Silence is Golden but Darkness is all Mine

Disclaimer: I own nothing, only my OC's

Chapter One: Miu Kawashi

A short, red headed girl strolled through the large doors of a large mansion and, dropping her bag and taking off her shoes, she walked into the kitchen and sat on a stool. In front of the girl was an elder woman, about her mid-thirties. She was reading a stack of papers in front of her with a frown of her face, but this went unnoticed by the young girl. "Okaa-san," she started looking towards her mother, "what are you doing?"

The women looked up somewhat startled, as if she didn't know the small girl had walked in and placed herself in front of her. "Oh! I was just… uh… reading this note from my boss, honey…" she drifted off with a faraway look on her face.

The redhead's face scrunched up. "We don't have to go over to his house for dinner again, do we?"

"No, honey…"

"Okay good, his house smells like kitty litter…" The women laughed at her daughter's comment, but it soon died away as she once again looked at the paper she was holding. In dark black letters, the first line of the paper read, "To all employs of Bijinesu Co. I regret to inform you that our company has been shut down..." The women closed her eyes and sighed. She had just lost her job as co-owner of the company Bijinesu Co. and now she would have to start looking for a new job, her husband's repair company couldn't possibly support the four of them.

Just then a small boy, about the size of the girl, ran into the room. He was covered in dirt and had a huge smile on his face. "Nao!" the girl screamed as her little brother hugged her. "You stink! Get off me!" She pushed him away and he fell over and onto his butt. He looked shocked for a split second before grinning again and standing up to walk over to the refrigerator. He pulled out an orange and then sat down on the table next to his sister. This caused her to scoot her chair way from his to avoid the mucky smell that the boy had surrounding him.

The elder women sighed once again in misery as she watched her two children, they where her pride and joy. She knew that telling them that they had to move would crush them, especially the girl since she had made so many friends over the years, despite her disability. She cringed at the thought. When she was first born they had no idea, it only ever occurred to her and her husband that their only daughter was blind when she would never react when they gave something to her or when she would stare off into space when they put her on the floor to play. They had thought it was normal, them never having a child before so how would they know? But when she had started to walk, she would constantly run into objects, but would never cry out. Being overly concerned she had urged her husband to take their daughter to the hospital, her not being able to go anywhere seeing as how she was several months pregnant with their second child.

Hours of worry later he had come home with the small redhead, the latter sleeping in his arms as he held her tight. Sadness was etched into his face as she walked up to him, asking what was wrong. He told her, he had said that the doctors thought her motor skills where under developed. He had done some tests on her and they found nothing wrong with her. The last test they did was a simple physical, it was that test that the doctors finally found out what was wrong.

Kawashi Miu, their little girl, was blind.

They cried that night, and several nights after that. Miu, sensing that something was wrong, would come over to then when they cried and would try to make them laugh, she would talk her toddler talk or do something odd that would usually make her parents laugh. Once they realized that the very person they had been crying for was trying to make them feel better they stopped crying. They never cried in front of her again, never wanting to worry her again, she had enough to worry about already.

Thinking of their daughter's well being they had researched online way that would help her. They had found many things that can help a blind person move around, a walking stick or a dog for example. But when they showed her these things and tried to make her use them she refused. When they asked why she replied in a voice that would make others think that she was the adult and her parents where the child.

"I don't need these things because other people need them more then I do. I can live without them, just like Naoki does! Besides, Icansee mommy!" This shocked her parents' very core, she could see?

They then rushed her to the hospital, leaving little Naoki with the nanny, and the doctors did hundreds of tests on her. Hours of worry and hope later the doctors came out of the room with young Miu holding his hand. The parents looked at their personal family doctor with hope, but it was soon shot down as soon as he shook his head at them.

"After many tests we have concluded that there are a few small ligaments still working in her eyes. But we have found that she can, mercilessly, see with her eyes closed. She can only see the shapes and auras of other people however, she cannot see colors and she cannot see with her eyes open."

"Isn't there anything we can do, Doctor?"

"The only thing that can help her see again is if she gets an eye transplant, but to do this the person that agrees with the switch has to have a healthy pair of eyes and has to have the same blood type as Miu, or else the process will not work."

Miu was type O. Her father was type A, and her mother was type B.

They went home after that, small hope in their hearts that one day their daughter will be able to see.

That was eight years ago, there was still no one with blood type O that was willing to go on with the transplant.

The elder women spent the next hour or so making dinner for her family, in that time her husband came home and she broke the news to him, he was shocked at first but then realized what they had to do. Once dinner was served and eaten the parents stopped their children from running off to their rooms. The younger two stared at their parents and waited from them to continue.

Hesitantly they told them, everything. They were shocked to say the least, Naoki was slightly excited to see where they where they were about to go next, but Miu was an entirely different story. She sat there tears streaming down her face as she stared off into space. When they asked her if she was okay she snapped. She started screaming about how it wasn't fair, how she couldn't leave her friends behind, how she didn't want to move to a new school, she didn't want to be treated differently there. She wanted to stay where she was, with her friends that accepted her for who she was and loved her for what she didn't have. She stood up and ran to her room, tripping several times sense she wasn't concentrating on where she was doing. She sat in her room and cried, she had never cried more in her life then she did at that very moment.

Two years later.

Miu walked down the stairs of her home and into the kitchen, she sat down next to her brother as he ate his cereal in silence. A bowl was placed in front of her by her smiling mother. Today was just another day; they seemed to all run together for some odd reason? They had moved to the other side of the Kanto region and bought a new house and enrolled Miu and Naoki into Seigaku, Naoki, who last year went to the elementary building and was now going to Seigaku as a first year.

After only eating half of her breakfast Miu and Naoki got up from the table, leaving their bowls for their mother to clean up, and moved to the door to put on their shoes and head out for another day of school.

They soon parted ways as they entered the school, Miu having to go up to the third floor while Naoki stayed on the first. She climbed the stairs slowly, no one else was around seeing as how she was early, and she walked down the hall and towards a door that had her teacher's presence in it. Sliding open the door she was greeted with a slightly surprised hello as she sat down in the back of the class room, all the way in the corner. She set her things down and sat down in her chair as she waited for the next ten minutes for classes to start.

-xx-

"Ne, ne, Fujiko-chan!" a bouncy red head shouted out as he somehow managed to bounce around a short, honey haired boy as they walked up the stairs to their classroom.

The smaller boy chuckled as they made their way towards their class room, passing many other students that threw then curious glances. "Yes, Eiji? What can I do for you?"

"Nya~! Are you still coming over after practice?" He tilted his head to the side as he stopped in front of his friend, causing said friend to stop also.

"Why, of course! Wouldn't want to break out tradition, now would I?" he grinned at the boy, who grinned right back before opening their classroom door. There were only a few students inside; you could count them all on one hand if you really wanted to. Eiji bounced into the classroom and over to a seat, in the second-to-last row and six seats away from our blind heroin. He dropped his bag to the ground before plopping himself down on the chair, soon the seat to his left was occupied by his short friend.

"Nya… we sure did get here early…" Eiji stared in amazement at the three other people in the room. Two of the three were in the front of the classroom looking closely at the screen of a game boy. Eiji looked at the third student, who occupied a seat all by herself. "Ne... Fujiko... Who's that?" he tilted his chin slightly so his friend would know who he was talking about.

"Hmm?" Fuji turned around to look at the girl who was staring at her desk, not particularly doing anything, just sitting there. "I think that's Kawashi Miu. She transferred her last year, don't you remember?" Eiji only furrowed his brow and waited for Fuji to continue. "How can you not remember? She transferred half-way through the year, and didn't approach anyone or talk to anyone for that matter. She has no friends because she's so quiet. Last year several people tried to befriend her, including you, but she shot them down. How can you not remember? You went up to her on her second day and practically scared her half to death. You screamed your name then hugged her shouting out how cute she was. She freaked out and ran away, and when you tried to talk to her again she ignored you."

Eiji stared at him.

"I don't remember that…" Fuji adorned a hopeless look before turning back in his seat to face the board once again. Eiji remained staring at the girl, who seemed to fidget in her seat, until class started and he was forced to look forward towards the board.

Miu stopped fidgeting in her seat once she felt Eiji's eyes leave her. She wouldn't even have minded him staring at her if she didn't know who she was. Most people stare at her because they wonder why she's always alone, but she remembers this boy from last year, the boy that was exactly like one of her old best friends, loud, energetic, and not afraid to have people hear what they say. It hurt her just to have that boy near her, so she ran whenever he was around, hid until he forgot about her. But now it seems as though she will have to go through the whole process again just to get him to stay away from her.

"Kawashi-san!" the blind red head flinched when the teacher yelled out her name. "Would you like to tell the class what you are dreaming about?" She sunk in her chair as everyone in the room turned around to look at her.

"A-ah, no... Sensei...," she mumbled, turning her head to face the floor, face beat red with embarrassment.

"Then make sure to pay more attention and to stop zoning out in my class!" the teacher then turned back to the board and continued on with his lesson. Miu sighed in relief but then tensed up as she felt a two pair of eyes on her.

Eiji and Fuji.

The two said boys, although the latter was doing a better job of hiding it, were staring at her. Eiji was almost fully turned around in his seat while Fuji just had his head tilted slightly, eyes only cracked open.

Eiji had his head tilted to the side in wonder as he stared at the girl. He could swear he had seen her before, besides their meeting last year. He felt as though he had seen her in a photograph or newspaper before. He tried to imagine her in black and white but he soon gave up and turned around, totally oblivious to the fact that his best friend was staring at the red headed girl, and oblivious to the fact that he, too, felt the same feeling that he did.

-xx-

The bell soon rang and everyone stood from their seats and gathered their things, eager to leave the school grounds and go home and relax. Three of these students lagged behind, however, two of them not really eager to go to practice and the third just waited for everyone to leave so she could get out of the school easier. As they were all packing up their school supplies Miu had dropped her English book. She bent down to pick it up when it was suddenly shoved in her face before she could reach it. She stiffened not because someone grabbed the book before her, no she stiffened because of the person holding her book.

Kikumaru Eiji. The very person she tried to avoid all of last year.

She shakily took the book out of the boy's hands and put it slowly into her bag. "Arigato...," she mumbled before she spun around and tried to make her escape out the classroom door. Key word, tried.

"Chotto matte!" the energetic redhead called out, and being raised to be a polite and kind child, she stopped in her tracks and slowly turned around to face the two boys.

"..Hai?"

"What's the rush, nya?" he asked after a moment of silence, even though Eiji knew full well the reason why she wanted out of the room was because of him.

"U-uh… no reason... Really…"

A smile sprung onto his face, although it went unseen by our heroin, as he got an idea. "Great! Then you can come to watch our tennis practice, nya!" Eiji was determined to find out why she looked so familiar.

Miu was trapped, she couldn't just turn down his offer for that would be rude, plus she already said that she was in no rush to leave school. She was cornered, and because of that she mentally cursed to herself as she sighed on the outside. The two boys chose to ignore this as Eiji yelled out in victory and grabbed her hand as he rushed her out the door, Fuji following close behind, wonder how this would turn out.

Miu was dragged all the way to the tennis courts only falling a few times but Eiji and Fuji supported her from falling flat on her face, because of this she was slightly grateful and didn't really mind going to the tennis courts to 'watch' them play. They walked over to the side lines of the tennis courts and Eiji gently pushed Miu down, as if doing that would make her stay there during the whole practice. Fuji, who was right behind them the whole time, placed her bag gently down next to her. He had taken it after the first time she almost fell on her face, he succeeded on taking the bag from her and putting it on his shoulder after a lot of protest from the short girl. She seemed to really favor it.

Wonder why?

The two tennis regulars started to walk away after Eiji made it clear that he wanted Miu to stay in the spot the whole practice and watch them. Then after that he made it pretty clear that they would both walk her home. As the two set off toward the locker rooms Fuji hung back a little and said that he had forgot his bag back by the bench, Eiji waved him off as Fuji turned around, his back pack clearly visible on his back.

Miu fidgeted on the bench, not quite sure why she didn't just get up and leave to go home, perhaps it was the longing of the sport in front of her that kept her there, because it certainly wasn't because of the redhead that dragged her here. Having made up her mind that she would just go to the street courts with Naoki if she wanted to play she made a motion to get up and grab her bag when she was stopped.

"Now where do you think you're going, hmm, Kawashi-chan?" Miu froze as she turned slowly towards her third year class mate, totally freaked out that she didn't sense him coming. "You wouldn't be planning to leave now, would you? After all the work Eiji did to bring you down here? Tsk, tsk, Kawashi-chan." Fuji spoke as if he was talking to a child that was just caught doing something they weren't suppose to do.

"U-uh… I was just... Uh…"

"Stretching so you could be more comfortable while you sit here for two hours? Great idea!" Fuji grinned as he gently placed his hands on her shoulders and pushed her down. Miu stared in his direction in awe, as if she expecting him to yell at her instead of the response she got. She sat back down on the bench as Fuji smiled at her; he started to walk back towards the locker rooms when he suddenly stopped.

"He's not that bad you know… Eiji that is," he spoke softly, looking off towards the tennis courts to see the freshman setting up the courts. "He might come on a little strong but he means well. Don't be too bothered by him, he just wants to get to know you, befriend you that's all. Is that really too much to ask?" On that note Fuji turned his attention back to his previous destination and walked away like nothing had happened.

Miu's blind eye widened in shock. How did Fuji know that she was just trying to push Eiji away because she didn't want to befriend him, because she didn't want someone so energetic as a friend? As she pondered over way that Fuji could have possibly known-there were none-tennis practice had started.

"Regulars, gather round!" the captain, Tezuka, ordered as said members approached him. "I wanted to say good job at the Fudomine game yesterday, good work. But don't let this win cloud your judgment of all our other opponents. As we get further into the tournament our opponents will get more difficult to beat and I warn all of you to not let your guard down. That is all," the very strict third year said, as he finished his speech and the group went their separate ways to train. Today seemed to be a self training day, most of the regulars went over to the equipment room to get weights so they could work up their endurance. They rest of the team, as in Fuji, Eiji and a few others, stayed on the court to have practice matches.

Eiji and Fuji paired up with the other two that stayed for practice matches, an egg shaped black haired boy and a tall muscular boy with side-burns, and walked onto the court to play doubles. They did this the whole practice. Half way through they switched partners so it was Eiji and Fuji against the other two, but the whole time Miu was entranced. She realized just how much she really missed the sport and had the urge to play. As she watched the players through her closed blind eyes she felt a sense of yearning, whether it was for the game or it was for her old tennis team mates she did not know. What she did know was that she wanted to play the tennis, now.

As practice came to a close she was practically at the edge of her seat with anticipation, as soon as she got home she would find Naoki and ask him if he wanted to play at the street courts. She soon was forced out of her thoughts as a hand placed its self on her shoulders, scaring her almost half to death. Miu concentrated on the presence next to her only to find that it was Fuji. Did this boy have a special blocker that made him hard to sense or what?

"Hoi, hoi! Are you ready to go, Kawashi-chan!" Eiji practically screamed in her ear, but she paid the volume of his voice no attention as she sprung up from her seat, grabbing her bag in the process, and fast walked toward the gates of the school. The two surprised boys looked after her in shock before jogging over to catch up with Miu, who was already by the gates.

Miu counted in her head as she walked down the sidewalk, her two new body guards right by her side. She tried to concentrate while Eiji hummed a catchy tune and Fuji fiddled with his cell phone, the device making small beeps and clicks whenever he hit a button. Once in a while he would chuckle before showing Eiji his phone, breaking the humming for a few minutes as the boys laughed at whatever was on Fuji's cell phone.

Once Miu finally counted to 264 she took a sharp turn to the left, and walked up the walk way of her house and onto the porch. The two boys behind her continued to trail after her like lost puppies until she turned around fully prepared to open the door to her house. She raised an eyebrow in question to why they were still following her. In response to this action the two boys only grinned, Eiji was about to open his mouth to say something when the front door opened, startling them all slightly. They turned around and came face to face with a short boy, about Miu's height (she was 5'4), who had hazy brown hair and coal big gray eyes. Upon opening the door the small boy probably didn't expect to see so many people on his door step, especially Eiji, his idol.

"K-Kikumaru-senpai!" the boy squeaked out before turning beet red. Miu laughed at the boy's reaction, for she felt his body temperature rise dramatically once he opened the door, that and the fact that he totally ignored her and went straight for Eiji.

"Hoi?" Eiji tilted his head to the side. "Do I know you?"

The small boy squeaked once again before turning his face toward the ground, trying to hide his embarrassment. "His name's Naoki, he's my little brother," Miu said simply before pushing past said brother and walking into her house. Eiji grinned at the small boy before introducing himself, to which Naoki just squeaked again. Fuji, on the other hand, stared at Naoki, no emotion on his face. This only lasted for a few seconds however because he was soon introducing himself to the younger boy and all three of them entered the house. Miu had disappeared to her room up the stairs only to return a few-awkward-minutes later to find Naoki turning practically purple due to Eiji hugging him so suddenly, calling him cute and what not. Fuji was staring at all the family pictures on the walls.

Miu stopped at the top of the stairs, not really expecting the two third years to still be in her house, but she continued down the stairs and over to the group. She was not sporting a pair of gray shorts and a grey shirt, sporting some Fila tennis shoes to match.

"Uh… what are you guys still doing here?" she asked, rather bluntly.

All three heads turned towards her, making her take a step back. "We wanted to hang out with Kawashi-chan!" Eiji said, his head on top of Naoki's with his arms around the smaller boy's neck.

Miu merely tilted her head to the side before turning towards her brother, deciding to ignore the other two boys. "Ne, Nao, do you want to go to the street courts?"

Eiji's eyes bulged out of his head. "You play tennis?" he yelled out, but they ignored him.

Naoki's face scrunched up. "Gomen, Nee-chan, I have a lot of homework I have to work on…" Miu's shoulders slumped. "C-chotto! Why don't Kikumaru-sempai and Fuji-sempai go with you?" She froze at her brother's suggestion, not really feeling up to going to the street courts anymore.

"Nya~! That's a great idea, Naoki-chan!" Eiji shouted. Naoki almost fainted at the nickname he was just given. Miu faced the floor as Fuji also agreed and soon we were out the door. The walk to the courts was short-to Miu as least-and they immediately walked onto the court and Fuji and Eiji did rock paper scissors to see who would play against Miu and who would ref. Eiji won so he got to choose, and three guesses to what he picked.

And the last two don't count.

Miu and Eiji stood facing each other from opposite ends of the court, Eiji dressed in his school uniform and Miu dress to look like an actual tennis player. Eiji threw the ball that was conveniently in his pocket over to Miu, saying that since she was a girl she could go first. Miu mumbling something about sexism under her breath. She closed her eyes and bounced the ball on the ground a few times before throwing the ball in the air and serving it over to Eiji.

Eiji stared as Miu served, did she just close her eyes to serve? With a jolt he ran to return the ball only to find out how heavy it actually was, don't get him wrong he had been served heavier servers but coming from a girl it was the heaviest. He returned the ball and shot it over to the opposite side Miu was standing, he smirked, thinking that she would never be able to reach it, but his smirk was soon whipped off his face as the ball shot past him, hitting the base line before hitting the fence, still spinning. His jaw slackened, what just happened?

"15-love!" Fuji called out, grinning like a fool on top of the ref chair. He didn't know how Miu had just done that shot, but he was now interested to see more, that was for sure.

Miu bounced the next ball on the ground, eyes still closed, before she served it. It flew to the corner at amazing speeds and Eiji sprinted to return the ball. Thinking that it was like the last ball he used all his power to return it, but it was too late to pull back once he realized how light it was. The ball soured over the fence and into the street, probably hitting a parked car and rolling into the grass. Eiji stood flabbergasted, who knew Miu was actually good at tennis?

"30-love!" called out the ever grinning Fuji.

Miu bounced another ball on the ground, Eiji had pulled the first one out of the fence-it was the last one- and thrown it over to her, she threw the ball into the air and served it, it flew just like the last one and Eiji returned it, read for whatever type of weight it might hold. It was the same as the last and he returned it perfectly over to the side Miu wasn't on. But just like before, Miu has run over to the ball-no one had seen her move- and returned it gracefully. This return started a rally between the two that lasted for a good eight minutes before Eiji managed to hit the base line and have it fly into the fence, out of Miu's reach.

"30-15!"

"Hoi… you're a tough one aren't you... Miu-chan?" Miu stumbled over her footing as she served, making the ball fly out to far for her to hit as she looked towards Eiji. She then shook her head as she made her way towards the fallen ball.

He had said Miu-chan... Not Mi-chan... She was just hearing things… yea…

She grabbed the ball and went back to the base line.

"30-30!"

Her jaw dropped, along with Eiji's, "t-that doesn't count!" she shouted out, facing Fuji, who just grinned in response. Miu muttered something under her breath before serving the ball once more and then running at the net. Eiji saw this and tried to hit the ball to the base line but Miu jumped, high. She jumped up with her left foot and smashed the ball down past Eiji, making a faint gray mark on the black top, if she would had put some power into it, it would have been darker. But she, lacking upper body strength, couldn't do that very well, that first serve of hers was just a fluke, but they didn't have to know that.

"45-30!"

"Hmm… your quite good, Miu-chan! Maybe you should teach me some jumps, huh?" he winked at her before laughing at his own joke, Miu on the other hand, didn't laugh and just served the ball. Eiji stopped laughing and dove to return the tiny yellow sphere, holding himself up with one hand before springing to his feet once again to return another fast return. He returned fast ball after fast ball until he jumped into the air to smash the ball down to Miu, only to have her appear before the ball and lightly tap it over the net, Eiji was still in the air and unable to return the ball.

"1-0 Kawashi lead!"

Miu smiled slightly, not having the adrenalin pump of winning in a long time, but her smile was soon erased off her face as a few intruders approached the courts.

"Ahh? What do we have here? Seigaku?" the three Seigaku students turned to the source of the voice, they saw two boys. One with pinkish red hair and the other with silver hair and a rat tail.

"Eh? Rikkaidai?" Eiji asked, confused as to why they would be here.

"Hmm… seems it is Seigaku, didn't your practice end a few hours ago? Oh wait, you guys don't practice here that's right… The street courts are too nice for you to practice on, aren't they?"

"Hehe, puri."

Eiji glared at the two intruders as Fuji climbed down from the ref chair, Miu's eyes widened once she realized the auras of who was here. Marui Bunta and Niou Masaharu. Tennis players from Rikkaidai.

She dropped her racket.

"Hmm?" Marui popped a bubble as he looked towards the red headed girl. He stopped mid chew once he realized who he was looking at. "Ne… Niou?"

"Nani?" The rat tailed third year looked over at his friend who seemed to be lost in thought.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, which I'm probably not seeing as how I'm a genius, but isn't that Kawashi Miu?" Niou's head flicked over to Miu's form, as did Fuji's and Eiji's as they sent questioning looks towards their new friend.

Miu slowly backed up toward her bag so she could put her racket away and make a fast get away, but soon froze at the sound of Niou's laugh. "It is!" he shouted before laughing some more. "Wow I can't wait to tell everyone this, to think she went to Seigaku of all places!" Soon Marui started laughing with Niou. Fuji and Eiji were still as confused as could be. Miu, who was once on the far side of the court, was next to the Rikkaidai in a flash. She grabbed the collar of Niou's shirt and brought him down to her level, a sinister look on her face. The two immediately stopped laughing and actually looked… scared?

"Listen here, Niou," she growled into his face, making everyone's eyes widen. "Tell anyone about this and I will personally hunt. You. Down. Understand?" Niou nodded slowly as Miu shoved him away from her before quickly exiting the courts and walked down the steps and headed home. Fuji and Eiji just looked at each other in confusion before running after her, only to find she was nowhere to be seen.

"Dude… that was scary...," Marui muttered as everyone besides him and Niou left the courts.

"Y-yeah…"

"So are you going to tell?"

"Duh."

So this took forever -.-

I seriously had almost no inspiration to write this besides just pure wanting to make the story better. So I hope you enjoy this new chapter! And the next one will be coming soon don't worry!

And a special shout out goes to Coco96 who is going to be beta-ing this story for now on, thanks a bunch! :D