Author's Scramble:

Well… this my first Ultra Maniac fan fic, and it's all about YUTA! Love the guy…0.o Beware, this fic is full of angst… and don't expect the ending you expected! Please review after reading this, whether you like it or not. No flames, please.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of Ultra Maniac character. Any character that is unknown to the story belongs to me, though . Oh, if only I can have Yuta… -.-"

Key:

"…" usual dialogue

'Italic' thoughts

Italic thoughts

Enjoy reading!

by: Shikaido Yuki

CHAPTER 1

First year: Summer Holiday

In The Rain

Pitter patter

Seven years had passed.

Oh, he missed her so much. Yes, he did indeed.

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He couldn't even feel the rain again. The memory bonded within his mind wouldn't leave him just like that.

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'Nina, why can't you love me back?' It was the only question swirling around his mind all year.

That's true, although you're trying to deny it.

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'Should I just… suicide?'

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He stared at the ocean with such an awkward gaze, leaning on a huge cheery-blossom tree that sat behind him.

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'Rain even more… Harder than this...'

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He was already soaked, but didn't care a bit about it.

'She's gone… She loves that Hiroki guy, not me. Ckh, what am I doing here anyway?'

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What were you doing here, Yuta? Still hoping that you might get a chance with that honey-haired girl after all these years?

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He brushed his hair backwards.

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'I'm no longer Kirishima Yuta they thought I was…'

The rain was pouring real hard.

A girl with chocolate-brown hair and sky-blue eyes went out from a mini market with groceries in her arms.

"Curse the rain!" she yelled as she opened her umbrella and stepped into the sidewalk to go home.

Her tank top and shorts were soaked in a minute she walked under the rain.

"GAH!" she cursed to the sky.

She ran as fast as she could and passed the park. She stopped for a moment, just to stare the beauty of the sea.

"What the hell am I doing!" she screamed at herself. She was willing to race back to her home when her eyes saw something.

'A guy?'

His hair was auburn, his clothes was red.

'Is he crazy or WHAT! Out, leaning on a cheery-blossom tree in this kind of rain?' she thought open-mouthed. 'The cherry-blossom kinda helps though… but NOT in this kind of rain!'

Nevertheless, she approached to the boy.

Pitter patter

'Maybe I just stay this way until I die…' he thought miserably.

"Hey!"

He didn't react.

"HEY! You, the guy with auburn hair and red clothes!"

'A girl?'

A face entered his vision and the rain stopped pouring onto him.

"Hey! Are you crazy? Staying out in a weather like this could make you sick!" she said worriedly, sharing the umbrella in her hand with him and squatted beside him.

He didn't make a sound, or even a move or an expression.

She waved her free hand in front of his face, "Hey! Don't space out, will you? C'mon, I'll take you home. Where's your house?"

She took his hand and pulled it.

"Let go of me."

Both of them stood up.

"Okay, so you don't want to go home. I get it. What are you doing here anyway? Trying to forget something?"

Yuta stepped into the rain again, and walked to the fence that separated them from the sea.

She chased him.

"Or are you trying to forget someone?" she asked teasingly, sharing her umbrella with him once more.

He didn't answer any of her questions, but his face and eyes answered it all.

"I see," she said. She glanced at her watch, "Oh my lord! Shit! I have to go home!"

'That would be great. Go and leave me alone.'

"Here, hold my umbrella for a sec," she forced the umbrella in his hand.

She took something from her groceries and put it into her postman-bag.

"Here," she said again, giving Yuta her groceries.

He stared at her with curiosity.

"There're chocolates inside it," she replied with a soft laugh and wide smile, "They will make you better, like the did to me."

He handed her umbrella back and refused to take the chocolates.

"Take it!" she said with furrowed eyebrows. "Take the chocolates and the umbrella! You need them more than I do!"

He shook his head.

"TAKE IT! AND DON'T EVEN TRY TO THROW IT AWAY WHEN I'VE LEFT!" she shouted on top of her lungs. Then, she raced back to her home again.

'Chocolates?'

Pitter patter

'You remind me a lot of Nina…' Pitter patter There was a smirk on his face.

Yeah, yeah… I know this makes no sense… but this is only the prolog. There will be a lot more coming up soon! (Since I'm going to have my holiday soon…)

And I want to thank rhapsodizing riyoko and psychedelic aya. Although you two don't know me, I read almost all your fan fics and my passion to write fan fics again came back to life, after absent for almost a year. Thank you so much!

Stay tune for the next chappie, and please review!