Kirihara woke up at 5:30am to get ready for tennis practice. "Aah, I don't wanna get out of bed," he thought. He was just about to go back to sleep when a massive bucket of ice cold water got thrown on his head. "Ehhhhhhhhhhhh? Nee-san! What the hell are you doing?!"
"Ah, you're awake, Otouto," his sister replied with a sophisticated smile. "Breakfast's ready, so hurry up. Do you want a lift to tennis practice?"
"Nah – I can walk there myself," he said feeling sorry for himself.
He quickly washed his hair (as it was wet with lumps of ice hanging off), got dressed and brushed his teeth. He slid down the bannister, grabbed the toast his sister had made for him, and sprinted out the door. Within about 5 minutes, he was at the courts, along with the other tennis regulars, and they all began practising.
Meanwhile, in Asuka's house, she was getting beaten by her mother for not waking up early enough to make breakfast for her.
"Sai, you stupid child! I should be ashamed of myself for having you as my daughter. You should wake up at 4:45 at the very maximum to make me breakfast – is this how you think you should treat me?" she bellowed while whipping her.
"No," she replied quietly, while cringing in pain. There were red marks all over her body, from head to toe. To be honest, this beating was nothing compared to the other beatings she's had in the past. The previous week, she had got a B in Physics and Chemistry. Her mother was not happy, and had ordered that one of the maids beat her. That had lasted for a whole hour.
After about half an hour, she arrived at Rikkaidai for her first day in a black limousine. "Thank you for the lift," she said to the driver. She stumbled out of the car weakly, and began walking the rest of the way. She was an hour early, so she wandered over to the fountains a few metres ahead. She collapsed onto the grass underneath a big tree, got out some bandages from her rucksack, and began bandaging up the cuts and bruises.
"Gosh! What are you doing? Why are there so many bruises on you?!" Kirihara shouted as he ran towards her.
"Oh, this… I just tripped up, that's all," Sai replied, giving a fake smile.
Unfortunately for her, Kirihara knew what a fake smile and a real smile was, but didn't say anything else. Instead he bandaged up the rest of her arms and legs for her. He knew that it was impossible to get this badly hurt by just falling over. "Hey, is everything okay? Did you really trip up?" he asked.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm just a bit clumsy sometimes. I should probably go to the library to study before school starts," she said. She got up, ignoring the pain, using Kirihara's shoulder and the tree for support, and made her way to the library.
Kirihara went back to the tennis courts, only to be shouted by Sanada for being late. "Why did it take you twenty minutes to go to the toilet?!" He roared in his ear.
"S-Sanada Fukubochou… well, you see, there was a massive queue in there, so I had to wait," Kirihara lied, scratching his head.
"40 laps, now."
He looked over to Yukimura to get some sympathy. Fortunately, he said that he only had to do 20, as he was in a good mood.
Kirihara did his 20 laps, before going back to the tennis courts and going back to practice. After tennis practice ended, he went back to the classroom to wait for the teacher so that the lessons could begin.