Chapter 1

"Kagami Kiyo-san, nice to meet you all!" The girl gave a bow, being a new student, it is customary to introduce yourself in front of the class you were joining and here she was, introducing herself to her sophomore class. The teacher asked her to sit behind a Kaidoh Kaoru and he raised his hand to let her know who she was to sit behind.

First period had just ended and Kiyo was fixing her stuff for the next period when a group of girls approached her, introducing themselves to her. The hyperactive student was named Natsuhiko Aiko but everyone called her Ai-chan and the quiet and shy student was known as Katou Hikari, Kiyo was given permission to call her Kari.

"Hey, Kiyo-san," the girl with short brown hair called her and Kiyo looked up, "want to come with us and watch the practice of the male tennis club?" Kiyo looked around, noticing that many of the girls were talking about the tennis club and attending their practices to cheer for their favorite players.

"Why is everyone so interested with the tennis club?" Kiyo asked. Aiko squealed and explained to Kiyo that their male tennis club was filled with many good-looking men, including the freshman regular. "A freshman regular? Wow, that's some big title; what's the name of this freshman regular?"

"Echizen Ryoma," Kari said shyly.

"Echizen?" Kiyo contemplated on the possibility. "Sure, I'll go, but where is the female tennis club practicing at?" Aiko tipped her head to the side, thinking about the schedule.

"I think it's today during the practice of the male tennis club," Aiko said. "Why? You thinking of joining the club?"

"Yeah, can you still join?" Aiko gave a nod to Kiyo's question.

"Yeah, in fact, there's a tryout sign-up sheet just on the bulletin board outside," Aiko explained.

Two shadows of the girls cast on the bulletin board just in front of them, the sing-up sheet for the try-outs for their club was filled with many names on the board. A squeal escaped one of the figures as she cheered, glad that many names were written on the board.

"Look at it, Tsubomi! Aren't you glad so many people are going to the try-outs?"

"What if they're not good enough, Tsukomi? Then only very few will pass to be regulars," a monotonous voice said.

"Don't be so negative, Tsubomi; that's a reason we never get a good guy for you!"

"Sorry," the girl called Tsubomi said.

"And stop saying sorry all the time!"

"Sor-I apologize," Tsubomi said.

"We'll have to work on that."

There was a grouping work and they had to grouped into four's but as Kiyo counter herself and her two friends, she noticed that they were only three.

They needed one more member for their group and that's when Kiyo finally noticed the boy who sat in the front, sleeping.

She walked up to him and the two friends watched, amazed that she could easily approach one of the regulars from the tennis team.

Kiyo patted him on the shoulder and he shot out of his sleep and stood up, completely straight as though to answer a question the teacher just asked.

He was confused when he found one of his classmates in front of him with a big smile on her face, the new student, he realized as he looked into her orange eyes.

"I was wondering if you had a group yet, but seeing as you were asleep, I don't think anyone approached you yet. Want to join our group? We need only one more member." She grabbed his hand and gave him a bigger smile, Momoshiro could feel his cheeks reddening.

"Um, sure, yeah," Momoshiro could only say these words as the bell rang and the teacher dismissed them, saying he would give the assigned projects tomorrow.