Rika: Where is she?

Akaya: ~look around~ guess she is not around, probably not wanting to taste the punishment the readers/reviewers give her

Rika: ~rolls eyes~ well anyway, here is the chapter she said she will update when she have time

disclaimer: wat do you think?

'thinkin'

"talking"

~At Practice~

Now Rika defiantly know that something is wrong. First of all, last night, her family never call her. Second, they didn't answer the phone when she try calling. Finally, they are at Seishun High again. Why are they here you may ask?

~Flashback~

"As all the tennis regulars know, we didn't have our practice match with Seigaku yesterday, so we plan to have it today," Yukimura announced, surprising everybody.

"But Yukimura-bucho, I thought you only requested the tennis matches to pick us up," Akaya ask.

Yukimura smiled and nodded. "That is true. However, today, they ask us for a tennis match. Since they accepted ours with no question, I thought we could do the same. So all tennis regulars will meet up after school at school gate. Dismiss."

~Flashback ended~

"I really don't want to be here," Rika grumbled.

All the members look at her with surprise. Who couldn't? She get to see her brother again and she's in a bad mood?

Cautiously, Akaya spoke up voicing out everyone's question, "Why?"

Rika glared at him, making him flinch back, but manage to growl out "I have a feeling something going to happen to me today ok?"

Not wanting to piss her off more, everyone nodded and entered the school for the second time this week.

~Meanwhile, at the court~

"Mou! I am so bored nya!" Eiji said.

Syuusuke smiled. "Saa, we can't do anything until our new coach assistants and the Rikkaidai members come, now can we."

"But it's so boring waiting!" Momo burst out.

"If you got nothing to do, run some laps. Shhh"

Before they could start arguing for the who-knows-how-many-times, Coach Ryuuzaki appeared along with two other people, who they assume is their new coaches...although they don't look like it. In fact, they don't seem any older than they are!

"Alright everyone! Gather up! I got somebody to introduce to you," as Coach Ryuuzaki said this, everyone started talking except for the stoic Tezuka.

"Damn it old lady, we can introduce ourselves," mutter the guy who have dark green hair.

This one sentence shut everyone up. After all, this is the first time anyone have called the coach old lady. Hell, not even the sadistic Fuji have the nerve to do that...yet.

Coach Ryuuzaki twitched. That guy really take habits from his father doesn't he? She really hope he won't turn into a pervert too.

The blond hair guy rolled his eyes. Where is she when she is needed? "Anyway, my name is Kevin Smith, and this stupid guy here is Ryoga E-" he started introducing only to be interrupted by the tennis members.

"Oy! The Rikkaidai members are here!" shouted a random person, causing most of the people to look at the court entrance.

~Back to the Rikkaidai members~

"Oy! The Rikkaidai members are here!"

Rika rolled her eyes. 'Like of course we are here! Do they think that we are going to ditch or something?'

As the captains exchange greetings, Rika look around to see who she may play with, until her eyes stopped at two guys.

She blink. And blink again, before looking at Akaya who is trying to convince her brother to play with him, with no success.

"Kevin. Ryoga?" she quietly said, causing the two boys to turn towards her.

When they saw her, their face turn to delight. "Rika!" they both shouted, causing everyone to turn to them and everything turn quiet.

'Somehow, this feels deja vu' everyone thought, except for Kevin and Ryoga.

Akaya was the first to speak. "What are you two doing here?"

At this, everyone started asking questions.

"How did you know them?"

"How good are they in tennis?"

"Who are they?"

As the questions continue, the three could see that Rika is slowly losing her patience. Finally Rika snapped.

"WILL EVERYBODY JUST SHUT UP!" causing everyone to jump. Who could have thought a (coughshortcoughcough) girl could be that loud?

After everyone quiet down, her head snapped at Ryoga and Kevin, "As for you two! What the bloody hell are you doing here?"

Tezuka coughed. "Rika. Don't cuss and calm down." Although Rika still want to shout at the two some more, she obeyed him.

"So, want to explain yourself?"

The two gulped. They knew they were walking on thin ice. After all, they knew Rika hated surprises. Oh they were so going to kill that stupid oya-ji.

Deciding to answer before they get shouted again (even if it was someone younger) Ryoga decided to reply. "You see, baka oya-ji decided that this will be a surprise to you so yeah."

Rika growled. "So this is his fault?" causing the two to nod.

Tezuka coughed again. "So Rika, who is this two?"

Syuusuke nodded too. "Yes, who are they?"

Inui's glasses shined. In sychro, Inui and Renjin spoke as one, creeping everyone out, "According to our calculations, the green hair one is Ryoga Echizen, Rika's aniki-" "No way!" "-and the yellow hair one is Kevin Smith. He is a childhood friend of Rika."

After finishing, the three look at the two, "You know, you guys could make great stalkers."

"So are we going to do some practice match, or just stand here?" Akaya ask.

Yukimura nodded, "Yes, we should get started. Here is the or-"

But before he could finish, Momo interrupted. "Chotou! How do we know if our new coach is good or not?"

This cause two pairs of eyebrows to twitch. Kevin snared, "Fine! We will prove to you that we are good players! Since you were the one who asked, spiky head, why don't you play me!"

Momo paled. "Why don't you play Rika instead? You guys must not have play each other in a while, so why don't you two play?"

This time, Kevin was the one who paled. "Hell no! There is no way I am playing the princess of tennis in front of everyone!"

Everyone look at him like he was crazy, except for the Rikkaidai team. 'She can't be that hard to beat!' the whole Seigaku tennis team thought, while Rika smirked.

"Sure Kevin, why not! This could be your reward for surprising me!" Rika said cheerfully, causing Kevin to groan and the others to snicker.

Kevin glared at Ryoga and grumbled, "You won't be snickering if you were the one playing her."

Ryoga stuck his tognue out. "Well, I'm not the one playing her."

With that said, they both walk to the court.

Rika: i am so gonna pwn you Kevin

Kevin: ~groans~ don't even talk about it!

Rika: well until Hikari finally finishes another chapter when she have free time which is who-knows-when