A/N [12.14.2016]: 3 out of 4 exams done. The exam I had was related to mirror neurons... and it kind of made me think of Kise Ryouta. :D

[12.21.2016] EXAMS. R. OVER. Yahoo! Christmas is close by. So without further ado, a new chapter! Hope you enjoy it!


Previously:

"[...] Anyways, nevermind them, the game is about to start! And my gut tells me that this won't be an easy game. The opponent; Tezuka Kanimitsu can enter the zone."

"You kidding me?" Mibuchi and Hayama exclaimed at the same time.


On the tennis court, the referee blew the whistle.

"It's about to start…" Kuroko murmured.

"Kise-kun! Good luck." He said. Kise smiled easily at Kuroko and waved him off.
"No sweat!" Tezuka and Kise both stood on the tennis court, ready to play. Tezuka asked:
"Which?"

"Heads." Kise answered. The racket was spun and then dropped. The letter K was upside-down, which meant that Tezuka decides who should serve first.

"You. I want you to serve first." Kise shrugged. Fine with me, he thought. It's not like Kami-sama or whoever's up above made his life easy. A great example is the finals for Winter Cup Basketball. If he wasn't injured...

Anyways, this time, I will become victorious! As Kise was thinking, the referee blew the whistle again. Kise snapped out of his train of thoughts and prepared to serve. He looked to the left where a few kids were playing tennis. One of the kids served lower handed. After watching him serve, Kise smirked and copied the kid's movement. But of course, did it better than the kid. The underhand serve was a BANG! It made Echizen's kick serve like a child's play. The referee called.

"15, love." Near the sidelines, the Seirin Basketball team all got up and celebrated.

"Woohoo! One point for us!" Kise smiled again and felt like he gained some confidence. He did the same thing, but this time Tezuka received it. The tennis ball was rallied over to Kise's side. Kise was running up to hit it back, but slipped and fell. When he looked down, he saw that his shoe laces weren't tied. From the bleachers, Midorima was clearly angry at the site of Kise's shoes.

"They should've been tied at the beginning of the game. What is this clumsiness?" Midorima said.

"15, all." The referee called out as the Riko suggested to take a Time out.

"Time out for Seirin Team!" The referee accepted and Riko walked towards Kise frustrated at his shoe laces.

"Seriously! Kise! You made me take a time out for your shoes?"

"Sorry. hehe, I was a bit too excited when the team cheered."

"Don't get too cocky! There are already 'some' basketball players that are cocky and bakas..." Riko pointed to the players on the Seirin team. "I don't need you too be all that."

"Yes Coach!" And the 5-minute period was up, Kise was back on the field. Tezuka's expression was always the pokerface; (expressionless). It was his turn to serve. Kise thought: Great! Finally, I get to see the #1 Tennis player's serve. But what he didn't realized was that Tezuka immediately activated "the zone". Horio and Kachiro and Katsuo all gasped near the fence and called:

"It's the Tezuka's zone! It's the Tezuka's zone!" Oishi was beside Coach Ryuzaki and whispered into her ear:

"I didn't think Tezuka would use that right away." Coach Ryuzaki nodded as she replied:

"It's better to be safe than sorry. We don't know who're up against." Bright lights were shining near Tezuka as he served. Kise tried to receive it, but the serve was too fast.

"15, 30 for Seigaku team." Okay, stay calm. I just have to assess the situation. It seems like people are saying Tezuka's in the zone. This is quite different from what I've known about the zone. A flying ball landed at the baseline of the tennis court.

"What? What just happened?"

"15, 45." The referee called out.

"Wait wait! I wasn't prepared!" The Seirin team echoed. "Ughhh..." as every team player was holding on their heads. Out in the audience, someone shouted:

"Kise! Get your head straight! Your in a match!" Kise looked up and realized it was Aomine Daiki. Aominicchi! Over to the other side of the bleachers, he saw Murasakibara munching away. Does he munch all the time? But Kise did see a gleam in Murasakibara's eyes. Ahh! That gleam. I gotta get serious then. Kise then said to Tezuka.

"Sorry for not being in the game. I was actually just warming up!" As soon as Kise finished his sentence. Shining lights surrounded Kise. Horio, Kachiro and Katsuo were all dumbstruck.

"Can that really happen? Is our opponent in Tezuka's zone too?" Up on the bleachers, Aomine yawned as he thought: Finally! Something interesting... Momoi elbowed him for being rude.

"What? That wasn't on purpose."


Tezuka analyzed the shine around his opponent. Is that really possible? He questioned with the same pokerface. Of course, he cannot show his surprise expression. The players in Seigaku were all in shock even Echizen who was against a pole looked up and couldn't believe what he saw. The opponent shouted:

"Whenever your ready!"

"Hmph!" Tezuka served the tennis ball and bounced on Kise's side of the court. Kise used his eyes to deviate the ball towards him just like Tezuka's style as he gets ready to serve. As he tried to hit it, he commented:

"Is this really all you need to do?" Unfortunately, the ball abruptly dropped to his feet and earned a point to Tezuka.

"First game goes to Seigaku Team!" The referee called out. The audience and team players were all in shock.

Seirin team players and coach: How baka is Kise Ryouta? Is he really planning to end up victorious?

Seigaku team players and coach: ... [speechless]

Audience: [quiet at first, then echoed] "Woahhh! That was horrible! And YOU call yourself a player. Get YOUR JUNK* TOGETHER!"

Kise's cray-cray fangirls: Woahhh! That was amazing! You were great Kise-sama! Do your best!

Kise's 'other-kind' of fangirls: "Don't worry Kise, we are here for you. *pose like a cutiepie* you'll get it next time!"

GoM's reactions were also not impressed, but they knew that Kise's always started slow.

Aomine laughed as he thought: Still that same mistake. His distraction is just too much.

Murasakibara was noming on his snacks as he stared at Kise on the court: Why haven't this game ended already? I wanna get more snacks at the festival food booths...

Midorima was fiercely staring at Kise: He's a total baka! Why isn't he giving his all already? It is unacceptable.

Akashi chuckled to himself as he didn't say anything because he knew the results of the game. Still though, it is funny how this situation is played out. hehe.


A 10 minute break was initiated and the two tennis players switched sides. Kise thought: Now since I'm on that player's side, I think I'm gonna win.

"Game start! Tezuka to serve." Tezuka served his tennis ball as swiftly and cleanly as possible without any words. This time, Kise saw a curve (without a first bounce) of the ball but he immediately pinned his eyes onto that yellow ball and slowly the ball was being attracted towards his position. Once the tennis ball was near where Kise was able to hit with his racket, he slowed down the speed of the ball and smacked it across the net so fast that Tezuka had to readjust his eyes.

"WOW! That was supremely fast." Kikumaru Eiji, the acrobatic style of tennis player commented.

"Supremely? What did you see?" Oishi Shuichiro was by his side and asked. Kikumaru pointed to Tezuka. The ball that Kise smacked somehow vibrated so hard that the ball was physically vibrating. It wasn't possible to see for normal human eyes. But for particular players such as Echizen, Kikumaru, Tezuka, a bit for Fuji, the 5 members of Generation of Miracles and Kagami, they saw the physical vibration movement that can literally screw up the eyes. Kise smugged.

"Didn't think that was possible huh?" Tezuka scowled, but didn't say anything. He's still got this in control? Kise thought. The ball was attracted to Tezuka's zone and rallied back to the other side. What Kise saw when it was hit back to his side was a differently rotated tennis ball. Humph! That's easy. Kise arched his arm in a way to disturb the rotation and have the ball vibrating back towards Tezuka. When Tezuka received the yellow vibrating ball, instead of changing the rotation of the ball, he sliced his racket in a way that it stopped vibrating and rallied back to Kise's side of the net. This 'attraction and hit' went for awhile until somehow one broke. The referee blew the whistle.

"Time out Referee!" What broke was the tennis ball due to the fact that the rally was taking a toll on both players' bodies, it also took a toll on the tennis ball; from the vibration that screwed human eyes and from slices and the left-handed rotations... the ball broke.


After the referee got a new tennis ball, and explained to the LME officials about an unforeseen tennis ball broke during a match, the game continued. During the break though, Kise learned that Tezuka's zone was really a State of Self Actualization (Muga no Kyōchi), and that there are three doors to enter. Apparently, the third door is Pinnacle of Perfection (Teni Muhō), which was only entered by two tennis players, Echizen Nanjiro and Echizen Ryoma. His next step was to pass through that third door and win this game.


A/N: What do you guys think? Was it a bit rushed? I thought maybe it was a bit rushed...

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