Prologue

The room barely had light, only the television screen is the sixteen year old female's light source. Her hands clutch to her blue game system's controller. Sitting on the carpet floor, the teen's grey eyes glue on to the television screen as the colors seems to brighten her grey world. Her body is covered by her blanket that she removes from her bed like a cocoon. She grins when her opponent's health is slowly down as her hands feverously occupy themselves with a combo. The female holds in her breath when her last attack knocks down her opponent's health to zero. She mentally screams in happiness at her victory. Her celebration ended when a familiar theme song caught her attention. She looks down at her right feet to see her purple flip phone's screen lit up in the dark room.

The screen shows the caller's name, she growls in annoyance when she reaches for her cell phone. She flips open the phone and puts it near her ear.

"Hello..." She greets in a monotone voice.

"Ume-chan!" The person at the other side of the phone shouts out. Ume had to pull her phone away from her ear to prevent being deaf. After the person finishes shouting, she stands up on her feet to throw the blanket on her bed. Her grey hair was messy after covering her head with her blanket. She adjusts her blue sweat pants and white tee-shirt. Ume returns her right ear on the cell phone again.

"Is there something you need?" She asks while turning off her game system and television after saving. Ume hears her friend let out a deep chuckle.

"Same as always Ume-chan." He comments, "No, I'm just checking how you are doing. It's been a couple of weeks since I heard from you."

Ume sighs, "Seriously? I'd been busy with a new game I had. It won't kill you if you didn't talk to me for a couple of weeks." She decides to put away a few game cases on the shelf since they take up space on the floor. After cleaning up, she took a seat on the edge of her bed.

"I know but I want to check if you are okay. We had known each other since grade school." He answers over the phone. Ume pauses then speaks up again, "Don't worry, I'm fine. We can hang out someday when you are free from the evil clutches called school."

The female teen heard her friend chuckling over the phone, "Okay okay, we could hang out when I'm free." Ume heard another male voice from the background calling to her friend.

"Ah, Sorry Ume-chan! I have to go! Talk to you next time!" He said before the line cuts out. Ume closes her cell phone then scratches the back of her head. "He is still the same as always." She comments with a tiny smile on her face.

Ume turns to the small picture frame on her nightstand. The old photo had two kids, a grey haired girl of seven years with twin pigtails. She wore a sky blue dress with black sandals. The small girl pouts when the black haired boy beside her held two fingers at the back of her head, motioning bunny ears on the pouting girl. The boy wore a dark green shirt with blue shorts and green sneakers. Behind the children is their old hangout of the park with a playground.

A yawn left her lips when she looks at the red clock that is hung on her wall. Ume looks at the clock to be 6:34pm. 'I shouldn't have stay up last night…' She thought as her body lies on the bed. A soft chime got her attention. She holds her phone to look at the screen.

'One new message.' It says. Ume flips her cell phone to see the message.

"Don't stay up too late Ume-chan and make sure you eat something! I don't want Ume-chan to be sick! With love from Ta-kun!" The message said with happy emoticons at the end.

'This guy…it's hard not to be sick with you around.' Ume thought. With a new set of clothes and eating food, she decides to retire early from her long marathon of playing video games.

"Ugh…what time is it?" Ume mutters out when lifting her head from her pillow. She turns to her clock, it's 7:39 in the morning. A knock on the door caught her attention. Ume watches her door open to reveal a forty year old woman with her black hair tied up into a tight bun. She wore a crème white blouse with blue jeans. The woman held a spatula in her left hand as she waves it at Ume.

"Ume-chan. Time to get up, your teacher is coming here soon." The woman warns her daughter. Ume yawns then slowly gets out of her bed.

"Okay…let me get ready." Ume said. Her mother nods and let her daughter alone to get ready.

Ume walks to one room in the household, her 'study room'. Her study room had a round table with a bookshelf with textbooks. The other bookshelf had a large collection of various types of books for entertainment. She wore suitable clothing as an elderly man greets her. The elderly man wore black square glasses. He looks like in his sixties; still have his white hair on his head.

"Now then Ichiro-san, take out your notebook to write down for new lessons today." The old man said, he motions the whiteboard facing a bored Ume. She reaches for a mechanical pencil and starts listening to her teacher's lesson with a few class paper works as a result

A/N: I'm so pumped to tackle a school life anime in fanfiction form! This is a second anime I tackled that includes school life. Thank you everyone for taking the time to read this! Please be patient with me when I try to upload another chapter for this fanfiction. Thank you!

-Fancybunny