yay! Prince of Tennis! I'm about 50 episodes into it, an on ething I do know for sure: Horio is super annoying. I'm not sure how many fanfics are written about him, but I'll give this a go. :)
After one particuarlly long, tedious practice of listening to Horio go on about how he would one day take the tennis world by storm, his friends decided to tell him the truth. For all of his "two years experience," and loud cheering, there was one, slightly important, offsetting, thing.
He kind of sucked.
Needless to say Horio didn't believe them, what did they know? They weren't regulars either. But the next day he was presented with a single sheet of paper and told that, with the help of Momo-chan-sempai
his friends were here to prove it to him.
They'd compiled a list of reasons that they used to shrink Horio's swollen ego, and it went something like this:
You know you kind of suck when.....
when you play Kaidou and he blindfolds himself with his bandana and still wins.
when the only data Inui has on you is "the probability of you losing; 100%"
when you get beaten by Kawamura, and he's not even burning.
when Eiji's "acrobatics" are him doing cartwheels in the corner. And he beats you.
when Fuji keeps his eyes closed the entire time, and maybe falls asleep, but still beats you.
when Tezuka can lie down on the court and all the balls still come directly to him. (therefore ending with him beating you.)
when Oishi uses the helping-a-pregnant-lady-in-labor excuse to get out of playing you.
when Ryoma asks Sakuno to play in his place.
And then she beats you.
when Tomo beats you 6-0
when Coach Ryuzaki beats you without her gel insoles
when other teams say "Horio? isn't that a kind of salad dressing?"
when you can get points scored on you by Karupin