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Prologue : My Granpa is a Judo Master!

Dark brown eyes stared impassively at the enraged senior yelling at him from across the net. He didn't so much as blink when the burly humiliated guy brought up his racket, fully intending to hit and probably broke the younger boy's skinny left arm.

What happened next will be permanently engraved in the memories of his fellow teammates and probably be the reason why he didn't encounter anymore trouble with jealous sempais.

One second the racket was coming down swiftly towards Tezuka's arm and next thing they knew, a body was being threw across the court, hitting the hard surface with a thud. It happened so fast that no one, save for Inui as he never missed anything, could exactly tell how it came to be.

No one dared to move and help the groaning senior seeing the dark look on Tezuka's normally expressionless face. His eyes were flashing angrily with a hint of disappointment as he loudly announced his decision to quit the team.

Beneath his cool exterior, Tezuka was more than a little shaken at the thought of a racket hitting his arm. He might be matured for his age but he was still very young and naive to believe that everyone who play tennis love and respect the sport as much as he did. It never crossed his innocent mind that someone would ever try to hurt him with a racket.

"Now, now... what is happening here?" a familiar voice came over the hushed area, breaking the uncomfortable silence. Yamato-buchou was grateful for the dark glasses covering his eyes as his eyes widened at the scene in front of him. One of the non-regular third year,Takesue, was lying on the court groaning in pain while everyone only watched in silence...and is that fear he saw in everyone's eyes?

He sighed inwardly when his eyes rested on his prized freshman who was standing quietly over the groaning body. He knew this day will come sooner or later. With his talent, it was just a matter of time before trouble come to him. But he didn't really expect things to turn out like this.

"Everyone, 100 laps around the ground," Yamato said calmly, snapping everyone from their stupor. He then ordered two of the regulars to bring Takesue to the infirmary while keeping an eye on the grim-faced freshman.

"Even though it was only for a short time..." Tezuka said respectfully, all prepared to quit the team.

"Zannen desu ne... I was just thinking of letting you take part in this coming ranking tournament..." Yamato let his sentence hang meaningfully, inwardly smiling when he saw the interested look on Tezuka's face. "I was hoping you'll help the team in the coming tournament. There was not much I can do even as the captain. After all I did lose to you yesterday. But even so, I never give up the dream of going to the nationals. And now that Seigaku has you, Tezuka-kun, I was hoping you'll lead us and help fulfilling the dream."

"I..." Tezuka's decision to quit was clearly swayed by the buchou' s words.After all, it was his dream to bring Seigaku to the nationals. And furthermore, he had a promise to fulfill and Oishi will be disappointed if he quit now.

"I'm sure you don't have to worry about your sempais anymore after today," Yamato said with a slight grin. The fear and respect he saw in everyone's eyes when they were looking at an enraged Tezuka were real and he was sure they will only grow to respect him more when they saw him in the court."Now, start running before the day's over."

With a slight bow Tezuka put his bag down and ran after his fellow teammates, leaving a grinning buchou in his wake.

"Tezuka-kun," Tezuka paused on his work to looked up questioningly at Inui. Around them, he noticed the other freshmen had stopped from their own work cleaning up the courts to look at him. "We were glad you didn't suffer any injury today. It would be fatal to your career as tennis player if you had let Takesue-sempai hit your good arm."

"Yeah, my heart nearly stopped when he brought his racket down and you didn't move," Kikumaru Eiji said with a cute pout on his lips, showing his distress over the incident. "And Oishi had stomach ache because he worried about you too much."

Tezuka stood there not knowing what to say to his friends. He never knew they would worry about him this much.

"Tezuka-kun, you don't have to feel guilty.We are your friends so it was only normal that we would be worried about you," the soft spoken Fuji Shusuke said quietly from beside him.

"Fuji-kun is right," added Inui while pushing his glasses up. Tezuka gulped soundlessly as they shone creepily and the grin on Inui's face was not helping at all. "But we (as in he and his note book) would love to know how you can do the move you did today. According to my data, it was called the seoinage, quite a difficult move in judo."

"Yeah nyaa... you were so fast I only saw him flying across the court," said Eiji excitedly.

"It was a wonder that a thin guy like you could throw someone who was more that 15 kg heavier than you over your shoulder," Inui said with a nod, his pencil tapping his opened notebook impatiently.

"I learned judo from my grandfather since I was 4, long before I took up tennis," Tezuka said in explanation. " Even now I still practice with him every morning before morning practice."

"Ii data..."Inui mumbled in response while his hand busy writing down the new information. "That explain the Judo Club's Captain persistence on getting you to join the club during our orientation week."

"But how would he knew about it?" the normally silent Kawamura asked quietly.He was looking at Tezuka in a new found respect and feeling a little closer to the aloof guy as he himself had been learning karate for years.

"He was my senior in primary school. I compete in a few judo tournament before I started playing tennis in my 4th year," answered Tezuka. He was getting a little uncomfortable at the look he was getting from his friends. "Let's finish this or the seniors will get angry."

At his words, the others quickly resumed their works but not without talking to each other about what they had learnt about Tezuka. Their praises didn't went unheard by the said person and the slight reddening on his usually expressionless face was forever written in a page of Inui's note book.

A/N: I hope this prologue give you guys a clear image on how I will write the story. This is without a doubt, an AU where the racket never hit Tezuka so he won't be shouldering any injury in this story. In another note, I think you guys should know that I'm not really a big fan of Echizen Ryoma The Bratty Prince. There won't be any bashing as I'm not that immature but he won't be the main star who can never lose in MY story. So if you're reading this hoping he will be the main character, please don't bother. He got enough air time and worship in the series without ruining my FANFICTION. Hope that clear things up with everyone. Thanks for reading and NOT flaming me.