Chapter 3: Siblings have nothing in common. (Pretty much true if you're not twins.)

Me: I must thank you readers on helping me out on this story. And I guess Ryoma was OOC in the previous chapter, I apologize for that and I'll heed some very wise words. I'll also apologize on not updating quickly, I suck at updating, but no worries! I'm trying to make these chapters long for your satisfaction. Now where's Ryoma?

Ryoma: Here.

Me: Do the disclaimer!

Ryoma: Why should I do it?

Me: If you don't I'll open that door and you'll be chased by a lot, and I mean a lot, of fan girls. I even had trouble in coming here because of them. *shudders*

Ryoma: *rolls eyes* Peru doesn't own Prince of Tennis. Happy.

Me: Very. ^.^

Ryoma's POV

I got ready for the tennis match with the second year, Momoshiro. 'Well this should make up for the missed club activities, damn it's gonna get boring if he doesn't play well.'I sighed as I finished tying my shoe.

"Echizen! Are really going to play with that second year?" Horio exclaimed. 'Damn he's really annoying!' I considered the thought of tying him up and throwing him in a river, but then decided against it. Since I would get in trouble just by knocking out a teacher with a tennis ball. I looked back to the unconscious teacher lying down. 'She's still out cold, I wonder if I could escape before she wakes up…?'

Moments before, I saw Rin run off with a girl. As much as I wanted to go follow her I couldn't just abandon a tennis match. 'I guess I'll ask her at home too, and get her for using my shampoo. She is gonna be so dead!'

Momoshiro came up to me. I looked up at him looking really bored. "I heard from the old lady counselor… you know how to do a twist serve?"

Horio's POV

"WHA? REALLY?" 'Echizen can do that serve?' I was shocked, and even more shocked when the other upperclassmen didn't know what a twist serve was! So I started explaining. "Generally speaking. It's the reverse of the slice serve that turns left! But in table tennis, unlike the slice it bounds when there is a top spin… Wait! I thought you guys ran away!"

"We did, but we saw Rine and we came back." Hayashi-senpai said.

"Didn't want him to see us." Ikeda-senpai added. 'That Rine is a pretty scary guy if he can shake up upperclassmens like that. Who knows what he'll do next…'I shuddered at the thought.

"So in other words, the ball flies straight towards your face." Momoshiro-senpai continued. "Ohh, how scary. There aren't many juniors who can do the twist serve right? Eh?"

'That's true, not every newbie in tennis can do that kind of serve. Just who are you Echizen Ryoma…' I kept looking on the scene. 'Well this will be interesting to see how he can match up to the second year.'

Ryoma's POV

'Man they're so stuck up on that twist serve, it's tiring me out. I'll fall asleep faster than I could play a game.'"Hurry up and start the game." I bluntly stated.

Momoshiro sighed. "Fine. Which side?"

He began to spin the racket. "Smooth."

The racket slowed, and fell. It made a huge clattering sound on the pavement. Nonetheless, the rough side was up.

"Too bad. It's rough." Momoshiro picked up his racket. "I'll let you serve. I'm going to use this side of the court."

I moved to my sides serving line with a tennis ball in hand. The other upperclassmen were making a fuss on how Momoshiro gave up on his serving chance. 'They're fricken' annoying. If Rin was here… they'd shut up, that would be nice.' Momoshiro told them that he wanted to see the twist serve, which shut up the other upperclassmen. 'Good shot. But Rin is much better at shutting people up.'

"Can I be the referee for this match?" Horio asked the upperclassman. I rolled my eyes. 'He doesn't give up the first chances, does he?'

"Oh go ahead." He sauntered off. I watched his leg movements. 'They're not normal, he must have an injury. It looks recent too.'

"The best of one set! Echizen service play!" 'The game is about to begin.'

Rin's POV

I dragged Sakuno away, far away from the tennis courts. We stopped after five minutes. I felt a tingling sensation inside my gut. 'Ryoma's playing someone. Got to make this real quick.'I turned to face Sakuno, catching a glimpse of her as I did so. "What were you going to say back there?"

"That you were that girl from back then." She replied. 'Her aura is quite shaky, she must be a real shy person. I can tell that she holds all her true feelings inside.'This was told with a black hole in the middle. It was still quite small, so there was nothing to worry about.

"How did you know that I was a girl?" I asked her. Her aura was spiking up. 'Yeah I said something real stupid.'I sighed as I put my hand on my shoulder. "Do me a favor, will you?"

"And what is that?" She questioned.

I looked around to see if anyone was near our spot. When the coast was clear I turned back to Sakuno, and I answered in a low voice. "Act as if I was a guy, and don't spill out that I'm a girl. Not even to your friend. If worse comes to worst, I'll be expelled."

I turned to leave, but Sakuno asked another question. "But why are you dressed as a guy on purpose?"

I turned around and smiled. "It's a long story. Now let's go, my brother is playing a match."

I picked her up, bridal style, and started running back to the tennis courts. 'It's faster this way.'Sakuno panicked and gripped me hard, putting her arms around my neck.

At the tennis courts

Tomo's POV

Momoshiro-senpai just refused the slice serve that Ryoma-sama just hit, when the cute guy came back carrying Sakuno, bridal style! 'Oh my god! I want to be carried like that too~!'

I made my way to them. Sakuno looked pale, all the color drained from her face. The cute guy put her down and she wobbled over. Luckily, I caught her; just in time too. "Sakuno! You alright? Answer me!"

She smiled and nodded. I glared at the boy, he may be cute but to make my friend pale like this is unacceptable! "What did you do to her!"

"Uh, had a chat with her?…" He said, his face furrowed in concentration. 'Gosh! He's soooo cute! But I have to be angry with him. Just this once!'

"Now I want you to apologize for doing this to Sakuno!" I told him but then I was interrupted by a shout from the tennis match.

Rin's POV

Sakuno's friend was pretty determined to make me apologize but a yell, thankfully, came from the court. 'I'll admit that she is pretty protective over Sakuno, but there are some things that I won't ever understand at all…'

"AMAZING! THAT'S THE TWIST SERVE?" I pondered on the two voices. 'I swear I've heard those two before… but where?'

"Ah scared me back there." Momoshiro dusted his pants.

"You okay?" Ryoma asked bluntly. I sighed and gave a soft smile. 'Typical, typical, Ryoma. He must have figured out Momoshiro's injury.'

There was a moment of silence before Momoshiro broke it. "That punk."

I smirked as I imagined their facial expressions. Then it hit me. "Ah! You're the people that bumped into me this morning!"

Their aura's jolted upon their realization of me being in their very presence. One of them yelped. I smirked. 'Shocked at being spotted, I guess.'"Ack! Hayashi it's that guy!"

"We've got to go! Sorry Momoshiro, we got to run!" Hayashi apologized, then ran off with the other guy close behind him. 'Fools! They actually thought my threat was real.'I smiled my victory smile and turned back to the game.

"30-0." Horio kept score of the game. 'Aww! That's sooo unfair! I want to sit on the referee high chair at least once in my life!'

Momoshiro's POV

I looked at Hayashi and Ikeda who were far from the tennis courts by now. Then my gaze travelled to the first year which called out. 'They ran away from a first year? Just like that? He doesn't even look that strong!'

"30-0." The unibrowed kid called out the score. Bringing my attention back to the game. I thought of ways to counter the twist serve that this junior could throw. The information on the ball ran through my head. 'The ball is much sharper than I thought. Then I guess I'll have to go for it when it spins.'

I started moving my body when he hit the serve. 'And to do that… I need to get to the front!'the ball bounced off the ground, and at that moment it made contact with the racket. "All right I got it!"

I spoke way too early, my racket moved backwards slightly and the tennis ball hit my side of the court. 'No, it didn't work. I couldn't hit it back!' I huffed my frustration, then smiled. "So even with timing, I can't hit it back… interesting!"

'I'll have to just get it right during gameplay.'

Meanwhile hidden in a nearby bush

Third Person's POV

Ikeda and Hayashi were both lying down on their stomachs, listening to the game from there.

"Momoshiro was overpowered?" Ikeda whispered, not wanting to believe that Momoshiro was losing in power.

"The timing was right! Does that mean the ball has that much strength… in it?" Hayashi couldn't believe his hearing.

They couldn't see what was happening but Horio's loud voice told them what happened. "Game 1-0! Echizen leads!"

"No way!" Hayashi was flabbergasted.

"Momoshiro is a member of the regular team!" Ikeda couldn't bring himself to accept the first years lead. For the next 10 minutes if the game all they heard was the tennis ball getting hit back and forth continuously.

"What's going on?" Ikeda asked Hayashi, who was straining his ears on listening for a break through.

"I can't believe Momoshiro is being overpowered." Hayashi voiced his concern.

"A-ah!" Horio exclaimed, making both boys come out of their hiding spot to see what reality had in store for them. It turned out to be that the ball was bounced on the hem of the net and falling to the first years side of the court.

"Ooh!" Momoshiro triumphantly raised his racket.

"He was barely able to hit that serve!" Hayashi was scathing his eyes with reality.

"Oh lucky." Momoshiro exclaimed.

"That person… is starting to receive his serves…" Sakuno explained the obvious. Rin grunted her agreement.

"That was his first!" Tomoka whipped her head to face Sakuno and Rin, and continued with defiance in her voice. "Ryoma-sama's twist serve is still unbeatable!"

Rin grunted her agreement once again.

Rin's POV

Ryoma was winning and Momoshiro was analyzing the twist serve. 'He's doing pretty well against the twist serve, considering it's origins and his bad ankle.'

I heard the ball bounce twice and hit the other side. This time I felt a new wave of energy coming from Momoshiro. 'Interesting.' Seconds later I heard it being hit, then two guys from before were yelling. I snorted. 'Huh, they came back.'

"Alright! He finally hit it back!" They both yelled in excitement. There was silence from the girls beside me, even the unibrowed boy shut up.

"But he hit it back at the net!" One of the boys exclaimed, horrified (I'm guessing).

"Shit!" Momoshiro swore as he hit it back again. Instead of a hard impact from Ryoma, the ball landed softly on the ground.

"D-drop volley?" One guy stuttered.

"O-oh! He's not a guy to be taken lightly!" Hayashi exasperated.

Momoshiro was panting heavily. "You! You can do that too?"

"I can't tell who's going to win… to be able to play like this to second year regular, Echizen is no typical guy…" Katsuo remarked, I smiled. 'He's got good intuition.'

"You idiots! What are you talking about? Momoshiro is stronger!" A upperclassman yelled at Katsuo.

"Says the person who runs away from a threat that is so unreal… but on the other hand, I think I could murder someone with a tennis ball." I snorted. His aura irked, and he shut up for the rest of the time.

It was deadly quiet on the court. But I could feel Momoshiro's determined aura turning, Ryoma's aura was different as well. 'He must have predicted on what Momoshiro was thinking.'

I heard Sakuno start to remember something, but she didn't finish her sentence. 'It seems that she has seen Ryoma play southpaw. What a lucky girl~ getting the first look into things.' The silence finally broke when Momoshiro called for time. 'That was really abrupt.'

"That's enough. Let's stop the game." Momoshiro stated. 'Game over.'

"WHAT?" the freshman trio cried in unison.

"Momoshiro! What are you talking about?" The other second years argued. 'Tough losers. Can't even accept a withdrawel.'

"I'll let you go with this. Heh!" He remarked. 'Tough bastard.'I smiled.

I yawned as Horio praised Ryoma on his win against a second year regular. But I perked up when Sakuno's friend introduced herself to Ryoma.

"Hi there! I'm a friend of Sakuno! My name is Osakada Tomoka!" Tomoka's aura was a swirl of hearts and pink. 'What the hell? Now that's not an aura that I want to see.'

"Who's… Sakuno?" Ryoma replied bluntly. I felt Sakuno getting depressed, so I patted her shoulder.

"It's alright. He'll remember eventually." Her mood lightened a bit.

"You think so?" She asked. I smiled.

"Sure he will, he may be a forgetful person but he remembers everything. In due time." I told her, bringing her mood up a bit more. 'Now I'd better go say my salutations to my brothers opponent.'

Third Person's POV

"Hey are really going to let him go Momoshiro?" Hayashi looked over at group of first years. "If we do. That first year will surely disregard us second years."

"But…" Ikeda looked down at Momoshiro injured ankle. "If only your ankle wasn't injured…"

"No, he already knew from the beginning…" Momoshiro stated. Hayashi and Ikeda were speechless. Momoshiro was deep in thought when he noticed a first year walking towards him.

Rin's POV

I made my way to Momoshiro, who just snapped back to the present. I smiled at him.

"Well, well, well another cocky first year, I suppose?" He started.

"No, I hope not." I replied with a chuckle. "You were good. Playing against my brother like that."

"He's you're brother?" Momoshiro gaped, the others went pale like a sheet of paper; keeping their shocked vigil. 'For once I don't have to put up with their whiney voices. Thank God my ears are saved!'

"Yes he is, he and I have the best teacher. That is why we can do incredible things." I explained.

"Who's your teacher?" He questioned.

"Our father. Now please excuse me, I have to leave." I bowed slightly and turned to leave.

"Wait what is your name kid?" I smiled before answering. 'Damn my cheeks are hurting from all the smiling I did today!'

"Echizen Rine. Please take care of me." I turned and left, Picking up my bags and leaving with Ryoma.

Momoshiro's POV

I sighed in satisfaction. 'Funny kid.'"Well it was a draw but… I'm looking forward to next weeks ranking matches."

I left for the changing rooms with a smile plastered on my face.

At the Echizen's household

Ryoma's POV

'Ah the showers is so refreshing after a match.'I let the water wash over me as I sat and rinsed my hair.

"Ryoma, how was the school's clubs?"

"They were great." I answered. "Karupin; you can't come in. I'm still tar from done."

"Meow." Karupin just sat there on the bath mat.

I suddenly remembered who Sakuno was. "Oh! I remember now!"

Third Person's POV

A man fame inside Rin's room and tucked her in. Before he left he gave her a kiss on her cheek. "Good night my shooting star."

Me: I finished it! It's an accomplishment! T.T

Ryoma: …

Rin: Is it just me, or did you make the point of views short again?

Me: Yeah I know, sorry I made it short again everybody. I'm really behind on my updates for my other stories, and this will go on until the next four chapters (I think). So bear with me guys.

Momo: I think she really means it.

Rin: Of course she does!

Sakuno: You still didn't give me a reason on why you're cross dressing!

Rin: !

Tomo: Sakuno he is a guy, and guys don't cross dress unless they are in a girls outfit! Stop accusing him!

Me: Somebody end this thing! I can't find the off switch! *runs around frantically*

Everybody: *sweatdrops*

Momo: You don't need an off switch, all you have to do is tell them you're signing out.

Me: I know that!

Momo: Well what was that question for then?

Me: *points to the microwave that looks like it's going to explode* I meant that.

Everybody: *pales and starts to run*

Me: *sighs* I guess that leaves me to end this. Thanks for reading, and I'm looking forward to all your reviews. :) And please forgive me on jumping from POV to POV. Well see ya!