A/N: Yo minna-san~! Enjoy this story, ne? and thanks for the comments(PS: still in authors POV)
And btw, Kazuki-kun is Sayuri's brother but is the coach of the National tennis team, he's going to appear in some parts, interrupt some things, etc. I never mentioned him before cuz' he's a side chara. And I ran outta idea's in the previous chapter so…yeah
P.S: this might be a long chapter…
"Onii-chan!" Sayuri screamed and pointed a finger at him
"Ehhhh!" Everyone gasped.
"Eh…." Kazuki blinked. Everyone's eyes were wide open and their mouths were dropped.
...
Kazuki became teary eyed. "My beloved Imouto-chan~" He cried and reached to hug her but she stepped aside, and he ended up hugging dirt, "Why do you always refuse to hug me~? My sweet imouto-chan~" he cried like a three-year old.
"This is our new coach?" Kirihara asked.
"U-un, he has some issues, but he's the coach of the National Japan Tennis Team, did you know that?" the other coach said. (I just made that up…but I'm not sure if there is one like that -_-)
"If you don't stop and act like an adult, I'm going to tear up a picture of you and me in my wallet." She threatened him. He wiped his tears and stood up.
"Okay, fine. Everyone, be prepared to have a whole lot of hell tomorrow…." He said with an evil smile. Everyone felt chills down their spine. `The Harugane siblings are a pair to fear of!' everyone thought.
"Sa-chan~ where are you staying right now? Ah, are you staying at Misaki's place? She's really nice and kind." He said with a grin. "Un, she's kind, I'm also living with Haru-chan over there, the brother of Misaki-san." Sayuri pointed at Niou who was talking with Sanada. "Ah, Masaharu huh? He's a trickster so don't stay too close to him okay?" he said.
They talked for a little bit and went home, well for Sayuri and Niou that is. Kazuki had something to do so he went off somewhere, but he'll be back tomorrow.
They walked home together and did their usual stuff.
Sayuri's phone rang, the song "Papermoon by tommy heavenly6(from Soul Eater, I'm listening to it right now.)" was heard in her room.
'Moshi-moshi?'
'Ah. Sayuri-chan. How's it going?'
'Good. You?'
'Just fine.'
'Wipe that smile off your face and get to the point.'
`Okay then, are you free next Saturday?'
`Yeah. Why?'
`Go on a date with me?'
`Hmm, sounds good to me.'
`Okay, so next Saturday 10:30am Ok? Ja ne. Oyasumi.'
click…beep beep beep.'
It took a while for Sayuri to get what they have conversed a while…
Sayuri dropped her phone and fainted on her bed.
(Tomorrow morning)
"Shimata! Haru-chan! Why didn't you wake me up!" She screamed at Niou.
"Don't worry, we won't be late for practice." Niou tried to calm her down.
They both ran to their school, "Niou, Harugane for being late, 20 laps around the court!" Sanada said.
"Mou…" Sayuri cursed silently. They finished their punishment and went on with their duties.
In the middle of their morning practice Kazuki called out to them.
"Minna-san! Gather up!" he said.
Everyone gathered around him and wondered why he asked them to gather up.
"The Kantou tournament is next week, actually 4 days away! As you all know." He said
Everyone nodded "So I made an arrangement for all of you to have a practice match against a school named…Seishun Gakuen." He said. Everybody's jaw dropped.
"Seigaku!" Everyone screamed, even Sayuri.
"Good to know that you know my cousin's team." Kazuki stated.
"Duh." Sayuri asked.
"Oh yeah. Okaa-san and Otou-san never told you. Since you're both 4th degree cousins, and our parents and his parents are like, best friends. They almost made an arranged marriage for you guys…" He whispered in her ear so no one can hear
Sayuri's jaw dropped…hard.
"Ehhhh!" She screamed and fell `dramatically' on the ground and fell unconscious.
Everyone had question marks on top of their heads because they don't know why Sayuri fell unconscious.
(I'm now lazy so I'm moving back to Sayuri's POV!)
When I woke up I saw the ground…wait, since when did the ground move?
I looked up and saw Kazuki carrying me. "Onii-chan…?" I tried to say.
"Ah, good you're awake." He said. Awake? I fell asleep?
"Ahh, my head hurts." I rubbed my head.
"Your fault for falling unconscious and falling head first."
"Ah! Practice-!" "It's over…since an hour ago…" Wow, I was knocked down good.
"Where are we going?" I asked
"Home, well the Niou's residence is more like it." He said
"Ahh, Where's Haru-chan?" I asked, wow I must've hit my head really hard, I feel a migraine coming up.
"He went to the arcade with Kirihara-san, so he asked if I can bring you home." He said in a caring tone.
"Arigatou, Nii-chan…" I whispered. I saw him smile, not a smirk, but a very sincere smile.
When we got home I asked if he can stay for dinner, he accepted. Niou's parents were more than glad to have him over. "Kazuki-kun please, I insist you stay for dinner. We haven't seen you in so many years!" Haruna-san(Niou's mom) said. "Well, if you insist." He said scratching the back of his head.
He stayed over for dinner and we went on with our lives…
Friday came and so it was the battles between Rikkai Dai and Seigaku!
"Ah! Eiji!" I said when I saw him.
"Ah! Sa-chan~! Hisashiburi!" He said (Hisashiburi means "long time no see" or something related to that phrase)
"Un. So, wanna bet on who's going to win today?" I asked.
"I bet we would win! Just like 3 years ago!" he exclaimed proudly.
"But that was the past and this is the present. Of course we have improved on our skills but 67 percent." Renji said out of nowhere.
"Ok, we get it Renji-kun, please go back to running your laps for now." I said while secretly sweat dropping
"The possibilities of you sweat dropping secretly…89 percent." Inui said behind Eiji with his cup of Inui juice, that thing was a mixture of green, yellow, orange, and red that refuses to blend with each other…I gulped at the site of the plastic cup filled with a probably deadly poison.
"You too Inui! Go back to whatever life form you came from!" Eiji said waving his arms up and down to make his point. That just made me sweat drop even more.
"Eiji-kun, whoever wins for today, we're still gonna be best friends right?" I asked, because I was scared. If he lost he might be sad and never want to talk to me again. I don't want to lose an important friend.
"What are you saying? Of course we'll stay best friends!" He said and glomped me.
I smiled at him sweetly, he just grinned a toothy grin back.
"Kikumraru! We need to warm up! Come here." Tezuka said.
"Sayuri-kun, I need to discuss something with you." Seiichi said.
"Hai~" Eiji and I said in unison. We went to our coaches to warm-up(Eiji) and to discuss a plan strategy (Sayuri)
(I'm too much of a lazy ass so I'm just gonna announce who's gonna win)
Doubles 2 came first, it was a Kaido-Momoshiro pair vs. Niou-Yagyuu pair.
Niou-Yagyuu pair won by 4-6, they were dead beat. And it looked like they just showered with sweat.
Doubles 1 was Kikumaru-Oishi pair vs. Marui-Jackal pair.
Kikumaru-Oishi won by 7-6 (they reached tie-breaker) and when they got to the bench, Eiji collapsed.
Singles 3 were Echizen vs. Kirihara.
Ryoma won by 7-5 and Kirihara almost went into super bloodshot mode (I forgot what it's called. Ahh, memory gap.)
Singles 2 were Fuji vs. Sanada.
Fuji had to forfeit because in the middle of the match his sprained ankle suddenly hurt because he dove to hit the shot. So Sanada won by forfeit. Fuji's ankle was sprained since the day before because Tezuka made him run 250 laps for showing the whole group a picture of…never mind
Finally singles 1 Tezuka vs. Yukimura (Kyaa~)
It was a tie since at the tie-breaker Tezuka Suddenly collapsed(Gomen, Tezuka fangirls) and Yukimura's sister ran to them and whispered something in his ear, then they ran-off somewhere. Must've been something important, or about family
So it was a game of 2-2 and a tie. No one wins for today.
"Nya~ Sa-chan since we're a tie, why don't we have a match between the Managers?" Eiji asked.
"Wh-what?" I asked
"You know, a match against managers, you against Inui. Nya~" He said glomping Ryoma.
"B-But…"
"No Buts! We want to have a winning match! Nya~!" He screamed.
"As if Sayuri will be beaten by Inui." Kirihara stated.
"Inui won't be beaten by a girl." Ryoma muttered.
"Oh, so you think I'm going to lose just because I'm a girl?" I asked
"Yeah, pretty much." Ryoma said. Ugh! I wanna punch that kid right in the face!
"Okay, you're on. If I win you'll have to treat every regular to the nearby burger shop. And I mean every regular." I said with an evil smirk
"And if I win, the Seigaku regulars will command you 1 thing, that's anything as long as you can do it, receive it, etc" He said
"The chances of me winning…83 percent." Inui said
"The chances of Sayuri winning…100 percent." Renji said with a business smile
We both got into position and started the game.
It went on smooth so I'll just have to win this 6-4, I sighed. Well. It's smooth so what can I do?
I got into position and waited for him to serve….
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ (I got tired of being lazy, so I'll do a mtach. Just find a *~* in somepart of the bottom)
He served a slow serve that a beginner could hit. So he thinks I'm weak!
I got the better of him and hit the ball with 30 percent of my strength, my friend (vice captain of the tennis club in Hyoutei) always told me to go easy on things and never go on "full-power" mode, or else there would be lots of black smudges on the court.
Since I hit it with 30 percent of power, which was more than the usual, he almost couldn't hit it.
He returned it with a lob since it was too much for him. And he said he would win this…jack-ass…
on the 6th hit of the ball, I forgot that I was supposed to go smooth on him, so I let him lob it while I was at the net, so when it went behind me I just stared at it, looking oblivious to what happened.
15-Love
I'll have to get serious on the 5th game.
So I let all the high lobs get passed me and the fast (for Inui but slow for Sayuri) ones get past her.
Finally it was a game of 4-0 so it was time for her to get serious.
He hit with a normal serve, so I hit it with 50 percent of my power and made a small smudge on the white line behind his back.
"what the-!" Momo exclaimed, surprised at the sudden strength.
I continued to use 50 percent of my power until it was 6-5, I was getting bored so I used the Meikyuu Butterfly. (I just thought of that right now, and yes I know. It's a song my Nana Mizuki or May'n)
I'll explain….or show you how it's done.
Inui hit it with a heavy return and he thought she coudnt hit it, but for her, it was actually a normal return.
She hit it with a lob so he stepped back, when it reached up in the air, he looked at the sun so it blinded him a little. When he finally looked down, he saw her smirk happily, he wondered why, and that's when he noticed that the ball was right in front of the net.
"A lob-drop!" the freshmen trio screamed.
"No, it's called Meikyuu Butterfly." I corrected them
"Kakoii! Just like the regulars, she has her own moves too!" Kachirou said.
(it will be in the Authors POV ok?)
The game went on with the Meikyuu butterfly winning every point, because it was hard to tell if it was a real lob or a fake one.
So in the end she only showed him ONE of her 15 moves. And she won 4-6.
Everyone was shocked because a girl can beat a regular, they both went to the net and shook hands.
If you compare their state right now it would be…
"Inui! Don't take out your stress on us by giving us Inui Juice!" That would be Seigaku
"Ahhh! I'm so hungry! Hey guys~. Do you have any food? Or anything edible?" Sayuri asked, everyone sweat dropped at the scene.
So, Rikkai Dai won in a 3-2 match. The Seigaku regulars went home, along with the following stalkers(fan girls) who followed them all the way here.
The next 2 days Yukimura was absent for no reason, the school said it was a family problem that had to be taken care of and he'll be absent until Thursday.
Friday came and Yukimura came back. Whenever someone would ask why he was absent, he would smile creepily and change the subject…they had to endure it for the whole day.
~-Fast forward to Saturday, 9:30am-~
Sayuri opened my eyes and saw that it was morning already.
She looked at my vibrating phone and saw a text message.
`Ohayo Sa-chan,
I was wondering if you're free next Saturday. I can't today, I because I want to watch the match between Rikkai Dai and Hyoutei. Kyaa~ I wonder which one will win? I hope it's Rikkai! Well, see ya there!
-Yumi'
She laughed softly when she read her text, because Sayuri never knew she was a fangirl…sorta.
Sayuri got ready and went with Niou to a café they were supposed to meet.
"Since we're all here, why don't we eat breakfast?" Yukimura asked.
Everyone agreed and ordered their breakfast, which was mostly energy food. Sayuri and Yukimura got blueberry pancakes, Niou, Kirihara, Marui and Jackal got Chocolate pancakes, with chocolate syrup. Sanada just got normal flavorless pancakes with syrup.
The tournament is only half an hour away so they decided to get there early.
When they got there they saw Hyoutei sitting outside a café.
The regulars were eating, Atobe was just drinking coffee looking at some piece of paper.
The Rikkai Dai regulars gave their registration form to the guy at the desk and went to some benches.
"So, what do you wanna do while we wait?" Sayuri asked the regulars.
"Sleep." Niou, Jackal, and Kirihara said.
"Eat." Marui said
"Warm-up." Sanada suggested
"Sit down and do random things?" Yukimura asked.
"That's good. Does everybody have an ipod?" She asked.
Everyone nodded except for Jackal, "My ipod's broken." He stated.
"Oh, hmm, then what do you wanna do?" she asked.
"Why don't we go to that nearby café and sleep." He suggested.
"Any objections?" Sayuri asked, everyone was silent so they decided to go to the café, sit on the couch. And fall asleep.
Sanada, Niou, Jackal and Yukimura went to the café. Sayuri, Kirihara, and Marui went to a nearby sakura tree and slept there. When it was 10 minutes before their game started, Sayuri woke up and looked at her wrist watch.
"Shimata!" she exclaimed when she saw the time. She quickly woke Kirihara and Marui and went to the café the other regulars were in.
There, they saw the other regulars stretching and a very irritated man in front of them.
"Seiichi! Sanada! Niou! Jackal! We have exactly 10 minutes before our games start!" She screamed and dragged all 8 regulars to the courts.
"Okay, I want all of you to do as many laps as you can in 10 minutes. If you don't take this seriously I'll be putting more things in your training menu next week!" she screamed. They all ran around 45 laps for 10 minutes. She wasn't shocked at all…
"Okay, so let's go. Doubles one get ready. The rest, go to the benches." She ordered
Everyone did as they were told. While they were waiting at the benches, Sayuri went somewhere to do some things.
Somewhere near the vending machines…
"Gambatta ne. but I'll still be rooting for my school, so you have to do your best, ne?" Sayuri said.
"Can't I get a small kiss before I start?" Oshitari asked.
"You do know that we're not together. Right?" she asked, fiddling with her skirt.
"It's not like you're going out with someone, right?" he purred.
"…" she sighed, no use arguing with Oshitari now. She gave him a quick peck on the cheek and said her goodlucks to the Hyoutei tennis team.
Back to the Rikkai Dai regulars…
"Yo. I'm back." Sayuri said
"Yo. Where did you go?" Niou asked
"Got you some drinks." It wasn't exactly a lie, she did meet them near the vending machines…
She threw Niou and Yagyuu a can of soda and went to sit on the coach's bench.
(I will be skipping the matches once again XP)
Niou and Yagyuu lost against Shishido and Ootori, by 5-7…(I'm so sorry, I just really like Shishido and Ootori is so kawai! XD)
Doubles 1 were Jackal-Marui pair against Oshitari-Gakuto pair.
Fortunately, Jackal and Marui won and Gakuto whined…really loudly.
Singles three were Renji vs. Jirou, Of course, as a one of the demon's of Rikkai Dai, Renji won against Jirou.
Singles two, Sanada vs. Kabaji. Their strengths weren't that far from each other, but Sanada was still more powerful and had more skill, that was incredibly hard for Kabaji to copy. So he started getting slower when Sanada was leading on a 5-3 game. But it ended with a 6-3 game with Sanada winning.
Singles one was the hardest to predict, since it was King vs. Demigod/Child of God. (Many people use those terms…but I'm not sure on which to use so I used both)
Since the game was now leading with a 3-1 game, there was no use winning, but Atobe really gave it his all but still lost, because Seiichi was in a bad mood ever since he came back to school.
Since Seiichi was in a bad mood, he wanted to end the game sooner. Which ended up as Hyoutei's Atobe Keigo losing in a 6-0 match.
"Seiichi! What's up with you? You seem more… sadistic than usual. Well, never mind that! Everybody, it's time to celebrate because we won this match! our next match would be after lunch so it would be better if we eat now."Sayuri said.
Everyone agreed and went to a burger shop not too far from the tennis courts.
There, they saw the Seigaku regulars and a girl. She looked awfully familiar to Sayuri, like she used to be her playmate or something.
They took a seat right behind Seigaku regulars and they greeted each other.
"S-S-Sayu-chan…?" The girl said.
"…A-Ai…!" She screamed
"Sayu-chan!" She squeaked and hugged Sayuri to death (not literally)
"Oh my God! Where have you been? Ever since you disappeared from the neighborhood I've been worried sick! Do you know how lonely and painful it is living with that mole diva!" She exclaimed
"You still didn't check your e-mail…did you?" Sayuri asked when she finally got her breathe back.
"Eh, you know I barely use the computer." Ai stated
"W-Well, check your inbox later, it will explain everything." She sweat dropped while smiling
"Okay… Oh yeah! Have you met the Seigaku regulars?" She asked
"Yeah. And one happens to be my cousin. Right, 'Mitsu?" Sayuri asked looking at Tezuka
He just looked back and said "Hn" and went back to eating his burger.
"Waaah, sugoi! Buchou were cousins with Sa-chan!" Eiji exclaimed
"Un, Ai-chan, do you know the Rikkai regulars?" Sayuri asked Ai.
"Nope, mind introducing them?"She said
"Okay, this is…" She introduced each and every member of the Rikkai Dai boys' tennis club.
"Okay, I'm getting hungry, Ja ne." Sayuri said
They went back to their tennis team and ate their lunch…loudly
When both teams were done, they decided to eat dessert together in a café.
"Inui, you still owe both teams a free lunch, so I'm changing it to be a dessert treat from Inui!" Sayuri declared but added "And Echizen will also pay for it. So today's dessert is on Inui and Echizen's treat!"
Everyone cheered except for Ryoma and Inui.
They ate their desert…which looked like a buffet because of the amount Momo, Eiji, Niou, and Marui took.
Somehow Sayuri felt a little bad for making them both pay, but it was their fault for underestimating girls.
After their…dessert buffet, they went back to their respective courts to play on.
Now, it was Rikkai Dai against a random school/unseeded school (Haha, I remember when Horio said that outloud in front of Tachibana)
When they won all the games by 6-0 they proceeded to the prefectionals (Sorry, I think it was regionals, then prefectionals then the Nationals… Correct me if I'm wrong)
So they went back to their school to do last minute training before they would rest for 3 days. (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday…their gonna rest for those days)
So after their training, they went to the clubroom to shower and change.
When it seemed like everyone left already, Sayuri put on her ipod and listened to Urgairi no Yuuyake(Opening of Durarara, by theatre brook)
She put it on a loud volume and closed her eyes.
She got her clothes from her locker and went in one of the cubicles where you need to shower. She needed to shower and change since the Niou family were going to eat out and they insisted that Sayuri was now their family so she has to go with them.
She showered and went to another cubicle to change into her plaid black miniskirt and long-sleeved white fluffy blouse. She was closing her eyes the whole time while listening to music and when she put her skirt on she had to lean back because the skirt had short-shorts under it. When she leaned back, she felt something warm press against her back. She looked back to see Seiichi with pants on but no t-shirt, closed eyes and a thousand shades of red painted on his cheeks…and well, his whole face was red.
She quickly put on her shirt and ran out of the cubicle, blushing madly.
`Oh God, thank Kami-sama that I was wearing underwear when I went in there!' she thought
`Ahh, good thing she found out, people with their ipods today, but I have to admit, she was pretty cute when she went in.' Seiichi smiled to himself and got fully dressed.
When he exited the cubicle he was surprised to see a madly blushing Sayuri with the back of her hand to her mouth.
"G-G-Gomen…asai" She muttered
"Iie, I should have tapped you, but I tried calling your name three times already, so I just went with closing my eyes." He said.
"Umm, to make it up for you…" She said
"What?" Seiichi asked
"What do you want me to do to make it up for you…?" She muttered still blushing
He decided to tease her and joke around, but what he didn't know that Sayuri was a very serious person, but her some of her friends are an exception.
"How 'bout a hug and a kiss?" He asked, joking and didn't expect her to…
Sayuri hugged him on the neck and kiss him on the cheek, still blushing madly.
Seiichi's eyes were wide and he hugged her back for a little while.
"Just so you know, I don't like owing people much." She whispered.
He just smiled and let go.
When they both pulled away, they went on with whatever they were doing and went home.
After that "event" they could barely get some shut-eye the whole night.
`What was that feeling when I saw him half naked…?'
`What was that feeling when I saw her half naked…?'
And their thoughts wouldn't stop thinking about each other.
Every time they closed their eyes, apparently they would see an image of each other half naked.
please read the Author's note part 2 for incredibly incredibly honto ni important reminders!
a/n : Gomen! It took me longer than usual to upload chapters! My laptop time has been cut down to 3 days a week…THREE DAYS! So it took me a while. So, do you like it? Hate it? Love it? Just tell me,
Sorry, I'm evil and twisted in my own little ways –chuckles-
Sayuri: L-L-L-Lead-san! Why did you have to type that! –blushes mady-
Seiichi: why not? It was rather fun acting this one.
Lead: Gomen ne, Seiichi-kun. I made you OOC here…sorta. Andyway