Aoi Akio is a young 16 year old student. When she was little she was often bullied (for her weight) and would spend her lunches crying in the school washroom. Makoto, Nagisa and Haru defend her one day, since then she looked up to them and become their personal stalker. A few months after Makoto, Nagisa and Haru defended her, her father dies after getting shot by a co-worker. Her mom commits suicide forcing her to move in with her grandma. A year has past for Aoi and her grandma realises that she could not take care of little Aoi and so her grandmother gives her up to a foster family which was the Nitori's. After moving in to the Nitori's she transfers into a Academy called Fieldwaters Academy. She learns how to swim. By then she got slimmer and her lovely pink hair slowly washes away because of the chlorine. Her pink hair turns into a light blonde colour. Her non-related brother Aiichiro moves back to join Samezuka Academy to follow his dream to be a pro swimmer. A terrible fire burns the Nitori's house and her neighbors homes and sadly burnt her foster dad. Her foster mom had to work hard to pay a little apartment rent. Aoi felt if it would be easier for her foster mom if she would move some where else. So Aoi did. She moved to a condo near Aiichiro's. She transfers to Iwatobi High School. By her surprise she finds out that her hero's where in the same school and class. But her heart shatters after they do not recognize her