Author's Note: allo. :). I'm a noob here XD and it's actually my first attempt on a prince of tennis fanfic (I've only done a few unsuccesful w-inds. ones before). Hope it goes well 8/. hahh, sorry, not too good with Author's notes, or summaries for that matter XD.

Story/Pairing: But yeah, the main character should be Aoi original character and the pairing later on should be Syuusuke x Aoi. (sorry if I mis-pell anything ;o;). choo, and maybe Sakuno x Ryoma later on, and others. Not too sure how I'm gonna do with this 8/.

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis or any of its' characters (though I love it) :). I do own Aoi and storyline :D.

Reference:
Hai - Yes.
Eto - Umm/Uhh.
Iyada - No.
Ne - 'kay?. (in reference to text used below).
Anata wa dare? - Who are you?.
Che - Aoi's way of saying, "Dammit." (or along the lines of that).
Demo - But.
Please correct me if anythings wrong /. My japanese is bad XD.

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It's 1st POV., so all thoughts should come from her.

CHAPTERONE: A transfer?

"A TRANSFER?"

I grinned as Sakuno literally jumped off the desk in shock. "Haaaaii," I saluted her. "I saw him while passing by the office this morning. And well, I couldn't help but eavesdrop a bit so I snuck behind the door and overheard Takatori-sensei saying something about homeroom 3-D."

Sakuno pulled a hand over her hanging mouth before leaning into me again. "Eh? But isn't our homeroom 3-D?"

My grin widened. "Yeeepp. And guess what that means Sakuno?"

Her fingers fell to brush her chin. "Etooo.."

Without recieving an answer, I nodded solemnly.

"EH! He should be coming here in a few minutes!"

I nodded again, this time laughing. Sakuno is the kind of friend I love being around. She's clueless, dim-witted, but smart (actually), yet clumsy. I always wonder how she gets around like that.

"And guess what else Sakuno? He's pretty cute for a seventh grader," I winked. "He's got blackish-green hair to about here," I leveled my hands to my chin, "well, it looked green anyway but I'm not sure. And he's about your height. OH! And he was holding a racket.. the atmosphere around him looked pretty tense though."

Sakuno withdrew back into her thoughts for awhile, I premised, since she seemed to roam around in her head. Likewise, I slumped into my chair briefly and gazed outside to an average morning's painting of endless skies. Packs of students started to barge in at this time, and we all impatiently awaited the rings of the morning bell.

You'd probably know this already, but Sakuno happens to be my best friend. Our mornings are usually spent casually in our homeroom classroom, like now. She goes over homework with me occasionally and on other circumstances, we'll flip too the gosip topic (which is rare, really. She doesn't talk about that stuff much). And then sometimes it's random talk.

This morning it was boy talk (you know, random) and Sakuno was hit with one of those random moments of musing.

"Hmm.. I wonder," she pondered.

"Wonder...?"

"Ah!" she snapped her head up. "Oh, it's nothing."

..Weird girl.

"But anyway, do you think he's planning to be a Seigaku regular? Maybe that's why he transfered here?"

I started to fiddle with a pen. "Pfft, you're kidding right? He's a freshman, he'd never make it over any of them. Unless he's got tough luck."

Sakuno nodded, "That's right. What am I thinking?" She childishly stuck out her tongue.

Our conversation dragged on for a good fifteen minutes. It was all targeted on that new kid. Oddly, I've always had this kind of.. amusement, I guess you could say, for Sakuno to get a bf. It'd just be nice to see and something she deserved. You could understand my excitement when I saw that transfer.

But anyways, no more of thinking and onto the story. A few minutes subsequent, the teacher finally came to class on time, which was an unusual first, and with the transfer as expected. That sticky atmosphere around him that I mentioned earlier was still lurking around somewhere.

He did a vague and brief introduction. 'Echizen Ryoma, yoroshiku' in a pretty low but feminine voice. The biggest surprise came after the intro.

"Aoi!" Sakuno tapped my shoulder twice. "I was right! That's the boy I met on the subway!"

I lifted my eyebrows. "Ehhhh. It's love unrequited."

"I- Iyada!" She started to laugh, hiding another one of those frequent blushes. "I was just mentioning it.."

I smiled when she retreated back to her seat.

It's a tennis freak.

Plus a clueless girl.

So, tennis plus clueless equals..

Equals..

Hm. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself on this.

"Sakuno, go for it!" I whispered. "Maybe this time you guys can really hit it off!"

"A- Aoi!" She returned the whisper, worriedly. "W- What're you talking about? I don't think he remembers me." She sweat-dropped. "Let's leave it at that, ne?"

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"..Anata wa dare?"

"E- Eh! You don't remember?"

Echizen fixed his eyes on her for a long while without fretting. After contemplating a bit, he opened his mouth again.

"..No."

OH MY GAA. What an indecisive guy! I slapped my forehead and cursed under my breath. Seriously, don't tell me he forgot about her! What an ignorant, cocky, stubborn guy! Mann Sakuno's in a tight position right now.. Should I walk over there? Nahh.. he'll find it akward. He'll think it's a set-up. I mean, c'mon, I'm walking out from behind a bush, talking to him for the first time, and then I'm covering for her. But Sakunooo.. Areehhh.. Need to figure out something. She's speechless.

I peeped over my shoulder and watched the freshman jog around the tennis courts.

"Fight-O, Seigaku, Fight-O, Fight-O.." they chanted.

Oh. Wait. Hm. I wonder if that'll work.

Che. Got no choice.

"FIGHT-O FIGHT-O!" I cried, popping out of the bush. Following them, I jogged closer to Sakuno by the second. "FIIGHHTT-OOOH!" The freshmen eyed me from head to toe with a weird stare. I mentally slapped myself at the embarrassment. It's okay, Aoi! You're being humiliated for a good cause, GOOD CAUSE!

Almost there.. Sakuno, I'm coming to save you!

"FIIGHTTT OOOOHHHHH- SAKUNO!" I exclaimed when I reached them. "Ahahaha, I never knew you were here!"

She gave me one of those shocked yet relieved looks (and part confused). Her head tilted at me, then to Ryoma. Che, the transfer. He lifted an eyebrow at me, unfazed, and not moving an inch.

I stopped my jog and gave her a hearty pat on the back. "Oh." I turned to Echizen. "You're the transfer right?"

"Yeah."

"Ooo it's nice meeting you. Sorry, but could I borrow Sakuno for a moment? We actually decided to sign up for the tennis team together-"

Her jaw dropped.

"And well, I can't quite find the registration, so we might have to yeah, you know. Alright, see ya!"

I grabbed Sakuno's arm and we dashed off to the shedhouse, leaving Ryoma behind. She bombarded me with a truckload of questions when we got there, and it took me a while to answer them all.

"Did you hear the whole thing?" she asked.

"Slighty? "

There was a few whines and apologies after that. Sakuno was never the type to keep a straight face, nor stay angry for a while though, so that issue was solved. Most of it was cleared up, actually, minus a particular problem. I would say it really ripped a page off the book.

"But besides that, didn't you say we were joining the tennis team?"

I nodded with one eye closed. "Yepp. I'm glad I did too, it was the only thing I could think of at the momen- ahh Noooo, not that I was eavesdropping or anything, hah no way, just thaa-"

"Demo Aoi," she interrupted me. "..Does that mean we have to join it then?"

I froze in place.

Uh oh.

I never agreed on playing tennis.

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A/N: Sorry, I've only watched Prince of Tennis recently so I'm not familiar with many characters, thus they may be OOC ;o;. And the spelling on names might be wrong. xox;.

Please no flaming ;o;. Itdoesn't make karenuuh-chan feel very happy TT.

- FL1Pflop. / KARenn!.