It was during her second year at Raijin High School in East Ikebukuro when her life changed drastically. Although, it didn't happen all at once or in a short period of time like some badly written Hollywood movie script. No, in fact it actually took quite some time before she was introduced to, and actually interact with, the infamous man at school that would change the course of her life forever.

The first few weeks back at school was no different than any other return from break. they were assigned new homerooms, she was forced to get to know a few of her classmates better, and the she was thrust off into the busy world of high school. This included the many favorites of all students; tests, quizzes, and projects, oh my! This wasn't much of a problem for her though; she never really had a problem with her grades. It's not as if she thought she was particularly smart or anything, she simply just did her work, but there was no doubt that Mizushima Yua was the smartest girl in her year.

School was always so boring to her; it was too easy sometimes. She wasn't really the type to find fun in monotonous work and pointless assignment, especially when she would finish the assignments very quickly. While, yes, there were some classes she enjoyed and the few clubs she had joined, school was just so droll. It didn't help that her social skills were worse than a rock's. Because of her lack of social skills and good grades, all of her classmates thought she was the type to do nothing but study and do school work. All work no play.

"Mizushima-san you're always getting A's. You must be really smart! Would you mind helping me out in math?"

"Oooh! Could you help me out with world history then too? There is a test coming up and I can't fail another one!"

She couldn't though, not that she didn't want to. She really emdid/em want to help them. The truth was though, she couldn't help any of them, or anybody at all. She was the world's crappiest teacher. Even if she wanted to, she wouldn't know where to start. She simply did not understand how those around her could not comprehend what she could. She could get almost any answer to questions but explaining how she got it to someone else, that was near impossible. She could definitely cross off teacher on her possible careers list.

She was well known throughout the school as the girl to ask for the question on a worksheet. That was it. Not the girl to invite to parties, or the girl with hot new boyfriend, or not even the girl to talk nasty about. She was simply the girl people asked to copy her homework. she could count up the number of close friends she had on only a single hand: 1. That's it. One. His name was Nakahara Haru and he was that cliché 'been best friends since forever' friend. His and Yua's family had known each other for a long time, so she was basically forced to be around him all the time, so she just found it easier to be his friend. He is not all that bad though, if you can get past that melodramatic, flamboyant personality of his.

"Girl you need to loosen up and just have a little fun. You don't always have to take things so seriously."

This phrase was the one he would most frequently would use. Every time Yua would pass on a party of his or anything involving other people, he would say this to her. Its not that she took everything super serious, its just that she had to keep her grades up in order to make it into a good university, not to mention the fact she gets extremely uncomfortable around people she doesn't know.

However the latest time Haru had said this to her, she had a legitimate excuse for bailing. Her teacher had given she a 'special' assignment that she had basically forced her into. And I quote 'If you don't do this I will make you clean the classroom everyday by yourself". Oooh! She knew just how to get to her! She was a good teacher though, and a wonderful lady. She had been giving the job of tutoring one of her fellow classmates in a subject he would no doubt fail without any assistance, not that he would do any better with her as his tutor

"Sorry, I really can't this time, Haru. I have to tutor Heiwajima Shizuo today."