Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Prince of Tennis.
A/N: Just suddenly wanted to write a love story for Tezuka ^^ OC as main character. Enjoy and please review =D
Prologue
It was a moonless night in Singapore, and a there was a heavy thunderstorm outside. Kimiko, together with her father, Alvin Lee, sat beside her mother's bed in Changi hospital while she looked at her mother's pale face and thin frame. Her mother, Yuuri, has had cancer for 3 years. Yuuri has always had a weak body and an even weaker heart, and Kimiko and her father knew that very soon, she would be gone.
While she reminisced about the good times she used to have with her mother before she had gotten cancer, Kimiko allowed one drop of tear out of her eyes. She never cried, no matter how hard the situation got. She would always put on a brave front and deal with whatever problems that came her way with a positive attitude. So why was she crying now? Her father had fallen asleep beside her, and Kimiko saw how tired he looked. He had probably stayed up for a few nights in a row already, probably reminiscing about her mother just like what she's doing now.
"Kimiko…"
Kimiko heard a weak voice coming from her mum on the hospital bed, and turned to her mother immediately. She saw that her mother was wearing a faint smile and her eyes were slightly open.
"Mum, what's the matter?" Kimiko asked worriedly.
"It's nothing, I just wanted to tell you that I love you, and that…" Yuuri's voice slowly drifted into a soft murmur as her eyes started to close.
"Mum! Mum! Don't die! Dad! Wake up! Mum!" Kimiko couldn't restrain her panic as she saw and even felt her mother's presence slowly fading away.
"Yuuri, stay with us! Yuuri!" Alvin had heard his daughter's calls and woke up, immediately catching on to the situation. Yuuri can't just die like that!
"Yuuri…"
"Kimiko, we need to talk. I need to tell you something." Kimiko had just gotten home from school that day when he saw her father sitting in the living room reading a newspaper. It has been 3 weeks since the death of her mother and she was once again putting up her brave and positive demeanor in school.
"Dad? Why aren't you at work?" Then she saw the many boxes and luggage on the floor and took in the fact that the furniture in the house were all covered in white cloth, even the armchair that her dad was sitting on, "are we moving or something?"
"Kimiko, go get changed, then come sit here, I want to discuss something with you. It's important, and it's related to your mother."
"O-Okay," Kimiko replied with a suspicious expression on her face.
"So, Kimiko, what do you think of moving to Tokyo?"
"Tokyo? What nonsense are you spouting, Dad?"
"There's something I have to tell you. You know that your mother's homeland is Tokyo, right? Well, a year ago, your mother told me this: "If I lose my life to this cancer, you and Kimiko have to migrate to Tokyo. I have never asked you for any favours before, and this is the first and the last one I'll ask of you. My father once told me that in the future, it is crucial for my daughter to meet with the child of his best friend's son. I don't know why either, but he told me that the children will understand once they got to know each other.""
"Eh, so that's why we're moving to Toyko? Grandpa has always been a weird guy with lots of secrets…"
"So you agree to move?"
"Of course I do! This is so exciting, it's like I'm living the life of a storybook protagonist now!"
Kimiko has always wanted to visit her mother's homeland, and this provided a great chance for her. Language won't be a problem, since she has been studying Japanese ever since she was very young.
"I better go pack my stuff. We're leaving tomorrow, aren't we?" Kimiko could barely contain her excitement. A new chapter in her life was starting. She wondered what awaited her in Tokyo as she rushed upstairs into her room to start packing.