The next morning they all woke up. Momo was sprawled out and Ryoma just woken up. He looked over to see Momo taking up one whole side but when he went to see if Eiji was on the other side of the room he wasn't there. His futon was already made. Ryoma got up and walked down the hall and found Eiji wondering.

"Ohayo ochibichan!" Eiji said happily.
"Ohayo Kikumaru-senpai." He said yawning.
"I can't find Fuji in any of the rooms."
Then they both looked and they were both in front of Reina's door. Ryoma opened it quietly and both of them peeked in. Fuji and Reina were both in bed, together, in her bed.

"OH! Damn that Fuji!" Eiji yelled.
"Kikumaru-senpai be quiet!" Ryoma told him. But it was too late Fuji woke up and looked at them. He was in his PJ's. He got up to the door and opened it all the way, "Ohayo you two." He said with smile. Reina opened her eyes and looked at them all. "Ohayo."
Eiji pulled Fuji out of the room and pushed Ryoma in the room closing the door. Reina and Ryoma both had odd looks, "Huh?"

"Oi! Fuji! That's so wrong! Why did you sleep in her bed --- room?" he gulped.
"Eiji, will stop thinking I would do things you do?"
"What?"
"She asked me to so I did. Nothing happened."

Ryoma sat at her dresser with the pictures on it.
"If you want it you can have it. I have double prints," she told him.
Ryoma picked it up and took it.
They both opened the door to find Eiji yelling at Fuji who obviously was in a funny jealous envious rage.

Reina, "Where's Momochan?"
Eiji, "He's sleeping."
"Still!? Even through your shouting?"
They all peeked in the room and Momo was still sprawled out on the floor.
"Well at least he doesn't snore," she told them.
Eiji, "Thank god"

They all went downstairs and Eiji and Reina cooked breakfast, that was when Momo jumped up and they all heard a thump. Reina asked Fuji to show him where the extra toothbrushes where. Fuji came down immediately, "He already found them."
Momo rushed downstairs and grabbed a seat. "Ohayo everyone!" he said.
Ryoma, "Momo-senpai, your too loud." Momo looked at him, "What with the sour look."
Eiji, "He's just mad because Fuji got to sleep in her bed—room."
Momo, "Really!? Fuji-senpai…"
Ryoma, "I think he's got it mixed up, Kikumaru-senpai was the one lecturing Fuji-senpai."
Reina placed the food on the table, "Eat!" she told them all.

They all ate breakfast that Eiji and her cooked, cleaned up and got ready to head to school. They had two days before the next tournament so they needed to practice well.

They all left her house and walked to the school, well most of them, Momo had his bike and let Reina ride on it so she wouldn't walk. Next to them as they were walking Fuji's older sister drove up. She rolled down her window and told Fuji to get in, but he backed up slowly and she saw Reina.

"Reina-chan?"
"Oneesan…" she said. She stopped and bowed, "Good morning, oneesan, it's been a while."
She nodded, "I'll come by the school later and pick you both up."
Fuji, "We have practice till late, neesan, I'll call you ok?"
She nodded, said her good bye and left.

Before they knew it Reina and Ryoma were up ahead of them. They met up with Oishi, Kawamura, Inui, Kaido and Tezuka right before they hit the entrance of the school. As they all walked in, right before they entered, Reina caught someone at the corner of her eye and stopped.

"Taka!"

Everyone stopped ahead of her, inside the grounds now and stared at her. Reina was frozen, Ryoma walked out to her, as he walked she dropped her stuff and ran in the opposite direction. They all ran to follow but she was gone, only Ryoma got a glimpse of person she was looking at, and he knew it couldn't be that person. But then again, well he didn't think about it. Fuji looked at him with suspicion but didn't ask. Ryoma stood there for a while, not knowing if he should go after her. He threw both bags to Momo and asked him to hold them and ran after her. Fuji ran after him with his bag and the rest just stood there. Or so you'd think, Eiji and Momo followed them but lost them, they couldn't find them.

Tezuka looked at them all and told them they needed to get to class, and to let them handle being late. Oishi, Kawamura, Kaido and Inui followed inside.

Reina caught up to the person and stopped them. She turned them around as she caught her breath and looked up at the person. She was shocked.
"It can't be." Ryoma right behind her stopped dead in his tracks.
"Uso…"
The person looked at them and looked confused, "Who are you? Do you know me?"
"Are you Taka-san?"
"Taka?" the person laughed, "No, I'm sorry I'm not Taka, that's my sister's name."
"Sister!?" both Ryoma and Reina said in shock.
"I'm sorry I have to go now, I'm late as it is." And they left.
Fuji who was looking from a far wanted to know what was going on so he went up to both of them.

"Who was that?"
Reina turned around, "Syusuke-kun"
"Fuji-senpai? What are you doing here?"
"Ryoma-kun can you leave us for a while, I want to talk to her." Ryoma was hesitant, it wasn't he didn't trust him with her; just he didn't want her saying things he didn't need to know about.
"Fuji-senpai, you can say it in front of me."
"Ryoma-kun, it's ok."
Ryoma left to go back to school and get into class he was late already and didn't have an excuse.

Fuji and Reina walked to the Tennis room inside the school. She sat down and he sat down next to her. They were both quiet for a while then she finally said something.
Then stopped. She wasn't quite sure where to start it off; it wasn't something she talked about with anyone except Ryoma. After a long silence Fuji stood up and told her it was ok if she didn't want to say anything but that he'd be there when she was ready to tell. As Fuji was about to open the door she said something.

"Ask Ryoma-kun" was all she said. There were a lot of things Fuji didn't know about her. He knew about her father and her living alone but nothing much other than that. Fuji really cared for her, like love at first site, but he really didn't believe in that stuff. He just felt this connection to her and he grew to love her. He was also unclear of her connection to the Echizen family.

As he left the room, she sat there, not knowing what to do. She never knew that Taka had a twin, less any other family other than her mother. Ryoma walked in and she shot up.

"Let's go I feel like playing a set today" she got up grabbed her racquet and walked out of the room. Ryoma just stared at her.

Half the day went by and no one has seen Reina anywhere. They looked in every class but she wasn't in any of them. They looked in the gym and the courts she wasn't there. They called her phone no answer. Ryoma started to get worried.

As Ryoma and the others walked to go home, Ryoma invited Fuji and Tezuka over to meet his father. After that announcement Oishi and Kikumaru wanted to come and soon enough all off them went over his house. As they stood in front of the door Ryoma wondered how 2 became 9. He was just at aw.

As they walked in the house no one was in there. Then they heard Ryoma's cousin yell from the kitchen. She saw all of them behind Ryoma and introduced herself. Momo was quiet jealous of Ryoma, first Reina and now Nanako.

"Ryoma-kun, your dad's in the back"

They all went back there and saw Reina and his dad walking to each end of the court.

"Oi, Reina ready?"
Reina nodded her head. As they played Ryoma never seen his dad get really serious when playing, especially not with him. He was much interested in it. The whole Regular Team stood watching them play.

Momo, "Echizen…"
"She's ambidextrous also just like my dad and I"
"No way!"
"I've… never seen my father play so serious before. When I play him he goes a little bit easy on me." He watched them and watched Reina. Reina was sweating very hard now and Ryoma hasn't seen her work up a sweat like that in a long time.

"Ojisan"
"Ojisan? What are you talking about girlie!?"
"Ready?"
"Huh?"
Reina ran toward the wall, back toward the court ducked then jumped and smacked the ball down past Nanjirou. They all stared in awe. They couldn't believe it.
Nanjirou stood and was in shock as was everyone else.
"What was that you freak!?"
"Freak? Me? Ojisan I think you have me confused with you" Nanjirou just smirked, "That was a Spike"
"This is not that other sport you like to play."
"I know but it works right?" They both laughed "Otousan, arigatou" she smiled.
Nanjirou smiled.

"Oi, Echizen, she your sister?" Momo asked Ryoma.
"Of course not, you idiot, she's always called my father that"

They all walked up next to the court to talk to them but Reina's phone rang. She went over and picked it up.
"What?"
They all looked at her because her expression changed. She hung up the keitai and told them she had to be somewhere. She grabbed her stuff and left. Fuji was a bit suspicious and made up some excuse that his sister wanted him to go do something for her and he followed after Reina.

Reina sat in the café, Fuji right behind her sitting at a different side and watching her, Akutsu Jin walked in and sat down.

"Akutsu?" Fuji thought, "What does he have to do with her?"

"Hi Jin" she got up and Akutsu looked at her and gave her a kiss, "Not here, what did you want?"
"Nothing I just wanted to see you."
"You called me for that, I thought it was an emergency"
"It is I wanted to see my girl" and he gave her that look.
"Don't give me that look you crackhead I ain't one of those people you can push around," she said crossing her arms. Akutsu switched over to her side and put his arm around her and tried to kiss her again, but she moved her face.
"If that's all I'd rather go rite now, I told them I'd be back"
"Why do you hang around them? Why do you go to that school, I don't like them and I don't want you hanging around them." He said with a stern strong voice that almost sounded as if he was scolded her.
"Because I like that school and Ryoma is like my little brother and I like Syusuke"
"tch.." he grinned at that remark.
"and… I miss them."
"What?" he stood and raised his voice to her.
"Jin you're causing a scene calm down"
He didn't calm down at all "What do you mean you miss them?" and he grabbed her wrist. She yanked it back and yelled back at him.
"I miss them OK! You knew I knew both of them why are you being so difficult now?"
The waiter came along and asked them to calm down but Akutsu hit him.
"JIN!" she yelled
Everyone looked at them even more.

Outside the window Ryoma and the others were walking to go into that same parlor to get some desert when they saw Akutsu and Reina through the window. Ryoma stopped "Akutsu" he said under his breath and Eiji looked and yelped "Look there's Reina" and he looked even more and they saw them two together.

Akutsu grabbed her and forced her to leave with him.
"JIN! Let go of me! JIN! JIN!"
"Let's go" he snapped back at her and she didn't like being treated like a child, she took her hand and slapped him in the face and he let go.
They left outside and argued out there because the waiter threatened to call the police. The rest of the Regular's hid while Fuji watched from inside.
"Don't you ever do that again EVER!" she yelled back at him. Akutsu looked like he wanted to hit her and Momo and Kawamura wanted to stop it but then Reina started to tear.
"I told you from before." She stopped her tearing. "If your going to hit them do it but if you do that's it. I don't put up with guys' shit not even yours Jin!" and she stood there.
Akutsu wanted to hit her, he lifted his hand but instead layed it on her face. He couldn't hit her.
"I can't hit you. I could never do that, of all people you're the only one I couldn't do that to."

They all looked at him.
Momo, "Is it me or is he being 'nice'?"
Kawamura was suspicious he never seen her before with Akutsu at all.
Ryoma and Fuji didn't like what they were seeing.

Akutsu kissed her and they left. "I'll drop you off at that brat's house"

Fuji walked out of the parlor and saw the rest of them.
"Echizen, did you know about them?" he nodded his head. But Ryoma was determined to find out what that was all about.