Black Blood

Chapter One: "The Meeting"

Summary: Cannon Aries is a girl with a hateful life, at least to her. She simply despises her kind, but her adoptive sister, Fate, wants her to live a normal life. So she was transferred to a new school. What school? Seishun Gakuen.

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis. It is rightfully owned by Takeshi Konami. I only owns Cannon, Fate, and some other characters.

Reminders: Um, there might be wrong grammar and spelling…so…please bear with me! I'm only an elementary student…and please, if possible, no flames!

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Cannon winced as Fate pulled her cheeks. "Fate, it hurts…" Cannon said in a whisper, but annoyance was present in her voice. Finally, Fate stopped pulling her cheeks.

"Ca-n-non, you have to make friends today!" Fate persuaded.

"But…friends are worthless…" There was silence, but Fate soon broke it when she punched Cannon on the face hard, really hard.

"Cannon you idiot! Friends are very important in our lives! They're there when they need you and -" Fate was cut off by Cannon's pessimistic comment.

"They can betray you when they want to. They can leave you if they want to. They can drill a deep wound in your heart…"

Fate sighed. Poor Cannon. She's always looking at the dark things in life.

"Ca-n-non, you have to look at the happy things in life!"

"You mean rainbows and unicorns? No thanks, they burn my eyes…" Cannon mumbled, but it was loud enough for Fate to hear.

"Ca-n-non!"

"And you have to stop syllabicating my name." Fate sighed.

"You have to have a normal life." Cannon froze. Normal? Like she'll be something like that.

"Normal…that's boring."

"Don't lie to me. You know you want to be."

Cannon narrowed her eyes. "But what good will it do by just wanting?"

"Cannon!" At least she didn't syllabicate her name. She slammed her hands on the desk, clearly losing her temper.

"I'm a Black Blood, Fate. I'm not like you…you are…what do you call that? normal…"

Cannon's statement made Fate shut her mouth. Cannon rarely takes about her kind. The cursed kind: The Black Blood. Unlike Cannon, Fate was a more common one, a Clean Soul, in other words, a Human.

Cannon sighed. "I'm going to be late. I'll be going now." Cannon made her way to the door.

"Don't forget to make friends!" Fate reminded, but Cannon was already on her way to school. Fate just sighed. "That child…is very lonely."

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"Good morning, my dear students!" The teacher for Class 3-6 greeted the room full of noisy pupils. But the students didn't listen to their teacher's greeting. An irk mark appeared on the teacher's face. "Shut your mouths!" Alas, the class became quiet. The teacher cleared his throat and put his hands on his desk. "Today, we have a new student." Whispers and murmurs flooded the classroom.

The teacher turned to the door. "Miss Aries, please come in." On cue, Cannon walked to the teacher's side. The teacher turned to the blackboard and wrote something down. The letters spelled: Cannon Aries. The teacher faced the class while smiling. "This is Cannon Aries. She's a transfer student."

Yeah, I think they know that, Mr. Obvious. Cannon thought sarcastically. "Nice to meet you…" Cannon said, barely audible. Cannon is very shy to people she doesn't know. Or very distant.

"A shy one, eh? I'm your class adviser, Suzumiya, Makoto. You can call me Makoto-sensei!" The teacher said while laughing loudly while the students sweatdropped.

Cannon nodded in acknowledgement…though she really didn't care.

"Any questions?" Makoto-sensei asked the class. Everyone raised their hands and asked in chorus.

"What are your hobbies?"

"Where did you come from?"

"Do you have a boyfriend?" That question just made her shiver, but another question made her tremble:

"What's your blood type?" Damn that dreaded question. It was good that Cannon didn't snap. That would be bad on her first day of school.

"Miss Aries, please ignore them and go to your seat beside Sir Fuji's." The teacher pointed to a guy with brown-hair who was mysteriously smiling. Cannon nodded and made her way to her assigned chair.

"Hi, I'm Fuji, Shuuseke. It's nice to meet you."

"Cannon Aries…likewise…" Cannon said in quiet whisper.

"You don't talk much don't you?" Fuji asked. Cannon nodded. She didn't like talking. It somehow takes more energy than the average.

"Alright class, lets study, study, and study!" 'Aww's filled the classroom.

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Cannon was staring outside the window, daydreaming. Good thing she noticed it before the Math teacher. She was awfully bad at Math. She's good in any subject, except Math. Well, she's average at History.

Cannon sighed in relief and returned to focusing in the lesson. I need to study…study…

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Cannon fixed her books and pulled out the lunch from her bag when a flash of red dashed in front of her. She blinked. Did something just run with abnormal speed?

Then Fuji patted her back, trying to get her attention. "Hey, Cannon-san, would you like to have lunch with me and my friends?" He offered, still smiling.

Cannon hesitated, but agreed to his offer. She has nothing to do anyway…Then she was dragged by Fuji to the school cafeteria, where Cannon met his friends.

One was eating like a pig, one was making this 'pshhh' sound, one had a racket and was waving his hands while yelling 'burning!', one was writing something on his notebook, and the others were eating normally.

No one noticed Cannon but then Fuji got their attention. "Everyone, please meet Cannon, a transfer student."

"Cannon Aries: age is 15, female; she's in class 3-6, a transfer student from France, and the adoptive daughter of the Aries family." The guy who had thick glasses and was writing notes earlier stated.

Cannon twitched at his detailed information. Well, it couldn't be that detailed. He still didn't mention 'that'.

"Woah, you already got information on her?! But that's a bit shorter than the others…" The guy who was eating like a pig mumbled. The guy with the thick glasses said nothing.

"Oh, so Cannon-san is a transferee here at Seigaku...it's nice of you to invite her to lunch, Fuji." Somehow, the guy who said that gave a motherly aura.

"Nya! Yeah! She's in me and Fuji's class!" A red-headed boy said. For an upperclassman, he sure is childish. Saying 'nya' and all...but Cannon didn't have any problem with that.

"Oh, so you knew her already, Eiji-sempai?" A boy shorter than the others asked.

"Un!" Fuji cleared his throat. Again.

"Oh yes! Sorry about that, Cannon-san. I'm Oishi, the vice-captain of the boy's tennis club." Cannon looked up at Fuji. For an upperclassman...woman...Cannon sure is short...

"Oh yeah, I didn't say that I'm part of the tennis club, sorry." Cannon shook her head, not minding the late information.

"I'm Momoshiro, Takeshi! You can call me Momo-chan!" The introduction carried on until everyone introduced themselves…then they all ate lunch together.

After an hour, the bell rang.

KIN KON KAN KON

Cannon stood up. "Um…I'll be going to class now…" Then Fuji and Eiji stood up too.

"Yeah…I guess we should be going too nya…" Then the three went to there classrooms, followed by the others.

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"Inui, what's wrong? You only have little information on Cannon Aries…It's not like you…" Tezuka asked.

"Yes, well, it's kind of…disturbing…her past…" Inui said in a whisper, but his captain could still hear it. Tezuka looked confused…well…slightly…

The cold wind blew as the two friends stare at the mysterious transferee get out of their sight.

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Me: So? so? Did you like it? I hope you did...I'm sorry for the mistakes I made...

Cannon: Forgive her stupidity...

Fate: Yes...

Me: *sulks in the corner* you all think I'm an idiot...just because I didn't get a bronze medal on the recognition day...what am I saying? I am an idiot...*gloomy aura*

Cannon: What's with her?

Fate: Dunno.