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Khem...anyway enjoy this chapter
And I decided to put the thoughts in italics, since it'll be easier to understand that way.
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis
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''Tick...tock...tick...tock...tick...tock...tick...tock...''
Midori tapped her pencil impatiently as she watched the clock tick. It was going too slow. Someone had tampered with the batteries so that she would have to sit here, and stare at the dammed clock.
It was home-room and they were talking about things that didn't interest her at all. Actually they did, in a way that she hoped that nothing would be assigned to her.
Class representative? - definitely not. She sighed in relief as the boy next to her took this position. 'Thank god,'. Midori didn't like Tezuka. Respect? Yes. Like? Never. She had the constant fear that during this last year he might be a bad influence on her. It was a small probability that something like that might happen, but still...you never know right? Her bad habits might come back, if she gets used to the model-students besides and in front of her.
Deciding to drop the topic, not wanting to dwell on unpleasant memories, Midori scanned the classroom once again, for probably the tenth time during the whole lesson. Haru was trying to stay awake, fearing the teacher might punish her for sleeping again, while Tama and Sakura were still having a note-conversation. 'Lucky them' she thought and went on to stare at the female teacher standing in the front. Black hair pulled up in a bun and sharp brown eyes. 'Too ordinary' was the best comment Midori could come up with as she was watching the teacher. 'I actually prefer the previous one, since he was kind of funny.' She sighed and glanced up to look at the clock. 10 minutes have passed.
'Arghhh...' she mentally grumbled and almost fell face-down on her desk. 'If only I could send Tama, or someone a note telling them to kill me.' sending a note was impossible, since not one person near her would actually send it forward.
''Hoshiwa-san?'' a loud female voice called out. She stood up straight and immediately cursed her old habit, ''Yes?''
''Would you mind taking the vice-representatives place?''
Midori blinked, then blinked again. She gathered her strength and asked back. ''Why me?''
The teacher looked at her with a disapproving face ''Well you are sitting near Tezuka-san and you did have pretty good marks last semester at the finishing examinations.''
''Well Oishi-san'' she pointed in front of her ''has good marks too and he's friends with Tezuka.''
''Oishi-kun is in the tennis club, and you are in no clubs at all.'' 'Then why make Tezuka the representative if he's the captain of his club?' Midori wondered in her mind.
''I have out of school activities and a part-time job, both of which my guardian has approved.''
''Yes, and your guardian is your brother, with a bad attitude towards this school, so I don''t see him as a good enough reason to not take part in school activities. What are your out of school activities anyway?''
Midori clenched her teeth, slowly getting more and more pissed off at the teacher who actually dared to insult her brother. The one part of her mind, which was taught to respect elders, took a big step back.
''I have no obligation to answer that.'' she shot back without a hint of respect.
''Umm...sensei?'' the boy in front of her raised his hand, ''if Hoshiwa-san doesn't want to take it, then I'll be the vice-representative.''
The teacher sighed in defeat. ''All right, sit down Hoshiwa.''
The brunette sat down, mildly glaring at the teacher in front. At one point she remembered who saved her from getting into a fight with the teacher. ''Thank you.'' she mumbled quietly, quite sure that the boy in front of her heard it. He just nodded and shrugged, saying that it was no problem at all.
Happy that she had such a nice classmate Midori looked on her right, to find Tezuka staring at her. Knowing what this stare meant she just shrugged and turned her head to glance out of the window.
-**-During 1st year (1 month before the finishing examinations of the 1st year)-**-
During mathematics Midori never wrote anything down, well not at least during the first year. Her old school was math based, so she already knew the stuff they were teaching here, so far at least. The brunette had a pen in her hand, so that she wouldn't look too rebellious and from time to time drew a circle in her notebook, so that it would seem that she was writing something. After finishing the 27th circle she glanced up to examione what the teacher had written. As she noticed the mistake her hand shot up automatically, without thinking. The other hand, which was raised shortly after hers woke her up.
''Yes Tezuka-kun?'' the teacher asked, only later noticing that Hoshiwas hand was raised as well.
''You've made a mistake in the equation, in the third row it's 3x2+4-5*9x0 , not 2x2+4-5*6x0.'' the boy with glasses pointed out.
''Ahh you're right.'' he quickly corrected the mistake and then turned back to see that Hoshiwas hand was already lowered. ''Did you want something Hoshiwa-kun?''
''Ahh...never mind.'' she mumbled and continued drawing circles in her notes.
''All right.'' so the lesson went on. Midori was mentally sulking, because she wanted to make the correction, like she usually did, but if she had, people would have thought that she's as smart as Tezuka-san. ''Bleh'' she crossed the circle, unhappy with how it turned out, until a note fell on her desk. As she looked sideways and saw that it was Haru who threw it as she waved and smiled at her. Opening the note she saw a scribble which could be deciphered as ''I never knew you were good at math!''
''It was just a simple mistake'' came my reply
''But you raised your hand before Tezuka, THE TEZUKA. That is something.'' was what Haru wrote, but I just waved it away, realizing that I had nothing to add.
*A few days later Midori was called in by her teacher*
Midori POV
''Hoshiwa if you were a bit more motivated to work you could achieve great results!'' the teacher once again started his lecture on my unwillingness to study seriously. I sighed.
''Hoshiwa-kun,''he started again, ''Do you realize that since your marks so far have been so bad you can only afford to get the best results in the finishing tests?''
She frowned at the teacher wishing he'd just let her go home, ''Yes I know.''
''You need to actually start filling in the whole test, not just the hardest questions! Especially in English and math! You need to get more serious about studying. You have a bright mind Hoshiwa. Don't let it go to waste'' he excused her telling her that she's free to go and that she'd better study for the upcoming tests.
'More serious is what I do not want to become.' I thought to myself as I sat down on the roof and felt the easy breeze cool me down a bit. It was so damned hot, that I couldn't stand it anymore. After a while a sound came, that indicated that the doors had been opened, so I looked to see who had come. Tezuka Kunimitsu. And I shut my eyes in response. He's the all serious type which I've tried to evade since I entered this school. I guess the fear of becoming like that once again got the best of me. He was, like I once was, always on top. The best in school-work, sport, respected and obviously a model student with a socialising problems. Maybe he just didn't want to talk to people. Or didn't care about it much. Yet he had so many friends. I really envied him.
I frowned when he called out my name. Forced to re-open my eyes I stared into his brown eyes hid behind glasses. Suddenly an urge for chocolate developed.
''What?'' I answered with an impatient voice, hoping he'd go away.
''Why don't you even try?'' a monotone question came, revealing no emotions, just like it's owners face.
''Try what?'', 'Damn, he probably heard the teacher talking to me.'
''Anything, you are in no clubs and your grades are mostly poor, because you don't bother to lift them any higher.''
''Why should the answer to that question interest you in the least? Or be any of you business for that matter.''
The boy just nodded and left. A bit annoyed with myself I closed my eyes again. ''Why don't you even try?''
'Why should I? I'd become a genius in everybody's eyes and be forever condemned, well at least forever during high-school, as a girl who has school and my club above everything else. I don't want to be like that. I want to enjoy my life. Is that a bad thing?'
Disgusted with myself as I felt the tears fighting trough my eyelids I withdrew from thinking and decided to head home.
''I have tried'' I finally decided to answer, but to thin air, as Tezuka had already left, ''I did'' and stood up. ''But I didn't like the results. Not in the least. I don't want to become lifeless.'' Fighting the memories she let out a sigh, a heavy one and didn't notice, the boy who was still standing in the doorway, during her answer, leave.
The following day
Back to normal POV
Mentally cursing herself for getting up earlier than needed she walked slowly towards school. She had come waaay to early, but why not take a nice walk around her scool? It was February so the walk wasn't as cold as it could be. As she got as far as the school gates she noticed one of her classmates. He looked at her and came to talk to her. 'Aww...not this again. Ready for listening to another lecture about lerning she stubbornly looked into the brown eyes hiding behind oval glasses.
''Good morning.''
''Good morning.''
''…''
''...''
''Was fun chatting with you, but I think I'll go inside now.''
Before the girl could escape he simply said ''A dare.''
''Huh?'' It stopped her, but she couldn't believe who those word were coming from. ''A dare?''
''Yes''
She gulped. Is this Fuji in disguise? ''What...kind...of a...dare?''
''If you get better marks than me in the final examinations then I''ll ask the teacher to leave you be, if not you'll have to join a club,'' he explained easily.
The girl just bored her green eyes in his brown ones, hoping to leave a hole there. ''And if I get worse marks than you, but refuse to join any club?''
His silent stare said it all.
After she had said yes she immediately blamed two things: her stupid pride and the fact that she was mildly afraid of Tezuka.
She cursed him. Several times a minute as she was sitting in her first lesson.
''Midori?'' came a quiet voice from her left.''
She looked in that direction to see Haru watching her, cautiously. ''Hmm?''
''Why do you look like you're about to kill someone?''
''Because I'm going to have to beat the best student in academics in a month, and my history stinks.''
Haru stared at her, unsure of her hearing, ''You want to beat Tezuka-san in the exams?''
Midori nodded absently as she glared at the main culprits back, as he was sitting just few desks ahead on the right side. Writing down what the teacher was saying as diligently as always. As always. Midori sighed and started to do the same, since under no circumstances will she join a club. Never!
After class.
''Ne Tezuka, did you do something to Hoshiwa-chan?''
As Fuji had sneaked up from behind, Tezuka merely twitched and turned his head. ''What do you mean?''
''Well she was glaring at you for full 10 minutes during the lesson.''
The boy with glases sighed ''She should find better things to do during a lesson.'' and turned to head to practice.
''That didn't answer my question.'' The brunette continued while following his friend to the courts.
Silence greeted him, as he became no reply. Finally as they reached the courts he answered ''You will see in a month.'' and turned to the lockers, leaving a puzzled Fuji behind.
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