✔ | SEASONS OF CHANCES AND LOVE BOOK 3: Promised Love In Autumn

A Rainy Afternoon

Standard disclaimer applies. You are warned that the characters might not be in their usual selves (in other words, possible OOCness).

Author's Notes: The setting of this story is in first year high school. Momoshiro and Kaidoh aren't exactly present in this part of the story since they are still in middle school, only in their third year. Ryoma isn't present either as he was residing in America (at least he was in this story). The timeline and original anime plotline will somehow be changed in this fanfic, especially about Tezuka supposed to be going to Germany, Oishi supposedly not going to enroll in Seigaku's High School Division, and Kawamura supposedly going to quit tennis to pursue being a sushi chef. In any case, this is my story so I guess that's one of the changes that I had to do.

Enjoy reading!

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CHAPTER 1

Kana was panting when she reached the main building of the high school division. Well, she has to run in order to go there since it was already raining. And mind you, it was raining hard. She should have expected this since the clouds earlier that morning began to turn dark and loomed over the sky, predicting a heavy rainfall.

And here comes that heavy rainfall.

The only problem was she didn't bring her umbrella because she forgot to bring one. So right now, she has to wait for it to stop.

If ever this rain will stop... she thought before heaving a heavy sigh and then she proceeded to enter the building to shield herself from the rain. But then she thought that it was already useless since the rain got through her. She was half-wet and yet, she didn't mind. Somehow, she liked getting wet by the rain for some reasons.

When she entered the building, she saw that there were still other students who seemed to be waiting for the rain to stop. While some decided to make it through using their umbrellas. A lot of students were leaving-most of which were friends or couples sharing the same umbrella-and she wanted to watch them. She felt a little envious about them.

She wanted to do the same thing with a certain someone who was special to her. Though she wanted to, she couldn't. She couldn't tell him that or else, he would think something different if ever she said something like that to him.

Now that she thought about it, something similar happened to her before.

That's right...

It was during middle school. As she continued to traverse the path towards the classroom, her mind couldn't help remembering the time she almost confessed to a certain someone who was special to her named Oishi Shuichiro...

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It was a rainy afternoon and Kana was feeling a little tired-not to mention bored-as she was waiting for the rain to stop in a shed. She and her younger sister Nanami decided to spend some time at the street tennis before they start their other training back home. They played for more than 4 hours before Nanami decided to head home first. She continued to play with the other street tennis players there until she was tired.

But just as she was about to head home, the rain fell and it fell incessantly hard. She couldn't help cursing at the rain as she ran fast towards the nearest shed. She really hated it whenever the rain get through her and made her wet.

"Next time, I'll just play tennis at school so that the rain won't get through me," Kana mumbled as she watched the rain continue to fall. After that, she heaved a heavy and slightly exasperated sigh. 'I should've brought an umbrella with me even though it's not raining."