"Sakuno, he's coming your way!"
"Who?" Sakuno looked up, and saw Luca walking towards them.
Oh yeah, that guy, Luca, he was the one who made Ryoma panic like that. Wow, he's really something. Sakuno had been with Ryoma for too long, it was obvious when he was going to lose his 'cool' composure due to a really strong opponent.
"How do you know he's coming my way, not yours?" Sakuno said jokingly.
"Not sure, just warning you, so you better get prepared!" Tomoka said.
Tomoka had been in a great help in chasing away people that harassed Sakuno. But Luca seemed like a nice guy. He probably won't do anything.
"Hi girls." Luca said, smiling.
"Hi." They answered.
"My name is Luca."
"I know. We can hear from up here." Tomoka said belligerently.
Luca smiled nervously at Tomoka. Tomo-chan always frightened people.
"I'm from Kyoto, so…it's my first time in Tokyo. And I want to visit more sight-seeing places in Tokyo. Would you like to come with me?" Luca's question was obviously aiming at Sakuno only.
"Erm…" Sakuno stammered, looking at her friend for help.
"Sakuno is not interested in you! She has someone else that's better." Tomoka declared proudly. "She's interested in Ryoma!"
"Ryoma?" Luca said, surprised. "Why? But he doesn't care for relationships, does he? He said that in an interview." He turned around to see Ryoma. Indeed, Ryoma was just drinking his Ponta, fidgeting with his racket, not caring about them, when everyone was staring eagerly at them.
"That's what so cool about him." Tomoka answered.
"Weird, why would you like this kind of guy. I'm a fan of his, yes, but I never thought of him as a particularly friendly person." Luca looked at Ryoma. He turned around, asking curiously. "You like this kind of person?" Luca went closer to Sakuno.
"Oi, don't come so near my friend!" Tomoka barked.
Luca ignored her and pinned Sakuno down to the tree with his arm, blocking Sakuno's view with his head so near her. Sakuno blushed a bit. What is he doing?
"Please, I'm really not interested." Sakuno said adamantly.
"You really like him even though he's so cold and unfriendly?"
Ryoma-kun is not cold and unfriendly! He was just pretending to be ignoring me so that I don't get hurt! Sakuno's thoughts rang loudly in her mind, but she dared not say out loud. If she did, everything they did to prevent people from knowing about their relationship, to prevent Ryoma from having fanatic fan girls chasing him, to prevent Ryoma having his privacy snatched away by sempai-tachi, all of these would be in vain.
"I will wait." Sakuno said firmly. Standard answer.
Luca stared at her.
Sakuno bit her lips and cringed, hoping Luca won't do anything to her.
"Haha, you're so cute!" Luca laughed, letting go of Sakuno. "I won't do anything to you, don't worry." He winked. "I was just playing around. If you really like Ryoma, so be it. After all, he is awesome."
Sakuno sighed. Luca seemed to be a nice person after all.
"He's so lucky, having such a beautiful girl liking him. He should quickly break out of that cold ice shell and be with you, ne?" Luca smiled.
Sakuno smiled.
"Luca!"
They turned around, surprised to see Ryoma walking up the hill with a livid face.
"Oh hi Ryoma what are you doin…"
Before Luca was able to finish his sentence, Ryoma knocked him down with his fist. Luca fell onto the ground, shocked beyond words. Tomoka stared, mouth agape.
Sakuno gasped. "Ryoma, what are you doing?"
Ryoma went over to Luca, and punched him some more.
If Sakuno had not ran forward and grabbed Ryoma away from Luca, Luca might have died. With the help of Tomoka, they managed to pull back Ryoma. Luca sat up, spitting blood out of his mouth.
Ryoma flared up, and tried pulling away from the two girls' grip. Sakuno held on tight with all her might, but Ryoma was stronger than the both of them. He shook them off violently and charged forward to give him another punch, pushing the two of them to the floor.
"Ryoma!"
The rest of the people had rushed to the scene, and helped pull Ryoma away from Luca.
"Let go of me! I'm going to kill that bastard!" Ryoma shouted, struggling out of his sempais' grip.
Sakuno stood up, went forward and slapped Ryoma in his face. "What do you think you're doing, Ryoma?" She demanded.
Ryoma stopped all struggles and blinked, abashed. "What do you think I'm doing?" Ryoma gave her an incredulous look. "He kissed you, so do I still need to think? This guy obviously deserves to be killed! Only I can be the one who kiss you! How dare he touch my Sakuno?" Ryoma said, anger flaring up again as he resume struggling out of their grasp to punch Luca.
Sakuno frowned, baffled at Ryoma's words. "But, Ryoma-kun, he did not kiss me."
Ryoma's struggles stopped immediately.
"He didn't?" He sounded confused.
"Of course not, Ryoma-sama, if he did kiss Sakuno I would punch him hard on his ass!" Tomoka said.
"He didn't?"
"He didn't. What were you thinking?" Sakuno asked.
Ryoma looked at her, and then looked at Luca in his pathetic state. "He…didn't kiss you…?"
"No, he didn't." Sakuno assured.
"Then what did he do?"
"He did nothing. He just asked me out and I refused."
"…So…he…didn't…kiss you?"
"No, he didn't." Sakuno sighed. How many times must she say this?
He watched as Oishi and Momoshiro helped poor Luca up.
"But I saw him kiss you!" Ryoma insisted, frowning.
"What? But we didn't, really!"
"They didn't kiss, Echizen. I was standing on another corner of the field, and I didn't see them kiss." Tezuka said. "That's why I was wondering what the commotion is about."
"Yeah, it must have been the angle of which we were standing. Perhaps Luca was standing so close to Sakuno-chan that from our angle, it seemed as though they were kissing." Inui deduced, writing on his notebook.
Ryoma stared at Luca.
"He really didn't kiss you?"
"No, Ryoma, no."
There was a slight pause while the information landed on Ryoma.
"Sorry…" Ryoma mumbled, facing Luca but eyes averted.
"'s okay." Luca mumbled back.
"Eh, Ryoma was worried his girlfriend get stolen by some other guy!" Eiji said cheekily.
"Shut up." Ryoma said, annoyed. He turned to Sakuno. Sakuno's right arm seemed to be injured. Guilt washed all over Ryoma as he remembered pushing Sakuno to the ground when trying to attack Luca, who is now declared innocent.
"Sorry…about that…" He signaled Sakuno's injury.
"Oh, this? It's okay…I mean, you were just trying to protect me. Next time, look carefully before making deductions, okay?" Sakuno said, forcing out a smile.
Ryoma nodded, and watched as Oishi wrapped up her injury.
"Echizen, go back to practice."
"Hn…" Ryoma answered, walking back to the courts with rest of the regulars.
Sakuno shook her head. Sometimes Ryoma gets really jealous, he would not even think before he act.
"Sakuno! Look, there's a bug on your hair!" Horio's annoying voice boomed from the back, followed by Sakuno's squeal.
"Eek! Where? Where?" Sakuno shrieked, as Horio laughed.
A fake bug dropped on the floor.
"Haha, Sakuno, you got tricked!" Horio said, pulling Sakuno's braids.
Ryoma was walking towards them, face livid with anger.
"Oh hi Ryoma, what are you doin…"
Punch!
"…"
"…"
"…sorry about today…"
"…"
"…"
"If you are going to be jealous at every guy that came up to me and punch them till blood comes out, we might as well stop our little secret relationship!"
"…I said I'm sorry…"
"Three guys already, Ryoma, three innocent guys!"
"…"
"I can't believe you are so rash! What? I can't even make anymore male friends, can I? If not you'll just come and beat up everyone of them!"
"..."
"…? Ryoma? Where are you pulling me to?"
Ryoma pulled Sakuno outside, where everyone is sitting. They stared at them, at the determined Ryoma, and at the embarrassed and I-have-no-idea-what's-going-on Sakuno.
"Listen up, everyone. Sakuno and I are in a secret relationship all these while; it's time we reveal it."
"What are you doing, Ryom…"
Sakuno did not manage to finish her sentence, when she was cut off by Ryoma's lips.
And they kissed, in front of everyone.
After all, having a secret relationship was definitely not easy when Ryoma was the type that gets jealous all the time.
Done! I'm rushing it out so it's not as good! Please review!