Based on: Prince of Tennis and New Prince of Tennis (both manga and anime versions)
I do not own Prince of Tennis nor New Prince of Tennis.
The name of the fan fiction: Jinx of Tennis
Chapter 1
I ran as fast as I could without rising suspicious. I ran until I could see my target. I was late, again. But this time I slipped through a rabbit hole. It was more likely used by humans but who cares.
I am late and will always be late. It's in my nature and therefore is unbreakable. I am a scientist's creation, half of me is human, the other half is unpredictable data.
I am late. Late, late, late… Too bad it's the thirteenth day I'm late. Oh well, it is my lucky number. Or to be more specific, it's my code number. A number that was given to me when I was born.
The guards saw me and the chase started with me being faster of course. Thank you, Doctor Stein (1), for making me fast. I ran around a corner and saw my actual target standing with a group of people. He turned around and smiled as he saw me running, probably in time. The smile disappeared when the guards ran around the corner as well. He freaked out.
Soon I reached at the tennis courts, where he was, and stopped in front of him. He was still in shock, mouth open, eyes bulging and his racket on the ground. His friends were in similar positions.
Thankfully the guards weren't allowed to enter the court so I was saved. That went well, why not to try it again tomorrow?
One, two, three, four, fi-… He screamed and pointed at me and screamed again. No comment needed.
I probably looked like a monster due to my messy hair, black sunglasses and dirty clothes. I checked myself over and found some of branches in my hair, one of them had a bird nest with eggs, isn't it sweet. My white Lolita dress was only a bit dirty but I can't say that to my knees and hands. My shoes were… Somewhere around I guess if I had put them on today anyway. I can forget some things sometimes too. Otherwise I looked fine, ne [1].
My target, my adopted brother, finally fainted. It would have made me laugh but the look on his face was too serous.
Others unfroze too and helped my nii-chan [2]. It didn't take them long to fetch a water bottle and pour it's contents on my nii-chan, thanks to the cold water the effect was fast. He woke up and trembled as if he had seen a ghost.
I giggled at the thought of me being the ghost. Their eyes turned at me, staring shamelessly. How rude of them.
I recognized some of them. But they obviously didn't remember me.
"Who are you?" and there came the questions, oh joy. I smiled politely at the boy with closed eyes and creepy smile but before I could answer someone answered for me.
My nii-chan jumped behind me and hugged me tightly as he cried out, "Gami-chan, why didn't you come earlier, you promised, nya [3]." I sighed and snapped at him, "I told you, you may use my middle name, nii-chan. No need to use my last, it's not like it brings any bad luck to you when you do so." At that I sniggered, I do bring bad luck to people around me.
He grinned and released me. "Sure thing, Shini-chan."
One of the people I know decided to interrupt, "Name: Kikumaru Shini Gami. School: Seishun Academy (1st Year). Class: Should be in 1-2 #4 (Echizen's) but transferred to class 3-6 #7 (Eiji's). Has visited the class 0 times so far. Birthday: 17th December. Siblings: Two adopted older sisters, three adopted older brothers, two adopted parents, an adopted dog, a wolf-hybrid Kerberos. Tennis style: Mostly serve-and-volley in mixed doubles, all-rounder in mixed singles. Highest achievement in tennis: Used constantly as a Wild Card in tennis (female, male and mixed tennis), never lost in an official match. Favourite move: Pinnacle of Death. Deadliest ability: Shinigami Eyes - It takes only four seconds of eye contact, effects are perfect copy of the other's thoughts and acting (past, present and future forms). Blood Type: Quicksilver (2). Nicknames: Shinigami, Copy-Koneko [4], Jinx and Death God. Extra: Shini Gami is written by kanji that means Death God. She brings bad luck to everyone around her (not confirmed). She is always late (confirmed). Talented in languages, also constantly mixing them up. Kikumaru Shini Gami is made by mixing human and data. This is the only piece of my data that is accurate about her. Data tennis' use against her - 0%."
I grinned at Inui Sadaharu, "Good job, Sada-kun." He looked me in the eye and blushed, I continued, "But after all, it does take only four seconds of eye contact. Shinigami Eyes, present form, grasped - 100%. Probability of Inui Sadaharu not realizing it before – 79.33%. Probability of him looking for a way to stop this – 67.57%. Probability of him finding it on his own – 0.03%." I smiled at him. Taste your own medicine. I wonder what his reaction will be. Ii data (3). I took a notebook from his frozen hand and started making notes about his reaction. Good data!
Thank you, Doctor Stein (1), for making me fast. – Doctor Stein comes from the name Doctor Victor Frankenstein but it is too mouthful. Also she used irony, because Doctor Victor Frankenstein was a scientist who made a monster, and she was also made by a scientist.
Blood Type: Quicksilver (2). – Shi isn't a full human so she doesn't have a normal blood, instead it's toxic quicksilver.
Ii data (3). – Inui Sadaharu's catch phrase.
[1] Ne – It doesn't have a meaning. Or if it does then I don't know it yet. It should be pronounced like a 'neh' I guess. Also it's Shi's catch phrase and therefore used often. She uses it as a question sometimes (And? Or? So what?) but is not expecting an answer.
[2] Nii-chan – 'Onii-san' and 'Nii-chan' both mean brother but nii-chan is more informal and is used when a younger sibling is referring to his or her own sibling.
[3] Nya – It should imitate cat's meow and is used a lot by Kikumaru Eiji.
[4] Koneko – It means kitten. 'Neko' is cat and 'ko' means child.
Thank you for taking your time to read this. Please correct my mistakes, both grammar and character's habits, and also revives are welcome. English is my third language so please be kind to me (first being my mother language Estonian and second is German but I make too many mistakes in it). Flames are used to roast marshmallows.
Before you ask, yes Shi is a lot like Mary-Sue (Too perfect?) but this makes it so fun to write. By the way, who is this Mary-Sue and why some people hate her? Also Shi's partner in tennis will be an OC (own character/original character) but that's it (besides the scientists and Kerberos). I think that to make an OC it takes a lot of imagination but to make them not perfect, takes a lot more, I don't have it so I just go with the flow.
I also would like to know what you think about the first chapter, don't be shy.
This chapter contains about 1,308 words (+-5).
April 15 2012