A/N: I'm sorry for the long waiting period. I was very busy for the preparation of the school new year and I was out of good ideas.

So here what I was able to put down.

School finished.

Ryoma already changed in her garment for practice. With her racket in her hands, she came in the tennis court, yawning.

"Echizen! Echizen! Yo ho!" Momoshiro called.

"Ochibi-chan! Wait up!" Kikumaru said.

"Huh?" Ryoma looked at them, running to her. "What is it, senpai?"

"Don't ask! We were looking for you, so come on!"

Kikumaru and Momoshiro took her wrists and pulled her with them to where the others were standing.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Ryoma yelled as she was dragged away by a two mad weirdos.

"Tezuka, here's Ochibi-chan!" Kikumaru said, showing a panting Ryoma behind him.

"Echizen, tomorrow morning, at 8 o'clock, be here," Tezuka simply said. "And don't be late."

"Huh?" Ryoma said.

Kirihara put an arm on her left shoulder.

"Here's your grand debut, Echizen," he said.

"Huh?!"

Marui put an arm on her other shoulder.

"Do your best, right? We will be watching you!" Marui said, winking.

"Huh?! What?"

Niou shuffled her hair.

"We will be counting on you," Niou said, grinning.

"What?! What are you talking about, senpai?" Ryoma asked.

"This week-end is the District Preliminaries. You will be playing," Ootori said.

"Huh? But I thought only the qualified regulars can play in the competition," Ryoma said.

"Tezuka is giving you his place," Yukimura explained, smiling.

"Euh…" Ryoma looked at Tezuka. "Arigatou, buchou."

Tezuka nodded.

"Do your best," Tezuka said.

"Hai, buchou."

Saturday morning, 7 o'clock.

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!

BONK!

The poor innocent alarm clock got killed, crashed into little pieces because it was only fulfilling his sole life purpose.

'Who's the idiot who set my alarm clock?!' Ryoma grunted.

She flopped back on her pillow and pull her blanket over her head. Soon, she was back to sleep.

-

Fithteen minutes later.

Outside of her door, Ryoga listened. No noise. Which basically meant, she went back to sleep. Ryoga slapped his forehead.

'I knew it! Kaa-san should give up buying her a new alarm clock each time!' Ryoga sighed.

He opened her door and entered. Karupin woke up and looked at him.

"Chibisuke, wake up," Ryoga said. Karupin turned to look at his mistress, his tail swinging.

Zzzz! Zzzz! Zzzz!

"You have a tournament today. Wake up or you'll be late."

Zzzz! Zzzz! Zzzz!

"If you don't wake up, I will eat your breakfeast at your place."

Zzzz! Zzzz! Zzzz!

Twitch twitch. Upon seeing Ryoga's eyebrow twitching, Karupin jumped down from Ryoma's bed and stood aside.

Only one option remained for Ryoga.

"CHIBISUKE!! WAKE UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!" Ryoga yelled.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Bank bank! Boom boom! Tuck! "Outch!"

Ryoma woke up. She felt from her bed. Pillow and blanket with her. In the mass of blanket, Ryoga saw a closed fist rising.

"Aniki…" Ryoma growled.

"Uhu…" Ryoga immediately scamp away, yelling. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"

Ryoma chased Ryoga. Karupin calmly walked out behind them.

"Meow…" Karupin said, sighing. His mistress can be sometime very hopeless.

-

From down stair, Nanjirou, Rinko and Nanako looked up the celling, where they could hear two people running and one screaming.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"

'Probably Ryoga,' the three people thought.

"Ah. Ryoma is awaked," Nanjirou simply said, then returned back to his newspaper.

Nanako chuckled and opened the cupboard, where she stored the first-aid kit.

"Obaa-san, maybe you should give up buying Ryoma-chan an alarm clock," Nanako said. "Ryoga is more efficient than an alarm clock." Nanako took the kit, set it on the table. She opened it and prepared the band-aid. Rinko sighed.

"I'm also starting to think it's a good idea," Rinko said.

7:59, 0.1 second before 8 o'clock.

Ryoga stopped at the gate of Seiyou, where the tennis club were waiting.

Kirihara, Marui and Niou, recognizing the person sat in the passenger seat, ran to the car.

"Oi! Echizen, just in time," Marui said, blowing a bubble gum. Ryoga remembered Ryoma telling about a senpai with pink red hair, who always have a green apple bubble gum.

'He must be Marui Bunta, the sugar freak, like she called him,' Ryoga thought, smiling.

"Oi oi, Echizen, wake up," Kirihara said, poking her through the opened window.

'And he must be Kirihara Akaya, the spider head boy. Well, it's true that his hair looked like a spider,' Ryoga thought.

Ryoga got out of the car.

"Yo! Are you Seiyou tennis club?" Ryoga greeted them.

"Hmn!" Kirihara, Marui and Niou nodded.

"And you are?" Yukimura asked.

Ryoga examined the blue hair teenager, blinking. And blinked again. Delicate features. Soft voice. Gentle eye. Exactly like the angel in his mother's favorite painting. But his chest is flat. This person cannot be a girl.

'So this is the pretty-girl boy, Yukimura Seiichi. I understand what Chibisuke meant by "He looks like a pretty girl" now.' Ryoga silently laughed.

"Echizen Ryoga, Ryoma's big brother. Yoroshiku."

"Yoroshiku."

"Hey, shouldn't we wake Echizen?" Oshitari asked.

"Hehe! He's cute when he's sleeping," Ootori said.

"Don't say that if Chibisuke is awake. You will regret it," Ryoga said as he moved to the passenger seat. "I have to bring Chibisuke here. Otherwise, this sleepy head would run straight into an electric pole while walking," Ryoga continued as he unbuckled Ryoma's security belt. "Yo, Chibisuke. You're here!"

"Hmm…? Yaaaaaaaawwwn!" Ryoga rubbed her eyes as she yawned. She saw the boys looking at her. "Oh? Senpai-tachi! What are you doing in my bedroom?" Ryoma asked.

Ryoga, Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori felt in anime-style.

"WAKE UP!!" they yelled at her. Ryoma plugged her ears.

"Urgh!"

Yukimura chuckled.

"Echizen, this is not your bedroom. This is the school," Yukimura said.

"Huh?" Ryoma look out, seeing the school entrance gate. "Ah. You're right."

Ryoga, Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori sighed.

"Tezuka, maybe you should have tell Ochibi-chan to be on time AND be awake," Kikumaru said. Tezuka nodded.

"Maybe I should have," Tezuka said. Fuji chuckled.

"Anyway, do your best, Chibisuke!" Ryoga said, then left.

Kakimori Tennis Garden.

Seiyou qualified regulars appearance wasn't unoticed. Everybody watched them walking in the Garden. They were famous, more famous then their predecessors. They came from Seiyou Academy. They are good looking. And they are very good - excellent - tennis players.

Their fans went wild.

"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Fuji-sama!!"

"Atobe-sama, I love you!"

"I will be your wife in the future, Yukimura!"

The usual thing each time they appeared in public.

But today, something was different. And that "something", was "something" hung on Kabaji's shoulder. Usually, it was only a curly light brown hair head, by the name of Jirou, who occupied Kabaji's shoulder, snoring. But today, there was also another person on Kabaji's shoulder, who was also snoring like Jirou. That new "something" looked like a short boy with a white cap.

It was strange, the sight of Kabaji with two people snoring on his shoulders. For Jirou, it was normal. But what about that new guy?

That white cap guy wore Seiyou qualified regular uniform, but he looked like to be only a first year.

"Seiyou is fearful as ever," someone said.

"To have a first year in their qualified regulars rang… He must be something…"

People agreed with them.

But now, back to the main problem.

"Echizen, we are starting now. Wake up," Tezuka said.

"Hai buchou…" Ryoma answered. She opened her eyes.

Looked around.

And closed them back.

Then, she joined Jirou in his snoring concerto again.

Tezuka remained impassive, but Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori sweat dropped.

'That boy… How can we wake him up?' they wondered.

As if up there in the sky, kami-sama heard them, kami send them help.

From inside Ryoma's bag, her cellphone rang.

"Huh?" Kirihara, who was holding Ryoma's bag, put in down and searched for the cellphone. He found it, a silver gray flap cellphone with a Karupine-like kitty keychain as ornament. "It's Echizen's cellphone."

"Yo, Kirihara. You cannot answer people's cellphone like that," Marui said.

"Yeah, well. Considering the actual situation, Echizen won't answer it either," Niou said.

"Maybe it's important. We can let him know the message later," Ootori said.

"Ah. That's right," Marui said. "Pick it up!" he told Kirihara.

Kirihara flipped open the cellphone.

"Moshi moshi (1)."

"Hey! You're not Chibisuke!" Ryoga said on the other end of the line.

"That's Echizen's big brother," Kirihara told the others. They stuck closer to the cellphone to listen. "No, it's not Echizen. It's Kirihara," Kirihara said.

". . ." Ryoga thought a moment. "Let me guess. Chibisuke is still sleeping."

"Bingo!" Kirihara, Marui, Niou and Ootori answered in one voice. Ryoga slapped his forehead.

"Arrrrrrgh! I knew it! Put me on that sleepy head's ear."

"Yokai!" Kirihara saluted in a soldier mode and did what he was told. "Here you are," he told Ryoga.

"Ahem," Ryoga cleared his throat. He took a deep breath.

"CHIBISUKE, WAKE UP!!" Ryoga yelled. The cellphone flopped in the air before it dropped in Kirihara's hands again. All the people around could hear him.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Ryoma screamed as she stumbled down from Kabaji's shoulder. Kabaji grabbed her by the neck of her shirt so she won't hit the ground.

"What the hell do you want, aniki!!" Ryoma yelled to the cellphone Kirihara was holding in front of her.

"Chibisuke, I can't believe that you are still sleeping at a time like this…" Ryoga stopped. Blink. "No, wait. It is expected from you to be sleeping at a time like this. Forget what I said. Now listen to me, Chibisuke. Your sleepy head forgot to bring your bento with you. Chibisuke, if you don't win your game, I won't bring you your bento and I will even EAT it," Ryoga emphasized on the "EAT". "Oh! And you know what?! Kaa-san made you sakura monakas (2). I will also EAT them if you don't win!"

"WHAT?! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! " Ryoma growled. She jumped on Kirihara and the two of them stumbled on the ground.

"Ahhhhhhh!"

Ryoma straddled Kirihara. She grabbed Kirihara's hand, the one with the cellphone, and squeezed very very hard. And she madly shook it, as if she was trying to strangle Ryoga.

"Don't you even THINK about eating MY bento and MY monakas!! I'm going to win and I'm going to kill you after that, aniki!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!" Ryoma stood up from Kirihara, grabbed her bag and went to search for her first opponent.

"Who's the guy I'm playing against?! I'm going to kill him now!" Ryoma grunted.

'Whoever his opponent will be, I already pity him,' Oshitari, Shishido and Gakuto thought.

Tezuka, Sanada and Yagyuu sighed. Yukimura and Fuji chuckled.

Marui, Niou, Ootori looked down at Kirihara, who was (maybe) dead, lying on the ground. His head knocked the ground after all.

"Hara hara hara…" Kirihara trailed, eyes swirling.

"Ochibi-chan is sure scary went it comes to food," nodded, agreeing.

"Ii data… So it's confirmed now. You can corrupt Echizen with foods. This will be a very useful thing to know for the future," Inui said as he scribbled in his notebook. Kikumaru, Marui, Niou and Ootori swaet dropped.

"At least, we are sure that he won't let his opponent win his game," Yanagi said.

(1) moshi moshi: the way to answer phone in Japan.

(2) monaka: Japanese sweet made of beans filling sandwiches. The sandwiches can be of many shape. Here, it's sakura flower shape.

A/N: I'm running out of good ideas. My updates will be slower now, not one chapter per day for a while. I will at least try to post a minimum of one chapter per week. Sorry for this white paper syndrome for a while.