Setting: Same day as Chapter 3...
Disclaimer: I don't own Prince of Tennis... But I wish I could meet them in real life.. (I would've died happy.)
Chapter 4: Finally Meeting HER...
Sakuno, still training to regain herself from the shock, because Ryoma was actually calling her name, quickly yet nervously walked towards Ryoma's direction to ease the subtracting distance between her and him.
"I still can't believe that Ryoma-kun actually remembers my name!" she thought again and again, amazed.
Ryoma was only about two inches away from her, still running, Sakuno wanted to greet him with a friendly greeting, when suddenly...
Ryoma ran right past her, Sakuno wanted more than anything right now was to cry, but she couldn't even utter a word or even a letter, much less cry.
As everyone noticed, at the moment where Sakuno was about to say 'hello', Ryoma ran right passed her, onto the...
Mysterious girl, everyone's jaw drop, especially Tomoka's jaw, well except for Kioko who seem to be a little intrigued of why her little friend knew someone from Seigaku, much less the fact that the boy who came running towards her was undeniably 'cute'. Unlessssss...
"Soooo, HE was the one she was talking about..." Kioko explained to her mind, as she remembered that once in a blue moon, (meaning once a lifetime or very rare) her little friend/assistant talked about a boy whom she is very closely connected to.
"Wait! She didn't mention that he was really cute." she added as a mental note.
As almost everyone, had readjusted their jaws back to it's original form, the look of shock still illuminates. Until our little genius began to make a conversation to the mystery girl...
"What are you doing here?" Ryoma asked inquisitively to the mystery girl.
"Well, we, ummm... We were asked to take a few photos and interview some of the Seigaku Regulars for the school's sports column.." she replied while feeling that heat was forming in her face.
cough-cough
Momo-Sempai coughed loudly. Ryoma quickly notices the seven pairs of eyes watching them intently, while feeling that his face was turning a bit red. While the mystery girl was turning redder by the second.
Everyone near the tennis courts, including the Seigaku Regulars, even Tezuka-buchou (I think buchou means 'captain') and coach Ryuzaki turned their heads and attention to the group of people.
As Ryoma quickly regained his cool and serious composure back, he...
cough
"Anyway, this is Sakuno-chan" Ryoma explaining to the dumbfounded people in the group,
while pointing at the mysterious girl. (author's note: yes,yes... The mysterious girl's name is Sakuno, and she is also very close to Ryoma.)
"Ummmm...Hai! My name is Sakuno but please call me Saki." she said while giving a very respectful bow, a bow used when introducing yourself to a stranger. But these were not JUST a stranger, it was a group of strangers.
To some people those were only words, but to Sakuno (author's note: Sakuno, not Saki)
those were daggers flying that aimed right through her heart and has broken it to a thousand pieces.
As quickly as Sakuno came back from the shock, she ran faster than the wind, tears falling from her eyes.
Tomoka, at first didn't notice the sudden disappearance of her friend, glanced at a running Sakuno. Like snapping from a nightmare, Tomoka ran to follow her bestfriend who seem to be heading for the nearby pond.
"Sakuno-chan! Wait!" Tomoka screamed to her teary eyed friend.
Momo-Sempai and the Happy trio still seem to be in the trance, until the sudden scream of the running Tomoka.
"Echizen!" Momo-Sempai yelled at the flustered boy.
"Nani?" Ryoma quickly replied with his usual, casual making Momo-Sempai lose his temper.
Because of the screaming/yelling and the dissolving of the group, some of the crowd then began to gain interest in the 'on going' fun happening and began to whisper to each other,
statements like "OMG! I can't believe it Ryoma-kun made a girl cry!" or "This is quite shameful,
fixing problems with girls in the school. Where everyone could see them in public!".
"How..How dare you make a girl cry, again!" Momo-Sempai yelled again to the confused boy genius.
"Huh?" Ryoma replied looking more confused now.
"Nani? First of all, I didn't do anything wrong. I only called Sakuno-chan. What's wrong with that? Maybe its you guys who made a mistake, not me." he added as he quickly defends himself to the much bigger Sempai.
"What do you mean you didn't do anything wrong! You made Sakuno-chan cry!" yelled again by Momo-Sempai making an explanation for Ryoma to get his mistake through his head.
"Huh! Wait a second! I'm not crying. What is this Sempai talking about!" Saki asked herself curiously.
"Now, Echizen, would you please go find HER and apologies!" Momo-Sempai yelled
"Fine. If that makes you happy." Ryoma replied finally getting the point of Momo-Sempai,
while beginning to leave the group which had only a couple of people left.
"Sakuno-chan, please be careful around these guys. They're dangerous." he added as he began tracing the crying girl's steps.
In the pond...
"Sakuno-chan, don't worry I'm sure Ryoma-kun didn't mean it." Tomoka said trying her best to comfort her bestfriend.
But as Tomoka try as she may, her best friend would not stop her sobbing and crying.
Tomoka wanted to say words like "Sakuno-chan please don't cry, Ryoma-kun is just stupid." or "He is just a meany, and should just rot in hell!". But even with all of her will power Tomoka could not utter the words, as if those words were poison and would kill her the moment she does.
Tomoka had lost her power to make her companion stop crying, so she decides that it is best for her to just stand by and listen intently to the words that were pouring from the ever sensitive Sakuno.
As Tomoka stand watch, an unexpected visitor and the cause of her problem began to appear in front.
Sakuno sensing the visitor, looked up with tears in her eyes as Ryoma stares at her intently,
still not showing any emotion from his sharp eyes making Sakuno feel inferior to the boy genius.
"Here." Ryoma said with no emotion as he tossed a can of juice to Sakuno.
Catching the can juice made Tomoka wonder.
"Would you stop crying, it doesn't suite you." Ryoma said, as he uttered the last words, it made Sakuno's face lighten like a bright light.
As Ryoma disappear from their sight, Sakuno could not hide her smile, while the ever gullable Tomoka asked herself while feeling the emotion of hurt, a single question "Why?".
Back to the deteriorating group...
"That darn Echizen!" Momo-Sempai said to an invisible person in front of him.
"He even said to Saki-chan that we're dangerous." he added a mental note in reminding him to punish the junior later.
"I'm sorry, I can't help the feeling of being the cause of this problem..." Saki said in the most apologetic voice you could ever hear.
"No,no,no... You didn't cause this, Echizen did!" Momo-Sempai said trying to relieve the pretty girl.
"Right! Right! It's all Echizen's fault!" the Happy trio quickly said backing out Momo-Sempai's statement.
"Nani? My Fault!" Ryoma said while joining back the group while giving a threatening glare.
The Happy trio could not help but hide behind the tall Sempai.
"Echizen! Wait! Sooooo... That meansssss..." Kioko wondered while deep in thought.
"You heard right! It's all your fault, Echizen!" Momo-Sempai replied while keeping balance from the three cowardly freshmen pulling him behind. Until...
CRASH!
"Aha! So you're Ryoma Echizen!" a loud yell from the boisterious Kioko, making the happy trio fall down dragging the tall Momo-Sempai with them.
"ENOUGH!" a yell heard from the rear of the noisy group. A yell so loud, that after it was heard... Complete silence. A yell from an old, angry woman. A yell from Coach Ryuzaki.
After the yell, none of the group could face the hell that were upon them, but two dared...
"Hey, old bart, why'd you have to be so loud?" Ryoma said while giving the look of annoyance.
"Huh?" Saki said while looking at the woman and wondering who she was.
"Must be someone very important to silence everyone." she added.
As Momo-Sempai, the happy trio and Kioko looked behind to where the yell originally came, they were stunned. In front of them was a very ticked, old, wrinkly woman who seem about to explode, with bulging every nerve and losing patience as the seconds passed. And Ryoma's 'comment' didn't help one bit.
Behind the Coach Ryuzaki was Tezuka-buchou in his usual emotionless face, followed by a down faced Oishi-fukubuchou, a a very ticked Kaidoh, a smiling Fuji, a grinning Kikumaru, another emotionless face of Iniu and a 'what's happening?' look plastered on Taka's face.
"Echizen, Momoshiro, 3 laps around the court." Inui-Sempai quickly commanded.
"But Inui-Sempai!" whined by a certain Momo-Sempai.
"5 laps around the court, now." Tezuka-buchou quickly said to the junior.
Because both Momo-Sempai and Ryoma would not move, Inui-Sempai got Momo-Sempai's collar and dragged him to the direction of the court, the same goes to the boy genius.
"Hey! Let me go, Inui-Sempai!" commanded by Ryoma to the upperclassman.
"Yeah, Inui-Sempai! It's embarassing!" whined by the dragged Momo-Sempai.
As the two were dragged to the courts, Saki and Kioko could not do anything but stare in amazement.
"Saki-chan, I think we should leave." Kioko requested to her companion.
"Nani? We just got here, besides I thought you needed the interview and the photos"
commented by the junior.
"It doesn't matter, I don't want to be in the middle of this scandal. Do you?" she whispered harshly.
"As for you two, why are you here?" Coach Ryuzaki asked in a commanding tone of voice.
"I...ah...um... Anyways, gotta go!" Kioko quickly staggered the words and as these words left her mouth, she quickly grabbed her friend and ran out of the school record time.
"Maybe Inui-kun would like her as a girlfriend." commented out of the blue by Fuji-Sempai.
"Yeah! Then he'll stop making those weird juices, and have some actual hobby instead of torturing us!" agreed by Kikumaru-Sempai suggesting to everyone to that he actually took the comment of Fuji-Sempai seriously.
Author's Note: (again) I hoped you like chapter 4, and I hope I'm improving. Please once again,
please, please,please, read and review. Both bad and good reviews are accepted.