AN: If you guys noticed some similarities in my previous RyoSaku fic then I apologized, I didn't even noticed it either. I'm also sorry for any errors. I hope you like this one.

Pot is not mine.

The next day..

As always Tomoka and Sakuno are there on the courts along with her grandma.

"Sakuno, It's been running through my mind lately.." Tomoka said in a foment manner.

"Hmm?" The braided beauty hummed.

"If you're in the girl's tennis club then why don't you have morning practice?" Tomoka asked.

"We only practice after school in a certain schedule. Since most of the time our captain pushes our limit to the extent of not breathing." Sakuno replied in a carefree manner, you can tell that she's used to her captain's spartan-esque training method.

"I-Is that even legal?" Tomoka commented looking sunken.

"I'm going to get some of my papers in the faculty room, keep an eye on them, ok?" Sumire said as she left the chain linked courts.

"Eh? Where did Ryuzaki-sensei go?" Fuji asked as he walked towards the two freshmen.

"Grandma was just getting papers, she'll be back soon." Sakuno replied.

"Everyone's been working hard, ne Fuji-senpai?" Tomoka asked the prodigy.

"Ee, We're gonna give it our all." Fuji replied with his normal palm like smile.

"Sakuno-chan is the representative along with Echizen in your class, am I right?" Fuji shifted the conversation to the shy girl.

"Y-Yes. Who's your representative Fuji-senpai?" Sakuno smiled.

"Well... It's me and Tezuka.. We had no choice." Fuji replied, his smile was stiff. Yes, Tezuka and him are good friends but why did his classmates nominate him to be the girl? He will get his revenge, he thought.

"I- I see..." Sakuno replied, she could feel Fuji's uncomfortable tension.

"S-So.. What's your theme?" Tomoka asked.

"..Traditional Japanese couple.." Fuji gulped.

"Is that so? Ryoma-kun and I.. are doing fairytale.." Sakuno said blushing.

"Prince and Princess to be exact." The cat eyed boy suddenly came in between Sakuno and Fuji and placed his princess a few steps away from the prodigy.

"Are you still on about that? I was just joking Echizen." Fuji chuckled referring to yesterday's event.

"Whatever." Ryoma glared at the genius , his eyes peered through his cap.

"What's going on here?" Momo jogged his way towards the 4 man crowd.

"Echizen thinks I was being serious about yesterday." Fuji explained.

"oh..OHHH.." Momo remembered.

"W-What's going on?" Tomoka tried to squeeze in to their conversation.

"W-Well-" Momo tried to explain.

"Nothing." Ryoma spat.

"What I said yesterday were all true, are they not? You should lighten up Echizen. I was just kidding in some other region of our conversation." Fuji assured the prince as he pat the freshman's head and went on with his business.

"He's right Echizen, We just wanted to know what your true feelings were." Momo sheepishly said.

"E-Eto..." Sakuno sighed, confused about the situation.

"Ahhh That was nothing Sakuno-chan~ You're very lucky y'know that?" Momo pinched the cheeks of the cinnamon eyed princess.

"Oi,Oi.. Let's practice." Ryoma hit Momo's head with his red racket.

"O-Ouch!" Momo squinted in pain.

"Are you o-okay, Momo-senpai?" Sakuno asked.

"Y-Yeah.. I'm fine.." Momo assured the girl while rubbing his head.

"Let's get going." Ryoma had this raspy tone in his voice as he accidentally dropped his tennis racket on Momo's foot.

"OUCH! ..L-Let's go.." Momo agreed in sheer pain.

"Good luck Ryoma-kun." Sakuno gave her signature innocent smile to her prince.

"Uhn." Ryoma smirked as he dragged his senpai away.

"Tomo-chan let's change into our bloomers." Sakuno shifted her gaze to her bestfriend.

"Sure, Let's go then." Tomoka happily agreed.

"Then Let's start warming up, ne?" Sakuno looked happy.

"Warming up? With you?Heck no!" Tomoka immediately refused, knowing her bestfriend. She'll push her to the limit of endless pain.

"Let's just go with everyone else, later." Tomoka added looking at the disappointed girl.

After a while , their class started to do their training.

"So, did you plan a special bento for Ryoma-sama?" Tomoka asked, huffing away.

"Y-Yeah.. I'm going to m-make two.." Sakuno said as she did her side straddles.

"T-Two? Why?" Tomoka replied, looking quite troubled with her rhythm.

"One.. for breakfast and another for lunch.." Sakuno replied effortlessly shifted her exercise to squats.

"Wow, You're going to be a great wife someday." Sakuno's loudmouthed friend commented.

Ryoma overheard their conversation, he gave a proud smirk as he and the others started doing push ups.

Horio as always is out of breath, looking at his partner. Ryoma was doing push ups like he never did before.

"E-Echizen.. you're really pumped up about our festival.." Horio panted.

Ryoma glanced at the sheepish boy.

"You could say that." The prince said.

After a few more minutes of intense exercise, they were given a break.

"GAH !" Tomoka and Horio said in unison.

Sakuno was feeling quite cheery that day, she looked from left to right to see of her prince was in sight. She took a deep breath and sighed, good.. he's not here.

Sakuno changed her usual sweet expression to a stoic one.

"Mada Mada Dane." Sakuno smirked as she pointed at the two.

Tomoka and Horio couldn't reply, it wasn't because of Sakuno's impersonation but because behind her was the person she was impersonating.

Sakuno was still in her "Ryoma" pose when suddenly.

"Mada Mada Dane." Ryoma took a sip of his ponta.

The princess' blood shot right up to her face. She was red all over.

"Ry-Ryoma-kun.. I... I ... I.." She stuttered feeling so stupid.

"What's for lunch?" Ryoma changed the subject.

"O-Ohh.. Well I made some Tonkatsu." Sakuno replied as she reverted back to her normal self. The auburn haired girl opened the bentos and served her beloved.

The rest sighed with contentment as they observed the two.

"Good luck." Sakuno said in a bonny manner.

"Hm?" Ryoma was too preoccupied with what he was eating. He was obviously enjoying the food she made for him.

"Nothing." Sakuno gave a chaste smile.

Ryoma was about finished with his food when he looked at his bento and to her, bento to her.

"Have you been following your diet menu?" Ryoma asked, predicting that her answer will be a no.

Sakuno paused, looking ever so guilty. She couldn't help it. She would bake and such for her grandma and it required tasting.

"Y-Yes?" Sakuno replied hoping it will convince the tennis head.

Ryoma simply gave a look that said 'Are you really going to go with that answer?'

Sakuno couldn't take it, his eyes burnt through her.

"I.. I... I couldn't help it... I mean I'm doing well in training..but.. but.." Sakuno was very troubled. She was scared that her prince will get mad at her for being carefree and irresponsible, neglecting her diet.

"Well Whatever, as long as you're not slacking in your training." Ryoma said.

Upon hearing those words, Sakuno could give a sigh of relief. But knowing the cheeky lad there's a price to pay.

"I'll let you off the hook ... But... You need to practice with me...NOW." Ryoma keeping a sly smile from creeping out, he stressed the last word. That made Sakuno shiver.

"Riiiiiiggghhht here." Ryoma gave a teasing tone as he pointed at his lips, looking serious.

"Ry-Ryoma-kun...Such thing... " Sakuno covered her face in embarrassment.

Ryoma pushed his bento towards Sakuno, he stopped talking, stopped making eye contact. Sakuno's plea just fell on deaf ears. She could feel the coldness emitting from her beloved. This made Sakuno feel worse, she can't stand the thought of Ryoma hating her. She had to do something, she got to.

Ryoma looked elsewhere, he was feeling a bit guilty in what he was doing. Seeing the flustered girl was very amusing, he restricted himself from doing something malicious to her infront of their friends. He tried to keep up his act.

Sakuno took a deep breath as she closed her eyes and gave a chaste kiss to the prince. Everyone's eyes widened with shock including the prince himself. Which not too long, grew into a very satisfied smirk. He abruptly placed his hand behind Sakuno's neck to deepen the kiss. Indulging every second of it, he loosened his hold and broke away.

"Kidding." Ryoma gave a triumphed look.

"Ahh She's so gullible." Tomoka commented.

"You got that right." The other three agreed in unison.

That single word her prince let go was haunting her. Echoing through her mind, she could slap him silly. Tears welled up in her eyes, She quickly got up and ran away.

"E-Echizen, don't you think, your joke was a bit too much?" Horio asked looking at the fading figure.

"Apologize to Sakuno, Ryoma-sama! It was hard for her to do that herself, y'know!" Tomoka scolded the prince.

Ryoma sighed, he generally thought that it was rather troublesome for her to react in such a way. Everything's a first for the prince and his princess. He yawned as he got up and followed the crying girl.

Sakuno sobbed as she hid behind the sakura tree beside the field. Ryoma looked everywhere, he was about to go the other side when he heard sobs and whimpers coming from the sakura tree.

BINGO

"Here." The stoic prince handed a handkerchief to the crying girl.

Sakuno obliged and took the hanky, to wipe her tears away.

Ryoma couldn't take his princess crying because of him, she has a special place in his heart after all.

"Sorry," Ryoma said as he sat across Sakuno, inches away.

"It's... It's okay.. I'm.." Sakuno still couldn't finish her sentences, she was still crying.

He was clueless, in what he's supposed to do, showing her a tennis trick won't work, talking about tennis won't work, taking advantage of her body….maybe….won't work. These thoughts run through his head. There's no other way, be it being out of character or not that's the only solution he could think of.

Ryoma sighed in defeat as he suddenly wrapped his arms around the auburn haired darling, her head fell onto his shoulders while his head hid on her neck.

"Stop crying." The cat eyed boy advised, trying not to be too obvious that he's sniffing her hair.

"O-Okay.." Sakuno said as she sniffed.

A few minutes passed by and they were still in the same position. They were comfortable with each other , Ryoma didn't want to let go, she wanted it to last longer when unfortunately Horio found them.

"Oh! Here they are!" Horio shouted.

"My, my, my this is a little too extensive for just consoling, ne?" Katsuo teased.

"Fufufufufufufu." Kachiro laughed.

"Huh? Where's Osakada?" Horio asked.

"She's right over here, she fainted." Kachiro said as he poked the unconscious body.

Sakuno was bright red along with Ryoma, he tried to hide under his cap. He stood up and shoved his hands into his pockets.

"Ryuzaki, let's go." Ryoma simply said as he started walking.

"H-Huh?.. Y-You're right..I forgot my bentos." The flushed looking Sakuno replied as she held onto his handkerchief and caught up with the lad.

"Tsch! They didn't even notice us!" Horio said in grimaced.

"They did, for a short period of time." Katsuo smiled.

"That's what happens when you're inlove." Kachiro added.

"You got that right." Katsuo agreed, nodding his head.

After their break, as usual they were grouped into their respective sports.

The girls were coming back from the equipment shack to get a few volleyballs, basketballs, ropes and such.

Ryoma as always was getting a little too impatient. He yawned under his cap when one of his teammates in jumprope was awestruck in what he saw. The prince turned his head to see Sakuno in her usual flesh baring bloomers, his eyes slowly crept up to see the princess' hair was tied into two buns. It was out of the norm for them to see their classmate in such a sassy and neat hairstyle, because usually she wears her hair in twin braids.

Ryoma pulled his cap down and ignored the trivial change in Sakuno. He got onto his feet , as well as his

teammates and got into training once they were given their equipment.

After 4 hours of grueling and painful training, They were finally done.

"Tomo-chan , you go on ahead. We have tennis training today." Sakuno said as she changed into her tennis attire.

"Well, okay but don't wore yourself out." Tomoka reminded her bestfriend as she went on ahead.

"Uhn." Sakuno smiled as she packed her things for training.

In the girl's tennis courts, you'll see a dedicated Sakuno. She is flying, jumping, lunging and more. She is trying really hard, even though sometimes her knees are too bent and her elbow is too out. She improved and improved each passing day.

"Echizen, why're you still here? I dismissed your tennis training half an hour ago." Sumire said as she saw the cat eyed boy leaning against the sports shed wall.

"Waiting for someone." The prince simply said.

Ryoma didn't have to tell her who it was because Sumire already knew. The tennis coach kept herself from fangirling and just hurried away to her office.

Ryoma looked at his coach's fading figure, confused in why she was acting so weird.

"Good work everyone!" Sakuno cheered as they finished their training.

The auburn haired las was about to go get her school stuff in her locker when she was greeted with the presence of her prince.

"Ryoma-kun.." Sakuno sighed.

"Get your things." Ryoma commanded as he walked towards the entrance of their building where the lockers were.

Sakuno was quizzical on why Ryoma was still there but it was getting late so she got her things in her locker as soon as possible.

"Ryoma-kun... Uhmo... Why are you here?" Sakuno asked as they exited the school.

"Tomorrow is the match..." Ryoma said.

"You're going to do whatever I command, remember?" The boy added.

"Yeah, I remember." Sakuno said as she placed her index finger on her lip recalling the situation.

"Ryuzaki, cheer for me and no one else tomorrow.." Ryoma commanded, hoping the color of the sunset would hide the tinge of red on his face.

"I ... always do." Sakuno replied.

Ryoma knew that she always cheered for him but he made sure, made sure that she won't get distracted with anything.

"Uhmo.. Is that all Ryoma-kun?" Sakuno asked the quiet prince.

"Yeah." The stoic prince said.

"Ryoma-kun, Fight-o!" Sakuno gave her prince her brightest smile.

This made Ryoma stop on his tracks and lowered his head a bit just to hide the fact that he's blushing furiously.

"Ryoma-kun?" Sakuno asked, looking at the frozen prince.

Ryoma jerked his head up to see a worried looking Sakuno.

"S-Something wrong?" Sakuno asked again.

"N-Nothing." Ryoma barely replied.

Ryoma was punching himself in his mind, that was uncool of him. He thought more in what he'll do tomorrow, he wants to take full advantage of the fact that Sakuno will do whatever he wants. Then after a while, he's lips curled upwards. He wasn't the type of guy who likes cosplay but he liked to bully his innocent beloved.

"Ryuzaki..." Her name escaped from his lips.

"Yes?" Sakuno replied, turning at her side to face his tennis prince.

"Tomorrow... Make sure you have a pair of cat ears and a tail on." Ryoma said trying not to make it sound so stupid and perverted as it was.

"E-EHHHH?!" Sakuno blushed furiously.

"You heard me. No backing out now." Ryoma said in a carefree manner as he walked ahead.

"B-B-B-But ...R-Ry-Ryoma-kun..." Sakuno stuttered, she was in the verge of crying with embarrassment.

"That won't work on me." Ryoma added.

"W-Whaaaaat?" Sakuno plead.

"Nothing." Ryoma said in a bored tone.

Sakuno gulped, she won't stop blushing.

"Ryuzaki, we're here." Ryoma reminded the beauty.

"W-We're here.." Sakuno repeated, still lost in thought.

"Don't forget tomorrow." The prince said trying to hide his triumphous smile.

"H-Haiii.." Sakuno said in a defeated tone.

"Bye." Ryoma bid adieu.

"G-Goodbye." Sakuno stuttered a bit.

"Oh .. and your hair looks like tennis balls." Ryoma commented.

"I like it…" The prince added.

"H-He likes it.." She said in a lowered tone.

Ryoma was near enough to hear it as he walked a way, his smirk was plastered on his way all the way home.

AN: Please look forward for the next chapters, I'll update this week or the next. I'm working on some new projects as well, so if you would please kindly check those out i'll gladly appreciate it :) Thank you