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Chapter 4

Ryoma rolled over and slapped his loud alarm clock off. He sat up and yawned, stretched and rubbed his chest. He got up and trudged out of the bedroom and into the kitchen. He opened up the refridgerator, expecting to find something good to eat, but only found it to be empty.

He sighed and looked at the clock on the wall and then went and got dressed. He grabbed his back pack and his identification.

When he walked over to the table, the brochure caught his attention. He stared at it for a long moment before picking it up and shoving it into his pocket. He cut off all the lights and then turned and walked out of his apartment and locked up.

Ryoma looked at the sky, it was slightly cloudy. He figured there might be some rain later on today. He sighed and rubbed his scar, that was hidden in his long pants. He didn't wear shorts in public, only when he was alone.

The day was going to be long, this much he could tell. He walked down the street and into town. He wasn't to hungry, so he decided not to stop for breakfast, but instead got a small chocolate milk carton and drunk it.

Ryoma walked down the street to the University. He looked at all the people walking inside, it sort of reminded him of high school in away. He finished up his highschool in America. He had spent one year of high school here in Japan with the others, but left to start working on his career.

He walked forward and headed into the sports department building wearing his hat and a fake pair of glasses, they were just simple cosplay glasses that had fake lenses, so he could see perfectly fine.

As he was walking down the hall, someone tugged softly on one of his sleeves. He turned and looked down to see the same blushing girl from yesterday.

"Who are you?" he mumbled.

Sakuno frowned and laughed nervously. "Don't you remember me Ryou-san, we met yesterday, you know, you helped me buy a drink." she said.

Ryoma blinked and looked at her in confusion. "I don't remember." he mumbled and turned and walked inside of the classroom.

There was about fifteen to twenty people in there, he could tell not to many were interested in coaching.

Sakuno sighed and followed Ryoma inside the classroom. "Geez, you sure have a bad memory, you could at least remember my name." she said and sighed.

Ryoma shrugged. "I can't help what I don't remember." he said and went and sat down at one of the desks in the back. He sighed and put his elbow on the table and then propped his head on it.

Sakuno hesitated before pushing herself forward and into the seat beside Ryoma. "Can I sit here?" she asked blushing.

Ryoma nodded. "Whatever." he said.

Sakuno smiled and then took out her achievement card and placed it on the desk. "Ryou-san, you have to take out your achievment card, the instructor will come by and stamp the two sports you will be practice coaching for this week." she said.

Ryoma blinked. "Ah." he said and pulled out the card they gave him when he dropped by yesterday. He sat it out on the table and sighed, waiting on the class to start.

The instructor finally walked in a few minutes later, right after two more students did.

Ryoma sighed at his bad luck, it was Tezuka and Oishi. He then remembered from back when they were in highschool that the two of them wanted to conitnue playing tennis and coach tennis. He also heard that the two of them were a couple. He sighed and tilted his hat down as they walked to the back and sat across the aisle of him and Sakuno.

Sakuno waved over to them. "Good morning, Tezuka-sempai, Oishi-sempai. How did morning practice go?" she asked them.

Oishi smiled. "It was great, thanks." he said. "And how are you?" he asked her.

Sakuno smiled. "I'm great." she said.

Tezuka nodded at her in answer and then turned to face to front when the instructor started speaking.

"Good morning everyone, hope you all have done morning practice well. " the instructor said.

Ryoma looked to the front and listened in to what the instructor said.

"Alright first of, we have a transfer student, let's all welcome Ryou and show him how things work around the class." the instructor said and then looked down at his plans and cleared his throat. "Alright I am coming around with the stamps so have your cards out." he said.

Ryoma pulled his cap down at the mention of his name. He wasn't really into attention, he never really had been in his life. He liked his own silent pace.

Sakuno talked with Oishi and held her card up to the instructor as he went by and smiled and then turned to Ryoma who was looking at his card.

"Ryou-san, what two sports are you in charge of today?" she asked.

Ryoma sighed and looked down at his card. "Soccer and Basketball. One indoor, one outdoor." he mumbled and stood up and began to leave the classroom like the others were.

Sakuno got up quickly. "Aw man~!" she sighed. "I was hoping to have the same sports as Ryou-san today." she mumbled.

Oishi stood up and laughed and patted Sakuno on the head. "It looks like you've fallen for our transfer student." he laughed.

Sakuno blushed. "No, it's not like that!" she protested and blushed.

Oishi laughed and Tezuka watched as Ryou left the room. "Oishi, I'm going ahead." he said.

Oishi turned to Tezuka with soft eyes. "Alright, see you later." he said and watched him leave and looked at Sakuno's card. "Hey we have the same sports today, badmitton and volleyball, want to walk together?" he asked.

Sakuno sighed and smiled. "Sure, sempai." she said and they left to.

Meanwhile Ryoma was already approaching the gymnasium. He walked in and the basketball coach blew his whistle and told the team to line up for the practice coaches.

Ryoma walked up to the instructor and gave him the card and the coach punched a hole in it along with Tezuka's. He glanced at Tezuka who glanced at him and then to the basketball team.

"These two are you trainee coaches for this week, this is Ryou, and Tezuka. You will call them by their names followed by sensei, as you do mine." the coach said.

The basketball team rolled their eyes but nodded. "Let's hope these two actually have common sense on basketball." the captain of the basketball team said.

Ryoma put his hands in his pockets and sighed.

The coach turned to them. "Well I will get them warmed up while you two go change into some sport appropriate clothing. There are some clothes in the storage that are all sizes, find ones that are your size and hurry out.

Tezuka nodded. "Thank you, Sensei." he said and turned and walked down the hall and to the storage. He opened the door and walked in with Ryoma shortly after.

Tezuka went over to a box and pulled out a simple white gym shirt and then chose a pair of the gym shorts.

Ryoma approached the box and grabbed one of the white shirts in his size to and then dug to the bottom and pulled out a pair of gym pants.

Tezuka looked at Ryoma. "Not a fan of shorts?" he asked as he removed his clothes and put the others on.

Ryoma looked at him and then turned and walked out. "No." he muttered and walked down to the bathroom to change. He put on the clothes and glanced at his scar and then sighed and went and put his clothes in one of the lockers.

Tezuka ponder why Ryoma didn't change in there with him, he assumed he was shy. He shrugged and put his clothes in a locker as Ryoma did.

Ryoma turned and walked out and sighed and walked back to the gym. He stood beside the coach and Tezuka as the team was called back into line up.

"Alright, take over guys." the coach said and went and sat down and was talking with the girl's basketball team coach.

Ryoma sighed and looked at Tezuka. "Which do you want, girl team or guys?" he mumbled.

Tezuka looked down at Ryoma. "Either one, it doesn't matter." he said.

Ryoma looked up at him. "That sure helps a lot, I got the girl's team, I think you'll be to hard on them." he said with a smirk and turned and headed to the girls team. He approached them and they looked at him and whispered among themselves and giggled and lined up.

Ryoma cleared his throat a little and looked down at his clipboard. "To start, run five laps around the gym, then light jog five." he said.

The girls groaned and whined. "No fun." they mumbled and took of to their first assignment.

Tezuka looked at Ryoma from the boy's side of the gym. 'He said I would be to rough...he seems familiar.' he thought. He shook his head and turned to the boy's basketball team.

"Well start with stretches." he said. "Pair up and stretch." he said and wrote on the clipboard.

Ryoma sighed when the girls finished running. He then went over to the rack and got a basketball off and tossed it to the leader. "I want the five regulars to pair up with five of the normal players and play a ten minute match, if I think you are no good, I will pull you from the game and I will substitute you and give the person I pulled a training menu to go by." he said.

The girls sighed and then put on different jerseys, one side yellow, the other red. Ryoma blew his whistle and he threw the ball up in the air and watches as the girls played.

Ryoma walked around as they played and he notcied that in general, most of the players were in good form, expecially the regulars. He looked to the other team, they were doing well as well. But there was one girl who was tripping over her own feet. He held his hand up and blew his whistle.

"Girl with the weird ponytail, your out. You there, with the blue shoes, substitute in." he said. He watched as the girl with the ponytail girl left the match and the other one went in.

Ryoma walked over to the girl and crossed his arms and looked at her. "What is your name?" he asked, more in a mumble.

The girl sighed and looked at him. "Chiharu, Ichimura Chiharu." she said.

Ryoma nodded and wrote down that she was pulled out during the match. "Alright, here go by this training menu that I have prepared by watching your play." he said.

Chiharu looked at him like he was crazy. "It is impossible to create a training menu in the six minutes I've played!" she protested and crossed her arms.

Ryoma turned and looked at her and pointed to the paper. "Just do it." he said and turned back to the game.

Chiharu groaned and turned and stormed off to the bleachers with the menu balled up in her hands. She sat down and sighed. She eyed the paper and then sighed and opened it back up.

She looked over it's contents and she blinked in confusion and shock. It was a perfect training menu, and at there bottom there was some handwriting that was really pretty. She read it and blinked again and laughed to herself. The writing told her that she needed to get her wrist checked out. She had twisted her wrist at a private practice a week ago, she hadn't told anyone, so how could he have known!

Chiharu looked at Ryoma who was watching the match, carefully scanning with his eyes. She shook her head and sighed and smiled. 'He is something else...Haha, he is interesting.' she thought.

Ryoma sighed and blew the whistle and the match ended. He called the girls into a semi-circle around him on the floor and told them to sit.

The girls filed over along with Chiharu. They sat down and huffed.

Ryoma looked down at his clipboard and sighed. "I'm only going to say this once so pay attention, I hate repeating myself." he said.

The girls leaned forward a little to listen.

Ryoma took a deep breath and exhaled.

"Regulars, you are doing alright so far, but you all are lacking the appropriate staimina and strength. I think it's because you don't push yourself enough in practice. I have prepared a training menu for this week, I expect to see changes by the time Saturday comes around." he said.

He took another breath and looked back down at his clipboard at what he wrote down.

"As for the normal players, you all lack stamina and leg power. You looked like scared of the ball, you are supposed to run to get the ball, not from it. I would suggest you get it together and don't be afriad to break a nail." he said.

The girls looked at him baffled.

Ryoma returned there looks with a expressionless one. "Got it?" he asked.

The girls whined and nodded. "Yes, Ryou-sensei." they said together.

Ryoma nodded. "Good, here are your training menu's, if I don't see any improvment I will put a word in for the coach that this school needs new regulars." he said looking at the regulars.

The girls sighed and got up. "Now what do we do?" they asked him.

Ryoma looked down at his clipboard again. He then went over to a box and pulled out some ankle weights. "These will help improve your movement speeds and your stamina. Put these around your ankles and get ready for another ten minute match." he said.

The girls sighed and put on the ankle weights and looked at Ryoma. "You can hardly feel them."one of the regulars said.

Ryoma nodded. "Now I want the same teaming I had earlier."he said.

Chiharu sighed and went back and sat on the bleachers.

Ryoma blew his whislte and tossed the ball once more. He then walked over to Chiharu.

"What are you doing sitting, come on you are practicing as well." he said.

Chiharu looked up. "I can't, there isn't any more room on the teams." she mumbled.

Ryoma sighed and sat down his clipboard on the bleacher and took off his watch and his necklace and sat it down on his clipboard and removed his wallet from his pants.

"Your practice partner is me, now come on." he mumbled.

Chiharu blinked and got up and followed Ryoma to a floor basketball goal and watched as Ryoma picked up a ball.

"Get ready." he muttered and tossed her the ball. "Ladies first." he said and got into position to play, his knees slightly bent and his arms open and ready to try to steal the ball.

Chiharu sighed and shrugged and bet her knee's as well and began to dribble. She travled while dribbling and ran towards the goal.

Ryoma smirked. "To slow." he said and ran to her and snatched the ball perfectly before it connected with her hands again. He dribbled as he travled up the mini court quickly and jumped up and landed a basket. He caught his rebound and then dribbled it and rested a hand on his hip and looked at her.

"You have got to better than that." he said and passed the ball to her. "Your ball." he said.

Chiharu recovered quickly and ran forward dribbling. "Not this time!" she said and dribbled up to him.

Ryoma defended perfectly, not once letting her past him. He got his hands ready to steal the ball.

Chiharu tried to fake him to the left, but failed and he once again took the ball and took it to his side of the court and got another basket.

After the ten minutes were up, the girls team were huffing and sitting on there bottoms. Ryoma called time and sighed and looked at the team.

Chiharu huffed, the weights tired her down greatly. "No fair~ you weren't wearing any weights." she groaned and fell back on her bottom and panted.

Ryoma bent over and pulled up his pants leg a little. There were two sets of weights on them.

Chiharu looked at them and fell back on her back and groaned. "Your not human." she groaned.

Ryoma sighed and went back to the bleachers and he put his watch and stop watch back on and picked up his clipboard.

"Alright gather around." he called. He didn't even look the slightest bit tired.

The girls got up and walked over to him after removing the weights and sighed.

"That is all for practice today, go get changed and you can leave, I will see you the day after tomorrow. I hope to see improvment." he said and turned and headed over to the other two coaches who were watching in silence.

"I've finished with the girls for today." he said handing over the clipboard. "There is what I gathered and the training menu for them." he said. "I have specially modified Chiharu's due to her injury." he said and bowed and walked off.

The coaches smiled and chuckled. "Reminds me of our youth." the woman said, the man nodded as well and laughed.

Meanwhile Tezuka had just finished up as well. He prepared training menu's for his team and then turned in what he gathered to the coaches and took his leave to.

Ryoma walked into the locker room and looked around. There was nobody in there at the time, so he decided to change.

He took off his shirt and put his on and then untied the strings on the jogging pants and pulled them down. He then put one leg inside of his pants.

Tezuka sighed and walked into the locker room and stopped at the doorway and quickly hid himself from view.

Ryoma's back was turned to him, so he didn't know he was there.

Tezuka peeked around the corner as Ryoma was changing. He looked at the muscles in his legs, and his eyes stopped on one of the legs. He stared at the dark read scar that tore down Ryoma's leg from his knee to his ankle. He then shook his head and waited for Ryoma to finish.

Ryoma finished up changing and then sighed and grabbed his bag and card and turned to leave. He left the locker room, not noticing Tezuka was there, because he had hid behind the corner.

He sighed and walked down the hall to go grab some lunch.

Tezuka watched him leave and then went into the locker room and got dressed in deep thought. "It makes you wonder." he muttered and then headed to meet up with Oishi and the rest of the tennis team to practice.

A/N: Well that is it for this chapter :D I hope you've enjoyed it :DDDDD In the next chapter Ryoma decides to go to rehabilitation, just to try it. While there, he bumps into Tezuka, who goes to the rehabilitation center just to help out for a part time job, since he himself had to go through rehabilitation. :D Will he discover Ryou's real identity? Find out in the next chapter :DDDD PLEASE REVIEW, TY