Disclaimer: Prince of Tennis/ Tennis no Oujisama is not mine. it belongs to Takeshi Konomi-sama..although i really wish it is mine

now let's go on with the story,hope you like and enjoy reading it^^


Chapter 2: Shirtless

The next day....

The sun is shining brightly; birds are chirping merrily, the breeze is fresh and Sakuno just woke up earlier than expected. She jumps out her bed to take a bath. After a few minutes of refreshing shower, she got dressed for school and proceeds on brushing up her long auburn hair.

Yup. She still has her long hair, but not in 'twin braids'. Instead she let it flow at her back giving her an elegant look. For the pat 2 years, her body develops the curves at the right place that any guy would desire and yes, she also got a good height (but not freakishly tall) any girls would envy which marks the point of her maturity.

After tidying herself up, she then proceed to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, only to take notice of her grandmother talking on the phone with someone again.

'obaa-san is early on the phone' sakuno thought while looking at her direction.

Sumire took notice of Sakuno, and hang up the phone for a while to speak with her curiously-looking granddaughter.

"Ah! Ohayo sakuno, the breakfast is prepared already, go and eat it before it gets cold"

"ohayo obaa-san, why don't you eat with me?"

"You go ahead, I'm still talking with someone important here, besides I already ate up"

Sakuno proceeds to the table where the foods are. She let out an "ittadakimasu" before she eats. As she was enjoying her meal courtesy of her grandmother, random thoughts are currently running on her mind.

'Today is weird, I woke up early'

'And grandmother even prepared our breakfast'

'But she is talking with someone again'

'And it's a guy, a young guy by his voice'

'Is last night's caller and today's caller the same?'

'Could it be… could it b-be…t-that s-she has a s-s-suitor?!!!'

Sakuno shook off her head on her last idea to get rid of it. She knew that, that would never happen. Her grandmother would never ever replace her deceased grandfather. And her grandmother- for what she knew- has no interest in young boys.

She just finished eating, when her grandmother just finished the conversation on the phone. She looks excited from sakuno's point of view. Sumire went over to where sakuno is.

"Sakuno, once you're done eating, just leave the plates, I'll be the one who'll do the dishes" sumire told her granddaughter.

"I'm quite done eating. Demo, you already prepared our breakfast so I must be the one who'll wash the dishes" sakuno answered back politely.

"No need sakuno; I'll be the one who'll do it. This is your reward for helping me last night"

"A-arigatou obaa-san!" sakuno bowed happily

"alright, alright, now go and fix your things. You still have thirty minutes before classes" sumire replied contentedly.

Sakuno went up to her room and began fixing her things; putting her books inside her bag. She remembered that she wasn't able to finish her home economics assignment, to her luck she still has plenty minutes, therefore she sat in front of her table and continue to work on it.

'Tock'

'Tick'

'Tock'

'Tick'

'Tock'

Ten minutes have passed. And at last, she finished her home work. She placed everything on her bag, looking at every corner of her room to find something that she might forget. And when everything seems to be neat she whispered 'perfect!'

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A few more step and sakuno will be right inside Seigaku when a familiar voice called her from her back.

"Sakuno! Sakuno-chan!"

Sakuno looked back only to see her best friend running towards her in a great speed.

"Tomo-chan!" Sakuno replied in amazement and shock. With a blink of an eye Tomoka is already in front of her panting very hard.

"S-s-sa-saku-no, a-am I---" sakuno cut cut of tomoka's words. For goodness sake she's already catching her breath and she still tries to speak.

"Tomo-chan, don't forget to breath" she pat tomoka's back softly, after tomo is calmed, she continued to speak.

"What makes you run so hard tomo-chan? strenuous exercise in the morning is not good."

"No sakuno-chan, I'm not exercising or anything. As I saw you approaching the school gate I thought I'm already late" tomo replied defensively

"Eh? But it's still 15 minutes early, and what makes you think that you're late?" sakuno inquired as a reply

"Well, y-you see saku-chan, you often got late,s-so I t-thought that~..ehehehe~" tomo just crack out a chuckle and sakuno blushed a bright shade of red, for she never knew that her best friend already labeled her as the 'princess of lateness'. after their mini conversation had finished, they got inside the school grounds And her typical day at school continued; she was praised for her home economic's home work, got problems with English, eat with tomoka and other classmates including the Ryoma Echizen during breaks and nothing more than ordinary.

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Classes have ended and the afternoon tennis practice have started (A/N: wooot!..it accidentally rhymed!). Sakuno have finished doing her classroom duties and began to look for her obaa-san. She would want to go home as early as possible for she got stuck in loads of school work. so she was on her way to the tennis courts when the boys' locker room's door flung open, right infront of her face. she was taken aback and fell flat her butt.

"I-ittai" sakuno said while trying soothe the pain in her lower back

" MOMO-SENPAI!!! EIJI-SENPAI!!!..WHERE IN THE WORLD DID YOU HIDE MY SHIRT!!!" Ryoma burst out off the door angrily calling out his mischievous senpais' name who in return haven't heard his loud scream for they were in the tennis courts already.

"R-ryoma-kun!" sakuno was astound at the sight she saw that she blushed different shades of red. there he is, her crush since she was 12, the prince of tennis, the Ryoma Echizen who, in the past years had gotten taller and his body muscles well toned, which is the result of playing tennis, the guy who have feline eyes and can be consider the most hottest/ gorgeous guy in the world is standing right infront of her, 'shirtless'.

After hearing someone called his name, he look around only to see Sakuno sitting on the ground

"Ryuuzaki? what are you doing?" ryoma is curious. very curious.

Before sakuno can comprehend everything that happened, she quickly stand and dust off her skirt.

"a-ah!!g-gomen, g-gomenasai ryoma-kun!" sakuno apologize

"you haven't answered my question yet, what are you doing? why are you sitting on the ground?" ryoma replied coolly.

--Meanwhile, at the tennis courts--

"Eiji-senpai! you should treat me burgers next time! I'm always the one who keep on spending! my wallet is getting light as air when i'm with you!" Momo demanded

"Momo, don't forget i'm your senpai...and a senpai needs love and care~" eiji replied in an as-a-matter-of-fact tone.

"But-------"

Momoshiro is still whining about how much eiji eat, but eiji is getting tired of it,so he looks around to find something interesting, but nothing caught his attention. Or so he thinks...he was just about to blink when due to his sharp vision he saw echizen talking with some 'girl' at the corner of his eyes. He looks more intently on their direction only to confirm that it was really echizen in no-shirt.

"matte! matte! momo!!look! ochibi is talking to someone while he is shirtless!" eiji pointed out to ryoma's direction

"Nani?!" momo had stopped whining and look at the direction eiji was pointing. " that wasn't someone Eiji-senpai! it's Ryuuzaki-chan!" he continued.

"eh? really? let me take another look" eiji look at the direction once again. After confirming that it was really Ryoma with Sakuno, a spark has started on their naughty minds while a big grin can be notice both on their face.

'this will be fun/exciting' Momo and Eiji thought in unison, while looking at each other.


A/N:

yay!..i finished the 2nd chapter right after i publish the 1st part!..woot! XD

pls review! i would gladly appreciate your suggestions and comments!! and sorry for the grammatical error and wrong speeling i'll do my best to improve.

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