DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE PRINCE OF TENNIS (characters and everything else) EXCEPT MY OWN CHARACTERS AND MY PLOT... I'M SIMPLY BORROWING THEM FOR MY FANFIC...

Weee, my first ever fanfic.... My focus on this fanfic is pretty much TezukaXOC, but you'll definitely see a lot of Ryoma here, and maybe even a little bit of Sanada and Yukimura... So there you go, enjoy... R&R please...It'll really help since this is my first time writing a fanfic... To the story then....

A SAMURAI FOR THE BUCHOU

Chapter 1

It all started as their usual morning tennis practice. Echizen Ryoma drinking his ponta after a match. Eiji pouncing on the first year, and Oishi worrying about him. Inui taking data, Fuji smiling, as usual and Tezuka, their ever stoic captain with his arms crossed over his chest, watching the team practice.

When morning classes were to start, everyone started heading to the school building for their respective classroom. The only remaining in the locker room were Oishi and Tezuka making sure everything was in place and order for their afternoon practice. When they came out, they were greeted, or more like surprised by a girl standing in front of them. She was about their age, long, wavy, shiny black hair hanging up to her waist, sparkling deep blue eyes, small mouth with pink lips, plump, pinkish cheeks with a near-perfect shaped nose. Her complexion was white and her Rikkai Dai uniform was really suited to her body shape. She was tall, about up to the height of Tezuka's shoulders. Those features of her almost made Oishi think she was an angel, and he blushed as he already had a crush on her. Tezuka, as usual, kept his expressionless face but was secretly wishing she would hide the katana the girl was holding on her left hand. He was about to ask her who she was when-

"Excuse me, but do you know where Ryoma-kun's classroom is? She asked with such sweet and gentle voice

"Ah...Eh...R-r-ryoma, eh, Echizen-kun you mean?" The mother-hen was stammering in front of the girl. He was also thinking why a girl from Rikkai Dai would call Echizen by his first name.

"Hai! Echizen Ryoma. Do you think you can show me where his classroom is? I need to speak with him right now. It's rather urgent."

"Oishi, go to our class. I'll take her to Echizen," answered the captain plainly.

"Ah okay. I'll see you later then." Oishi was secretly wishing he volunteered earlier so that he was the one to take the girl to Echizen. Anyways, since Tezuka volunteered, he bowed to the girl and left for their class.

Tezuka took the girl on the way to Echizen's classroom while walking slowly which caused the girl to politely asked if they could wake a bit faster since the matter she wants to discuss with Echizen was really important. Tezuka glanced at the girl at his back and nodded. 'I don't want to anger her. She might be provoked to use the weapon she is holding now, and besides, how did she smuggled the weapon inside the school anyway?' he thought. The girl thought that her guide was afraid of the weapon she was holding since it really is not normal for a teenager, let alone a girl to carry weapons at the time of the day and parade it in the streets. When they arrived at Echizen's classroom, Tezuka politely bowed to the girl and went on his way to go to his class as he was already late. The long hallway was empty and the only sounds that could be heard were either the teacher's voice lecturing or the sound of the chalk hitting the blackboards. She sighed. She didn't want to disturb anybody's class, but she had no choice. She knocked on the door and waited for the teacher to come out of the classroom to check on who is it.

"Yes, is there a problem, miss?" The teacher was staring at the Rikkai Dai student, confused as to why a student from another school would be bothering his class.

"Gomennasai. Can I speak to Echizen Ryoma, please? It is rather urgent."

"Oh, of course. But will you please refrain from bringing weapons inside school campus." The teacher answered nervously.

"Hai! Sorry for the katana. And thank you."

After the teacher went inside the classroom, a very surprised Echizen went out of the classroom. Ryoma's eyes widened when she saw the girl. But at the same time, a warm smile came too.

"What are you doing here, nee-chan? And with the sword?" He asked, rather alarmed. Her very careful cousin wouldn't be carrying swords whenever she's in public and specially during the day unless there was a problem.

"Gomen, Ryoma, but I had to. They're following me wherever I go and it's only a matter of time if they attack me or not. They're even spying on me at school. I'm just checking if you're safe since you don't exactly have anything with you for self-defense, although I doubt you'll need one since you're very skilled when it comes to taijutsu."

"Hai! I understand. Don't worry I'm fine. Oh, and to tell you, I have something with me." When he said that, Ryoma pulled out several shurikens and kunai knives from who-knows-where he was hiding it. When Akumi saw this, she gave a sigh of relief and Ryoma hid it again.

"Well? What can you say about my hiding abilities? Impressive, huh?" He asked with an arrogant smirk.

"Good. Just don't let anybody see them and don't keep your guard down. Call me if there's any trouble, alright? Bye!"

"Bye! See you later, nee-chan!" He then went inside the classroom and went back to sleep since his English teacher started babbling lectures again that he already knew.

At the cafeteria, during lunch, everyone was staring at Echizen with mischievous smiles planted on their mouths. Apparently, the rumor that Echizen's girlfriend visited him is spread-out through the whole campus no thanks to his captain and Oishi.

"Nyaa, o'chibi has a girlfriend? And a third year from Rikkai?" Asked his ever-hyper Eiji-senpai while suffocating him with his hugs.

"She's not my girlfriend! Who started that stupid rumor anyway?"

The rumor started when Tezuka came late for his class. The teacher asked him what took him so long and his simple, yet wrong answer was-

"Gomennasai, sensei. I had to bring a girl to Echizen Ryoma's classroom. It won't happen again, sensei." The girls who heard that started gossiping that it was Echizen's girlfriend or maybe a fangirl. When the teacher left, the girls were trying to make Tezuka confess who the girl was, what was her name, what school was she from, and lots of personal matters that Tezuka wouldn't dare ask. The only reply he gave them was that the girl was wearing a Rikkai Dai uniform and she was the same age as them. With that settled, the girls concluded that the visitor was a girlfriend, and not a fangirl, since they agreed that no student from Rikkai Dai would be a fangirl to the popular fukubuchou of Seishun. The gossip spread like wildfire that in less than an hour, the whole third year senior high knows about it. Then from Eiji, he passed it on to Momoshiro, who in turn passed it to the first year trio and to Ryuzaki Sakuno and Osakada Tomoka.

"Hmph! No one's going to come near our Ryoma-sama without my permission first. I am Osakada Tomoka, head of Ryoma-sama's fan club and I wouldn't let that girl come near him!" She announced with her loud, annoying voice.

"Tomo-chan, maybe it was just a rumor. You know how it is with Ryoma-kun know. He isn't just the fukubuchou of the tennis team, he's one of the most popular players now in Tokyo." Sakuno spoke with some hope as she had a crush on Echizen and she didn't want to believe that he has a girlfriend.

"Well, then, let's ask Ryoma-sama during lunch later."

"Eh, Echizen, then who's the girl, eh?" The second year with spiky black hair asked. Echizen gave him a death glare, which unfortunately failed to scare the power player.

"Ce...She's my nee-chan. Now will you stop bugging me about her?"

"Nyaa, then she's availabe then, eh Ochibi?"

Echizen threw another death glare which contained the 'don't even think about it' message, this time for his Eiji-senpai.

Kaido gave a low hiss as Eiji scrambled to get back to his seat so as not to provoke the first year while Momoshiro tried hard to hide his laugh when he saw the red head's reaction. "Ii data..." was the only thing you can hear from the data master, who was scribbling something in his notebook.

Everyone stopped laughing and talking when they saw the brown-haired tensai sit across Tezuka and started talking to him.

"Ne, Tezuka, do you know the name of Echizen's cousin?" He asked innocently but with a deadly smile on his face.

"No." He sounded pretty annoyed since everyone has been asking him the same question , but kept his expressionless face.

"You didn't even bother to ask, buchou?"

"No."

Seeing that the captain wouldn't give any more information, Fuji turned away and started eating his bento, which prompted the other members to do the same.