Sakuno's Passion
Sakuno Ryuzaki is a 13 year-old girl, she was just about to begin her second in seigaku. During this time she had experience many things, she had "fallen in love" with seigaku's youngest regular, Ryoma Echizen, she had taken up tennis even though she was not very good, and now that ryoma was gone and she was heart-broken.
Sakuno Ryuzaki sat still under the sakura tree it was in the center of her garden; yes hers it was not her mother's or her father's because she had neither. It had belonged to her mother once long ago, but now it was hers. The garden was her favorite place in the world she would come when she needed to think, when she was sad or depressed, or simply when she wanted to be alone. Today she was here because of all those reasons. She was heart-broken. Sakuno sighed as she remembered what her grandmother had told her.
FLASHBACK
"Obachan?" sakuno asked her grandmother who was sitting on her desk doing her paperwork.
"Yes, Sakuno?" Her grandmother replied without glancing up.
"Ano… do you know when Ryoma-kun is coming back." Sakuno asked shyly, even though it was her grandmother she didn't feel comfortable talking about the golden-eyed tennis prince she admires so much.
"Well actually his father called yesterday to tell me that Ryoma isn't coming back, that he is picking up is studies in the US." Her grandmother informed her like she was
Talking about the weather instead of telling her that Ryoma wasn't coming back.
"Oh really" Sakuno said trying to keep her voice even and succeeding, but she didn't know for how long so she decide to end the conversation quickly.
"Well I'll just leave you to your work then, bye" Sakuno said hurriedly before the tears came. She ran all the way to the garden located in the back of the house. She ran until she reached the sakura tree once there she sat and let tears slip down her cheeks.
END FLASBACK
It had been scarcely an hour since she received the news and she had stopped crying 30 minutes ago and now she could think clearly. She thought of what the others would do when they found out. Tomoka would be a nervous wreck and everyone would know it, the sempais would all be surprised but they would understand and most of them would keep it to themselves expect momo-sempai and kikamaru-sempai. So what would she do, well she would most certainly not mope around like last time when her parents had died in that car accident. She resolved to be strong and move on.
I have to or I'll never become stronger. The brown eyed teen thought. So it was settled sakuno had to move on because she had to become stronger like her mother wanted her to.
