Silence is Golden but Darkness is all Mine

Disclaimer: I own nothing, only my OC's

Chapter 2: The Unseeing Eyes

It was 6:30 in the morning at the Kikumaru household and our favorite Seigaku best friends we sleeping soundly. Fuji was curled up in a tight ball, all of the covers surrounding him, while Eiji was dangling off the bed, drool on his chin and only a thin blanket covering half of him. Both boys were peacefully sleeping, light snores came from the shorter of the two, until a large cat, about the size of a bowling ball, jumped up and landed on Eiji's stomach. The red head jumped in surprise, making the cat jump off him just in time before he fell off the bed with a 'thump'. The large cat then waddled over to Fuji and curled up right next to him, purring loudly.

The honey haired teen grunted as a grey tabby cat cuddled into his chest. She was stealing his blankets! He resisted the urge to roll over and squish the poor thing but instead put on a fake smile for the feline.

"Well good morning, Mariko-chan."

The tabby meowed as Fuji rolled over to the left and looked over at Eiji, he was moping on the ground, hair a mess and only one sock on. Getting up and out of bed Fuji walked over to his friend and lifted him up then proceeded to drag him to the bathroom and drop him on top of the toilet seat. Opening a cabinet door he took out a tube of toothpaste, poured it onto Eiji's red toothbrush then stuck it in the redhead's mouth. He then repeated the process and stuck his own blue toothbrush into his mouth and proceeded to brush his teeth.

It was a tradition for Fuji to sleep over at Eiji's house every Monday so they could bond and play video games until 2 in the morning. This tradition has been going on sense their first year of middle school and they were determined not to break it. So, due to this tradition, a large amount of Fuji's clothes are at Eiji's house, along with his second toothbrush and a duplicates of his hair supplies, it takes a lot to have soft hair!

As soon as the duo were done in the bathroom, "Fuji get out I have to pee.", they walked down the stairs of Eiji's three story house to greet the whole family in the kitchen. Eiji had a full house of two older brothers and two older sisters, no wonder he was so hyper, he need to draw attention to himself somehow.

Fuji and Eiji plopped themselves down on the two extra chairs at the table just as Eiji's mother placed plates of food in front of them. "Arigato okaa-san!" the both yelled out, Fuji grinning at the fact that she wasn't his actually mom. The elder women smiled at the boys before ruffling both of their hairs, a protest coming from Eiji while Fuji just smiled at the affection.

He loved Monday nights and Tuesday mornings.

After a few minutes of eating, the two boys rushed up the stairs, only having a few minutes until they had to leave. They changed into their school uniform, polo and slacks, before rushing back down the stairs and out the door, Eiji bouncing his way out as he tried to get his right shoe on. The two then slowed their pace and causally walked down the sidewalk towards school. They were lucky Eiji only lived a few blocks away, while Fuji lived so far he had to get a ride to school.

As they walked Fuji spotted a familiar redhead with a younger brunette boy, walking only a few yards ahead of them. Neither of them where talking, they were just looking straight ahead, probably counting the minutes that past by in silence.

"Hey look! It's Miu-chan, nya!" Eiji shouted, also seeing the two, and ran over to said girl.

"Huh? Oh… hi, Eiji."

"Ah! Kikumaru-senpai! G-good morning!" Naoki squeaked before facing the ground.

"Nya! Ohayo, Naoki-chan!" Naoki's face went pure red as he looked down, mumbling a response.

"Wow, Naoki, you really have a crush on him, don't you?" Miu said calmly as she stared walking again.

"Hmm? Crush? Hey, Fujiko! I got a secret admirer!"

"What! N-no! Kikumaru-senpai Nee-chan was just k-kidding!" Naoki said while franticly waving his arms.

Fuji finally caught up to the two middle schoolers. "So, Miu-chan… why did you run away from us the other day?"

She didn't look at him, just kept walking. "I just went home… that's all….we were done playing, am I wrong?" she never turned around.

Fuji's eyebrows crinkled in confusion. She sounded different from yesterday, more… blocked off? She talked like she was answering a question on the board. To the point and confident in her answer. She didn't stutter and didn't look at either him or Eiji. Weird. Maybe it had something to do with yesterday?

"Nya~! Will you play me, Nao-chan?" Eiji asked, remembering that Miu had asked her younger brother to play tennis with her.

Naoki went beat red for the second time in the past few minutes. "I-I guess.."

"YAY! NYA~" Kikumaru glomped the freshmen as he continued to shout. Naoki went redder as his ears burned from all the blood being pumped into them.

Miu laughed at her brother's misfortune.

Fuji smiled as he watched Miu laugh. She seemed more comfortable around her brother then with them, which is understandable, sense they were blood. Then his eyes landed on her cloudy green ones, he soon was enchanted by them. He noticed that they weren't really focused on anything, even though her head was facing her brother. They were dull, big, and slightly hidden by her hair. Scanning the rest of her he noticed that she had small waist, wide hips and short legs. She also had a tiny nose that contrasted with her big dull green eyes.

"Fujiko~" Eiji sang as he tried to wake him up. Fuji smiled and turned towards his best friend that was leaning on the first year for support as he looked at him.

"Hm? What is it, Eiji?" Eiji had just opened his month to asker when he was cut off by the sister of his leaning post.

"We're going to be late for class if we don't hurry." Miu said while facing the other way.

"Sa… well we better get going then."

"Hoi, hoi! Let's go, Nao-chan!" Kikumaru said as he dragged the poor blushing boy all the way to school. The two third years laughed, Fuji at Eiji and Miu at Noaki's misfortune, before following the two.

Walking inside the school, they looked around to see kids everywhere. At least they knew they weren't late for class. Thank god for Tezuka letting them have a day off in the morning this week, it felt refreshing to sleep in a little bit before waking up and going to the building everyone despised. Well almost everyone, there was that one second year that got to school a half hour before everyone else just to study, and that one third year that came early everyday to shower in the locker room. Something about his sister always hogging it?

"Nya~, let's go find your class, Nao-chan!"

"O-oh! You d-don't have to do that….."

"Nonsense! What are sempais for?" The smiling Eiji yelled out as he dragged the first year to the first floor. Once they got to the right door, Eiji went right in and burst through the door. "Nya~! Here we are, Nao-chan! Oh? Ochibi? You're in this class too? Nya~! I wish I was a first years still….. But then I wouldn't be in class with Fujiko….. Oh well! Hey, Ochibi! You better take good care of Nao-chan for me! Bye First years! Nya~…" Eiji waved as he walked out the door.

All the students in the classroom stared at the door then at Naoki, who was standing there blushing with his mouth open. Ryoma stared at the door then at the brown haired pre-teen before putting his head back into his arms and going back to sleep. School was too easy for him, he might as well just sleep.

Eiji rushed into the senior class room door just as the bell rang. "Ho~, Lucky!" The red head walked over and sat next to Fuji. Looking around he saw that Miu was all the way on the other side of the room. "Hm? Ne, Miu!" he shouted trying to get her attention.

"Kikumaru Eiji! Class is in session, please quiet down and pay attention!"

"Hai, sensei…" Kikumaru said while red in the face.

Fuji chuckled behind his hand.

As class started again, Kikumaru took out a small piece of paper and wrote down a message. Then when the teacher wasn't looking, he flicked the folded paper football over and onto Miu's desk. She looked down before grabbing the paper. Fiddling with it in her hands she opened it and stared. She then looked at him with a confused face. Eiji started motioning for her to read it. But all she did was tilt her head and scrunch her eye brows. He then let out a frustrated sigh.

"Kikumaru Eiji! Do you have a problem with my teachings?"

"Ah… no… sensei…"

"Then do not interrupt my class again or you will be staying after school with me, you got it?"

Eiji glared forward. "…..Hai…."

Eiji sat there for a few minutes-glaring-trying to listen to what the teacher talking about. But he started to get edgy after a few minutes. His eyes were drifting back and forth from the teacher and Miu. Finally he gave in. "Pssst! Pssst! Miu!" he whispered. Her ear twitched and looked over at him. "Why are you sitting over there?"

Miu mouthed the word 'what'.

"Why are you sitting all the way over there?" he said a little louder.

Miu just shrugged her shoulders.

"Well then why don't you sit with me and Fujiko?"

Miu's face scrunched up and she started to open her mouth but then her head snapped forward to see a fuming teacher.

"Kikumaru Eiji and Kawashi Miu! Because you disrupted my class you two will be spending the afternoon with me."

"B-but I have practice after school!" Kikumaru cried and flailed his arms to try and prove how important his tennis practice was. The rest of the class watched in slight amusement, some grateful because Kikumaru was distracting the teacher and wasting class time. Some even used this chance to cheat off their friend's paper to complete the homework that they were too lazy to do the night before.

"Well you should have thought about that before you started talking." Eiji slumped in his chair and whined. "Now for your homework I want you all to read section 18.4 and do problems 1-16." the bell rang for lunch. "Class dismissed."

All but maybe five pushed and shoved to get out the room first.

"Sa… Eiji, Coach is going to be made that you're going to miss practice."

Eiji grinned as a mischievous glint appeared in his eyes. "That's why I'm not going to miss practice…"

"You're ditching detention?" Miu asked surprised, she had walked over from her desk and carried her books over to their desk.

"Yep, yep and you're ditching with me!"

"Wh-what?"

"Oh come on, please?" he begged.

"Ah.. Sensei is going to be mad…."

"Yay! Thanks a bunch nya~!"

"Hm…"

The three started walking down the hallway towards the cafeteria when they met up with a freshman. "Nya~ Ochibi, where's Nao-chan?"

Ryoma shrugged his shoulders and continued walking, clearly not caring whether or not he was being rude to his sempai.

"Ma! Well now we have to go and find him! Let's go!" Kikumaru took off in the direction Ryoma came from. He sped down the hallway, dodging several students and a few teachers who yelled at him to slow down.

"Should we follow him?"

"Hm… why not?"

The two started after the red head, at a slower pace.

Soon the two calmer third years found Kikumaru glued to Naoki's back. They were standing in the middle of the hallway next to a group of first years that where surrounding Momoshiro and jumping up and down like he was the ice cream man that was giving out free candy. They chanted his name, hope in their eyes that the second year would give them tips about how to survive for the next three years, those mean older student always picked on them, and hope that he would give them some of the mountain of food that was in his arms. Mostly hoping for the latter.

"Momo-chan-senpai!" they heard a group of freshman yell.

"Na-o-ki-chan~!" Eiji sang as he glomped said boy. Said boy blushed a deep red and tried to wiggle out of his sempai's hold. "Ah! K-Kikumaru-senpai!" He cried out once he realized he was totally stuck.

"Oh? Fuji-senpai, Eiji-senpai…" Fuji looked toward his Kohai, Miu kept her gaze on her brother.

"Hi there, Momo.. Hmm… what were you going with our freshman?"

"Ah, nothing, just teaching them the ways of life, what about you, senpai?" He talked like he was a god or something to these first years….

"Saa… just following Eiji." they all look to see Kikumaru suffocating Naoki.

"S-senpai!"

Miu smiled at her brother's misfortune. "Huh? And who might you be?"

Miu finally looked at Momo. "Ah, Kawashi Miu, third year."

"Ah, Momoshiro Takashi, second year. Nice to meet you."

"Like wise."

It was only a few minutes until the bell was suppose to ring, and Kikumaru's leg was twitching like crazy. He kept repeatedly taping his pencil on the paper that was supposed to be full of notes, it was blank, and looking over at the clock. The teacher had started to glare at him almost ten minutes ago, he finally to open his mouth to yell at him but-

"Sensei! May I please go to the bathroom?" Eiji practically yelled as he skidded into his chair across the floor when standing up. Several students turned to look at him and chuckled as the chair slowly fell to the ground. It lived a good life, was sat on a few times, but still a good life.

"Ah.. Sure… yes you may."

Eiji sprinted toward the door. As everyone watched him go the bell rang loudly throughout the school. The teacher growled. 'Kikumaru Eiji….'

Everyone was packing their stuff and leaving, Miu walked over to Fuji just as he grabbed Eiji's books off his desk by piling them under his own. As Miu was about to stand next to Fuji she tripped over the fallen chair and landed right into Fuji's arms, making both of them drop their books.

"A-ah! Gomen!" she mumbled before pushing him away and bending down to try and grab her books. Fuji bent down as well to help her, seeing as how she kept grabbing the wrong books for some reason, and picked up the rest of her things. As he was about to hand back her things he glanced at the book on the very top. It read "English Literature. Brail Addition." with a whole bunch of dots and lines underneath. He opened his eyes in shock, was he seeing things? He read over the title again before determining that no, he had read right. The girl in front of him was, surprisingly, blind as a bat. Well maybe not a bat sense she's gotten this far with no one noticing…. But don't bats have sonar? So that would make them not really blind right? Hm…

"Hm… so he escaped…" Miu said after a long period of silence.

"Saa.. He's probably hiding somewhere right now."

As they were walking out the door, Fuji watching Miu the whole time still surprised that she could get around without hitting things, the teacher stopped them. "Miu, could you come here for a moment."

Fuji looked at Miu as she started walking back to him, how does she know where he is? "I'll be out soon, could you go find my brother for me before you-know-who suffocates him again?" She said, talking about Kikumaru, not wanting the teacher to know that they knew where the boy was.

"Hmm… sure, see you on the courts."

As Fuji-hesitantly-left Miu turned toward the teacher, who just sighed when the door shut. "Miu… would you like to explain why you were involved in helping Kikumaru disturb my class?"

"Ah… well none of that would have happened if it wasn't for me… don't blame Eiji." She looked down toward her feet.

"You didn't answer my question."

"Well, when class started he gave me a note, but… well…. I-I" She bit her lip, it wasn't fair.

"Couldn't read it?"

"Yeah.."

"Do you still have the note?"

"Hai." she dug around in her pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. On the paper it read;

"Miu-chan! Why are you sitting all by yourself over there? Why don't you sit by me and Fujiko?"

As he read it out loud she looked down. "You were sitting by yourself because you didn't want them to see that you had a copy of the book in brail right?"

"Please don't blame Eiji he just…"

"Worries?" she nods. "Well… I guess I could let this one slide… go on, I'm sure Fuji is waiting for you."

"Hai… Thank you sensei"

Miu gathered her books and messenger bag as she headed out the door. Walking down the hall way her hand traced the designs of her bag. Doing so she remembered when she had first got it, in freshman year from a dear friend. The backpack was black with red and purple swirl designs on it. It was actually an expensive back pack… she was so mad when she got it. She thanked him over and over when she got it, but when he told her what was on it she got mad. Not at him… but at herself. She was mad that she couldn't see what was on the bag, couldn't see the special gift her best friend got her.

But when she had to move was when she really felt bad… she was leaving her best friend. That is why she never leaves to go anywhere without the back pack, just so she can remember him and the rest of her old class. After all… she had known them since they were all small.

A little girl, around the age of six ran around in the grass of the backyard to someone's house, jumping over a small rock formation that was in her path every time she paced it. She was so concentrated on jumping over the rocks she didn't hear the sound of her name being called. "Mi-chan!" the voice screamed out, only a few feet away from her.
She got so distracted by the voice she lost her concentration and tripped over the rocks. Skidding to a halt on the ground, landing on her face in the process, she started to cry. Her wails echoed throughout the backyard as several tiny feet came trampling toward her. A pair of hands gently lifted her up into a sitting position, her crying never ceasing.

The group of boys stood in front of her, at a loss of what to do, that is, before a small curly strawberry blonde haired boy shoved his way through the boys and sat in front of the girl. His big brown eyes shined with worry and determination. He tilted her head up so he could examine the small cut that was one the little girls face. He frowned once she realized she was bleeding before he moved the sleeve of his long sleeve orange shirt and whipped the blood off her face. At the touch the girl stopped crying, to shocked from the stinging pain the cut produced when the small boy touched it.

Once he stopped the bleeding he smiled, only to frown once more when more tears started to form in her cloudy eyes. The tears soon diminished as the boy bent his head down and kissed the cut on the girl's cheek, he pulled back and grinned. "There, all better." The girl was silent before she smiled and tackled the boy to the ground, thanking him over and over. The rest of the boys smiled at the two, visibly glad that the girl had stopped screaming.

"What's going on out here?" All the boys turned around to look at the slightly taller silver haired boy standing on the back porch of the house they were all at. In his hand was a can of lemonade, behind him was a very large, very dark skinned toddler. The silver haired boy glanced around the yard before his eyes landed on the girl still hugging the smaller boy under her. He walked over to the group just as the girl looked up at him. He saw the cut on her face, that had now starting to bleed again, and got angry. "What happened to her face?"

"I-it was an accident! S-she was running around and I called her name, I didn't think it would be bad! She looked toward me and she fell! I'm sorry! I-I didn't mean it! Sh-she-!" a red headed boy with an awkward hair cut started babbling on and on, tears starting to form in his eyes.

"She fell down and cut her face on some rocks." A brown haired boy finished for the red head, placing his hand over the boy's mouth to silence his ramblings.

The silver hair boy glared at the red head before he was tackled to the ground. "Keigo!" the little girl cried as she knocked him to the ground, making him drop his can of lemonade in the process. He landed with an 'ugh!' on the ground as the little girl buried her face into his blue t-shirt, staining it a few spots of blood. He looked at her curled up form and smiled before sitting up and hugging her back. He rubbed her back to keep her from crying, "Shhh… it's okay, Miu"

"I'm so sorry!" the red head sobbed before tackling the two, knocking the boy back onto his back, groaning from the weight. Laughter surrounded them as the rest of the boys watched them, until the strawberry blonde from before shouted "dog pile!" and jumped the group on the ground. The other four boys giggled before joining the pile. The only boys that didn't join the pile were the dark skinned boy and a short, stringy golden haired boy. The shorter of the two not really wanting to join the group because he didn't like physical contact, and that he was already angry because the girl's screaming gave him a head ache.

Next thing he knew he was pulled into the pile by the brown haired boy from before and shoved under three bodies. This was just not his day, why did he come over again?

Miu walked out onto the boys' tennis courts just as they started practicing.

"Nee-chan!" she turned as Naoki came running up to her. "Nee-chan! Have you seen Kikumaru-senpai?" he asked as he surveyed the area.

"Naoki… you know I haven't seen him…."

He looked at her. "Hm? Is something wrong, nee-chan?" he looked at her closely to see her gripping the strap to her bag tightly. "Oh… you miss them don't you?" She nodded slowly as she closed her
eyes. "Well… then why don't you call them? Or even go see them? There not that far away…."

"Hm.. You know I can't do that... What did you want Eiji for?" She asked, quickly changing the subject, not being able to deal with the fact that they were gone.

"I don't, that's just it. I'm trying to avoid him… he hasn't come to practice yet…"

"Aww, you're worried about him aren't you? You're such a fan boy Nao…."

"What? B-but I just said-!"

Miu had already walked away though. She walked through the courts trying not to run into or get in anyone's way. But alas.. She runs into the data man, and of course, being the strange man he it, he started listing out all of the data he had on her, a trap for someone to prove him wrong so he could correct and get more data. That and to prove how amazing he thought he was.

"Ah.. Kawashi Miu. 160.02 cm, 109 lb. has a tendency to drift off during class and has few friends at Seigaku due to lack of socializing. Percentage of friend increase if more open, 70%. Although she has close to no friends at Seigaku she has hundreds of friends at Hyotei Gakuen, the school she attended before transferring to Seigaku during her second year. Referred to as the-"

"Nani?" Fuji asked, interrupting the data man and silently appeared next to Miu, startling her in the process. "You went to Hyotei before?"

"….Hai…." She faced the ground, clearly displeased that she was, once again, on this subject.

"Why did you transfer to Seigaku?" Fuji asked, trying to hide his intense curiosity with only mild curiosity. It wasn't working.

"Cause we're more awesome then them, duh Fujiko!" Eiji said appearing behind Inui, resting his head on the taller boy's shoulder.

"Eiji, where did you come from?" Fuji said as he chuckled.

"Hehe, I've been here the whole ti-"

"…No…" Miu frowned as she stared at the ground.

Eiji looked at Miu curiously. "Yes I have, Miu…"

"No.. I didn't transfer here because Seigaku is 'more awesome' on the contrary I believe Hyotei is beyond better then Seigaku…" She bit her lip as memories of the school came back to her.

"What? Then why did you transfer here?" Eiji snapped, not appreciating that his new friend was choosing a rival school over their own. Although he said he had been there the whole time, he didn't hear when Inui had said she went to Hyotei.

"It's not like I had a choice." she muttered darkly, her fist clenching.

"Nee-chan! Ah…. What's going on?" Naoki appeared next to his sister much like how Fuji did.

"Nothing, Naoki…. Go play with Eiji, I'm going to get some water…." she started walking away. "Oh, and, Eiji, I got the teacher to free you from detention…," she snapped, using the same voice he did when he snapped at her.

"Huh…. Oh… a-arigato…." Kikumaru looked down, feeling bad for snapping at her. He looked over at Naoki, he was staring at his sister as she walked away. He had a pained look on his face. "Well, you heard her, Nao-chan, let's play a game. It's about time you showed me that powerful serve of yours…." Eiji smiled evilly, trying to get that pained look off of the younger boy's face.

"Not so fast, Kikumaru, no one is playing any practice games until everyone does their laps…." Inui said as he grabbed Kikumaru by the collar of his jersey and pulled him back and started dragging him over towards the captain to start their laps.

Kikumaru cried out to his best friend to save him as he dug his heels into the ground to try and slow the data man down. Said best friend only followed chuckling, stretching slightly to prepare for the laps he was about to run.

Miu was walking around looking for the water fountains what she heard shouting. Walking towards the source of the noise, she found herself in front of a door. The guy's locker room door. She put her ear up to the wall as she tried to listen in.

"ne, ne! Did you hear? Echizen was attacked by another student!"

"What? Who?"

"Akutsu!"

"What?"

"Hey… what are you doing?" She spun around to be met with a wave felt a nonchalant but slightly arrogant aura coming from the person in front of her, the one who spoke.

"Ah, nothing… Echizen?" She took a wild guess, judging her guess from all the auras she felt yesterday during their practice.

"Hm… Mada mada dane." he walked into the locker room leaving her behind.

"Ah! Echizen!"

"Echizen, you should really complain to the board about this!"

"It's no use, Oishi-senpai, he's got his 'I'll-take-care-of-it-myself' face on, hehehe"

"Arg…"

Three boys walked out of the locker room and looked at Miu curiously. Miu just made a face at them. She really hated this, she wanted to see what was wrong with Echizen, and to see who was talking inside the locker room. "Eh? Miu-senpai? What are you doing here?"

"Looking for the water fountain.."

"but, its right behind of you."

"Oh, my mistake…" she spun around and started walking toward were she thought the fountain was.

"Hey wait! You're Miu Kawashi right?" Oishi asked suddenly.

"Hai… and you would be?" She asked turning back around.

"Oishi Shuichiro and this is Tatashi Kawamura. Um, so you're the one who played Eiji yesterday after school?"

"….Hai, why do you want to play me now too?" She asked in a defeated tone, not really wanting to have a repeat of what happened yesterday.

"Hmm, maybe you never know… Ah! We're going to be late for practice if we don't hurry!" They all started running back to the courts and Miu just followed their footsteps. She needed to find Naoki, she wanted to know what was wrong with that other first year, Echizen Ryoma.

They stared to slow down as they neared the rest of the tennis team. "As said yesterday we will be training with Inui's help today, so get running!" Coach said to the team.

Everyone shot off and around the outside of the courts. Coach Ryuzaki turned to Miu, "well since you're here, you might as well run to." Miu cursed before running after the group. She swerved around all the First years and some second years, while laughing at the surprise noises they made, before she caught up to Naoki, who was right behind the regulars. "Eh? Nee-chan, she made you run too?"

"Hai, stupid couch…. How far ahead are we?"

"Ah… we are right behind the regulars, the rest of the team is behind us."

"Fun, fun. Shall we shock them even more?" Miu asked smirking as she started to pick up her pace.

"After you, sister." They both stated to run faster, soon they were right in between the regulars.

"Eh? Miu-chan? Why are you running?" All the regulars looked at the girl who was surprisingly running at an even pace with them. "Ryuzaki-sensei said I might as well run because I'm here…. Stupid coach." Eiji snickered.

"GAH!" They all look behind them to see a group of first years on the ground gagging with cups in their hands. "You have to finish each lap in less than 1 minute or you get this." Inui poured the contents of a cup onto the ground. It came out red and sluggish. "I call it 'Penal-Tea.'"

Everyone cringed and started running faster. Miu looked in Naoki's direction. "Nao what happened?" she whispered. "Trust me, you don't want to know. Just run!" Miu started running faster and soon she was running behind Momoshiro and Kaidoh.

"Sugoi! Only the Regulars are still running!" Horio commented.

"No wait! Naoki and Miu-Senpai are running with them!" Kachiro shouted while pointing. "But why is Miu-senpai running? She's not even part of the club!" Horio shouted.

"Hm, Oishi had told me about her playing Kikumaru yesterday and I wanted to see how she faired. It looks like she is doing well with keeping up with the regulars." Coach Ryuzaki said proudly.

"Last lap! Whoever finishes last has to drink the whole pitcher!" Inui shouted.

"Ahh! I'm never drinking that!" They all sped up. Soon they were all fighting to be the first to cross the line. Someone had given Kawamura a racket and he was screaming to let him through.

"Ahh, I wonder who is going to be the first around the corner?"

They all watched intensely as the first one that appeared around the corner was…. Naoki! Behind him the whole regular team, plus one girl, was following closely. So close that he barely made it around the corner without falling. They all dove to the ground across the finish line trying the hardest not to be last. They all fell to the ground on top of each other.

"Who lost? Who lost?"

"hmm.. It seems to be a tie. So no winner means no loser, would you still like to try the drink?"

"NO!" the regulars shouted from the ground, angry expressions on their faces.

"Fine, fine." Inui held his hands up in defeat before walking away.

They all sat there panting to catch their breath. "h-hey K-Kawashi's, where d-did you guy's learn to run so f-fast?" Eiji asked still trying to catch his breath while sitting on the ground.

"It was easy, we could probably run faster." Miu said calmly.

"WHAT?" Momoshiro and Kikumaru shouted in unison, not believing what they just heard, even Fuji opening his eyes slightly in surprise.

"Have you been training since you were kids or what?" Momoshiro asked as he stared bug eyed at the two siblings.

"Well I have, but nee-chan only started taking interest in this kind of stuff a few years ago." Naoki said quietly as he retied his shoe laces.

"A few years ago? This wouldn't have anything to do with Hyotei… would it?" Fuji asked with his everlasting smile present on his face. He was determined to figure this girl out, no matter what.

"Ho? Hyotei? Isn't that the team that lost to Fudomine in the tournament?" Momoshiro asked as he whipped the sweat off his brow.

"What….. They lost? To what score?" she had worry written all over her face.

"Hmm…. In doubles they lost 4-6, then 1-6, then in singles they lost 0-6." Inui aid listing off the score from his book. "Players Ogawa-Chigabayashi, Kaida-Kashiwa, and Shishido."

"Sou ka… Shishido is going to be kicked off the regulars… for sure…" she closes her eyes and sighs.

"How do you know that? Nya…" Eiji tilted his head to the side.

"Sakaki-sensei doesn't appreciate losers, especially if there regulars and lose 0-6. Hmm… I wonder if Jirou will take his place… mmm. Shishido is going to be really mad…"

"How do you know what will happen? Did you go to Hyotei before?" Oishi asked, obviously curious in this girl that he just met maybe a half an hour ago.

"I went to Hyotei for most of my life…. I know most of the tennis player there…." she mumbled as she picked at something on her shirt, not really looking at it.

"Really… hey, we could go over and see Hyotei! It would be like a reunion, ne?" Momoshiro said energetically as he stood up stretching.

Miu shook her head violently. "No.. I can't do that… that would be a very bad thing to do…."

"why, nya?"

"because, I have a friend over there, well several… they will be mad if I came back…. Hey, Naoki, want to play a match?" she asked trying to change the conversation.

"Huh? But Kikumaru-senpai wanted to play me…." Disappointment flashed across his face.

"Then we'll just have to play doubles then." She got up and stretched. "Well come on, we don't have all day to do this, practice is almost over. Naoki, could you fetch my bag?"

"Hai."

"Ne, ne, Miu-chan, I didn't know you played doubles?" Eiji said bouncing up.

"I usually don't, I can only play with my brother." She answered, sitting on the ground re-tying her shoe laces.

"Hmm… and why is that?" the data man asks as he writes in his notebooks.

Miu smiled as she went to one of the courts. "Se-cer-et."

Oishi soon followed and got onto court with their rackets, read to play. Miu shuffled through her back pack that Naoki had given her and took out her black tennis racket. "All right, let's play!" Miu walked up to the net as did Kikumaru. "Which?"

"Smooth, nya~"

She spin her racket around, but unfortunately when it fell it landed on smooth. "Ah, lucky~"

Fuji stared at the girl on the court. How was she able to do all of these things? She could run without falling, could play tennis without seeing, and talk to people that she couldn't even see. It theoretically shouldn't even be possible, and yet here she was defying odds of every story he had read about blind people and their lives.

Miu got into position by the net and Naoki in the back. Miu stared at Oishi as he served the ball, just as she closed her eyes. Her darkened world was lit up by the purple lines of a tennis court. Two dark figures on one side. A short dark figure right behind her.

The group that gathered by the side lines gasped. Well, Momoshiro, Kawamura, and the group of freshman and juniors gasped. Fuji smiled devilishly, Inui scribbled in his notebook, Tezuka stared, Ryoma 'hmmm'ed, Kaidoh 'fssss'ed, coach Ryuzaki smiled.

Oishi served the ball and it came to Miu on her right side in slow motion. Lifting her arm up she flicked her wrist to send it back. "15-love!" Momoshiro said as he climbed up the referee chair.

Okay so this is the second remake, it's different in lots of ways, yet the same in others. Hope you like it, review and tell me what you thing please? :D seriously I need feed back to survive. Truthfully I was suppose to send this in like 2 days ago... cause thats what I told my beta reader. but I felt like crap the past 3 days so.. yea... get over it.. xD anyways! review(if it even messages you that I changed this chapter .) honestly 1 review can made me update, or change the whole story... so hit that review button! please?