This is a "Borrowed Dreams" Community Production.
Soundtrack for this chapter- "Be Shiny"- Kimeru
Integrate
By: Kitori Chiharu
Chapter four: Plus twins
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Fridays were normally exciting for Macchi. For one thing, it meant that today was the last of the school week, and she could enjoy the weekend ahead. Of course, that didn't make any difference as to her habits of sleeping in.
"Come on, Matilda." Avern Mattise shook her daughter harder. "Wake up, you're going to be late for school."
The girl mumered something in her half-asleep state, but turned around to face the wall.
"Get up!"
Macchi covered her head with her pillow. "No, just five more minutes..."
"You're already late." Her mother pointed out good-heartedly.
"So? Big deal, I'll skip school." She buried her face into her teddy-bear, eyes still closed.
"Aunty, you go finish breakfast." Kiyosumi grinned, coming into the room. "I'll wake her up."
"Oh, alright." Avern smiled, rushing out of the messy room. Sengoku heard her steps down the stairs, taking a double take at his youngest cousin.
"Come on, you." Sengoku grinned, pulling on Macchi bed sheets. The younger redhead stirred, but made no motion of getting up soon. Kiyosumi smirked before grabbing onto her teddy-bear, jerking it out of of her arm.
Macchi immediate sat up in her bed, glaring at her cousin. "You are so evil."
"I know." He grinned, throwing her jeans and t-shirt from the bedpost into her arm. He headed for the door, still smirking. "Get changed soon though, you're gonna be late for school."
"I'm already late for school."
"Not if I give you a ride." He shrugged. "Now get changed, you bum!"
Kiyosumi slammed the door close in time as Macchi's shoe made connection with the wall.
"Heading out early?" Beth poked her head up from the counter, smiling at Hao.
"Not really." The older twin shrugged. "I want to get there a little early, I'm taking the red one, okay?"
"But your brother needs that car do get to school." The young women blinked, wiping her hands through the towl. "What will he use?"
"Yoh can walk." Hao grabbed his jacket and backpack, heading through the hallway. "After you wake him up."
"He's still asleep!"
"Yeah." Hao chuckled and made his way out the door, glad that he didn't have to be caught in another aggravating fight of waking Yoh up. This was followed by a serious of banging sounds from their room upstairs.
He managed to back out of the garage before his twin was kicked out of the house; hand clutching onto his books, shirt barely straight, tie unwrapped, and one shoe on.
"Hey!" Yoh tapped onto the passenger window. "Give me a ride to St. Rudolph?"
Hao sighed. "Get in."
Yoh was never the morning person. It took forever just to wake him not, and he practically never eats breakfast. That may explain why he was so skinny, but it was also another fact that he never really button their white-uniform shirt right. Even with the brown tie that was required with the St. Rudolph uniform, Yoh never got in trouble with the dress-code.
Probably because he was part of the safety-patrol, Hao concluded as their car zoomed past the neighborhood.
Yoh yawned, stretching his legs out. His brown matching pants were rolled up in the end, a jean-like fashion. "Have you had any breakfast?"
"No, you?" Hao stole a glance at his twin, currently rolling his own window down.
"Let's drop by McDonalds and get something to eat."
"Kay." He reduce the pressure on the breaks, turning right into the fast food drive-through. It was now a routine for the twins, they never really ate breakfast at home. Besides, the local McDonalds was just around the corner to St. Rudolph, so it was more efficient too.
Yoh paid for their milkshake, fries, apple pie, and burgers. Opening the rapper to the dollar-menu meal before dumping another one onto Hao's lap.
Hao turned right again, rolling into the parking lot of St. Rudolph private school. Yoh had yawned, pushing the door open. He stuffed the fries and pie into his bag, stepping out.
"Pick me up after school?" The younger twin asked, sipping onto his milkshake.
"Can't." Hao frowned slightly. "Tennis try-outs end today, I have to be there to annoy what's his face... Nichrome."
"Well, I would hitch a ride with Eli, but he's car is in repair, so he's been walking home." Yoh shrugged. "I guess he doesn't really care, it's only a ten minute route."
"I can skip practice and pick you up." Hao suggested, hands on the stirring wheel.
"No, but you've been practicing so hard for the team!"
"Actually, I haven't been practicing at all, it's not like I really care."
"That's okay, I'll just ask Yugai for a ride." He headed away.
"What? But she's never gonna let you!" Too later, Yoh was already halfway through the parking lot. Hao knew enough that Yugai wasn't the kind of girl to give out free favors, especially not to his brother.
Hao sighed, starting the car once again. He still have to make it to school, after all. Looks like he wasn't going to be early like planned.
Yoh managed to swing by his locker before leading toward the student-fac room. It was the only place he could just relax, hangout, and take a nap before second period starts. Yoh always avoided signing up for a class in the first period, just so he would make up for the sleep he lost.
He slid the door open, blinking. The fac-room was also where the all twenty-five members of the Safety Patrol normally lounged, and he wasn't the only one who had slacking off in mind. Sumino was yawning, legs stretched on the couch. She smirked at Yoh, giving him a soft wave. "Hey." "Hey yourself." The boy grinned, setting his Mp3 player onto one of the desks. "What're you listening to?" Sumino sat up, pony-tail slightly swaggering. "Kimeru." "Really?" Sumino clapped her hands together, reaching over for his digital music player. She managed to fiddle with the palm device for a few seconds, looking up. "This is pretty neat, where did you get it?"
"Not mine." Yoh shrugged, taking a seat next to her on the couch. "Mine broke, this is Hao's."
"Isn't he gonna get mad?" The japanese girl blinked, fixing her tie.
"Not really." Yoh yawned. "He never use it, it's no big deal. Besides, I bet he didn't even notice it was gone."
"Lucky." The door opened, and entered Jada. Her blond hair tied neatly in a high pony-tail, following the school dress code. "I have to beg for the family car, and you get whatever you want?"
Sumino blinked, turning on the coffee machine. "You're getting a license?"
"Yeah." Jada dumped herself backwards on the mini-sofa in another corner, turning on the TV. "I'll be lucky if I can get that stupid truck though. Mom's still mad at me for the whole jello thing, grounded for three month." She casted a dark glare toward Yoh.
There's been a accident on the cross of Jackson's Ave and Kelt Drive, causing some major delays. Channel five's traffic report was on.
The said boy smiled weakly, running a hand through his hair. "I said I was sorry, didn't I?"
"Actually, filling everyone's locker with jello wasn't very funny." Eli was now there as well, his tie falling around the neck of their white uniform, untied. "Even if you were suppose to stop him."
"What did Silva do about it anyway?" Sumino spoke up, leaning back against the wall. "I thought he was gonna expel Namari for it or something, but he's still around." She mentally shivered. "Damn those toilet papers."
In other news, school officials in Laguna county were asked to cancel indoor pools because of heavy injuries due to a storm. The school board is still viewing the case, but did not reply when interviewed on the problem. Some official suspect that this might have something to do with the lack of beneficial cause between Private and Public schools within California. Recently, the school board has been asked to cancel extra days because of the riot.
"Namari's got a rich background." Eli shrugged, keeping an eye on the TV. "They're one of the biggest sponsors for St. Rudolph. If they kick him out, we'd have to go back to instant noodles for lunch."
"The horror." Jada rolled her eyes.
Yoh blinked. "Hey... They weren't that bad."
"Yoh, remember how you threw up in your first year?" Sumino asked, voice somewhat serious.
"Yeah?"
"That was because of the noodles."
The boy paused. "They should do something about food poisoning here."
Also, St. Rudolph private school has been asked to balance their Asian-American ratio. Statistic show that the school has been accepting more Asian students than US recidents. This issue has been leading to rising questions to their recent SAT scores.
Everyone in the room turned to stare at the TV.
While questioning students from other schools, most have mentioned St. Rudolph's tendency to outlook applications to their school. The headmistress denies of that accuse, and said it was because of the grading levels.
Goldva's face appeared on the screen, obviously a video recording. "St. Rudolph's student ratio might as well be a accident. We accept students that are academically inclined and are ready for the challenge of high school. Students that weren't accept has to think about their resume and application."
The image of an reporter sticking her mircophone into Goldva's aged face appeared on the screen. "Is it true that St. Rudolph's level of admitting students is very low?"
"St. Rudolph only accepts the best of the best." Goldva's firm face hovered over the screen. "This interview is over."
"That is just messed up." Eli stared into the screen.
"The other schools are just suspicious of our freakishly high SAT scores." Sumino shrugged. "I guess it's only nature for them to be scared of St. Rudolph's abilities."
"Yeah, but they're accusing us of discrimination." Jada looked up from her seat.
"Silva's gonna have a field-day with this." Eli smirked, leaning onto the handle of the mini-sofa. "What can they say? Even the teachers here are mostly asian."
"There's Faust." Yoh pointed out, stirring the straw into his coffee cup.
"Yeah, but with those heavy make-up and weird accident?" Sumino shuddered, holding her arm. "He's probably not even from this world, or universe."
"We can always ask Eliza."
"The nurse?" Jada made some kind of notion with her face. "She freaks me out just as much, and she never talks. You know that ax thingie she has in the back of the clinic? What is that?"
"Oh, she just keeps it there to scare people like you." Eli waved it off. "Or maybe she inspires to be a cook. Who knows?"
"You need to stop talking now." Sumino rolled her eyes. "I'm gonna have nightmares."
Fuji Yuuta stared at the boy in front of him. "What are you doing here?"
The smiling face of his brother greeted back. "It's nice to see you too, Yuuta. Nee-chan said you were in the exchange program for St. Rudolph, why didn't you tell me?"
The younger boy shrugged. "Didn't think it was important."
"Yuuta." Fuji's face faltered into a somewhat serious expression. "You're leaving this weekend for California, don't you think I had the right to know about it?"
"About what?"
"I won't see you for two month!" Fuji replied, voice firm.
"You never see me around anyways." Yuuta sighed, dumping another pack of cloth into his suitcase. "I'm always here, so there's not gonna be that much of a difference. Just... Think of me being in the dorm."
"Will you call?"
"Aniki!" He stared up at Syuusuke. "You sound like a jelouse girlfriend!"
A cautious smile appeared on the older boy's face. "Maybe I am."
"You're crazy, then!" Yuuta declared.
"Anna, do you still have that expedition list?" The black haired girl spoke up, voice almost soft.
Anna looked up from her laptop. "Which one?"
"The Tap Water registration form." The other girl explained. "I filed a report for it, but Sati seems to have misplaced it. I would make another copy, but I don't have the original form with me. I thought you might have records of the-"
Anna cut her off, reaching halfway for the drawer. She pull it open, flipping through a few sacks before picking up a slim sheet of paper. "Is this it?"
The girl stared at her, undoubtedly impressed. "Wow... I mean, thank you."
The blond shrugged, handing the paper over. "It's no big deal, just make a few copies off-hand and try not to lose them."
"Arigato." The other girl bowed, heading for the door. She nearly walked into Yoh when the door opened, reveling the boy behind.
"Oh, hey Miya." Yoh grinned, stepping aside to make way. Miya smiled, walking out of the door.
"What do you need?" Anna's voice cut through.
Yoh shrugged, closing the door. He sat down in the chair in front of Anna. "Goldva's looking for you. Did you see the report on channel five?"
"Unfortunately." She replied blankly while finishing her report, not looking up at Yoh. "The TV was on in our class, everyone saw it. I'm sure Goldva will be pissed, I just don't know what our next plan of action is. That kind of accusation would ruin our reputation."
"What're they gonna do?"
"Then let them deal with it." Anna replied. "Silva's already investigating the reporter, he suspects inside information."
Yoh raised an eyebrow. "Namari?"
"Who knows." Anna set her pen down, opening her folder. "I doubt it though. Namari's got a thing for causing trouble, but he's still loyal. Besides, he like it here, so I don't see why he would do something like that."
"Then it might as well be one of the students." Yoh sighed, rubbing his head. "That might get complicated around the place, since everyone so tightly packed and all."
"Probably." She replied non-chant-sly, closing her folder. She looked up at the boy. "Is there anything else you want to talk to me about?"
"Oh, yeah." Yoh grinned. "Let's go get something to eat off campus."
Anna blinked.
"It's lunch time!" The boy explained joyfully, standing up. "You're suppose to eat and relax, not lock yourself in the dorm and work on reports. And you never eat, it's like you're anorexic or something."
"I'm not anorexic." Anna crossed her arms, voice flat. "I don't eat because I'm not hungry, I normally drop by the the cafeteria for food when I am. There's no need for you or worry; or worse, use your head."
"You're so nice, Anna." Yoh smiled sincerely. Sincerely fake. "That's why I like you so much."
"If I go with you, then will you shut up?"
Sati was going through her sack of progress reports before the door to the room slammed open. She took one look at the direction before turning back at her paper. "You're not suppose to be in here."
"So?" Namari tested, one arm leaning on the wall. "Neither are you. Care to tell me what you're doing in the file room?"
"I'm the DA and a safety patrol officer." The eighteen year old replied, obviously getting irrated. "I'm allowed to be in here, you're not. I'm not in the mood to play verbal insults with you, so please leave before I change my mind."
"What a waste." The older boy tisked, waving his index finger in the air. "And I was hoping you'd have lunch with me."
Sati narrowed her eyes, turning to face the boy. "I'm very close to getting mad, so I hope you understand the situation. I'm very busy right now, so stop interrupting my work and just... Go back to whatever plan you were conniving."
"Ah, but I was serious." He put a hand on his chest. "You hurt my heart!"
"Your heart is on the left, idiot." She was losing all practical means of being civil to the prankster.
"Oh well." Namari shrugged, waving it off. "Have lunch with me?"
"No."
"Come on, don't be so cold." He closed the door. "I'm asking you out on a date, half the population in this school would die to be in the place you're in right now."
"Half the population as in, the teachers who already want to sack you?"
"Don't you want to know about the inside link that reporter got?"
The young women looked up from her file, staring. "What are you talking about?"
"The leak." Namari smirked. "I'm not saying I did it, but I might know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows something about the one who did."
"I-"
"If you go get lunch with me."
"Did you see Namari?" Yugai pressed a hand to her mouth, trying to surpass her laughter. She leaned back against the wall, looking down at the staircase.
"Yeah, that nasty scratch on his cheek?" Delphi smirked, hands behind her head. "Looks like he tried to make another move on our oh-so-subtal commanding officer." "Well..." Miya looked down at her safety right-arm safty strip, trying to adjust her tie. "Maybe it wasn't her. Or maybe he just got into a fight... Or walked into a wall, or maybe-"
"Oh, come on." Sumino rolled her eyes. She extended her right leg out on the ground, back leaning against the wall. "We all know that Namari would never lose a fight. Besides, that bruse look pretty nasty, the only girl in the school who can bitch-slap harder than Anna is Sati."
"Yeah, I guess." Miya smiled, following Yugai's glaze down the stairs. They were on the second floor opening, the area below was the grassfeilds of the St. Rudolph campus filled with students eating lunch. "What are you looking at?"
"The awkward couple." The chinese girl grinned. "I think they're going somewhere."
"Literally?" Sumino blinked. "I think they're going somewhere too. I guess Anna just likes Yoh, and they're cute together. Heck, maybe even more than that, they fit nicely."
"No, actually." Yugai pointed down. "I meant that they're going off campus somewhere."
"Oh."
"Now that you mentioned it." Sumino leaned on the handle bar, peering down. "They are cute together. Yoh is so sweet, and Anna is so... Anna. How did they get together in the first place anyway?"
"Don't know." Miya shrugged. "I wasn't here for the first year."
"I think went to the same junior high or something." Delphi spoke up, opening her water bottle. "There was a lot of kiddy pictures in Yoh's house and all."
"Probably." Sumino took a bite of her sandwich.
"But there was something weird though..." Delphi pressed a finfer to her chin. "There were a bunch of pictures of Yoh and Hao, you know, when they were little kids? Well, Eli and Jada noticed that there weren't any pictures with both Yoh and Hao in it."
"Anyone can tell they're twins, that's no surprise."
"Maybe they didn't grow up together?" Miya suggested, leaning over her lunch-bag.
"Not sure, Hao never talked to me about that kinda stuff." Sumino shrugged.
Yugai sat her yogur box down her tray. "If it makes you feel any better, Hao never talks to anyone about anything serious. I still don't know why he transfered. All that seeking for challenges is bullshit, it's like here's there for a reason."
"There's nothing left to say." Miya smiled slowly, tilting her head sideways. "Misdirection is his forte."
"So." Macchi grinned. "Ready for the try-outs?"
Hao shrugged, closing his notebook. "I guess."
She frowned. "You don't sound very convincing."
"Maybe I'm not."
"Scared?"
"No."
"Then what's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong." Hao looked up from his desk to the girl standing next to him. "Why?"
"Don't know." Macchi shrugged. "You just look distracted. I mean, you're always so semi-serious and all. And you always look like you're internally amused, and now you just look... Tired."
"You're making me sound old." Hao smirked, leaning one arm toward his side.
"Okay, let's stop talking about that." She replied. "Ready for the game? Like I said, Nichrome's probably gonna try to fit you with some sort of a match. Did you practice?"
"No." He replied smoothly.
"Okay, this is the last time I'm gonna ask: is something wrong?" She lowered her face into his view, unreadable grin on her face.
He was about to resort into some sort of smart-mousing when he stooped. "My brother, Yoh. We use the same car, and I kinda took it in the morning. He needs a ride home from school, and I can't pick him up because of the try-outs."
"Oh..." Macchi frowned. "Are you gonna skip?"
"Can't." Hao stuffed the remaining of his materials into his book-bag. "He told me not to, said he's catch a ride with someone. I doubt it though. At this rate, I'll just have to play fast and pick him up."
"What?" The redhead stared at him, awed. "You can't rush a game. That's the easiest way to mess up, you have to pace yourself when it comes to tennis." She paused. "How about if I pick him up for you?"
Hao blinked.
"I'll pick him up for you." The girl repeated, swinging her own bag half-way over her shoulder. "Just give me your keys."
"What if you ride off with my car?"
"I doubt that." Macchi rolled her eyes. "We're on the same page here, give me some credit. I can get a used-one if I want, just because my folks doesn't trust me with with a new car. You know?"
"Yeah." Hao nodded. Actually, his parents promised him anything under seventy-thousand, but he wasn't in the mood to point that out. He could tell that Macchi's wasn't broke, she just made a notion of facing herself.
"So?"
"Fine." Hao diged through his jean pockets, fishing out a small fire-keychain. "It's parked in the front row, red honda."
She followed his direction to the parking lot, looking around. It was pretty easy to find the car, it was the only manageable one. The car itself just... Glowed compared to the other. Also, the template of "Asakura" gave her some hints.
Macchi had been to St. Rudolph once before, for a tennis game. She never paid attention to directions before, but only looked out of the school bus when HaiRuwo pointed out the local McDonalds because she was starving. If there was one thing she could remember about the private school, it was the fact that the campus was located across the street to the local fast-food drive-through.
She turned left on the stirring panel, silently smiling. Hao had a sweet ride, that was for sure.
It wasn't hard to locate Hao's supposed "brother". Macchi spotted the boy sitting on the sidewalk, head rolling around with his MP3 player in place. Also, the fact that he looked exactly like Hao helped. She parked next to the walkway, turning the music off. "Yoh Asakura?"
The boy snapped out of his glaze, taking his earphones off. "Eh... Yeah."
"Well, I'm Macchi." She grinned. "And no, I didn't highjack your car, if that's what you're wondering. I'm Hao's friend, and I offered to pick you up for him so he wouldn't miss the tennis tryouts. Is that okay?"
"Not really." Yoh shrugged, opening the doors before taking the passenger seat. It was up close that Macchi noticed his difference with Hao. Yoh had remarkable shorter hair, falling down to his nape. Yoh also had a softer, more relaxed expression than his twin.
"So..." Macchi started, starting the car again. "Hao just told me to pick his brother up, I never knew he had a twin."
The boy chuckled. "Nah, Hao's just being irrupting. He has this whole thing was misdirecting people, he's likes that." The way he said that made her want to laugh.
"Yeah, I kinda figure." The tennis player found herself smiling, turning the corner on the road. "So, who's older?"
"Hao."
"Really?" The redhead blinked. "Couldn't tell. Why does he keep that long hair then? Don't get me wrong, it's ubberly cool, but he doesn't seem like a high-matance kind of person."
"Dunno." Yoh rubbed his head, watching the scene out the window. "I guess he just never got it cut before?"
Macchi raised an eyebrow, carefully to keep her sight fully on the road. "You guess?" Yoh only kept quite to the question, keeping his focus on the scenery. There was some sort of awkward silence between the two of them, it almost made Macchi feel bad. Did she say something she shouldn't? Deciding to change the topic, she spoke up again. "Oh, what were you listening to back there?"
Yoh turned around, grinning. "Kimeru, maybe you haven't heard of him."
"Oh no." The girl suddenly got excited. "I'm the biggest Kimeru fan out there! A friend of mine got me a CD of his, and I've been obsessed since. And there's the whole thing with his hair. Gosh, I love his hair! And I keep on spamming his BBS every day in three different languages, it's fun to harass him."
"Same." Yoh didn't seem a bit disturbed, he only smiled in return. "It's really easy to get addicted to Kimeru, although I'm probably his only fan-boy."
"Na-uh." Macchi shook her head, turning another corner left. "That's totally respected. I never really listened to Japanese Artists after I moved here, but the Kimeru's temptation is just too high."
"Too right." Yoh returned her smile, making her realize how easy it is to talk to the younger twin.
Macchi cut the brakes, backing into one of the parking spots. "We're here."
Yoh got out, looking around the campus before Macchi grabbed him by the arm. "Courts' that way."
The only thing weird was that... There was a bunch of unfamiliar people there, playing... Really bad tennis. Everyone else was on the bleachers, drinking water, doing whatever. Macchi managed to catch up with HaiRuwo, zipping up her bag with Ren by her side.
"Hey, what happened with the tryouts?" The redhead questioned.
HaiRuwo blinked. "Oh, it's over. Nichrome's posting the list up in the gym, everyone who had a chance went to look."
"What do you mean it's over?" Macchi stared at the chinese girl.
"Eh... You missed it." She shrugged. "Nichrome made him play Lina, I think. Came out six to five, I didn't get to see what happened since there was this really cute guy that dropped by and-"
"What do you mean you missed?" Macchi repeated, eyes wide.
"Don't worry." HaiRuwo looked up at the bleachers, pointed toward a certain blond boy and his companion. "He won and all, it's just that I didn't get to see how he did so. Funny, Lina was winning the last time I checked."
"Oh geeze." The redhead covered her face with her hand. "The only time I get to see him play seriously, and I miss it."
"Sorry." HaiRuwo smiled.
"Did you see anything?"
"Nope."
"But-" Macchi was getting very irrated at the moment.
"I saw it." The three turned to stare at Ren. The chinese boy merely shrugged. "I watched their match, since HaiRuwo's game was kind of... Boring." He earned a glare form the chinese girl.
"Really?" Macchi grabbed the boy by the arm, eyes lighting up.
"Yeah, yeah, get off me." He shooed the japanese girl off his arm. "Lina was winning, six-five and completely beating Hao. And then out of nowhere, he pulled off this really... Odd trick with the net and Lina didn't get it in time." He paused, taking a breath. "And then Lina didn't win a single point since."
"Do you think he made it?" Yoh spoke up, pulling his tie open. The chinese pair turned to look at him.
HaiRuwo opened her mouth, blinking. "Don't know yet. But... Are you related or something?"
"Oh yeah." Macchi clapped her hands together, he gestured toward the boy. "This is Yoh, he's Hao's twin. Come on, let's go check the gym for Hao."
HaiRuwo had shrugged before waving goodbye, heading home with Ren. Yoh hadn't really taken much thoughts about the two, following behind Macchi. The redhead led them through the fresh campus, soft and breeseful in the afternoon. Yoh could even see the iron colors of the sunset through the gym.
Kerry High was a beautiful place, Yoh conclude. It was a change of environment compared to St. Rudolph, not saying that their school was not beautiful either.
They found the older twin sitting on the bleachers in the gym, zipping up his book-bag. The rest of the team was there also, chatting while horsing around. Macchi paused to scan over the list on the wall, grinning.
2004-2005 Girl's Tennis Team
Matilda Mattise
HaiRuwo Tao
Lina Kuroba
Pilica Usui
Manako Oyamada
Zira Kanto
Kanna Bismark
Lip Patch
Rap Patch
Stephanie
Owen
Expedition:
Marion Phauna and Lily Vera.
"Blah, blah, blah." Macchi rolled her eyes, look for the other sheet. There was no point in reading about the girls, after all-. "What the fuck?" She stared at the list, hand tracing Mari's name on the expedition list. She look back in the doubles line.
"What's wrong?" Yoh blinked, walking up.
"Some Stephanie Owen replaced Mari in her doubles place." The redhead accused the paper. "Who the heck is that?"
"So?" Hao spoke up. "Big deal."
"Yeah, it is a big deal!" Macchi frowned, hands on her hips. "I've never heard of her name before, how in the world did she pop herself onto our team and replace Mari?" She turned to look at the boys list.
2004-2005 Boys' Tennis Team
Nichrome Patch
Chiaki Mizu
Hao Asakura
Senkun Morris
Taichi Dan
Manta Oyamada
Jake Winston
Matt Rek
Magma Iogico
"Who's Taichi?"
"Don't know." Chiaki was now behind them, hands holding onto his stuff. "Cute kid, showed up during try-outs and blew Manta away with his weird serve." He paused, looking at Hao. "I didn't know you had a twin."
"Join the club." Macchi grinned. "But how did Manta lose? He should have gotten enough information on him by the second game, that's just kinda weird for him to lose."
"Not his fault." Chiaki shrugged. "This 'Taichi' character kept on changing styles in the middle of the game, he drove Manta insane. Nic was so impressed, he sat the kid up for rotation on singles."
"With Hao?"
"I wish you wouldn't talk about me as if I'm not here." The said boy replied with a somewhat sarcastic tone.
"Forget this, I'm too tired to complain." Macchi replied with a stretch of her arms. "It's friday, the sun's shinny, and my cousin's still in town. There's nothing that can make it worse, even if my current ginene pig has be slashed down to size a bit."
Yoh surpassed his snicker was a cough.
"Oh." The redhead blinked. "And can you two take me home? I kinda need a ride."
-TBC-
Haha, Taichi! Bet you weren't suspecting him! Well, a lot of characters has been added, look above for the disclaimer. Dan Taichi is this aborably kid from PoT, he's so cute I just can't help but add him in. As for "Stephanie Owen", she's suppose to be the girl Billy was crushing on in the US Jr. Devision of Prince of Tennis. I have no idea what her las t name is name is, I'm not sure if it was even mentioned it because she was just the daughter of some sponser for the tournament. Oh well, I like her. But she was later tutored by Billy on tennis, so I'm betting that she's pretty good.
Yes, there were more St. Rudolph moments in this chapter than I planned. Most of these characters were kind of OCs, but I liked them anyway. lolz
Spoilers for Chapter five: Enter, St. Rudolph boys
Review, please?
Chiharu
