Disclaimers: No I don't own POT (Prince of Tennis) so don't sue me, I need money for myself.

A/N: Please don't flame me too bad. This is my first time writing a fic on POT. So if there's anything wrong with the characters of POT, please feel free to tell me. I just thought that there should be more of POT fics, so I decided to write one. I know it's not good, but please bear with me. If you have any info on ANY of POT characters please email me at: No Ojosama

Ch 1: A fresh start.

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"Mommy… sniff why mommy sniff … sniff… why did you leave me? sniff"

A short brown hair little girl cry out as the coffin is being taken away. People surround her and a man who appears to be her father. They all try to comfort her but she continues to cry standing next to her father. The man seems emotionless; he doesn't appear to be sad at the mere fact that his wife just passed. As the car starts, she runs after it reaching out her little hands for it. She ran pretty fast for a little kid. The adults ran after her trying to catch her. She trips and falls to the ground still reaching out her hand.

"Mom!" Nari has her hand in the air reaching out for something. It had been six years since her mother's passing. She was eight now she's fourteen.

"Nari? Are you ok?" Her cousin Maeko asked her while still in bed.

"I'm sorry Maeko, just had bad dream that's all" Nari didn't realized it, but she has been crying in her sleep. She sat up looking over to Maeko and smile.

"I'm sorry, I woke you"

"It's alright, go back to sleep, we start 2nd Semester tomorrow"

"Ok, Oyasumi-nasai, Maeko-chan"

"Oyasumi"

They both lay back down to their bed to try and sleep again. Nari however was still awake. She felt that her cheeks were wet so she wiped it away.

'I'm crying in my sleep again. It's been five years already since I last dreamed of that event and cried in my sleep.'

sigh

'Best to go to sleep now, don't wanna be late for my first class tomorrow.' With that, Nari closed her eyes to try and go to sleep. Tomorrow she would start a new life for herself and rid a bad past.

In the morning, Nari woke up before anyone else. Well she was haft awake through the night anyways. She tiptoed down to the kitchen to make breakfast for everyone.

"Ohayo Nari- chan" Maeko walked down stair to the kitchen a few minutes later.

"Gomen ne, did I wake you again?"

"No. I always wake at this time. What are you making, Nari-chan?"

"Oh, just scrambled eggs and toast."

"Yum…."

Nari chuckled a bit and hands a dish to Maeko. She made two more for her aunt and uncle and walked over to the table.

"Maeko-chan? How is Seishun Gakuen like?" (Yes, that's the name of school. Seigaku is the team's name)

"Well, it's a good school. We have a great Tennis team. Both the guys team and the girls teams have won championship title."

"Really? Cool. I love tennis!" She loves tennis because it was her mother's favorite sports. Her mother was the one who taught her how to play when she was 7. She loved it ever since then, and would always practice it in her room.

"I know, I think you'll make the Girl's Tennis team for sure." Maeko smile at Nari and she smile back.

"We'll see"

"Ohayo"

"Ohayo"

Five minutes later, everyone was up and got together at the table to enjoy breakfast together. They talked and laughed like a real family. Nari smiled and ate her breakfast happily. She hasn't felt like she belonged to a real family ever since her father remarried just after two years of her mother's death and she never forgave him for that.

Her step-mom, Midori, was mean to her. Even though she doesn't have kids of her own, she'd always despise Nari for some unknown reason. Nari was beaten by her almost everyday and everytime, Madori would get away with an excuse. In school Nari always get into trouble with other kids. This gave Madori more reasons to beat on her. At age twelve she was in a gang, and would always fights with other gangs. When she turned fourteen, she became the leader of that gang. One day, Nari came home early from being kicked out of class and had been in a fight with another other gang. She sees her Madori flirting with another man, but she didn't care and walked past them into the house. Her step-mom quickly said good-bye to the man and followed Nari in the house. Midori warned Nari that if she ever tells her dad anything. She'll beat her really bad. But, Nari just ignored her and walked away. But Midori seeing the condition Nari was in knew that she had been fighting. So she rose up her hand to smack Nari but Nari grabbed it and warned her if she did that she would pay. Madori slapped Nari with the other hand instead. Nari slapped her back and told her "NEVER" to do that again and walked off heading her room. Madori's cheek ache and she got pissed; she chased after Nari and grabs a hold of her shirt. Nari turned around to face her and was pushed against the wall really hard. She slammed into the wall hard and the freshly made and slightly closing wound she got from fighting earlier with someone in the other gang split opened again. It made it even deeper and it started to bleed a lot. Her shirt was beginning to soak with blood. Nari endured the pain but she couldn't stand it any longer so she attacked her step-mom, pinning her to the ground and beating her like she was a punching bag of some sort. Her father came home a few minutes later and saw what was happening and grabbed her. She passed out a bit after, due to blood lost. She was send to the hospital to be treated; she got 12 stitches on the opened wound. It healed after a few days but it still left a scar on her back. Her father sends her to Japan to live with her uncle and aunt, a few days after she got back from the hospital.

"We'll leave now, Ja-ne" Nari and Maeko both left the house and walked to school. They walked along the sidewalk talking and laughing like they were sisters. Other students passing by think they were siblings if not very close friends.

"Maeko-chan, I think I'll try out for the guys team."

"NANI?" Maeko screamed out real loud stopping to look at Nari and the other students walking on the sidewalk looked at her like she was crazy. She quickly covered her mouth with a puzzled look at Nari.

"Don't worry, Maeko-chan, it's a joke" She giggled and smile sticking out her tongue at the surprised Maeko and kept walking forward

"Hmmm…. That's hard to believe. It makes me more worry about you" Maeko gave Nari a questionable look.

Nari laughed, Maeko is such a right name for her. Maeko is an honest and a good student. She never seems to tell lies and is the top of her class. Her name Maeko meaning 'honest child' fitted her perfectly.

"We're here" Maeko and Nari stopped at the big school. Nari stare at the big gate in front the school and there's a sign that says "Seishun Gakuen". She was getting weird looks by some of the students there as she walks in. She understands why, since she doesn't really look Japanese and looked more like a foreign exchanged student.

"Nari-chan, I'll take you to the main office first and then I'll show you around"

"Arigatou Maeko-chan"

"Here's your class room" Maeko showed Nari everywhere and now they are at Nari's class.

"Well, Nari-chan, I have to go to my class. Ja" Maeko left Nari and walked down the hall. As soon as Nari steps in the class, all eyes were placed upon her. She felt a bit uneasy having so much eyes looking at her.

"O…Ohayo mina-san" she tries to be polite and greet everyone. Only a few responded to her greeting.

"Class, we have a new student, Miss Sasaki Nari. She'll be with us the rest of this year. She just moved here from America. So please be nice to her ok?" The teacher said as Nari walk to an empty seat. What luck? She is neighbor with Kaidoh. (Snake)

hiss

"Umm… hi" Nari smile at him but he ignored her. If someone did this to her back in America, that person would've been to the nurse's office. Since this is a new place, and since she wanted to be good and start a new life, she ignored it. She turned back to face the teacher as he begin his lesson. He asked plenty of questions but Nari was the only one who provided any answers.

"Looks like we got another Sasaki's geek at our school" Nari heard one of the girl in class said.

"Yea, they look alike too. They look like dorks" The two girls laughed themselves out at their own jokes. Nari ignored them; she didn't think they were worth her time. The only reason she knew the answer was because she had already taken 8th grade before. She didn't pass because she had a bad school record and missed too much class. The class ended with Nari becoming the teacher's new favorite student.

Ring

"Ok class, do pages 3-6 for homework," The teacher said to the students as they leave, none of his student seems to care except for Nari. She bid the teacher good-bye and exit. The two girls from before 'accidentally' knocked her bag to the floor and her books disperse.

"Opps. Gomen" They walked off giggling to each other. Normally, Nari would've beaten the crap out of them right then and there but she wanted to change. Oishi saw the incident so he walked over to help her pick up her books.

"Arigatou" Nari said taking her last item and puts it in her bag. She finally looked up to see who had helped her. A nicely built young man stands in front of her smiling. He has a buzz cut and two pieces of hair on the side of his forehead (Ya know how he look like) and has brown eyes. He was cute and looked very handsome in his uniform.

"Arigatou" She said again to him.

"No big deal" Oishi looked at the girl with golden brown and red strings of highlights on her hair. She doesn't appear to be Japanese because her eyes are a light browns almost the same color as her hair. The shape of her eyes however did make her have a resemblance to a Japanese person. Her eyes seem to draw him to them making him look deep into her eyes as if he's searching for her soul. He blushed slightly after realizing what he was doing and turn a bit to the side not wanting her to see him like that.

"Are you new here? A transfer student maybe?"

"Yea, I just moved here to live with my aunt and uncle." She smiled at him and he glances over, again, it draws him to her. His head seems to turn back to face her on its own free will. He tries hard not to blush and properly introduce himself to her.

"Konichiwa! I'm Oishi Syuichiroh" He extended his hand out to ask for a handshake. Nari gave him a puzzled look and finally takes his hand.

"Yoroshikun. I'm Sasaki Nari" Just as they got to a good start of getting to know each other. The tardy bell for the next class sounded off.

Ring. Ring

"Well, I have to go I'm late to my next class. Ja"

"I'm late too, Ja-ne"

They both went their separate ways. Oishi turned back to see where she was heading. He sees that she entered a classroom with a sign that says "2-b"; he smiled knowing she's a second year and headed to his class. Little did they know two pairs of eyes were watching them with anger rising every minute that past by.

A/N: Sooooooo……… Whatcha think about it? hopes it's good well, I did my best, and I know I didn't mention a lot about the POT characters, please bare with me. I'm getting there… THANX for reading. PLEASE REVIEW… I will need 5 reviews for me to continue this story… Gomen…I can't continue writing if no one reads this. What's the point in writing, if no one will read it?