Prologue

The little girl sobbed in the playground alone. Her knee was scratched and she was hiding. She doesn't have a friend in the world. No one would her help her, no one liked her but it wasn't her fault.

"What's wrong?" a voiced asked. The girl lifted her head up in surprised, wiping the tears away before the person could them.

"G-go away!" she cried. The voice belonged to the boy, he wasn't intimidated by her, and he bent down to face her.

"I'm not going anywhere! Now tell me what's wrong!" he said leaning close to her to get her to tell.

A little taken aback, she gave him a confused look. "I was pushed. Those older kids were mean to me," she confessed. "They pick on me because I don't have any friends."

The boy looked thoughtful, and then he smiled widely. "Then want me to be your friend? That way no one would hurt you if I'm with you!" The girl looked surprised, that came out of no where.

"Come on. Let's go play!" he said as he reached out his hand for hers. Looking at that hand, she sniffled, and then smiled.

"Ok."

So she took his hand and ran off with him.

Chapter 1

Tap tap tap

That was the sound of tennis courts hitting on the courts. The girl looked up from her book; she was here, Rokakku Chu middle school, the school she will be attending. She put book in her bag that she was reading. She searched to find where the sound was coming from. Grabbing her tennis bag, she started to run, finally reaching the tennis courts.

Looking at her surroundings, she found herself in a playground filled with kids, she sighed and smiled, "It's nice to be back here again", she thought. She saw a group of tennis players practicing and an old man sitting at a bench watching them that must be the coach of the boy's tennis team.

Walking up to the fence that was separating her from the courts, she scanned through the group of players. Suddenly she stopped at one boy who looked rather familiar; her dark brown eyes widen and she smirked a little.

The boy was about 13 years old like her; he had a weird haircut, like a buzz cut that's usually for the type of boys who goes to the beach. A wide smile across his face that never seems to go away, he was wearing his tennis uniform just like the others; it was red and the collar of his sleeveless shirt had patterns of beehives that was yellowish white and had white shorts on.

The boy was chatting with his teammates who seem older than him, in a loud voice with a happy expression. Boy he never changes.

Boy's P.O.V

His teammates had seemed to stop talking and was staring at something, following the direction they were staring at, he saw a girl outside the fence.

"Huh? I wonder who she is?" he wondered aloud. Everyone shrugged and continued to look at her.

"Maybe she's one of Saeki's fan girls," one of them suggested. The boy with silver and black hair ran his hand through his long bangs, looking slightly embarrassed.

He chuckled and said, "I don't think it seems that way. She doesn't look like a fan girl."

"Mmm… Well if she isn't a fan girl, then who is she? She couldn't be from our school because she isn't wearing our school uniform," the tallest boy, Korobane said. He had a strong built and curly brown hair that stands up.

The girl moving from her regular spot that she was standing entered the courts. Now everybody from the tennis club stopped what they were doing, stared at her. Confused conversations filled the air, everyone wondering who this girl was that had interrupted their practice.

She approached the coach and bowed in respect, "It's nice to see you again Oji."

Oji lifted his head shakily because of his oldness, he lifted his finger, "You are… You finally have arrived child, welcome back." The girl brightly smiled, bowed again and thanked him. Everybody became more confused. Now she knows who Oji is?

Oji turned his head towards the boy with the buzz cut hair, coaxed him to come here. The boy, realized that they had stopped practice, shouted to everybody, "Alright everybody! Let us resume to what we were doing! There's nothing to look at!"

The people cried out, "Yes captain!" and continued what they were doing.

The boy headed to where Oji and the girl was, approaching them, Oji said, "Kentarou, I would like you to meet someone."

The girl about the same age as him, bowed and said, "Nice to meet you. My name is Koro Yuki."

Kentarou also bowed, nice to meet you also. I'm Aoi Kentarou, the captain of the tennis team," he said rubbing his hand at the back of his head. The girl smiled, she had a half dimple, which made her look rather cute.

Kentarou stared at her; she had dark hair about a length shoulder that framed her round face. A broadish but nice nose, not like It-chan's nose, the third year teammate who never stops asking questions, his nose was big and makes loud whistling noises. Yuki was wearing tennis shorts, just him and a tank top, her body was strong looking but a bit slim and delicate at the same time. To his surprise, they were about the same height, considering the fact that mostly the first yeas were short except for him because he was a bit earlier than the others were.

Yuki notices, locked eyes with him. He saw her brown eyes and couldn't help to think they were rather familiar… Oji breaking his train of thought said, "Yuki was one of my pupils, just like you were when I trained you when you were small. Please introduce her to the team…"

So she must be from here then. But he has never seen her before though, but he's getting this feeling that he did. Well, he'll put that aside and figure it out later, right now he has to introduce to this really pretty girl to the team which he feels very much obliged to do. Today he must be lucky to be this near with a girl; he never had any experience with girls before. Normally he wouldn't have the courage to talk to them whenever he approached a girl; they usually ignore him or try to talk to him, but none successfully progressed their relationship to being more than friends. He plans to get all the girls attention by using his awesome skills during a match and totally believes that they'll swoon over him. No matter how many times he tried, it never works, but he still use that method to get girls.

Maybe he shouldn't try it today though, this girl Yuki, seems a bit different from other girls. She seems easy to approach and to make friends with, unlike the other girls who are rather intimidating. She is cute, but she isn't his type though. Besides, Oji might be angry at him if he did anything if Yuki was his favorite student. For some reason Kentarou has this strange feeling inside of him whenever he takes a look at her. It was a strange feeling he had never felt before and he doesn't know why but he'll ignore it.

"Sure coach!" he responded. He smiled at her like a child and took her hand. "Come on Koro-chan! Let's introduce you to the team!" he said dragging her off.

Yuki, surprised by his action, blushed muttered, "Sure. Let's go…"