Three Times the Charm

Someone said that they didn't want my OC to be a Mary Sue, don't worry about that. Sorry about the many typos in my previous stories and chapters, their easily corrected when you read it.

Chapter 2: This is Wimbledon Potential

Lunchtime in Seishun Gakuen Junior High was like Lunch in other schools but Kiyo preferred eating a sandwich as she and her friends were walking around on the school grounds.

Kari and Ai were walking beside her, just finishing their lunch a few minutes ago. The two were talking about the seatwork they just received in their Mathematics class and Kiyo stopped by the tennis courts, seeing that it was empty.

Kari and Ai stopped as they noticed Kiyo had stopped behind them, turning around they found that she was watching the tennis courts where the male tennis team practiced in after school and weekends. Ai asked Kiyo, "Do you like playing tennis, Kiyo?" Kiyo blinked for a few moments as if slowly wondering what the right answer was. Do I love tennis?

Kiyo laughed and Aiko and Kari stepped back from her for a moment, thinking their friend had just gone insane. Kiyo looked at them with a smile, "I guess I'm being a masochist." The three friends continued walking.

Inoue pushed back his chair and stood up; he got information from a reliable source that the Seishun Gakuen was having try-outs again. He wanted to witness the regulars and maybe they would find another prodigy for the regulars. He would be able to talk to Coach Ryuuzaki as well on the progress of her students and if possible, interview the prodigies in her team.

Momoshiro sat in the club locker room, fixing the lace on his shoe and suddenly remembered how warm Kiyo's hand had been as she held his. Her felt the blood rushing to his face, clearing his throat in hopes to clear his head and stood up, leaving his place from the bench.

Ryoma noticed the red cheeks of Momoshiro along with Horio, Katsuo and Kachiro and all had the same question in their heads; what is he thinking about? Ryoma called Momoshiro who stumbled then waved back at them after a moment and Momoshiro could still see his cheeks stained.

"Tsubomi, can I see the list?" A girl with her dark hair tied back into a ponytail handed her captain the list of those attending the try-outs this afternoon. Her captain's red eyes looked back and forth between the lines of names but stopped at a name that sounded extremely familiar. "'Kiyo Kagami'? Where have I heard of this name before?"

"She's a new student, Setsu-chan," Tsukomi said, the girl who shared the same face as Tsubomi but her hair was cut short above her shoulders in her tennis outfit. Hers was the colors of pink and white as Tsubomi's was blue and white. Their captain wore shorts instead of the tennis skirt and her long ponytail reached the end of her waist and moved with her body.

Setsuna sighed, and gave the list back to Tsubomi, "I'm going to go to Coach Ryuuzaki, I'll talk to Tezuka-san as well on the try-outs so I leave everything to you. Don't forget to announce to them that the ranking is going to be in two weeks before the competition." Setsuna left the court as she moved to the school building to speak with Coach Ryuuzaki.

Tsukomi looked at the number of girls who were trying out moving to the locker room and was slightly worried that there was going to be too much people, Tsukomi was fixing their racquets and placing their bags by the benches. "I guess it's time to look for new regulars for our team."

Kiyo sat with the other girls who were trying-out, adjusting the strings of her racquet and looked up when everyone around her began to cheer. It turns out that everyone was accepted into the club but only chosen few will join the ranking tournament, it was a given that the sophomores and the juniors would have to join but the chosen few will be based on their performance all through-out and not only the ranking tournament.

Kiyo stood up and sat with Kari who sat a the benches beside the court but at a safe distance from the players, "Is it really like this? Everyone's accepted already?" Kari nodded, saying that it happened every year, that she was lucky to have entered such a kind team who would accept her even though she wasn't that good at tennis. "So, I just have to play with the other good players from the club and win to impress them, right?"

"Freshmen! Start your swings, 100 backhands and 100 forehands," Tsukomi said cheerily as her twin sister was writing something on the clipboard she held containing the list of students. Tsubomi was quieter compared to her sister who was the cheerful noisy sophomore and Tsukomi seemed to encourage her sister to be more like her.

"Sophomores, you can use the other courts for practices after about 10 laps around the yard, including the male tennis team's courts," Tsubomi said simply and the sophomores along with Kiyo and Kari walked out of the courts to start on their laps. Many of the sophomores giggled and talked about the regulars on the male tennis team, it was then that Kiyo realized she had yet to see the male tennis team.

Kiyo was walking by the male tennis team's courts and found that many of the students were freshmen from their small stature and a few sophomores and juniors watching the freshmen as they had their warm-ups. She stopped and let everyone else go ahead as she looked for the regulars to watch them practice.

Arai stood by the courts, watching the freshmen practice but turned his gaze away from them as he heard the footsteps of the female tennis team. He found that one of the girls stayed behind, watching the freshmen as they accomplish their warm-ups. He knew she was the new student of their batch and he would score big on popularity points if he was to be caught on a date with her. He nudged the friend beside him and gestured to the girl, receiving a smile from his friend.

"Hey!" Kiyo turned her head from looking for the regulars when she heard someone and found someone from her batch waving at her.