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Starting Over: Prologue

An orange cast covers Hinata City as the sun begins to set. People in town go on with their routine, not even noticing it. But for two people in a room together, in a building known as the Hinata Sou, they take a little break from what they're doing to watch this sight.

"Beautiful," Sixteen-year old Shinobu Maehara says. "Just simply, beautiful."

"It sure is Shinobu-chan," Twenty two-year old Keitaro Urashima replies.

The two of them continue to stare at the sunset for a few minutes before Keitaro gets back to what he was doing, which was checking Shinobu's mock math problems for Toudai. With each question he checks, he's amazed with her progress over the last couple of months.

"These are great results Shinobu-chan."

"They are Sempai?" She turns away from the last bit of sunset still left, looking towards Keitaro, who's gives a nod.

"Indeed. They're all correct. Even the last few problems and I was worried about those because they're very tricky. I'm so proud of you." Shinobu can't help but blush.

"Well, I do have a great tutor." Shinobu smiles, causing Keitaro to let out a light blush around his cheeks.

"I'm just glad I can help you out. With results like these, you'll make it into Toudai in no time!"

"You ready think so?"

"Sure am." Shinobu's smile grows wider, looking out again to see the last of the sunset. But as she does, she realizes something, turning her attention to the nearest clock.

"That late already?" Keitaro turns he's attention to the clock, seeing the time as seven twenty-six.

"WOW. I been tutoring you for over six hours."

"Yeah. And I haven't even prepared dinner yet."

"Guess we're all going to have a late dinner." Whether Keitaro was joking or not, Shinobu chuckles at the comment.

"Guess so. I think I'll make a stew since it's so late."

"That's sounds good to me."

With a smile, Shinobu stands up from the table. Before even taking a step towards the door, Keitaro's stomach loudly growls.

"If you like Sempai, I can fix you up some rice balls since I need to slice up the ingredients for the stew."

"That'd be great Shinobu-chan."

Shinobu makes her way towards the door, opens it and smiles at Keitaro before closing it. Keitaro immediately flops down on the floor, reflecting on past year.

After finally passing his Toudai entrance exam, Keitaro mustered up all the courage he had to ask out Naru Narusegawa. Sure. He had asked her out numerous before then, but with this as a special circumstance, he decided to try again. And to his surprise, she accepted. They have spend a lot of time together since that confession, as it seems weird to people on campus or the tenants of the Hinata Sou to only see one without the other. And with just recently celebrating their one-year anniversary, he can't help but feel that their relationship will last a very long time. Even his grades have been remarkably great as he's ranked among the top of the freshmen class.

After smiling about his thoughts over the past year, he looks up at the clock, seeing that there's a few minutes before it strikes eight o'clock. He sits up and is about to leave to check up on how Shinobu is doing with the cooking when a beam of bright white light surrounds him. Finding the source of it, he looks out the window only to fill up his vision.

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