I AM REALLY SORRY THAT THIS IS NOT AN UPDATE, BUT I CHANGED THE NAMING ERRORS SO ALL THE RIKA'S ARE NOW KAGOME. SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION.

Chapter Seven:

Recap:

Kagome groaned. That was four schools down, and none of them had even sparked an interest in Kagome.

Well, like they say, save the best for last. Four down, one to go. Watch out Rikkaidai, Kagome's coming.

End Recap

Rikkaidai….

Kagome strolled to Rikkaidai's gates confidently, never stopping to acknowledge the whispers or mutters as she passed by Rikkaidai's students. The leers did, however, tick her off and she quickened her pace so she wouldn't do anything that she might regret.

"Whoa! Who's that?"

"She's looks kinda familiar…"

"Doesn't she look like that kid that beat Sanada-sama?"

"That Echizen kid?"

"Yeah, that's the one!"

"That girl is hot!"

The voices faded away as Kagome got farther and farther from the curious students and she started to look around on her personal map for the administrator's office. Without looking up, she let her feet guide her and before she knew it, she was somehow OUTSIDE and coincidentally in front of the outdoor tennis courts.

Something flew towards her and Kagome caught it calmly, never looking back to see what it was. Bringing her hand to her front, Kagome saw that it was a bright neon yellow tennis ball.

"Ah, sorry, sorry!" Kirihara came running forward and he took the ball from her hands, never once looking at Kagome as he apologized. "You see, I was experimenting with a new technique and it sort of got out of hand and-"

"Baka." Kirihara furrowed his eyebrows when he heard the voice. 'I've heard that voice before somewhere…'

He slowly looked at Kagome's face and full-out gasped, pointing a trembling arm at her. "YOU!" Kagome raised an eyebrow at his finger.

"Yes, me. And you are?" she asked him, vaguely remembering something the day she had met up with her brother and two other tennis teams.

Kirihara spluttered. "You-you-you don't remember me?"

Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Should I?"

Kirihara had anime-tears running down his face in a steady stream as he latched onto one of his senpais (upperclassmen). "Yukimura-buchou!!!! Kagome-san doesn't remember me!!!"

'Yukimura-buchou' merely raised an eyebrow at his kouhai (lowerclassmen) who was behaving more childishly than normal. Plus, who was this 'Kagome-san'? He had been absent from his team's celebratory dinner at Kawamura's sushi restaurant, so he had not met her yet. Looking over at where Kirihara was pointing, Yukimura Seiichi raised an eyebrow when he saw the narrowed sapphire eyes scrutinizing him. Subtly, he also observed her.

She was petite sure, but he could see the lithe muscles and her tensed stance, ready for anything. She had a bored expression set on her face, but Yukimura saw the calculating glint in her eyes and when he compared her to her brother that he had saw on one of the tennis tapes he watched, there was no denying that they both obviously burned with an inner fire that allowed them to have so much determination in their matches.

Yukimura put on one of his smiles (JUST LIKE FUJI. -shudders-) and stepped forwards to introduce himself. "It's nice to meet you. My name is Yukimura Seiichi and I am the captain of the Rikkaidai tennis team." Kagome regarded him with a raised eyebrow and slowly reached out to take his outstretched hand.

"Echizen Kagome." Yukimura inwardly chuckled. She seemed to be about as talkative as her brother.

"Would you like to practice with us, Kagome-san?" He asked with a glint in his eyes. Kagome gave him a smirk and stepped forwards, twirling her racket. Then a flash of irritation went across her face when she realized what she had been looking for.

"Maybe later. Do you two know where the administrator's office is?" Yukimura and Kirihara sweatdropped and pointed in the direction of the front of the school.

"It's right next to the school entrance." Kirihara said, his eye twitching. Kagome thanked them and went back inside. The only thought in the two boys' heads were,

'Why was she looking for the office OUTSIDE?!!?!" Kagome however had different thoughts.

'…How did I miss that?"

Three periods later…

Kagome walked into her advanced English class and gracefully slumped down into a desk, laying down her head on the desk. Next to her, a certain junior regular had tensed up and was trying not to look in the direction of the new arrival, afraid it was one of his more…um…let's just say forward fangirls. You can imagine his relief when he saw Kagome instead, slumped down with her head on her desk, sleeping away.

He watched her for a few moments, not sure what to do. Then, he poked her. "Oi, Kagome-san. Why are you in the juniors class?" Kagome looked up at him and shoved her schedule under his nose. Imagine his shock when he realized that most of her classes were advanced.

He whistled. "Wow." Kagome ignored him and went back to sleep. The rest of the day passed as such, with Kagome sleeping through most of her classes only to get woken up by getting hit by various objects sent by the teacher. Said teacher would then ask her an impossibly difficult question and gape in horror and embarrassment as Kagome answered each one without hesitation.

By the end of the day, Kagome had a small smirk permanently plastered to her face as every teacher who came her way immediately ducked behind something or someone if only to avoid her piercing gaze. Especially the idiot who had asked her a…ahem…sexual reproduction question. Needless to say, that one class had come out of the classroom scarred and with too much information swirling around in their heads.

Yukimura smirked when he saw Kagome walk up to the tennis courts out of the corner of his eye. Seemed she was just going to be observing this time around. Interesting.

Kagome ignored everyone around her, focusing only on the players as they swung and hit the tennis ball back and forth. Hit. Sanada's swing was super fast as he hit it toward his opponent. Hit. Marui grinned as he popped his gum when his Tightrope Walking ball confused his opponent. Hit. Yagyuu adjusted his glasses, a ghost of a smirk making its way onto his face when his Golf Swing was unreturned.

With each and every hit, Kagome's eyes grew just a bit brighter, as did her smirk. Hit. Hit. Hit.

"So, what do you think of Rikkaidai now, Kagome-san?" Kirihara asked proudly, making Kagome resume her stoic façade. She raised an eyebrow at him but did not answer and went back to watching the others play.

Her eyes, however, had not lost their shine and Kagome felt the stirrings of excitement rise up within her. Inwardly, she smirked. This was the school that she would attend.

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Nanjirou needed no words from his daughter to know that she had already chosen Rikkaidai. Seeing her on their doorstep with an excited glint in her eyes was more than enough. After all, Echizens did love a challenge.