A/N: thanks again for the reviews. I updating so soon because I after school is over, I'm going on a trip so I won't be able to update for 2 weeks but I'm not going until next month. I love one of Fuji's songs! His voice actor has such a good voice. Anyways here's the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own prince of tennis.
Chapter Three: The ultimate street tennis doubles team
Mako, Azul and Fuji walked to where the play street tennis. They got there and saw there was a crowd. "There's a big crowd. Now a lot of people can see your skills."
Azul hesitated. "I don't really want to do that, I don't want attention like you." Azul said back. "I'm not going to use any wow moves okay? Except for the twist serve okay?"
"Yeah whatever." Mako said as they walked up to the boy she guessed that was referee "Can we play doubles?" Mako asked the boy.
He looked at her. There was two girls and a boy. "Who is your doubles partner?" He asked. Mako pointed at Azul. "Okay nobody's in line to play. Get your rackets and go on the courts. "There is a challenger." He yelled.
Mako and Azul took out their rackets. Fuji leaned on the wall by their stuff. They walked on the courts and shook hands with the two boys "Let's have a good game" Mako said before they went to their position. It was their serve. Azul was serving. The boys were smiling thinking they already won.
'They're thinking lowly of us.' Azul thought when she was getting ready to serve. She tossed the ball up into the air. 'I'll teach them not to underestimate us!' She said in her head before she hit the ball, of course it was a twist serve. They had won that game because if Azul's twist. When some other team came, Azul and Mako switched positions. The team thought Mako and Azul were bad at doubles but Mako decided to purposely lose three points. She whispered to Azul that when the aim at the middle, pretend that they were bad at doubles. Azul didn't really care and decided to play along.
Fuji watched as they purposely lost two points. Ann came up and said to Fuji, "I suspected that they weren't that good at doubles." She said to him.
Fuji put his hand on his chin. "There's purposely losing those points." Fuji said "I can see that they aren't really trying." He said as he saw them purposely lose another point.
"Are they really that good?" She asked. He nodded. He told her to just watch.
The ball came down the middle one more time. The two boys smiled thinking it was over. "Nice try" Azul said and hit the ball back, Mako didn't even move. They got a point. "Don't try that again." Azul said to them before going back to her position.
"Wait. Were you guys purposely losing those points?" One of the boy asked.
"Yeah" Mako said. Azul was ready to change the score. In the end they had won. "Okay we're finished." Mako said and Azul and Mako walked off the courts to where Fuji was. When they got there Fuji looked at them and smiled.
"I thought you said you weren't going to draw attention." Fuji said to Azul when she put away her racket.
"Well those two were asking for it." Azul said when putting her bag over her shoulder. A girl came over.
"Let's get something to eat." Mako said when putting away her racket
"You guys are pretty good. My name is Tachibana Ann, may I ask your names?" She asked the two girls.
"I'm Minamura Azul" Azul said and pointed to Mako who was still squatting on the ground, putting up her hair. "She's Minamura Mako. Nice to meet you."
Mako got up. "Nice to meet you." Mako said. "We were just going to get something to eat. Would you like to join us? I'll treat." Mako said looking into her wallet. She thinks she has enough to treat everybody.
"Sure, I'll go with you but is it true that you are Fuji-san's girlfriend?" Ann asked because Azul's name was familiar. She heard about it somewhere.
"how did you find out?" Azul asked. 'Great pretty soon almost everybody that knows Syusuke is going to know about this and I'll be known as the prodigy's girlfriend.' She though while shaking her head.
"It's been going around these courts." Ann said. "People don't know it's you because you didn't tell them your name."
Azul, Mako , Fuji and Ann left the courts. Azul was holding Fuji's hand on the way. (AWW…. So lovey dovey.)
Ann and Mako were in the front. She whispered to Mako. "They must be really close."
"Maybe too close." Mako whispered back. When they got to the diner they sat down. Azul and Fuji were sharing a menu discussing what to eat and then the waitress came by.
"I'm not that hungry, I'll just get a parfait of something." Azul said before ordering.
"I'm Lina and I'll be your waitress for today." She said. "Are you ready to order?"
"I'll take this chocolate dip parfait." Azul said.
"I'll take a root beer float." Ann said.
"I'll take this strawberry deluxe." Mako said.
"I'll take this melon covered parfait." Fuji said closing menus.
"Coming right up." Lina said and took the menus and went to the kitchen."
"So Azul, do you play in the Seigaku tennis club?" Ann asked while they were waiting for what they ordered.
"No, I don't really want to because of something." Azul said. She was never really wanted to talk about being in a tennis club. "I'm going to go use the restroom." She said and got up and went to the bathroom.
"What happened?" Fuji asked. What happened to Azul that would no want to join the tennis club.
"Well," Mako started. "At our old school it was mostly 3rd years that would be regulars, but Azul beat a 3rd year regular and got a spot on the regulars. Most of the regulars didn't think she should have competed in this ranking tournament and they always make her do more workout and laps than the regulars. Plus she was sexually harassed by some boy regulars. I wanted to tell the teachers but she told me not to. An incident one day made her the boys stop."
Flashback
"Minamura! You're not hitting the ball deep enough." A regular told her. "Hit it more deeper."
"Yes sempai!" Azul told them. She kept taking the scolding even though she was hitting the ball deep.
Azul finished changing and walked toward home. "Hey Azul" She heard behind her. It was two boys that harassed her. She was backed to a wall. She felt a hand traveling down her back. She smacked it away. "Oh. Hard to get yeah?" He was going to kiss her. She slapped his face away. "How dare you! You brat." He said and raised a hand. She closed her eyes ready to get slapped. But she heard a hand stop the hand that was going to slap her.
She opened her eyes and saw a boy with silver hair. His roots were black. "You guys really are disgusting. Get lost." The boys ran away. "Are you okay?" he asked.
"I'm fine." Azul said while cleaning off her skirt. "Thank you for helping me. I'm Minamura Azul."
"I'm Saeki Kojiro." He said. "I live around here would you like me to walk you home?"
"I would appreciate it." Azul said and they talked about many tings but they both found out they like tennis.
End of flashback
"Dad had to move again so we moved here. So she never saw the boy again." Mako said fishing the story. "She never told me his name. I don't even know that school he went to."
"What a hard time she had." Ann said. "I would have to say that he was her first crush. But she has Fuji-san now."
"Yeahshe does. I think she's over the boy now" Mako said. Azul came and sat back down.
Their orders came and Azul started eating her as soon as it came. Fuji's one looked good so she took a scoop and ate it. She had a good time. They were amazed that she can be so happy because of all the things that happened to her.
When they left the diner Ann said bye to them and left saying she would see them soon. They said went their. Azul's house was on the way to Fuji's house. When they got to Azul's house, Mako went inside and Azul turned to Fuji.
"Can I have a goodbye kiss?" Fuji asked her. Azul just blushed. Fuji leaned in and kissed her. Azul didn't resist. She just took the kiss. Fuji broke the kiss and waved and left. Azul's face was all red. She went inside and took a bath. She relaxed in the tub, thinking about the kiss.
Mako was inside her room smiling at the picture she took of Azul and Fuji kissing. She downloaded the picture on her computer and decorated it with a frame. She liked it she printed two pictures on a photo paper and cut it in half. She planned she was going to school early and put these in their shoe box. She went put the pictures in her bag and Azul was probably finished so she took her pajamas and went to the bath. Azul was finished so she took out a towel from the closet that filled up the bath and went in and relaxed.
The next day Azul got up and freshened up. She went downstairs in her uniform and found that her sister had already left so she took a cereal bar and left. She found Fuji waiting for her. He smiled once he saw the door opened and waved at her. "Ohayo. Mako said that you were coming. She left about five minutes ago." Fuji said as Azul walked up to him.
"She did. She usually leaves early when its something important for school." Azul said when she was eating. "You want some?" She asked Fuji
He took a small piece and tasted it. "What is this?" he asked
"Its a cereal bar." She told him before finishing it up. She hugged his arm. "I never told you that I love you right?" She asked him. He nodded. "Alright. Syusuke-kun, I love you so much." She told him when letting go.
When Fuji and Azul got there, they went to their shoe box. They each opened up the flap and found a picture. Azul looked at it and her eyes turned wide. It was a picture of her and Fuji yesterday. She put this picture in her bag and put on her shoes walked up to Fuji who was finished putting on his shoes. She saw the picture in his box too. "You got this too huh?"
"Why? Did you get one?" She nodded. "I think its Mako-san" He said. She nodded again. Then the bell rang. "Let's go before we're late." He told her before going into the hallway. She followed and wondered what was happening in school today.
It was lunch and Azul walked to the cafeteria. On the way she saw Mako talking to a boy. She heard Mako say to the boy. "I'm sorry, I not interested to go out with anybody." The boy then walked away. Azul went up to Mako.
"You like somebody else right?" Azul asked him because of Mako face. Mako felt bad to rejecting him but they went to meet up with everybody.
After school as usual Azul would have bother the boy's tennis club but Ryuzaki-sensei asked if she could talk to Azul.
Azul entered her office. "Sensei, you called for me?" She asked when coming up to her desk.
"Yes I did. My daughter, Sakuno wants to play tennis but she's not really good. Since you have nothing to do, will you please coach her when you're waiting for Mako?" Ryuzaki asked her.
"Sure. Its true that I don't have anything to do." Azul replied. She saw a girl sitting on the couch which was Azul thought was Sakuno. "You must be Sakuno." Azul said going up to the girl she nodded.
"I'm Ryuzaki Sakuno. Thank you for taking the time for giving me lessons." She said while bowing.
"No I don't mind. My name is Minamura Azul." Azul said. "Let's change and I'll start coaching you." She told her.
"Hai, Minamura-sempai." Sakuno said.
"You can call me by my first name, Sakuno-chan."
"Okay, Azul-sempai"
Azul helped Azul with her swinging and some other things. By the end of the practice Sakuno could at least hit the ball against the wall and back for longer than she cpuld before. "You're improving." Azul told Sakuno as they walked to the girls' changing room.
"Arigato. You're the one that's helping me." Sakuno said when they were in the changing room.
"Azul finished changing and picked up her tennis bag. "Since tomorrow is mix-club day, we don't have to practice but you can work on it if you want." Azul said before leaving. She waited with Fuji for Mako.
"Where were you today? I didn't see you during practice." Fuji asked.
"Ryuzaki-sensei asked me to coach her granddaughter, Sakuno in tennis, so I'm coaching her twice a week." Azul told him before Mako came. They all walked to until Fuji had to go the other way. Mao and Azul went home and got ready for mixed club day.
TBC..
