OriginalCrazian: Thank you mysticLedgen11 for editing and putting up with my awful use of exclamation marks and horrid grammar and comma abuse. xD I will try my best to become an actual writer. And with that I present to you a much needed update. Has anyone else notice... Kira sighs a lot...
Disclaimer:POT is way too advance for me to own...
Back on?
"Damn," Kira huffed over and over, her face covered in sweat. She coughed violently. She wasn't used to practicing under cold weather, not since last year. Spring hasn't been so kind as to progress towards summer early as it had before. She yawned. Her new playing style hasn't been perfected, and it probably wouldn't be until she finds an opponent to try it against. She leaned against the wall. "I can't play against him if I don't get this move right." She looked towards the sky, thinking about the man who had defeated her weeks prior. She sighed, heavily pushing herself to stand, "I really want to see him again…"
"Kira, get to school!" Sora snapped, "It's already seven. If you don't hurry you'll be late and I will not drive you."
"WHAT!?" Kira jumped to her feet, putting up her tennis gear quickly she ran upstairs to take a quick shower. Once again, in the Niwa household, it was a loud morning.
"Kira-neechan, watch out. That's my foot!"
"Gah! Sorry squirt, oh man, Toto-sensei's going to have my ass if I'm late again."
"Language, Kira. Sora where's my tea?"
"Coming, Ojii! Gah kids, get out now! DAD!"
"Later!" Yuki and Kira huffed, walking towards the school, Yuki ran ahead meeting up with some second years leaving Kira running to the courts to see the matches for the Kantou tournament.
She gasped at the boys' team. There one the sheet of paper announced one of the largest games of the year.
Hyoutei vs. Seigaku
"No way, they made it. They're going to go against Hyoutei," Kira said in total awe as the first bell rung. "CRAP! I'm going to be late!"
Once she step foot into the classroom, Suzuru yelled out to her. "Hey Niwa, inter-rank tournaments are after school tomorrow, be sure you make it of else if we lose to Chiba, I'll shoot you."
Kira looked over at Tezuka remember his advice. She smiled, looking at her captain.
"Now, Suzuru, I had no idea you had no faith in your team members. You should learn from Tezuka-buchou, but if you really want me to be on the team, sure why not. I wouldn't mind crushing you anytime of day."
Suzuru's eyes followed Kira as she walked over to her desk to only sit on it like the delinquent she was. Both girls stared at each other as the room filled with a high playful tension. Suzuru sat in her seat with a smirk that mirrored Kira's.
Suzuru was as competitive as Kira. She loved most of her matches with Kira. "Do you really think so? Kira, if I were you I wouldn't say anything that I couldn't keep."
"Then after school then? We'll kick off this tournament," Kira challenged as she sat into her seat. "I need another toy to play with anyways. If you're lucky, Dear, I might just show you my puppet show revised."
Tezuka sighed heavily; did this girl not learn a thing during the sessions with him? She still slumped in while she sat on top of her desk. And still her voice was enlaced with her conceded and annoying personality.
The final bell rung as Kira sank down into her seat. Throughout their class, Tezuka noticed from the corner of his eyes, the dramatic change in Kira's posture in class since the morning. He began to regain confidence with her lessons when he noticed the small improvements. Kira didn't slump. In fact, it seemed as though she had been paying attention to all their classes, she didn't make any smart remarks as she usually did when she was awake either. Unknowingly to him, Kira too, had had an influence on him. It was shown as their English tests were passed out.
"Gah Kira, you beat me again? You suck," Suzuru said, referring to the perfect percent Kira's test.
"The test wasn't very challenging," Kira replied dully. "The books I read are more difficult to understand than these."
"That's right, your little library at home consist of manga and random English books," Suzuru sighed. "How the heck did you manage to learn English so quickly?"
"When my parents divorced, my mother had custody over me. So unlike my brothers, I flew to America until my mother decided to give custody to my father. When she did that I came over here," Kira explained, exhausted. After all, she hadn't fallen asleep in any of her classes. "For the rest of fifth and sixth grade, I went to an international school. After that, my father and I had decided to try a different private school. So I signed up here."
"WHAT!? NO WAY, I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE A RETURNING CHILD(1)!" Suzuru shouted as if she had a gun to her head, causing everyone to stare at the two tennis players. "What happened to your mother?"
"My mother is dead," Kira bitterly responded. Her voice wasn't that of a loving person who had lost her mother. It was that of someone who had been disgusted with utter hatred towards another. "She's been dead for the past five years."
"Wait, I thought your mother came here during your freshman year. To talk to about you joining the tennis club," Suzuru commented looking at the girl in disbelief. She had remembered a slightly slender woman, who was probably an inch shorter than Kira now, attending a conference with Kira's father and Coach Ryuuzaki about tennis. "Wasn't that you're mother?"
"Didn't I just say I didn't have a mother?" Kira mumbled, "Regardless if she's alive or not, she'll always be dead to me."
Suzuru looked at the girl weirdly, Kira never acted as such, she usually complained about her family exposing their secrets, especially those of Sora's or Yuki's. "Anything else you want to share with us? Like if your real name is 'Kira'?"
"Oh, it isn't."
Tezuka and Suzuru stared at Kira oddly.
"I was joking," Suzuru commented. "Are you serious? What is it then?"
"By birth, it's 'Akira'. "
"Why change it?"
"My mother gave it to me," Kira bitterly explained.
The sound of Kira's voice made the subject have a taboo sense to it. In hopes changing the subject she looked over at Tezuka and gasped, "Tezuka you got a perfect score too?!"
Tezuka just simply nodded he noticed Kira nod in approval of the grade as Suzuru exploded in madness. "That's not fair. English is stupid, when the hell will I ever need it?"
"Actually, you will—"Kira began, but had been interrupted by Suzuru again. Suzuru pointed a finger at her glaring at her, immensely annoyed with Kira's teasing. "Stop being such a smart ass! Just because you and Tezuka are great in English doesn't mean everyone is!"
Kira sighed as she grabbed the test from Suzuru's hand. She couldn't help but laugh when she had seen the pathetic grade. "You got a 30 on this!? Suzuru, it's just complex sentences and an essay."
"So," Suzuru snapped, snatching the test back. She looked for a way out she pointed at the art projects that they had received earlier. "What about you? You have no talent for any form of art what so ever."
"Actually, literature is a form of art. Besides, what's the point of this conversation? What in the world would I need art for?"
"Well actually," Suzuru began, waiting for the reaction that she demonstrated earlier to come from Kira. However, Kira just looked at her waiting for Suzuru to finish the sentence. "Well? Go on continue the sentence; what will I need art for, Suzuru?"
"Well, it cuts down on stress…"Suzuru began trying to think of other things. "Well what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"I dunno yet, I think I want to become pro or maybe an English teacher," Kira sighed, "When push comes to shove I'll go to America or Italy and join the mafia or something. I always did dig the Godfather."
None of the students made a comment as Kira laughed. The students all just looked at her strangely and began to sit down as the teacher once again began to teach.
A piece of folded paper landed on Tezuka's desk halfway thought the math class. He looked over at Kira's direction. She smirked at him before turning her attention back to the front of the classroom. He opened the note and read it.
"Congrats on getting Hyoutei as your first match. Be sure to beat them."
A reply landed on her desk as soon as he was finished reading it. A smile blossomed when she saw the scribbled words…
We won't let our guard down.
Kira stared at Tezuka. She couldn't help it. What a great match that will be. She couldn't help but think, That guy, he does have an ego too. He'll win for sure. It's Seigaku after all.
"Niwa, Stop daydreaming or you'll get detention." Kira looked up and quickly apologized then answered the math question.
Tezuka and Suzuru sighed, both misreading the situation and thinking the same thing, Maybe she should focus on not getting detention before thinking of taking back her spot on regulars.
1) a returning child is a child born in Japan moving aboard then back... If I got that right...
