"The name is Kensuke Yura." He said, flashing his white smile at her.

"…Haven't I heard your name somewhere before?" She was trying to remember, but couldn't remember.

"Yeah, my name is mentioned a lot, have you ever heard of the "3-point king"?

She looked to see if he was just showing off, but he had a serious expression on his face.

"No, but don't tell me, it's basketball right?" her voice sounded uninterested.

"Yeah, the one and only, so who do you have for first period?" He asked her, changing the subject.

She took out a crumbled paper out of her pocket, well so much for neatness. She scrutinized it very carefully, it said, Period 1 –Mr. Martinez.-PE. Oh wow, just lucky, to have PE first.

"I have Pe, some teacher named Mr. Martinez." She said, handing the paper to him.

He looked at it, the look of disappointment on his face, but it lit up when he looked again.

"Well, I don't have you for the next two periods, but as for the rest, we'll see each other eventually." He gave her that smile again and handed her schedule back to her.

She took it back and stuck in back in her pocket. She didn't know anyone, but Kensuke, she was a loner.

He was watching her and pat her head, like Chaz does.

"Don't worry, soon enough, you'll make some friends in Pe, hey I think Chiharu Eniwa might have Pe first period, maybe you'll get a chance to meet him."

Now that gave her a feeling of confidence, maybe she wasn't going to be alone after all.

"Chiharu Eniwa?" This time she was interested.

"Yeah, he's a friend of mine, transferring here, I've watched him play before, you know in basketball?"

She nodded and was still listening.

"Yeah, well he got in, with a scholarship, he's really good, he even made the varsity team and won MVP, he wasn't the only one." He said proudly, watching Kyo's expression of surprise.

"Most Valuable Player, wow, he must—I mean you two must be really be good in basketball."

"Yeah, I guess, but hey, I'm just bragging." He shrugged and smiled.

"But how am I going to know who he is—"

RING! RING! RING! The loud, bell sound was gonging in the speakers.

"Well, I have to go, Kyo, I'll see you later." Kensuke smiled at her and walked away quickly.

"But I—" Kyo stopped, Kensuke was out of sight.

"Where the hell is the gym?" Kyo was looking around, back and forth, when she bumped into Imai and Chaz.

"Kyo, you're supposed to be in class, are you trying to cut class or something?" Chaz was looking at her in suspicion; Imai was trying not to laugh.

"For your information, I'm looking for the gym, I have first period Pe, I would've told you that, while you were hanging out with you crew, Kensuke was showing me around, then he left without telling me where the freaking gym was located at!" Kyo was breathing slowly and Chaz and Imai silently stared at her.

"I'm sorry, Kyo, you're right, it's my fault, let me escort you." Chaz loped his arm with hers.

"Do not touch me." Kyo whispered in her most deadly voice, and followed Imai.

Chaz who ignorantly didn't listen to her, loped his arm with her anyways. She narrowed her eyes, and he just smirked.

Imai led them to a green, grassy area and went straight to the blacktop, where other kids other than herself were sitting down in roll call numbers. The teachers were nowhere to be found.

"So who do you have?" Imai said, turning his attention to her.

Chaz let her arm go, and pat her head," Live, little one, for it's only 45 minutes of Pe."

She stared at him in anger and imagined the seagulls flying around, popping on his head.

That would be so cool.

"Mr. Martinez."

"Oh, cool, let's see, Jacobs is over there, Fisher is that way….Martinez..is over there!" He pointed to the other side of the quad, where other students sat silently, next to the basketball courts.

She sighed and looked to see if Chaz was going to walk her over. He glanced in her direction and gave her a questioning look.

"I'll walk you there, Kyo, I have also have this class next." Imai said, smiling in her direction. She gave him a small smile and frowned at Chaz, who was seem to be getting the attention of other group of girls. He flashed them his "killer" smile. It looked like one of the girls swooned. That's not new.

"I have to take off, guys, I'll see ya around, Kyo, Imai, I'm late for U. S. History." Chaz said, turning, without giving his weird handshake with Imai and giving Kyo a small hug, and the pat-on-the-head thing.

"Chaz, you're squishing me." Kyo kept her voice steady, but she knew that she'll gain confidence with or without her brother's presence.

"Oh, sorry—He let her go--, and remember if anyone tries to pick a fight with you or even teases, tell me and I'll kick their ass, you got that, monkey?" He said teasingly to her, but his voice was also serious.

"Yes, oh mighty, brother. I will, I'll be fine, now go." She said with a small smile.

"Alright, later, guys." He gave one last look at Kyo and Imai and ran to the other side of the classrooms and was out of sight.

"Shall we?" Imai asked her, glancing in her direction.

She sighed, " Okay, let's go.

Imai and her walked to the other side of the quad, where other students were either sitting down or standing up. Some were talking to one another and some making jokes. But when Imai and her walked up to the quad, everyone's attention was focused on them.

"What, you guys have staring issues?" Imai asked them in a stern voice. They quickly turned around, but kept peeking back at them.

"Imai, I didn't know you were a freshman, like me, I thought you were a junior." She finally said to him as they both sat down.

"Yeah, I guess, it's my height huh?" he laughed, with a chuckle at the end of his voice.

"Well that too, but you look older and your voice sounds deep, like Chaz." She said truthfully, hugging her knees to her chest.

"I guess, that's puberty works right?"

"Oh yeah, right. Puberty changes appearances, but the brain of guys still doesn't seem to change. It's the hormones." Kyo replied. Yeah, like for example, Chaz.

He laughed and raised an eyebrow at her," That I know." He started laughing again, and she gave a small, shy laugh too. She was glad that she had someone to talk to in her class, now she didn't have to rely on Chaz, being there for her. She had a friend, and that was a good thing.

"Ok, class, stand up and line up, while I call your names, you sit in your given role call number, understand? Questions?" Mr. Martinez, asked, looking around to see anyone's hands up.

Everyone got up and lined up, she stood next to Imai and they talked a bit more, while other people's names were called.

"Imai, number 32"

Hearing his name, he smiled at Kyo and walked to his number and sat down. Other names were called, but her name wasn't called yet.

She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned around, facing a girl with brown, pigtails and silver glasses. She smiled her pearly-white teeth at her and introduced herself.

"Hi, my name is Sakura Tojima, what's yours?"

"Oh, my name is Kyo Aizawa." She replied with confidence.

"Oh, that's cool, is that guy your boyfriend?" She asked pointing at Imai, who wasn't paying attention, but at the basketball courts.

"Uh, no, he's just a friend." She said casually. Oh great, don't tell me that the rest of the class thinks Imai is my boyfriend

"Oops, sorry, I didn't mean to jump to conclusions, it just seem like you know.." She said flustering and turning away.

"No, uh, it's fine, I don't have a boyfriend anyways, and I'm not planning to have one, at all." She smiled and said truthfully, watching as Sakura looked back at her.

"Yeah, me too." They stared at each other and laughed.

"Sakura, number 35!"

"Kyo, numer 36!"

Kyo felt even better, ok make that great. She had three friends. Sakura put down her things and smiled at Kyo as she focused her attention to the teacher. Kyo smiled back and felt a rush of confidence come back to her.

Pe was finally over, the whole time, Mr. Martinez talked about the rules and relegations. What happens when you're absent, how points you receive or how you earn them. Talks about safety, and at the end he smiled and said, "Have fun." Turns out, he wasn't a bad guy at all. We're going to be playing basketball for the next 6 weeks, and then we get a new sport to play.

Kyo went out of the locker room, where Sakura and Imai were waiting for her.

"Kyo, hi!" Sakura ran up to her, her face was flushed.

"Hey, Kyo." Imai came right behind her, "It's brunch time, what do you say about grabbing something to eat with the guys?"

Her stomach was aching for food, she was surprised that no one seem to notice.

"Well, I am really hungry, want to come, Sakura?" Kyo asked her, she was still pink.

"Um, on second thought, I'll see you in second period, ok, Kyo?" She said, giving a small smile at Kyo and to Imai. Imai smiled back. She was out of sight.

They walked to a table, where a pair of hands landed on her eyes. She knew who it was.

"Chaz, let go, before I bite your fingers off."

"Hm, no can do, they seemed to glued to your eyes, oh crap!"

She lunged to bite him, when he finally let go and she went crashing into ---

"Ow, stupid Chaz!" She was rubbing her nose and looked down at the person she was squishing. Chaz was laughing in the background, Imai came in the food.

"Get off, you're fucking heavy."

She found herself staring at spiky, brown hair guy, mole under his eye and was glaring at her. She got up immediately and frowned at him. She didn't like this guy, and she had a feeling she was never going to.

"Ah, lighten up, Chiharu, it was an accident." Kensuke said from behind her and she found herself sitting right next to him.

"Some accident, now I got juice all over my shorts." He was still frowning when he looked up at Kyo.

If you wanna mess with my sister, you're dead wrong. I'll kill you." He smiled his deadly smile. Chiharu gave him a blank expression, and grabbed his backpack and trailed off.

"He's a jerk, you know he would've never gotten mad at me, if you weren't being such an ass". She was now glaring her attention at him.

"It was an accident, there, final, he doesn't have to get all butt-hurt about it." He shrugged and began chewing his sandwich.

Imai didn't say much, and was just as hungry as Kyo.

"Don't worry about it, Kyo, he's a softy in the inside, he'll cool down, in the mean time, do you want that sandwich?" Kensuke asked her, pointing at her cheese sandwich.

"Go ahead, take it, I'm not feeling that hungry anymore." She said, ignoring her stomach's call for food.

"I'm going to second period, right now, I'll see you, guys later."

Chaz nodded and Imai smiled, as Kensuke stuffed his face with the sandwich and winked.

She grabbed her backpack and went to the other side of the blue and white classrooms, passing the hallway, to ROOM C-12, Biology, Mr. Ramirez.

When she came in, she saw the group of giggling girls from Pe, sitting in the back. That's when she noticed Sakura, who was sitting by the window, focusing her attention in a book. She walked up to the desk in back of her, and greeted Sakura.

"Boo."

Sakura turned around with her pony tail swinging on her face.

"Oh, hi, Kyo, oops sorry!" She gave her a small smile, and she put down her book and stared at her.

"What's up?" She asked her.

"Not good, I just made an enemy." Kyo sighed and laid her head on the desk.

"Ow, that is bad, who?" She asked, now interested.

"Have you heard of the Jerk, Chiharu Eniwa?" she said with low enthusiasm.

"Uh,--"

"I mean, I just spilled juice on his precious shorts, wow, he needs anger management or something.." Kyo continued, rambling.

"Kyo, I think you should—"

"I swear, it was an accident, what the hell is his problem? It's just juice on shorts, he swears as if the juice stain will never come off, what a loser!"

"KYO, shut—"

"What a snobby guy, I'm surprised that he's really good in basketball, but his personality needs some work." She realized that Sakura was silent and staring at something, behind her.

"What?" She said, turning around, what a surprise.

Mr. Chiharu Eniwa was staring at her, with a frown on his face and he was glaring at her.

"Can I talk to you alone, Kyo?" He asked her, controlling the venom in his voice. Kyo felt a small chill go up her back and now she really wished she had shut her mouth.

"Well?" He asked in his cold voice, tapping his foot.

She gave Sakura a small- glance, and Sakura gave her a small smile of fear and turned, back to her book.

"Yeah, yeah, I'll talk to you." She got up, leaving her things and followed him out the door. She followed in the hallway, where the school lockers were at. He stopped and turned to look at her. He looked cool down, but she needed to test his anger.

"What the hell are you doing, talking behind my back, calling me a loser?" His eyes narrowed, when he asked her that question.

"Well, you weren't around, so I couldn't tell it to your face." She smirked, challenging him.

Ok, she swore that his spiky hair, was glaring at her, and he paused and stared at her.

"Do you realize that you're getting in my nerves, if you were a guy, I'd kill you." He gave his cold and cunning smile. His hand was now over her head, which caused her to lean against the cool, gray locker.

"I'm a girl and I have no uses for the likes of you, what I said back there, I really meant it." She looked up at her gray, cool eyes. His expression changed and so did the movement of his eyes. She shivered and looked away.

"Don't do it again—He stood straight and she refused to look up---shrimp."

Ok, now that changed her mind, and she found herself staring at him, glaring.

"I'm not a shrimp, you-you…porcupine!" She yelled at his face, and to her surprise, he smiled, a pearly-white smile.

"Better than being a shrimp, shrimp." He teased and left her standing there, gaping at him.

Ok, I really thought he was going to kill me and instead he gives me a new nickname, SHRIMP! What the hell is wrong with that guy?

RING! RING! RING!

She walked back to class and sat in her desk, with Sakura, giving her a questioning look. She just smiled back, but the smile faded immediately. Chiharu was sitting next to her desk, with a smug smile on his face, with a smile that red (reads) ha-ha!

Oh, crap.

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