In this world, Sai is still alive and I think I'm a little off on ranks and ages, but it's my story. And it's a little OOC at times, sorry.

"Shindo Hikaru, 4 dan, age 15…Touya Akira, 5 dan, age 15…I'll be joining them soon," a girl said as she read the article in the paper about the Go players.

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School seemed so pointless when she wanted to play go. 'The sakura trees look nice today…so pink and weightless as they float through the wind…' the girl thought as she looked out the window.

"Mitsu!" the teacher yelled.

"Hai!" the girl responded as she looked to the teacher.

"Answer the question!" the teacher said as she pointed to the math problem on the chalkboard.

The girl looked it over a few seconds before answering, "Negative 10 x y squared to the sixth."

"Glad to see you're paying attention," the teacher scoffed.

'Whatever,' the girl rolled her eyes as she looked back out the window.

XxXxXx

A few months later, she passed the pro exam.

Why she hadn't done that before was because money was tight in her family until her parents both got better jobs and so had she.

XxXxXx

Ogata, 9 dan, had offered to play her. He wanted to see how she played, seeing as she went through the whole pro exam without a loss.

They had set up a room where the pro's play with cameras and everything. The press was there also.

Ogata let the girl have black as he took white. She made her opening move one under the star point.

He played opposite of her.

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The match resulted in a draw counting the 5.5 moku.

"H-how can you beat me?" he stuttered as he looked at the result.

"Simple, my will to succeed was far greater than yours," she said coldly.

"You little brat," he scoffed.

The cameras had turned off before the little argument, "What's your name again kid?" Ogata asked.

"Mitsu Sakura," she said as she stood up and left the room.

Everyone in the room was left speechless. 'Who was that girl?' they all asked themselves.

Wow...that's really short...I'll upload another one in a minute.

--Sakura