It was a peaceful morning, birds were chirping, and the sunlight was shining on a certain apartment building, through the windows and closed curtains. Residing in this apartment room was a girl with above-shoulder length copper hair, probably about 16 years old. She was still asleep, snoring quietly, with a bandaged teddy bear right next to her.

"Every cake should be strawberry shortcake…" the girl mumbled.

Suddenly, an alarm clock began to ring. Startled, the girl got up and ended up falling to the ground. Quickly, she stopped the alarm clock, folded the covers on her bed, and attempted to get changed. When she opened her eyes, however, she realized something that she had been forgetting the whole time.

"Oh, yeah," she said. "I'm not at home anymore!"

Sometime later, the girl, named Nishizumi Miho, got dressed in her school uniform. After making sure that her room's door was locked, she walked down the staircase leading to the first floor of the apartment. It had not been a long time since she had moved to her new school, the Ooarai Girls High School. She was still on the process of getting used to this new life, but was hopeful that this place would grant her a normal, yet peaceful life.

On the streets, a yellow 1993 Efini RX-7 Type R was cruising along the road. Driving this world-renowned Japanese sports car was a young adult man with spiky yellow hair, seemingly about 23 years old.

'Ooarai's schoolship certainly is a nice place,' he thought in his mind while looking around. 'Not bad at all.'

The man was enjoying his travel around the town. His name was Takahashi Keisuke, a well-known Super GT racer. Two days ago, he, along with his teammates, had taken aboard on Ooarai's schoolship via a car carrier vessel as a purpose of sight-seeing. The next race at the Suzuka Circuit was still about a month away, so there was no major hassle. They had the opportunity to get a room on a local ryokan and settle in it.

Keisuke had no doubt that Ooarai's ship, though not as good as his school's, had reminded him a lot of his days as a high school student. The ship in which his school was situated was immense, and he always enjoyed being able to see a broad ocean from the town.

'Those were the days.'

The FD driver stopped at the intersection when something caught his attention. A young girl stepped out of the entrance of an apartment, and began to walk along the sidewalk in a direction opposite to the yellow FD's. Keisuke could tell that the girl was going to a school; she was clad in clothes that looked obviously like a school uniform for girls. In addition, she was carrying along with her a school bag, much like all the other students heading for a school.

But it wasn't this that made him turn his attention towards the girl; it was her appearance. Even from a distance, Keisuke could identify the girl's coper hair that had almost reached her shoulder. What's even more weird was that it seemed so familiar to him, as if it was reminding him of someone.

And finally, when the girl got closer to his FD, the yellow-haired man realized that it was the person he had thought. As she walked pass by, the scene of a tank sliding down a rocky slope and falling into the river drifted into the young man's mind. Shocked by what he had just seen, Keisuke took a bit of a moment to recover. Without hesitating, he turned his FD around and drove after the girl, but maintained a slow speed and some distance from her, as to not let her notice him.

After watching some GuP videos related to Initial D on Youtube, I had managed to come up with an idea for this story. Ryosuke and the other racers will appear in future chapters, and I'll try to update as regularly as possible.

As a side note, the Red Suns members here are in their New Initial D the Movie selves.