Author's Note: Hey guys! Alright, so, thank you once again to you people for reading this story and for paying attention for this long! Thank you!
Xana Vlec: Thank you for those details! I now can't wait to start writing that chapter =)
Enjoy!
"I'm gone for two weeks, and you start slacking off?" Echizen Lina shouted as she watched the non-regulars – which, unfortunately, included Momoshiro – do laps around the courts.
She glared at the ones in the back, who had stopped to catch their breaths, hands on their knees. Their chests heaving, and faces red, trying to get as much air into their lungs as possible.
"Keep running!" She yelled menacingly, glaring severely at them, her mouth set in a frown.
They gulped and started running once again.
At the regulars' court, the occupants watched as the tired non-regulars continued to do laps around the court. Momoshiro was in front of the group, and he was starting to lose stamina already.
"Lina-chan's really mean," Eiji said, sympathizing with the other members of the tennis team.
The other regulars nodded in agreement.
"Sixty five laps around the courts is really a lot," Kawamura said as he watched group turn to start another lap.
"Too much!" Eiji said, cringing at the thought of him doing it.
"Only 9.45 percent of them will most likely finish the whole drill," Inui said.
"Hey! Get back to practice!" Ryuzaki shouted from the side of the court.
The Kantou Tournament was two weeks away, and the Seishun Gakuen Tennis club regulars were working their hardest, trying to perfect their individual techniques and increase their own skills, trying to improve in the category they were lacking in. Currently, they were doing several exercises, under the guidance of Inui, of course. On the other hand, Lina was making the non-regulars do more strenuous exercises than ever before, as punishment for their lax behavior during her absence.
It was morning practice, and Lina had just comeback from her stay in the hospital, only to find that her trainees were very much relaxing – as much as one can relax with Tezuka as captain – except for a few select others. But she had a one for all and all for one policy. Everyone had to run.
There was a chiming, signaling the end of morning practice.
Lina frowned, her trainees had only done forty laps.
"Everyone stop!" She shouted.
They immediately stopped and some sat on the ground, a few lay on the ground, and others leaned on the boundary of the courts.
"Get changed and get to class," she instructed, once she saw sighs of relief and some smiles here and there, she smirked, "we'll start over during afternoon practice."
She turned away from the groaning trainees and fetched her bag to head to class. As she reached for it, however, it was snatched away by another, out of her reach.
She looked up to see Momoshiro, panting and holding her bag.
"What are you doing, Momoshiro-kun?" Lina said, raising an eyebrow, "you're getting your sweat all over my bag."
He smiled cheerfully at her, despite being out of breath, "I'm carrying you're bag for you."
"…and why are you doing that?" She asked, her brows furrowing.
"You just got out of the hospital, senpai," Momoshiro shrugged, "I can't let you carry anything right now."
She glared at him and he ignored it, being used to Ryoma's own.
"I'm not dying, Momoshiro-kun," she said, "I was discharged because I was fine, and that means that I can carry my own bag."
She snatched her bag back from him and walked quickly away.
"Don't worry, Momo-senpai, she's just really like that," Ryoma said, walking past him, "she likes to carry her own weight."
Afternoon practice found Lina in her sports suit, but she wasn't going to just stand around, dictating everybody.
She was going to jog and do some exercises.
"Echizen," Fuji said, calling Ryoma's attention as the younger boy was tying his shoes.
The older boy looked to the side, where they saw Lina jogging along the side of the courts.
"Is it alright for her to do this?" He asked, worry in his voice.
Ryoma clenched his jaw, he didn't actually know why she was doing this, or if it was alright for her to do something like that. Everyone in the court watched as she jogged, for everyone knew of her condition. Some were uneasy, while others tried to stop her.
"Coach, I don't think you should be doing this," Arai said as he jogged alongside her, they were joined by Momoshiro, Eiji, Oishi and Ryoma.
"You're in no condition to be running right now, senpai, the state of your heart might worsen," Momoshiro said.
"I'll only be jogging for fifteen minutes," Lina replied, and then rest and jog again.
"But that might be too much for you, Lina-san," Oishi said, clearly worried.
"Yeah, Lina-chan, you should stop," Eiji said, as he came up beside her.
She stopped, and they all stopped, a little bit in front of her.
"I know you're all worried," Lina said, her expression was serious, "but I have to get my heart in good condition," she paused, hesitating before she continued, "I moved the surgery to next week."
She moved past them and started running again.
No one ran after her except for Ryoma.
"No way am I waiting another month to pass by for me to play tennis again, Ryoma," she said determinedly as he came up beside her.
"I don't expect you to," Ryoma said, smirking, "I'm just running beside you to make sure you stick to fifteen minutes."
She smiled at him.
There was a luxury car parked directly outside the gate of the school, and someone was leaning on it, hands in their pocket.
"Is there some creepy reason as to why you're here?" Lina called out as she recognized who was leaning against it, she immediately recognized him because of the uniform.
Atobe simply smirked, "forgetting already?"
She stopped in her tracks, threw her head back and groaned, "you've got to be kidding me!"
"Fortunately, I'm not," he said, motioning to the car, "get in."
She looked at him suspiciously, squinting.
"Where are you planning to take me?" She inquired, caution and alarm present in her voice.
"Just trust me-"
"Which I don't."
"-and I promise not to do anything unseemly."
She sighed, debating against herself. Kami, she wished she had just swallowed her pride and refused the damn challenged. It would've made her life less complicated than it was at the moment.
But, as of the moment, she had to keep her word, and he'd keep his.
"Fine," she said through gritted teeth, "but if you do anything unseemly, this whole thing is off."
"Of course," Atobe said, opening the door for her to slide in. He got in after she did.
Atobe said nothing as the car started to move, and the chauffer seemed to know where exactly to go.
"Now, tell me, where are we going?" She said, turning to him, sitting as far as she could. Obviously, this was all premeditated.
He said nothing, simply deeming it an unworthy question.
She sighed and clenched her jaw. He was obviously not going to tell her until it was too late to back out.
Atobe Keigo was such a douche.
He wasn't just any douche, however, he was a rich douche.
Lina stared up at the amusement park.
His amusement park.
"I know, it's very impressive, isn't it?" He said beside her, and by the look he gave her, she knew that he was purposely trying to annoy her.
"You do know that I can't go on most of the rides here, right?" She uttered as she stared at him.
"Of course, I just thought that you'd want to see the very luxurious restaurant in the ferris wheel," he said as he bypassed the lines and headed straight for the ticket booth, "after all, it is quite a famous structure."
There were people who shouted at him to get to the back of the line, but he simply ignored them, deciding not to stoop to their level.
He looked back to see that Lina wasn't behind him.
"What are you doing there?" Atobe said upon finding her at the back of the line.
"Waiting with everyone else," she shrugged motioning her hand for him to leave, "you go ahead and I'll stay at the back of the line, thank you very much."
"But if you stay at the back of the line, I'll have to wait with you," Atobe argued.
"Then stay then," she replied, "simple as that."
"I'm not waiting at the back of the line to go to my amusement park."
"Looks like we're going home then."
"No!" He said as she was about to walk away.
"Are you going to go ahead, or are you waiting at the back of the line?"
He said nothing as he shifted his position to stand where she had stood. She smiled a small, nearly unnoticeable smile as she got in line behind him.
"This is embarrassing," he complained, folding his arms in front of him, "waiting at the back of the line to go to my own amusement park."
"Stop complaining," she said, fidgeting behind him, "my ears are going to fall off listening to you."
He turned to her.
"Don't you dare tell anyone of this," he glared.
"Like I'd talk to anyone about you," she retorted.
"I'm sure you do. It's me."
She scoffed at him, "Kami, I never knew anyone could be more arrogant than Ryoma, and more narcissistic than Narcissus himself."
"I've never known anyone as vocal as you are," he commented.
She shrugged, slightly embarrassed.
When they had reached the front of the line, the staff all bowed to Atobe – permanently erasing her doubts that this amusement park really belonged to him (and his family) – and let them in without question.
Atobe immediately led her to the ferriswheel. It was very tall and had oval shaped passenger cars, which were tinted, rotating slowly.
"Atobe-sama," a worker there said, bowing to him, "everything has been prepared."
"Good," he answered.
He turned to Lina, who was trying not to show her amazement at the structure.
"Welcome, Echizen Lina, to the Grande Roue Restaurant."
Author's Note: Sorry for the lack of action in this chapter ='( It is quite tragic, but I really wanted to write about this, but fear not! The Kantou Tournament will be starting within the next two chapters =) Please, please review! =)) Any suggestions as to where Atobe decides to kidnap Lina to? =) I'd love to hear them!
