Heaven: Hi hi~ I'm Serika Ootori, but I go by Heaven because people call me Heaven. I have adopted this story and I hope that I do not disappoint you with my mediocre writing style. I hope you enjoy my spin on the story and I sincerely hope that I will not disappoint you. I am sorry for the late updates but I had to wait for permission to re-upload the chapters that already exist. I also want to apologize for my slow updates in the future. I am studying abroad and I have limited access to my laptop for free time.

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Prologue

"Mitsu-nii, let's go out to play tennis with Syu-kun!" shouted a 6 years old Rika. It was her birthday today and she wanted to learn how to play tennis now that she finally got her own red racket with a tennis bag as a birthday present from her parents and her brother.

"Wait! Let me go get my tennis bag first!" her older 8 years old brother, Kunimitsu shouted back. As much as he loved his little sister, she was very tiring sometimes.

"But we're gonna be late! We told Syu-kun that we were going to be there at 3:00 and now it's already 3:15. We should have been there like 15 minutes ago!"

She was already standing there with her tennis bag on her back tapping her shoe in a steady rhythm. Finally, after much waiting, Kunimitsu was ready and they headed out to the tennis courts. When they got there, Fuji said happy birthday and gave her a present which was a locket in the shape of a tennis ball with a picture of Kunimitsu, Syusuke, and herself inside smiling at the camera.

"Arigatou for the present Syu-kun!"

"You're very welcome Rika-chan. Now let's teach you how to play tennis, I know you are very excited from the way you sounded on the phone."

After hours of teaching Rika, they were surprised to learn that she got down the basics in that short period of time. They said their goodbyes before they all headed home in order to get up early in time for school the next day.

~next day afterschool~

"Hey Rika! Do you mind going home alone today? I have classroom clean-up duties to do! I promise to play with you after I go back home!"

"Sure!" Rika told her brother. She couldn't wait to go home by herself because of how protective her brother was. He rarely let her out of his sight and this was the first time she could prove how independent and grown up she was.

Humming to herself as she strolled home with her tennis bag, she took the usual way home. When she passed by a dark alleyway, she felt a hand reach out of the dark. The next thing she knew, she was losing her senses and falling into the black.

~later on in the day~

"I'm home!" shouted Kunimitsu.

"Welcome back." greeted his mother. "Isn't Rika with you?"

"Wait, isn't she back home already? She went on ahead of me. She should have been back by now."

As his mother shook her head no, worst case scenarios came up in all of their mind but they push them away and decide to call Fuji to see if she was at his house. When Fuji replied that he hadn't seen her that day, they decide to look for her. By the end of the day, they had already searched everywhere for her and then decided to call the police. While the police ask them many questions, Kunimitsu's dad was trying to cheer him up without much success. Needless to say, no one slept well that night.