He's faster than a bullet! Yagami is as smooth as a river! He's firm! He's fast! He's beautiful! He's reaching out to a new frontier! He's leaving camera after camera behind!

"Two hands connect...a perfect relay, as if they had no doubt that it would happen. How can two persons trust each other so much?"

~*~

Waking up with a small smile on my face, my sight saw a glimpse of the clock, my eyes widened and the urge to hurry was all in my mind, I jumped out of my bed. I first went to the bathroom, faced the mirror and saw myself with my messy white boyish hair, I rushed to finish things.

Once I was finished, I grabbed my bag while getting a piece of breakfast, a piece of toast, and made a run for school. 'My first day at Honan and I'm messing up already!' I thought as I was chewing on my toast as I sped little by little. Once I saw the school, the first thing I noticed that they we're already closing the gates. 'I can make it! Just jump and I'll be in!'

When I got my solution,unconsciously, a smile has made it's way to my face as I neared the gate and made a jump for it, 'I'm glad I'm wearing pants, now I don't even regret enrolling as a guy anymore!' and with that I landed safely on the ground.

"What we're you doing? Are you hurt?" Asked the guy who was pushing the gate politely yet worried.

"I needed to jump before you could close the gate, so I could make it and don't worry I'm fine! Sensei" I explained to the teacher

"You're one tough boy, but I was actually opening the gate, it's still too early to be in a rush" said the teacher with a polite genuine closed-eye smile while I was shocked, thinking what happened to me or was it my clock, I stopped thinking and decided to apologize and excuse myself then just walk around the school.

"Errr... Sorry sensei for jumping on the gate, and I'll excuse myself now" I apologized to the teacher with a bow then he just smiled then I excused myself.

I walked around the school, watching at the volleyball team's morning practice, unaware of time, I heard something smash onto something so I looked at near by window and saw a guy collided onto the tree while a girl with brown hair rushed to help him, I recognized them, but I really didn't know them, I competed in the same event as them when I was young but I didn't get to go against them, I only got to watch them run. I sighed then my gaze was back on the court- it was empty... I AM LATE!! I ran to my assigned classroom as fast as I can, when I opened the sliding door everyone looked at me.

"Ahhhh....." I couldn't find anything to say then the teacher looked at me and sighed.

"Please take your seat." says the homeroom teacher with black hair and with glasses.

"O-okay..." I replied, I felt that someone had a intense gaze at me, so I shivered as I walked to a vacant seat at the second row by the window. As I sat down, introducing had started person introduced himself.

"My name is Yagami Riku! My favorite food is a noodle bun. I also like most of the sports, so I can't wait for the school's athletic event! Done!" The blonde said happily and sat down on his seat as he watched the next person

"Fujiwara Takeru." He kept it really short with a emotionless face as he sat down immediately.

"I'm Sakurai Nana. I'm from Hokkaido, I like it how it's warm here in Tokyo. I'm staying here with my uncle, I really don't know much about Tokyo, so it would be great if you helped!" Nana cheerfully introduced with a smile then she sat down

"I'm Ichinose Shun, all I hope is that we would have a great school year!" I kept my introduction short with a smile and went back to my seat, I could hear some whispers but I felt an intense gaze as I went back to my seat.

Soon after, classes had began. I didn't pay attention, I was thinking about how early I was yet I was still late.

~*~

After classes, I went to bulletin board full the club related things, walking like the boy I'm suppose to be. 'Badminton, Pingpong, volleyball, basketball...' I read as I scanned the clubs, 'Maybe I shouldn't join a club???' I thought deeply but a certain comment caught my attention, "Um, where is the Stride Club? I don't see any directions here." My gaze went to the owner of the voice and I saw my classmate, Sakurai Nana. 'Stride huh?'

Nana was walking around hoping to find the stride club while I followed her, trying not to be seen. Every minute she looked like she was losing hope on finding the stride club.

"Sakurai Nana." Once I heard her name being called I hid myself behind the wall.

"Ah, Fujiwara, was it? You're in my-" She didn't get the chance to finish it because Takeru told her to follow him. When I heard nothing, I unhid myself and made a deep proud sighed, 'I did well not being caug-'

As soon as I was out of my hiding spot, I bumped into someone and fell on the ground, I looked up to see............................... Fujiwara Takeru

"Ichinose Shun." States Takeru with his stoic face with I gulped because I actually got caught while Nana was also there just watching behind Takeru

"Y-yes?" I stuttered. "You're joining the stride club" he sated directly and I immediately refused, while he stood silent but he grabbed me and dragged me to follow him as I kept on trying to escape his grasp but he had a strong hold.

When I saw we were nearing a door, I tried my very best to escape from him and make a run for it but unfortunately I failed to do that. "So you knew we were looking for this club?" Nana asked, "We?!" I argued but it was ignored.

"Obviously. Let's go" We opened the door but before we could enter the room, we find;

"No do-over! This is R.T.S!"

"Come on, don't be picky remember that one time I let you do a do-over?"

"Oh? What other time? What year, month, day, hour, minue, rotaion position of the earth?" asked confidently the guy with green hair as he fixed the position of his glasses. As they continued to argue while I sweat dropped in the scene

"They haven't noticed." Takeru said making me and Nana nod simutainuosly, but before I we entered, there was a presence behind us.

"Are you here to join our club?" The guy asked, he held up a panda bread, covering his face.

"Y-yes, we are" Nana replies, 'WE?!' I thought, trying again to get out of Takeru's hold but no avail

"Great! I'm Kohinata Hozumi, a second-year. Nice to meet you!" He held down his panda-looking bread and revealed his blue eyes and a smile. 'He looks like the nice and funny senpais'

"Hey! We have new members!" says Kohinata as he caught the attention of the two other members

"So, which one?" The brunette asked

"Your glare! Your Glasses... you must be here for the Shouji club!" Megane said while pointing to Takeru (Megane meaning glasses)

"No. I'm here for stride." He stated

"Denied as always!" says the Megane as he pointed at the ceiling, but then he was familiarized by the looks of Takeru

"Wait, aren't you Fujiwara Takeru guy from Tsurugiya?"

"Yes."

"So I was right. He's pretty famous in the under 15 category. So basically, you came out to Tokyo from Hyougo" says Megane as he looked at a magazine while Nana and Hozumi was surprised by the new infromation to them. "Getting a big name like you, looks like the Stride Club if off on a good start this year..."

"So then you must be... the first female shouji member!" Megane said all fired up as he saw Nana.

"No, she is also here for the same reason why I'm here, stride." he smoothly stated, covering up for Nana

"Denied again!" Megane said as his arms was clutch on his chest while one knee was bended.

"I'm Sakurai Nana, I've come here for the Stride Club, Yoroshiku" Nana said

"And you are?" Megane asked for my name with a little hope on his eyes.

"I'm Ichinose Shun, first-year-"

"He's joing the Stride Club" Butted-in Takeru. While Heath looked at me as if knew me but I've never seen him in my life not until now.

"Triple Shut-down!" he acted to faint, dropping on the floor.

"I'm Kadowaki Ayumu, a second-year, Leader of the Shouji Club." Megane introduced himslef

"And I'm the captain of the Stride Club, Hasekura Heath, third-year. Whatever you join, you are automatically in both clubs" Introduced the brunette as he explained

"Huh? What do you mean?" I asked

"In our school, clubs with less than three people will get disbanded. The three of us are in both clubs to keep both open" Hozumi explained

"So, the three of you...."

"Yes, these are all the members are on this room in the Stride and Shouji club" Ayumu said

"But, the video I saw about Honan Stride. That's way I enrolled here in Honan academy" Nana explained

"Video?" Nana tried to show the video but, unfotunately, it was taken down

"So, tell us what's so great about that video?" Asked Heath

"This was the only one where relays were done at top speed. That's why I really love Honan stride" Nana stated

"The two in the video, they're seniors now" Kohinata told Nana. "They also left the club, right?" I accidentally said which caused them to look at me which also caused Takeru to let go of me but I froze on spot because of the sudden stares.

"That's right, sorry but we can't join any competition without enough members" Kohinata added while Ayumu head popped up behind Kohinata.

"But in Shouji, the three of us can join a competi-" Ayumu didn't finish as Hozumi said something else.

"Nana, you said you wanted to be a manager. Each team needs five runners and one relationer for a total of six members. So right now we need two more members" explained Hozumi as they were talking, only one thought was on my mind. 'They need Riku.'

~*~

'Hasekura, Kohinata, Kadowaki,Kuga, Yagami? Yagami as in Riku Yagami?' I thought as I scanned the lockers at the side, reading the names imprinted on it. Some minutes passed by and the door was opened to reveal: Takeru, Nana and Riku. They finally came, Takeru was holding Riku as he struggled to be free, like me earlier.

"Heh? Ichinose-kun you're joing the Stride Club too?" was the first question that Riku had asked

"I was kidnapped and he had force me to join, so I'm the victim here!" I said while looking at Takeru

"He is" Takeru commented, my eye twitched a little and I had death glared at him, only if looks could kill...

"So, who is this?" Askes Heath

"I'm Yagami Riku!" answeres Riku as let wiggled to get free.

"Yagami? As in..."

"Yeah, destiny must be in motion. We got to do what we have to do" Heath said as he stood up with a smirk.

"Now we have six members in our team!" Hozumi happily stated

"So about all this..." Riku started

"Sorry, we pretty much forced you on this" Nana apologized guilty

"It's not your fault, it's his" He said turning his look to Takeru. "Why am I being Captured like this?!"

"Time out! Stop. How about a friendly match to settle this? Who will be the victor? A one-off stride match to determined our fate!" Kohinata hels up a stuffed toy cat as he announced his idea. Agreeing, Heath spreads out the word.

~*~

Everything was prepared and people was hyped up to watch the stride match, and I could see some people congratulating Heath about getting new members. I was behind Nana and Ayumu, as the 'Go' was heard Kohinata and Takeru makes a run for it, Takeru was at the lead but Kohinata was already catching up, 'Trickster of Honan...', I thought as he was going through gimmicks and other obstacles. The take-over zone was nearing and relationers were starting to count down, Kohinata and Heath made a swift relation while Takeru and Riku pulled off the relation at the last second. Riku and Heath was was running neck in neck and crossed the finish line as a tie. Riku collapsed on the ground as soon as he crossed the line, brething heavily. Takeru had offered a hand to Riku while Riku took the offer, both smiling.