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Summary: The beloved Seigaku Tennis Club is grown up, well sort of, they are in high school. A strange new girl moves into town from London and is there to stay for good, but who is the new girl? She has a connection to the freshman star of the team...just who is the girl? (No pairings though slight TezukaxOC, but probably won't happen and also OOC).

Wow, okay so this is my first ever Prince of Tennis fanfic. I haven't planned whether I'll put a pair or not, yes I know, I know that this will be similar to other things like the whole missing cousin/brother/sister/uncle/aunt/blah thing but hey it was spur of the moment kind of thing. It wasn't plan or intentional at all, so please do not hate me for making the plot line or anything simple. Also I kindly apologize if its a Mary Sue (which I am unclear as to what that is haha) Review and stuff, please. English is not my native language, speaking wise its good and most of my spelling as well, grammar on the other hand is not up to it. A bid you a good day!

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This is English speech.

Echoes in The Lightning

I. 'Ello Mate!

The train from XX Station seemed slow, though Japan had fast trains, somehow they were slow today. A teenage girl sat by herself reading a book, she looked very engrossed in the book moving her pupils from left to right rather fast flipping the pages every few seconds. Two boys carrying tennis equipment sat in front of her not finding other unoccupied seats.

"Why must we go today?" One of them complained rubbing his temples trying to get rid of the headache that was over taking him. "Why mustn't we go?" The other younger guy yawned drinking juice.

The girl noticed and removed the book from her face to get a good look at the strange guys, immediately she noticed the one person she was searching for. "Ryoma?" Her voice was soft, not angelic, just soft.

"Eh, Rio?" He gawked blinking his sharp golden eyes trying to grasp the sudden meeting. "W-what are you doing here?" A tiny grin spread on the teenaged Rio thinking that he had probably forgotten that she was to arrive from London today.

For the few minutes that passed (seemed to last longer) no body said anything, until the train stopped at their arrival.

"Yo, Ryoma I arrived from London today." She responded as she followed the two teenagers to whatever location it was that they were going. "I though that perverted old man had told you, I wrote to him like a million times telling him."

"No." He replied nonchalantly yawning again. "How was the plain ride?"

What a way to start a conversation, on the other hand the other boy had no idea what they were talking about nor did he know who the strange girl was, though something about her resembled his younger teammate.

"Boring, Father kept on running his mouth all the way here." She rubbed her temples trying to get passed the jetlag. "Anyways, probably Father and Uncle are having a row after all these years they been apart. Why do I get a feeling that I don't even know where in the hell I am right now."

A sudden panic streak began to waver on her as the three stood in the street tennis courts that the two young man had attended ever since middle school.

"Momoshiro!" A boy with red hair came holding his racket in front of the guy with black spiky hair in a very threatening way. "You came back for a rematch?"

"No, Kamio, we are only here to get some practice." Soon enough they were down each other throats yelling and screaming.

"Tsk, what a horrid sight if you two want to argue take somewhere else." Rio frowned looking over at Echizen, who was now talking to some other guy with long purplish hair. "What a very sadistic arrival in Japan--"

The flustered girl was interrupted as another guy, ironically carrying a sadistic smile on his face followed by another boy joined them. Somehow Rio couldn't find a way to fit in, so she silently sat on the bench pulling out her sketchbook to randomly draw the boys playing tennis. There isn't any interesting subject to this but I'm bored. She thought grabbing her pencil in her left hand and begun the process of drawing.

The rest of the day went uneventful as she had decided to return home by herself without even waiting on her young cousin. Tomorrow would await a new day since it was school, not so much excitement waiting.

A/N: Okay so its a short chapter but I think most of them will be short. Yes, yes I am aware of errors and some of it comes fast but again the ideas were just rushing into my head suddenly so don't kill me. I don't actually use the name 'Rio' from the Japanese name to be more precise. I originally intended on using the name 'River' but went with the Spanish translation which is 'Rio' (big duh) just pointing that out.