a/n: this is my 1st Pot fanfic. Sorry if it is terrible. read and review, i don't care if you're anonymous. critics, give me your best shot! hope you like the story!

disclaimer: i do not own Prince of Tennis; if i did there would be more romance.

"Ryoma-sama!" a red-headed girl yelled, waving her hands wildly.

'Not her again! Why does she always have to show up when I'm trying to focus?' Ryoma thought to himself bitterly. Now in tenth grade Ryoma was still as cold as ever ...

"Hello, Ryoma-kun,"

... Well, maybe he was a little less cold. 'The only up-side about have Oskada around means that Sakuno is usually close by ... did I just call her Sakuno? Oh, wait, I better say hi back huh?'

"Ryuzaki," Ryoma nodded his head acknowledging her. Just then the rest of his team mates began to show up for practice. 'Finally, they show up, where were they?'

"Hey, Ochibi, did you miss me?" his cat-like senpai asked while giving him a huge hug, "I guess that's a silly question, huh Ochibi? You were to busy with Sakuno-chan!"

"Kikumaru-senpai!" Sakuno cried in embarrassment. She blushed a very light pink because of her senpais' remark. Ryoma just lowered his cap and began to walk over to the tennis courts.

"Where were all of you?" Ryoma inquired.

"Nya, you didn't here? All of the older students got held back because of a test," Momo replied running up to the foursome.

"It was a long test," Fuji added.

"Yes, but there is a 90 chance that we all passed ... except Momo, his is only 80" Inui said walking up to the group.

"WHAT? Why is my percentage lower?"

"You spent yesterday afternoon with Tachibana-chan, so you got less studying done," Inui replied pushing his glasses up.

"Nya, did you finally ask her out Momo?" Eiji asked playfully.

"No, he didn't ask me out Eiji," a girl replied.

"An-chan, what are you doing here?" Sakuno asked.

"There is no practice at my school today, so I thought that I'd watch you guys practice!" An replied, smiling all the while.

"That's great! Then you can cheer with us!" Tomo screamed waving her arms in the air.

"I don't think so," Everyone turned to Fuji who seemed to be a bit disappointed.

"Why not?" everyone asked.

"Tezuka and Oishi have the flu, Kawamaru has an errand to run for his father and Karou is missing," Fuji replied, it looks like there is no practice today.

"Well, what do we do? We have time to kill!" Eiji screamed.

"Let's go out for burgers!" Momo said going off with An to his favorite burger joint, followed by Eiji who was going to pay.

"I'm going home." Ryoma replied, yawning and wondering how Karupin was doing.

"I'm going where ever Ryoma-sama is going!" Tomo-chan yelled, squealing and.

"0.00001 chance that he will let Oskada the house." Inui said, "I'm off to work on my juice, ja!"

Everyone left, except for two certain teens.

"Fuji-senpai, it seems that we've been forgotten," Sakuno said turning to her senpai, "What should we do?"

"Would you like to go on a walk?" Fuji offered his hand to Sakuno.

"Sure," Sakuno replied blushing.

"You know, we never really do talk to each other. If we do, we are usually with Echizen or the others," Fuji said trying to start a conversation.

"You're right Fuji-senpai. What do you like to do other than tennis?" Sakuno asked.

"I like photography a lot. I take a lot of candid shot's, would you like to see them sometime?" Fuji inquired, hoping that she would say yes.

Sakuno was a bit taken aback at this question. Was it just her, or was her senpai acting funny? As she thought this to herself she realized that she hadn't answered his question. She closed her eyes and smiled, "Of course."

This remark makes Fuji open his eyes wide, giving her a full view of his beautiful blue orbs. 'She certainly is different than before, isn't she?'

He was right; Sakuno had stopped putting her hair in braids. She now had layered hair with various colored highlights (aquamarine, pink, and purple). She was wearing the same kind of uniform, but her body had matured to that of a young woman's' instead of a school girls. He realized that she hadn't just changed, but she was beautiful.

"Fuji-senpai, are you okay, you've been kind of quiet," he turned to see that she was a bit worried, "Have I offended you?"

"Never Sakuno, It's just that I was thinking that I would have liked to have had my camera a couple minutes ago ..." Fuji smiled his casual smile which made Sakuno blush. 'Why am I blushing, usually when I blush it has to do with Ryoma-kun, but this blush came out of its own will'

"Arigato, Fuji-senpai," Sakuno said.

"You're not the shy girl that I used to know are you Sakuno? You're growing up. I've got to get going soon, would you like me to walk you home?" Fuji asked. 'It's five o'clock, I need to get home, but whatever mom wants me to do can wait, Sakuno is important.'

"Oh, aren't you two the cutest couple?"

"What?" the two said as they turned to find an elderly woman.

"What a lucky girl to have such a handsome boy," the woman leaned in closer whispering to Sakuno, "He's a keeper honey." Sakuno just blushed, 'When was the last time I blushed this much?'

"Thank You obaa-san," Fuji said to the woman giving a small bow.

"Handsome and polite, oh, he's definitely a keeper," the woman said to Sakuno again, "Ja ne!"

"Ja ne" Sakuno said still blushing, but she felt comfortable now. There was silence for a while. When they were nearly to Sakuno's house Fuji decided to break the silence.

"I guess I shouldn't tell Ryoma that we're secretly dating, hmm?" Fuji said.

"Fuji-sempai!" Sakuno cried, "Stop teasing me!"

"Just kidding," they realized that they were already standing in front of Sakuno's house.

"Ja!" Sakuno waved good bye to her senpai and entered the house.

"I'm home obaa-san!"

"Hello Sakuno, you seem to be in a good mood."

"I am"

a/n: hope you like it! see you later!