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Getting New Regulars

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"Game Set! Won by Echizen, 6-0!" Echizen had won again. This was his last match in the rankings and he had won every match. Now all there was to do was watch the board while Momo had his matches. This time, there were only three regulars participating in the matches that it was decided that Momo wouldn't have any match until Echizen was done. He would have to watch the board and record scores. Every-so-often, Kaido would come take over for a while. When Echizen was done, Momo would have his matches. Again, Kaido was to come a few times so Echizen could have a break.

Echizen walked to the table where Momo was lounging on the chair. "Momo-senpai, you can go now. I'm done with my matches," Echizen said while putting in his last score. He then pushed Momo off the chair and sat down himself.

"Fine, fine. Echizen, I'm counting on you! See ya!" Momo replied and ran off. Echizen sighed and leaned back on the chair, closing his eyes. He daydreamed until a voice brought him out.

"B Block, Arai Masashi, 6-4," Echizen looked up to see Arai standing there, looking exhausted. Sighing, he turned around (and he had to stand up too!) to write it down.

"Okay. One more match with Kaido-senpai and you're done." Echizen told Arai. Arai just nodded his head and walked off. Echizen was quite surprised, as Arai never seemed to like him. Shrugging, he sat back down and was about to start daydreaming when a different voice startled him.

"D Block, Katou Kachirou, 7-5," Kachirou was in front of Echizen, sweat dripping all over the ground. He looked to Echizen like he had just come out of a swimming pool. "Ryoma-kun, I won my match against Horio-kun," Kachirou had a really proud look on his face.

"Good job. You have two more matches left. Good luck," Echizen answered his friend, nodding. Echizen then looked for Horio who was sure to come next, looking sad. He was SURE Horio would be disappointed. Looking around a second time, Echizen finally saw him.

"D Block, Horio Osatoshi, 5-7," Horio told Echizen with a really depressed voice. He didn't even wait for an answer before going away. Echizen would have followed if he could, but he needed to watch the table. He was about to sink back into the chair when a voice, once again, startled him out of his reverie.

"Echizen, you can take a break," a gruff voice that had a faint hiss to it. Kaido wrote his score in and looked at Echizen. "Go. I can watch for about ten minutes." Echizen, jumped up and walked away. Kaido hissed and sat down.

Echizen ran to catch up to Horio. It wasn't that hard, as Horio was walking very slowly. "Horio?"

Horio looked up to the sound of his name being called. "What?" he asked in a kind of pissed off voice. "Here to gloat about me losing? If you are, go away. I don't need it." Horio started walking off again, but Echizen stopped him.

"No. I'm not here to gloat. I'm just here to see if you're okay. I mean, you're my fr... fr... frie... classmate. I wondered. Plus, I know what it feels like to lose," Echizen just couldn't seem to get the word 'friend' out. Horio wasn't really his 'friend.' In a way, yes, but not really.

Horio just stared at him and walked away. Echizen didn't even try to stop him this time. Sure, you try to do something nice for once and you get brushed off. Yanking his hat down, he walked back to the table. Kaido stood and walked away as Echizen took the chair.

By five o'clock, all the matches were done. The last one had been Momo verses Masaya. Of course, Momo won. After looking through the results, the eight regulars had been chosen. From Block A were Momoshiro Takeshi and Ikeda Masaya. From Block B were Kaido Kaoru and Arai Masashi. From Block C were Echizen Ryoma and Aichi Masanori. From Block D were Hayashi Yoshiaki and Mishima Kenta. All of them were third-years, except Echizen.

Momo sent everybody home, except Kaido and Echizen, after the results were announced. The three of them walked up to Ryuzaki-sensei's office and presented her with the results. She looked over them, then at the three. "Training all of them is going to be hard. Most of them always lost against non-regular third-years last year."

"Yeah, and the end of this school year is going to be hard too, baa-san. Only Echizen here is a second-year. What will you do with seven never-been-regulars and one stubborn been-a-regular-since-first-year as your team?" Momo replied jokingly.

Once Momo said that, he got a tennis ball in his face, a glare, a hiss, and a quiet chuckle. Echizen had thrown a tennis ball at Momo while glaring at him. Momo glared right back. Ryuzaki-sensei's chuckle just got louder when she saw this. The three regulars just stared at her until she stopped.

"Anyway, we'll worry about that later, Momo. For now, we have to concentrate on this year's team. We need to train really hard if we want to win the district, prefecturals, regionals, and nationals. I'm counting on all three of you to help the rest of the team. Got it?" Ryuzaki-sensei looked at each regular in the eye. The three nodded in unison. "Alright. Go home and get a good night's rest. See you tomorrow morning at practice."

The trio once again nodded and walked out. Kaido went to do his customary excises while Momo took Echizen home on his bicycle. On the way, Momo and Echizen decided to call the former third years to inform them who was now on the team. Momo was to call Inui, Kikumaru, and Oishi. Echizen was to call Tezuka, Fuji, and Taka-san. Momo wanted to call Inui so he could ask him about the new regulars. When they reached the Echizen household, they parted, Echizen going to his room while Momo went on to his house.

Thus, the first of the ranking matches for that year ended with three returning regulars and five new regulars...

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Okay, okay. This wasn't as good as the others. I just wanted to introduce the newest regulars. Just for information, they are: Momo, Kaido, Echizen, Arai Masashi, Ikeda Masaya, Hayashi Yoshiaki (in the first volume of Tenipuri, Masaya and Hayashi trick the first years. Well, they never said his first name so I made one up!), Mishima Kenta (OC), and Aichi Masanori (another OC). Next chapter will be the former third years. It will describe their first day. I think I'll separate them into two chapters, I don't rightly know. Okay! Bai2! Please review!