Playing Mixed Doubles
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis
Chapter One: The Girl Prodigy: Kiryu Kizu
"Syusuke, I'm sorry…I'm moving to America tomorrow. So I can't play with you anymore…Goodbye."
She turned and walked down the fenced street and never looked back. Before he knew it, she was gone. He reached out and tried to chase after her, but it was too late. She was gone.
Fuji sat up abruptly and found himself in his bed and the moonlight shining in through the window. He glanced at the clock and sighed. 2:00 AM. He got out of bed and walked over to the window. He placed his hand on the windowsill and stared out into the stars.
"Kizu…where are you?" After that thought crossed his mind, he turned to his desk and stared nostalgically at a bracelet and wristband.
"I guess…it's still the same as it was back then."
"When that bracelet doesn't match your wristband, I'll stop playing doubles with you!"
"Ne, Fuji! What's up with you today?"
Eiji stared at Fuji and places his fingers up on his face in an attempt to mimic Fuji's face.
"You seem distant today."
Fuji gives his a puzzling look, but then closes his eyes and smiles.
"What you talking about? I'm just fine."
"Aww so mean Fuji! But anyway, you ready for practice today after school?"
"Hmm, I suppose, it's just going to be more difficult since the tournament has started now."
"But there's no need to worry! We have ochibi to take care of things as well! Our super rookie should take care of things!"
Just then the door slides open and Oishi comes in.
"Hey! Did you guys here? Someone is going to joining us for practice today!"
"Ehh? Really? Oishi! Do you know who it is?"
Eiji asks while running up to Oishi and staring start at him.
"We don't know yet, but she's coming this afternoon."
"Ehh!! I can't wait! I wonder if she's really cute!"
Fuji glances up and wonders if it could possibly be her. With that he shakes his thoughts and goes back to reading his book while Eiji and Oishi continues to question this situation.
"Ehh, so hot. I don't remember it being this hot!"
A girl sits at the station waiting for the next train to arrive. She glances up at the sky and gets blinded by the sun. She places her hand over the overwhelming light and squints at the sky. She takes out a folded piece of paper and glances over it again.
"Ehh, so Ryuzaki-sensai's grand daughter sent me the email. Then again she was always known for giving wrong directions…"
She sits for a few moments and then begins to realize that it was highly likely that Sakuno gave her the wrong directions. She begins to doubt that and shake away her thoughts. While doing so, the late train arrives and pulls to a screeching stop. She looks up and grabs her tennis bag and skateboard.
"Well, it's time to get going." She boards the train and takes a seat. The train was mostly empty, with only a few passengers. The doors close and the train starts to move.
"Whew, I would have been late if I didn't get on this one."
"Attention passengers, estimated travel time is 15 minutes to the Tokyo Airport…"
"NANI?!?!?!?"
The Seigaku regulars gather up and await dictation from Ryuzaki.
"Everyone! We are one step closer to the Nationals. Next week will be the assignments for the Nationals."
"Hai!"
"Which is why I've invited a very important guest to practice with us! However…she's late…so begin practice first!"
"Hai!"
The regulars disperse and continue practice as usual. Inui takes out his journal as well as pitcher of his Super Deluxe Inui Juice, as a threat to whoever fails at today's practice.
"Today we'll start with a very simple warm up. We'll start with smashes."
Everyone gives out a sigh of relief. Since they all knew that this was something they can accomplish quite simply.
"Conditions are you must hit them to the right cone. I have colored the tennis balls with a certain color, you must smash the ball and the ball must the hit the same colored cone. If not, you will have to consume one glass of my new and improved Super Deluxe Inui Juice."
Everyone stares in fear of the bubbling liquid and gulps. Everyone's mind is set to the same goal: I can't miss!
"Ne, that's some deadly looking juice you've got there. I wouldn't want to drink that."
The regulars turn to see where the voice was coming from. They all come eye to eye with a girl holding her sunglasses up and staring at the pitcher of Inui Juice. Everyone looked puzzled. All but Fuji seemed confused. In fact, he seemed surprised.
"Umm who are you?" Oishi asks in a very calm but uneasy way.
The girl looks up and gives an innocent face, and then she smiles.
"Who me? I'm your guys' special practice today. Kiryu Kizu. Nice to meet you all."
Everyone immediately greeted her and introduced themselves.
"Hoi hoi! I'm Eiji!"
"Yo! I'm Momo!"
"Burning! Come on baby!"
"Taka-san! Calm down! I'm the Vice Captain Oishi."
"Fssshhh, Kaidoh."
"Inui Sadaharu."
"Echizen Ryoma."
"Ehh, Seigaku's super rookie right? Aren't you cute?" Kizu smiled and looked at him. Then she turned over to Fuji and stared at him. Then gave him a warm smile.
"Syusuke…it's good to see you again."
Fuji was completely speechless, but smiled back. He took a step closer and whispered,
"It's good to see you again too, Kizu."
Kizu smiled and turned around and faced to rest of the regulars.
"So, what are we going to do first?"
The regulars stared at one another and blinked at each other. They were all thinking the same thing: how are we going to play against a girl?
Kizu stood there for a moment and then turned around to grab her racket. She adjusted the strings and closed her eyes. Then, randomly pointed the racket toward one the boys. She opened her eyes and smiled.
"Ahh so Momo is it? Come have a match with me!"
Without waiting for a reply, she turns around and walks into one of the courts. Momo hesitates slightly, but grabs his racket anyway and follows in afterwards. Everyone gathers around the outside and waits for the match to begin.
"Why don't you serve first?"
Kizu says to Momo, and then returns to the base line. Momo surprised by the demand, but goes along with it anyway. As he begins with serve, he decides to go easy on the girl, but on accident hits his bullet serve instead.
"Crap!"
"Whoa, Momo sure doesn't hold back."
Inui adjusts his glasses and analyzes Kizu along the way. As he watches he notices she's no ordinary player.
"Hmm impressive."
Everyone turns to Inui, giving him the question look. Inui adjusts his glasses and continues to analyze. Meanwhile, everyone can see that Momo was having some trouble against Kizu.
They rally on, and Momo hits a jack knife toward Kizu. Unwilling, Kizu hits a lob. And the regular's all know what's coming next.
"Yosh! Here's my chance!"
Momo jumps up and prepares to hit his signature move. Inui suddenly comes to a realization and turns to Fuji.
"Fuji, you didn't introduce yourself to Kizu before…do you know her from before?"
Fuji simply smiles and turns to Inui. He opens his eyes and gives Inui and the rest that devious look and turns back to the match.
"Let's just say, she's the one I used to develop my triple counters with."
Everyone is shocked to hear this and turn their attention back to the match.
"That means that…"
Kizu sharpens her eyes and gets into position. Momo hits his dunk smash and it is immediately returned in a split second. Everyone is shocked by this. Momo lands in front of the net and completely shocked by what just happened. Everyone stares and in complete amazement, Kizu had just performed a triple counter right in front of their eyes. Fuji gives his look of excitement and gazes toward Kizu.
"Triple Counter: Higuma Otoshi."
Kizu smiles and glances toward Fuji, and holds up a two fingers, indicating a "V". Fuji smiles back and returns the gesture with a thumbs up.
"Syusuke! Let's make a move together! That way we'll be undefeatable!"
"Okay! Let's do it!"
Fuji continues to smile and mumbles under his breath,
"And my first love…she still hasn't changed one bit."
End Chapter One
Celsius 13 Degrees: Sorry for the long chapter xD The others won't be as long. Please review! I would really appreciate it! One thing that I would like to point out is that there maybe a chapter about Kizu and Fuji's past, but I'm not sure just yet. Anyway, thank you! ^_^