Ushio's POV

Ushio Okazaki walked slowly to school, dreading every second her senior year would bring. She was attending the highschool where her parents met again this year, when she was little, she was always asking to here how mommy and daddy met. (That and 'where did I come from?') But as she grew older, the thought of the lovey dovey highschool romance seemed less and less intriguing.

Although she inherited her mother's brown hair and eyes, she was defiantly a 'daddy's girl' when it came to her personality. She had always had that delinquent attitude that seemed to grow with age. She kept her hair manageable, no bangs, about shoulder length in layers so that some of it was shorter. Unlike both her parents, who had perfect vision growing up, she had needed glasses by the age of 9, and now wore brown rimmed glasses that meant business.

She walked nonchalantly up the path to her first class, if her parents had been telling the truth, this path is where they first met. It was just like in the stories, abandoned except for her, with the sakura petals falling all around.

She kept walking at her steady pace, barely noticing the heavy footsteps coming up behind her. Probably just someone late to class like she was. At least, she barely noticed them until they crashed right into her, causing her to fall down.

"Hey!" She yelled, sitting up and turning to see a boy sitting on his butt rubbing his head. His hair was dyed blonde, complementing his green eyes. It was cut short and out of his face with bangs that swooped up.

"Ow..." He muttered, glancing at her. "That really hurt~" he reached out and grabbed his bag and hers that had fell from her hand. He stood up, dusted himself off, and offered his hand to help her up. She stared at him for a moment.

"Then you shouldn't have come running up that hill like a madman." She mumbled, taking his hand and allowing him pull her up. They stood there for a second, staring at each other. The wind picked up, and caused petals to fall off the trees that surrounded them, a few strands of hair from ponytail pulled loose to frame her face.

"Sorry about that, my name's Kyo Sunohara."

Kyo's POV

I stared at the girl I just nearly ran over, she had light brown hair and eyes framed by light brown glasses and no bangs, she was pretty. She stared at me in annoyance. Probably because I had just guaranteed that she'd be late to class. Bookworms always hated being late, but when she didn't pull her hand away, I held on. Enjoying this brief moment of peace. The wind picked up, causing her hair to pull from its ponytail and a mountain of petals to come flying towards us.

"Sorry about that," I said, my mouth moving without me, "I'm Kyo Sunohara." A brief look of recognition flashed through her eyes before disappearing. Which was crazy, I'd never even seen this girl before. But then again, when did I ever go to the library?

"Ushio Okazaki," she said irritability, "shouldn't you be getting to class or something?" The annoyance in her voice caused me to pull my hand away and smile, guilty.

"Sorry. What about you?"

"What about me?" Ouch...

"Oh, um. Sorry for making you late to class." As if on cue, the bell began to ring.

"No big deal," she said, taking her bag from me and pushing back the loose strands of hair just to have them file back in her face, "I was going to skip anyway, now I have an excuse." That threw me for a loop.

"You? Skip? Really?" I asked, no doubt I sounded stupid, but I was mildly shocked.

"Yeah, wanna come with?" She asked as if she did this all the time, which she possibly did. It took me a second to notice she was walking away.

"Uh, sure." I called jogging to catch up. She turned around and began walking backwards.

"Oh no! Don't you start with the running again! I make it a personal goal to only fall on my knees once a day, but if your good, I'll make an exception!" She yelled, laughing as she turned back around and began running up the hill. I laughed and ran after her to skip our first class.

'I'll make her go to the second one' I thought, 'I'll tell the teacher I bumped into her and helped her to the nurses office.' After all, wouldn't want to get in too much trouble.

Ah, yes. Young love... It's hardly as romantic as Tomoya and Nagisa's first meeting, but it has its own appeal. The other chapters will be longer but I really wanted to focus on the main character development and meeting right here. Plus I'm lazy, hehe. Tell me if you want something in particular to happen by leaving me a review.

Plus I'm going to say right now that the children of the female characters will be keeping their mother's last name to avoid confusion even though the characters did get married.

I'd also really love suggestions for the names, I don't know that many. It can't be a name that was used in the original a anime, and please tell me if it's gender specific or if it can be used for both male and female. Help me out here! I'll get you a KFC cookie! Please?

Anyway, have a nice day! B-)