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A/N: Arigatou for your reviews! Hope you like this chapter!

(Word) = actions Italicized Sentences = thoughts

"Kikumaru-senpai and Momo-senpai told me to come here and meet the person who would take me to Hawaii with him..." Sakuno blushed.

"What? You?"

"Hai..."

"Then let's get going...We're gonna be late...Let's go!" Echizen held her hand and ran since the station was crowded.
Chapter 3- What does Ryoma think of me...?

Sakuno blushed as she looked down at Ryoma's hand which held her own.

Sakuno wore a pink shirt, a white mini-skirt, and brought along her black purse which hanged a little above her rib cage.

"We're gonna be late...pick up your pace..." Ryoma raised his speed.

Sakuno simply nodded.

===the train to the harbor===

"Somehow...we made it...in time..." Ryoma said between breaths.

"Mmm...Ryoma-kun..." Sakuno started staring at her own feet, too shy to look up at Ryoma's sharp eyes.

As the train moved, the people became unbalanced and were irritated with the amount of space they had.

"Move it!" A muscular man pushed Sakuno, causing her to fall onto Ryoma.

She blushed feverishly as she held on tight to his shirt.

"Daijobu?" Ryoma looked down at Sakuno's scared face.

"Hai..." Sakuno closed her eyes.

"Hold on tight, so we don't separate..." Ryoma held onto the pole next to him while Sakuno's grip tightened.

===Seigaku meeting===

Momo and Eiji snickered as Tezuka explained the tactics and training they were going to begin when Echizen came back.

"Momo! Eiji! Would you like to share what you and Momo were talking about!?" Tezuka gave them a harsh look.

Eiji gave him a smiling grin and answered, "We were talking about O-chibi and his date to Hawaii!"

"It seems like he might enjoy this trip!!" Momo chuckled.

"D-date? Who is it?" Oishi asked.

"Oishi-mama wants to know! He must be worried about our o-chibi!" Eiji laughed.

"Wrong! I'm just wondering!" Oishi blushed.

"He's going with...with..." Momo stopped in mid sentence to create suspense.

"Ann-chan?" Fuji smiled.

"WRONG!!! WHY WOULD SHE WANT TO GO OUT WITH THAT COLD BLOODED GUY!?" Momo shouted angrily.

Everyone started laughing at Momo's reaction except Tezuka.

"Must be love-love..." Kaidoh hissed.

"What do you mean by that, viper!?"

"Momo...you sly dog! Nya!"

"Eiji-senpai!! Not you too!"

"100% love..." Inui calculated and Taka nodded.

"I wanna know who Ryoma is with!!" Oishi shouted.

"With Ryusaki-sensei's granddaughter!" Momo and Eiji shouted happily.

"Nani!?" everyone yelled out surprisingly.

"Fuji...You're not surprised...why is that?" Oishi looked at Fuji's smiling face.

"She seems to be the only perfect one for Echizen...she comes to all out games and treats Echizen nicely" Fuji explained and then turned to Tezuka, "You have no emotionin your face Tezuka. What's wrong?"

"I don't care...Let's continue..."

"Captain must be really happy inside even though he doesn't show it..." Momo whispered to Eiji.

Eiji snickered.

"MOMO! EIJI! RUN 20 LAPS NOW!!" Tezuka pointed to the door.

"HAI!"

===the walk to the harbor===

"Let's go...this is our stop" Ryoma held onto her hand once again.

"H-h-hai..." Sakuno said nervously.

"It's a 30 minute walk to the harbor..." Ryoma carried his luggage with one hand.

Sakuno gasped as she tried to carry her own luggage.

Ryoma turned around and asked, "What's the matter with you? You're so slow..."

"Ahh..." Sakuno looked the floor, brokenhearted.

"Oy...you okay? If that's bag too heavy for you...I can help...Just ask..."

"N-no...no need to-" Sakuno tried to lift the bag once again and gasped as the heavy load pulled her down.

"I'll help you...We'll be late..." Ryoma picked up her luggage and began walking ahead.

"A-a-arigatou...Ryoma-kun..." Sakuno ran to catch up to him and flashed a smile at him.

They walked in silence along the way. Sakuno too shy to speak and Ryoma remained his usual self.

"A-a-ano...Ryoma-kun..." Sakuno twiddled her two index fingers together.

"Huh, nani?" Ryoma said in a cool tone.

"T-the tic-tickets..."

"What about them?"

"How d-did you get them?"

"I won them in the lotto game last week..."

"And...why did you have senpais...ask a girl out for you?"

"I didn't...I actually didn't want to come to this trip in the first place...they forced me..."

When Sakuno heard this, her dream shattered.

"A-ah-ah...I see..." Her head drooped below her shoulders and her arms went numb.

"I thought my dream finally came true...it was all a set-up...I can't believe I made myself look like a fool...my chest hurts Sakuno sighed and Ryoma looked at her with a weird face.

"Daijobu?"

"Huh? Ah...hai..." Sakuno tried very hard to smile at him, but just looking at his face made her feel stupid.

===the ship===

"Please hand over your tickets!" A sailor yelled out.

Ryoma searched for the tickets in his red jacket.

He searched the left pocket which was right under the letter R on his jacket and murmured, "Here it is..."

Sakuno took the ticket out of her purse and gloomily handed the ticket to the sailor.

"Douzo!" The sailor bowed and signaled them to walk onboard.

A man dressed in red with a white sailor hat bowed to them and greeted.

"Good afternoon sir, ma'am. I will be your servant for this boat trip...I will show you twoyour room." He walked towards the cabins with the two teenagers following behind him.

"Here we are..." He opened the door with a key and handed Ryoma the key.

"You and your girlfriend will share this room..." he bowed once more and when he was about to leave, he winked at Ryoma.

"G-girlfriend!?" Sakuno shouted nervously.

"What does that wink mean?" Ryoma tilted his head to the right and just looked at the retreating man's back.

A blushing Sakuno and a still wondering Ryoma walked into the cabin.

The beds looked comfy with velvet sheets that covered it, a dining table with champagne glasses on top, velvet curtains covered the window which the shining sea could be seen, and a bookshelf that stood in the opposite side of the beds.

"Pretty!!" Sakuno spun around the room with an awed face.

"Teh...I'm going to sleep..." Ryoma jumped on the bed after he placed the bags on the floor.

"Don't you want to do something fun?" Sakuno sat on the bed next to Ryoma's and stared at his tired face.

"No...I'm tired...Can you put the alarm on to 1 o'clock please..." Ryoma turned around from the staring Sakuno and fell asleep quickly.

Sakuno sighed, turned on the alarm clock, and laid on the bed quietly, looking up at the white ceiling.

"I guess I should check this boat by myself...and I thought I was going to have a great time here..." Sakuno got up, walked to the door, turned the knob slowly on the door so she wouldn't wake Ryoma up, and stepped outside.

===Sakuno===

Sakuno picked up a map from the main cabin and looked for a fun place to hang out.

"Wow...they even have a pool, many restaurants, dancing halls, and lessons onboard...I wonder if Ryoma-kun will dance with me..."

Sakuno walked around randomly as her imagination took the best of her...

===Sakuno's Imagination===

"Sakuno...may I please have this dance?" Ryoma kneeled down on one knee, crossed one arm across his chest, took her hand, and gave it a kiss.

"H-hai..." Sakuno blushed and accepted.

They started dancing the waltz...they moved smoothly to the song as Ryoma stared at Sakuno's eyes and she stared back...

They edged nearer and nearer to each other...Sakuno closed her eyes...

===Sakuno's Imagination has been disrupted===

"Itttee!" Sakuno fell to the floor after she had crashed into a muscular guy.

"Watch it, little girl!" The man chuckled as he looked up her skirt.

"G-gomen nasai!" Sakuno got up quickly and bowed at him.

"That really hurts...Since you hurt me...I want you to do one favor for me...and I know just the thing..." the man walked closer to Sakuno with hungry eyes.

Sakuno backed up slowly with a terrified face...

===Ryoma===

Rinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng!!!

"Eh...the alarm clock...Already?" Ryoma ran his fingers through his green hair and blinked several times.

He walked to the bathroom and washed his face.

"Where's that girl? What's her name again...? Oh yeah...Ryusaki..." Ryoma looked around the room and saw no sign of her.

Ryoma sighed and murmured, "I guess I have to find her...Need to eat lunch...Geez...How troublesome..." Ryoma took out his tennis racket and one tennis ball.

He started hitting the ball up every time it fell back down from the air.

(Takeshi: Uhh...I don't know how to describe this, but when Seigaku was going to play Fudomine. Shinji and Ryoma were staring at each other, playing with their rackets...)

He walked for a couple of minutes until he saw a person with 2 brown braids lying on the floor.

"Ryusaki...?" He walked closer to confirm it.

"Come on pretty girl! You know you like me!" The man kept on staring at her from head to toe.

"R-ryoma-kunnnn!!!!!" Sakuno shouted out loud.

Suddenly, a tennis ball hit the man's head.

"OUCH!!" He turned around to the short Ryoma.

"You little brat!!! What the hell is your problem!?"

"You're touching my sister..."

"S-sister?! Is that how he feels about me?! Sister!?" {Sakuno's thoughts}

"Your sister? So what? This is not your problem! Now beat it shrimp!" He turned around to the scared Sakuno.

"I don't think you should do that..."

"Why is that little punk?"

"My dad is a police man...Yeah right...and he told me to protect her while he was eating lunch...he told me that if anything happens to her...I have to call him and he will immediately arrest you..." Ryoma took out his cell phone and started dialing.

"Wait, wait! I give up! I won't harm her! You can take her back!" The man pushed Sakuno hard back to Ryoma and sprinted away.

Sakuno stood behind him and held on to his arm.

"Geez...You always get me into these problems..."

"G-gomen..." Tears formed at the edge of Sakuno's eyes and her grip tightened on Ryoma's arm.

"Oy! Don't cry! What's wrong? Are you hurt or something?"

"No...It's just that I keep causing problems..."

"Just forget about it...let's go eat...I'm starving..."

Sakuno held onto his arm and walked beside him.

They walked straight to the restaurants...

TBC

Hope you liked this chappie!! I hope it was a lot more descriptive this time...I tried to take my time too! Please RR!

.:Takeshi:.