Happy
Ruby once again had to go take a bath. Ryoma stayed in his room. He already took a bath before Ruby went in the second time. Then Karupin came into the room. Ryoma smiled at the cat.
"Karupin do you remember Ruby?" he asked the cat. Whose ears perked up at the sound of the familiar name. Ruby loved Karupin and Karupin loved Ruby, and still does.
And right on cue Ruby walks into the room drying her hair. When she look at the ground her eyes widen. She's speechless at first then…
"KARU-CHAN!" she yells. Ryoma knew that his parents heard that, but they got used to it in America, and honestly, they missed it.
"Where have you been? Were you running around again getting yourself lost, you crazy cat," Ruby holds Karupin close to her, and cradles her in her arms. Ryoma couldn't help but smile.
Ruby knew about how Karupin meant so much to Ryoma and how Ryoma really loved her. And Ruby grew attached to the cat. They always played together and she never stopped playing with the Himalayan.
Karupin started licking Ruby's cheek, which made her giggle. Then they looked at the time. It was late. So Ryoma jumped into bed, but Ruby was standing at the door.
"What is it?" Ryoma asked. Ruby looked at him with her big eyes.
"Now that we're older, do you think it's weird for us to share a bed?" she asked. Ryoma thought about it. To others it would be weird, but to Ryoma when Ruby is there, it isn't. it's just right.
"No," he simply states. Ruby shrugs and gets into bed with him and Karupin in the middle of them. Then they drift off into a sound sleep.
The next day Ryoma and Ruby wake up to Karupin meowing at them. They smiled at each other and then got up and stretched. Then went downstairs to eat.
"Ohayo minna-san!" Ruby exclaimed as she walked into the kitchen.
"There's the gem!" Nanjirou sometimes called Ruby a gem because of her name, and its to show that she is a precious gem to him. Ruby giggles at the nickname. Then her and Ryoma begin eating.
Ryoma had to drink 3 bottles of milk after he finished eating. Which Ruby couldn't help laughing at. And then they headed off to tennis practice. Well Ryoma did, but Ruby tagged along.
When they got there the whole team was waiting for them.
"Finally, Echizen your late! Again!" Momo yelled at his friend.
"Nya! Echizen brought his friend!" Kikumaru exclaims, after giving Ryoma a death hug. Then he walked over to Ruby who smiled at him and giggled.
"Kawaii!" he scooped up Ruby and spun her in circles, while giving her a death hug. When he put her down Ryoma held onto her so she wouldn't fall.
"Wow, never had that experience before," she giggled. Then Inui came up to her.
"Would like to have another experience?" he asked, she looked at him questioningly. He took out a cup from no where. The contents were grean with some other mixes of colors in it.
Everyone turned pale. Except Fuji, who smiled, as always.
"Is it good?" she asked staring at the stuff unsure. Before anyone could say anything Fuji steps up quickly.
"Yes, I would recommend it," he smiles a sadists smile. Everyone shudders a bit. Even Tezuka! But Ruby just smiles back and nods. She takes the glass and chugs the stuff down. Then she starts tasting it. She licks her lips and everyone is waiting for a response.
"It's good!" she exclaims this time not bothering to fake anything... Of course Ryoma knew that Ruby always had strange taste in food, but this is a little too far. The whole team is staring at her like she just grew and alien head.
"What?" she asks. They sweat drop. She just shrugs and turns to Inui. "What's this stuff called?"
"Inui Juice Deluxe," he answers. Even though he made the juice, he never expected her to like it!
"You sure know how to make tasty things," she compliments. Some of the members anime fall, others sweat drop, and others are too speechless. Ryoma just gives her a weird look at shakes his head. Fuji laughs a little.
"I told you guys its good," he says happily. Ruby and Fuji smile at each other, but there is a very devilish aura surrounding them, which makes the regulars shiver.
"Ryoma, why does Ruby remind me of Fuji?" Momo asks.
"Because Ruby is a sadist," he answers. They look at him like he was crazy. "Yes I know she doesn't look it, but if you didn't know Fuji would you think he was a sadist?" he asks them.
They all think about it for a second.
"No," most of them chime in unison. Finally the two stopped smiling at each other and were now smiling at the team.
"Shall we begin practice," Fuji heads for the courts, along with Ruby, Ryoma and Tezuka follow behind them. Then the rest of the teams follows behind them.
And the matches begin. Everyone practiced at first, just basic swings, or practicing their moves, all that. Then Ryoma challenged Kawamura to a match, to test his own strength. As soon as Kawamura picked up the racket, his personality changed.
"BURNING!" he yelled. "COME ON BABY!" Ruby stared at the boy who was so quiet and shy just a few seconds ago.
"Kawamura is different when it comes to tennis," Tezuka explained to the confused girl. All the regulars gathered around Ruby to watch the match.
In the middle of the match, Ryoma was losing, bad. He keeps pushing himself to keep going. To win.
"He wont stop until he has won," Ruby muttered under her breath. But everyone heard. They gave her a look, but she was too into the match to notice it.
"Ryoma, I know you can do it! Win!" she yells. She knows that Ryoma wants to beat his father. But if he cant beat these people, the ones that are his obstacles, then he cant beat his father.
Right after she yelled that Ryoma felt a burst of energy, and fought with so much more power and speed. In the end, he won. Ruby smirked. The team was in shock really. Ryoma returned the Hadokyou and even used it! And that was all because Ruby cheered for him?
Tezuka and Fuji glance at Ruby who is smiling proudly at her friend. Kaidoh hisses slowly, showing that he is as surprised as anyone else. Inui is writing like crazy in his data book. And Momo and Eiji gawking at the sight as usual. Oishi comes up behind Tezuka.
"Maybe she is," he says. Tezuka nods.
"After this display, I have no doubt," he replies. Fuji smiles, and his eyes are open.
"This is just getting more and more interesting," he comments, his voice dark. Which makes that people closest to him shudder. Except Ruby who is still smiling. But then notices that Ryoma's wrist is throbbing, along with Kawamura's.
That shot must be very powerful she thinks. Then opens the gate and walks up to both of them. She brought her special bag with her just incase there are any serious injuries. You never know when playing tennis. They could be serious, or just weird.
"Give me your arms," she says, Ryoma does, but Kawamura is skeptical, can a little girl really heal a wrist?
But Ruby just works on Ryoma's. She examines it at first, then a noise is heard. Like bones crunching. And maybe that because she's snapping Ryoma's wrist. Then she takes out some ice and bandages, and wraps up the wrist.
When she's done Ryoma's wrist feels better. Ruby isn't a doctor. But she helped some in her time. They taught her things she needed to know so she could take care of Ryoma, if anything happened. And maybe herself, just incase.
She then brought her attention to Kawamura and finally gave her his arm. She did the same thing to his wrist that she did with Ryoma's. Except his wrist was a little worse off, since he's been using that Hadokyou for a while now.
But in the end, his wrist felt way better.
"Wow, arigato, Ruby-san," he smiles.
"You guys could call me Ruby, I don't like formalities. Right Ryo-kun?" she smiles slyly at Ryoma. Who smirks.
"Hai, Ru-chan," he replies.
"I call him Ochibi!" Eiji called out happily. Ruby smirked.
"Ehh, really Ochibi?" she directed that at Ryoma, who twitched.
"Say it again, I dare you," his voice was menacing, but Ruby smiling sadistically.
"O-chi-bi," she drags the words out. Ryoma snaps and starts chasing Ruby across the field. Just when they were at the Echizen estate. Ruby is screaming like crazy while Ryoma starts tickling her. The regulars watch.
This girl, is so much more to Ryoma, and Ryoma means so much more to her, they just don't know that themselves (nya)… the regulars thought the same thing as they watched the scene in front of them. A small smile forming on their lips, some visible, some you have to staring at really hard just to find out they were smiling. But they were smiling non the less.
They knew that the two were happy to be together one again.
Vamp: awwwww!
Ryoma: zip it!
Vamp: why?
Ryoma: because I said so.
Vamp: why?
Ryoma: because I did.
Vamp: why?
Ryoma: because I'm going to make you regret saying why again. *glare*
Vamp:*gulp* ok! UNTIL NEXT TIME PPL!