Sorry this took so long! Didn't think it was worth 7 pages... XD Well here it is! Chapter two! There are some Japanese words I inserted here but didn't bother to translate some because they are commonly used. But if you want to know what they mean, just send me a private message or just ask in the reviews! Oh, and just to give you a clear picture of what Meisha looks like, look at the cover image of this story, that's her in chibi form. Hope you enjoy! :3

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis or any of their characters as well as their tennis moves. I get my reference from wiki/Prince_of_Tennis_Wikia so if you think there is something wrong with the information here, let me know and I shall review it! Thank you and hope you enjoy!

Dame dame jan! Chapter two

It is early in the morning when Kunimitsu Tezuka is seen standing in front of a bedroom door with a wooden placard that says, 'Meisha'. He looks down at the knob and seems to be contemplating on whether to go in or knock. He releases a breath and shakes his head, probably thinking of how stupid he looks right now. He lifts up his fist about to knock when the door suddenly flies open, surprising him MOMENTARILY. He drops his arm as a soft but still stern expression graces his feature as he lays his eyes on the person in front of him. A petite girl with messy shoulder-length light brown hair and widened dark brown eyes holding a big black tennis bag on her left shoulder, while the ribbon on her uniform stayed crooked.

"Good, you're awake. I was going to leave you if you weren't ready yet", Tezuka says in his usual manner but his eyes showed that he was teasing.

Meisha knows that he was just teasing so she hugs him lovingly saying, "I missed you!"

Tezuka, on the other hand, just nods but pats her head gently as he looks down at her with gentle eyes and a slight smile that probably only she can see. She does know him very well, even more than Oishi.

"Come on! I'm hungry!" she says enthusiastically then runs towards the stairs to go down.

Tezuka just sighs and slowly follows behind her. Tezuka knows her very well too, after all, she is –

"Come on, niichan! Hurry up!" she yells out while waiting for Tezuka to catch up to her by the stairs.

After all, she IS his younger sister.

(Authors note: They are both Tezuka, I know, but I don't think I can get used to referring to him as Kunimitsu... But don't worry； there won't be any mix ups coz Meisha will be referred to as Meisha. ;3 On with the story!)

"Tezuka!" Inui calls out as he jogs up beside Tezuka who is already on his 2nd lap.

Tezuka is always the first to arrive for morning practice since he comes to school 10 minutes earlier than the actual time. He warms up while waiting for his team to arrive. Inui usually would arrive next but sometimes it's either Fuji or Oishi. Tezuka glances at Inui and nods in greeting as he focuses on his jogging again while Inui jogs beside him.

"I presume that Meisha came with you and is now filling up some forms in the teacher's lounge", Inui states as Tezuka nods while jogging with ease.

"Hey guys!" Fuji greets them from behind as he jogs to catch up to them and jogs on Tezuka's other side.

"You're 2.35 seconds later than usual", Inui points out while Tezuka just nods at Fuji in greeting as they jog in pace with each other.

"Hmm… Maybe because I had an extra apple this morning", Fuji ponders on it while Inui just nods in understanding.

"So did Meisha-chan get home alright?" Fuji asks curiously with a smile as Inui turns his head to look at Tezuka, wanting to know the answer as well.

Tezuka looks at both of them but stays silent as he increases his pace a little, seemingly wanting to avoid the topic. Inui and Fuji notice this so they increase their pace as well to match his.

Fuji's smile became wider, "I assume that's a no" he says as he tries his best not to ask further.

"Good morning!" Oishi greets them from behind as he catches up to them and jogs with them in pace beside Inui.

"Good morning, Oishi" Fuji greets happily.

"Good morning", Inui greets him with a smile while Tezuka just nods at him.

"Did Meisha get home alright yesterday?" He asks a bit concerned causing Tezuka to sigh a bit and making Fuji chuckle.

Oishi looks at them with a confused expression, "Something I missed?" he asks Inui who nods.

"Fuji asked the same question a while ago and I assume Tezuka refused to answer it because he suddenly increased his pace to jog ahead of us", Inui says.

Oishi looks at Tezuka in concern, "So where did you find her this time? I hope she didn't stray too far…" he says with a worried tone.

The other two look at Tezuka as well as they anticipate his answer. It could be because Oishi is his best friend or it could be because he really sounded worried but Tezuka glanced at the three for a bit then sighs in defeat.

"I found her crying behind our house when I got home", he says in a stern voice as he runs ahead of them.

This makes the other three stop and look at each other. Fuji and Oishi burst out laughing while Inui starts to write it down on his notebook.

"That's an improvement…" Inui says while nodding his head in approval.

"Good morning!" an enthusiastic but timid voice calls out in greeting behind them.

The three turn behind them and see Taka waving at them with Kaidou walking behind him.

"Fsshuu, good morning, senpaitachi" he greets them with his head bowed.

(Author's note: senpaitachi is the plural form of senpai. And senpai is a form of respect; you call people who are older than you (who are not related to you of course) senpai. You usually hear this with the person's name (Ex: Fuji-senpai) but you can use it without attaching the name as well (Ex: Senpai).)

The three greet them back and hear another energetic voice coming towards them.

"Hoi hoi! Morning, people!" Eiji jogs towards them waving as he is greeted back with equal energy, well, except for Kaidou.

"Good morning, senpai" Kaidou greets then walks inside the tennis court with his racket in hand as Taka follows behind him in order to help Kaidou with his practice.

"Nya? I thought today's morning practice isn't going to involve our rackets?" Eiji questions Inui as he eyes on Kaidou's racket.

"Kaidou needs to practice with his racket as much as possible in order to master the boomerang snake", Inui explains it to him as Eiji nods in understanding.

Fuji decides to have some fun as his smile widens at Eiji, "Eiji, we know something you don't know", he says teasingly, making Oishi laugh and Eiji looking at them confused.

"Well technically, there are plenty of things we know that he doesn't while at the same time, there are plenty of things that he knows while we don't", Inui states, making Eiji even more confused while Oishi just shakes his head in response to Inui's seriousness.

Eiji looks from Fuji to Inui to Oishi then back to Inui then Fuji. Then as if something in his mind clicked, his expression changed to shock as he points an accusing finger at Oishi.

"Oishi! You promised not to tell anybody!" he accuses Oishi out loud, leaving Fuji and Inui looking at each other confused but curious.

"What are you talking about Eiji?" Oishi questions him, slightly confused as well as if he somewhat knew what Eiji is talking about.

"Good morning, senpaitachi! What's going on?" Momo greets energetically as Ryoma just bows his head to them in greeting.

Before anyone can greet them back, Eiji goes to Momo with an angry look, "Momo, listen! Oishi promised me yesterday that he wouldn't tell anyone that I had been scared of the dark until last year!" Eiji complains to Momo who just looks at his senpai confused while Oishi did a facepalm.

"Senpai, you were scared of the dark when you were in 2nd year?" Ryoma mocks with a smirk on his face as Momo tries to hold in his laughter while Inui has started to add that detail in Eiji's data.

As if he just realized it, Eiji blushes then runs inside the court screaming, "Oishi, you idiot!"

Oishi runs after him saying, "You blurted it out! Not me!"

Momo couldn't take it anymore and just laughs while Ryoma sighs.

"Mada mada dane", Ryoma says with a smirk.

Fuji smiles and thinks of ways to use Eiji's secret for blackmailing purposes.

"Regulars, assemble!" Tezuka calls out from the tennis court, "Momoshiro! Echizen! 10 laps!" he commands the moment he sees the two of them who look surprised but then started to run while asking each other how their captain knew they were late even if he wasn't there to see it.

"Today, we will be focusing on endurance and flexibility. I will be forming you all into pairs as you perform exercises with each other", Inui says, "These exercises will help your muscles to be both strong and flexible when needed", he finishes explaining as he calls out the pairings.

Meisha enters an empty classroom then walks towards the fourth row (there are 5) and sits at the seat on the second column (if facing the seats, order of the columns is from left to right starting with 1 and ending with 5; there are 5 columns as well). She keeps her notebooks and some of the books she received from the admissions office inside her desk.

She looks up at the clock on top of the blackboard and sighs, "It's still so early…" she complains then yawns as she folds her arms on top of the desk then nestles her head in them to take a nap.

"Alright, morning practice is over, dismissed!" Tezuka shouts out and the regulars bow and say thank you.

They stretch their tired muscles while walking towards the boys' locker room to change back to their uniforms before the school bell rings.

"Hey Echizen, did you notice that morning practice wasn't as tough as it usually is?" Momo asks Ryoma as they lag behind the others.

Ryoma just looks up at his senior's face and raises both his shoulder, showing that he doesn't really care about the matter.

Momo just sighs at the lack of reaction he got from his best friend, "If I didn't know any better, I would think you and Captain were both related, seeing how less you guys talk" he says with a smirk, trying to rile up the freshman.

Ryoma smirks back at him and says, "Mada mada dane, Momo-senpai" then he follows the others into the locker room.

"You little brat!" Momo shouts out and follows him in.

Tezuka was the first to finish. He picks up his tennis bag and picks up another black tennis bag then walks out of the room leaving most of the regulars wondering whose tennis bag he was carrying.

"Hey Oishi, why was Captain bringing two tennis bags?" Eiji asks confused as Oishi starts to think.

Inui cuts in to explain, "The other bag is for practice later", he says as he lifts up his tennis bag to his shoulder.

"What are we doing later, Inui?" Taka asks curiously as everyone awaits for the response.

Inui smiles that eerie smile of his as his glasses seem to glint in an evil fashion, "It's a surprise", he says then leaves the room.

Inui's last statement leaves a cold atmosphere as everyone except Fuji recalls the horrible taste of Inui's juices.

"I can't wait for practice later", Fuji says with a wide smile as he leaves the room as well.

"I don't like Inui-senpai's surprises… Don't like them at all…" Momo says, obviously wishing that afternoon practice would suddenly be cancelled.

"Stop complaining, you idiot" Kaidou says as he lifts up his tennis bag to leave but then gets grabbed by the collar by Momo.

"What did you say, Viper!" Momo shouts out angrily at him as Kaidou grabs his collar as well.

"I said you are an idiot! You should clean your ears you pea brain!" Kaidou retorts back angrily then they both growl angrily at each other.

"Alright, that's enough, you two! To think you guys were silent yesterday when you played as doubles partners", Oishi breaks them up and sighs in disappointment as the two juniors bow in apology.

"Mada mada dane" Ryoma smirks then gets glared at by the two juniors.

"They were synced there!" Eiji comments with a laugh, making the two juniors look at each other then abruptly facing the opposite direction, not wanting to see the other.

"Come on, Eiji, Oishi, we'll be late", Taka says as he looks at the clock in the locker room.

"See you guys at practice later!" Oishi calls out then follows the two out of the room with Kaidou following as well.

"That viper makes me so mad!" Momo says angrily while Ryoma walks towards the door.

"Later", Ryoma says and is about to open the door but then gets pulled back by the back of his collar by Momo.

"You're not going anywhere! Wait for me, I'll be quick!" Momo says as he quickly changes.

Ryoma sighs and softly says, "Baka"

"I heard that!" Momo shouts out.

The bell rings, signaling to them that they are late for classes…again.

The class has been murmuring for the past hour. They have been talking about the new girl sleeping on her desk─beside their classmate, Echizen Ryoma's desk.

"She's the one who has been absent for 2 weeks…" a girl whispers to her friend.

"I heard she was absent because she got into trouble before school started", a boy says as he discreetly points at the sleeping girl.

"No way! I heard she was absent because she didn't want to come to school yet and her family pulled some strings", his friend answers back as he shifts his eyes to the sleeping girl.

"Maybe we should wake her up and introduce ourselves", a shy girl asks her friend who shakes her head in disagreement.

"Haven't you heard the rumors? I don't want to associate myself with delinquents", her friend says back in a snobby manner.

The door suddenly opens and a young woman enters the classroom saying, "Okay class, settle down! Mr. Tirada is sick today so I'll be your substitute teacher!"

The students go back to their desks quietly.

"Now I –" she gets cut off by the door opening and in comes Ryoma who slightly bows his head in greeting.

The teacher smiles at him and nods her head as if giving him permission to come in and sit down. Ryoma silently walks to his desk, which is on the fourth row third column, while the teacher introduces herself. When he gets to his seat, he notices someone with shoulder length light brown hair occupying the seat that was empty for more than 2 weeks. She seemed to be sleeping. Ryoma sits down on his chair and glances at his new seatmate for a while but then looks away feeling uninterested as he pays close attention to the new teacher.

"Now I'm going to take your attendance. Say, 'present!', when your name is called" she – Miss Shirai -announces as she calls out the students' names one by one.

She wasn't able to feel it but the students were anticipating for her to call out the new girl's name. Ryoma was never really interested in gossip so he didn't really care who she was. When it seemed that everyone has been called, Miss Shirai pauses at the last name on the list: Tezuka, Meisha. Beside this name was a post it that read: "She was absent for the first two weeks of class, don't forget to introduce her." Apparently, the boy in front of Meisha was a bit taller than average so his body covered her sleeping form, which resulted to Miss Shirai being confused as she looks around the classroom and sees no sign of this girl she hadn't called out yet.

"Well, looks like somebody is going to have to spend her time outside the classroom with a bucket full of water for being late. And to think she was absent for 2 weeks, she should've at least come in to school early", Miss Shirai complains and feels a bit disappointed as she starts to write their lesson (that Mr. Tirada planned) on the blackboard.

The students couldn't help but look towards the sleeping girl worriedly as they softly tried to force each other to either wake the girl up or tell the teacher. Nobody wanted to do any of it because they were scared that either the teacher or their rumored delinquent classmate would get mad. Satoshi Horio, who was seated at the second row fourth column, turned his body to look at Ryoma who just looked outside the window feeling bored.

"Oi, Echizen!" Horio whispers out as softly as he can and loud enough for Ryoma to hear.

Ryoma raises a brow at him, not knowing why he was called by Horio.

"Wake her up!" Horio whispers out while giving off gestures such as pointing to the sleeping girl.

Ryoma looks at Horio annoyed then he looks at the sleeping girl beside him, feeling even more annoyed. He reaches for her hair slowly at first, not wanting to be caught by the teacher as some of his classmates watched him. Then he pulled a handful of hair as hard as he could.

"OUCH!" the sleeping girl yells out as she clutches her head in pain.

Ryoma was quick coz he drew back his hand before either the teacher or the girl saw it.

"What is going on!" Miss Shirai barks out as she looks for the source of the sound and sees a girl clutching her head down as she slowly rubbed a certain spot.

Miss Shirai stared at the girl for a while before something seemed to click in her head as her expression changed from angry to surprised then embarrassed.

"Oh! You must be Meisha-chan! I didn't see you there…" she says with an apologetic tone in her voice.

Having her name called, she lifts up her face to look at the teacher. The corners of her dark brown eyes had tears gathered in them but not enough for them to fall. She stared at the teacher with widened eyes as if confused. Then she looks around to see that everyone was looking at her. Her eyes land on her seatmate's hazel eyes which were looking at her with boredom. They stared at each other for a while, no one thinking of looking away until they heard Miss Shirai clearing her throat so they both look towards her. Something seemed to click in Meisha's mind as she snaps out of her dazed look and rubs her eyes to get rid of the gathered tears.

"Meisha-chan, could you stand up here in front to introduce yourself?" Miss Shirai asks her nicely as she felt a bit guilty about what she said earlier regarding Meisha.

Meisha smiles brightly, stands up, and energetically goes up front. Now that she was standing in front, they could see that she is a really petite girl and possibly the shortest in class. Her eyes sparkled in excitement as her smile brightens up the whole classroom.

"So cute!" some of the girls and boys, including Horio say out loud as Ryoma looks outside through the windows with an annoyed expression.

"I'm Meisha! I went on an adventure for the whole summer break! I was absent for 2 weeks because… because…" Meisha suddenly gets shy as her cheeks start to turn pink.

"What is it, sweetie? It's okay, don't be shy" Miss Shirai encourages her in a motherly manner.

Meisha nods timidly as she inhales in a breath with her eyes closed as most of the students anticipated the truth.

"Because I forgot that school had already started…" Meisha softly says but everyone hears it as the whole classroom suddenly becomes silent as if processing what she had said.

Then they all started to laugh. Not at Meisha but at themselves for believing the rumors. Meisha's face becomes pink as she feels embarrassed and Miss Shirai giggles at her. At some point, Meisha stopped feeling embarrassed and started to laugh at her own mistake.

"Alright, settle down now class. Does anyone have questions for Meisha-chan?" Miss Shirai asks.

A girl raises her hand and Miss Shirai points at her.

"What were you doing for the whole summer break?" she asks.

Meisha grins, "I was travelling all over Japan and meeting new people!" she says energetically as some of her classmates expressed how cool that was.

Ryoma on the other hand just kept getting more and more annoyed. Maybe because his new seatmate is talkative? He wasn't really sure but he left it at that.

A boy raises his hand and Miss Shirai points at him.

"What are your hobbies?" he asks her as Meisha giggles.

"Oh that's an easy one!" she says then smiles brightly, "I LOVE playing tennis!" she announces proudly.

This got Ryoma's attention as he looks towards her with a smirk on his lips. Horio seemed pretty excited as well, probably wanting to give her his 'two years of tennis experience' speech. The class was rowdy until Miss Shirai told them to settle down and that she will allow only one more question. Someone's hand goes up and his classmates were surprised to see whose it was.

"Yes, Echizen-kun?" she asks Ryoma as dark brown eyes meet hazel ones once again.

"Are you any good?" he asks with a smirk.

Meisha's eyes seem to light up even more as she couldn't help but smirk back at him, "Dame dame jan, you shouldn't challenge people without knowing who you're up against first", she says with a smooth manner without making it sound arrogant.

"Hmm" Ryoma hums in interest and understanding as he smirks even more, "So since you don't know me, you're scared you might lose?" he says arrogantly, "Mada mada dane"

Meisha frowns and is about to retort but Miss Shirai stops their arguing and tells Meisha to get back to her seat. While walking towards her seat, she glares at Ryoma continuously as he just stares at her with an amused smirk. Then when Miss Shirai wasn't looking, Meisha sticks her tongue out at him. Ryoma rolls his eyes as Meisha sits down.

Ryoma mumbles, "Child"

Meisha responds with a mumble of her own, "Arrogant"

"Ugly", he mumbles back.

"Stupid", she mumbles back.

"Forgetful"

"Jerk"

"Chicken"

"Pig"

"Short"

"Pipsqueak"

"Look who's talking"

"Oh please, I'm a girl, it's cute"

"Yeah right"

"Yes I am right"

They banter like this continuously until Miss Shirai catches them and decides that Ryoma should help Meisha catch up on the two weeks she missed. This decision did not make any of the two happy as most of their classmates were silently laughing at them for fighting on their first meeting while others, including Horio, were surprised that Ryoma behaved that way.

The two stayed silent for the whole morning. The lunch bell starts to ring, which causes most students to silently sigh in relief. When the teacher left, the students stood up to go to their usual spots when eating lunch. Horio stands up to go towards Ryoma's seat with his lunch box in hand as Ryoma starts to open his lunch box. Some girls and boys flock towards Meisha's seat as they introduce themselves to the new girl. This annoyed Ryoma. Maybe because they were being noisy near his desk? He wasn't sure but he left it at that. Meisha, on the other hand, was happily talking to her new classmates as she started to open her lunch box. Both of them open their lunch boxes at the same time and frown at their lunch.

"Wow, Meisha-chan, I did not expect your lunch to be like that", a boy says laughing.

"Hey Echizen, your lunch looks good!" Horio says while eyeing Ryoma's lunch.

"I hate fish/western food", both say at the same time with Meisha saying she hates fish and Ryoma saying he hates western food.

They look at each other as their classmates either anticipate a fight or they are just confused why they suddenly looked towards each other.

"What kind of fish?" Ryoma asks Meisha.

"Fried saury. What kind of western food?" she asks back.

"Burger steak", he replies as they stare at each other for a while like they are communicating with their eyes.

"Truce?" she suggests, at which Ryoma immediately nods and they exchange lunch boxes feeling satisfied.

Some of their classmates laugh at their weird exchange while Horio sighs at both of their simplemindedness. They both eat happily with Meisha talking to her new classmates and Horio talking to Ryoma while he ate and maybe listened to some of Horio's nonsense.

The dismissal bell has started to ring, forcing the teacher to dismiss the class. Ryoma readied his tennis bag while Meisha piled up the books needed for homework later on her desk.

Ryoma notices this and asks, "You don't have a bag?"

"I do, it's just not with me right now", she tells him as she glances at Ryoma's unzipped tennis bag, "You going to practice now?" she asks him and he nods as he zips up his bag.

"Oi, Echizen! Hurry or else we'll be late!" Horio calls out from the door.

"Bye", Ryoma says to Meisha as she waves at him happily while he walked towards the door.

"Good luck in practice later!" Meisha calls out to him with her body turned to face him.

He responds with a nod and leaves the classroom.

Meisha smirks to herself as she softly says, "You're going to need it" then continues arranging her books.

The regulars are lined up in front of Tezuka, Oishi, Inui, and Coach Sumire Ryuuzaki in their own tennis court. The freshmen are picking up balls while the 2nd and 3rd years are training according to Inui's training menu for them in the other courts.

"Listen up, regulars! For today's practice, we have invited a guest over to help you for the upcoming tournament. He will be playing against each one of you to assess your skills so I suggest you play seriously!" Coach Ryuuzaki announces as she watches the regulars look for this so called guest.

"So this was the surprise Inui-senpai was talking about!" Momo says feeling relieved that he would not have to encounter one of Inui's juices again.

"Where is this guest nya?" Eiji asks as he looks around curiously.

Ryoma just yawns, feeling bored and wanting to play already. The coach looks at Tezuka then nods, as if signalling him to do something. Tezuka nods back and walks out of the tennis court. Oishi watches Tezuka leaving then turns to face Inui.

"Where is Tezuka going?" he asks Inui.

"He is fetching our guest. It is his first time here so he does not know the way to the tennis courts", Inui says as his glasses gleam.

Oishi nods at that and tells his fellow regulars to warm up.

"Ah, before warming up, all of you should remove all your weights", Inui cuts in as he points at his ankle weights.

The regulars, including Oishi, do as told and they suddenly feel much lighter.

"Now you can warm up while getting used to the new feeling", Inui says as he picks up the weights and stores them in a box.

"Alright, 10 laps around the court!" Coach commands.

"Yes ma'am!" they answer then start to jog outside the court.

Inui takes out his notebook and looks at his watch as he writes down their changes in speed from before to now.

"It seems their speed has increased by 25%", Inui states as he writes down the information on his notebook every time someone finishes a lap.

Coach rubs her chin in thought then smirks.

"Inui, why don't you offer your juice?" she suggests to him.

Inui's glasses gleam as he takes out a pitcher of bubbly oozing green-orange liquid.

"You know what happens when you're not the first to finish the laps!" Coach says out loud, making the jogging regulars look towards the two and pale up (except Fuji) when they spot the pitcher Inui is holding.

Suddenly they start to run for their dear lives (though Fuji didn't seem desperate yet) as Inui starts to correct his information.

"Hmm, their speed increased by 50%", Inui says.

Coach nods, happy to see a big improvement.

"We're ready, Coach", Tezuka says from behind them as he enters the court with a short boy holding a big black tennis bag.

Inui and coach turn towards them. The boy looks to be shorter than Ryoma by a few centimeters and he looks thin and frail but it could just look that way because he is wearing a bulky dark blue jacket and black jogging pants. His rubber shoes are black with a couple of pink highlights here and there. He is wearing a white and red cap with the visor low enough to cover his eyes from being seen by others.

Coach smirks, "Well well well, it has been a while since I've seen you play", she says.

The boy just smirks and holds his visor down as he feels a wind coming his way. Inui seems to be grumbling while writing down something rapidly on his notebook.

"Aaaaaaaah!" a loud cry is heard as the four turn towards where it came from and see the regulars on their final lap desperately trying to be the first to finish (except Fuji of course).

Tezuka was able to deduce that Inui used his juice as a motivation tool again and silently thanked the gods that he wasn't a part of it. Fortunately, all of them finished with a tie, making Inui keep his concoction for another day.

"Alright, line up! Our guest is here!" coach announces, making the panting regulars go back inside the tennis court.

They glance at the short boy who was standing next to Tezuka, and as if noticing that he was being watched, he holds down his visor and lowers his head.

"I'd like to introduce our guest. His name is Kenji", Inui starts off, getting the attention of the regulars, "He will be helping us in assessing your tennis skills and a practice match with each of you will help you get ready for the tournament", he finishes as he glances at Kenji who just nods.

"It's an ochibi number 2 nya!" Eiji says out loud energetically.

"Eiji, that's rude!" Oishi scolds him but Eiji just continues to smile.

"He's shorter than me", Ryoma smirks "Mada mada dane", he says looking smug.

An anger vein appears on Kenji's head but he doesn't do or say anything as he tries to calm down.

"Echizen! That's not nice either", Oishi scolds the freshman then looks at Kenji apologetically.

"Sorry for that, Kenji-kun", he apologizes on behalf of his teammates.

Kenji just smiles slightly and nods, accepting the apology.

"Hmm?" Ryoma wonders out loud as Kenji's smile seemed familiar to him as he stares at him.

Kenji notices and holds down his visor. Ryoma's thoughts get interrupted when Inui blocks his view of Kenji as he steps forward with his notebook in hand. Ryoma lifts up his cap's visor to look up at Inui.

"Kenji has been competing in various tournaments all over Japan for a few months", he says while browsing through his notebook, "And he has never lost so far", he continues then glances at Kenji who nods in confirmation while still holding down the visor.

"Why does he keep holding down his cap? Is he ugly or something?" Momo asks the person beside him without checking to see who it was first.

Unfortunately, Kaidou was the one standing right beside him at the time.

"Oi, don't insult people you don't even know, you moron", Kaidou says with a serious tone.

An anger vein appears on Momo's head as he grabs Kaidou's collar, "I wasn't talking to you viper!" he yells out in anger as Kaidou grabs Momo's collar as well.

"I was the only one beside you dipshit!" Kaidou yells out in anger then they start to growl at each other.

"Enough!" Tezuka commands, making them stop fighting.

Fuji continues to stare at their strange guest who notices and pulls his cap down a bit too much, revealing his hair color for a while. Fuji was able to see it as his eyes open a bit and his smile becomes wider.

"So that's how it is", he softly says to himself but was heard by Eiji.

"What is it Fuji?" Eiji asks with eyes full of curiosity.

Fuji just shakes his head, "Was just talking to myself, Eiji", he says, making Eiji laugh at him and saying that he was weird.

Fuji doesn't say anything but just continues to smile at his friend.

"Each one of you will play two games against Kenji. You will take turns in serving", Tezuka announces then looks at Inui and nods.

"We'll start off with Eiji, then Kaidou, Oishi, Momo, Taka, Fuji, then lastly, Echizen", Inui reads his notebook out loud then glances at Kenji, "You ready?" he asks.

Kenji smiles and nods as he walks towards the far end of the court.

"Let's start!" Coach announces, clapping her hand once.

Eiji goes to the other side of the court and waits for further instructions as Inui gets ready to write and the other regulars stay by the side to watch.

"This is going to be fun", Fuji says as he looks towards Kenji who was stretching.

Well that's it, chapter two! Chapter three will be even longer so I might take a while again but I will make sure I can upload a chapter every week! Thanks for reading! If you have any comments or suggestions, please don't hesitate to let me know; Just type it up in the text box below and click "Post review" and voila! I will respond to them as soon as possible! :3