Disclaimer: I own neither Prince of Tennis nor Full House.
A RyoSaku™ Fan fiction.

She slowly walked out of the doctor's office with her head hanging low. A man looked up from his constant pacing in the waiting room.

"He said that it's positive," she softly spoke, "I'm pregnant."

"What! This is great! What great news! We're having a kid!" he yelled in happiness only to be glared by the other people in the waiting room.

"No, Horio, this is bad," she responded as she sat down on a chair to collect her thoughts of this recent discovery, "Do you understand what kind of situation we're in? We can't even pay the bills! How are we going to afford a kid!"

A moment of silence rose between them as they were deep in their trains of thoughts.

The silence was broken when Horio instantly jumped up.

"Aha! With my three years of experience in banking, I have come up with a brilliant idea! We will get out of our financial problems in no time!"

Ding dong!

The sound of keyboard typing yielded in order for Sakuno to answer the door.

"Congratulations!" two people shouted when she opened the door.

"Eh? Tomoka-chan? Horio-kun? What you guys talking about?" Sakuno asked them out of much curiosity.

"Well, we had a contest at the bank and all those who opened bank accounts were entered to win a trip to China!" Horio explained.

Tomoka added, "And you won! That's great, ne, Sakuno?"

"Ah… Hai," Sakuno replied as she accepted the plane ticket, "Arigatou."

"Nah, you won it! Plus, you ought to take a break, vacation! You overwork yourself too much, Sakuno," Tomoka said with a smile. Horio nodded in agreement.

"Hmm… maybe I'll see Ryoma-kun there. Could it be?" thought Sakuno.

"Ne, Sakuno? You should get packed up! Your flight leaves soon," Horio told her.

"Ah… Hai."

Sakuno turned frantically and rushed throughout the house, packing clothes and other necessities.

"I'm ready."

"Flight 237 from Tokyo to Shanghai, China is now boarding. Repeat, flight 237 from Tokyo to Shanghai, China is now boarding."

The announcement echoed throughout the airport.

Tomoka began to panic and was restless as she paced herself back and forth.

"Are you sure she's going to be ok?" she whispered to Horio.

"She'll be fine," he said with utmost confidence.

"Well, that's my flight. I'll be leaving now. Take good care of my house, ok?" Sakuno said, waving.

"Matte Sakuno!" Tomoka exclaimed before Sakuno began to turn, "Here. Take some money. Uhh… just in case you get hungry. Have a safe trip!"

"Are you sure? It's fine because they pay for everything right?" Sakuno asked, smiling. She was excited for this trip.

"Just keep it, ok? Bye bye Sakuno!" Tomoka and Horio yelled to their friend.

Sakuno waved and boarded her plan towards China. This place was where destiny awaited for her.

"Ok, Tomoka, we have to hurry, there isn't much time," Horio hurriedly pushed his fiancée out the exit.

"Hmm, first class? I've never been on a plane before," Sakuno thought as she took a seat next to a window. She settled in the spacious, comfortable cushions and was about to take a nap when she heard shouting in the hallway behind her.

"Echizen-kun! Wait wait!"

"Please! Answer a few questions!"

"Echizen!"

"Echizen!"

"ECHIZEN!"

Sakuno turned around to see what all the commotion was about and was shocked at the dream before her eyes.

Echizen Ryoma, wearing a pair of slightly baggy jeans, a white polo, and his trademark hat, sighed in relief of escaping the reporters and fans stalking, i mean,following him. It was nice to come back to Japan, a country he dearly missed while playing in multiple tournaments and traveling across the globe. After winning the championship again, he was doing conditioning and training for next season.

He sat down on the seat closest to him, checking to see if there were anymore reporters or fans bold enough to trespass into the plane. Echizen then turned around to see a woman about his age.

She was wearing a light pink halter top with a white cardigan to cover her bare skin and a pink full skirt. Her hair was like an ocean, flowing down her back. There was something very familiar about her… The image was very vague though, so he placed the thought in the back of his mind.

"Ne, are you ok? You look really pale," he asked her. Her face had the expression of seeing ghost of some sort.

But to Sakuno, he was a ghost. He used to haunt her dreams and her everyday thoughts. But that was no longer there.

After about what seemed like years, she finally came back to life, regaining color to her cheeks.

"Oh my god, what do I do? He doesn't recognize me, does he? Probably not," she kept thinking until she was interrupted.

"Welcome to China Airlines. This is your flight attendant speaking. The captain and I hope you will enjoy your flight on China Airlines. Please buckle your seatbelts and prepare for liftoff," the intercom announced to its passengers.

The airplane began to rock as it began liftoff. Time and silence passed since then between the two though.

"Ano… could you get a Ponta for me?"

Sakuno felt like dying, physically and emotionally, for asking him to get her aPonta, but maybe this plane idea wasn't such a great idea after all. Echizen only slightly nodded and got up. She felt nervous and anxious to get off this plane. She would rather ride a sailboat to Shanghai than this plane.

"Here," he said as he handed her a cold grape Ponta after five minutes. He sat down, opened his own Ponta, and quietly sipped it.

But that wasn't the best idea either because twenty minutes later, Sakuno became air sick and threw up grape Ponta on Echizen's nice, expensive polo.

Now, there were a series of things going on all at once. It seemed as if the whole day was going absolutely wrong.

Sakuno felt like dying at the moment she saw grape Ponta on his shirt. Echizen's eyes were bulging at the grape Ponta this woman had freely thrown up on him; not on the chair, not on the ground, but on him.

Then two flight attendants quickly went along to clean it up, which did not work out when they ran into one another and knocked themselves unconscious. In the process of falling, one knocked a cart with nice hot chicken noodle soup into another passenger's lap. You could probably guess he screamed pretty loud.

The other passengers stared at the situation and not wanting to be involved, they continued to watch the movie that was playing on the airplane.

"Mada mada dane," Echizen said as he rubbed his temples in attempt to heal his headache, and Sakuno. Well, she was just speechless.

It took her quite a while until she realized the disaster she caused and she immediately apologized.

"Gomenasai! Gomenasai! Gomenasai!" she proclaimed about a hundred times. She felt embarrassment crawl up her warm cheeks as they turned bright red.

Echizen only shook his head and left for bathroom to clean up his mess.

Sakuno turned to the window next to her to search for any escape from this catastrophe. She honestly wanted to cry but no. She was Ryuzaki Sakuno. She became much more mature and more confidence. She would let herself cry over this. She was very deep in thought and didn't notice how much time had passed.

Then the captain announced that they have landed in China. She turned to the famous tennis star to find him sleeping.

"Ah… Ryoma-kun is still the same in many ways," she grinned.

Then she gathered her luggage and walked off.

Well, theres chapter two! I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks to all reviews and readers!