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It was one sunny Sunday morning; Tezuka was sitting on the sofa while reading the newspaper his father had left behind earlier. Then he heard running footsteps he quickly recognize as his younger sister's, he folded the newspaper and turned his head to find his younger sister already tidy and is now neatly putting the cake she had made in a box.

"You can't eat this one, onii-chan! I made another one, so you can't eat this one!" Tezuka remembered his sister yelled it out at him and sighs, wondering what she could be up to today.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to Echizen-kun's house." Wait… what?

"Echizen?"

"Yeah, he asked me over when we met each other at the convenient store. Haven't I told you already onii-chan? That's why I didn't let you eat this cake, I told Echizen-kun I'll be bringing one there when I came."

"What are you doing over there?"

"Echizen-kun told me he's been wanting to have a practice match with me, and since he said at the temple behind his home there's a court, it'll be much better playing there than in the street courts."

"Only a practice match?"

"Echizen-kun wanted to ask me on few subjects as well, and I guess we'll be talking for quite a while. So I might be there for few hours, but I'll be home for lunch, is something wrong oni-chan?"

"Tell him he'll be dealing with me if something happens to you." Kumiko laughed awkwardly as Tezuka went back to his newspaper reading and shook her head.

"Right, I'll tell him that… you're so silly, nii-chan. See you this afternoon onii-chan!" Kumiko said as she waved to her brother who waved back at her before going out from the door.

"Oh my? Kumiko's out already?" His mother said, cleaning her hands with a cloth after working in the kitchen.

"She's going to her friend's house to practice she said, and they're going to study together."

"Oh, that Kirihara-kun she talked about? But he's in the 2nd year, right?" His mother said.

"No, it's Echizen's."

"Echizen? You mean the one Kumiko mentioned? Your junior in the tennis club? But they're in different schools…"

"Perhaps they have something they want to discuss about."

"But this is the first time Kumiko ever went to a boy's house who's at the same age as hers… she seemed like she's anticipating something interesting though, I'm sure she'll have fun playing tennis with him."

"What? Kumiko's going to a boy's house? A boy her age?" Tezuka's grandfather said walking out from the tea room, eyes burning with fire and anger.

"Otou-san, you should let her socialize more…" Tezuka's father said.

"But this is a boy we're talking about! It's already worst that she said her best friend at her school is a boy! But now she's going to a boy's house?" Tezuka Kunikazu said heatedly, genuinely worried about his granddaughter's growth.

"Otou-san, you already knew she doesn't have that many girlfriends she's comfortable with… let's just be happy for her since she has friends who share the same interest as her, you don't want her to always stay at home right? It won't be good for her to be a loner. And she's happy with her friends now than she ever has."

"…" Tezuka's mother, Tezuka Ayana looked at her son's stoic face and giggled.

"Kunimitsu, you don't have to look like you're going to kill someone. I'm sure Kumiko wouldn't want that, you're going to scare her with that look." She said, making Kunikazu and Kuniharu looked towards the stoic face of the sitting boy and then they looked back towards Ayana who is still smiling.

"Really?" The three male of the Tezukas said simultaneously as Ayana giggled once more.

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Kumiko then blinked when she had arrived in front of a house with the plank 'Echizen' written in front of it.

"So, this is Echizen-kun's house?" Kumiko said to herself as she knocked to the door. When the door opened, suddenly something jumped onto her that made her fall onto her back. Kumiko was groaning out of pain before she realized something fluffy was rubbing against her face, she opened her eyes and came face to face with a Siamese cat Kumiko knew so well.

"Karupin!" Kumiko said, picking the cat up as she brushed herself and patted the cat's head.

"I'm so sorry, did you hurt yourself?" Kumiko looked up and saw a young woman looking at her worriedly.

"I'm okay, I'm not hurt. Thank you very much for asking me." Kumiko said, bowing as Karupin licked her face.

"I've never met you before, but Karupin-san seemed to know you, are you one of Echizen-san's friends?"

"Hello, my name is Tezuka Kumiko. I'm here today since Echizen-kun asked me to practice with him, is he home?" Kumiko said, placing Karupin on the ground and bowed.

"Echizen-san is getting himself ready at the moment, please come in. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Meino Nanako, I'm one of their relatives."

"Pleased to meet you, Meino-san. Excuse me for intruding early in the morning." Kumiko said.

"Oh no, it's a pleasure. Please come in." Nanako said, leading Kumiko into the house with Karupin following behind her. Kumiko then decided she'd rather sit on the tatami instead to she could play with Karupin. Kumiko stroked the back of Karupin's ears and smiled when she heard the cat purred out of contentment.

"You're so cute, Karupin… and you're really something, when you disappeared, Echizen-kun will run everywhere to find you." Kumiko said before Karupin's ears perked up and she quickly jumped at something behind Kumiko. Kumiko looked behind her to see a man struggling to get Karupin off his face, Kumiko quickly stood up, took Karupin away from the man's face and hid herself in the kitchen while holding the struggling Karupin in her arms. The man then opened his eyes and looked straight towards Kumiko who stiffen and held onto Karupin tighter.

"Oya? Who's this cute little girl?" The man said.

"Oji-san, this is Kumiko-chan, she's one of Echizen-san's friends. She's here to practice with him, he said. And please stop it, you're scaring her."

"Really? The brat's got a girl friend? I thought that's old lady's granddaughter was enough."

"W-Who are y-you?" Kumiko said timidly, now hiding behind the table.

"I'm the brat's father, the great Echizen Nanjirou."

"… I'm sorry, but I don't know you. I've heard of you before from onii-chan, but I think you're a bit weird to be a tennis player, then again, I know some players who are weird." Kumiko accidentally out loud, making stones fall on Nanjirou's head as Nanako giggles when seeing her uncle on the ground, depressed after being deliberately told off by a girl.

"What do you think you're doing, old man?" Kumiko sighed in relieve when she saw Echizen Ryoma walking into the kitchen as Karupin jumped off from her arms and towards her master.

"Oh, good morning, Echizen-kun."

"Morning, what's the old man doing anyway?"

"Oji-san seemed to have scared Kumiko-chan for a little bit though…" Echizen then stepped on Najirou's body as he walked towards the chair.

"I'm going to be in trouble with bucchou if you did something to Kumiko-san, old man. So you better keep it."

"Your bucchou? That's scary boy with the face of an old man?" Echizen winced, it's going to be bad and he suddenly felt pity for his so called father.

"Don't you dare call onii-chan an old man! You're older than him and you have no manners at all!" Kumiko suddenly yelled, surprising Nanjirou as Karupin hissed at her master's father for making Kumiko angry.

"S-Sorry about that…"

"Onii-chan might look that way but you're worse! You can't call yourself an adult if you talk that way! And how could you be a professional if you talk that way? You're the worst adult I've ever met!" Kumiko said angrily as Echizen sighed and rubbed his temple, he knew this would happen and his old man just couldn't shut his mouth to safe his life.

"Karupin, do it." Echizen said as Karupin jumped and started scratching on Nanjirou's face.

"Aargh!" Kumiko puffed her cheeks as she sat on one of the chairs and crossed her arms in front of her.

"How could he say such thing? He's not an adult, nevertheless a father." Kumiko grumbled as Echizen nodded.

"I wonder that as well, so, you up for a match?"

"I need to let some steam out, sorry if I kind of disturb you…"

"No, the old man needed to be yelled at anyway." Echizen said, drinking his tea.

"So, you said you wanted to discuss some things, but we're in different schools Echizen-kun."

"Well, might as well try, and it's about tennis, not about school."

"Oh."

"So, did bucchou say something to you before coming here?"

"Well, he did say you'll be dealing with him if something ever happens to me…" Kumiko said, smiling apologetically.

"Should've known. Come on, I'll show you the way to the temple."

"Right, can Karupin come along?"

"She'll follow us after she's had enough of the old man."

"Oh."

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I hope it's not too OOC...