AN:

Sorry, Minna. I planned to spend the day typing up the new chapter, but my dad was sick, so I spent the day eating grilled cheese and watching bad reality TV with him. Anyways, I seemed to have a streak for writing and updating at night. I would also like to recommend the movie Everybody's Fine to everyone because I saw it on TV today and it was sad, true, and awesome.

I've been getting questions and begging about the pairing and would officially like to say that this is a Yukimura/FemRyoma. This decision was made before the fiction was even published and before I even got to reading about Rikkaidai. If you don't like it blame on Starian NightZz because she not only got me hooked on Prince of Tennis (it is because of her I read the manga because I wanted to read The Ice Princess of Rikkaidai). She is an awesome author and when she favorited this story I might or might not have squealed.

I would like to say that the coach is an OC, but is going to be based off of my rowing coach from last year (He was awesome, but I was the only girl on the team meaning my coxswain ass was sore everyday from doing the guys' exercises with them). I would also like to address the Atobe being Ryoma's cousin. I've read it in a couple of stories and I thought it would be good for her to have one or two connection in Japan outside of Rikkaidai.

If you did not notice I changed the summary after some thought if you liked the old one better please tell me and I will change it back.

Ages:

Ryoga- 24

Kevin-24

Yukimura, Sanada, Yanagi, Niou, Marui, Jackal, Yagyuu -17(This meaning 17 turning 18 as the story continues. I am trying to make this as real as possible and if you would like to check July 1st really is a Sunday next year. Same goes for ages below, ages above don't really matter.)

Kirihara-16

Ryoma-15

Japanese -"Prince of Tennis"

English- "Prince of Tennis"

Thoughts- 'Prince of Tennis'

Disclaimer: I would have made Ryoma a girl, enough said. To make it clear though I do not own Prince of Tennis.

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Olympic Arc: Tales of Training Part 1

Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London, England

July 2nd, 2012

Monday 6:01 AM

"Oh, look boys, Ryoma brought home some friends just in time for Endurance Monday." The man known as Coach B spoke in Japanese as he stared at the nine teenagers in front of him.

Yukimura had his mouth opened to say something, but he was cut off before the words left his mouth. "I'm going to say this once. You abide by my rules or you will be punished. You follow my instructions or you will be punished. You will speak in English to me because this is the American team. So leave your bags where you stand and I will have the staff bring them up to your rooms. Grab your rackets and follow me." With his speech made Coach Boyd turned around and made his way out the doors.

Kirihara looked panicked. The boy could barely pass English in school and now he was being forced to speak it for the rest of the summer. He didn't even know what the coach had said to do.

"Leave your bag, grab your racket, and follow him," Whispered Hiroshi. The Gentleman saw the way that his kouhai was struggling to translate the coach's words. He had been dubbed his nickname for a reason.

"Thank you, sempai," The seaweed hair boy said relieved that someone had told him what to do.

"Aw, Yagyuu. You shouldn't have told him. I was having fun watching him panic." Marui whined to the glasses wearing member of the group.

"It's not like you knew what he had said till I told you, Bunta," Jackal indicated to the rest of the team, now following the leader out of the lobby doors toward the outdoor tennis courts.

"Ha! You don't understand English either, Marui-sempai. You're a hypocrite, at least I admit that suck at English," Kirihara exclaimed sticking his tongue out at his sempai.

"And Japanese," Niou added in as he walked by the two arguing boys.

Akaya shouted, "Hey! That's my best subject! I always have an 'A' in that class!"

Sanada hear his players arguing, again, snapped, "Tarundoru! We are in the presence of some of the best players in the world and all you can do is argue!"

"Can you keep it down? Your pretty noisy for the one trying to end the noise," The cap-wearing girl in the front of the group requested.

Yukimura looked at Sanada and said, "She is right."

The rest of the Rikkaidai players tried to muffle their laughs at their fukubuchou being told off, not only by an Olympic player, but also by his best friend. The rest of the short walk was made in silence as the group of high schoolers observed the Olympic team in front of them.


"I would like you all to introduce yourselves. Name, age, and likes should be enough. I'll start I am Coach Boyd. You can call me Coach B or Coach Boyd. I'm not that old, but I know Ryoga would use it in someway of I told you my age. I like to make teams win, that's why I took over this idiotic group of that call themselves mixed doubles players."

Kirihara and Marui understood most of what Boyd had said because introduction had always been the first lesson in class and he had spoken slowly.

"I guess I'll go next," The young man that looked similar to Ryoma began. "I am Ryoga Echizen. I am 24 years old and a player on the American Mixed Doubles Team. I am not an idiot as my coach and sister might think." There were mumbles of sarcastic "sures" coming from both mentioned. "I like oranges and tennis." Ryoga said with a smile before growing very serious. "Oh, and if any of you touch my sister I will kill you." Ryoma just rolled her eyes at her brother, while the other teens looked to have taken the threat seriously.

"My turn, I'm Kevin Smith. I am also 24 years old and am on reserve for Ryoga here. I like tennis and dislike talking about my father, so please do not ask." Kevin announced to the group. He gave Ryoma a shove as he realized she wasn't continuing where he left off.

"I'm Ryoma Echizen. I'm 15 years old. I am the other player on the mixed doubles team. I like tennis." Ryoma stated simply. The Rikkaidai players were shocked. Most assumed that she was just there because her brother was there, not because she actually played. The girl that just introduced herself to them was younger than them and already one of the top players in the world or at least would be soon.

"I am Seiichi Yukimura. I am 17 and captain to Rikkaidai Fuzoku tennis team. I like grilled fish, gardening, and tennis, " Yukimura spoke nicely. "I would also like to thank you for allowing us to train with you. If not we would have wasted our summer training time." Coach Boyd only nodded his head in acknowledgment.

"I am Genichirou Sanada. I am 17 and vice-captain to Rikkaidai Fuzoku tennis team. I like tennis and kendo," Sanada spoke in fluent, perfect English.

"I am Renji Yanagi. I am 17. I like acquiring new data." Boyd mentally noted to ask Renji about any information he needed on the players on Rikkaidai.

"I am Hiroshi Yagyuu. I am 17. I like reading detective novels and soba."

"I am Masaharu Niou. I am 17. I like jazz and yakiniku and need a screwdriver, if you have one," Niou finished, but by the looks the players were giving the Olympic team they knew should not to give him a screwdriver.

"I am Jackal Kuwahara. I am 17. I like horseback-riding and roasted meat."

"I am Bunta Marui. I am 17. I like food." Marui introduced himself quickly, stumbling on a few words, but he got through the introduction he said every year at the beginning of English class fine.

"I am Kirih- Akaya Kirihara. I am 16. I like- ummm- video games and tennis." Kirihara stumbled over his words and had trouble remembering certain words, but he got through it.

"Okay, let's begin Endurance Monday." Coach Boyd announced to the eleven players.


"Start with the run jog exercise in sets of three minutes. Rikkaidai players, if you cannot carry on stop. I need to see where each of you are at in endurance."

"The run jog exercise is when you run for three minutes, then jog for three minutes, then repeat." Ryoga explained to the high schoolers. "Coach will tell us when to switch and stop, but if you feel you cannot keep running then stop. For you this is just a test to see where you are."

"Begin!"

With that shout the tennis players started their three-minute sprints. Jackal and the Olympic team led the pack with the Big Three and Kirihara slightly behind, while the others were at the back of the pack. They were running around the facilities, looping around the tennis courts but staying in sight and hearing distance of Coach Boyd.

"Jog!"

The players slowed down their speeds to a fast, but relaxing jog. The three minutes of relaxation were over quickly though.

"Run!"

The speed again increased. This was how the drill continued for the next forty-five minutes, the players of Rikkaidai becoming more and more spread out. Jackal kept with the Ryoma, Ryoga, and Kevin. Sanada and Yukimura stayed together, while Yanagi and Kirihara did the same slightly behind them, though Kirihara continued to try and get in front of the Three Demons. Niou and Yagyuu were together a couple meters behind them. Marui was in last, looking about to faint from the non-stop running.

"Stop!" The shout resounded throughout the courts, bring relief to the players. They all walked at a slow pace toward the coach. The least tired of the group was definitely Jackal and the Americans.

"Ten minute break. Get some water and come back here." Kirihara easily put together the words ten minutes and water and went to grab a bottle out of the cooler that everyone else was pulling drinks out of.

Rikkaidai watched as Ryoma and Kevin pulled out protein bars from their tennis bag, opened the wrapping up and took one or two bites before wrapping it back up and putting it away. They also saw Ryoga devoured an orange, peel and all.

"You have to bring food out here and take a bit every once in a while if you want to survive the practice till lunch. Ryoga is going to have another three or four oranges before lunchtime at twelve." Kevin said to the players. They all gave a small nod in understanding, while Kevin offered them each a bar or two from his stash.

"Let's continue."


"Everyone, partner up. There is an odd number, so Renji you're with me. I would like to talk to you about your teammates."

Ryoga went straight towards his sister, but was cut off as Yukimura stood before her. "Would you be my partner, Ryoma?" He politely asked the girl.

"If you think you can keep up," She replied before making her way into the gates of the tennis court.

"I assure you, I can," Seiichi said with a smile following right behind her.

Sanada looked around with his usual partner gone and Renji with Coach B he had no one to partner with. Marui and Jackal and Niou and Yagyuu partnered together like always, not knowing if they would be facing against each other or working together as a doubles team. Genichirou's eyes searched for Kirihara. He could at least keep him in line if they were partners, but he found him talking with the blonde American boy.

'The only person left then is…'

Echizen Ryoga stood in front of him. "Would you like to be my partner?" It seemed that both of their regular partners had taken a liking to other people.


"Pick a court for you and your partner. You will each be given one ball. Rally for as long as you can you only have one chance. Once one person misses or it goes out, sit down. Make it hard for your partner. You are suppose to be training here, so don't think you can get away with standing in one place just hitting it back and forth." Coach Boyd explained. Yanagi was next to him with pen and notebook ready to record new data.

"Begin!"

Balls started flying and the teammates moved to keep the rally going. Marui was at the net, while Jackal was sending the balls back from the baseline. Niou and Yagyuu were concentrating hard on each other; the rally between them seemed like a match of playing against oneself. Sanada and Ryoga were controlling the ball perfectly and making it as hard for the other as possible. It was no surprise they were the first ones out. Kevin and Kirihara were going full force against one another, their styles of tennis matched almost perfectly; the predictions of where the other would send the ball were the same.

Sanada and Ryoga were the first to be out because they both tried to challenge each other to find out who was best. Following was Marui and Jackal. Marui was still tired from the exercises before and Jackal hit a ball across the net before he could get it. Kevin and Kirihara were next as they both seemed to quickly forget that they were not playing a match, but trying to keep a rally. After that the game between Niou and Yagyuu stopped.

The only game that still continued after fifty minutes was the game between the stolen partners. Yukimura and Ryoma were continuing to hit the ball. The speed of the ball being returned back and forth across the court was immense. The team watched in fascination as neither of the players tried to control the ball as it flew into the others court. The two only seemed to care that they would not be the one to miss the ball.

"Hey, Ryoga."

"What, Kevin?" Ryoga asked as he watched the show on the courts.

"She's using her left hand."

Ryoga's eyes widened as he noticed the fact that Kevin had pointed out.

"How long has it been since she used her dominate hand in a tennis match, Ryoga?" Coach Boyd asked as he listened to the conversation, not taking his eyes off the match.

"Since she won the National Jr. title in America last year."

"Are you going to stop this?" The question came from Yanagi who continued to take notes as he asked.

"No, I want to see how this turns out." Coach B replied.

Then the shot was hit. Ryoma started to run towards the net just to drop and slid on the courts. She jumped from the position and hit the ball in the air using the momentum from the slid to hit the ball harder.

The ball, Ryoga and Kevin knew was not a way to keep the game going, but a challenge saying, if you're that good, return it. Return a shot that has never been returned.

"Drive B."

And he did. The ball was returned right after it bounced the first time and the spar of tennis continued with neither player giving in.

"That's enough." At the coach's words the ball did not stop being hit back and forth.

"I said THAT IS ENOUGH!" Ryoma and Yukimura both stopped this time as the ball flew onto Ryoma's side of the court and she easily caught it with her right hand.

"It's lunch time, let's go." Coach Boyd said. He led the team back towards the entrance of the hotel for lunch.


12 PM

The new team of twelve walked into the hotel dinning room where lunch was set up for them. There were a couple of tables that were being cleared off by the staff.

"Who else is staying here? I didn't see anyone else at the courts." Asked Kirihara to his new friend Kevin, though everyone listened for the answer.

"The rest of the American Olympic Team is staying here. Most use the Olympic facilities to train or are in the fitness facilities down stairs. You will probably see the other parts of the tennis team later today at the courts, but we have first priority on the courts because it was one of our sponsors who rented us the hotel." Kevin explained to the Rikkaidai team.

"You all need to eat a carb and a protein. Try to get some fruits and vegetables in there to. Only water or juices, no soda or anything with caffeine." Boyd proclaimed what they were allowed to eat, while Kevin translated for Kirihara what he had said.

With the menu set the boys and girl attacked the buffet. Ryoma was the first to fill her plate and sit down at a table, 'No one will probably sit with me.' She thought it seemed that her brother and childhood friend had made new friends within the tennis team she brought back with her.

Ryoma was brought out of her thoughts as the chair next to her squeaked. The boy who she played, Yukimura, smiled at her as he sat down, "Hello." He said to her before carefully unwrapping his silverware from the napkin and starting to eat his food.

"Hi," She replied back.

The table was soon filled with the rest of the boys. The dining room usually filled with silence was soon bursting with sounds of conversation, laughs, and silverware hitting the plates.

'This could be good for her.' Ryoga thought as he watched his sister having a conversation with Yukimura. 'But if he hurts her I'll kill him.'

"So, what do we do after lunch?" Asked Jackal to Ryoga.

"We will practice till five or six, depending on how Coach feels we're doing. Then we have the rest of the day free." Ryoga replied. The whole table had become silent listening for the answer.

"Free? Like doing whatever we want free? Puri~" Niou asked with a mysterious smirk on his face that usually meant a prank would be occurring soon.

"There are rules. You have to be at dinner here at seven. Lights out is at ten. You can't do anything that can get you hurt. Other then that you can do anything, if you can still move after practice." Kevin informed the group.

"Right now, you have till one to rest. It's like 12:30, so we usually head up to the rooms and watch TV or sleep." Ryoga added to Kevin's information.

"And on that note let me show you where you are staying," Coach Boyd cut in.

The team followed him into the elevator to floor number four. Once in the hallway they were all handed keys with their names on them.

"You all have your own rooms. Meet in the lobby at one o'clock to continue practice for the day." Coach B went back into the elevator after he said that and left.

The Rikkaidai players spread out around the floor to find their rooms. In seconds there were sounds of doors unlocking and shouts of "awesome."

After she saw that the boys found their rooms, Ryoma clicked the up-button for the elevator. Kevin and Ryoga were talking with some of the players.

"Where are you headed?" A familiar voice behind her asked.

"To my room." She replied shortly back to Yukimura.

The elevator chose that moment to arrive and all of the players piled back into the elevator with her as she pushed the button for her floor. The elevator arrived quickly and Ryoma quickly exited the compacted room. She went straight to her room, she pulled out her keycard, and opened the door to the Junior Suite. As she entered, so did everyone else.

"Why are you all in my room?" She asked the crowd of people as the spread out among her living space.

"We always hang out in here," Was the answer she received from Ryoga and Kevin from their place on the coach where they were flipping though channels.

Most of the Rikkaidai team just shrugged at the question and some just ignored her.

Ryoma just groaned and went into the separate room where her bed was to take a nap.

"Ryoma's room is very large," Yukimura observed after looking over the suite once.

"We have first priority 'cause our sponsor is the one who got the hotel. The coaches are sharing the four penthouses and the three of us get to have the three Junior Suites. You guys got superior rooms, while most of the other athletes have business class rooms." Ryoga absently said while continuing to flip through the channels.

The team hung out in Ryoma's room for the rest of the lunch break before heading down to the lobby, but not before Ryoga woke Ryoma up from her nap.


The rest of the practice continued with exercises to increase their endurance and before they knew it they were being dismissed for the night at six. They all headed to their rooms to shower and change before dinner.

As dinner started with a cry of "Itadakimasu" by all but two, Coach Boyd asked, "How was the first day of training in England, everyone?"

All he received as an answer were groans. Boyd had beaten them into the ground with endurance strengthening exercises after lunch. The best thing about them was while they increased endurance they increased other aspects too, like speed and strength.

"Anyone going out tonight?" He asked the group already knowing the answer.

"No," was said by the team. Endurance Monday was not a day to go out on. Their bodies hurt and they knew that they had to be down by five for breakfast the next morning. Not only that, but they knew that they were going to pass out right after dinner. They could go out and explore the city on an easier training day, like those game days that Ryoga had told them about. When they played each other and other teams for practice, he said that they usually got dismissed a few hours early. Or on Free Days, which were Sundays. The only bad thing about that day was that they weren't allowed to play tennis at all. Still, they had gotten into the American team because that rule was broken.

After dinner the Coach Boyd's Olympic Team, which now included the Rikkaidai players, went into the elevators to go to their rooms. Boyd didn't even have to check for lights out that night.


AN:

The Radisson Blu Portman Hotel is a real hotel in London I had to spend some time trying to find a hotel that had a tennis court. I would like to say about Yanagi's birthday that I keep finding both June and July fourth listed. I decided on July because it would fit into the story.

I am sorry it took longer than last time to update. Every time I think about this story I just keep thinking about the kick ass moments there are going to be in Japan, like when Seigaku realizes that the girl losing to their captain is doing it on purpose and is an Olympic player. I think it will be epic especially because you will see the transformation of Ryoma from silent and cocky to team mom. Also when you see what happened to her you'll be like OMG that makes a lot of sense and just keep looking for characters, moves, and catch phrases that are not being put in because there are reasons.