"A tennis match?" I asked Yukina with a raised brown eyebrow.

She shook her head from side to side, her pink ponytails doing the same, "Geez, weren't you listening?" she sighed as she repeated herself, "I said that the ranking matches for the tennis team is happening today and I want to go watch. You two should come with, JinJin-kun, Rei-chan!" she invited with a smile.

"And what, exactly, did I miss from that statement?' I ask, only for Yukina to give me a sharp look that makes me back off immediately.

Reina and I glanced at each other at the same time, the same look in our eyes.

Reina turned to speak to her friend, "Yukina, I think we're good-"

A loud smack echoed in the nearly empty classroom, silencing and scaring both of us as Yukina slammed her hand down onto my desk, her pink bags covering her glowing purple eyes, "Haaa?" She asked, anger laced in her voice.

I glanced at Reina again and this time, we both had panic in our eyes, "Okay! We'll go!" Reina blurted out.

Yukina immediately brightened, a smile on her face, "Yay! Let's goooo!" she squealed as she marched towards the door.

I shared another look with Reina before picking up our bags and following her out the door.

After all, despite looking so small and cute, Yukina was the fearsome vice-captain of the nationally-ranked Kendo team.


I watched as two students in my grade played a match in front of me, a hand supporting my head as I leaned my elbows on my knees to watch boredly from the bleachers, "All of these matches are pretty amateurish," I muttered to Reina next to me.

Reina nodded as she munched on some pocky, silently offering some to me.

I took one and put the chocolate end into my mouth, swinging it back and forth boredly, "Yukina-san, is this how all these matches are?"

Yukina's bright purple eyes pierced me, "Are you joking? Don't you know how good we are at tennis?" she asked as if I was stupid.

I stared blankly at her as Reina bluntly reminded, "Korean."

Yukina froze, turning away from being menacing, to be smiling apologetically, "I totally forgot you just moved here, sorry Jinjin-kun. I'll fill you in about the team, here," she scanned the court before looking towards me, "Come on, let's go on a walk!" she grabbed my hand and Reina's hand, dragging us both out of the bleachers.

I swallowed the rest of the pocky and took another one from Reina.

"For the past five years our tennis team has always gone to Nationals," Yukina explained ahead of me, "I don't know what they do in Korea or America, but the main tournament players on the team are called the Regulars."

"Varsity," Reina butchered next to me.

I nodded in understanding anyways as Yukina continued, "I'll show you each of them, all of them wear the Regular's jacket which has out school name on the back and is colored blue, red, and white." she stops us in front of a court and gestures to a shorter boy wearing a white cap, bouncing a tennis ball on the service line, ready to serve, "That is the freshmen rookie, the only freshmen Regular on the team. His name is Echizen Ryoma," Yukina introduced, "He came from America too apparently," Yukina said as she turned to me, "Maybe you guys should talk."

I shrugged and whistled lowly as the freshmen served a fastball to his opponent.

Reina munched on more pocky next to me.

Yukina began to drag us off again, "These are the two the juniors on the team, our grade," she introduced, pointing to the two jersey wearing teens, one of them umpire and the other a player. She pointed to the one with the bandana, "That's Kaidoh Kaoru, he's kinda scary looking but he isn't too bad," she introduced, "And the one with the spikey hair is Momoshiro Takeshi."

She turned to us with a bright smile, "And Kaoru is my childhood friend and second platonic soulmate, so treat him well!"

"Oi, Yukina! Shut up!" a low voice growled, "I'm playing a match! Fssshhhh" he hissed.

Yukina's grin turned menacing as she turned to face her soulmate, "What was that Kaoru?!" she screeched.

"O-oi! Mamushi, calm down!" the teen, called Momoshiro, called out as umpire.

"SHUT UP PEACH HEAD!" the snake like teen responded heatedly.

I watched as Reina hooked her arms around her soulmate, "We'll take care of her Kaidoh-san." she blandly reassured.

He glared heatedly at his soulmate, watching with sharp eyes as we left.

Once we turned a corner Reina let Yukina go and she turned to me, "Continuing the introduction," she said in a calmer voice, smoothing her clothes down, "Those two are Kawamura Takashi and Inui Sadaharu." She said as the pointed to the two players on adjacent courts, "Kawamura-senpai is the brunet who yells burning all the time, while the glasses wearing senpai over there is Inui-senpai. He says Iie Data a lot too."

As if on cue, Kawamura-senpai sent a strong backhand shot towards his opponent yelling, "BURNING!"

I glanced at Reina who knowingly responded, "Yeah, all of them are like this."

Yukina smiled happily as she took our wrists again and led us to another set of adjacent courts, "These are the two halves of our doubles team, the golden pair!" she introduced, "The redhead is Kikumaru Eiji-senpai, while the one with the black hair is Oishi Shuichiro-senpai."

I watched as the redhead jumped around the court, hitting the ball back after flips and jumps.

"By the way, Oishi-senpai is the vice-captain of the team," Yukina said as she leaned in closer to the gate to watch, "I heard he's also a mother hen. There are also rumors that these two are romantics, or at least platonics." she stage whispered at us.

I raised an eyebrow at that, "I thought you were introducing them to me, not gossiping." I criticized.

Reina shook her head and led us forward this time, "Ignore her, she likes things like that."

I frowned, confused, "Things like-"

"Boys' love," Reina bluntly interrupted.

I stared blank faced at the pink haired teen who just sent me a peace sign and a happy smile, "Oh."

"Oh, looks like the last two regulars aren't playing right now." Yukina commented, ignoring Reina's and my conversation, "I found them!" she said excitedly, pointing towards two teens standing near a desk.

I turned to face them and immediately scanned them over. The shorter had layered chestnut brown hair that reached his chin, looked to be a bit shorter than me. He had a calm and content expression on his face as he smiled, his eyes closed to slits. The taller had auburn brown hair with his hair parting to his right, a stern expression on his face, and framed glasses on his nose.

Something made my breath hitch.

"Those two are arguably the best players on the team," Yukina said as she pointed to the two senpai, "The genius and the captain of the Seigaku tennis team, respectively."

She pointed to the shorter first, "Fuji Syuusuke-senpai," and then the taller, "And Tezuka Kunimitsu-senpai."

My left bicep and right wrist burned. I choked on my own spit, causing Yukina and Reina to panic, "Are you okay Jinjin-kun?!"

"Oi, what happened?" Reina demanded.

I was led away in a hurry, but from the corner of my eye I could see Tezuka's and Fuji's eyes on us.


I sighed contently as I settled into my bath, looking at the name on my wrist with dull eyes. I absently rubbed my left bicep, running my fingers over the name.

When I had first come to Japan I was depressed. When I came to my senses and realized it was nearly impossible to search for my soulmates, and had given it up to fate. But to now know that two of my soulmates are two of the most popular guys in school and are the best of the best in the middle school tennis world, it scares me.

I always told myself that if I found them before they found me, I'd tell them who I am… but I feel that they'd just be more disappointed once they know how pathetic I am.

I sigh and pull myself out of the bath, drying myself off, and quickly covering the name Tezuka Kunimitsu on my wrist and Fuji Syusuke on my bicep with a black band.


"Oi, Yukina."

Yukina turned to see her platonic soulmate, "Kaoru! Are you not going home with Inui-senpai today?"

Yukina chuckled as she saw her soulmate blush at the comment, roughly responding, "Fsh...No, I am. Just who was that guy with you and Reina-san?" he asked after a short hiss.

Yukina tilted her head, "You mean Jinjin-kun? Don't you remember? We got a foreign student a couple months ago. He became friends with Reina, so I joined in!" Yukina explained, watching Kaidoh's expression change, "He's a nice guy so don't do anything bad Kaoru. He knows that I have a romantic too."

Kaidoh shook his head, "That's not what I meant Kina." he said lowly, unconsciously calling his friend by her nickname.

Yukina furrowed her brow, "What do you mean, Kao?"

Kaidoh seemed to hesitate before saying, "Nothing, I'm sure it's nothing. I'll let you know if it turns into anything though."

Yukina looked at his strange behaviour but didn't push it, "Alright then… I'll see you later, Ryou is picking me up."

Kaidoh nodded and watched his platonic leave, "I'm sure it's nothing…"


Someone asked why I made my OC Korean, and I only really can say that it's the only other language and culture I know well enough and I want there to be a little bit of a dynamic between the characters because of it.

Also because Korean main characters are lacking. KOREA REPRESENT!