That Thing We Call Tennis (TTWCT)

HanaKashix3

My new PoT fan-fiction. It's a KaidohxOC and RyomaxOC. Different Oc for them though. There might be a few triangles or squares. Lemons (why do they call them that?), I'm not sure about them yet. R&R.

Reunited...

Satomi's POV:

Slowly walking around Seigaku to the Ranking Tournament. I see a sign that read 'Ranking Tournament located nearby the entrance of the school.' I turn to see a boy, no a girl with a cap and baggy clothes making it seem like a boy. She turns to look at me with her dark brown eyes. They look so familiar.

"Hoshi?" I ask, "Is that you?"

She put her hand over my mouth and whispers, "Shh, I heard the girls team sucked. So, I'm cross-dressing as a guy to join the regulars guys team. My name will be Kuro, Hikaru instead. Just play along..."

Hikaru and I walked to the tournament. He was in C block. Kawamura and Eiji were in C block as well. I look at D block to see Kaidoh and Inui. Lastly, I see Ryoma Echizen.

'Hmm, Kawamura-senpai is in for it. Ryoma Echizen, isn't he that freshman from America? Hey, another recruit!'

I turn to Hikaru and smile. He looks at me with a straight face.

"What?" he continues to stare.

"You know, you haven't changed at all.," I smile, "You're still so short! Drink more milk!"

"Thanks, senpai.," he smirks.

"You know I hate it when you call me that!" I put him in a headlock and gave him a nuggie.

"Ouch, that hurt.," he slowly walks off to the tennis court while waving good bye.

'Tezuka, I wonder what convinced you to put two freshmen in the ranking tournament. I wonder how the regulars are doing...'

I skipped my way over to the scoreboard to see Kaidoh sitting next to the tree. I found a playmate!

"Kaidoh!" I get behind him, though he wasn't startled, more angry, "Whatcha' doing?"

"Fshhhh.," he closes his eyes.

I pout and start to poke his face. After the third poke he had an aggravated look on his face but he still had his eyes closed.

"Stop.," he commands as he looks at me with his snake stare.

"What's the magic word?" I continue to poke him.

His face turns red from anger and sighs, "Please?"

I stop poking him and smile, "Okay! Oh, and good luck!"

"Fshhhh.," he stands up and leaves.

"Yo!" I turn to see Momoshiro, "Satomi, what are you up to now?"

"Momo-chan!" I smile, "Just messing around with Kaidoh. Ready for the tournament?"

"You bet!" he grins.

"If you don't become a regular, I'm not treating you out to the hamburger place anymore.," I give a sly grin, "You can't have Kaidoh becoming a regular and you not, right?"

"Eh??" he looks at me with a cute shocked face, "How mean! And I'll never let that guy be better than me!"

"So you have to win!" I smile. He nods and goes to Block B.

'That'll keep him going for sure.'

Skipping over to Oishi and Tezuka, they looked as if they were talking about something important. Maybe about the two new freshmen or about Kawamura who might not be able to become a regular this year because of the sushi store's financial problems and not enough time to be training for the tournaments.

"Tezuka-senpai!" I make an curious face while stopping next to Oishi, "When did you put another freshman into the ranking? I only knew about Echizen being in there."

"Kuro, Hikaru signed up in the beginning, but at first I wasn't going to except it. Now that Kawamura confirmed to us that he's not going to be able to play, he's going to at least be in the ranking tournament but from what I know, Kuro is a national winner from America so, I doubt that Kawamura would be a problem to him.," he states calmly.

'Yeah, him... Though, Kawamura is such a good guy.'

"You seem a bit interested in the freshmen, do you know them?" Oishi asks.

"Well, I used to live in America and I've known Hikaru for a bit there.," I smile, "Can I still help out for training this year too, ne?"

"We might need your part of training again.," Tezuka sighs, "Including your... cheerful... Enthusiasm."

"Okay!" I start to run off to block D to see Echizen easily beating his opponent. "He's good isn't he?" I give out a bit of a shriek to see Inui-senpai.

"Hai, but senpai, when did you get here?" I ask with a curious look, "Your getting data for your round with him, aren't you?"

"I've been here.," he gives a smirk, "and yes, I'm getting a lot of data. Hopefully he doesn't know what you know about my data."

"You never know Inui-senpai," I grin, "he just might know the secret..."

"You're up to something...," his glasses shine from the light, "Aren't you?"

"No.," I smile, "Why would you think that?"

"No reason.," he says in a calm voice, "Just wondering if there was anything else I could add in my data book."

"Good luck Inui-senpai.," I wave my hand goodbye as I walk to block C. Hikaru was against Kawamura and it was 2-0, Hikaru lead.

I turn to a freshman and ask, "Has that freshman on court been against Eiji-senpai yet?" "Hai, he won by one game.," he says as he keeps his eye on the game, "He's good."

I nod and walk to Fuji's match, there seemed to be no problem. Momoshiro seemed to be winning his match with a sophomore.

'For what I know everyone last year will make it besides Kawamura, and either Inui or Kaidoh. Likely it's going to be Inui... Well, maybe he'll help do training with me. Hmmm, where's someone I can play with?'

I walk around the courts to see Kaidoh sitting next to the desk.

"Hey, how was your match?" I ask smiling brightly in front of his face. "Won all of them, need to do one with the freshman.," he sighs. "Don't underestimate him Kaidoh.," I point my finger at him, "Be careful, that freshman isn't just an ordinary one. He's a special one."

He does his 'fshhhh' as a response. I pout considering it seemed as if he wasn't paying attention. Well, at least now it's his fault if he loses cause he didn't listen to me. He goes into the court with Ryoma Echizen. After a gruesome match with Echizen, Kaidoh lost. Though, it seemed as if he had paid attention. I overhear the freshmen talking about a boy named Hikaru Kuro, he made it all the way and beat Kawamura. Eiji and Kawamura are playing right now.

'Good job, Hoshi. You made it...I'm so PROUD!!'

All of the sudden, Kaidoh starts to hit his knee with his racket.

"He's always the same...," Fuji says with his usual smile.

I run over on court, pick up his bandana, grab his wrist.

"Kaidoh, don't hurt yourself. You know you have one more match with Inui. If this boo-boo gets worse, you might lose.," I hand him bandana and take his racket in case he'd still try to do it again, "Kaidoh-chan, you're so weird sometimes."

I walk around trying to find Hikaru but, end up bumping into the freshman that beat Kaidoh, Ryoma Echizen... He's good, though I have a feeling that he can do better... If, of course, he'd make his own style of tennis.

"Hey.," I smile as he looks at me weirdly, "Good luck beating Inui. He's a tough cookie."

"Whatever.," he looks at Oishi, "Ryoma Echizen, Court D, 6-3."

"Thanks.," Oishi says as he writes the score on the board. Echizen then starts to walk off.

"You know.," I look up at the sky., "The clouds are really really REALLY high today."

"Satomi, just what are you rambling about now, nya?" I turn to see none other then Eiji. "Uh," I say sounding kind of clueless, "the clouds." He smiles then pouts, "That freshman, Hikaru, is a tough one. Oishi, Block C, 6-3. Kawamura won't be with us anymore, ne?" Oishi nods as he writes down yet another score.

'Ryoma's match is the last one now. Hmmm, will he be able to pull it off?'

The match ended with Ryoma winning with his one-foot slip step technique. So really in the end, both freshmen did make it to the regulars. And Kawamura really wasn't able to become one after all. Not that he would be able to anyways.

I run over to Kawamura, "Kawa-chan, you didn't make it this year." He gives a weak smile, "Ah, though either way, the shop hasn't been going too well. I need help out." "I'll help too! By going over to your dad's sushi store, everyday and buy something!" I say with a lot of strange determination. "You don't really need to-" I stop him, "No, I have to. You're such a good person Kawamura-senpai, it's sad that you have to leave the tennis club. You have to visit us sometime, I'll be helping them train to be in tip-top shape for tournaments to come. Inui-senpai might help too." "I'll be sure to visit and thanks for helping the store." he starts to make his way out of the tennis courts. "I'll see you at your dad's store tonight, ne?" he nods and walks to his store.

I hear Momoshiro talking to Eiji about Kawamura. Tezuka announces, "Everyone line up at court!" Everyone lines up and I stand between Tezuka and Coach Ryuzaki. Coach Ryuzaki then screams out with her frightening voice of doom, "Tomorrow regulars will be doing exercises and practice, others will be picking up the tennis ball. Dismissed!"

Everyone starts to leave in groups with their friends. Three freshmen gather around Ryoma congratulating him on Regulars.

'What a day.. Time to go to Kawamura's Sushi.'

Well, that's the first chapter. Please Review, though I don't care if you do or don't but, it's nice to see what people think about the story. I'll write the next one as soon as I can.