AUTHORS NOTE: hey! I hope you liked my 2nd chapter just as much I liked writing it, if you have questions about the story, just ask in review thanks!! Thanks for the reviews!! Humble thanks.

P.S. in this story Sakuno isn't a weak girl but a strong and willful one with many talent, you will know some of her talents in this chapter, of course I know she is only human so there is something she's afraid of and can't do, so review comments!!

Chapter 3 the match

Outside the fence, all the regulars were anticipating the match and were talking excitedly to themselves.

"Who do you think will win?" asked Kiri

"Choutarou" Said Shishido and Gakuto.

The rest didn't answer, but they were thinking about the same things Atobe thought about Sakuno that 'she is sweet and shy.' So they inwardly thought that Choutarou would have an easy match against Sakuno, how wrong they are!

The only people who thinks differently is Rika and Atobe, Rika is confident that Sakuno can and will beat Choutarou, while Atobe is eager to find out what Sakuno can do and if what Rika said is true.

"Which?" asked Choutarou

"Smooth" answered Sakuno when the racket that was spinning was about to fall and stop, but it was rough, so Choutarou gets to serve first. The referee announced.

"One set match, Choutarou to serve!!"

Choutarou taught that Sakuno was an easy opponent; he took pity on her and served a normal serve. Sakuno was insulted, but she understood why he did it, because many of her previous opponents did the same thing.

Sakuno showing that she is not someone who should be pitied, she hit the ball and returned it exactly at the white line.

Choutarou didn't have time to react because he was surprised as were all the other clueless regulars.

"Hey Choutarou-senpai, if you don't want to lose, give it your all, have no regret!"

Choutarou saw Sakuno in a new perspective and so he decided to play Sakuno seriously, his next serves were his special serve, the super fast one (sorry don't know the name).

Sakuno at first didn't hit it because she was accustoming herself with the speed of the ball, but when the score was 40-15 Choutarou lead, she readied herself and she hit it back to Choutarou, doubling its speed.

Choutarou was impressed because not many can return his serve, but here is this girl hitting it like it was nothing.

"You might be wondering, Choutarou-senpai why I can hit your fast serves, that is because I already beaten Inui-senpai and his serve is a fast one, it is like your serve but is a little slower, but still I can return it." Explained Sakuno, when she saw Choutarou's impressed reaction.

"40-30" called the referee

"But please forgive my impudence, tennis for me is a win or lose situation, I need to give it my all in every game so that I will not have regret later. Forgive me but I will only allow you to take two to three points at most from me."

Choutarou still continued with his serve but it was no use against Sakuno, but still it ended with 1 game to love, Choutarou taking lead.

It was Sakuno's turn to serve now; everyone was surprised when her serve circled Choutarou then landed at his feet.

"What in the world is that serve? I have never seen it before…" Gakuto said. That serve shocked everyone; even Rika and Atobe, Coach Sakaki just smirked and thought 'we have another tensai in Hyotei'.

"That is my serve called Mystic Dance (sorry if it is a lame name, I can't think of any other names), you can't return that serve because it circles near your body making it hard to return."

Sakuno used that serve repeatedly, so the score ended up 1 game all, the game continued, Sakuno is enjoying herself because it has been a while now, she hasn't played a match.

They rallied when it was Choutarou's service game but when it was Sakuno's service game, it was all no touch ace. The match after 4 games ended up with the score 2-2.

'Why am I having such a hard time with this girl? I didn't expect her to be good, but I am a regular, so why do I get the feeling that this isn't all she's got and it's like she is taking it easy on me...' thought Choutarou.

Sakuno has enjoyed the match so far but she isn't getting excited, so she decided to get a little bit more serious and finish this match.



Choutarou served and was planning on having a long match, so that Sakuno will be tired, Sakuno noticed this and decided to ride along his plan, the game proceeded until it was 4-3 Sakuno lead, Choutarou thought that his plan was about to take effect, when he noticed that while he was sweating and panting, Sakuno is still fresh and still has a lot of energy.

"I must give you credit for thinking of such a good strategy, but I'm afraid Choutarou-senpai that it won't work on me, I have trained with thin air, like Kikumaru-kun so I have a long lasting stamina than normal tennis players have. So I'm sorry but I need to finish this now, I only have ten more minutes to spare for this match, I have some business to attend about 20 minutes from now."

Sakuno turned serious and hit her Mystic dance, repeatedly, so the score was 5-3, but the last game was Choutarou's service game.

'She has guts talking to senpai like that; she thinks she can beat me in less than 10 min. lets us see about that.'

Choutarou served but it was returned easily by Sakuno then to his big surprise the ball that was returned circled his body. All the other regulars too were surprised.

"Mystic dance is not only a serve I can use it in a rally to." Sakuno said smiling.

The match continued and ended less than 10 minutes; Sakuno won everyone was surprised but was glad that there is a person they can try to beat. Sakuno was glad that everyone will not make a mistake again and think of her as a weak player; she was about to go to the bathroom to changed to her uniform, when Coach Sakaki called them to gather.

"Everyone, good matches! The remaining two rounds will be later this afternoon and tomorrow morning, be prepared! That is all, dismissed!"

"Hai!"

Everyone went to the bathroom to changed, it was a good thing Hyotei's bathroom was large or else, there would have been a line and Sakuno will be late with her appointment.

When she was done changing her clothes, she hurriedly went to her first class.

(People that is reading this, Hyotei in this story is a school where you can choose your other subject but English, math, and science is a must, but the other subjects are like clubs as well there are regulars and competition, all batch are going to meet in a subject, so Sakuno can have meet the tennis regular in one of her chosen subjects, if you are confused and you have question feel free to ask me in a review, thank you for the understanding. P.s. for a student there are only 6 subjects, so let us see what our dear Sakuno has chosen for her other subjects. Per subject is one hour.)



Atobe saw her hurrying of to go to somewhere so he decided to follow her, he is done changing and he has no first period because he doesn't like to have one their principal has already given Atobe his approval.

'Where is she running of to? Classes starts 10 am, there is still about 30 minutes left…' Atobe wondered.

Sakuno was really running now, because she can't be late on her first day in her 3 other subjects that she has chosen, yesterday, was the day she transferred in Hyotei and yesterday was everyone's first day back at school, so the subjects; English, math and science were 2 hours each because it is more important and the two hours were used for introduction and stuff.

Fortunately Sakuno arrived just on time, the door was open so she entered and didn't closed the door, there were 3 people inside, the classroom was huge really huge, it's like a stadium, Sakuno really wondered if this is really a classroom.

Atobe had a hard time following Sakuno discreetly because of his many fans that were screaming his name every turn, it was a good thing that Sakuno was in such a hurry that she didn't much mind her surrounding people.

Atobe was surprised to see that this was the class that Sakuno was hurrying of too, but he was curious as to the reason, so when Sakuno entered he waited about 3 minutes before entering and sitting in a far corner.

"Hello! You must be Ryuzaki Sakuno, I am Kyouraku Hikari and I am the captain of this club or subject whatever you call it, these two people here are Takeda and Nao, Takeda is our vice captain and Nao is my best friend, I believe that you have been informed to bring a music arrangement for your tryout?"

"Yes"-answered Sakuno

"I'll explain something to you, here in our Ice Skating club, we have three classifications or you can also call it groups, the 1st group are those who are talented and has good skills. There are only 5 members, myself, Nao, Takeda, Kisuke, Kite we are all 3rd yr in this group. The 2nd group are those that are average level, there are 30 members in that group, and the 3rd and last group are those beginners, there are 20 members in it mostly your batch. We need to see you skate because we are the ones that will put you in your group, so give me your c.d. and go change to your outfit." Explained Hikari-senpai.

Sakuno gave Hikari the c.d. for her music arrangement then she headed for the changing rooms, when she was done changing she headed to the rink. Sakuno was wearing a velvet green, v-neck dress, the sleeves were long and vertical ended, the skirt was above the knee length, and her skates were pure white, the outfit really suited Sakuno, It enhance all her good qualities, like her brown eyes and her reddish-brown her that was let loose around her shoulder.

Atobe was struck by how stunning Sakuno looks, yes, she was pretty when wearing her tennis shirt and shorts and also her Hyotei uniform, but this outfit was really made for her, she was absolutely beautiful.

"Are you ready?" asked Nao

Sakuno positioned herself in the middle of the rink and struck a pose, she gave a nod and it started, the first song was the Beauty and the Beast, Sakuno skated around the rink in a elegant, flowing manner, it was enchanting to watch her, it's like she isn't aware of her surrounding and is skating while feeling the song, she did a few jumps and twirls, the next song is Come to me, it was faster than the first one and a lot livelier, so she began to pick up speed then skipped 5 times continuously, then skated backwards while her upper body was dancing, the last song was a composition that has no lyrics and it was made by Sakuno.

She did all her moves in this song, when she ended with a graceful bow; there was silence then everyone there, Hikari, Nao, and Takeda and all the other members that has arrived clapped loudly, her performance was spectacular.

Atobe was really and totally impressed, but he didn't clapped instead he was thinking, Sakuno was a very interesting person to know, he will make sure to get close to her.

"Ryuzaki Sakuno that was wonderful, did you ever compete?" asked Hikari-senpai.

"Yes I have competed but didn't join any club, I am always flying solo, I was known as the Green Dragonfly," answered Sakuno shyly.

"You are the girl that won those tournaments!! Why didn't you say so, if we had known then you wouldn't need to have this test, well anyway it has already been done so I will now announce your respective group." Hikari-senpai paused then looked to all the other members of her 1st group, they all nodded.

"We have decided that you are to be placed in the 1st group with us." Hikari-senpai said to Sakuno while smiling.

All the people there were impressed because, Sakuno a 1st year has been placed in the 1st group, but they thought it was only appropriate because of her skill.

Many people went to Sakuno to congratulate her; Atobe was smiling to himself while making an escape. 'I'll tell Yuushi later about this and maybe Rika too…' he thought.

What Atobe didn't know is that Sakuno already noticed his presence when she finished skating. But she was wondering why Atobe was there. She decided to forget about it and just thought that Atobe just has business here.



When the classes was about to start everyone there went to the changing rooms to change to their skating outfit the only ones left there are the members of the first group including Sakuno.

"Hello Sakuno! I am Kite, I am one of the members in the 1st group, and you are so Kawaii!! And you are a really really good skater!! I want to introduce you to the members, come!" said kite enthusiastically.

"Sakuno, this one here is Hikari as you already know, the one by her side is Takeda," he then whispered "they are a couple you see." He introduced smiling widely.

Then Kite suddenly went to a girl who was listening to something in her ipod, he suddenly put his two hands in front of the girl's eyes, the girl then asked shyly.

"Kite what are you doing?"

"Why I am introducing Sakuno to everyone, and I want her to know my sweet sweet Nao." When Nao was about to say something back, Kite quickly placed a small kiss on her lips, which caused Sakuno and Nao to blush, Sakuno because she thought she shouldn't have seen that, and Nao because she thought it was inappropriate.

Kite then hurriedly grabbed Sakuno's hand and pulled her toward a tall guy with a serious face on, she was quite intimidated but decided that she should make friends.

"Hey poker face!! I will introduce Sakuno to you so you better smile, got it?"

"Sakuno this guy here is Kisuke, he is a very kill joy type of guy, you might be paired up with him in skating partners because he is the only one who doesn't have a partner and the only single in our group, so be good friends. Tell me if this guy does anything to you, and don't be scared of him he is really a teddy bear even if he looks like that." He said to Sakuno then he began walking away from the two.

"Kisuke-senpai uhm…I need to go somewhere please excuse me…" Sakuno said then run off to the girl's changing room.

Kisuke looked to where Sakuno run off to and decided to follow her.

Sakuno was running and ended up sitting in a bench outside the changing rooms, she then brought out the phone that her neechan gave her and she decided to give some of her Seigaku friends a call (P.S. they gave their number to Sakuno just in case) she then decided to give Tezuka a call.

Riiing riiing!!

"Hello? Who is this?"



"Mitsu-kun I missed you!!" Sakuno said while smiling.

"Sakuno! How are you? Everyone here missed you."

"I am fine; I have beaten Choutarou-senpai, by the way… Mitsu-kun do you think I made the right decision, by obeying my parents wishes and transferred here?"

"Well, are you happy there? If you are then yes."

"Oh… ok well my first class is starting, call you next time, say hi to everyone for me."

"Wait Sakuno, don't forget about our Friday meetings with Fuji, ok?"

"Haii, of course I will not forget, anyway ja'ne!" Sakuno then hung up, but then she noticed Kisuke staring at her.

"Hello, Kisuke-senpai, why are you there?" asked Sakuno.

"I followed you because I was wondering why you ran away, but you know Sakuno I think you made the right decision transferring here." he said then he gave Sakuno a rare smile.

"You heard that? You were listening?"

He didn't answer the questions instead he said, "You can call me Kisuke-kun or Kisuke."

Sakuno then realized that this guy is not scary at all, he is quite friendly, and he is just like Mitsu-kun.

"Haii! Kisuke-kun, let's go to the rink the class is about to start."

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-Have any pairings in mind?? well I do… it might be revealed in the 5th or 6th chapter, hope you liked this chapter!!