Ewiituntmay: This chapter is dedicated to i love athrun. I hope you'll continue to enjoy the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Prince of Tennis, or the characters. I only own OCs, and the plotline.

Recap: Fuji smiled and everyone started to follow Ryoma and Lien to their choice of place, luckily for Ryoma and the others Lien didn't choose an expensive place to eat.

~Chapter 2~

"So what's it like in America? Are the tennis players there any good?" Momo was happily digging into his food.

Lien looked up from her food and raised an eyebrow at his full mouth and the food spewing from it. He swallowed hard and then blushed, "They're okay…I guess, though they could be much better if they actually tried."

"They suck." Lien looked at Ryoma, he was glaring down at his own food, only a fraction of his usual order, not that Lien had gotten more than him, just that he had to pay.

"Oh, come on Ryoma. Just cause you only played-"

"Che. Yeah right." He grabbed his first sandwich and bit into it.

"Okay, whatever."

"Ahem. *cough* so Silver-sama…were you just holding back on my account?"

Lien looked at Inui, surprise evident on her face, "No…why's that?"

"Well…your match with Echizen…"

"Ah, I see. It's not that I was holding back, Inui…it's just that when Ryoma and I play each other, due to our stubbornness to defeat the other, we are pushed far beyond our usual limits, that is also due to the fact that the way we play is so much alike. If Ryoma or I were better or worse than one another, or had much different playing styles, our match would have turned out much like your's and mine, one of us would have won and that would have been that. Right Ryoma?"

Inui and the others, except Ryoma, were silenced by the explanation, "Che, yeah whatever. Although, I am better than you."

"Really? I could have swore that we just had a tiebreaker not longer than twenty minutes ago. A tiebreaker that I won, fair and square."

"Humph." Ryoma rolled his eyes and turned away from Lien. Lien simply shrugged, smiled and continued eating her sandwich.

After another fifteen minutes of relatively peaceful eating a guy came in the door of the fast food place. He looked around and after spotting his prey, he loped over to the table. Lien had noticed but she hadn't said anything, even when he came over.

"Hey you! Pipsqueak," he waited for Lien to finally look at him before continuing, "Yeah I'm talking to you. What the hell do you think your doing here? You dare show such insolence?!"

Lien did nothing but raise an eyebrow, Ryoma just kept eating and the others were staring at the guy as though he had just sprouted a pair of wings.

"Hey Silver-sama, you know this guy?" Momo and the others looked from the guy to Lien, then back to the guy.

"No." Lien just went back to eating her sandwich, making the big guy even madder. Ryoma was struggling not to laugh, but the only ones who noticed were Fuji and Tezuka. Lien did after a few seconds, but no one knew what he was laughing about.

"HEY! Don't act like you don't know who I am," when Lien only shook her head and took another bite the guy grabbed Ryoma, turned him and picked him up by the front of his shirt, "Listen here you little shit! Now you know who I am, and you know you're not supposed to be anywhere near here! Now tell me what the hell you're doing here or I'm gonna bash your friend's skull in!"

"Hey, set him down…I really don't think any of us know who you are so just let him go." The guy looked at Lien with irritation, everyone else was startled by it.

"Aw the little pipsqueak has to have his girlfriend stand up for him."

Lien stood quietly, her face was indifferent, "No I'm just a friend. Now put him down, so I can beat the shit out of you." Lien's calm indifferent tone was enough to make the guy think twice, unfortunately he made another bad choice.

"Or what? What if I don't put him down? What then?"

Lien's eyes narrowed dangerously, her body was relaxed, and then without a second thought she blasted him in the face, "Look, your trying my patience right now, if you even so much as think another insult like that I will not hesitate to beat you to such a bloody pulp so that no one, not even the autopsy will be able to identify you. Do you understand?" Lien had leaned over his prone form on the ground, and was effectively holding him down by nearly stepping on his manhood.

He nodded quickly, "Yeah I understand, I understand, now please get off me, please. I'm begging you…please…AHHHHHH!"

Lien pushed her foot down just a little harder, and the guy screamed, she hadn't really put her foot down that hard though, so when he screamed she backed off, sat down and went back to eating her sandwich.

The entire crowd was staring at her as though she had just taken down a guy four times her size, although he was really only two times her size.

"You little bitch! You're gonna pay for that!" The guy got up and was so red in the face that it seemed as though steam would start rolling off it at anytime. Lien merely finished the bite she had just taken, closed her eyes and sighed, as though a little bug kept pestering her.

"Are you really gonna make me do this? In front of all of these people?" Lien turned calmly to the guy and stared straight into his eyes with the same indifference that Ryoma usually wore. The guy grew slightly uncomfortable, although only very perceptive people like Lien, Fuji, Tezuka, and Inui noticed.

"Heh whatever. Get up, I'm gonna kill you for your insolence!" The guy took his fighting stance and came at Lien, who was still sitting calmly.

Lien sighed, quickly stood and using the guy's momentum against him, she grabbed the back of his shirt turned in a semi-circle, at the same time letting go of his shirt. His momentum carried him halfway across the place, Lien could see the manager sweating and frown in irritation as she began to walk over to the team's table.

"Look if you guys are gonna make trouble I think it would be best for everyone if you would leave."

Lien looked at the woman indifferently, "I'm sorry if we have disrupted your establishment's peace, but we didn't start the trouble, that guy started it. In case you didn't see that part."

The manager balked slightly, "Uh…well…all I seen was you throwing that guy halfway across the restaurant. That is all I need to see."

Lien frowned slightly and did nothing to hide it, "Well if this was a 'restaurant' as you so called it and we had started the trouble I would understand your point and would gladly leave. But this is a fast food place, where that guy started the trouble, and I will gladly leave this place and withdraw my patronage. In fact that is exactly what I'm going to do. Have a good night," Lien turned to the team, "I'll see you guys tomorrow at school. Nice to have met you."

Lien turned, after picking up her bag and started out the door, listening to the whispers rippling through the crowd of customers. They must have had an idea of who she was anyway.

"Hey! Do you know who that is? That girl you just kicked out? That was Lien Silver from the United States…she's better known as QuickSilver, and she's like the best tennis player in North America, she even beat both Echizens. She could probably have this place shut down if she wanted to…"

The manager looked around wide eyed at the crowd, now worried that she may have made a mistake.

"Hey did you guys see that last match she played, like half and hour ago? That was incredible! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!"

"If QuickSilver doesn't like this place then neither do I! Let's go guys."

"Yeah…but the manager actually kicked her out! We should leave too."

"Yeah let's get out of this dump."

The manager got even more worried as the crowd of people started walking out the door. After another minute the only people in the place were the manager, the staff, the guy and the team, who were quickly gathering their stuff to leave.

"Uh…Wait! Please…you have to convince that QuickSilver girl to come back here…please…I need her to come back to the restaurant! Please I'll do anything you want…just get all the customers back…PLEASE!!!!!"

The team looked at her as though she had gone nuts, which it seemed, she had. None of them said anything as she continued to grovel…on the floor at their feet.

"Che. Why should we?" Ryoma glared down at the manager.

She looked up at him, her eyes watery and leaking the unshed tears, "because if the boss finds out that we lost a lot of business then…I'll lose my job! Possibly even my life!" She cried and begged more as the realization hit her. She was grabbing at Ryoma's pant legs and all but pulling them down.

"You did blame her for the trouble…when it was that guy's fault." Ryoma stepped away from the woman and pointed at the guy, who was still laying on the floor where he had fallen.

"PLEEEEASE…I NEED HER TO COME BACK HERE…AND BRING IN MORE CUSTOMERS!!!"

"He's right. You did wrongfully accuse Lien of the trouble that this guy started. I'm not sure she'll like the idea of ever coming back here." Fuji walked around the guy on the way to the door. The rest of the team was following suit.

"NO WAIT! PLEEEASE… you don't understand! The boss…he's from the Yakuza! If I don't get customers to come in here he'll torture me, and if she doesn't come in then no customers will come in…" she crawled over to Kaidoh, who was behind everyone else, and pulled on his pant legs. He hissed at her and quickly moved away, while the rest of the team tried to avoid her.

"The Yakuza?! Really?" Eiji looked at the others, his eyes widened in disbelief. Oishi grabbed his jacket sleeve and pulled him out the door after the others.

"Perhaps we should talk to Lien and let her know-"

"Let Lien know what?" they all turned, surprised to see Lien leaning next to the door they had just come out.

"That was stupid." Ryoma walked toward her, stopping a few feet from her, facing the intersection a few yards away.

"What? You mean causing an uproar big enough to make the customers leave? Don't worry for the 'restaurant'. Their customers will be back tomorrow…but I do think I got my point across…I don't think she'll wrongly accuse anybody for quite a while."

"Che. You are a bitch."

"Yeah…so?" Lien just smiled and shrugged, "I learned from the best."

Ryoma glared at her, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing…O-Chan, nothing. I'll see ya tomorrow." Lien walked off, Ryoma glared after her.

"Don't call me that!" he glared for another few seconds after seeing her answering wave.

"O-chan?" He turned to Eiji and the others who were all having trouble containing the smiles the nickname had caused.

"Don't call me that!" He turned and walked towards his house without another word.

The rest of the team just shrugged and left for their respective houses. Tezuka heading in the same direction as Ryoma, and Fuji heading in the same direction as Lien.

* * * * *

I noticed that Fuji was a few feet behind me, so I decided to stop and wait for him to catch up.

"Silver-kun." He nodded to me, I nodded back at him.

"Fuji, wasn't it?" He nodded, he still had that fake-smile plastered on his face, I was kind of annoyed by it, but I didn't let him know that. We were quiet as we walked, I was taking in his physical traits again, I had to admit, he was pretty cute, he had hair the color of thick dark honey, he was about three centimeters taller than me, and we were about the same weight. He was fairly fit, mostly from playing tennis as far as I could tell. I hadn't quite seen his eyes yet, so I was unsure of their color.

I could tell that he was smarter and much more observant than he seemed, the smile tended to throw other people off. I suppose there was hardly anyone who knew what he was really thinking. I doubted that even I would have been able to understand him, now. Not without getting to know him anyways.

"That was a really good match, against Echizen." I looked over at him, tilting my head in the process.

"Thanks…" I sighed gently, "it was pretty tiring. I can't wait to get home and go to sleep."

"So you live around here?" Fuji turned slightly, I raised an eyebrow at his flow of conversation.

"Yeah. I'm staying over there." I pointed out the house that I was staying at, and was rewarded with a slightly surprised look from him.

"Really? I live right there." He pointed to the house right next to the one I was staying at. I wasn't at all surprised, in fact that was why I was staying in the one next to him.

"Cool. Maybe we could walk to school together in the morning." I cast a quick sideways glance a small smile on my face.

He gave a small but genuine smile in return and nodded, "Yeah that would be nice."

We reached the street that our houses were on, and when we reached the area between them he turned to me and bid me goodnight.

"Goodnight, see you in the morning." I watched him walk into his house, without looking back. He does seem to be a good choice for your plans…Aramaki. No wonder I was sent to protect him, and the others from you, and our battle ensues, as usual.

I turned and walked into my new home, thoughts of the ever-present battle with Aramaki filling my head, as well as our last and most recent battle, which still had yet to enter the newspapers.

Perhaps it will be in tomorrow's newspaper…after all I did only finish with him last night…hence being late for school today.

I sighed as I dropped my bag on the floor, and continued into the house, which was dark and quiet.

"You're home! About time, I was about to go searching for your body."

"Not now Kimi…I need to start thinking about my plans. What about you? Got everything figured out?" I looked into the darkness at where Kimi's voice had come from. I knew she was there, though it was too dark to actually see her there. I could hear and sense her movement as she walked toward me.

A light came on, the sudden brightness didn't make either me or Kimi blink as most people would have. Though it did take a split-second to adjust to the new light.

"Yep…I kinda like that Momo kid, he's kinda cute." She smiled and gushed like a regular teenager, but the sparkle of intelligence in her eyes was still there, warning anyone smart enough to realize it, that she wasn't just a regular teenager.

A/N: Okay, second chapter, hoped you like...please review, at least one more time before I update! See ya...