Hey guys, this is my first PoT fanfic and I guess I'm still kinda new at writing. Soooo, if you actually decide to read my story, try to review 'kay? Of course it isn't mandatory. Now here is the first chapter!

Disclaimer: I own nothing of the prince of tennis series. The only thing I own in here is my character Shana. Nothing else. Everything else belongs to Takeshi Konomi.

"English"

"Japanese"

Thoughts

"Argh" 12 year old Shana Shikinari mumbled. She did a wrong turn and fell off the bench.

"Oww!" She cried and got up from her position. Shana looked around and sighed. She remembered what had happened yesterday unfortunately. She was supposed go to her old friend Echizen Ryoma's house after getting off the plane from New York but she had gotten hopelessly lost. So as she walked and stumbled and ended up staying the night on a bench in a park.

Shana took out her tennis bag and looked inside. There was her new school uniform, her three favourite tennis rackets and a map to Ryoma's house and her new school, Seishun Gakuen.

Shana shook her head and just decided to head to a bathroom to change. She grabbed her suitcase fished out a hair brush and left.

In the bathroom Shana stumbled with the knots in her long auburn brown hair. Her warm brown eyes shone in frustration until she finally gave up and instead, just tied her hair into a side ponytail. Shana changed into her Seigaku uniform and just left the washroom. When she was outside, she saw a girl with the same uniform.

Thank goodness! She must go to the same school as me. Maybe she can lead me there! Shana thought excitedly while running towards the girl.

"Um, hey! Do you go to Seishun Gakuen? If you do, can you lead me there? I'm kinda lost..."

The girl turned around in surprise and saw the girl that was talking to her. She was really pretty even with her hair kind of messed up. Her side bangs shown off a little bit of red in the morning sun.

"Ah... Sure. Hi, my name is Ryuzaki Sakuno. Yorushiku!" The girl named Sakuno had two braids behind her back and was carrying a tennis racket.

"Thanks! You are a life saver!" Shana smiled, "My name is Shikinari Shana. I came from the US to transfer to Seigaku here."

"Eh, ok. Shikinari-san" Sakuno smiled back and started walking.

"Shana-chan's fine" Shana said with enthusiasm.

"Ano... Shana-chan, are you going to bring your suitcase to school?" Sakuno asked.

Shana just realized she still had her suitcase.

"Um... Well I can't find the house where I'm supposed to stay in for this school year so..." Shana muttered.

"Oh hey! I could help you! I'm a little early anyhow this morning so I might be able to help you find that house!" Sakuno exclaimed.

"Thanks! That will be great!"

Shana showed Sakuno the piece of paper and Sakuno led Shana to Ryoma's house. They stopped in front of the house and Sakuno cried out.

"Ah!"

"Huh? What's the matter?" Shana asked in confusion while ringing the bell.

"This is Ryoma-kun's house... Wait... You're living with Ryoma-kun?" The young girl stared in disbelief. Just then the door opened and Echizen Nanjiro stepped out and yawned.

"Yes, what do you want?" He asked not recognizing Shana. Shana, however, recognized him.

"Mr. Echizen! It's nice to finally see you again!"

Nanjiro looked confused before recognizing Shana. "Hey Shana-san! You came hey? There was nothing said about your flight being delayed by 24 hours."

"Eh... Sorry about that... I got lost." Shana mumbled with her head down.

"Heh, it seems your geography skills are as terrible as ever Shana-chan." A voice from above said. Everyone looked in that direction. Nanjiro smiled at his boy and both Shana and Sakuno exclaimed, "Ryoma-kun!"

Shana's voice came out as excited and Sakuno's came out as awed.

"Oi, you three are going to be late for school you know! Shana leave your suitcase. Rinko-chan and I will take care of your stuff. Now... off you go!" The retired tennis player shouted and slammed the gate on them.

"About time you arrived." Ryoma said to Shana in his cocky tone.

"Sorry, I was lost." Was all Shana could say. All this while questions were forming big time in Sakuno's head and finally she couldn't take it anymore.

"Hey, Shana-chan, how do you know Ryoma-kun? Why are you in Japan?" Sakuno asked trying to not be pushy.

"Oh. That. You see, my parents died when I was only five so Ryoma's family took me in. I've stayed with his family ever since. Just a couple years ago, I found out my brother and uncle were still alive so I began travelling around the world competing in tournaments with them. However, I decided I was bored so I came to Japan to live with Ryoma again."

"Oh. Thats amazing! Do you play tennis? Are you going to join the club?"

"Yeah, probably. I'm not very good though." At this point Ryoma just snickered knowing actually how 'good' Shana was. Sakuno didn't notice this and just continued talking.

"Thats great! Lets go sign you up right away!"

"Ok. Ryoma's parents already handed in the registration forms for the school anyway."

With this, the three students arrived ath school and while Ryoma went to class, Sakuno and Shana went to the girls tennis coach. The coach's name was Hayashi Shigeko. She looked at Shana and welcomed her to the club.

After the registration to the tennis club, Shana was introduced to her class. With her luck, she just happened to be in the same homeroom as Sakuno and Ryoma.

"Ok, class. Today we will have a new transfer student from the US. Please come in and introduce yourself!" The teacher shouted to the class.

Shana came in the doorway and immediately, the entire class started gossiping.

"Woah! She's so hot! I have to ask her out!" A group of boys muttered.

"I wonder what her name is. She's really pretty. I bet those popular boys will beat us to asking her out though." Some other boys said.

"She seems nice. I wonder if I could make friends with her?" A group of girls laughed.

The teacher shouted out, "Class! Settle down! Ok, why don't you introduce yourself."

Shana took a step into the class. She felt really weird. Every school she went to, the class would always gossip about her.

"Hello, my name is Shikinari Shana. Yorushiku! I come from the US and I play tennis. I hope I get to know some of you really well. Thank you!"

"Thank you Shana. Um. why don't you sit beside Echizen over there. E-" The teacher didn't get to finish before Shana left for the seat beside Ryoma.

The rest of the day went by really quickly for Shana. The only thing she stuck on was...well, geography. Shana was terrible at reading maps; in fact, she didn't even know which direction north was. The teacher just sighed at her. Another thing Shana wasn't really good at was Japanese. She came from the US so she was naturally disadvantageous at that subject.

Soon, the classes ended and Shana followed Sakuno to the girls tennis courts. She really wanted to go and watch Ryoma practice since she found out that he had become a regular. It was to be suspected though. Shana knew Ryoma was really good at tennis...not that she was bad herself.

When Ryuzaki and Shana entered the tennis courts, a big and mean looking girl stood in front of Shana and shouted at her.

"Hey, your the new girl eh? Why did you even join? You probably suck."

Shana was outraged. "You wanna go at it?" She shouted back.

"What?" The girl lifted Shana by the collar of her shirt two feet into the air. Lets just say Shana wasn't the tallest person. She was approximately Ryoma's height.

Seeing this, Sakuno stepped in, "Ano...Ishii-senpai. Please put Shana down. She's new and doesn't know the rules..."

"Nani?" Ishii threw Shana down who did and small flip and landed on her feet gently. However, Sakuno was in trouble. Ishii pushed her and was about to punch her when Shana smirked and talked to Ishii.

"Hey, if you say that I probably suck at tennis, why don't we play?"

Sakuno stared at Shana like she was crazy. Shana probably didn't stand a chance! Ishii was a potential regular in the girls team. If a regular was sick or hurt. Ishii would sub for them.

"Shana-chan...That's not a good ide-" Sakuno started.

Shana just laughed, "Just wait and see Ryuzaki."

The two players walked towards the courts and started the match. Sakuno would be the ref.

Shana held her tennis racket with her left hand and murmurs were heard about her being a southpaw. Ishii just shrugged and prepared to serve.

"Ok, girl, there's no backing out now!" Ishii grinned and served her high speed serve. Shana just sighed and hit it like it was nothing. The twist serve was much harder to return.

A rally went on and more girls came to watch the match. Finally, Shana got bored.

"Argh! This is so boring! I hate rallies!" She hit a special drop shot out of nowhere. The ball dropped and slithered across the ground like the letter 'z'.

"Z-Formation Drop Shot" Shana grinned. Sakuno and others stared in awe. By this time, all the regulars have arrived other than the captain and vice-captain.

"Hmm...Is that the new girl Kondo-san?"

"Yeah, that's her. What are you thinking Miyazaki-senpai?" Kondo asked.

"I think she has a good potential. Fuku-buchou was injured right? We need another regular. Lets consider her into our intra school ranking tournaments."

"Huh? She only a freshman though!" A regular named Kojima Sakura exclaimed.

Suddenly a loud demanding voice sounded the courts.

"What are you all doing? Everyone 10 laps around the courts!"

After running, Sakuno explained to Shana about the regulars.

"The one with the curly brown hair is Kojima Sakura. She's specializes in serve and volley. She usually plays singles but occasionally doubles. The girl with short brunette hair is Miyazaki Shigeko. Everyone calls hers singles court dominator. When she plays a match, all attention is on her. She plays defensive tennis."

"Kondo Anju is the brain of our tennis team. She's only a junior but she aces every subject. She knows a lot about our opponents too. I guess you can kind of tell from her glasses. That tall girl with black hair in a ponytail is Kawano Mai. Aggressive baseliner. She hits power balls and her doubles partner is Endo Hayasse. They are our main doubles pair."

Shana looked at all those regulars that Sakuno introduced. She really wanted to be one of them. Sakuno kept going.

"The one with the red hair is Okamoto Hina. She's really nice around everyone. Despite her appearance, she specializes in power."

Shikinari spotted Hina and nodded for Sakuno to continue.

"Then there's our buchou. The one who told us to do laps, Maeda Yui. She's an all rounder. Trust me, she's really good. After her is our fuku-buchou...well she injured herself in the prefectuals quarter finals. Its sad but she is quitting the club because the injury is fatal and she wants to focus on rehabilitation. Anyways, her name is Hayashi Koekoa. They are all seniors except for Kojima-senpai and Kondo-senpai."

Just when Sakuno finished, Shana noticed the buchou come back with coach Hayashi and Miyazaki behind her.

"Ok! Everyone, as you may already know, the intra school ranking tournaments start tomorrow. I will have the list of participants done by today and it will be posted tomorrow. Shikinari-chan, I want to talk to you. Everyone else, usual routine! Dismissed!" Maeda buchou shouted and soon there was only Shana, Maeda, and Miyazaki left. Shana noticed Sakuno give her a strange look before leaving for practice.

"Shikinari, Miyazaki-san said you were leading in a match against Ishii?" The captain asked.

"Hai, thats true." Shana replied.

"Come to court A. Why don't we play a match?" Yui said sternly before leading Shana to court A. She wasn't taking 'no' for an answer.

Yay! That's the first chapter. I know I barely even mentioned the boys Seigaku tennis team in this chapter or Ryoma and I promise they will appear a lot more in the next few chapters. I'll also mention more classmates of Shana. Please R&R. I really appreciate those things. They make me really happy. Tell me what you think and yes you can go "It sucked" cause I know it probably did...Ok. Never mind, I try to be optimistic. Please see how good it was and review! XD