Hello again! Yes, koyuninjagirl made a new story. Yay. Anyways, enjoy my second story! (or maybe not?) So… Criticize away! Oh yes, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RYOMA!
Prologue- Chapter One
Whoosh. The wind blew harshly, and the trees waved their branches violently, as if to capture something. All the Seigaku tennis regulars were walking together in the pitch-black shadows of the stormy night. They were walking back to Oishi's house from tennis practice to wait out the oncoming storm. Tezuka Kunimitsu glanced around when they walked into the dim glow of a streetlight.
"All accounted for," Tezuka muttered to himself, sighing in relief. He couldn't shake the feeling that told him something bad was going to happen. An omen, perhaps?
"We're almost there," Oishi said quietly, just loud enough for the regulars to hear. Some regulars, like Eiji and Momo, sighed in relief loudly. Others, like Tezuka, had no reaction. Tezuka glanced at the back of the group, expecting to hear a snarky comment. Surprisingly, there was none. Maybe he couldn't hear the comment over the increasingly loud wailing of the wind.
"Maybe he's too scared to comment?" Fuji commented to Tezuka. Tezuka doubted the possibility, but he shrugged anyways. He didn't even need Inui to tell him the percentage of chance that the team's resident rookie tennis prodigy was scared.
Splish. Splish. Drops of rain began to fall. Tezuka began to feel more and more cumulating dread. They were all there, right?
The lights of a house broke through the darkness. Finally, they had reached Oishi's house. Tezuka couldn't help but breathe out a silent sigh of relief. They were all there, right?
"One, two, three, four, five," Tezuka counted, "six, seven, eight." Wait, there was one person missing?
"Eh? Where did he go?" Oishi asked, close to panicking.
"Maybe he left to his own house?" Momo replied. "Can we just go in already? It's cold!" Eiji nodded in agreement. Oishi sighed, but opened the door to the house. As the others tramped into the house with mumbles and shouts of, "Ojama shimasu! (Sorry for intruding)", Tezuka lingered behind.
"Echizen, where are you?"
So that was the prologue, hope you liked it. Early Merry Christmas as well. Happy birthday, Echizen Ryoma! Criticize away, readers. =3