Sorry I haven't updated in so long. I didn't realize it's already been 4 months. I'll try to update biweekly.

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Boys vs. Girls II

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"The girls are no match against the golden pair! This is going to be a slaughter, like last year," said one of the sophomores on the boys' tennis club. Everyone watching had the same sentiments. The girls' team looked on with apprehension as Miki-Hikani face Oishi-Eiji. They knew Miki and Hikani were good together but how would they do against the national level golden pair?

"Doubles 1: Oishi-Kikumaru vs Takuya-Komoshi."

"How come your name gets to go first? In America mine was first."

Hikani rolled her eyes. "I can't believe you're worried about that right now."

"It's a perfectly good thing to think about. Name order is very important."

While Miki was arguing, on the other side of the court Oishi and Eiji were looking at each other puzzlingly. The same thought went through their minds, were these girls suppose to be a good combination?

Eiji got fed up with it. They were waiting for the girls to serve. "Are you two here to play or argue over name order?"

"Stay out of this!" Hikani and Miki exclaimed concomitantly.

The referee cleared his throat, "Please start."

"Let's kick some major ass," Hikani said. She was standing by the net. It was only during the exciting games that Hikani loses herself and starts using foul language.

"Of course."

On the other side, Kikumaru smirked. "Hope you're not all talk and no show."

"You'll see soon enough. Ready Hikani?"

"Whenever you are."

Miki threw the ball in the air and slammed the ball to the other side. Hikani saw the projectile of the ball and smiled slightly. It seems Miki was going all out from the beginning.

The ball landed in front of Oishi. He swung his racket, but instead of connecting with the ball he hit air. The ball had taken a sharp turn down, completely missing the racket, and bounced on the floor.

"15-0," the referee called out.

The audience was amazed. Everyone thought, what was that serve?

"Did you guys see that?" Momo asked behind the fence. Inui was busy writing in his book. He didn't comment, a rare occurrence since he usually multi tasks writing and talking.

"I only saw the sharp turn of the ball. It seems like before it connected with the racket there was a slight reverse spin on the ball," Fuji said, still facing the game.

The rest of the team members, except Tezuka, looked at each other puzzlingly. They all thought, now what was that suppose to mean? Tezuka remained his usual aloof self. His eyes focused on the game playing out in front of him. Ryoma wasn't watching the game - he already knew the outcome.

Meanwhile, everyone was waiting for Miki to hit her serve again, and she didn't disappoint them. This time everyone was watching her. Miki threw the ball in the air and jumped.

"Ne. doesn't her form look like Echizen's twist serve?" Momo asked.

The ball landed on the other side of the court but instead of bouncing in a straight path it did a sharp 90-degree turn. "30-0."

"I think so too, but her serve is clearly not the twist serve," Taka replied.

Everyone except Fuji and Tezuka looked to Inui for answers, but Inui still didn't say anything.

It was Fuji who enlightened everyone. "She hits the ball differently. There's a slight sidespin, so instead of Echizen's twist effect where the ball heads toward the person, the ball makes a sharp 90 degree."

Oishi saw the flow of the ball and prepared himself for the next serve. Miki jumped and hit. Oishi moved to the side but instead of turning 90 degrees to the right it went left. Oishi tried to turn and reach for it but his reach was a centimeter short. "40-0."

"I can't believe the girls got three aces," said a male bystander.

"The girls might be good but I know the golden pair isn't going to let them continue like this," said another bystander.

"Don't underestimate Miki's angle serve."

Miki served again. The ball once again bounced to the opposite side of Oishi's racket.

"Don't underestimate the Golden Pair!" Kikumaru yelled as he smashed the ball back to the girls' court. Hikani saw Kikumaru move and positioned herself to return. She executed a drop shot. The ball rolled down the net on the boys' court.

"Wow what a perfect move. She purposely did a drop shot because the golden pair was in the back court."

"1-0 Oishi-Kikumaru serves." Oishi served first. It was fast and straightforward. The intense rallying began. Oishi and Eiji knew that they couldn't hold back if they were going to win.

Eiji went all out with his acrobatics. He returned Miki's ball with his Kikumaru beam, but Hikani was ready for him at the net and dived for the ball then landed by doing a cartwheel with her free hand. Eiji missed the ball in his shock. This was the first time he encountered someone who also used acrobatics like he did.

He wasn't the only one shocked; the rest of the girls' team was also stunned. Hikani had never performed acrobatics during practice. Eiji and Hikani began an intense battle at the net. Neither player relinquished control. Hikani signaled to Miki using her free hand. Hikani moved to the right corner of the net, forcing Eiji to return the ball to the left, the empty side. It was then that Miki shot up and did a drop shot.

"2-0 Takuya-Komoshi serves."

"I can't believe it! The golden pair lost their service game. This is totally the girls' pace," said Horio.

"Oishi isn't going to stand by and let the girls take this game," said Momo

Eiji was breathing heavily. This is bad, Oishi thought. Eiji had completely fallen for the girls' trap. Eiji couldn't back down from an acrobatics challenge, and it was clear that his stamina wasn't as good as Hikani's. He had to do something, if not they would really lose.

This time Hikani served.

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Sorry I just ended there. I promise I'll have the next chapter out soon. Oh and I also made some major changes in the previous chapters, so please reread it. And as always criticisms are welcomed.