Prologue:

It was a normal spring day within Miami, Florida with the sun blaring down onto the kids running to school and elders playing different kinds of sport, people going to work, horns blaring on the busy roads and streets of the hot state.

Inside a house was a mother making the breakfast for her two twins who were naturally sleeping upstairs in their room. Two beds were pushed up against the faded blue walls on either side of the room, each containing a sleeping child. The two children laid there, the twins, one boy, one girl, it was 7:30 am, and next thing there was screaming up the stairs.

"Tatsuya! Mizuki! Time for school!"

The only sound was the groaning of a seven-year old girl, and the snoring of her twin brother, which was surprisingly loud for such a small person. Then the mother went back to preparing their packed lunch and breakfast, whilst waddling around the kitchen with her growing belly. Once again there was shouting, but this time it was deeper.

"OI! GET YOUR LAZY ASSES OUT OF BED!"

Then there was silence. Which was soon broken by the sounds of stomping up the stairs, and the door slamming open, causing the boy to flinch and fall out of his bed, a thump, and then a groan of "Ow, that hurts."
The girl didn't budge and soon, she was being dragged off her comfy bed, wrapped in her duvet, and out of the bedroom, by her father.

The seven month pregnant mother waddled over to the front door as the bell rang. Opening the door, the woman smiled warmly at two more common faces around the house, a boy with unusual, natural dark red hair and a smaller girl with a more common colour of black hair. These two were the friends of the twins, Taiga and Riaka.

"Tatsuya and Mizuki will be down in a minute, you know the drill." stepping aside and letting the children in.

Stepping into the house and taking their shoes off out of politeness and walking onto the wooden floors, they stood there and stared at Mizuki, who was currently being dragged down the stairs wrapped in her duvet, by her father, wailing about 'why does school start so early' and the moral impracticality of it, while her twin brother, Tatsuya, slowly walked down the stairs behind them yawning tiredly. The visitors blinked, and tried not to snicker at the scene unfolding in front of them.

The father looked round at Riaka and Taiga, as they stood there, their hands covering their mouths as they try to hold back their laughter.

"Ah. Ohayou, Taiga-kun, Riaka-chan."

"Ohayou, Himuro-san."

A thin pale arm soon emerged from within the duvet, into the view of the youngsters.

"Hey guys."

Tatsuya stood there and blinked, before nodding his head, and walked to the kitchen to get his breakfast. Mizuki slowly emerged from her cocoon of duvet and raised herself from the floor, stretching and emitting strange noises. Everyone stared at her,

"What?" she looks at them all "everyone makes strange noises when they stretch." Shrugging her shoulders and walking into the kitchen after Tatsuya, in search of her breakfast.

Riaka skipped into the kitchen and stopped as she crashed into Tatsuya, falling backwards the younger girl started to blush drastically, as she stared at the boy's hand, stretched out in front of her. Meanwhile, Taiga walked past the two and went to sit down at the table, while their mother set out the bowls for breakfast.

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After enjoying a rowdy breakfast full of name calling, food throwing, and scolding whilst being thrown out the house to begin walking to school, the four kids had to spilt, going to their specific rooms given to them on their timetables. Each of them agreed to meet up in the Gymnasium, during break, lunch and the courts after school, before heading home. After being forced into spending the torturous hours in the classroom, learning meaningless facts that they will never use again, all of them half listening and staring out the window, which was far more interesting. After school, they ran to the nearest basketball court to play a much needed two-on-two match, girls verses boys, which the girls won, and then headed home before they were grounded, again.

When Riaka ended up on her doorstep she saw her bags outside, with a plane ticket, some money, a passport and nothing else. Outside sat a taxi, which had just arrived, and a brief, unemotional letter, saying 'You're going to Japan, to live with your aunt and cousin. - Mum and Dad.' The child sighed, knowing this had to happen eventually, as she jumped into the cab and left for the airport, feeling depressed at the realization that she might never see her friends again. Kagami watched out of his window, opposite her house as she left, wandering where the hell she was going, and when she would be back, thinking she was just visiting relatives, like she had done before.

That was the last time they ever saw Riaka, before finding out that the child had been sent to go live with her aunt and cousin in Japan, by her mother and father's orders, from a brief letter sent by Riaka a week later, and never heard from her again.