Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis
Chapter 2 – Enter Seigaku Regulars
For the rest of the week Luna spent her lunch times with Ryuzaki talking about old times, from what she could remember, and what she would be doing as a medic for the team. Eiji wasn't too happy that she couldn't eat lunch with him and Fuji for a while and she had to promise him she would make it up next week. The paper work that she also had to help Ryuzaki with was not really, to her surprise, dealing with tennis. Basically it was organizing the tournaments they were going to enter and other miscellaneous things. Luna also mentioned that she wanted to join the soccer team to Ryuzaki surprise.
"I used to play back home, so I thought I would continue over here." She had said.
"Oh it's no problem Luna chan, we just have to figure out the time you have to go to practice and work around it."
"No problem, I found out that they don't have morning practice, so I'll be able to come in the mornings and their afternoon practice starts 3:30 pm so I'll be able to come here for the first fifteen minutes of practice." Ryuzaki nodded her head in understanding and she continued. "And practice ends at 5:00 p.m. so I'll be able to be here for the last thirty minutes of practice."
"Well you seemed to think everything through Luna chan. I guess I have no complaints." Luna smiled broadly, proud that she was able to organize her time on the soccer team and tennis team.
It was now Friday and Luna and Ryuzaki were sitting in her office going over the new regulars that she would be working with.
"Of course, you are the medic for the over all tennis club but you will be paying special attention to the regulars so they will be in tip top shape for their games."
"Hai."
"Ok, now as you know the inter school rankings are finished and we now have our eight regulars. They will be coming here in a few minutes so you can meet them and get to know them better." Luna nodded her head and Ruyzaki continued.
"Here are a brief summary of their stats." She handed Luna a folder and the first thing she saw was a picture attached to a paper. It was a picture of a boy with brownish blonde hair and dark brown eyes. He also wore glasses and had a stern gaze on his face. She gasped immediately recognizing him.
'Tezuka kun?' she thought.
"Is there something wrong Luna chan?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Huh? Oh no, it's just…" she was cut off when the phone rang. Ryuzaki held her hand up in the normal 'one second' fashion and took the call.
"Moshi, moshi? Ahh…Rina san what can I do for you?"
And with that she went into a conversation Luna knew she wasn't about to finish any time soon. She sighed and looked back to the paper in her hand. 'Alright let's see…hmm…Tezuka Kinimitsu, well I already know that. Ok, he's the team captain.' She smiled inwardly. 'Now why doesn't that surprise me? That no nonsense aura sure makes him fit that title perfectly.' She read over some more of his stats and then put it to the side. 'Ok, next we have ano…' she picked up the next paper in the folder and looked at the picture that was attached to it. 'Eh? Oishi kun?' she blushed a bit remembering what happened at the staircase only a few days ago. 'Oishi kun is on the tennis team too?' she looked over his stats gasping. 'And he's Vice Captain!' she put his paper down over Tezukas and looked at the next paper in the folder. She looked at the new picture and gasped again, a blush staining her cheeks. 'Fuji kun? What the? What is going on?' she flipped through the rest of the papers briefly to look at the pictures and dropped her mouth in shock. 'Eiji kun? Kawamura kun? Kaidoh kun? Momo kun? Ryoma kun!? He's a first year! I can't believe they're all on the team! What am I gonna do? I basically crashed into all of them and embarrassed myself on my first day! Oh I gotta take a breather before I meet them.' She gathered all the papers and placed them back in the folder. She stood up quickly and Ryusuki paused briefly in her conversation to look at her.
"Daijoubou deska Luna chan." She shook her head and said.
"Bathroom." She nodded her head in understanding and went back to the phone.
"Ah yes Rina san, what were you saying?"
Luna exited the room quietly and headed towards the bathroom quickly with a blush staining her cheeks the whole way.
"Oishi! Why do we have to come to Ryuzaki sensei during lunch!" said a very whiny Eiji as he attached himself to Oishis' neck as they walked down the hall towards Ryuzakis office. Oishi gave a light grunt and smiled at his teammates antics.
"Because she said there was something important she had to tell us before practice Eiji."
"But I'm so hungry!"
"Eiji! You just ate lunch!"
"But I'm still hungry!" he whined.
"Saa, Eiji if we finish early you can still get something to eat." Fuji said from the side of them, smile still in place. Eiji detached himself from his friend and looked at Fuji with stars in his eyes.
"Ah you're right Fuji! Let's hurry up and get to Ryuzaki sensei! Hoi hoi!" he said bouncing ahead of them in the busy hall. Fuji smiled some more and Oishi scratched the back of his head chuckling lightly.
"Oi, guys! Headed to Ryuszaki sensei already?" Kawamura said as he walked up beside Oishi.
"Hai Taka san." Fuji answered. "Has anyone seen Tezuka?" he asked.
"There he is!" Eiji shouted from up front, pointing at Tezuka as he rounded a corner. "Hoi hoi! Tezuka!" he shouted and said boy turned around. "Oi Tezuka! Wait for us!" he waited for them at the corner and they quickly reached him. "Oi, Tezuka you going to Ryusuki sensei?" he nodded curtly and turned back around to walk down the hall. The group just grinned knowingly and followed there captain. When they final reached Tezuka knocked and they heard a muffled 'Come in'. He opened the door and they walked into the room and closed the door behind them.
"Ah, you came." She said from behind her desk.
"Hai, Ryuzaki sensei." Tezuka said.
"Where's Momo, Kaidoh and Ryoma?" she asked.
"They should be coming soon." Oishi said. Then everyone turned around to the door when they heard arguing outside it.
"Move out of my way Viper!" said one voice.
"What did you say!?" said the other.
"You heard me! Move!"
"You want to fight!"
At this point the door opened to reveal Momo and Kaidoh face to face looking like they were about to rumble right in front of the door. Simultaneously they looked toward the open door to see their senpais looking at them; some with smiles on there faces and others, Tezuka, looking at them disapprovingly.
"Welcome you two." Fuji said politely as he held the door open. The two blushed from being caught and headed inside.
"Well that was entertaining." Ryuzaki said as she looked at them with a glare.
"Gomen nasi Ryuzaki sensei." The two said in unison as they bowed. She sighed and turned back to the rest of the group.
"So, where is Ryoma?"
"Ano…" the door opened behind them and they turned to see said boy walk through. He looked at them then Ryuzaki and she smiled.
"Well since we're all here, let's start shall we. This shouldn't take long."
"Hoi, Hoi!" Eiji said and Ryuzaki looked at him skeptically. Fuji chuckled quietly and Oishi just smiled. "Gomen, Ryuzaki sensei."
"As I was saying. Now that we have our eight regulars, I want you all to know that we will be having a team medic on the team from now on?"
"A medic?" most of them said in shock.
"Hai, I have a feeling we'll need one so I got someone to help."
"So why are we here?" Ryoma asked.
"So you can get to know your medic better and get acquainted before practice."
"Hoi! Hoi! We have a medic!" Eiji said happily.
"So where is he?" Momo asked looking around the room that only held the eight regulars and Ryuzaki.
"'She' stepped out for a second and should be back soon." She said putting emphasis on the word she. All of them looked at her in shock, even Tezuka who showed it by raising his eyebrows.
"She?" Kawamura asked.
"Hai…" Before she could say anything the door open and she leaned to the side to see it was Luna. Smiling she looked back at the regulars saying. "Everyone, meet your new medic, Moncur Luna."
They all turned around to face the door and looked on in surprise at the girl they each individually met a few days ago. The only thing they could say was.
"Luna chan?"
"Luna senpai?"
Said girl blushed, under their gaze and waved at them lightly saying.
"Ano, Hi guys."
'Ok Luna breathe, just breathe.' She thought looking into a mirror in the girls bathroom; lucky for her she was able to find an empty one. She washed her face five times and still was nervous. 'I mean come on, I mean it's not really that bad is it? I only tripped into one of them and fell on top of another and…oh who am I kidding! Why oh why did I agree! Ok, I need to calm down and think logically. I just happened to meet each and every one of them on my first day and now I'm going to be their medic. Ok, I can do this, I can do this.' She took a deep breath then headed back into the busy hall of students and walked back to Ryusukis office. 'Besides' she thought as she reached the office and placed her hand on the knob. 'they probably forgot about lil ol' me anyway.' With this last thought in mind she turned the knob and entered the room. The first thing she saw was Ryuzaki looking at her and the backs of eight guys. Ryuzaki smiled at her and then turned back to the guys in front of her.
"Everyone, meet your new medic, Moncur Luna."
Everyone turned around to see their new medic and had surprised looks on their faces when they saw her. She blushed under their gaze and waved lightly.
"Luna chan?" was all they could say.
"Luna senpai?"
'Ok, maybe not.' She thought. "Ano, hi guys." Then they all turned to each other saying.
"You know her?"
"How do you know her Kawamura?" Eiji asked.
"Well I sorta bumped into her and gave her directions to class." He said blushing a bit. "How did you meet her Eiji?"
"She's in Fujis' and my class."
"What about you Momo?" Eiji asked.
"I showed her to the teachers lounge a few days ago."
"What about you Kaidoh?" Momo asked
"I showed her to the office." He mumbled out.
"What about you Echizen?" Kawamura asked.
"She fell on me on the roof."
…
"Eh?" they all said. Luna smiled warily at them when they looked at her, thinking. 'Blunt isn't he?'
"What about you Oishi?" Eiji asked after everyone got over Ryomas answer. Oishi blushed a bit and rubbed the back of his head.
"We just bumped into each other on the stair case." He said and looked at her to see her giving him a thankful smile for not being as blunt as a certain golden eyed first year.
"Saa, have you met Luna chan before Tezuka?" Fuji asked since he didn't give any indication that he knew her like the rest of the team.
"Library" was all he said.
"So I take it you all know each other." They all turned to Ryuzaki who was getting up and heading toward Luna.
"I guess you could say that." Fuji said still smiling like he usually does.
"Good so you guys should get along just fine. I have to go get some copies from the office so you guys talk and what not, I'll be back soon." Without another word she left the room and closed the door behind her. Luna gulped and turned to look at the guys when she was suddenly glomped from behind and found a very happy Eiji hanging off her shoulders.
"Lucky! We have Luna chan as our team medic." She blushed lightly from his close proximity but realized she felt a bit better in his friendly embrace and smiled a sweet smile to the rest of the guys.
"Welcome to the team Luna chan." Oishi said on behalf of the team.
"Arigato, I hope I will be able to lend my assistance to you guys whenever you need me." They smiled at her and she heard the hyper red head on her shoulder say.
"Eh, Luna chan will be helpful in any situation." She laughed saying.
"I hope so."
"So why did Ryuzaki sensei pick you anyway?" Fuji asked.
"Oh, I'm studying in the medical field and she's an old family friend."
"Saa, souka."
'So, that's why she was reading that advanced book.' Tezuka thought as he watched his team get along with their new medic.
"Hai." Then she remembered something. "Oh yeah I forgot." She walked up to Tezuka with Eiji still attached to her and he looked down at them. "I forgot, I'm joining the soccer team so I won't be able to come to practice for the whole time." He nodded saying.
"That's fine." She smiled at him and turned her head a bit to look at Eiji, who was permanently attached to her back.
"You mean you won't be able to come to our practice?" he asked, pouting.
'Kawaii!' she thought. "Don't worry Eiji kun I can make the morning practices and fifteen minutes of the beginning of your afternoon practice and the last half an hour of it." He grinned from ear to ear.
"Yay! Luna chan can come watch us practice! Isn't that great Oishi?"
"Hai." He said smiling at his friend.
"So are you coming to todays practice?" Momo asked. Turning to him she nodded saying.
"Hai, I'll be able to stay for the whole of practice today."
"Hoi! Hoi!" Eiji said finally detaching himself from Luna. At that point Ryusuki came back with her copies.
"Alright minna, it's almost time for class so you guys can go now."
"Hai, Ryuzaki sensai." They all said and bowed before they left.
In the hall the guys and Luna talked for a while until she realized she was about to pass her class.
"Hey guys, this is my class; so I guess I'll so you this afternoon." She said looking at them.
"Hai, see you then Luna chan." Kawamura said, everyone else nodded there head and she nodded too before going inside. The group continued to walk down the hall to their classes when Eiji spoke up.
"Ahh, we're lucky to have Luna chan as our medic, she's so kawaii!" he said bouncing up and down. Kawamura scratched his head, Momo grinned; Oishi and Kaidoh cheeks tinted red, Ryoma looked indifferent but his cheeks were the slightest tint of red and Tezuka just looked like Tezuka.
"She really is quite lovely." Fuji said, with smile still in place. Eiji just nodded his head rapidly at Fuji's' comment.
"Ok, guys we'll see her at practice so let's get to class." Oishi said in a motherly tone.
"Hai." they all said in unison.
'Well that went well.' Luna thought as she looked out the window, not paying attention to her sensei. 'I wonder how practice will be.' With that last thought on her mind she turned back to her sensei to see him asking her to answer a question on the board. She smiled warily with a sweat drop on her head.
Soon it was 3:00 and Luna hurried up to pack her bags and head down to the tennis courts. 'I hope I won't be late.' Walking down the packed halls for a while she finally made it outside. 'Ok, now Ryusuki san said the courts were in the back here some where. Ano…that's the track field…baseball field ano…ah ha tennis courts! Well that didn't take too long, now did it?' With each step she took towards the courts she heard grunts and the sound of balls hitting rackets over and over. When she finally got to the fence she was surprised at how many people were actually in the tennis club. 'Well, this is Seigaku, home of tennis fanatics.' She looked over the students and spotted the regulars off to the side warming up. 'Wow, even their uniforms look good.' Noticing the bright blue jerseys with white and a little red in it. She heard some shouting and saw Ryusuki screaming at some students to keep their eye on the ball. She looked over her way and smiled, telling the student to partner up with someone else. She walked over to Luna and said when she finally reached.
"It's nice to see you made it."
"Hai Ryuzaki san"
"Let me finish warming up these guys and I'll introduce you in a bit."
"Hai." With that she walked back to the guys shouting for them to stop slacking off.
'That's Ryuzaki san.' She thought as she looked around the courts and stopped when she spotted the two girls, who she followed to school on the first day, standing on the opposite fence as her. The one with the short pigtails was still shouting and being loud while the other one was trying to quite her. 'Guess they know someone on the team.' Then she turned back to see everyone starting to get into lines on the courts. Ryuzaki looked at her briefly and she nodded heading toward the gates of the courts.
"Team time to line up" she heard Tezuka say.
"Alright everyone, before I begin I would like to introduce to you a new member of the team." There were collective whispers from the team except for the regulars who just grinned. At this time Luna opened the gate and everyone turned to see who was coming. There were more whispers and a few gasps as she approached them. "This is Luna Moncur, she will from now on be our team medic. I would like you all to treat her with the same respect you treat me." Saying this she turned to Luna who was now standing beside her looking at everyone shyly.
"I hope I will be able to assist you with any problems you may have and you can call me Luna chan." She said bowing politely. Some players looked at her skeptically, not sure if it was alright but she smiled sweetly at them and they relaxed. Then Ryuzaki started to talk about the metro tournament and how practice was going to be that day. When she was finished Tezuka ordered everyone back to practice and they all scampered off except for the regulars.
"For you guys I've asked this young man here to plan a very special regiment for the team." All the regulars plus Luna turned to look at who was coming there way.
"Inui?"
"Inui kun?"
"Hello." He said as he finally approached them. "Oh, Luna chan you're here too. Ryuzaki sensei told me that you would be starting today." He said nonchantly.
She grinned up at him. "Oh she did, did she?" 'But she couldn't tell me about you.' She thought, with a twitch in her eye.
"Eh? You know Inui Luna chan?" Oishi asked.
"Hai, he helped me find my class." He nodded, and then they went back to looking at their former member. They found out that he brought ankle weights for them to work on their lower body strength. They also had to hit balls of the same color to the matching cones. Up first were Ryoma and Eiji.
"Sugoi, they're good." Luna said as she stood next to Oishi and Fuji. "Demo, those weights are gonna get to them in a second." She mumbled to herself.
"Huh? What do you mean Luna chan?" asked Oishi as he and Fuji looked at her. She snapped out of observing the two players and looked up at the two.
"Oh, I just mean since they're running up and down the courts like that, those weights are gonna take a toll on them in a minute." And truth be told the minute she finished her sentence the two players felt they're legs getting heavy and Eiji missed the ball after Inui tricked him.
"Sugoi, Luna chan, you really know a lot about this stuff." Oishi said. She blushed a bit shaking her head.
"No, no I just know the basics." Then they watched as Inui handed Eiji a glass with a dark greenish liquid in it. 'Eh? What's that?'
"This is my extra special vegetable juice." Eiji looked at it with a fake grin on his face and Inui just grinned back. Reluctantly he took the drink and downed it. Everyone stood and watched waiting for his reaction.
"Ahh! What is this stuff! Water! Water!" he screamed as he ran off the courts. Everyone was shocked and looked at where Eiji had run out the gates, including Ryoma.
"Ryoma!" Ryuzaki shouted as she hit him a ball, and he totally missed since he was looking at the gates too. In the blink of an eye Inui was in front of him with the green vegetable juice in hand. Ryoma took it reluctantly and then flung the glass down running across the courts, and tripping half way there, after Eiji.
'Wow, that must be some drink.' Luna thought looking back to the rest of the regulars. Next to fall ill to the horrid drink was Oishi, Kawamura, Momo and Kaidoh. In less than ten minutes she was standing on the courts with six groaning regulars around her. "Oh, my." She said covering her mouth with her hands. 'Is this some kind of poison?'
"Luna chan" she looked down at her left to see Eiji looking dazed. "Do you have something for this horrible stuff to go away?" looking at the rest of the regulars she sighed.
"Gomen Eiji kun I don't." he groaned and rolled over. 'Geez, what kind of medic am I if I don't have anything to help them with…whatever this is. I think next time I'll just bring my med kit.' Then she turned when she heard a kid say.
"Fuji senpai missed!"
She looked over and as the kid said, there lay the ball behind him by the fence.
"Fuji you did that on purpose!" she looked down to see Eiji sitting up glaring at Fuji.
"Yeah, I wanted to try this goo."
'Oh no, not another one' Luna thought, as she watched him drink the awful juice. He let out a big sigh saying.
"Not bad, I recommend it. It's good." Everyone was shocked, including Inui.
'Eh? He likes it?'
"Liar, it stinks" Eiji said as he fell back to the ground.
The only one who didn't have to drink the awful juice was Tezuka. 'Either he really didn't want to drink that juice or he's really good.' Now, Inui was critiquing the regulars on where they messed up and she giggled when he said Tezuka was too serious. She laughed even more when they started throwing balls at Inui when he said they wear up to ten lb weights. 'I think I should have my own stats on them so I can now how to help them better. Plus I think I need to find something that helps relieve that Inui juice.' For the rest of practice she made mental notes of each player. When practice was finally over she sighed thinking. 'I need to bring a hat next time. It's so hot! And I wonder if Kawamura kun has schizophrenia? Demo, other than that it looks like Tezuka has a problem with his left arm. I should ask him or Ryuzaki san about that. Oh there she is now.'
"Ano, Ryuzaki san I was wondering if Tezuka kun has a problem with his left arm." She looked at her in shock asking in a whisper.
"How did you know?"
"Huh? I just noticed his muscles spasmed a bit more than usual whenever he swung his racket." Ryuzaki stared at her a bit longer then looked around.
"I knew there was a good reason I picked you. You have a good eye Luna chan." She nodded her head. "Tezuka does have a problem with his left arm but I would rather you not tell anyone. Only me and Oishi , and I think Fuji, know about it, I think you should talk to him about it later."
"Hai. Arigto Ryuzaki san, I'll see you later." She then walked to get her bag and walked out the gate. "This has been a long day, but fun none the less. They sure are determined to be the best." She mumbled to herself as she walked home. 'Eh? Is that Ryoma kun? And the girl with the long pigtails? Hmm??' she hid behind a building and observed the interaction between the two, lucky for her she could hear them perfectly but they couldn't see her. 'Aww, they look so cute. She wants to see his jacket on him? Put it on! Put it on Ryoma kun!' Then she heard him say.
"I'll have it on tomorrow."
'That idiot! How can he be so stupid! Ugh! He's such a boy!' She saw the girl look a little disappointed and then how Ryoma looked at her funny. To her surprise, and to the girls', in one quick motion he had his new jersey on. 'Aww, he's not so stupid after all.' Then she saw the girl smile and congratulated him on making the team. The two then walked away side by side down the street. Luna stepped out of her hiding place and looked at the two with a smile on her face. 'Ah, young love. I think I'm gonna have to be a match maker, heh heh…' She sighed and turned the opposite direction to walk home. She was walking for a while until she bucked into someone coming out of a shop.
"Oh, Fuji kun?"
"Huh? Oh hey Luna chan. What are you doing here?"
"I was on my way home. You?"
"Oh, I was just buying some food for my plants."
"Oh, really? What kind of plants do you have?"
"Cacti."
"Oh, well that's different."
"Yeah, it's my hobby."
"Oh, ok. Ano…" she tried to find something else to talk about but came up blank. Fuji just smiled at her saying.
"Luna chan, are you going this way home?" he asked pointing to his left.
"Huh? Oh, hai."
"Well, so am I. Would you care to walk with me?" he asked politely. Her cheeks tinted red and she nodded. The two then walked with light conversation and soon Luna realized she was already coming close to her house.
"Oi, Fuji kun that's my house coming up." She said pointing to a white and blue house up ahead. He looked to where she was pointing and nodded, smile never leaving his face.
"Souka" soon they arrived at her gate and she turned to him leaning on the gate.
"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow Fuji kun. Thanks for walking me home."
"No problem."
"I'll see you later then."
"Hai, Ja."
"Ja." She opened her gate and stepped inside as Fuji continued to walk down the sidewalk. Sighing she walked inside and headed start to her room since she knew her mother started work and her sister was still at school. Opening her door she dropped her bag on the floor and flung herself on the bed. 'Well this was an interesting day. I hope I'll be able to help the guys, especially with that Inui drink. Ugh!' She shuddered and rolled over. 'Neh, but I think everything will work out. I hope. I guess I should hurry up and write up my stats on them before I forget, maybe try and find a cure for that drink too.' Slowly she got up and went to her desk to write up what she learned that day on the team.
The next day she woke up late, since it was Saturday, and looked at her clock sleepily.
11:45 a.m.
She rolled over and stretched like a cat, sighing and snuggling back into the sheets. 'I still have some more time to sleep; practice doesn't start till 1:00.' With that last thought in mind she drifted back to sleep. A while passed and Luna sighed again finally sitting up and stretching again. Turning to the left she looked at her clock to check the time.
12:46 p.m.
Turning back to look around the room lazily she yawned then stopped mid yawn turning back to look at the clock. "12:46??? I'm late!!" she cried as she tried to get out of bed. She struggled with her sheets and ended up falling out of bed face first. "Ugh…" she groaned, but she quickly shook it up and got up rushing to the bath room. She took the quickest shower she had ever taken in her life and jumped back in her room to get dressed. Flinging on some blue jean capris and a plain white shirt, she hurried and slipped into her tennis and grabbed a small Nike bag that kept some standard medical supplies she packed last night. Running down the stairs she was about to head out the door when her mom stopped her.
"Luna chan, where are you off to in such a rush?" she was in the kitchen with Lana, Luna's sister. Her mother was a sprightly middle aged woman who was always full of energy and was often mistaken for their sister. Jogging in place she said.
"I have to get to practice mum, I'm late!"
"Your always late." He sister said dryly. She turned to look at her and stuck her tongue out. Her sister was the splitting image of her, even though they were four years apart. The only real difference between them in looks was that Lana was a bit brighter than her and her hair was natural.
"Demo, sweetie you have to eat something."
"I don't have time!"
"Here." Lana said, throwing here an apple. She caught it blinking and looked at her sister. She smirked at her and Luna grinned.
"Arigato nee chan!! Idigimas!!"
"Ja sweetie!"
"Ja!" Running to the door she stopped and picked up a blue visor that was on the table, and then sprinted outside. Once out side she jogged down the side walk while throwing her hair into a messy ponytail with her apple in her mouth. When she was done she looked at her watch.
12:54 p.m.
'What!' Now, she was in a full sprint and by the time she made it to school she was out of breath. Looking at her watch she sighed smiling slightly.
12:58 p.m.
'I made it.' With a light jog she made her way to the back of the school where the tennis courts were located. When she finally reached she saw that everyone was there and was beginning to start practice.
"Konnichiwa Luna chan" she turned to see Ryuzaki smiling at her.
"Oh, Konnichiwa Ryuzaki san."
"Grandma!" the two turned to see the girl with the long pony tails running toward them.
'Grandma?'
"Grandma!"
"What is it Sakuno chan?" Said girl was about to say something when she stopped noticing Luna for the first time.
"Ano…" Looking to where she was looking Ryuzaki smiled.
"Sakuno chan, this is one of my close friends daughter, Luna chan. Luna chan this is Sakuno chan, my grand daughter." Luna smiled and stepped up to the girl extending her hand.
"Nice to meet you Sakuno chan." Sakuno looked a bit shy and shook her hand.
"Nice to meet you too, Luna senpai." She said quietly.
"Call me Luna chan."
"Demo…"
"Saa, don't worry about it I prefer being called Luna chan." Slowly Sakuno nodded her head and a small smile crept on her face.
"What did you want Sakuno chan." Ryuzaki said.
"Oh! I just wanted to know if we're still going shopping later, for my new tennis skirt."
"Huh, oh I forget Sakuno chan I have to meet with Tenko san today, gomen." Sakuno looked a bit down but nodded her head. "Hmm, Luna chan…why don't you take Sakuno chan shopping."
"Huh? Me?" Sakuno looked up at her grandmother then Luna and Ryuzaki nodded her head.
"Ano…sure, I guess." She said smiling softly at Sakuno who blushed slightly.
"Is that all right Sakuno chan?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Hai, it's fine grandma." She said nodding her head.
"Well, Luna chan will go with you after practice is over ok."
"Hai."
"Alright, so you later Sakuno chan."
"Ja, Luna chan, grandma." With that Sakuno ran away to practice her tennis.
"Come on Luna chan, let's go."
"Hai."
The two walked in the courts were everyone was practicing and turned when they came inside.
"Konnichiwa Luna chan!" She turned to see Eiji smiling at her waving his racket around.
"Oi, Luna chan!" Momo said, from the other side of the court. She smiled and waved at them.
"Hi, minna." She said.
"Oi! Get back to work!" Ryuski screamed. Immediately everyone got back to practice and Luna chan just giggled on the side of her. Luna walked over to a corner on the courts were the regulars kept their bags. She sat down and took out a book from her bag which had the information on the guys she wrote yesterday. She observed the players making notes here and there about them that she thought would help her later.
"Luna chan what are you doing?" She looked up to see it was Inui looking down at her with a book in his hand too.
"Oh, hey Inui kun. I'm just trying to write down some useful stuff about everyone."
"Saa, I see."
"What's in your book?" he looked at her then slide his glasses up with his finger and said.
"Data." She blinked.
"Ok, ano…Inui kun may I ask what exactly do you put in your ano…vegetable drink?" He looked at her and a wicked smile, at least it seemed like that to her, appeared on his face.
"Vegatables." Was his only reply. Smiling at him with a fake 'I believe you' smile, she nodded at him and he smiled too and went back to his book. She sighed and looked back at the guys thinking.
'I highly doubt that.'
After practice Luna packed up her book and got up to stretch, looking around the courts to see a few people left. She was about to walk out the gates when she heard her name.
"Oi! Luna chan!" she turned to see Eiji bouncing over to her smiling broadly. She smiled back at him, indeed his carefree attitude was infecting.
"Hey, Eiji kun, what's up?"
"Ne, ne Luna chan, let's go for ice cream." She blinked then smiled at him apologetically.
"Gomen Eiji kun, but I have to take Sakuno chan shopping today." He looked disappointed and she hated to see him look so down, even though they only met a few days ago it felt like they knew each other forever. "Don't worry we'll go soon okay?" After hearing that he looked at her with a big grin on his face and nodded.
"Hai!"
"Alright then I'll see you later then. Ja."
"Bye Bye Luna chan!" she waved at him then went to look for Sakuno. She found her quickly since she was practicing on the side of the school. 'Now, I know I don't how to play tennis but, I do know that that is not a good form.' Looking at Sakuno she saw that her form was…not good. 'She needs help, and I know the perfect little blunt speaking kid to do it. Heh heh.' Deciding to make her presence known she gave a small cough in her hand and Sakuno quickly turned around.
"Huh? Oh Luna senp… I mean Luna chan!"
"Are you ready to go Sakuno chan?"
"Uhh, Hai!" she quickly went off to the side to put her racket in her bag and trotted up to the taller girl. "I'm ready." Luna smiled at her and turned.
"Then let's go."
The two girls talked the whole time they were together, well Luna did most of the talking in the beginning but Sakuno warmed up to her quickly and the two had a nice conversation. They were now headed to Sakunos house since they finished getting her skirt. Since they were now a little more relaxed with each other now, Luna decided to try and figure out this Ryoma business with her, subtly of course.
"Sakuno chan, what do you think of Ryoma kun?" Yeah, real subtle. The younger girl immediately blushed and started to stutter a bit.
"Ano…what do you mean?"
"I don't know, I just wanna know what you think about him."
"Well…I think he's…a great tennis player…and has excellent skills."
"True, true. Do you think he's cute?"
"Huh? I…I…I…" Luna laughed good naturedly, at the young girl blushing heavily on the side of her.
"It's alright Sakuno chan, you don't have to answer." Said girl visibly relaxed. "Besides your home."
"Huh?" she turned and saw, indeed she was home. "How did you know where I lived?"
"Ryuzaki san told me."
"Oh! Well, arigato Luna chan. For taking me to get my skirt."
"No problem Sakuno chan, maybe next time we can stop to get something to eat." Sakuno smiled and nodded her head.
"Hai. That would be nice."
"Alrighty then, I'll see you later."
"Ja Luna chan."
"Ja." And with that Luna turned around and headed home. 'It seems I have a lot of work to do. I mean she can't even admit she thinks he's cute. Oh well, that means more fun for me, ne?'