A/N: Minna-san, gokigenyo! It seems like not many of you joined me. I really hope that you all can write this fics with me, give me some inspiration. I would be more than happy to post up your ideas here, so please join me with this game. Here's another continuation. Omachiensama!

Pairing: Echizen Ryoma x Ryuzaki Sakuno
Genre: Romance/Humor/Drama
Timeframe: Senior High School Year 3 (Final Year)

Disclaimer: Standard Disclaimer applied

"…" denotes speech

'…' denotes thoughts

Italic denotes Readers Ideas (Contributed as Excuses)

Intro: Ryoma-kun and Sakuno-chan are officially dating each other and this has been going on for more than three months, however Sakuno-chan is feeling unconfident towards this relationship.

Although Ryoma was the one to propose to her, their intimacy has not been improving a bit. Worst, the girl has never been kissed before by her boyfriend.

One day Ryoma-kun told her that he is deciding to continue his tennis trainings in America for another five years. Right now Sakuno will have to find a way to give her boyfriend a memorable kiss before he leaves.

Instruction: Anyone is free to insert not more than 5 lines to this story You are free to use your own dialogue/imagination, but please ensure that all the plotting/dialogues are well connected and please do not use vulgar language and must be suitable, complied to PG-13

Recaps:

"What is this?"

"My cousin bought this for me, but; I guess you'll need this more than I do…" she winked mischievously at Sakuno.

Upon reading the title; Sakuno's mouth gapped like a goldfish "What?"

"101 Excuses kissing your love ones?"

Story Title: "KISSING RYOMA-KUN 101 EXCUSES"

"Ah…" She stared at her friends for a moment before looking back at the book she's holding now.

"Tomo-chan!" She retaliated tautly "You're telling me to find excuses to kiss my OWN boyfriend! This is ridiculous!"

"Nope, I'm not being ridiculous" Tomoka ignored her best friend's torment and continued to pull her leg her further "Both of you should be place in the museum for exhibition by now. Can't imagine of how your love life would be, without spice and romance. Both of you are so dull" She faked a sigh at last.

The debate was well underway, and Sakuno was thinking hard on how to win against the lively girl, but it seems like she'll never win her over it, even once. Moreover she's just too right. Many of her friends were actually going steady with their love ones; some even had a more intimate relation.

Ryoma is just being the same old self. Cool and blasé except the fact is the prince is becoming more attractive. Getting girls to stay away from him is close to impossible, but, he always has a group of great seniors and friends to help him out. They knew the diffident girl is not good when it comes to dealing with rivals. She too soft spoken and kind hearted that would ever think of anyone as her rival.

With the help of her best friend Tomoka and other tennis players as their match makers, Ryoma and Sakuno finally get together.

When the seniors learnt that the couple weren't progressing that much, they asked Tomoka to help the girl to think of some ways to improve the progression.

It was then Tomoka came out with a brilliant plan.

While Tomoka were recalling about their plan; Sakuno heaved a sigh before she speaks "I just don't want to force him into doing something he's not sentient to"

"No…Sakuno; you cannot be so submissive!" Tomoka immediately cut her off "One of you must be assertive, if he's not, then you'll be the one to. I really don't want to see that this great relation would go to an end"

"E…end!" Sakuno almost yelp upon hearing what Tomoka assumed earlier.

"That's right. If you still keep the progression at par; someday Ryoma-sama would be snatch away by someone else, and bear in mind that; he's an eligible tennis star now"

"Dou…doushiyou? Ne, Tomo-chan" biting her nails with fears; Sakuno finally seek her friend for advice, whereas the lively girl tried hard to hide her smirk. She knew that the diffident girl would definitely buy some of her impractical logic, she is too uncomplicated.

'RyoSaku: Improvement of love strategy - plan 1, success!' while her inner self were dancing happily, Tomoka was able to put up an unusual stern façade so Sakuno would get a feel of how important the issue is.

"Ne…Tomo-chan" She gently pulled her friend's sleeves, throwing deadly cute puppy eyes at her, pleading her to show her some guidance.

Tomoka heaved a sigh before she speaks "Like I said; just use this book"

"En?" She watched blankly at her friend while she claimed the pocket book from her hand once more.

"I'd browse through a few pages last night. Some of the analysis here might help you up a little" casually she flipped and marked the page by folding its corner before returning the book back to her "Here read the pages which I've folded"

"Eh? You're not doing this with me?" She asked anxiously.

"Me? Of course…" She paused for a moment, her pair of deep russet orbs staring at the shy girl mischievously "No!"

"HEH! TOMOCHAN!"

"Let me know the outcome later, kay…" With that her best friend left the girl with more despair.

"TOMO-CHAN!"

While waiting for Ryoma, Sakuno take some times to study the book.

"Eto…let's see…" she read the first page which Tomoka folded.

Excuses No.95: Drag your partner to stand underneath the mistletoe. Finding excuses to kiss your love ones is not that tough afterall – Angle (Qualified Counselor in Troubled Love)

"But…how can I make use of the mistletoe? X'mas is still many months away from now" she sighed as she turns to the next page. "Perhaps I'll just keep this idea till X-mas"

Excuses No.38: The golden rule of a colorful love is to know techniques of how the spice things up

Here's another tricky idea: Make your lover feel a threat that you're about to be taken by somebody. Get a trusted friend to help you to put up with your little show in order to rub in some jealousy – Angle (Qualified Counselor in Troubled Love)

"Heh? Rubbing in jealousy?"

"What jealousy?" a deep monotone asked from behind causing the girl to yelp with trepidation.

Sakuno immediately put the book back to her pocket before turning back to meet him. "Ryo…Ryoma-kun? Gokigenyo…why are you here?"

This time he raised a brow and stares nonchalantly at her "And why are you here?"

"I was waiting for you so that we could go to the National Tennis Association together…" she dropped her head to hide her embarrassment "I'm sorry; I was just…just…"

A smirk plastered across his poker face. It actually delighted him to see the girl's natural wobbliness. He wanted to tease her more to get to witness more of her cute little gesture; however, if he let this continue; they might be late for the next meeting.

"Let's get going now…" he gently took her hand, to get her to walk with him. "No one would be pleased, if the team manager couldn't manage her time and were constantly late for meetings"

"Hai…"

Ever since Sakuno's grandmother retired from coaching, Sakuno joined Seigaku and become the team's manager. Due to her competence in managing the team, she was also invited to take up the role as a manager for the National Team.

At first, Ryoma-kun doesn't seem to like the ideas. He constantly gets flared up, drifting to his own world. It was finally confirmed, though it was not so obvious; that the younger Echizen was jealous of all the unnecessary attentions the girl was getting from his National teammates, as she has become a beautiful cherry blossom that she was labeled 'Queen of Cherry Blossoms' by fellow team members.

It was also because of all these factors, he get to realize his feelings for her. He wasn't that blunt to notice the girl's affection for him too.

It was a simple request and a simple reply from the girl during one dazzling night.

While all of them were busy trainings; Sakuno managed to sneak out from the training ground and find a quiet place to study the book again. She was too concentrated with the topic that she did not notice that someone was standing behind her.

"I wondered how Ryoma-kun would react if he sees another guy pursuing me" while reading the content, she pondered audibly.

"I believe he would definitely give that fool a good taste of his twist serve" Sakuno immediately shut her book tight when she heard a familiar voice whispered into her ear.

She furthered herself from where she sat earlier and turns to face the man who whispered to her.

"Atobe-san!" Her face flushed furiously "How…how long had you been standing behind me?"

"As soon as you started reading that book" he replied instantly with the corner of his mouth slightly curled up with delights upon seeing her cute little anxious look.

Her eyes widen up when as she watched Atobe came closer to her.

Without knowing what he'll do to her, she decided to retreat but he was way too fast and without her realization, he had already get hold of one of her slender arms.

He pulled her closer to him with another hand he tilted her chin upward. He inhaled the fragrance of her long reddish-brown hair. Her scent mesmerizes the prince.

"Atobe…let me go!" She said in an ascetic tone that makes it sounds more like an instance command.

"I thought you said you wanted to see how your boyfriend would react…en?" His grin widen with mischief.

"Ore-sama can cooperate with you, just a kiss is nothing for me, it just a form of courtesy"

"No!" She flinched harder this time but that wasn't good enough to loosen his tight grip "Stop it!" At this moment she was penitent of her decision of sneaking out from the training ground and came here, to a desolated place.

This is Atobe Keigo she's now dealing with. He is the well known narcissistic, well-to-do prince of tennis. She knew that he will keeps on teasing her if she continues to struggle.

"Atobe-san, please, let me go…" She pleaded at last, hoping that he would at least show some clemency towards her.

"Have he ever told you that you looks so cute when you're petrified?" He somehow loosen his grip but their stance remains unaffected, he's still tilting her chin with one hand and the other was settling at her slender waist.

Before Atobe could do anything to the girl, a ball was aiming towards them and if Atobe hadn't retreat from getting closer to Sakuno, he could have been hit by it.

The ball hit the trunk of the tree next to them, with a few spinning, before dropping to the ground.

Atobe eyes widen upon seeing the mark caused by the spins of the tennis ball. Such powerful serve could only be directed by one person.

"What are you doing to my girlfriend, Atobe…?" A cold voice said as its owner makes his way towards them.

"Ryoma-kun…" Sakuno was already in tears upon seeing her boyfriend to the rescue.

"Nothing, Ore-sama got bore and so I came out to find some amusement" He replied nonchalantly before releasing Sakuno. She immediately runs towards her boyfriend who in turn steps forward to shield her from Atobe.

"Go and target someone else" his voice sounds colder than usual.

"Calm down…I have no intention to steal someone's property" His smirk with more delight upon sensing Ryoma's annoyance, though it wasn't shown directly.

"You can keep her properly" Atobe announced in his trademark blasé style before he leaving the two alone.

There was a moment of silence between Ryoma and Sakuno. The girl is still weeping silently while Ryoma did not do anything to make her feel better. He doesn't know what to say, seeing another guy pursuing his girlfriend and the guy had almost…

Thinking of that, the flame of rage within him is ticking like a time bomb. Right now he really wanted to give Atobe a good taste of his newly powered up Twist Serve that would fly directly to his face.

Just when they were nearby the training ground, Sakuno stops crying. The girl was so innocent that she didn't even notice that Ryoma was actually in rage.

"Ano…Ryoma-kun"

"I don't understand…how come both of you where in such place…" Ryoma did not turn to face Sakuno when he raised the doubt.

"I…" Sakuno lowered her head; feeling a little repented "I was reading a book"

"Reading? You could have done the reading in your room, why there?"

"I…" Sakuno couldn't get herself to tell him the fact "I'm sorry…"

"Luckily I was on my way to the vending machine; otherwise, I can't imagine what could have happened to you"

"But I know that Atobe-san was only trying to tease me"

Still with his back facing her, Ryoma sighed "If that's what you think…" with that the prince continued to walk back to the training ground.

"Ryoma-kun?" At this moment she felt the change of his attitude. He has become cold to her once again.

TBC…

AN: My, I was thinking of writing a short one, but it seems like I'm trying to find ways to connect the story.

Dedications:

Arenja: Thank you so much for your review. I hope you can also take part in this and it would be great if you can provide me some 'Excuses'

Jomai: Thank you very much your review. Like I said, I really hope that everyone here can join me with this. I can't do this alone.

Chibi-Kari: Thank you very much for reviewing my story. This book is about some experts (Readers) giving ideas on how to create chances to kiss their love ones. I'm looking forward to get some ideas from you, so please join me.

Angel-chan: Thank you so much for your contribution. Eto…I hope I'd put up your ideas in a right way and sorry if I didn't. I'm so happy that you'd participate with the writing. Now this story wouldn't be solely mine. Now I have you and hopefully I get more people to join the fun.

To all: This story is made because I really hope everyone could take part in this. Feel free to give me your ideas, your inspiration and your thoughts. This is for all RyoSaku fans. Like I said before, I can't do this alone. Let's have fun in writing together.

Dewa minna-san, gokigenyo

mi-chan yori