Secret Ambitions

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis or the canon characters. I only own the OCs in the story.


Summary: A boy with a passion and talent like no other. In daylight, he rules the courts he plays on…at night...he rules the stage… In one life, he's known as the prince…the other as a star. When he needs to choose which life to go by…which will he choose for the rest of his life?


"Ambition" – Normal Speech

'Ambition' – Thoughts


Beat 2: More and More Confusing

The next morning was surprising for everyone. As soon as they reached the school grounds for morning practice, they saw Ryoma outside practicing against the wall. His back was turned to them, so they weren't able to see his face.

"Ochibi?" Eiji whispered out as soon as he was close enough. When the boy didn't respond, Eiji tried calling again louder, "Ochibi." When the boy didn't respond once more, he yelled out, "Ochibi!"

This seemed to snap Ryoma out of his daze as he hit the tennis ball hard against the wall causing it to bounce past him and toward the small crowd of regulars.

Ryoma seemed to realize that no one had their racquets out, so he quickly spun around and threw his racquet at the ball before it could reach any of the regulars.

Tezuka was about to scold Ryoma for throwing his racquet until he saw why. The racquet had enough force on it so that when it made contact with the ball, the two objects were both sent soaring toward the sides and away from the group. Looking back up, he saw Ryoma sigh in relief before walking over to get his racquet and tennis ball from the ground.

"Ryoma?" Momo asked a bit scared by what had just happened. He had never seen his best friend snap that badly and so harshly before…

"I'm fine," Ryoma said before going back into the clubroom.

When everyone finally reached the clubroom, they could hear several shuffling of papers before Ryoma walked out and stepped aside for them. Walking inside to get changed for practice, the regulars saw nothing out of the ordinary and just left the shuffling as something of their imaginations.

Outside, Ryoma sighed once again in relief that no one had messed with his belongings…his other group of friends would kill him if he let anyone else see those papers he put into his bag. He began practicing against the wall again and hitting the exact spot every time. He soon got into the rhythm and started to let his mind wander to other things in his life. 'I wonder how the others are doing…they sure are snippy when they can't meet me right away,' he thought catching the tennis ball when someone called his name. The boy turned around to see that they were about to run laps.

Nodding, Ryoma set down his racquet and got in line with the others for the run. As soon as the whistle blew, they all started running for their warm-up run or as he liked to call it, the run of doom…especially because of what Inui had in store for them this time if they failed to meet the requirements. Ryoma gulped just thinking about it.

Around halfway through the running, the regulars were starting to notice. Ryoma was keeping up with them but was a bit more tired than usual. Glancing towards each other, they each nodded when they realized that the baby of the team had his mind set on something else currently.

Momo yelled out, "Ryoma!" in hopes to get the boy's attention.

It did get the boy's attention…with some consequences.

Ryoma had turned around at the sound of someone calling his name and completely missed noticing another freshmen accidently drop a tennis ball right into the path of the remaining runners.

Momo was about to yell for Ryoma to look out until it was too late.

Ryoma, about to ask why Momo called him, accidently stepped on the tennis ball and fell backward into a heap. That wasn't the worst part though…because they were so close to the edge of the tennis court fencing they were about to turn at, Ryoma slipped and knocked his head onto the wall. He slumped to the ground gripping his head between his hands.

At this time, all the regulars had stopped running and immediately went to see how bad the damage was including Inui, who stopped his timer.

"Let me see Echizen," Oishi said prying Ryoma's hands away from his head. The other freshmen were watching behind the regulars hoping to see their friend but not get in the way.

Once Oishi finished prying away Ryoma's hands, he saw a bit of red on them before looking at the back of Ryoma's head where he hit the wall. He also saw a bit of red dripping and immediately called out, "Get the first aid-kit!"

One of the freshmen farthest from the regulars immediately ran to the clubroom and grabbed the first aid-kit from its place. Going back to the crowd, the freshmen handed the kit to Oishi who started to tend to Ryoma's wound immediately even though it was small.

After tending to the small wound, Oishi stepped away and helped Ryoma stand up.

"Thank you Oishi-senpai," Ryoma whispered with a nod of his head.

Oishi was surprised but nodded as a welcome anyway.

"Rest for now Echizen," Tezuka ordered before they all continued running for the warm-up.

The group left just in time too as Ryoma's watch started beeping again. He took a look and noticed the little page telling him to meet up with the others again. He replied back that he could not meet up with them now and to wait for about one or two hours depending on how long practice would be today.

The rest of practice went smoothly. Ryoma patted the bandage that Oishi had wrapped around the back of his head to see that it was still holding the blood back. He nodded in satisfaction at how well Oishi was able to handle injuries.

As soon as practice ended, Ryoma had already rushed over to the clubroom to get changed.

When everyone else reached him, he was already tidying up his school uniform. No one noticed how rushed Ryoma really seemed to be as he came close to stumbling a number of times. "See you all tomorrow then!" they all head him yell out before walking out of the clubroom.

Eiji noticed that Ryoma had left his cap and quickly rushed along with the other regulars to get changed before going after Ryoma to give him back the cap.

Once outside, they saw Ryoma running off towards the local park. They all followed him again hoping to catch up to him to give him back the cap until they stopped. They saw five other people with Ryoma all tapping their feet and looking a bit mad.

They heard Ryoma say, "Oh calm down! I told you I had practice again today didn't I?"

One of the girls sighed before walking over to him and slinging an arm over the boy's shoulder. The girl had brown hair and black to brown hair reaching to her waist. She wore a white halter top to show her back along with a long skirt with a slit on the side with blue slippers and a blue beret on top of her head just barely showing the flower hair pins she wore. "Come on Ryoma," the girl said tugging Ryoma to the rest of the group, "We have to go now."

The girl dragged Ryoma toward the group where the regulars could recognize the girl he first met up with and another girl who clung to the young prodigy's arm. The girl had black eyes with silver tints and had blue hair with red tints that were in two buns but had a layer of hair going to her shoulder. She wore a green and blue one-shouldered shirt with a wrist length sleeve along with dark blue jeans that had one leg going to her knee while the other went to her ankle. She wore light yellow slip on shoes.

The two boys in the group besides Ryoma shook their heads at the two girls hanging off of Ryoma's shoulder and arm.

"Calm down you two and get off of him before your weight brings him down," a platinum-haired boy said. The boy had cerulean blue eyes and wore a white button-up shirt along with black goggles hanging around his neck. The regulars could see that he was wearing Khakis and teal sneakers along with a gold engagement ring. The regulars noticed him look towards the girl that Ryoma met yesterday and noticed a matching gold engagement ring on her finger.

The other boy was just smiling while he was staring at the group. He had brown eyes along with black short and spiky hair that matched his black t-shirt and black Nikes he wore. Looking down a bit, the regulars saw the blue jeans he wore along with some black fingerless gloves on him


"Hey!" the raven-haired female yelled at the boy before commenting, "Yuki and I are not that fat!"

Yuki replied, "That's right! Estrella and I aren't fat!"

"Whatever you say ladies," the platinum-haired boy said before slinging an arm across Tenshi's shoulders.

Tenshi giggled before kissing the boy on the cheek and whispering into his ears, "Now come on Skyway. Don't be so stubborn." She turned to the other male and asked, "And Spade? Why didn't you help pry the two off of Ryoma anyway?"

Spade shrugged before walking over to the young prodigy and prying the two clingy girls off of him.

"Come on already you guys," Skyway whined before heading toward the exit of the park. "We have work to do."

Everyone nodded in agreement before Ryoma grabbed Estrella's and Yuki's hands and started to walk with them. Estrella had grabbed Spade's hand while Yuki grabbed Tenshi, who grabbed Skyway's hand. They all walked out of the park together making the people watching them more confused than ever…


A/N: There will be an ongoing poll for which pairing Ryoma will be in. Just vote on any pairing(s) you like. Just name them in a review, and I'll be keeping a track of them in a written tally. I will be updating this story every Sunday if I can. You can vote for the pairings as many times as you like.


Author's Note: On my profile is a poll for whichever story you people want me to work on. Included on the poll are six of the stories I'm currenty working on including: Dragon's Master, Half-Breed, and four other new stories whose summaries are on my profile page. Please vote and I'll get started on writing those when summer vacation comes around. I wil start posting them as soon as I finish posting up Beasts Within. The poll will be up for however long until all those stories are good to be posted. Please vote and hope you enjoyed the chapter~