Introduction chapter. Fanfic is AU, and DouWata. Hope you like it : )

-Oceans

Contrary to the vision inspired by its name, Summerfield was a dreary place. In fact, if one could classify a city by color, there is no doubt as to which our dear metropolis would be- that is, a deep, dull, gray. A visitor to this somber city would surely lose himself among the drooping buildings and quite streets in the time it took to heave a sigh. But should he find himself southbound on Ender's Avenue, he will come across Watanuki's garage.

Actually, there was such a stranger wandering the streets on the day our story begins, and he carried quite a burden on his back…

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Watanuki didn't want the garage. He'd said as much to Yuuko, the drunken bitch, at least a hundred times before she'd spirited away in the middle of the night, trailing the stomach-rolling scent of alcohol behind her. She hadn't listened to him, as usual, and what's more- she'd left him with her trusty sidekick, her pain-in-the-ass junior, black Mokona.

When the sun rose behind the clouds on the eighth Yuukoless day, Watanuki finally, grudgingly admitted that he was going to have to suck it up. Besides, with his boozehound boss MIA and in no position to get in his way, there were a lot of things he could do to help the old place. The sign needed rewiring, the building repainting, oh, and he could get started on cleaning the grease spots off the floor, and organize the storage units and the office…

The office. The papers. The lease on the building was paid up for the next four months. He needed to dig out the business records and make sure…

Well, anyway. That is how Watanuki Kimihiro, at age nineteen, became the owner and bill-payer of Ichihara Garage. Rah, rah, reh.