Way of Life

A/N: Thankyou for reading my first ever fanfic in any parts of my life, and my first one that's in the genre of romance! I hope very much that you enjoy it, but please understand if the story does displease you in any way that you review and tell me so I can fix it, and the fact that I'm not used to fan fiction yet and I'm really, really bad at writing romance genres, still, I'm giving it a go, so please be gentle. Oh, and more importantly, here's the key:

Normal – Japanese

Bold – English Italic – Thoughts (Japanese) or sounds

Um… and I'm not good with remembering Prince of Tennis characters yet and also not good with the kun, and chan, and sans and things so enough of bothering you, please enjoy!

Chapter 1 – Feelings are a way of life

"See you at tennis training Obaa-chan!" a fourteen-year-old brown haired girl called as she quickly walked away from a grey car and into the gates of Seishun Academy Middle School. The arrive of a cold winter breeze blew past her chocolate brown eyes and straight through her long, soft brown hair.

"SAKUNO-CHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!" a loud voice from afar was easily heard. The brown haired girl stopped in her tracks, and looked towards the direction of the loud, disturbing voice.

Not long after, a dark brown haired girl, around her age, with a book bag came rushing down from the stairs of the school building and stopped excitedly in front of her friend, her eyes gleaming as if she had just found a gigantic diamond, "It's early today, the Seigaku regulars are training at the tennis courts, all the fan girls are there, there's still two more hours before class, Ryoma-sama's practicing, let's go, let's go!!!" she cried jumping up and down before Sakuno Ryuzaki had a chance to greet her.

A sweat drop formed on Sakuno's head, "um…o-okay", was all she could say as Tomoka Osakada squealed with enthusiasm.

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"Look, look!!!!" Tomoka yelled excitedly, turning all the fan girls to her attention, "There's Ryoma-sama!" she pointed to a dark green haired fourteen year old with sports clothes on and a Fila cap on his head, holding his red racket and bouncing a yellow tennis ball in the other hand.

All the fan girls screamed out his name and the two friends had to block their ears to prevent from them from exploding.

Ryoma Echizen the tennis prodigy of the whole school and even further looked up at them with his still gold eyes, and every single girl could've fainted under his gaze. But Ryoma didn't notice them much; his eyes were fixed on a certain brown haired girl. Sakuno noticed Ryoma's gaze and blushed, quickly staring down at her shoes.

"Come on, let's go talk to him", Tomoka whispered to Sakuno, dragging her friend to the bench Ryoma was sitting on, drinking his favourite juice, Ponta. But Tomoka almost immediately found a lame excuse and abandoned her friend with the "prince" alone.

"Um… hello Echizen-san", Sakuno said fidgeting nervously, but she noticed Ryoma's eyes had softened as he looked at her, and she felt a lot more comfortable.

Ryoma just smirked and said simply, "hn", well… if you can count that as a word.

There was a long silence until Ryoma stood up and gave her a smile, "Call me Ryoma-kun from now on, kay?" he said warmly.

Sakuno blushed even harder and quickly nodded, "H-hai!"

They were standing just round the corner of the courts, out of sight of anyone, but the disadvantage was that it was rather cold, and soon Sakuno began shivering and couldn't help but let out a small sneeze, maybe she really should've brought her jumper today…

But suddenly warmth tingled all over her and she felt a strange sensation, the teen looked around and saw that Ryoma had taken off his jacket and put it around her.

Sakuno blushed madly and she bowed again and again, "Arigatou, Echi… I mean Ryoma-kun!" she said clutching the jacket to her.

Ryoma just smirked, "It's okay… and are you doing anything at lunch?" he asked.

Sakuno shook her head.

"Then… can you come with me?" he asked, trying to hide the struggles.

Sakuno felt her cheeks heat up once again, and she nodded slowly, "I-I'd be happy to", she said quietly.

Ryoma smiled, "Great", and with that, he gently took her by the hand and walked her all the way back to class, passing many people on the way, who were, of course, shocked at the scene and Sakuno was shocked too, but felt happy, wasn't this just what she wanted?

I don't know what's this feeling…

It's rising out of my chest…

Wanting to break free…

And let go…

That's it for now! Sorry it's so short and stupid, but did you enjoy it? Please, review, just one review would make me continue on to the next chapter but I won't do it if nobody reviews… because then what's the point if nobody likes it? Anyway, I update really fast if there's a lot of reviews so please review and tell me what you think! Um… this is a clumsy beginning but the second chapter is going to be better!

Thankyou!

Yula089