Author's note: Konnichi wa minna-san! I'm back again! LoL Well, this is my second MomoxAnn fanfic, so I hope you like it too. Anyway, Arigatou Gozaimas' to those who reviewed my first MomoxAnn fanfic! Hehehe. Sumimasen, if there are some grammatical errors at that fic. To tell you the truth, I forgot to edit it before I upload it in here. Hehehe. I'm so absentminded at that time! ; Don't ask me why…
Arigatou Gozaimasu, Minna-san! Please read and review this too… Onegai…
Enjoy my fanfic!
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DISCLAIMERS: I do not own the characters of Tenisu no ouji-sama aka, The Prince of Tennis. Though everyone wants it, right? Sigh If only I have money, I'll buy the characters from the author of that Manga! LoL
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JUST HANGING A MOMENT WITH YOU
-YiNgFa-FuIsO-
CHAPTER 1 - The Deal?
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It was sunny Friday afternoon, around four pm. Momoshiro Takeshi didn't go to his usual tennis club practice at the SEIGAKU tennis court today but instead he was playing at the street tennis court in his common shirt and jogging pants with his two friends playing with him. He felt upset because Inui Sadaharu, former team manager of SEIGAKU – who's now in Regular lineup, got his slot at the ranking selection, happened yesterday. He felt angry and frustrated to himself for the reason that if he just practice harder and become stronger, Inui will not get his slot.
He put all of his anger and frustration to the tennis match with his two friends and tried to ease it up.
"Oi, Momoshiro! Are you ok? You're so serious today!" His friend said curiously at him. Momoshiro didn't answer him back but he smashed the ball so hard, back to his opponent's court. They tried to block his move but they failed. As a result of it, he scores.
"Did we do wrong today?" Momoshiro's friend whisperingly asked to his partner.
"I don't think so, maybe he got busted by a girl in his school." The other guy replied whisperingly too. They didn't know Momoshiro was listening at their conversation and all of a sudden he reacted at what they were talking about.
"I DIDN'T GET BUSTED BY A GIRL!" Momoshiro replied angrily to them. The two sweat dropped at him and tried to calm him down.
"We should really keep our mouth shut," the guy said to his partner still sweat dropping, his partner nodded back as a reply.
"You're right… We shouldn't let Momoshiro be serious like this… or else," The other guy said anxiously,
"We'll lose the match," They both said in chorus and then they sighed heavily.
'Those two monkeys! Why did they say that? I, Momoshiro Takeshi was not busted by a girl in school—' Momoshiro thought angrily while he was serving the ball hard to his opponents. 'The reason I'm like this…is because…' Momoshiro thought as a sudden flash back came to his mind about what happened at the SEIGAKU tennis court when Inui defeated him on the ranking selection.
Unexpectedly, a girl with a light hazel-brown short hair, wearing a Fudomine seifuku, went inside the street tennis court and she was surprised who she was seen.
"Oh! Momoshiro-kun!" The girl said surprisingly while pointing her index finger at Momoshiro's direction. He looked to his left to see who said his name and he was surprised to see the girl, who was also surprised to see him there.
"Tachibana's imoto!" Momoshiro said surprisingly. He didn't notice the tennis ball, which his friend smashed back, was coming closer to his direction. The girl noticed the ball coming closer to him, so she warned him about it but it was too late…
"Itai!" Momoshiro cried as the ball hit him hard on his head. 'Damn it!' he thought while he rub his bump on his hurting head.
"Karma!" The girl murmured mischievously as Momoshiro glared at his two friends but he diverts his attention to the girl. He noticed that Ann was giggling at him but he ignores it.
"What are you doing here, Tachibana's imoto?" Momoshiro asked. The girl's fist clenched and she shouted him.
"Once and for all, I do have a name and its Ann. It's not too difficult to pronounced it!" Ann said exasperatedly at him. Momoshiro sweat dropped and apologized to her.
"Gomen ne, Tachibana's imoto—No! Ann!" Momoshiro said, correcting his mistake. Ann looked at him annoyingly but she only sighed.
"I'm always here to practice. Why? Do you have any objection?" She said.
"Iie! I didn't mean something!" Momoshiro said, jumpy, then he sighed.
"Oi, Momoshiro! We're going home now! We noticed we're disturbing the little scene!" Momoshiro's friend partner said as he and his partner went outside the court rapidly. "Ja matte!"
"Baka!" Momoshiro said angrily to his friends, "You two will be a dead meat!" he cursed.
"Why are you here, Momoshiro-kun? The Kantou Regional Tournament is getting closer so you should practice now! My Onii-chan's team was practicing and preparing for the regional," Ann said, boasting her brother's team, " I heard SEIGAKU were practicing too."
Momoshiro became silent all of a sudden. He diverts his attention on walking towards on his tennis racquet bag and ignores at what she had said.
"Oi, Momoshiro-kun! Are you--" Ann said as she followed him towards his tennis bag.
"You want to play tennis with me?" Momoshiro asked, interrupting her on going sentence. A fake smile on his face can be seen. He doesn't want to talk about it nor remember it right now.
"Huh? Anou… Uhm… I guess so?" She said doubtfully as she saw Momoshiro's fake smile on his face. 'What's bothering him today? He's acting weird…' She thought curiously and then she felt sad inside of her. 'I want to find it out!'
"Hai! I accept your challenge!" Ann said strongly.
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At the SEIGAKU tennis court, the entire members of the SEIGAKU tennis club, who were present that day, were practicing, training and doing some task which their buchou asked them to do such as picking tennis balls scattered around the court, running 20 lapses around the court, cheering the senpais who were playing at the training match.
Horio, a first year member, together with his two co-first years, Katsuo and Kachiro, were picking tennis balls scattered near at the entrance. This is their task, which their buchou ordered.
"Momo-chan-senpai didn't practice again huh?" Horio said, frowning, "He didn't even showed up in our morning practice." Then he sighed. He's worried because their Momo-chan-senpai didn't attend at their practices.
"Yeah, I guess he couldn't believe that he was defeated by Inui-senpai." Kachiro said sadly as he picked up the ball on the court.
"Maybe he should quit now… then if that happens," Horio said, laughing devilishly, and then he imagined himself wearing the official jacket of the SEIGAKU Regulars. "I'll be in Regulars now!"
"KOUHAI!" The vice-captain shouted, looking seriously at them. "Why are you talking about your senpai like that, huh?"
The three first years suddenly froze when they heard their vice-captain's voice.
"Gomen nasai, Oishi-senpai!" They apologized, bowing their heads showing respect to their vice-captain, "We won't do it again."
"Just do your tasks and don't talk about it, is that understood?" Oishi said seriously. They nodded at him and then he left them behind.
"That was so close, I thought I'm going to have a heart attack," Horio said, sighing loudly, "But… if he's-- "
"That's enough, Horio! You gave us enough trouble for this day! Don't open up that again! Or else Oishi-senpai will be scolding us again!" Kachiro and Katsuo said in chorus, scolding him.
"Ok! I'll stop!" Horio said in a defeating tone. 'Gees, in my two years experience in tennis, this experience will be the embarrassing one...' then he sighed.
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"Don't play hard on me!" Ann said jokingly as they walk heading at their court. Momoshiro smirked at her and looked at her straightly.
"Sure no problem!" Momoshiro replied coolly. Ann looked at him annoyingly and sighed. She walk near at the net and spoke to him but still annoyed.
"You take my stupid bait seriously! Oi! I was only joking! You can play with me like you do with those two friends of yours. I can jive with your speed, agility and strength, you know. I always play with my brother when I want to practice." Ann said matter-of-factly.
"Eh? Your brother? Playing tennis with you? You must be boy?" Momoshiro said jokingly while tossing the ball on his hand. Ann snatched the ball from his hand and glared him.
"Momoshiro-kun no Baka!" Ann said contemptuously while hitting his head with her racquet playfully. She head at the service line of her court and then she bounced the ball many times.
"I'm a girl, baka! I can do some guys playing style." Ann said seriously as she tossed the ball so high and hit it to Momoshiro's court strongly using her racquet. He chased the ball and he smashed it back to Ann using a forehand technique.
"Not bad!" Momoshiro said coolly. She chased the ball as it went to her ad court and smashed it back to her opponent's court. Momoshiro smash it back to Ann's court and she chased it and hit it back to his court, vice versa, a rally happened.
After long legal returns from each other, Ann decided to end the stupid rally. She used the drop shot since Momoshiro was only concentrating on his base line. The ball was inching closer and closer to the floor, Momoshiro tried to chase it but he was too late. The ball bounced on his court consecutively and it was clearly can be seen it's Ann's score.
Momoshiro was really amazed at her. He smiled at her and he throw the ball back to her.
"You're good!" Momoshiro said while he thumbs up at her. Ann giggled as she caught the ball.
"Really, Momoshiro-kun?" Ann said as she starts bouncing the ball again. "By the way, let's make a deal."
Momoshiro looked at her clueless and asked what she's talking about. A smirk on Ann's face can be seen. She continued bouncing the ball and she said the deal.
"I'm going to deal with you. If I win, you'll treat me snacks for three consecutive days starting tomorrow and you're going to tell what's bothering you. If you win, same conditions!"
"…"
"Deal?" Ann asked cheerily still bouncing the ball. Momoshiro sighed.
"Yeah, it's a deal." He said. She tossed up the ball seriously and smashed it to Momoshiro's direction strongly.
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After long-long hours they'd played together in their one set game match, finally, it was ended.
"Yay! I win!" Ann said victoriously as she laughed gaily. On the other hand, Momoshiro was mocking at the corner of his court not too far from Ann, he can't accept that he was defeated by a girl and not just any type of girl, a girl who knows how to play tennis and who can jive with his strength, agility and speed and a very-very energetic one.
"Oi, Momo-kun! Why are you pouting over there?" Ann asked with out any clue in her anime-chibi-form mode.
"Don't worry, I'm fine…" he said disappointedly. 'I can't believe I was defeated by a woman…'
"Momo-kun no Baka!" Ann murmured still annoyed at him. "Oi, don't forget our deal!"
"Saaa—I'm not that kind of guy who always break deals." Momoshiro said annoyingly. She went to her racquet case and kept her racquet.
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After playing tennis, Momoshiro invited Ann to the park. She was sitting on a bench waiting for him there. His and her racquet cases were on her side and his bike was placed opposite to her. She was bored on waiting for him. So she looked up to the sky and saw the red color of the afternoon mixing with the color of indigo of the night, she was amazed at the color of it.
Without notice, Momoshiro was coming closer to her direction. He called her name and caught attention of it. He waved a can of Juice, which he had bought from the soft drink dispenser not too far from the bench where Ann was sitting at.
"Catch!" Momoshiro said as he throws the juice to her. She caught it easily, and she smiled at him.
"Nice catch!" He said, "Can I sit beside you?"
Ann nodded, opening her juice. He sat down beside her and opened his juice.
"Why aren't you yourself today?" She began, looking at him, "Even in our match, you're not on yourself."
"Can you tell?" Momoshiro asked, sipping his juice.
"Of course I can tell! My brother usually looks like that when he has problems!"
"Really…"
"Do you have any problem on girls in school?"
"No! Why on earth does everybody think that I got busted by a girl?"
"Ok… So it's not a girl…"
"…"
She sips her juice again and thought, 'so it's not about girls… What else?' Ann deeply thought and guessed what's really bothering him. Suddenly, her facial expression changed into shock one. She was deeply shock on her own thoughts.
"Don't tell me--"
"Don't tell you what?"
"Don't tell me you're…" Momoshiro looked at her strangely, he was so confused why she's reacting like that. He sipped his juice while listening to her nonsense-taunting-unfinished sentence.
"Don't tell me you're… you're falling for a… for a… guy…"
Momoshiro splattered out from his mouth he had sipped on his juice and surprisingly scolded her for saying it.
"BAKA! I'M NOT A GAY! I'M A STRAIGHT GUY! I'LL NEVER-EVER FALLING IN LOVE FOR A GUY! BAKA!" Momoshiro scolded, blushing because of embarrassment.
"Ok! I get your point! Just spill it out so that I won't guess any crazy things on your problem!" Ann said ragingly, all of a sudden she calm again, "Promise! I won't tell anybody about your problem even to my brother." She pleaded innocently.
"Ok! I'll tell you now… I was removed in our regular line up yesterday, because Inui-senpai defeated me in the ranking selection," Momoshiro said seriously. Clenching his fist tightly. "If only… if only I—"
"If only what? Because of that, you're acting strange all of the sudden?" Ann said, cutting his sentence, "Momoshiro, you shouldn't be like that. You should accept your defeat… If you trip on the ground and fall down now, get up and be strong! Don't be embarrassed if you fall down, that's natural!" and then she thought, 'This guy is really pathetic,'
Momoshiro was stunned. He didn't know or how but all she had said to him were like a thunder that struck in his dumb mind. 'She's right! I should get up and be brave again. I shouldn't be embarrassed if I fall down but instead it should serve as a lesson.'
"Learn from my mistakes," he murmured, smiling happily, "I should learn from my mistakes."
Ann looked at him strangely and she asked, "Are you ok?"
Momoshiro chuckled and stood up, "You're right! I should get up and be brave! I should learn from my mistakes!" he chuckled again.
"Saaa— of course I am right! It's wrong to be upset like that. Don't be a weak man, Momoshiro-kun!" Ann said, smiling at him then she stood up. "Practice makes perfect!"
"Arigatou, Tachibana's imoto!" Momoshiro said, patting her head messily, "You're really a tensai!"
"Oi, don't mess my hair!" Ann said angrily, then she brag, "of course I'm a tensai! A cute tensai!"
He chuckled at her and he smiled, "Hai, a cute tensai!" Ann blushed, she didn't know why she's blushing but she shook her head to remove it.
"It's getting dark, I need to go home now, Momoshiro-kun." Ann said, smiling at him, "I'm in-charge in cooking today." She picked up her racquet case and smiled again.
"Should I walk you home, Tachibina's imoto?" Momoshiro asked, teasing her. Ann glared him and left him behind.
"No! I can walk all by myself! Ja!" She said angrily at him while clenching her fists, "Momoshiro no Baka!"
"Oi, Tachibana's—Ann! Don't be angry! I'm just joking!" He apologized. Momoshiro picked up his racquet and mount up on his bike, "Oi! Ann! Wait!"
Ann stopped on walking and she looked back to him. Momoshiro went to her and stopped his bike.
"Sumimasen, Ann-chan. Promise, I will call you by your name." Momoshiro apologized again. She chuckle happily and smiled.
"Ok! Apologize Accepted!" Ann said cheerfully, she started walking while he was biking along with her. "Don't forget our deal! Remember you're going to treat me snacks for three consecutive days, starting tomorrow!"
"Saa—like I said earlier, I'm not that kind of guy who always break deals." Momoshiro said coolly. Then silence enveloped them while they were crossing down the streets.
"Ja! Momoshiro-kun! I'll be heading this way," Ann said, breaking the silence and pointing across the pedestrian lane.
"I see," he said, "Thanks again, Ann-san!"
"What for?" She asked, "I didn't do anything?"
"You help me solve my problem."
"Eh?" she said, and then she laughed, "Really… I need to go… Oyasumi nasai!" Ann waved her hand with a sweet smile on her face and walked across the pedestrian lane.
Momoshiro looked at her, making sure that she had across the street safely and then he went his way to his home. 'I guess…Tachibana's imoto will be my companion while I'm not in regular line up,'
-Tsuzuki-To be Continued-
A/N: So, how is it? Is it good? Hahaha. I know, it's a cliff hanger… I guess… nn; Hehehe. Anyway, I'll upload the next chapter soon… don't worry, I'm still working on it… Hehehe… I guess this story of mine, will consist of 2 to 5 chapters. If my calculation is correct. Adjusting my reading glasses hehehe. Please read and review! Ja Ne, minna-san!