Hiya! This is Mai/ Maileiko here! Shia is not here, but the both of us typed this story! We hope you alls enjoys and don't gets scareds off! On wit da story!

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"Blah"- talking English

'Blah'- thinking

Enjoying the Times We Share Together

Chapter 1- New Arrivals

"Maileiko! Help me with this freakin' thing!" A blonde girl shouted to her friend. A girl about her same height with the same general hair color as her glanced over at her and then looked away. "Come on Maileiko! It's heavy!" She ran alongside the large suitcase as she tried to pull it off the luggage belt. Eventually she got a good grip on it and yanked it off, stumbling backwards into someone. She whirled around to face a tall boy with thin rimmed glasses. "I-I'm sorry!"

"It's alright," he said, but he wasn't smiling, "You should be more careful."

"Y-yeah..." She blushed slightly.

"Shia! Come on, I can see our ride!" Maileiko hollered over to her and Shia turned towards her voice.

"Alright then!" She called back and then turned back to the boy. "Sorry again," she said, but he was already gone. She sighed as she headed over to Maileiko and the older woman next to her.

"What took ya?" Maileiko asked as they headed out for the car.

"Nothing," she said, but glanced back at the doors with hopes of catching another glimpse of the mysterious stranger.

Maileiko smiled over at Shia and then turned to the elderly woman again, "Thanks for picking us up, Ryuzaki."

"Yeah, thanks," Shia mumbled, still watching the doors as Ryuzaki put their bags into the trunk.

"It's no trouble. When both Maileiko's parents and your parents called me to set this up I couldn't refuse, especially knowing that I'd had all four as students and you two would be living alone!" She smiled.

"We'll be fine," Maileiko smiled, "We're responsible."

"Well, I am, I'm not so sure about you," Shia said, with a sideways glance at Maileiko as she got into the car. Maileiko hopped in after her, with a fist raised.

"You wanna fight!" She snapped and Shia stuck her tongue out at her. Ryuzaki sighed as she got into the driver's seat.

"Oh bring it on, Maileiko!" Shia shouted with her fists raised.

"Those two remind me of someone... But who? I just can't put my finger on it. It's on the tip of my tongue..." Ryuzaki put her hand up to her chin. 'Maybe I should just take them to their apartment.' She glanced back at the two girls, wrestling on the seat one minute and then laughing the next. 'Yes, I think that will be best...' She turned the corner and the two girls switched to looking out the windows on the way to their new home.

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"Oh, he's so hot! It doesn't matter that we have to get up early in the morning! To see him in those shorts is good enough!" a girl squealed as she peered into the tennis courts.

"Which one?" The girl beside her asked with drool coming down her mouth as a look of absolute... Are you ready for this? Glee (Maileiko: What a funny word...) crossed over her face.

"All of them..." Another girl sighed with a look of amour.

"I dunno, I like Tezuka-senpei..." a younger girl put in. The others laughed.

"Shows what the seventh grade population knows!" one giggled, "I don't think he's ever even accepted any date offers! He's some kind of walking enigma!"

"Yeah, but it just makes you wanna try even harder, doesn't it?" another put in.

"Well, I'm not so sure..." Another stated uneasily. "I mean, what about Oishi-sama! Or Fuji-sama! Or Kikumaru-sama!" Her eyes widened in worry as she looked back at her fellow bimbos (Shia: I love this word). What they saw next was least expected. Two girls came walking behind the Tennis Coach, Ryuzaki. They both held Tennis bags slung over their shoulders.

"Who are they?" One of the bimbos questioned bitterly. The other girls watched the two girls behind the coach in dismay.

"Hey, Maileiko," Shia whispered to her friend next to her as they walked behind Ryuzaki. "What do you think they're lookin' at?" She pointed to a group of girls looking in their general direction. The other girl shrugged with a smile, taking her hair and twisting it around her hand and tossing it over her shoulder.

"Who knows?" Her step had a little extra bounce to it as she walked alongside her dirty blonde haired friend. "Heh... Bouncy bunny boom booms..." She mumbled to herself.

"Okay, girls," Ryuzaki turned with a small smile. "The two of you will be starting practice today." Shia and Maileiko looked around the old lady to see boys on a tennis court hitting colored cones with the resembled colored balls.

"With them?" Shia questioned with a look of utter horror, but at the same time a little bit of happiness.

Ryuzaki laughed, "No, no. Not them. I'm taking you to the girls' courts. Heh, sorry, I didn't mean to get you confused." She smiled. Shia looked somewhat dismayed. Maileiko slapped her in the face as she saw this. Shia came back at her by poking her in the side.

"What! You want me to whup you like I did yesterday!" Shia challenged. Maileiko raised her fists in response.

"Oh, you know I won that fight!" Maileiko snapped.

"Hey, hey, hey," Ryuzaki said, separating the two, "No fighting on school grounds! Besides, I was there to see that one, and Shia definitely won that one..."

"Ha!" Shia triumphed and Maileiko made a small, 'humph' sound. Ryuzaki sighed and continued to lead the way to the girls' tennis courts. The girls followed, not looking each other in the eye, but both were smiling, slightly.

Shia looked back at the boys' courts and smiled. 'So they're letting seventh graders practice today?' she thought as she watched a group of them practice their serves and volleys. 'Op, that one's out of control,' she watched a ball fly over the fence in their general direction and quickly pulled a racket out and moved to hit it as Maileiko sighed. Shia lobbed the ball back over the fence so that it would land right next to the feet of the seventh grader that hit it and had a stop to it to keep it from bouncing.

"Showoff," Maileiko muttered, folding her arms and rolled her eyes. She walked off with a smile, but Shia didn't get angry at the comment, she had enjoyed herself. Maileiko sighed again, "Come on Shia, I'm gonna beat ya on the court." Shia's smile remained on her face as they continued towards the girls' courts.

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The seventh grader Shia had hit the ball to was stunned. The tip of his racket rested on the ground as he held the tennis ball in his hands. His friend stood there with him. "That was cool, Horio," his friend sighed and the boy nodded.

"That was like something I would have expected from Ryoma or one of the starters, but a girl?" Horio shook his head, "Hey, where's Katsuo anyway, Kachiro?"

"Hmm? Oh, he's on library duty today, he'll be late," Kachiro explained. Another boy, a seventh grader wearing a cap and a Starters jacket walked up. "Ryoma!"

"Hey, Tezuka told me to tell you two to get moving or else you'd get laps," Ryoma told them, "What's so interesting over here anyway?"

"Man, you missed it! Some girl hit this amazing shot!" Kachiro told him, "It was like a lob, but it landed right next to Horio's feet, and she hit it from the other side of the fence!"

"A lob with a slice rotation," Ryoma translated for his own benefit, then shrugged, "A lot of people can hit shots like that. I have to get back to my own practice." he said, but noticed that Tezuka, the team captain, was already calling it to an end. "Never mind."

"Hey! Hey!" another boy ran up.

"Katsuo!" Horio said as Katsuo skidded to a stop and tried to catch his breath.

"What's up with you?" Ryoma asked and Katsuo straitened up.

"There's... This... Amazing match..." Katsuo said between breaths, "At the girl's court!" He held his chest as he coughed.

Horio turned to Kachiro with a look of wonder, "Maybe it's that girl from before!"

"Let's go check it out!" Kachiro squealed as he picked up the last ball and put it in the basket. "Ryoma, you come too!"

"Fine..." Ryoma gave up.

"Hey, Ryoma! Where're ya goin'!" Momo shouted in confusion. Ryoma turned to him with a blank expression and turned back to head out of the courts. Momo raised an eyebrow.

"What was that about?" Eiji asked, coming up next to Momo.

"I dunno..." Momo said, "He was headed in the direction of the girls' courts."

"Hmm..." Fuji said, joining the procession, "Sounds interesting."

"What does?" assistant captain Oishi asked.

"I say we follow him," Sadaharu put in from the back of the group. The others nodded and Taka sighed.

"I guess I'll come to, we have some time left before class," Taka sighed and headed after the group. Oishi stopped and turned around. As he had expected, Tezuka was the only one not following. He thought he'd try anyway.

"Kunimitsu, don't you want to see?" he asked and Kunimitsu sighed, but didn't say a word about it. They started walking again and Oishi noticed with a bit of satisfaction that he could see the captain following out of the corner of his eye.

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"Maileiko!" Shia yelled as she moved to volley a ball, "I'm a little teacup!" Maileiko smiled and got down low to retrieve the ball.

"Short and stout!" Maileiko sang as Shia smiled.

"Here is my handle," she said, putting a fist on her hip and reaching out with the other, "Here is my spout." She hit the ball back towards Maileiko.

"When you tip me over, you hear me shout," Maileiko said, leaning over and hitting a ball.

"But that's the fun of tipping me!" Both girls started laughing as they continued to volley.

"What are they saying?" Horio asked as he watched from the other side of the fence. Kachiro and Katsuo both pondered over it, while Ryoma stood there with a confused look on his face.

"They're singing... 'I'm a little teapot'?" He murmured to himself. "That's just weird."

"Maileiko, I'm bored with this," Shia said, catching the ball as it came back to her, "Enough warming up, okay? Play for real!" she tossed the ball back over the net for Maileiko. "Your serve."

"Let's raise the stakes!" Maileiko shouted from her side of the net. "Loser does the winner's homework for a WEEK!"

"Bring it on!" Shia said, getting into a ready position. Maileiko smirked as she bobbed on the tip of her feet, her heel not touching the ground.

"And Shia, it's 'Tip me over and hear me shout'! Not 'But that's the fun of tipping me'!" Maileiko flipped her hair over her shoulder with a turn of her head. Shia glared at her in annoyance as she corrected her. Shia bounced the ball a few times, caught it, and threw it in the air. "Que told me so! I called her before the match!" She smiled happily.

"You idiot! You were singing along with me!" The ball dropped to the ground as the girls got into a frivolous argument. They went up to the net, Shia sent Maileiko a cold glare as Maileiko sent a sadistic smile her way.

"Yeah, so?" The smiling girl leaned on her racket.

"Are you startin' somethin'!" Shia inquired grabbing the collar of Maileiko's green and blue T-shirt. Maileiko returned the gesture as she grabbed the collar of Shia's red and black T-shirt.

"Oh, bring it, Shia!"

From where she stood, Ryuzaki placed her hand to her forehead and shook it in displeasure. She looked up to see Shia start to climb over the net and the Starters watching in moderate amusement at the two. "Shia! Get off the net! If you two want to fight, go someplace else!" She shouted in dismay.

The two girls looked over to the old tennis coach with a glare. "Well... You heard her..."

"Yep..."

"Well, off school property we go!" Shia and Maileiko sang in unison, "Bye, Ryuzaki!" The two girls waved as they began their way out of the court. A displeased tennis coach grabbed the collars of the two girls.

"HOLD IT!" Ryuzaki shouted. She leaned down to the ears of the two girls, "besides," she pointed to the group of boys not too far away, "They're watching and waiting for your match." She smirked as she whispered into the girls' ears. They saw the boys staring at them and blushed lightly.

"Oh yeah... We were gonna have a match... Aheh heh heh heh..." Shia smiled warily.

"That's right... Eheh heh heh..." Maileiko sweatdropped. Ryuzaki's blood began to boil.

"YOU MEAN YOU FORGOT!" The tennis coach screamed.

"Heh... Maybe..." Shia commented.

"We'll just be going over..." Maileiko began as she slowly pointed over to the tennis courts, "There..." They made a dash for the green courts beyond the fence.

"Now, let's do this!" Shia yelled in satisfaction. Maileiko smiled as she stepped onto her side. Shia served the ball with amazing speed. Sadly (For Shia that is) Maileiko got to the ball with plenty of time to spare, and hit it to the opposite side of the court. Shia hit the ball over and as before, Maileiko hit it back, this time with more rotation and speed.

The match went on, coming to a tie. Both girls fought to get match point, 'I mustn't lose to her!' They both thought. Unfortunately for Shia, someone caught her eye right when the ball was about to be hit by Maileiko.

"Hey!" She pointed to the person who caught her attention. "It's you! From before!" The ball went flying past her face as it landed inside the court.

"Yay! I won!" Maileiko jumped up and down with a smile of pure delight. "Ha ha! You lost!" To the Starters, they realized that the girl had sounded oddly familiar.

Shia completely ignored her friend as she ran up to the fence to the person she spotted. "It IS you!" She pointed to the boy in front of her. "Vampire man!" At that, everyone cracked up laughing.

"Tezuka, do you know this girl?" Oishi questioned.

"Did you just call me... 'Vampire Man'?" Tezuka asked coldly, completely ignoring Oishi's question.

"Heck yeah! One minute you're there, and the next, you're gone! Magic!"

"Shia, do you know this guy?" Maileiko inquired as she walked up to her screaming friend.

"Yeah! He's Vampire man!" Shia stated happily as she stuck out a finger at the secretive captain, "I met him at the airport!"

"Actually, you ran into me," Tezuka said in his flat tone. Shia shrugged in an elaborate way.

"Same thing!" She said, "Don't act so stingy about it, Vampire man."

"What's up with the... 'Vampire Man'... Stuff? Nyah?" Eiji asked and Tezuka turned to him with a cold 'don't encourage her' glare. Maileiko giggled.

"She's just psychotic!" She grinned, hitting Shia with her elbow.

"Hey, watch it! I am not!" Shia snapped and both girls raised their fists again like they were going to get into another fight.

"Some people just can't control their tempers," Kaido scowled.

"Tell me about it," Momo yawned, stretching his arms, "Those two get angry just being around each other, huh?"

"Kinda like some other people we know..." Ryoma said, not looking over at his two teammates.

"Really? Who?" Momo asked and Kaoru fumed quietly.

"YOU!" They all shouted, with the exception of Kaoru, himself, Tezuka, and Fuji. The two girls turned and Shia jumped onto the fence, in an attempt to climb over.

"What is she? A gorilla?" Horio asked pointing to her.

"Hey! The Gorillaz are a great band! So back off!" The girls screamed.

"Did anyone mention the Gorillaz?" Taka inquired looking to everyone. Shia took her hands off of the fence to wave her arms.

"Oh! I did! I did!" She yelled, then let out a small yelp as she fell backwards against the fence, her feet still stuck in the diamonds of the fencing. "Ah! Help me! Maileikoooooo! I'm stuck! Again!"

Maileiko smiled as she turned, "See ya!" She waved as she walked away.

"Yeah, we had better be getting to class too." Eiji stated as they all turned to leave.

"Hey! You all can't leave me here hanging! NO pun intended!" She began to cry crocodile tears.

"This happens often to you, doesn't it?" Came a stern voice belonging to none other than the stoic captain. Shia's tears stopped immediately as she tried to twist herself, with mixed results, so that she could see his face when she replied, but didn't get very far.

"I guess," Shia laughed, "I'll get stuck in some dumb position and Maileiko won't help get me out of it. Maileiko's a great friend, but she has tendencies to be sadistic." She smiled, "I guess I'm not immune to moments like that either! But, hey, you know what they say right? Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

"Is she in the friend or the enemy category?"

"Uh... Ya know, sometimes it's hard to tell..." Shia rubbed the back of her head. She sighed and got a serious expression on her face. "Look," She said, "Would you mind helping me down before we're both late for--" Shia was cut off as the bell rang and Tezuka looked at his watch.

"I lost track of time..." He mumbled to himself.

"Correction. Would you mind helping me down before we're both later for class?" Shia asked and the stone-faced captain moved around the corner and onto the court.

"What do you want me to do?" He asked and Shia grinned.

"What do I want you to do? A smile would be nice," Shia said and Tezuka scowled.

"I meant what do you want me to do to help get you down?" He said rather testily.

"Oh, well, I think if you just helped me push my shoulders back up I could get my feet out. Normally I could get up there myself, but my knees have locked," she explained, a little embarrassed about it. Tezuka moved underneath her and began to push on her shoulders. When Shia got up high enough, she held onto the fencing with one hand and used the other to pry her feet out of the fence. One down, one to go. She switched which hand was holding onto the fence so that they wouldn't get tired and she struggled to pull her other foot out. "There!" She said as she got the other foot out, but lost her grip and fell backwards. Tezuka caught her and then tipped her onto her feet. She blushed slightly as she muttered her thanks.

"It's fine," Tezuka told her and then headed off for his class. Shia's blush heightened as she brushed herself off and headed for her own classes.

Authors' Note: Hi ya'll! This is Maileiko/ Mai! Shia isn't here right now; I'm at home, finishing this thing up, going through, and correcting all the spelling errors and all that jazz. I like jazz music! Oh, heh... Got off topic there, huh? And yeah... You don't see much of me in this one... All 'bout the romances between the stoic captain of Seishun and the peasant girl that should have no chance, Shia. HA HA HA HA HA! Well, I hope you all review! Thanks! See ya next time!