Yay, I got time to write again! I'll try to update often but usually it will take a week for a chapter. I still have school and stuff. Also, I thank the only person that reviewed last time. It made me want to update this chapter faster.
Disclaimer: I own nothing of the Prince of Tennis series. Everything belongs to Takeshi Konomi.
Ryoma came from class early to hit some balls before everyone got here. He was pretty excited about seeing Shana again. Ryoma loved playing tennis with her. They had been rivals since they were young. Every time they played, they would sharpen their moves more and every match ended up with different results. Anyways, he was walking when he heard a loud noise. He quickly ran over and saw KachirÅ getting beat up by a guy with white hair and a mean look. The guy with white hair served a ball at the young freshman lying helplessly on the ground and almost immediately, Ryoma rushed to the rescue. He held out his tennis racket and avoided the ball from hitting the boy's face.
Shana held her tennis racket out in a ready position before receiving the serve that Maeda-buchou served. It was an fast serve but Shana could handle it.
Many tennis players were gathering around the court.
"That new girl is awesome! She gets to play the buchou on her first day and she's keeping up!"
"That's Shikinari Shana. She came from the US and has played in many junior tournaments around the world. A junior prodigy I'd say." Kondo Anju said observing carefully.
"That's our Anju-chan. Knowing everything!" cheerful Okamoto Hina exclaimed.
"But Shikinari-san is really good...Look! She score a point against Maeda-buchou!" Second year regular Kujima Sakura gasped.
Everyone just stared. Sakuno was so awed. Her skills may even that of Ryoma-kun's. Then again they were probably trained by the same person.
After about 30 minutes, Yui used a drop shot. It hit the net and slid across. Shana predicted where it would land and just when the ball was supposed to fall onto her racket, the ball flew up in a huge arch and landed on the baseline.
"There it is! Maeda-buchou's Crescent Drop!" Everyone watching shouted.
Shana was panting heavily. She stared in awe as the ball pin-pointed itself on the baseline. She had lost this match.
"Game and Match...Maeda Yui! 6-3!" The ref. called.
Even though Shana lost the match, Yui knew what she needed to know. She was letting Shana participate in the intra school rankings tomorrow.
Both players walked out of the courts silently. Many girls were admiring Shana and how well she did against the captain. Ishii stayed out of it.
Soon practice was over and Sakuno went home first while Shana changed back to her school uniform. She said goodbye to Sakuno and went to the boy's tennis courts to find Ryoma. She couldn't get back by herself, that was for sure.
When she got to the courts, she saw Ryoma and a couple of other boys sprinting as fast as they could. They screaming something along the lines of 'I don't want it!'. Shana assumed that the boys that were running with Ryoma were the regulars since they were all wearing the same jerseys. She looked around and saw a tall guy with square glasses holding up a drink that was red. Looking at it made Shana want to throw up. At this moment she understood what they were all running from. She turned to look around again and noticed lots of other boys that weren't wearing the special jersey. They were all on the ground spitting and looking very ill. Shana looked towards the glasses guy again. She made a mental notice to stay away from him in the future.
Just then, a couple boys yelled, "Here they come!". Shana looked to see what they were talking about. She was surprised to see a mob of teenage boys turning the corner all at the same time. She gulped when the glasses guy looked at his watch and mumbled something about 'it being a tie and everyone sharing the drink'. He only got yelled at by everyone saying: "Drink it yourself!". Shana laughed at the boys and a couple of freshmen turned towards her, Ryoma included. She gasped when she saw bandages wrapped around his head and bandaids on his cheeks. He didn't look this bad this morning!
Ryoma motioned her to be quiet and not attract any attention. Shana just sighed to this and walked away to the front of the boy's change room. They were going to have to change sooner or later. She sat down on the ground and watched the end of the practice from a distance. After a while boys came to change. They stared at Shana before shrugging and going to change. After a while the regulars came with Ryoma in a headlock from a boy with spiky black hair. Shana blinked before waving to Ryoma.
"Hi Ryoma-kun! Having fun?" The young girl laughed at Ryoma. The boy with spiky hair released Ryoma.
"Oi, Echizen you know her?"
"Ochibi! You didn't tell us you had a girlfriend!" A boy in red hair came from behind.
Ryoma blushed slightly before talking back, "Kikumaru-senpai! She's not my girlfriend! She's just a childhood friend!"
"Oh really?" The two senpais asked before more regulars came and looked at what was going on.
"Echizen, who is this?" A boy with brown hair and glasses said.
"Oh, buchou, this is Shikinari Shana. She's a new student from my class. She's also a childhood friend." Ryoma replied.
"Thats great but Shikinari-san. We need to go change. Will you talk with us some other time?" The captain asked.
"Yeah, I wasn't the one talking in the first place..." Shana muttered.
"My apologies then." The teen said before heading into the change room. Ryoma glanced at her before stepping in too. One by one, the rest of the regulars entered the room.
Shana shrugged and sighed, "that was strange."
About two minutes later Ryoma came out and dragged Shana to a corner.
"Hey!" Shana pressed, "What the hell was that for?"
"Why are you here?" Ryoma glared at her, "You could have just gone home first!"
Shana stared at him like he was crazy, "You do remember how terrible my geography skills are right?"
At this moment Ryoma did a hard facepalm. How could he forget that?
"Sorry...I forgot..." Ryoma mumbled.
"I figured as much." The female athlete replied.
"Ochibi! Wanna go for burgers with us?" Kikumaru Eiji shouted trying to find Ryoma. Unfortunately, Ryoma fell for the trap and shouted out a loud: Yeah! Sure!
The boy with spiky hair and Kikumaru ran over.
"Oh it's Shikinari-san. Hey! My name is Momoshiro Takeshi. Yorushiku! Call me Momo-chan please." The spiky haired boy introduced.
"Yay! Its Shikia-chi again. After Tezuka-buchou ordered us into the change room, I was scared thinking that I may never see you again!" Kikumaru bounced and tackled Shana giving her a big bear hug.
"Ugh...Kikumaru-senpai...can't breathe." Shana gasped out while thinking about her new nickname.
"Oh? Sorry! Hey Shikia-chi, we are going to get burgers. Wanna come with us? You are really cute by the way," Eiji happily shouted.
"Uh...Sure. And thanks?" Shana replied. With that the four of them left for the burger shop.
While walking there, a storm of questions were directed towards Shana.
"Why aren't you ochibi's girlfriend?" Kikumaru had asked. After this Ryoma and Shana talked for along time just about how they were rivals and not girl and boy friends.
"Oh? Shana-chan plays tennis too?" Momo asked.
"Yeah. Why else would I be carrying a tennis bag?" She rhetorically asked. Momo thought about it for a while and just shrugged and walked on.
When the students arrived at the burger shop and stood in line for ordering, Shana remembered a past memory.
"Here Shana, what kind of burger would you like?" A man gestured towards a young girl with auburn brown curls and a extremely happy face. They had just come from practicing tennis. Even though the girl was young, she was an incredible player for her age. She could serve, volley and basically hit all the shots normal kids couldn't.
"Beef with lettuce daddy!" The girl laughed.
"Hey! You two! Hurry and order. We don't have all day!" A woman shouted from one of the tables.
"Hai!" The two shouted. The girl's laughter rang like bells out in the room.
The last thing Shana remembered was the cute and excited look on the girl's face before Kikumaru started shouting.
"Hey Shikia-chi! Aren't you going to order?"
Shana snapped back to reality, "Uh yeah...Lets see...A coke and a beef and lettuce burger please."
After receiving their orders they four sat down and a question popped up in Shana's head.
"Hey Echizen, what happened to your face?"
Ryoma looked at Shana and started to say something when Momo laughed and blurted, "Don't even start Echizen! We know you are going to lie and say you fell down but we all know the truth. You got hit by rocks on the face right? I heard Yamabuki's Akutsu Jin did it."
"Someone purposely served rocks at Ryoma-kun?" The only girl in the group widened her eyes, "That's extremely bizarre! I told you you should've taken karate lessons with me."
"Eh Shana knows karate? Wow! I thought she would be more girl like." Momo laughed only to be shot a glare at from Shana.
Ryoma sighed finishing his burger, "I'm done senpai-taichi. Lets go."
"Oh, ochibi's in a hurry! Oh well, I'm done too." Eiji happily went and finished his burger. Shana follow suit and finished her's too. Momo, however, was stuffing his into his mouth since he got more than the others.
"Oi! Wait for me!" The power player complained. Everyone else just sighed.
After the group finished eating, they went outside and saw Kawamura walking.
"Hm? That's Taka-san. I thought he went home. What's he doing here?" Kikumaru pondered.
"Huh? Went home?" Echizen asked confused.
Momo explained, "Yeah, when you were talking to Shikinari-san, we asked Kawamura-senpai to go get burgers with us but he said he was busy."
"Ooooh! Lets follow him!" Kikumaru suggested and left without listening to the others' opinions. Ryoma and Momo both followed.
"Hey, you guys! Don't you think we should not be eavesdropping on what oth-" Shana sighed. Nobody was listening to her. Since she had no other choice, she too, followed.
Following the trail led to an ice cream sundae shop. The gang hid behind a bush while Kawamura entered.
"Are you sure we should be doing this?" Shana asked.
"Don't mind! Shikia-chi, this is fun!" The cat like teen exclaimed.
This was followed by another sigh from Shana. Where did they get these ideas from?
All of a sudden, the glasses guy Shana saw earlier popped out from behind the bush too, "Must be a date."
"AHHHHHHHH?" All four of them yelled. Shana was pointing at the guy and shivering while backing away.
"Y-you're the guy with that drink!" She exclaimed.
"Hm? Oh it's Echizen's girlfriend. My name is Inui Sadaharu. Nice to meet you." He said in a monotone voice.
"I-I'm NOT Ryoma-kun's girlfriend!" Shana yelled.
"Then why the first name basis? You obviously like him." Inui stated.
The girl tear dropped, "Back in the US, we always use first names so I'm used to it..."
"Ok, ok! Lets follow Taka-san already!" Kikumaru wailed impatiently.
"Lets, follow. This will result in good data." Inui confirmed.
"What kind...?" Ryoma mumbled.
Takashi came into the shop and saw the woman he was supposed to be meeting. He sat down and told her about the incident with Akutsu at school today. This woman was Akutsu Jin's mom. She got upset and started crying. Little did Taka know that a group of teens were eavesdropping on him.
"Ah! He made her cry!" Momo gasped. The others had angry looks on. Shana thought it was really mean too.
The group leaned in. "Damn that Taka-san." Momo whispered in anguish.
"What's wrong with this world?" Kikumaru asked and sighed. Ryoma and Shana kept watching and Inui was writing in his notebook.
"What a guy, that Kawamura." Everyone leaned in to see what he was writing and Shana just gasped and stayed as far away as possible.
A waiter then came and gave Ryoma a ice cream sundae that he had ordered.
"Oi, ochibi! You have a good eye don't you? I want one too!" Kikumaru started ordering too. All the boys followed suit.
"This is all on Taka-san right? Hey Shana-chan, why don't you order one too?" Momo asked.
"Um...Ok sure." Shana sighed again. She was going to have to get used to this. She ordered a chocolate and strawberry split.
Ryoma smiled, "Since it's on Kawamura-senpai, I'll order something else too."
Shana sighed once again at her friend's greediness and looked at him. She was surprised to see his hands shaking. Everyone else noticed too. Shana looked at where Ryoma was looking and saw a teen with a white jacket on and greyish, whitish hair.
"A-Akutsu..." Ryoma muttered.
"What?" Momo and the others looked at the guy that was now sitting beside Taka-san.
"So that's the guy huh?" Shana asked quietly.
"Yeah, but why is he with Taka-san?" Kikumaru asked.
"Akutsu! Look this way." Taka ordered. THe man however, refused to obey until the woman gave him a shout of his name.
"We haven't met since the dojo right? Akutsu." Taka continued. Akutsu gave a small smirk and Taka kept talking.
"Well, I'm not here to talk about the past. I heard that you came to our school today."
"I just went to say hi." The violent man explained without care.
"Please don't do anything to the students from my school!" Taka reasoned.
"This is boring, I don't want to talk about that." Akutsu got up and was ready to leave.
"Don't cause anymore trouble for Yuuki-chan." At this point Akutsu have had enough. He took the leftover glass of coke and despite his mother's protests, he still poured it onto Takashi's head.
"Don't order me around like that." Akutsu said before leaving, "I'll leave you alone this time because of our acquaintance."
"Jin...How could you do this?" The innocent mother asked.
The others watching were in awe. Shana wanted to beat the shit out of the guy right now.
"So cruel..." Kikumaru muttered, "Ah! He's coming."
Momo was about to get up but Shana did so before him.
"Shana! What are you thinking?" Eiji pouted.
Akutsu raised an eyebrow and just laughed when he saw Shana. He was about to walk past when Ryoma tripped him. A lot a stares and gasps were among the group of people. Shana mentally facepalmed but also stared in awe at Ryoma's bravery.
"Seigaku!" Akutsu muttered in an offensive way.
Ryoma got and and spoke, "Thank you for this afternoon. I believe I forgot to properly introduce myself. I am Seigaku's freshman regular, Echizen Ryoma.
So, how did you like this chapter? Just to let you guys know, this storyline will be based on the anime but I'll add different things now and then. I'll add more recreational activities and make the matches shorter. Cause, I personally don't want to spend hours reading a tennis match. And besides, if you do, you can just watch the anime. Also the other difference will be that, I will be focusing more on the girl's tennis club than the boys.
Thanks for reading, please review. They give me more motivation to write!
