[Princess Revolution]
Ryoga's letter won't leave Ryoma's mind… but he makes a decision! Yuuki and Yuna head to Kanagawa for the 3 day weekend, only to have Niou plan a secret surprise for them? And Kaidoh looks over his regular ranking tournament draft in his room but…?
[Chapter 6 – Impact]
Ryoma laid on bed, thinking about everything that happened today. It was the first day of his 2nd year at Seigaku, but it felt like too much happened for it to be just one day in the school year. Just this morning, he was losing to Marui's younger brother that transferred to Seigaku, Kaidoh made a speech in front of the school, and he received a calling from his brother for both himself and their old man to travel to America.
"Just what the heck is going on," he said to himself, unable to figure out what his older brother had in plan for them. The letter (that was actually a short messaged) mentioned Ryoga traveling to Japan to drag them over if they did not come, and surely Ryoma thought that would be a pain to deal with.
It also had to do with improving himself. Ryoga mentioned bringing rackets to whatever interesting thing he was talking about- maybe this interesting thing would improve his tennis play.
"When I come back from whatever he has in planned, I won't be losing that embarrassingly to that Marui Yuuki again," he said to himself. "I didn't use the Samurai Drive on him though… but would he have been able to return that?" he continued.
Ryoma blinked, and decided. He wanted to be fully prepared for a rematch with that monster, and he did not want to take any chances even though he still had his powerful Samurai Drive up his sleeve. He got out of his bed, left his room and walked towards the living room where his old man was sitting down reading gravure magazines.
"Hey," Ryoma said.
Nanjiro knew Ryoma was there, but did not bother looking up from his magazine. He sat, waiting for his son's response.
"Let's go to New York."
+Scene Change+
Yuuki and Yuna sat next to each other on the bullet train from Tokyo to Kanagawa. Niou sat across from them in their seats of which were facing each other. The seat next to Niou's was empty- he sat by the window directly across from Yuuki who also sat by the window.
Yuuki stared at the Tokyo night sky outside. He thought about what happened today with Niou- Niou asked him for forgiveness, and the moment it was asked, he couldn't hold back the tears in response. Yuuki looked over to Yuna, who was fast asleep. His younger sister had not intervened between himself and Niou after Niou asked for forgiveness, but Yuuki himself was lost from words. That scene in the park merely ended with Niou saying, "If you cannot forgive me now, I can still wait."
Now Niou was staring at Yuuki. "I heard that you and Yuna went straight to Tokyo to live with your aunt after returning from America. It's been a few years since you've returned to Kanagawa, right?" Niou asked, trying to start a conversation.
"Yeah it has been a while," Yuuki replied, unenthusiastically.
"So you haven't seen Bunta for that long too since the boarding school you guys attended was strict about international travel, right?" Niou asked.
"I guess so."
Niou grabbed his phone out and sent a message to Kuwahara Jackal, who he believed Bunta was with since they were best friends that spent a lot of time together. Niou asked Jackal to bring Bunta to the bullet train station for a surprise meeting between Bunta and his two youngest siblings- placing emphasis on the surprise part.
"Have you heard about the kid at Rikkai that will be Yuusuke's captain?" Niou asked. Yuuki shook her head. "The kid is Kirihara Akaya- our junior ace last year," Niou continued as his phone beeped. He quickly checked his text message inbox and found that Jackal had agreed to the surprised and was on the process of luring Bunta to the station with the incentive that Bunta will be treated to an all he can eat buffet next weekend. Niou double checked that Jackal was going through with the plan and looked back up at Yuuki, who was trying to remember who Kirihara Akaya was.
"Oh, that guy," Yuuki replied, finally realizing who he was. The Marui triplets watched recordings of the tennis tournaments from a year ago, including the National Tournament. "He seems very arrogant," Yuuki continued, causing Niou to smile at that comment.
"Puri."
+Scene Change+
Kaidoh stared at the paper on his desk. It was a Friday night, and it was unusual for him to be in his room at home rather than practicing his tennis or doing rigorous training. This night, though, was an important exception. The paper he stared down at was the paper where he would create the regular ranking match to determine this year's regulars. He thought back about what Ryusaki-sensei said to him and Momoshiro before he left school today.
"Kaidoh, pick the players carefully," she had warned them. "A lot of 3rd years have graduated, but that does not mean the other schools are going to get soft," Coach Ryusaki continued.
"We need to beware of all of last year's Junior Aces- and Super Rookies as well," Kaidoh replied.
"Exactly," Coach Ryusaki said. "But can you name the most troublesome ones?" she asked.
"St. Rudolph's Fuji Yuta, Hyoutei's Hiyoshi Wakashi, Rikkaidai's Kirihara Akaya," Momoshiro replied with ease. "Fuji-senpai told me about how his brother was training really hard for his 3rd year."
"Shitenhoji's Zaizen Hikaru and Toyoma Kintaro," Kaidoh continued. "And the skilled 1st year iceman Liliadent Krauser- now a 2nd year, who sources say transferred to one of these listed schools, though which one still remains a secret."
"Impressive," she announced, glad that her Captain and Vice Captain were on top of their game. "But you're forgetting a school," she said gravely.
Kaidoh and Momoshiro stared at each other. They were not sure which school they had forgotten to name- they had listed all of the strong school teams that they remembered from last year. Did Ryusaki-sensei hear about a strong team that did not make an appearance last year?
Coach Ryusaki laughed. "Seishun Gakuen: Kaidoh Kaoru, Momoshiro Takeshi and that Super Rookie," she replied.
Kaidoh and Momoshiro smiled. "Echizen, yeah I guess we forgot about him and even ourselves," Momoshiro replied, laughing a bit. He was glad that his Coach praised himself and Kaidoh.
"Oh no, I was not talking about Ryoma- I was talking about that new 1st year Ryoma played that match with this morning," she replied, surprising the two 3rd years. "Besides, apparently something important is going to happen to Ryoma and his dad."
"What?" Kaidoh asked.
"His father, Nanjirou told me the minimum- which means he barely told me anything," she replied with a sigh. "I expected that, but I think Ryoma will be telling you two tomorrow."
Kaidoh's chain of thoughts was interrupted by a loud slam that's source was the opening of his door. He sighed and turned around, seeing two Shitenhoji players in HIS pajamas (though, Kintaro was wearing Kaidoh's pajamas from elementary school…). "I had forgotten that you guys were invading my house this weekend," he hissed.
"Sorry for the trouble, Kaidoh," Shiraishi replied with a smile. "We came here with a very short notice, we forgot to bring enough cash for a hotel and we did not bring anything along either," Shiraishi continued as Kintaro ran passed him and started jumping on top of Kaidoh's bed.
"YOUR BED IS VERY BOUNCY," Kintaro yelled as he jumped up and down.
"Kin-chan!" Shiraishi yelled as he tried to pull Kintaro off of Kaidoh's bed. Kaidoh looked as if he was about to murder Kintaro, who was still happily jumping on Kaidoh's bed. Shiraishi noticed this, and grabbed Kintaro's arm, pulling him off the bed. However, they both fell upon an angry Kaidoh, who was enraged even further.
"YOU **************," Kaidoh screamed. "IF YOU DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL ************************* TO YOU TWO," he yelled, his eyes filled with flames.
"Shiraiiiiiiiishi, he's scary," Kintaro stated as he hid behind Shiraishi.
Shiraishi was about to reply to Kaidoh, but then he noticed the paper Kaidoh was looking at- the Seigaku ranking tournament participants. Shiraishi saw the characters: "MA-RU" under one of the boxes. He turned toward Kaidoh, who had noticed that Shiraishi saw the paper.
"So you're going to bet on that Super Rookie," Shiraishi stated. "The Princess, Marui Yuuki, was it? He looked really girly." Kintaro laughed at Shiraishi, remembering how his senpai said that if Marui Yuusuke was a girl, then he would be really pretty.
"Having that nickname is a disgrace," Kaidoh hissed. "It sounds dumb, and he himself should be embarrassed to be called that."
"Marui Yuuki looks decent though," Shiraishi commented. "He might give Kin-chan and Hikaru a rough time if Seigaku can make it to the Nationals again."
"If Seigaku can make it to the Nationals? That's a given… the real question is if Zaizen Hikaru can lead Shitenhoji there," Kaidoh replied, noticing that Shiraishi's statement implied that Shitenhoji's spot in the Nationals was guaranteed.
Shiraishi laughed. "Just kidding. Calm down Kaidoh- but it seems like Marui Yuuki had an impact on you today. I can't believe he was winning against Echizen Ryoma."
"Koshimae didn't use his new moves though!" Kintaro exclaimed. "There was no… Teni Muhou, Samurai Drive… and the newer ones!"
"Still, to be winning against Echizen even while he played without those moves is a great accomplishment," Shiraishi noted. "It was a good decision to allow for a 1st year to participate in the regular rankings."
[Chapter 6: Impact – END]
I was really busy this past week and a half and I was sick, so it was hard to write fanfics. I'm still sick, so it might be a little while until I write the next chapter. xxxx