Author's Note: Everyone, I'm really really sorry for the late update. Even I'm frustrated with myself because of this. I had a study tour last week and homeworks were in my way to write it. I'll update the next chapter as soon as I can :)

To KageHikariYume: Actually, the first time I wrote this story it was 'Seiichi', but I doubt myself so I changed it to 'Seichi'. Though from now on, I'll use 'Seiichi'. Don't worry I realized what Tarundarou means. Thank you for the info anyway :) I'll try my best to improve this story.

To KiTtEn18sMiLe: There's some truth there :D

To ChordOverstreetFan: I just thought that Marui really fit the role, that's why :)

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Prince of Tennis.

CHAPTER 4

Meeting Hyoutei Tennis Regulars

The greenish black haired girl looked around her. There were many people. Too many for her liking. She sighed. 'What am I doing here again? Ah, that's right! That baka Aniki told me to meet Kei-nii in the mall of all places.' She thought dryly. It wasn't that she hated a mall. It was just that she was still sleepy. Around 2 am, she was woken up rudely by her cell phone. When she answered, she could hear her brother's cheery voice on the other line. After some yells and apologies, she calmed down and asked what's so important that he called in the middle of the night. Just imagine how mad Ryoma was when she heard the reason which was to meet the annoying guy who referred to himself as Oresama. That's just stupid! Didn't he know that she was asleep? The result was she couldn't continue to sleep for two hours because she was really angry at her brother.

When she woke up in the morning, it was already 8 am, she immediately got ready. After all, she should meet Keigo at 10 in a mall far away from her house. It was really troublesome. She took a bus to the said mall. However, because of the lack of sleep, she fell into dreamland. When she opened her eyes, the mall had passed so she had to turn back again.

Now, she was standing in front of a grand restaurant which of course only rich people could enter. She should have expected that he would choose the best and most expensive place there was. She took a step inside the restaurant and faced a smiling waiter a few years older than her.

"I'm sorry, Miss, but we are closed for today."

Ryoma raised an eyebrow. She was sure that she came to the right place. She looked around the restaurant, true to the waiter's words. No one was there except for the staff. She frowned.

The manager of the restaurant saw this and came towards them. "Excuse me, but are you Echizen Ryoma?"

Ryoma only nodded and looked up at the older man in front of her.

"I see, please follow me." Without another words, Ryoma followed the older man, leaving the waiter dumbfounded. The waiter had no idea that the guest they had been waiting for was a young girl who looked like a commoner. No, he wasn't thinking about her beauty because she was prettier than any models, but from the clothes that the girl wore were only a simple shirt and a jeans. So it wasn't in his mind that someone like her was the one the heir of Atobe wanted to meet, even went as far as rent the whole restaurant.

Meanwhile, inside one of the VVIP room in the restaurant was the Hyotei High tennis regulars. No one knew what the reason they were there was, except the captain and probably Kabaji . That morning all of them got a call from their buchou to meet up in this expensive restaurant. Since they were used to their buchou's eccentric ways, they didn't question anything.

After an hour inside the room with a buffet on the table, they really wanted to ask him. Why were they there? What's the point of ordering so many food if they weren't going to eat it. In truth, they were really hungry. Because of the sudden call, they rushed to the restaurants without having breakfast. In their mind, they would eat there. But to their despair, they hadn't got any chance to even touch a single food. They could only stare at their buchou who was pacing worriedly. Finally, Yuushi couldn't stand the unusual worried captain, asked what's on the others' mind.

"Just what are we doing here, Atobe?"

"…."

It seemed Atobe Keigo was too distracted that he didn't hear Yuushi talking to him. He kept mumbling to himself, this time a bit louder and could be heard by the others.

"Where is she? She's late! What if something happens to her? What should I do?"

Now they knew that they were waiting for someone, a girl no less. It was a surprise for them. Sure, Atobe had many fangirls, but he was never interested in each of them. So when they heard that it was a girl. They were totally surprised.

Suddenly, the door to their room was opened. Standing there were the restaurant's manager and a very beautiful young girl. The manager excused himself after saying that if they needed anything else, they could press the bell on the corner of the table.

The girl was gorgeous. She had a greenish black hair that reached to her waist and golden like cat eyes. She sighed and looked around the room. Her eyes met Keigo's furious face. She only stared blankly at him. This made him even more furious.

"Where have you been? Don't you know how worried Oresama was? Now explain yourself!" Keigo demanded harshly.

Everyone was stunned. They had never seen Keigo like this. They looked at the girl who caused this mess, only to see her sighed and shrugged like there's nothing wrong. She walked inside the room towards the table. She grabbed a plate and put some of her favorite food on it then she sat on an empty seat, eating her meal. The Hyoutei regulars gaped at her, flabbergasted.

Mukahi Gakuto asked the girl curiously, "Who are you?"

Ryoma looked up from her food and stared at the red-headed. After a while, she continued to eat. Gakuto got angry. Before he could shout at Ryoma for being rude, his buchou went to sit beside her right, followed by Munehiro Kabaji who sat on her left side.

"Now, please explain yourself, Ryoma. Why are you late? You really had us worried." Pleaded Keigo.

"Usu." Followed by Kabaji.

Ryoma sighed and put her now empty plate on the table. 'That's fast!' the others commented in their mind. "Tch. It was because of baka aniki. He called me at 2 am!"

"I don't think that explains everything." Stated Ohtori Choutaro.

"Yeah." Agreed his double partner, Shishido Ryou.

Ryoma glared which made them winced, "I overslept, took the bus, fell asleep, turn around." She shortened the story as if they would understand everything from those words. They sweat dropped.

"I get it. At least call Oresama if you're late." Said Keigo.

'You understand that?'

"Whatever. So who are they, Monkey King?"

Akutagawa Jirou laughed loudly after processing what the girl just called their buchou. Oshitari Yuushi smirked. Wakashi Hiyoshi stared incredulously at the girl. The rest of the team snickered at the nickname, except for Kabaji. Keigo was red from embarrassment and anger.

"How many times have Oresama told you to stop calling me by that inelegant nickname?"

Ryoma only smirked and turned to Kabaji. "Ne, Kabaji-kun, could you get me some cans of Ponta?"

"Usu."

They stopped laughing. They might hear wrong, but did Kabaji who only obeyed Atobe had just obeyed the girl? They were even more curious of the mysterious girl who could withstand Atobe.

"I think it's time you tell us, buchou." the rarely awoken Jirou asked.

Atobe composed himself and said, "Right. This is Echizen Ryoma. Oresama's parents goddaughter. So she could be said Oresama's sister in a way."

"Yoroshiku." Ryoma said as she bowed low.

Their eyes widened in pure shock.

"Eeehh? Seriously, Buchou? You never told us!" said Ryou.

Keigo just shrugged. Right at that time, Kabaji came, bringing five cans of grape Ponta. Ryoma took them from Kabaji happily. "Arigatou, Kabaji-kun."

"Usu."

She drank one of the Ponta then gave a look to Keigo.

"What?" he asked.

She wiped her mouth with her knuckles before she asked for the second time, "So, who are they?"

"They're Oresama's teammates from the tennis club." Keigo introduced each of them, one by one. Ryoma then asked, "Regulars?"

"Of course!" yelled Hiyoshi, offended.

Ryoma raised her eyebrows then shrugged her shoulder. "Kei-nii, why do you want to meet me?"

"Ah, Oresama wanted to check on you. Oresama's parents want to meet you too. Just come over for dinner sometime." Said Keigo.

"Check on me? Why?"

"Despite Ryoga-san's carefree attitude, he's still worried about you, you know."

Ryoma sighed, "I know."

"Who's Ryoga?" asked Gakuto with a fried chicken on his hand. It seemed the others had started eating moments ago.

"My older brother."

Ryoma spent a few hours with the Hyoutei tennis regulars. She had lunch with them while chatting. The regulars knew from their chat that Ryoma played tennis too. She's also a not so talkative girl. She liked Ponta. She would attend Rikkaidai High.

From the restaurant, Keigo dragged Ryoma to a shopping district to buy some clothes. It's not that Ryoma was lacking of clothes. It's because Keigo knew Ryoma had thrown out the dresses, blouses, skirts, etc that she had. She couldn't believe that Keigo did this to her. When she asked him why he did that, he only shrugged. The other Hyoutei students helped in choosing and giving opinion about the clothes. In short, for Ryoma it was torture.

When it was time to go home, Ryoma looked at all the plastic bags in front of her. There were too many. Keigo knew this would happen and already called his driver. Ryoma saw the car, err, limo got closer.

"Be awed at the sight of my prowess!" Keigo exclaimed.

The others only sweat dropped.

After the crazy moment, Keigo, Kabaji, and Ryoma said goodbyes to the others before got into the limo. And soon fell asleep.

Ryoma opened her eyes. She had arrived at her house. She looked at her silver watch, it was 2.25 pm. She would still be able to go to the street tennis court with Bunta. She sighed and got out of the car. Keigo followed her out till they arrived in the front door.

"Then, I'm going now, Ryoma." Said Keigo to her 'sister'.

"Hm. Jaa."

Keigo kissed Ryoma's cheek then ruffled her hair, "Take care of yourself."

Ryoma nodded, looking at the retreating figure of Keigo.

Unknown to the two, a pair of sapphire eyes were watching them intently from afar, clearly not amused by what they had seen.

Edited: May 04, 2013

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