{Chapter Two}

New Girl in town

{During the first day Fall semester}

Miyuki sighed contently as he sat in class and stared out of the window. The clouds were huge and puffy, it kinda reminded him of a cluster of marshmallows he would put in his hot chocolate during the winter. He chuckled softly at this as he continued to stare. Kuramochi was laughing and talking to the other students, when they suddenly began talking in hushed voices.

"She must be the new girl that our teacher was talking about." One girl stated. Another said, "wow, she's really beautiful, look how pretty her hair is!" a male student exclaimed softly. "Oi, Miyuki, you have to see this girl…" Kuramochi said tugging on Miyuki's arm.

Letting out an irritated sigh, Miyuki glared at his friend. Well one, he enjoyed staring out the window and looking at the clouds. Two, the very last thing he wanted to hear was something about a damn girl. "What's so special about her?" Kazuya growled softly as he looked up at the green haired teen. Kuramochi sighed softly and held his hands up in defense. "whoa there tiger, I was just trying to help you" he remarked.

Honestly he couldn't blame his friend for his reaction. Kuramochi had recently learned that Miyuki's last girlfriend had cheated on him throughout the course of their relationship (which lasted for a year and a half), "Miyuki, I know this may be something that you don't wanna hear, but I'm gonna say it anyway." Kuramochi stated boldly.

Now this made the brunette raise a brow out of curiosity, "well if it's something from your mouth, I guess I'll listen" Miyuki remarked flatly

This made Kuramochi roll his eyes, "Look, I know what happened with Noriko Ueda, wasn't the best, but you need to move on from that chick. You need to face the fact that she wasn't your soulmate and two, she didn't give a rat's ass about you." He ranted. Miyuki was slightly irritated and he quickly glanced sideways, his pride was getting in the way again. Before he could respond, the new girl was standing before them.

"E-excuse me, but is this seat taken?" She asked in a shy voice as she pointed to the seat in front of Kuramochi. "N-no, not at all..." Kuramochi replied. The girl nodded and smiled brightly, "silly me, I almost forgot to introduce myself. I'm Odysseas Dasios-Kazuo, I know my name sounds silly, but it's because I'm half Greek and half Japanese. It's a pleasure to meet the both of you" Odysseas chimed.

Miyuki and Kuramochi looked surprised, "oh, that sounds fascinating! Well, I'm Youichi Kuramochi, and the brooding guy beside you is Kazuya Miyuki. It's nice to meet you, Dasios-Kazuo?" Kuramochi replied.

Odysseas gave him a soft smile, "I took on both of my parent's names, if you were wondering. Just call me Odysseas or Ody." She offered. Kuramochi smiled shyly and rubbed the back of his head. "Okay Odysseas" He replied.

Miyuki saw the obvious blush on his face and mentally rolled his eyes. "So I'm guessing that you're not from around here then?" he inquired. Odysseas looked at Miyuki and nearly jumped out of her skin. He hadn't said a word until now, and it almost startled her.

"Actually I am, my father missed his family back in Greece, so when I was a year old we left the area to live in Greece for a majority of my life. We just moved back over the summer." She informs him as she takes her seat.

I wonder what is was like to live in such a beautiful country, she must've been the talk of the town. Maybe even had boyfriend after boyfr—Miyuki had to stop his thoughts right there. Why did something like that even matter to him? It shouldn't and he knew that.

"So what made you move back?" Miyuki asked, just a little bit curious. "oh…that reason." Odysseas begins, "is a reason that I never want to talk about. If anything, I'd like to forget anything about it" she remarks monotonously.

*Flashback*

Odysseas hummed happily as she paraded to her boyfriend's house. Today was their one-year anniversary and she was more than elated. "I can't wait to see Nikos! I can't believe it's been a whole year!" she chimed. As soon as she made her way up to his apartment, 'weird' noises could be heard from the inside. Thinking nothing of it, she walked inside.

"Nikos...? where are you?" she whispered softly. The closer she got to Nikos' room, the louder the noises were getting. When she poked her head through the door, the color had left her face.

There before her was Nikos eloping with her now former best friend, Sofia. "Just what in the fucking hell do you think you're doing?! That's my boyfriend you whore!" Odysseas thundered as tears rolled down her face. This cause Nikos and Sofia to jump and look her way, "Odyssea, i-it's not w-what it looks like….! I swear on Mt. Olympus!" Sofia and Nikos cried out, prying away from each other.

"Then what the hell is this shit, eh? Cause if you give me any bullshit, I swear on Ares, it'll take the power of the Gods to pry me off the both of you" Odysseas snarled darkly. "I trusted the both of you…how could you betray me like this?" she hissed before darting out of the apartment. Once back at her own home, she locked herself in her room and stayed there.

For weeks she cried and cried, her family tried to get her to eat something or get her to try and talk, those efforts failed. After a month of seclusion, Odysseas came out of her room, she was thinner than what was deemed normal and her once bright and cheerful eyes were now dull and lifeless.

Her mother, who was home at the time, saw Odysseas and immediately ran over to her, "Ody, are you alright? What happened? Do you want something to eat?" her mom asked worriedly.

Odysseas looked up at her mom, "some food sounds nice right about now…" she replied quietly.

Mahiro nodded and lead her daughter to the kitchen, "and to answer your previous question, a month ago, I was on my way to Nikos' house to celebrate our one-year anniversary" Odysseas began, with tears forming in her eyes, "that's…that's when I found him and Sofia having sex. They tried to act like it wasn't what it seemed, but I knew better than that…" she finished, her voice breaking and she was on the verge of crying.

Her mother gasped softly at this, but it soon turned into a burning rage. This was the same boy her daughter had loved with her very being and to make matters worse, her best friend was sleeping with him.

"Sweetie, I don't want you to worry about anything else alright? I'm going to call your father, and we're going to have a 'little talk' with Nikos and Sofia's parents." Her mother replied with a dangerously calm voice. Nodding absently, that was the end of things.

*End of flashback*

Miyuki stared at Odysseas, he noticed her whole mood had changed drastically when she answered. He saw how the light drained from her eyes, they look like Chris' eyes when he had over done it and was told that he could never play baseball again… he thought. Out of the blue, Miyuki placed a hand on her head and ruffled her hair, "oi, I'm sorry for asking a question like that. I didn't think that it would bother you that badly" he stated worriedly.

"Efharisto Miyuki, it's not like you would know" Odysseas giggled. This made Miyuki blush lightly and look away, "I don't know what you said, but you're welcome" he muttered. Kuramochi saw the blush and laughed like a hyena, no way in hell would he ever let Miyuki live that down. Soon class started and today suggest that it would be rather amusing.

{at the end of the first class}

"That is all for today class, you are dismissed" The teacher said as the bell rang, signaling it was time for lunch.

"Hey Ody, wanna join Miyuki and I for lunch? We're gonna meet up with the rest of the baseball team." Kuramochi stated, as he glanced over at Miyuki. "wait, you guys play baseball? That's so cool! I'd love to meet the rest of them!" Odysseas chimed excitedly. "I kinda made a lot of Greek marinated chicken, I hope you guys don't mind if I share it with you and the guys" she added shyly.

Miyuki chuckled softly, "Trust me, those guys would do anything to try a home cooked meal, Sea" he added. Odysseas smiled at the two, "well, what are we waiting for? Let's get going already" she sang.

Laughing, Miyuki and Kuramochi lead the way. Once Jun saw Miyuki and Kuramochi, he waved them down, "Hey you losers! Hurry up!" he yelled. Jun then blushed brightly when he saw the two walking with a beautiful girl, "oh? I wonder who she is. She looks new" Ryosuke commented. The others nodded in agreement.

To them, it was rather unusual for anyone on the baseball team to be seen walking or even talking to a female (if it wasn't the managers on the team). These guys lived, loved and breathed baseball, so something like "girls" was really and untouched subject and seen more as a distraction than anything else (well not really, most of the guys were just really involved with baseball, they forgot what it was like to talk to a girl)