Tennis Power: Boys vs Girls

A story of boys, girls and tennis, can all these go together?

^Prologue^

Narrative POV

'Wow, Kachiro! Your father coaches at such a big tennis club?' Momoshiro stood in awe before the club, peering at the 8 tennis courts within.

'Ahaha. It's nothing.' Kachiro Kato blushed as he pushed off the compliment. 'Shall we go in? My father has helped you book 2 courts already. Sorry, but it's holidays right now, so there are a lot of bookings going on now and we can't book more than 2.'

'It's great already, or else we can't practice anywhere else.' Oishi commented.

'It's good for more data.' Inui stated simply.

'Hiss~' Kaidoh.

'Hey, where's Ochibi-chan nya?' Kikumaru clung on Oishi as he asked.

'Sempai, what are you doing? I'm going in.' Echizen's voice rose from the doorway as he smirked and continued walking.

'Wait for me~' Kikumaru pouted as the whole gang of Seigaku regulars plus some first years chased after Echizen Ryoma into the club.

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The training session lasted for more than an hour before Tezuka called for a break. While the first years took the opportunity to pick up the balls lying all over the place, the regulars settled at one end drinking the refreshments that had been kindly provided by Kachiro's father.

And a commotion on the court next to theirs attracted their attention.

'Hahaha, you should just get out from the court and let us, the professionals play. Hey little boy, move!' A voice that struck Echizen as familiar rang out from there. One look would have confirmed the person as Sasabe and his father, who were notorious in the area.

'Hey, Echizen, isn't he the guy whom you crushed last time here?' Horio, being ever so talkative asked.

'Hn.' Echizen shrugged and drank from his ponta again.

'What? Ochibi-chan beat him last time?'

'Yeah, and you should have seen it, he blah blah blah…' And Horio plunged into recounting the entire incident again.

Meanwhile, the pair was still barking at the small boy who had been trying to play tennis with his mother. 'Get off and let us play.' Sasabe echoed.

The mother, apparently frightened had moved off the court and was trying to coax the little boy in doing so as well. The boy just stood there staring at the pair but had yet to move an inch.

'What little boy? You don't want to move? Then how about you receive this ball then?' Sasabe grinned evilly as he did a fast serve, the ball aiming at the boy.

The regulars gasped, but could do nothing, and the mother was shrieking at her child, telling him to get away fast, but the boy was either too shock to move, or was trying to challenge the pair. The ball flew faster and faster towards his face, any just as the ball was about to hit him, a tennis ball flying towards the boy from another direction collided with the tennis ball and pushed it away. Silence. Everyone was too shock to respond to the sudden ball that flew out, and the mother was crying from shock and relieve.

'Great shot Rin!' A shrill voice rang through the court as a cheerful, bubbly girl with peach coloured hair ran in.

'It was… okay.' A girl with brown hair shrugged.

'Hmm, looks like the spirits are with you today, hmm.' A girl with long grey hair tied up in two pigtails mumbled.

All the attention was focused on the gang of girls stepping into the court. Sasabe whistled and flashed a dirty grin at them and the Seigaku regulars shuddered on behalf of the girls.

'Hey, it isn't nice to bully children.' The peach hair girl ranted on. 'Apologize!'

'Heh, why won't you have a match with me? If you win I'll apologize, but if you lose I get a date.' Sanabe gave another dirty smile.

'Hey captain, can I play a game with him?' The peach hair girl whipped around and asked a girl with snow white hair. The girl smiled and pointed at the court instead, 'Looks like Rin beat you to it though.'

'I'll take her place instead, but if you lose you'll have to kneel on the ground and apologize. If you win I'll go on a date with you for a week. Is it a deal?' The girl called Rin had, without anyone noticing, planted herself in the court. Holding the racket in her left hand, she smirked at Sasabe.

'Waah~ Rin, I wanted to play! He was my prey first!'

*Ignores*

With probably the prettiest girl in the group asking for a match and increasing the date period, how could he refuse? And he felt that this girl, with her being a girl after all, will be no threat to him at all.

'Fine, I'm getting a date soon~' His mouth salivating.

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By then the Seigaku regulars have moved towards the court and was giving worried looks at the girl.

'You sure of this match? That guy looks bad.' Oishi grabbed the hands of a yellow hair girl and asked in concern.

'…' She looked at him puzzled before giving a soft smile and said in an almost inaudible voice. 'She won't lose.'

Looking at the group of girls, they were settled on the edge of the court, some on the seats and others on the ground, striking conversations among themselves.

'Data collection in process.' Inui commented as he walked to the girls and asked, 'mind if we sit here?' on behalf of the regulars. They were all curious but were unable to get a good view from their position.

'Sure sit beside us then.' The peach hair girl grinned in response, beckoning the rest of Seigaku regulars to come as well.

'You sure this is okay? Rin doesn't like going easy on others.' Another girl with yellow hair timidly asked.

'It's okay, Rin's pretty upset these few days because of that guy. Let her release her stress once in a while.' The snow white hair girl, which they now knew was the captain answered.

Just as Inui was furiously copying down 'valuable' information on his precious notebook, the girl with grey hair suddenly appeared behind him.

'Information huh? I'll tell you something, the spirits are with her today.' She mumbled to herself as she place her hand on his shoulder, and the other Seigaku regulars jumped away in shock due to her sudden appearance.

'Eh, she's freaky nya~ appeared just like a ghost!' Kikumaru shivered and held on to Oishi for dear life. Kaidoh turned white and Fuji let out a sadistic smile.

'Megumi, stop scaring the boys!' The captain looked at her, and almost instantly she disappeared from behind Inui and appeared at the other side of the bench. The guys, except Fuji, shivered in fright again.

'Inui, are you okay?' Kawamura was the first to realize that Inui had not moved for the past minute. He had frozen in shock.

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'Rin vesus Sasabe, Rin to serve'

The match started with Rin serving a normal serve with her left hand over the net, and with Sasabe returning with ease. She was a left hander, the regulars noted in surprised. The rally continued for another 20 seconds before Sasabe missed the ball.

'15-love!'

Rin served, again with a normal serve and went into another rally. That continued for a few more minutes until a game was won by her.

'It's boring, Rin's not even trying.' A girl with pink hair muttered.

Yeah, I didn't expect her to go that easy.' The captain looked pretty surprised. 'Well, at least that poor guy won't die with embarrassment later.'

Sasabe, having overheard the conversation, was not pleased. The girls were looking down on him totally. He decided to turn to his father for help.

'Dad, substitute me.'

'Running away?'

'No, but it'll be fine for you right? My dad's pretty strong. Are you running away?' Sasabe smirked one of his evil grins.

'…' She looked pretty pissed off.

And with that, with Sasabe's father taking over Sasabe, the match continued.

It was his turn to serve and the father deciding to show off did a quick serve, but in her eyes it was pretty slow. She returned without any effort. After 1 minute of rally, Rin approached the net and took up an offense position. Sasabe's father laughed evilly and did a lob to the back of the court. The regulars gasp, the group of girls started smiling, Sasabe grinned again, his father looked smug, and Rin just stared at the ball, humming to herself.

'It's an out.'

Then the regulars saw. They saw how the ball, when just about to touch the line of the ground, suddenly, as though being repelled by the ground went out. They opened their eyes in shock.

'What?!' the notorious pair could only gape.

Then Sasabe, being the bully he was, finally realize that the girl had just been playing with them, and seeing how his date was going to be lost soon picked up a stone and used his racket to do another quick serve towards the girl. As none of the people were paying attention to him, they only realize when it was too late. The rock, which was aimed at her wrist from the very beginning hit her wrist squarely, causing her to lose her grip on the racket and wince.

'Rin, are you okay?' The peach hair girl bounded beside her instantly and looked at her in concern.

'Rin~!' The rest of the group reached her side and was trying surrounding her.

It struck the Seigaku regulars how all the girls could move that fast. But, the main concern wasn't that, the girl was a tennis player, her hand had been injured, and that resulted in the inability to play. That was a lot for a tennis player. But was she a tennis player in the first place? Nobody knew, but from her standard, it wasn't hard to assume that.

Her left wrist had swollen to a certain degree, and it felt painful. She could barely hold the racket. She picked up the racket once more, shook of her friends and muttered, 'The game hasn't ended yet.'

'But you can't…' The peach hair girl started saying, but was returned with a glare from the girl.

'You still want to play with your hand like that?' Sasabe smirked. 'If you can't even hold the racket, how can you hit?'

If looks could kill, he would have died. *Glares*

'So you continuing the match?' A girl with tortoise hair asked.

'Of course.'

'But…'

'Then it's fine, non-players get off the court.' The captain spoke up.

The group then reluctantly got off and returned to their positions.

'Are you sure you're continuing the game?' Kikumaru asked.

'Yeah, poor thing though.' The captain replied.

'Yup, how can she play like that?'

'Eh? I wasn't referring to her. I was referring to him.' She nodded as she glanced in the direction of the guy.

Before Kikumaru could ask what she meant, the game started. Sasabe's father served another qiuick serve and Rin attempted to return with her left hand, resulting in her racket being knock out form her grip again.

'Haha, little girl, there's no way you can play like that.' The father jeered.

'…' Rin ignored him. She picked up the racket again, looked at her swollen left wrist, and moved her wrist, before finally smirking and looking up at him straight in the eyes.

'Alright then, let's play serious.'

And with that she threw her racket into the air and grabbed it with her right hand, pointed it at him and smirked.

'The game starts now.'

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First chapter up! How do you find this story? Great? Okay? Not Bad? Bad?

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