After Kotaro had greeted everyone in the lounge room, she went to her to fix herself up. Kotaro quickly replaced my dirty bandages with brand new white ones and went to her duffel bag to get some band-aids for her scratches. She noticed that my photo album and some other items were out of place. Her other jerseys wrinkled and ruffled.

Did someone go through my bag?

She was disturbed by the way her items were out of place.

Kotaro was opening band-aids until she heard the door open.

"Yo, Fuji." She greeted.

"Hey, Kotaro-kun!" Shusuke responded, "Welcome back."

"Thanks!" Kotaro said putting a band-aid on a scratch.

"How was your visit with your former coach?" He asked.

"It was good." She answered.

"Where did you get all those scratches?" Shusuke asked peering at her injuries.

"I kept on bumping into sharp tree branches and rocks. Don't worry, it doesn't hurt." Kotaro assured.

It was silent for a moment.

"Hey...Fuji." She called out.

"Hmm?" Shusuke responded.

"Did you guys (referring to her roommates) go through my bag?" she pointed out.

"Sort of." he sighed, "How did you know?"

"Well, it's kinda obvious when my stuff is unorganized in the bag." Kotaro scoffed.

"Eheheh-"

The door opened.

"Ah! Kotaro-san. I heard from seniors that you were back. Welcome back to the camp. I'm pleased to see you here again." Coach Saitoh greeted.

"Thanks, Coach Saitoh. I'm just going to re-wrap everything and had back to practice." Kotaro responded.

"Nice to know you're well. By the way, the shuffle matches have already been posted up. Your match is tomorrow...I think. See you later." He said walking away closing the door after him.

"Bye..." Kotaro said in a distant tone, "And he leaves before I could say anything. Anyway, Fuji. You should probably get back to training. I expect answers when we finish practice. I'm just going to fix myself up and head to court 1."

"Okay. See you after practice." Shusuke replied walking out.

-1st POV-

Fuji walked out of the room with his racquet.

What did he come in here for? I don't see any reason for him to come back in here...

"Yo, Kotaro! You're back." Tanegashima greeted expecting a fist bump.

"Yep. I'm back, Tane." I replied giving him a fist bump.

"You didn't say good-bye to me!" He whined doing squats.

"Well that's too bad." I teased joining in the tennis training.

"*hmph* You said good-bye to Tokugawa and Oni!" Tane sulked.

"You guys done flirting?" Tokugawa sighed. I smacked him in the shoulder.

"We are not flirting." I retorted accelerating my speed to catch up on my training.

"Oh yea. I forgot love is a touchy topic. My bad." He said sarcastically.

"Ah. Shut up. It's not that sensitive of a topic." I scoffed.

"Awwww. Do you still miss 'Heimaru-chaaaan'~?" Tane joked.

"S-s-Shut up!" I stuttered, "He is completely irrelevant to this topic."

"Fine. Let's change the topic then." Tane sighed.

"Gladly," I agreed, "Man, the men with laptops on the side always gets on my nerves."

"You said it. They just stare at you through their shades and type on their laptops." He added.

"You two talk too much." Tokugawa commented.

After practice, we decided to take a look at the middle school tennis players.

"Game won! Kuranosuke 6-0!" the referee announced from court 5.

"Game won! Tachibana 6-0!" another referee announced from court 5.

"Hoh. The middle schoolers are dominating us High schoolers, now."I commented amusingly.

"I wonder how many more will make it," Tane said, "How do you think, Tokugawa, Kotaro? Those guys haven't even shown half of their abilities yet."

"You look like you're having fun, Tanegashima." Tokugawa commented.

"Really?" Tane thought.

"Yes, really, Tane. It's been a while since I've seen you this entertained by new tennis players." I retorted.

"Even if you say that, from here on out, even going up one court number is going up a completely different number of strength," Tane explained, "Isn't that what the rarely-used-shuffle is for? Look there." Tane pointed toward court 3. "3rd court is just too strong. As usual, court 4 got shut down completely."

"The team shuffle between court 3 and 4. Just like that, you can see the difference in their strength." Tokugawa added.

"You guys are boring me with your information." I pointed out bluntly, "Since it's basically a team shuffle."

"Ahm. A team shuffle?" Atobe Keigo repeating what he overheard me say, "So if we use that thing, we'll be able to take on the upper courts then, right."

"This court is still out of your league." A guy with circle glasses informed, "You'll first need to defeat Oni, if you want to have one."

A guy with circle glasses...Irie!

"HI IRIE!" I called out, "HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN 2 WEEKS!"

"Hello, Kotaro-kun. I heard you went to visit Coach Mifune. How is he?" Irie replied in his loud yet smooth/soft voice.

"Coach's doing just fine!" I shouted across the court.

"That's great!" He responded, "I have to resume practice now. See you later."

"Later!" I said.

"You are loud. The next time you see someone you know, 'walk' up to them next time?" Tokugawa complained.

"I do what I want." I retorted.

"IMOUTO! DID YOU HEAR ABOUT IT?!" A voice shouted behind me while I was talking to Yamato and Tokugawa.
Tane is fooling around somewhere...stealing water bottles I bet. I turn around.

"What is it, Takesue?" I asked, "And I told you to call me Kotaro!"

'But you're my manly younger sister..." He said fading away.

"It's rare for you to come here, Takesue," Yamato commented, "What brings you here?"

"Well, I want to tell 'Kotaro' something, might as well tell you two too." Takesue replied.

"What did you want to tell me *ahem* us?" I coughed.

"Court 5 will be facing court 3 in a team shuffle!" He gasped.

"So Atobe really did got what he wanted." I said amusingly.

"oh look it's Kunimitsu!" Yamato pointed out randomly.

"Oh, it is. Takesue..." I stretched my older brother's name.

"What?!" He yelped.

"Isn't it time you apologize for what you did? Like you should've done a few years ago." I mentioned crossing my arms.

"W-what are you talking about?" Takesue stuttered.

"What ARE you talking about?" Tokugawa scoffed (he's been ignored for quite some time).

"You know how Tezuka has a weird working arm?" I started to explain, "You all know why; an upper class man hit it with his racquet because Tezuka was using his right arm instead of his left...well...that upper class man is my older brother..."

Ahhhh...Kotaro's lover is currently being decided. I've been thinking about Shusuke (that's why you see some KotaroxShusuke moments) but I'm still not sure. I'm thinking of having Kotaro having her moments with some of the other guys and then deciding which guy she gets with later in the story. So there's no guarantee she and Shusuke WILL get together. Don't get your hopes up. Seriously, don't... ^_^"

Thank you for reading! Reviews are much appreciated (even if they're sorta strict).