She..She was just a girl with tragic life. Her real name was Mineko Sato but due some things that happened she was now known as Merry Sato.

Merry moved to Inazuma town 1 years ago but she had no idea how involved she is with so many things happening there.

When she was a young girl, she used to live there but after a tragic accident in which her beloved brother and her father lost their lifes , Merry and her mother Takami moved to another town in order to try to learn to live without the people they loved the most. Her brother Katsu was everything to their parents were always busy with work and researching, Katsu was the one looking after Merry, he thought her everything, he was always there for her and after his death, Merry was barely holding herself. She hasn't spoken a word for 2 months, the only way she "talked" was by gestures.

Because all of the things that happened, Takami got sick. The doctors were never able to get to know what the disease was something really rarely met and it was even worse than cancer. Merry knew that she will loose her mother too, so she offered her to go back to Inazuma Town, where they used to live..when they were still one big family. What else she could do..she wanted to feel what "family" was again even for a little while.


Despite all the problems, Takami's daughter still needed to go to school so she transferred to Teikoku Academy. Why? Because this was her brother's school and by being there, she felt somehow closer to him. Katsu was one of the best soccer players that Teikoku had. Actually the year before Kidou joined and became captain, Merry's brother was known as the phenomen of the best soccer club in Japan. Even that he was only a freshman back then, and it was his first year, Katsu was chosen for captain and proved everyone that he deserves to be the leader. The people who were into soccer back then knew his name. Mineko was proud of her brother, she also loved soccer and really enjoyed playing it(the truth is that just like her brother, she was really good at it too).

The day had came. Merry was taking her first step into the school where her everything, her brother was studying. She wasn't sure how the others were going to accept her so it was normal for her to be a little scared and worried. Mineko Sato had long, perfectly straight hair, really nice body, beautiful face and deep blue eyes. Everyone was turning and staring at her, especially the boys but she never even noticed. Merry was actually thinking of herself as something ordinary, something usual, even as something less than all the others.

Back then, when her brother was still alive, she didn't have much friends. Mineko tried to make some but all the tries end up with some big fight…She just wasn't the type who likes drama and other bulls*its. And usually exactly the girls are those who make the whole "drama " and stuff so in the end she preferred to hang out with Katsu and other boys.

Maybe the fact that Merry liked boy's company, is the reason why only after a week after she transfered to Teikoku, the whole soccer team end up being her friends, especially Genda and Sakuma. Since she loved soccer that much, the first thing Mineko has done was going to watch a soccer practice of the ex Japan's number one. And after some days, the boys from the team offered her to join them in their practices. Of course she accepted, what better than playing her favorite game on the field where her brother had played?

The year has passed, one of her best friends Sakuma has become Japan rep, later he and his team won the FFI. But then the tragedy happened. Takami was getting worse and worse and was clear for both Merry and the doctors that she has just a few weeks left. The mother and the daughter decide to go spend their last moments in one of the Sato's residences outside the city.


Hello? Is this Mr. Kidou?

"Yes? Who is that?"

"It's been a while Kidou-san." said Takami to Kidou Yuuto's adoptive father. "I need you to do me one last favor . I can feel that I will be gone soon so I can't leave the things unfinished."

Takami Sato along with her husband had been good friends with Mr. Kidou. The company that Yuuto's father has been running actually belonged to Sato's family. But after the dead of both Sato brothers - Merry and Katsu's father and Yuuto and Haruna's father (Yes. The genius play maker and the Inazuma Japan's manager real father was uncle of Mineko. But for some reason Merry was told that her cousins, her uncle and her aunt has died in the plane crash along with her beloved brother and father. It was true that four of her relatives has died but the children were alive. That plane crash, that "accident" was actually on purpose. It was meant for all members of Sato's family to die but not all of them were on that plane. Because of that Mineko's mother made her daughter to change her name(She changed it to Merry because this was how her cousins and her brother used to call her when they were alive. Why they chose Merry? To them Mineko sounded a bit more serious and Merry was for them a way to call something cute and she was that – a cute little girl with big smile so the name fitted her a lot) and to move to other town, that was the reason for her to decide to separate Merry from her cousins. She was afraid that the one ordered their family's death will start chasing them again. Being away from each other was safer for Yuuto ,Haruna and her daughter.)

The two old friends has met. Takami has left the control over the Sato's company in Kidou's hands because she trusted him. Now was the time to leave not only the company but her daughter's life into his hands.

"Kidou… I know that it was my idea to separate Mineko from Yuuto and Haruna but maybe it was a mistake. Now, that I need to leave someone to take care of my daughter, I want to ask you, to be that one, not only because I trust you, but because I think that the safest place for her is where her family is and that's exactly to Yuuto. I really hope that you can do that for me. I know its maybe too much but.." Said with sad tone the mother.

"Of course I will do it Takami, we've been friends for so long, you and your husband had made so much for me that believe me, I really appreciate the fact that you called me."

Now at least Minako's mother was feeling relief that her child won't go to some orphanage.

Days has passed. Merry was spending every possible minute with the person who gave her life. But then the time came… Her mother passed away. Minako's life was changing again. The pain that she felt, the fear that was into her from the unknown future… She was now going to live with a person she barely knew and if that wasn't enough, she was already at the age to go to high school so the feeling that she wont be around her friends was scaring her too. This was the dawn of a completely new life.


Hello minna! This is my first story and I really hope that you will enjoy it. I put hard work into it and I am planning to turn it into some long story which follows both my OC's life and the Inazuma Japan's members life after graduating Raimon. Since it is the first story I am writing, please don't flame at me, I'm giving my best but no one is perfect. :S Anyways Chapter 2 and 3 are also was something like meeting Merry's past and from now on we gonna see our favorite characters from IA . :)