AUTHORS NOTE: I am not sure anymore if I should pick Fuji as the main dude here and so the POLLS ARE UP! You can vote as many times as you want. I can make Ryoma end up with any guy in the series and try to make it look good without editing the story! So...other than that...PLEASE REVIEW!

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8 tall figures stood around the long red velvet couch where there lay the unconscious body of a very pretty girl in her silk pajamas. These eight were the special chosen team formed by Ryuuzaki sensei, for only one purpose." To win the nationals."

Though on the way to winning were a few more "extra mission" Like this for example. They were told to wake up 4 in the morning just to make sure this pretty little girl woke up, much to their lack of sleep. A mission was a mission no matter what.

"I dare you to wake her up" The number one reckless member of the team nudged the human cat.

"Nya~! I don't want to die yet!" He exclaimed, remembering the horrifying events of when he was last in this room. He shivered.

"10 bucks say you cant" Momo continued with the dare.

"20 bucks say you cant do it either Momo-kun!" Eiji retorted in a yell

"Eiji! Momo! Behave yourself! Other people are still sleeping!" Oishi scolded, shushing the two.

"Meow" Karupin purred as she was being petted in Kaidoh's arms in exchange for their sudden entering.

"Fsssssssshhhh" He responded to the cat as if shushing the cat as well.

"How do we wake her up?" Kawamaru asked meekly, The other 7 figures shrugged.

"Saa, who knows?" Fuji spoke, eyeing the beauty before noticing the open cell phone, It's battery was close to its end, he picked it up and found her number, he memorized it easily since most of the numbers were repeated and added it to his own cell.

Inui took note of this and silently wrote on his notebook. Tezuka also saw this, much to his never before (and never will be) seen amusement. They sat down after a small fight, ended by Tezuka's, Fuji's and Inui's threats, around the little princess who was still sound asleep despite all the noise they had made.

"How about we poke her?" Momo suggested

"Do you want to get beaten up again baka?" Kaidoh scowled

"What did you call me?"

"You heard me!" And so fight number fifty-eight for this week ensued, only to be later diffused by Oishi

"Nya~, we should wake her up now" Eiji commented, tilting his seat back, as far as he could before getting a lecture from Oishi about tilting chairs and their dangers

Unbeknownst to the group surrounding the girl, that she was undergoing a change. A change that would soon terrify and scare their pants off for the rest of the week, only some of them would know what it was, the others would stay oblivious till they got married, or a girlfriend.

Ryoma's golden eyes flashed open, it was still 4:30 in the morning but she could feel something different about her environment. She was immediately irritated by the suddenly silent group around her, which had been just as surprised as her when she opened her eyes with an immediate scowl, expecting the worst immediately.

Eiji fell off of his chair, grabbing Momo down with him. Kaidoh, let go of Karupin, who hissed as he fell on the couch near her masters pale slim legs. Inui's notebook dropped to the floor. Something that had never happened before since Inui and his notebook were never separated, Oishi took a step back, remembering the horrible moments of the day before yesterday.

"What are you doing here?" She growled, slowly rising from her sleep. The group, except Tezuka, Fuji and Kawamaru stepped back.

"Wah! Demon Ochibi!" Eiji yelled, running behind Oishi as the rest hid behind Kaidoh.

Said, demon, positioned her body so that her feet hovered over the floor, Karupin jumped to Kawamaru instead, smelling fish all over the boy. Echizen's, cat-like golden eyes widened in realization, though the men who were already scared of her took another step back, now very close to the wall as they saw her eyes widen, all fearing for their lives.

Fuji watched with curiosity and amusement at the scene that had unfolded in front of them. It was hard to scare Inui and Kaidoh. Though he could definitely do it easily with a few words (pictures), it was different since she had just met them two days ago.

Ryoma on the other hand, was feeling strange, something was….different, it made her feel thankful that she was wearing silk pajama's that wouldn't stain no matter what….Oh shoot. She ran for the bathroom, startling the group, as all they saw was a blur. She closed the door and checked….

A loud piercing scream echoed through the room, scaring the boys even more. The group ran to the door (despite their instincts), Fuji got there first and he started to bang the door. The door was immediately locked.

"D-don't come in!" Her voice was shaky though. Something unlike very unlike her.

"Echizen-san! What's wrong?" Oishi asked worriedly

"C…call Obaa-san!" She demanded not answering the question. Those who had sisters and those who didn't skip science class so often had placed two and two together and easily got to four.

Those who reached four, went to the telephone and called Ryuuzaki—sensei, telling the sleepy woman about the "situation". Suddenly understanding the younger girls anger. They had been through it before and knew what to do. Stay away and keep quiet.

"Echizen-san, what do you want to eat for breakfast?" Oishi asked as he racked the cabinets, finding ingredients here and there.

"Ponta" was her muffled reply from the other side. Calming down a little as she was told that her godmother was on her way by Inui

"Eh? That's what you eat for breakfast Echizen?" Momo asked in horror from the couch.

"I could make everyone some breakfast" Oishi suggested "There's enough here, is that ok with you Echizen-san?" He asked politely

"Yeah!" Was Momo's quick reply

"Nya~! Do it Oishi!" Eiji yelled after

"Baka!" Kaidoh scolded as he and Kawamaru started looking for Karupin's food, understanding the cat's needs

"It's fine" Was her quick reply

Inui slowly assessed the room; it was a big, sorry mess. It was clean the last time he was here but now it was just a mess, pillows were everywhere, a few books were scattered here and there, though the book that stood out the most was the only one about tennis, flowers and flower petals were scattered her and there and cat marks were clearly on the ground.

Fuji also noticed the change. Wondering silently on what could have happened as they sat around the couch again as they were all afraid of the couch now. Eiji on the other hand had amused himself at looking through the little princess's text messages. Leaning back yet again.

Tezuka had picked up the very book Inui was eyeing. It was a book about doubles. Strange, did the girl play doubles as well, he'd have to find out, he then looked to the bookshelf which was clearly far from her reach, now wondering how she could get books from the high place.

"Shoot! I hate being a girl!" was one of Echizen's many cursed sentences as she continued whatever she was doing in the bathroom. Those outside just sweat dropped as she continued

Something was weird though, they could hear some familiar ticking sounds, like…a bomb or something, yet the group couldn't find where the ticking sounds came from.. they ignored this as they kept pestering Oishi as he cooked along side Kawamaru. While Kaidoh was feeding Karupin fish at the corner quietly playing with the cat as well.

"Am I the only one who can hear those ticking sounds?" Momo asked skeptically.

"No, I can hear it too" Inui spoke, looking left and right for something he could use against Echizen

"Look at me Oishi!" Eiji suddenly exclaimed, ignoring the previous conversation as he did a hand-stand while the chair was tilted forward. He had his usual goofy grin on his face as he showed off.

He fell. It wasn't because his hand was tired or anything, quiet the complete opposite really. Poor Eiji fell because the door slammed open, gravity taking the chair back down alongside with the forgotten alarm clocks ringing with a domino effect.

Oishi ran to hid doubles partner, forgetting the pancakes and the high temperature he had left it on as he started fussing over him, asking for a first aid kit which Echizen threw (harshly) at Momo, pushing him off his chair before locking herself back in the bathroom. Kawamaru, noticing the pancakes, left the rice with the water running, over filling the pot.

Upon all this chaos, all I can say as I narrator is that they had to order Take-out in the end.

Ryuuzaki, ignoring all the chaos that ensued as she arrived, went to the bathroom and entered, never to be seen till 20 minutes later, shaking her head. Inui had ordered take out enough for all 10 of them, was hesitant to ask to confirm his statistics of what happened. Thankfully he was silenced by a glare.

"Our little Ryoma is growing up" She sighed, sitting on the couch.

"Do we want to know?Nya~? " A bandaged and sulking Eiji asked.

"Nope"

The entire team sighed. Girls were weird. Ryuuzaki looked around the room, sighing once again, this must be the result of the cell phone search. Damn. It was 5 now.

Inui, along with Fuji, had found some perfect blackmail material. They had found, not only an album with her pictures on it, but a camera with a picture of her with Momo, in a restaurant, eating burgers and another picture of their sweaty bodies back to back, drinking from their canned ponta's with scowls on their faces. It looked so much like a date (gone wrong). Unfortunately for Inui, Fuji had "accidentally" dropped and stepped on the memory card.

He himself didn't know what had possessed him to do that, except for the strange anger he was suddenly feeling towards Momo.

I'AM SORRY IF THIS IS ANNOYING BUT I NEED EVERYONE TO READ THE AUTHORS NOTE PLEASE!

~AN HOUR LATER~

It wasn't that they were ignoring her. It was just that they were afraid for their lives and youth as she exuded a deadly aurora that chilled them to their bones. Whether it was because they were in her room without her permission or that she had just entered puberty they didn't know.

"Echizen, your in block D along with Kaidoh and Inui" Oishi announced from beside Tezuka and Ryuuzaki

She nodded stiffly.

"Alright, continue practice! Everybody 30 laps! Regulars 40!" Tezuka proclaimed only to have Inui suddenly appear beside the trio

"Those who are last get to try out my new drink" Inui chuckled, brining out a tall glass of a black tar looking liquid that bubbled and…was that drink shaking?

Ryoma being new, tilted her head really cutely with honest curiosity at the weird "drink" that Inui had taken from no where all of a sudden. She actually took a step closer to danger, red lights going on through everybody else's head as she poked the glass. Why she poked it? I have no idea. Though her poking it got the strangest reaction, the glass broke.

Yup, right then and there as she retreated her hand, the drink broke and spilled all over. Fuji was by her side in an instant, pulling her back as the black liquid (?) spilled over. Normally, he would have been happy to have the chance to test out one of Inui's drinks since they always had a very strange taste.

Now, Fuji just wanted to kill Inui for having had come close to have hurt his precious Ryoma's hand. Wait, precious? His? No time to linger about it now. He still had to glare at Inui. That, he did with gusto.

"Inui!" The rest shouted with horror as the black liquid moved (?) on Inui's face. Was it alive or something? The regulars immediately surrounded Inui, quarantining the boy with worry. Even Ryoma was left out.

Her loud-mouthed seatmate approached her with two others.

"Wah! Echizen-san! Are you alright?" One of his seatmate's glasses wearing friend asked.

"Yeah, I am fine really" She responded.

"Amazing! You've actually joined the ranking tournaments! Only third years and second years were allowed before!" Another exclaimed

"I could have easily joined the ranking tournaments as well! I have two years of tennis experience!" Her loud-mouthed seatmate yelled. His friends shushed him immediately. She rolled her eyes as the regulars continued to watch over Inui and his strange drink.

"Echizen-san, do you want to eat lunch with us later as well? Sakuno-san and Tomoka-san will join us later too" Glasses wearing boy asked.

She flashed them a quick smile, despite her sudden mood swings. She didn't really answer their question, but she reminded the rest of the tennis club that they still had laps to run when she started running all around them in a blur… Sure she was tired, but it was worth the price to stop her godmother's blackmailing ways... For now…

Unbeknownst to her, she was being watched closely by three people. One had sapphire eyes that were half open, another were deep brown chocolate eyes. The last came from her very own godmother's. Yup. She had gotten the attention of some pretty dangerous people…

PLEASE READ THE AUTHORS NOTE: There is one on top and one below

Author's note: The longest chapter so far! Sort of disappointed that the last chapter only got 2 reviews but…hopefully enough, this chapter will get more! Ok, now I am not so sure If I should continue with Fuji as the couple pair. So….the poll is up! Please send your vote in a review. Any pair is welcome, AND ….you can vote as many times as you want. Please do vote! I can pair Ryoma with any guy in the series so…..oh and…PLEASE REVIEW TOO!