Chapter 1 - Birds

"Syuusuke, I thought that was you!" a girl approached the large group of boys.

"Saa…" Fuji waited.

"I'm bored." The girl smiled devilishly.

"Princeton and Lila have finally managed to bore you?" Fuji spoke still smiling and his eyes as usual perpetually closed, everyone else was now perpetually confused.

"No…Yumiko said I shouldn't let them out while she was cooking…I was planning to take them upstairs but I figured you would rather me not let them out. Now who are all these people?" She changed the subject.

"Saa…these would be my friends."

"Do they have names, because I'm sure they're not all just called 'my friends'?" The girl teased.

"Nya~ Fuji who is she?" Eiji popped up.

"Ari this is Eiji, Oishi, Inui, Taka, Momo, Kaidoh, Tezuka, Ryoma, Atobe…" And so started the first of several introductions.

"Yoroshiku, I'm Arisa but please call me Ari, Fuji's cousin," Ari introduced herself. Let's rewind a little bit to Fuji's first year in high school.

Two and a Half Years Ago

Fuji Residence

"Yumiko, Syuusuke, Yuuta, this is your cousin Arisa." Their mother gestured to a girl with brown hair and dull blue eyes. "She'll be staying with us for a while, Syuusuke you'll have to show her around the school." Arisa just smiled to her cousins.

"You can call me Ari." The girl smiled sweetly before tackle hugging the boys. "Now there's someone well actually two someone's, that I want you to meet." The girl released the boys from her killer hug and left the room to come back with something under a towel in her hand. "Tada. Princeton, Lila say hello to your new home and Syuusuke and Yuuta!"

"…" Yuuta stood there, unsure of how to greet the two parakeets and Syuusuke was just smiling his ever constant smile.

"Anyway, may I ask where I'm staying so I can put these two down?" Ari asked as the cage holding her two pet birds was starting to feel heavier.

"Saa...right this way. Ari, Princeton, Lila this is your room." Fuji lead them upstairs and opened the door.

"ARIGATOU, FUJI-KUN!" She tackled hugged him with one arm while still holding the cage. She placed the cage opposite her bed and threw the bag she managed to carry up the stairs on the bed. She turned toward Fuji with a maniacal smile and tackled him before he could get far. Dragging him downstairs she tackled Yuuta with the other arm. "Will Yuuta-kun and Fuji-kun show me around town?" she pleaded them with puppy dog eyes and the brothers obliged. One hour later everyone was back in the house and the boys were officially scared of their crazy cousin. After a week of the birds being in her room, which was adjacent to Fuji's and Yuuta's, the boys ordered her to keep the birds downstairs because they made too much noise at night.

Sometime Later

"Good Morning, Princeton and Lila!" Ari greeted.

"Tweet!" Princeton, the blue parakeet tried to break out of his cage and was failing miserably.

"Chirp." Lila, the purple and white parakeet opened one eye then closed it again as if to say 'Oh, it's only you' before falling back asleep.

"You two have fun while I'm at school!" Ari smiled to her pet birds before joining her cousin at the table. "What?"

"Saa…You're addicted to those birds." Fuji smiled but could never quite grasp why his cousin adored birds out of all the animals one could have as pets, his overly hyperactive cousin, who he could only picture running around with a puppy in the park, had picked birds. Birds had to be kept in cages most of the time, birds who were nearly impossible to take places, birds who need a calm sane owner; birds they fascinated his cousin, who was the most insane and unstable person he knew. He wouldn't volunteer to kick her out or place her in an insane asylum; she was entertaining in a crazy and scary way that he liked.

To the Present!

"Where do you go, Ari-san?" Oishi asked.

"Seigaku."

"Nya~ Fuji why didn't you ever introduce us?" Eiji jumped on said boy's shoulder.

"Yeah, why haven't any of us met this fair beauty?" Niou came forward attempting to take Ari's hand and kiss it, but was foiled by Ari giving him the 'do it and my cousin will most certainly kill you' look combined with the 'It ain't happening' look.

A/n: Uh….so any questions? No? Good…well maybe not good…yeah this story uses time skips…so…How are you? I'm not sure what compelled me to name her bird Princeton and Lila…but that's another situation….