Chapter 5 - Copy Cat And Acrobat

Update number 2 yet again.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Prince of Tennis!

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Eiji's right for once, thought Fuji, watching as the girl merely smiled with her eyes closed as Tezuka ordered them to start walking to the tennis courts down the road. He stood up to follow, tearing his eyes away from the mystery that was Hyoto, and walking towards the door. Prince raquets are a force to reckoned with, if you gave one to Oishi, or even Takashi, their power level would almost double... However, we've yet to see the girl play, she may not be able to use a Prince to it's fullest, but I guess we're just going to have to watch to find out.

Eiji was continuously jumping up and down, obviously excited that the new girl had chosen to play him first. Inui was muttering something about data, and scribbling in what looked like a new notebook. Oishi was trying to calm Eiji down, but failing miserably. Takashi was walking with Momo and Ryoma, the three of them deep in conversation about this strange girl. Viper was walking in silence just in front of Fuji. The girl was hanging back slightly, talking to Tezuka, Fuji stopped and waited for his friend to catch up., The girl trailed behind, looking rather glum as Tezuka caught up with Fuji and they started walking together.

"What's going on?" Fuji asked, tipping his head back towards the girl, "She looks sort of depressed..."

"She took what Eiji said about the racket quite seriously," Tezuka replied, keeping his voice low so that the others wouldn't hear, "Listen carefully, you can hear her muttering about it." As soon as Tezuka stopped talking, Fuji started listening to the poor girl almost behind them.

"Who the hell does that guy think he is..." she muttered, audible only to Fuji and Tezuka who were right in front of her, "Questioning my use of a Prince racket, how dare he, this cost 64.99 in the U.s. when I got it, plus it's built so that only I can use it... My brother wouldn't have bought it for me if I wasn't good enough for it... I'll teach him a lesson for this..." Fuji shook his head.

I think she's going to give Eiji a run for his money,thought Fuji, turning the corner into the tennis courts. There was only one of the four courts in use, the one at the far end, so they choose the one at the closest end. There she goes.

Hyoto dropped her bag against the wall and sat the racket against the bag. She tightened her trainers, and started to warm up. Her warm up consisted of running around the court they were using 4 times, and then stretching her muscles so she wouldn't get cramp during the match. Eiji following suit, but only running 3 laps of the court. Hyoto then walked back over to the wall and picked up the Prince racket.

It looks like a O3 SPEEDPORT RED MP, thought Fuji, watching as the girl tested the balance of the racket, It's a clearly model engineered for speed, without it sacraficing any control or power...

"Hoi, let's go Hyoto-Chan!" called Eiji from the far side of the court, clearly ready to start the match, "Come on!" Hyoto just grunted and walked to the unoccupied side of the court, straight into playing stance.

"One set match," called Tezuka, taking place at the right side of the court to act as Umpire (If that's what it's called, I can't remember), "Eiji to serve."

"I'll show you what a Copy cat can do," Hyoto mumbled, watching silently as Eiji got ready to serve, "Bring it on, cause I'm ready for anything."