Why does everything have to change?

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California, United States

"Ne Ryoma" Echizen Ryoga called his son.

"Nani?" Ryoma replied not bothering to look at his dad.

"Do you miss living in Japan?"

"..."

"Because we have to go back..."

"Eh?"

Japan, Seishun Academy

"Sakuno-chan!" Tomoka called her friend.

"Nani?" Sakuno replied.

"Do you wanna see the Regulars practicing?"

'Echizen...I wonder how you have been doing...' Sakuno thought.

"Ok" Sakuno told Tomoka while following her friend to the tennis courts.

At the tennis courts...

"All Regulars please gather around" Coach Sumire called.

"Hai!" Everyona replied while heading to where their coach was standing.

"What I'm about to tell you is to be kept a secret between us, understand?" Sumire said while looking at each of them in the eyes.

The Regulars looked at each other to see if everyone was as surprised as theirselves.

"Hai" they promised while looking at their Coach dying of curiosity.

"This morning I received an e-mail from Ryoma's father and he said that they are coming back because of their family which lives in Japan."

Everyone was surprised. Was the small cocky guy coming back?

Everyone smiled and once again looked around them to see each other's reaction.

"Yey!!! I'm so ureshii right now!" Momo sempai said happily.

"Why are you happy?" Tomoka asked entering the tennis court.

"Oh it's because um um um" Momo sempai tried to tell Tomoka and Sakuno but Inui putted his hand over Momo's big mouth stopping him from finishing his sentence. Everyone looked at Sumire wishing she could let them tell Sakuno-chan what was happening.

When Sumire saw all those cute cat's eyes coming from her team she couldn't resist to let them tell her grandaughter and her noisy friend the big news.

"Sakuno-chan, Ryoma is coming back!" Eiji-sempai said loud enough for Sakuno to hear but quiet enough to not let the others hear what they were talking about.

"But you two are not supposed to tell anyone, understand?" Coach Sumire asked with a serious expression.

Sakuno was so happy at that time that she couldn't answer so she just nodded.

"Hai" Tomoka promised a little disappointed.

"Then why don't we start organizing a big party for Ochibi?" Momo asked.

"Ok!" everyone shouted in unison.

Sakuno was so happy that she couldn't contain the tears that she was holding since Eiji-sempai told her that Echizen was coming back.

"Daijiyobu Sakuno-chan?" Fuji-sempai asked seeing tears rolling down Sakuno's cute and delicate face.

"Ha-hai" she replied wiping the tears.

The Regulars, Coach Sumire, Sakuno and Tomoka started organizing the stuff for Ryoma's party since he was coming back the day after tomorrow.

Day Ryoma's coming back...

Coach Sumire had asked Echizen Ryoga what time they were going to arrive, what gate and which airport. The Regulars, Sakuno, Coach Sumire and Tomoka arrived at the airport 20 minutes before so they could find the gate.

When the plane arrived Sakuno's heart started beating faster, she couldn't wait to see Echizen.

"Yo! Isn't that Ochibi?" Momo asked pointing to a boy wearing a white Fila cap.

When Echizen heard his name he slowly rose his head and saw the Regulars pointing and screaming happily. When he looked at the scene more careful he could see that Ryuzaki was also there.

'What are they doing here?' he thought.

"Yo Ryoma!" Momo called.

Ryoma didn't say anything, but looked at them.

"Osashiburi!" said Fuji and Eiji in unison.

"Osashiburi..." Ryoma replied not looking at his sempais.

Ryoma slowly walked towards Sakuno and stopped right in front of her.

"Oh" he said looking to his left, so he wouldn't have to do eye contact with Sakuno.

"Osashiburi Echizen"

Ryoma was now looking to his right when he said, "For how long have you been calling me Echizen? You can call me by my first if you like..."

Sakuno never heard Echizen-cough-Ryoma say so much to her in one minute.

"Hai, I will call you Ryoma from now on..." Sakuno replied.

'I can see that he's not as arrogant and quiet as before...' Sakuno thought.

"You are as quiet as before ne?" Ryoma told her.

Sakuno blushed and then told him, "Ryoma can call me by my first name too..."

"Um" he said while nodding.

"Sorry for interrupting the two if you, but can we leave this crowded airport as soon as possible and go to that place...?" Eiji asked.

"Haiii!" everyone said in unison.

Ryoma looked at Sakuno and gave her a smile. Sakuno seeing his smile blushed and smiled back.

At the park...

"We are here!!" Momo shouted happily.

He jumped off the bus and started running in circles. When everyone got off the bus they started heading to the place where they were going to have a picnic. In this park there were many tennis courts and three volleyball courts. Sakuno practiced tennis with Eiji-sempai everyday including weekends when Ryoma was in America and now she was in the level of the Regulars, but all Regulars didn't know that except for Eiji-sempai, and Sakuno didn't join the tennis club the past year when Ryoma was in America, she chose to join the volleyball club instead and she was going to become captain next year. She was really good at volleyball since she played tennis everyday and had a lot of strength in her arms and was a fast runner.

"This place is so kirei!" Sakuno said while taking a look around the cherry blossom trees.

"yup and it has a lot of tennnis courts!" Fuji said happily.

The Regulars headed to the place where Coach Sumire had planned to have the picnic.

There was a red blanket spread out on the floor and on top of it there was tempura, sushi, sashimi, yakisoba and all kinds of Japanese food.

"Wow!" Momo said while his jaw was wide opened.

Sakuno giggled seeing Momo-sempai's face.

"Let's eat!" Momo jokingly ordered.

"Itadakimasu." everyone said before starting to eat the delicious food that Sakuno and Coach Sumire had provided.

Everyone thought that the food was oishii.

"Let's go have a match!" Momo-sempai suggested.

"Ok" everyone said.

When Momo-sempai suggested to have a tennis match Ryoma was happy he looked at Sakuno, but she wasn't looking at him like she used to do one year ago, she was now looking at someone else. This someone was Eiji-sempai.

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