"Good morning fellow classmates! And to the new and young freshmen out there, welcome to Seishun Academy!" The student body president, Aya Fujino, excitedly greeted.

It was the start of a long morning at Seigaku for the freshmen. The entrance ceremony had every newcomer in their seats, quiet and still. The school's president, Aya, took first on center stage, giving a bright welcoming speech. "With today being the first day of homecoming week, each class will be required to do something to represent themselves at the festival on Friday. Events like these really sum up our student body at Seishun Academy."

As Aya babbled on, the freshmen's president, Ryoma Echizen, shuffled through his notecards on the left side of the stage. Back in elementary school, Ryoma never really signed up for president. Everyone just automatically put his name on the ballot other than the other election members. He sighed over and over again as he read the ridiculous things his cousin Takahiro wrote.

On the other side of the stage, the freshmen's vice-president Sakuno Ryuzaki was nervously pacing back and forth. Twiddling her fragile- looking thumbs, she went over her lines that she memorized the night before. Back in her elementary school, Sakuno wasn't the only girl who signed up for the vice-president's spot. As soon as the girls were told that the notorious Ryoma Echizen was going to be the next president of Seigaku, spots were filled by the hundreds. Sakuno was the only girl that didn't hear that announcement, and genuinely tried to run competitively. Fortunately, Sakuno won with her amazing speeches and logical reason to become vice-president.

Both in their uniforms, Ryoma and Sakuno were both in a spot that no one would dare to go. With that said, neither of them know that they were going to work together… "Now, please give a round of applause to your freshmen president and vice- president!" Aya gestured both her hands on the opposite sides of the stage.

Exiting out the dark sides and entering the light of the center stage, both Ryoma and Sakuno still weren't in eye contact. While Ryoma was shuffling his cards, Sakuno was still looking down and twiddling her thumbs. Meeting Aya, they soon met face to face.

"I wish you both good luck!" Aya whispered, leaving them both on the stage and exited to the bottom.

'Who is this?' Ryoma thought, still staring at Sakuno.

"Good morning everyone," Sakuno continued on with the speech, trying to trail her eyes away from Ryoma's dark green eyes and towards the audience.

"My name is Ryoma Echizen, and this is-..."

"Sakuno Ryuzaki," Sakuno interrupted,assuming that Ryoma didn't know her full name. "Since it is our very first year here at Seishun Academy, we will start a whole new journey as first years.As we become more mature towards our journey, we as a class can look at this stage as the treasured memories that we lived."

Back to back, Ryoma and Sakuno spit out inspirational and natural speeches. It's almost like they were fighting through the words, but it also seems like they made a perfect team.

"And lastly, Ryoma and I will promise a great first year for us and together we can make Seishun our home." Sakuno ended with a one sentence finale.

With the end of that, everyone stood up and clapped. Of course, everyone was still in awe and there were whispers going around about the two. No one couldn't believe it. The only daughter of Ryuzaki and the only son of Echizen were working together… But were they really?

As soon as the two exited on the right side of the stage behind the curtain, Ryoma turned around and faced Sakuno. "You're a girl?"

Offended, Sakuno turned red. "Excuse me?"

"I thought the one who represents the Ryuzakis was a guy." Ryoma replied.

"O- Oh… I'm sorry to hurt your feelings, but I'm not a guy." Sakuno cleared his misunderstanding, then cleared her throat. "A- Anyways, we have to put our family's grudge aside in order for this to work. We can't have the school suffer because of us, Echi- Echi-... "

"Just Ryoma is fine," Ryoma sighed in irritation that his name was hard to say by his own enemy. Feeling rebellious, Ryoma took a step closer to Sakuno to close the distance. Sakuno turned into a red tomato, stumbling on her feet to get back. "I actually don't care whether or not this school rots because of our feud. What if I wanted to go against every idea you had because you're my enemy?"

"I-I won't allow you to do th-that. If you want to play against me, do it on the courts." Sakuno stood her ground, surprising Ryoma more than he thought.

He smirked, leaning in and whispered close to her ear. "I can't wait to work with my most hated enemy."

With Ryoma walking away, Sakuno still tried to keep it together. Her cheeks were still burning and her tomato face turned a darker shade every second. However, she won't give in that easily. Ryoma Echizen isn't going to ruin the perfect middle school plan Sakuno had.

Back to Ryoma, he was pretty driven on what he just did. "That girl will break sooner or later." Even if he was the most silent one in the family, that doesn't mean Ryoma knows how to make a girl flushed. Coming from a pretty perverted family, Ryoma is very sly.

What was he thinking though? Going close to her ear and leaning in? Ryoma Echizen doesn't do that. Trying to get back to his reasons, Ryoma continued, "The moment needed to be heated. I wanted to let her know I was going to ruin her plans. But then she had to act all heroic." Ryoma never met a girl like that. All his life he was told the Ryuzakis are very bad and was always told to hate them. Perhaps he should think of the bad things about her. "Her knees are crooked. Her hair is way too long..."