Tennis Power: Boys vs Girls

A story of boys, girls and tennis, can all these go together?

Recollection

She picked up the racket again, looked at her swollen left wrist, and moved her wrist, before finally smirking and looking up at him straight in the eyes.

'Alright then, let's play serious.'

And with that she threw her racket into the air and grabbed it with her right hand, pointed it at him and smirked.

'The game starts now.'

Narrative POV

'What?!!' Shock ran high among the Seigaku regulars, except for one, he smirked and continued drinking his ponta.

'She's a right hander. She just likes to use her left hand sometimes.' A girl with pink waist length hair explained.

'Poor guy. I think he'll be wetting his pants soon.' A girl with blue-green hair added.

'Eh! A double hand user? She's like you Ochibi-chan!' Kikumaru smiled.

'Hn.' *Drinks ponta*

Well, continuing the game, it was Sasabe's father's turn to serve. He did another quick serve, disbelieving that she could actually play with both hands. What he got in return was a huge surprise. The ball was returned before he even knew what was happening.

15-15.

'Hey, serve faster. I don't have time to play with you.'

'You! How dare you look down on me! Eat my blah blah blah!' He muttered as he served again. 3 minutes later, the game ended with Rin winning the match 6-0, and she was using the basic skills of tennis only. Sasabe slumped onto the ground with his dad.

'Kneel down and apologise.' Rin smirked.

Both guys had no choice but to kneel down with much embarrassment and apologized with the boy. Onlooking players were cheering for the girl. Well, Sasabe pair were notorious, and a lot of them had actually been bullied by the two before.

After the pair had ran away, Rin patted the boys head and smiled. 'You can continue playing for another ten minutes from now. I took about that much of your time right?'

'Oni-chan! Will Kai be as good as you one day?' The little boy, called Kai, asked her innocently.

'Yeah, you will.' She smiled and patted his head again.

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The Seigaku members stared at the group of girls across them. The girls stared back, though evidently uncomfortable.

So why were they in this current position? Well, after the match, Kikumaru and the peach hair girl had decided by themselves that since they watch a match together, they should be friends. And being friends meant that they had to have an introduction. So back to the present, they were standing across each other, feeling pretty nervous.

Tezuka coughed. Everyone looked at him.

(Skips the boy introduction.)

Now the boys turned to the girls with faint interest.

'Yuki.' The snow white hair girl answered. Her red amber light eyes contrasted with her white hair, yet giving an aura of gentleness around her. She offered no other information. They knew she was the captain, but they also realize that their captain was stiffening as he looked at her. Buchuo's showing emotions?!

'Umiko.' The blue-green hair girl followed. 'Vice-captain.' She shrugged. Her yellowish blue eyes scrutinized them with some interest. She has Echizen's attitude problem?!

'Machi' The girl with short yellow hair introduced. 'Third year.' Her eyes were also reddish in colour, but it was darker crimson, and she gave people the impression of a doll. Looks really emotionless…

'Megumi.' The girl with grey hair whispered. 'Third year.' And she smiled a mysterious smile at Inui, who froze again. Her eyes were charcoal black, and a black aura surrounded her. She looked like some devil reincarnation, but prettier of course. All the hairs on Inui's back stood on ends. Is she Flirting with Inui!?!

'Ki-yo~!' The peach hair girl with baby blue eyes grinned, tilting her head to one side, and mouthed 'I like animes, mangas, computer games…' There was no end to her ranting. All the regulars sighed, but Kikumaru seemed fascinated with her rantings. She's too hyper, but Eiji seems interested?!

'Tomiko and Tomoko.' The pair of twins said in sinc. 'Tomiko' The yellow hair girl whispered. 'Tomoko', the pink hair girl answered. 'Second year.' They said in sinc again. Wow twins!!!

*Silence*

'Where's Rin?'

'Where's Echizen?'

Both groups cried out at the same time. Both of them were missing, and they had just realized now. The regulars groaned.

'Where is Echizen?!' Oishi mubled. He turned apologetically to the girls and muttered. 'Sorry, but looks like our first year rookie isn't here right now.'

'Such a coincidence! Our first year rookie is missing too!'

'Where did he/ she go…?' Both sides muttered.

After 5 minutes.

'Rin knows that Ochibi-chan. They walked off together towards the vending machine just now.' Kiyo suddenly answered.

'What?! Ochibi knows that girl?!' 'Rin knows that guy?!'

'Erm yeah?' Kiyo tilted her head slightly.

'Why didn't you tell us just now?!'

'Ehehe. I just remembered like 5 seconds ago.' She giggled. The regulars fell onto the ground.

'Vending machine? Let's go!' someone shouted, and without knowing, everyone was running towards the vending machines. Naturally everyone was curious about Echizen and Rin's relationship, well not everyone, Tezuka was just dragged along.

They founded the two of them beside the vending machine, and instinctively, everyone crouched behind a huge bush, eavesdropping to the ongoing conversation.

'How's school?' Echizen asked after taking a sip of his ponta. He actually started the conversation! The regulars widen their eyes. Except Fuji of course. His eyes were never opened in the first place.

'Okay. You?' She answered as she sucked at a lollipop.

'Fine.'

There was a long pause among them, and the group of eavesdroppers was wondering if they should make their entrance.

Rin sighed, looked at Echizen and sat on the railings beside the vending machines.

'Know what, Ryo. I really missed you.' She's calling him by a nickname! The regulars' mouths went '0' and the girls took in a deep breath, anticipating Echizen's reply.

'I missed you too Rin.' Echizen smiled, And considering Echizen's normal smirk, it was a true smile, with the corners of his mouth turning up ever so slightly. If the regulars were shocked before, they were currently stoned with the turn of events. Never did they expect Echizen Ryoma to have that kind of respond.

'Oh, and mum says to bring you home soon. She's missing you.'

'Fine, I missed her cooking as well. When did you come back?'

'Two months ago. I was supposed to look for you but it got a little busy for me so…'

'you forgot.' Echizen added.

'Well, yeah. Sorry. Looks like it's fate that we meet.'

'Must be.' Echizen smiled for the second time.

'Well, we should go. I think we ditched for too long…' Rin's voice trailed off.

By now the regulars were having their own train of thoughts…

Lucky Echizen, he's got a girlfriend at such a young age! Momoshiro darkly muttered.

Wow, she's inviting him to her house? So close? Oishi gaped.

What? Her mum knows him? Are they getting married? Inui mumbled as he wrote down more information on his notebook.

Eh~ Why didn't Rin introduce us to him?! Kiyo pouted, taking a mental note to harass her later.

Saa… This looks good for blackmail… Fuji smiled evilly as he looked at his handphone, which was recording the entire conversation.

Rin stared at the boy before her, trying to figure out what he wanted to say. He looked as though he wanted to tell her something, but wasn't. She sighed, hopped down from the railing and started off in the direction of the courts. A hand shot out, grabbed her arm, pull her back, and suddenly she found herself in Echizen's embrace. Looking surprised, she gave a small smile and returned the hug.

'Welcome back home, Rin.'

'I'm home.'

'Hn.' He released her and pulled his cap lower, covering his eyes, showing his embarrassment and what he had done. But almost instantly he reverted back into the snobbish, cocky first year everyone had knew of and loved.

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Okay now he was stuck in a tricky situation. The group of Seigaku regulars was rounding on him, and was squeezing information out of him every second. The looks in their eyes didn't help. He gulped silently, just like he always did when he had to drink Inui's vegetable juices. So why was he in such a situation?

Flashback

Rin and he were walking back to the court, when out of a sudden, the whole bunch of guys and girls leaped out from a bush and tackled both of them.

The boys were clomping over him, and he could barely make out of Rin's current situation, which wasn't any better than his. The crowd was closing on them every second.

Then they were dragged off in two opposite directions.

End of Flashback

'Echizen, do you know that girl?!'

'Hn.'

'Is she you're girlfriend?!' Kikumaru was strangling Echizen with his over enthusiasm.

'…'

'How did you know her?!'

'…'

'Damn it Echizen, stop stoning and reply our questions!'

'Ponta.'

'Ponta?!' The regulars looked on in amazement, trying hard to connect ponta to that girl.

'Yep, ponta. I want to drink ponta.' He muttered before turning around and walking away, fast. Leaving a group of dumbstruck regulars standing down there.

'Echizen!!!!'

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'Rin, you know that guy?!'

'Yeah?'

'How did you meet?! What is he to you?! Is he your boyfriend?! Are you going out?!' Umiko pilled an entire stack of questions on her. Despite her act cool character, she was really curious about them.

'Friend.' Rin rubbed her temples as she replied. How was she going to get out from this entire mess?

'Friend?'

'Friend.'

'You're not answering our questions!'

'I am!' Rin snapped. She was getting irritated minute by minute and the constant screaming of the girls was not helping.

'No, you aren't.'

'Yes I am. How did you meet? By a friend. What is he to you? A friend. Is he your boyfriend? He is a boy and he is a friend. Are you going out? No, he is a friend. Doesn't my one word answer everything?!'

'Ooh.' The girls were shocked for a moment as they tried to understand what she had said. Rin took the chance to waltz off before another interview session could commence.

'Where are you going?!'

'Porky.' (This is a stick biscuit with strawberry or chocolate flavor coating on it)

'Porky?'

'I'm going to eat porky.'

'Rin!!!'

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2nd Chapter up! *Cheers!*

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Btw, just to clear things up, Rin is not paired with Echizen, they are just close friends. I'm planning to stick to Ryo X Sakuno for that, but I'm not too sure. Maybe I'll put up a poll or something for you to choose.

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