SesshoumaruXRin: Back with another chappie! Hope you like it!


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"Who's not coming back?"

The voice ran tingles up her spine. She was speechless. She couldn't turn around. She recognized the voice. Plus, the trios faces and the entire class' faces were looking at the person behind her. Kyo and Akira were dumbfounded as were some other classmates who didn't know who he was. Tears weld up in her eyes. She finally turned her head, and there he was, in his glory. The cocky brat that she fell in love with. Echizen Ryoma.

"R-R-R-yoma-k-kun...Ryoma-kun!!!" Sakuno jumped up and without thinking, she wrapped her arms around him and squeezed him. Kyo, Akira, and the rest of the class were watching with their eyes wide open, as well as their mouths. He smirked as he waited for her to realize what she was doing. She took a step back and blushed furiously.

"G-Gomenesai, Ryoma-kun!!! I'm just so happy your back!" She smiled broadly, still blushing.

"Ah! Echizen! Your back!!!" The trio welcomed him back. It clicked in Akira's and Kyo's mind who this was. It also clicked in the girls' minds.

"KYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RYOMA-SAMA!!!!!!!" All the girls in the class screamed. It almost broke his eardrums. A bunch of girls peeked in the classroom and all the girls stared at him, their eyes gleaming.

"H-hey! Mika-chan! Don't tell me you wouldn't go out with me because of this guy!?!?!?!?!?" Kyo asked the girl who was fixed on the Prince of Tennis.

"Ryoma-sama is my prince. Ryoma-sama...Ryoma-sama..." All the girls started chanting his name and thats when sensei came in and quieted them all down. Kyo and Akira burned with anger as Ryoma went to the front of the room.

"Alright, class. Most of you remember him from last year, and some of you are new, so I'd like to introduce you to Echizen Ryoma. He just came back from America. He competed in the U.S. Open." A lot of Ooohs and Aaahhs and Ryoma-samaaaaas can be heard. Kyo and Akira were shocked. "But thats not the most suprising fact, he actually won it!" Akira's and Kyo's jaws were hanging.

Ryoma tipped his hat and coughed, getting sensei's attention. "Ahh! Gomen, Echizen-san. Umm...let's see...There are a few empty seats...You can sit next to Aki-"

"How bout I sit next to Ryuzaki? Is that alright Sensei?" Sensei nodded and smiled. Sakuno blushed furiously, and the girls gave her envying looks, not glares because they know of her and Ryoma's 'relationship'. Akira and Kyo looked at eachother, confused.

"I never knew Ryuzaki-san was like this, she is smiling and blushing and stuff...it's kinda kawaii!!!" Akira said. Kyo nodded. The trio sat in front of them.

"Ryuzaki-chan has a crush on Echizen ever since she met him. After he left for America, her best friend, and also Echizen's fan club president, Osakada Tomoka left for America 2 weeks before school started." Kachiro explained. They both nodded but were still kind of shocked.

Meanwhile, a few seats away.

Ryoma sat down next to Sakuno. She blushed as he gave her his trademark smirk. All through class Sakuno's heart raced. She was so happy she had to contain it all inside. She was afraid she was going to burst out with happyness. But that'd be so embarrassing. She peeked over at him a few times. She peeked over at him again, only to meet his eyes. He smirked. She blushed and turned her head away. But unfortunately, that wasn't the last of it. Sensei just had to see it.

"Ryuzaki-san, I know your excited Echizen-san is back, but can you please pay attention? You two can stare into eachother's eyes later." Sensei smirked (A/N-By the way, Sensei is a guy). Sakuno blushed madly, while Ryoma just smirked and looked up at the board, as if saying, continue your lesson. The next time Sakuno looked at him, he was asleep. She softly giggled and thought how cute he looked when he was sleeping.

Lunch

Sakuno smiled as she remembered this morning. She felt today, she had to make two bentos. She didn't know why but she did anyway. She told Ryoma, who said he was going to go sleep on the roof to avoid the screaming fan girls, that she would be up there in a minute. She grabbed the two bentos and headed to the roof, but was stopped by the trio and the duo.

"Where are you going with those Ryuzaki? Hmm? Are you going on a lunchdate with Echizen?" Teased Horio. It only made Sakuno blush for the millionth time today.

"I-its not a d-d-date!!!" Defended Sakuno. When she all-of-a-sudden felt someone jump onto her. She almost fell over.

"Senpai!" All 6 of the 2nd years exclaimed. Akira and Kyo wondered why a senpai latched onto Sakuno like that. They wondered just how many guy friends did this shy, not talkitive girl have?

"K-Kikumaru-senpai! You scared me! Onegai! Don't do that!"

"Gomen, Sakuno-chan! I missed you! Plus I heard O'chibi has returned!!! Is it true?" Akira and Kyo turned to eachother and thought, 'Ochibi?'

"H-hai! He's back!" She gulped. She knew what was coming next and plugged her ears.

"KYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O'CHIBI'S BACK!!! WOOHOO!!!" While he was screaming, Sakuno managed to get away, unnoticed. She walked up the stairs that was headed for the roof. She opened the door to find Ryoma sleeping, against his bag. She smiled, shut the door and walked over to him.

"Ryoma-kun...I'm so glad your back..." She whispered as she bent down to get a better look at his kawaii face. She sat down next to him and propped herself up on her hand. She leaned over him again and gently brushed off some of his hair that was in his face. "I've missed you Ryoma-kun..."

"I've missed you, too." Sakuno yelped and snatched her hand away as soon as his eyes opened. She blushed once again. "Especially your cheering. The cheering fan girls don't give me as much encouragement as you do." He smiled. Not smirked, but smiled. She handed him a bento and they both started eating. "This is delicious. I miss your cooking, too. Although I think I've only tried it once..." Sakuno looked at him, puzzled.

"Ano...You mean at Kachiro's dad's work?" He nodded, mouth stuffed with onigiri. "D-demo, I thought you said it wasn't good enough...?" Ryoma looked confused. He looked so cute, she thought inside. "I asked you how you liked it and you said," Trying to impersonate Ryoma,"Mada mada dane." Ryoma chuckled at her impersonation.

"I didn't mean that about the food, I was watching a match of tennis. I was talking about the person playing tennis. Next thing I knew, my lunch was gone!" They both laughed. Ryoma took another bite of his bento, while Sakuno took out her English homework. She started working on it while eating. Her face looked puzzled.

"Need some help?" Sakuno looked up at Ryoma. She sweatdropped and nodded.

"I really don't get this...These symbols are sooo confusing! I mean, I know theres only 26 symbols in their...their...aloofabeet?" Ryoma doubled over with laughter. Sakuno was a bright shade of red she was so embarassed for pronouncing it wrong.

"It's alphabet! And that proves you need a lot of help. You want to come over to my house after practice to study?" Sakuno blushed.

"Demo, is it alright? I'm really bad at English and I'm almost hopeless!" More chuckles could be heard from the cat-eyed boy.

"You got that right!" He kept laughing. She made a pouty face. He stopped laughing and stared at her. He inched closer to her which made her blush. "Your cute you know that?" That did it. From ear to ear, she was so red, she put a tomato to shame. He smiled when her eyes were wide open with shock. He started to inch closer and closer...until...

"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!"

Both of them jumped. Sakuno was already extremely red, so she continued to stay that way, while Ryoma hid the slight blush with his hat. "My house after practice then?" She nodded. "Well better get to class..." They started walking and when they got to the door they both bumped into eachother. He got out of the way and motioned for her to go first. "Oh, Sakuno!" She looked at him shocked. "Is it alright if I call you that?"

"Hai!"

"What class do you have next?" Ryoma asked.

"Ano...Home Ec." Ryoma smiled.

"Me too. Let's go." They both walked to Home Ec. All their morning classes they had together, and suprisingly, all their afternoon classes, too. Sakuno smiled as she looked at Ryoma who was being clobbered by Kikumaru-senpai and Momo-chan-senpai. He just walked into the tennis courts and that split second he went from the wind on his face to Kikumaru-senpai on his face. All in all, he looked happy.

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SesshoumaruXRin: Kyaa!!! There you go! I updated twice in one day! Anyways, I was thinking of changing my penname to RyomaXSakuno...What do you think? Onegai review!!!!