A/N: Hoi! Hoi! Thanks again for those who reviewed, read, etc. and beta-read my story! After a week of blood, sweat and tears I finally present to you the chapter 4… I apologize for the long wait… Here's the story! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Tennis no Ohjisama or any of it's characters.
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Chapter 4: Another one joins the chaos
It wasn't that she has opthalmophobia, really. But anyone could feel uneasy when eight, and a half, tennis players are staring at you, and doing some kind of ritual.
One was lighting incense while the other one was praying. The other one, well, by the look of his eyes, he was bored. She could not tell if the other one was looking at her or not; thanks for his glasses. And same goes to the other one with closed eyes.
She didn't know if she would laugh at the situation or not. To think that it was preposterous to be mistaken for someone, or something. She just stood there, speechless.
"Proceed to your courts" Tezuka was the first one to break the ice. "And as for you, go to your classes," he looked at Ichigo.
"Ha- Hai!" she responded and quickly went away.
"Hey!" Momo called Ichigo. "You can't just let the doppelganger get away like that!" he told his teammates.
"You mean you still believed that?" Inui asked. "As you all know, it's just a lie…"
"What?!"
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"I'm tired!!!" Ichigo went inside their house. Her soul was drained and so was her brain. For her, Seigaku was three times harder than Hyotei, the school where she used to study in.
She quickly climbed the stairs, went inside her room and buried herself in her bed.
"Ichigo!" Atobe went in her room. "How was Seigaku?"
"Hard!!! I can't believe that it was like that..." she mumbled lazily.
"What? Uhm… so… who's your seatmate?"
"Some guy I don't know…"
"How about Tezuka?"
"He is sitting in front of me… could you please let me-" Ichigo quickly fell asleep. Atobe was surprised at her; one minute she was talking then the other minute, she's already asleep.
Atobe placed a blanket on her sister and went out of her room.
If they are not sitting beside each other… then it'll be hard for them to get along, he thought. I must do something about this!
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"AT-CHOO! I dohn'th behliehveh thith…" Ichigo walked lazily on the long corridors of their mansion. She forgot to change her clothes yesterday and because of that, she caught a cold.
"Good morning Ichigo," Kabaji greeted.
"Gooh moh- Whereh brohtheh?" Ichigo looked around the breakfast room. Her eyes were puffed, full of tears. And her nose was itchy, thanks to her cold.
"He went off this morning" Kabaji served the breakfast.
"Wehll… Heeth eahly…" Ichigo took a mouthful of cereal.
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Atobe sighed and looked around his new environment. He can't help but twitch to see how many girls were looking at him. Once more, he sighed. Even under a red wig and light blue contact lenses he still attracts women! How great is that?! But he's sure his little sister wouldn't recognize him… and here she comes right now.
"Ohayou!" the sniffling Ichigo went in the classroom. She stopped when she saw something that made her curious.
"Uhm… that's my seat you're sitting at…" Ichigo tapped the shoulder of the red-haired man, who happens to be her brother.
"I'm sorry… but I'm sure you can sit at that one, it's vacant." He pointed at the seat near Tezuka's. It was a good thing he was informed about the sitting arrangements… he praised himself.
"But I can't sit there!" Ichigo complained.
"Why not?"
"It's… It's…" Ichigo sighed. Without any choice, she sat at the seat. She felt small over the eyes of Tezuka's fan girls glaring at her. They might be thinking that she's planning to take him away from them.
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Tezuka went in the classroom. He stopped when he saw Ichigo sitting beside his chair, reading manga under an upside down arithmetic book, and making an impression that she is studying. He looked at her previous seat, and saw a red-haired man, smirking at him.
The teacher went in the room. "Today we have another student joining us here on", he said. "Jeez… that's two days in a row…" he whispered.
"Would you mind introducing yourself?"
"Hai!" Atobe stood up. "I'm Watanabe Shin, a pleasure to meet you all" he bowed his head lightly.
Girls giggled while the boys looked disappointed; there's gonna be a new heartthrob.
Atobe sat down on his chair. He smirked. It was a good identity he made up, Watanabe Shin. Once again, he praised himself.
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"I'd like you to expand the following using binomial expansion," their Math teacher announced. "Without looking at your books!"
He wrote all the binomials at the board. Ichigo sweat dropped. She doesn't know binomial expansion! The problems are making her nose bleed. She tilted her head and pinched the bridge of her nose. Tezuka caught her eye. He was solving the problems, easily. She suddenly had the urge to copy his answers.
Quietly, she simply tilted her chair and glimpsed at his paper.
"90x raised to five + 50-" her chair outbalanced, bringing her to drop face first at the floor. "Ouch!"
All of them looked at her. Tezuka's fan girls let out a string of curses in their minds. Tezuka was surprised. Atobe was proud of his little sister and as for their teacher…
"I'll see you after school!" he looked at Ichigo.
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"Oh man…" Ichigo sighed. She looked at the mop and the pail of water that her teacher gave her.
"You shouldn't have copied my answers and just solved the problems on your own" Tezuka stood beside her.
"I've got no choice!" she mentally slapped herself. "And I'm going to mop this long hallway up to the second floor…" she tried to make herself as pitiful to Tezuka as possible, for him to help her.
"You're on your own" he started walking away.
"But- you're not going to help me?"
"It's your problem not mine" he looked back at her and walked away.
"But-… But-… I'M YOUR FIANCÈ!"
Chapter 4: The end
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