Warning: Very boring chapter ahead.
Setting: Saturday, a day from the 2nd lining of Seigaku regulars.
Disclaimer: Again I don't own Prince of Tennis, but I do own Saki, Kioko and Iwadowa-Sensei.
Chapter 5: It's not a date.
Finally it was Saturday, after the big scene that happened yesterday at school, Tezuka-buchou has decided to hold a practice session at the court today. Everyone seems to be quite early as the day starts, but maybe that was said to soon. It seems one sempai has woken up late and is rushing to school.
At the Tennis Courts:
"Let's begin!" Inui-Sempai ordered.
"First, a practice match, Eiji and Momoshiro." Inui-Sempai added.
"Nyaa, Inui-kun! Momo-kun's not yet here!" Eiji-Sempai protested. (A/N: Sorry it was supposed to be Eiji-Sempai not Kikumaru-Sempai.)
"Nani?" Oishi-fukubuchou asked.
"nods He probably forgot we had practice today." Ryoma replied.
"My, my, what is Momo-kun thinking." Fuji-Sempai thought.
Along the busy Saturday street:
Momo-Sempai rode on his bike along the busy street, thinking "I'm dead meat! Faster! Faster!" while munching on some toast he grabbed on his way out of his kitchen table.
Momo-Sempai pedaled as fast as humanly possible while trying to dodge everyone at the street. Until he almost lost his balance pedaling faster.
"Just past that corner then straight up until a few blocks then go right, then.." he said to himself remembering the fastest way to getting to school.
Just as he was thinking, he hadn't notice that from out of nowhere, there was a person who was in the way of the direction to where he was going, he tried the breaks but since he was going so fast, it was hard to stop.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Both of them screamed. While the other person was covering herself, readying for the collision, dropped what she was holding in order to protect herself.
Until finally the bike stop just in time, but as it stop Momo-Sempai was thrown away by the force, and had hit the pavement hard.
Everyone in the street eyed them with a "Oh my God!" look on their faces.
"Oh my God! Are you alright!" the girl asked with great concern at the lying Momo-Sempai.
"Oww, owww..." was all Momo-Sempai could reply.
"Darn it Momo! How many more of this 'accidents' do you tend to have!" he thought to himself harshly.
As he looks up to see the who owned the concerned voice that he was supposed to be bringing to the hospital because of his carelessness. He was shocked, his face turned crimson red and embarrassment was written all over his face.
"Great Momo! Of all people, you had to do this in front of Her!" he hammered to himself.
He couldn't believe it, his luck must have turned against him, of all people, it was her, it was Saki, it was Ryoma's girl.
"Are you alright?" she asked again, concern still lingers in her voice.
"Ye-yeah. I'm alright." he replied to her, his voice shaken, not from the accident but from the sheer embarrassment. While his face is still crimson.
"Thank God." she said in relief.
As the two share the moment, everyone else seems to go back to their busy schedules also relieved that they won't have to call the ambulance.
But the two were caught and to them time seemed to ceased existence. She smiled while he looked at her intently.
"God! She's so pretty!" he told himself again and again.
But soon enough time came back.
"Um.. Is there something in my face?" she asked Momo-Sempai with a flare of embarassment in her voice.
Momo-Sempai was so embarrass from the question Saki gave, that he immediately stood up, his face was red as a tomato or even redder.
"Idiot! She'll think you're a total loser, stating at her for so long!" he screamed at himself.
She smiled as she stood up cleaning her skirt for any dirt that remained, while Momo-Sempai averted looking at her and making a fool out of himself again.
"I, um. I-I'm sorry!" he said while bowing to apologize.
As he did so, he noticed that Saki wasn't even listening. She seemed to be looking for something.
"...?"
"What's that?" he said while pointing to something that was on the ground.
"Oh, my cake." she said with sadness in it.
The cake was destroyed, it wouldn't be edible any longer. There were icing all over the box and the ground.
"My cake, it's destroyed. I can't give it to him anymore." she said again, still with sadness in her voice.
"No! Now she's gonna hate me even more! Wait, Him? Is she talking about Ryoma?" Momo-Sempai processed in his brain.
"I'm really really sorry." he apologized again, still bowing.
"Huh?" she asked.
"He looks familiar? Have I met him before?" Saki asked herself curiously.
"Have I met you before?" Saki asked her voice back to normal as if nothing happened.
"Huh? Ye- yes." he replied astonished that she didn't cry, like Sakuno does.
"I'm really sorry for the cake." he added again.
"Oh! Don't worry about it I can always make a new one, it's just a shame that this one was wasted, but atleast the pavement is fed. heheh." she said in a funny way, as she laughed because of her remark, Momo-Sempai couldn't believe what he just heard and just went away with it and also laughed.
After their joyous laughter, Momo-Sempai still can't get rid of the guilt he is feeling.
"I, um. I really feel bad about your cake, so, um, I'll make it up to you by buying you lunch, tha-that is if your not busy." Momo-Sempai commented averting the reaction of Saki by looking away. Besides he needed to turn away his face so she couldn't see the patches of crimson plastered in it.
"You idiot! First you totally destroy her cake, then you ask her OUT! Are you crazy?" he screamed to himself, still waiting for Saki's answer.
Saki couldn't believe what she just heard, she blushed at her thoughts of going out with him.
"Um.. I gues it wouldn't be bad if I, um, did. So, sure." she replied with a slight quiver in her voice.
As those words came out from Saki's voice, Momo-Sempai's face quickly brightened, showing joy, excitement and happiness all in his face.
Their so called 'lunch' ended nicely, the truth was, they didn't just ate they also walked through the park after lunch, they talked about what they like, they hate, their hobbies and everything about each other.
Momo-Sempai found out that these last few years, she also lived in America and that she just recently moved here in Japan.
"Just like Echizen." he said to himself. Feeling a little jealous of Echizen for having such an amazing girlfriend.
She also told him that she also plays tennis but isn't that good. And her favorite hobby was just to paint. She said that she is a much better painter than a player.
He liked everything she told about herself, sometimes posting it on his mind never to forget, knowing her more and more by the second he has spend with her.
But one thing she hadn't told him was what was her real relationship with the tennis genius, what does Ryoma meant to her. He wanted to know that the most but he didn't dare to ask.
And in return he also told her everything about him, not mentioning Ryoma in order to leave that subject matter for another time. It was because he doesn't want to know yet, what they are to each other, because he was just starting to like her, or more. And because if that truth was to be revealed he doesn't want to get hurt.
"I really had a great time. Thank you!" Saki said while giving a farewell bow.
"Me too." he replied while giving her a wave of good-bye.
"Hmmm.. I think I forgot something today, shrugs never mind. heheh" he said while skipping over to his bike because of joy.
At the Tennis Courts:
"Hmm... Looks like Momoshiro forgot practice, I'll give him one of my experimental juice for a reward." Inui-Sempai said while writing in his notebook.
"Nya! Momo-kun! Onegai, please come to practice, I want to play!" Eiji-Sempai yelled.
Author's Note: Hello! I hope you liked this chapter, even a little. I remind again please please review. Bad and good reviews are accepted. And I would like to say that I will not post the next chapter if I don't atleast get 4 reviews. Sorry but my friend requested it.(She also has some contributes to the story.) And I would like to apologize for the short chapter. It was supposed to be longer but I cut it.