𝙞 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙪𝙡. 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤𝙣''𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙙

"𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐢 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐲 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟, 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐣𝐨. 𝐢'𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐰"

"just because you're dating my mom doesn't mean i will ever call you dad."

                               SAKURA KOBAYASHI is scared of a lot of things. Social interaction and dying alone are at the top of that list. Heights are a close second, ironic since they live on one of the upper floors of the Hope Hill's apartment complex. With her anxiety at an all time high, and the introduction of her mother's new boyfriend Seki, Sakura would count herself lucky just to make it to the end of her senior year without dying or having a nervous breakdown. The second is more likely than the first, but given where she lives Sakura isn't ready to rule out that first option either.

                                ANNOYED WITH SAKURA and her aversion to social situations, Yasushi Nishakawa wishes his best friend would pull herself together and start coping instead of lashing out at the people closest to her, him included. Perhaps the straw that broke the camel's back was when Sakura smashed all of Mr. Kubota's garden gnomes and punched his son in the face, so filled with rage after discovering her mother and Seki having sex. Or maybe it was when she threatened to run away to Tokyo with her father, who's been out of the picture since she was ten.

                               AND SO SEKI DRAGGED SAKURA to Oya Kokoh, where she realized that she might finally belong somewhere. And her rage issues? The Kobayashi girl now had a former national champion as her mentor, and a family to fight for. People who bring out the best in her and make her feel like she belongs. Tsukasa Takajo is her favorite of the rowdy crew of teens at Oya, something about his being makes her feel safe and secure. And something about Sakura makes Tsukasa feel at ease.

                              BUT THERE'S A LOOMING THREAT, the return of renegade drug faction Kidra threatening to destroy the Hope Hill's Complex and the Districts it contains. But if the Bordertown Battle Midori Yamada lead last spring proved anything, it's that the full-time students of Oya High are just as strong as the part-timers, if not stronger. 

When they can find it in themselves to get along with each other

𝙣𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙚, 𝙞 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 '𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚'?

hinako sano as

hokuto yoshino as

kazuma kawamura as fujio hanoaka

ryuji sato as yasushi nishikawa

miu tomita as madoka ishii

yumena yanai as yui ueda

kokoro morita as shizuka

nao takahashi as nao

ohara azusa as bianca tsumeragi

  𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘬𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘶𝘬𝘪 𝘺𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘪 𝘺𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘮𝘢 𝘺𝘰𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘬𝘪

𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲

"they ran around the complex screaming 'takajo's got a girlfriend' at three o'clock in the morning, so it's safe to say that i didn't get a shit ton of sleep."

"she's been struggling to see something special about herself for years, tsukasa. she's fragile, and i don't want to see her get hurt."

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NOTES!

yes this is another high and low book and no i will not be stopping any time soon.

pictures is essentially to teenage dirtbag what the worst is to the entire franchise, so there's that.

sakura is a character i hold near and dear to my heart, a lot of the things that she struggles with are struggles of my own, relating to anxiety and body image and i just love her so much and aside from all the, you know, kicking the crap out of drug dealers and stuff, this is going to be really wholesome. i'm also dying to write yasushi as a best friend, like i know he's a bit of a dick but he also seems like a hyperactive twelve year old.

i also have two other high and low books right now that I will link for you:

- TEENAGE DIRTBAG ,, murayama yoshiki

- IF YOU THINK THIS IS REAL LIFE ,, tettsu

i have a smokey book sitting in my drafts and i'm also dying to write books for odajima and masaki but i can't come up with plots-