The Prince of Tennis does not belong neither do the characters, except for
Reina. Konomi Takeshi produces everything else. Thank you^^
Seigaku no Ohimesama
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Sometimes I wonder if he'll remember me. Oh well, there's not a chance he can forget me. Aheh.
The girl sat down on the bench at Seigaku tennis courts. It was five thirty a.m. and she thought that Ryoma would be there in the morning. "What was I thinking?" She got up, grabbed a bucket of tennis balls she got from the Boys Tennis room and dumped all balls on her side and set the basket on the other side of the court. She took two more baskets and placed them in different spots of the court. She sat back down and looked at the court. "Won't he be surprised, oh well he came here for that reason only, not just him." It was six a.m. already and she decided to play until he got there.
Six forty-five a.m. three, 2nd year students walked up to the tennis courts and saw the girl sitting on the bench with her legs crossed. They walked inside the Boys Tennis room; changed and looked for the tennis balls they were all gone. They looked out the window and saw she had taken them all. Half of them were still on her side the rest were evenly in each basket.
"Oi, check out the girl. Woo is she hot." Arai looked at her, "Aheh yeah she is. Let's see if she needs Tennis lessons." The three changed and walked to the tennis courts.
"Yo, Oujosama, the boys tennis club is gonna need this court, your going to have to leave." The girl opened her eyes and looked at them and didn't move. "You can stay though, if you need tennis lessons." She shut her eyes and smiled. "Ok."
Arai and co. got to the court and practiced. "This is back swing." Arai kept talking, but she wasn't listening. She looked at him and thought, "Poor Ryoma, having to put up with pompous asses like them."
Ryoma walked up to the school and heard voices calling him. It was Horio and co. running after him. Ryoma didn't know whether or not he considered them friends, but they weren't bad so he didn't care. The four boys walked toward the Tennis courts and into the boy's room to change. They walked back out and saw all of the 2nd year boy tennis members gathered around the cage. They approached the cage and stared at the girl that Arai was "teaching".
"Oh Arai is one lucky bastard, teaching a girl like her tennis."
"Girl? What do you mean girl, that's a woman right there."
Ryoma passed them all and entered the court and looked at the girl. She had short dark blue hair and was almost the same height as Fuji-senpai. "Ack. What is she doing here?" Ryoma looked over and she gave him a smirk. "Aheh. Showing off again." He passed them and stopped in front of them on the opposite side. He took a tennis ball and was ready to serve.
"Hey freshmen get out of here. She can't hit that lucky Twist Serve you do." Arai yelled at him. The other guy tried to stop him but he served it anyways. He served the ball and the girl jumped back and whacked it back to him.
"Hey she returns the ball." "That girl's pretty good."
Arai looked at her, "I thought you didn't know how to play?"
"I never said I didn't know how to play, you asked if you wanted to teach me so I said yes. Don't assume."
"Reina-neechan…." Ryoma spoke
"Reina…"
"neechan?"
"Nice return." He looked up at her and smiled.
Horio looked at him, "Did he just say Reina-neechan?" The other two nodded their heads.
Reina sat down and Ryoma walked over to her and sat down next to her.
"What are you doing here?"
"I go here."
"Tennis?"
"No. Volleyball. I hear this school is the #1 School in both Tennis and Volleyball."
Ryoma looked at her. "Why not join our tennis club? There are interesting members and all of them are interesting to play against."
"There's no room for girls on this tennis club. Besides you know I only took up tennis was because my father was so pushy."
"Maybe… but I still say your better at Tennis than Volleyball. Let's play a game."
"That's because you like Tennis better and you can't beat me. Ok. But practice only."
The two got up walked up to the court. "Practice only? Why?" Ryoma asked.
"You know." And she served the ball. She stood in the middle of the court and Ryoma returned the ball.
"Hey here come the Regulars." They moved out of the way all bowed and said Good morning to all them.
Momoshiro, "Hey who's that Ryoma's playing?"
Horio, "They're not playing, they said they're practicing."
Eiji, "Practicing? Really?"
Kawamura, "Are you sure? They look like they're playing a game."
Inui, "No. Look. She's not moving except her left foot. And Ryoma is moving an awful lot."
Momoshiro, "It's too early for this."
Tezuka, Oishi and Fuji walked up behind them and saw them.
"Ryoma get ready."
He bent down a bit and got ready. Reina served the ball and he returned it. "Mada mada dane, Ryoma" and Reina returned it with a twist serve forte and almost hit Ryoma in the face.
"Oi, what was that?" Momoshiro yelled out.
"That was Reina special, dayo" and she winked at them.
"Oi, Reina-neecha…" Ryoma gave her evil look.
"Hai hai."
"Hmp."
"I feel sorry for you Ryoma. You got stuck with people like him torturing you, who can't even back swing properly." She pointed to Arai.
"What did you say?" Arai stood up to her.
She crossed her arms and shot him a mean glare, "You heard me. Your knees are to low, your form is wrong; your back swing is too high. You want to teach a girl but can't even play right."
"Why you bitch!" and he darted for her. Just as he did Ryoma intervened. "Arai-senpai, I advise you not to go there." And he darted him an evil glare.
The regulars and 2nd year students stared at them all. Ryuzaki-sensei and Sakuno walked up to see what they were all looking at.
Ryuzaki-sensei, "Oi what's going on here!?" everyone moved out of the way and she looked. She was surprised. "Reina-chan…"
"Sensei you know her?" Tezuka asked.
"Un. She excels farther then Ryoma and Myself and is basically the female version of Ryoma's father, Nanjiro."
"Are you serious sensei?" Oishi asked.
"Yeah. But she doesn't play for tennis clubs. She plays volleyball also. She was accepted to four high schools for her playing in both Tennis and volleyball. She is only a 2nd year student. She grew up with Ryoma and both studied under his father. She excelled more because volleyball is like tennis and she got more strength. It would be great to have her as a regular. But who's ever heard of a girl on seigaku's tennis club?" she smirked at Tezuka.
"Please tell us more" Tezuka pressed her for more information.
"She only started to play because her and Ryoma were like best friends."
"Were?" Sakuno asked.
"Aa. Ryoma went off an played in four championships and won, she came back here."
"Four!?" they all gawked.
"Oh didn't I tell you?" they all had disoriented faces. "Yeah he was born in America played over there and that's where she met him, but she had to suddenly move back here. She continued to play both sports but only played on the Volleyball team. She has grown into a beautiful girl."
"Are you sure she's 2nd year?" Momoshiro asked, "She looks like she's 3rd year."
"She's 2nd year. I haven't seen her in years but that's Reina alright."
Reina, "Ryoma, it's ok. He can't stand the fact that a 1st year and a girl are better than he is. Let's go."
"Hai." They both gathered their stuff and headed for the gate. "Ryuzaki- sensei? Is it really you?"
"Long time no see, Reina."
Momoshiro, Kawamura, Kaido, Eiji, Oishi stepped in front to introduce themselves to her.
"Hi I'm Momoshiro Takeshi, but you can call me Momochan!"
"I'm Kawamura." he said shyly.
"Yo. I'm Kikumaru Eiji. Nice to meet you." He said with a smile.
Kaido just stood there kinda of blushing but with a grin.
"I'm Oishi, Vice president of the Tennis club. This is Fuji and Inui and our President, Tezuka."
"Senpai's, please…" he gave them a glare.
"Oi, Ryoma-kun it's ok no need to get defensive."
"I'm Fuji Syusuke. Nice to meet you." He said with a smile. "So why don't you join our tennis club? From what Ryuzaki-sensei has been saying we could use a girl."
"No." she said in a stern voice.
"Didn't I tell you they wouldn't mind, especially since you're a …."
"Ehhh… what was that Ryoma?" Momoshiro nudged him.
"Momo-senpai!"
"I said No. Ryoma-kun come with me in the Tennis room, I need to change my stuff is in there."
"Hai." And they both walked off.
"The tennis room? He's going in there with her to change??" They all looked at him with envy.
"Shut up! All of you get to practice!" everyone got to their stations except for the Regulars who had to change and get their stuff in the Tennis room. It's been awhile so they decided to go and look.
"Hey what are you doing?" Fuji looked at them. "Isn't that invasion of privacy? Wait till they come out." And they all stood outside until they came out.
"Reina… why won't you join?"
"You know why Ryoma."
"Can't you join for me? Please?"
"Ryoma you're never like this with anyone else, why me?"
He walked over to her while she had her shirt off and a sports bra on and leaned against her. "Because Reina is special she knows that."
"Ryoma… you know why…."
"Please. You know I never ask for anything."
Fuji standing next to the door saw Eiji and Momoshiro looking through the window. "Oi check it out! He's a 1st year and look what he's got" They all looked with envy.
"Ryoma we have an audience." He looked up and threw a ball at them. "Senpai's are bad."
"Ryoma, if you really want me to join I will, but just for fun and practice. No tournaments or anything."
"…"
"Ryoma!"
"Hai." He whispered.
They both walked out tennis room and Kaido, Momoshiro, Eiji, Kawamura and Fuji were standing outside the door and looked at them. Reina passed them and passed next to Fuji.
"There is no room on this club for a girl. We both know that." And she walked off. Fuji had this curious confused look on his face. Ryoma turned to look at them and then followed behind Reina.
Ryoma came back to practice, alone. He leaned against the fence and took a drink of his water. It was late in the morning and he was tired already. He didn't expect to see her again so soon. Ryuzaki-sensei walked up to him and asked him about Reina. All he told her was that she was in the gym practicing and that she agreed to join the tennis club. Ryuzaki-sensei wanted her as regular; it would be the first for Seigaku to have a female and a freshman on their team.
It was getting late and all classes were over. The tennis club was cleaning up the courts and the Regulars were all walking to go home. Ryoma headed in a different direction, he headed towards the gym to see if she was still there.
The rest of them were walking and noticed he wasn't there with him.
Momochan, "Maybe he went to you know where."
Eiji, "Alright, let's go let's go!"
They all walked to the gym, even Tezuka went with them. They found Ryoma sitting on the ground next to the door watching her. They looked up and they saw her playing with two other people from the school Varsity team.
Ryoma watched her play and she jumped served.
Eiji, "Oi, wasn't that a twist serve?"
"Is it possible to do that with your own hands?" Kawamura asked. The rest of the group was in awe. They never have seen anyone able to do that. The girl didn't return the serve so she served again.
"Hey Ria-san can you switch over here I want to practice up more."
"Hai Reina-san." Ria switched sides. "Hey Hikaru try to return it."
"Are you kidding? Hell no. I'll just sit down and watch." Hikaru went over to the outer end of the court and served the ball and stayed in that position.
"Reina."
"Hai."
Reina bumped the ball to Ria and Ria set her up for a spike. Reina jumped up really high; Ryoma opened his eyes more and so did the rest of the team. She took her jump and smacked the ball down.
"Oi, what was that?" Kawamura asked.
"It's my dunk smash!" Momochan said.
"No." they all looked at Ryoma. "It is like that but not quite, she added the twist to it. She's been practicing that move since I could remember, has she finally mastered it?"
"Oi Reina, that was awesome! Why don't you join our team this year?"
"Maybe" and she laughed.
Hikaru, "Oh come on you'd be starter and we'd make it to the nationals!" they all started laughing. Then Reina stopped and looked toward the door.
"Reina what's wrong?" they both looked in that direction, "Hey what's the Tennis Varsity doing here? Isn't that that freshman?"
"Yeah."
"Well we're gonna go get changed. Thanks for the practice." They waved goodbye and walked the other end of the gym. Reina went to bench and sat down. Ryoma got up and walked to her; behind him were the Regulars.
"I see you've mastered it already."
"No. That wasn't even what you thought it was, well it wasn't from my perspective."
Momoshiro spoke up, "Oh come on, that was dunk smash and his twist serve all rolled into one, and you say it wasn't?"
"The ball didn't rotate like a twist serve, it only went into that general direction because of the angel I hit it at."
She was sweating all over and came back Fuji with a bottle of water. "Here drink this".
She thanked him and took a drink.
Tezuka finally said something to her. "Would you come out to the Tennis courts, I would like to see you play."
"Later I'm tired. Ryoma wait for me I'm going to change." And she left.
They all watched her as she left and Ryoma sat down with his eyes closed waiting for her.
"Hey Ryoma, why doesn't she play tennis?" Momochan asked.
He didn't say anything. "She's really good." He added.
Tezuka, "We'll see."
Ryoma opened his eyes, "Tezuka-senpai, you know the only other person I couldn't beat besides my father," Tezuka looked at him, "is her, and she is the only one that has beaten my father in a fair game.
"What!?" Eiji yelled. The group was in awe. "So why doesn't she play professionally? Or join a club."
Ryoma didn't answer.
Reina walked out in warm-up pants that hung around her hips and a tank top that showed her belly button. Japanese guys weren't used to that kind of clothing, but she lived in America and she liked that style.
"Reina-neechan, why do you wear that style? I don't like it." Ryoma asked and looked at her. Reina turned around and asked the rest of the guys, "Do I look funny or bad in this?" They didn't say anything but look at her, even Tezuka was looking at her that way. Fuji looked at her, "You look very good."
Ryoma ignored that and Reina grabbed his arm and urged them to go on. They walked each other home and the last one's been Fuji, Reina and Ryoma. Ryoma was off first, he wanted to walk her home but she didn't want him to. They dropped him off at home and Fuji and Reina walked on.
Ryoma walked inside and found his dad reading more Hentai books.
"Oi, boy why you so late?"
"Oh, dad, guess who joined our tennis club?"
"Who? Reinachan? Yeah right."
"Maybe."
"What? She's going to Seigaku? I didn't know."
"I'm going to bed. Good night."
Fuji and Reina walked with nothing being said then Fuji finally said something.
"Why won't you let Ryoma see where you live?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Reina…" he reached out but she walked on and stopped in front of him.
"It's not the same as before Syusuke-kun. I'm not joining the team because of… well I'm only joining because Ryoma asked me to."
He put his arms around her. "Reina,"
"What do you want from me? I didn't come here because of you…" her voice lowered.
"I know.." and he let go, "why did you come back here?"
She walked on and ignored his question, "Syusuke-kun…" she turned around, "… never mind." And she walked around the corner and left him there.
Reina sat in her room and opened her photo album. There were pictures of her and Ryoma and some of Syusuke in there. "Why did I come back here?" she asked herself. She felt so frustrated that she took her tennis bag and walked to the school tennis courts.
It was almost 11 p.m. and the school was empty, except for the guard who let her in. She took out her bag of tennis balls and placed it next to her and she started serving. As she kept serving and switching sides each time she ran out of balls she slowly was getting angry.
-Flashback-
"Taka!"
"Oi, Reina hold on I have to tie my shoes."
Reina stood there waiting for him. Suddenly they heard a car speeding and it's tires skidding.
"TAKA!!"
-End flashback-
"IYADA!" Reina smacked the ball and it stuck to the cage on the other end of the court. She fell to the ground and started crying in anger.
Two figures approached the tennis courts.
"Hey someone's here." Fuji told Tezuka.
"That's Reina."
"Reina?" Fuji dropped his stuff, "Oi Tezuka can you wait here and watch our stuff?" and he darted off.
"Fuji"
Fuji ran to the courts and opened the gate and ran to her. "Reina! Reina are you ok?"
"Syusuke-kun?" she was crying and her eyes were so full of anger. "Go away! Leave me alone!"
"REINA!" he kneeled beside her and let her be for a while. Tezuka walked up and saw them. "Reina…" and he held her. She was resisting saying she didn't need him anymore and that things were changing, he didn't need to do that anymore.
"Do they know each other?" Tezuka asked himself. He thought it was weird they were being so familiar.
She finally let up and leaned against Fuji. She fell asleep on his shoulder and he carried her to the bench and put his jacket on her. Fuji went over to Tezuka.
"Sorry about that Tezuka." Tezuka gave him a stern look.
"What's this about? Do you know her?"
"Yeah. I met her a few years ago. We used to date."
"You had a girlfriend? I never knew that."
"Well she didn't want me to tell anyone and she was always busy doing something. She has come to our tournaments, but in disguises, which are why, you probably don't recognize her. She is really good at that. I didn't know she knew Ryoma-kun."
"So he doesn't know?"
"I don't think so."
"What do you of her skills?"
"I don't know why she agreed to join our club. She is good, very good, maybe even better than you. I never asked her about her past or anything or where she learned to play. I know she had a reason for stop playing tennis altogether, but I never pushed her for information, it was better she trust me on her own. But… Ryoma seems to know and…"
"…and it bothers you that he knows and you don't."
"Un."
"Well we'll find out tomorrow."
"Tezuka, is your arm ok?"
"Yeah, it will be fine."
They got up, "Well looks like we won't be able to play tonight." Fuji scooped her up and he and Tezuka walked to her house. "This is why she didn't want Ryoma to follow her. I don't think Ryoma knows about her family situation." Tezuka looked at the enormous house. Fuji took out her keys and opened the door. Tezuka looked at him. "I've spent a lot of time in this house and it's as empty as it ever is." He put her down on the couch. "Tezuka I'm going to stay here. Don't tell Ryoma. I want her to tell him. Why don't you stay here too? Just call your parents and tell them your staying at my home, my sister will cover for you." Tezuka wasn't sure but he did anyways.
The next morning Reina woke up and saw Tezuka and Fuji on futons on the floor. She got up, went to her room and took a shower and got ready for school. The two guys woke up and saw her eating breakfast.
"Here your uniform you left here is there. You can both take showers in any of the bathrooms. There are extra tooth brushes in the drawers and what ever hair care you use."
Fuji took Tezuka upstairs to one of the guest rooms. "She's always like that. Calm and cold and in order."
"Why is your uniform here?"
"I used to stay here sometimes to keep her company, of course I slept in this room. But she always has extra stuff for people." Tezuka didn't say anything. Fuji took out another Uniform for him, "She's always been alone, ever since I met her. Her mother died when she was young and her father… her father was always away on a business trip so I never actually met him. My sister and her got along well, then one day she broke it off with me and disappeared. I'm surprised her house and her combination haven't changed. "Things have changed" she said, yeah right." Fuji handed him a towel and showed him to the bathroom to take his shower. Fuji went into her room and looked around, "Still exactly the same." He looked on her dresser and there were pictures on her mirror. She had one of her and Ryoma in America and then he saw two of them two together when they went camping." He looked on the dresser and saw a frame of her and her mother when she was young and then one of her and her father. It looked pretty recent too. Fuji left and took one of the pictures of them two together and took his shower.
They went down stairs and they were already to get to school. Reina didn't question why there were there, she pretty much knew. As they entered the school Reina stopped. "Syusuke-kun, Tezuka-san, yesterday… thank you." Fuji smiled at her and Tezuka just nodded. Oishi, Eiji and Kawamura met up with them.
Eiji, "That's not fair! Tezuka and Fuji got to her first!"
Momoshiro and Ryoma came and met up with them. Kaido was behind them too.
Tezuka told them they have early practice for the whole day. They've been excused.
"Reina, you've been excused also. I would like to play against you."
"What?" they all gawked.
Oishi, "Oi Tezuka is it ok for you?" He nodded.
They all walked to the tennis courts and had the 1st year students. All the 2nd year and 3rd years stood outside the gates and watched them.
Seigaku no Ohimesama
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Sometimes I wonder if he'll remember me. Oh well, there's not a chance he can forget me. Aheh.
The girl sat down on the bench at Seigaku tennis courts. It was five thirty a.m. and she thought that Ryoma would be there in the morning. "What was I thinking?" She got up, grabbed a bucket of tennis balls she got from the Boys Tennis room and dumped all balls on her side and set the basket on the other side of the court. She took two more baskets and placed them in different spots of the court. She sat back down and looked at the court. "Won't he be surprised, oh well he came here for that reason only, not just him." It was six a.m. already and she decided to play until he got there.
Six forty-five a.m. three, 2nd year students walked up to the tennis courts and saw the girl sitting on the bench with her legs crossed. They walked inside the Boys Tennis room; changed and looked for the tennis balls they were all gone. They looked out the window and saw she had taken them all. Half of them were still on her side the rest were evenly in each basket.
"Oi, check out the girl. Woo is she hot." Arai looked at her, "Aheh yeah she is. Let's see if she needs Tennis lessons." The three changed and walked to the tennis courts.
"Yo, Oujosama, the boys tennis club is gonna need this court, your going to have to leave." The girl opened her eyes and looked at them and didn't move. "You can stay though, if you need tennis lessons." She shut her eyes and smiled. "Ok."
Arai and co. got to the court and practiced. "This is back swing." Arai kept talking, but she wasn't listening. She looked at him and thought, "Poor Ryoma, having to put up with pompous asses like them."
Ryoma walked up to the school and heard voices calling him. It was Horio and co. running after him. Ryoma didn't know whether or not he considered them friends, but they weren't bad so he didn't care. The four boys walked toward the Tennis courts and into the boy's room to change. They walked back out and saw all of the 2nd year boy tennis members gathered around the cage. They approached the cage and stared at the girl that Arai was "teaching".
"Oh Arai is one lucky bastard, teaching a girl like her tennis."
"Girl? What do you mean girl, that's a woman right there."
Ryoma passed them all and entered the court and looked at the girl. She had short dark blue hair and was almost the same height as Fuji-senpai. "Ack. What is she doing here?" Ryoma looked over and she gave him a smirk. "Aheh. Showing off again." He passed them and stopped in front of them on the opposite side. He took a tennis ball and was ready to serve.
"Hey freshmen get out of here. She can't hit that lucky Twist Serve you do." Arai yelled at him. The other guy tried to stop him but he served it anyways. He served the ball and the girl jumped back and whacked it back to him.
"Hey she returns the ball." "That girl's pretty good."
Arai looked at her, "I thought you didn't know how to play?"
"I never said I didn't know how to play, you asked if you wanted to teach me so I said yes. Don't assume."
"Reina-neechan…." Ryoma spoke
"Reina…"
"neechan?"
"Nice return." He looked up at her and smiled.
Horio looked at him, "Did he just say Reina-neechan?" The other two nodded their heads.
Reina sat down and Ryoma walked over to her and sat down next to her.
"What are you doing here?"
"I go here."
"Tennis?"
"No. Volleyball. I hear this school is the #1 School in both Tennis and Volleyball."
Ryoma looked at her. "Why not join our tennis club? There are interesting members and all of them are interesting to play against."
"There's no room for girls on this tennis club. Besides you know I only took up tennis was because my father was so pushy."
"Maybe… but I still say your better at Tennis than Volleyball. Let's play a game."
"That's because you like Tennis better and you can't beat me. Ok. But practice only."
The two got up walked up to the court. "Practice only? Why?" Ryoma asked.
"You know." And she served the ball. She stood in the middle of the court and Ryoma returned the ball.
"Hey here come the Regulars." They moved out of the way all bowed and said Good morning to all them.
Momoshiro, "Hey who's that Ryoma's playing?"
Horio, "They're not playing, they said they're practicing."
Eiji, "Practicing? Really?"
Kawamura, "Are you sure? They look like they're playing a game."
Inui, "No. Look. She's not moving except her left foot. And Ryoma is moving an awful lot."
Momoshiro, "It's too early for this."
Tezuka, Oishi and Fuji walked up behind them and saw them.
"Ryoma get ready."
He bent down a bit and got ready. Reina served the ball and he returned it. "Mada mada dane, Ryoma" and Reina returned it with a twist serve forte and almost hit Ryoma in the face.
"Oi, what was that?" Momoshiro yelled out.
"That was Reina special, dayo" and she winked at them.
"Oi, Reina-neecha…" Ryoma gave her evil look.
"Hai hai."
"Hmp."
"I feel sorry for you Ryoma. You got stuck with people like him torturing you, who can't even back swing properly." She pointed to Arai.
"What did you say?" Arai stood up to her.
She crossed her arms and shot him a mean glare, "You heard me. Your knees are to low, your form is wrong; your back swing is too high. You want to teach a girl but can't even play right."
"Why you bitch!" and he darted for her. Just as he did Ryoma intervened. "Arai-senpai, I advise you not to go there." And he darted him an evil glare.
The regulars and 2nd year students stared at them all. Ryuzaki-sensei and Sakuno walked up to see what they were all looking at.
Ryuzaki-sensei, "Oi what's going on here!?" everyone moved out of the way and she looked. She was surprised. "Reina-chan…"
"Sensei you know her?" Tezuka asked.
"Un. She excels farther then Ryoma and Myself and is basically the female version of Ryoma's father, Nanjiro."
"Are you serious sensei?" Oishi asked.
"Yeah. But she doesn't play for tennis clubs. She plays volleyball also. She was accepted to four high schools for her playing in both Tennis and volleyball. She is only a 2nd year student. She grew up with Ryoma and both studied under his father. She excelled more because volleyball is like tennis and she got more strength. It would be great to have her as a regular. But who's ever heard of a girl on seigaku's tennis club?" she smirked at Tezuka.
"Please tell us more" Tezuka pressed her for more information.
"She only started to play because her and Ryoma were like best friends."
"Were?" Sakuno asked.
"Aa. Ryoma went off an played in four championships and won, she came back here."
"Four!?" they all gawked.
"Oh didn't I tell you?" they all had disoriented faces. "Yeah he was born in America played over there and that's where she met him, but she had to suddenly move back here. She continued to play both sports but only played on the Volleyball team. She has grown into a beautiful girl."
"Are you sure she's 2nd year?" Momoshiro asked, "She looks like she's 3rd year."
"She's 2nd year. I haven't seen her in years but that's Reina alright."
Reina, "Ryoma, it's ok. He can't stand the fact that a 1st year and a girl are better than he is. Let's go."
"Hai." They both gathered their stuff and headed for the gate. "Ryuzaki- sensei? Is it really you?"
"Long time no see, Reina."
Momoshiro, Kawamura, Kaido, Eiji, Oishi stepped in front to introduce themselves to her.
"Hi I'm Momoshiro Takeshi, but you can call me Momochan!"
"I'm Kawamura." he said shyly.
"Yo. I'm Kikumaru Eiji. Nice to meet you." He said with a smile.
Kaido just stood there kinda of blushing but with a grin.
"I'm Oishi, Vice president of the Tennis club. This is Fuji and Inui and our President, Tezuka."
"Senpai's, please…" he gave them a glare.
"Oi, Ryoma-kun it's ok no need to get defensive."
"I'm Fuji Syusuke. Nice to meet you." He said with a smile. "So why don't you join our tennis club? From what Ryuzaki-sensei has been saying we could use a girl."
"No." she said in a stern voice.
"Didn't I tell you they wouldn't mind, especially since you're a …."
"Ehhh… what was that Ryoma?" Momoshiro nudged him.
"Momo-senpai!"
"I said No. Ryoma-kun come with me in the Tennis room, I need to change my stuff is in there."
"Hai." And they both walked off.
"The tennis room? He's going in there with her to change??" They all looked at him with envy.
"Shut up! All of you get to practice!" everyone got to their stations except for the Regulars who had to change and get their stuff in the Tennis room. It's been awhile so they decided to go and look.
"Hey what are you doing?" Fuji looked at them. "Isn't that invasion of privacy? Wait till they come out." And they all stood outside until they came out.
"Reina… why won't you join?"
"You know why Ryoma."
"Can't you join for me? Please?"
"Ryoma you're never like this with anyone else, why me?"
He walked over to her while she had her shirt off and a sports bra on and leaned against her. "Because Reina is special she knows that."
"Ryoma… you know why…."
"Please. You know I never ask for anything."
Fuji standing next to the door saw Eiji and Momoshiro looking through the window. "Oi check it out! He's a 1st year and look what he's got" They all looked with envy.
"Ryoma we have an audience." He looked up and threw a ball at them. "Senpai's are bad."
"Ryoma, if you really want me to join I will, but just for fun and practice. No tournaments or anything."
"…"
"Ryoma!"
"Hai." He whispered.
They both walked out tennis room and Kaido, Momoshiro, Eiji, Kawamura and Fuji were standing outside the door and looked at them. Reina passed them and passed next to Fuji.
"There is no room on this club for a girl. We both know that." And she walked off. Fuji had this curious confused look on his face. Ryoma turned to look at them and then followed behind Reina.
Ryoma came back to practice, alone. He leaned against the fence and took a drink of his water. It was late in the morning and he was tired already. He didn't expect to see her again so soon. Ryuzaki-sensei walked up to him and asked him about Reina. All he told her was that she was in the gym practicing and that she agreed to join the tennis club. Ryuzaki-sensei wanted her as regular; it would be the first for Seigaku to have a female and a freshman on their team.
It was getting late and all classes were over. The tennis club was cleaning up the courts and the Regulars were all walking to go home. Ryoma headed in a different direction, he headed towards the gym to see if she was still there.
The rest of them were walking and noticed he wasn't there with him.
Momochan, "Maybe he went to you know where."
Eiji, "Alright, let's go let's go!"
They all walked to the gym, even Tezuka went with them. They found Ryoma sitting on the ground next to the door watching her. They looked up and they saw her playing with two other people from the school Varsity team.
Ryoma watched her play and she jumped served.
Eiji, "Oi, wasn't that a twist serve?"
"Is it possible to do that with your own hands?" Kawamura asked. The rest of the group was in awe. They never have seen anyone able to do that. The girl didn't return the serve so she served again.
"Hey Ria-san can you switch over here I want to practice up more."
"Hai Reina-san." Ria switched sides. "Hey Hikaru try to return it."
"Are you kidding? Hell no. I'll just sit down and watch." Hikaru went over to the outer end of the court and served the ball and stayed in that position.
"Reina."
"Hai."
Reina bumped the ball to Ria and Ria set her up for a spike. Reina jumped up really high; Ryoma opened his eyes more and so did the rest of the team. She took her jump and smacked the ball down.
"Oi, what was that?" Kawamura asked.
"It's my dunk smash!" Momochan said.
"No." they all looked at Ryoma. "It is like that but not quite, she added the twist to it. She's been practicing that move since I could remember, has she finally mastered it?"
"Oi Reina, that was awesome! Why don't you join our team this year?"
"Maybe" and she laughed.
Hikaru, "Oh come on you'd be starter and we'd make it to the nationals!" they all started laughing. Then Reina stopped and looked toward the door.
"Reina what's wrong?" they both looked in that direction, "Hey what's the Tennis Varsity doing here? Isn't that that freshman?"
"Yeah."
"Well we're gonna go get changed. Thanks for the practice." They waved goodbye and walked the other end of the gym. Reina went to bench and sat down. Ryoma got up and walked to her; behind him were the Regulars.
"I see you've mastered it already."
"No. That wasn't even what you thought it was, well it wasn't from my perspective."
Momoshiro spoke up, "Oh come on, that was dunk smash and his twist serve all rolled into one, and you say it wasn't?"
"The ball didn't rotate like a twist serve, it only went into that general direction because of the angel I hit it at."
She was sweating all over and came back Fuji with a bottle of water. "Here drink this".
She thanked him and took a drink.
Tezuka finally said something to her. "Would you come out to the Tennis courts, I would like to see you play."
"Later I'm tired. Ryoma wait for me I'm going to change." And she left.
They all watched her as she left and Ryoma sat down with his eyes closed waiting for her.
"Hey Ryoma, why doesn't she play tennis?" Momochan asked.
He didn't say anything. "She's really good." He added.
Tezuka, "We'll see."
Ryoma opened his eyes, "Tezuka-senpai, you know the only other person I couldn't beat besides my father," Tezuka looked at him, "is her, and she is the only one that has beaten my father in a fair game.
"What!?" Eiji yelled. The group was in awe. "So why doesn't she play professionally? Or join a club."
Ryoma didn't answer.
Reina walked out in warm-up pants that hung around her hips and a tank top that showed her belly button. Japanese guys weren't used to that kind of clothing, but she lived in America and she liked that style.
"Reina-neechan, why do you wear that style? I don't like it." Ryoma asked and looked at her. Reina turned around and asked the rest of the guys, "Do I look funny or bad in this?" They didn't say anything but look at her, even Tezuka was looking at her that way. Fuji looked at her, "You look very good."
Ryoma ignored that and Reina grabbed his arm and urged them to go on. They walked each other home and the last one's been Fuji, Reina and Ryoma. Ryoma was off first, he wanted to walk her home but she didn't want him to. They dropped him off at home and Fuji and Reina walked on.
Ryoma walked inside and found his dad reading more Hentai books.
"Oi, boy why you so late?"
"Oh, dad, guess who joined our tennis club?"
"Who? Reinachan? Yeah right."
"Maybe."
"What? She's going to Seigaku? I didn't know."
"I'm going to bed. Good night."
Fuji and Reina walked with nothing being said then Fuji finally said something.
"Why won't you let Ryoma see where you live?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Reina…" he reached out but she walked on and stopped in front of him.
"It's not the same as before Syusuke-kun. I'm not joining the team because of… well I'm only joining because Ryoma asked me to."
He put his arms around her. "Reina,"
"What do you want from me? I didn't come here because of you…" her voice lowered.
"I know.." and he let go, "why did you come back here?"
She walked on and ignored his question, "Syusuke-kun…" she turned around, "… never mind." And she walked around the corner and left him there.
Reina sat in her room and opened her photo album. There were pictures of her and Ryoma and some of Syusuke in there. "Why did I come back here?" she asked herself. She felt so frustrated that she took her tennis bag and walked to the school tennis courts.
It was almost 11 p.m. and the school was empty, except for the guard who let her in. She took out her bag of tennis balls and placed it next to her and she started serving. As she kept serving and switching sides each time she ran out of balls she slowly was getting angry.
-Flashback-
"Taka!"
"Oi, Reina hold on I have to tie my shoes."
Reina stood there waiting for him. Suddenly they heard a car speeding and it's tires skidding.
"TAKA!!"
-End flashback-
"IYADA!" Reina smacked the ball and it stuck to the cage on the other end of the court. She fell to the ground and started crying in anger.
Two figures approached the tennis courts.
"Hey someone's here." Fuji told Tezuka.
"That's Reina."
"Reina?" Fuji dropped his stuff, "Oi Tezuka can you wait here and watch our stuff?" and he darted off.
"Fuji"
Fuji ran to the courts and opened the gate and ran to her. "Reina! Reina are you ok?"
"Syusuke-kun?" she was crying and her eyes were so full of anger. "Go away! Leave me alone!"
"REINA!" he kneeled beside her and let her be for a while. Tezuka walked up and saw them. "Reina…" and he held her. She was resisting saying she didn't need him anymore and that things were changing, he didn't need to do that anymore.
"Do they know each other?" Tezuka asked himself. He thought it was weird they were being so familiar.
She finally let up and leaned against Fuji. She fell asleep on his shoulder and he carried her to the bench and put his jacket on her. Fuji went over to Tezuka.
"Sorry about that Tezuka." Tezuka gave him a stern look.
"What's this about? Do you know her?"
"Yeah. I met her a few years ago. We used to date."
"You had a girlfriend? I never knew that."
"Well she didn't want me to tell anyone and she was always busy doing something. She has come to our tournaments, but in disguises, which are why, you probably don't recognize her. She is really good at that. I didn't know she knew Ryoma-kun."
"So he doesn't know?"
"I don't think so."
"What do you of her skills?"
"I don't know why she agreed to join our club. She is good, very good, maybe even better than you. I never asked her about her past or anything or where she learned to play. I know she had a reason for stop playing tennis altogether, but I never pushed her for information, it was better she trust me on her own. But… Ryoma seems to know and…"
"…and it bothers you that he knows and you don't."
"Un."
"Well we'll find out tomorrow."
"Tezuka, is your arm ok?"
"Yeah, it will be fine."
They got up, "Well looks like we won't be able to play tonight." Fuji scooped her up and he and Tezuka walked to her house. "This is why she didn't want Ryoma to follow her. I don't think Ryoma knows about her family situation." Tezuka looked at the enormous house. Fuji took out her keys and opened the door. Tezuka looked at him. "I've spent a lot of time in this house and it's as empty as it ever is." He put her down on the couch. "Tezuka I'm going to stay here. Don't tell Ryoma. I want her to tell him. Why don't you stay here too? Just call your parents and tell them your staying at my home, my sister will cover for you." Tezuka wasn't sure but he did anyways.
The next morning Reina woke up and saw Tezuka and Fuji on futons on the floor. She got up, went to her room and took a shower and got ready for school. The two guys woke up and saw her eating breakfast.
"Here your uniform you left here is there. You can both take showers in any of the bathrooms. There are extra tooth brushes in the drawers and what ever hair care you use."
Fuji took Tezuka upstairs to one of the guest rooms. "She's always like that. Calm and cold and in order."
"Why is your uniform here?"
"I used to stay here sometimes to keep her company, of course I slept in this room. But she always has extra stuff for people." Tezuka didn't say anything. Fuji took out another Uniform for him, "She's always been alone, ever since I met her. Her mother died when she was young and her father… her father was always away on a business trip so I never actually met him. My sister and her got along well, then one day she broke it off with me and disappeared. I'm surprised her house and her combination haven't changed. "Things have changed" she said, yeah right." Fuji handed him a towel and showed him to the bathroom to take his shower. Fuji went into her room and looked around, "Still exactly the same." He looked on her dresser and there were pictures on her mirror. She had one of her and Ryoma in America and then he saw two of them two together when they went camping." He looked on the dresser and saw a frame of her and her mother when she was young and then one of her and her father. It looked pretty recent too. Fuji left and took one of the pictures of them two together and took his shower.
They went down stairs and they were already to get to school. Reina didn't question why there were there, she pretty much knew. As they entered the school Reina stopped. "Syusuke-kun, Tezuka-san, yesterday… thank you." Fuji smiled at her and Tezuka just nodded. Oishi, Eiji and Kawamura met up with them.
Eiji, "That's not fair! Tezuka and Fuji got to her first!"
Momoshiro and Ryoma came and met up with them. Kaido was behind them too.
Tezuka told them they have early practice for the whole day. They've been excused.
"Reina, you've been excused also. I would like to play against you."
"What?" they all gawked.
Oishi, "Oi Tezuka is it ok for you?" He nodded.
They all walked to the tennis courts and had the 1st year students. All the 2nd year and 3rd years stood outside the gates and watched them.