A/N: I've decided to rewrite this fanfic so please be patient me and hopefully it would be better than the previous one

Reviews would be appreciated~

Sun And Sunflower

Yukimura x OC, Tokugawa x OC, Tanegashima x OC

Chapter One

"Come on...pick up, pick up..."

"There's no need to panic. She'll come out soon."

It had been exactly five minutes since the bell signalling the end of school had rang. Two tall girls were standing right outside the gate, catching attention of students who were leaving for home. The taller one, Haruko, stood at 175 cm. She let out a yawn, forgetting to cover her mouth while she was at it. The other, Koharu, glared while her phone was still pressing to her ear. "How can I not panic? She's supposed to be out by now," Koharu stated, now pacing up and down as she was redialing the number on her phone, listening to it ring without an answer for the umpteenth time.

Haruko let out another yawn, leaning against the wall and closed her eyes. "I physically cannot panic right now. I got off the train after travelling almost four hours and you dragged me here instead of letting me go home to rest." Yet another yawn was on the way but as soon as Haruko opened her mouth, Koharu slapped her hand onto her older sister's face, covering her mouth for her. "Hey!"

"Worry about your sister!"

"Isn't she the manager of the tennis team or something?" Haruko sighed, scratching the back of her head.

Koharu stopped midway dialing and stared at Haruko as if she had said something out of this world. "Why didn't you tell me that before I called her like twenty times?" Snapping her phone shut, Koharu stormed onto the campus. The crowd of students had thinned out and having been students at Seigaku before, the sisters were familiar with the grounds. Following behind Koharu sluggishly, Haruko was looking around the campus instead of looking for her sister. The campus still looked the same from when she was last here three years ago. The only changes she could notice was the walls being repainted over. "Woah...these are the courts?"

Haruko snapped out of her personal sightseeing and looked to see what amazed Koharu. The rest of the school had not changed but the tennis courts definitely did. Haruko was impressed too. They looked brand new and there were definitely a few more courts than there were when she was there. The equipments looked new and the team looked promising. The eldest of the Kobayashi sisters walked right past her younger sister and gripped onto the fence, watching the practice going on with a grin on her face. She was proud of her mother school. She was proud of what the tennis team had become. But while she was reminiscing, Koharu headed straight for the gate into the courts although she was not allowed in.

"May I help you?"

A member, clad in a blue jersey, stepped in front of Koharu to stop her from entering the courts. He looked at the girl with a frown and Koharu rose an eyebrow, standing up straight, clearly standing taller than the boy was yet he was not intimidated. That put a frown on Koharu's face, seeing as the Kobayashi sisters were rather feared when they were in Seigaku. Middle school students were really getting bold nowadays.

"I'm looking for someone. Do you know a Kobayashi Haruka?"

"Haruka-senpai? She's right over there."

The boy pointed across the court but as Koharu looked too, she frowned. There was no one where he pointed except for a ball basket. "Are you playing me?" she asked. He frowned deeply and looked around the courts but could not see the tiny brunette girl that Koharu was looking for. "I don't have all day, boy. Where is she?"

"She was right there!"

In truth, Haruka saw Haruko and Koharu coming from afar. She was counting the tennis balls as she was putting them back into the basket, making sure that they had as many as they started with when a deep gut feeling told her to look up. That was when she recognised the two figures coming toward the tennis courts. As Fuji was walking by the girl, she grabbed him and used his body to shield herself. Haruka was still squatting, holding onto Fuji's sweatpants as she was slowly maneuvering over to the gate. It seemed as if her sisters had yet to notice her. It was not that Haruka did not want to go home with them but today was Wednesday and she always went there on Wednesdays and Fridays.

"Is everything okay, Haruka?" Fuji asked, looking down at the manager and his fellow classmate.

When Haruka first transferred to Seigaku in the middle of their first year, Fuji's first impression was that of a shy, cute girl. She was assigned the seat next to him and as time went by, he got to know her better and well, Haruka was far from being a shy, cute girl. She was an oddball. And well...in some ways, Fuji was too. He supposed that was the reason why they got along so well with each other. Even so, squatting so close to the ground that she was almost using her knees to walk while using him as a shield was a new level of odd that even Fuji did not understand.

"My sisters are here," Haruka stated.

"Are they...monsters?"

"I'm not here for your jokes right now, Shu-kun," Haruka glared. "Just get me out of here before they see me."

"Why? Will they stop you from going to Kanagawa?"

Haruka froze but soon resumed her escape. "Just keep walking, Shu-kun." Fuji chuckled softly and continued walking as her human shield. They managed to make it out of the courts without being seen by any of the Kobayashi sisters, leading to a huge sigh of relief by Haruka. "Thanks, Shu-kun. I'll see you tomorrow!" Before Haruka could run off, Fuji grabbed her by the elbow, looking down at her with his signature smile. "Shu-kun?"

"I'm suddenly feeling like a trip to Kanagawa," Fuji smiled.

An eyebrow was raised and Haruka freed her elbow. It was no secret that she would sneak off to Kanagawa regularly but no one ever questioned her (they only asked where she was going initially but stopped asking eventually). This was a sudden request from Fuji, considering he never really poked his nose into her business before. They were good friends but they had a mutual understanding and a barrier that they never crossed for each other. Fuji sensed her confusion but it seemed like he was still insisting on coming along with her.

"Fine."

And so, they ended up sitting side by side on the train to Kanagawa. It felt a little awkward to have someone else travelling with her. And they were not talking. Fuji seemed to be mesmerised by the scenery while Haruka was trying to think of a way to shake him off.

"Don't even think about shaking me off," Fuji suddenly voiced.

To say that Haruka was shocked was an understatement. Fuji could only chuckle at her reaction, knowing that she was asking how he managed to read her mind silently. But him chuckling only confused her further as she was probably thinking how he knew that she was wondering how he read her mind. "Do you have some kind of superpower, Shu-kun?"

"I don't. But you're an open book, Haruka. Everything's written on your face," Fuji stated.

Her cheeks puffed out and Haruka touched her face as if she could feel her expressions with her own hands. "Am I really that easy to read?" she asked. But thinking about it, everything in her life would make sense. She always wondered how Haruko and Koharu managed to know what exactly it was that she never wanted them to do to her. She always thought her older brother had some kind of mind reading power too, like she thought Fuji, because he seemed to always know what she was thinking about. Even Eiji would tease Haruka, saying that she would never win a poker game.

"But there's still a lot I don't know about you," Fuji added. "Like is there a reason for why our dear manager was not at the Finals against Rikkai Dai?"

"No reason in particular."

"Hm...you're not a very good liar, Haruka," Fuji pointed out. "Let me take a guess...it has something to do with your regular trips to Kanagawa?" Haruka kept quiet because she knew there was no fooling Fuji. She had told Eiji before that she was simply going to Kanagawa to visit her grandmother. But there was no grandmother in Kanagawa. "You transferred from Rikkai Dai, did you not? With your grades, it should not be hard for you to stay there. So there's another reason why you left?"

"Some things are better left unknown, Shu-kun," Haruka sighed, looking out of the window, watching as they were passing by the scenery.

Folding her arm and resting it on the chair, against the window, Haruka placed her head on her arm to rest. The rest of the journey was traveled in silence as Fuji could sense that he was prodding a little too much. Haruka was a bright girl. Had always been one since the day he met her. But it was just a front that she was putting on. The Haruka right now, the one staring out of the window without a single smile, was the real Haruka and she was hiding a lot about herself.

Existing the train onto the platform when they arrived, Fuji excused himself to go to the bathroom and Haruka waited for him by the exit. Everything was still so familiar yet foreign to her, considering how often she visited. She used to take the train everyday, to and from school. He would walk her to the station everyday and every morning, without fail, he would be waiting for her so they could walk to school together. Even though everything had changed since then, Haruka still found herself looking through the crowd for his face. There was still the tiniest hope in her that he would come and get her.

All she got, instead, was sudden chills down her spine as a can of drink was stuck under her neck. Haruka yelped and nearly slapped her palm against Fuji's cheek if he did not dodge. But he definitely deserved a slap. With the way he was smiling, Haruka knew he did it on purpose and was satisfied with the way she reacted to him. "You're not very nice, Shu-kun. That was unnecessary."

"You were so deep in thoughts that you didn't hear me call so I thought to bring you back to reality," he smiled, still offering her the drink he used to prank her with. "You must be thirsty after that train ride."

"Thanks..."

"Where to now? I suppose you should give me a tour?"

Letting out a deep sigh, Haruka finally smiled at Fuji and nodded. There was no other way about it. There was no shaking Fuji which meant that her original plan was interrupted. Since they were already here, she might as well show him around. "Let's go to the temple then. There are some places for food on the wall too. If we're lucky, the granny who sells fruits is opened today. She's really nice, she practically watched me and Koharu-nee grow up."

"So even Haruka has such a cute story like that," Fuji smiled.

"What does that mean?"

"I just thought that with your older brother playing pro tennis, you would have all grown up playing tennis or some kind of sports too. I imagined that your family is full of athletes and you eat your meals doing push-ups."

"You're so weird..." Haruka mumbled. "You're not far off though. Dad is a police. He knows martial arts and used to train regularly at a gym. Onii-chan started playing tennis at five. Haruko-nee played too and they used to train with each other. They played mix doubles together and they've won a lot of medals. I went to watch onii-chan play at a competition once, when I was seven, and I started playing a little too back then. But I stopped after a few years."

"You do play," Fuji hummed. "I should play a game with you some time."

Haruka giggled, shaking her head. "You're not going to get much out of it. I barely remember the different grips now."

"Is there a place here to play tennis?" Fuji suddenly asked. "A street court? Or perhaps one of those place you can rent to hit a few balls?"

"But we were going to the temple..."

"We can go another day. I'm intrigued now that I know you play," Fuji smiled. "Saa...you wouldn't want me to carry you there now, would you Haruka?"

At that, Haruka quickly led the way to a street court that she knew of. It was filled with students already, coming straight here after school, but the duo managed to get a court for themselves. Setting her bag down, Haruka sighed softly to herself. She had no idea why she agreed to this because first of all, she was not dressed appropriately for the sport. She had shorts underneath her skirt but she was still wearing her uniform. Not to mention that she was missing the key ingredient to playing tennis; a racket.

As if he read her mind, Fuji presented a racket to Haruka. "It's not a gift," he teased. "I'm letting you borrow it just for today." Haruka uttered a thank you, knowing that there was no way she could back out of this now. Taking the racket from Fuji, she was stopped instantly and the tennis genius corrected her grip on the racket before letting her get on the court, going to the opposite side himself.

Fuji tested Haruka's skills at first, serving the ball to her gently. Surprisingly, the memory of her tennis playing days was coming back and her body would move by itself, hitting the ball back. After a few rounds of testing, they were finally moving on to playing a game. Fuji gave her a handicap, promising that he would not use any of his counters on her. Not that he would need to anyway, because Haruka's skills was nowhere near his. She could get away with playing street tennis for a game or two but to play against a regular member of a tennis team seemed a little far-fetched.

And just as anyone would have guessed, Haruka was absolutely crushed by Fuji. She never knew why she agreed to a bet with him, since she knew fully well that she would never win. Perhaps it was the competitive gene in her that ultimately pushed her to agreeing but now she was regretting every second of it. First, she had to accept a tennis lesson from Fuji before being sent off to get drinks and some snacks for both of them. Her classmate's excuse was that she knew the area better than he did so it was only natural that she would be running the errands but Haruka knew that he was taking advantage of the fact that he won.

"There's no need for you to see me off, Yukimura-kun," Hikaru smiled, putting a hand on the young captain's shoulder. "I know my way around the area. I used to go to school here after all."

"It's only right for me to see you off, Kobayashi-senpai. I really appreciate you coming to see the team."

"I'm busy in Australia nowadays but I really wanted to come and see my mother school now that I'm back on break," Hikaru said. "It was really nice to see so many talented players. Looks like Rikkai had not slip while I was gone."

"We still have a long way to go, senpai. We lost the Nationals this year so we have a lot to work on."

Give Yukimura's shoulder a little squeeze, Hikaru let go of the boy. He attended Rikkai too and he knew the pressure they all had to be perfect when it came to winning. Hikaru was lucky that he was born a few years ahead of the current Rikkai team because he knew he would never make the cut, even when he was a professional now. Just as he was about to say something else to the captain, something caught Hikaru's eyes and the word that left his lips was completely different to what he originally intended to say.

"Haruka?"

The girl's name caught Yukimura's attention too. Both of them looked in the same direction to see the girl they both knew well running somewhere with several things in her arms. Yukimura had grown quite used to Haruka's regular visit since his hospitalisation. She never came back, not even once, since her transfer to Seigaku but since the discovering of his illness, he would catch her watching from a distance at the hospital. It was from Sanada that Yukimura found out Haruka was at the hospital the entire time during his surgery and only left when she knew he survived it. Nowadays, he would often see her hiding in a corner near their practice courts watching them. Not once did she ever come out from hiding to greet them. So Yukimura continued to pretend as if he did not know of her presence.

He thought it was rather odd that she was not in her usual corner today but when he saw Hikaru visiting, he dismissed it, thinking that Haruka must have gone home early to welcome her brother home. So what was she doing in the area, running somewhere with what looked like drinks and snacks?

Yukimura was not the only one curious after seeing the girl as Hikaru followed right after Haruka. The captain followed too. It had been too long since he last saw Haruka properly. They had not spoken since she left Rikkai and Yukimura never knew why she left either. He only remembered that she was not there at their usual meeting place one day and after a few days of disappearance, the teacher announced that Haruka would not be coming back to school. Through Sanada and his own mother did Yukimura know that Haruka had transferred to Seigaku instead but no other information was given to him.

Hikaru's phone ringing snapped Yukimura back to reality. They were still tailing Haruka but it seemed as if she had not noticed them. It worried Yukimura a little to see for himself how unaware Haruka was of her surrounding. What if it was a bunch of thugs following her?

"Yeah, I'm on my way home," Hikaru said, his phone pressed to his ear. "Really? Because I'm looking at her right now. Yeah, I'll bring her back with me, don't worry. Tell mum we'll be home on time for dinner. Alright, I'll see you soon. Bye."

Haruka turned the corner down the street and Yukimura recognised the place instantly. This was the road that led to the street courts that quite a few people he knew would play at. He never knew Haruka to be one of them, however. He never even knew she played anymore. But things soon made sense when Fuji came into the picture. Haruka was sat beside the genius on the bench with a bright smile on her face. Fuji opened a drink, handing it to Haruka, sharing the snack that she was carrying just moments ago.

It was a rather familiar sight to Yukimura, seeing that he used to be the one sitting next to Haruka. While Yukimura hung back, Hikaru walked right up to the duo without a second thought. "Kobayashi Haruka."

"Onii-chan!"

Fuji looked to see who had interrupted them. Seeing Hikaru standing tall and rather scarily, Fuji stood up and greeted the older boy with a bow. Not only was he emitting a scary older aura, one that Fuji himself would sometimes give out, but Hikaru was easily recognisable as the professional tennis player who was currently the nation's pride. He just never thought he would be seeing the player himself up close.

"Koharu told me that you ran away from them," Hikaru said, his tone of voice so stern that even Fuji did not dare to have a smile on. "Is this what you ran away from your sisters for? To come on a date?"

"This is not a date," both Fuji and Haruka answered at the same time.

"You do know that I come home today, right?" Hikaru asked. "And Haruko came back from Osaka too."

"I was going to go home..." Haruka mumbled. It was half a lie. She was still going to make her usual trip to Kanagawa before going home. Except there was a little change in plan today, with Fuji tagging along. "And of course I knew onii-chan was coming home today. But you went to Rikkai first, didn't you?"

Putting his hands up in the air, Hikaru finally smiled. "Alright, guess we're even then," he laughed, pulling Haruka in for a hug and ruffled her hair affectionately. "I missed you, pumpkin." Haruka wrapped her arms around her older brother, giving him a tight squeeze as she told him that he was missed too. "Shall we head home together? I told Koharu that I would bring you home in time for dinner."

"Guess our Kanagawa trip has been cut short then," Fuji smiled. "If you don't mind, Kobayashi-senpai, I'll be tagging along on the train back. It's a real pleasure to meet you."

"You too, kid," Hikaru smirked. "It's rare to see this munchkin here with friends," Hikaru teased, pinching Haruka's cheeks. "Only friends I ever saw her make were Sanada-kun and Yukimura-kun. Speaking of," he frowned, looking over his shoulder to see where Yukimura was but the blue-haired male was nowhere to be seen. "Never mind then. Shall we get going then?"

"Can you please stop pinching my cheeks then, onii-chan?"