The date was March 10, 20XX. Today was the day that two girls were going back home after being at gymnast practice. The first girl had brown eyes, with nice looking brown hair tied up into a pony tail with a bright red bow. That girl's name was Kasumi Yoshizawa, Kasumi always came first in gymnastics and had always kept striving to be better at it because of her dream. But Kasumi's dream was shared with another girl. Her sister, a girl with straight ruby hair, red eyes, and black glasses. She was Sumire Yoshizawa, the sister of Kasumi Yoshizawa. Sumire was very good at gymnastics just like her sister but she for some reason always slouched behind even though she gave it her all to stay on par with her sister, she shared the same dream as Kasumi but was worried that she would bring Kasumi down with her own inability to keep up.

"Today was pretty brutal huh?" The brown haired older sister, Kasumi said to her younger sister as they began returning home as the rain was falling down on their umbrellas. Kasumi looked at her younger sister in concern. "Feeling okay?" The concern in her voice was little but it was present.

The red haired younger sister, Sumire just shook her head. "It's not that..." She sighed and closed her eyes for a moment then opened them as she looked down at the handle of her umbrella. "Why am I doing so bad? I keep messing up my routine.." Sumire said to herself as she continued walking with Kasumi but was put to a stop once Kasumi stood in front of her.

"Your growth spurt's just changed your eye level, you'll get used to it." Kasumi said as she smiled at her red headed sister. Kasumi then put her hand up to Sumire's head. "Look! You're as tall as I am now!" Kasumi then moved her hand from Sumire's head to her own head to show how tall Sumire has grown.

"We practice the same amount... But you are the one who always gets first place.." Sumire said to her Kasumi as Kasumi stood there and listened to her sister. Sumire then looked down slightly in defeat. "I can't catch up with you, Kasumi.." Sumire said with defeat and sorrow in her voice, her thoughts filled with nothing but negativity towards not being able to catch up with her brown haired sister.

Kasumi lowered herself to stay in Sumire's eyesight. "You know why?" Kasumi said with a joking tone. "Because it's my right as the elder sister!" Kasumi said with pride as she put a hand to her own chest.

Sumire looked up to her sister and simply replied. "We're in the same grade though.." She said not completely certain why that was Kasumi's logic.

"Aw, don't be so down." Kasumi said turning forwards again as she then looked up to the sky while covering her self from oncoming rain. "We'll reach the top of the world together. That's our dream, right?" Kasumi said losing her joking tone and in a more serious one.

"You don't get it.." Sumire said in a deadpan voice as Kasumi looked back at her. "You'll never understand how I feel.." Sumire said as she looked down once again, avoiding making eye contact with her sister.

Kasumi looked shocked at what her sister had said to her. "What?" She had no other words. Wanting to her what made Sumire feel this way and how she can help Sumire. Before Sumire said anything though she began moving past Kasumi.

Sumire had began moving faster past Kasumi as Kasumi tried to catch up. Negative thought's flooded Sumire's mind once again. Kasumi... If I were like you... Things would be so much better.. These thoughts clouded her mind as she began pushing past people in her way. Kasumi's cry's in the background barely noticeable to her.

"Hey wait up!" Kasumi said in the background, pleading for her sister to stop running from her. They were coming to a cross walk soon.. Kasumi needed to stop her.

Kasumi's the one people want.. Sumire just kept on running ignoring her sister. She just wanted to escape.. She wanted to run free.. She didn't want to be in her sister's shadow.

"Look where you're going! The light's red! Hey!" Kasumi said to try and make her sister snap out of this trance that's on her. Kasumi was getting deathly worried as she noticed a truck coming.

The talented one who CAN reach the top of the world.. Sumire soon entered the road not aware of where she was. The truck was still coming not aware of who was in the way.

"Sumire, stop! Listen to me! SUMIRE!" Kasumi caught up to Sumire and pushed her out of the way of the oncoming truck. The truck was right there... Ready to change their lives forever...

The truck hit something. Sumire looked up from being knocked down and saw someone beside her. Kasumi was alright! "K-Kasumi?! Kasumi get up!" Sumire said as she shook her sister.

Kasumi began to open her eyes and realize where she was. "Sumire..?" Kasumi sat up and looked at her sister. With no words the two embraced each other. Tears flowing down both of their faces. Both of them scared after the experience the two had. After a minute Kasumi came to a realization. "Wait... If I'm right here.. Then who...?"

The two sisters looked over to where a young man who was in the middle of the street, bleeding from his left arm. That young man had saved Kasumi and almost got out of the way of the truck but his arm was caught and damaged majorly. "K-Kasumi! H-He's hurt!" Sumire said in shock as she looked over at him.

"W-Well, Sumire call the ambulance! I'll go check up on him to see if he's still conscious!" Kasumi said as Sumire agreed. Kasumi quickly went over to the young man, he had frizzy black hair and glasses. He wore a normal black t-shirt with jeans. The frizzy haired boy was knocked out, most likely from landing on the street after taking the blow to his left arm. His left arm was in very bad shape, it was bleeding profusely as the boy just lied there with no consciousness.

After a while the Ambulance came and took the three away. Sumire and Kasumi didn't have to go with the frizzy haired boy to the hospital. But it was because of him that Kasumi was uninjured and more importantly not dead. The two girls owe that young man, who didn't need to go out of his way to save Kasumi, but he did and now he got hurt from doing so.

The two girls after a while were able to get into the hospital room where the young boy was laying down in the bed. They sat there and waited for someone to tell them about what's going on with him. A doctor came into the room soon after. "Hello there, Kasumi Yoshizawa and Sumire Yoshizawa. Before I tell you anything about this young man, can you tell me your relation to this boy?" The doctor said as he looked at the two young girls.

"U-Um..." Sumire couldn't think of anything to say. She didn't know this boy or have any relation to him. She wanted to give him endless thanks for saving his sister. Kasumi didn't have an excuse either but she was determined to know who this young man was. She owed her life to him, Kasumi's determination was present on her face.

"Truth be told doctor, we don't know this young man.. But I owe him my life. He saved me from a truck that was about to run me over.. I can't just sit by and not thank this brave young man." Kasumi said as she looked at the young man sitting in the hospital bed.

Sumire saw Kasumi's passion and decided to follow her lead. "I-I agree! I owe him everything because if it wasn't for him, Kasumi wouldn't be here right now.. I have to thank him as well.." Sumire said as she looked up at the doctor as well.

"I see.. Well then. I think I can tell you." The doctor got a clipboard and the X-ray scans. "So he has suffered major damage to his arm. He has broken almost every bone in his left arm. But he's very lucky that it was just his arm. He would have most certainly been dead the truck hit him head on. His arm should most likely heal within a month." The doctor said as he showed them the X-rays of his arm. Kasumi and Sumire gasped at what they saw.

"A-A month isn't too bad I guess.. D-Do you happen to know his name? Doesn't he have any relatives here?" Sumire asked with a shy tone. She felt bad that none of his family members came to see how he was.

"The young man's name is Akira Kurusu. And sadly no, none of his family members have responded to any of our calls. You two are the only one's who have bothered to make sure he's alright." The doctor said as the young man known as Akira soon began to stir in his sleep. "Oh I think he's waking up now. I will leave him to you two. I'm sure you'd like to talk to him." The doctor said as Akira began waking up.

"Hggnn... Ooohh... My aching head..." The frizzy haired boy known as Akira said as he slowly opened his eyes. Once his vision had cleared he noticed that there were two girls. One red haired one and the other was a brown haired one. He noticed that both of the girls were looking at him worriedly. "H-Huh..?" Akira tried moving up but then he noticed the condition his arm was in.

"Please take it easy, Kurusu-san." The girl with red straight hair said as she seemed like she didn't want him hurt. "H-How do you feel? D-Do you remember what happened?" She asked with a scared look on her face.

"Um... I remember going out into the city heading out for groceries, I saw that 2 girls were running towards the street.. I pushed one of the girls out of the way then my left arm got hurt and everything else is a blur." Akira honestly said as he looked at the two. "Are you two okay? If I'm not wrong, you two are the girls who were in front of the truck. Are you guys alright? Neither of you are hurt, right?" Akira asked as he was worried about the two girls.

"We're fine. More importantly... We're so sorry!" The brown haired girl said. "I couldn't stop Sumire in time and because of that you got hurt.. I'm really sorry for that Kurusu-san." She bowed to him as he looked very confused at her.

"There's no need to be sorry, I went in to save you by my own volition. It's my own fault that I got hurt. I just couldn't stand to see you two hurt. I don't know why, but my body just moved on it's own." Akira said as he realized he had NO idea who these people were. "By the way, who are you two? I don't have your names or anything like that. Considering you're calling me Kurusu, you already know my name?"

"Yes, the doctor told us your name and your condition. S-Sorry that we haven't introduced ourselves!" The red haired girl said as she looked at him. "I'm Sumire Yoshizawa." The red haired girl with glasses gave her name, Sumire.. It was a very nice name, at least that's what Akira thought.

"And I am Kasumi Yoshizawa!" The brown haired girl with a red bow in her hair, Kasumi.. Akira also thought that was a nice name. He put the pieces together that the two were sisters.

"And obviously my name that you two know already, I am Akira Kurusu." Akira said with a smile. He thought these two girls seemed very nice and also beautiful. He seemed kinda overwhelmed that these two girls went out of their way to make sure he was okay.

"Well now that introductions are out of the way. W-We are really thankful that you came in to save Kasumi. I-I owe you my life for saving her.." Sumire said as she looked at him with an embarrassed look on her face.

"Embarrassing as it is to say, I-I owe you as well, Kurusu-san.." Kasumi said looking off to the side with an equally embarrassed look on her face, just like her sister's.

"Y-You're surely over exaggerating." Akira tried to keep a calm face, but to his dismay the two were very cute when they were embarrassed. He then thought for a moment... Then an idea popped into his head. "Well if you owe me, I just want one thing. Would you like to be my friends?" Akira asked politely as the two girls looked at him in a very surprised manner. "I don't have too many friends and you girls are here with me now, so I just thought why shouldn't we be friends?" Akira said with a nice smile on his face.

The two girls looked at each other as they nodded. They then looked at him and both said. "We would gladly be your friend, Akira-san!" They both said with cheerful voices. Akira noticed that Sumire had a more embarrassed look on her face while her sister Kasumi had a confident look on her face. A new friendship had began, and the story shall soon begin.