*(If you don't know the US high school system freshman = 9th grade, sophomore = 10th grade, Junior = 11th grade, Senior = 12th grade.)

Amu POV

I took one quick look in the mirror and adjusted my skirt. All right! Today is my first day as a *sophomore! I grabbed my bag and ran down stairs. Dad was sitting at the Dining room table with his usual mug of coffee and the newspaper.

"Morning Dad!" I said cheerfully as I skipped over to give him a kiss on the cheek.

"Morning Honey. How's about you join the Judo club this year for your loving father?" He said and looked at me hopefully like a dog you were just about to give a bone.

"Not a chance." I said smiling.

"Eh, didn't hurt to try."

And with that I walked through our family's dojo and over to where my shoes were. Yes if you haven't figured it out now my father owns a dojo. And of course he wants me to take over when he goes and kicks the bucket. As you could tell every day I started a new school year he has been urging me to join some form of martial arts club. It doesn't make it any better that when I was around the age of 8 he took me training in the woods for 4 straight years and I came home the manliest girl you have ever seen. Sadly my mom died when I was only 2. She was in a car wreck and the vehicle she hit was an 18-wheeler. So when dad wanted me to do martial arts I had no say in the matter being too young and there was no woman's point of view on it since mom was gone. I managed anyway and so here I am. I jumped over our front gate and made an amazing flip in the air ending with a perfect landing.

"Better not do that at school."

I turned around and saw my good friend Tadase. He was a girly guy and well not very strong with a side of he smells like perfume. Yeah so it's usually my job to make sure he doesn't get beat up on the way to school. I have done that ever since I met him in 8th grade. Sigh, still the same Tadase. How the hell is he going to get a girl like this?

"Good point, thanks." I said as we turned on the sidewalk and headed straight for school. Once we got there I just remembered something crucially important. Today was the day we all get to go sign up for after school activities and in his attempt to seem more masculine than you average kitten he decided to join, of all things, the Tae-kwan-do club. And of course to give him some hope I am supposed to go with him. Yay me. So to take my mind off THAT, I started friendly conversation with him about getting a girl friend. We were right in the middle of a heated debate about why everyone thinks he is gay when I realized we were at school, standing right in front of the clubs table with the captain staring right at me.

"What's you're problem." I asked him bluntly. Yay to my cool and spicy antics I picked up in middle school.

Then out of nowhere the captain walked right up to me picked me up and announced to the crowd of eager school kids "This girl is going to join our club and be the best!" With a smirk on his face like a Cheshire cat. The crowd applauded like they had just seen me swallow fire and burp it back up.

"What are you talking about!" I yelled in his ear.

"I know that you have trained in the forest with your dad and that you are stronger than even me, you're just not showing it." And once again he smirked. How did he know? I have never told anyone that, except my best girl friend that moved away when I was 9. How did he know? Who is this guy? He drug me to a empty class room in the school, picked me up and set me on a desk.

"Now listen here Amu, the Tae-kwan-do club is not the most popular club in the world and the principal told me that if we don't win a competition this year he will make us disband our club. Now I don't want that, so you're going to need to help me out here, because I know you're little secret. Now you don't want every guy in school to know about that, do you?"

I shook my head furiously back and forth.

"Good now I want you to be in the club room after school or I will send some one to get you by force. You agreed so there is no way out now. See you after school!" He said, flashing another smirk. After meeting my eyes with a heated glare he left. Leaving me stunned and confused.

"What the hell just happened?" I turned to get my things and leave when I realized that this classroom was my homeroom. And there was a piece of paper in my pocket that wasn't there before. I took it out and looked at it curiously.

Dear Amu,

Good luck with your studies ; )

I hate that guy whoever he is.

After school

"Amu are you going to sit under that desk all day?" Tadase asked me obviously worried for my sanity.

"Yes, just until that bastard leaves school." I replied bitterly looking from door to door hoping he was bluffing when he said he would use force. But sure enough a big scary and hairy guy came in the room and asked for me. Tadase the little traitor pointed towards me. The big guy came over and went to grab my legs. I screamed and kicked him in the nuts, making a break for the door. As I made it to the door a chick jumped in the way.

"Don't make this hard on your self Amu" She snapped at me. I didn't care and Tornado Kicked to her head throwing her off guard and then Side Kicking her to her stomach throwing her backwards and sliding into the wall on the other side. I ran down the hallway towards the front entrance. But yet again another person was blocking the way. So I turned around and made a break for the back entrance where the gym was. As I rounded the corner another girl jumped out and kicked me in the stomach. It was very sloppy and I caught her foot and flipped her with ease and headed for the roof. I got there and lost them all. Stopping to catch my breath I noticed something shiny above me. I turned quickly and faced the perpetrator. The vice captain jumped down from the higher part of the roof and jumped on me. I flipped him over and sent him rolling. He got up and jumped me again, this time using handcuffs to cuff my hands together and the rest of the club jumped me from behind. I was caught, like a mouse in a trap. So I gave up like any mouse would do when they are in impending danger. So I let them drag me to the club's room, where their captain stood waiting.

"Ikuto we got her. It took the entire club to bring her down, but we did it." The guy who jumped me when I was heading for the front of the school said. Damn these people are coordinated.

"Good work guys. Now go shower, you smell like a pig pen in the winter." Ikuto, the captain said ever so coolly to his club members.

"Yea whatever brother. You owe me big." The girl who I kicked into the wall said. Obviously she was his sister. I made a mental note to keep clear of her. As soon as they all left he addressed me.

"You are hard to get a hold of, no?"

"People tell me so."

A/N

Here's another story! Yay! Well here we are in the adventures of karate and stuff. This is new for me so there WILL be mistakes in martial arts stuff. I mean I took tae-kwan-do for three years and got to be a first-degree black belt, but that was like a long time ago. Sooo yea. Review please! 3

-Slinky762