The Princess of Tennis!
(On the way home) (Rika's POV)
"I won, I won!" Rika gloated, walking aside her brother. "I know, that's the 15th time you've said it!" Rika raised a brow "You actually counted?" Ryoma answered with a blank look. "You remember the deal right?" she asked. Ryoma gave a nod "You pick the place" Rika scanned the busy town square, looking to see if she could find a place. "There, let's eat there!" she said excitedly gesturing to a burger place.
Both went in and ordered, Rika making sure to super size everything and they came to their table. "So brief me bro" Rika said through a mouth full of burger. "What are you talking about?" Ryoma asked, slightly irritated at his still cross dressed sister. "Duh, what do you know about the regulars I picked? Not too much I want some kind of surprise!" She said eagerly "Anything in particular?" Rika swallowed another chunk of her burger. "Um, how about…the smiley guy?" she asked. "That's Eiji-sempai, he's not going to be easy" Ryoma warned. "Your confidence in me is over whelming" Rika drawled "You know if this was reversed you would probably be all 'I'm not worried' about it" she sighed. "Hello Ryoma, how are you Riku?" Fuji asked. Rika had to stop herself from screaming "Where did you come from?" She yipped. "No where really, I just came in and decided to say hi when I saw the both of you" Rika looked to see Fuji facing her "You want to sit down?" she offered. "Yes thank you" he took a seat next to Ryoma.
"So Riku" he began catching Rika's attention "Why are you joining the boy's team?" he asked. "Uh, no real reason, I just really like tennis so-" "No, I mean why are you joining the boy's team" he asked again, slightly opening his blue eyes. Rika froze, he knew! Feeling a sense of panic her eyes darted to Ryoma, even he looked a little surprised. "Relax, I won't tell anyone" he smiled "Really? Thank you so much Fuji-sempai!" she said excitedly quickly regaining her male façade. "Don't worry about it, but I'm surprised no one else caught on, especially not the captain" he breathed. "How did you know?" Rika asked, unable to contain her own curiosity. "Wasn't it obvious?" he asked.
"Obvious, it seemed to work on everyone else" Fuji shrugged "This will definitely be interesting, I'll be rooting for you, alright?" he asked. Rika gave a nod "its Rika by the way, my real name" Fuji gave a warm smile "Good luck Rika" he told her leaving the two.
(The next day (towards the end))
"You never told me anything about Eiji-sempai" Rika whined. "Aren't you the one who said you wanted a surprise?" Ryoma asked. Rika smiled "Yeah, you're right" Rika grabbed her racket "Alright, I'll find out for myself" she said excitedly.
(To the tennis courts)
Rika walked up to Eiji "Are you ready?" she asked. Eiji gave a nod "Good luck" "Same to you" With that they walked to opposite sides of the court.
(For future reference I'm not good at describing these things (I'm sorry))
Rika bounced the ball twice before hitting it to Eiji. Eiji easily hit it back on the opposite side of the field. The match escalated when Rika hit the ball just by Eiji's feet, causing it to shoot up above his head and over him. "15 love" Rika announced proudly. "Wow, you're pretty good" "Thanks, you're not half bad yourself" she complimented. "I guess I have to take this seriously huh?" Eiji asked her. Rika gave a nod "Yep". Eiji gave her a smile just before using the 'Kikamaru Beam' barely getting it past Rika.
(Let's skip towards the end (Sorry again, seriously I suck at action scenes))
Rika was leading. Running to the other side of the court and quickly running out of breath. 'I've got to end this already' she thought. Using a twist serve and scoring another point. "Game, set and match, winner Riku" Rika gasped a few times and wiped some sweat off her brow. "Hey, Riku are you alright?" Momo "Who?" she asked "Just how hard did you hit him" Momo asked examining Rika's head. It took Rika a few minutes to figure out what she had done. "Oh, not hard at all!" she exclaimed coming to her feet.
(A few minutes later)
Rika stretched her limbs, looking up at the setting sun. Seeing the captain she couldn't help but run up to him. "Hey Captain" she greeted with a certain challenge in her voice. "What do you want?" Rika smirked "Still think I'm looking for a free pass, are you feeling scared yet?" she asked, excitement edging her voice. Tezuka gave her a look Ryoma would be jealous of. "If that's the best you can do, I'm not impressed" he told her, leaving a silently fuming Rika behind.
(On the way home)
Rika still fumed as she walked next to her brother. "Get over it already" he told her. "I can't just get over it, I can't wait till I get to wipe that smug grin off his face" she hissed. Ryoma raised a brow "You saw him smile?" he asked. Rika thought for a bit "Touché, Now we've got a bigger problem" she sighed. "That would be?" "Sneaking me in, do you really want to help me explain why I'm wearing a boy's uniform?" she asked. Ryoma looked at the door "I'll go in first, you sneak in through the back and somehow get to your room" Rika thought for a bit and smirked. "Thanks" she said running around back.
Rika got to the back of the house, jiggling the handle to discover the door was locked. Huffing she turned her back to the door, looking up she noticed vines that lead up to just by her window. 'Well I've already gone this far' she thought tugging on a vine. Happy to discover it could hold her weight she began to climb up 'As if I wasn't already tired? Why can't things just be easy?' she thought heaving her weight up the wall. Finally getting up to her window, she pushed it open thankfully finding it open. 'Now how am I going to get in?' she wondered swinging one leg onto the ledge and then the other. Taking a deep breath she let go of the vine. She had to stop herself from screaming, and quickly threw herself into her room with a loud 'bump' with not even time to breath she got up, took off the shirt and threw a dress on over her uniform, her parents came in just as she closed the window, followed by Ryoma. "Rika, when did you get here?" Nanjiro asked. "Oh me, you guys didn't hear me come in?" she asked trying her hardest to not seem suspicious. Quickly looking at her brother she continued "Sorry about leaving you back there Ryoma" she continued. "Well dinner will be ready soon" there mother told them leaving with Nanjiro following behind.
Rika fell to the ground "Ryoma" she mumbled earning a 'yes' "I think this whole cross dressing thing may be hazardous to my health"
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If it provides any help I'll try my best never to have to describe a match or do an action sequence again
I should probably say that Rika has French windows (Why? It seemed the easiest to use at the time and I love French windows)
I still haven't decided who to pair Rika up with and instead of dropping people I thought of Rika X Momo instead, but I need to hurry up and pick
That's all I have to say, please review good or bad I like reading them