Hina-chan: Phew....updating all these stories is making me pooped out. But I got to see all episodes of POT and the ovas XD
Kanna: Well, you have all summer so take your time ^^
Natsume: Hinata-senpai, are you going to play tennis too during the summer?
Hina-chan: Yeah, can't wait to practice these interesting shots.
Warning: May contain Shounen-ai, another serious battle and....that's it...
XD LOLDisclaimer: I do not own POT
Atobe grinned at Tezuka as he readied himself. The long and awaited battle had shown up and was about to be played by two great players. Ryoma watched in fascination as the 'king', exercised his arm a bit before Tezuka threw the ball into the air. A strange cloud swirled around Tezuka's feet as he tossed the ball in the air, slamming it to the corner of Atobe. The ball was fast but not as fast as Atobe's quick legs.
The king shot the ball back but even faster and stronger than Tezuka's serve. The ball bounced once but instead of going to the corner, it went toward Tezuka, who in turn, shot it back. Atobe rushed to the right and smacked the ball with both hands on his racket. The ball turned into a lob and Tezuka used Momoshiro's smash.
Atobe sighed and ran up to the net, getting to the place where the ball was going to hit. He put both hands on his racket and smacked the ball as hard as he could at Tezuka's wrist. Tezuka glared at him but followed through with Atobe's plan and allowed his racket to fall as the ball bounce back to Atobe's side of the court. Tezuka smiled a little as he waited for Atobe to hit the ball.
"I will win!" Tezuka spoke out in protest as he quickly picked his racket up and vollied the ball while Atobe was still in the air.
Atobe quickly did a somersault in the air and ran toward the ball that was about to hit the court. His knee hit the ground just as the ball went over the net but didn't bounce.
"15-0" Atobe smiled eerily at Tezuka and walked back to the center.
Tezuka picked the ball up and went back to the center as well, throwing the ball up in the air as he did. He slammed the ball toward Atobe but the ball dropped in front of Atobe's feet without bouncing.
"15-15" Atobe growled a bit but flicked his hair and blew a kiss toward Ryoma.
"Atobe-san, please do not do that in public" Tezuka threw an extra ball he had in his pocket in to the air and did a powerful shot that Atobe had already seen through.
Atobe acted fast and hit the ball back as powerful as it was served. Tezuka didn't bother to go after it and let it go.
"30-15"
Again and again, Tezuka kept letting the ball go past him without going after it at all. Ryoma was beginning to wonder if Tezuka was actually into the match at all. He watched as the score went to 2 games so far to Atobe and zero games for Tezuka.
"Now...for the counter attack!"
Tezuka powered up again as Atobe hit his famous Tannhauser serve. He shot it back without much hand lifting and made his shot turn in to the zero-shiki drop. Atobe already saw this and shot back. Ryoma watched as they both returned each others shots, making it rally. Sweat began to pour down Atobe's forehead but he seemed to be warming up with Tezuka instead of actually playing his real tennis.
Ryoma sighed, stood up and began to walk away. This caused Tezuka to stop rallying the ball and let it pass by him. He frowned when he noticed the ball was in as Ryoma walked toward the vending machines. Atobe smirked and pulled out another ball from his pocket. Tezuka snapped his head back toward Atobe and readied himself for the ball while Ryoma walked back to the bench with a ponta drink in his hand.
"Captain, what's the score?"
"At least call me by my name once"
"I can't..." Tezuka shot the ball back to Atobe and shot Ryoma a soft look.
"The score is now 0-15" Tezuka growled as Atobe served.
Atobe looked up at the ball that was thrown in to the air and he made sure his racket hit the ball powerfully. Tezuka brought his arm up and a swirling of smoke surrounded his feet as the ball returned to him and nowhere outside the circle. He returned the shot, backhanded and made it volley. Atobe ran up to the net but didn't make it in time and collapsed to the ground, making the score 15-15.
"Atobe-san, I will win Echizen's heart"
"Tezuka, are you forgetting who the king is around here?" Atobe asked and put two fingers beside his eye.
He knew Tezuka would not have any blind spots but he knew there must be at least one with every player. He realized that the only blind spot would be his face, which would cause Tezuka to get caught off guard only a little bit and try to block the attack. Tezuka readied himself as the ball was about to come his way. He began to think on where Atobe would try to hit the ball, the left or the right side of the court? But it wasn't aimed anywhere near the sides and aimed straight for him.
Tezuka, as expected, blocked his face with his racket. The ball didn't go any farther than ten inches and dropped below his feet, making it 15-30.
Atobe smirked and practiced his swinging before Tezuka could return the ball.
The game went on to a rally again and Ryoma was growing more and more tired and felt the need for a nap. Ryoma yawned as the score jumped to six games for Atobe and three to Tezuka. Atobe smiled with pride as he went to put his racket away in his bag. Tezuka sat next to Ryoma and ruffled his hair a bit.
"Make him happy...I wasn't worthy of recieving your happiness"
"Tezuka..."
"Oi, Echizen, I'll take you to the place where we met. My treat" Ryoma blushed a little as Tezuka pushed the boy's back, causing him to stand up so that he wouldn't fall off.
"Good game Tezuka, but you could have done a bit more better, well, see ya" He waved his goodbye with an arm around Echizen's shoulder.
"Momo, you lost?!" Eiji asked in a surprised voice.
"Yeah, that guy's good. I wonder how the match went between him and the captain"
"I'm sure it was Tezuka, even though Hyotei's captain has improved, our captain has as well"
"Probably right"
Tezuka let out a small sigh as he opened the door to a burger resturaunt that unknowingly held his team mates.
"Ah, Tezuka!" Oishi announced as the said man looked over to the table that was calling him over and he dragged his feet while walking over.
"Where's Echizen?" Kawamura asked and the others began looking outside the windows for the boy.
"Atobe-san won and he is now taking Echizen to the new resturaunt"
"I want to follow chibi, who's with me?" Eiji pronounced in a gleeful voice.
Oishi watched as Momoshiro, Inui and Kaidoh began to follow him out the door of the burger joint. Tezuka, Oishi and Kawamura were the only ones seated.
A/n: Oh dear, so this is the last battle, but this isn't the end! More to come since you guys don't know how Ryoma and Atobe's relationship goes. Let's find out next time in the next chapter shall we? please review until then.
