Sorry, I didn't update often… I couldn't think of any ideas so I apologize in advance for the boring chapter!!

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

'Singing'

'Flashbacks'

Disclaimer: I do NOT own PoT

Previously

"So what? People change over time!"

"Please consider what you just said to Kiri-chan" Marui carried on.

"Don't bear the pain all by yourself?" she was stuttering.

"That's right" Yanagi confirmed. "We're friend's don't keep secrets all to yourself, Kiri and Misao as well" Jakal spoke up. "Just let go of the past, no one blames you guys for it" Yukimura added in.

Misao's vision became blurry. She wanted to cry, but was trying to hold it in as best she could. Niou who was next to her saw this and hugged her. She let her head be buried in his chest and let her tears out. "Arigato" she mumbled.

Chapter 6

"Ne, Kiri-chan" Misao started.

"Nani?" Kiri asked in a curios tone.

"Why don't we play some tennis later?"

"Eh?"

"I know that you said you don't play matches anymore because of that, so it's fine if you play with me"

"Ok, sure"

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After school…

"Faster" Misao yelled. Kiri was standing beside her. "Aren't you being a little harsh on them?!" she asked while sweat dropping as they ran their 97th lap. "Hurry up!" Misao yelled while pulling Kiri by her arm. "We're running as well !" They both started running with everyone else. "Why am I running as well?"

"Isn't it more fun this way?!" Misao asked while running.

"I guess you're right" Kiri started laughing.

Marui came from behind and caught up with the two girls "Kiri- chan, I never knew you run so fast"

Soon after, Niou and Yagyuu followed and caught up as well. "Hm… never knew girls love to run so much" Niou said sarcastically.

"Why, thank you."

"I wasn't complimenting you"

She rolled her eyes. "I know that!! Don't treat me like one of your mad fan girls"

Everyone else sweat dropped at the fact that they argue even while running. Kiri smiled at the fact that everyone was having fun. After that, they did their usual training and played practice matches with each other.

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After practice…

Kiri and Misao went to street tennis where they played against each other for fun. After a while they went shopping for tennis equipment and all sorts of other things. What they didn't know was that the other boy regulars were also there to hang out after practice and just happened to see the two girls. The thing was that they didn't decide to say hi, but rather chose to "stalk" the two. Of course Niou and Marui were interested and so was Kirihara, Yanagi claimed that he could collect his so called 'data'. Well Yaguu, Jakal and Sanada just tagged along for the sake of it. Yukimura of course just curious on where they were going. The girls actually noticed them, but instead they ignored them and carried on having their fun. First off, they went to a café and chatted for a while and then went to and arcade and played most of the games, then to clothing stores where they dressed up and tried on many different clothing then lastly they went to a music store. The shop was split into sections, one was where they sold CD's and the other was instruments. They first went to the instrument section.

"Do you play any instruments?" Misao asked.

"I used to play the flute and the violin"

"Really?!" she asked eagerly.

"Yeah" Kiri sweat dropped. "and you?" she asked.

"I play the piano, I learnt how to play the violin, but I quit after like 4 months"

"I see"

"Kiri- chan do you have a violin at home?"

"No, I used the school one before"

"Then flute?"

"I quit a long time ago"

"Ehh! Why did you quit?"

"I guess I only played it because she encouraged me to"

"Oh…" suddenly there was an awkward silence. Both of them were thinking of a way to break the silence.

"Let's go to the CD section" Kiri suggested and pulled Misao along. "Misao- chan, do you like singnig?"

"Yeah"

"Then we should go to a karaoke next time!!!"

"Sure" The girls laughed in satisfaction when they were leaving the store. 'She looks so cute when she laughs' thought a certain red haired boy. 'I've never seen her laugh before' Niou felt happy for unknown reasons.

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The next week… morning practice.

Everything carried on as usual, the only difference was that today Kiri had signed up for the tennis club on the conditions that she doesn't participate in any official matches unless she wants to. Like normal they had their harsh training that everyone had to do including the two girls. One thing they didn't know was that for the past week Misao and Kiri practiced after everyone else had left and in fact they had extra weights on at the moment yet nobody realised until…

"Oww" Kiri mumbled as she fell during one of the exercises. "You okay?" Mairui asked while blowing his bubblegum as usual. "Yeah, I'm fine" she replied. Misao ran to Kiri "You shouldn't push yourself"

"I know"

"I know I told you that Mai- chan would be happier if you carried on plying tennis, but I didn't mean for you to push yourself this hard!"

"…"

"You should take a rest"

"but…"

"If you want to carry on playing tennis for her sake then, you should focus on recovering for now. Start off slowly and then work your way up"

"Thank You"

"Marui- san!" Misao yelled to the person nearest to herself other than Kiri.

"Kiri seemed to have hurt her ankle when she fell earlier, could you please take her to the infirmary?"

"Sure" he agreed while blowing another bubble.

"I'm fi-" Kiri was cut off when Marui picked her up (bridal style).

"You're so stubborn; just let me take you to the infirmary"

Kiri struggled a bit "like I said, I'm fine!"

Marui rolled his eyes "I'm sure you are!" and he took her to the infirmary.

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He placed her on the bed and looked around for the nurse. "Where is the nurse when you need her?!" Marui went to the drawer and took out some bandage and kneeled down in front of her and took off her shoe and noticed the ankle weights. "You had these weights on the whole time?" he carefully took off her socks and removed the weights. He gently rubbed her swollen ankle with an ointment and wrapped it with the bandage.

"There, it's done"

"Thanks"

"Don't worry about it" there was an awkward silence once again, Kiri felt uncomfortable due to the silence and tried to break it.

"Ne, why do you always chew on bubblegum?" Kiri asked curiously. "It gives me energy!" he replied.

She sweat dropped, "I see…"

Kiri felt nervous in the room until Marui broke the silence.

"Ne, I don't know what happened in the past, but what happened has happened. If you really love tennis then you should play it, don't let the past hold you back"

Kiri looked down at the floor and played with her fingers silently. Marui, who saw her hesitation, decided to give her time to think about it. He left the room and leaned on the door after sliding it closed. 'What was I thinking about? …I felt depressed when I saw her being unhappy '

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