"Itai..." Both me and the one I collided with said in pain. When I looked at who fell on me, I saw...EIJI! His face was only two inches away from mine. Immidiately I blushed a bright red. Thankfully, Eiji didn't seem to notice me yet though. Someone cleared their throat from behind me and when I looked to see who it was, I saw who I guessed to be the teacher.

"If you two would please get up from down there and stop disrupting my class, I would be very greatful." She had an anime vein on her head.

Eiji sat up and rubbed his head.

"Uh, sorry," I said getting up.

"Kikumaru-kun, please take your seat." Eiji walked over to his desk slumped over.

I got up and just stood there. "You are the new student, correct?" I was already nervous but being both late and having the teacher address me in an irritated way made it hard for me to form words. So in response, I just nodded. "It isn't very smart to be late on your first day of school, now is it?" She eyed me.

"Uhh, no I'm sorry." I bowed apologetically.

"You may sit down next to Yasuniko Miagi." I sat down next to him and Eiji finally noticed me.

"Yuri-chan!" He shouted in a whispered tone. I looked over at him with a nervous smile.

"Uh, ohayou, Kikumaru-kun."

"Eh? What's wrong Yuri-chan?" He tilted his head like a cat.

"Nothing, nothing. I'm fine." I quickly said. It doesn't seem like he noticed it was me who he fell on earlier. I sweat dropped.

Class went by pretty smoothly. I was able to adjust to the Japanese school easier than I thought. Eiji and I talked to each other alot during class and got in trouble for it, but hey, he's cute and it wasn't big trouble so I say it was worth it. But besides Eiji, I talked to Yasuniko-kun too. After class, Eiji and I were walking out and of course he was talking to me.

"Ne, Yuri-chan? Do you want to go to practice with me?"

"Practice? For what?" I questioned.

"Tennis practice!" He cheered. His enthusiasm was adorable.

"OH, then I'd love to!" I probably sounded a bit too eager to go but I didn't care.

"Nya! You can meet all the people on the team!" He smiled and the two of us raced off to the tennis courts. When we got there, I saw the Seigaku tennis club all gathered together. "Nya! I'm late! Let's hurry Yuri-chan!" Eiji yelled realizing they were in a meeting already.

"Ah, right!" I said rushing along side of him.

"Eiji, you're late." One of the members of the tennis team scolded him. I got a better look at his face and realized that it was Oishi.

"Ah, gomen Oishi." He said bowing to him a bunch.

"It's not his fault, I slowed him down by asking him to take me with him." I chimmed in.

They all looked at me. "And who are you?" A guy with glasses and brown hair questioned in a deep voice.

"Ayako Yurina." I quickly said.

"Well, I will not allow people to get in the way of my team's practice. Both of you, 50 laps!!" He shouted for you and Eiji to run. The two of you ran around the perimeter of the courts as the Tennis team watched you guys amused for one minute until that brown haired guy with glasses yelled at them. In about four minutes, the both of us were done and out of breath. We got to the others and Eiji colapsed to the ground.

"Water...water..." I let out reaching to the sky. The guy with spikey black hair and glasses looked at me with the sun's glare on his glasses. He handed me a glass of some green liquid. Not even really paying attention, I chugged it down. Once everyone saw me drinking the green substance, they all screamed out to me.

"Ah! Yuri-chan!" Eiji screamed out.

I sighed in relief. "That tasted good!" I could feel a smile form across my face as I finished the glass and handed it back to the black haired guy. The tennis players looked at me in disbelief. "Nani? Did I do something wrong?" I was completely confused.

"Are-are you really okay, Yuri-chan?" Everyone's faces were pale.

"Yea, why?" I questioned them but they were all busy mummbling to each other.

"There's another one that can handle it... is she like Fuji?"

"No way..."

"But she just gulped that glass down!" They paused and looked at me. I didn't get it and just as I was going to ask what they were talking about, a loud booming voice was rang in my ears.

"GET BACK TO PRACTICE!" They all quickly got back to what they were suppose to be doing.

Eiji tried to walk over to me in a ninja-like way but his attempts weren't working out so well since Momoshirou, Oishi, Ryouma, Fuji, and one brown haired guy and a black haired guy all followed him. It was still cute to watch him press up against the chain walls around the courts to get to me so that the captain wouldn't see him. "Pssst, Yuri-chan." He gestured for me to walk over to him.

"Um, Kikumaru-kun, there are people behind you." I tried to hold in my laughter.

"Eh?" He whined. "They saw me? I thought I was being sly."

His friends laughed at him and Oishi patted him on the back. "It's okay Eiji." Oishi comforted his friend and Eiji quickly perked up again.

"What brings you here Ayako-san?" Fuji questioned with a smile.

"Eh? Oh, I just wanted to watch you guys practice. I remembered Echizen-kun and Momoshirou-kun's match and I also really wanted to see Kikumaru-kun have practice matches. Oh, and I wanted to see what you're play style was too, Fuji-kun." I smiled at them.

"Oh, Senpai! Has Eiji-senpai introduced you to everyone yet?" Momoshirou asked but didn't wait for an answer. "Well, the guy who yelled for you and Eiji-senpai to run laps was our captain, Kunimitsu Tezuka. Then there's Kawamura-senpai, he's the one with the brown hair and no racket in his hands. Oh and then the one who gave you the green drink was Inui Sadaharu."

"Oi!" One of them screamed at Momoshirou in an enraged voice. "You forgot about me!"

"Oooh? Did I?" Momoshirou looked off at the sky and pretened he didn't know what he was talking about. The black haired guy and Momoshirou started to bicker.

"Sorry about those two, they get like that sometimes. Anyways, he's Kaidoh Kaoru." The one that I just learned to be Kawamura explained.

"Oh, well, it's nice to meet you guys!"

"I told you guys to get back to practice!" Tezuka yelled.

They all scattered and I was standing there not knowing what to do as Eiji walked on to the courts with Oishi. "So he plays doubles?" I looked on at him as he started his practice match against Momoshiro and Echizen Ryouma. As their match continued, I got more and more interested. Just as the match was gettting more epic, I realized something; that name, Echizen Ryouma. I heard it before!

"Echizen Ryouma!" I screamed out when I remembered. Again, everyone was staring at me. I seriously wished they would stop that. An anime sweat drop formed on my head and I smiled nervously. "Heheh, gomen min na." Most of them continued on with practice but Echizen, Momoshiro, Oishi, and Eiji stoppped. The two third years walked over to me.

"Yuri-chan, what's wrong?" Eiji questioned.

"Heheheh, nothing, I just remembered something. That's all."

"Hn. Momo-senpai, let's get back to the game." Echizen pulled his hat down a bit.

"Ah, that's right. Oishi-senpai, Eiji-senpai, let's get back to the game." Momoshiro called out to them.

"Ah, gomen. We'll be there in a second." Oishi called back.

"Nya. Are you really okay?"

"Yup!"


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