DISCLAIMER: I do not own Prince of Tennis

~This is my very first fan fiction I have ever written, so please send a review on what you thought, that would be much appreciated!~

Switching schools is bad enough, but was to be my third year at Seishen Gakuen Junior High, and now I am to attend Rikkaidai. All the friends I made, namely the Seigaku Tennis Club, and the time I thought I had with them all gone as soon as my mother said,

"Nami, your father just got promoted and has to go to another franchisee, so we are moving! Your new school is now Rikkaidai!"

So now, here I am facing my friends for what feels like the last time, crying my eyes out. There are the now graduated seniors about to enter high school: Kikumaru, Fuji, Oishi, Kawamura, and Tezuka. Then there are my same year friends, Momo and Kaido, and then Ryoma who is a year younger than me. Sakuno and Tomoko were there as well, but mainly for Ryoma.

"Nami! Why do you have to go?"

Unfortunately, no one said that because I lied, they are not my friends. I would absolutely love to be their friend, but I've never really had the courage to approach them. About me facing them, I am, but they are all hanging out with each other, playing tennis at the street tennis courts. Now here I go, off to another school with another amazing tennis club, and everything will most likely turn out the same.

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"Now I want you all to greet your new classmate kindly. Please, tell us about yourself." said the teacher. I took a step forward and stated,

"My name is Yumiko Nami, and I moved here from Seishun Gakuen Junior High. However, I'm originally from Ireland and moved here at an early age."

When I mentioned my former school, I noticed a head pop up in the back of the classroom, but I could not get a clear view of the face.

"Now, Yumiko, take your seat in the back of class next to Kirihara Akaya."

I froze, that name was familiar because the Seigaku Tennis Club knows him as Devil Akaya. Kirihara Akaya, now a third year and the tennis club's captain, was an enemy of Seigaku. Walking towards my seat, I was thinking about all of this. Turns out, Kirihara was glaring at me; he must have been the face that popped up.


At break, the bell rand to dismiss us, and I stood up to go. Kirihara next to was still glaring, of course.

"Kirihara, since you are the last one besides Yumiko, could you please escort her around school?" asked the teacher.

"What? No! I could never escort someone from Seigaku!" Kirihara yelled out.

I began walking, "That's fine, I don't need an escort."

The shock on Kirihara's face as I left the classroom was satisfactory. However, it was short lived as soon as I got lost. There is not much difference in the layout of the school, yet I still got lost.

Typical I thought to myself.

For what seemed like forever, I wondered around school until I ran into the tennis courts.

Great, I'm sure by now Kirihara has told everyone to stay away from the Seigaku girl.

"Watch out!" Someone yelled. I turned around, but it was already too late for me to react, because a tennis ball was flying straight at me.

"Baka!" Someone else yelled, who apparently was Kirihara. He appeared out of nowhere and hit the ball back in the direction it came.

"You shouldn't wander around these courts, Seigaku girl." Kirihara said, once again glaring at me.

Oh great! I can't tell him I was lost, he will laugh his head off at me! It will just better if I don't say anything at all.

Kirihara smirked, "Too afraid to talk? Or maybe little Seigaku girl is stunned!"

I glared at him, but still kept quite.

"Or maybe you got lost?" Kirihara paused to examine the look on my face, which I'm sure changed to astonishment. "Yes, the shock in your eyes confirms it, you're lost!" Then he burst into laughter and said in between gasps,

"I thought… ha-ha… you didn't… ha-ha… need... ha-ha… an escort!"

That's when I spoke up, "Maybe I just didn't want to be escorted by someone like you, bet you didn't think of that!"

Suddenly, Kirihara's laughter stopped, and everyone began whispering. "Oh no, she just made Kirihara Buchou mad!"

"You better watch out, Seigaku girl, you're on Rikkaidai turf now." Kirihara said in a threatening manner.

"Watch out for you? You? Ha!" I scoffed at him, "You're not anything to fear!"

"Why you!" Kirihara then moved forward when two other club members held him back.

"Calm down, Buchou!" However, their effort was in vain because their grip was released and Kirihara lunged forward and knocked me down! My eyes instinctively shut tight and my arms covered my face, waiting for the punch… but the punch never came.

~Hope you enjoyed it, I've almost finished writing the second chapter when the drama unfolds! Oh and the second chapter is longer. Please review!~