A\N: I had the urge to make yet another list fic. This time a PoT one, there will be Ocs but probably no pairings and they aren't all on the girl's tennis team just some of them, they're really just there to move things along. If you could tell by the title this story mainly focuses on "snapshots" of our favorite regular's lives. Some will be back in the year before Ryoma came and I'll tell you if it is. Enjoy the insanity.
Edit 5/31/13: I went through and changed Tsuji's first name because Tsuji as I recently found out is a last name. So Tsuji is now her surname.
Photo 1: How it all began a.k.a Fangirl Apocalypse No.1
Seeing a girl run around the tennis courts of Seishun Gakuen is not an odd occurrence. But when said girl is Tsuji Sumiko better known as Kaed, 2nd year tennis regular and the school's official blackmailer, and she is waving around a photo album, its best to run. "Yo! Guy's look what I found when I was digging around my room last night!" she called out to the group of girls milling around the tennis courts, the only group as everyone else had already headed home.
"Well what is it Tsuji-chan?" the tallest member of the group asked, a dull redhead with light brown eyes.
Tsuji rolled her auburn eyes "I was getting to that Mitsu-sempai, geez. Well I found an old photo album of mine from last year. One with photos from the camera I used last year before Fuji-sempai stole it and deleted some of them."
"Wait you mean that photo album? The one with the pictures from when we all first met and on?" Eien Tenshi asked, 3rd year vice-captain of the girls tennis team, a girl with coppery colored hair in a braid and black eyes hidden behind reading glasses.
"Awesome! Do you have the picture from the 'Apocalypse'?" a short dirty blond asked, hyper off of air.
"Calm down nee-san I think she was getting to that," another girl this one with black hair said. It was quite obvious the two were siblings, the only things different to them were hair color and personality.
"Yes, I do have that picture Amai-chan and yes I was getting to that Yuki-chan," Tsuji replied "Here take a look." And with that she plopped down and opened the album to reveal a photo of the 5 person group, just younger looking. The five were covered in bruises and scrapes, and panting but they were all smiling despite according to the date on the photo only knowing each other for two hours.
Tenshi smiled softly "I remember how this happened, it was quite odd wasn't it." This caused everyone to go back to a state of nostalgia reminiscing on that fateful day.
It was a loud and cheer filled day at Seigaku. Everyone was signing up for different clubs, some being much harder to get to than others. Namely the girls, sadly for a new first year by the name of Tsuji Sumiko this meant complete confusion. She had just moved to Tokyo from Kanagawa and was at a loss, she had heard rumors about the famous tennis team but she didn't think it would be this hectic! Quickly she made her way over to two older looking girls, probably in their second year. "Um, excuse me but can you help me out? I'm new to the area and school so if you don't mind me asking what is it with this school's tennis team?"
The taller of the two chuckled and patted her head "Geez you really must be a newbie around here to not know. But you're better off asking little miss perfectionist here if it's about tennis I am more of a volleyball person. I'm Mitsu by the way, Ichihana Mitsuta to be precise, 2nd year, call me Mitsu."
"Er, okay then." Tsuji replied feeling slightly awkward.
"You were asking about the tennis team correct?" the more silent of the two asked "Well if you must know the boys tennis team are celebrities around here, the most of the girls signing up for the tennis team just want to get closer to them, there are a few sane ones but that's just the regulars and a few others. I am Eien Tenshi 2nd year, I'm on the tennis team and the captain gave some of us sign- up sheets since it gets so chaotic. So fill one out if you're interested, we could use some more people who are serious about this."
"Thanks Eien-sempai, this helps." Tsuji said grateful "Well I guess I better get going, I still have to sign up for the photography club, see you around some time." She turned and walked down the hall unaware of how soon they would see each other.
Meanwhile over near the softball signups two siblings were caught in the crowd. "I'm telling you aniki the fields are over here!" Amai said dragging her sister along.
"But nee-san the map says over here!" Yuki argued back .
"Just because you're a day older than me does not mean you're always right!" Amai shot back. "Oh look were here."
Yuki scanned the area and connected her palm to her face, "This the tennis courts!"
Amai scratched the back of her head "Oops, guess you're right. Hahahahahah!" she laughed nervously.
"Hey!" a voice behind them called out "Are you two lost?"
Turning around the duo was met with a happy looking red haired boy. "Why yes , we are do you think you could help us find the field?"
"Sure nya~, They're just down that way," he said pointing to the direction they should be going in.
"Thank you so much!" Amai jumped and hugged him, who being the clingy person he is returned it. Much to the chagrin of several fangirls nearby who stalked the two siblings until they were out of sight from the tennis courts.
"Oi! You blondie! What do you think you were doing with Eiji-sama!" yelled a particularly obsessed fan.
"Who?" Amai asked clueless.
"You deny it! Get them!" she screamed, drawing the attention of several people who dismissed it not wanting to get involved.
"Ahhhhhh!" Yuki and Amai shrieked in unision and started running for possibly their lives.
While Yuki and Amai were getting chased by fangirls for the worst reasons Tsuji was on the phone with a friend from Kanagawa who thought to call every time he had something to complain\report about. "Akaya-kun! Seriously you do not need to call every time something happens. So what if this guy pranked you I'll help get back at this guy later, what counts is that you made it. Good-bye." Sighing she hung up. "Man when is he going to learn that just because I'm his friend does not mean I'm his therapist." Hearing the thumping of feet behind her she turned only to be knocked over by a set of currently being hunted down girls.
"Ouch!" they all exclaimed.
"There are more of them! Get the other one too!" commanded the head of the mob.
"Ehhh! But I didn't do anything!" Tsuji said hopping up and running with the other two. Turning her head she asked what this was all about.
"All I know was that I was thanking this guy who helped us by the tennis courts and next thing you know we're getting chased down." Amai answered.
"Tennis courts?" Tsuji thought "Great what did I just get myself into."
Running past some empty classrooms Tsuji spotted two familiar faces "Mitsu-sempai, Eien-sempai help! We're getting chased down by crazy girls for no apparent reason!"
"Crazy girls?" Mitsu asked "You mean the ten-" she was cut off by the mob of fans.
"Aha! You have the sempai-tachi in on your plan as well! Now hold still!" the head called out.
"Oh, shiznaps!" Mitsu said "Run!"
Yuki looked at her oddly "Shiznaps?"
Tenshi turned her around "Don't worry about that right now just run!"
It was close to sundown when the quintet finally lost the hoard of girls. In doing so they learned that Tenshi was extremely fast, Mitsu had a strong sense of self preservation, Amai had no problem breaking things, Yuki apologized for her sister every time, and Tsuji was not a long distance runner but surprisingly enough was quite good at parkour.
"Gah," Tsuji breathed out "I am never doing something like that ever again."
Tenshi looked at her underclassman "Get used to running this much tennis training is pretty harsh and those girls will have you on their hit-list."
"Crazy fans," Mitsu mumbled " I blame the boys."
"You can't really blame them , they didn't do anything wrong," Yuki said. "We better head home it's getting dark, plus our parents are going to wonder how we got so scratched up, a lie will be easier to tell if we're home before dark."
"Hang on you guys, I want to take a picture real quick," Tsuji said fishing a digital camera from her bag. "Being chased by insane girls within a week of being here is definitely pic worthy." Gathering everyone together she held the camera up and clicked the button, starting with one photo a string of others sure to follow.
Back at the tennis courts two boys were getting ready to head home after practice one being the boy who helped Amai and Yuki.
"Hey, Fujiko do you think we should have helped those girls earlier?" the redhead said to the smiling boy next to him.
"Hmm, no, they put on quite a show plus I doubt they're hurt," the smiling boy replied "I had a feeling things might become more fun if we didn't Eiji"
Eiji sighed "Whatever you say Fujiko, whatever you say."
A\N: Okay if anybody is reading this I can already tell you this story won't be updated as often as my other ones. Still feedback is appreciated. Ja ne!