Author's note: Chapter 5, well finally something about tennis! And it's now a little boring, 'cause Tomoyo looks perfect and all, but it will become a lot interesting, if I gonna reveal why that is like that. Enjoy!

Old Treasures – Chapter 5, A feather on the court?

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"Saa, let's go too then. Echizen-san." Fuji said.
"Hai –desu." Was the respond.

"Wait! Tomoyo-chan!" Ryuzaki-sensei called her.

"Hai? Sumire-sama?" Tomoyo turned around.

"Make sure you come OK?"

"Of course" Was the smiling reply.

So the 3 seniors left and the coach watching them leave.

"Saa, Tomoyo-chan. Can you take care of these tennis players?" And the coach leaved.

After School at the Tennis Courts.

"Where is Onee-san?" Ryoma was looking around worriedly.

"Saa, are we worried about a sister?" Fuji asked him.

"Tch" was the answer.

"Gomenasai!" Tomoyo was running up the guys with her tennis outfit on.

All the regulars were staring in awe of her beauty.

Tomoyo was apparently wearing a white skirt with tight, short, black, pants under it. She also wore a long black tank top that end by her waist. And she had white shoes and her long silk hair was in a ponytail with only a few locks that banged in front of her eyes along with her fringe bang. A long purple ribbon was holding her hair. At last she had a bag with her.

"I see you brought your rackets with you?" Tezuka asked.

"Hai –desu." Tomoyo replied.

"Well, then we have matches, to see if you're skilled." The coach said.

"Everyone warm up!" Tezuka said and went outside the court to talk to Ryuzaki-sensei.

Everyone entered the courts and warmed up till Tomoyo asked Ryoma something.

"Ryo-san, could you help me?"

"Ah, hai Onee-san with what?"

"You only have to stand there, I want to warm my springs up!" Tomoyo said.

Ryoma nodded and everyone was thinking what springs where for Tomoyo.

Ryoma stood there and waited. Then Tomoyo began running and she jumped over him with straight legs and when she landed she immediately took another jump and jumped backwards with straight legs over Ryoma.

"*sigh of satisfying*, Thank you ne? Ryo-san." Tomoyo smiled.

"So now you're ready?"

"Of course." Tomoyo winked.

Everyone was speechless. Tomoyo giggled at all those faces.

"Nyaa… you acrobatic play? Echizen-san??" Eiji asked excited.

"I guess you could call it like that, I've done gymnastics for a while." Tomoyo answered.

Tezuka entered the court after talking to Ryuzaki-sensei.

"OK Line up!" Tezuka yelled.

The other members of the club entered the court too and Ryuzaki-sensei introduced Tomoyo. Tomoyo bowed and there was a small silence before the other club members except the onces who knew it yelled: "EEEEEEHHH?!?!?"

They were looking from the young lady to Ryoma and repeating that until Tomoyo said: "I'm his sister." She smiled and walked away to pick her bag up.

Tezuka waited till everyone was quiet and said: "Echizen-san is a world-class tennis player so she will be an assistant coach from now on for this tennis club.

Once again: " EEEEHHH??" Tomoyo walked up the court again and just smiled.

[members mumbling] "Assisant coach?" "A girl?" "Wow, she is hot and world-class?" A girl cannot lead us!" "She must be weak!"!" "Waahh, she is just sooo…*slobber*" " [members mubling]

Ryoma heard some of the last sentences and he was getting mad, although he hide it. He would definitely let those guys pay. Then he suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder, he looked after him and saw Tomoyo, she shook her head and gave him a 'it's-OK' look.

Ryuzaki-sensei was not finished and raised an eyebrow.: "And private regular nurse.."

After the tennis coach said that the mood completely changed.

[members shouting] "Waaahaa!" "Nurse? I want to be a regular." "What? Regulars are lucky again." "I will definitely get the regular place this time!" *slobber slobber* [members shouting]

When the members were practicing, the regulars were entering the courts to play matches. It was obvious that every regular wanted to play against Tomoyo.

"Nyaa.. Oishi, Oishi, I want to play against her!" Eiji really was excited.

"I think everybody does, ne minna?" Oishi responded and looked to everyone.

Everyone nodded. Fuji thought: 'I wonder how strong she is..'

Tezuka entered the court with Tomoyo following him. Tomoyo was sitting on the bench and then Ryuzaki-sensei entered the court and said: "Sorry, minna, but I only choose a few from you to play Tomoyo, 'cause we don't have much time before the district prelims."

"Nyaaa?? What?" Eiji was disappointed.

"That's a bummer, isn't it?" Momo found it not fair.

Tomoyo just smiled weakly. "No worries, if you want to play against me, just ask, I can find time."

The regulars nodded and Ryuzaki-sensei wanted talked further: " Ughum… where was I?"

"You were just to announce the ones I have to play against, Sumire-sama." Tomoyo laughed.

"Aaah, yes. Thank you, Tomoyo-chan." The coach laughed with her.

Some of the regulars were a little surprised how the two were with each other like friends.

"First, Tomoyo against Kikumaru!"

"Nyaa? Waaah!" Eiji glomped Tomoyo.

"Ahaha.. Ano? Kikumaru-sama, we are about to play match." Tomoyo petted Kikumaru on his arm so he would let go.

Kikumaru get of her and jumped up and down. "Waah, I am just excited."

"Hare hare, why thank you." Tomoyo walked to her side of the court.

She took out her racket which was simply pitch black. She and Eiji walked up to the net and shook hands.

"Momo! Could you be referee?" Ryuzaki-sensei asked.

Momo nodded and walked up the court and said on the referee chair. "Kikumaru – Echizen. One set match!"

Tomoyo and Eiji took their places and Momo announced: "Kikumaru serve!"

The match begun and it was just a normal match until Tomoyo hit a lob. Then it happened: "Kikumaru-beam!" Kikumaru hit it.

"He got her!" Oishi said.

"Mada mada dane." Ryoma said.

They turned at Ryoma. "Just watch." Ryoma said.

The ball bounced up and Tomoyo turned her whole body and jumped. She got the ball easily and hit it back with a speed.

"Nani? Nyaa??" Eiji was shocked, like everybody else when the ball bounced next to his feet. Tomoyo landed on her feet lightly and just giggled.

Fuji suddenly saw something interesting, "Tezuka?"

"Ah, Fuji?" Tezuka turned to Fuji, as well did the others.

"She is holding her racket in her left hand." Fuji said.

"That's nothing new, since Echizen is a lefty right?" Oishi said.

"But if I remember good, she was writing in class with her right hand." Fuji explained.

"So that means.." Inui was writing in his notebook.

"Onee-san is not even going the slightest all-out." Ryoma said.

"Whaa?" Taka-san and Oishi were shocked.

"And above that, she didn't really show anything special." Inui said.

"She is really strong so." Tezuka announced.

Kaido only added a 'Fushuu..'.

Back at the rally between Eiji and Tomoyo.

"Echizen 4-0 game!" Momo announced, still unclear about it.

Eiji was losing an huge amount of stamina, he was sweating like hell and panting, mean a while Tomoyo was still like she was when she started, she hadn't even show the slightest of panting.

"Nyaa.. this is sooo much fun, you are sure strong!" Eiji shouted.

That caused that some tennis club members turned around and saw them.

[spreading club, mumbling] "Kikumaru-senpai against Echizen's sister?" "What? She is winning 4-0 against senpai?" "No way!" "Let's go look!" [spreading club, mumbling]

In a split moment almost the whole club including the girls club surrounded the court where Tomoyo and Eiji were playing.

"Hare hare, Kikumaru-sama, we are getting attention here. –desuu" Tomoyo giggled when she give the ball a swing.

"So? *pant-pant* I am just having fun –nyaa!" Eiji gave the ball a swing again.

Tomoyo giggled and the rally was getting further and further.

Than Eiji gave the ball a lob. Tomoyo jumped and make an flip and rotated her body and give the ball a hard smash. The ball bounced in a flash just for the backline and bounced on the strings of the partition and bounced back in Tomoyo hands as she gracefully landed on her feet. (Author's note: for the information about the strings, you have holes but her also have the points where the strings are tight together, that where Tomoyo's ball bounced.)

Tomoyo: "Hare hare, lucky –desuyo." Added with a smile.

Everyone: "Su-sugoooi…." *Jaws dropped*

Even the regulars were surprised. Eiji couldn't move for a while and Momo forgot he was the referee.

Everyone was in awe until Tomoyo said: " Ano? Momo-sama?"

"Ahh! 6-0 game! Game and set to Echizen Tomoyo!" Momo just woke up out his own awe.

Tomoyo walked up the net and while walking she put the ball in her left hand along with her racket. She stook out her hand to shake hands, but Eiji made her hand to a fist and pushed his own fist to it. Tomoyo was surprised for a bit but then brightly smiled. When the fists separated, she placed her hand on his cheek and said: "Thanks for the great match, Kikumaru-sama." She let his cheek go and turned around. Her silk hair again touched his cheek again and Eiji was again in shock, but this time he had this red flush on his face.

Obviously the fangirls were growling. Tomoyo noticed but just didn't say anything.

[audience] "Kikumaru-senpai lost?" "Wow.." "Impossible!" [audience]

She was heading to her bag when Inui showed up. "Here, Echizen-san, how about a drink?"

"Why, thank you.-des." Tomoyo took the drink from him and Inui smiled deviously.

"Onee-san noo!" "Noo, don't do that Echizen-san!" "Nyaa!" But it was too late, Tomoyo already took a sip.

Inui was smiling deviously, but to his greatest surprise she said: "If I'm not impolite and roughly, it is kinda good, but you could add some mint." Tomoyo smiled and walked away. Inui was left with his jaw dropped.

Silence…

For the third time on the day: "EEEHH?" was shouted from the court. The regulars was staring at her. "She is a Fuji-person, nyaa!" "Onee-san…" "Nani??" "What? –fushuu.." "Sc—scary…"

The new assistant and nurse was quite a person.

When Tomoyo reached her bag she took a drink out of it. She took a big sip.

"Onee-san, good job." Ryoma said.

Tomoyo took her racket and turned around. She placed her index on his head.

"Oh." Ryoma mouth made an 'O-form'.

Tomoyo winked and said: "Arigatou ne, Ryo-san." And she walked to her place in the court.

Ryoma smiled and looked how his sister again walked up the court. Ryoma closed his eyes for a second and remembered how his sister learned him the kind side of tennis. He remembered she always said: 'Tennis is fun, so play with your soul.'

Ryuzaki-sensei voice was heard again, this time was it: "Next, Oishi!"

"What? Me? Why, Ryuzaki-sensei, me?" Oishi was surprised but also happy.

"Why not Oishi? I thought you wanted to play. Or don't you?"

Tomoyo giggled, Ryuzaki-sensei was teasing him. Eiji was turning his look to her, she just waved to him.

"Th-that's not it! But I thought you would choose somebody like Fuji or Tezuka." Oishi explained.

Ryuzaki-sensei sighed. "Oishi, you still not aware about your value to the team. Huh?"

Then Tomoyo stepped in. She handed him a tennis ball.

"Echizen-san?" Oishi didn't quite understand it.

Tomoyo took his hand and placed the tennisbal in it. "Let's play our hearts content, ne?"

Tomoyo smiled and turned around.

"H-..Hai!" Oishi stuttered, but he was happy.

The coach just nodded.

[audience] "She is definitely not gonna win this!" "Yeah, lose lose!" "Oishi-senpai go!" [audience]

"Shuichiro – Echizen, One set match!" Momo announced. Momo wasn't even playing and he was very excited.

"Shuichiro serve!" Momo went further after he saw the two were on their places.

Oishi squeezed the ball he just got from Tomoyo and served a normal one.

"Echizen-san, I'm not going to lose!" Oishi said when he served it.

"Hare hare –des." Was Tomoyo's reply.

Tomoyo increased the speed of the ball when she returned it.

Oishi felt she increased the speed at the weight of the shot he received.

'How can she increase speed so easily?' He thought and managed to shoot it back.

Tomoyo elegantly just hit it back with more speed. So the rally began.

Oishi was having a hard time with controlling the speed Tomoyo every time added.

"Nyaa, what's is happening?" Eiji was worried of course. "Oishi is having a hard time?"

"She is increasing the speed of the ball every time Oishi returns it, why does she do that?" Fuji asked the people around him as well himself.

"What do you mean, Fuji?" Taka-san asked.

Inui answered for him. "Fuji is proceeding that Tomoyo could just add the speed once very hard and she would win."

Fuji nodded. "Exactly like Inui said, but the other thing is, her way of tennis is the first I ever saw."

"Echizen, explain." Kaido said. Tezuka nodded in agreement.

Ryoma sighed. "Watching would be enough."

"Nyaaha! Ochibi! Meanie!" Eiji was pulling and glomping Ryoma to death.

Normally Tezuka would say things like 'Kikumaru, stop or 50 laps around the court!', but he would like to know something about Ryoma's sister too, so he let it go.

"Ki-Kikumaru-senpai! Let me go! I will tell already!" Ryoma was struggling and Eiji let him go… eventually.

"First of all, Onee-san is trying to make Oishi-senpai tennis as his full potential, so he won't have regrets and she is trying to have fun too. Second is that my Onee-san has her own unique style of playing tennis, she has done many sports so she combinates everything, every experience into tennis and having fun, and the most she has done dance. That's what it means when you play with your pure heart." Ryoma ended.

"Oohhh" Eiji and Taka-san were amazed.

"Data.." Inui scrabbled something in his notebook.

"Hmm.." Fuji was still thinking.

Kaido and Tezuka didn't even say anything.

While the explanation was going, Tomoyo and Oishi were still playing. Suddenly the racket flew out of Oishi's hands and landed against the tennis court walls.

[audience] "Waaah???" "How in the world..?" "Amazing!" [audience]

"Are you alright?" Tomoyo was worried, he would sprain something before the district prelims.

"Oh, nothing special." Was the answer.

"Yogatta…-desune" Tomoyo was relieved.

Oishi was surprised about this. But they continued the game, it was nothing special just like the game with Eiji. Oishi was already sweating and Tomoyo not even a bit, so same situation with Eiji. But Oishi was not gonna give up.

Then the chance came. The ball was set for Oishi's special move.

"Nyaa, nyaaa, there comes it! Oishi's Moon Volley!"

Everybody was curious if Tomoyo could beat this move. Only the lady herself was just smiling and thinking: 'Saa, what would come out of this one?'

The racket was railing on the ground and there it came, Moon Volley.

And then the ball came close to the baseline…

"Nyaa, Oishi has got a point!" Eiji was excited.

"Tche, mada mada MADA dane." Ryoma answered, without being questioned.

"Nyaa?" Eiji was twisted, but looked at the game.

Tomoyo made 3 fast turns with her body, while her legs were spread like a dancer and after the second turn she catches the ball low and took the ball with her for half a turn and shoot it back in the right corner of Oishi.

Oishi was stunned and looked at the ball and looked then at Tomoyo.

Tomoyo ended in an elegant ballet position, the third: One foot was in front of the other with the of the front foot touching the middle of the back foot, her arms were crossed over each other. Her head low. When Oishi and the other looked at her she looked up and smiled brightly.

[audience] "Wow, what in the world of pineapples was that?" "Nani?!?" "Waahh, sugoi!" [audience]

The regulars and the audience were stunned. Ryoma was staring proud. Fuji and Tezuka found it interesting. Everyone (except Tezuka, Fuji and Ryoma) jaws were dropped. Only Oishi was still panting like he was running away from Inui's juice.

"D-data.." Inui was just off his guard, and broke the silence.

"Nyaa?" Eiji was confused and shocked.

"Fu-fushuu.." Kaido was just stunned.

"Wooooww…" Taka-san was just speechless.

"Oh.." Fuji and Tezuka were just off their guards.

Ryoma was only smiling proudly and Momo forgot the count.

"Momo-sama?" Tomoyo voice again waked Momo up.

"Oh oh.. uhmm.. 30-0 for Echizen!" Momo was not really recovered.

And the match only was beginning and it already lasted an half an hour because of the rally. The coach decided to stop the match.

"Oishi, Tomoyo-chan!"

"Ah, hai! Ryuzaki-sensei!"

"Hai, Sumire-sama."

"I'm sorry, but the match already have token a long time and I think most of the people here already decided if you are worthy to stay, Tomoyo-chan." Ryuzaki-sensei smiled. "Ne, minna?"

The regulars were all convinced about Tomoyo and staying. But the audience wasn't satisfied, they couldn't take it that some girl took their regulars down.

Tomoyo noticed it and said: "I see some of you minna-sama, aren't satisfied. I would be more than pleased to play with you." Tomoyo smiled just when they all gasped.

After the conversation some of them played with Tomoyo, and some also went 3 on 1 with her. But Tomoyo defeated them all with one game. Now everyone was convinced.

"Arigatou ne? Minna-sama." Tomoyo smiled and finally everyone accepted her.

Author's Note: Sorry, that it took so long! I will go straight on the next chapter!