Royal Court

Kaidouh/Ice?

Tezuka/Echizen ?

About the main pairings I don't know so far it's like above. Maybe I'll change them later, it would depend on the story later. I'll try my best to make it interesting 

Thus the story begins ...

Chapter 1.

It was the sunny day on the grounds of Seigaku. Birds were singing, students were playing tennis. Everything was as it should be.

Tennis courts.

Freshmen were doing racket swings while Arai was supervising them, shouting orders, which annoyed everybody. Lucky for him no one dared to interrupt him.

"1!2!3!4!5!6! MOVE IT PEOPLE!!!" Arai swung his racket and nearly hit Echizen when he was entering the courts.

"Watch it Senpai" He mumbled but Arai never less heard him clear as a day.

"Ah! Echizen. Finally been on time?"

"Ch" Ryoma moved his cap over his eyes and dumped his bag at the foot of the bench nearby.

"O-CHIBI-CHAN!!!" Ryoma winced. Kikimaru bounced on him giggling happily.

"Ohayo! Eiji-senpai." He mumbled trying to escape from Kikimaru's death grip. As soon as he made his escape he was once again enveloped in the bear hug but this one was from Momoshiro.

So the chances of been strangled were very high.

"O! Gaki! You've been punctual at once."

"Mo-mo senpa—pai!! Air! " Ryoma gasped trying to release the hold on him. Momo chuckled but never less released his hold. As soon as Echizen was released he adjusted his cap.

"Good afternoon minna!" Fuji stalked behind everybody with cat grace so no one noticed him until the last second. Everybody yelped from surprise.

"Oi! Fuji-senpai. You sure gave us a heart attack. Don't sneak on people like that. We are the best players we can't afford dying before our championship." Momoshiro whined clutching his heart to show his point.

"Yei!" Eiji high five "He is right about that one Fuji-senpai." He grinned.

"EVERYBODY ASSEMBLE!!!" Oishi shouted first thing when he entered the courts.

All the members stood in the perfect line in front of him waiting for day's schedule. When Oishi received their all attention he began.

"Today we are going to play doubles. Court A: Momoshiro, Kaidouh" He looked around but only saw Momo, Kaidouh was absent.

"Where is he?" Oishi asked looking around. "Anybody knows?"

"Not a clue" Fuji smiled his never fading smile. "Maybe he got delayed because of 'pleasant destructions'" At knowing Fuji's sadistic nature everybody shuddered.

"Hope not." Momo mumbled but Fuji somehow heard him, maybe it was his sixth sense but Momo felt very uneasy when he felt Fuji's smile on him. 'That sadist, thinking anything but decent thoughts.'

"Well, let's continue. Then on court A: Inui & Fuji, Echizen & Eiji, Court C & D are to practice swings and serves. First years collect the balls and when the courts are in use practice your swings and run 20 laps."

Loud groans were heard as everybody started doing their assigned tasks.

Oishi sighed. The evening promised to be long. Now the only task would be to find the snake. He never came late so it was strange to find him lost. He looked around and moved to the exit looking for the missing himself as he had to wait for their bouchou and coach to return from their meeting anyway.

As soon as he came closer to the fence he was nearly knocked over by the running boy/girl. He couldn't tell because the uniform was a mixture between two. The boy/girl was dressed in long pants and a long dress on top with slits on both sides till the waist. The dress was black with long white sleeves which were reaching almost to the ground. He had long, very long green? 'Interesting hair' Oishi thought as he jumped aside in time to let the boy ran past him. What else caught his attention were long earrings on both sides and three on one ear. They were long and pointed, glimmering in the setting sun. He was very slim and delicate, although he/she was taller than Echizen almost by two heads.

'Interesting' Oishi shook his head to clear his mind and set on his task as soon the person disappeared behind the corner.

After 10 minutes he found Kaidouh running toward the changing room clearly pissed. When he noticed Oishi he stopped and bowed.

"Sorry for the late. I had late class Oishi-senpai." Saying it his eyes darted from side to side as if looking for something. When he found none he sighed and went to change. Oishi thought that was strange. The classes were finished normally, what could make the best practicer to be late? Oishi knew Kaidouh lied when he told him about class, but he didn't press it. Everybody had their own problems from time to time; he only hoped this one would be permanent.

Standing for another minute he turned around and went back to the courts, watching as the others were training.

When Oishi returned to the courts he saw his regulars bickering and not practicing, rolling his eyes he entered.

"10 laps around the courts now."

All the regulars started their running and Oishi joined them.

He ran up to Fuji.

"What was that about?"

"Oh nothing. Just Kaidouh got a detention and we kinda wanted to humor him, but he exploded. You know Momo he can't let the chance to slip by."

"Oh!" Was the only intelligent answer the mother hen of the group can come up with.

"It was something about the new transfer student." Inui ran up to them. "'With face of an angel and a soul of a devil' as Kaidouh described him."

"What about the new student? The end of the year is almost up?" Oishi thought aloud trying at the same time not to lose his running rhythm. He looked up at Inui but to his surprise the data man was silent. He quirked his eyebrows in surprise. The 'nightmare' of data didn't know about this student. Well it was understandable as the student was new starting from today, but still he wondered about him. 'Maybe the new one was the one who I saw today?' Thinking nothing of it any further he continued running the laps.

End of Chapter 1

Phew! My first fic on Prince of Tennis chapter 1 finished 

To be continued ...