Disclaimer: My plot to steal the rights to PoT has been thoroughly foiled. I still don't own it.
A/N: This is it people, the last of my PoT girls' 20Things fics. Chitose Miyuki come on down.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
~Maya Angelou
Love of the Game
1. Miyuki is given her first racket when she's seven and she insists on sleeping with it every night for a week. When her brother notices the bruises on her arms that her new habit has left her with he has to forcibly wrestle it away from her and hide it where she can't find it.
2. She doesn't speak to him for three days and it probably would have been longer if he hadn't given it back with the promise of tennis lessons every weekend for as long as she wanted them.
3. Miyuki has her older brother wrapped around her little fingers so tightly his teammates can feel it.
4. The only thing she loves more than tennis is her family, her older brother especially even though he spends half his time acting like a lazy, useless, moron.
5. Aside from that Senri is the best player she's ever met, and is also kind of her hero.
6. She'd rather die than tell him either. It would make his head even bigger than it already is and she's currently waiting for the day he'll no longer be able to fit through the front door.
7. Growing up Miyuki idolizes Tachibana An. An is cute and funny and good at tennis and everything Miyuki wants to be but is always too young or too skinny or too much of a tomboy to manage properly.
8. She spends years plotting the best way to get An and her brother together before she realizes that neither of them is interested. She mourns the idea for a few days but gets over it with very little fuss and only minimal dramatics. She's a practical girl and there really isn't any use in whining over something she can't change.
9. Her utter lack of melodrama has made her very popular with the boys at her school.
10. She has no idea.
11. Senri, however, knows the way boys' minds work all too well and his discreet threats are the only reason she hasn't been asked out on a date yet.
12. She never quite gets the hang of sitting properly in a skirt, trips whenever she tries to wear heels, and nearly puts out an eye the one time she tries to use her mother's mascara.
13. However, despite her obvious lack of most traditionally feminine virtues Miyuki is an awesome cook. Her brother's teammates show up at the Chitose household at least once a week, without fail, and make a valiant attempt to eat them out of house and home.
14. It's her idea to tell Kintarou-kun that Shiraishi-san's arm is poisonous.
15. Miyuki is not afraid of anything. Not the dark, not heights, not scary movies. Not even losing.
16. Her friends and family alternate between admiring her bravery and worrying that her utter lack of fear will get her into trouble one day.
17. This is a legitimate fear on their part, as Miyuki has absolutely no problem with taking on people more than twice her size if they dare to disagree with her.
18. Fortunately, the only time things have gotten truly out of hand Thief-bro showed up to save the day.
19. Miyuki has had crushes before, several of them actually. On Kippei-nii and Shiraishi-san and even Kintarou-kun before she realized he was an idiot, a cute idiot but still. Thief-bro is different though. He's strong and cool and smart and really, really handsome and amazing at tennis possibly even better than her brother and . . .
20. Miyuki isn't usually the type of girl who gushes but she figures that she can make an exception. Just this once.
A/N: It's done, the last of the 20things fics. Rest assured, I'm happy dancing in a thoroughly ridiculous manner. As always reviews are adored an appreciated especially ones with constructive criticism. Peace out, peoples.