Legend: "This" is speech.

'This' is thoughts.

"This" is words spoken in Chinese. Other ways to distinguish will include small amounts of characters within the text of the story.

Presenting my second OC fic (don't remind me of my first -.-)

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'Why....DID THIS STUPID CAR RIDE TAKE 3 HOURS!!'

Sanzushi Taiya's mind screamed as she sat in the backseat of her mother's car, which was steadily driving along the road. She was bored, and being bored for too long equals an early-coming death for her. But a smile found its way to her rather dry lips. 'But at least I get to enter Seishun Gakuen, one of the best tennis squad schools around this area. It's going to be perfect....'

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(The day or so before....)

"Taiya! You wanted to go to Japan right, and enroll into....Seishun Gakuen Jr High, right?"

"是啊， 妈妈。(that's right, mum). There's a great Tennis Squad School there, and I heard its team and rivals are promising."

"Ah, I see. Well, I booked a flight already-"

"WHAT THE-!"

-CRASH-

"星花 (Xing Hua)... how many times have I told you...TO BE GODDAMN CAREFUL OF BREAKING THINGS AROUND THE HOUSE!!"

"I DIDN'T DO IT ON PURPOSE- MY HAND SLIPPED!!"

"Aiya, anyway, the plane's leaving tomorrow," her mother informed her raging daughter.

What happened next was yet to be expected. "AAARRRGGGHHHH!!! YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME EARLIER!!! I HAVE TO BID FAREWELL TO MY FRIENDS YOU KNOW!!!" The violet-eyed girl was screaming a stream of words even her mother didn't know in Chinese. Maybe due to the velocity of her speech.

"But I thought you would be happy to-"

"I AM GLAD, EXCEPT I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO KNOW A LITTLE EARLIER!! I HAVE FRIENDS YOU KNOW! YEAH, SHOCKING, ISN'T IT?! YOU THOUGHT I NEVER HAD FRIENDS DIDN'T YOU?!"

"Calm down, you know I still have that chloroform you know."

"ARRRGGHH- wait, what did you say?"

"Pack your bags; don't worry you got what you want. You'll be back for high school."

(End)

Taiya was an everyday senior Middle School Student, half-Chinese, half-Japanese. So the typical black-brown hair and the yellowish tinge to her fair skin was normal in her old community; China. The familiar Japanese scenery past by the window as the car made its way along before the road, before the car slowed to a stop and the sounds of her mother removing seat belts jolted her from her stupor.

"Taiya, we're here at our new home."

"Hai." 'She's using my Japanese name...'

Where was her father, one may ask?

Most people would say, in a better place.

Simple as that.

He was a Professional Tennis player who played internationally (she was so proud of him), but he was diagnosed with an unknown genetic sickness. It went to the worst stage, which led to his early death when Taiya was just 7.

He's one of the sole reasons she took up tennis, without intention of abandoning it.

Taiya herself participated in the Nationals over at China during her second year of Middle school, her team earning a place in the runner ups.

'So close, yet so far.'

Losing an important match due to an ankle injury and her lack of stamina, regret had washed over Taiya. She wasn't good enough, she knew it; and it was awkward to admit it.

So there's her goal in Japan.

To get into the Nationals with the tennis team of Seishun Gakuen.

And she'd have to definitely get in.

Picking up her suit cases and her navy-blue tennis bag, Taiya headed inside to her new residence with high spirits. The interior of the house was something to be admired, and Taiya's mother took all the time in the world to do so. Their new house was rather large- larger than they needed (the area they lived in was full of rather large houses, especially the one next door), rather western-styled, but it definitely was a nice, suburban house- something Taiya hasn't experienced living in.

"HURRY UP, YOU LAZY DAUGHTER!!"

Taiya pulled a face.

"Yes, mother!" 'That was so harsh, mum T.T'

Her room was small but cozy. Anyway, it beat the room she had to stay in at her uncles apartment. Sharing a room with a stinking, game-nerd of a cousin was a terrible ordeal she had dealt with. Her father always said she was strong because of it though.

"And anyway, Taiya," Aiki emphasized her name, reminding Taiya (like a slap across the face) that they were to converse in Japanese, "why do you want the boys uniform again?"

Taiya only sighed and shook her head. She explained her idea to her mother ever since she first entered Middle school, and her mum still has this string of hope that Taiya will abandon it and just use the time as though it was a studying exchange trip.

Tough luck; studying over tennis?

You see, Aiki still hopes one day in this 'pretty' year, Taiya would just drop the whole thing and rock up to the shopping mall dressed in a cute mini-skirt, boots and fashionable street-teen clothing while skipping around with her girlfriends and trying to find a boyfriend, taking lots of sticker photos along the way for memories (Taiya was appalled by the mere thought).

But it was settled. The day someone, or many people, find out about her real gender at the school would be the day she came as a girl.

Maybe.

"Ah, you have to go to the principal's office next week to get your schedule," Aiki informed her, her Chinese accent hidden well in her voice. "You know I don't have too much time, so I'm sure you can do everything fine without me. I'll drive you though, since it is your first day."

"Okay."

Taiya glanced at her watch; 2pm; no time for sight-seeing.

"I'm going to go to sleep; wake me up for dinner-"

"YOU'RE NOT SLEEPING THE DAY AWAY, YOU LAZY GIRL!"

"But-"

"GO START PRACTICING YOUR JAPANESE!"

Thudding up the stairs, she fell onto her bed, impatient for school to start. She had it planned out, though half-assedly, her transfer to Japan. All school record copies were changed with her name, and all photos altered from the help of her computer-genius friends. She would juggle studies and tennis together and try her best in Japan, and can finally show her family (and other unimportant people that came across in her life and made fun of her) that she can do what she wants as long as she tried hard enough.

Perseverance is power.

'But although I'm an active person, playing sports and all,' she thought to herself, 'I don't want to trouble myself so badly to death. It's just tennis....'.

Wait, scratch that.

'Hahah, so I'd like to say; I'm just plain lazy whenever I can risk it! ^^'.

Unconscious of it happening, Taiya had slipped into a light doze, before wisps of conversation hummed near her ear. The people in the large house next door were conversing, it seemed, with Aiki.

Their name was like the Fuji's or something?

Taiya glanced from her window while she rested on her bed, and saw a boy and a girl standing there. "Mum better not ask me to go down there and intro-"

"Taiya! Come introduce herself to your new neighbours!" Her mothers voice reached up the stairs and into her ears, making her twitch involuntarily.

'麻烦。。。(troublesome).'

"我来了，我来了 (I'm coming, I'm coming)."

Flipping up from her further-messed-up bed, Taiya sighed and ran her fingers through her tossled locks of shoulder-length black hair.

"...so your own child is going to transfer into Seishun Gakuen too? I see....that is the same school I attend to."

A boy with light-brown hair and a friendly smiling face came into view. His eyes were closed as he smiled; Taiya wondered if he ever opened them.

The boy with the everlasting closed eyes turned and acknowledged her presence and greeted her with a smile, which she didn't return, due to the fact she was standing there gawking like a caveman.

"Oh, let me introduce to you my daughter, Sanzushi Taiya," Aiki said to the threesome at the sight of her daughter with her hair half sticking up.

"Hajimemashite (how do you do), I'm Sanzushi Taiya," she introduced herself in the unfamiliar language, though proud at herself she remembered some useful things. The boy with the smiling eyes(?) nodded and gave a curt bow towards her.

"Good morning, Taiya-san; I'm Fuji Syusuke. Nice to meet you. This is my older sister, Yumiko-nee-san."

Yumiko smiled and shook her new neighbours hand gently. She was unmistakenly beautiful, with the same everlasting smile, well-cared-for hair and a good body to boot. Damn, maybe Taiya really has been hanging around guys too much. -.-

"Pleasure to meet you, Taiya-chan. Come over at any time you feel like― Syusuke and you look about the same age― how old are you?"

"I am 14 years old." 'He wasn't supposed to see me as a girl...! Dammit, plan ruined on day one! How do I explain a guy going to school instead of a girl?...I'll have to act as two people....'

"So, are you going to be attending Seigaku then?" inquired Fuji. Taiya stared dumbly.

"Sei...gaku?"

"Oh, Seishun Gakuen. Seigaku is a shortened form; I apologize for the confusion." Taiya finally registered what he said in her brain.

"Ah- no! No, no, no! That's, eh, going to be my brother! Yes, my brother. I will be attending a, eh..." 'Think...what are the schools that only have girls in them again?...' "An all-girls school!" '我真的是天才！'(I'm truly a genius)'

"Ah, I see..." He looked a little doubtful, and Taiya's heart beat increased to 246bpm. He then let a smile. "That's a shame, isn't it? I could have showed you around."

"Hahah, your younger brother is such a gentleman," Aiki complimented while Fuji just smiled modestly and Yumiko beamed. "Unlike my daughter―so rude and stubborn sometimes!"

"妈！I heard the word 'rude'! Are you speaking bad of me again?!" jabbered Taiya in Chinese. Aiki only gave a smile that said 'what-do-you-think?'. The 14 year old girl only tipped her head in annoyance.

"Well, anyway, I need to go back and, uh..." Taiya cursed her traiterous neurons who refused to work. "...Study...Japanese!"

Giving a curt bow to Yumiko and Fuji (she avoided the stern, steely gaze of her mother!), she speedily entered her house, ran up the stairs and into her room. As though in exaggerrated comic, she miraculously got many locks and drilled them on the edge of the door, before locking the room door shut.

Just for good measure.

"What am I to do...? Now there's a fake pair of siblings that have to live under this roof!" She swore under her breath.

"This is so 麻烦."

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Beep.

Beeeep.

Beeeeeep.

Beeeeeeeeep!

Be-

"SHUT UP!!"

A pillow was thrown at the wall in frustration. Taiya groaned. "I missed by a meter...again. Meh. Time to...get up..."

Several weeks had passed since the Sanzushi family's arrival to Japan. Seishun Gakuen started their second day of school on this coming morning, and she was enrolled, ready to attend as a student.

A male one.

Funny how life runs, hah?

Taiya clicked the top of her small, table clock. The beeping alarm ceased. The clock read 7:00am.

She yawned. "Might as well somehow hide my hair, and get ready..."

7:20am.

Taiya came down the stairs to her family's new kitchen, which gave off pleasant smell of rice and soup. She felt her stomach rumble.

"早安 zao an (good morning)."

"Ohayou," corrected her mother.

'Oh yeah, we have to speak Japanese now.' Taiya thought grumpily. Trying to speak and remember a language you haven't spoke for at least 2 years straight wasn't somethng to fancy. Aiki shook her head in disapproval as she stared down at Taiya's uniform. Taiya was wearing the boys black pants with matching blazer, button to her neck. Her tennis bag was slung over her shoulder.

"什么 (what)?" she said, feeling a twinge of annoyance, before she seated herself down into a comfy cushioned chair.

Aside from the school uniform, Taiya also wore a black beanie which she used to tucked the longer parts of her hair into, leaving the rest to flatten down on the side of her narrow face. Though she possessed a rather girly looking face, her firm and rather prominen jawline, along with her hard-set eyes made her appear much like a determined male. Feeling the strange sensation similar to that of wearing a particularly nasty corset, Taiya shifted uncomfortably, touching her chest lightly with a hand. No signs of a chest here.

"Ouch."

"It's your own fault."

"I know."

Breakfast was forced down with a glass of milk as nerves started to take a toll on her. "Kaa-san, where's the note you signed so I could get a uniform pass?"

"On the fridge."

"Oh, right. Come on, kaa-san! Or I'll be late!" she shouted over her shoulder before sticking her tongue out disgustedly at the feel of the new words rolling out of her mouth.

"Hai, hai."

As she headed straight out the door, her mum behind her-

"Oh, good morning."

There stood Fuji Syusuke of Seishun Gakuen, leaving at the same time she was. What a coincidence. Fuji was dressed in the same attire as herself, although excluding the thin, black beanie. He walked over and smiled.

"My name is Fuji Syusuke; you must be Taiya-san's brother. I don't recall meeting you."

"Ah, sorry! I'm... Sanzushi Taichi. I was, eh, visiting a friend yesterday, the day my sister and my mother came here. I guess you met them," Taiya lied quickly, trying desperately to change her voice so it sounded more male. Taiya could have slapped herself then. But then again, she noted down that Fuji's own vocal cords were very...feminine. Much like Kaida Yuki's!

"Ah...oh, good morning, Aiki-san!"

In despair, Taiya watched her mother just come out wearily to the driveway with a pair of keys. But at the sound of Fuji's voice, her head snapped up and she flashed her toothpaste-ad-model smile at him.

"Good morning, Fuji-kun! My, would you like a lift to school? I'm driving my own son there since it's the first day."

Fuji politely declined the offer. "Actually, would you like me to show you the path to school from here? It's only about 15 minutes away by foot, and it'd be good, just in case Aiki-san doesn't have time in the mornings to drive you? It would also be beneficial to the environment."

He was a bizarre guy. He smiles way too much.

"Why, what an excellent idea! Taiya, go- it's good training for you anyway," ushered her mother. She gave a sweet smile to Fuji. "Thank you for the trouble, Fuji-kun. And you," she stared at Taiya with a sinister smile, "remember to take your studies seriously. Or back to China."

Taiya gulped and nodded.

As the two students of Seigaku walked down the street, Fuji attempted to start a conversaiton.

"So, you are from China?"

"Yeah...came to Japan 2 days before we moved into the house next to yours," she said with a bit of a Chinese accent.

"So which school with Taiya-san be attending? It's a shame you both are going to different schools."

Taiya felt herself laughed weakly, praying he was stupid. "I-I'm not quite sure of the name myself- Japanese is a bit hard for me still, I apologize."

"It's no problem. So what about-"

Taiya broke into a sprint, desperate to get away from his pestering questions. "Let's go to school before we're late, ne?!"

"Ah- Taichi-san, you're going the wrong way!"

First meetings are always weird.

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[Edited on 27th Nov]

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No flames saying it burnt your eyes or that you puked or something, because I frankly don't care after seeing them so many times. -.- But good lord go ahead and point out the errors which I can fix!...excluding 'killing' the OC.