Yo minna-san! I'm back again! And I'm really thankful to those who reviewed, although the story seems like very lame for me, but somehow me myself is proud of it because I knew that I improved my imagination after I stopped writing stories within a year. And thanks to Ramen monster and to the others who read my story, even though some parts of my fiction seems like the characters are out of their minds…

To everybody, watch some RyoSaku videos in you will scream because of the butterflies flying inside your stomach! Watch Emerald Green and Never Had A Dream Come True, you'll jump at your seat. I know it's not about RyoSaku anymore but also watch Ryoma Needs Ryoga because the beat of Cascada's song titled "Everytime We Touch" suits at the video. Just watch.

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis. If I do, Ryoga will always appear at every episode, Sakuno will be stubborn and Ryoma will be damn crazy. Joke!

"Sakuno…" Ryuzaki Sumire tapped the heavy ass of her granddaughter. Sakuno Ryuzaki moaned as she opened her eyes slowly and hugged her pillow. "You are already late."

She raised an eyebrow. "Late?" she muttered as she looked at her alarm clock. "Oh my… I think it's lowbat again…"

"Yeah it is." Sumire sighed as she crossed her arms. "Seems like you forgot to recharge it last night."

"It means… I need to leave school? Again?" Sakuno asked as she remembered the fourth time when she didn't attend classes because of her low batt alarm clock. Sumire nodded.

Sakuno twitched her eyebrows. "Oba-san, please take me with you!!! I don't want to leave classes for the fifth time!"

"No. I can't. The guards might piss at me for dragging you with me." Sumire said as she saw her granddaughter tugging her sleeve. She picked up her tennis bag and tied the laces of her rubber shoes. "Ja'ne, Sakuno. And if you please, could you cook lunch for me?"

Sakuno's eyes showed crystals. "Hai! Take Care, oba-san!" she answered, as if she didn't care about her lateness.

If I can't attend classes, I will bring oba-san lunch. As usual.

"Take care, oba-san! Ja!" Sakuno stood up as she bid goodbye to her grandma. She went downstairs and gargled water. She served her own breakfast and prayed. "Itadakimasu!".

After eating, Sakuno washed the dishes used and went back upstairs. She opened the bathroom lights and started to take off her pajamas. She plunged inside her bathtub and started to play on her long hair.

Sakuno faced the mirror after she took her morning bath. She started to comb her long wavy auburn hair and touched it lovingly. She placed her hands and begun to separate the left side into three.

It will take 48 years before you have this kind of hair done.

Sakuno withdrew her back as she remembered the time when Ryoma braided her hair. She frowned as she loosens her hair and dropped the brush. She kneeled helplessly in front of her mirror.

"I'm really stupid. How could a stupid girl like me stand long like this?" she sighed and asked herself sadly, as hints of tears started to gleam at the corners of her eyes.

"But why do I have to breakdown like this?" Sakuno stood up and wiped her tears. She picked up her cellphone and looked for the time organizer.

"Oh my! I wish the baking show isn't done yet!!!!" she freaked out and quickly jumped downstairs and opened the television. Unfortunately, she only saw the ending theme song of the said show when she already opened the television. She went annoyed and switched the channel to another…

…

…

"What did you did when you are heartbroken?"

"Of course I cried inside my room and, –BANG!- ! I crashed our picture frame to the ground and we broke up!"

"Really?"

Sakuno accidentally switched the television on Ms. Heart, a teen talk-show where teenagers could get and shout out what's inside their heart whenever someone broke their heart.

"Did it hurt you?"

"Of course it did! I'm not a dense person!"

"Sakuno, did it hurts?"

Sakuno remembered the time when her grandmother confronted her one day ago.

Flashback:

"If… if it hurts?" Sakuno wondered and frowned as she bowed her head. "Why should I?"

"Tell me…" her grandmother pulled Sakuno's head at her shoulder and stroked her long auburn hair.

Sakuno let her tears pass by as Sumire started to whisper inside her ears.

"Yes… it left a big burden inside my heart. I think this is the most foolish action I've ever encountered in my life… Thinking that someone cares about me… someone who is a boy…it's such a very stupid step, oba-san…"

"But I think it isn't a foolish action…" Sumire smiled and stroked her hair, and Sakuno looked at her grandmother with her eyes wandering in tears.

"But to think that a boy cares for me is really stu-"

"Sakuno, I thought you fully trust Ryoma."

Sakuno narrowed her eyebrows. "Yes I did… but now, I don't know…" she said as she shrugged.

"If you did, it means that somehow you knew that he cared for you. Just like mother and son relationship. A little boy only clings at his mother because that little boy knew that his mother will never shoo him off, for that he trusts his mother. Just like you. If you trust a person, it means that you know that that person cares for you…" Sumire explained and smiled as she confronted her little granddaughter.

Sakuno knew it, for she also knows how she trust her mother and father too much.

"But it is Ryoma-kun… sometimes he is nice and kind to us… but bratty at some times. But when I heard him, he is too dense and so cold. I think there is no anytime that he went so warm to us even for a moment. I knew nothing to prove that he cares for us… Nothing to prove that he also cares for me…" she answered sadly.

"Look. Why did Ryoma still bothered to save you from those Ginka bullies?" Sumire started.

Sakuno frowned. "It is because he can't just leave me… I mean us… you and Nanjiroh-san might kill him…"

Sumire twitched her eyebrows. "Don't reverse-psycho me by this time."

Sakuno hung her head low in embarrassment. "Gomen…"

"What about those bentos? Why did he even bother to eat them?"

"Oba-san? How did those bentos entered our conversation? We are talking about Ryoma-kun! And… the last time he ate my bento he only said it's not yet-"

"Why? Are you sure he said it to you? Did he look at you straight in the eye? I'm still talking about Ryoma! And I said don't reverse-psycho me!"

Sakuno held back as she heard her grandma.

"He bothered to eat them because he have no lunch…" Sakuno responded weakly.

"Even though the canteen is open for him?"

"Ryoma-kun don't want to bother to get in the line if he didn't want to get in. He does if he liked."

"He does if he liked. You said it. He did eat your lunch because he liked. Ryoma is the kind of guy who does what he wants. He is cool whenever tennis comes beneath his way, but he is still innocent when it comes to his real feelings. Like you, he is still innocent."

"But oba-san, it is still different. What if he just thought that I am the first person in Seigaku whom he met and he just take attention of eating those other bentos I sent to Tomo-chan to give Ryoma-kun and he just ate it because he only pitied on me who is such like a stupid girl fooling around and is hardworking just to get attention from him?!" Sakuno desperately replied as she faced her grandmother with tears at the corners of her eyes. As she thought again for what she had just said, she felt like slapping her face. "Maybe I said it right, oba-san. Seems like he only pitied for a person like me who is very hardworking to be caught by his attention…"

Sumire smiled again. "Why would he still pity on you even though he doesn't seem to care and bother?"

…

…

…

"It's because he knew that you cared for him and he wanted to care for your efforts too." Sumire assured to her.

"Pity and care are different."

"But at this case it is the same."

"No… I don't really know…" Sakuno frowned as she went more confused.

"And he still even bothered to walk you to school last Friday…"

"I think it is one of his pranks to me…"

"Ryoma is not the type of a guy who will waste his time by playing pranks on girls."

"O-oba-san…" Sakuno laid her head at Sumire's shoulders as her tears finally streamed down.

"Sakuno, it's still your decision if you let this moment just to pass by."

: End of Flashback

"But it is still him whom I've heard, I did even saw him at the glass window talking with those salesladies…" Sakuno weakly said to herself as she switched off the television and turned on the radio.

Uniqueness

Even if you don't show them, they are already obvious to see

I can't suit unto it

As if you are so far

Even my eyes see you; you are still so hard to reach

I wish for a time

That somehow you will be here with me, singing

Even it is too impossible I wish we will be

Laughing away from any crowd

Just the two of us together…

Sakuno heard Resha Travison's song "Just The Two Of Us Together".

"Yeah, it's too impossible even though I wished so hard…" Sakuno's eyes were filled with tears.

Whenever the wind blows

Or whenever the rain falls

I can't held to stare from behind

Directly to your eyes

That keeps me analyzing

Why Do I Have To Care About

Something who doesn't Even Seem To Care

And doesn't even deserve me?

Sakuno's tears showed and streamed down her red cheeks, as if she really relates to the song. She harmonized her voice with the music.

I'm crying, it can't be helped

Head hung low, For I don't know

The water, The rain, The breeze

I can't tell that impossible time

To have some moment

Of just the two of us together…

"Ryoma-kun, I can't suit myself unto you, but why should I? Do I really need to do that? I believe that I have the choice…"

"…not to insist myself unto you…"

"I will let this pass by…"

"And let fate do the rest… I'm done with you…Ryoma-kun…"

Tomoka was barely eating her lunch under a Mahogany Tree. She was too sad for what happened last Saturday; Instead of making the relationship better they even made it too worse. She was like slapped hard on her face, wanting the karma to get off her.

"Such stupid person I am…" Tomoka weakly muttered under her sighs.

"Oi Osakada!" Horio called from behind and saw Horio, Kachirou and Katsuo coming. "Where is Ryuzaki-san?"

"Sakuno is absent today. Why bother?" Tomoka wondered and answered with a question with such a low energy.

Horio speaks up. "Because we saw his notebook with such questions 'why is Sakuno absent, did I said something wrong?'"

Tomoka narrowed her eyebrows. "Whose notebook?"

"Echi-" "ECHIKOSIKA!!!!" Kachirou and Katsuo chorused together. They glared at Horio and looked at Tomoka back suspiciously.

Tomoka and Horio blinked several times. "Echiko…Sika?"

Katsuo and Kachirou tagged Horio's shirt. Horio was sweatdropped.

"Yeah! Echikosika!!!" Horio bragged.

"What's Echikosika?" Tomoka asked.

"It's a new kind of… of music… Yeah that's it!" Horio added.

Tomoka frowned. 'There's nothing to deal with you, guys…" she left the freshmen trio with a big frown on her face.

Maybe Ryoma-sama's notebook was the topic.

"Osakada is lowbat today." Katsuo started.

"Yeah, as if she isn't herself…" Kachirou added.

Horio rubbed his chin. "I think we have a tough mission today…"

Kachirou and Katsuo looked at each other. "Mission?"

"Momochan-senpai! Momochan-senpai!" the three freshmen called the second year regular player. Momoshiro looked back and saw them.

"Oi! What can I do for you today?" Momoshiro answered back. Horio came in front of him and handed a bag. "Momochan-senpai, we have a mission today!"

Momo blinked several times. "Mi-mission?"

"Yeah! It's about an investigation project about Ryuzaki-sa- ah?"

"I have no time for that project…" Momoshiro turned back and left them.

Kachirou mumbled. "Seems like Momochan-senpai isn't in good mood today…"

"Yeah…"

Fire of determination was displayed on Horio's eyes. "So let's do the mission by ourselves!"

Ryoma felt the day too boring. He decided to go on the rooftop with his tennis bag swung around his arms during lunch break. He lay there as usual he is used to do so, but after he laid his back he didn't only felt the day boring.

It's too weird.

Ryoma shrugged as he fixed himself from the bag.

Why is she crying? Is there something wrong? He thought of as he remembered her tears.

Thanks for saying the truth, Ryoma-kun!

Ryoma frowned more as he went confused.

Thank goodness that I became a friend to you even though we only met on the way, and thank you again for making me hope that your such a nice guy to worry about your friends!

"But I think I didn't did something wrong. If I did, it was unintentional." He covered his eyes with his arm so he'll sleep faster but…

'Why do care for her? She's only a friend.' One contrary of him spoke.

But I'm the one who asked for this closeness.

'You've changed a lot.'

All persons change and all people know it.

'But yours is different.'

It isn't different.

'If you opened some feelings for her, you can't be just hurt. Your goal will be affected too.'

Why would I? I do not even know when to open my feelings, now when will I reach that goal.

'What if you chose her but still she left you in return?'

I didn't say that I already chose her.

'Maybe you will if you already knew who that Insultor is.'

Insultor? Who is he? Why do he have to interfere in that dream inside my mind? He can't beat Bucho or some other regulars in our team! That Insultor, I must know him!

'You already know him. Only you know something about him."

Only me? What do you know? Tell me.

'You have three choices. Dream. Friend. Or Reality.

Dream? Friend? Reality?

Ryoma wondered and fell asleep.

"Oyasumi-nasai, Ryoma-kun."

"Ohayo!"

"It's not about the length of my hair…"

"Sayonara, Ryoma-kun."

"Arigato Gozaimasu, Ryoma-kun…"

"Gomen nasai!"

"Ryoma Echizen!"

Thanks for telling the truth, Ryoma-kun!"

Ryoma-kun…

…Ryoma-kun

RYOMA-KUN!

'Sa…Sakuno!" Ryoma sat up as his previous dream about Sakuno flashbacked inside his mind again. He shook his head as he fixed himself at his lying position.

"Dream, Friend, or reality?"

"Mou…I forgot the beans!" Sakuno bit her tongue when she noticed that there are no any beans inside the fridge. She set the ingredients on the table and left it and picked her wallet.

"I'm a shortage of money today…' she mumbled as she fixed back the vegetables inside the fridge and picked up her cellphone. She dialed Sumire's number and smiled.

-RING!-

"Moshi mo-"

"Oba-san!"

"Gah! Sakuno you will kill me at an uncertain time!" Sumire scolded her granddaughter. "Oh well, why did you called me?"

"Because I'm asking you about this- did you left some money here/ I forgot to buy something from the market yesterday." Sakuno asked.

"Yeah. It's on my –Coach, Echizen is missing…again…- oh well Sakuno, have any ideas where Ryoma had been?"

Sakuno rolled her eyes. "I'm not Echizen…"

"ECHIZEN?" Sumire was shocked as she heard her granddaughter call Ryoma as 'Echizen'.

Maybe this girl was really hurt even though I psyched her last day.

"Where is the money anyway?"

"Horio, let me quit…" Kachirou complained as he took his agent cap off. "Yeah me too…" Katsuo agreed.

"Oh guys, we have such plenty of information now!" Horio bragged.

"But no such information why Ryoma-kun quoted those letters inside his notebook that why Ryuzaki-san is absent today, nor why Ryuzaki-san isn't here!" Kachirou complained.

"Ochibi did what?!"

"That's why we ARE here!" Horio insisted.

"Ii data…"

"But it really IS a nonsense thing!" Kachirou grumbled.

"Echizen?"

"It isn't that so nonsense!"

"Echizen really had it but he freed Ryuzaki-san so fast."

"Wait did you heard it?" Katsuo asked between the fight.

"What's this noise a- umf! Fuushuuu!"

"SHUT UPPP!!!" both of them yelled and the trio came out of the scene.

"But that bush is really…weird…"

"KATSUO!!!"

"Oh yeah coming!" Katsuo ran towards Horio and Kachirou.

"NYA! THAT WAS TOO CLOSE!" Kikumaru mumbled as he scratched his head. The six of them lay on the grass.

Kikumaru is beside Inui who actually got his eyeglasses lost because when Fuji docked down he hit Inui's face. Fuji's hair was messed because Oishi accidentally put his hand over Fuji when he heard the trio talking about Echizen and Ryuzaki, who actually have an aching foot because Takamura stepped on it that made Kikumaru, Fuji and Oishi to be laid on the grass. Kawamura isn't injured except of the fact that they pulled Kaidoh back to them that when Kaidoh stumbled Kawamura stumbled and walked on Oishi. Actually Kaidoh laid on their tummies- his right hand on Eiji's face with two fingers inside his nose holes, his left arm above his chest, his right leg on Fuji's neck and right foot on Oishi's mouth, his left leg bonded on Kawamura's leg. Inui was saved because he is currently searching for his glasses. (A/N: Wow, my head is spiniing, my eyes are blurred)

"Eh… NGAIDOH!!! I NGEN'T..I NGENT…BREAAAATHH!!!!" Eiji complained as he raised his arms on the air.

"Where are my glasses???!!!!"

"Kaidoohh…"Fuji pushed Kaidoh's leg away from his neck and caused Oishi to have his mouth opened again.

"Oishi are you okay?" Kawamura asked as he also pushed kaidoh's left foot from him.

"Oishi!" Eiji quickly pushed Kaidoh and ran over Oishi.

"Twinkle Twinkle… Little… Star…" Oishi sang as he had stars above his head.

"GAH…" they left Kaidoh.

All in all, the four people pressed by Mamushi pushed him and left the Viper with spirals on his eyes.

"Oba-saaan! Oba-saaaan!" Sakuno called her grandmother around the tennis courts. She is wearing a black V-neck shirt with pink borders on it's linen, and black dog collar on her neck, and white pants covering her thin thighs. Her hair isn't braided but it is left down over her shoulders, which showed her natural wavy auburn hair.

Momoshiro saw the shy girl at the empty courts of Seigaku Tennis Club.

"Ryuzaki-san?" Momoshiro approached the said girl.

"Ah! Momo-senpai!" Sakuno wore a friendly smile in front of Momoshiro.

Momoshiro was moved with Karma. "Senpai, had you seen oba-san?"

Momoshiro nodded. "Can you take me to her?"

A/N; I'm sorry if I'm not able to update this chapter that fast. I just went busy because of the upcoming foundation day…And I can't turn on the computer because my elder sister kept on blabbing about 'What the heck? That isn't important! You are just wasting electricity!" Nyah nyah, yeah right, as usual…

Thanks for reviewing, seems like you really appreciated my work because of the reviews! Arigato, minna-san! Almost to Ramen monster, because he reviewed to me. Also to those who reviewed at my story. Thanks!

The song 'Just The Two of Us Together' and the singer. I only made it for the fiction.

And this is only the first part…gotta go! Ja'ne, minna-san!

rookie-chan "rYoSaKuEmAbIdFaN4EvEr"