An Inuyasha high you would never have expected
"normal talk"
'thought'
flashback
dream
different language
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The next morning-
"Ryoma are you sure you want to go to school today," Kikyo asked him as the three Echizen kids walked downstairs for breakfast, Ryoma nodded, the white bandages on his head were aggravating the hell out of him because he can't wear his fila cap.
"For the fifteenth time, yes," Ryoma muttered, Kagome and Kikyo sighed and Ryoma yawned.
"I HATE having a concussion, Kaa-san had to wake me up like twenty times last night," Ryoma mumbled.
"At least you're ok," Kagome said, "I'm sorry we weren't there to help."
"Don't start that Onee-chans, if you had been there then you would have been hurt to," Ryoma reminded them, they shrugged.
"Aren't you gonna eat," Kikyo asked as Ryoma pushed his plate away, she and Kagome had already eaten most of theirs.
"No," Ryoma muttered, he stood up and they followed, they grabbed their stuff, put their shoes on, and left the house to find Momo waiting.
"Echizen what happened to your head?" Momo asked/yelled, Ryoma sighed and felt at the strip of bandages going around his forehead and the rest of his head.
"Fuji-senpai and I were mugged while walking to our houses," Ryoma muttered.
"God, I'm sorry, are you ok," Momo asked awkwardly, Ryoma nodded and walked on ahead of them, Momo walked quickly and matched the freshman's pace, Kikyo and Kagome walked behind them.
"I'm fine," Ryoma said bluntly and Blankly, Momo was used to his aversion of thing that made him uncomfortable so Momo changed the subject for the freshman.
"What about Akina-chan?" Momo asked pryingly, Ryoma blucher five different pinks.
"What about Akina?"
"Well..."
"Later," Ryoma muttered as they got to school and Ryoma was swarmed, apparently Fuji had gotten there early and others had noticed his injuries so they wanted to see for themselves that the rookie star was ok. Eiji was quick to glomp poor Ryoma making him dizzy.
"Senpai... can't breathe..." Ryoma muttered losing air and color fast, Eiji jumped off, Ryoma's head spun, his sisters' eagle caught him placing a hand to his temple and they walked to his side.
"Ryoma you should sit down," Kagome breathed as they all walked to the changing rooms.
"ECHIZEN!" again the three sibs' heads snapped to attention when their Bucho's voice rand out, Ryoma was beckoned to.
"Hai?" Ryoma asked walking up to him his head clearing.
"I want to apologize for what happened yesterday at practice. My actions were uncalled for," Tezuka said, he bowed his head, Ryoma was struck dumb, Tezuka continued, "Fuji told me about what happened after practice please sit out this morning to avoid further injury." Ryoma nodded once and bowed low to Tezuka before walking off to sit on a bench inside one of the courts as a spectator. As practice wore on the other freshmen started gossiping about what had happened, then it spread to the juniors, then finally to the seniors and regulars. Ryoma got up and excused himself to his classroom halfway through, after the freshie trio had started following him around.
In Ryoma's classroom, no one except himself is in there yet-
Ryoma sank into his desk and put his head down until he heard a gasp.
"Ryoma-kun?" Came a startled voice, Ryoma raised his head and groaned inwardly, Akina Ooka, just a bit shorter than Ryoma, sleek dark brown hair, and grey eyes, stood in the doorway of their classroom her bag had fallen to the floor with a light thump. She was staring at Ryoma or more at his bandages, "Oh, my! What happened to you?" Akina left her bag on the floor and crossed quickly to Ryoma.
"I- Fuji-senpai and I were mugged yesterday after school while we walked home," Ryoma mumbled, Akina gasped again, she knelt next to him. Ryoma looked at her worried face, confused.
"Oh my God. Are you both ok," Akina asked then came to a conclusion, "Is this why you're not at practice?" She asked, Ryoma nodded and winced, his migraine was getting worse.
"Bucho wouldn't let me play. I have a concussion," Ryoma muttered, Akina placed a pale hand on his arm.
"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to bring something bad up. Are you going to be ok," She asked comfortingly.
"I'll be fine, the stitches will stay in for a while then I get them out," Ryoma said, not paying attention to Akina's sad face, he didn't want pity even if it IS from his crush.
"I'm sorry again, I hope you feel better, umm Ryoma," Akina started, Ryoma shifted his gaze to her, She looked at his eyes intently apparently trying to win and internal struggle, "W-would y-you like to eat lunch w-with me, I-I was gonna ask you after y-you're practice finished b-but you weren't there, I assumed you were sick b-but now... so will y-you?" Ryoma's eyes widened, he didn't know what to say so he nodded.
"S-sure," Ryoma said, finding his vocal cords. Akina smiled her lopsided, cute, smile; she nodded and went to get her bag. Akina stumbled back to her seat in front of Ryoma and the two started talking.
"So you normally eat with your sisters, Fuji-san and Kikiumaru-san?" Akina asked. Ryoma nodded.
"Yeah, but I don't think they'll care," Ryoma said.
"If I sit with them or if you don't," Akina asked, "Because I don't care either way and seeing how you're hurt -Ryoma's eyes averted hers- your Nee-sans might want to watch over you. I don't mind, i mean we have all our classes together."
"We can do whatever you want," Ryoma said, he was being complacent just so she would still want to eat with him, "I doubt my senpais and my sisters would give us any peace though."
"I want to meet them face to face, not through the rumor mill, I want to get to know the real them, and get to know you," Akina assured him, "So, did you like the states?"
"It was ok, better weather most of the time but I lived in San Diego, California, really sunny," Ryoma said, talking to Akina was easy for him.
"I've been to California before. My aunts live in Sacramento, but we used to take rode trips to San Diego a lot. They wanted me to see all of California," Akina said, smiling as she did.
"Aa, my family used to travel up and down California to and we went skiing in Oregon," Ryoma commented, Akina smiled.
"Hmm, that sounds nice, we never left California cause my parents didn't want to, so, and DO NOT lie, you did earn the title 'Prince of Tennis' after you won four tournaments in America didn't you, I saw you're picture in the papers there," Akina asked, Ryoma fake coughed.
"Uhh, please don't tell the others only Tezuka-bucho knows and Ryuizaki-sensei, and my sisters," Ryoma mumbled, Akina smiled and nodded.
"Sure, no prob," Akina said. They kept getting to know each other until people striated coming in ten classroom, along with Ryoma's fan club president the ever annoying Tomoka Osaka, she raced over to Ryoma and started cooing at him, Akina smiled secretively at him and turned around, leaving a groaning Ryoma to be attacked by Tomoka.
"RYOMA-SAMA WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!" Tomoka screamed.
"I fell," Ryoma said sternly. Thank God the teacher came in and started class and for once Ryoma didn't get in trouble for snoozing, apparently the teachers had been informed of what had happened, so Ryoma was merely woken up and asked if he wanted to go to the nurse and lie down, Ryoma declinded and sat up straight, lost in thought. When lunch came Akina lightly tapped his shoulder and stood up with a bento box in her hands, Ryoma nodded and stood up stiffly, they were about to leave with the rest of the class when the teacher came up to Ryoma.
"Echizen-kun, listen to me," he started, Ryoma turned around and let almost dead eyes look on his sensei, "I let you off today because I know what happened, but please for your own sake do not dwell on what happened."
"Hai," Ryoma nodded and walked out of the classroom with Akina. Ryoma didn't talk as they walked outside to the tree where he, his sister, Fuji, and Eiji sat every day for lunch; Akina seemed fine by that, letting his thoughts flow uninterrupted. Ryoma wasn't really thinking about the incident yesterday or anything like that, he was running over the things Akina had told him about herself.
"Ryoma... and... Nani? Umm, ano, who are you?" Kagome asked and she and Kikyo steered the two freshmen to their spot next to the tree where Eiji and Fuji were waiting.
"Ah, Konichiwa, Watashi wa Akina Ooka, nice to meet you," Akina said after bowing a bit, Ryoma sat next to an over excited Eiji to let Akina sit next to his sisters.
"Akina-cha, welcome," Fuji smiled.
"Aa, welcome, Watashi wa Kagome Echizen," Kagome said happily.
"Watashi wa Kikyo Echizen, nice to meet you," Kikyo said, Akina nodded.
"So Akina-chan, you and Ryoma are having lunch together?" Kagome asked, Akina nodded and smiled her cute lopsided smile.
"Aa," Akina said.
"Akina-chan do you play a sport," Kikyo asked, Ryoma smirked.
"Hai, I'm on the track team, I run the one and two mile and the quarter relay," Akina smiled.
"Ever play tennis?" Kikyo asked.
"No, but I love watching our school play against the other schools, I always watch unless I have a race," Akina smiled.
"Akina do you want some," Ryoma asked handing her his uneaten bento, his sisters smiled, Akina blushed and accepted it thanking him. They finished their lunches and walked towards the school together, Akina had managed to slip her arm into Ryoma's elbow so they walked behind the twins, Fuji, and Eiji. Akina and Ryoma talked a lot on the way back making the smiles on Kikyo and Kagome's faces grow even more, Fuji smirked the whole time and Eiji looked like he was watching a teen movie.
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Hope you liked it; see the elusive person Ryoma had fallen for is now in full light! Please read and Review o I know if you like Akina... I really need you're opinions on the matter! Ja ne!