"What's wrong with you today, Choutarou?" Shishido Ryo asks his doubles partner, Ohtori was weird today. First, he always faults when he was serving the ball; Second, when he returns the ball, it either out or it almost hits someone.
"Nothing... Shishido-san..." Ohtori reply, his mind was on other places.
"Kantoku had asked you to take a day off since you're acting weird."
"Ah... hai!" with that, Ohtori ran off into the changing room to change, after changing, he quickly went towards a place that he was very
familiar and rung the door bell.
The door opened and a woman in her late 40s appears, "Ohtori-kun." she said surprisingly, she didn't know that the boy in front of him will come. "Please come in, she's in her room." the woman let Ohtori came into the house and lead him up the stairs to the bedroom of someone's.
"Arigatou." he thanked the woman and went into the room. In the room, Ryuuzaki Sakuno was laying in her bed, sweating hard. She had a high fever today and was very tired to even goes to school.
"Sakuno, are you alright?" he asked full of concern, he was very worry about her.
"Ohtori-kun... why are you here? I thought... you have practice today?" Sakuno speaks weakly, so weak that Ohtori almost thinks that she was dying.
"Kantoku gave me a day off..." Sakuno would not hear his reply as she was slowly falling asleep...
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When Sakuno wake up, the surrounding was dark, she looks into the clock and find out that it was midnight. She felt better, a lot better than earlier, she then saw Ohtori sitting on the floor, back leaning against her bed, asleep.
"Ohtori-kun..." Sakuno said slowly to herself with a smile, and then lean in to give the sleeping boy a peck on the cheek before going back to sleep.
"Good night, Ohtori-kun."
Owari.