Life is Full of Surprises
Chapter 11: Joining The Boys' Tennis Club!
It was a brilliant morning in Seishun Gakuen. Rays were sending down their warmth to the green earth. Birds still chirping away and took off in the wide clear blue sky. Students in the classes were going in and out when the speaker said:
"Okay, Students! Time for your clubs and games, Now! Please change into your proper attire to participate. If not you're going straight to the principle office!"
I think that's the reason they rushed here and there getting ready before the prefects came to check. Now back to the story…
"Ryo-Nii-san, could you explain why they're rushing like mad ants on the burning wok." said Ryona, packing away her school bag, and took out her tennis racket and her clothes bag.
Ryoma sighs. Shaking his head, thinking that's a bad idea to let her in the Boys' Tennis Club, but he still keep that in mind and replied bluntly.
"Nah, I think is just they're terrified of the principle. Che… Mada mada dane."
"Could you tell me more about your school principle? Ryo-Nii-san." Ryona asked him again, making Ryoma a little bit shocked shown on his face.
"You never meet the principle?! RYONA!! I thought you met her on your first day?!"
Ryona shifts her bag onto her shoulder, holding the tennis racket, "Answer is N.O. I didn't really meet actually. I just ended up filling up the registration, taking the schedule and been brought to your class. That's all."
'Oh God…' Ryoma slapped his fore head. 'What did you do to my sister, stupid Ojii-san?!'
"Are you going to tell me? Ryoma?"
-no response-
Ryona pondered some explanation, but when she turned back…
Ryoma was nowhere in sight.
"… RYOMA ECHIZEN!!!!!!!!!"
"Shoot … I am so dead when she gets me for payback." he grumbled, running towards the tennis courts direction.
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Around the tennis courts…
"OKAY, PEOPLE! Gather around!" Ryuzaki-sensei barked, crossing her hands over her chest. Tezuka stands besides her and Oishi stands on the other hand. The old-lady announced.
"Team members! We have a newcomer. Please be nice and respect, because the newcomer is a girl."
"EEHHH??!!"
"Yup. It is a SHE. She will now introduce herself." Ryuzaki-sensei stepped aside, but no one came up to the stage. A breeze blown across in silence; still no sign of the newcomer.
"Umm… Sensei, where is she? Nya~?" Eiji rose up his hand, and questioned.
"Hmm… That's strange, I thought Ryoma-kun would bring her here…" she said. Thinking that both of them wouldn't be late for practices, if they got lost; but Ryoma wouldn't get lost. He studied here for years! How could he possibly get lost?!
Momoshiro slanted his head onto the right side, he saw two small figures running, and a smile came across his face. He knows who it is. He shouted out to the crowd…
"HEY!! I think Ryoma is here!! And the newcomer!! I guess…"
Everybody soon turned their heads, craning their necks to take a good look. They saw Ryoma wearing his usual regular's uniform; but a girl chasing behind him was wearing a red collar Polo T-shirt with red sleeves and a dark blue shorts to it. She also wore a white hand band on each wrist. But the weird thing is… she didn't put her shoulder-length hair into a ponytail nor wear a head band or a cap.
A few meters away they could hear them shouting in English very loud (Which they don't understand…). And Ryoma was like running away from the girl; while she's like preying on him!
"Ryoma!! Where are we going?!"
"SHUT UP!! NONE OF YOUR BUISNESS!!"
"Will you stop shutting me up!! Since you disappear from my sight and now you're going to answer me!!"
"You'll See!! I Promise!! Just stop chasing me! Is creeping me out!!!"
"FINE!! Then Stop Running Away Like A Coward!!"
"OKAY!! OKAY!! YOU WIN!!!"
Both of them soon halted in front of the stage. Ryona looked around, seeing a lot of boys starring at her really hard. That makes her very uncomfortable but she still asked Ryuzaki-sensei politely, ignoring Tezuka's presence and his shocked eyes.
"Eto… Ryuzaki-sensei, why you guys are gathering here? I thought there are clubs and games now?"
Her question let all of the team members felled comically, except for Ryoma, rubbing his forehead and sighed. 'Is she the newcomer?!' all of them thought the same thing.
Ryuzaki-sensei, who is now getting up, tidying her clothes and hair from the floor, welcomed Ryona in open hands.
"Ryona… now is the time of clubs and games. And now you're here, is the Boys' Tennis Club. Please introduce yourself to them."
The old lady led Ryona up stage. Ryona cleared her throat and bow in a polite way, and introduced her identity. Now this time is the whole club was shocked including the regulars, except for Tezuka-buchou.
"RYOMA'S TWIN SISTER?!"
"Nya~ I didn't know that Ochibi-chan has a cute twin like him." Eiji stated, earning a glare from the Twins. "Yeeep!!"
Ryuzaki-sensei ordered the freshmen and 2nd years to go back to their own training while let the regulars stay. Tezuka walked towards Ryona and gave her a warning look.
"Don't get too excited when you're under me."
"Yare, yare… Even the buchou is getting serious now. Hehe… isn't it?"
Twitched. "You're so not going to survive, I tell you. Even though you are a girl."
"Oh my, buchou is angry now. What makes you say that? Hmm? I'm still alive, you know." Ryona shot him a 'speak-for-yourself-first!' glare.
Her words and her glare brought some arrows and shoot him into his head and his heart. Now he could feel the heat going to his ears. 'Kami-sama, why do you let me to meet this kind of girl?!Have I done anything wrong to you?' Tezuka begged.
Ryona standing in front of him, seems to read his mind, she began to insult Tezuka again.
"Te-zu-ka-bu-cho-u, I didn't know that you also beg to god and asked what you have done. I thought you settle thing by yourself isn't it?" she smiled slyly.
"Now you really make me angry, Ry-o-na." Tezuka stepped two steps towards her and Ryona also did the same thing. Their bodies were now a few inches away from each other and their faces were barely a few centimeters away! They could even feel each others' breath flowing out from their nose. But they didn't care. They kept staring into each other, zapping electric in between. Murdering aura also emerging from them, made the air tense up.
The rest of the regulars sweat dropped, even Oishi couldn't resist the tense air. He soon rushed down from the stage, so does the old lady coach. Everyone was scared, seeing Ryona and Tezuka arguing, while they patiently wait, not wanting to stop them.
"T-this is th-the first t-time I-I saw Tezuka ar-arguing w-with a g-girl." Oishi stuttered. All the regulars nodded in agreement.
"Y-yeah, and I didn't knew ochibi-chan's sister is soo scary. Nya!" Eiji said, clinging onto his best friends shoulder. "Ochibi! Is she always like this?!"
Ryoma pulled down his cap, and said. "For your information, she could get scarier than Tezuka-buchou. So far I recalled back." Everyone couldn't say a word, after hearing what did Ryoma says. But Fuji thinks it was interesting, so he asked, still plastering his cunning smile.
"Saa… Ryoma-kun, could you tell me more about your sister?"
"Che… Mada Mada Dane. Fuji-sempai, why don't you find by yourself? I thought you're a tensai." Ryoma stand in a cool way, but worried about his half-twin.
Momoshiro was impressed by the way Ryoma speaks, "Sugoi, Ryoma. You could talk like your twin!"
"fsshhh… Baka."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY MAMUSHI??!!"
"I SAID BAKA!! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!!"
"WHY YOU!!!"
"BRING IT ON!!'
The endless fight began in the crowd, but most of them kept concentrating Tezuka and Ryona, hoping they won't fight. Because Tezuka, never, EVER, Fought With A Girl, BEFORE!!
"Okay I had enough of it!! Everyone, run thirty laps and do some warm ups!" Tezuka said, turning away from Ryona. "Will start practicing with the newcomer to test her skills!"
"HAI!!" They all chorused together and run laps.
Ryona, who is now also tired playing the stare game with electric zapping through, she also starts to run laps, which ended up following with the regulars in same speed. Tezuka, at the back of the group, looking Ryona's back, thinking 'I guess she's not bad after all.' A smile came across his face.
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After fifteen minutes later…
Most of the regulars didn't pant nor gasping for air. They've been training for months now they're used to it. Ryona, which is a surprising result, she's not like others, whom breathe heavily nor sitting down sweating! This really gave a shock…
"Wow, she can stand and breathe normally; now this is impressing, isn't it? Tezuka, Oishi?" said Ryuzaki-sensei.
"Yea… mostly we kept wheezing and panting for the first time putting weights on our ankles, but even thought she didn't put on she can still run normally with no sweat!" said Oishi, rubbing his chin, "Tezuka, how about you?"
"Hn. Let's get on to the point." He walks to Ryona and said, "Ryona, if you want to join you have to take two tasks, in other words, you have to play two different opponents to show your skills. Got it?"
"Yup. Got it, buchou!" she gave him a brightest smile she could muster; Tezuka's checks became a little bit pink. But he continued, anyway.
"Ahem… Now your first match is to play against—"
"Kikumaru Eiji, ne?" Ryona suddenly cut in, pointing to the red-headed guy.
"Hoi?"
"Yes, apparently. How did you—"
His sentence had been cut off again by Ryona. "How did I know? Well, is easy, I predicted it. Haha…"
"Never mind, just take the last court and play. KIKUMARU!! Take your racket and play with the newcomer! At the last court! NOW!!"
"Hoi! Hoi!" Eiji shouted, jumping up and down, saying in a sing song tone, "Yea!! Playing with Ochibi's imoto-chan!"
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In the last court…
Two players soon take their places. Regulars gather around the court watching. The first task has begun…
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AUTHER: Hi readers! Thanks for reading the previous chapters from one to ten. WOW!! This is really fun! Now Ryona is playing against Kikumaru Eiji, the acrobatic cheerful teenage cat! Please looked forward!