Realizations

Ch 1: Epiphany

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A/N: well here it is, my first story! whoo, so here we go, hope you enjoy it!

Summary: Sakuno finally gets over her feelings for Ryoma, just as Ryoma realizes his feelings for her.

It's a bright sunny day. An alarm clock rings, annoyingly. Sakuno reaches over and turns her alarm off slowly. Her low blood pressure prevents her from moving any faster. She sits in a daze for about half an hour, until her grandmother's call wakes her from her stupor. She gets up and pulls her uniform on, a bit more energetically. Her eyes brighten as she looks out the window,
"it's going to be a great day, I can feel it. I'm going to make my 9th grade (freshman year I think) year the best one of my life!" Sakuno says quietly to herself.

She spins around to face her bedside desk, she brushes her hair as her eyes wonder the table. Suddenly a picture comes into her line of sight. She stares at it, a picture of her and her long-time crush, "the prince of tennis". She smiles at herself smiling in the picture. She remembers how she would almost stalk Ryoma, make sure she was present at every match and blushed at everything he said, stutter in her every response to him. She laughs quietly at herself, her naivety. She saw Ryoma now as a friend, she understands that she will never mean more than that to him, and she accepts it.

"Oy!! Sakuno, get down here or you aren't getting any breakfast!" Sakuno's grandmother, Sumire Ryuzaki, yells "God I swear, Sakuno gets slower everyday," Sumire Ryuzaki says to herself.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," Sakuno says in at a normal volume. She still speaks quietly, even at the age of 15.

Sakuno walks down the stair case, her mid length ponytail swishing behind her with every step. "Grandma, I'm walking to school, okay?"

"Sure, do as you please, but why would you? I can drive you."

"Got to get in training, I really want to get better at tennis, and fitness is the first place to start!"

Sumire examined her granddaughter. She could tell there was a change in her attitude, her personality. She seemed happier, more confident, like a repressing thought (or crush) she had for a long time was suddenly lifted (or gotten over) and her burdens were lessened. Whatever happened Sumire could tell, it was for the best.

"I'm off!" Sakuno stated happily, after finishing her piece of toast. She walked down the streets eventually arriving at the school gates, where Tomo chan, her long time best friend, was waiting for her, most probably to exchange some type of gossip she had found out from someone's friend of a friend.

"Hey! Sakuno chan!" she screamed loudly, that was Tomo, loud as a herd of stampeding elephants (each playing a jumbo stereo on full blast), "How were your holidays? Anything interesting happen? That's a nice hair cut, did you layer it? You'll never guess what someone told me about that girl, you know the one with the hair and stuff! Oh and I also heard tones of gossip about Ryoma sama!!"

"Good ol' predictable Tomo," thought Sakuno, with a sigh. "Umm Tomo chan?"

"Yeah Sakuno chan?"

"Better get this over with," thought Sakuno. "I don't know how to tell you this, but…I'm not really into Ryoma kun that much anymore." Sakuno said matter-of-factly. Quick as lightning she had her hand over Tomo's mouth. As Tomo began to rant…energetically. Sakuno stood there with an impassive, almost bored look on her face as she waited for Tomo to calm down. Fifteen minutes worth of staring from random passers by-ers and Tomo-ranting later, she began to calm down. Sakuno unclamped her hand off Tomo's mouth.

"But Sakuno…but…uh…Why? What happened?" Tomo questioned eagerly trying to find a suitable phrase.

"Hmmm, I'm not really sure why, and nothing happened. I just sort of, got up one morning and realized that Ryoma was sort of, always cold towards me (and everyone else) so I guess he mustn't really like us all crowding around him and fangirling(?) him that much. I actually understand now and I realize that it was naïve(dumb) of me to think that I could ever register as more than a friend to him." After Sakuno related her epiphany to Tomo, she began walking into the school, Tomo following her, trying to find a way around her logic to change Sakuno's mind. After finding no flaw in her reasoning she said, "Well, I know you only joined tennis to get closer to him, so are you giving it up?" Tomo asked sincerely.

"No I love tennis and I want to get better."

"Will you still cheer for him and go to his matches, because I still like Ryoma sama, and I like cheering with you."

"I don't really want to, but if I'm free I'll go, for you Tomo, but I'm not wearing that uniform, part of my epiphany was realizing how ridiculous those costumes were."

Both girls began giggling as they entered the class room.

well thats the first chapter, hope you loved it! Ryoma will appear in the next chapter, i really hope i get some reviews

~MxM