Author's note: I don't own Prince of tennis.
For readers who are still confused, Ryoma and Sakuno don't know that they are the same people that both have been waiting and wanting to see for the past 13 years. Sakuno at this moment only know Ryoma as a CEO that fire her uncle and Ryoma only know Sakuno as a mute girl, he doesn't know her identity yet.
I apologized for the confusion.
Chapter 7 – A Kidnapper
Outside at their usual spot. Sakuno and Atobe sat around bored with nothing to do. For the past few hours they had no customers.
A girl walked by them.
"Ah Miss! Aren't you going to eat something today?" Atobe asked the lady.
"I nearly died because of you people yesterday, I will never eat your food again!" The customer rudely said and left.
Atobe was stunned, but at the same time he knew the food wasn't all that delicious. Sakuno's cooking wasn't that great, sad to admit. Sigh. He looked at Sakuno sadly.
"What a waste, we still have a lot of noodles left." Atobe said.
Sakuno was disappointed but then her frown turned into a smile. 'I will not let the food go to waste!'
Atobe gave Sakuno a questionable what-are-you-going-to-do look.
"Sir, here is your coffee." The secretary place the coffee cup down on Ryoma's desk. Ryoma was going through the pile of files that required his attention.
"The Roast meat place you order for me yesterday wasn't good, change it next time." Ryoma said while still looking at the files as he rubbed his temples from receiving headaches from all these documents.
"Hai!" The secretary left the room.
Few second later he received an aim messages. Ryoma looked at the computer screen and for once, he smiled.
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-Nani?-
-I just got yelled at by my boss today-
Ryoma smirked.
-Serves you right. I told you to come work here, it's your own fault you didn't take up my offer-
-What's wrong with wanting to prove my own ability?-
-Then continue to be yell at-
Being discourage, the person on the other side of the screen frown and plopped her head down on the desk. Seeing this, Ryoma got worried.
-Are you crying?-
The person plopped her head back up, looking into her web camera she gave Ryoma a huge frown.
"Not yet, Ryoma Echizen. Right now your girlfriend wants to eat a big meal, I will eat a really good meal, I will eat and eat until I look like an idiot!"
Ryoma silently laughed at his silly girlfriend.
At lunch time, Ryoma left the building that is belong to his stepfather and got into the car. The chauffeur drove Ryoma to the restaurant where he is to meet up with his girlfriend for lunch. Unknown to him, a colorful van is following behind him.
At the arrival, the chauffeur opened the door for Ryoma and he got out, at the same time the colorful van parked not too far from him. When Sakuno and Atobe saw Ryoma had gone inside Sakuno got out.
"Ne!" Atobe gave her a not-a-good-idea- look.
'Relax!'
In her hand she held a big pot of sticky spaghetti sauce, she slowly tiptoe to the luxury compact car. She looked around for any sign of the chauffeur or any bystanders nearby. While Sakuno was making sure that no one was around, she was oblivious to a person walking by looking strangely at her.
Sakuno was about to poor the food on top of the car when she caught eyes to eyes with the girl. Sakuno sheepishly flashed the girl a smiled. The girl nervously smiled back and walked into the restaurant.
When the girl was gone, Sakuno quickly dumped the sauce on top of the car, pouring it every where. Atobe flinched and close his eyes. Not good, not good, not good.
Inside the restaurant, the girl from before went up to Ryoma's table. Ryoma put down the magazine he was reading when the girl arrived. "Ne Ryoma-kun, did you offended someone?" She asked.
His forehead crippled with confusion. "Why?"
"It seems like...someone is taking revenge on you." She indicated out the window.
Ryoma followed her direction and quickly stood up from his seat. He witnessed Sakuno still pouring sauces on his car. "Wait here, I'll be right back." He said then dashes out of the restaurant.
"Ne!" He quickly grabbed the pot from Sakuno when he came out of the restaurant. The pot landed with a bang, startling Atobe. Worried that something happened to Sakuno, Atobe looked up from his position in the van.
'I'm treating you to dinner.' Sakuno said to Ryoma.
He didn't understand. "What do you think you were doing? Get in the car, I'm taking you to the police." Ryoma dragged Sakuno into his car.
Atobe quickly tried to get out of the car but the seat belt was making him irritated when he fussily tried to get it off. "Hey, hey!" He said to no one in particular.
Ryoma got into the driver side when his chauffeur showed up. "You're fired!" Ryoma simply said then got in.
Atobe finally made it out of the van but he was too late when the car drove off. "You gotta be kidding me!"
He curse to himself and dashes back into the van and tried to turn on the engine but it wouldn't turn on no matter how many times he tried to.
"Come on!" He grunted, "not right now!"
Ryoma was definitely angry. "I really don't understand what is your problem. Didn't you go to school? Don't you have any decency or any manners?"
His insults caused Sakuno to be mad too. 'You're the one with no manners. Uncle Kazuki only wanted what is best for the company that is why he clocks in and out right on time.'
Sakuno's hand madly waved around. 'The card machine was right next to his desk, did you know that?' She pointed out.
Sadly Ryoma doesn't understand sign languages so he obviously ignored her hand movements. "Ne, you think you're so brave so you decided to take revenge on me? Then why don't you tell your friend to work harder?" Ryoma doesn't know how she and Kazuki-san are related so he use the word 'friend' instead.
'Because you're blind! You can't tell who is good and who is bad.'
The hand gestures is slowly starting to irritate him. "Grr, stop with the hand gestures, I don't understand what you're saying!"
'You're the one who is wrong!' Sakuno looked away angrily. The car came to a stop at the intersection. The people on the right and left lanes next to them laughed and kept on pointing at Ryoma's car. His car was dirty and smelly. He was embarrassed, which gave Sakuno a victory smiled on her face.
With her bright idea, she fished out her cellphone and started text-ing. She held it in front of him, trying to get him to read it.
-You better wash your car soon, once it get dry it will be hard to get it off-
Ryoma read then annoyingly he looked away with a silent grunt.
Victory is all mine. Sakuno silently smiled to herself.
On the other hand, Atobe drove around like crazy trying to spot for Ryoma's car but couldn't find them. He picked up his cellphone hoping Sakuno would be smart enough to text him to let him know of her where about.
As Atobe still driving around searching, Ryoma and Sakuno sat silently in the car as they went through the Car Wash. It was too awkward for Sakuno.
The awkwardness finally ended when the car wash was done. Sakuno flips her phone opened and started text-ing again.
-The evidence is gone, it's useless to take me to the station now.-
Ryoma smirked. Receiving no reply from Ryoma, Sakuno took this chance to get out but before she could Ryoma locked the door. Worried, Sakuno looked at Ryoma nervously.
"Who said we were going to the police? We can change our destination." He said in a silent voice. He reached over across Sakuno, startling her.
He was to comfortably close to her. Using her reflexes, she closed her eyes tightly. She can feel Ryoma's warm breath breathing against her cheek, sending shiver down her spines. With a startled, she hard a click. She opened her eyes and let out a relief.
Ryoma startled Sakuno when he reached over to grab her seat belt. He grinned perverted-ly when he noticed her nervous reactions when she suddenly closed her eyes and flinched tightly.
With a seductive and a quiet voice, he said, "Hn, maybe to a place..." He reached out to grab for his seat belt, "Where no one is around and then...sexual pleasure..." He tried to scare her.
OH NO! Oh kami-sama how did I get myself into this mess? Sakuno quickly text a message on her phone to let Ryoma know what she wanted to say but was taken away by Ryoma.
Annoyed with the phone text-ing, he took it away from Sakuno and threw it in the back seat.
Sakuno tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. 'Let me out!'
No replied. She tapped him again.
"I really hate people interrupting me, especially when I can no longer control my hormones."
Not good, not good! Sakuno is definitely scared now.
On the other hand, Atobe continued drive around the busy street, hoping to find Sakuno soon. "Sakuno Ryuusaki, why aren't you calling me? Where did you go?" Grrr, can't these cars go any faster?
Reaching an isolated mountain just right outside the city, Ryoma stopped the car. He slowly unseat his belt, receiving a nervous and scared reaction from her.
Don't know what to do, she tried to open the door and to her surprise the door wasn't lock anymore so she tried to make an escape but couldn't move. She looked down to realize that she still has her seat belt on. With sweat forming, she fussily tried to take it off. Right then, Ryoma took this chance to lean in closer to her side.
Ryoma sudden action made Sakuno closed her eyes again tightly.
Ryoma smirked.
Click!
Huh? Sakuno opened her eyes.
Ryoma unseat the belt for her then leaned back to his side.
Sakuno sat there silently.
"The view is pretty good here and the atmosphere is not bad either. It really is a good time for pleasure! But. . . it's too bad, I just have to hold back for now." Ryoma teased, cocky as ever.
No longer scared, Sakuno stared at Ryoma with dagger in her eyes. What a jerk, he is toying with me! Not able to hold it in any longer, Sakuno raised one of her hand high, ready to let it swing down hard but before her hand can come in contact with his face, he caught her wrist.
"What? Don't tell me you're regretting for doing that earlier today?"
Sakuno pulled her wrist away from his hold and got out of the car. Ryoma got out also and blocked her from walking any farther. Without looking at him she looked away. "I wasn't finished. I don't like it when people just stand up and leave."
Sakuno stayed quiet.
"I don't care if you hate me." Ryoma turned her to face him fully. "Can we just forget about this whole thing?" Ryoma noticed she still looking down, he frown. He lift her chin up, but still not wanting to look at him she closed her eyes. "Ne, if you don't look at my mouth how would you know what I was saying?"
She slowly opened her eyes to meet those yellow orbs, it brought back memories. Sad memories of a boy that wield his racket so beautifully, and the boy that once gave her so many sad and happy feelings.
Ryoma too had a sudden feelings of something he thought he had forgotten. Memories of a girl who never likes to talk, the girl who instead prefer to use paper and pencil to communicate with him flashed through his eyes. Both Ryoma and Sakuno are both deep in thoughts about the past when a honking car drove by took them out of their reverie
"So you can hear!" It was more of a statement then a question.
True, even though Ryoma has the same color eyes as the boy she longed to see again but he wasn't that boy she missed dearly. He is more cold, distant, and aloof. Sakuno ignored him and ran after the car that just drove by them, but matching up with the speed of the car was too impossible for her. She stopped chasing after it when the car seems to be out of reached. She sighed.
Now standing behind her, Ryoma said, "Looks like our pact failed." He inhaled the air. "With such a nice weather like this and a beautiful view of the city, walking down the mountain seems like a nice option."
Annoyed by him, Sakuno continued to ignore him and started walking away. She couldn't stand him and just wanted to get far away from him as possible. She was walking when his car drove up next to her, she stopped. "Get in the car."
She gave him a cold shoulder and continued walking. The car came up beside her again, slowing down to her pace. "You're really planning to walk the whole way by yourself?"
Ignore him, just ignore him. Sakuno said to herself.
"Suit yourself, have fun walking." Ryoma coldly said. He speed up and drove away.
Sakuno waved her hand after the car. Hey! She grunted and looked around her. There was no one but the trees, the sky, the sun, and the road that lead to the city. I should have just got into the car, but what if he was just fooling with me again? Grrr! I can't believe this is happening. That baka, he is no good for nothing.
In the car, Ryoma opened his phone and started dialing.
"Hello, this is Japan Taxi."
"In 30 minutes, I want a car waiting in Takashu's mountain."
Hey readers, I'm not Japanese or have been to Japan so I'm just making up name of the mountain, if anyone know a good moutain like I tried to discribe in this chapter then please let me know ^_^ I would really appreciate it, so for now, I'm just gonna stick to this name, I'm sorry if it has no meaning to it.