A/N: I finally finished…… Chapter three of Sakuno's going to Hyotei……I'm dead tired…Actually, I had already typed it out…….Unfortunately, due to the darned virus that I told you guys about in the last chapter, I had to reformat the computer. Unluckily, it was my sis who took it to the shop. I told her to ask the guy who was reformatting it save everything that was in the 'My Documents' file onto the new hard disk. He did, but strangely enough I couldn't find the 3rd chapter of this…….Not to mention I lost a whole bunch of other information as well for my Geo homework……..DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!!
Oh yes, before I forget, this chapter is a birthday gift to ezyl's girl, who shares the same birth date of "King" Atobe.
Disclaimer:
Me: Today, we will have Atobe Keigo, captain of the Hyotei team to do the disclaimer, as it is his birthday. Rounds of applause!
Atobe: Ore-sama bigi na you ni! (Be awed at my prowess! At least, I think it means that…I only watch the Chinese subtitles of the show and read the Chinese version of the manga…. Sorry if I got it wrong…)
Shishido: Whatever, just hurry up and do this darn disclaimer so that we all can get back home and change out of these STUPID clothes!! (Note: They're all wearing casual clothes, the kind their tenimyu actors wore during the 3rd dream live……sigh……Atobe and Choutarou is HOTT!! Jirou and Gakuto are so kawaii…….Hiyoshi and Kabaji…..Erm, looks mature?? Shishido, total skateboarder look!!)
Choutarou: You don't like them, Shishido-san? I thought they're nice…..
Oshitari: They are nice, Choutarou. And I thought I saw you wearing them at least 3 times last week, hm, Shishido?
Shishido: That's……..that's……That's because……..erm………my sister………err……forced me to wear them? Oh yeah, that's right!
Atobe: Charmane does not own Tennis no Oujisama! Ore-sama bigi na you ni!
Shishido: (Makes a mad dash out of the room)
Me: Okayy…… That was the weirdest thing I have ever seen.
"blah" – talking
'blah' – whispering
'blah' – thinking
Moonlight-Rose19: Yeah, I won't mind reading your fanfic of Kingdom Hearts. Sorry, but I don't have an account at fictionpress.
Chapter Start
'She's scared. Why is she so scared? She's only going to a new school, that's all.' Atobe couldn't help but wonder if Sakuno was always this scared. Not to mention Atobe himself didn't even know why he was comforting her, telling her it was going to be alright. Was it because he promised his parents? Or was it because he had complied with Tezuka's requests to keep her safe? Atobe didn't know, but the fact that he would do this for Sakuno actually astounded him. The last time one of his so called girlfriend transferred here, he hadn't bothered to even talk to her at all, he also left her alone to get trampled by his half a thousand fangirls. Never mind the fact that Oshitari was smirking behind him, obviously enjoying this little 'show'.
The tall iron gates of Hyotei slowly creaked open. Atobe could hear shrieks and yells of "Atobe-sama! Ohayou!" from the inside. They were all clearing a path for him to walk through. Sparing a glance down at the trembling figure beside him, Atobe gripped Sakuno's hand, practically pulling her into the school with him.
The shrieks and screams of his fangirls slowly died down to be replaced by a deafening silence. The onlookers couldn't believe what they were seeing. Atobe, holding a girl's hand? Sakuno struggled against Atobe's tight grasp, wishing that he would let go so that she can run and hide from the hundreds of students looking at her. He released her hand momentarily, reaching out to snatch her wrist though. He kept a cool facade, but inside, he was actually feeling a bit abnormal. He wasn't used to this, and he was sure Sakuno wasn't as well. Now the only thing he thought of was to get out of everybody's sight, fast. Sakuno was still writhing, so he tightened his hold on her, pulling her to a secluded part of Hyotei's compound. When he reached there, Atobe released his strong grasp. Sakuno's wrist was slightly redder than before. She was also out of breath. Obviously she wasn't going to be able to keep up with his pace.
"Ore-sama is sorry for having pulled you so roughly."
"Atobe-san, I forgive you for pulling me, but why did you pull me in the first place?"
"If ore-sama had not done that, ore-sama's fangirls would have killed you for walking with me."
"Sou, souka."
"Atobe, we should be going now."
Oshitari was back, a smirk present on his face. He had been observing the whole scene. 'Now I'm starting to get really interested in this Ryuuzaki Sakuno. Hm, wh would Atobe even do this for her? Can her parents' company's alliance be this important to him?'
Sakuno, unaware of Oshitari's thoughts, trailed behind Atobe, heading to the tennis courts that were occupied by the boys' team.
With the Hyotei Regulars
"So what do you think of this Ryuuzaki Sakuno?"
The Hyotei tennis team regulars were currently having a heated discussion about Sakuno. Just a few minutes ago, the whole crowd of Atobe's fangirls had stormed past, complaining about a girl, whom the regulars guessed was Sakuno, who dared to seduce their Atobe-sama. A few comments about her, including 'bitch', 'whore', 'slut' and certain others were also overheard.
"I would be asking what the hell did Atobe do to her to make his fans talk so badly about poor Sakuno. I mean, even Sakurano-san used some words, and she's the most sweet-tempered girl I know."
"He grabbed her hand, pulled her after him into the school, brought her to a secluded area of the school, apologized to her for holding her wrist so tightly, then comes back down here, sees and hears you all talking about Sakuno."
"GGGGAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!"
"YUUSHI! You're going to give me a heart attack!"
"Oshitari, if you don't stop scaring people like that I'm going to sue you!"
"Oshitari-senpai, why did you do that?!"
"Gekokujyou!"
"Usu."
"Zzzzzz……………."
Yup. That's right. Jirou's asleep. Even after Gakuto's scream. Which is reasonably loud.
"Will all of you stop fooling around?"
Atobe was growling ever so slightly. His teammates seemed like gossip mongrels, especially Gakuto.
"Come on, Sakaki-sensei is probably wondering where the hell we all are."
The regulars bickered the whole time on the way to the tennis courts. Atobe was in front of Kabaji, Sakuno behind him. The regulars brought up the rear. Shishido and Gakuto were still screaming threats at Oshitari for having scared them half to death.
The other tennis club members couldn't help staring at Sakuno. It was the first time a girl was allowed in the boys' tennis courts. It was forbidden, for if there wasn't such a rule, the members would've probably trampled to death by the regulars' past a thousand fangirls.
After greeting Sakaki-sensei and explaining why Sakuno was there, Sakaki-sensei turned towards Sakuno. She promptly tried to hide behind Oshitari.
"Ryuuzaki-chan? It's ok, you don't need to be scared of me. Actually, I thought that you were going to be bored if you just sat here and watch them play. I was going to suggest to you to play tennis for the moment. That will keep you from wasting time here watching them practice."
"Demo, I didn't bring my racket.
"You can use the spare rackets that are kept in the building over there. The building with the fountain in front. Do you want to practice here or go to a more private place?"
"Anou……I don't want to disrupt anybody's practice. I'll just go to the more private place then..."
"You can go behind those bushes there. No one goes there except some people."
"Hai. Arigatou gozaimasu."
Shishido and Gakuto's jaw were practically dropping to the ground. What the hell? Was this really their coach? They had better investigate this. Fast. After all, in all 3 years of training under him, he had never, never them that nicely at all. Ever.
Sakuno, unaware of Shishido and Gakuto's reaction to this, ran off to get a racket from the building, eager to escape the attention of the members of the tennis club. Tennis practice resumed as normal. Scratch that, it wasn't normal at all. For one thing, some, if not all of the regulars were only playing half-heartedly. Even so, they still beat the non-regulars by aroung
6-1. Amazing, isn't it? Then again, this is Hyotei we're talking about.
Sakaki-sensei attempted to ignore the way the regulars were playing only half-heartedly, but even he can't avoid the fact that Gakuto had accidentally hit the ball to his way. Lucky his fast reflexes saved him from being hit. Sighing, he gave all the regulars a 10 minute break. Their first move was to drink water. Second was dash to where Sakuno was practicing.
They all hid behind the bushes, save for Atobe and Oshitari, who were smart enough to not get their shirts dirty by hiding behind a wall. Well, the others wanted first row seats actually. That's why they hid in the bushes. Watching Sakuno play, Oshitari noted that she was good, and had great potential in tennis. That wasn't surprising seeing as her grandmother was Coach Ryuuzaki and her father was Ryuuzaki Renji. From what he heard, whoever challenged Ryuuzaki Renji to a match loses by around 6-3 at most. And as for Coach Ryuuzaki, he found some rather interesting information. Like for example, the rumour that she used to coach Samurai Nanjiroh, who was world number 2 around 20 years back, which turned out to be true.
"So all of you are here after all."
"GAAAHHHHH!!"
Sakuno, startled by Gakuto's yell missed the ball, and accidentally tripped on it. She fell down, scraping her knee as she did so. Shishido groaned inwardly. Did Gakuto have to scream whenever somebody sneaked on him? Hopefully Atobe wouldn't set them laps or anything. He's been acting so unlike himself today, probably because of Ryuuzaki. Sheesh. Gakuto could pass as a girl with those screams of his. Wait scratch that, Gakuto is a girl. Hadn't he been calling Gakuto that ever since he knew Gakuto?
Blood was forming on the scratches. The regulars had already moved to where Sakuno was now sitting, excluding Gakuto. He was getting a severe scolding from Sakaki-sensei for making Sakuno fall down. Sakaki-sensei had even set Gakuto 40 laps to run.
"Anou……Minna-san……Mukahi-senpai didn't mean to scare me, and it was also my own fault that I tripped and hurt myself."
"Iie. If Gakuto hadn't screamed, you wouldn't have hurt yourself."
"Demo!"
"No buts, Sakuno. Gakuto deserved it. Atobe's right. So don't argue anymore."
Shishido gaped in surprise. What the hell? Oshitari, not defending Gakuto? In fact, he even agreed to it. Furthermore, Atobe, willingly getting down on his knees, tying somebody else's wound with his clean, spotless handkerchief. Hell, Atobe didn't even care that much when his ex-girlfriend's glass cup got smashed and some of the slivers of glass embedded itself into her arm. Sakuno only gotten a few scratches.
'What the heck? Atobe didn't even care that much to Kaoru-san when her arm was embedded with glass…….'
Apparently Oshitari had the same thought as well.
Oshitari helped move Sakuno near the fountain, where they could clean her wound more easily. Atobe washed his handkerchief, retying it neatly again on Sakuno's wound.
Shisido stared again in this unusual act of care shown by Atobe. Now, his thoughts were occupied by Sakuno and Atobe. Dammit, why can't Atobe act normally? He was affecting almost all of the regulars!
Shishido didn't notice he was still staring at them. He was thinking so deeply that he hadn't notice that Choutarou was calling him. Only when Hiyoshi whacked him on the head did he jolt out of his state. Shishido turned to face the martial artist, growling.
"What?"
Hiyoshi jabbed his thumb towards Choutarou. Following the direction, Shishido gulped before talking.
"Yes?"
"Shishido-san, are you okay? I've been telling you something for the last 5 minutes and you didn't give any reaction at all."
Damn. He shouldn't have stared.
"No, nothings the matter Choutarou."
"If you're sure….."
Choutarou still had a suspicous look in his eye. Damn. He'd have to make it up to him somehow. Hopefully a date or two would be enough. Shishido still owed his elder brother a lot of money. Why does Shishido owe his elder brother so much money you ask? It all stemmed from his parents. At the last Hyotei gathering party, which was in actuality a party for student's parents' to get to know each other and form alliances, Shishido had, in an attempt to make his parents happy danced with a classmate of his. Chiharu, daughter of the CEO of a huge company. He didn't think that Choutarou would mind, after all, he was only doing this to please his parents, boy oh boy, he soon learnt how wrong he was. Choutarou didn't speak to him for a whole week after that. That one whole week was agony. AGONY, with all the letters spelled in capital form. Oshitari had tried to help, as he intended to lessen his headache. Why does he have a headache? Because of Shishido rambling about how unfair life is and asking how his Choutarou could become such a jealous person. Oops. Rambling. Sorry. So anyway, Oshitari tried to help, but his help was futile. After that week, Choutarou started talking to him, but it was only those polite conversations. Shishido couldn't stand it. He picked the option to bring Choutarou out on a date where Choutarou could do whatever he wanted, which was actually, a great idea. Until he remembered he was broke that is. His parents were late in giving him his allowance, again. But since Shishido couldn't stand Choutarou communicating with him like this for another day, he chose something he would've never ever done in his whole life. More specifically something he would avoid doing if at all possible. He borrowed money from his elder brother, Riku. 50000 yen to be exact. The good side was that Choutarou was really happy after their date and after that they had - oops. Private and confidential things happened between them. That's all I'm saying. OK, down side was that he had to pay back all those cash. With a 3 percent tax every month. Life was cruel. Lady Luck hated him. Cupid on the other hand wanted to watch him suffer.
Gakuto had finally finished running his laps. Panting and hufing a bit, he bowed down, apologizing to Sakuno.
"Gomen nasai, Ryuuzaki-chan."
"Iie, that was nothing Mukahi-senpai. You didn't mean to do that on purpose. And anyway, I wasn't so badly hurt."
"Souka? That's good then."
Shishido had observed this little exchange. But what shocked him was Atobe. Atobe was sitting down, but there was a strange look on his face. It as as if though Atobe was glaring at Gakuto. Atobe? Glare? These two words had never been in the same sentence before. But it sure was now. Oh kami-sama. Who is Ryuuzaki Sakuno? But more importantly, why the hell is Atobe glaring at Gakuto?
'Why is Atobe-buchou glaring at Gakuto-senpai?'
Now Choutarou was really worried. He knew the reason Shishido-san had been staring at Atobe-buchou and Sakuno. He was also a bit shocked as well at the unusual display of care Atobe-buchou gave. Atobe-buchou……..What the hell posessed him to make him act like that?
Oshitari smirked. He had seen Atobe glare at Gakuto. Oh if his assumptions were correct, the rest of the year is definitely going to be an interesting year……….
Chapter End
A/N: I'm sorry, but exams are coming up. I won't be able to update the next chapter that quickly. Next chapter, Atobe is going to show Sakuno around. Of course, the Hyotei regulars, being such nosey parkers are definitely going to tag along. LOLX. I wonder what'll happen. I myself have absolutely no idea. So if you guys have any ideas, then tell me in a review or PM me. I'd appreciate it. Before I forget, I found a PoT game. It's the yakinku competition. Here's the link:
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