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Chapter 3

(Next Day)

"Hello? Sakura?" a voice called.

Sakura turned to see the girl from her English class. What was her name again…Midoku! "Yes?"

"I am in your class and I heard you made the tennis team! Congratulations! I am Momo-chan's younger sister, Momoshiro, Midoku!"

"Thank you." Sakura said blushing.

"I know you're new around here, so, I was thinking that after practice I could show you around a bit!" Midoku volunteered.

"Thanks! That would be great, Midoku. I would love to. After tennis practice I will meet you are the school entrance ok!"

"See you then," Midoku waved to Sakura.

Tennis Practice

"Everyone gather up!" Tezuka called. "Since we now have a full regular team, we will begin training for the next tournament. It will be a hard tournament, but I am confident that we will go all the way to nationals. So everyone back to practice!"

"Hai!" Everyone called back.

"Sakura it is time to start practice, please come with me." Inui said.

"Yes Inui-sensei," Sakura followed him to an empty court.

"Before we do any practice, I want you to do some of your stretches. I have to get the court ready."

Sakura started her stretches by rolling her head from side to side; she then rolled her shoulders and wrists. After she did hip rotations, then she sat on the ground and touched her toes. After doing those stretches she stood up and slowly lowered herself until she was doing the splits. She then bent down and touched her forehead to her knees.

After she did her stretches she got up and shook her arms and legs. She turned around to see Inui-sensei looking at her oddly.

"What?" she asked.

"Sorry, I just haven't seen anyone touch their head to their knees in a long time"

"I used to do gymnastics."

"OK. To begin, I am going to test you on your reflexes. I have three different colored pylons set up and I have tennis balls with the three different colors on them. I want you to hit the same color tennis ball to the same colored pylon ok?"

Sakura just nodded.

This exercise they soon found out wasn't her strongest. She never misses hitting a pylon but she got the colors mixed up a lot. After that exercise, they moved on to others until the practice was over. Inui found he got a lot of information but he knew that she was still hiding a few things,

"Hey Midoku!" Sakura waved running up to her tour guide for the afternoon.

"Hey Sakura, how was your practice? I heard you spent the whole time with Inui-sensei."

"It was ok. I mean some of the exercises were pretty difficult but I hope to get better at them soon. You know, to improve my skills."

"Improving your skills is a good goal, Sakura. But try not to improve too fast, considering you kicked my brother's butt, and I think it would really bruise his ego if you were to improve too much, too soon," Midoku said, giggling.

"I will, I wouldn't want to hurt the poor boys feelings now would I?" Sakura said trying to keep a straight face but failing miserably.

After laughing for a few minutes Midoku asked, "So Sakura, what do you want to do first?"

"Well I'm a little hungry, so I was thinking maybe we could go and get some ice cream. Do you know any good ice cream places around here?"

"Ya, there is a great place about two blocks from here and they have great ice cream. What your favorite flavor?"

"Well I would have to say chocolate! You see I LOVE chocolate and I am a chocoholic." Sakura stated.

"Me too! Wow we have something in common."

"Midoku, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Sakura said as she hooked arms with Midoku and walked to the ice cream parlor.

By the time they reached the ice cream parlor, they found out that they had a lot more in common with each other than they had thought.

They both loved cats; they both liked the same kind of music; etc. The only thing they did not agree on was who the hottest boy in school was.

"Sakura how can you think my brother is hot! I mean. That is so gross. Now if you were to think Fuji-senpai was the hottest, I would say you were getting close, but my brother! Ew, gross!"

"I'm sorry you don't agree, but it's not my fault I think he is hot, but hey, can we stop talking about this? I don't usually talk about boys. My family thinks I am too young to have a boyfriend, or even be interested in boys for that matter."

"Wow, that's a pretty protective family you have there. Oh well. What did you think about that English quiz we had today?" Midoku asked.

Grateful for the change of topic, Sakura smiled and said, "I thought that is was pretty easy."

"Easy? How could you think that test was easy? That was one of the hardest English tests I have ever done. I am just not getting it this year. It is so much harder than it was last year." Midoku sulked.

"Hey if you ever need help I am willing to help you. I mean, what kind of friend would I be if I didn't share my knowledge of the English language with you?" Sakura giggled trying to sound important.

Midoku playfully slapped Sakura on the shoulder and said, "Oh mighty English Goddess, please share your knowledge with this unworthy mortal."

After laughing again for a few minutes, Sakura smiled and asked, "Do you really want help? Because is if so when do you want to start and where?"

"Yes I would love the help. How about right now? At my house. You can stay for dinner. My mom loves to have guests over for dinner and always makes enough food to feed an army. Though I must warn, you my dad is crazier than my brother and may ask you some embarrassing questions. But don't worry, I will never leave you alone by yourself with him. Though you don't think my brother is weird, so-" Midoku was cut of by Sakura.

"Midoku you are rambling. If I go with you right now, will you shut up before you die of oxygen deprivation?"

Blushing, Midoku nodded and said, "Sorry, so my house is this way. Let's get going!"

They were talking and laughing some more as they walked to Midoku's house, feeling as though they had been friends for years, and had not met only the day before.

"Hey Mom, I'm home and I brought a friend!" Midoku called as they entered the house.

"Hello, my name is Momoshiro Ann, and I am pleased to meet you," said Midoku's mom.

"Hello, my name is Sakura and I just recently moved here. It's a pleasure to meet you." Sakura said politely.

"Mom, can Sakura stay for dinner tonight? She is going to help me with my English, and I thought that she could stay."

Midoku's mom looked really happy and replied, "I don't mind, but Sakura will have to ask her parents first."

"I am living with my grandfather at the moment, my parents are very busy and move a lot that is why I moved here," Sakura told them.

"Well, why don't you call your grandfather and ask him if you can stay, we would love it if you would." Midoku's mom said.

After calling her grandpa, Sakura and Midoku went upstairs to practice some English. Time flew and before they knew it, it was dinner.

When they got to the dinning room, Midoku's dad was already seated.

"Hey, dad! This is my new friend, Sakura. Sakura this is my dad."

"Pleased to meet you, Sakura. My name is Momoshiro Takeshi, but please call me Momo-san." He said smiling.

"Nice to meet you, Momo-san," Sakura replied.

"Hey Mom, I am home! I brought Fuji –senpai. You know how he loves your cooking!" Momo called in as he walked into the dinning room.

"Hey, Nee-chan! Hello Fuji-senpai!" Midoku called.

"Hey sis…." Momo stopped when he saw Sakura but Fuji just smiled and said, "Hello Momo-san, Momoshiro-san, Midoku and Sakura. What a surprise to see you here Sakura."

"Oh Fuji-san how nice of you to join us, please sit down." Midoku's mom said coming in.

"Hello Fuji-senpai, hello Momo-chan," Sakura said.

"Sakura, how is it that you know these boys? Is the tennis team that popular?" Momo-san asked.

Midoku giggled and Sakura's face turned red, but Fuji just smiled and replied, "She is on the team."

"Oh that is great Sakura congratulations!" Midoku's mom said.

"Don't you have to be a boy and a team member to get onto the team?" asked Momo-san.

Sakura blushed but answered, "I disguised myself as a boy and beat a team member."

Momo-san laughed and said, "Wow! The team member that lost to a girl must not have been very good, who was it?"

Momo gritted his teeth and said, "Me, she beast me, dad."

Momo-san shut his mouth and stopped laughing, "She beat you? How could she beat you Son?"

"Just because I am a girl sir does not mean that I can't beat a boy. I am better than I look." Sakura said angrily.

Fuji just laughed and said, "Momo-san your son is still really good but Sakura beat him, she is also really good. We actually only found out that she was a girl when Momo hit her hat off of her head, he probably would have beaten her if we hadn't found out she was a girl."

"I still don't believe Tezuka allowed a girl on the team! I don't believe that a girl is good enough to beat some of the opponents out there. I used to be on the team as a regular and I know that it is hard."

Fuji opened his eyes and smiled, "Momo-san if you don't believe that Sakura is good enough why don't you play her after dinner and test her?"

"I think I will." Momo-san said.

"I accept how about we make a wager, if I loose I will quite the team but if you loose you will have to admit that girls can be better tennis players than boys."

They shook hands and ate dinner in silence.

"Sakura, my dad was on the Seigaku team when he went to school. He is really good and really strong. I would beware of his smashes," Midoku advised.

"Thanks Midoku, I will keep that in mind," Sakura said and started her warm ups.

"Fuji-senpai, would you mind being the referee for us?" Sakura asked.

Smiling Fuji said, "I would love to, Sakura-chan."

Taking his place, Fuji called, "Serve Momo-san"

Momo-san served the ball with great speed and strength. 'A girl beat me….never,' he thought.

Sakura returned the ball without doing anything fancy yet.

The game went on and on Momo-san was winning 4 to 2. Sakura still hadn't done any of her acrobatics.

"I can't see how you lost to her Ryo! She is good but nothing special." Momo-san called out to his son as he hit the ball again.

"He lost like this!" Sakura said jumping into the air and doing a flip and winning a point.

Sakura did flips summersaults and everything in between and beat Momo-san 6-4.

"Your slam dunks are pretty tough," Sakura said while shaking hands at the end.

"I will now admit that girls are just as good at tennis as guys are, and that you should be on the team. They can only benefit from a player like you Sakura. Truce?" Momo-san asked.

"Truce!" Sakura said.

"That was a great game Sakura! You beat my dad and got him to admit that girls were just as good as guys!" Midoku said hugging her.

Sakura smiled and said, "It was fun! I really enjoyed playing. Maybe we can do it again sometime Momo-san?"

Laughing Momo-san replied, "Sure we will, but next time I won't be so easy on you."

"Oh look at the time, my grandpa must be looking for me. I have to go now! See you guys at school tomorrow!" Sakura waved and ran home.

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