness in characters or settings. Please do not sue.

Chapter 1: Can You Repeat That? Part I

'…the world's population consists of over 7.9 trillion, and Tokyo, Japan added approximately 12.9 million to the world's population (as of 2007). Now, knowing that, do you still think you have the chance of finding your true soul mate? Still can't calculate the chances? Let me help you, the chances of finding your true soul mate is .000000001. Does all those zeroes behind the decimal, bring you back to reality yet? Does it scare you? Well it should. If not, then you- my friend- are a true soldier.' He grinned, 'If you are one of those lucky ones, give yourself a pat on the shoulder. If not, get a passport and start looking!' The once quiet room is now filled with hysterical laughter, as the vice president burst into laughs- an unusual event indeed.

After a moment, he looked up and glances around his office, hoping that there are no witnesses to this rare spectacle. It took him decades to build up this image and he'll be damn if he's find out. "Tokyo's Prince of Ice" was his nickname, and he takes real enjoyment out of it. He's been known by many nicknames but this one is his, particular favorite. He was also the de rigueur of his company, and also the only heir to it all. He has it all; the looks, the status, and the reputation to hold his image true. It's superficial and yet, it's true. He sighs at the thought. After confirming of no witnesses, he went back to his book.

'Media, society, and its norms all say the same thing; "soul mate is real", but is it? Is it really true? Let's make this into an experiment and dissect its myths.

Cinderella, a nobody, lost her glass slipper at the ball and her "Prince Charming" found her, then rescues her from her hellhole. They live happily ever after. The End.

A girl, falling down the stairs and was caught by her "soul mate" (whom just "magically" appear there) before she plummets to the ground- face first.

A princess, ill and was curse to sleep for eternity was awaken by a "one true love's kiss"… ironically, he is also a prince.

Now, let's use the empirical method:

The glass slipper can only fit a size 5 9/15 (or whatever Cinderella's size is) and that so happens to be Cinderella's exact size…. Does that slipper even exist? A fairy Godmother that grants wishes and the wish automatically expires exactly at midnight? Mouse that can talk? Needless to say, I don't think I need to continue…

I'm not even going to go here… in fact; I think I'm going to save some green and not even going to continue to the 3rd…

If you, my friend, needs further proof…. I suggest you take that red apple to a psychiatrist for possible symptoms of psychosis.

I, on the other hand, have better things to do than to wander aimlessly from possible "soul mates" to "soul mate"… I… have a date with my cats.' He dropped the book in hysterics and not caring for his bizarre behavior, all the while not realizing he has an audience.

"Darien," The young man, blond with blue eyes and approximately standing at 6'1 ft., question his boss, "is the book THAT amusing?" He extract the book from his boss's shaking hand and began analyzing the title and author. "Where's My Soul Mate?, by Usagi Wasaki". His nonchalant expression was later turned into a smiling idiot's grin as he recognized his friend's name. "She is one brilliant author to make you, 'Tokyo's Prince of Ice', lose your composure." He continued grinning.

"Andrew, the author's a 'she'?" It was a moment in time that Andrew felt as the time has stopped. "Andrew…" Darien repeated in a threatening tone.

Darien watch Andrew's face went pale and couldn't help but feel suspicious. After all, Usagi Wasaki is a pen name of the most popular international's author. The identity of the author's unknown and no one knew if Usagi was a male or female. Before he could question his assistant, also childhood friend, the phone rings.

The interruption was gladly welcome with a sweet feminine tone by Darien's secretary. "Mr. Chiba, you have the president on line 1. He said it is an urgent matter."

"It's probably about that scandal you had with Anne Otowaski. I told you not to be involved with her." Andrew commented.

"Who knew she'd go to the press? I did tell her to keep it on the down low." Darien said defensively.

"Oh yes, was that right before she caught you sleeping with her cousin?" Andrew continued, "Or was that right before you told her to get lost?"

Darien glares, intently at his assistant before answering the call. "You may put him through, Amy." He waited for several seconds before hearing his grandfather's voice, still glaring at Andrew. "Grandpa, what a surprise, I was just thinking of you 'bout a moment ago." He lied charmingly.

"Canned it, Darien. You know why I'm calling you! What is this I'm reading about you and Mrs. Anne Otowaski?"

"I see, so you've read this morning's news."

"You're damn right I read this morning's news! I told you to stop your playboy ways and start acting serious!" Andrew took a step back because he could hear the screaming of the president's over the phone. "If only your father was still alive…" Darien heard his grandfather mumbling and the mentioning of his father's death place an ache on his chest. Andrew watched at Darien's expression as it began to sadden and he knew the cause. After all, they've been childhood friends since they were four- about a year before that tragedy.

There was a few seconds of silence through the phone line before the president continuing. "You know, Darien, I am growing old here. I'm not going to live forever…"

"What are you saying, grandpa? You're tougher than two calves!" Darien tried to lighten the mood.

"I want to see you get marry, have grand kids running around," the president continue as if he was not interrupted, "and I want to see you handling the president's position and not have to worry about the company's reputation." His grandfather gave a sigh.

"And you will grandpa…" Darien tried to encourage the president but he wasn't sure how.

"But WHEN, Darien? WHEN will I get to see you get serious? WHEN?"

"Grandpa…"

"No. I have decided…."

-TO BE CONTINUE-

On Next Chapter (Use a deep tone of narration): What has the president's decided that had left such terror on Darien? Who is Usagi Wasaki (as if you didn't know) and how is she related to Andrew? What's the scandal about? And will these questions be answered? Find out on the next chapter of "Can You Repeat That- Part II"

Author's Notes (Revert back to a sweet tone): Okay guys, I don't know if the facts about the population are true… I was just picking numbers, so I don't want to get response like "is it true?", "how'd you know", and etc. I have previously posted three stories, which had great extreme feedbacks (over 300+), but once my computer crashed- I lost my raw copies and had forgotten my pass code, the stories got deleted. So, to return after four years of non writing, my hands were beginning to itch and ideas come and go in my head, I have returned under a new penname and story. I really enjoy putting efforts into this story that I created and trust me I've put a lot of effort… you have no clue how many times I edited it. Originally, I had wanted to create Darien's character more detailed, my first work was seven pages long (seriously) and it had described his past and present self… but then I trashed it because when you put so much details on one character and the same as the next, the story- instead of being a story it has become an autobiography instead. And then my second work, I had started off with Serena instead (the pages were longer) but then I trash that one because I want to keep Serena anonymously until the story opens up a bit more. And behold, this is my third work for this story. I will, however, edit this once the story continue a little more because I am still not happy with the few details but I also didn't want to extend the period of this story any longer. I hope you enjoy this story as much as I do. Please Read&Rate.

-Love always,

Crystal's Pen.

EDIT: Okay, so I made this chapter longer and as an apology for my lateness… I decided I wanted to reedit all my chapters, hopefully I can accomplish this by the end of February +1 more chapter Please accept my apology 3