A/N: Yes people, I'm not dead! I know I said this for the second chapter too, but since I am a very lazy person who quickly loses motivation when writing something and can't write chapters that are over one thousand words, this is an amazing enough feat for me.

Also, excuse me if the plot is going too slowly. I'm horrible at building up plot. D: tears On the bright side, though, there is planned TezuRyo-ness and other yaoi pairings in the next chapter (if I ever get it up, that is).

Warnings: Slight OOC-ness (Tezuka is such a hard character to write!), siblings being taken advantage of and slight Tezuka-torture (courtesy of Ashiora)

Disclaimer: Prince of Tennis does not belong to me. If it did, the series would have never finished.

Anywho, thanks for sticking with this story until now and on we go!

There were many things Ashiora had expected to see when she returned to Japan. One of them, obviously, was her twin brother whom was currently standing before her holding her purple stuffed teddy bear in his hands and not saying a word. The other thing she had expected to see (or more precisely, what she had expected to eat) was sushi.

Having been in China for five years, Ashiora had been subjected to much of Chinese culture, including the food. Although she had nothing against xi hong si cao dan and zhong zhi, Ashiora was Japanese after all and often missed the fact that she never got to eat a proper meal of sushi back in the boarding school.

Therefore, today she was not only going to finally catch up on everything that had happened in the time she had been gone, but also eat some good sushi while she was at it.

Which is how Tezuka found himself unwillingly walking towards Kawamura Sushi with Ashiora in tow, happily munching on a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup (she had brought a whole bag of American candies back, apparently) and looking quite pleased with herself.

Tezuka thought she very well would be considering she had managed to not only throw a teddy bear in his face and get away with it, but also managed to bully him into taking her out to eat and paying.

Sometimes, Tezuka wondered if God had made a mistake and accidentally gave him Fuji's twin instead.

"Of course I'm your twin Kuni, otherwise we wouldn't look so much alike," Ashiora muttered, poking him in the back. "And in case you're wondering, it's our twin telepathy that told me."

"There's no such thing as twin telepathy Ashiora," Tezuka stated, calm and rational.

A snort. "Right, and I'm not a cellist that just spent five years playing in an international music program hosted in China or your twin sister."

"…That has nothing to do with twin telepathy Ashiora."

Even though it was against his back, Tezuka had a feeling Ashiora was sticking her tongue out at him. "And you sound like a robot."

They reached Kawamura's a few minutes later and it was Tezuka who opened the door to find...the rest of the Seigaku tennis team already there. And Tezuka was standing right outside the doorway with Ashiora right behind him.

This was certainly not the way Tezuka had imagined him introducing Ashiora to the regulars (he had, in fact, hoped that the day would never, ever come because there were far too many things he feared would happen if Ashiora and Fuji were to meet). For a brief moment he panicked and wondered if he should close the door, but the moment quickly passed when Ashiora, slipping under his arm, walked into the shop.

Tezuka then considered running for it, but Ashiora (probably reading his mind again, or maybe just his expressions this time…) grabbed his arm and yanked him into the shop as well.

"What the hell is your problem? You freeze the moment you open the door and act as though you've just seen your hair dyed pink in the mirror," she asked, mindful to close the door behind them.

Tezuka grunted, pulling his arm out of Ashiora's grip. "It's nothing."

She stared at him.

Tezuka stared back.

She gave him a suspicious glare and was about to say something else until another voice interrupted.

"Tezuka? What are you doing here?"

It was the vice-captain of the Seigaku tennis club, Oishi, who first saw them once they entered the shop but once he had spoken, the rest of the regulars also turned to face Tezuka and the shorter, look-alike girl version of him standing in front.

Silence.

And Tezuka—theTezuka of the Seigaku tennis club, their prestigious captain and nationally ranked tennis player, the very pillar of the Seigaku tennis club and who everyone else looked up to as their one true leader—was struck speechless.

You could tell by the way his eyes seemed slightly glazed over and he was standing stiffer than usual. Or at least, Ashiora could tell (being twins and all).

Therefore, interpreting Tezuka's silence as being shocked to the point of incoherency, Ashiora turned to address the regulars instead.

'Kuni, you weirdo,' she thought as she turned away. 'Have you social skills gotten so bad that you can't even have a proper conversation with someone your own age?'

"He-ey," she called out, loud enough to draw the attention of all the other regular members to her. "I don't know what happened to Kuni over here," She jerked her thumb over her shoulders towards the still silent Tezuka. "But I'll just go ahead and introduce myself anyways."

'Introduce herself?'wondered Oishi. 'What does she mean by intro...oh. Oh my goodness, can it be?! Has Tezuka finally gotten a girl—'

"I'm Tezuka Ashiora, ben dan Kuni's twin sister."

'What?'went Oishi.

"WHAT?!" went the rest of the regulars.

And Tezuka felt a headache coming on.

A/N: sighs Crappy writing again. I really should get a beta. If only I wasn't so lazy...

Again, thanks for sticking with this story for so long and if you're willing, drop a review.

Translation notes:

1) xi hong si cao dan-a common dish of Chinese food of cooked eggs mixed with tomatoes. It's one of my personal favorite dishes but the way it's made can be varied depending on whether it's home-made or in a restaurant.

2) zhong zi-another type of Chinese food. It's sticky rice that can have fillings of sweet beans, meat or nothing at all. wrapped in bamboo leaves and is eaten on zhong zi jie, a special holiday in China that honors a special person. (As a fun tidbit, it was originally used by people to stop the fish from eating the body of a dedicated Chinese nationalist who committed suicide by drowning himself after China was taken over by a foreign country.)

3) ben dan-the Chinese word for idiot. xP Just to tell you, Ashiora will be using this word a lot more as the story goes on.

Haha! That's all for now, sorry for not posting these notes up earlier. And hey, who would have thought reading fanfiction could actually be educational? :P