Tennis Melody Chapter 1, a Prince of Tennis + Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch Crossover fanfic

I thought that it would be best if I posted both the Prolouge and first chapter together. Hope you enjoy.

Disclamer: I do not own Mermaid Melody or Prince of Tennis.

Chapter 1

The Princess of the North Pacific Ocean

"Tadaima!" the 14 year old Hyotei acrobat called as he walked into his house.

"WHERE WERE YOU?! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE IMMEDEATELY AFTER SCHOOL!!" came the almost instantaneous reply.

"I had tennis practice after school. How many times do I have to remind you about it?" Gakuto said as he dropped his bag and began to head to the kitchen.

"WE'RE NOT HERE TO PLAY TENNIS!! OUR REASON FOR BEING HERE IS VERY IMPORTANT!! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO REMIND YOU OF THAT?!"

"You don't have to; I remember perfectly. But I don't see any reason that I should not any fun while I'm here," he said while pointedly ignored the navy blue penguin dressed in a sailors outfit that had just come into the kitchen. "And don't you dare give me that lecture of not trying hard enough. I try to find it whenever I can get away from everyone."

"Ya…"

"How many times do I have to remind you not to call me that, Drago? We're not at home and I would like to keep my birth name a secret," Gakuto asked turning to the penguin, pulling off a wig and allowing mid-back length hair to cascade down his back, with a glare on his face.

"Anyway, tomorrow, after tennis practice, I am going to go down to the beach that I last saw the boy I gave my pearl to in case he's down there," the girl continued. Drago still looked a little annoyed that she was still going to tennis practice when she should be doing what they had come here to do but knew that she would look for her pearl when she said she would, and not earlier or later.

"Fine, but be careful, Umi."

"When am I careless?" Gakuto, Umi, asked with a grin.

"Don't get me started…"

The Next Day; the Beach

Touin Umi, a.k.a. Mukahi Gakuto, walked down the beach, trying to find an older version of the boy she saw years ago. So far her search had resulted in nothing. She was beginning to wonder if she would ever find the boy that she had saved all those years ago. She had been looking for him for four years and hadn't found him yet.

'I should have tried to get his name. At least it would make finding him easier. If I knew his name I could just look it up in the phonebook and then, maybe, convince him to give me my pearl. But then again, he probably wouldn't give it to a human girl…at least, I hope that he wouldn't,' she thought as she walked. She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't notice someone in front of her until she bumped into them.

"Gomen nasai. I wasn't watching where I was going," Umi apologized as she bowed to the person.

"It's alright. I wasn't paying too much attention either." Umi's eyes widened at the familiar voice. Looking up at the person's face, her grey-mahogany eyes met with the boy's blue-violet colored eyes that were behind round glasses. "Would you mind if I asked you for your name?"

"I would mind but I'll tell you my name anyways. It's Touin Umi. And you are?" she asked even though she already knew.

"I'm Oshitari Yuushi. It's a pleasure to meet you, Touin-san," Yuushi replied. "May I ask why you weren't paying attention to where you were going?"

"You certainly can but that doesn't mean that I will answer," she retorted. Yuushi pretended to look hurt.

"Now that's not very nice."

"Who said that I was nice? As far as I know, I don't know anyone who would know you."

"Point taken," Yuushi's hurt look disappeared and a smirked appeared in its place. Umi began to become agitated with Yuushi and began to walk away. "Hey, is that how you treat everyone you run into?" Yuushi asked as he followed her.

"No. Usually I can just get away with saying 'gomen'. Now leave me alone."

"Come on. Such a pretty girl like you shouldn't be mad." Umi blushed at the 'pretty girl like you' comment and gave the bespectacled boy a glare. Suddenly a light brown-skinned girl with short dark blue hair and deep midnight blue eyes appeared in front of them.

"Hi. Sorry if I seem a little weird, but I saw your necklace and wanted to know where you got it. It's really pretty," she told Umi. At first Umi was confused but when the girl gave her a look that said 'play along', she did just that.

"This? I got it from my mother. Sorry that I can't tell you where she got it. But can you tell me where you got that outfit? It's so kawaii!" The blue haired girl nodded vigorously and the two began to talk about fashion. Yuushi left shortly after the conversation began, obviously uninterested in fashion and maybe a little disappointed that Umi's attention wasn't on him anymore. Once he was gone from sight and out of hearing range, Umi sighed.

"Thanks for that. Talking about fashion usually isn't my thing but I really wanted him to leave me alone."

"No problem. Fashion really isn't my thing to talk about either, at least all the time, but if I want my brother to leave me alone, or if I want to annoy him, I'll talk about it. Besides that it seemed a bit obvious that you wanted him to leave you alone," the girl shrugged. "Oh, but I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is SanadaSakura, but please call me Sakura."

"Nice to meet you Sakura. My name is Touin Umi, but you can call me Umi. If you don't mind my asking, what is your favorite topic to talk about, besides fashion?"

"Tennis."

"Really? That's more my topic!" Umi exclaimed. Sakura also became excited and they began to talk about tennis. They were so engrossed in their conversation that they didn't notice a huge storm brewing until it hit.

"Where did this storm come from?! There wasn't supposed to be a storm today!" Umi yelled.

"I don't know! But we need to get higher! Look at those waves!" The waves were very high and neither girl liked to be caught in the drag back out. While they were running away from the sea, Umi saw a wave fall on top of someone that she recognized.

'Yuushi!' she yelled in her mind before she turned and ran into the waves. She heard Sakura yell 'Umi!' before she plunged into the sea. All at once her body changed; her legs became a long magenta tail, her shirt disappeared and in its place was a bra made of seashells, her eyes changed from mahogany to ruby and her hair became longer and turned magenta. Only her necklace remained unchanged. Once she was completely mermaid, she swam in the direction where she saw a dark figure, hoping that it was Yuushi.

It was him, but he was unconscious and wasn't alone. A woman with tentacles where her legs or tail should have been was holding him.

"Let go of him!" Umi yelled at the woman. The woman looked surprised before she smirked.

"Well, isn't this a surprise. I thought that I would just get the North Pacific's pearl but also the princess? How lucky!" she laughed. Yasashii's eyes widened at the mention of her pearl. She then noticed a small glass case on a necklace that Yuushi wore and in it was a small magenta pearl.

'It was Yuushi that I saved all those years ago? I'm glad that he still has it, but how can I get him away from her?' Yasashii thought quickly before she dove at the woman. She dodged and smirked at the mermaid princess.

"That won't work. Now try this! Ocean Serpents!" she yelled as she waved her arm toward Umi. The water followed her arm before it solidified to form a snake-like wave. Umi braced herself for the hit but she still cried out in pain when the wave hit her.

Her cry brought Yuushi back into the land of consciousness. He was surprised at the scene in front of him, especially the mermaid. She was the one who had saved him years ago. Suddenly, the pearl began to glow. He looked at the pearl in understanding before he broke free of the woman's grip long enough to yank off the chain and throw the necklace to the mermaid.

The woman yelled 'NO!' before she grabbed him to prevent him from throwing but was too late. Once he let go of the necklace he immediately fell unconscious again.

Yasashii noticed the pearl flying toward her and reached out to grab it. Before she could grab it though, the pearl began to glow even brighter and changed form. It became a headset with the pearl in the right earpiece. Yasashii looked surprised before she noticed that she was different.

The biggest difference was that she had legs in place of her tail. Another difference was that she was wearing something different. She was wearing a light magenta ankle length skirt that had a slit up right side to her hip, a light magenta sleeveless, naval revealing shirt that came up to wrap around her neck and was cut low in the back with her necklace still in its place, light magenta gloves that skin-tight on hand but loose up to elbow adorned her hands and light magenta strap high heels while the headset had settled on her head.

Yasashii looked at herself as best as she could before saying, "Not really my style but I guess it is kawaii." She then turned back to the woman.

"You think that you can beat me, Izuuru?! Well let's see about that!!" she yelled as she pushed Yuushi away and sent more waves at Yasashii. Yasashii was beginning to wonder how she was going to beat her when she heard a voice.

"Sing, Yasashii. That is how you will defeat her and help Yuushi. Now sing."

After the voice was gone, Yasashii did what it had told her to do, hoping that, like the voice said, it would defeat Izuuru.

"Let's see if this will work…Now let's get this show started!" she yelled before starting to sing.

"After the stormy night, to tell you my love I will be born again.
Even if there comes a day where everyone
is to journey away from here, as long as we sing the melody of the seven countries,
I'll never forget"

Almost immediately the wave coming at her dissipated. Izuuru looked at her disbelievingly before sending more waves at Yasashii. Yasashii ignored the oncoming waves and continued singing, beginning to dance at the same time.

"While embracing the kind mother's wishes in her heart
she wished that everyone would journey on a miracle-filled adventure.
With over flowing tears and prayers, I just don't know anymore."

Izuuru kept sending waves to the mermaid princess but then the song began to take effect on her. She was forced to stop sending waves and tried to block the song by holding her hands over her ears. That was unsuccessful and she thrashed around in pain.

While embracing the kind mother's wishes in her heart
she wished that everyone would journey on a miracle-filled adventure.
With over flowing tears and prayers, I just don't know anymore."

"Love shower!" Yasashii yelled once she had finished the song, pretending to blow a kiss to the audience. "How about an encore?"

"Why you little…you won't be so lucky next time!" Izuuru yelled before she became engulfed in a whirlpool and disappeared. Yasashii didn't waste anytime wondering where she had gone; instead she quickly grabbed Yuushi and pulled him back to the surface. Her legs had changed back into her tail once Izuuru had disappeared, so it was relatively easy to pull Yuushi back to the surface. The hard part came when she had to pull Yuushi onto land but she managed.

She quickly got the water out of his lungs which cause him to wake up, coughing, at the same time.

"Are you alright?" she asked worriedly. Yuushi coughed some more before he was able to focus on the mermaid in front of him. He nodded and Yasashii began to cry in happiness.

"You saved my life again. You cried the first time you saved me too."

"I'm so glad that you're okay," Yasashii said before gathering his upper body up into her arms and holding him close to her. Yuushi was surprised at the motion and contact at first but eventually relaxed into her embrace.

Unbeknownst to the mermaid and boy, a girl with dark blue hair was watching them from higher ground.

"So, Umi is the Magenta Mermaid? And it looks as though both of us will need to stay here awhile if something tried to attack. I'll see if I can talk to her some other time though. I would guess that she would be mad at me if I interrupted their moment together. Besides that, how would I explain how I, a human, currently, knew a mermaid by her name and title?"