That she's an angel to you,

But she's a devil to me.

-- Angel to You (Devil to Me), Click Five

She stared at it.

It had been more than ten minutes since she had finished the project, and now she was staring at it. Black dotted eyes stared back at her chocolate ones. Tilting her head to the side, she saw the object in a different angle. A sigh escaped her lips.

"It looks like … a rabbit."

Indeed the medium sized handmade stuff animal did look like a rabbit. It had a figure of a puppy, but the ears were longer than anyone's average beagle. The stuff toy looked like a small golden retriever, but with longer ears. Sakuno picked up a green ribbon and tied it around the stuffed puppy. She was already having doubts in giving this apology present out.

"Mou…should I give it to…"

A knock on her door had interrupted her. She stood up from her chair, and walked towards the door. Upon opening it, she was face to face with none other than Ryoma.

"R-Ryoma-kun…!"

"There's a letter for you downstairs."

"O-Okay…" with that Sakuno left her room, and jogged her way downstairs.

That left Ryoma standing alone with the door open. He was about to leave until he noticed a certain gold-brown color stuff animal was on top of her desk, starring at him. His eyes blinked as he stared at the 'creature' in front of him.

"Kaiju*?" was the only word that left his lips as he continued to stare at the stuff animal.

"Eh? You finally finished?" asked Ann, sitting on her desk carefully holding the stuff animal that Sakuno had made in just about a week. She smiled at the two braided girl as she gave back a hesitant smile. Giving back the stuff animal to the proper owner, Ann tilted her head. "For who is it anyway? I just know it was for some guy you tripped on after I left the movie theater."

"His name is Dan Taichi, he used to go to Yamabuki. I'm not sure where he's attending school now though…"

"Eeh…" said Ann staring at Sakuno intensively. "Sounds romantic if you ask me."

Sakuno's reaction was funny for Tachibana Ann. At first the girl had blinked her eyes repeatedly, her face turned to pink then finally to tomato red, and then she shook her head as if wanting to scream in protest. Ann chuckled at her new friend, it was adorable how embarrassed Sakuno could get.

"I'm just kidding Sakuno," she said in-between chuckles. "I was just teasing you."

Color draining back to her normal skin color, Sakuno nodded. "I-I see…"

"SAKUNO! ANN!!"

The two girls turned their heads to the front of the classroom. There they saw their loud mouth friend --Tomoka-- holding a newspaper in her hands. The girl was panting repeatedly, and her face was slightly pink. Running towards Sakuno's desk, Tomoka slammed the newspaper on her desk. This startled the other two girls, and some of the people in the room.

"S-Sakuno…read this!" panted the pigtailed girl.

Nodding mutely, Sakuno opened the newspaper to the second page. A certain article had caught her brown eyes, slowly she read the title to Ann and Tomoka. "Echizen Ryoma: Tennis Prodigy."

"Eh? An article about Echizen-san?" questioned Ann turning to Tomoka.

"Hush! Sakuno read the article!" commanded Tomoka to her best friend.

Sakuno just nodded. As she read the article, she informed Tomoka and Ann about basic facts of Echizen Ryoma. He was American with Japanese blood in him, he won many tournaments in America, and how he had beaten the U.S. Open easily. The article had also talked about some of the games he had played while he was in Japan. It didn't mention nothing about the nationals though. As Sakuno finally finished reading the last paragraph of the article, her friend Tomoka squealed.

"Ryoma-sama is so popular!"

Ann rolled her eyes, but smiled none the less. "Yeah, but we already knew these facts long ago."

Tomoka gave a playful glare at Ann. "Ann! Don't ruin the moment!"

As the two teens began to playfully bicker, they didn't notice the small soft smile of the timid girl next to them. Sakuno read once again the two small paragraphs where it had mentioned the U.S. Open. She re-read them, hoping that it wasn't a dream.

When Ryoma had left freshman year of middle school, she had wished that he would beat the U.S. Open with ease. She even went to different kinds of shrines around Tokyo just to put a good luck charm on those wish walls, where it is to be said that those wishes would come true. Just reading that he had won all the games with wonderful tactics and moves; made her admiration for the tennis prodigy grow even more.

Her lips formed a smile as she reread the same article once more. It seemed that her admiration for Echizen Ryoma was growing more and more

"GO RYOMA-SAMA!!" screamed out Tomoka from the top of her lungs.

She wasn't the only one screaming, tons of fans were also screaming different names, especially the regulars. Today was the day on who would take the regulars spot. It was actually a two day tournament process, since today was Friday they would have tons of fans surround the courts cheering for their favorite tennis member of regular. The next day would be Saturday, a more serious game with no cheering fans getting in the way.

Again Tomoka screamed her favorite regular (or soon to be regular) name. "RYOMA-SAMA!! DO YOUR BEEEST!!"

Ann rolled her eyes as Tomoka cheered for Ryoma once again. It seemed that the pigtailed haired girl had forgotten why they came here in the first place. She coughed trying to get the attention of the squealing girl. Nothing happened.

Sighing, Ann crossed her arms a bit annoyed that someone had forgotten something they had to get from someone in the club. "Tomoka…have you forgotten why we're here?"

This finally caught the attention of the squealing pigtailed girl. "Eh? Phone number right?"

Ann nodded. "Yes, and who are we supposed to get it from?"

Tomoka gave an annoying glare to Ann. "You seriously ruin the fun."

A smile formed on Ann's lips. "Thanks, now let's go find Horio."

After searching for the freshman boy for ten minutes (they could only blame the crowd of girls), they saw the boy they were searching for.

"Hey Horio!" yelled out Ann jobbing towards him, Tomoka following close behind.

"Hm? What is it?" he asked, surprised to see the two girls talking to him and not watching the game.

"We need your help actually…" started out Ann, but was interrupted by two tall sophomores.

"Hey we need a tennis ball, our match is next," said none other than Momoshiro pointing at a sophomore tennis member who was behind him. His dark brown eyes soon landed on the light brown hair freshman. He gave her a hesitant smile.

"H-Hey! What are you two doing here?" he asked rubbing the back of his head.

Tomoka, being a loud mouth and a mischievous little girl she was, snickered and answered his question. "Oh she's just here, wanting to get a phone number from someone."

Momoshiro nodded slowly, words still trying to register in his mind. His face looked priceless. "A-Ah…"

Ann's faced turned a bit pink, and she quickly turned around facing a grinning Tomoka. Her blue eyes gave her an icy glare, but it didn't bother Tomoka at all. The blush gave her a silly look while giving a glare.

"Eh…?"questioned Horio looking from Momoshiro to Ann then to Tomoka, and finally to Ryoma who was walking over towards them. "E-Echizen…"

"Mm? Momo-senpai, aren't you supposed to have a match right now?" questioned Ryoma already next to Horio.

Momoshiro mutely nodded, then finally understanding what Tomoka had said before. A goofy grin replaced a mute shocking one. "Ahaha, yeah match!"

Ryoma raised his eyebrow as he tilted his head. "Aa?"

Tomoka snickered, already wanting to laugh out loud, but she tried to hold back her laugh by biting her bottom lip. Ann was standing there blushing tomato red, while Horio looked just as confused like Ryoma.

"Oi Echizen!" yelled out Momoshiro already going inside the court. "Give Tachibana my number!"

Ryoma's eye blinked, a bit surprised by the command. "Eh…?"

Ann was standing there (blushing), already mentally slapping her forehead. "Ugh…"

Tomoka put an arm around the flustered Ann. She gave her a peace sign. "This is like killing two birds with a stone!"

Horio rubbed his chin. "Isn't it killing two birds with one stone?"

Tomoka glanced back and glared at him. "Same thing. Shut up!"

Ann, who was staring at the ground from embarrassment, noticed a hand holding a white phone. She glanced up, only to see that it was Ryoma who was holding the phone.

"Here. Momo-senpai's phone number. "

If red could get any brighter, she had that color on her face. Ann shook her head violently, and cried out: "NO! It's not like that! I'm here to get Dan Taichi's number from Horio because someone needs it!"

Startled by the sudden yell, Ryoma pulled back his cell phone to his chest. Horio, immediately took out his, afraid that the girl might bash his head on the ground if he didn't give the number soon.

"And it's not like killing two birds with one stone at all!" yelled out Ann to Tomaka, who just sighed and shrugged. Tomoka already knew that her friend was in denial.

Not thinking the blushing Ann cried out. "I think of him as a brother I never had! N-No romantic feelings at all!"

There was a small awkward silence from the freshman, and some of the people surrounding them. Two regulars, Fuji and Eiji (who were near by), gave a cough trying to break the awkward tension.

"But Tachibana…" began Horio, but his sentence was finished by Ryoma.

"…you already have a brother."

I feel like there wasn't enough AnnxMomo scenes. So here's one! =) It's not much, but hopefully it's alright. Ugh, updates… are so slow now. SORRY! I'm frustrated too, I need to fix my internet so it won't disconnect me anymore. D:

Kaiju - monster, strange creature

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