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Rin and Haruno quickly made it to a large group of people and pushed their way through to bring the stuff to a man whom Rin assumed to be the coach. "Sorry, sir. I had a bit of trouble getting here until Rin-chan here helped me," Haruno apologized to the coach once they had set down the boxes.

The coach nodded but otherwise ignored her apology and began to speak to the players. "Now, we only have two weeks until our game against Yakushi. The school was generous to get us some new balls, new helmets, and some new bats; wood and metal. All of which are right here. I want you all to break in the new equipment before tomorrow, which includes taping your handles," which caused the team to groan. "Now everyone take 4 laps around the field before you leave," the coach finished.

"Hai!" the team screamed before taking off to do their laps.

"Uh, excuse me coach but I need to speak with you." Rin said when the coach began to walk away.

The coach turned to look at her and took a pause as if to determine if she was worth his time, which, apparently, she passed because he waited for her to speak. "I just transferred here, and I'm supposed to be joining onto the team as a manager. My father called and requested it," Rin explained.

"You must be Mr. Sato's daughter. I'll introduce you to the team tomorrow but for now I'll tell you that our head manager is Takao Fujiwara, and our scorekeeper is Chris Takigawa. If you have any questions about your job, ask one of them. Make sure you're at every practice and game unless told otherwise, and Haruno will probably need some help cleaning up after the team tonight, so stay with her until then. Welcome to Seidou," the coach said bluntly without waiting for a reply and walked away.

"Well, isn't he just a ray of sunshine," Rin said with a grimace turning to Haruno.

Haruno giggled. "The coach is always like that. He's blunt and frankly just rude. However, he runs a good team and produces great players and results, so you can't really complain about his personality."

"Whatever you say," Rin agreed just as the first members of the team began to return from their laps.

A tall boy, probably around 180 cm weighing about 75 kg was one of the first Rin noticed that stood out. Hm, on a scale of one to five he's probably a five at batting, five at contact, but only a four at power. If he could just increase his power a bit more, there's no doubt that almost every ball he hit would be a homerun. Especially with that aura about him; there's no doubt that he'd be intimidating at the plate.

"CAPTAIN!"one of the players screamed at the boy Rin had just been evaluating. Ah, so he's the captain. I can see why.

Rin then moved on to the evaluating the boy that had yelled at the captain. Let's see, one out of five batting, contact two, and power three. Please tell me this kid is only a first year. She looked down at his hands as he got closer and smirked a little. Callouses, it makes more sense now; this guy is a pitcher. Well, that explains the low batting skills. Alright, from what I can tell, he's probably a four out of five on speed, three for control, but judging by the fact the guy's barely sweating it's safe to assume that he's probably at least a four on stamina. All in all, he's not horrible since his pitching skill looks like it would make up for the poor batting skill. His build is decent, too; 175 cm, 64 kg.

"Hey! Your hair is part purple! That's so odd!" the player Rin had been evaluating yelled bluntly at her spraying spit when he noticed her presence.

"Yes it is, and you're loud, which is annoying," Rin said cringing and taking a step back to avoid getting hit with spit if he yelled again.

"Haha! See Sawamura, it's not just us that think that. Even a girl that's just met you can see that you're annoying," another much shorter player said as he approached the two; the conversation having caught his attention.

Out of the corner of her eye, Rin noticed yet another player approaching with a devilish grin on his face. "Ah, what's going on over here? With you two over here, it can't be too good," the newest member of the ever growing group of people surrounding her asked.

"Nothing, Miyuki. Just explaining to Sawamura here that we haven't been lying to him about how annoying he is if someone that just met him can make the same observation." The shortest of the three players said cackling.

The one she took to be Miyuki snickered. "We told you Sawamura, it's not me Kuramochi here," he said and began laughing along with the short player she now knew to be Kuramochi.

While they laughed and continued to make fun of the pitcher Sawamura, she took the time to evaluate the other two. Hm, Kuramochi; batting three, contact three, power three. Nothing too special unless… She looked down at his legs which she could see since he had changed to shorts after running and gave a small grin. With those legs, he's got to be a five on running. I'll have to watch him a bit more closely the next time the team runs laps. If he's fast, he probably plays shortstop considering that he's only slightly taller than me, probably 170 cm, 63 kg. Not bad.

Having finished evaluating Kuramochi she turned to Miyuki and wrinkled her nose. There's something about him that's odd, he's almost as tall as the captain at 179 cm, and weighs probably close to 71 kg. Batting four, contact four, power four, he's probably only a three at running. However there's something about his presence that makes me feel like there's something I'm missing about him. She looked down and smiled in understanding when she saw the catcher's mit in his hand. So that's it; he's a catcher, and possibly a clutch hitter too.

Having finished her evaluation of the two, she began looking around for something more interesting and saw a player with pink hair who seemed to be struggling with taping his bat. Growing tired of the now three since the captain had left once Miyuki had approached, she walked over to the player with pink hair who had now caught her interest. "Having a bit of trouble?" Rin asked as she stood in front of him.

He looked up at her and blushed bangs covering his eyes. "Ah, yes. I'm having a bit of trouble getting the tape positioned on the bat correctly," he finished looking back down at the bat and rubbing the back of his head.

Rin sighed, noticing how he was trying to put on the tape and failing. "Here, let me help you," she said crouching down and taking the bat from him with his permission and wrapped the handle in tape like it was second nature. "There you go, see how that works," she said handing the bat back to him.

"Wow, this is perfect. Thank you. My name is Haruichi Kominato by the way, I'm a first year. It's nice to meet you." he said extending his hand.

"I'm Rin Sato, nice to meet you as well. And I'm also a first year." She said and placed the tape in his hand instead of shaking it.

"Eh, you're a first year too!?" She heard someone yell from directly behind her and turned to see that Sawamura and the others had followed her over.

"Yes, I am. Why must you yell everything?" she asked after standing up and once again stepping back from the apparently fellow first year to avoid more of his volatile spit that had just landed on her glasses. Causing both Miyuki and Kuramochi to laugh at her response.

"Look, not only can the girl tell that you're annoying, but she doesn't want to be too close to you either! Haha!" Kuramochi laughed again as Rin took yet another step back to clean the spit of her glasses.

"Who'd want to be too close to a girl that dies her hair funny anyways!?" Sawamura exclaimed.

"I don't care that you just insulted me while trying to make yourself look less like an idiot, however my hair color is natural." Rin said defending her hair color while putting her glasses back on.

"There's no way that's natural!" Sawamura said once again opening his big mouth.

"Why not, your teammate here has pink hair along with another one I saw earlier. Do you think they both dye theirs?" Rin asked getting exasperated with this guy's idiocy.

"W-w-well Haruichi and Haruichi's brother are different theirs is natural yours isn't." Sawamura sputtered.

Before Rin could retort the captain and a few other members Rin had yet to become acquainted with came over and addressed Miyuki. "Hey Miyuki, we're going to go ahead and head over to your room alright." Another player with pink that must be Haruichi's brother said.

"Actually, we won't be able to be using my room anymore. I finally got a roommate and the principal says that because my roommate has some special condition I'm not allowed to have anyone in my room anymore." Miyuki explained to the other members.

"Eh, that stinks you were the only one of us with a single room, Oh well; I guess that just means that Sawamura, Kuramochi, and Takao's is the new place then. Come on you two let's go," the older pink haired declared and a couple of the other players grabbed a protesting Sawamura and Kuramochi dragging them in the direction of the dorms.

"Well, that was entertaining if nothing else," Rin said after the other members were out of sight and their protests could no longer be heard "I hope that bat works just fine for you," she said to Haruichi before turning so she could address Miyuki as well. "Now, if you'll both excuse me I'm going to see if Haruno needs any help cleaning up."

Rin got about halfway to the dugout where Haruno was before she heard someone calling after her. "Hey, hold on a second," Miyuki said as he walked to where she had stopped.

"Yes?" Rin asked when Miyuki had caught up to her.

"I didn't get a chance to introduce myself; I'm Kazuya Miyuki, 2nd year." He said extending his hand.

"Nice to meet you; I'm Rin Sato, 1st year." She said ignoring his extended hand.

He smirked "I thought you looked familiar. Although it'd be hard to completely forget a girl with purple bangs. Especially one that claimed they were natural," Miyuki finished his smirk still firmly in place.

"They are natural, and I think you must be confusing me with someone else. We've never met. The last time I was in Japan was when I was six and I didn't associate with too many other children back then." Rin explained to Miyuki.

"When you were six, let's see, that would make me seven and that sounds about right. Oh well, if you don't remember me that's fine; we'll be spending a lot of time together in the near future I'm sure," Miyuki said with a dismissive wave of his hand. "Anyways I'll be heading back to my room now. See you later." He walked away, the smirk never having left his face throughout the exchange.

What was that about? Rin wondered with a shake of her head as she continued to Haruno as she was before.

"Thanks for the help cleaning up Rin." Haruno said as she was putting a box into the storage room. "Normally, it takes around an hour and a half to put everything up after the team leaves when we get new equipment, but with your help it barely took an hour.

"It's no problem; it is now my job, after all," Rin said with a grimace as she also put a box into the storage shed. The one thing I didn't want to have anything to do with is the one thing I'm stuck being a manager for.

"Oh, that's right. You're a manager now. We'll get to spend a lot of time together now. Anyway, it's already past 10 o'clock so I just have a few things left to do, and I'll be done. If you wouldn't mind putting that last box up, you're good to go," Haruno said with a smile towards Rin as she loaded another box into the shed.

"Okay, sounds good," Rin said as she loaded the last box into the shed. "Alright I'm all done. See you tomorrow." She gathering her bag that she had set down when they started cleaning and with a wave, she began to exit the baseball fields.

Once out of the baseball fields Rin pulled out her phone remembering that she hadn't checked it since right before her meeting with the principal. A few notifications flashed on her screen, none of which grabbed her attention until One new message from Father shown on it. Lovely, just what I need right now, Rin thought with a sigh as she unlocked her phone and began to read the message.

Rin, as I'm sure you've heard, there was a mix up in your accommodations and you have been placed into a boys' dormitory with a male roommate. Now, normally, as your father, I would be concerned about the fact you will be rooming with a male student, but in this case I've decided to make an exception due to the fact that the boy you will be staying with is the son of a very close friend of mine and she has assured me that her son is a perfect gentleman. This is also a perfect opportunity to finish telling you what I was explaining to you before I had to rush out. The marriage arrangement, as I told you, has already been made and the boy you will be marrying will be your new roommate so I ask that you please act like a proper lady and make a good impression on him. He has been made aware of the marriage. Do not worry. He is not a complete stranger to you. You met him a couple times as a child, and you two got along decently well. Behave yourself and study hard. Also, remember what I said. If you don't go along with this, I won't send you to the university in America that you wanted to go to. This marriage is the perfect opportunity to unite our two families and make a very profitable business deal.

- Father

Rin finished reading the message and threw her phone to the ground and clenched her hands into fists out of anger. Why does he do this to me? After everything that's happened, he has to pull out an arranged marriage on me to top it off. Honestly, when he told me about it, I thought he was kidding. Turns out I was wrong, though. She sighed, releasing her clenched fist and bent to pick up her phone. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, though. The man has no compassion. That's why mom- At the thought of her mother, she felt a pang in her chest and shook her head. Nevermind all that, I need to go to my room. With that resolution she continued her walk to her room.

As she approached the door to her room, she pulled out her key and unlocked it. She took a deep breath and pushed open the door. She turned and closed the door and heard a voice behind her. "Remember me yet?"

Rin sighed. She turned once again and leaned against the door frame, facing where the voice had come from. At a desk that was visible directly when you walked through the door sat a smirking Miyuki, leaning his cheek against his palm that was propped up on the desk's surface.

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