Rumor Has It

by mcangel1976

There are a lot of rumors floating around the middle school tennis circuit. They have been gathered here for your enjoyment... uh warning... uh pleasure... you get the point. There is no telling what is true or not since they are rumors, but they have to be true if everyone is talking about them and spreading them. Right? At least part of them? No one is safe from the rumor mill.

25. Shishido's Hiding Something

Rumor involving: Shishido Ryo, dash specialist, half of the silver pair, and regular member of the Hyotei tennis team.

Yes, there are even rumors spreading about this particular tennis player. Shishido Ryo always wears a plaster in the same location: right above his eye brow. Now before he chopped off his hair himself and before he became part of the silver pair, you never saw him with that plaster. The gossipers have all gotten together and talked about this (I think there might be some sort of convention) and have decided there could be a couple of reasons. First, Ootori (the other half of the infamous silver pair) keeps working on his accuracy and Shishido has offered up his face as the target. The second is that during his attempt to regain his regular's position, he was injured there and it scared. He doesn't like the look of it, so he covers it with a plaster. The final reason is that when he got back onto the team and formed the silver pair, in order commemorate the blessed event, he got his eyebrow pierced with a silver hoop. Of course he isn't allowed to have it at Hyotei and he can't wear it playing tennis, so he covers it with a plaster and pretends that he keeps getting injured in the same spot over and over again. Do we really think a dash specialist like him will really keep hurting himself in the same location time and time again? Maybe… I wonder if he is fast enough to create doubles like Kikumaru and Kenya.