First and foremost:

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis. Any recognizable names, trademarks, etc. belong to Konomi-sensei. The Rikkai naming system (i.e., Niou as 'Haru', Yukimura as 'Mura', Marui as 'Maru' and so on) belongs to the wonderful Sandileina.

I do, however, own any Original Characters that appear in this fic. If you happen to want to use any of them (in particular a sibling? –shot-) feel free to do so but with proper credit.

Now:

--This fic is essentially a sequel OR companion to last year's year-long fic Every Day is a Holiday. I'm not saying you can't enjoy it without having read that massive thing, but a lot of the situations occurring here will play off of something that happened in EDAH. I would post most of this as Livejournal only, but I know most of you (read: those who were interested in EDAH) are too lazy to get an LJ or check your (or my) LJ frequently. Also note: if it goes off of a particular occurrence in EDAH (e.g., a certain chapter, the Niou arc, etc.) I'll say so. So if you don't want to bother reading the whole long!fic but for some reason want to follow this, you should - in theory at least - be okay.

--Time for things (e.g., year, season, etc.) will be posted. They may or may not correspond with the year time, though they probably will.

--No real update schedule. Just whenever something pops into my brain that doesn't belong as a separate fic. (See the first real chapter of this fic.)

--Ratings are K through T. Any M+ (at least, as far as sexual content goes) will be LJ friend locked only. If you truly want to know why, PM or review.

--If going off of EDAH, we're two and a half years after canon. It's January first, if you didn't know that by looking at the post time on this A/N. Two and a half years equates to initial third years being in the now-January of their second year of high school. If I happen to go back a year/to another time (some things may have fit a particular drablet in EDAH that I did not have a chance to write or post in that fic) I will state this at the beginning. A/Ns will be important. Kthx.

--Other Warnings: shounen-ai is happening, het is happening, OCs are happening, family problems are happening, drug and alcohol references and appearances are happening, mental disorders are happening. Real life is happening. (Yaoi is often implied, shojo-ai and yuri may or may not be happening.)

--That's it. Let's get started? (And Happy 2010 to you all!)