Disclaimers: Nope, I don't own any of the POT chars….Don't sue or anything…..I need my money for college….

A/N: ARIGATOU MINA-SAN FOR MY! bows thanx to the readers I really didn't think anyone would've read this….LOL…I still had mistakes after I revised it….shakes her head But…Honto ni Arigatou. Hopes this one is as good as the first one.

Arigatou Kyande, Myst, Amai, Nadesico, and Sakura82282, I'll do my best, I just hope it's enough.

Ch 2: Getting to Know You.

'She's kawaii' Oishi ponders to himself about the girl he had met earlier as he serves. He served beautifully to his opponent, Echizen.

"Mada mada dane" he said and waited for a few minutes. As the ball decent, he heads towards the net real fast and slides on his heels, then jumped up and smashed the ball. It landed in a B letter, it's his Drive B ball, and it caught Oishi off guard since his heads were filled with something else.

"Ne Oishi, you don't seems like yourself today. What's wrong?" His best friend Eiji asked.

"Eh..Nandemonai" He smiled at Eiji.

"Ok, lets take a break" Coach Ryuzaki called out to all the 8 regulars and tennis club members. "The try out for this month will be held after school tomorrow, this time will add two more members because of the third doubles." the coach said and everyone who's not already a regular smiled in hope that they'll have a chance.

"Well, enough practice for today, rest and be prepare for tomorrow's try out. " The couch dismissed everyone "SIGN UP IS TOMORROW MORNING BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS" she screamed out as they all head for their lockers.

"Oishi-kun" A girl voice called out sweetly and most of the members turned to look at Oishi and it made him blush.

'Who's that calling me?' he pondered to himself and looked for the owner of that voice. He searched for it, looking over other's boy's heads. From across the fence, he saw the same light brown eyes looking at him. He smiled at her and wave.

"Sasaki-chan, what brings you here?" He asked as he approaches her.

"I'm interested in tennis, so I thought I come and see what you guys do here."

"You could've gone to the girl's practice instead of the guys"

"I did, they're weren't really interesting so I came to see the guys. I didn't know you play tennis," She then laughed at herself. 'Baka, you only talked to him a few seconds and only got his name' she mentally gave herself a kick in the arse.

"What's so funny?" Oishi asked kind of pissed to think that she thinks it's funny that he played tennis.

"Oh…I didn't know you played tennis cause we only spoke for a few minutes."

Oishi nods and blush some more ' So does this means she wants to get to know me?' he thought and blushes even more. His face turned a tomato color red.

"Ummm…I have to go change. I'll be back, wait for me ne?" He said and took off without looking at her because he didn't want her to see that he's blushing. She tilts her head to the side and smiled at his cuteness. She walked to a bench under a sakura tree and sat down placing her bag to the ground.

"Ja" Momo, Ryoma, and Eiji said, as they're about to leave for home. They walked to Nari's direction and stop a few feet away from her. Momo and Eiji just stared at the brown hair girl with red highlights. She seems to glow with bright stars under the sakura tree. She's in her normal school uniform but she looked extra kawaii with her hair. She turns to their direction and smiled at them. They both blush and Ryoma just acted cool like he always does. They walked over to her and introduced themselves.

"Kon'nichi wa, I'm Momoshiro Takeshi. But please call me Momo-chan." He smiled at her and pats Eiji's back.

"He's Kikumaru Eiji and that shorty there is…" He was cut off before he could introduce Ryoma.

"Echizen Ryoma-kun" She smiled warmly at them. She had never really smiled at anyone before. Ever since she moved here, she changed for the better and had been smiling more often and opened up more. She and Maeko had become the best of friends. She's nicer and has more patient not short tempered like she was back then.

"How did you know his name?" Momo asked blankly and confused, Eiji looked confused too. Both Momo and Eiji turned to Ryoma hoping that he can explain it, but he was startle by her knowing his name as well. He had never met her before until today, how could she know his name? He gave the 'Don't look at me, I don't know either' look back to Momo and Eiji.

She laughed slightly at their confused faces and shakes her head at them.

"I am from America, you know" She spoke in utmost perfect English

"You're from America?" Ryoma spoke in his perfect English as well.

"Nani? What are you guys saying?" Momo asked and Eiji were busy trying to figure out what they said to have heard Momo.

Nari nods to Ryoma and introduce herself "I'm Nari Sasaki, please to meet you"

"Yo, I'm…well…you already know, but how?" he arched and eye brow.

"I do watch tennis and read the magazines, so of course I know the famous junior champion." (hope that's correct) she said with a small playful attitude, turning to Momo and Eiji, she said "Yoroshikun…Watashi wa Sasaki Nari."

"The pleasure is mine, are you new here, I don't think I ever ran into you last semester. I think I would remember such a kawaii face if I did" Eiji gave her, his to die for smile and she nodded.

"I just came here from America, like I told Echizen-kun before."

"How do you know how to speak Japanese so fluently?" Momo asked the same question that's on Eiji's mind.

"Well, there's school, and my….mother" She bit her lower lip and lowered her head.

"Baka, I'm from America too remember?" Ryoma said

"Who you calling a baka you disrespectful chibi" he said angrily and Eiji just sighed knowing that this happens almost every day between those two.

"The big one right in front of my eyes, that's you baka" He scoffed at Momo

"You little bastard" Momo's eyes twitch and he reached for Ryoma wanting to choke him but stop as giggle is heard.

"Do you two always fight like this?" She asked them amused.

"ALWAYS is right. They always fight about everything," Eiji laughed.

"Oishi? Who's the girl you were talking to?" Fuji smiled at him while asking the question

"I just met her today, her name is Sasaki Nari" Oishi blushed a bit saying her name. He tries to cover his blushing and closed his locker up.

"She's kawaii isn't she?" Fuji closed his locker gently looking over to him and has his usual smile on his face. Oishi blushed even more.

"I don't know, I guess she is."

"Are you blushing Oishi?" Fuji asked

"Yatta! I'm not"

"Ok, Oishi, I have to go now, sayonara." he said as he leaves and left Oishi all alone inside the locker. Oishi was the last one to leave so he had to lock up.

"You two act like brothers" she said with a light laugh.

"WE DO NOT!" They both barked back and send each other's glares, which made Eiji and Nari, laughed harder.

"Gomen. I'll stop teasing you two now."

"Well, I have things to do, so ja" Ryoma said in his cool and calm voice.

"I have to go as well, see ya" Momo said and Eiji bid his good-byes to her after. They all left together, a few minutes later Oishi came out of the locker and locked it. He turns to where he sees Narai and ran towards her screaming her name out.

"Sasaki-chan, gomen nasai for waiting so long for me." he said standing in front of her catching his breath.

"It's ok, Oishi-kun" She stretched out her hand to ask for assistants from Oishi. He blushed and hesitated for a few seconds before reaching out his hand to offer the help to her. She rose with his help and they began their way home. From behind the bushes, not far away, three pairs of eyes were watching them.

"Hey! They look friendly" Momo said as he watch them pass by. They jump into the bushes after hearing Oishi calling Nari. Well he and Eiji anyways, Ryoma was dragged into the bushes by him.

"Oishi found a girlfriend? He won't hear the end of this one" Eiji laughed mentally.

"Let's follow them!" Momo suggested and Eiji's eyes filled with stars as he nod happily.

"Why? I have more important things to do at home. You can do this if you want, I don't want to be a nosy moron like you" Ryoma said with his eyes closed pulling his cap down so his face is almost hidden by it. Angry marks appeared on Momo's head and Eiji sweat drop.

"Calm down, they might find us out" He said trying to stop Momo from killing Ryoma

"You're coming with us either way. Whether you like it or not" Momo calmed down and dragged Ryoma with them going from bush to bush following Oishi and Nari. They walked home talking to each other and laughing like they were old friends who've just met up with each other again. Oishi was the one who really talked about himself and opened up to her a bit. She listened and was getting more interested in him.

"Sasaki-chan, you said you were interested in tennis, may I ask since when?" He ask wanting to know about her instead of talking about himself.

"You can call me Nari if you like." He blushed hearing her said that he can call her by her first name.

"I started tennis when I was 7" She said a bit down thinking back to her childhood memories of her mother.

"Who taught you?"

"My…Oka-san" She said her voice turning from ganki to a low sad tone.

"Gomen" He said after hearing the mood of her voice changed and knows that something had happened to her mother.

"Daijoubu, It's been almost 7 years. I'm fine," She said as a small smile appears on her face.

"She passed when you were still seven?" She shook her head

"No, I was eight"

"Then, you're not 13?"

"Nope, I'll be 15 in the next five months" She giggled some knowing that her height always mislead people believes of her age and the fact that she's still a second year.

"Nani? Then why are you still a second year?"

"Well, I did bad in school" She only told him the part where she got bad grades and not the part where she was in trouble a lot, or when she was in a gang. So she only told him half the truth. She didn't want him to think less of her.

"Honto? I really wouldn't have guessed" He said with a smile and was scratching his head. Nari laugh a bit watching him. They stopped in the middle of the road since they seemed to live on the opposite road of each other. Nari had to turn left and he had to turn right. She leaned over and whispered in his ear.

"You're kawaii" She giggled and Oishi was standing there, face crimson red and seems like he was on cloud nine. Her voice and that statement seem to play over and over again in his head. "You're kawaii" "Your kawaii" it echoed.

"Ja, Syuichiroh-kun" She said and left but he didn't hear her since he was daydreaming on cloud nine. He didn't notice that she was gone until someone smacked him across his back and sent him back to reality.

"Kon'nichi wa, Oishi" a familiar voice said.


TBC