Chapter IV-Ryoma's Defeat

Disclaimer: Do Not Owe Prince of Tennis!

Warning: boy/boy (Tezuka/Ryoma) Do Not Read If This Offends You.

(Flashback)

"Tezuka is going all out on him, huh Fuji?" Oishi asked as he and Fuji were watching Tezuka and Ryoma play against each other at a private tennis courts.

"That Echizen kid is pretty good. But Tezuka is still ahead of him by two points," Fuji said as Oishi nodded.

"Tezuka is using the Tezuka zone again? Fuji, please tell me that his arm is fully healed," Oishi said as Fuji chuckled.

"It is Oishi. He wouldn't come back from Germany then if it wasn't, right? Aw man. Ryoma almost made a shot but it hit the net instead. Did you saw that?" Fuji asked.

"Now the score is 5-3. Ryoma won't win against the ex-Seigaku captain," Oishi said slowly.

True to his word, Tezuka won against Ryoma using his Drop Shot at the last round as Ryoma kneeled on the ground, panting heavily as he looked up at Tezuka who was giving him a hand.

"Your matches, they were good. But they were copied by none other then Nanjiro Echizen. Am I right?" Tezuka asked as Ryoma stood up without the help of Tezuka.

"Made made dane," Ryoma said slowly as he was walking towards the bench to drink water.

"What?"

"This match isn't over until I say it is."

"Echizen, you should play your own game and not your fathers. Without your own game, you will never win a match against me. If you don't listen to what I say, you'll regret it," Tezuka said slowly as he put his racquet bag over his shoulder as he left the tennis courts with Fuji and Oishi.

"Ryoma! Are you alright?" Haruko asked worriedly as she and Midori were the only ones to come and witness the defeat of Ryoma as Aoi and Kai had other things to do at the moment.

"I'm fine."

"Are you sure?" Midori asked slowly.

"I'm fine! Now leave me be!" Ryoma said sternly as he put his racquet bag over his shoulder and left the tennis courts without another word to the girls.

(End Flashback)

"So Ryoma had never left the house? Not even once?" Aoi asked two days later after the defeat of Ryoma as the two girls nodded.

"We tried letting him out off the house today to come with us, but he stayed in his room playing with his cat and not even seeing us. I'm worried about him," Haruko said quietly.

"We should do something. That defeat actually threw him off the loop," Midori said.

"Something wrong with Echizen?" A voice interrupted the four as they looked up and saw Momoshiro, Fuji and another they didn't recognized.

"How did you know we were talking about him?" Aoi asked.

"Tezuka told us about Ryoma's defeat. So, what's going on?" Momoshiro asked as the three sat with the four as they had grabbed some chairs.

"Ryoma stayed in his room for two days since the defeat Fuji. We tried prying him off to come with us today, but he wouldn't budge!" Haruko said as she was close to tears.

"Inui, contact Tezuka and tell him the situation. Perhaps he can help out with this," Fuji said as the boy that was unknown nodded and stood up as he left.

"That was Inui? The data master?" Kai asked slowly.

"You heard about him?" Momoshiro asked.

"Plenty. His an excellent player but I don't really like the idea of data tennis," Kai said.

"A lot of people agrees with you Kai," Fuji said.

Just then, Inui returned with a smile on his face. "His heading over to Ryoma's place."

"Does he know where to go?" Midori asked.

"Ever since Momoshiro introduced us to Ryoma, I've been collecting his data. So I'm sure that Tezuka know where he lives," Inui assured her as Midori nodded.

(At Ryoma's Place)

"Where are you going Ryoma?" His cousin, Nanako asked.

"Just to walk to get some fresh air," Ryoma replied.

"That's good. You've been inside your room for two days now. I was seriously starting to worry," Nanako said as Ryoma stood up from where he sat and he opened the door. He saw someone standing there as he looked up and saw Tezuka, staring at him with a worry expression.

"What is it this time?" He asked unhappily.

"We need to talk."

"Now? I was about to get…" Ryoma didn't finished as Tezuka grabbed his hand.

"Doesn't matter where you are going. Now," he said sternly as Ryoma didn't know this side of Tezuka.

"Tezuka?" Ryoma asked worriedly as Tezuka had appointed him and Ryoma into a secluded place so that nobody can see the two.

"There is a reason why you were defeated Ryoma. Can you think about it?"

"I've been thinking about it for days. I have no idea," Ryoma said as he shook his head.

"You can not be a professional player if it just mere copies of moves that is from your father. Do you get it?"

"What are you saying?"

"Everyone knows about your mere copies of your father's moves. Ryoma, there are so much higher-level players out there besides your father and myself. Do you really think you can defeat them?"

"I think so."

"There is someone who is a higher level then me that used to be in the Seigaku team Ryoma. I don't think you know that, do you?"

"Who?"

"Syusuke Fuji. Everyone calls him a 'prodigy' since he is unbeatable," Tezuka said as Ryoma stared at him in awe.

tbc...

me: Just ignore the last chapter. The last chapter was hard for me to write since it has to do something with this, but it's not really based on Kevin since it's about Tezuka and Ryoma. To be exact, Kevin is only in that chapter throughout the whole entire story!

Kevin: What?

Ryoma: Too bad for you.

Inui: this is good data.

Kevin: hey!

Fuji: we'll be onto the next chapter soon

Tezuka: review and update.