Everyone's back from whatever they've been away from! Seigaku High is officially and finally home to all our favourite little tennis people. But Seigaku High is not famous for just their tennis club, but one of the best art student studies here too which has made the school famous. It was spring when Fuji met her and the flowers were blooming, and their relationship started to do so too. FujiOC
Disclaimer: I don't own Prince of Tennis! But I can dream!
Woo hoo! Anyway, the little breaks in front, back or in between the chapter are Fuji's thoughts, or what he thinks subconsciously. I think. They won't be there all the time, but they'll be there when I feel necessary. :)
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It's going to be spring again. The leaves have grown back on the trees in the school grounds. It's the start of a new year in high school; my last year in high school.
Echizen is going to be here this year. The thought of everyone being together again made me smile. It would be the same again, but I'm sure everyone has grown more mature over the years. It'll still be the same but maybe something different.
There will be something different, something different.
Something…
Someone…
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"OCHIBI, YOU'RE FINALLY HERE! I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN AGES!"
Eiji ran over to Ryoma and pummelled him to the floor with a hug. Ryoma grunted and shoved Eiji away, he stood up and glared.
"I went out for lunch with you two weeks ago. And I'm not that small now, you know."
It was true; Echizen had grown taller and a stronger built, he looks more mature. And so did everyone else of course.
"That may be true, but you're still younger than all of us. And you'll always be the baby in our tennis club while we were in middle school!" Eiji declared happily. 'He hasn't changed a bit,' Ryoma thought somewhat fondly. He glanced around and saw Momoshiro run over with a huge grin on his face. Before Ryoma could react and run away, Momoshiro grabbed him and put him in a headlock.
"Neh, Echizen! You're finally in high school, and back with your dear ol' senpais! How does that make you feel?"
"Annoyed," replied Ryoma almost instantaneously. Momo frowned and gave a light 'tch', before letting Eiji take over. Eiji bent down and grabbed Ryoma by the shoulders looking serious, "You are going to join the tennis club, right?"
"Is that a trick question?"
"That's good to hear. Tezuka's going to be our captain this year and Taka-san decided to join us again!" Momo informed.
"I thought he wanted to start his sushi training," Ryoma recalled. Eiji nodded rapidly and replied, "Yeah, but he missed tennis too much, and his dad didn't want him to give it up completely! Just a little so that he'd have time to learn how to make sushi properly."
Eiji was about to continue but the warning bell rung and the trio left for their classrooms.
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In class 2-6 (Momo's)
Momoshiro walked into the half-packed class and sat down next to a girl and he laughed, "Kata, we've been in the same class for too long."
"Mm… it's getting pretty annoying," the girl replied. She smiled and pushed her bangs behind her ear. Momo frowned, "Nah… don't say that. I make the classes interesting. Classes would be too boring if there aren't any funny interruptions!"
Both of them laughed. Katakura Harumi had been Momo's classmate since freshman year in middle school and they've become very good friends since then. Katakura had dark brown hair pulled to a ponytail that reached the end of her should blades and deep bluish-purple eyes. She was small-ish, petite and her face held a sort of innocence to it. She was quiet and sweet but she can defend herself and can be scary at times. Momo always refers to her as Kata, while a lot of people just call her Haru; since she doesn't mind.
"Eiji-senpai kept running around screaming 'ochibi is going to be here soon!' last year," Katakura started, she put her pencil down and kept her sketchbook, giving her full attention to Momoshiro, "'ochibi' is Echizen Ryoma... correct?"
"That's him. What do you want to know?"
"Nothing in particular, but why does Eiji-senpai keep calling him 'ochibi'? I doubt anyone whose reaching the age of 16 is small."
"You're 16 but you're small," Momo teased. Haru had a small frame and Momoshiro and her other friend liked to tease her; saying that she 'doesn't look her own age.'
Kata gave him a look and Momo laughed, "Sorry… sorry! Eiji-senpai calls Echizen ochibi because when we first met, Echizen was only twelve so he was really short, and Eiji-senpai considered him as the baby of our team since he was the youngest."
Kata laughed and was about to ask more when a girl with shoulder-length red hair came running into the classroom.
"Haru, look!" The girl ran toward the pair and shoved a piece of paper into Kata's face.
"Ah... what is this, Natsu?"
"Don't be so blur, Haru!" Natsu screamed and pointed to Haru's name on the list, "You got first place for one of the local art competitions held last year!"
"Kata, that's a new trophy to put in your bedroom," Momo teased. Natsu grinned and nodded, "There's probably a prize money too if I remember!"
"Really...? I don't remember even participating in this competition…" Haru thought aloud and laughed lightly. Natsu rolled her eyes and sighed, "Gah! You're hopeless, Haru."
Momo laughed as Natsu tried to help Haru recall the competition. He picked up the piece of paper and looked at the painting that won Katakura first place. It was a painting of golden gingko trees against a light blue sky. The quality of the photograph taken was bad and it had to be cropped up to fit into the paper with the other runner-ups so it didn't look too amazing. Momo felt like seeing the actual piece; it should be set up in the art room.
Their teacher came into the classroom and everyone went back to their seats. "Class will now begin!"
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After school, in the Tennis Court
"Tezuka," Oishi started, "We have a lot of freshmen this year."
"Yes, we do."
"Saa… I think we have about 20 signing up for this, including Echizen."
"If I remember correctly… if we add the freshmen, we will have a grand total of 58 members in the tennis club. That is a 46 percent increase, excluding last year's seniors of course."
"Does this year's batch look small? Or am I just big…?"
"Ooh… look! I see the triplets, nyaa!" (A/N: The triplets being the freshmen three; Horio, Katsuo and Kachirou.)
"Ffssssshh…"
"Wis."
"Where's Momo?" Tezuka asked, "He's late." Everyone was there except Momoshiro. All of them looked around and realized it, and then they started saying things like, "I didn't notice…" and "Oh wow, would you look at that…" And then Momo came running over like a mad man.
"I'm here! I'm here…" Momo wheezed. Fuji walked over to him, "Saa… Momo, daijoubu?" (1)
"I'm fine… I'm fine! I just wanted to go see Kata's artwork, but I didn't think that it would be so crowded. So I was stuck in there for about a while, being squished by a bunch of insane people… Anyway, I was late, so I ran all the way over here."
"Who's Kata?" Ryoma asked. Kawamura replied, "Kata's Momo's friend. They've been friends since junior high. Kaidoh and Momo are in the same class as her this year. Momo speaks really highly of her so I guess she's really good."
"Good with what?"
"Good in her paintings and stuff, nyaa!" Eiji exclaimed. Inui pushed up his glasses, "She was the one who won the National Art Competition last year. She specialises in oil-painting if I remember correctly."
"Neh, ochibi, I'll go bring you to the art room! It's filled with all her stuff!" Eiji exclaimed and was about to drag Ryoma off when Oishi pulled him back, "You can show him afterwards. It's practice now."
"Hoi… it's the first day of school, Oishi! Let me just bring ochibi there!"
"We've always heard about Katakura-san and seen her to collect prizes, but we've never actually met her in person," Fuji stated and everyone fell into silence.
"Well, I've seen her. We're all in the same class," Kaidoh mumbled. Ryoma scoffed, "I've only just heard of her."
"Are you serious? She – what, really? You guys have never seen her before? You think 5 years of knowing her and you guys, I'd let your guys meet…" Momo laughed and everyone nodded their head.
"MOMOSHIROOO!"
Everyone turned to the source of the voice to see an angry red-head girl running at full speed towards Momo.
She grabbed Momo by the collar and growled, "I asked you to do a favour for me – just ONE small little favour; to bring Haru-chan out of the art room! And you go, jolly well out of there, WITHOUT Haru! Now's she's lost in the sea of fan boys, and neither I nor the teachers can get in. Imagine her getting harassed by her idiotic fan club, and the reporters that are here. You know she cannot take compliments well, and she'll end up all ditsy and modest, making her vulnerable to practically everyone, SO YOU BETTER MAKE THIS RIGHT BY GETTING HER OUT OF THERE!"
Momoshiro rubbed the back of his head and mumbled, "Hai, hai. Natsu, I got it! Some weirdoes are attaching…"
"KATA!" Momo freaked and ran toward the art room with Natsu following close behind. Everyone stared.
"Saa… I hope Katakura-san will be alright; those reporters are harsh."
"I hope Momo's going to be alright," Eiji mumbled, "That girl was scary… WELL, I'm going to go see what happens! Come on, ochibi!"
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In the end, everyone went to the art room. Well, everyone except Tezuka and Kaidoh. Tezuka's reason was that he heard that she could really beat up people if they annoy her a lot, so he didn't want to see the bloodshed in the art room. Kaidoh had already seen her, so he just stayed behind.
Inui was curious, and he had an ambition to have data on every single student at their school by the end of the year. Kawamura just wanted to see Haru's paintings. Eiji wanted to see Haru and her artworks. Echizen and Fuji went because they heard bloodshed. Oishi went because he was concerned about the bloodshed.
"Hoi hoi! We're here!" Eiji shouted happily and opened the closest door to them of the art room. Almost everyone in the art room was on the floor either; unconscious, writhing in pain, or just scared shitless.
"That's something you don't see everyday," Kawamura laughed nervously. Right after, the back door opened and Momo came out, carrying a girl on his shoulder with Natsu closing the door behind him.
"Haru-chan, you haven't been eating much, have you? Momo-chan can lift you up so easily!"
"Either that, or I'm just really strong," Momo laughed and a suspicious cough came from the girl on his shoulder.
The girl murmured a bit before lifting her head up and flailing her legs a little, "I'm fine… now let me go…" Momo set her down, her back facing everyone else, and then he and Natsu stared at the girl.
"Haru, are you alright?" Natsu asked. Haru nodded but wobbled a bit and almost fell before Momoshiro and Natsu caught her.
"Ha… Kata, I know you can kick ass but you shouldn't exert yourself."
"Momo, I'll take her to the nurse's room, you go with your tennis buddies over there," Natsu suggested, supporting Haru. Momo looked back to see everyone except Tezuka and Kaidoh.
"Momo, is she going to be alright?" Fuji asked gently. (A/N: He always sounds gentle anyway…)
"Aa, she'll be fine. She's just a little drained from beating up those guys," Momo replied with a grin, pointing to the people inside the art room writhing in pain. Oishi twitched, "She did that?"
Momoshiro nodded. Echizen slowly walked in and stopped at the biggest canvas, which was almost double his size. (A/N: Remember, he's going to be 16 this year, imagine how big that canvas is!) Everyone followed suit and saw that it was Haru's.
"SUGOI!" (2) Eiji gasped in awe. Inui smirked, "Gingko trees."
"Beautiful, isn't it?" Oishi asked and marvelled at the painting. Kawamura, Echizen and Fuji stayed silent. Momoshiro grinned, "It took her about 3 weeks. She had plenty of time before that, but she likes to push everything to the last minute."
They stood in silence for a while until the girl Momo was carrying just now languidly entered the room rubbing her eye. She looked up and was slightly taken back but smiled softly, "Momo, are these your friends?"
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Is this how a person feels when they fall… No, it's too absurd.
But then… why is my heart pounding like this?
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"Kata…" Momoshiro mumbled, "Are you alright? Didn't Natsu take you to the nurse's office?"
"Yeah… but I left my bag in here… somewhere…" Haru mumbled and looked around. She walked up to them and bowed lightly, "My name is Katakura Harumi, nice to meet you."
"Kata, this is Fuji Syusuke," Fuji smiled, "It's nice to meet you too, Katakura-san."
"This is Kikumaru Eiji," Eiji grinned and waved rapidly.
"The big, shy guy is Kawamura Takashi," Kawamura smiled.
"The dude with the glasses is Inui Sadaharu," Inui pushed up his glasses and started writing rapidly on Haru… and crap.
"That over there is Oishi Shuichiro," Oishi smiled and waved.
"And little arrogant kid there is Echizen Ryoma," Echizen showed no emotion but glared at Momo.
"We think your artwork's amazing," Oishi complimented while Haru just laughed and smile nervously, "Thank you, I really appreciate it. Well I have to go now… if not, Natsu will freak out and start screaming at random people in French."
Haru moved to the corner of the room where her bag was. She picked it up and waved a good bye before exiting the room. But before she left, she purposely stepped on some guy's stomach and glared at him, "That's for looking up my skirt." He groaned and panted when she got off.
"She's so tiny," Eiji blurted out. Fuji shifted, "She seems nice." The rest nodded. A sort of calming feeling had followed her into the room that made them feel fluffy.
Either that or it was because she was lethargic and seemed really sickly and quiet that made everyone a little scared since she looked like she'd collapse any moment that made a weird atmosphere around the room.
"But she looked like she was going to collapse," Ryoma mumbled, "Momo-senpai, will she be alright?"
"Collapse? That's what she's like all the time," Momoshiro said as if it was normal for people to faint randomly all the time.
"So everyday… she looks like she's going to collapse?" Kawamura wondered, looking bewildered. Momoshiro nodded, "She was a bit sickly when she was younger but now she's fine. She looks really fragile since she's a little thin, and she speaks pretty softly, plus the fact that she's so fair it looks like a sickly pale so everyone just thinks she's sick. But she has her lively days so you can imagine the energy she has in her tiny little body!" Momo put an emphasis on tiny with his index finger and thumb.
"So I'm guessing she's lively today to knock so many people out," Inui asked.
"I guess. It's not her liveliest day, but yeah, she's capable of doing so," Momo replied. Eiji whistled, "I'd better not get on her bad side."
"Nah, it's hard to get on her bad side! She's really nice," Momoshiro added, "You can imagine how annoying these guys were." Fuji whipped out a camera out of no where and took a few pictures of the painting, and the poor people on the floor.
"You should see the one in the closet if you're taking pictures," Kaidoh suggested while Tezuka and himself walked in, careful not to step on anyone. Tezuka looked stern, "You're all taking too long."
"But Buchou, look at this amazing work! Doesn't it just make you have a fluffy feeling inside?" Eiji asked, jumping and pointing at the Gingko tree painting. Tezuka looked at it for a while and replied, "I feel something, but it's definitely not fluffy."
"Fuji-senpai, Kaidoh's right. You should look at the ones in the closet," Momoshiro suggested. He walked over to the closet, while stepping on the guy who peeped under Haru's skirt.
"Is that right?" Fuji walked over and also stepped on the same guy who peeped under Haru's skirt. Eiji jumped and landed on the same guy shouting, "I want to see them too!"
In the end everyone who wanted to see the rest of Haru's work stepped over the poor ass who wanted to look under Haru's skirt. Although they didn't really notice him, or that he was foaming in the mouth.
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I met her when it was spring.
The leaves were growing back, and it was getting warmer. Everything looked soft and it made your mind wander. All was quiet and relaxing, but at the same time, it was a bit restless.
Oh, right… It was spring.
I met her in spring.
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(1) Daijoubu: Are you alright?
(2) Sugoi: Awesome/ Amazing etc…
On another note, I don't own Honey and Clover. I just need inspiration, ahaha. Oh well. XD The first chapter is really short. And don't worry, Haru's not a mary-sue. She's just 'well liked by many'. Review please!
Thank you for reading! :)