Akaya had never felt so determined beofre in his life. Nor had he ever felt pressure like this before. This game would be the game the would win their thrid championship in a row. Today is also the day of Yulimura-buchou's surgery. Also a new Tsuyoi-chan was here. Akaya couldn't help but remember the last few hours of yesterday.
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"So what do you think of Rikkaidai?" Niou asks his kouhai.
"What does it matter, my opinion is of the past." She repiled cooly.
This certainly was a different Tsuyoi than they knew.
"True, but you never really talked aout your past so were curious." Niou says still trying.
"I didn't talk about probably because I didn't want you to know so why would I tell you now?" She again said with a cool tone.
Her brother Tsukasa laughs. This makes the whole family laugh.
"I had forgotten about how obstinent Tsuyoi was." Her mother comments.
"Mom! I am not!" Tsuyoi shouts in english with a blush.
Now everyone but Akaya laughs. Akaya still has no talent for the english language.
"No fair..." He mumbles out.
"Why don't you just watch and listen to everything in English till you get it?" She asks him as if he's stupid.
"What?" He ask, his heart racing.
"That's how I did it anyway, any other way takes too long." She said while reading a magazine that was left on the table.
"You know, you were tutoring him." Hiroshi comments.
"Really? I must have gone soft then, when I tutor, the job gets done in three months tops." She said looking him in the eyes.
"Why are you so cold~~?" Marui asks in a whiney voice.
This causes Tsuyoi to flinch.
"Your interested for now, but you'll leave soon, they always do." She repiled quietly.
This causes everyone to go into shock. Never had Tsuyoi talked about her lonliness before.
"I won't." Akaya says with love in his eyes.
"Don't look at me like that, the Tsuyoi you know is gone now, I can feel that." She told him while looking away.
"So what does that mean?" Niou nervously inquires.
"It means you'll have to work hard to gain my trust back, now good night." She said while assecnding to her room.
–
Akaya planned on doing that, but it was hard. Tsuyoi wasn't easy to talk to anymore. Akaya was losing his hope.
"Akaya you get to play Syuusuke." Niou told his kouhai.
Akaya couldn't help but smirk. Although he loved Tsuyoi, he couldn't help his nature. He loves to take on strong opponents, and he loves to destroy them.
The first game started as usual with Doubles Two. It's Marui, Kuwahara vs. Kaido, Momoshiro. Rikkai was first to serve. Seigaku was surprised by Marui's Tight Rope Walking move. This causes the ball to roll on the net and then it drops on your side.
"Ah, I remember seeing that." Tsuyoi comments.
"Seriously?" Niou asks her.
"Yes, it was my last year of primary school, I was going to meet Onii-chan and I happened to walk by Rikkaidai's courts." She said simply.
"So what do you think of it?" Hiorshi asks.
"I think it's too tricky, reminds me of Syuu-chan." She says wrinkling her face.
"So you don't like Fuji?" Niou questions.
"It's not that I dislike him, you just don't know Syuu-chan like I do." She repiles intent on the game.
This made Akaya feel a little jealous. She remembers everything about Fuji but not him. Then he got angry. She never told him she knew him.
"Ah is Akaya mad?" Niou teases.
"Why would he be?" Tsuyoi ask with a tilt of her head.
"Well I don't know...it may be a shock." Niou says still teasing.
"Can't be anymore so than finding out you have boobs." She says bluntly causing Niou to laugh.
"He was your boyfriend." Renji tells her.
Tsuyoi's face looks shocked than angry. She grabs Akaya and pulls him close to her.
"You bastard! That's something important to know!" She says while shaking him.
"It's not like it matters, your not the same." Akaya says.
Tsuyoi drops him.
"Then perhaps it's a good thing I don't remember anything, then I can forget this feeling, knowing I felt something for a coward." She says and walks off.
At that moment, Akaya felt like an idiot. Tsuyoi said herself once before, the heart doesn't forget things like love easily.
–
Tsuyoi returned to find that Akaya's game was going to start. His opponent is Fuji Syuusuke. Tsuyoi also knew Akaya messed up a Fudomine player Tachibana Kippei. Kippei was a friend of Syuusuke's. Syuusuke despite how he acts, has a strong sense of justice. How he fulfills that justice isn't so right though.
"You know what they say about geniueses...once you crush them, they become unexpectedly fragile." Akaya boast.
Little did Akaya know, that Syuusuke was far from fragile. In fact he's quite a determined person. Akaya starts off and it seems like he's controlling with his super attack style. Though if one looked closely, or if you knew Fuji, you'd find Fuji was attacking. That's something he hardly ever does. When Akaya barely hit a lob, Syuusuke jumped up and hit a shot barely missing his knee. Akaya gets more thrilled by this.
Akaya eyes became blood shot. This surprised to see people outside of her family had this kind of anger. Then again it's also dangerous. Fuji wins the first game, even with Akaya in devil mode. This posses him and he kicks the court in anger.
"Such bad manners." Fuji comments, looking to be the good guy.
Tsuyoi scowls at this.
"What's wrong?" Niou asks.
"Syuu-chan never changes is all." She replies.
"What do you mean?" Niou again asks.
"He always thinks about other things instead of focusing and I fear it will..." She never finished her sentence.
"I've found an opening." Akaya said and hit Fuji's face.
Tsuyoi looks away. While she didn't favor Fuji, she didn't despise him either. He was her cousin after all. She could also see something was very wrong. Syuusuke never gets shocked, but his face was like that at this moment. She then widens her eyes, he's blind.
"Oi Syuu..." She starts.
"Only this match, I will not allow myself to be withdrawn from this match." He says seriously.
–
Tsuyoi had never seen Fuji so serious before. This caused her to be silent and watch the match continue. At first Fuji was dominated. Then Akaya comments on his impaired vision. Everyone mumured in doubt but Tsuyoi knew better. Syuusuke was did the most amazing things, most of the time without even trying. So when Akaya was a game ahead, she wasn't surprised to see he returned a shot.
"It's just a fluke!" Akaya yells.
"Wrong." Tsuyoi comments as Fuji returns another shot.
"How come you don't doubt him?" Niou asks.
"I've always know about the genius of Syuu-chan, it's been vexing really, he was never serious till now." She said while observing Akaya.
He's face took on an ambitious nature. He was serious and determined, it was a refreshing sight. He looked lost in thought. You could tell he didn't want to lose. Tsuyoi found her self wanting to know his reasons behind his ambitions.
Akaya then scrapes his racket across the ground to try and confuse Syuusuke. Tsuyoi found that even though it was dirty, it was still smart. Except it only works slightly. Fuji manages to hold him off.
"Do you see that Genichiro?" Jackal asks his fuku-buchou.
Tsuyoi looks and finds herself being amazed.
"Akaya's blood shot eyes have disappeared." Jackal finishes everyone's thoughts.
"Cool..." Tsuyoi mutters to herself.
Akaya's face takes on one of a child full of joy. Syuusuke's becomes one of determination. Both men declare there victories. Syuusuke hits a tsubame gaeshi. Akaya hits before it touches ground, only to find out it was a feint. Syuusuke hits a smash and Akaya replies in the most surprising way. He uses Higuma Otoshi. After that his style becomes irrational and he looks like an animal running on insticts. Tsuyoi feels a strong wave of deja vu. She grasps her head in slight pain.
–
"Tsuyoi? Are you okay?" Renji questions her in concern.
"I can see a little freshman, doing almost the excat thing, it's self actulazation right?" Tsuyoi says, just as Genichiro makes a similar comment.
"How do you know?" the fuku-buchou asks.
"Tsukasa easily reaches this stage." Tsuyoi says in a matter of fact tone.
"Do you remember anything else?" Renji asks.
"No, but it doesn't surprise me I would remember something to do with tennis, some of my best memories revolve around tennis." She says with a smile so cute, they all blush.
Akaya then uses Sanada's Ka smash. Fuji returns it barely but the gut busted open. Akaya uses Ka again and Ryoma yells to Fuji to use his racket. He does and Fuji wins by knocking the racket of an unexperienced Akaya's arm. Fuji won seven games to five. When Fuji goes to shake his hand, Akaya starts to fall. Tsuyoi then runs and jumps over the barrier and goes to their side.
"He's just sleeping." Fuji comments and the crowd erupts.
"Good thing you couldn't see eh?" Tsuyoi taunts while carrying Akaya away.
"Indeed it is." He repiles back.
The crowd then surrounds him and the mumur about how it's down to the last match. After setting him down, Akaya wakes up demanding to know the outcome of the match. Sanada tells him he lost 5-7. Akaya asks for punishment, but Sanada only tells him to sit and watch. Tsuyoi bowed to him when he walked by, Sanada only glanced at her, also telling her to sit and watch.
–
Tsuyoi sits next to Akaya and smirks.
"I hear your pretty bad at english." she starts causally.
"So what?" He mutters a little distracted.
"You need to pass and play tennis don't you?" She asks in a coy way.
"Well yeah..." He says a with a wary glance in her direction.
"Then I'll teach you english." She tells him.
"What?" Akaya asks confused.
Tsuyoi giggles.
"I'll only talk to you in english until you've gotten a mediocore grasp of the language." She says with a laugh.
"What are you saying?" Akaya whines.
"She said she'll only speak to you in english until you have a mediocore grasps of thelanguage." Niou tells his clueless kouhai.
"Why?" Akaya asks happy she wants to help him.
"Because your my little devil." She tells him while kissing his cheek.
Akaya couldn't help but turn red. He understood only one word from that sentence. That word was my, meaning she saw him as hers. Akaya then laughs, the world sure is ironic. He first meet Tsuyoi because of tutoring. Now they would start back at square one. They would start with Tsuyoi being the Devil's English Tutor.