A/N Woot! Chapter 3 is here! I'm so happy right now. See my sisters both hate Prince of Tennis. They think it's stupid. The bakas. Well anyway I convinced my dad to watch a few episodes and he liked it. Yay! So anyway since I'm so happy I'd thought I'd work on my story. I'll introduce some if not all the regulars in this chapter.

Once again a big thanks to all my reviewers for chap 2. You all get cyber Fuji plushies. Third chapter reviewers will get Eiji ones.

Disclaimer: Only thirteen episodes. Got them for Christmas.

Warnings: Sadism, curse words, shounen-ai

Chapter 3: Tennis Practice and Meeting the Regulars

Poke. "O-han." Poke, poke. "Yo-chan." Poke, poke, pokey. "RYO-CHAN!"

"Huh, nani, nani?" Ryoma jolted awake in time to see his friend's companion squeal before falling to the ground painfully.

"Fujiko! (: this Eiji's face) How come you never told me about Ochibi?" The red-head on Ryoma's chest exclaimed to Fuji angrily. "He's so Kawii!"

"O-Ochibi!" Ryoma looked incredulously at the cat like person.

"Saa, Ryoma you should be happy. Eiji only gives nicknames to people he likes." Fuji's smile took a sadistic twist. "Besides Ochibi, he won't call you anything else for the rest of your life." Fuji took special care to put emphasis on the nickname.

Ryoma growled at the idiocy of the whole thing and all but demanded that Eiji get off. Sighing, Ryoma thought that he should at least attempt to be civil. Holding out a hand he introduced himself to the strange red-head. After doing so, he was promptly glomped.

"Nya, I'm Kikumaru Eiji!" Fuji was giggling off to the side and, unbeknownst to the two, suppressing the urge inside himself to rip Ryoma away from the cat like teen and growl possessively.

"Saa, Eiji, I think you're suffocating him." And true to his word, Ryoma was starting to turn blue.

"Ah! Ochibi gomen, gomen." Eiji seemed to have an epiphany, suddenly standing rigged and staring at the clock. "Nya, Fujiko we're going to be late for practice!" Eiji then grabbed both his unresisting friend and the protesting Ryoma and ran out the door towards the tennis courts.

-TENNIS COURTS-

The three stumbled into the locker room after getting an earful of reprimand from the bucho, Tezuka Kunimitsu. The trio now has to run thirty laps; Ryoma wouldn't have had to if Fuji had not said that Ryoma would be joining the club.

Quickly changing, and in Ryoma's case also handing in a form, they started on their laps. Ryoma and Fuji ended at the same time, because halfway through, Eiji lost his stamina and had to take a break.

"Members gather round." A strict voice cut through the air. "The ranking tournament is only a week away. I want everyone participating to give their best and not let their guard down. That's all." Tezuka finished with an air of superiority surrounding him.

Eiji immediately glomped onto Ryoma and shouted loud enough for every one to hear that he called practicing with Ochibi.

"But Eiji what if he gets hurt playing against a regular. What if he breaks a leg or something?" Oishi Shuichiro, mother hen of Seigaku, worriedly ran to the two and attempted to pry Ryoma away from the hyper third-year.

"Oishi don't worry, Nya. I'll be careful with Ochibi." Eiji then dragged Ryoma to an empty court and started preparing for the match.

Meanwhile, off to the side, Fuji was twitching with suppressed anger. How dare they touch his Ryoma. Secretly plotting Eiji's death, he forgot to mention how good of a player Ryoma was.

Back to Eiji and Ryoma, Eiji was getting ready to serve since Ryoma lost the spin. "Nya, Ochibi I'll serve it under-handed for you, m'kay?" And before Ryoma could protest, served.

"Play seriously." Ryoma said angrily whilst returning the ball at an incredible speed, instantly gaining a point. "Syuusuke and Oyaji don't."

Everyone was stunned not only by the fact that a first-year had scored a point from a regular, which was amazing in itself, but that he had called the biggest sadist in school by their first name and hadn't died a cruel painful death.

Eiji puffed out his cheeks and turned to Fuji yelling something along the lines of Fujiko never letting him call him by his first name. Fuji himself just smiled and said that he let Ryo-chan do it because he was cute, which everyone reluctantly agreed to. After hearing there loath agreements, Fuji's grin turned downright evil, promises of pain oozing out of it.

"Syuusuke! Stop grinning like your about to eat them!" Fuji's smile turned genuine…ish, when he looked at Ryoma.

"Saa just warning them not to mess with my cute, little, fuckable, friend." Fuji chirped brightly as payback for playing a match against Eiji and not him. His smile grew upon noticing the large blush on Ryoma's face, "What?"

"SYUUSUKE NO BAKA!" Fuji just giggled.

*-Time Skip-*-They Are Now Walking Home After Practice-*

"Che, I can't believe how you embarrassed me back there. You know what, on second thought, I can believe." Fuji and Ryoma were walking home after tennis practice and Ryoma still had a large blush on his face.

*FLASHBACK*

Everyone on the court had frozen at Fuji's last adjective for the boy. Scratch that. Inui was writing down the info in his notebook, Oishi had fainted with Eiji trying to awaken him, and Ryoma was now chasing the tensai around the tennis courts attempting to hit him with the tennis balls in his pocket.

Ryoma had been spouting profanities for the past five minutes, with the tensai laughing and berating him for using such language, and wondered why he could not for the life of him, hit the damn third-year with a tennis ball.

Such nonsense had gone on till the end of practice with nothing different happening accept Oishi arousing and then fainting again.

*END FLASHBACK*

"Why must you make my life miserable?" Ryoma meant for the question to be rhetorical, but his friend having to be ever different replied anyway.

"Its cause I love you." For some reason, after Fuji said that, Ryoma's blush got darker and a weird feeling exploded in is stomach. Brushing it off as embarrassment, Ryoma didn't linger to long on it.

Fuji on the other hand noticed and mentally smirked. Ryoma was finally starting to develop feelings for him that were deeper than friendship. His goal of attaining the boy seemed close at hand.

Finally reaching the Echizen household, the duo waved goodbye to each other and went their separate ways. Ryoma to go home and take a nap, and Fuji to go home and plot some club members' death. An evil smirk appearing on Fuji's face right before he went inside and a dark chuckle alerted Yumiko of a certain brother's intentions.

"Yare, yare, Syuu-chan sure is possessive."

A/N Yes! Got this up before my B-day! Once again a big thanks to my reviewers. I have a few questions to ask so if you guys could answer in a review it'd be much appreciated.

I was wondering if when they get together, which they will obviously do, should I end the story there or continue for a few more about there relationship in school, or maybe if I should do the relationship in school thing as a sequel to this one. Hmm, decisions, decisions. Please put your answer in a review. Sankyuu. By the way in case you're wondering, the story isn't even close to finishing seeing as I'm a fan of stories that really tell how the people fall in love. Like I hate the stories and no offense if you write one like this, where they don't have feelings one chapter and the next they're confessing their undying love for each other. Unless they're really long chapters with a lot of progression in them, I don't want to read it.

Sorry it's shorter than the other two. It felt like a good place to stop. It just barely makes four pages. I don't know why I'm still talking. Most of you probably don't want me rambling on about stuff you don't care about. Sorry I'm still doing it. I'll shut up and say bye now. Um… well… Bye.