N.A/ I don't own any thing ^^


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A week later

"Are you sure your hand has healed yet?" Eiji looked suspicions on Emiko while she straightened her power wrists on the way to the court.

"Why shouldn't it?" Emiko asked, taken her racket in her right hand twisted it a few times and then let it fly from one hand to another and then back again. She twisted it a few times in her left hand just to let it come right back to her right hand.

"She looks healthy enough" Momo-chan-senpai said looking towards Emiko who just send him a smile. She felt a lot better.

"So Emiko is playing against Masaharu and Kawamura" Tezuka-buchou said

"Hai" the three of them said in unison. Emiko was happy to be back on the court. the last three days she had been banned from even holding a racket. None of them trusted her after what she had done on the street tennis court the other day

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~Flashback~

The three of them had sat down to watch the game. Eiji and Emiko were sitting on each side of Inui-senpai who were taking a lot of notes. Sometimes a 'ii~ data' could be heard from Inui-senpai, but none of the others two said anything.

"Emizen" a voice from behind suddenly said and all three turned to see one of the girls from their schools girls' tennis team.

"Suzuki-san" Emiko had risen to her feet.

"I'm surprise that you even dare to show your face here" the girl said this loud while taken a few steps closer to Emiko. Half the tennis court heard this and all stopped whatever they were doing. Even the two players stopped a few seconds to look at Suzuki-san

"You didn't beat me" Emiko said in a low voice, none others than the people sitting closes heard this.

"So, what about a new match?" Suzuki-san asked

"That could be fun" Emiko answered

"Dame desu yo~" Eiji said, he had also risen and placed a hand on her arm still looking at her.

"Emiko it could ruined your wrist" Inui-senpai had also rose and stood on the other side of her

"So the little girl needs approval from her dads" Suzuki-san said and started laughing, while two of her friends came into view. Emiko felt the temperature in her rise. She was getting angry.

"They aren't that hard to beat" Emiko said in a low voice, and a bit scary voice

"Then let's settle this" Suzuki-san said

They all headed towards the open court.

"Suzuki-Osakada pair verses Emizen" someone called being their referee. So the game started and even though most of the audience thought it was unfair that they weere playing two against one Emiko found it fun and was smiling most of the time.

She ended up winning but only because she made a 'Emiko spin' using her left hand.

~Flashback end~

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Echizen resident

"Are you sure your wrist is alright?" Masaharu was in the back yard together with Emiko and Ryoma-kun, they had talked about taken a trainings match and Emiko had gotten them to play two against her. Ryoma-kun really didn't liked doubles but Emiko had made him by keeping on telling how much she needed it.

"Yeah yeah" Emiko said a bit tired of keep up repeating herself while she took some of the extra weights she had gotten from Inui-senpai to put in her power wrist and ankles. During the week where Emiko was banned from the court and training Inui-senpai had started the power ankles with the regulars, and had been a bit surprised that she had already started it. He didn't give her any weights to begin with, but when she started taking them mostly without his permission he knew that she had to start training her as well.

The match started and even thought Ryoma-kun really didn't like doubles and he and Masaharu hadn't played together before Emiko was losing. Even though Ryoma-kun hated doubles Masaharu knew his player style and could be his back up and mostly stay on the back line even though he hated that place. It was normally Rukas' place.

"Emi-chan, Masaharu-kun and Ryoma-kun dinner is ready" Nanako called them from the house. Emiko got a point but had still lost 5-2.

During dinner there wasn't anything new. They had all gotten into a normal routine and it was no surprise that Masaharu asked for more of the veggies. It was Japanese day so they were eating with chopsticks and smaller plates. Emiko could finally use her left hand again for dinner. So eating was suddenly much easier because even though she could play tennis and write with both hands she couldn't use chopsticks with both.

"You didn't leave much around your plate today" Nanjirou-san said laughing.

"No my hand is all healed" Emiko said while she was exploring how much she could do with her hand and she was quick to notice that she was completely healed.

After dinner they were playing some more. Ryoma-kun lost 6-1 against Emiko and Masaharu, and Masaharu lost 6-0. The only game they hadn't continued or finished was Emiko's single.

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"The bath's ready" Emiko had left the bathroom, and knocked on Ryoma-kun's door. Nanako had made the bath ready and Masaharu had been the first one in. Emiko went to Masaharu and her room, had taken the night clothing with her as she had been borrowing of Nanako so she didn't just step out of the bath wearing a towel. Masaharu was preparing their futons.

"Aren't they a bit to close?" Emiko asked looking at the futons they had gotten a bit closer every night.

"Well I keep hitting the desk every night" he said without looking at her and continued preparing it. Emiko sat down on hers

"Then why don't you swop them so you're placed over here?" she asked opening the bottle of water she had taken from the kitchen earlier since she always needed something to drink after a bath.

"Saa..." Masaharu suddenly said. He had sat down on his futon and crossed his legs. "Do you think there's a reason for why we're here?" Emiko turned towards Masaharu who had just asked. She hadn't thought about this but they were placed back in time, maybe there was a greater point behind it all, or…

"Don't you think it was just Itaki's juice and an experiment he wanted to try" Emiko looked on Masaharu who still sat in the same way. He looked curious but didn't look like the explanation was neither good nor bad. "Maybe we should try and talk with Inui-senpai about making such a juice" Emiko was still thinking.

"I hope you're uniform will be ready tomorrow" Masaharu suddenly said and got up "it's starting to be annoying that you need to borrow mine everyday" He looked over to the corner where there tennis bags was placed, the most precious thing in the room for both of them.

"Maybe we should get some sleep" Emiko said not knowing where to go with the rest of Masaharu had said and got in her futon. She wasn't sleepy but in some days it was difficult for her to speak with Masaharu. It was weird because when they had been younger she had been together with the Echizens almost all the time and they had played and having fun so often, but when Emiko's dad suddenly had died everything had changed.

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"You can't sleep?" they had been in their futons for some minutes but Emiko couldn't find piece, she was twisting and turning and twisting again. She tried but she couldn't.

"No" Emiko was again on her back looking up on the ceiling. None of them said anything for a period of time and Emiko didn't remember if or when she fall asleep but she was suddenly in this weird place where everything was out of place. It frightened her, but not as much as it did when suddenly someone tried to wake her.

"Emiko... Emiko, it's alright" a familiar voice but all too far away. It felt like she was deep under the water or buried in pillows. "Emiko do you hear me?" the voice wasn't someone any longer it was Masaharu and Emiko understood why he suddenly was holding her. She was crying and shaking.

"It's only a dream" Masaharu told her, but why was he telling her that and why was she crying and shaking like that? It didn't make any sense but she was quick to calm down when she finally wasn't a sleep any longer, and she found herself being very calm in his arms.

"We should try and get some sleep" Masaharu said after they had been sitting like that for a while.

"Yeah, we have a trainings match against another school tomorrow" but none of them moved and suddenly it was next morning.


Authors Note:

So now I got a new idea about why they ended up being back in time .

It could be fun and try and re-make this one but I'll have to make this one first ^^

Oh and yeah about the last part, Emiko had a nightmare and her body reacted more on it than her mind O.o x3

I've never tried this but I don't think it would be fun in any way -.-

Please review ^^