Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice or Prince of Tennis

Hey guys hope you like my story. To those that had read the original version, well I decided to revise it. I changed a part of the plot because it was just too complex.

I also deleted I think all of the OC characters in chapter 2 because first, there was too much of them. Second, I couldn't describe them well enough. When I read stories myself I never really liked the OC characters when they couldn't be described properly.

That's about all my reason. Hope you guys keep on reading this story.

Tennis in an Alice World

Chapter 1

Mikan could not believe when her parents said that she had to go back to Japan. Yuka Azumi, her mother, had said that there was a special request for her to come back to Japan sent from her uncle/her father's only brother, Kazu Yukihira. He had requested for her to take part in the Alice Exchange Program.

Alice Exchange Program is an event held by Japan's Alice Academy to let alice students experience life as a normal non-alice student. The students that took part in this event are each send to a different school to take part in a selected club and join the inter-school competition and also take part in that school's own events. The students are also not allowed to use their alice except for the matches between alices. This year, the selected club is the tennis club.

When she was told to go to Japan she had refused them. She would stay with them. Traveling from country to country to help her parents with their jobs, which was to help out the alice academy in each country. Currently the Yukihira family was in London. She loved to help them and it was really exciting she gets to meet and greet new friends each time. But then, they said the theme was going to be tennis. Tennis, the sport she loved so very much. If there was something she didn't like about going with her parents was because she couldn't play tennis. Her parents were too busy to play a game with and most of the people she met couldn't play tennis.

After thinking long and hard, Mikan finally decided to take part in it. And now she's in Japan, riding a taxi to go to the house where she'll be staying in. Since her parents couldn't come with her to Japan, They called a friend of theirs to take care of Mikan.

The car stopped in front of a house. It had the sign Ryuzaki in front.

Mikan was really nervous, but at the same time excited. Her parents had said that she would be sharing with another girl with the same age she is, which meant that she was going to have a new friend.

She stepped off the taxi, paid the taxi driver and took her small luggage with her. If there was anything she learned abroad with her parents, it was packing light. She had packed only a few basic necessities with her. If she needed anything else, she would just have to buy it.

Dragging the luggage with her to the door, she wandered if the girl was nice. Her parents told her that she lived with her grandmother, which was the tennis coach of the seigaku's male tennis club. The girl's parents were living in Sapporo for their father's work.

What was her name again? Mikan thought. I think it started with an S…

She rang the doorbell while still deep in thought. From the other side of the door, Mikan heard someone had said that they were coming.

Soon the door opened. A girl had opened the door. She had long auburn brown hair that reached her knees, tied into two braids and a pair of chestnut brown eyes.

XOXOXO

Inside the Ryuzaki household, a thirteen-year-old girl was doing the dishes. As she remembered the events of the previous day, she sighed.

Maybe I shouldn't have accepted father's request after all, Sakuno thought.

Yesterday, her father had called her asking her if his friend's daughter could share a room with her. She needed a place to stay for her stay in Japan. Being the good girl she was, she accepted the request. She wanted to please her father who rarely requests anything from her. But, maybe it had been a mistake. She is really a shy girl that has a hard time socializing with others. She doesn't have a lot of close friends except for Tomoka and to think she had to share her room with a stranger. Sakuno sighed for a second time that day.

Soon, the bell rang and Sakuno immediately said, "coming!" She puts down the dish and dried her hands and without delay went to open the door.

In front of the door stood a girl with chocolate brown hair tied to pigtails that reached her back, hazel eyes and a cute heart shaped face.

XOXOXO

"Hi, I'm Mikan Yukihira, nice to meet you, um… what was your name again?" Mikan said as she scratched the back of her head, while smiling nervously.

Sakuno returned her smile. "I'm Sakuno Ryuzaki, nice to meet you too Yukihira-san." She said as she lets Mikan in the house

"Thanks, Oh and call me Mikan. I'm not used to people calling me Yukihira." She replied.

"Well in that case call me Sakuno, Mikan-chan"

"Great."

Sakuno took her on a guide around the house as the conversation continued. She first took her around the first floor, which had a kitchen, a living room, a bathroom and a small storage with lots of things and dust. The second floor, however only had three rooms, aside from the bathroom. Three bedrooms, which was Sumire Ryuzaki's/ Sakuno's grandmother's, her parent's, and of course the one she would be sharing with Mikan.

"And this is the room you'll be sharing with me Mikan-chan," said Sakuno. She had opened her own bedroom door, with her bed next to a futon on the floor. On the opposite side of the bed was a window, with a small balcony facing the road. There was also a closet at one side, next to a mirror and a small bookshelf on the other. There were also a few dolls on top of the shelves of teddy bears and such. The walls were white and on the floor was a smooth pink carpet.

"You can put your luggage on the empty corner beside the window, Mikan-chan"

"Oh, ok. I'll do that." Mikan dragged her luggage and set it down. She then turn to look at Sakuno and asked, "So, Sakuno-chan do you have some water I'm parched."

"Sure just come to the kitchen," Sakuno replied and led Mikan down the stairs to the kitchen. Whilst walking, Mikan looked around and thought that something was a bit strange.

"Hey, Sakuno-chan, where's you're grandma. I was told that you were living with your grandma, but I haven't seen her around," asked Mikan. They had reached the kitchen and Sakuno was bringing a glass of water.

"Oh, my grandma is at Seishun Academy, you know, the school you're to with me later on. She's the coach of the tennis club there. I heard she said something about an exchange program of some sort. I think she is going to discuss it with the team." Sakuno said this as Mikan gulped down the water. Her last two sentences perked up her interest.

"Grandma said that she'll be back at noon, but it's already past noon. I wonder if everything's alright." Sakuno said with a worried expression on her face, eyeing the clock at the wall.

"Then why don't we check on her? Besides, I want to check what my new school looks like." Mikan's smile grew as she said it out loud

"Um sure, I guess."

"Then, lead the way, Sakuno-chan"

XOXOXO

"Here it is, Mikan-chan," Sakuno said after finally reaching the school. They were lost several times on their journey due to Sakuno. "It's pretty big isn't it Mikan-chan. After all, Seishun Academy is one of the biggest school in this part of Tokyo."

Mikan looked at the school and replied, "Yeah, it sure is big." All the while she thought, Alice Academy is way bigger than this, but it is quite big for a normal school.

"Come on, the tennis court is over there!"

Mikan followed Sakuno as she made her way to the courts. There were many courts there and a small shed near it.

"Look there she is" Sakuno pointed to a crowd of people near the coach bench. They were all wearing a red, blue and white jacket.

"I think they're busy discussing something. We shouldn't disturb them, Mikan-chan" Sakuno turned her head to look at her, but she was no longer beside her. "Mikan-chan?" She looked side to side, but there was no trace of her. She turned back to see the crowd to see Mikan on the tip of her toes trying to see what's inside.

Sakuno ran over to her side and called out to her. Mikan was startled by her call. She lost her balance and fell backwards. She grabbed the closest thing to her by instinct, which unfortunately the jacket of one of the people crowding the bench.

"Ahh!"

"Unyaa!"

The two fell down to the ground and grabbed everybody's attention turned to them.

"Ouch!"

"Mikan-chan, are you okay?" Sakuno asked as she kneeled down to help her.

"Sakuno? What are you doing here?" Asked a woman sitting on the bench. She had brown hair tied up into a ponytail, and wore a pink tracksuit.

Sakuno recognized the voice and immediately turned to face the speaker. "Oh, Obaa-chan I was worried something was wrong since you haven't come home yet. So, we decided to come here. This is Mikan, the one who is going to stay with us." Sakuno said as she helped Mikan back up to her feet.

Mikan immediately turned around to look at the person that had fell with her, which was currently being helped by another one of the guys with the blue, red and white.

"Are you okay, Eiji?" Oishi said. He held out a hand for his friend.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Eiji took his friend's hand and Oishi pulled Eiji back up to his feet.

"Umm," Mikan said to catch Eiji's attention, which obviously worked as he turned his face to see hers as soon as she said it. "I'm so sorry!" She bowed down. "I didn't mean to make you fall down with me."

"No, It's okay, accidents happen, right? And I can't be mad at a girl as cute as you."

"Really! Thanks." Her expression instantly turned from worried to a happy one, with a mile as bright as sunshine appeared at her lips. "My name's Mikan Yukihira and I'll be joining this school as a freshman this year. Nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you too Mi-chan. I'm Eiji Kikumaru and this guy over here." Eiji puts his hand around the other guy's shoulder. "Is my best pal and vice captain of this club, Oishi Shuuichiro. We're on our last year her in seigaku and also a part of this team's regulars." Eiji then introduced her to each of the members of the regulars and finally their coach.

"And for last, we have our coach, Sumire Ryuzaki."

"Sumire Ryuzaki!" Mikan said, surprised. "Then you must be Sakuno's grandmother. I'm Izumi Yukihira's daughter, the one who is going to be in your custody. Please take care of me." Mikan bowed once more.

"Of course, I'd be more than happy too have you in our house. As they say, the more the merrier." Sumire said happily with a wide smile.

"Thank you so much!"

"So, chibi-chan is going to be staying at Ryuzaki-sensei's house huh?" Said Eiji from behind her.

"Yes! I'll be sharing a room with Sakuno-chan her granddaughter." Mikan grabbed Sakuno's hand and pulled her to her side.

"Ah, Mikan-chan"

"Oh, so you're Ryuzaki-sensei's grand daughter. You're cuter than what I had imagined" One of the regulars, Momoshiro Takeshi joined the conversation. Sakuno blushed furiously at his statement.

And so, the conversation continued with an occasional laughter was heard in between and Sumire Ryuzaki with Tezuka Kunimitsu, the team's captain watching them. Izumi's daughter has a strong sense of friendship with her. This aspect might prove to be useful for the team. Sumire thought.

-Fin-

So how was it? Good? Bad? Worse? Better. There wasn't many differences from the original one so you can reread it or not, it's your choice.

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