"Konnichiwa minna-san! I'm Asuzumi Reiko! Nice to meet you all. I hope you treat me well!" The new student introduced herself and she took a deep bow.

Reiko-chan is a very beautiful, fair lady. She has a very long dark-violet hair, usually left hanging. She stands about 5'1 in height and has a fit body. But her most striking features are her light cobalt-blue eyes. She's a rich but she doesn't brag about it. She seems so kind, gentle and mature…, but there's more to her than that.

"Everyone, please treat her nicely, okay? And reserve your question for later." Their adviser said. "Take that vacant seat at the back." She said to Reiko.

The class started making noise.

"I told you, it will be a girl!" a girl talked to her seatmate.

"Okay, okay!"

"She's beautiful, isn't she?" a boy commented.

"I hope she's open!"

Reiko twitched, only Momoshiro noticed, and she thought, "Open?! What the--?!" Momo suddenly interrupted her thought, "Yo! Waz up?" Reiko was puzzled by his action.

"Uuh…huh?"

"Would you like to eat lunch with me?" and Momo smiled weirdly.

"Takeshi! Stop talking porcupine-head! I told you to ask your questions later!" their teacher scolded.

"Duum, duuum, duummm!" his classmates teased in chorused.

"Shut up, class!!"

"I'm Momoshiro, Takeshi! Nice meeting ya!" he whispered to Reiko. Reiko just gave him a smile in return.

From now on, Momo and Reiko are seatmates.

Lunch time. The students gathered around the seat of the new student and they started asking their questions.

"Uh..ano…, classmates, can I answer your question later? I wanna eat my lunch first. Please?" Reiko pleaded..

"Wanna eat with me. I'll treat you!" a guy classmate asks.

"No thanks, I'm eating with Momo here.", she said pointing at Momo.

"Momoshiro… why are you so fast?! Just because you're seatmates…" They glared at Momo with a fiery background.

"Sorry guys! Maybe nest time."

Momo and Rieko set out for the canteen. Reiko broke the silence.

"Neh, Have you seen a third year that has a umm…long black hair, has a habit at staring at persons, and I think she's a tennis regular here…"

"Tennis?"

"Why, what's the matter?"

"It so happens that I play tennis too and I'm a regular!" Momoshiro said proudly. "Umm… I'm sorry, I don't seem to now the person you're describing… I'm not that familiar with the girls. You know you should try meeting my sempai! I'm sure he has data about that person you're talking about!"

"… I that person perhaps a … guy?"

"Yeah! He is! And he's in third year too!"

"You're telling me that… that must be… Sadaharu-kun! He's a regular of Seigaku's tennis club, right?"

"You know him?"

"I met him a few years ago…! I wonder how is he doing…"

"Would you like me to show you his room? It's not far from here."

"Thanks, I really need to see him. Good thing you're in the same club!"

"Aaahhh…"

Momo led Reiko to his sempai's room.

"Here we are!"

"So this is their room…"

Momo called his sempai from their room. "Sempai, somebody wants to see you. She's outside"

"She? That's odd." Inui thought. "I'll be right there."

--

"Sadaharu-nii, how are you?"

"R…Rei…Reiko-chan?! What are you doing here?!"

"Can't you see?! I'm a student here now!"

"…"

"Is Yuri-nee here?"

"Oi!" a girl from behind said while tapping both shoulders of Rieko.

"Yuri-nee!!" Reiko faced her as she open her arms to give her si…I mean sempai a big hug. Inui and Momo just looked at the two of them with confusion. Momo suddenly asks, "Are the two of you… uuhh… sisters?" in other thoughts in his mind, "Nearly impossible that they're siblings!"

"…"

"This woman over here, my sister?! Hell no!!" Reiko reacted, breaking the hug; she points at Yuri with her..uhh..pointer…Anime veins sprouted on Yuri's head with a 'burning' background and pulled Reiko's hair. "You, you! Shut up you idiotic gecko!!"

"Who are you calling 'idiotic gecko', you skinny lizard?!"

"'Skinny lizard'?! Can't you see I have meat? My body's full of it! No objections!"

"Who are you kidding? A fly?! LoLz!"

"Urusai!!"

Reiko and Yuri are having a nonsense argue, yelling at each other in the middle of the hallway.

"Ano…could we have our lunch now. Please?"

"Yehey! Great idea!"

The four of them ate lunch together. After that Inui and Momo introduced Reiko to the other regulars of the club.

"Nice to meet you minna-san!" Reiko said as she took a bow.

Sad to say that Eiji-kun wasn't there. No need to worry, Rieko knows the existence of Kiku-chan. You can say that they are childhood friends and he's one of the reasons why Reiko transferred to Seigaku.

After some time, Yuri and Reiko are all alone, having a stroll around the tennis courts.

"They're a bunch of interesting people, aren't they?"

"You can say that."

'What's with that face? Usually, can't stop—"

"I've changed."

"Humph. Really? Or it's just because you didn't see him around?"

"Shut up!"

"Just show up the real you. I'm not comfortable talking to a person that wears a mask even it's damn obvious."

"What if I don't?"

"Cut it! … it's just… I know you that well already. There's no need lying to me, you know?"

"Fine. -- He's still mad at me, isn't he?"

"Probably. When I told him that you'll be you will start studying here, his grin turned upside down, and he said 'Is that so?' and he walked away."

"Oh?"

"That's why he's not here today. I guess he's not ready to see you… Well I can't blame him… after knowing what you've done…"

"Tsk! Com'on, don't rub it in! I am really tying my best to change, you know? And it's hard!! huhu."

--

It was already afternoon…

At Kikumaru's residence… Eiji was all alone in their house, lying on his bed.

"What does she want now…? More pain?" Eiji asked himself. "That made her a piece of crap!" he said while turning to the other side of the bed.

"Tadaima! Eiji--?" then his thoughts were cut.