Baby makes three

Disclaimer : I do not own Prince of Tennis.

The next time Ann met Sanada was one month after Atobe's party, at the street tennis courts. Seigaku and Fudomine had planned a practice match and somehow Rikkaidai had found out about it and decided to come too.

When Rikkaidai arrived, Seigaku and Fudomine were already practicing doubles: Kamio/Ibu against Echizen/Momoshiro on one court and Golden Pair against Mori and Ushimura on the other. Fuji and Tezuka were chatting with Tachibana, Ishida and Kawamura were talking about new techniques and Ann was listening to Inui's and Kaidoh's training.

"You guys are training so hard. No wonder you're so strong. But we'll never lose against you again, so you'd better train," Ann said cheerfully.

"Well, if there is a game between Seigaku and Fudomine, there is a 90 chance that Seigaku will win," Inui replied to her, writing down something in his notebook.

"Sadaharu! Good to see you again!" said a voice behind them.

All three turned to see the owner of the voice. The first one to speak was Inui, "Ah? Renji? That was fast! I knew you'd come."

Yanagi Renji, smiled at his friend and said, "Of course you knew I'd come!"

"Rikkaidai? What are you doing here? fsshhh," Kaidoh asked them, knowing that Inui had something to do with them being here.

Ann was as shocked as Kaidoh was but didn't said anything. Her eyes first stopped on Yanagi but then slowly moved to Kirihara, who was looking toward where Tezuka, Yukimura, Fuji and her brother were. Eying quickly the rest of the team, her eyes finally falling on Sanada, who looked a bit surprised to see her here. Their eyes met for one second but they both looked away immediately.

And before she could said anything, Fuji interrupted her, "Ann-chan. Your brother wants to talk to you. He said it's important..."

Ann flashed him a smile, "Ah? Really? I see I see. Well thanks, Fuji-kun. See you later guys." She said waving at the group and running to her brother, silently thanking Fuji for saving her from that awkward moment.

"So. What are you doing here? Practice with us?" Fuji asked to the Rikkaidai team.

"I invited them because there are a lot of tennis courts here. Plus, it's always a good thing to practice with different people and it can bring good data," answered Inui.

"Yanagi-sempai said it'll be a good training but I don't want to play doubles. I want to play you Fuji!" Kirihara said, his eyes falling on the courts, "And Echizen too!"

Sanada, for the first time since his arrival in the street tennis courts, talked, "Ok. People, let's warm up a bit before playing."

At the same time, on the other side of the courts, Ann and Kippei were talking.

"So Onii-chan, Fuji-kun told me you wanted to talk to me?" Ann asked her brother, who was now sitting on a bench, by himself.

"Well you know Kamio. If he sees you chatting with different guys, nevertheless from Rikkaidai, he'll get angry and lose his game," answered her brother "Besides, it's been a while since we played together. I want to see if you improved," and as expected, Kippei won.

At the end of the day, everybody stopped playing and gathered together. Yukimura was the first to talk, "Well, thank you everybody. It was great to play with you but we have to leave now if we don't want to miss the last train going to Kanagawa". With that, everybody said their thanks and goodbyes and left the street tennis courts.

AN : So. What do you think? Like it? Not? Too short? Too many mistakes? :) I'm looking for a co-writer to help me with this story. hehe!