Opening song: Houseki by Kamakari Kenta

Chapter 2- I am reborned!


Hikari twitched. "I can't believe this."

-Flashback-

"A favor?" Hikari asked the Commitee.

The Commitee consists of Kami, Cupid, Sato and many other powerful Gods of Heaven.

Previously, Kami (real name: Shougo Kamakari), told Cupid, Sato and the Sendo Twins to get Hikari onto the Hall of Heaven due to something that surely pissed Kami off. Hikari tried her best to let herself go from those boys but she just couldn't and ended up being in the place she doesn't like to be at.

Unfortunately, when they let her go, Kami suddenly turned to his nice attitude, a complete opposite of his attitude awhile ago and smiled friendly at the now scared girl. What's so unfortunate about this? Well, she wasted her effort shouting and crying to let her go and that just makes her feel embarassed and mad.

But now, she calmed down. It is unknown why.

"Yes. A favor-desu," one of them, which is Sato, replied.

"You see, there is a tennis player in Japan that is very furious when playing on the courts," also one of them, which is Cupid, explained. "He is a kind person and very friendly. Some people even say that he is very childish. But when he is on the courts..."

"...he will become a merciless devil and crush his opponents until they can't stand up anymore-desu." Sato continued.

"A-A devil?" Hikari's eyes went wide in shock and obviously felt scared at that story.

Kami, who is seated on the center of the table, nodded. "Yeah. That's why we need you, Hikari-chan. In order for this to work, we need to use the "mission"."

-End Flashback-

"You know, Kamakari-san, if you were just gonna ask me a favor, you can just ask me directly." Hikari stated. All of them suddenly looked at Hikari with shock expressions on their faces.

"Did you just...?"

"...call him..."

"BY HIS FIRST NAME-DESU?"

Hikari nodded sheepishly. "Y-Yeah. What's wrong with that?"

They all turned to look at Kami and saw his eyes in shadows. They sensed something bad about it and shivered.

"This is bad." the Sendo Twins muttered.

"Huh?" Hikari cocked her eyebrow in confusion. "What's bad?"

"Tono hasn't been called by anyone by his first name," they explained.

"And there are rumors that if someone will call him by his first name, they will be punished-desu." Sato added.

"E-Eh?" Hikari panicked.

"Don't worry, Hikari-chan. I won't punish you." Kami's voice went through Hikari's ears.

"Huh? That's good. I'm saved." Hikari sighed in relief. Then, she snapped. "Wait. What?"

"YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PUNISH HER?" all of them shouted in unison.

"Do you want to be punished instead, guys?" Kami warned. All of them stepped back with shocked expressions on their faces. Then, they shook their heads.

"That's good." Kami smiled. His smile was like a devil-like smile rather than an angel-like smile and this caused them to step back again. They sense some (imaginary) dark auras surrounding their god and this isn't a good sign if you're too close. "Anyway, I'm sorry for doing that to you, Hikari-chan. You might decline my offer if I ask you directly, that's why."

"It's alright," she smiled. "About that guy you were telling me about... what is his name?"

"Kirihara Akaya." Cupid answered.

"Oh." Hikari nodded in agreement. Wait. Kirihara Akaya? I've heard that name before.

"You've heard that name before, Hikari-chan?" Kami appeared beside Hikari, shocking her.

She sweatdropped. Did he just read my mind?

"For your information Hikari-chan, I am not reading your mind." Kami smiled. Hikari sweatdropped even more. I knew it! He's reading my mind!

"Well? Do you know him, Hikari-chan?" the Sendo Brothers asked. She turned to them, grinning sheepishly, and shook her head. The twins sighed.

Cupid cleared his throat. "Anyway, you agree with this, right Hikari-chan?"

Hikari nodded.

"Then, let's begin." Kami stated. He looked at the twins and was replied with a nod.

"This way, Hikari-chan." the Sendo Brothers insisted. Hikari followed.

The twins led Hikari into a very big place. The floor was covered with weird letters that Hikari had never seen before and has a large circle surrounding the letters. The room was all white in color and has a large hole on the roof, the same shape as the circle on the floor, that sents light onto it.

The brown-haired girl stared at the place in awe. "What is this place?"

"This is the Reborn Room." Hitachi answered while stretching his arms.

"As the name says, this is a room that people in Heaven can step onto if they were to be reborned." Aichi explained. "Only those whom Tono wanted to be reborned, like the ones who will perform the mission, can go into this room."

"If they were not chosen by Kami-sama and they stepped onto this room-desu..."

"...they will be sent to hell."

"H-Hell?" Hearing the name, hell, Hikari imagined that it has a castle build on a volcano while bursting out its lava. Many goblins and evil monsters will let her do their chores and will punish her. They will laugh evilly and make fun of her. "NO! I DON'T WANT TO DIE IN HELL!"

"Don't worry. I recommended you into this room so you won't be sent to hell." Kami laughed.

"Hey, why are you laughing, Kamakari-san?" Hikari pouted.

Kami laughed again. "Nothing. You look cute when you're scared, Hikari-chan."

She sweatdropped. Are they sure that he's the God of Heaven? It looks like he is the God of Sarcasticness... if that's even a word.

"Alright, people. Let's start!" Cupid announced. He instructed Hikari to stand on the middle of the circle which the said girl followed. After a few adjustments, Kami finally stepped in front and raised his hands towards Hikari. A bright light came out of his hands as it went through Hikari and bounced off to the hole on the roof. Then, a very bright light surrounded the whole room. When everything is clear, all of them did not see Hikari on the middle of the circle anymore.

"She's gone." the Sendo Brothers mumbled. A hand suddenly appeared on the twins' shoulders.

"She'll be fine, Hitachi, Aichi." Cupid informed them. "I will be with her as her guardian on Earth."

"You're so lucky, Cupid-san." the twins muttered.

"Saa, we won't know that for sure, boys." Cupid smiled. He walked towards the edge of a cloud and faced his companions. "Well, here I go, everyone."

"Take care, Cupid-san!" Hitachi, Aichi and Sato waved goodbye.

Kami nodded once and smiled. "Take care of Hikari-chan."

Cupid also nodded once and finally jumped.

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On Earth...

Hikari opened her eyes and saw a pink tree.

"A-A Sakura?" she muttered. Feeling a lot better than before, she decided to sit up only to be found in a park. She looked around, hoping to find Cupid or any other person. But the only things she can see are people playing, walking or running about in the park and Sakura trees. "So, I'm on Earth now, huh?"

"So, you're awake-nya! I'm glad!" a male light voice said to her that caused her to jump from surprise. "Oh, sorry to bother you."

Hikari looked up and saw a curly red-haired boy with a band-aid in his left cheek, smiling widely at her as if he wants to befriend her.

"Hoy, Eiji! Where have you been?" another male voice called and it caught the attention of the red-haired boy so he turned around. Hikari's eyes went wide in shock when she saw the words, 'Seishun Gakuen', on the back of the boy's jersey. He's...

"Ah gomen, gomen, Oishi!" the red-haired boy apologized to the other boy while scratching the back of his head. "I saw this girl in the middle of the streets, so I decided to help-nya!"

"Mou, Eiji. You had us all worried."

"Ah, gomen!"

Hikari just blinked at the whole scene, no idea came to her head about what's going on. As she look at the boys talking to each other, she noticed that the two boys are wearing the same jersey. Maybe they're the guys that Kamakari-san told us about, she thought.

"Ah, excuse me?" one of the boys asked. Because Hikari is thinking, she didn't even notice that the two boys, who were previously talking to each other, were calling her attention.

"Y-Yes?" she immediately asked them.

"What's your name?" the black-haired boy asked.

"Um... Namikawa Hikari." she answered.

"Oh, I see." the boy smiled. "I'm Oishi Shuichirou and the one who saved you was Kikumaru Eiji."

Oishi pointed to his friend, Eiji, which is doing a peace sign and was saying, "Yoroshku-nya!" Hikari smiled and nodded to the red-haired boy, a sign that she is also glad to meet him.

"By the way, Eiji said that he found you lying on the streets. Did something happen?" Oishi asked Hikari. She was surprised at the question and sweatdropped. She was nervous because she couldn't explain her situation right now. She might be afraid that Kami will punish her if she let her guard down.

"I-I actually fainted at that time because I was feeling, um..." Hikari trailed off. She doesn't know what to say to these boys because they were making her feel nervous.

She was about to panic when a voice suddenly calmed her down. "She was scared of going to the park on her own." Hikari turned around and saw the pink-haired, Cupid. Cupid-senpai! she screamed in her mind.

"Eh? And who are you supposed to be-nya?" Eiji asked.

"Oh, sorry. I forgot to introduce myself." Cupid flipped his hair before continuing, "I'm Sakamoto Eisuke, brother of Hikari."

Hikari stared at her "brother" with a panicked face and screams, "What?", inwardly.

Cupid grinned and scratch the back of his head. "Hehe. Sorry for troubling you. This girl is always getting others in trouble."

Hikari was surprised about what her senpai said. An angry vein popped out on Hikari's head and was muttering cursed words on her senpai, causing many people to be imagining some dark auras surrounding her.

Oishi shook his head and smiled. "No, it's alright. This girl needs Eiji's help anyway."

Eiji popped out of nowhere. "Good thing, I was there-nya! Or else, Hika-chan will be sleeping in that cold, hard floor right now."

Hikari suddenly stopped muttering and perked up. Hika-chan?

A long conversation started between the teens and this seems good for Hikari. She was happily chatting with the two unknown boys who just "saved" her from boredom and her "brother" which is also her senpai and guardian from now on.

Many pauses happened in the middle but the conversation still continued. Hikari, for the first time, felt not out of place. Since in Heaven they were so many boys that just talks to themselves, Hikari felt out of place but in here because Oishi and Eiji tells her stories about their tennis and others. She felt entertained and relieved at the same time.

The conversation suddenly ended when they heard a voice calling Oishi's and Eiji's name. The two Seigaku Regulars looked at where the voice came from and were surprised when they saw who it was.

"Tezuka!" both of them addressed the blonde boy with brown highlights.

"40 laps around the park. Now!" He ordered the Golden Pair which they quickly followed. He turned to look at the other people standing there besides the two boys, which is Hikari and Cupid. Both of them suddenly stood straight. The blonde boy didn't bother them and left, leaving them by themselves. They sighed in relief.

"Who is that guy? Suddenly ordering Oishi-san and Kikumaru-san laps." Hikari glared at the previous blonde boy.

Cupid shushed her. "He might hear you, Hikari-chan."

She snorted. "I don't care!"

Cupid sighed, realizing that she won't cooperate. "Well, he's Tezuka Kunimitsu from Seishun Gakuen, as you can see written in the back of his jersey just like Shuichirou-kun and Eiji-kun."

"So? If he's also a member then-"

"He's the captain of their club, Hikari-chan."

The only reply he got next was an, "Oh".

After that, Cupid walked off, trailed on the back was Hikari.

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In Heaven...

"Kami-sama, do you think both of them will be okay even if we don't assist them-desu?" Sato asked, still in the place where Cupid previously jumped.

"Don't worry so much, Sato-kun." Kami smiled. "Cupid is there. I'm sure that he won't let anything happen to Hikari-chan."

Sato nodded in agreement. "Yeah. I think you're right-desu."

After a few minutes, Kami stood up. "Let's go. Just leave it to Cupid."

"HAI!"

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On Earth...

"So, where are we going now, Cupid-senpai?" Hikari asked while they were walking in a street.

Cupid looked around and sighed. "It seems that we're in Tokyo and not in Kanagawa."

Hikari blinked. "Eh? Is our destination not Tokyo?"

Cupid nodded. "Yeah. It's supposed to be in Kanagawa. That's where Rikkaidai is, after all."

"We're going to Rikkaidai?"

"Yes." Cupid said frustated at their present situation. That guy, he supposed to take us to Kanagawa! Thanks to him, we're now stuck in Tokyo! And what's worse, we don't know how to get there!

"Eh? Something wrong, Cupid-senpai?" Hikari suddenly asked, worried about her senpai.

Cupid shook his head quickly and laughed nervously. "N-No! It's nothing." I will punch his face once we get back to Heaven! he screamed in his mind while imagining the face of Kami.

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Back in Heaven again...

"Achoo!" Kami sneezed while walking back towards the Hall of Heaven with Sato.

"What's wrong, Kami-sama? Are you sick-desu?" Sato asked.

Kami shook his head and then, smirked. "Looks like Cupid is talking about me right now."

"Eh?" Sato stared at his companion, confused.

Ending song: Smile by Kitadani Hiroshi


Yo! How are you all, minna-sama? I know there isn't much Prince of Tennis stuff in this chapter but I can assure you that there will be more in the next chapter which is: Chapter 3! Yay! Hehe. In a story, there is always a main character right? I think you can understand why there isn't much Prince of Tennis stuff around here. Don't worry. You just stick with me until the end and you will see more Prince of Tennis stuffs. And a little hint: Hyotei (especially) and Rokkaku will be here. I'll try my best for Rokkaku. As for Hyotei, of course, it's my 2nd most favorite team after all so they will be guests here. As you can see, Seigaku has shown up in this chapter but only Oishi, Eiji and Tezuka. The others... hey, I'm giving more that a hint now. You'll just have to stick with this story and find out!

I almost forgot. Thank you very, very, very much for reviewing minna-sama! I will try to keep this story as interesting as possible. Arigatou Gozaimasu.

Well then, see you in the next chapter minna-sama! Remember to review okay? Click the button below. It still wants to be pressed. :D