Finally I'm back with a new fic! This is the sequel of The Devil vs The Prodigy vs The Rikkai Volleyist! I hope you like it the same way you liked my first one, well enjoy!

Summary: Two years had passed, two hearts had decided to part since then. Will they have a happy ending after meeting again that night?

A great party was being held in a similarly great hotel. Apparently, the party was an alumni homecoming for Rikkai University College, and of course, our favorite tennis ex-regulars are attending the said party. Woohoo!

At a certain table, with a reserved sign, three men were happily chatting, talking about how their lives were going.

"Ahem. I heard the others are coming back from abroad for this party." One of them said with complete manliness.

"What!? They are?!" one of them became energetic and sat back to his chair, relaxing, "Heh, I missed bullying that brat." He grinned while the others knew what was going on in his head.

"Surely buchou will be glad to see us." One of them said happily but his big smile became a frown when he imagined a man with a very bright smile. He felt shivers down his spine.

"I wonder if Jackal is with them…" he thought. He missed his baby sitter, a half-Brazilian tennis colleague, who went back to Brazil after college.

"Is this a junior high puppy love being rekindled?" one snickered at him and his jeering annoyed the other.

"I'm not a gay, you jerk!" he slammed his hand on the table as he spoke while gritting his teeth. "I'm already married!"

"Married to a man like you?" the other continued to annoy the red-headed man who's now planning to rip the other's head off of his shoulders.

"Are you calling my wife a man!?" the red-headed man was infuriated.

"What's this all about?" a deep voice came from a distance and the two men who were bickering at each other turned their head slowly, very, very slowly. Then they spotted five men who were a little weary, but all were looking fine and healthy. The three who were at the table sweat-dropped when they heard squeals and shrieks from women when their friends arrived.

"Sheesh! These women are annoying!" one of the men who just arrived scowled at the welcome they received. He sat down, loosened his tie and sighed. He seemed quite tired yet he started ranting about the girls and his flight.

Then a man in their group giggled and spoke with gentleness, "Are you not happy that you are well-known? They even welcomed you to the party." He said as the other just propped his chin on his hand and growled at the woman who approached them. He scared her and she ran away.

"Is that how a man should act?" another raised his glasses as he spoke of the ungentle manliness of his friend.

"Anyways, how have you been doing brat?" this man was smiling so mischievously that the man he was smiling at shrunk in his seat.

"What's with your smile, Niou-senpai?" he asked as he distanced himself from his senpai who's giving him the creeps.

"I guess your Niou-senpai missed you a lot, Kirihara-kun." The red-head spoke with teasing in hopes of getting equal with the Trickster. The two turned to him and one of Niou's brows was raised, seems like his plan was working. He continued, "Niou-kun missed the little baby that much, huh?" he teased again.

"Ahhhh, what's with the baby talk, Marui-senpai?" his kohai was finding him totally weird and Niou appeared quite annoyed at his doings.

"Is this an old flame being rekindled?" he grinned and the other finally snapped. He laughed and he was triumphant. He annoyed Niou! Yay!

"Why you, ball of fat! I'm already married!" God forbid, but Niou was losing his temper and Marui was laughing his lungs out. A man with a not-so-fabulous hair style glared at them and the two froze as he raised his hand. Niou looked at Marui and said, "Will we get TARUNDORU-ed?" the other shrugged and in a flash the two ran to the balcony and some distant screaming can be heard.

"You didn't have to do that, Sanada." Another man, with a lamer hair cut spoke without opening his eyes.

"Renji is right, Genichirou. You didn't have to slap them." He smiled and Sanada just sighed. The two returned with red cheeks and sat down and glared at each other.

"Ahem! So how have you been, Kirihara-kun?" the man with the glasses started speaking and the two stopped exchanging glares. "I heard that your debut match is coming soon. I hope you'll do just fine."

"I'll be fine, Yagyu-senpai." He said, his interest in the party is now gone.

"You seem disappointed, Kirihara-kun." Jackal finally spoke. Indeed, he was showing signs of boredom. The others looked at Kirihara who appeared as if he's looking for somebody. He sighed as he met defeat.

"Are you looking for Sakuno?" his senpai-tachi, except for Sanada, spoke in unison which trapped him in a corner.

"What are you talking about?" Kirihara blushed as he avoided eye contact. He turned his head and he spotted someone familiar walking closer to them yet she was intercepted by the coordinator of the party. His stare never left its target as she walked up to the stage and stood in front of the mic stand. "What's going on?"

She started singing, her voice filling the room and the people became silent. Her golden voice was so enticing that Kirihara had been listening to her ever since she started singing.

His mouth was gaping and Niou whispered to his ear and he blushed and glared at his senpai-tachi who were laughing at him. 'Could you please close your mouth, your breath stinks!' He was about to pummel his senpai but the beautiful voice had stopped singing. He turned to look at the stage and found a lot of suitors flocking at the gorgeous singer. He looked at her, from top to bottom and noted that she has grown more beautiful.

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Sakuno entered the venue of the party and was looking for somebody. From afar, she spotted the people she was looking for and was walking straight to them when the coordinator stopped her on her tracks. She bowed down and apologized for being a little late and the coordinator escorted her to the stage.

As they were walking she saw green eyes staring at her, and his face was in shock when she stepped in front of the mic and as she started singing. She closed her eyes to concentrate and sung the first song in the list and did so up to the first half of the second song.

She opened her eyes and she saw him religiously paying attention to her. She smiled and inside she was happy. She continued to sing the third song which made all of the people stop whatever they were doing and listen to her.

She bowed as she finished her last song and her audience clapped their hands in complete awe. She stepped down from the stage and a lot of males were offering to escort her to her table but she turned all of them down.

She walked towards her senpai-tachi's table, her voluptuous figure kept on catching stares from men and glares from women. They welcomed her and Yagyu offered her a seat. As she sat down, all of them commented that she has grown more beautiful after two years.

"I heard that you're still studying, Sakuno-san." Jackal said and Sakuno nodded in affirmation.

"I had a problem and I had to stop for a year senpai." She said her voice a little hoarse from her singing. Niou asked a waiter to get her a drink to moisten her dry throat.

"You look so wonderful tonight, Sakuno." Yanagi repeated his comment which made Sakuno blush ten shades of red. He chuckled. "I see that you haven't changed a bit." Kirihara was silent.

"Mou, Yanagi-senpai!" they laughed and the waiter returned with a glass of water and handed it to Sakuno.

"I never knew that you were good at singing Sakuno!" Yukimura said as he tried to remember what she sang a while ago.

"I bet you have a lot of suitors." Jackal said which made Sakuno blush more. "Of course you have a fiancée with that beauty of yours." Kirihara excused himself, but no one paid attention to him.

Sakuno just smiled as her cheeks turned pink for what reason they don't know.

"What!? Do you or do you not have a boyfriend?" Niou was pretty shocked. He didn't know what the smile meant. Everyone in the table had his own perception about her smile, so what did it really mean?

"Well, Kirihara's single, you know!" Yukimura smiled at her. Sakuno panicked which made her accidentally knock her glass.

"Sorry! I'm so sorry!" she was still panicking and Marui told her to calm down.

"He hasn't been dating for these past two years and tennis is all that's in his head." Yukimura continued. Sakuno frowned at what she heard.

"'Mura, you didn't have to tell her that!" Marui shouted at his former buchou.

"S-Speaking of which, w-where is K-Kirihara-senpai?" she stuttered and blushed which made the others look around. They were quite surprised that they did not notice him leave.

"He's in the balcony." Sanada spoke and Sakuno stood up and bowed at her senpai-tachi and left to look for her Kirihara-senpai.

******

He stared blankly at the city lights that illuminated the dark night. He sipped some wine from his glass and sighed.

"I'm such a jerk." He slumped as a string of memories came floating back to his mind.

He looked at her as she lied on his bed. He put his hand over her face and caressed her angelic façade. He looked at her; her brown locks accented her curves and covered her soft and smooth skin. She woke up and looked at him with her beautiful brown eyes.

Then a soft beautiful voice called him which broke him from his fantasizing.

"Eeeek!"

"Akaya-kun?" Sakuno called and he turned around, trying to look as normal as he could. She giggled from what she heard a while ago. "That was quite a girly shriek, Akaya-kun." He blushed when he realized that she called him by his given name (or was it from his shriek?).

"R-Ryuzaki," he said which made her frown a little. He looked at her and noticed that her gown was showing a little skin so he took off his coat and put it on her shoulders. "You might catch a cold." She blushed and offered him some wine as she was carrying a bottle of it. It felt like de javu for the both of them, though the situation was different.

"I heard from the senpai-tachi that you've been doing fine in your sport. So, how have you been?" she asked as she stood beside him and looked at the city lights.

"A little down in the dumps." He frowned which Sakuno did not notice.

"How 'bout you?"

"I've been leading a good life." Her face couldn't hide the sadness she feels inside.

"What's wrong?" he asked, a little concerned.

"No, it's nothing." She sighed. Then an awkward silence was there, both were lost for words. It has been two years after they broke up and they haven't been communicating in those past years.

Then they turned to look at the other and their gazes met.

Both were mesmerized and were getting carried away by their feelings- feelings that they kept to themselves about each other ever since that day. They leaned to let their lips touch and so they did. The moments that passed by were like eternity to them. They pulled away from each other remembering that both of them did not belong to each other anymore.

"Sakuno I-"

"Akaya I-"

Both of them got cut off when the coordinator called Sakuno and told her that it's about time she sang the second string of songs.

Sakuno took the coat off and was about to give it back to Kirihara when something fell on the floor. She picked it up and looked at it carefully. He took his coat and Sakuno held her hand in front of him, holding something with her soft fingers. Kirihara took it and she beamed at him with her most beautiful smile.

She hugged him and he was quite surprised. "Thank you for everything, Kirihara-senpai." She said and her arms were still around him.

He didn't want to let go, but he gently pulled away and told her that the coordinator's waiting for her. She nodded as she walked towards the man who then took her hand and escorted her to the stage.

He waved good bye and he put it in his pocket. "Three more days…" he poured wine into his glass and gulped it down.

Will he be able to return in time for the Grand Slam competition, with this strong force trying to stop him?

I hope you liked it, I hope... And I hope you're not disappointed especially if you had read my first fic. Review pwease!