A/N (of lingfeng)- This account is a two person account and so Seigaku's point of view will be done by yours truly, Lingfeng. Hyoutei's POV will be done by my friend who does not wish to disclose her previous username.

more A/N (other) - yeah, two people. so sorry if the style shift (if there is one) is too drastic. hmm..what else? oh yeah. PoT does not belong to us, NO DUH. when ling said Seigaku POV and Hyoutei POV, she means that she gets the female POVs, and i get the male POVs. (yay! waves atobe flag in air). I feel kind of guilty for doing an OC fanfic...so this is my first one. and DEAL WITH IT PEOPLE on a more serious note, it'd be nice to get some reviews, so we would know what to improve. :D

AND ON TO THE STORY! ...?

note: if this chapter does not interest you, move on to the next one. :D you just lose slight perspective, but that's it.

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Beginning

Wow, Seigaku looks so cool! If only Nii-chan came here with me… I miss my brother already. Oh well, I'm sure he's having a good time at Hyoutei Gakuen. Hiro-chan, or rather Hiro-kun, is showing me around the school. I'll be in none of her classes because I'm a year younger, so I'm scared of getting lost. I still don't understand why she insists on passing off as a boy in this school. She's not ugly; actually, she's really pretty.

Anyways, she showed me to my classroom and practically shoved me in there.

"Hiro-chan, you don't have to push me! Besides I can get in there myself."

"Yes, yes, Kiyoko-chan. Just don't get into trouble on the first day okay? Aunty will be upset if you do. I'll see you during lunch. Bye." With that, she left. I turned around and saw the whole female population looking at the door with heart shaped eyes… These people are crazy. I wonder what Hiro-chan would say if I told her she is very popular with the females in my class… She'd probably blush and say it's nothing to be proud of. Sometimes, I wish I am as humble as she is. I'm too loud for my own good sometimes. I guess Tomo-chan is rubbing off on me.

I took a seat beside the door so I would be the first one out when the bell rings for lunch. I always hated the first day of school. It's so depressing to have no one to talk to. Well, I have Hiro-chan and Tomo-chan, but they're in different grades. This stinks…

The teacher came in and went to his desk to get his notebook thing to call role. He went on and on and the students raised their hand when they were called. Finally he reached my name and asked, "Is there a Keiyoshi Kiyoko in here?" I raised my hand and sunk into my chair.

"Since you are new to this school, why don't you introduce yourself to everyone?" I sunk even lower into my seat before standing up and walked to the front of the room.

If only Kirei-kun's parents never invited my parents to their blasted party, none of this would have happened.

"Natsui, Kiyoko! Come here. Your mother and I want you to see the project that we just finished before we go to Kireida's(1) party. It's the new tennis game that we were working on." I went to my parents' study and sat down on the couch. Natsui came in behind me with a sliding puzzle in his hands. Does he ever get bored of those? I mean he can finish one in like, 2 minutes with less than 200 moves. It makes me mad that it takes me more than 500 moves and 8 minutes to finish one. He just sat down with his eyes still glued to his puzzle.

"Like your father said, we finished the project that we've been slaving over. This stack of paper is the rules and regulations and we want you to be the ones to test it out and find the kinks that we haven't been able to get. The tennis team will be made of 4 players so you might need Hiro-chan and Hayashi-kun to help you if they are willing. We'll see you two tomorrow morning if we don't get back in time for your curfew tonight. Good night." With that said, Mom and Dad kissed us and left, not knowing that that would be the last time they would see us.

When they left, I started reading the stack of paper given to us and was surprised at how detailed and challenging the game was. Sadly, they didn't come up with a name for it. After two hours of going through the document, I realized that Natsui was no longer by my side. Stupid Nii-chan. He was supposed to help me read the papers. Argh.

"Nii-chan! Where are you? You're supposed to help me with this game!" I got up and went to find him. I saw him walking down the staircase, so I assumed he came out of his room. "What were you doing that was so interesting anyways? All you ever do is those puzzles! Don't you have a better way to live? Why aren't you talking? Living with you is so frustrating!"

"Since you're done talking, I'll have you know that I was annoying Kirei-chan on AIM. Although, there was no reply so I started playing with text twist on my palm pilot. And it's no easy task living with a human monkey either." At that point, the door bell rang. We looked at each other and then down the hallway. Both of us were clearly thinking the same thing: who would ring the doorbell at 9 at night? Our parents both have keys, so it couldn't be them. And, all of our friends who tend to come over would either call first or have the key to the back door. One of our two servants went and opened the door for us. The person must be important, for the servant came running to us.

"Young Miss and Young Sir, there is a policeman at the door asking for your presence." Mika said hurriedly.

"Okay… And I told you many times already Mika, call me Ki-chan and him, Nat-kun. We've known each for forever. Okay then, come on Nii-chan. Let's go!" I said while dragging Nii-chan behind me. I came to a dead stop when I saw a very grave looking policeman.

"Konbanwa mister. How can my brother and I be of assistance?"

"Sorry to interrupt your evening, but do you happen to recognize these people?" With that, he took out a very familiar wallet and opened it to the picture of our parents standing side by side on their tenth anniversary.

"Yes sir, these are my parents and that is my dad's wallet. But how did you come across this wallet? Dad would be very worried. Thank you for bringing it here. Is this all you need?" I said to the unfamiliar policeman. Nii-chan was staring at the wallet and then I realized that there was a mark of red on the front of it. It looks like dried paint but our parents don't have any around the house.

"I suggest you and your brother take a seat before I tell you anything." Nii-chan and I sat down on the couch in the living room obediently. We stared quizzically at him. "I'm sorry to tell you that Mister and Misses Keiyoshi were in a car crash today at 7:28. We were able to respond to the emergency immediately, however, by the time we arrived, your father was already dead and your mother was taking her last breaths. Her last words were 'Please, anyone, tell our children to make the game known. I know they will make us proud.' I suppose you two are able to make sense of that. Sadly after that, she lost consciousness and died eight minutes later." Nii-chan and I stared at him, paralyzed from shock. I couldn't believe that our sweet parents had died.

"It can't be true!" I screamed before blacking out.

I glanced around the room before opening my mouth. "My name is Keiyoshi Kiyoko. I love doing acrobatics and hate the owners of Kireida Enterprise, which might be why I dislike Hyoutei Gakuen too. However, my brother unfortunately goes to school there. I play street tennis a bunch and I'm always up to a challenge. Pleased to meet you." With that I took my leave and slumped back into my seat. After first period, there was a ten minute break and a guy with spiky came up to me.

"Yo! I'm Momoshiro Takeshi. Call me Momo-chan. You said you played tennis…You any good?"

"Natsui-kun, Kiyoko-chan. Our entire family is very sorry to hear about your loss…"

I blocked out everything after that. That's how it has been ever since the accident two months ago. Everyday, some strangers will come to our house and tell us how sorry they are about the death of Nii-chan's and my parents. Don't they know that all we want is peace and quiet instead of the pity we see in everybody's eyes? What's worse is that Kireida's parents offered to take us in since we had no living relative. I refused while Natsui accepted. How could he?! They were the reason our parents were dead! Out two servants left, so now I am going to go and live with Hiro-chan instead since she's my best friend. She's living with her aunt but I don't know why. She goes to Seigaku for school so I'm going there next year I guess.

5 months later

A lot has happened since I moved in with Hiro-chan. I took mom's last words to heart and formed a tennis team based on the rules that our parents laid down. Now, Nii-chan, Hiro-chan, Kirei-kun, and I are the first ever M.A.S.K. tennis team (that's what we had agreed to call the game). I took the rules and regulations documents, made copies of it, and gave a copy to the people in charge of tournaments and street tennis. The tournament people turned down the suggestion, but the street tennis group decided to post the information on the bulletin board, so there will be unofficial matches in that style now. I trained my team hard so that our parents would be proud of us. I ordered Kirei-chan to gather data on the other newly formed teams since his talent is obviously data gathering. Hiro, Nii-chan and I have been practicing 5 hours a day, 7 days a week all summer. We will show the world that the idea made by our parents is marvelous. My dream is that one day, our efforts will pull through and there will actually be tournaments for tennis like this. Our parents will be proud of us!

"I'm okay I guess," I said while flashing a smile. The bell rang and the next teacher came in. Finally it's lunch time and I can meet Hiro-chan! I ran all the way to the cafeteria just to find a huge line in front of the lunch lady. I heard running behind me and saw Momo-chan coming up. He yelled at the lunch lady to save him 5 different types of sandwiches. I sweat dropped and wandered around, looking for Hiro-chan since I brought my own lunch. I finally saw her and waved. Hiro-chan walked over to me and asked,

"How was this morning?"

"It was interesting to say none the least. I think I'm going to like it here."

SIDE NOTES :

(1)Kireida is a last name, as the character in this story (not his parents) has the name of Kireida Hayashi, with "Hayashi" being the first name. So, Kiyoko/Natsui 's parents call their buddies by their last name.