Chapter 1 – The (somewhat) Endless Summer

"Nothing better than a new school year with all my friends!" shouted Tenma as she pranced into her kitchen, where Yakumo was making breakfast. Yakumo stood there while Tenma awaited a response from her sister. "So, how have you and Harima been?" mumbled Yakumo.

Tenma was quick to answer, excited to tell her sister about her love life. "Me and Harima are doing great! We get along perfectly and I feel like he is the one for me!" exclaimed Tenma. "Well that's good" Yakumo sighed. "What's wrong?" asked Tenma, worried about her sister.

Yakumo teared up, her feelings for Harima are too much for her to bear, she never confessed her love to anybody before, never felt this way before, "I won't be able to find someone as great as Harima, you should be so thankful you have him...be grateful Tenma, because Harima is one of a kind. Take care of him...for me?"

Tenma waked over to her sister and placed her hand on Yakumo's shoulder. "Yakumo...I never knew you felt so strongly for Harima. I'm sorry..." Yakumo couldn't stop sobbing, she managed to suck it up and mumble "No, its fine. He's yours Tenma. Just promise me you'll keep him happy."

"Hey baldy, what time is it!?" shouted Harima.

"What the hell Harima! We're fighting!" muttered the thug in pain.

"I asked you what time it was! Now tell me!" yelled Harima as he kicked the thug in his gut.

"Well, give me a minute to check, ok? No cheap shots either!" the thug mumbled in fear.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." grunted Harima

"It's about 11:30, why?" said the thug.

"11:30!? Damnit!" yelled Harima, as he smashed the thug's face in. "You kept me here that long!" shouted Harima in anger.

"Oh shut up and keep fighting Harima!" yelled the thug back.

"I'm not gonna keep my beautiful princess waiting!" Harima dashed towards his motorcycle, threw on his jacket, cranked it on and took off.

"Hey there Eri! How've you been?" yelled Tenma as she ran up to Eri as she started her walk to school.

"Oh! Hey Tenma! I'm surprised you out of all people are up this early!" Eri said, as the two walked to school.

"So Eri how was your summer? Tenma asked patiently.

"Well, not exciting. I didn't see you all summer." said Eri

"Well that's because I was with Harima, silly!" exclaimed Tenma.

"Oh yeah, how is that going for you two?" muttered Eri.

Tenma blasted out the good news "Our relationship is great!" Eri looked down at the sidewalk, trying her hardest to forget about Harima. "Well that's good, I'm happy for you." Eri forced herself to smile. The two walked in silence for a bit. Tenma broke the silence by asking Eri "So, what about you? Any boys you like?" Eri couldn't stop thinking about Harima, her heart racing, wanting to confess about her love for Harima, she almost confessed to Tenma, but she held it in. "No, nobody yet." Eri said calmly, taking a deep breath afterwards. "So, I heard that there will be transfer students this year!" said Eri aloud.

Harima sped, with a determined look in his eyes, the sun reflecting off his sunglasses, Harima started to think to himself... "I really am the badass that got the girl! There is no way Tenma will leave me! We're a perfect match!"... suddenly Harima snapped out of his trance and screeched to a stop at a red stoplight. "DAMNIT!" yelled Harima "No matter what the cost, I AM NOT missing today with Tenma, my beautiful princess, my angel, my cute little butterfly! NOTHING WILL STOP ME! I LOVE YOU TENMA!" people were staring at Harima, giving him a weird look as he looked around and gave an awkward grin to everybody. The light turned green, Harima sped off!

"Finally at school!" said Tenma, who was quite excited about her day. "But…where are all my friends? Where is Harima…?" as soon as she said that, Harima pulled in and looked around, only to see Tenma running up to him. Harima teared up and thought "I'm so lucky to have her." Tenma finally reached Harima and shouted "Harima! I'm so happy to see you!" Harima's heart was beating rapidly with joy. "Tenma! There you are!" said Harima. The two gave each other a hug that seemed to last forever until Mikoto walked over and said "Alright you two settle down."

Harima and Tenma let go, but held hands with each other. "Hey Mikoto!" said Tenma. "So, how have you guys been?" asked Mikoto. "Great! How was your summer Mikoto?" asked Harima. "Well…I'd rather not talk about it right now." muttered Mikoto. "Anyways, I'm guessing you two had a good summer? I haven't seen you guys at all! Where'd you go?" asked Mikoto, excitedly awaiting a story-like answer.

Tenma and Harima looked at each other and turned away as if they were hiding something, while grinning. "Come on guys! You can trust me!" exclaimed Mikoto. Harima laughed and said "Maybe another time. How's your dojo been? Mikoto huffed and said "Ugh fine! My dojo is going really well! It's getting a lot more popular! I might even have to start membership fees!" laughed Mikoto.

"Why don't I spar with you sometime Mikoto!" said Harima, jokingly. "OK!"" said Mikoto, excited for a new challenge. Harima gulped and muttered "Uhhh….you sure you wanna do that?" Harima started to sweat nervously. "Yeah! I've been waiting for a good challenge!" Harima started to panic a little and thought "Oh crap! What the hell did I get myself into! She's a master! I don't stand a chance!" Tenma then quickly interrupted "Why don't we see what classes we're in. Speaking of classes, where are Eri and Akira?" Mikoto was just as shocked as Tenma "I don't know where they're at!" said Mikoto. The three walked over to the class boards. They all had their eyes fixed on section 3. Nobody said anything for a while. Tenma then glanced over at 3-C and saw that Eri and Akira were in there, but not any of the other three. "Well, I found where Eri and Akira are going to end up. They both are in 3-C." said Tenma. Suddenly, Harima's eyes lit up, he took off his sunglasses in disbelief. "There's no freaking way!" thought Harima. "We're all in 3-A!" shouted Harima. Tenma jumped into Harima's arms, Mikoto looked over and smiled. Tenma shouted "3-A, here we come!"