AN: HI , so here's the second chapter. I hope you like it :) Review and Follow please. Thank you.

PoT is not mine.

Jirou looked up and down, left and right, corner every corner suddenly

"OUCH" A girl gasped, Jirou opened his eyes and saw the person who he was looking for.

"Sa- Sakuno-chan!" Jirou said in a capricious manner, jumping her and hugging her tightly.

"E-Eh?!" Sakuno was surely shocked with the sudden contact. Her face turned red as usual.

Jirou noticed the suddenness of his actions made the blushing girl uncomfortable. He let go and

saw her face so red.

"S-Sorry.." Jirou apologized as he rubbed the back of his head.

"I-It's okay... Y-you're from yesterday..!" Sakuno exclaimed.

"Ah yeah, I'm Jirou Akutagawa! Nice to meet you~" Jirou said with a goofy looking smile.

"Nice to meet you" Sakuno sighed.

"I want to thank you fo- GAHK!" Jirou couldn't finish his sentence, a tennis ball suddenly hit

him making him unconscious.

"Ah Sorry, my bad"

That voice, that voice that Sakuno knows oh too well. It was Ryoma's.

"Ry-Ryoma-kun... the guy.." Sakuno said as she looked at Jirou who's fallen unconscious.

"He'll be fine." Ryoma simply replied, getting his tennis ball he 'lost control' of when he was

'warming up.'

"Are.. are you sure?" Sakuno asked worriedly.

Ryoma didn't reply , instead he walked towards the auburn haired girl, stepping on Jirou in the

process. Leaving foot prints on his face and jersey.

The tennis prince grabbed a hold on Sakuno's wrist and dragged her to the bench.

"Aren't you a volunteer medic? You should be at the courts right now, preparing." Ryoma said

wryly.

"I.. I am a volunteer medic, I should help that guy.." Sakuno said with guilt in her tone.

"He's fine, stop worrying about him." Ryoma replied.

"Sit." Ryoma commanded as they sat on the bench under the tree, just beside the courts.

"B-but Ryoma-kun, I thought you said I should be in the courts?" Sakuno asked skeptically.

"No one's is there yet, there's no problem. Just stay here." Ryoma replied with a straight face.

"O-okay.." Sakuno sighed as she looked down on her lap. Silence engulfed them.

"Ryoma-kun.." Sakuno said breaking their silence.

"hn?" Ryoma replied.

"I'm ...I'm.. rooting for you." Sakuno said as she blushed.

"E-Even though it's a practice match... I'm still g-gonna cheer for you.." She added giving him

smile.

Ryoma looked at the person beside him, he didn't know how to react. Then suddenly he blushed, He

cleared his throat and pulled his cap down. He regained composure and said with his signature

smirk

"Okay, I got you."

"Ry-Ryoma-kun..do your best." Sakuno cheered.

"I'll wi-" Ryoma was cut off.

"Oi Echizen let's go to the courts now, they'll be drawing lots soon." Momo said, stopping to

look at the two sitting on the bench.

"Oh my, oh my did I interrupt something?" Momo said with a sly smile.

"N-nothing r-really." Sakuno stuttered as her blush was growing.

Ryoma looked at the girl beside him, he was disappointed. He knew he had this weird feelings

about her, there's no use fighting it. He thought. I'll definitely tell her.. some other time.

Ryoma gulped and stood up.

"Let's go Ryuzaki." Ryoma offered.

"H-hai!" Sakuno replied as they walked leaving Momo behind.

"OI ECHIIIZEEEN!" Momo shouted.

"Alright everyone, I'll draw out two names. For those of you who doesn't have a match, stay out

of trouble." Sumire announced as she looked over to her students and the Hyotei regulars.

"A court - Fuji and Oshitari-kun, B court - Kawamura and Kabaji-kun." Sumire added.

"Eh? Deja vu?" Eiji said while holding his chin.

"It's merely coincidental." Sakaki said.

Leaving Eiji drop a sweat.

The rest of the regulars watched the match, Unfortunately for our prince, his princess has a

duty to uphold thus can't be beside him at the moment.

"Ngggghhh.." Jirou squirmed as he opened his eyes to find his Ponta-chan gone from his sight.

"Wha-what happened?" Jirou asked himself as he fixed himself up.

He noticed that the practice matched had begun, he lazily walked towards his teammates, yawning

in the process.

"Jirou where were you?" Atobe asked his groggy teammate.

"I ..forgot.." Jirou said as the words barely escaped his lips. Jirou is still Jirou after all,

he likes to sleep.

"Well, whatever. Just pay attention to the matches." Atobe replied flipping his hair in the

process.

Jirou looked around the court, nothing interested him. He would rather sleep than to analyze the

matches.

But something or should I say someone caught his eye, Of course it was no other than Sakuno.

Looking fairly excited as her senpais play.

"Ne, Atobe... what do you call this feeling when your heart starts pounding when you see a

certain someone?" Jirou asked , looking at Sakuno.

"Hnnn, it's either you're boiling mad at that person or... You're in love." Atobe replied.

"Love?" Jirou asked, diverting his eyes to Atobe.

"What's this? Do you like someone perhaps?" Atobe said in a grand manner.

"L-love?! Errr I don't know..m-maybe?" Jirou asked quizzically.

"Who's this person you're 'maybe' inlove with?" Atobe asked , air quoting the word maybe.

"Uhh.. well.. that girl over there... the one with the braids." Jirou said as he points to

Sakuno, he blushed a bit when he saw her cheering.

Atobe didn't say a word, the smirk on his face disappeared. It looked like he knew something

that Jirou don't.

"Jirou.." Atobe sighed. "Are you sure the girl you like is the one with braided hair?" He added.

"Y-yeah why ? Something wrong?" Jirou asked skeptically.

"Well, that's the little brat's girl." Atobe said simply.

"Eh? He said she wasn't in a relationship with him." Jirou looked skeptically. Now his heart was

REALLY pounding, what if that cheeky kid lied? What if she's taken? So many thoughts were in

Jirou's head. It's the first time he got worked up over something.

"Not yet, that little brat is slow. Seriously, how could HE beat ME?" Atobe sighed making

gestures.

"What... what IF I take her... from him?.. What will happen then?" Jirou looked at Sakuno and

sighed.

"Then you have declared war to the Prince." Atobe smirked. "Jirou, I will not be dragged down by

your affairs. The King will never join in such acts, Am I making myself clear?"

"Yes, yes.. whatever." Jirou yawned.

Jirou shoved his hands into his pocket as he lied down beside the tree near the courts. As usual

Jirou slept.

"Game and Match Fuji 6 - 4

Game and Match Kawamura 7 - 6" Sakaki announced.

"Okay, next will be ... Jirou-kun and Momo, Kaido and Hiyoshi-kun." Sumire added.

"Oi Jirou! It's your turn!" Mukahi shouted as he nudged his sleeping teammate.

"Huuuuh? My turn already?.." Jirou asked looking so groggy.

"Get up!" Mukahi said.

"Whateveeerr" Jirou yawned. As he entered the courts he was feeling parched from his nap, he saw

Inui holding a mug of one of his infamous juice. He was talking to Eiji when suddenly Jirou

grabbed the mug and drank it.

Jirou turned pale, his eyes went back into his head, his hair wilted. He collapsed.

"Mediiiiic!" Atobe yelled, as he and the rest of their teammates worriedly ran towards the

unconscious magician.

Quickly Sakuno and Tomoka came rushing to Jirou.

Sakuno rushed to her first aid kit and grabbed the smelling salts. She put it just infront of

Jirou's face. Suddenly the unconscious lad's nose perked up then his whole body jerked up. Jirou

was awake.

Many people were around him but the only one he saw was Sakuno.

Jirou hugged his savior.

"Thank you Sakuno-chan!" Jirou happily said.

Making one Ryoma Echizen not happy as he saw the sight of that guy hugging her.

"N-no problem.. uhh what's your name again?" Sakuno asked looking skeptical.

Ryoma smirked to himself, putting his hand to his mouth trying not to snicker.

"Ehh? Jirou Akutagawa... Jirou" Jirou said looking a bit hurt, pointing to himself.

"Ahh that's right!" Sakuno replied with a bright smile , leaving Jirou dazed with a blush on his

face.

Jirou suddenly got up

"Sa-Sakuno-chan... cheer for me?" The blushing red head said.

Ryoma's smirk was wiped out, he was pissed, Sakuno may be cheering for Seigaku but she puts all

her heart in HIM and only HIM. Ryoma thought.

"Hu-huh.. I'm sorry.. Akutagawa-san.. b-but I'll be cheering for Ryoma-kun." Sakuno bowed

respectfully.

This made Ryoma proud, his ego got bigger. It wasn't a smirk that's growing on his face but a

big cheeky smile.

"Hmmm.." Jirou whimsically thought. "Then I will do my best to make you cheer for me." He added

with a grin on his face.

Jirou waved at Sakuno as he walked to his court. Everyone was just simply confused with the

situation.

Jirou was good. His magic volley was perfectly polished as usual, it was a close fight but Jirou

couldn't compete with Momo's dunk smash.

At the end of the day, the coaches decided that the last singles game and the doubles should be

held tomorrow.

At the end of his match Jirou looked for Sakuno, he couldn't find her in the courts. He was

going to give up when he saw her putting tennis balls in the shed, along with her was the tennis

prince.

"Th-thank you Ryoma-kun, You really helped me out alot." Sakuno smiled you can see a tinge of

red just lightly pigmenting her cheeks.

"It's nothing.." Ryoma coolly said.

KNOCK KNOCK

Jirou knocked at the side of the open door of the shed.

"Sakuno-chan, did I make you cheer for me?" Jirou asked looking as goofy as ever, blushing.

"E-Eh?... Uhmm.. Well I saw Akutagawa-san's match for a few minutes only because I had to tend

to Ryoma-kun's headache... but you were quite skilled." Sakuno said.

Jirou looked disappointed at first but when she got to the end of her sentence he smiled

brightly at her. His cheeks are stained red, he was awake again.

"Excuse me but we're about to leave, could you not bother us?" Ryoma squeezed in to their

conversation.

"Whatever brat." Jirou childishly said as he stuck his tongue out.

"You're quite childish for an old man." Ryoma said with arrogance.

"Well You-" Before Jirou could fire back, he was picked up by no other than Kabaji. Hyotei was

leaving already, Atobe sent Kabaji to get the sleepy regular.

"OI OI KABAJI! YOU BIG LUMP! LET GOOOO!" Jirou protested as Kabaji left making Jirou's voice

fade into the background.

Both freshmen didn't know what happened but Ryoma was relieved that , that guy was gone.

Sakuno looked at her watch and panicked.

"Ryoma-kun I have to go! Obaa-chan is waiting for me.. Thank you! Bye~" Sakuno dashed off.

"So much for leaving together." Ryoma sighed as he touched his head. Recalling the time when

Sakuno took care of him a few hours ago.

He hated the smell of medicine but he likes the one who placed it on. Ryoma plastered on his

signature smirk and casually walked out.

AN: Hi, i hope you liked it :) As always the next chapter will be updated this week or less. About the 'headache' matter that concerns Ryoma, That'll be in the next chapter :) Reviewwwww~