Flowers in a Garden
Chapter 1: Heather Flower
Pairing: FujixOC
A/N I rewrote the new chapter because I felt like the plot was "o.k" not super amazing.
If you read the chapter before I rewrote it you must read this chapter.
Ayame's personality is the same in a way, but different too. Also the whole plot direction has changed too, instead of Fuji not being known at all, he is, but not for his tennis prodigy skills. He's only known as one of the smart math geniuses (his looks unknown). Uniforms are the same (white t-shirt, black pants, etc.). Sorry if I get some sempai or chan or how they address each other wrong! The school grades are different, it's going to be a American high school system (grades 9-12 for High school) so all the 9 year people (Fuji, Oishi, Kikumaru, Tezuka, Inui) are now 11th graders while Ryoma is a freshman, and Momo and Kaido are sophomores.
Summary: Fuji's not a tennis prodigy. Well he's an unknown prodigy that is. What happens when he gets dragged back into tennis life by a new student? A blooming flower to be added to the garden of things Fuji avoids. One of those things? Love. FujixOC
"KYAAAA IT'S THEM!" the fangirls girls squeled while Eiji and Tezuka walked towards the tennis courts.
"Neh, buchou shouldn't you say anything?" Eiji grinned.
"Oi! Look, its momo-chan! Catch!" Eiji said while he threw the ball. Obviously since he said it while he threw it, momoshiro had no chance. The bright yellow ball smacked him right in the middle of his forehead, leaving a bright red circle shaped mark.
"What was that for?!" Momo roared and threw the tennis ball as hard as he could back towards Eiji. Eiji then swiftly dodged it with a acrobatic cartwheel and stuck his tongue out at Momo.
"You missed you big idiot!" Eiji yelled as The tennis ball though, continued through the
air and sped towards a girl running across the yard.
"Look out!" Eiji and Momo yelled as they ran towards the girl. Suddenly a yellow blur sped from nowhere and hit the speeding ball, causing them to bounce away in different directions.
"What was that?!" Eiji said in a surprised voice while Momoshiro ran to the girl and started to apologize. The girl had dropped all of her books when the ball had almost hit her and now was trying to gather everything back together.
"Do you need help?" Eiji asked as he bounced with a worried expression onto the scene.
"No I'm ok it's only a few books." The girl said in a polite tone while pushing her glasses up. She had a petite looking face with her hair almost completely covered with a black baseball cap. The only part visible was her angled bangs that were parted on the left.
"Are you new to this school?" Eiji asked in a cheery voice as he and momo helped to gather her things.
"Yeah… I just transferred here" she smiled softly. Eiji just grinned back while Momoshiro stayed mysteriously silent.
"Am I late?"
"No way! Don't worry, you're definitely early. School starts at 8:00" Eiji answered.
"You should know Momo since you're late most of the time" he continued with a grin. Usually Momo would go and yell at Eiji or unleash a noogie, but instead he blushed slightly and stared at the floor.
"Momo?" Eiji questioned in a curious voice as he poked the younger tennis player in confusion.
"Thanks for the help. I have to go meet someone" the mysterious girl said as she got up and bowed in thanks.
"Wait! What's your name?" Momo asked while avoiding eye contact.
"Misaki Ayame"
"Sugoi! Such a pretty name" Eiji exclaimed while shaking her hand furiously for some strange reason.
Suddenly she looked at her watch on her luckily free hand and had a panicked expression.
"Sorry I have to go now!" she yelled while she ran off into the distance, her books barely staying on her arms. The two were silent for a moment, but only a moment. This is Eiji remember?
"I'm bored Momo-channnnn" Eiji moaned as he poked and flicked Momoshiro in the head. Suddenly a smile grew slowly on his face in a hyper way.
"How about we find out where the other tennis ball came from!" Eiji grinned as he leapt to his feet. A detective uniform complete with cap and magnifying glass popped out of thin air as Eiji crouched, inspecting style. Momo's face then matched Eiji's face of happiness as they crept over to the bushes and trees in the area it was thought to come from. Rustling through the bushes, they came upon… a small clearing with nothing but leaves and grass.
"No one's here Eiji-sempai" Momo said with a confused expression.
"But I know the tennis ball came from this tree." Eiji frowned. Suddenly a black cap identical to Ayame's dropped down onto the floor.
"What's this?" Momo questioned as he walked slowly up to it.
"Wha-WHAAAA?!" Eiji and Momo yelled as a person fell from the sky. More like the tree through. He was dressed in super-baggy clothes and long sleeves, but still stuck to the uniform. His hair was a light shaggy brown hair and eye shaped in an upside down "u" which made Eiji wonder, could he see like that? The stranger landed swiftly on his feet like a cat (more like a mountain lion! Eiji panicked) while Momo was shock still and pale at the stranger's intimidating aura.
"Can I get my hat back?" he smiled in a sugar coated sweet and terrifying way. Momoshiro just nodded and handed the black object of utter destruction with trembling arms.
"Arigato" he continued his smiling, but with a slightly lighter aura. Once he pulled his cap on, he walked away towards the school. The two turned toward each other with pale faces and abosolutely terrified expressions.
"Who was he?" Eiji asked in a shakey tone.
"Shusuke Fuji. Grade 11, transferred here in the beginning of the year. Hair color brown, excels in math and science." Eiji and Momo waited for the usual "Blood type is… lives at…. Weaknesses are….
"That... that's all I know" Inui said in a wispy voice, horrified at his lack of information. Shock played on everyone's faces as they all seemed to think the same thing. Who was this guy that Inui didn't know about?! He immediately began scribbling what had just happened and his seemed "protectiveness" of his black colored cap. Momo and Eiji scrambled out of the bushes to find that it was 7:59 and that they had one minute to get to class.
"I'M NOT LATE!" Eiji shouted as he ran into the classroom just as the bell rang. The teacher shook his head in a condescending way as Eiji grinned and walked to his desk. Eiji slid quietly into his seat and started to talk to some classmates.
"Today we have a new student transferring to this school. Class, meet Ayame Miskai"
Ayame then shyly stepped in and bowed politely.
"N-nice to meet everybody" she said in a shy voice.
"Ayame-chan sit here! Over here!" Eiji mouthed. The mouthing didn't have much point though because the teacher was glaring right at him.
"Ayame you can go sit in the back next to Fuji Shusuke" the teacher announced, much to Eiji's disappointment.
" senseiiiii, aren't people not allowed to wear hats in school?" a snotty looking girl "chimed" in an annoying voice. She was one of the American transfer students who traveled in those major cliques. Her hair was shock platinum blond while her eyes were a deep green color.
"Sadly to say, Miss Lauren is right. Miss Masaki can you please remove your hat?" had a weird habit of calling everyone miss and mr. so Ayame just frowned as she reluctantly pulled her cap off. Gasps collected through the classroom as Ayame's hair was revealed to be pale white and to add to that, her hairstyle was different from the usual ponytail or wave. It was two ponytails that were turned in a way to form two loose loops.
"Gomen, Tanaki sensei" Ayame apologized as she bowed in her weird but polite fashion. The girls snickered at her strange behavior and weird hair as they began to whisper to each other.
"Ano… Who's Fuji Shusuke?" Ayame said nervously as she looked around the classroom in some attempt to find out who he was.
"That sounds familiar" Eiji wondered.
"Right there" said as he pointed to a guy with a dark black hat that was surprisingly the same exact brand and item.
"Ah! It's the man that fell from the sky!" Eiji exclaimed. The whole class erupted in laughter but a glare from quickly silenced them.
"?"
Fuji remained with his head turned toward the window and with no reaction.
"!" he shouted this time, breaking Fuji out of his reverie and apparent daydream.
"Hat's aren't allowed in this classroom. Neither are sunglasses." He lectured.
"But I forgot my glasses today Tanaki sempai."
"And sunglasses are supposed to help?" sensei asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Well I tried right?" Fuji thought before he removed his hat and sunglasses. The whole class was in shock, because Fuji had managed to keep his hat on from the beginning of when he transferred back here. Of course Fuji was smiling, which didn't help much since some girls absolutely swooned. Ayame almost laughed at them but grimaced at the same time.
"Remember Ayame. Never judge people by their looks. Especially guys" she frowned angrily but sadly. The only one that seemed to notice was Fuji, who made a silent note of it in his head.
"I'll take those" frowned as he grabbed both of their hats.
Mr. Tanaki then began to talk and write on the board about various social studies things. Fuji was about to turn his head and resume staring out the window but a note fell on his desk.
What's this? Fuji questioned in his mind as he opened the paper to find that it said:
You're name is Fuji right? Are you the one who hit the tennis ball earlier so it wouldn't hurt Ayame-chan? –Eiji
Fuji looked up in mock confusion on who Eiji was, but it was obvious as Eiji kept glancing back for a reply and shuffling I his seat. Fuji frowned slightly and wrote his reply on the back of the paper and tossed it back to Eiji. Just because no one in the class remembered him, he knew everyone's name after continuous roll calls. Eiji eagerly opened the note to find only one neat word written on the paper.
No
Eiji turned around sneakily to see Fuji staring out the window and Ayame staring attentively at the board while scribbling some notes.
"Today we'll do some group work. Turn to the person next to you and that person is you're partner. Do questions 1-75 you have the whole period, and if you don't finish then you can do it for homework."
Eiji then reluctantly turned to his partner and began to talk about which questions each of them would do.
"Um… Fuji-sempai, do you want to do odd or even?" Ayame asked with a smile.
"Why do you call me sempai?" Fuji asked in his slightly feminine but still masculine voice.
"Well, actually I'm technically a year younger than everyone else, because since I was born a day before the new year, I'm considered to be actually in 10th grade, but was moved up because of certain reasons" Ayame smiled sheepishly.
"I see... you choose on which you want to do" Fuji smiled right back.
"I guess I'll just…" Ayame paused for a while.
"If I say odd would I seem conceded and cocky? But if I pick even wouldn't I seem like a slacker and want less work? What do I say?!" Fuji caught sight of her utterly confused and nervous expression before he let out a light laugh. A pale blush spread on her face when she heard his light laugh.
"I'll take odd if that's ok with you" Fuji smiled. Ayame just nodded with a grateful smile, just thankful that she didn't have to make the decision. The two hurried to finish their problems while the rest of the class rushed with them, desperate not to have it for homework. After 20 minutes the two looked up simultaneously and blinked in surprise at each other. Ayame's breath hitched as she almost seemed to be swept into the deep cerulean color. Fuji's surprise was that on closer inspection, one of Ayame's eyes was a lighter brown shade than the other. The breathtaking moment seemed to pause time between the two as their eye contact just wouldn't break. Ayame's heartbeat seemed to be louder than ever as all thoughts were swept clear from her mind.
"Are you two finished?" interrupted them and broke them out of their trance like state. Fuji's eyes almost instantaneously closed as his lips turned to his typical smile.
"Amazing" said in an impressed tone as he walked slowly back to his desk to check if the answers were correct. The rest of the class was used to Fuji being the smart one, but now that his appearance was revealed the girls were becoming hyper and even thinking about fan clubs.
"You two can do anything right now" he smiled to them, his expression showing the results of his check. Ayame just stared at her paper and started to doodle while Fuji pulled out a book and started to read.
The rest of the period passes by only with the noise of scribbling pencils and rustling papers. Once the bell rang Eiji practically burst off of his seat and gathered his stuff in hyper speed.
"Hey Ayame-chan what classes do you have?" Eiji asked once he leapt over to Ayame who was still packing up.
"Um, I think I have gym next" Ayame said in a confused tone as she searched through her bag for her new schedule card.
"Hey we have all the same classes together!" Eiji grinned as grabbed her schedule from an open pocket in her book bag.
"I need to get my hat back first though Kikumaru-senpai" Ayame smiled guiltily before glancing towards the teachers desk. To her surprise, there was only was only an empty wooden desk and no teacher.
"Where's ?..." Ayame quickly asked with confusion and worry. Out of the corner of her eye she could see Fuji-sempai frowning with a dark aura as he rustled through his book bag furiously.
"He usually rushes off to see the pretty teacher across the hallway and we have him for homeroom anyways. Also don't call me Kiku-" Eiji's pout was interrupted by the sound of Ayame bursting into seemingly random laughter. Eiji stood confused as she slowly stopped but her smile just wouldn't leave her face. If only Eiji had seen the somehow hilarious sight of Fuji successfully pulling out another cap –now dark blue- out of his book bag while having an expression of extreme relief.
- I rewrote this chapter and shortened it. The part I cut out will be in the next chapter because I changed some very important things. I'm going to try to slow the story down (not to rush into new people, new things) so it's not too much and confusing. Sorry is Fuji is OOC!