Hello everyone, this my first time writing a fanfic and english is not my language, so be patience. I hope you'll enjoy this fanfic as much as I enjoy in writing it. Bye, see ya :D
~The begin~
Today is my first day of high school, precisely at Serin High, Japan. By now I should be already in school. Instead, guess where am I? You will think, maybe she's still sleeping, or she's stuck in traffic. I wish! No, instead I'm stuck at the airport in Washington, because my flight was canceled. You will say, why she's in America, though she knew that the next day school would began?
You are right, well…let me introduce myself: I'm Sakurai Remi, 16 years old, I'm half American and half Japanese. Freshman of the Serin High. 177 cm tall. Last reserve of the Japanese national women's basketball team. Oh, and ... I was born albino.
Last week I went back to America for the first game of the season of the national team, even if I'm a reserve, I have to be present. But it's not for this reason that at this moment I'm in a total despair at the airport, looking for a way to return home.
The reason is that my teammates on the evening of the game, Friday, after our victory, they thought to go to celebrate, I could not refuse the invitation of my sempais.
The party lasted until 2:00 am, I would've to took the 7:00 am flight, but as you can imagine even a heavy metal concert wouldn't have woken me up that morning. When I recovered from my catatonic sleep, it was already past 9:00, I got up like a zombie in a great hurry and opted to take the 11 am flight . I told myself not to worry, the school would begin Monday morning, and I would have plenty of time to get to Japan, go home take a nice nap and then start my new life as high schooler. Wrong as ever! Imagine my face when I saw on the flights board "11 am Tokyo flight, CANCELED." I cursed in all the ways and languages I knew.
Now I find myself sitting and staring into the void, with dark circles that even Count Dracula would envy, in Washington DC. airport, on my first day of school!
Japan, Serin High.
"Kuroko Tetsuya ..." the professor continued with the morning call. "Sakurai Remi ..." the professor called, without receiving any response. He frowned as he wrote the absence of the student, and then continued with the roll call.
Tuesday, 0:30 am. At last I landed in Tokyo. I walk outside the airport, and get on the first available taxi, I told my home address to the taxi driver and exhausted collapse in the back seat. "... And here's how my first day of high school went fucked up!" i grumbled depressed. I wonder what the professors must have thought? The first day of school and she is already absent! And I that wanted to start my high school career unnoticed. Like, not to attract attention would be a bit impossible, given my physical appearance. I was born albino, yep, and imagine a half-Japanese girl with blond hair almost white, blue eyes like ice, with shades of red around the iris and eyelashes and eyebrows of the same hair color. They would've always mistook me for a punk. And let's not talk about my height, a 177 cm tall girl, in Japan. Tell me, how could I pass unnoticed.
My thoughts were pushed away, when the taxi driver finally stopped in front of my house, listlessly I pay the old gentleman, take my luggage and go into the house. Ah ... it's more than 24 hours that I don't sleep, don't even want to imagine what I might look like at this point, without even undressing I throw myself on the bed, I set the phone alarm, and then effortlessly i fall into a heavy sleep.
"... Drin Drin Drin ..." Oh my God, please let this unbearable noise stop! I open my eyes against my will, and I finally understand that this noise is coming from the alarm clock on my cell phone, I turn around and put an end to the screeching noise. Oh God, I feel like I had not slept in a week!
Maybe still asleep I get up and make my way to the bathroom, I stand at the sink and wash my face. "Aghhh!" a muffled scream coming out of my mouth when I see my face in the mirror. "Never again, never again!", I repeat to myself, while I put on my uniform and arrange my blonde almost white hair as I can, i tug my rebel hairs behind my left ear in a loosen braid too prevent them to get in my way, and i head to the kitchen to grab a slice of toast and orange juice. I end up brushing my teeth, and I hasten on the street, towards the school.
About 15 minutes away, here I am at the entrance of Serin High. I look around and begin to notice that the looks dwell on me, maybe for the fact that the bow of my uniform is loose with the shirt unbuttoned, with the sweater above, perhaps for the fact that I wear long black stockings over the knee. Or more likely because they have never seen an albino.
Lazily I start walking towards the entrance, with whispers and looks to accompany me. Finally I find my class, I step in and see that there are a few people, maybe 4 or 5, without dwelling on them, I head toward the window and sit down without too much quibbling. "Ahhh ... and I thought it would've been different this time. Wonder how she's holding up?" I get lost in my thoughts looking out the window.
"Oi!" "Yo, can you hear me?" I got distracted from my thoughts. "Yo, white girl, that's my sit!" a haired blacks boy exclaimed, leaning towards me. To the comment I frowned. I realized that the class was now filled. Frowning, finally I turned my gaze to the boy, "Huh?" I uttered, only. I saw the boy get stiffened "Move your ass somewhere else, you freak!" I stood up immediately, the height difference was shown, and the boy stepped back a few paces, I opened my mouth to reply but I was interrupted right away, "What is going on here?" I heard, and i saw that the teacher had entered the class and her gaze was turned towards the boy and then me as her eyes went wider. "Fugari, what's happening?"she asked the boy, and received no reply, "You're the girl who was absent on the first day of school, isn't it?" then she turned towards me. I nodded my head. "Well then, come here and write your name on the board and introduce yourself." the sensei ordered. Why I had to do something, that only students who transferred were supposed to? Maybe it was my punishment for not showing up the first day of school. Sulkily I headed to the chair and write my name on the blackboard "I'm Sakurai Remi, first year, 'sup?" I finish my brief presentation nonchalantly. I saw the teacher raise an eyebrow "Go sit down in front of Furitaka, there's an open seat." she said in exasperation. "Kitaro-sensei, if she sits in front of me I won't be able to see the blackboard!" the girl with the ponytails moaned. I snorted and turned back to look at the sensei. "ah… ok fine, Kagami move to a seat further back and give way to Sakurai." she said irritably. I saw a boy with reddish hair stand up, Kagami apparently, "Wow!" I thought for how tall he was, he might be playing basketball, I observed that Kagami glanced at me as I walked where he had been sitting a while ago. I finally sat down in my place, with Kagami behind me. "One last thing Sakurai, after classes are over the principal is waiting for you in his office!"the sensei ruled. "Awesome! Couldn't get better!" I thought. And finally the class began. When the bell rang, we all headed out for the entrance ceremony , arranged all lined up waiting for the principal of the school.
"Class 1-b, number 5, Kagami Taiga." I heard shouting from the roof of the school, I saw Kagami standing on the railing. "What the hell!" I thought, "I will defeat the Generation of Miracles and become the best player in Japan!" Kagami finished and disappeared. Hmm! This year will be interesting.