Kaidoh and Tomo
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis.
Oftentimes, Kaidoh Kaoru wondered why he had married Osakada Tomoka. She was loud, obnoxious, and oftentimes, just plain annoying. Sometimes, she was even a bit obsessive (cough, cough Ryoma-sama).
On the other hand, Kaidoh was quiet and considered by many scary. He and Tomo were Yin and Yang to each other, opposites. So how had two such different people wound up together?
High school…
Tomoka, a.k.a. Tomo-chan, was looking for her best friend Sakuno. She wanted to eat lunch with said girl so that they could talk about (obviously) Ryoma-sama and his recent match against Atobe of Hyotei.
"Sakuno-chan, where are you?" Tomo shouted. After she had searched almost the whole lunch period for her best friend, Tomo suddenly remembered Sakuno's favorite place; the sakura tree in the back of the school building.
However, as she approached the said tree, Tomo saw something that made her blood run cold and cause shock, confusion, and hurt.
Under the sakura tree, Sakuno and Ryoma were kissing rather passionately. It was as if they were the only two people that existed.
Tomo started to feel tears gather in her eyes as her best friend and crush broke away, smiling lovingly at each other. Tears of hurt, heartbreak, betrayal, and shame. Turning away, Tomo ran as fast as she could away from the scene, tears flying and showering the ground with liquid grief.
Ryoma-sama…and Sakuno-chan are together? And Sakuno never told me? That backstabbing bitch! Tomo thought as she cried bitterly under a maple tree. Why didn't Sakuno-chan tell me? I'm her best friend! Best friends are not supposed to keep secrets from each other!
"Oi, you're sitting on my lunch spot, girl. Move," a voice hissed commandingly. Turning a tear-streaked face to face the person behind her, Tomo saw the figure of Kaoru Kaidoh towering above her drawn in figure.
"No," Tomo responded stubbornly.
"Kaidoh felt a vein twitch. Hissing, he repeated in a menacing voice, "Move."
"No."
"Move!"
"No!"
Kaidoh gave another hiss of frustration. Goddamm it, why couldn't this girl move? Then, he noticed for the first times her tear-streaked face. Had she just been crying?
"Oi, girl, why were you crying?"
As soon as Kaidoh asked, Tomo vividly remembered the scene of Ryoma and Sakuno kissing. Tears started forming again and Tomo brought her legs close to her chest, crying as she buried her face into her knees.
"O-oi." Kaidoh was confused. Why was she crying suddenly? Girls were weird.
"Ryoma-sama was kissing Sakuno-chan," Tomo quietly answered, as if she knew of Kaidoh's confusion as to her reason for suddenly crying.
Kaidoh remembered who the girl was as soon as she mentioned "Ryoma-sama." She was Ryuzaki's best friend, the loud cheerleader who shouted and screamed at the top of her lungs at every one of their tennis matches, especially for their resident tennis prodigy. No wonder she was so upset; she just saw her idol and best friend kissing.
"Oi, calm down," Kaidoh said in a gruff voice, attempting to calm down the sobbing girl.
By the time the lunch period was over, Tomo was much calmer, having stopped crying at last. "Arigatou," she quietly said, thanking Kaidoh.
"Fwshu. Girl, what's your name?"
"Tomoka. Osakada Tomoka."
After that incident, the two started being together more and more frequently. Eventually, they started dating and after college, married.
So why had Kaidoh Kaoru married the loud and obnoxious Tomoka? Only love knew the answer.