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Chapter 6
"Good afternoon, Anzai sensei." Yuki said, with a smile on her face. Sayuri, Mitsui and Rukawa looked at Yuki with a confused look. The rest of the team looked at her with a VERY confused look.
"Team, Rukawa Yuki here, will be our new member in the team. She will not only be a player but also, a coach for the girls' team." Anzai sensei said, smiling.
"Uh-oh." Sayuri mumbled, with an expression that seems to say 'I'm going to die'.
"Anzai sensei.?" Ryota started saying but stopped when he can't think of much to say.
"Er. I guess I should do a little introduction about myself. I am Rukawa Yuki, Rukawa's sister, so to speak. I just got transferred here from USA, a university in USA, to be exact. I was in the WNBA before I come here." Yuki said, smiling.
"Yuki is a very good and talented player and had very kindly agreed to take the girls' training. I trust that she will be as good a player as a coach and she will also be playing in the team. Sayuri will still be the captain because I don't want to put too much pressure on Yuki and Sayuri is doing a very good job as a captain." Anzai sensei said, smiling. The team nodded and started their training. The girls sat down and waited as Yuki started her prep talk.
"Well, I am Rukawa Yuki. And I am going to be your coach. First thing I have to say or rather warn you girls is that, I am a very strict person. I take basics very seriously. If you find the training tough, then I suggest you quit. But of course, I don't like to see you girls quitting, and I do hope that all of you can reach the standard I set. Now, you may call me Yuki, Yuki-san, Yuki-chan, even, I don't really care but I expect some basic respect from all of you when we are here practicing. Outside, we can all let this formal thing down and we can be friends. However, I don't like being asked about my younger brother, Rukawa Kaede. So don't anyone of you even try to ask me what he likes and etc. Okay, let's start with the practice now." Yuki said, signaling the girls to get up.
"Follow me, we will run around the court for 50 rounds as warm up." Yuki said and started jogging. The girls groaned and started jogging behind Yuki.
--
After ten rounds.
"Come on, run!" Sayuri shouted, looking behind her at the girls who are slowing down to a walk.
"Hey! Run! Those of you who don't finish the 50 rounds in another half an hour are going to get harsher trainings from me!" Yuki shouted, totally opposite from the sweet, kind girl she is normally. Sayuri shake her head a little and picked up her speed. 30 minutes is not a short time, but then it's not long enough for her to run so slowly.
--
Fifteen minutes passed.
Panting a little, Sayuri just finished her 50 rounds. Yuki had finished hers too and is now chasing after the girls who are walking their 30th round.
"Have you finished your 50 rounds, Sayuri?" Yuki shouted, suddenly noticed that Sayuri had stopped running.
"Hai!" Sayuri shouted.
"Then will you please come and help me get these girls run?" Yuki asked, running past Sayuri.
"Oh. Okay." Sayuri mumbled, and started chasing after those girls who are still walking. She pushed them to get them run. After yet another fifteen minutes, the girls finally finished their 50 rounds. Sayuri had finished what seems like double their rounds. Tired, Sayuri panted and was about to faint when Yuki cleared her throat again.
"Line up along this line now!" Yuki shouted. The girls reluctantly lined up.
"Frog jump all the way to that line over there!" Yuki shouted, pointing to the line furthest away from the line they are on. The girls started groaning. Yuki gave no sigh of mercy and blew her whistle. Squatting down, Sayuri started frog jumping. One by one the girls started frog jumping. Right after frog jumping, they were made to do many other basics movement or physical training things. The boys watched the way Yuki train the girls and can't help but felt that they were very lucky that Ryota don't make them do such tiring things.
"She is so tough on them." Ryota said, looking at the girls.
"But she doesn't seems to be such a fierce person in class." Mitsui said, thoughtfully.
"She is in your class?" Ryota asked, looking at Mitsui.
"Yeah. Sitting right next to me." Mitsui replied.
--
The practice for the boys ended at seven. But although the boys' training had ended, Yuki did not stop the girls' practice. They were made to pass the ball to each other while running on the court.
"Faster!" Yuki shouted as most of the girls are running very slowly or passed very weak passes due to tireness. The boys had all seated down along the court to watch the way Yuki train the girls. The only one who had got no interest in how Yuki train the girls is Rukawa, who is practicing on his own.
"She's so tough on the girls. Sayuri wasn't even a quarter as tough as her." Ryota commented.
"Well, the girls are weak in their basics and stamina, but that doesn't mean she has to put them through such a harsh training." Ayako said, shaking her head.
"Her training is even tougher than Akagi's." Mitsui said, swallowing down his saliva as he thought the type of training Akagi gives.
"Talking about Gori, where is he now? In the zoo?" Sakuragi asked, laughing non-stop.
"No. Onii-san is studying very hard now. He said that he would drop by some day when he is free to check on the progress of the training." Haruko said, smiling.
"Haruko-san." Sakuragi mumbled, his eyes turned into little hearts. Sayuri looked at the girls who are all so tired and then at Yuki who is still busy shouting commands. Shaking her head, she walked over to Yuki.
"Coach, I think it's time to end the practice. Everyone is tired now." Sayuri said, looking at Yuki.
"Is that so? But I don't think this training is enough." Yuki said, looking at Sayuri coldly, even colder than the coldest of Rukawa Kaede's glare.
"They are not used to this type of training and they are beginners, coach." Sayuri said, trying to smile.
"That's not an excuse. It just means that I should give them harder training to get them used to this type of training. And I don't like others telling me what to do." Yuki said, giving Sayuri a very cold smile before ordering her to run around the court for 20 times in five minutes as a punishment for saying too much. Sayuri sighed and started running at the top speed, without a trace of tireness despite the hard training.
"She is running very fast for someone who had such a tough training." Ryota said, rather surprised.
"Her stamina seems to be very good." Mitsui said, watching Sayuri run.
"Ah, Micchy, she is now your step-sister right?" Sakuragi suddenly asked.
"? How do you know?" Mitsui asked, rather surprised by the sudden question.
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Because I'm a tensai, that's why! Heard that the two of you shouted at each other and got dragged into the staff room!" Sakuragi said, laughing.
"Sayuri is your step-sister?" Ryota, Ayako, Haruko and almost everyone else asked.
"Uh-huh. I know this just a couple of days ago." Mitsui said, sighing, recalling what had happened when the closet door opened and the kiss. He snapped out of his thoughts immediately when he thought of the kiss, his face blushing red.
"Mitsui, are you okay? Your face is so red, it puts Sakuragi's hair to shame." Ryota said. Sakuragi glared at Ryota and gave him a head butt.
--
Another hour passed, the boys are falling asleep because of tireness. The girls are so tired now that they could hardly walk or move.
"Okay! The practice when end now!" Yuki shouted, which brought the tired girls back to their senses. They heaved a sigh of relief and started walking towards the changing room. Sayuri picked up the balls and started cleaning up. Seeing Sayuri cleaning up alone, Ayako used her paper fan to hit the boys and make them help Sayuri. Yuki had disappeared. After the cleaning, Yuki reappeared in a clean set of clothes, with a very pleasant smile on her face, totally different from the fierce look she had when she is taking the girls for training.
"Hello everyone." Yuki said, smiling sweetly at them, which caused a lot of raised eyebrows. Looking at the surprised expression of the others, Sayuri smiled and shake her head.
"Yuki has got multi-personalities. She is normally very friendly." Sayuri said.
"I don't understand. How can someone have different personality?" Ryota asked.
"I just act differently in different circumstances. I don't know why I have got multi-personality." Yuki said, smiling.
"Can you tell us how many different personalities you have, so that we can mentally prepare for your multi-personality?" Mitsui asked, looking at Yuki.
"I don't really know the different personalities I've got." Yuki replied, wearing her ever-sweet smile. Sayuri yawned and walked towards the changing room. Seeing Sayuri leave the gym, Mitsui stood up and started walking towards the changing room too. He is supposed to escort Sayuri home according to his mom.
--
"What are you doing standing here?" Sayuri asked, when she saw Mitsui standing outside the girls' changing room.
"Waiting for you, idiot." Mitsui said, rolling his eyes. Sayuri glared at Mitsui for a while before walking past him, as if he does not exist. Clenching his fist to calm himself down, Mitsui followed Sayuri out of the school building.
--
When the two of them got back home, they are shocked to find the house empty, without a single furniture.
"Burglar!" The two of them shouted in union.
"Ah! Finally found the two of you! Kids, we are moving to a much bigger house. All the renovating of the new house is done today, so your mother and I thought that might as well move there today because there will be a housewarming party tomorrow night. The two of you seems to be in a shock, sorry, I should have told the two of you." Mr. Asagiri said, smiling. Sayuri and Mitsui looked at each other still with their surprised look on their face and started laughing at each other's hilarious expression.
"? Let's go, kids. I will drive the two of you to the new house. I'm sure both of you will love it!" Mr. Asagiri said, with a grin on his face.
--
"Okay, we arrived at our destination!" Mr. Asagiri beaming as he looked out of the window. Sayuri and Mitsui both rolled down the window of the limo and looked at the enormous mansion in front of them.
The mansion is huge and grand, painted in a creamy white and framed with a pale yellow, looking like one of those five-star hotels' front. The pair of front door of the house is at least twice the height and the size of a normal door of a considerably big cottage and the door is golden framed and painted white too like the rest of the mansion. The windows of the mansion are similar to the front door too, big, painted white and golden framed. In front of the mansion is a very beautiful Victoria style water fountain and a large garden that is filled with little beds of flowers of different colours and stone-made pathways on the neatly trimmed green grass.
The thing that caught Mitsui and Sayuri's attention is however, not the grandness of the mansion but the basketball court built specially for them at one corner of the beautiful garden.
"This house is beautiful, isn't it so? Do you like the look of your new house, kids?" Mr. Asagiri asked.
"There's a basketball court!" Mitsui and Sayuri said at the same time, totally ignoring the grand and beautiful mansion as well as Mr. Asagiri.
"Yes, there's a basketball court. Your mother and I thought that since the two of you love playing basketball so much, it's best that the two of you can play it here then having to such for a basketball nearby that is vacant to practice. The nearest court around here is around 2km away." Mr. Asagiri said, smiling.
+Mother? What the hell? That woman is NOT my mother! + Sayuri thought as she listened to what her father is saying. Mitsui had realized that too and glance at Sayuri who had clenched her hands into balls.
"Er.Just now you said that there will be a housewarming party right?" Mitsui asked, changing the subject and put his hand on Sayuri's fist. Sayuri looked at him and tried to calm herself down.
"Oh, it will be held here tomorrow night. The two of you have to be home earlier. I will get the chauffeur to pick the two of you up." Mr. Asagiri said as the limo pulled to a stop.
--
At Rukawa's house
Ding Dong~
"Kae-chan, go get the door please, I'm taking a shower!" Yuki shouted from the bathroom. Rukawa who is in the middle of his dinner stood up and walked towards the door. Opening the door, he got a shock as a fat old lady hugged him tightly.
"Young master, how have you been? Where's young miss?" The old lady, who happens to be Rukawa's nanny back when he was a kid, said and released him from the hug.
"In the bathroom." Rukawa replied, still not yet recovered from the shock his nanny gave him.
"Who's the one pressing the doorbell, Kae-chan?" Yuki shouted as she got out of the bathroom and walked towards of the door. At the first sight of the nanny, both of them hugged each other, for a very long time.
"Why are you here, nanny?" Yuki asked, after a very long hug.
"I'm here because Master asked me to come here to inform both of you of a party held tomorrow night." The nanny said.
"What party is that?" Yuki asked.
"A housewarming party and an engagement announcement party." The nanny said.
"Who is getting engaged? And why must you inform us this?" Yuki asked.
"Both of you must be present at that party because the one getting engaged is Young master." The nanny said, looking at Rukawa. Rukawa glared at the nanny with a shocked expression while Yuki had her jaw dropped onto the floor.
"Kaede is getting engaged? With whom?" Yuki asked after she got over the shock.
"A young lady named Asagiri Sayuri." The nanny said.
"Sayuri!" Yuki exclaimed.
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"WHAT! AM I GETTING THIS PIECE OF INFO RIGHT? I AM GETTING ENGAGED WITH RUKAWA KAEDE!" Sayuri shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Calm down, Sayuri." Mr. Asagiri said, trying to calm his daughter down.
"I don't think she will ever be able to calm down. It's a little too surprising." Mitsui commented, rather surprised too. Sayuri glared at Mitsui.
"WHY MUST I BE ENGAGED WITH THAT IDIOT?" Sayuri asked, furiously.
"It is a promise between me and his dad some years ago." Mr. Asagiri said. Sayuri glared at her dad and ran back to her room.
"Hisashi, can you look after your sis while your dad and I talk?" Mitsui's mom asked. Mitsui nodded and went to Sayuri's room reluctantly.
--
"Sayuri, calm down." Mitsui said upon entering Sayuri's room.
"How can I calm down?" Sayuri asked, throwing her pillow towards Mitsui.
"Hey! It's not my fault that you are engaged with Rukawa!" Mitsui exclaimed; ducking to avoid being hit straight in the face by Sayuri's pillow. Sayuri glared at him before started throwing everything she can see against the wall.
"Calm down man!" Mitsui said as he walked towards Sayuri while ducking around to avoid being hit by the things Sayuri is throwing around.
"Stop throwing! It won't solve the problem!" Mitsui shouted. He grabbed Sayuri's arms to stop her from getting her hands on things and started throwing them around like a mad woman.
"Let go of me!" Sayuri shouted, struggling to shake off Mitsui's grip.
"Listen to me! You can't solve this problem by throwing things around, you idiot!" Mitsui shouted, grabbing Sayuri's hand even harder. Sayuri glared at him while trying to calm herself down. Mitsui released his grip on her hands, picked up a chair being thrown over the room by Sayuri and sat down.
"Tomorrow morning, go to Rukawa's house and talk to him." Mitsui said.
"WHAT!!!" Sayuri exclaimed.
"The two of you must work together to get this problem solved." Mitsui said calmly.
"I don't want to talk to him!" Sayuri shouted before breaking down and started to cry. Mitsui widened his eyes as he watched Sayuri's sudden breakdown.
+What the hell? + Mitsui thought, not knowing what to do. He looked at his feet and a photo album caught his eyes. Picking up the photo album, Mitsui started flipping through it. In the album, most of the pictures are of Sayuri, at the age of seven or eight and her parents or with a boy somewhere around her age. On the last page of the photo album, there's a photo not slotted in and it fell onto the floor. Closing the photo album and picked that fallen photograph up, Mitsui is astonished to see a Sayuri of around thirteen kissing a spiky hair boy that looks just like Sendoh Akira, only of a younger version.
"Who is this boy? He looks like Ryonan's captain, Sendoh Akira." Mitsui said, walking over to the sobbing Sayuri and show her the photo. Sayuri looked at the photo and her expression changed into one that seems to be confused whether or not she should cry or laugh.
"This is Sendoh Akira, couple of years ago. The little boy in all these photos is Sendoh Akira too." Sayuri said.
"Huh?" Mitsui asked, very confused.
"He is my best friend. AND my ex-boyfriend." Sayuri said.
"What?" Mitsui exclaimed at the word ex-boyfriend.
"He was my boyfriend before I went to USA." Sayuri said, and waited for a while for this piece of information to seep through Mitsui's mind. Mitsui looked at the photo of Sendoh and Sayuri together and looked at Sayuri with a surprised look.
"Can we get back to the problem now? I really don't want to get engage with that icy cold idiot." Sayuri said, sighing. She had calmed down quite a lot but still she can't resist the urge to tear things apart.
"There's nothing much we can do to call this engagement off, I think. Maybe you can try talking to Rukawa Kaede. He might be able to solve this problem.
Author's notes: What will happen next? Any ideas or suggestions?
Chapter 6
"Good afternoon, Anzai sensei." Yuki said, with a smile on her face. Sayuri, Mitsui and Rukawa looked at Yuki with a confused look. The rest of the team looked at her with a VERY confused look.
"Team, Rukawa Yuki here, will be our new member in the team. She will not only be a player but also, a coach for the girls' team." Anzai sensei said, smiling.
"Uh-oh." Sayuri mumbled, with an expression that seems to say 'I'm going to die'.
"Anzai sensei.?" Ryota started saying but stopped when he can't think of much to say.
"Er. I guess I should do a little introduction about myself. I am Rukawa Yuki, Rukawa's sister, so to speak. I just got transferred here from USA, a university in USA, to be exact. I was in the WNBA before I come here." Yuki said, smiling.
"Yuki is a very good and talented player and had very kindly agreed to take the girls' training. I trust that she will be as good a player as a coach and she will also be playing in the team. Sayuri will still be the captain because I don't want to put too much pressure on Yuki and Sayuri is doing a very good job as a captain." Anzai sensei said, smiling. The team nodded and started their training. The girls sat down and waited as Yuki started her prep talk.
"Well, I am Rukawa Yuki. And I am going to be your coach. First thing I have to say or rather warn you girls is that, I am a very strict person. I take basics very seriously. If you find the training tough, then I suggest you quit. But of course, I don't like to see you girls quitting, and I do hope that all of you can reach the standard I set. Now, you may call me Yuki, Yuki-san, Yuki-chan, even, I don't really care but I expect some basic respect from all of you when we are here practicing. Outside, we can all let this formal thing down and we can be friends. However, I don't like being asked about my younger brother, Rukawa Kaede. So don't anyone of you even try to ask me what he likes and etc. Okay, let's start with the practice now." Yuki said, signaling the girls to get up.
"Follow me, we will run around the court for 50 rounds as warm up." Yuki said and started jogging. The girls groaned and started jogging behind Yuki.
--
After ten rounds.
"Come on, run!" Sayuri shouted, looking behind her at the girls who are slowing down to a walk.
"Hey! Run! Those of you who don't finish the 50 rounds in another half an hour are going to get harsher trainings from me!" Yuki shouted, totally opposite from the sweet, kind girl she is normally. Sayuri shake her head a little and picked up her speed. 30 minutes is not a short time, but then it's not long enough for her to run so slowly.
--
Fifteen minutes passed.
Panting a little, Sayuri just finished her 50 rounds. Yuki had finished hers too and is now chasing after the girls who are walking their 30th round.
"Have you finished your 50 rounds, Sayuri?" Yuki shouted, suddenly noticed that Sayuri had stopped running.
"Hai!" Sayuri shouted.
"Then will you please come and help me get these girls run?" Yuki asked, running past Sayuri.
"Oh. Okay." Sayuri mumbled, and started chasing after those girls who are still walking. She pushed them to get them run. After yet another fifteen minutes, the girls finally finished their 50 rounds. Sayuri had finished what seems like double their rounds. Tired, Sayuri panted and was about to faint when Yuki cleared her throat again.
"Line up along this line now!" Yuki shouted. The girls reluctantly lined up.
"Frog jump all the way to that line over there!" Yuki shouted, pointing to the line furthest away from the line they are on. The girls started groaning. Yuki gave no sigh of mercy and blew her whistle. Squatting down, Sayuri started frog jumping. One by one the girls started frog jumping. Right after frog jumping, they were made to do many other basics movement or physical training things. The boys watched the way Yuki train the girls and can't help but felt that they were very lucky that Ryota don't make them do such tiring things.
"She is so tough on them." Ryota said, looking at the girls.
"But she doesn't seems to be such a fierce person in class." Mitsui said, thoughtfully.
"She is in your class?" Ryota asked, looking at Mitsui.
"Yeah. Sitting right next to me." Mitsui replied.
--
The practice for the boys ended at seven. But although the boys' training had ended, Yuki did not stop the girls' practice. They were made to pass the ball to each other while running on the court.
"Faster!" Yuki shouted as most of the girls are running very slowly or passed very weak passes due to tireness. The boys had all seated down along the court to watch the way Yuki train the girls. The only one who had got no interest in how Yuki train the girls is Rukawa, who is practicing on his own.
"She's so tough on the girls. Sayuri wasn't even a quarter as tough as her." Ryota commented.
"Well, the girls are weak in their basics and stamina, but that doesn't mean she has to put them through such a harsh training." Ayako said, shaking her head.
"Her training is even tougher than Akagi's." Mitsui said, swallowing down his saliva as he thought the type of training Akagi gives.
"Talking about Gori, where is he now? In the zoo?" Sakuragi asked, laughing non-stop.
"No. Onii-san is studying very hard now. He said that he would drop by some day when he is free to check on the progress of the training." Haruko said, smiling.
"Haruko-san." Sakuragi mumbled, his eyes turned into little hearts. Sayuri looked at the girls who are all so tired and then at Yuki who is still busy shouting commands. Shaking her head, she walked over to Yuki.
"Coach, I think it's time to end the practice. Everyone is tired now." Sayuri said, looking at Yuki.
"Is that so? But I don't think this training is enough." Yuki said, looking at Sayuri coldly, even colder than the coldest of Rukawa Kaede's glare.
"They are not used to this type of training and they are beginners, coach." Sayuri said, trying to smile.
"That's not an excuse. It just means that I should give them harder training to get them used to this type of training. And I don't like others telling me what to do." Yuki said, giving Sayuri a very cold smile before ordering her to run around the court for 20 times in five minutes as a punishment for saying too much. Sayuri sighed and started running at the top speed, without a trace of tireness despite the hard training.
"She is running very fast for someone who had such a tough training." Ryota said, rather surprised.
"Her stamina seems to be very good." Mitsui said, watching Sayuri run.
"Ah, Micchy, she is now your step-sister right?" Sakuragi suddenly asked.
"? How do you know?" Mitsui asked, rather surprised by the sudden question.
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Because I'm a tensai, that's why! Heard that the two of you shouted at each other and got dragged into the staff room!" Sakuragi said, laughing.
"Sayuri is your step-sister?" Ryota, Ayako, Haruko and almost everyone else asked.
"Uh-huh. I know this just a couple of days ago." Mitsui said, sighing, recalling what had happened when the closet door opened and the kiss. He snapped out of his thoughts immediately when he thought of the kiss, his face blushing red.
"Mitsui, are you okay? Your face is so red, it puts Sakuragi's hair to shame." Ryota said. Sakuragi glared at Ryota and gave him a head butt.
--
Another hour passed, the boys are falling asleep because of tireness. The girls are so tired now that they could hardly walk or move.
"Okay! The practice when end now!" Yuki shouted, which brought the tired girls back to their senses. They heaved a sigh of relief and started walking towards the changing room. Sayuri picked up the balls and started cleaning up. Seeing Sayuri cleaning up alone, Ayako used her paper fan to hit the boys and make them help Sayuri. Yuki had disappeared. After the cleaning, Yuki reappeared in a clean set of clothes, with a very pleasant smile on her face, totally different from the fierce look she had when she is taking the girls for training.
"Hello everyone." Yuki said, smiling sweetly at them, which caused a lot of raised eyebrows. Looking at the surprised expression of the others, Sayuri smiled and shake her head.
"Yuki has got multi-personalities. She is normally very friendly." Sayuri said.
"I don't understand. How can someone have different personality?" Ryota asked.
"I just act differently in different circumstances. I don't know why I have got multi-personality." Yuki said, smiling.
"Can you tell us how many different personalities you have, so that we can mentally prepare for your multi-personality?" Mitsui asked, looking at Yuki.
"I don't really know the different personalities I've got." Yuki replied, wearing her ever-sweet smile. Sayuri yawned and walked towards the changing room. Seeing Sayuri leave the gym, Mitsui stood up and started walking towards the changing room too. He is supposed to escort Sayuri home according to his mom.
--
"What are you doing standing here?" Sayuri asked, when she saw Mitsui standing outside the girls' changing room.
"Waiting for you, idiot." Mitsui said, rolling his eyes. Sayuri glared at Mitsui for a while before walking past him, as if he does not exist. Clenching his fist to calm himself down, Mitsui followed Sayuri out of the school building.
--
When the two of them got back home, they are shocked to find the house empty, without a single furniture.
"Burglar!" The two of them shouted in union.
"Ah! Finally found the two of you! Kids, we are moving to a much bigger house. All the renovating of the new house is done today, so your mother and I thought that might as well move there today because there will be a housewarming party tomorrow night. The two of you seems to be in a shock, sorry, I should have told the two of you." Mr. Asagiri said, smiling. Sayuri and Mitsui looked at each other still with their surprised look on their face and started laughing at each other's hilarious expression.
"? Let's go, kids. I will drive the two of you to the new house. I'm sure both of you will love it!" Mr. Asagiri said, with a grin on his face.
--
"Okay, we arrived at our destination!" Mr. Asagiri beaming as he looked out of the window. Sayuri and Mitsui both rolled down the window of the limo and looked at the enormous mansion in front of them.
The mansion is huge and grand, painted in a creamy white and framed with a pale yellow, looking like one of those five-star hotels' front. The pair of front door of the house is at least twice the height and the size of a normal door of a considerably big cottage and the door is golden framed and painted white too like the rest of the mansion. The windows of the mansion are similar to the front door too, big, painted white and golden framed. In front of the mansion is a very beautiful Victoria style water fountain and a large garden that is filled with little beds of flowers of different colours and stone-made pathways on the neatly trimmed green grass.
The thing that caught Mitsui and Sayuri's attention is however, not the grandness of the mansion but the basketball court built specially for them at one corner of the beautiful garden.
"This house is beautiful, isn't it so? Do you like the look of your new house, kids?" Mr. Asagiri asked.
"There's a basketball court!" Mitsui and Sayuri said at the same time, totally ignoring the grand and beautiful mansion as well as Mr. Asagiri.
"Yes, there's a basketball court. Your mother and I thought that since the two of you love playing basketball so much, it's best that the two of you can play it here then having to such for a basketball nearby that is vacant to practice. The nearest court around here is around 2km away." Mr. Asagiri said, smiling.
+Mother? What the hell? That woman is NOT my mother! + Sayuri thought as she listened to what her father is saying. Mitsui had realized that too and glance at Sayuri who had clenched her hands into balls.
"Er.Just now you said that there will be a housewarming party right?" Mitsui asked, changing the subject and put his hand on Sayuri's fist. Sayuri looked at him and tried to calm herself down.
"Oh, it will be held here tomorrow night. The two of you have to be home earlier. I will get the chauffeur to pick the two of you up." Mr. Asagiri said as the limo pulled to a stop.
--
At Rukawa's house
Ding Dong~
"Kae-chan, go get the door please, I'm taking a shower!" Yuki shouted from the bathroom. Rukawa who is in the middle of his dinner stood up and walked towards the door. Opening the door, he got a shock as a fat old lady hugged him tightly.
"Young master, how have you been? Where's young miss?" The old lady, who happens to be Rukawa's nanny back when he was a kid, said and released him from the hug.
"In the bathroom." Rukawa replied, still not yet recovered from the shock his nanny gave him.
"Who's the one pressing the doorbell, Kae-chan?" Yuki shouted as she got out of the bathroom and walked towards of the door. At the first sight of the nanny, both of them hugged each other, for a very long time.
"Why are you here, nanny?" Yuki asked, after a very long hug.
"I'm here because Master asked me to come here to inform both of you of a party held tomorrow night." The nanny said.
"What party is that?" Yuki asked.
"A housewarming party and an engagement announcement party." The nanny said.
"Who is getting engaged? And why must you inform us this?" Yuki asked.
"Both of you must be present at that party because the one getting engaged is Young master." The nanny said, looking at Rukawa. Rukawa glared at the nanny with a shocked expression while Yuki had her jaw dropped onto the floor.
"Kaede is getting engaged? With whom?" Yuki asked after she got over the shock.
"A young lady named Asagiri Sayuri." The nanny said.
"Sayuri!" Yuki exclaimed.
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"WHAT! AM I GETTING THIS PIECE OF INFO RIGHT? I AM GETTING ENGAGED WITH RUKAWA KAEDE!" Sayuri shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Calm down, Sayuri." Mr. Asagiri said, trying to calm his daughter down.
"I don't think she will ever be able to calm down. It's a little too surprising." Mitsui commented, rather surprised too. Sayuri glared at Mitsui.
"WHY MUST I BE ENGAGED WITH THAT IDIOT?" Sayuri asked, furiously.
"It is a promise between me and his dad some years ago." Mr. Asagiri said. Sayuri glared at her dad and ran back to her room.
"Hisashi, can you look after your sis while your dad and I talk?" Mitsui's mom asked. Mitsui nodded and went to Sayuri's room reluctantly.
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"Sayuri, calm down." Mitsui said upon entering Sayuri's room.
"How can I calm down?" Sayuri asked, throwing her pillow towards Mitsui.
"Hey! It's not my fault that you are engaged with Rukawa!" Mitsui exclaimed; ducking to avoid being hit straight in the face by Sayuri's pillow. Sayuri glared at him before started throwing everything she can see against the wall.
"Calm down man!" Mitsui said as he walked towards Sayuri while ducking around to avoid being hit by the things Sayuri is throwing around.
"Stop throwing! It won't solve the problem!" Mitsui shouted. He grabbed Sayuri's arms to stop her from getting her hands on things and started throwing them around like a mad woman.
"Let go of me!" Sayuri shouted, struggling to shake off Mitsui's grip.
"Listen to me! You can't solve this problem by throwing things around, you idiot!" Mitsui shouted, grabbing Sayuri's hand even harder. Sayuri glared at him while trying to calm herself down. Mitsui released his grip on her hands, picked up a chair being thrown over the room by Sayuri and sat down.
"Tomorrow morning, go to Rukawa's house and talk to him." Mitsui said.
"WHAT!!!" Sayuri exclaimed.
"The two of you must work together to get this problem solved." Mitsui said calmly.
"I don't want to talk to him!" Sayuri shouted before breaking down and started to cry. Mitsui widened his eyes as he watched Sayuri's sudden breakdown.
+What the hell? + Mitsui thought, not knowing what to do. He looked at his feet and a photo album caught his eyes. Picking up the photo album, Mitsui started flipping through it. In the album, most of the pictures are of Sayuri, at the age of seven or eight and her parents or with a boy somewhere around her age. On the last page of the photo album, there's a photo not slotted in and it fell onto the floor. Closing the photo album and picked that fallen photograph up, Mitsui is astonished to see a Sayuri of around thirteen kissing a spiky hair boy that looks just like Sendoh Akira, only of a younger version.
"Who is this boy? He looks like Ryonan's captain, Sendoh Akira." Mitsui said, walking over to the sobbing Sayuri and show her the photo. Sayuri looked at the photo and her expression changed into one that seems to be confused whether or not she should cry or laugh.
"This is Sendoh Akira, couple of years ago. The little boy in all these photos is Sendoh Akira too." Sayuri said.
"Huh?" Mitsui asked, very confused.
"He is my best friend. AND my ex-boyfriend." Sayuri said.
"What?" Mitsui exclaimed at the word ex-boyfriend.
"He was my boyfriend before I went to USA." Sayuri said, and waited for a while for this piece of information to seep through Mitsui's mind. Mitsui looked at the photo of Sendoh and Sayuri together and looked at Sayuri with a surprised look.
"Can we get back to the problem now? I really don't want to get engage with that icy cold idiot." Sayuri said, sighing. She had calmed down quite a lot but still she can't resist the urge to tear things apart.
"There's nothing much we can do to call this engagement off, I think. Maybe you can try talking to Rukawa Kaede. He might be able to solve this problem.
Author's notes: What will happen next? Any ideas or suggestions?