Pain and Love

-InuShikaCho-

Disclaimer: I do not own tennis no Ohjisama either the manga or the series… ToT

Note: I don't know anything about Sakuno's family background so her father's name and personality are just made up by me. So please bear with me… and forgive me to make such a thing. But promise I'll make this fan fic good! so have fun reading guys! hugs and kisses lol. And the story might have out of character… since the story is a bit different… I guess?

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Pain and Love: Silent Kiss

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Year had finally passed, but Ryoma and Sakuno were still together. Though many hardships that they'd encountered, they still stay to each other's sides. No one had a chance to stop their love or fooled each other's hearts. But what if the person who will really separate this two arrive, can they still fight for one another and still don't leave each other's sides?

Both of them were entering college but not in the same university. Ryoma stayed as the prince of tennis, while Sakuno stayed as… clumsy. Ryoma was still cold to others, but when it comes to Sakuno, he was not. Sakuno became prettier, that Ryoma can be proud of. Sakuno never fix her hair as two braids anymore, she cut her hair in shoulder length, while her brows were completely tidy. She gained height and had a shape on her body. The past few years with Ryoma, she begged him to teach him how to play tennis, and she really improved a lot.

Ryoma on the other hand, changed a little. His coldness to others was still there, like what I said, except for Sakuno. He still wears his white cap and gain more height just like Sakuno. He won top places in tennis, internationally and nationally. He could still see his former team members in Seigaku when he was still in freshmen in High School; Tezuka Kunimitsu, the team captain, was a famous business man and left tennis after his injury got more serious; Fuji Syuusuke became a famous magazine photographer; Kikumaru, Momoshiro, and Kaidoh didn't left the sport tennis; Oishi take over his father's business and now he was helping his father in it; while Inui was inventing things and creates vegetable juice until now.

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Cold breeze greeted the two couples when they went out of the restaurant, where they ate dinner. The dark clouds started to show lightning and everywhere were starting to get dark. As the coldness occupied the whole place, rain dropped slowly and after a while it showered the water all over the place. Lightning and thunder were starting to join in the mid-air. The two couple waited for a taxi to arrive, but after a few minutes of waiting, they wondered why there was no car anywhere, and so, they decided to go home along the rain without any umbrella.

Ryoma tried to not let Sakuno get wet but he can't, the rain dropped more hardly and longer. After a few minutes of running under the rain, the two realized that they were already wet. Ryoma looked for a place to stay for a while without getting soak in the rain, and luckily he found one…

"Sakuno, let's go there!" Ryoma said and pulled Sakuno along with him.

"Okay" Sakuno answered back as she followed Ryoma.

They stopped and panted. Sakuno was very wet and so as Ryoma. Sakuno started to shiver when the wind blew in her path; Ryoma noticed it and looked for a place to stay for that night. Why? Sakuno's house was far and so as Ryoma, and Sakuno will get sick if they will continue running in the rain.

"Sakuno, are you okay?" Ryoma asked in great worried.

"I'm fine…" Sakuno lied but before she lied again, she sneezed.

"I don't think you do…" Ryoma said and continued looking for a place to stay in. After a few minutes of looking and sneezing, Ryoma panicked and turned around in his position. "Where!" he demanded, until he noticed the word Inn beside the building entrance. Ryoma looked away and thought that he was very embarrassed.

"Ryoma-kun, is there something wrong?" Sakuno asked as she watched Ryoma on a corner

"I found an Inn!" Ryoma said and pulled Sakuno inside the building.

"But, shouldn't we go home already?" Sakuno asked again

"You'll get sick if we continue running in the rain…" Ryoma answered and approached the lady and asked for a free room.

"Sorry… but there's only one room left, sir" the lady apologized

"What, one room left!" Ryoma and Sakuno demanded as they started to blush

"Don't you have any free rooms available?" Ryoma added

"Sorry sir, all the room in our inn was already taken…" the lady apologized again and noticed the miserable faces of the two "I know! Sir, why don't you rent a bed sheet and one of you will sleep in the floor…!"

Ryoma's face got more miserable and Sakuno saw it

"Ryoma-kun… Why don't we take the room and rent sheets, besides is just for tonight, right? If you want, I'll sleep in the floor and you'll sleep in the bed!" Sakuno suggested and smiled

"No… we'll take the room and rent sheets…" Ryoma decided, then, the lady handed over the key and told them that the bed sheets will be brought in their room a little while. And so, Ryoma grabbed Sakuno's hand and pulled her again, "Try calling your mother that you can't go home tonight because of the hard rain… and I'll try to call at home too…"

Sakuno followed again, and watched Ryoma as he pulled her persistently. "Ah Okay…"

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As they reached Room 127 and entered inside. Sakuno decided to take a bath while Ryoma took a towel and dried himself with it. While Sakuno was taking a warm bath on the tub, Ryoma turned on the television and watched for a short while to stop him self from being bored.

Inside the bath room, Sakuno heaved a sigh as she placed her body in the warm water. Mists were starting to appear in the glasses. Sakuno was very relieved in her place. She started to hum herself in great happiness and showed a sweet smile. But suddenly, a thing… a special thing came to her mind and she started to get totally red and couldn't speak from what she had in mind, but when she heard the door opened outside the bath room, and heard a voice said "Sir, here are the sheets!" she heaved a sigh again and became relieved. After a few minutes of taking a bath, Sakuno went out of the bath room and saw the pillows on the floor…

"Ryoma-kun…" Sakuno murmured as she saw Ryoma watching television

"You're already done?" Ryoma asked and looked at Sakuno.

"Yes!" Sakuno answered greatly. Ryoma started to blush and headed himself to the bath room

"I tried to looked for clothes for you to wear, it's inside the closet" Ryoma said closed the door

"Thanks!" Sakuno went to the closet and saw a shirt; she took it and saw a note. It said Sorry…. Sakuno smiled and took the note, and of course she wore the clothes inside.

Sakuno walked to the window and realized that the rain and the lightning were still there. She just watched the rain and got entertained herself from it. She looked back and took the phone. At the same time, Ryoma came out of the bath room. Sakuno dialed her number and sat on the bed while Ryoma watched her calling.

"Mom it's me, Sakuno!" Sakuno said as the receiver answered the phone

"Sakuno, where are you?" her mother answered and definitely she was very worried

"Mom, don't worry I'm okay. I'm staying in an inn for tonight. We'll wait until the rain will stop, and we'll go home tomorrow, is that okay?" Sakuno explained.

"Ryoma, is Ryoma there with you?" her mother asked nervously

"Yeah, I'm with Ryoma, mom! Don't worry I will be alright!" Sakuno answered

"Okay, Take care! Be sure that you'll go home tomorrow okay?"

"Yes mom, I will! Bye mom!"

"Bye" then both of them hanged up. Sakuno looked at Ryoma and smiled at him "I can see that you're done!"

"Yeah" Ryoma answered back, "You're mother is worried?"

"Yes… I said that I'll go home after the rain…"

"I see…"

Ryoma sat beside Sakuno and kept quiet for a while. In deep silence, the two of them started to blush. Because of this, the two panicked and started to talk together.

"Ryoma-kun" Sakuno said together with Ryoma "Sakuno…"

Then they kept quiet. The two blushed again and sighed…

"Ryoma-kun" Sakuno murmured and looked at Ryoma; he on the other hand looked at Sakuno back, "I'll sleep on the floor!"

"I do…" Ryoma added, "I'll sleep on the floor…"

"But Ryoma-kun" Sakuno insisted

"Stay in the bed…" Ryoma ordered and lied himself on the floor and relaxed himself again in the soft pillow.

"Okay…" Sakuno followed and lied in the bed, Ryoma closed the lights and they started to sleep.

Sakuno forced herself to sleep and so as Ryoma, they were not used to sleep on the same room, they still need a bit of adjustment. Sakuno closed her eyes and pretended herself to sleep.

Few hours later, Ryoma started to be uncomfortable, not because of where he sleeps, because of the atmosphere. A little bit longer, he couldn't fell asleep even though how many times he forced himself to. Thus, he stood up and sat in the most comfortable chair in the room. He sat there for a long time and listened to the thunder and rain outside.

Sakuno felt that Ryoma was awake, she opened her eyes slowly and stared at the wall in front of her, she moved her feet that made Ryoma alert and looked at her. But when she felt again that Ryoma was looking at her, she stopped her self from moving and pretended that she was sleep again.

"Stop it… I know you're awake" Ryoma demanded which made Sakuno to open her eyes.

"Ahehehehe" Sakuno chuckled and sat on the bed, she looked at Ryoma and laughed "Sorry"

"Did I wake you up?" Ryoma asked as he started to look away from Sakuno

"No! I wasn't able to sleep…" Sakuno answered hesitantly "How about you?"

"Same" Ryoma replied as he looked outside.

"Nee… Ryoma-kun…" Sakuno murmured, but then, Ryoma stood up and walked towards her. Sakuno got nervous and her hands were shaking "Ry...Ryoma-kun"

"Sakuno…" Ryoma suddenly said that made Sakuno surprised. She closed her eyes in fear while Ryoma looked at her in the face.

As Sakuno pretended not to see anything, she felt another skin in her body leaning on her. The simple touch that no one could ever predict was real. She felt glossy lips on her, and thought it was sweet. She blushed and made herself really red and thought something inside her head with his kiss, is this for real… I know… We haven't kissed me before… honestly… and I never expected that Ryoma… Before she had ever talked to herself again, she was stopped. Then everything went to deep silence for a long, long time. It was still raining but the lightning and the thunder disappeared, they could only hear the small noises of rain drops when it smashes to the window glass.

The next day, the light of the sun slowly turned in Sakuno's eyes that awakened her. Her eyes twitched when she opened her eyes and the light was still there. As she remembered what happened last night, she had a second thought, was it a dream or real? Then she turned red. She looked underneath her sheet and saw that she was wearing clothes right, like nothing had really happened last night. She looked for the prince and saw him sleeping on the floor, then she got really, really, really confused.

After a few hours, Ryoma had already awakened from his sleep; he yawned and got embarrassed when he saw Sakuno staring at him from the couch.

"Ah Sorry…" Ryoma apologized in total embarrassment

"That's okay!" Sakuno smiled.

Both of them fixed themselves and left the room. The thing was still running inside Sakuno's head and she was really totally confused. She said, maybe it was her dream because of imagining things. But she knew that she couldn't sleep last night and she can remember that she pretended that she was sleeping last night. She thought of hitting her head on the wall to be relieved but she don't want to cause ruckus. Finally, they rode the elevator, Ryoma let Sakuno enter first and he followed, after he pushed the G button, meaning ground floor. Sakuno was still acting really strangely behind, Ryoma got annoyed and talked to her,

"What's the matter?" Ryoma asked without looking at her directly

"Ha!" Sakuno was surprised and became shy in a moment

"You're acting weird…" Ryoma added

"Ha…" Sakuno didn't know what to say

"You're weird…" Ryoma added again

They were about to reach the ground floor, but then Sakuno decided to say something…

"Nee, Ryoma-kun!" Sakuno shouted

"What?"

"I was wondering… what happened last night?" Sakuno asked, but Ryoma didn't answer. Sakuno panicked "Ahehehe never mind… you see I was dreaming last night about…"

Before she continued talking, the elevator door opened and at the same time Ryoma blushed and answered 2 words "It's true…" then he walked out of the elevator

Sakuno was flushed inside and her jaw was dropped. She was totally surprised to hear that, so it was true. It was no dream, it was reality…

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End of Chapter

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Wahahaha… I hope the chapter ended up nice… hehehe… Two fan fics at a time? Woow this is my first time to do this… hehe… chapter 2 will be posted soon… and just like what I said on the other fic, I'm also doing this at school… since I have some free time at school and at home… so thanks for reading it guys

And oh yeah I'm lame in details… so sorry…