Summary: Mimi's father's dream was to be in the NBA, but couldn't because of an injury. Now he wants his child to join a boarding school as a boy to get a scholarship in basketball. Now Mimi's whole life is turned upside down. Now she has to make it through three years in high school as a boy. Will she survive or will someone figure her out?

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A Girl Can Play

Chapter 1

First day and basketball try-outs

"Daddy! I'm home!" yelled a beautiful girl with chestnut brown hair, which was in a ponytail, and hazel brown eyes. She was wearing a pink tank top that stopped right above her belly button and white shorts with white tennis shoes.

"Hey there Princess, welcome home!" cried her dad happily.

"Mimi! Your uniform is here for school!" said Mr. Tachikawa as he handed her a box. Mimi happily took the box and opened it.

"So…Mimi how was did you make some friends at the basketball court?" asked Mr. Tachikawa from his office.

"Oh…yeah Dad! There was this group of kids and we-Ahh!" she screamed.

"DAD! WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!" she cried as she showed her father what seems to be a boys uniform. The uniform was a dark blue tailored jacket with brass buttons and dark blue pants.

"What is what Mimi?" asked her father as he looked up at her.

"This has to be a mistake, they must have sent my uniform to the wrong person!" she cried as her father sweatdropped.

"Umm….Mimi…princess…" said her father as Mimi looked at the package to see who they sent it to; the words 'Mikio Tachikawa' were printed on the front.

"Mikio! THAT"S NOT MY NAME! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?" she practically screamed.

"Mimi calm down…they didn't make a mistake…" her father sighed. Mimi looked at her father.

"What do you mean they didn't make a mistake? They put down Mikio instead of Mimi! Then they give me the boys' uniform! And you tell me they didn't make a mistake!" asked Mimi a little bit more calmly as she raised an eyebrow.

"Well Mimi…when I was young I always dreamed that one day I will be in the NBA in America, but then I got injured during one of my games….and I couldn't play anymore…..so I decided a long time ago that my child! Boy or girl will join the NBA!" her father said confidently, "…and Shikino High is famous for two things their girls uniform and…….their…um boys basketball team……..and since I only had a daughter…I put you in Shikino High school as a boy…I gave you a new name…and all that stuff…and since you can play basketball really well…I decided no one will notice.." said Mr. Tachikawa. Mimi's jaw dropped.

"WHAT! Dad how could you? There are three words I have for you….I'M A GIRL! DON'T YOU THINK THE BOYS WILL NOTICE!" she cried so loud you could hear her down the street.

"Well Mimi…or should I say Mikio….all you have to do is be careful when it comes to that stuff…" said Mr. Tachikawa.

"UGH! I can't believe you! You know I could just go for the WNBA!" Mimi screamed as she pounced off to her room.

"Yeah Mimi! But the WNBA wasn't my dream! Oh and I scheduled a hair appointment for you tomorrow at two o'clock! We can't let you be a boy with long hair now can we? " he said as Mimi slammed her door.

(Mimi's room)

'Ugh…I can't believe him…' she thought as she lay down on her bed with tears in her eyes. 'Now I know why he trained me basketball ever since I was four'

She looked at a picture with her as a 5 year old wearing a pink sundress with a woman with honey colored shoulder length hair and hazel eyes wearing a green sundress.

More tears came out of her eyes as she looked at the picture. 'Mom…why did you have to go...?'

She closed her eyes and fell asleep.

(Mimi's dream/ flashback)

A little five year old Mimi was out side playing with her parents at the park.

"Mimi, want to learn how to play?" asked her father holding a basketball.

"Yeah" said Mimi happily and walked off with her father.

"Mimi, be careful!" said Mimi's mom after them and she got the picnic ready.

Mimi was on her father's shoulders and dunked the ball in the hoop.

"Yay!" cried Mimi on her father's shoulders as he ran around.

"You were wonderful Mimi, I'm so proud!" said her mother as she gave Mimi a hug.

(Mimi's first day at Shikino high)

Mimi walked into the office wearing her school uniform. (Mimi cut her hair like a boy by the way.)

"Um…I'm one of the new students here…" said Mimi. The secretary looked up at her and smiled. The secretary was a tall skinny woman. Her dark brown hair was tied into a bun, she had green eyes that were covered by thick glasses, and she was wearing a gray business suit.

"Hi! I'm Ms. Tojo the school secretary! Give me your name please" said Ms. Tojo.

"Mi-Mikio Tachikawa" she said nervously. She wasn't quite use to that name yet. Ms. Tojo turned around to a cabinet and started to look for Mimi's file.

"Ah…here it is!" Ms. Tojo said when she found Mimi's file, "okay Mikio…here's your schedule and you're in the freshman dorm…all your stuff has been sent to your dorm…now go to your first class before your late." (A/N: Mimi just moved back to Odaiba, she used to live in Hiroshima and she's a freshman in Shikino High. And she joined the school to months after the first day of school.)

"Thank you!" Mimi said gratefully as she grabbed her papers and walked out of the office.

'Now, which class is my homeroom? …….Class 1-A…..' thought Mimi. Mimi felt like someone was watching her, so she turned around and saw two girls wearing a dark blue blazer with brass buttons with a white under shirt and a light blue ribbon and a white skirt staring at her and now blushing.

'I want one of those uniforms…they're so cute…' sighed Mimi in her thoughts, and walked away to find her class.

(Five minutes later)

'Ah here it is class 1-A!' thought Mimi as she entered the classroom.

"Um…excuse me…." said Mimi as she entered the room nervously. The teacher looked up at her.

"Oh…you must be the new student! Mr. Tachikawa I'm Mr. Ichiro, I will be your Social Studies teacher. Class I would like to introduce you to Mikio Tachikawa! He just came here from Hiroshima! Please treat him nicely…." said Mr. Ichiro. Mimi looked at all the kids staring at her. All the girls were practically drooling and stared at her dreamily; which made Mimi nervous since she was a girl, and having a bunch of girls love you wasn't exactly what she wanted.

As Mimi scanned the room, she noticed a handsome young man with golden blonde hair. She couldn't see his eyes since he was looking out the window.

"He's cute…….I wonder if he had a girlfriend in Hiroshima…" whispered one of the girls.

"He probably does……he's even as cute as Ishida-kun…." whispered the girl seating next to her. Unknown to them, Mimi heard their conversation and sweatdropped.

'Why me?' thought Mimi.

"So let's see Mr. Tachikawa…..why don't you sit right next to Ms. Inoue over there! Ms. Inoue please raise your hand!" said Mr. Ichiro. A girl with long purple hair and round glasses stood up and blushed as Mimi walked and took a seat right next to her desk and sat right back down.

"Hi! I'm Miyako Inoue….welcome to Shikino High!" said the purple haired girl as she blushed. Mimi looked at her and smiled.

"Thanks! It's nice to meet you Miyako! Please call me Mikio!" Mimi said as she smiled at Miyako; which made her blush even more.

(After school)

'Sigh man…today was tough……first, I have all the girls in the school staring at me with dreamy eyes…second, making sure I don't act like a girl in front of everybody….man….huh?' thought Mimi, but was interrupted when she saw kids playing basketball at the outside basketball court.

Mimi walked up to the fence and watched them play. They were all pretty good, but Mimi had her eye on the blonde boy she saw in class. He was really good, even as good as her. Mimi watched as the boy quickly stole the ball.

'Wow…he's fast' thought Mimi. Then Mimi suddenly remembered basketball try outs at 4:30. Mimi looked at her watch. It said 3:55. She quickly ran to the boys' locker room.

She stopped right in front of the door to the locker room, and looked at it nervously.

'God I seriously don't want to go in there….but I have to hurry up and change early…before anybody comes…' Mimi thought. She held her breath and went inside.

(After Mimi got dressed)

'Man! I never want to go in there again! It really stinks in there!' she thought as she walked in the gym.

When she walked in the gym she saw a bunch of guys on the court with basketballs shooting hoops or dribbling, and a bunch of girls on the bleachers.

'Here we go!' she sighed and grabbed a basketball. She started to look for a place to practice shooting and dribbling when she bumped into someone.

"Hey, watch it Squirt!" said the boy.

"Well, sorry! You should be more careful! And don't call me squirt JERK!" said Mimi. Mimi looked up at the boy; Mimi blushed as she realized he was the same boy on the court and in her class, the one with golden blonde hair. She looked into his eyes and saw they were ocean blue. She felt like she could stare in them forever.

The boy grabbed her by the shirt and lifted Mimi up until she was on her toes.

"What did you say? Squirt!" said the blonde with anger in his voice. Mimi smirked.

"You heard me! I said don't call me squirt, Jerk!" said Mimi as she grinned.

"Why you little-" started the blonde, but was interrupted by a voice.

"Yo Yamato, leave the kid alone! He's new here!" said a voice from behind them. Mimi and the blonde turned to see a boy with the same golden blonde hair, except it wasn't spiked, and ocean blue eyes, except they seem friendlier.

The blonde looked at Mimi and let go of her.

"Whatever Takeru!" said the blonde and walked away. The younger blonde looked at Mimi.

"I'm sorry, about my brother! I'm Takeru Takaishi!" said the younger blonde. Mimi looked at him; he looked just liked his older brother except he had cheerful eyes.

"That's okay! I'm Mikio Tachikawa!" said Mimi and smiled, "so are you trying out?"

"No...I'm still in middle school...I won't be able to 'till three years from now! I just came here to watch my brother try out! So...are you trying out?" asked Takeru.

"Uh...yeah!" said Mimi. Takeru smiled at her.

"Well, good luck!" said Takeru.

"Thanks, well I better go!" said Mimi. Mimi walked away from the younger blonde. 'So his name is Yamato? Hmm…' thought Mimi.

"Hi there!" said a voice from behind her. The voice startled Mimi that she almost tripped, and by the sound of the voice Mimi knew it was a girl.

Mimi turned around to see a girl who seemed to be the same age as her with shoulder length brown hair, and brown eyes.

"Uh…hi!" said Mimi nervously.

"Um…my name is Juri Katou! Are you trying out for the basketball team?" asked the girl.

"Yeah! My name is Mikio Tachikawa" said Mimi staring at the girl.

"It's nice to meet you Mikio! You must be the new guy everybody was talking about! My friends were right, you are cute!" said Juri happily. Mimi sweatdropped.

"Thanks!" said Mimi. Mimi heard a bunch of girls screaming. Mimi turned to see what they were screaming for, and she saw Yamato shooting hoops. Mimi sweatdropped at this.

"Are all those girls fan's of his?" asked Mimi nervously. Juri looked at her and smiled as she laughed.

"Actually, mostly all of them came to see you!" said Juri as she smiled. Mimi smiled weakly at Juri as she sweatdropped.

"Oh right! Girl Scouts line up!" yelled the coach and Mimi quickly waved to Juri and lined up. Mimi looked around and noticed she was the shortest one there. She looked at the coach; he was a tall man with black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing blue and white sweats with a whistle around his neck.

"Ok! I'm Coach Imai! I'm going down the row and ask you for your names and give you a number!" said the coach.

"Mikio Tachikawa!" said Mimi when Coach Imai finally asked her for her name.

"Okay Tachikawa, since you're the twelfth person in the line your number twelve!" said Coach Imai to Mimi.

"Alright I have all your names! Now I am going to introduce you to the team captain of the basketball team! This is Jyou Kido! He's a senior this year." said Coach Imai as a tall boy with pale skin, blue hair, and he was wearing glasses came up beside him.

"Alright this is what we're going to do! I'm going to split you up in teams! If your number is evens your team blue! If your number is odds your team is red!" said Coach Imai, and all the boys (plus Mimi) went to their team and put on their red/blue jersey. Mimi went to grab a blue jersey, but notice someone else grabbed it. Mimi looked at who it was and saw Yamato!

"YOU!" said the two at the same time in disgust as they pointed at each other.

"Please tell me you're not on this team…" said Mimi in disgust.

"Please tell me you don't have an even number…" said Yamato in the same tone.

"Okay! If you're on the blue team you're going against the red team! Red team you're the same! You would be on the team if you play with team work and how well you play! You would not be on the team if you look good holding a basketball or if you can score a point without team work! So remember the word team!" said Coach Imai, "now at the blow of my whistle you will begin!"

"Looks like we're on the same team…" said Mimi nervously as she put on the blue jersey.

"Just don't get in my way Squirt!" said Yamato coldly as he put on the blue jersey. Mimi glared at him.

"Jerk…" whispered Mimi, and walked on the court.

They heard the sound of a whistle and the games began.

One of the boys on the red team was the first to get the ball, but Yamato quickly stole it away from him. Yamato dribbled the ball, but he was surrounded.

He saw Mimi waving her hands for him to pass the ball. Yamato threw the ball to Mimi since she was open and Mimi quickly scored.

(30 minutes later)

Score:

Red: 34

Blue: 32

Mimi was panting and sweat was forming on her forehead. A boy on her team quickly passed the ball towards her. Mimi dribbled the ball towards the hoop, but the red team surrounded her.

Mimi looked around for some one to pass to, but they were all blocked. Mimi looked at Yamato who was right in front of the hoop. Mimi got an idea.

Mimi dribbled the ball and ran towards Yamato. Right when she was about to hit Yamato, Mimi quickly jumped on Yamato's face and threw the ball in the hoop, and the sound of a whistle blew. Everyone around them looked at Mimi with amazement on there faces.

"Wow…." said the boys with amazement.

"Alright games over Girl Scouts! The blue team wins!" cried Coach Imai.

The girls sitting in the bleachers screamed. Everybody looked at Mimi then at Yamato. Yamato's face had a big red foot mark. Yamato was so red that he practically had smoke coming out of his ears.

"Yo-ou li-little" started Yamato.

"Yamato calm down…" said Takeru calmly as he sweatdropped. They heard a clap from behind them. They turned to look who it was and saw Jyou and Coach Imai walking towards them.

"Good job...Mr. Ishida...and Mr. Tachikawa! Did you guys plan that out?" said Coach Imai as he smiled.

"Uh...thank you coach!" said Mimi.

"That was amazing; I have to admit that when I first saw you Mr. Tachikawa I thought you weren't good at basketball because of your height! And when you scored that point, I have to say that I'm impressed!" said Coach Imai. Mimi smiled and notice Jyou was staring at her.

"I've never seen anyone do a move like that! Very impressive!" said Jyou.

"You'll be perfect for the team!" said Coach Imai. Mimi looked at him with excitement in her eyes.

"So...does that mean I made the team?" she asked. The coach nodded.

"Yes, you and Mr. Ishida over there, will be perfect on the team! Especially with that dunk!" said Coach Imai.

"WHAT!" yelled the two.

"You mean that he'll be stepping on my face every game!" cried Yamato.

"Not exactly, you two would be a perfect pair Yamato! What I hear Yamato, from your other coaches is that you had no one to catch up with you! And now you do! Mr. Tachikawa here can catch up with you!" said Coach Imai happily. Mimi and Yamato turned to each other and glared. Jyou and everybody else around them sweatdropped.

"Well, everybody head for the showers! And by Saturday you will get the results! And remember if you made the team our first practice is next week Monday!" said Coach Imai.

(In the boys' dorm)

'Sigh...great...I made the team...Dad would be so proud!...ugh!' thought Mimi as she walked into the building.

Mimi looked around the room. She saw that the room had a fire place and couches around it. She notice a desk near the stairs, and saw a woman in her late twenties with red hair and light brown eyes wearing a black sweater over a white T-shirt and a gray skirt. Mimi walked towards the desk.

"Um...excuse me..." said Mimi. The lady looked up at her and smiled.

"My name is Mikio Tachikawa, I wanted to know which dorm I'm in" said Mimi.

"Oh...okay I'm Ms. Watanabe...just give me a sec..." said the woman as she searched through the cabinets.

"Ah! Here it is!" said Ms. Watanabe as she held up a paper, "Mikio Tachikawa right? Your in room 207, your roommate will be Ishida-kun"

The lady handed Mimi a piece of paper with her room number on it. Mimi told the lady thank you, and she went up to her dorm.

'So...I'll be sharing a room with a guy named Ishida! I hope he's not like that Yamato guy!' thought Mimi as she went to look for her room.

Kawaii chan: So how do you like it? plz review! There will be characters from series 3&4 in later chapters! What will Mimi do when she figures out her roommate is? And I know that Jyou isn't exactly an athlete, no scratch that ISN'T an athlete like Tai and Davis, but I had to choose someone older!