Chapter 1
There was a knock at the door and Nanjirou Echizen answered it!
"Grandpa!" was yelled before Nanjirou was attacked and hugged by the person outside his door!
"Sakura! Hey, what are you doing here? Where is that lazy son of mine and his beautiful wife hmmmm?" Nanjirou asked.
"Oh it's only me! Mom and dad said I could come for a visit! I just love spending time with you! Since I am here mom also thought it would be good of me to go to school and stuff so I could keep up with my studies! They said I could stay as long as I wanted! That is if you want me to stay here!" Sakura lied to her grandfather.
"Of course you can stay here! As long as you want you are always welcome here! Well you know where too sleep why don't you go and take a shower or bath then go to bed! You look pretty tiered!" Nanjirou kissed her forehead and pushed her in the direction of the bathroom.
"Thank you grandpa! I love you! I guess I will see you tomorrow then," she kissed his cheek and went to take her bath!
That night when Sakura had finally fallen asleep Nanjirou made and important call that would affect everything.
"Good morning grandpa!" Sakura said with a smile.
"Don't you mean afternoon? You slept all morning? I also found this still in her cage this morning. I took her out and fed her but you should be more careful with your pets Sakura!"
"Neko! I am so sorry!" Sakura said taking her cat! (Who looks exactly like Ryoma's cat!)
"Well why don't we go and register you at Seigaku Jr. high, and after that since your birthday just past why don't we go downtown to bye you a new tennis racket? Your other one seems pretty old!"
"Ok Grandpa, thank you!"
So after Sakura and her grandpa had registered her, they went to buy her a new racket!
You see Sakura had been interested in tennis but never told her parents and so therefore used one of Ryoma's old tennis rackets.
Sakura liked to do many things other than tennis though. She studied martial arts, after an incident that scared her into learning, singing and gymnastics.
Actually Sakura was a gold medal gymnast. Not that her parents knew and if they did they sure were good at hiding it! Sakura's parents were Ryoma and Sakuno Echizen. Ryoma Echizen was a famous tennis player and Sakuno was his biggest fan, never missing a game even if it meant missing your own daughter's birthday.
Sakura took mostly after her dad, much to her dislike. She had black hair only hers reached to the bottom of her shoulder blades. She had liquid gold catlike eyes and small body.
The only thing she had gotten from her mother was the fact that she was a girl and that she had emotions. Her dad rarely smiled.
"Sakura, I was talking with the principal of your school and she said that today was the last day for you to sign up for any clubs for about two months so she gave this to me and told me to tell you that after school all the clubs are meeting and all you have to do is show this pass to the person in charge and you can get into the club. There night be a little bit of confusion but it explains it all in the letter."
Sakura read the letter:
This student has just transferred to this school and would like to join your club. Please allow it.
It was signed by the principal.
"I have an idea of which clubs to join so I will go and get changed and go down to the school right now."
Sakura hurried to her room and changed into some baggy shorts and t-shirt. She also put her hair up into her baseball cap hiding her hair from few.
"Bye Grandpa! I will see you after the club!" Sakura yelled as she picked up her new tennis racket in its new case and left the house.
When she got to the school she had a little trouble finding the tennis courts but eventually found the way.
Sakura found her way to the boys section of the tennis courts and found what looked like the sensei. Sakura spoke up lowering her voice to sound like a boys, "Excuse me are you the sensei in charge of this club?"
Tezuka looked down at the young boy and nodded. "Why do you ask?" he said coolly.
"This should explain it all," Sakura said handing him the letter.
"So you are a new transfer student? Well what's your name?"
"Saku."
"Well Saku how well do you play tennis? We shall see by you playing another member of our club. Do ten laps as a warm up and then you will play a second year. Go now."
Sakura almost let out a sigh of relief. She had gotten past the teacher. Her disguise was working. She started to jog her ten laps around the tennis court.
After finishing her ten laps she was a little out of breath but other than that perfectly warmed up.
"Saku over here. You will play Yamazaki."
Sakura shook his hand and got into her position. Racket in her right hand.
Yamazaki wasn't a hard opponent and Sakura won the game 6-0.
"Does anyone else want to play?" Sakura asked.
"I will my name is Xiao. I am a third year and this year I am going to make regular. But I think I will take it easy on you considering how small you are." Xiao stated proudly.
"Whatever can we start playing now? The sooner I deflate your ego the better. I wonder how you even play with such a big head your balance must be way off." Sakura drawled.
"That's it you little punk I am going to clean the floor with you!"
This game was a little more challenging but Sakura won 6-1. Sakura looked over to Tezuka and said, "Tezuka-sensei is this the best you've got?"
"No, but our regulars should be showing up soon. But since you are so disrespectful you will now run 20 laps now go."
"Fine!"
As Sakura was on her 11 laps a bus rolled in and what she guess were the regulars got out of the bus.
"Who's the new Kid Tezuka?" a voice from behind him asked.
"Saku. A very good player beat Yamazaki and Xiao after running 10 laps and is now running 20 for his lip Inui."
"Well you sound impressed! Going to put him in the ranking tournament tomorrow?" asked the man now identified as Inui.
"I think I might, I mean with Lang's broken arm we have a space left open and I think Saku could fill it nicely."
"Is he a freshmen?" asked Inui.
"I think so but he has great potential."
"That's says a lot coming from you Tezuka. Anything unique about his tennis skills? Something that could help him win like a move or something?"
"No from what I saw all his moves were very basic. He uses his right hand and doesn't do any complicated moves. That is what is so surprising I think he is hiding something."
"Well he must be if you think so. I think this will be an interesting tournament. We shall see how it goes."
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