User:Oishii Pillows/Orange juice (manga)

Orange Juice is a shoujo romance comedy manga series created by the Oiishi Pillows company.

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Story takes place in an alternate universe where Sakura Konoe, a descendant of the Konoe clan, travels all around the world to find the golden treasure of all the universe, the Heart of Hearts, in order to restore perfect peace and order to her clan's kingdom. She travels to the Darthmandue kindom, only to find out the Heart of Hearts has been transferred to a human soul in order to protect it from evil henchmen trying to snatch it and use it for their own purposes and means. Sakura meets a boy named Kaito Suzumiya on the way to Darthmandue and quickly befriends him and his company, Azuma Sakai, Kazuki Sato and Rin Hagishiyama. As Kaito and his friends were running away from a crazed troll, Sakura was just in time to transfer some of her spirit energy to Kaito to be able to defeat the outnumbered troll. Later on in the series, after going through challenges, drawbacks, and trap doors leading to dungeon mazes, the party was able to reach the soul containing the Heart of Hearts, Kenichi Yamamoto, often called "Naruto" for his strange yellow and spiky hair. Sakura talks to Kenichi alone and found out that the Heart of Hearts found within himself was only a duplicate of the original to protect it, even sacrificing himself in order for it not to be found. The true holder the the treasure was, in fact, Kaito Suzumiya. He did not know or was informed by anyone and no one knew except for Kenichi and Sakura. Sakura was told not to tell anyone especially Kaito for if told, the Heart of Hearts will be transferred to another soul leaving Kaito dead. Sakura must now win Kaito's heart without kaito being aware in order to obtain the Heart of Hearts. Azuma grows deeply jealous of Kaito for he has gradually grown feelings for Sakura, in spite of his apathetic attitude at fisrt. The only antagonist in the series is Sally Makimura, who later finds out about the treasure within Kaito. She tries to win Kaito's love, being one of his childhood friend. She joins their party not informing anyone about her feelings towards him a first, but eventually opens up to Azuma. Azuma helps Sally win Kaito's love, while Sally helps Azuma win Sakura's love. In the end, Azuma and Sally fail to do so for the Heart of Hearts was transferred to Sakura and the Konoe clan's kingdom was saved.