"Syuuske!" I exclaimed. "Finally, I found you!"
"What happened to you?" he asked with an amused smile on his face. I pouted.
"I got lost."
"How could you do that?" asked Syuuske.
"Remember, I live in Kanagawa. I'm not used to Tokyo or Seigaku." I said. His two friends were watching us with interest.
"Fujiko, who's this? Oh, is it your girlfriend?" asked the red-haired one. He had a bandage on his cheek. His hair reminded me of someone's. Syuuske chuckled.
"No, she's my cousin." He said. I bowed.
"I'm Shou Sakura. But you can call me Sakura-chan. I go to Rikkaidai, and I'm a 2nd year."
"Really? You look like you're our age." Exclaimed the red haired guy, his eyes becoming huge.
"Eiji, shh." Chastised the black-haired one. He had weird bangs.
"No, it's fine. I guess I was just born tall. Or Syuuske was born short." I shrugged.
"Man, you're lucky, none of us can say that without something bad happening to us." Said the redhead.
"Why would that happen?" said Syuuske, a dark aura coming from him.
"See?" wailed the redhead as he dove behind me. I giggled. He was really funny.
"Eiji!" scolded the black-haired one. "I'm sorry. I'm Oishi Syuuchirou." Eiji(as he was called) came out from behind me and said with a huge smile on his face, "I'm Kikumaru Eiji, hoi! But call me Eiji!" Then it hit me.
"That's what your hair looks like!" I exclaimed. They all looked at me.
"It looks like that grey haired dude from Hyotei."
"Oh, Atobe?" asked Syuuske. I nodded.
"But he's way too egotistic. I like you more."
"Yay! Wait, do you watch the matches?" asked Eiji. (Hm, I guess I should call him Eiji-sempai)
"Yeah, I watched the one in the Kantou Tournament." I said. Suddenly, a voice called out.
"EIJI-SEMPAI! YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM US!" yelled the voice. Eiji-sempai paled.
"Gotta go! Make them calm down, Fujiko, Oishi!" said Eiji-sempai as he ran away. Two males came out from behind us. The pencil head (his hair) looked around, confused.
"Hey, where'd he go?" said the pencil head. The guy with the cap sighed.
"And he said he'd treat us…" he said.
"Momo! Echizen! What is it?" asked Oishi-sempai.
"It seems to me that Eiji ran away again instead of treating these two. He ran out of money, so you can get him tomorrow." Said Syuuske. The pencil head sighed in defeat.
"Fine…" he said. Then they noticed me. "Who are you?" I bowed.
"Shou Sakura, Syuuske's cousin! But call me Sakura-chan! I'm a 2nd year at Rikkaidai." I said.
"Oh," said the pencil head, "I'm Momoshiro Takeshi, call me Momo, and this is—" He was cut off by the guy in the cap next to him.
"I can talk, you know," he reminded Momo-kun, "Echizen Ryoma." I nodded.
"I remember you. You beat Sanada." I said, remembering that match.
"Do you hang out with the regulars a lot?" asked Momo-kun.
"Sort of…my friends do, so I do too. And they're not that bad. Niou-sempai works with Kikumaru-sempai sometimes, I hear them on the phone."
"What do you mean 'works'? asked Echizen-kun.
"They work on tricks together." I said.
"Saa, I remember that Eiji told me that he had got a good trick to play on Inui from Niou-san once. Eiji got his phone number from Inui because he wanted to steal all of Inui's glasses to see his eyes." Said Syuuske.
"D-did he?" asked Oishi-sempai fearfully. Syuuske smiled.
"He did, but only we got to see his eyes. He threatened us with Aozu, because he knows that I can't keep that down." Said Syuuske, a hint of anger visible on his face.
"Well, we'd better get going. I'll stay for dinner, but then I have to go back." I said.
"Will you be able to get back all right?" asked Syuuske.
"Don't worry, Niou-sempai, Marui-sempai, and Kirihara-kun are coming to pick me up. They do worry about others, you know." I said to the other three. "Bye!" I hurried off with Syuuske, waiting for dinner. Man, Yumiko cooks the most awesome food in the world…
I looked at the clock. 7:00. Damn it, I needed to go to the train station! I ran to pick up my bag. "Bye Yumiko! Thanks for dinner!" I barely had time to hear her answer before I slammed the door shut. Syuuske said that he needed to go somewhere and couldn't drop me off to the train station, so he'd get someone else to drop me off at the train station. They were supposed to be at the door by now, but they weren't. Then I heard a voice. "Hey!" exclaimed a cheerful voice. I looked around and saw red hair. I smiled. It was Kikumaru-sempai! "Hey!" I exclaimed just as cheerfully. "Thanks for dropping me off!"
"No problem!" he said, smiling. We walked to the train station, talking about what we did and how Kikumaru-sempai escaped from his juniors. When we got to the train station, the train from Kanagawa wasn't there yet, so we talked to each other for a while. "So, Sakura-chan, what do you do?" he asked.
"What do you mean?" I said, confusedly.
"Like…like….I play tennis!" he said proudly.
"Oh!" I exclaimed, my face lighting up in realization, "I dance."
"Really? Then you must be flexible like me!" he said. I nodded.
"I also have good stamina." I said. He pouted.
"I have problems with stamina…but I've gotten better!" he said. "And how do you know the Rikkai regulars?" he asked.
"My friends are friends/enemies with some of them. And I'm in some of their classes, I watch tennis practice when I don't have dance or anything else, we meet in the hallways and other places, so overall I have a pretty good relationship with them. I'm closest to Kirihara, Marui-sempai, and Niou-sempai though." I said after thinking for a while. He nodded.
"Oh. I told Niou something to annoy Yanagi-san once. You should ask him because right now I don't have time." He said.
"Why not?" I asked, confused.
"The train's here." He said, pointing to the train.
I whipped my head around to see Kirihara, Marui-sempai, and Niou sempai get off the train. Kirihara ran to me and glomped me.
"Sakura-chan, did you bring food for me?" he asked.
"Nope." I replied.
"Aww, why not?" he whined.
"Because you already ate and you'll get fat like Marui-sempai. You don't want that to happen, do you?" I said half-severely, half amused.
"Hey, I am not fat!" said Marui-sempai, catching up with Kirihara.
"So where do all the cakes go? Do they turn into muscle?" drawled Niou-sempai. Marui-sempai turned around.
"You're an old granny."
"You're a girl" retorted Niou-sempai, smirking. Before Marui-sempai had a chance to answer, Kirihara spoke.
"Hey, aren't you part of the Golden Pair?" He asked Kikumaru-sempai, who was watching the interaction with interest. After all, for him, it wasn't every day that you got to see the Rikkai tennis regulars act like a normal team. They were a normal team, but not many people knew it. They were known as ruthless, evil, and awesome. But inside, they're just a normal team with crazy people. I'm glad I got to get to know the real them.
"Yeah. Kikumaru Eiji," said Kikumaru-sempai, "I'm dropping Sakura-chan off 'cause Fujiko had to go somewhere."
"Oh." Said Kirihara.
"Hey, are there any good cake shops near here?" Marui-sempai asked. I chuckled.
"Random, much?" I said quietly, but Niou-sempai heard and grinned.
"Um. Yeah, it's over there," said Kikumaru sempai, pointing to the cake shop.
"Awesome! Do we have time to get a cake?" asked Marui enthusiastically.
"No. Didn't you have dinner?" I asked.
"Yeah, but still…" said Marui-sempai, pouting.
"Just get one next time we come here." Said Niou-sempai.
"Better get on, the train's leaving." I said, pointing at the train that would take us to Kanagawa. Kirihara nodded and ran onto the train. I turned to Kikumaru-sempai.
"Bye!" I exclaimed, waving as I got on the train.
"Bye!" he yelled back, "Remember to ask Niou!" As the train pulled away, I wondered about what that meant, and then I remembered.
"Hey, Niou-sempai?" I asked curiously, "What trick did you get from Kikumaru-sempai to play on Yanagi-sempai?"
"Oh, that." Said Niou-sempai, smirking, "I asked him a random question that he didn't know the answer to, and when he couldn't answer, I said Inui knew the answer. He was in a temporary state of shock for 3 minutes."
"Oh, I remember that!" exclaimed Marui-sempai, cracking up. I broke out laughing.
"Ah, I wish I could have seen that…" I said.
"There are pictures! I'll show them to you at school!" piped up Kirihara.
"Ok!" I said, still smiling at the expression Yanagi-sempai would have had. That would be some good blackmail material…maybe I should get a picture for Syuuske…