Here's chapter 2, I hope you like it. I'll be making a lot of them this weekend before my schedule gets tighter, so there will at least be three made by this weekend. Thanks for the reviews.

Disclaimer: I don't own Prince of Tennis. Only this fic.

A Regular Day at Rikkai Daigaku Fuzoku (except for Marui Bunta who's now running around the courts)

"I'm … huff… out of energy!" he plopped to the ground, listening to his breathing. When he turned his head to look at his teammates who were on the court, he saw Sanada, who was throwing glares at him as sharp as daggers. He quickly got up and did his push ups.

Even though Kirihara was still in junior high, he practiced a lot in the senior high's courts while hanging out with his senpai-tachi. At that time of the day, he saw a familiar face that passed by almost five times.

He frowned and sighed, "That girl really has no sense of direction." Inside him, he wanted to help her, but his inner demons stopped him from doing so.

His senpais walked over to him as they have finished their practice and are taking a break. They saw Akaya looking around, as if he's looking for somebody.

"Hey, brat! What are you doing?" Niou's voice suddenly cracked from Kirihara's back which startled him. He turned around and saw Niou and Yukimura approaching him.

"What's wrong Aka-chan? You seem startled?" Yukimura smiled gently at him; Kirihara just turned his head away, but he remembered that it was his Niou-senpai's fault that he got surprised.

"It's your fault, Niou-senpai!" he growled at his senpai who was just smiling mischievously. Yukimura turned to face Marui who was "limping" towards them. But to his surprise as well, Marui suddenly got perky and energetic and he was staring past them. So, he followed where Marui's eyes were set on.

"Oh no. I took a wrong turn again." Sakuno sighed at her, well, lack of sense of direction. She looked around her, hoping to find assistance and she saw a young man with vibrant red hair waving his hand at her. "Maybe I can ask them for help…"

She closed into the group of boys and she saw two of them were bickering with each other. She tried her best to not to stutter, but no luck. "Uhm… E-Excuse me b-but I'm lost, y-you see.." She bowed down to hide her face with a tint of red from her previous stuttering.

Yukimura giggled at the girl and said, "Why are you here? You seem to be from Seishun…" she stood straight and looked at them. Kirihara did not notice her until his ex-buchou spoke.

He shifted his attention to the brown-haired girl, which earned him a noogie from his Niou-senpai. "What's this, our little imp's got a crush on somebody?" he whispered at his ear which made Kirihara blush a little. He tried to stop it but he can't. He struggled to get out of the grip yet it only tightened.

"Niou-senpai! I can't breathe!" he shouted as he tried to escape.

Niou whispered into his ear again, "You blushed a while ago, I must have hit the spot, huh?" he finally let go of his kouhai who struggled to put a distance between them while catching his breath.

Apparently, Kirihara's shouting caught the other's attention including Sakuno's. He got embarrassed to face her, so turned around and took his racket and resumed his training.

Jackal approached after seeing the ruckus that Niou and Kirihara had made. "What's going on here?" he looked at Yukimura who was smiling and he introduced Jackal to the girl. "It's very nice to meet you, Ryuzaki-san. But what are you doing here in Rikkai Dai?" he was pretty curious since he saw at the tournaments that Sakuno was a close friend of all the Seigaku regulars.

"I want to t-transfer h-here after s-summer break is o-over." She said as she played with the ribbon on her uniform. (Ain't she cute?) Kirihara strained his ears to hear what she was saying when suddenly Marui squealed in delight.

"Eh? You're going to study here?" he jumped at her and held her hands; "I'm so glad!" his wide smile reached his ears at the very words Sakuno had said.

Kirihara somehow got pissed with his senpai acting as if he and Sakuno were close. He felt a hand touch his shoulder, it was Niou.

"You're jealous, aren't you?" he said while pointing at the happy Marui who was still holding Sakuno's hands, shaking them up and down.

"Che! As if I care!" he grumbled under his breath.

"I see. Well, I'll tour you around so that you won't get lost," Jackal paused, looking at Yukimura who replied with a gentle smile, "if you don't mind, that is."

Sakuno nodded and Jackal walked beside her. She felt safe though she thought that she had just met him for a few minutes. He was like a brother to her.

On the background, a figure that was holding a notebook and was busily jotting down things can be seen. Sanada approached him and tried to look over his shoulder to see what he was writing but he closed the notebook quickly to Sanada's surprise. He smiled at Sanada, and he felt as if something bad was about to happen.

'What was Renji writing and what was that feeling?' he thought but then he just shrugged, thinking it might just be his imagination.

Later that day,

"Thank you Jackal-san for escorting me around." She bowed down to show her thanks. She straightened up and waved good bye and ran off.

Jackal walked back to the courts and he saw everybody still having their break. (He wasn't long gone, you see.) Marui couldn't stop getting attention since his been so energetic and bouncy all that time.

"I think you had too much sweets, Marui-senpai." Akaya looked at his senpai who was so energetic that he was still doing a lot of push ups (courtesy of Sanada).

"Who was that girl that you were talking to, Yukimura-buchou?" Yagyuu was curious after seeing what happened a while ago.

"It was a girl from Seishun Gakuen who was planning to transfer here." Renji answered for Yukimura who just smiled.

"I see. But why is Marui like that?" he pointed at the unsuspecting red-head who was unstoppable up till now.

"I don't know as well. This is a very interesting subject, Yagyuu." He opened his notebook and started writing again. Everybody was curious so they all tried to look at what 'The Data Man of Rikkai' was jotting down, but before they could take a peek he closed it with a grin forming on his lips.

"Whooo!" Marui still is hype after all he has done. "I can't wait! I can't wait!" he sing-songed while skipping happily like a child. Everybody sure is getting freaked out by Marui.

"It will be a tough competition." Niou murmured as he shifted his gaze from Kirihara to Marui.

Today has been a weird day.

Sakuno arrived and entered her house. Her grandmother wasn't around. "I guess she's still at school." she sat on the couch, encouraging herself in her thoughts.

'The decision I made is final. I'll get it through.' She thought when their phone rang.

"Hello, this is Ryuzaki Sakuno speaking-" then a loud voice could be heard from the other line. "Tomo-chan, please don't shout over the phone!"

"But Sakuno, I heard that you were transferring! How can I calm down?" Tomoka was angry at her best friend's decision of leaving her and the others.

"Yeah, that's right, Ryuzaki-chan!" she heard the phone being handed to somebody else and it was Momo-senpai. "What about us!?" then she heard a 'fushuu' in the background and the phone was handed back to Tomo.

The sound of Kaidoh and Momo fighting made it hard to understand what Tomo was saying. So Sakuno just said, "I'm so sorry, minna-san." She started to sob and the noise on the other line silenced itself. "But this is the best that I can think of. I don't know what to do anymore." Everybody understood her. Her relationship with the prodigy lasted for almost a year then he suddenly left without any explanation. The school itself makes her remember happy yet painful memories.

"I-I'm so sorry." Then she hung up, her sobs, that echoed in the quiet house, were heartbreaking.

She spent her summer break with all of her friends going here and there. She knew it will be hard to be with them once she has transferred to her new school. Her friends knew what hardship she was going through, so they all tried to make her forget, to make her last summer break with them memorably happy.

And there you have it. The story is still culminating in my head so i got to type it before it changes, see ya later! n_n