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She Was Once A Buchou
"This is the final match now." said Inui. "The winner of this match will take their team to the next tournament."
"Yeah. Inui-senpai, how strong is she?" asked Momo.
"Do you mean Kobayashi Shiki?" Inui turned to him as he asked. "If so, she must be strong to be the fuku-buchou of Rikkaidai. But if you were asking if Namikaze-san will win…I do not have data on Kobayashi. She is a mystery."
"So it could go any way. Mada mada dane Inui-senpai." Exclaimed Ryoma.
"Which?" asked Saori.
"Smooth"
The racquet spun before landing on the smooth side.
"Service"
"End."
Both of them walked away from the net to take their positions on the court.
"One set match! Rikkaidai's Kobayashi to serve!"
Shiki gripped the tennis ball in her left with her racquet in her right hand as she looked over the net at Saori. 'I will win this…' she though before throwing the ball up in the air and serving. 'and Rikkaidai will go to Nationals!'
The ball landed in Saori's court so fast she could only dodge it, and it was a point for Rikkaidai.
"Twist Serve!" gasped the freshmen from Seigaku.
Shiki served again, but this time, Saori returned it towards the corner. Shiki ran to the ball and lightly tapped it to get it to go over the net. It fell onto Saori's court right in front of the net.
"Game! Rikkaidai Fuzoku! 1-0! Change courts!"
"Rikkaidai won the game so easily," muttered Momo with shock. "This is imposible!"
"Why?" whined Tomoka. "Buchou!"
"Seishun Gakuen's Namikaze to serve!"
Saori bounced the ball on the court. She threw it up in the air and served a serve that went into Shiki's court, and went towards her face, but she dodged it and moved so she could hit the ball back. Saori caught up to it and just as it bounced up to her face, hit it back, and Shiki smirked as she used the split step before receiving the ball with a Rising and gained another point.
"15-0!"
"One footed split step?!" gasped Inoue.
"She's strong, but Saori will win this." Minu said. She was perfectly calm.
On the other side, Rikkaidai's benches, Mina smirked as she had overheard them talking. Kimiko saw that and asked, "Buchou? Why are you like that? I mean I know fuku-buchou is strong, but she's against Seigaku's captain. She's not as strong as you. Right?"
Mina smiled and looked at her, she noticed in the corner of her eye that Seigaku was listening. She said, "When we were chosen to take over, I wasn't chosen to be buchou…she was."
"WHAT!"
Two girls stood in front of two other girls in the clubroom of Rikkaidai Fuzoku's girl's tennis team courts. The two girls were Fu Nami and Utaka Yugi, Buchou and Fuku-buchou of Rikkaidai's girls tennis team respectively. "We brought you two here because we chose you to become the next buchou and fuku-buchou." After a minute of shock, Fu spoke again.
"Mina Sakura..I choose you to be the next fuku-buchou."
"Kobayashi Shiki..I choose you to be the next buchou."
"Matte! If she was chosen to be buchou, why are you the buchou?" yelled Kimiko.
"She turned it down. She said I should be the next buchou."
"Why?"
"Do you two accept your roles?"
"…buchou. I ask that I be the fuku-buchou and that Mina be buchou." Said Shiki.
"Why? No offense to Mina, but why would you refuse to be buchou?"
"In Rikkai, we are a team who wins. To win, a team needs someone who can lead. It doesn't matter if the leader is strong or not, they need to lead. I may be stronger, but I can't lead as good as Mina can. So I would like her to be the buchou next year. And if you need me to be in Singles One, and you want to send me, I can still be there instead of Mina." As she said all of this, everyone looked at her in understandable shock.
After a moment, Fu collected herself again and said, "..Yes that is true. No matter how strong you are, if you are the leader, you must lead. So if you are sure with this, next year, Mina Sakura will be buchou, and you, Kobayashi Shiki, will be the fuku-buchou. Mina, is that alright with you?"
Mina snapped her head to Fu with shock, but slowly she nodded. "Hai buchou. I will take over your role and lead us to Nationals. With Shiki by my side, we will be the Nationals champions consecutively for the third time!"
Everyone stared at Mina in shock, especially Seigaku.
"So does that mean that if she didn't refuse, she would have been buchou? And that Namikaze-san is against Rikkaidai's buchou?!" yelled Momo.
All of them, the ones who heard the story and didn't know, turned to look at the courts, staring at Shiki.
Shiki turned and looked at them with no expression on her face. Then…she smirked.