Disclaimer: Prince of Tennis? Not mine. Got that? Great.
A/N: I dedicate this chapter to KiTtEn18sMiLe. I get the drive to type chapters because of your reviews, Kitten-san! :D
Warning: There will be OOCness due to circumstances invented by my imagination. This is a short chapter for today.
Please enjoy the fourth chapter!
Chapter 4: It is never good when you start off at the wrong foot.
It has been five days since the training had started and this is the very first break day for all of them. After four days of training, they had a whole day for cleaning. This was now their rest day, before the day of their departure.
"Hanabi-san is really strict, neh?" Sengoku asked. "Yeah. She gets upset easily too." Wakato replied. "She is like that at Yukimura-sempai the most." Momo added as the three teens looked at the blue-haired teen sitting on the couch.
"You shouldn't talk about Hanabi-sempai like that."
Everyone in the room, mostly the three teens, looked to the side to see Ryoma, who was wearing a black yukata, leaning on the door frame. "She is taking care of all of us in her home without much help from any adult." Ryoma told them.
"I'm not saying that you should be grateful but at least don't criticize her like that."
The black-haired teen turned around and left them to think on his words. "Echizen-kun." They heard a familiar voice say but the said teen had already left. They turned towards where the voice came from only to see Izumi with a sad look on her face while holding three trays on tea on each hand. Before they knew it, she placed the trays of tea gently on the table before running after the teen as fast as her yukata could allow her.
"Echizen-kun!"
"You know, what Echizen-kun said was true."
Everyone looked at the person who spoke, who was surprisingly Shiraishi Kuranosuke. "She must've sacrificed a lot to even handle a group of forty male tennis players in her own abode all by herself." Kajimoto added, knowing what Shiraishi was going with his statement. The two males looked at the Seigaku team, urging them to say something.
"She is known to be as the demonic student council vice-president back in school." Fuji told them. "She always wants everyone to follow most of the rules or suffer her wrath." Oishi continued. "She never fails to see something wrong with people." Taka added in a somewhat sad tone.
"Even with that in mind, she always looks after them." Inui said. "We can always come to her if we have problems." Eiji added thoughtfully, remembering Izumi's speech back then. "Hanabi works too hard to protect everyone around her but does get carried away at times." Tezuka finalized.
After hearing what the third years from the Seigaku team have said, most of them felt ashamed. They have assumed her actions to be something negative when, on some occasions, it was for their own good. They can't say the same for her treatment on Yukimura but, most of them hadn't said anything absolute concerning that part.
"That is true, even though her treatment on Yukimura-san is harsh."
With that statement, everyone but the said teen sadly nodded in agreement.
A/N: So yeah, a little drama in this chapter but I tried to keep the humor, even though it's minimal. The drama would increase on random times. Beware!
I hope I didn't make the characters too OOC. I might have been a little excited when I typed this so... Please tell me any typos and inconsistencies, even grammar mistakes (being the "Grammar Nazi" that I am).
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