Summary: It all happened one Sunday afternoon, after Ryoma searched for his cat and hurriedly went to the venue where his senpai-tachi were; Ryoma showed his unerring and kept jealousy towards the 'couple' with the help of Inui's re-invented vegetable juice. RyoxSakuxFu
Unerring Jealousy
·YiNgFa-FuIsO·
Disclaimer: Ore-sama 1 does not own Prince of Tennis (Tennis no Ouji-sama). Konomi-san owns it! So don't sue Ore-sama!
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Chapter 1
Sunday… for some students, they believe that it is one of the happiest days in the whole week because:
They don't have any classes to attend to
No teachers to lecture them for a while and of course,
They don't have to wake up so early just to go to school.
In short, it is the time for their body and minds could laid back a little after their long, cramming and hectic schedules they'd encountered in schools from Mondays up to Saturdays (even though in Saturdays, their class schedule is just a half-day.)
But for others, they believed in the contrary. They emphasized that besides that they don't have any classes to attend to or they don't have to wake up so early just to go to school, they don't have any money allowance to spend for that day because they have no classes. Plus, they have piles of homework to be done on that day. In short, it's still one hell of a day that needed to be face too. And one of them who believe on that way is Echizen Ryoma A. K. A, The Prince of Tennis.
You want to know his other reasons why he doesn't like this day? Well here are some of it:
They don't have any tennis practices at school.
His cousin, Nanako, or his mom will just ask him to help out on doing the household chores since he doesn't have any tennis practices or club meetings to attend to.
His shabby-baka2-oyaji3 will just pester him to have a date with some girls around the town or do some stuffs that against his will like helping him out in weeding, ringing the bell at the temple, etcetera and etcetera. (Please don't be green minded.)
There's nothing remarkable to watch on the T.V and last but not the least…
"Ryoma-kun! Karupin is running away again!" Nanako shouted at the hallway while chasing the raccoon-like-Himalayan-cat there.
Ryoma, who is locking up in his room to do some tidying stuff or shall we say 'General Cleaning' there and wearing his red-white shirt with matching black cargo shorts, looked at his alarm clock on top of the headboard of his bed and then sighed, 'What is the matter again this time?'.
The clock reads 2:30 pm.
He's been doing the cleaning stuffs for almost an hour now. We all know that teenage guys kept their room messy because they are lazy enough to do the cleaning stuff and always lay hands to their mother to do it. But for him, even though that in school days his room is messy, he just make it sure that on Sundays he needed to clean it up for his own good and just to kill his boredom.
And now that his cousin has disturbed him because of his dearest cat that was once again running away from the house, he didn't know how to bring back his tempo to do his business. So he went out from his room, went down stairs and checked what was happening there. But then when he arrived, he saw his cat from the wide opened window at the balcony; jumped down from the cemented wall, which bounded their territorial yard. Ryoma abruptly went towards his cousin who slumped herself on the floor while she was looking defeated for capturing the cat and he stared at her emotionlessly.
...His fifth reason, he needs to find his beloved pet cat all around the streets not too far from the house before anything else could happen to his pet.
"What happened again?" He asked coldly to his cousin.
"Uhm… Same reason again." Nanako said as she let out a nervous laugh.
"What's the same reason?"
"You know what I mean!" She chided. "I need to bathe your cat since she was dirty and soiled up from mud because she played at the back yard all morning but then when I was going to catch her she ran away from me and that's it, she escaped! Please... find her Ryoma-kun!"
Ryoma went upstairs without any words to her.
"Ne, where are you going?" His cousin asked confusedly while he was going upstairs.
"Getting something," he replied coolly as he continued walking upstairs and then he headed to his room to get his cell phone and cap. After that, he went downstairs and went outside the house to start finding his cat.
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Meanwhile, somewhere down the busy street of Tokyo. Sakuno was walking alone silently among the crowd who were heading to the north way. She was actually heading her way towards the Mall where her Grand Mother (Ryuzaki-sensei 4) and she usually go together to buy their grocery needs.
Today, it seems like it's just a normal day, with a fine weather, in a usual crowded place. Everything seems to be normal. Sakuno is in her usual self. She does her usual two-equal-braided-hairstyle on her long dark brown hair, her body has still never change, her skin was still fair and smooth. With her clothing, of course there's no schooling today instead of wearing her school uniform, she wears her plain white baby t-shirt for her top and down below, she wears her plain & simple cut short-skirt that reaches 5 inches above her knee while for her footing, she wears her white tennis shoes, which beneath on it were ankle-length socks. All in all, she's still the same Ryuzaki Sakuno we all known physically in a fine day.
However, there's something different about the event today for Sakuno... You want to know why?
Earlier at her Grand Mother's house, where Sakuno also lives, her grand mother posted a note on the ref, together with the grocery list.
Sakuno-chan,
I can't go with you today in buying our grocery needs. I'm going to meet someone in Chiba and I won't be home until 9 or 10 in the evening. So, please take care of everything in our house. Lock the doors when you're going out of the house, ok? Before I forgot, Fuji will proxy me today. Meet him up in front of the BIG Mall 2:30 pm. don't be late! Bring your cell phone together with you; I might call you up later.
Anyway, I know you're expecting Echizen to go with you today but I thought if he was with you, you might become uncomfortable and forget some things that are needed to be bought. So, that saves you from embarassment. Hahaha! I'm only joking!
Take care, Sakuno! Enjoy your shopping with Fuji-kun!
Sumire-obachan
At that time while Sakuno was reading the note of her Grand Mother and at the same time she was preparing her breakfast, she was blushing furiously due to slight annoyance and embarrassment that the note has made. She also almost forgot to remove her still heated two breads from the toaster, which caused her breads to turn almost blackish.
Let's go back now on where Sakuno is.
Sakuno heaved a sigh and stared at the grocery list she was holding. 'Mou... Oba-chan4 doesn't trust me on buying these grocery needs alone. I'm a big a girl now and a first year junior high student, so how come I need to be accompanied? It's not that I'm against to be accompanied by Fuji-senpai5 but... sigh... There's no use of complaining right now. I'm already here and there's no way to turn back just to chicken out.' She thought with slight disappointment on the event.
When she arrived at her destination, she saw a certain tall-light chesnut colored-haired-guy, wearing an opened-white-short sleeve polo shirt which underneath it was a plain gray-colored-shirt with matching cream colored pants for below and black shoes for his feet which underneath it were gray colored socks, standing cooly under the big shady tree that is planted in an equal distance with the other trees not too far from the entrance of the BIG Shopping Mall.
'Fuji-senpai already arrived.' Sakuno thought with slight surprise. She checked the time on her wristwatch and it reads 2:33. 'I've been late for three minutes.'
Suddenly, the guy jerked his head at her direction and waved at her, plastering with a usual smile on his face.
Sakuno run towards him and greeted him shyly. "Konnichi wa6, Fuji-senpai! Anou... Gomen nasai7 if oba-chan bothered you to accompany me here. I know you should be resting and enjoying this day but I'm really--"
"Saa... Ryuzaki-chan is always apologetic as ever, ne." He said, interrupting her apology speech with a smile on his face. "I really don't mind to accompany you, Ryuzaki-chan. And I'm glad that I could go with you today." Sakuno blushed furiously all of a sudden. 'Mou... Fuji-senpai is laughing at me.'
Fuji giggled at her bashful reaction but then she looked away from him but she glanced a little bit. However, her heart was starting to act up strangely like it wanted to pop out from her ribcage.
'This is bad... Why does my heart starting to act so strange? It normally happens whenever I see or talk to Ryoma-kun... I shouldn't feel like this... This is really bad...' she thought confusedly at herself, but then she shook her head and changed the uneasiness ambiance between them.
"Anou... Fuji-senpai. Let's get inside now so we could start knocking off the items on the list." She said with slight blush striked on her cheeks.
"Let's go! After you, Ryuzaki-chan." Fuji let Sakuno went inside the building first and then he followed her behind. However, as both of them entered at the building, they didn't know that someone was watching over them just across the street.
"I must tell this to others." said the guy wearing familiar black-rectangular-frame-glasses, who is standing on the sidewalk while the people who just passed by gave him a weird look.
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To be continued...
"YiNgFa-FuIsO's Basic Japanese-English Translation Corner"
1. Ore-sama Ore; informal way of saying the First Person pronouns for boys. e.g "Be charmed with Ore-sama's prowess-Atobe" FYI: For the girls it's Watashi.
2. baka; stupid or idiot
3. Oyaji; old man
4. Oba-chan oba-san; Grand Mother
5. -senpai; a suffix honorification for upperclassman.
6. Konnichi wa; Good day or Good afternoon.
7. Gomen nasai; I'm sorry
