First fan fiction so please be nice to me, thank you.
I do not own Prince of tennis.
Ryoma x Sakuno
"Gambatte, Sakuno!" Tomoka yelled-whispered as she ran out of the school gates.
"Hai!" Sakuno replied, looking ahead at her prince back and walked up to him with her small fist clenched, trying to calm her nerves down; thinking 'It's the last week before the summer holidays, and if I don't confess, I'll lose my chance...'
"Ano… Ryoma-kun, I want to tell you something…." Sakuno said with a lot of courage.
"Hn?"
"Ryoma-kun, I-I like you!" she confessed.
His eyes slightly widened, but immediately gained back his cool self.
"Sorry, I don't have time for that kind stuff, I have the tennis team and since this is the last year of junior high, I have to study." Ryoma then turned around and walked out of the school gate.
Sakuno just stood there, very sad, but she was already half-expecting this, and unconsciously a tear slid down onto her face. She mentally cursed herself "You baka, Sakuno, to expected Echizen Ryoma, the captain of the Seigaku tennis team, the tennis prodigy, to like you back? But I still did it, and I think my heart feels better now."
"Yamasaki sensei, can I come in?" Sakuno asked as she knocked on the door.
"Of course, Sakuno-chan!"
Sakuno walked into the empty classroom and walked towards her favorite teacher, Yamasaki sensei was her math teacher, and sometimes acted as her councilor. And because Yamasaki sensei was from the U.K, she sometimes even teaches Sakuno English.
"Come on; take a seat. Now, what's bothering you?"
"How…?"
"Oh, it's written all over your face, so tell me."
Sakuno blushed and she told Yamasaki sensei everything, how she liked Ryoma for two and a half years, how she confessed, and how she got turned down.
"Well, Sakuno, I know exactly what you're feeling, I used to be a teenager too, you know," Yamasaki sensei chuckled to herself, "But just so you know, I think that this is his loss and not yours because he just turned down the most wonderful girl I've ever met."
Sakuno blushed again and said, "Sensei…"
"Now keep in mind, that you still have three years of high school left, and that's a very long time, any by the time he's finally matured, he'll realize what he's been missing. So don't try to forget him, and try to be just friends with him. Understood?"
"Hai, I understand!"
"Pok…Pok…"
It was the last day of the holidays and Echizen Ryoma was practicing tennis along one of the street tennis courts walls. He stopped and inwardly sighed. He was trying to get his mind of one wobbly hips girl's confession, but it seemed that even tennis couldn't get his mind off her.
"Oi! Echizen!"
He turned around and muttered his breath, "Momo's girlfriend…"
"What are you doing?"
"Playing Tennis."
"Really? Then why did you stop on the 98th time, couldn't you have finished it off?" asked Ann.
"Or is it that you were thinking about something?"
'Damn, she hit the mark!'Ryoma inwardly cringed.
"Oh so you are thinking of something! What is it that made even you not able to concentrate?"
"…"
"Oi, Ann!" a loud voice yelled.
Ann turned around and smiled at the source of the voice, and said, "Hi-- Where are we going, Takeshi?"Before she knew it, she was dragged away by the loud mouth.
"Don't you remember what day it is?"
"I know, it's our 6 months anniversary!"
"So, I'm taking you somewhere!"
"But I have to talk to the damn Echizen!" Ann whipped her head around to talk to Ryoma, but found out that he was long gone, she muttered, "Damn!"
"Huff…Huff" 'That was close.' Ryoma thought sitting on a bench, 'If I didn't get away, I don't know what I'll say. But the biggest question is: Why am I thinking about her?'
"Ryoma-kun?"
Ryoma looked up from his ponta and there she was, the person that was plaguing his thoughts throughout the holiday. She has most definitely grown over the holidays, she had filled in at the proper spaces, now more curvier than before (before she was just a stick). She got a hair cut up to her shoulders and was tied back in a pony tail. Ryoma has also grown, he probably shot up a few inches, since Sakuno last saw him, and was handsome and athletic (a.k.a muscular, A/N I felt kinda weird typing .) as ever. Sakuno blushed seeing that Ryoma was staring at her.
"Ano, Ryoma-kun?"
"Yeah?" he finally snapped out of it and paid attention to what she was saying.
"We're going to high school aren't we?"
"I suppose… why?"
"Nothing, I was just thinking what Yamasaki sensei said to me before we graduated." Sakuno said, relieved that it wasn't awkward between her and her object of affections.
"Oh."
"Anyways, Tezuka buchou said that if you wanted to be on the tennis team, be at the tennis courts early tomorrow!" She waved and ran towards her house. "Oh," she added with a smile, "See you later, Ryoma-kun!"
Ryoma didn't know why his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
(A/N I know, I know, the "skipped a beat" part was cliché, but I couldn't resist)
"Oi, shonen!"
"What is it, Old man?" grumbled Ryoma
"I have a video tape here and I want you to give this to that old woman Ryuzaki, you know where her house is right?"
"Yada (No), do it yourself."
"Come on, I'll play a game with you?" Nanjiro suggested.
Used it on him too many times so… "No."
"Fine, I'll play a game with you and stop bugging you for a week?" The older Echizen suggested again.
Tempting, but still… "No."
"Listen, kid, I wanna get back to my "newspaper", so last offer, I'll play a game with you, stop bugging you and that stupid cat for a week."
He thought about it for a moment and in the end he said,"Fine, deal." Ryoma grabbed the video, his jacket, stuffed his feet in his running shoes, grabbed his keys and headed out.
Nanjiro sighed, 'He better thank me for this, if he doesn't, he's going to one day."
"Knock, knock."
'Huh? Who would it be at this time?' Sakuno thought as she went and got the door. "Eh? Ryoma-kun? Please come in."
Ryoma didn't know what made him to it, but he found himself sitting on her couch, eating her delicious homemade cookies and drinking tea.
"Ano, can I ask what brings you here?
"Oyaji asked me to give this video to your grandmother and seeing she's not here, I think I'll just leave it with you." He said while rising up from his seat. "Thank you for your hospitality."
"It's alright, um… I guess I'll see you to the door."
They walked out to the front gates and Sakuno looked at the stars and said, "Oh, the sky is so pretty!"
Ryoma looked at the view of the girl and the night sky and once again, his heart skipped a beat, he ignored it again. He knew what was happening but he couldn't because Tennis always came first.
"Ryuzaki, I guess you don't stutter any more, eh? I like it. Anyways, ja ne."
Sakuno blushed. Hard.
Finished! Please tell me what you think about it. Thank You.
And please be nice as I'm a newbie. Arigatou.
-yinkwun