Yo, minna-san! Gosh, it's so hot here in the Philippines! I feel my skin burning from fire. Ahee! I really hate summer because it seems like the hotness drains my ideas! Waah! That's the main reason why I update even later than before cries. My sources of ideas are stars every night with the soft breeze brushing through me but because of summer I can't feel the breeze! Oh Kami-sama, please let the breeze pass through me! gasps And, I can't say other things except HOT! Gah! My body will explode!

To sakuno-chan, yeah. That channel changed Natsume's name to Natume. That's some kind of annoying and irritating, because I had to search his true name in every story to prove that his name is Natsume! And, I already have a one-shat fic about Natsume and Mikan. Oopsie, I think I'm off from the true topic. Gome ne, minna-san!

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis. I might have ruined their life if I do. Just kidding!

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"Umf…" a voice grunted when his alarm clock beeped. He stretched his arms and reached the snooze of his alarm clock.

-click

"Gah, it's so early…" Ryoma moaned as he sat up from his bed. He rolled his eyes and laid his back on his bed again. He looked at the desk near his bed and saw a note. He stood up with his bare feet and walked through the floor with a lazy expression on his face.

"Kuso… Why this early?" he mused when he saw his mother's notes. "I have a meeting with Ryuzaki-sensei and Kikumaru-sempai at 8:00."

"Meow?" Karupin leapt from Ryoma's bed and snuggled over his left foot. Ryoma looked at Karupin. "Karupin…" he uttered. Ryoma looked at his alarm clock and saw that the time is 6:30.

Ryoma raised an eyebrow. "How did oka-san knew that I have a meeting? Don't she mean that Kikumaru-sempai called here last night."

Ryoma let out a sigh. "I should have come home in time last night. Wait, why did I come home late last night?" he thought of as he tried to remember what happened last night.

"Ah..." Ryoma sighed once more while a smirk started to creep out from his features. "I bought flowers for Ryuzaki last night."

Ryoma smirked once more. "I should continue what I started." He said. He plodded downstairs and meets his mother.

"Ohayou, Ryoma-kun!" Rinko greeted while wiping her hands on her apron.

"Ohayo." Ryoma said while taking his seat. "Oka-san, did Kikumaru-sempai called you last night?" he asked.

Rinko nodded. "Yes. And why did you came home late last night and didn't even took your dinner?" she asked motherly.

Ryoma's sweat dropped. "I don't know. Maybe I was lost last night because I didn't remember our house, I guess?" he replied while taking toasted bread.

"Heh. Just mean it. You had a dinner date last night, ne?" Nanjiroh came from the door with a naughty grin playing on his face.

Ryoma blushed because of Nanjiroh's statement. "Shut up, oyaji." He mused.

Nanjiroh chuckled. "You never changed, brat."

Ryoma rolled his eyes. "Mada mada da- ACHOO!" he sneezed.

"Hey Ryoma-kun, you have a cold? Maybe you caught it last night…" Rinko asked and walked towards Ryoma. Ryoma rubbed his nose and shook her head.

"This is nothing." He said.

Maybe I caught this cold last night. Cherry blossom trees surround the front of her house and it brings cool breeze. Eh, there is a bunch of trees! Ne…

"Sigh…" a feminine deep exhalation was breathed. Ryuzaki Sakuno rubbed her teary eye upon waking up.

-beep…beep…

"Ne?" Sakuno turned around her and pulled out her cellphone under her pillow. She pressed the center key as her eyes tried to open up. She started to read the message she had received.

"M-meeting at 8:00?" Sakuno read aloud while scratching her short auburn locks. She looked at her alam clock and saw that it is already…

"Kyaa! 7:30! It's sure that I'll be late!!!" she beamed as her head started to tilt and looked for her night slippers. She hurried towards her closet to get her day attire. She quickly put it over her messed bed and started undressing to get a quick shower.

Several minutes had passed after having her shower. Sakuno wrapped herself in a clean white towel while her other hand picked another towel to dry her auburn hair. She started dressing after wiping herself with the towel and wore her attire for the day. Sakuno quickly plodded downstairs wearing an orange strapless shirt covered with knitted blue bolero, brown 3/4th pants and a cute star accessory clipped at the ride side of her bangs to keep it from falling in front of her face. She panted while running through the corridor of her house and ran towards her kitchen to get some water to drink.

Sakuno quickly drank a glass of water and wore her brown sandals. She came towards her garden and opened her wooden gate. Her hands ran through the white fence as she walked three steps away from her front door. To her surprise she touched a quite firm object when her hands ran through the white fence.

She stopped for a while to take a look over the firm object she had touched. Her eyes blinked several times while her body turns around.

"This is a bouquet of daffodils..." She whispered to herself while carrying the bouquet of white flowers from the fence. She looked closer at the bouquet and saw a note. She picked it up and started reading the notes. "Good morning. I hope you had nice sleep last night to bring out a graceful smile this morning. From…"

"…Savior." She spoke. The flow of her own words saying the notes in the card made her heart pump like crazy. Her white cheeks were flushed with red as her hand started to clutch the card in front of her chest.

Am I falling for this guy named Savior? I wonder who he is… she thought of as she gripped the note with her cold hands.

Onii-chan! Arigato gozaimasu desu! You really are my savior!

Sakuno reminisced what Yume had said to Ryoma yesterday while at the same time she remembers of a guy who saved her inside a train.

"Could it be… Echizen-kun?" she stopped for a moment. Sakuno could feel the rapid beat of her heart inside her chest and the warm feeling rolling through her cheeks.

Sakuno closed her eyes and shook her head. "No! I said it for a million times! It can't be him! Others might have told me earlier if he is!" she said. A frown started to creep out from his lips after saying those words.

Kami-sama, please give me a sign… Sakuno prayed while looking up in the skies.

"Meow…" Riku came out of the house and snuggled over Sakuno's foot. Sakuno looked down and saw her cat. "R-Riku-chan?"

"Meow…" she mew once more and ran towards the bunch of cherry blossom trees in front of Sakuno's house. Riku ran at the tree a few steps away from the front gate of Sakuno. "Meow…" he mew again and looked up.

Sakuno blinked several times. "Eh, Riku-chan, get inside. I'm already late…" she mused. Riku looked at Sakuno and ran around the tree. He got back at her previous position and mew again. "Meow…"

"Eh… Riku-chan!" Sakuno mused once more. She looked at her wrist watch and saw that it is already 7:50. "I'm late! Riku-chan…" she said and started walking towards the tree while a thought runs inside her mind.

I said it. It can't be Echizen-kun… she debated with her mental self.

"ACHOO!" Ryoma sneezed behind the tree. He shuddered and hugged himself. Eh, wrong timing… he said and shooed the cat. Sakuno saw the sleeve of his red jacket and wondered.

Sakuno blinked several times. There's a man? "Hey, who's that?" she asked and stopped for a while. "Please answer me. Who's there?"

"Eh, screwed.." Ryoma thought of and tried harder in hiding behind the tree.

"Hey, answer me. Who are you-"

-RING!

Sakuno backed off when her cell phone rang from her pocket. She picked it in disappointment and answered. "Hello?" she asked and turned around.

Ryoma sighed deeply when Sakuno turned around. He quickly escaped and ran away.

"Oi, Sakuno, where are you now?!" Sumire's voice alarmed Sakuno.

"O-Oba-san!" Sakuno said. She heard faint footsteps behind her but saw no one except Riku going inside her house. She looked behind the tree and saw… nobody. No one's here. She thought of.

"Oi, Sakuno!"

"Hai! I'm coming now!" Sakuno sighed. She turned off her phone and walked back towards her house to drop the bunch of daffodils beside the bunch of sunflowers last night.

Maybe that savior gave me sunflowers to bring sunlight till night, I guess? She smiled amusingly and got out.

-BEEP!

A black car came in front of Sakuno's house.

"Wanna hitch a ride?" Kintarou said from the car with a wide smile plastered on his face.

Sakuno smiled enthusiastically. "Ah! Kin-chan to the rescue!" she said and got inside the car beside the driver's seat. She was currently connected the seatbelts when she noticed something at the backseats.

She gasped when she saw a red jacket. She looked at Kintarou in surprise.

I-Is it, Kin-chan? She thought of. Kintarou noticed Sakuno's stare on his face.

"Sakuno-chan, what's the matter?" Kintarou asked.

Sakuno shook her head and forced a smile on her face. "N-nothing…"

Her smile easily faded away upon looking at the side window.

She was frowning because she felt such sadness inside her heart.

"Haah, all of us are here now." Sumire sighed upon looking towards her former tennis students.

"Ryuzaki-sensei…" Kikumaru came beside Sumire and bent towards her ear. "Ochibi, Ryuzaki-san and Kin-chan aren't here yet…" he whispered. Sumire sighed once more. "Okay. With a triangle left." She said.

A pair of faint footsteps came from the hallway.

"Haah, Sakuno-chan, could we slow down for a minute?" Kintarou asked when Sakuno starts to walk so fast. Sakuno looked behind her and looked at Kintarou. "No, Kin-chan! I'm so late now and seems like oba-san will get mad at me!"

"Eh, Sakuno-chan…" Kintarou grunted.

"Kin-chan, we need to hurry- AH!" Sakuno gasped when she bumped at something that made her fall on the floor. Kintarou looked at Sakuno anxiously. Sakuno looked in front of her and closed her eyes.

"Sumimasen!" Sakuno apologized at the person in front of her. She looked in front of her and saw Ryoma looking at her eyes. "Ryuzaki?" he spoke.

Sakuno beamed. "E-Echizen-kun! Gomen nasai! I'm not looking on my way so I bumped at-"

Ryoma stood up and offered a hand to Sakuno. "I'm used to it." He said. Sakuno blushed when she saw Ryoma offering his hand to her. "A-Arigato, Echizen-kun." She said nervously.

Kintarou looked at Sakuno with a frown. I think I shouldn't insist and hope too much for Sa-chan.

The three of them entered the room. Ryoma wondered when he saw his sempai-tachi inside the room.

"Ryuzaki-sensei, I thought we have a meeting-" Ryoma asked but his words where cut off because of Sumire.

"Most of you will surely wonder why most of us are here inside the room. Actually, this is a meeting for former Seigaku students, except for Kintarou who will help us in the trip." Sumire started.

All of them wondered. "Trip?"

"Yes. We will have a one-week camping trip towards the woods in my old house. That's a place where I and Sakuno take our vacation when she's still a junior student." Sumire shouted inside the room.

Sakuno wondered. "Our vacation?"

"Yes. That's in the woods, ne? Could you remember it?" Sumire asked to her granddaughter. Sakuno tried her best to think.

"Hmm… oba-san, is that the place where the Seigaku regulars had a camping trip when I'm still in junior high?" Sakuno asked.

Sumire nodded. "Yes."

Momoshiro and Eiji grinned and had a hand of high-five. "Sempai, we should help bringing Ryuzaki-san's memories back!" Momoshiro whispered. Eiji nodded. "And bring new memories, ne? Hoi ochibi, do you remember the bear that we fought with tennis when the ichinen trio and Ryuzaki-san were trapped inside the stock room?" Eiji asked after grabbing Ryoma's neck.

Ryoma nodded. "Why?" he asked.

Eiji and Momoshiro grinned. "We can help her remember if one of us pretends to be a bear!"

Ryoma beamed. "And scare her?"

Eiji grinned once more. "Just agree with us!"

Ryoma tugged the brim of his cap. "Mada mada da-"

"Yeah! Echizen will come with us!" Momoshiro shouted. All of them looked at the three of them, wondering.

Sumire let out a couple of laughs. "Of course, Momo. Ryoma will come with us."

Kaidoh smirked from the corner. "Heh. You're still a baka. Fushuu.." he hissed. Momoshiro glared at Kaidoh sharply. "You Mamushi!"

"Do you want a fight?!"

"Bring it!"

"Oh c'mon!"

Sakuno, as well as the others, had a sigh exhaled.

"Okay. Everyone, listen! We will meet tomorrow at 10:00 A.M. in front of Seigaku Gates!"

"HAI!"

Sakuno looked around her and looked at her sempai-tachi.

All of us will be there including Taka-san, Fuji-sempai, Inui-sempai, Tezuka-san, Momoshiro-sempai, Kaidoh-sempai, Oishi-sempai, Eiji-sempai and Echizen-kun. Kin-chan will be coming as well as oba-san.

Haah. I wonder what kind of trip it would be.

Sakuno thought of while glancing towards the people inside the room.

But the one who received the most of her glances was, him.

I'm wondering if he is my savior.

"ACHOO!" Ryoma sneezed once more.

Sakuno beamed.

"Hoi hoi, ochibi has a cold!" Kikumaru said. Momoshiro messed Ryoma's hair. "Haha! Someone had just remembered this brat!"

"Shut up, sempai." He said.

Sakuno remembered the guy who sneezed behind the tree. It only means that it can't be Kintarou who had the red jacket. She glanced at Ryoma and saw him wearing his red bloated jacket. It was the same as the sleeve she saw lately.

Echizen-kun. I wish it's just you who was lost so I won't suffer so long in searching. But, this is wrong. It is too impossible to be him.

"Hey Ryuzaki-san." Fuji came beside Sakuno and tapped her shoulder. Sakuno gasped and looked at Fuji. "Ah, Fuji-sempai."

"Nothing is impossible in this world. We need to trust in our thoughts to prove them, ne?" he said kindly. Sakuno looked at Fuji and awed.

Fuji-sempai had read my thoughts.

Sakuno smiled sweetly at Fuji. "Arigato gozaimasu, Fuji-sempai!" she thanked.

Fuji smiled. "Ah. Good thing you smiled now."

Sakuno smiled again. "Hai!"

But… aah! My head will ache once more if I keep on doing this! Fuji-sempai is right! I need to trust my thoughts to prove them. But, how?

"I need to search for my memories without any doubt." Sakuno smiled to herself in determination as she takes a seat beside her grand mother.

I wish this trip will be able to bring my memories back.

A/N: Anou, minna! I'm really sorry if the chapter is short for you! I was just hooked from replying in our forum sites repeatedly to make such conversations! I'm really sorry! But, good news! My friend had bought the whole series of POT DVD! I'm so happy! As in to the highest level! I think I should keep up on writing! I'm charged once more! But, my electric bills, oh no! Our electric bills went high to 2k+! Ah, this is my stupidity because I keep on opening the computer from day to night by replying in our forums! Haha! This is my stupidity!

To Filipino readers, please tell me the exact date of MangaHolix Convection! Is it May 12 or May 19? rookie-chan is confused Please let me know! T.T

And please, read my one-shot about Natsume-kun and Mikan-chan entitled Girlfriend, Huh? Haha! It seems like I'm acting like a senatorial candidate by endorsing the story to you! I'm so stupid! Stupid! please don't mind me I'm just so crazy because I just missed episode 9 of POT today! T.T But, tomorrow is episode 10! Haha!

And please, point out if there are any mistakes so I can do it better next time!

Ja'ne!

rookie-chan