"Bye mom!" Ria called without glancing back, swinging a backpack over her shoulders and heading out to Teiko high, her new school. She was excited to see what kinds of new things they did in Japan, Tokyo, that was different from America. She was only lucky that she had started learning Japanese at the age of five, along with some other things, like basketball, tennis, and reading. Which she was also excited about. Ria had heard that the tennis teams and the basketball teams were magnificent here, she couldn't wait. She loved watching the most, but back in America she had actually played quite a lot.

Ria walked to school with her bag singled out on one shoulder and bumping against her hip, for some reason, this aggravated her a lot. She didn't know why she was angry, but thinking back to America reminded her of her father, and these memories were just too painful. She had actually watched the plane crash, watched as it spun to the ground of the airport, one wing busted almost clean off, the fire a bright yellow-orange, stark against the midnight sky. In that moment she had been too horrified to move, to do anything, and when she got the report that he was dead she for some reason blamed herself.

Two weeks later her mom came to her in her room and announced that they were moving back to Tokyo, where she had been born, and ever since then her mom had been unresponsive to anything she did, it was if she had never existed.

Ria hated to change her ways too. After seeing the other girls in the nearby area going to school with one shoulder bags and mini skirts Ria had promptly changed from wearing trousers to skirts, and she had switched out her everyday normal backpack for one like this, now all she had to do was hope she wasn't noticed.

Her dream of blending in was short lived as she entered her home classrooom. The teacher immediately pulled her to the front and forced her introduce herself.

"Hello everyone," she said in a loud clear voice, bowing, "I'm Syseko Ahriiah." Ria was grateful she had put her last name before her first, and not fallen for old habits.

She plastered her most charming smile on her face and made her way to her seat, bag held in front of her by both hands. She sat in the back, behind a pretty teal haired blue eyed boy, and immediately the teacher started on math and so on. Ria sighed and rested her head on a hand, glancing out the window and staring at the sky, once again thinking back to the past.

Though she didn't have much time to dwell on the horrors, because soon after a sheet was in front of her, blank, waiting for her to write on it.

Ria leaned forwards and tapped the blue haired boy on the shoulder. He turned in surprise. "Yes, Syseko kun?"

"Eh? no need to call me that, what's your name?" She waited expectantly.

"Uh, forgive me Syseko kun, I'm not used to people noticing me. I'm Kuroko Tetsuya, welcome to Teiko." He smiled at her and asked, "What did you want me for?"

"Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me!" she exclaimed, "what do I do with this?" she pushed the paper towards him expectantly. "Oh, this, you..." and he began.

After class Tetsuya invited her to come with him to his basketball practice, and Ria agreed enthusiastically, following him like a faithful puppy smiling and chattering all the way to the gym. Kuroko paused outside the door and said in a whisper, "Just don't upset Akashi kun, he's the captain, he'll make you do laps if you do," he warned.

"Eh? but I'm not apart of the basketball team!"

"It doesn't matter," the bluenette said unemotionally, his face a blank mask as always, "He's Akashi kun, he can do whatever he wishes."

"He doesn't seem like that nice of a guy," Ria mused accidentally bumping into someone on her way into the gym following Tetsuya.

"Oh, I'm sorry about that!" Ria cried, backing up a step and looking at that person apologetically. Her eyes instantly came in contact with red and gold ones, sending chills down her spine. The red haired boy looked at her purposefully, "what are you doing here? and who doesn't seem like that nice of a guy."

"Oh...uh, who are you?"

"I don't see the need to answer that question, now, I'll ask again, what are you doing here?" Though the red haired boy was quite small Ria got the feeling that she shouldn't mess with him.

"I...uh...eerrr, I was just...uh...Following Kuroko!" yeah, that should do it.

"So you were stalking him." the redhead said with no emotion showing on his face.

"No!" Ria shouted, horrified.

"Then tell me all the truth, I don't have time for you, my team is waiting." The small guy crossed his arms and stared at her with those heterochromatic eyes that made her want to run.

"EEK! you're the captain! YOU'RE Akashi then! oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't know! you see, Kuroko invited me to come and watch and..heh..." Ria felt too uncomfortable, she placed a hand behind her head and forced a smile, scared enough not to know that somebody had approached behind her.

"Akashicchi!" somebody shouted "don't tell me you have a girlfriend!" Ria turned to see a handsome blond bouncing behind her, grinning.

"I have no such affair, Ryouta," the captain said calmly. He then turned to Ria, "well, then, since Tetsuya invited you I'll make an exception, you can sit and watch, I suppose Tetsuya's your friend?"

"Of course," Ria hissed indignantly. make an exception? what does that mean? BECAUSE it's Tetsuya? this guy has problems!

"I advise you not to use that tone around me...Ryouta, you're late, do one hundred laps after practice around the court, and you're practice is tripled." the redhead captain then turned and stomped into the gym.

Ria snorted and followed after the arrogant self-centered captain, seething in anger, while a pouting Ryouta followed, whining and complaining to her all the way there.

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