Disclaimer: I do not own Nagasarete Airantou or any other medias from the future. They belong to their respective producers. I own only my OCs and my stories.

'This is not a situation I expect to be in after waking up.' A boy in mid 20s thinks to himself. 'At least I'm not free-falling like usual. Or I was doing that while unconscious. Who knows?'

He, like any other Asians, has black short hair and black eyes behind a pair of glasses. Not very tall with the height around one-seventy, he wears a white lab coat over white shirt, and black jeans. His skin is generic like the others, but paler in comparison and a bit grey under his eyes. And he's floating... in a body of water... somewhere in the sea if the salty feeling in his mouth tells him something.

Normal people would have freaked out and tried to swim up to breathe. He is not normal, not anymore. Doesn't mean he's happy about this.

'Did I have to find Atlantic? As a matter of fact... am I even on Earth, or another plane of existence?' The boy starts thinking about the possibilities of situations... then notices a red liquid coming out of his right arm. 'Huh, a scratch... no, this looks like a direct impact instead of a cut. Probably the fall made one of my wounds open.' Then, from the corner of his left eye, he sees something swimming towards him. And its mouth is opening to reveal its sharp teeth. 'Great, sharks.'

"Someone fell from the sky?" Ikuto asks his housemate in worry.

"Yes. Sashimi also said the figure landed in the dangerous area, where the sharks are actively swimming by." Suzu says as the two run to the boat and they start riding it toward the sea, following the orca.

With worry, the boy also has a little curious: "But it's strange. He fell from the sky instead of being stranded into here?"

Suzu: "Anybody being stranded here is a mystery, Ikuto. Like you and Mei Mei."

Ikuto grimaces a bit while remembering his encounter with the storm before being stuck in Airantou. "Yeah... I hope we can get to him before those sharks find him first."

Unfortunately, when they reach the place, the sharks have already circled around the spot, with the water in the middle having bubbles and splashes coming out of the surface constantly. Sashimi rushes to the hungry sharks and plans to save the person, however, when she is nearly there, something sprouts out of the sea surface. That something then uses the sharks' heads as pads to jump and avoid the biting from them. In the last one, the person manages to land on the orca's head, and he turns around and pulls out his revolvers and shoots into the sea, suing the sharks away. When the danger is no more, the person allows himself to relax and pats the orca while thanking her for showing up just in time.

Ikuto and Suzu are shocked at the display of the person. Somehow he survived the attacks of the sharks, and jumped on their heads like they're nothing but playthings, while evading the bites with no problems. But the most important part, at least to Ikuto, is that: he's no longer the only male of the island.

When the boat reaches the orca and the person, Ikuto asks the person: "Hey, are you okay?"

The person turns to the boat for the duo to see how he looks like, and smiles: "I'm okay. Those sharks are vicious, but I can manage. Can i get on the boat, since standing on her is not polite of me."

Suzu nods: "Please do." After he sits on the boat and apologizes to Sashimi, who just happily screeches back, Suzu asks: "May we ask for your name?"

The boy's smile is still there as he answers: "Call me Kuro. Thanks for coming here so fast."

Ikuto just nervously comments: "I don't think we have helped you anything if you can..."

The boy explains: "Even if I could sue them away, I will float there for a while, or try to swim aimlessly. You being here is a big help for me."

Ikuto just scratches his head at that. "Right, I was fished up by Suzu... oh, I forgot. My name is Touhouin Ikuto, and she is Suzu."

The girl bows to greet him, as Kuro nods back. "Nice to meet you too... I don't want to be rude, but why don't you have a last name, Suzu?" Her smile falters a bit, causing Kuro to immediately apologize: "Sorry. If it's too sensitive, then..."

"It's alright." The girl interrupts the newcomer. "Most, if not all of us, have a last name. Though, you don't have one as well."

"Ah... for that... Kuro is not my real name. But it's for the better, since my real one is a bit hard to pronounce."

Ikuto narrows his eyes in suspicion. "Not your real name?"

Kuro: "I'm sure you won't like pronouncing a Vietnamese name." That gains him an 'ah' from Ikuto. "Anyway, based on the language we're speaking, we're in Japan, right?"

Ikuto: "More or less."

Kuro tilts his head in confusion. "What do you mean?"

Ikuto sighs. "You won't like it, but we're in an isolated island, name Airantou. I have been stranded here after a shipwreck, and I couldn't pass the whirlpool surrounding the island."

Kuro takes a small moment to process... then shrugs. "Not the first time I dealt with that."

When the boat reaches the land, the three step out and say goodbye to the orca. Suzu then leads the two to Obaba's house, at least that's how Suzu calls the woman. During the walk Kuro notices the gazes from the girls here, but he dismisses it and observes the village. He has a little suspicion that the village has been isolated for at least a century, considering he hasn't encountered anything that's electricity. And that is further proved to him when he enters this Obaba's place.

Once the greeting is done and everyone has taken a seat around the table, Obaba and Suzu help each other in explaining the situation to the newcomer. After that, Kuro tries to summary: "So the first crew was travelling back to Japan but encountered a storm, which sent them to this place. With no way to return, they made this place their new home. But a few years ago, all men took their boats and had a contest on the sea, but another storm washed them off and they have never returned. And so now, to this point, mister Touhouin and I are the only male HUMAN in this place?"

He receives a nod from the oldest woman in the group. Kuro groans, then takes a sip of tea to calm himself down. "This is not going to be fun..."

Ikuto sympathizes with him: "I know it's hard to take, but that's what happened. You will see crazier things in here."

"Like the crowd right behind us now?" All of them look outside to see nearly everyone standing there gazing at the conversation.

Obaba then smirks at the newcomer: "If I'm right, you are old enough to marry, right?"

Kuro eyes her suspiciously: "And may I ask why you ask that?"

Obaba then stands up and walks to the door. Immediately Ikuto recognizes what she's planning to do. "Don't do..."

"THE TOURNAMENT REOPENS FROM NOW, GIRLS!"

"Why am I get pulled into this?" Kuro sighs as he stands before the girls, who are preparing themselves to give their best to chase him. He asks back the elder: "Madam, is this really necessary?"

"It's for the future of this place!" She just smirks back at him, causing him to groan a bit. "You still remember the rules?"

Kuro: "Do not get caught until the first star appears. That's all I need to know."

The smirk's still there, as Obaba thinks: 'That boy is thinking this is easy, like Ikuta. Let's see if he can outrun the girls.' "We will give you about three seconds to run ahead first..."

And to everyone's surprise, Kuro then smirks and moves his left hand up, curls up a few times before he taunts all of them: "I don't need three seconds. Give me your best shots, girls."

Considering he's just 3 meters away from the first line, the girls immediately jump on him, with him showing no movements at all. And when one of the girls' hand is a centimeter away from him, he suddenly disappears, making the girls fall on top of each other. Then, a 'thud' can be heard, as the girls look further forward to see Kuro standing in a new location, with a little dust around his feet. "Sorry girls, but you need to be better than that." And with that, he runs away, with each step being 5 meters away fron each other. With that taunt, the girls give chase again...

Ikuto, once again, is shocked that the newcomer could outrun the girls with zero problems. "No...way... Am I really that weak? I almost lost in a first few seconds..."

"Not that you are weak, I'm just too strong for everyone." The boy jumps up in surprise, and turns to see Kuro sitting next to the table drinking his previous cup of tea.

Obaba is also surprised as well. "Wait a second. You were just running just there. How did you return here so fast?"

He just shrugs. "I just have to make myself disappear into the forest, then teleport myself back here."

Ikuto's shocked face is still there. "But... but... you were literally... and teleport?"

Kuro just smirks at his facial expression. "Just come inside and take the drink first."

Once the other two have sit down, Obaba asks: "Do you think the girls will find out that you return here too soon?"

Kuro: "After-images of myself have stationed in a few places, so I won't believe so."

Ikuto: "How... how fast have you run?"

Kuro: "Mach 200. *Laughs after seeing Ikuto's face*"

Obaba doesn't understand that, but she gets the answer after Ikuto shouts: "Two hundred times the speed of sound? What are you?"

Kuro just shrugs. "I will say, but not now. Don't want to ruin the fun, yet."

After three hours, the first star shines up, meaning the tournament is over. The girls return disappointedly, then they shout in surprise that Kuro is talking with Ikuto while helping him with some of his old stuffs. Only Suzu is relieved that Kuro managed to get out.

Obaba just sighs. "He did manage to fool all of you... Kuro, it's a good opportunity to get a girlfriend in your age. Why didn't you take this chance to get one?"

Kuro stops a bit and answers: "I have just been here for a moment and i don't know everyone. Also, this tournament is a bit forceful, so I don't like using this as an excuse. And..." He stops a bit right there, then gestures Ikuto to sit next to Obaba, who's sitting on the doorstep of her house. Kuro then raises his left hand up for everyone to see what's in it. Two identical white rings are placed in his index and ring finger, with a sapphire ring in his middle finger. "This is the last reason." He ends his explanation there.

Ikuto just narrows his eyes there. "I have asked you about that, but you kept dodging it."

Kuro apologizes: "Sorry, but I want to explain this one time only. At least for a while."

Obaba and everyone else are confused at that, as the elder asks back: "Those are just rings. What is so special about... them..." And slowly and slowly she understands...

And Kuro draws the last straw as he pulls out two photos while saying: "I'm not as innocent as mister Ikuto here."

Chapter 1 end!

Well, another story. Cannot hold back after reading the manga again for YEARS!

I saw that there's too few of this fanfiction, so I decided to make a new one. Hope you guys like it.

For now, just stop here. Don't want to ruin too much fun.