Disclaimer: Power Rangers is not mine. They belong to Disney. The characters (in alphabetical order) Akume, Challon, and Rosa are also not mine. They are real people who have given me permission to use them in this fic.

Also, I need to thank tsukinoakumefor the title of this. Which is terribly impressive since she doesn't even know what it's about. I mean even a little.

A/N: This is a PRiS AU that takes place on Earth in high school. All the rangers where born on and live on Earth in this. There aren't any evil villains however, nor are the rangers actually rangers. Major fluff warning. Andros/Ashley, Karone/Zhane, Cassie/Phantom, Carlos/OC as well as some OC/OC (although I'm not sure you can call them "OCs" but... yeah).

Rated: K+

Sunshine Days: Chapterr 1

Karone tapped her fingers on her binder. She liked English, but it was pretty boring when she had already read the book, twice. She glanced up at the clock wondering how Ashley's history test was going. She hoped that it wasn't too hard, Karone had the same history class third period. And history was a subject she really didn't like.

Finally the bell rang, and Karone let out a sigh of relief. She gathered up her things, stuffing her binder in her backpack and picking up her books. She absentmindedly acknowledged Ms. Teller's reminder that their reports where due on Monday before heading out into the hallway, towards her locker.

"Karone!"

Karone turned to see TJ hurrying to catch up with her, "Hey, Teej, what's up?"

"Did you finish the biology homework?"

Karone rolled her eyes, "You wanna borrow my notes?"

"That'd be great," TJ smiled.

"They're in my locker," she told him starting down the hall. "You know, I'm really starting to worry about our group project," Karone joked.

"Hey, don't worry about that. My part's almost done."

She smiled at him as they reached her locker. Karone put away her books and pulled out her other binder. "Ok, yesterday's notes," she said taking the last three pages out. She sighed at the look on his face, tucking them back in. "Just make sure you're done by fourth period," she told him handing him the whole binder.

"Thanks Karone," TJ grinned.

"Right," Karone shook her head, watching him head down the hallway. She shut her locker and started towards the gym.


"Hi," Ashley said cheerfully, bouncing up to her, already dressed in her gym clothes.

Karone slipped the white t-shirt over her head, "Hi." She folded her jeans shorts and purple blouse, putting them in the gym locker. "Oh, how was that history test?" she asked sitting down on the bench to put on her sneakers.

"Oh it wasn't so bad."

Karone looked up, "'Not so bad' by your standards, or mine?"

Ashley sat down, putting an arm around her, "You'll do fine."

Karone sighed, "Yeah, I hope so."

Ashley smiled, squeezing her shoulders, "Come on, don't wanna be late. I really don't wanna have to run laps."

"Right," Karone got up, shoving her backpack into her locker and shutting it. The girls went out the back door of the locker room, and down the hall into the gym. Most of their class was already there.

"Hey!" Cassie called out before tossing a volley ball to Ashley. "You're captain today," she told her.

Ms. Jenkins blew her whistle before Ashley could respond, "Ok, everyone, line up for attendance." Karone did her best to push the worries about her history test out of her mind as they went through the beginning of class routine. Ms. Jenkins called attendance, they ran a warm up lap around the gym, then did stretches.

"Ok, get into teams of six. Uh, there'll be two teams of seven," Ms. Jenkins told them, tallying up the attendance sheet.

Karone, Ashley, and Cassie automatically drifted together. Ashley looked around the gym, she waved when she spotted two girls, "Rosa, Challon, wanna be on our team?"

"Sure," Challon agreed, following Rosa over.

"I'm not really good," Rosa warned them.

"That's ok," Cassie assured her, "neither am I.'

"We just need one more," Karone said, looking around for a sixth.

"How about Akume?" Challon suggested waving to her friend.

"Great," Ashley said, smiling at their new teammate. They positioned themselves around the court, with Ashley as the server, then, going clockwise, Cassie, Akume, Challon, Rosa, and Karone.

Ms. Jenkins went over what she was grading on again before passing out the volleyballs. "Who serves?" Jenna, a girl from the other team asked.

"Rock Paper Scissors?" Cassie suggested. Ashley's team won and she served the ball over the net. Cassie passed the return to Karone who spiked it over the net, scoring a point.

"All right! That was great Karone," Ashley told her, catching the ball. She served the ball again, the other team hit it twice before hitting it back over the net. Ashley passed it forward but Rosa missed.

"Sorry," she said, rolling the ball to the other team. They volleyed the ball for a couple of minutes before Karone scored another point. The other team tossed her the ball and they rotated clockwise.

Karone giggled as her first serve scored a point. "How do you hit like that?" Challon asked in amazement.

Karone just shrugged, "I don't know, I guess I'm just good at volleyball."

"You should really think about joining the volleyball team," Ashley told her.

"You think so?" Karone asked, serving the ball again. This time one of the girls on the other team hit it back. Akume took a couple steps back, going for the ball. She stumbled, and fell backwards, right on top of Zhane.

"Are you ok?" Zhane asked, managing to stand to help Akume up.

"Everyone all right?" Ms. Jenkins asked, coming over.

"Yeah, I'm ok."

"What are you doing here?" Ms. Jenkins asked, looking at Zhane.

"Coach Benit sent me," he told her, handing her a piece of paper. Karone smiled widely when Zhane grinned at her.

"You're blushing," Ashley whispered.

"I am not!" Karone said defensively, still smiling.

"Are we playing?" one of the girls from the other team asked.

"You're sure you're ok?" Ms. Jenkins asked.

Akume looked tempted to say no, but she nodded, taking her place on the court.

Karone did her best to pay attention to the game, but she couldn't help herself from glancing back at Zhane. She did manage not to drop the ball at least, but barely. She noticed Zhane pause at the door, watching her. She grinned, spiking the ball over the net.

"Show off," Cassie murmured to her.

Karone crinkled her nose at her, not bothering to deny it.

They rotated again as the other team rolled ball to Rosa. "I'm really not very good," she warned them. She threw up the ball and hit it towards the net. She missed hitting Challon in the head instead. Rosa gasped. "Are you ok?" she asked hurrying to her girlfriend's side. The other girls moved in closer, all asking a version of the same question.

"You hit me!" Challon said rubbing her head.

"What happened?" Ms. Jenkins called from the other side off the gym.

"It wasn't me. It was Karone," she told her, trying to look innocent. "Are you ok?"

Karone scrunched her nose at her, "Did not."

Challon smiled at them and nodded. Rosa smiled back and kissed her.

"I'm ok," Challon told Ms. Jenkins, still holding her head.

She frowned, "Maybe you should go to the nurse."

"No, I'm ok, really," Challon promised.

"Maybe she should sit out for a while?" Rosa suggested.

"Good idea," Ms. Jenkins agreed.

"And I should probably go with her. Just to make sure she's ok."

Ms. Jenkins raised an eyebrow at her, "All right, just for five minutes. One of you come over here so the teams are even," she told the other team.

A girl named Molly switched over to their side. The rest of the period was more or less uneventful. Challon and Rosa never did come back to the game. Although Karone figured that she couldn't have been hurt to badly since every time she glanced over at them they where involved in various levels of what proved to be a rather lengthy make out session.


"Well I think you two had more fun than we did," Cassie said to Challon and Rosa after class.

"Heh, I'm sure they did," Akume told her.

"Oh leave them alone," Ashley giggled. "I think it's cute."

"Yeah," Karone agreed.

"I didn't say it wasn't," Akume said.

Karone smiled at them all heading for her locker. As soon as she saw her backpack, she groaned, remembering her history test. She sighed, slowly changing back into her clothes.

"You are not still worried about that test, are you?" Ashley asked.

"I can't help it," Karone said, folding up her gym clothes and placing them neatly in her backpack. She didn't know why she did that. They would just get bunched up at the bottom as soon as she picked it up, but she had gotten into the habit of doing it. "You don't know what it's like to have Andros as a brother. My parents expect me to be as good as him in everything. It's not my fault he has no life."

Ashley giggled at her, "Well, I'll try to distract him from his homework more often for you."

Karone smiled as the bell rang, "Thanks, I appreciate that." She gave Ashley a quick half hug, "See you guys at lunch?" Ashley, Challon, Rosa, Cassie, and Akume all called out various acknowledgments and goodbyes as they headed towards their various third period classes.