[Disclaimer] I do not own Eye shield 21 or Garasu no Kamen! All credit goes to the awesome creators.

[Author Note] Hello there. I'm here with my romance story about Sena Kobayakawa and Maya Kitajima. I don't know about others, but I think that Sena and Maya is a match made in Heaven. They just look absolutely perfect for each other, so I'm trying my best to give them a story since no one else is going to do it. I hope you like it! If you don't, that's very much okay. Sorry about any typos and other writing errors… I'm not a good writer, you know.

(Chapter One – Day in the Rain)

It was a cold and rainy day. Maya, the talented and young actress, has had a very, very rough day at practice today. She had the role of acting like a statue in the background of some play, which she's done before, but as usual she was slapped and yelled at for her errors. She tried her very best, she felt like she did everything her mentor, Chigusa Tsukikage, told her to do, but in the end it seemed like she didn't. She was punished severely for things she didn't even feel like she did wrong.

She felt dreadfully upset. She was trying to walk back to her home, but felt like she couldn't go on. Maya was used to criticism and getting physically abused, but today she just didn't want to go through it. She was getting very cold now. She had on a brown, turtleneck sweatshirt, along with a pair of fairly long, jean shorts, and instead of shoes she was wearing black sandals. The day started off with nice weather, but turned bad as time went by.

"The weather man said it was going to be sunny all day today," she gloomily said to herself, sadness absorbing the sound of her voice. While she was walking, she saw a wooden bench nearby. The distressed girl walked over to it and sat down on it. She felt her shorts becoming very wet because of the rain-soaked bench, but she didn't care, she just wanted to stop walking. She then put her right hand on the right side of her face, the spot where she constantly got slapped at, and began to cry.

"I'm useless. I'm so useless," Maya pouted, her cries becoming louder as streams of tears trickled down her red, swollen cheeks. She put her hands over her eyes and just cried out loud. She couldn't hold back her emotions any longer; she had to let out all of the pain and sorrow she was in. Someone who was close by heard her cries of unhappiness, and that someone was Sena Kobayakawa. The young, spiky haired boy was in the middle of his routine jogging exercise, and Maya's cries immediately caught his attention.

He stopped running and began to look around. He didn't see anybody, but it sounded close by. "That crying, it sounds so distressing. Who is that?" Sena was becoming more inquisitive and worried the more he heard Maya's cries of mourning. Now instead of jogging, he began to run, and he was running quite fast. Running at 22 miles-per-hour speeds, he quickly spotted her, he actually almost ran by her, so he had to step back a bit.

The concerned, young boy stared at the weeping brunette who was not so far away and then slowly started to approach her. "Hey, what's the matter?" he asked her, his arm reaching out to touch her shoulder, but stopped because he didn't want to scare the girl.

He got no answer from her; he only got her ongoing hollers of agony. She was really worrying Sena a whole lot, and he didn't know what to do. "Excuse me, what's the matter?" he attempted to ask again, his voice slightly higher than before; this time his voice was heard. The sobbing girl then wiped both of her eyes with the cotton, fabric sleeve of her shirt and looked over at the person who was talking to her.

She saw a boy who looked almost the same exact height as her standing there looking directly at her. He was wearing a grey jacket with a hood over his head, along with a pair of dark blue sweatpants and sneakers. The look on his face was full of concern, which was one of the reasons why she stopped crying so quickly. After a brief moment of silence, he then said to her, "You sound and look so upset. If you don't mind, maybe you could tell me what made you cry like that."

The fact that he was so worried about someone he didn't even know took her by surprise. She didn't say anything to him; she only looked down at the ground as she tried her best to stop hyperventilating. He knew he couldn't just leave her here, he knew he had to do something. He then walked over toward the bench and sat down next to her. "If you don't want to talk about it that's okay, it's just that I can't walk away when someone looks so hurt," spoke the boy.

Hearing those words made her look in his direction, and when she did that, he immediately noticed how sore her face looked. "Your face, it looks sore. What happened? Did someone hit you?" Sena asked in a frantic sort of voice. Maya slowly nodded her head in response, which made Sena feel even more worried about her. "Who did this to you?" he asked, his face now sporting a serious and angry look.

Maya turned her head away from his, and then started to say, "It's nothing. I'm fine, just leave me alone."

The spiky haired boy quickly replied back with a strong tone of voice, "No! There's no way I'm leaving you here like this! If someone is beating you, you should tell somebody! We can go to the police station; it's not that far away from here. Please tell me who did this to you."

Who was this boy and why did he care about her so much? That's what she was thinking inside of her mind. She turned her head and looked at him again, and then asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Sena Kobayakawa," he answered. "What's your name?"

She now had a small smile on her face as she replied, "My name is Maya Kitajima."

"I'm very pleased to meet you, Kitajima, but can you tell me what happened to you now?" said Sena, the smile on Maya's face now back a frown.

She let out a moan of lament, and then replied back with a sorrowful voice, "I'll tell you what happened, but could you please do something for me in return?"

He nodded as he said, "Sure."

Maya then brushed the strands of her beautiful, chestnut brown colored hair in back of her ear as she asked, "Could you please escort me home? I'm sorry, it's just you seem like a nice person and I'd like to have some company. I can tell you everything while we walk. Is that okay?"

He nodded his head again as he said back, "You don't have to apologize, Kitajima. I'll be glad to walk you to your house." With that being said, he stood up and held out his hand, offering to help her up. She looked at his hand, and then gently grabbed onto it. He lifted her off of the bench and they started to walk off in the rain together.

Hope it looks good so far… I don't think chapters will seem so long… so, sorry about that T_T…