Contradictions
Chapter 1 -- He returns?!
Summary:
Sakuno's better at tennis, she's starting to forget her feelings for Ryoma. She's closer to Fuji now. And her so-called bestfriend is getting envious of her. What will happen when Ryoma comes back and starts to feel jealous? What if he finally realized his feelings for the auburn haired-girl? Will Sakuno remember her feelings for him?
(a/n: It has been 4 years since Ryoma left for the U.S. Open and it's a bit OOC. Also a bit of FujiSaku)
Oh yeah, and I DO NOT ON PRINCE OF TENNIS :)
I also want thank fujixsaku0709 for helping me with the title and some parts in the story! Thank you very much!! :)
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It was a beautiful Sunday morning. The sun is shining brightly up in the sky, birds were flying and singing, children's laughter could be heard, people talking and-
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sounds of tennis balls hitting the wall could be heard too. A certain girl with long auburn hair in a ponytail was practicing by herself on a wall behind her house.
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"Sakuno!! Stop practicing and come eat your breakfast!" a voice from inside the house called.
"Hai!" she replied obediently. She caught the tennis ball she was playing with with her hand and gathered up the tennis balls. When she finished gathering them up, she sighed and looked up the sky, "I can't believe today is the last day of summer break..." after that she went inside the house.
"Oh, Sakuno! Hurry and eat your breakfast, I know that you're going to meet Tomoka and Ann," an old lady with the same hair color as the girl said with a smile.
Sakuno smiled, "Hai, baa-chan!" She ate her simple breakfast happily. After she finished eating she thanked her grandmother and then she went up to her room to get ready.
After about 15 minutes, Sakuno came down from her room. She put her hair in her usual pigtails, she was wearing light-blue skirt that was just above her knees, a white shirt with a butterfly design on it, a pink sweater, and white sandals.
She bid her grandmother goodbye and walked to where she was going to meet her friends. They were going to meet in the burger joint, the walk would take 5 minutes to walk from her house.
When she was only 2 minutes away from the burger joint, she met up Fuji and they smiled at eachother like it always happens.
"Hello, Syuusuke-senpai! Good morning!" Sakuno greeted with her very cheerful and bright smile.
Fuji smiled gently at her, "Hello, Saku-chan. You look cute in that outfit."
Sakuno blushed slightly, "T-thank you... Syuusuke-senpai..."
Fuji told her to call him by his real name since they became alot closer than when they were in Junior High, he was Sakuno's new Tennis Coach since he left. Fuji also started calling her "Saku-chan" or "Sakuno-chan" when he became her coach.
She looked at him curiously and asked, "Where are you going senpai?"
"I'm going to the burger joint to meet up with Eiji and Momo, what about you?" he said as the two continued walking in silence, but they kinda enjoyed it. Sometimes one of them would speak but it didn't feel like they ruined the silence. They liked eachother's company.
After 2 more minutes of walking together, they had finally arrived and found the people whom they were supposed to meet already there.
While Sakuno and Fuji were talking, Tomoka smirked, in a bad way, for a second when she saw the two of them. She changed her expression quickly not hoping that anyone saw, but someone did. Ann did, she became one of their bestfriends specially when she became Momo's girlfriend.
Ann looked at Tomoka with a quite surpirsed face, "Eh? W-was that T-Tomoka-chan?! She never makes that kind of face... especially to Saku-chan!" She looked worriedly at Sakuno and she shrugged the odd feeling away, "I-it's probably just me... I hope..."
"Sakuno!!" Tomoka yelled as she gave Sakuno a big, warm hug, "I haven't seen you in such a long time!" she exclaimed.
Sakuno smiled brightly at her bestfriend, "Tomo-chan!" she hugged Tomoka back, "I missed you! I was so bored when I couldn't talk to you!"
"Ahem!" a voice interrupted the two of them, "What about me?"
Sakuno's eyes widened and she exlcaimed happily, "Ann-chan!! I missed you too!" she went to hug Ann after Tomoka let her go from her tight hug.
Ann let out a small giggle, "Hehe, I missed you too, Saku-chan!" she said as she hugged Sakuno back.
"Ooh! It's Ryuuzaki-chan and Fuji-senpai!" Momo said as he walked towards the rest.
The auburn-haired girl smiled and bowed, "Good morning, Momo-senpai! Are you taking good care of Ann-chan?" she smiled teasingly. Ann blushed, Fuji chuckled and Sakuno and Tomoka giggled at the couple's reaction.
Momo blushed furiously, "A-ah, uhm.. I-I am!"
Suddenly a red-haired boy bounced and laughed, "Hahaha! Are you sure, Momo-chan? Nya"
"E-Eiji-senpai!" Momo looked at him with a suprised face, "D-don't just pop out of nowhere! You'll give people heart attacks!"
Eiji smiled childishly, "Hehe I like doing that though Good morning everyone!" he greeted them like an adorable, cute, loving, and friendly child.
The others laughed, "Good morning!" they greeted back.
"Sakuno-chan, where are you and the other girls going?" Fuji asked with his "smile". The other's shivered and tried to smile back.
"W-we don't know yet... That's why we decided to come here... W-why?" Sakuno replied, she was curious why Fuji would ask her that with that smile.
His smile didn't fade away, "Then would you like to come with us?"
Shivers ran down the others' spines, "U-umm..." Sakuno looked at her friends and they nodded, hoping they made the right choice.
Fuji's smile widened. Eiji looked at him with a scared expression, "F-Fujiko-chan...?"
His smile disappeared. The others gulped. He smiled "gently" this time, "Didn't I tell you not to call me that anymore, Ki-ku-ma-ru-chan?"
Eiji nodded furiously, "H-h-h-h-h-h-ha-h-h-ha-hai!" he stuttered a reply. Fuji's "gentle" smile disappeared and was replaced by his usual ones, everyone sighed in relief.
"H-he's so... so... s-scary/c-creepy..."
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Yesterday, U.S.
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"Mmmm... Urusaaiii..."
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"Ugh... so noisy..." a boy with messy green locks moaned as he pushed his hair back with his hands after he sat up on his bed.
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"Hm? Karupin..." he said as he picked up his precious cat and started to pet it gently.
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"Ryoma-san?" a voice from behind called out.
"Hn?" the boy replied lazily and he put his cat down on the floor and stood up to open the door.
He opened the door and saw his cousin with a smile on her face, he grunted, "What?"
"Hehe! Aren't you excited??" she asked happily.
He looked at her with a confused face. She sweatdropped but still had her happy smile on, "Y-you forgot didn't you...? We're coming back today!" she exclaimed as she patted his head.
"Don't pat my head like I'm a pet, Nonoko-neesan. And yes, apparently I did forget," he said with an expresionless face.
Nonoko grinned at him and said, "Ah, right! Obaa-san told me to tell you to change, eat breakfast and she figured that you'd forget so she also told me to tell you to pack right after breakfast since we're leaving at 2:00 and it's 9:00 right now! See ya!"
Ryoma frowned and muttered, "Aaahh... good thing the pervert already went yesterday..." he went back into his room to change and to the bathroom and finally went down for breakfast.
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Sakuno gave a big sigh as she finally arrived home, "Tadaima..." she mumbled as she took off her shoes, "I'm so tired... Today was such a long day..." she headed up to her room, she normally would've come to the kitchen or the living room to greet her grandmother but she knew her grandmother wasn't home yet, she said she was going to greet an old student and friend of hers.
She flopped down her bed and heaved another sigh. She sat up and remembered something, she searched for something in her pocket and took out pictures. Sakuno grinned when she looked at them. There were pictures of her, Fuji, Ann, Momo, Tomoka, and Eiji together. Sakuno was in the middle and on her left was Tomoka who was hugging her with her grin, and Ann on her right who was also hugging her with her sweet smile, and behind them were Eiji who had a very wide grin on his face, who was behind Sakuno, Fuji who was behind Tomoka with his usual smile, and Momo who was behind his girlfriend, Ann, and had a wide smile and had his left arm around Eiji.
There were also other pictures that were funny, there was a picture of Eiji who kicked the others out and hugged Sakuno tightly with his childish smile. A picture with Momo and Ann only, they were blushing madly, but if you look closely to the end of the picture, you could see Fuji with his "smile". Sakuno had a picture with Fuji and she had more than ten shades of red on her face, the picture was Fuji releasing Sakuno's hair from her pigtails and his face was very close to hers, Sakuno blushed when she looked at the piture. She also had a picture with only Ann and Tomoka, they all had big, happy smiles on their faces. But there were alot more other pictures.
Sakuno sighed happily as she took out her wallet and put some pictures in it. She stood up and changed into her comfortable clothing. She wore a grey tennis shirt, and a matching tennis skirt that are up to her mid-thigh, she put her hair in a ponytail and smiled. Sakuno went down the stairs, she put on her apron and started preparing dinner. She would eat later when her grandmother comes back.
She ran back to her room after she finished cooking their dinner and took her tennis rackets. Sakuno ran back down to her backyard with her tennis rackets and sighed again. She walked towards a bucket of tennis balls and took one. Sakuno got ready to serve the ball to the wall and-
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Her serves improved, it became faster and more accurate.
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She hit the wall on the same place where her serve hit the wall.
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Every time she returned the ball it kept hitting the same place.
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Sakuno smiled.
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It was becoming quiter every time she hits the ball.
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All she could hear was the wind and the trees swaying.
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She really liked playing tennis, it relaxes her.
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Sakuno was enjoying the silence until-
"Hey! Did you see Ryoma-sama's game on Friday??" a random girl's voice was heard while she was walking with her friends.
Sakuno froze at the name, but she continued hitting the ball.
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This time it hit a different spot on the wall.
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She frowned, "Way to ruin my quiet/relaxing time..."
"Yeah! It was so awesome! Ryoma-sama is soo cool!" another girl shrieked.
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They were talking really loudly, it was beginning to tick her off. Especially since they were talking about that guy.
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Sakuno's frown became a scowl when she heard something made her mad. She caught the ball skillfully with her left hand.
"Hey! Did you know he lived here for about a year before he left for the U.S. Open??" Girl 1 shrieked in delight again.
"Hmph! Yes! Ofcourse I knew! But you know what!" Girl 2 replied with arrogance in her voice.
"What?" Girl 1 and 3 asked curiously.
"There was this girl who had long pigtails that always followed him around when I saw him around here before!" Girl 2 said.
"gasp Oh I remember her! I saw her once with Ryoma-sama before! She kept on talking to him and he wasn't even replying!" Girl 3 added.
"I saw them together again and they started talking and the girl ran away crying!" Girl 2 continued.
"Haha! Our Ryoma-sama probably told her to stay away from him!" Girl 1 commented with her annoying laugh. The other two laughed too.
"Hahaha! That's probably it! I mean, why would our Ryoma-sama even take that girl on a date?? Or even talk to her, seriously!" Girl 2 said with arrogance in her voice too. Then all three of them laughed again.
"So true! And the girl wasn't even beautiful either! I mean, the dorkiest person in our class is prettier than her!" Girl 3 laughed.
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The three annoying girls heard a tennis ball hitting a wall. They all paused and continued to listen to where the sound was coming from.
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The sound was getting louder and louder.
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The wall was beginning to crack. The girls looked at the wall curiously.
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It started to crack more and more.
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The three girls continued to stare at the wall. "Wow... that person must be a strong tennis player... he/she kept on hitting the same spot on the wall... and it's really strong too! ...But he/she can't be as good as my Ryoma-sama!"
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The poor wall almost has a hole on it.
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The last hit was lighter than any hits before, but this time the wall really has a hole on it. The hole was as big as a basketball.
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The ball went through the wall and hit Girl 2 straight on the face, she fell backwards as the ball bounced back through the wall again.
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The ball went through the wall again and hit Girl 1 on the face too. The ball bounced back and again-
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Another hit and the ball hit Girl 3's face too. The ball bounced back through the wall and it sounded like someone caught the ball.
Now, all three girls were on the ground rubbing their sore noses, still staring unbelievably on the hole on the wall waiting for the person who has been hitting the ball to peek. And the person finally did.
The three gasped as they saw a girl's innocent, angelic face. The girl gasped with a fake surprised face as she climbed the wall and jumped off to go see the people she had just hit. The petite girl landed perfectly on her two feet on the ground with a smile on her face. She still carried her tennis racket and the tennis ball with her.
"Hello," the girl greeted them with her sweet smile.
The girls' surprised face broke to a scowl, "Why you! How could you smile sweetly like that when you knew that you hit us with your ball!" Girl 3 yelled.
The auburn haired-girl's expression disappeared and was replaced by an expressionless face and she said in a gentle but rude voice, "Why would I?"
Girl 1 glared at her, "Because you just hit us on the face with your stupid tennis ball! Who are you anyway!"
"Ohh... and by the way, my name is Ryuuzaki Sakuno," she smirked, "and your faces would have gotten hit if you moved your ugly faces. Idiots."
Their faces were priceless when they heard the angelic-faced girl said that to them. They all blushed, "W-why you!!" Girl 1 exclaimed. Girl 1 and 3 looked at Girl 2 curiously and they whispered angrily, "Why aren't you saying anything??"
"C-cuz..." Girl 2 mumbled while looking down.
"Ah! Nevermind!"Girl 1 said to her friend, "You! Ryuu-something! Why won't you just apologize?!" Girl 1 shouted angrily.
Sakuno glared at her and said, "It's R-y-u-u-z-a-k-i, RYUUZAKI. And NO I won't since you insulted me."
"Insulted you? We have never even saw you be-.." Girl 3 remembered, "...-fore... E-ehh...? Y-you're that pigtailed girl?!" she exclaimed.
"Ehh?!" Girl 1 looked at Girl 2 with a face had a look that says, "Is she??"
Girl 2 nodded while blushing, "Y-yeah... that's her..."
Sakuno smirked, "Yes... it's me. And I'm not going to apologize until you all do."
They looked at her embarassed, they called her an ugly girl but she was the complete opposite, "F-fine... W-we're sor-" they were cut off by a voice.
"Ryuuzaki?" a familiar voice interrupted them from behind Sakuno.
Sakuno froze, she remembered that voice really well, it might have sounded a bit different but she will never forget it. She didn't tun around or anything, she just stood there in place. He was actually the only one who calls her "Ryuuzaki", other people call her with a "-chan" or "-san".
The three girls' eyes widened and they all shrieked excitedly again. Sakuno and the person winced at the high-pitched shriek.
"T-that's him alright..." Sakuno turned around with a small smile on her face, when she turned around, her eyes widened in surprise.
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My first Prince of Tennis fic! I hope you enjoyed reading it!
Please review! :)
