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"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

'Singing'

'Flashbacks'

Disclaimer: I do NOT own PoT

Previously

"She used to play tennis, but I don't know what happened to her while she was in America. Se changed a lot, she was kind, cheerful and strong, but just now when I asked her if she was going to join the tennis club, she looked s if she was going to break"

"Is she any good at tennis?" Niou asked.

"She's strong, I've never even gotten a point from her before"

"WHAT?!"

Chapter 2

"Hey!" greeted Marui.

"Here you are"

"We brought you something" Marui held up a box.

"I apologise for bringing such a huge crowd" Yagyuu apologised.

"How's it going?" asked Yukimura.

"100% problem free" they answered.

While Yagyuu informed Yukimura on the recent tennis matches, Marui got excited and opened the box that he brought. "Can I eat this?"

"Ah! You opened the gift for the captain!" Niou scolded and pointed at Marui.

"It's okay, I'm glad to see everyone's doing fine"

"It feels lonely practicing without you after all" Yanagi cut in.

"Come back soon, then we can play tennis together"

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Maiko came through the door. Yukimura was surprised to see her "Misao?" she ran up to him and hugged him. "Gomen ne, I never contacted you for the past two years!"

"It's fine, when did you come back?" asked Yukimura.

"Last week." She looked down. "I heard that you were in hospital so I came to visit you"

"So are you attending Rikkai?"

"You too?" she processed what happened. "So the person Akaya, Niou and the rest wanted to come and visit was you?"

"Ah, so you've already met them!"

"Yeah, especially that annoying Niou guy who's in my class"

Yukimura giggled a bit and the turned serious "do you want to pay tennis again?" he asked gently.

Maiko was slightly shaking and a tear rolled down her cheeks, "I want to, but I'm scared th-that the same th-thing might happen again" she choked out the last words.

Yukimura wrapped his arms around her, "Nobody blames you, that was an accident, it wasn't your fault"

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After a week, at school

Maiko opened the classroom door and walked in, her black hair was tied in a messy bun and she had her glasses on, she sat in her desk quietly and took out a book and started to read. She was so absorbed in the book that she never noticed Niou coming in and sitting next to her.

The teacher walked in and she put her book away. Everyone got to their desks and greeted the teacher. The firs lesson was English, it was too easy for her, they were learning the basics parts of speech. Maiko stared out the window at the tennis courts. 'It's all your fault, if you never played that stupid match Mio wouldn't have to die. Why didn't you disappear instead?! Her father slapped her'

"Maiko"

She got interrupted in her thoughts, "Is my class that boring for you not to pay attention?!" the teacher asked. "Come and write the answers on the board!"

Maiko stood up and walked up to the board and she wrote the answers on the board quickly and swiftly "May I sit down now?" the teacher was speechless. "y-yeah"

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"Neh, Akaya told me that you play tennis"

"It's none of your business!"

"Do you like tennis?"

"I hate it!"

He ignored her "Are you any good?"

"Not at all" she replied, angrily and walked away

'Hmm, she's definitely different from other girls. All the other girls would just squeal and say that they love tennis even if they didn't like it.'

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Break time…

Today, Maiko didn't even bother to go to the cafeteria; instead she went to her locker and found a letter threatening her to stay away from Niou. 'What's so great about that guy anyway?' She decided to ignore the letter and carry on as usual. Unfortunately, when she went to the bathrooms, Rima and the two other girls were standing there. "Didn't I tell you to stay away from my Niou-sama?"

"I did, he's the one who talked to me, I'm not the one who spoke to him first."

"Shut up!" Rima grabbed her hair and the other two girls poured dirty water over her. They also tied her up and started kicking her, but Maiko did not scream or cry which made the fangirls even angrier. Rima undid Maiko's bun and took a pair of scissors and snipped her hair off. "Now stay away from Niou-sama unless you want to suffer worse" The three fangirls laughed loudly and left.

The bell rang, Maiko tried to get up, but her ankle was injured and her hands were tied up. She barely untied the ropes and somehow made her way out the bathroom. She fell back and leaned on the walls of the passage. 'The final match was against a very strong high school. Misao had led the team to the nationals twice. This time her opponent was the heir to a very wealthy company, the Black Orders whose job was to assassinate people, they would use money to get themselves fame, if anyone entered a competition, they would pay the judges to let them win, but tennis was different. Everyone was watching and the referee can't judge unfairly because if they hit out, it's out. Misao had led St. Mary's to the second victory, despite being in an elementary school. What happened was something that nobody had expected, one day when the two were walking home from school, they got kidnapped. They were held hostage because their parents were very rich, but the twins' father did not want to pay up so they killed Mio as a warning to kill the other one if they didn't pay. There was blood everywhere "Mio!" Misao screamed as tears ran down her face. The mother had secretly payed them the money and saved Misao. Then later they found out that the people who killed Mio were from the Black Orders. Not long after, her mother fell ill and eventually passed away. Her mother never blamed her for Mio being killed, but the father was different. He slapped her, . 'It's all your fault, if you never played that stupid match Mio wouldn't have to die. Why didn't you disappear instead?!, the father shouted angrily. "If you payed up back then, then Mio wouldn't have to die"

"Are you trying to place the blame on me? He slapped her again. He found another women and went off with her leaving Misao all alone. ,"Mio, Okaa-san" Please help me. She cried like there was no tomorrow.

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When Maiko woke up, she saw the eight regulars standing in front of her. Her hair was short and messy. "Sei-chan? Akaya?" she sat up "What am I doing here?"

"Calm down, you just fainted in the passage earlier and Niou found you and brought you to the Nurse office, the nurse already treated your cuts and bruises." Kirihara explained.

"I see"

"Misao, who did this to you?" asked Yukimura.

"No one, I jest fell, that's all" she put on a fake smile.

"That's not going to work, you better tell us who it is" ordered Niou.

"I'm telling you that I just fell"

Niou grabbed her wrist "You can't get that sort of injury from falling"

"Let go, it's none of your business, stop sticking your nose into my problems!"

","

Yukimura went up to Maiko and spoke to her gently, "Misao, I know that you don't trust anyone, but please let us know, we don't want this to happen to anyone else"

"… Niou's fangirls" she mumbled.

"Huh?" all the other regulars ere confused.

She pointed at Niou, "It's all because you went and spoke to me, and if you never spoke to me then those brutal and jealous fangirls wouldn't have done that!"

","

"Do you get it now?"

"It's not my fault!" he tried to defend himself.

"Yeah whatever, just stay away from me!"

The rest of the regulars just stared in amusement.

Then something just popped up in her head, "Sei-chan, what are you doing out of hospital?"

All heads turned to Yukimura "SEI-CHAN?"

"Ah, the operation was successful" he smiled.

"Really?!" she was really happy.

"Yeah, now I can play tennis again." Suddenly the room temperature dropped by several degrees and there was a deadly aura surrounding Maiko. "Marui was the one to break the awkward silence. "ne Maiko-chan, why do Akaya and Mura buchou call you Miaso"

", "

"Sorry, forget it"

"No, it's fine. I'll tell you, my real name is Takeuchi Misao, but I didn't like my father's surname so I took my mother's which is Tsubaki and I just changed my name to Maiko to match it"

"Oh"

"I don't mind if you call me Misao"

"Misao, I want you to join the boys' tennis club" Yukimura voiced his opinion.

"Yadda, I don't even play tennis anymore!! You can't force me to." She countered.

"You love tennis don't you?"

"No, I hate it! It stole every thing from me"

"Don't cling on to the past!"

"I am not!"

"Then why don't you play"

"… Because I hate it?"

"That' a lie isn't it?"

The rest of the regulars just stared in amazement and sweat dropped at their childish behaviour.

"How 'bout this, lets play a match. If I win you join the club"

"That's unfair, I haven't played in over two years"

"If you don't play, then it counts as you loss"

"Fine then if I win, I want a years worth of pocky!"

"Fine!"

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A/N: Thank you to all those who read this chapter, please review and tell me what you think about this chapter!