Author's Note: I know you guys waited for the update. Anyway we just move, so I don't have internet connection, I just go to the internet shop but only to check my mails. Anyway stop with the explaining, here's the next chapter. This still doesn't mean I can update soon, but I'll try though. I'll tell you guys when my internet connection is back.

RECAP:

As Ryoma walk around the park, he remembered the reason why he was in Japan and while thinking, something had caught his attention...

"Thief! Help somebody that guy got my purse!" an old lady shouted pointing at a guy wearing a black jacket, Ryoma who saw the guy running near his direction run after it...

"Blast this guy!" The thief said as he run faster.

"Hey! Stop!" Ryoma ordered who still run after the guy.

The thief keeps running until there's nowhere to run. Then he saw a girl who was walking near his direction and without thinking he grab her and pointed a knife to her throat...

"AH!!!!!!!!!!!" The girl shouted with fear.

"SHUT UP!!!" The Thief said looking at her then to Ryoma who was now in front of them "Don't come near or I'll cut her throat." The thief added pressing the knife a little harder on the girl's neck. The cut is not deep but blood flowed out of the wound.

'Sakuno...' Ryoma thought as he saw who the girl in the thief's arm. Years had pass and even though she change physical, she still have the same expressive brown eyes. "Let go of her." Ryoma said as he notice the blood.

'Ryoma...' Sakuno thought and before she lost conciousness she saw Ryoma grab the thief's hand where the knife was and everything was lost to her.

Chapter Two: Reunion

HOTEL PENTHOUSE...

Sakuno woke up with a start. She can't remember what happened, her head hurt and part of her neck is in pain for reasons she don't know. And now she found herself on a warm bed which she knew very well is not hers, for the cover of her bed is not white and before she could contemplate even more...

"Sakuno?" Someone said on the door way.

Sakuno prop herself up on the bed and saw the owner of the voice. "Ryo-Ryoma-kun."

"How are you feeling?" Ryoma asked worriedly, but he himself don't know why he is so worried about Sakuno.

"Where am I? And what happened? " Sakuno asked instead of answering Ryoma.

Ryoma walk over to her and sat on the bed in front of her before answering, "You're in my hotel room. And as for what happened, you were taken hostage by a thief."

"Why does my head hurt? And not only that, part of my neck hurt too." Sakuno said looking at Ryoma straight in the eyes confusion written on her eyes.

"Well you got cut on your neck, but don't worry it's not deep and as for your head, when you started to colapse the thief panic and as I grab the knife and disarm him, I was too late you had hit your head on the pavement by then." Ryoma said looking straight at her eyes trying to ease the confusion she was feeling. "I really feel bad that I was too slow, that you ended up hitting..."

"It's not your fault, whether you are slow or not, you still help me and I can't thank you enough." Sakuno said going back to her normal self.

There was a few minutes silence but it was broken by Ryoma himself, "You still didn't answer my question."

"I'm feeling fine." Sakuno answered him with her usual smile. "How did I got here anyway?"

"I carried you to my car and drove us to the hospital first, they fix your wound on the neck and check your head, and when I ask them if you needed to stay in the hospital, they said that you just had a concusion but nothing that sirious and that I can take you home and that's why you're here, I didn't know where you live." Ryoma said explaining everything to her.

"I'm sorry that you have to carry me." Sakuno said lowering her head and looking down at her lap. Although Tomoka was right about her still had a feelings for Ryoma, something had change though she doesn't stutter in front of him anymore or blush but still finding out that Ryoma carried him is very embarassing.

"It's no big deal." Ryoma said lifting Sakuno's head by putting his finger on her chin.

"You change." Sakuno said, "You are not the same old Ryoma that we all know back then when we were still on our freshman year." Sakuno added as she looks at Ryoma's face studying every bit of his features.

"Of course, people change and I can say that you change as well." Ryoma said as he think of the things where Sakuno had change.

"What time is it?" Sakuno suddenly ask.

"It's almost 6." Ryoma simply said looking at his watch.

"Nani!" Sakuno said loudly in panic. "Damn, I'm late, I have to go." Sakuno added getting to her feet, "Where's my shoes?" Sakuno asked Ryoma who was looking at her shock.

"It's at the entrance door, inside the shoe rack." Ryoma said pointing at the main entrance door where a blue shoe rack is.

"Are you okay, you seem shock." Sakuno asked worried that maybe Ryoma isn't feeling well.

"I'm okay, I just, well I never heard you curse before."

"Ha ha... I'm sorry, anyway why don't you go with me, I bet they will be very happy to see you." Sakuno said inviting Ryoma.

"And where are we going?" Ryoma said curiously.

"To Kawamura's Shushi. Ever since you left and the Senpai had graduated, we made it a point that we meet every saturday at Kawamura's just to hang out and fill each others with what hapenning in our lives." Sakuno said eyeing Ryoma and seeing the excitement and happiness of seeing his senpai's again in his eyes.

"Then, what are we waiting for, let's go then." Ryoma said getting on his feet.

"Uhm, we need to stop by at my house first though, since my top is covered in blood." Sakuno said gesturing to her top but was shock to see that she wasn't wearing her top but instead she was wearing avery familiar shirt, the red and white shirt Ryoma always wear.

"Don't worry, when we were at the hospital, I grab my shirt from my bag and ask the nurse to change you." Ryoma said explaing.

"I see, thanks, I guess we still need to stop by at my house so I can change." Sakuno said as thoughts of what the others would say if they saw her wearing the shirt and seeing Ryoma, they surely would put the two together especially Momo and Eiji.

"You don't have to change, beside you said it yourself, You're already late." Ryoma said escorting Sakuno through the shoes rack then through the hotel car park to his car.

"Demo..." Sakuno said but to no avail so she gave up and let Ryoma drive all the way to the Shushi house with her pointing the direction. (A/N: What can I say Ryoma's memory is not 100)

KAWAMURA'S SHUSHI RESTAURANT...

"Where is she?" Tomoka said a loud looking at her watch while pacing back and fort. "She's suppost to be here over an hour ago." Tomoka added as Kaidoh stood up from his chair and stop Tomoka from pacing by carrying her and placing her on his lap after he sat back down on his chair.

"Anata?" Tomoka said looking at Kaidoh with worried in her eyes.

"I know you're worried but you need to follow what the doctor said, stress will be bad for our baby." Kaidoh whispered to his wife's ear making Tomoka calm down as she remember her delicate condition.

"She never get lost anymore so she's never late." Fuji thought a loud.

"Let's just say that she got something to do and she lost track of time." Raiko, Tezuka's Pro-Tennis player fiance interupted.

"Raiko is right, it's better to think that Sakuno had lost track of time rather than thinking of anything else." Ann, Momo's long time girlfriend said.

"What if..." Oishi said but was interupted when the door of the Shushi house open.

"I'm here, Gome if I was late." Sakuno said entering the shop, "But, I got a surprise for everyone." Sakuno added and as everyone looks at her, Sakuno step aside from the door and Ryoma slowly entered.

"Echizen?" Momo said, the first one on the group to found his voice.

"Hai, Momo-chan senpai." Ryoma answered looking straight at Momo.

"Is it really you Ochibi?" Eiji asked even though he already knew that it was really him.

"Of course it's me, in fact I'm waiting for a certain senpai to jump on me." Ryoma answered and with that Eiji jump on him sayingm 'You ask for it, I hadn't done this ever since you left.'

And with that the old Seigaku Regulars had their unplanned Reunion, Ryoma found out and to his amazement that Kaidoh is married to Tomoka, Ann is Momo's long time girlfriend while Tezuka has a Fiance, Raiko, and as for the others well they are still waiting for the perfect woman.

"Minna, my wife and I have an announcement." Kaidoh said as he help his wife to her feet.

"I wonder what would that be?" Fuji said with his usual smile.

"I think that they're going to announce that they are..." Inui said but was cut by Fuji who covered his mouth and said "Let them do the announcement Inui and then you'll tell us how you'd known."

"Thanks, Fuji." Tomoka said looking at Fuji himself then at her husband.

Kaidoh cleared his throat before saying, "Tomoka and I are expecting our first child."

"Nani!" Sakuno, Ann and Raiko said at the same time.

"Omedetto! Kaidoh, Tomoka." Tezuka said shaking Kaidoh's hand and kissing Tomoka on the cheek. And after Tezuka the rest had followed now that they had finally gotten over their shock even Ryoma.

"Now you can tell us how you know that they will announce that they are expecting their first child." Fuji said to Inui who was glaring at him through his glasses although no one can really see it.

"According to my data it's been seven years since they got married, and according to Kaidoh he wanted to be on the top before having a children and as you can see Kaidoh is on top already and this is a nice time and age for both of them to have kids." Inui said pushing his glasses up to his eyes, just like he always do. (A/N: I think pushing his glasses up is Inui's habit.)

"Sasuka Inui. You're data is still accurate even when it had nothing to do with tennis." Fuji said with his trade mark smile while he look at Inui who still hadn't forgiven him from covering his mouth when his in the mids of telling everyone about his percentage observation.

"It's getting late, I have too go." Sakuno said standing up from her chair.

"You're right, in fact I think everyone have to go, especially the guys and Raiko, they still have practice tomorrow." Ann said standing up as well followed by Momo himself.

Everyone thank Taka and everyone bid each other goodbyes. Raiko and Tezuka are the first to leave, They live in the same house. They were followed by Eiji and Oishi who are living at the same block on their bachelor's pad (A/N: What can I say, they are still unseparatable). And then by Inui, who drove off in his new SUV (A/N: What can I say, he doesn't like sports car because they are small, there's no place for him to put his Inui juices). And then by Fuji, who left with his brand new blue sports car. And then by Momo and Ann, Momo had to drop Ann home first before going home himself in his five year old house (A/N: The five year old house is the house Momo bought for his own that he and Ann had choose together, and this would also be the house where Momo and Ann would raise their children and grow old together).

"By the way Tomo-chan, don't come to work tomorrow, just stay home and rest, I'll take care of everything in the shop." Sakuno said as She, Tomoka, Kaidoh and Ryoma left the Shushi house together.

"Are you sure?" Tomoka asked as a cold wind blew their way making Kaidoh take off his jacket and put it around his wife.

"Yeah, I'm sure so just stay home and relax." Sakuno said and she kiss Tomoka's cheek and vice versa.

Kaidoh led Tomoka to their car and then he drove off leaving Ryoma and Sakuno alone. Ryoma and Sakuno look at each other for a while before they started to walk over to Ryoma's rented car.

"You know, you don't have to take me home, I can take the bus over there to my shop and get my car there." Sakuno said ponting at the bus stop sign.

"It's already late, I don't think it's safe for you to take the bus." Ryoma said opening the passenger's sit to for her.

"Demo..." Sakuno started to protest.

"Don't argue with me okay, I'll just drop you off to your car, so that at least I know you made it there safely." Ryoma said interupting her as Sakuno smile greatfully at him and enetered the car.

"So, where is this shop of yours?" Ryoma asked after he had started the cars.

"It's actually not far from Seigaku." Sakuno said, "You still know how to go there right?" Sakuno added looking at Ryoma who smiled and said 'Of course, I do.'

Well, what do you think of this chapter. Don't forget to read and review. Tell me what you guys think okay. Also some of the japanese words I use in this chapter, well I know what they mean but I'm not sure if they are spelled like that. Hehe... Sorry. Anyway, Muah!!! LOL!!!

Translation:

Anata- Darling

Gome- Sorry

Ochibi- Little boy

Minna- Everyone

Nani- What

Omedetto- Congratulations

Sasuka Inui- I think it goes with 'That's our Inui' or something like that. (A/N: Gome I'm not that good, but I always wanted to put Japanese words in my story.)