Okay, chapter 5. Can't believe I've gone this far. I'm still doing my report, I only wrote four paragraphs so far. T.T I'm only on page 1, so I need 2 more pages. It sounds easy, and I'm getting depressed, lol. Well, I know I can finish it. I have until tomorrow to finish it. Stupid uncle was disconnecting my internet and I couldn't bring myself to tell him how pissed I am and how the heck I can do the report without him disconnecting me. Seriously, he pretends I'm not using the internet. Before I take out my anger by writing it here, I'm gonna start. XD
And weird things pop in my head while I wrote chapter 4. Btw, thank you and I appreciate all your reviews! I would check on them every 30 minutes of less and I feel so happy whenever someone reviews. Thanks to all of you reviwers!
Oh yeah, for this chapter I decided to put a lil bit humor since I got excited thinking how would Sakuno be if she was hyper? The chibi episode gave me this idea where the Seigaku become hot-blooded when they drank Inui's juice. Lol, I cracked up. I forgot the episode though.
Disclaimer: Like I said, I'm not the owner of Prince of Tennis but the OC belongs to me.
Today, Sakuno felt as blank as ever thinking about yesterday and thought her life was over once Akiyo spilled the news. She barely said more than one word when she came to school and only mumbled. Tomoka didn't seem to notice and was in her usual loud attitude. Sakuno guessed that Akiyo didn't tell anyone yet and was thankful that she'd have at least enough time to make him shut his mouth. What would Fuji do if everyone thought they were dating? Tease her more? Oh gawd…At least she still remembered to make tempura for Fuji even though he'd probably tease her more.
She could imagine him saying, "Sakuno, will you marry me? Then you could make delicious foods for me forever."
Sakuno giggled slightly at that image. Why was she thinking about him and her being together? Surely, he must've found someone else especial to him.
"Sakuno? Are you listening?" Tomoka waved a hand in front of Sakuno's face to get her attention.
"Huh? Oh, gomen," she said, and Tomoka continued to blabber about rumors she heard. One sentence did catch Sakuno's attention.
"Almost three days ago, I saw Fuji-sempai going on a date with a girl that had long black hair. Isn't that cute? He has a girlfriend! Kikumaru-sempai even said so!"
A…girlfriend? A crack was heard and Sakuno thought her heart broke. That is, until she found out she snapped her own pencil. Tomoka looked at her weirdly wondering what had caused her actions. Something dripped, and Sakuno looked at her hand to see splinters from her pencil and had cut her hand. The blood was flowing freely even though Sakuno couldn't feel the pain. Probably because she already felt more than enough pain.
"Sakuno? Are you okay? You need to go to the nurse!" Tomoka completely freaked out at the sight of blood. Sakuno sweatdropped and held her bleeding hand.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine. I'll go to the nurse alone," Sakuno said, and got up bowing at Tomoka who surprisingly said nothing else. She sprinted out of the empty class (class didn't start yet and they were early) and made her way to the nurse's office making sure that no blood would spill. It wasn't serious at all though.
"Sakuno-chan?"
The familiar sweet voice stopped her and she turned around slowly only to see none other than Fuji. She suddenly remembered what Tomoka had said and she backed away slowly as tears were threatening to fall.
"What's wrong?" he asked, approaching her with a concerned face. Sakuno backed up more not wanting the pain to come back. Fuji opened his eyes and widened when he looked at her hands.
"I-It's nothing…" she whispered and dashed away from him. Fuji didn't know what just happened but noticed the red liquid she was covering as she disappeared from sight.
"There you go," the nurse smiled at Sakuno as she finished wrapping the linen around her finger. Sakuno thanked the nurse and made her way outside. Class already started and she needed a drink. Suddenly, she saw a tube with some cups next to it. It must've been an energizer drink for sports. Sakuno decided that it wouldn't hurt to just drink a cup and poured herself some red juice. She wasn't quite familiar with the juice but drank it anyway. Eh? I feel weird….
(Don't tell anyone but it's a new drink made by Inui. It makes the person hyper and be a whole different person just by one sip for a day. Hehehehe….)
Yosh! I can feel the power! Sakuno thought, punching the air with her fist the moment she drank the red liquid. Her eyes replaced with fire(not literally). She could feel herself burning and was pretty much hyped up. "English class, here I come! Kya!"
She ran as fast as lightning leaving some marks behind and whipped open her English class door surprising the hell out of everyone.
"Hello sensei! I'm sorry for being late, but I got an injury and need to go to the nurse!" Sakuno said, well, more like in a demanding way surprising the teacher more.
"Er…very well. Please take a sit," he stammered watching Sakuno skip her way next to Tomoka. Kids are so weird this day.
Sakuno had no idea a certain four eyes was watching as he scribbled down notes. "Ii data."
"Let'sgotothetenniscourt!" Sakuno shouted extremely quick when it was time for tennis practice before the competition. Her friend was completely freaked out by her attitude and didn't know what caused it. Heck, Sakuno was even louder than Tomoka. And Ryoma was even looking at her oddly.
"The sun is so beautiful!" she sighed dreamily as she skipped with Tomoka. "Right Tomoka?"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Tomoka mumbled, still wondering about Sakuno's change of attitude, but almost yelp when Sakuno put on an intimidating glare that matched her grandmother's and quickly replied, "Yes! It is! Please don't hurt me!"
Sakuno giggled very loudly and once she saw the tennis court she screamed. "The tennis court! Woo! Let's go, Tomoka!"
In a split second Tomoka felt herself being dragged by the hyper braided girl and could only pray for mercy as she helplessly tried to prevent from tripping over.
"Buchou! I'm so glad to see you! Let's get started! Hoi!" Sakuno sharply bowed at the flustered captain and immediately took her racket out(I have no idea where the heck she got that XD). It was almost like she turned into Kawamura, when he holds a racket of course, whipping her racket around.
Sakuno's never acted like this before…not unless she eats a candy…Whoever gave her some shall die by my hands, Aniko thought, squishing her hands together at the thought of strangling the culprit of this. She only saw Sakuno in this mode once, and it was not good.
"Er…Sakuno-chan? Will you go sit in the bench because you will need to save your super special strength for the competition," Aniko said, tapping the extremely hyped up girl on the shoulder. She dealt with this before and knew what to say to get her to follow her orders.
"Hai! I shall do that!" Sakuno saluted the captain and walked to the bench while skipping like a little girl. It was weird seeing Sakuno like this.
"Everybody! Gather around!" Aniko yelled to the others. They murmured a little and gathered around her in a circle. "I want to know who gave Sakuno a candy. I promise I won't be mad, hehehe."
"Uh…" Eijisu squeaked a little, afraid of the mad Aniko. She was almost like Sumire. "Who would be sane enough to give her a candy? Everyone here knows what happened before."
"Those dark times…" Benjiro mumbled, shivering at the memories that came back.
"Sakuno! Let's share this," Aniko said to the ten-years old girl, handing out a piece of candy. Sakuno put on a big smile and thanked her as she took it. Sakuno popped it in her mouth and suddenly froze.
"Eh? Sakuno-chan, are you okay?" Aniko asked, shaking Sakuno a little but took a quick step back once she noticed her eyes flaming with fire( again, not literally).
"KYA! I can feel it!" Sakuno practically screamed, almost breaking the wooden table of Aniko's. She almost panicked at the change of Sakuno's attitude, and watched in horror as Sakuno punched through the paper door and ran out of the house screaming.
"What the hell? Sakuno! Come back!"
Everyone sighed heavily, remembering when Sakuno attacked each of them. They did not notice the girl walking away and towards where the Seigaku team had been practicing. She was also singing merrily.
Keiji was the first to notice that Sakuno had disappeared. "You guys know that Sakuno left and is heading straight towards the Seigaku team?"
"What?! Why didn't you say so?" Aniko yelled at the sweatdropping Keiji and quickly ran with the other members, hoping that Sakuno did not do any harm on the way.
"Everyone! Break time," Tezuka announced, looking at his watch. The regulars hydrated themselves with their own drinks (careful not to drink Inui's) and wiped their sweat with towels. They did not notice Sakuno running towards them with full speed until she screamed.
"Tezuka-buchou!! HI!"
Before anyone could react, Sakuno had tackled the captain to the floor and was lying on top on him with a big goofy grin on her face. Fuji thought he imagined a flicker of jealousy but decided to ignore it and forced a smile as he watched Sakuno greet the captain in a demanding way. The other regulars' were snickering as well as the flustered Tezuka couldn't bring himself to push her away, for she was Sumire's granddaughter. And no one messes with her if they did not want to feel Sumire's wrath.
"I just want to say hi because I just like to! And so…hi!" she was now sitting on him and giggled after every word she said.
"Ryuzaki, will you please get off me?"
Sakuno's eyes became teary as she looked at the captain, who did not know what to do or what he did to make her cry. She bursted into sobs and spotted Fuji, who's smile disappeared when he saw her tears falling to the ground. The others could only watch in amusement as Sakuno flung herself to Fuji.
"Wahh! Tezuka-buchou is so mean! I just wanted to say hi and he tells me to get off him! I didn't do anything wrong!" she sobbed, clinging to Fuji's shirt.
"Shhh….of course he's a bully," Fuji said, patting Sakuno's head.
"Fuji…" Tezuka warned, as he was helped up by Oishi and glared at the regulars who had to keep from cracking up.
"Fuji-sempai's so nice. That's why I love him," Sakuno sighed, but abruptly pulled away from him. "Wahh! You have a girlfriend and I wouldn't want her to think you were cheating on her! It's not right!"
Girlfriend…? Oh, Eiji must've spread the rumor, Fuji thought in amusement as he watched the girl gibber about his "girlfriend." And did she say she loved me? Maybe she meant as a friend...
"Where did you hear such a silly story?" Fuji asked, and glanced at Eiji, who gulped, before patting Sakuno's head. "I was forced so it wasn't really a date."
"Eh?" For a split second, everyone thought she was back to herself but that changed when she cried some more and threw herself onto Fuji. "Wow! You're so popular!"
"Eheheh…."
"Inui, do you have anything to do with this?" Tezuka asked sternly, glaring at Inui.
"Since my Ultra Mega Hyper Deluxe New Improved juice was a success, I will have to admit that I was indeed behind all this," Inui said, without flinching. Kaidoh's face paled a little, not wanting to end up like Sakuno and some of the other regulars were backing away.
"Nya, no wonder Sakuno's so hyper."
"Inui, fix this now so no one gets hurt," Oishi said with concern. Sakuno was still clinging to Fuji and almost all her tears dried out. She had cried herself to sleep.
"I'm afraid that we will need to wait for a day until she returns to normal," Inui replied, his glasses shimmering dramatically. "Until then, someone will have to watch over her."
"I nominate Fuji!"
"Yes?" Fuji walked to the group, carrying Sakuno.
"Fuji, you shall take care of her until she is completely normal," Tezuka said and walked away from the group, not wanting to be in any part of the trouble.
"Saa, okay then."
"Sakuno-chan!" They heard someone yell and turned around to see the Rukia team running towards them. They stopped when they saw Sakuno smiling as she slept while being carried by Fuji. Akiyo started to crack up.
"BWAHAHAH!!! He really is Sakuno's boyfriend!" he gasped out loud, unable to control himself from laughter.
"Boyfriend? Fuji, you wouldn't," everyone looked at Fuji, who merely smiled.
"Of course not, it seems I have the magic finger," he chuckled.
"Well, at least she's calm," Kiruma sighed, glad that she did not break anyone's bone. "If she can stay like that with him, then we'll have no worries leaving her here and we can resume to our practice."
Aniko nodded. "Please take care of Sakuno-chan."
"I will," Fuji said, bowing slightly. The Rukia thanked them all once again and returned to their court and the rest of the Seigaku team huddled around careful not to let Fuji hear any of it. Not that he wanted to anyway.
"Inui, what are the effects of your juice?" Momo asked, clearly suspicious as to why the petite girl was so much comfortable with the tensai.
"Let me see," Inui muttered flipping through his green notebook. "Ah, here it is. My Ultra Mega Hyper Deluxe New Improved juice causes the person to be hyper, of course, for a whole day and brings out their true feelings. In other words, Sakuno could be in love with Fuji. It would also bring out the persons' true strength."
"Eh? Sakuno?"
Inui nodded. "Her feeling are shown completely, it would be great data if I can observe how she feels with everybody."
"Inui, don't even think about it."
"Fssshhh…"
"Why don't we become matchmakers?" Eiji suggested, grinning at that thought of making Fuji drink Inui's Ultra Mega or whatever it was called juice. "Let's see if Fuji has the same feelings as her."
"I don't think that would be a good idea. Remember when he got 100 serious and showed his true strength? Inui said that the juice brings out a persons' true strength, and I doubt Tezuka would be happy if Fuji wasted his energy," Oishi pointed out.
"Aw man…can't we just make him drink it?" Momo whined.
"Mada mada dane."
"Exactly what Ryoma said. And you heard Oishi."
The regulars decided that they'd make Fuji drink Inui's juice (who claims it has better taste than his other juices) and find out his true feelings(Wow...Seigaku regulars are now pairing two people? What happened with O'chibi and Sakuno? XD). They had no idea he had been listening all along as he held the sleeping form of Sakuno in his arms with a sadistic smile.
"A new juice, eh? I guess this will be fun."
OMG! I'm sorry if I made them a bit OOC, which I did not mean to. It was weird that I kept thinking of Fruits Basket while writing this, and I kept thinking Fuij was Yuki Sohma and Sakuno was Tohru Honda. Lol, I'm kinda weird sometimes. If you're kinda confused how my OC are, here's a little bit info about them:
Aniko: Age 14, can be overprotective and treats Sakuno as her little sister. Can be short-tempered and is not made a captain for no reason. Her school was one of the very few to allow her to be in the tennis team and Sakuno as well. Strict sometimes but fun too.
Akiyo: Age 13, very mischievous and likes get in Sakuno's nerves making them a fairly good rivals. But watches out for his friends and likes curry!
I'll write the others' profile in the next chapter. Please R&R.
