Disclaimer: Nothing in POT belongs to me. All OoC-ness, OCs, venues and tournaments are just figments of my imagination.
Note: This is my first fanfiction so please be open-minded and gentle to me! Arigatou gozaimasu.
Pairing: RyomaXSakunoXTezuka
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Summary: What would happen to 2 Captains when a special girl touches their heart?
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Chapter 1: In The Beginning
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"Minna..yudan sezu ni ikou!"
"Ooh!" "Hai!" "Nyah!"
It was the 1st day of Regional Tennis Tournament and the regulars of all competing schools and their cheering squads are in high spirits.
"I can't wait to play with our first opponent..I just can't wait!" Momoshiro Takeshi (aka Momo to his sempai-tachi and his classmates and Momo-chan sempai to his kouhai-tachi) begin to stretch out his muscles.
"Fsssh...don't make annoying sounds!" Kaidoh Kaoru hissed a few feet away.
"Say that again, Mamushi...?" Momo shouted as he walked over to Kaidoh. Meanwhile everyone around them moved away and waited for the impending scuffle between the 2 well-known rivals.
"The first person to throw a punch shall have to try my latest invention...Super Duper Deluxe Juice No. 501" Inui Sadaharu grinned wickedly as his glasses flashed. Momo and Kaidoh immediately turned away from each other and continue their warm-up stretches as far away from each other and Inui-sempai as they possibly can.
No one dared to stay close to Inui and his infamous juice.
"That was a close call, nyah Oishi?" Kikumaru Eiji watched the whole scene as he and his doubles partner Oishi Syuichirou did their warm-up stretches.
"I hope those two will behave themselves.." Oishi looked at the duo with a frown. The Vice-Captain of the tennis club is known as the "Club Mother" due to his worri-some nature.
"Don't worry, Oishi. Once they channel their energy into their game, all will be well." Fuji Syuusuke walked over to Oishi and patted him on his back as he smiled.
Fuji's fan girls squeeled as they saw the smile on their super popular idol, "Fuji-sempai/Fuji-san, do your best today!" Other fan girls of the Regulars began to shout their encouragement to their respective idols.
"Regulars...do your warm-up laps now!" the powerful voice of Tezuka Kunimitsu boomed over the noises. The regulars quickly ran off as directed by their Captain.
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Meanwhile in another section of the Regional Tournament…….
"Mm...Grandmother, are you sure it is alright for us to visit them?" Ryuzaki Sakuno looked around the place with uncertainty.
Ryuzaki Sumire, the coach of the Seishun Junior High Tennis Club laughed and patted Sakuno's head "Sakuno, I just want to see how the boys are faring."
"I know but I'm in the same class with 2 of them. It would be so embarrassing!" Sakuno's faced reddened. Sakuno can't help but felt shy around her classmates and sempai-tachi. They were very nice to her in school but it had caused many fan girls to treat her badly.
"What are you talking about, Sakuno? You should be proud of yourself! You managed to excel and achieve the impossible after all the hard work you have put into your studies." Ryuzaki-sensei smiled proudly at her dear grand-daughter.
"Yes, Grandmother." Sakuno felt her face heated up at the mention of her achievements.
"Let's go now. Ryoma will be able to handle the team until I get back." Ryuzaki-sensei began to walk toward the High School Tennis Regional Tournament section with Sakuno trailing behind her.
Well, Ryuzaki Sakuno may be a klutz when it comes to tennis but she did excel in her studies (except for English). Due to her own diligence and her time at cram school for English, she managed to do exceedingly well in her subjects and she even won a scholarship to Seishun High School. Because she can skip a grade, she's now in the same grade as Momo and Kaidoh.
She had to leave behind Tomo-chan, her classmates, the ichi-nen trio and of course her ex-crush Echizen Ryoma.
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Tezuka ran along side the other Regulars as they did their warm up laps.
'This year we will win the championship!' his thoughts turned to events of previous year, his first year in Seishun High School.
Flashback Begins
The regulars of the Seishun Junior High School Tennis Club were once again reunited in Seishun High School Tennis Club. But Kawamura Takashi had quit playing tennis to train with his father to become the No. 1 sushi chef in Japan.
The previous captain of the high school tennis club and his regulars had challenged the "new" 1st. years (Tezuka and gang!) out of jealousy. Due to their loss in the challenge matches, the previous captain, his regulars and his many supporters in the tennis club had resigned immediately. The remaining members quickly elected Tezuka as the Captain. Tezuka elected Oishi as his Vice Captain and called for Selection Matches to be held.
Their club became quite popular overnight since Tezuka and gang had gain a popular reputation from their middle school championship matches as well as from their winning matches with that silly ex-captain and ex-regulars of the high school tennis club. Of course, some club rules have been altered to retain talented players in the club. The rules that forbid 1st. years from participating in the Selection Matches and from holding club positions were quickly abolished. Those who became Regulars were Tezuka, Oishi, Kikumaru, Inui, Fuji and three other seniors.
In their first year in high school, they had managed to win 1st. place in the Regional Tournament, the 2nd. place in the Kantou Tournament (Rikkai High School was the Champion) and the 3rd. place in the National Championship (Rikkai HS was the Champ and Shitenhouji HS was in 2nd. place).
Flashback Ends
'Now that Momo and Kaidoh had entered Seishun High School and became Regulars again, we will do our best to attain the national championship.' Tezuka continues in deep thought.
"Neh...Tezuka, there's a lot of lines on your forehead. Is there anything wrong?" Fuji ran beside Tezuka with a teasing smile.
"..." Tezuka speed up and ran ahead.
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To be continued soon!
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Please read and review. Constructive criticism are welcomed but degradatory flames will be discarded!
Glossary:-
"Yudan sezu ni ikou!" – meaning "Do not let your guard down and do not be careless when playing!" It is Tezuka's famous phrase!
Sensei – title for teachers, doctors, professors, etc.
Ichi-nen trio – refers to the 1st. year tennis club members, innocent Katsuo Mizuno, naïve Kachirou Katou & boastful and annoying Satoshi Horio.