I APOLOGIZE FOR THE LATE UPDATE. I HOPE YOU WILL LOVE THIS CHAPTER.
I DO NOT OWN THE PRINCE OF TENNIS.
CHAPTER 6
The door bell rang at the Ryuuzaki's residence, everyone had gathered at the house once they learned about the sudden disappearance of Sakuno. Sumire walked towards the doors hoping it would be her granddaughter. Once she swung the door open, her eyes widen at the presence of not other than the prince of tennis. Ryoma Echizen looked as if he hasn't slept in days, there are bags already forming under his eyes, his usual bright, fierce, and yellowish eyes, looked dull and flat. "Ryoma? What are you doing here child? You have important matches coming up" Sumire couldn't help to scold him after all she used to be his coach, but she smiled warmly.
"Forget that. Tell me what happened to Sakuno" Ryoma answered, he would always look care free about a lot of things. He hated showing any type of emotions, but all of that changed when it had to do with a certain pig tailed girl. Sumire shook her head "Come on in, I'll get you something to drink and eat you look like hell" Ryoma sighed anger building up "Coach there is no time for that. I'm not one bit hungry." he couldn't hide the irritation in his voice.
"Echizen" Ryoma turned towards that demanding voice he knew so well. He couldn't help but glare towards the person, he didn't care at the moment how rude he was being towards his coach or his captain. Nonetheless though, Ryoma waited for Tezuka to utter out his words.
"I know you must be irritated, but know you aren't the only one having a hard time here." Tezuka scolded, crossing his arms across his chest.
"Yeah Ochibi. We are all worried about Sakuno-chan" Eiji who's usually the cheerful one sounded like he needed a new battery replacement.
"Yeah Echizen we were in the middle of planning a search party in groups" Oishi commented. Ryoma looked towards the people that were there at the moment. It was his tennis senpais and he also saw the trio, then his eyes looked for the loud mouthed girl. Tomoka Osakada was sitting down quietly, which surprised the tennis prodigy a little. Her face looked like she had cried quite a bit. This was what Tezuka meant when he said he wasn't the only one having a hard time. Ryoma grinned his teeth together, he couldn't wait any longer. He sat on the nearest sofa, throwing his bag on the floor and with irritation he brought his arms resting on his knees while he ran his hands over his hair in frustration.
Everyone stared at the boy with surprised eyes and concern, he never let his cool act fall down like this before, and this worried everyone. Sumire came back from the kitchen with some tea and a few snacks, she put Ryoma's mug right in front of him on the coffee table. He looked through his bangs at the steam coming from the cup, thinking hard.
"Ryoma" Sumire called out to him, moving his stare from the cup to his old sensei "No one has any idea where or why she left. We have tried looking for any clues but we have found nothing or any type of explanation" Ryoma was more irritated now, tightening his knuckles until they turned white, he couldn't wait anymore. He got up and walked towards the door, putting on his shoes.
"Echizen! Where do you think you're going?" Momoshiro questioned even though he had the idea of where he might me going
"To look for her what else." Ryoma responded dry and cold
"I'll-"
"I'm going alone" Ryoma interrupted Momo before he could finish offering his company. At that Ryoma opened the door and was on his way to find her no matter what.
Hokkaido, Japan
Sakuno had arrived to Hokkaido finally, the town looked quite peaceful and beautiful in her eyes. She used to come here often when she was little, when her parents were alive. She smiled, but then exhaustion hit her like a truck. She had to find somewhere to stay. She walked in the streets more lost than ever, but without giving up she asked a few people about directions to any affordable accommodations, at first they looked at her strangely since she looked quite young to be alone. Finally managing to get directions to a place she ended up before a building that looked quite nice. Not too fancy and not too poorly looking, but the name of the place kinda made her wonder.. "Keigo Inns..." she read out loud, frowning in a thinking manner she studied the name again "Mou I swear I have heard that name somewhere but I can't remember.." she pouted and then sighed "Ah it will come to me later... I'm to tired and hungry to think" so she opened the door and entered the apartment building.
Once inside the place looked nice and clean and surprisingly very home warming. She saw a desk next to the elevator. A lady which age looked as if she was in her late thirties sat at the reception. Sakuno approached ringing the little bell at the desk. Said woman turned towards Sakuno with a warm smile "Well hello there sweetie how may I help you?"
"Ano.. I was wondering how much would be to stay here and if there are any available rooms...?" Sakuno asked smiling shyly
"Oh? Are you staying alone? You look quite young" the woman asked with curiosity creeping in her eyes. Sakuno tried not to panic, she had plan this out during her ride there. She giggled innocently
"Yeah I get that often" Sakuno smiled to the woman. For some reason that harmless smile bought off the woman. Laughing back the woman responded
"Oh I see, well there are a few one bedroom available quite inexpensive specially for new comers. So it would be 1,000 yen with all utilities included" (Okay so I don't know the living cost in Japan so I made this up so spare me! LOL okay back to the story)
Sakuno smiled, she was glad she had enough for a this place. Soon she will have to find a job though. "I'll take one thank you" the lady nodded made her fill some paper work and then handed her the keys to her small new place she will call home now.
Turning the key to open the door Sakuno's eyes glittered with amusement at the little apartment. The walls where white, the wood looked fresh and polished. The kitchen was small but cute she thought. Walking deeper inside she opened the bedroom, it was a little small but it was enough for her and the coming baby. "Do you like it?" Rika the receptionist asked
"I love it, it's all well taken care of I'm surprised is this cheap" Sakuno implied
"Well the owner our boss loves to keep the place nice and fresh. He keeps the prices low because he believes everyone needs a place to stay no matter the cost" Rika smiled
"Well he sure sounds like a kind man" Sakuno smiled gently
"He sure is, you will meet him sometime around he comes to check once in a while. Anyways I won't keep you anymore you look tired from your trip. If you need anything the front desk closes by 10, I hope you enjoy your stay!" Rika waved
"Thank you so much I will have a goodnight" Sakuno bowed respectfully. And with that she started unpacking, she went shopping for a few things earlier to cook a quick dinner. After putting everything away she began with cooking some rice and curry. After she finished she sat on the table to eat "Itadakimasu!" she began eating but then she couldn't help to feel lonely, when suddenly she felt something moving, looking down to her growing stomach with wide eyes she smiled. "Yeah you're right I am not alone. Tomorrow mommy needs to find a job and then a doctor that can help look out for the both of us ne?" she rubbed her belly gently, finishing her food she decided to go straight to bed. Looking to the table beside her bed where she had put pictures of her grandmother, her friends, and of Ryoma... she bid them goodnight and drifted to deep slumber.
Tokyo Japan
It was night time but he was still looking for her, drenched from the rain that suddenly decided to pour out he kept on moving, not stopping...
"Echizen!" a familiar spiked haired guy called out to him
"What Momo- senpai? Did you find her?!" Ryoma ran towards him
"No Echizen, but look at you! You are soaked you'll catch a cold let's go"
"No I want to keep looking" he answered back stubbornly
"Are you gonna look through all of Japan in one night?" Momoshiro snorted
"I will if I have too" Ryoma answered, Momoshiro shook his head frustrated with his kouhai. "Listen Echizen, if you become sick and weak how do you expect to find her? Besides if you do find her how do you think she will feel looking at you like this? You will only make her more sad and she will try to run away again"
Ryoma thought about that for a bit, his senpai was right, he is so drowned in his worries that he isn't really thinking straight. They need to find why she left in the first place. But they had looked everywhere in the house for clues but nothing... 'wait the house only?' Ryoma thought
"Ne Momo-senpai?" Ryoma asked a still nagging Momoshiro
"Nani?" Momo asked his eyebrows arching in questioning
"All of you tried looking for clues ONLY at Sensei's house right?"
"Yes and we didn't find anything, why are you asking...?" Ryoma smirked a little, this kinda scared Momoshiro a little he thought maybe the kid had gone completely nuts now.
"That means we still need to search clues at school" Ryoma stated. Momoshiro nodded then froze and then smacked his head with his palm "Of course! We never searched there! How stupid of us I'm surprised Fuji, Inui, nor Tezuka senpai never thought about this one before" Momoshiro grunted annoyed
"Actually we did Momo" Fuji came out of nowhere with Inui who was writing as usual in his data book
"Eh? Where did you two come from?!" Momo jumped surprised, Ryoma shook his head "Never mind that senpai. So did you find anything?" he referred the question to the genius. Fuji shook his head "Nothing really, but we suspect something must be in her locker, we tried finding her key in her room but it was nowhere to be found."
Ryoma nodded "So tomorrow morning we need to get that locker opened"
All of them nodded in agreement, with new confidence Ryoma looked up to the sky. 'I will find you no matter what, Sakuno'
END OF CHAPTER
OKAY I FEEL LIKE IT WAS KIND OF SHORT BUT HAD TO END IT HERE I WANT TO SLEEP LOL ANYWAYS REVIEW! PLEASE THANK YOU!