The Love Triangle
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of tennis or any of its characters, but I do love using them like mindless puppets on strings! Beware, the puppet master is here! (I am such an evil disoriented person, am I not?)
Chapter One
Maaya Nadeshiko?
"Nya, Fujiko! We're finally here!" declared an ecstatic Eiji, bouncing up and down his seat as the bus pulled up the driveway of Hokkaido Honshuu Beach Resort.
"Saa, grinned the brunette seated next to him. "The reunion committee picked a great spot. It seems that the place is a bit crowded though."
People were pouring into the high class resort like a colony of ants.
"Hoi! Hoi! I wonder what's going on!" Eiji frantically stuck his head out of the window and scanned the crowd before pulling his head back inside when he heard a very familiar cold voice next to their seats.
"Eiji, 10 laps around the resort, now."
"Hai…." sighed the energetic red head.
"Minna-san." Tezuka turned away to face his former teammates who were busy with their own business.
"Tezuka-buchou?" Ryoma cocked an eyebrow at the former Seigaku tennis captain.
"Don't let your guard down."
"Baka, Mamushi!"
"Ahou!"
Ryoma woke grudgingly to the harmonious sound of Momoshiro-sempai and Kaidoh-sempai fighting and squabbling in the sand. He squinted his eyes as he watched his sempai's roar and scream at one another, just like they used to in middle school.
Here they were on a private beach resort making fools out of themselves even though they were both supposed to be mature businessmen out on a club reunion.
"Hnn…" muttered the eighteen year old world tennis champion.
Nothing had changed, nothing at all. Eiji was still the same bubbly, acrobatic, kitty-faced person, Oishi still his motherly self, Taka-san was still shouting his famous BURNING!! Inui was still scribbling madly at his notebook, Tezuka was still his ever stoic non-smiling himself, Fuji still with his eerie sadistic smile, and the two rivals Momoshiro and Kaidoh still battling over each other.
Geez his sempai-tachi didn't change a bit. Ryoma liked it better that wasn't too fond of the word after all. He liked things staying the way they were.
"Momoshiro no baka!" "Urusai!"
Ryoma watched fondly as the two went on bickering.
"Ne, thinking of old times, Echizen?" a figure came up to him sat next to him. He leaned to find Fuji looking speculatively at him as if trying to read his mind.
"Hnn…Fuji-sempai" he addressed the smiling tensai.
"Reminiscing the past is fun, ne, Echizen?" Especially when you see others suffer because of it…Fuji walked away silently leaving the boy to himself. He would make sure Echizen Ryoma would get what he deserved. As for now , he would walk away. It wasn't time yet. Besides, there was something he had to do first.
"Inui, don't you think those two over there have had enough bickering for one day?" he approached the great data man. Inui looked up from his notebook, a creepy grin tugging at his face.
"Iie,data. I know just the cure for them." Out of nowhere, he whipped two jugfuls of green oozing liquid whose smell would make anyone faint, except for Fuji of course. He wasn't just anyone.
Inui was taking long strides towards his two teammates when his cerulean eyed friend stopped him.
"Saa, Inui-san, leave some Aozu Remix 2.0 for me."
"There's a 90% chance there'll be plenty left for you, and the a 100% probability that you'll say that it's the best thing that you've ever tasted." he replied.
After a few minutes Inui returned with two jugs still half-filled leaving behind two figures sprawled on the sand for Oishi to worry about and tend to.
"Here you go." "Thanks, Inui."
After gulping down the liquid , Fuji said that it was the best thing he ever tasted. Oishi looked at the two and fainted when Inui glanced his way with an evil gleam in his glasses, saying that he was to be the next lucky victim of his experiment.
Ahhhh….the horrors of Inui juice.
"Ahh, Minna-san, gomennasai for being late." apologized their former coach who had just arrived in the crammed beach resort.
She looked at her former team that had just come up from the beach.
"It's alright Ryuuzaki-sensei." they chorused. "Arigatou. Have you checked in yet?"
"Hai," answered their former buchou. "Each room has two beds, and we reserved five. All of us will be sharing rooms. Momoshiro will bunk with Kaidoh, Echizen with Fuji, Oishi will be with Kikumaru, Inui will stay with Taka and the both of us will share the same room, Ryuuzaki-sensei."
He handed each of them their own separate keys to the rooms.
" Good." answered Ryuuzaki-sensei. "Now, all of you, go get some rest, then come down to the Sizzling Honoo restaurant later for dinner. I really want to know what all of you have been up to all these years."
As soon as they were done unpacking and resting they all went down to eat.
"So, what have you people been doing?" Ryuuzaki-sensie asked over dinner.
"Well sensei…" Oishi began explaining. "Tezuka as we all expected is now a pro tennis player and a part time lawyer, Fuji owns several studios, Kawamura has his own line of restaurants including this restaurant…."
"Nani?!"interrupted the surprised coach, the sushi dropping out of her mouth. "No wonder the food tastes sizzling wonderful!"
" It's nothing actually." quipped an embarrassed Kawamura, rubbing the back of his head with a sheepish smile.
"What about the rest?" Ryuuzaki-sensei asked Oishi who was busy using his motherly instincts in trying to get Kikumaru to behave like a civilized person and not like an acrobat.
"Eiji! What was that Ryuuzaki-sensei? Oh the rest. Well, um, let me see…Momoshiro owns a burger joint which rivals with Kiadoh's burger joint. Oh, yes, I almost forgot. Kaidoh also has two petshops and works as a veterinarian while Eiji and I both coah the same gymnastics and tennis teams, and of course I wouldn't want to forget Inui. He works as a research scientist and is currently working on-" Oishi's explanation was suddenly cut off by Inui who dumped something into the coach's glass.
"-The latest version of Aozu Wasabi Mizu 5!" finished the former Data man of Seigaku as he handed the glass over to his sensei.
All eyes were on the choking woman, as if telling her desperately not to drink it while Inui was waiting expectantly for her to drink the concoction.
"Arigatou, Inui, demo, I'm not that thirsty." She blurted out hastily.
Heaving a heavy sigh of defeat, Inui returned to jotting down notes on his notebook. All of the other's were glad she didn't drink it.
"Well…" Ryuuzaki-sensei spoke up, clearing the air in the restaurant since they reserved it for their reunion.
"You don't need to tell me how Echizen is." she said with a smile to which the young lad addressed; busy drinking his grape ponta, only answered a cold 'mada mada dane'.
"That's Echizen alright!" Momoshiro laughed boisteriously as soon as he heard his kouhai talk.
"Minna-san, I am so pleased that all of you are doing―" spoke their sensei when all out of the blue the restaurant door was shoved open to make way for a beautiful petite, ebony-haired woman who was panting. All of them stared at the stranger who by accident tripped on something making the glasses she had on fall, revealing stunningly gorgeous chocolate eyes.
"Gomen. Honto ni gomennasai!" the woman apologized, bowing down repeatedly. "But I really had to get away from those people chasing me. I…I was so afraid that I would die out there…."
Fuji, who couldn't resist helping anyone in distress gave the lady a glass of cool refreshing water. "Saa, you will be alright now Miss." He reassured the girl who calmed down a bit after drinking what he gave her.
"Arigatou." she thanked.
All the regulars told the woman that they would help her with the trouble that she was in. Eiji bounced up to her and gave one of his hugs when he suddenly realized who he was hugging.
"You― you are Maaya Nadeshiko!!" screamed Eiji.
"Maaya Nadeshiko?!!" chorused all the others, except for Tezuka, Echizen and Fuji.
"Can we ask for your autograph?" They all hurriedly ran to her but ended up scaring her away when she saw that they were ready to do anything to have her signature. She didn't want that.
"Waaah…coooome back Maaya-san!" wailed Eiji, dropping down on his knees.
"It was all your fault Mamushi!" Momo blamed his rival who was hissing sadly next to him. "Baka, you were the one who frightened her away!"
The two bigan another bicker, while Oishi comforted Kikumaru who was crying excessively while Inui was scribbling about the girl that had just run away.
Ryuuzaki-sensei just stared at them.
Since when did her former team become huge fans of Maaya Nadeshiko?
Echizen was confused. "Ne, buchuo, who is this Maaya Nadeshiko?" he asked Tezuka who was seated next to him.
"Japan's most famous singer/actress," came the blunt reply.
There was a twinkle in the former captain's eye as he said it which didn't go unnoticed by Fuji. After all Fuji was and always will be Seigaku's Tensai.
"You're one of her fans, aren't you Tezuka?" "Hmmm…" was all the captain could muster after being found.
He was embarrassed by the revelation so greatly that he actually blushed slightly. Imagine the ever great Kunimitsu Tezuka blushing?
Was the world going to end? Well, at least none of them noticed except for Fuji who was grinning oh so widely.
"I really should have brought my camera along with me," thought Fuji. "This could've been great black mail material. I really do love to make others suffer."
"Oh, that's not a surprise to hear. After all, she is a very beautiful and talented singer, isn't she Tezuka?" he teased further.
"Betsuni," answered the buchou.
"Hai, she is very beautiful…"Fuji continued.
"Demo, there's something that make's her seem so familiar…" he thought to himself. "Those beautiful chocolate eyes…they really remind me of a certain someone…"
"Well then minna-san," the voice of their coach which still had the tint of sternness in it, interrupted the tensai's scouring thoughts that rambled like mice about his head. "It seems like we spent two hours of our relaxing time in here. It's best that we all retire for the night. We have so many things to do tomorrow, which includes buying tickets to Maaya Nadeshiko's concert in the resort in advance."
Upon hearing what Ryuuzaki-sensei said, all of the regulars obeyed her like a flash of lightning and rushed out of the restaurant.
"Hoi! Matte Kudasai! Who's going to pay for all of this?" she called after them, before sighing in frustration. "Geez, I guess I'll have to do it. Who knew that they would be this crazy over her?"
She was a bit irritated at her thoughtless tennis players and knitted her brows as she thought about them. They were already full grown men, and still, they acted like children sometimes. But thinking of something else, the stern Ryuuzaki Ryuuzaki smiled faintly.
"She will be very happy to know that they're her biggest fans. Hmph….she will be very happy indeed."
Japanese Terms
Ahou – idiot, fool
Arigatou – thank you
Baka – jerk, idiot, fool
Betsuni – nothing
Buchou – captain
Gomenasai – sorry, I'm sorry
Honto ni – really
Minna-san – everyone
Tensai – genius
Urusai – shut up
Matte – wait
Kudasai – please
A/N: Hello minna-san! This is a repost of chapter one, and finally it's completed! I can finally move on to typing chapter two. Hurrah to me! Actually, I'm near to done, but it's all written in a notebook so it has to be typed after.
Thank you for all your reviews, I really, really appreciate them! : )
I hope that I got the format right this time…I really am having trouble with it. You don't know how many times I edited the chapter. Special thanks to Red Jell-o for helping me out with the format. I am so indebted to you. Red Jell-o, it isn't your fault that I deleted it, actually it was mine.
I accidentally pressed delete without thinking and whoosh, the story went down the drain. : (
Well anyway, I hope you enjoyed it… Chapter Two coming up!
Who actually is Maaya Nadeshiko? What does she have to do with them all? What did Ryoma do to make Fuji mad at him?
Find it all out in: Chapter Two, Starlit Memories
PS. Please don't forget to review. I love knowing your comments, they help me improve.