A/N: This chapter is the beginning of a little arc. (3 chapters.) Yeah, in fact, of Seiichi's and Ryoma's past!

So, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own PoT! But I own Isumino Akira.

Thinking of the Past

"Ne, Buchou? Why does Ryoma avoid you?" His eyes were wide, because of the question Akaya asked him. "I mean she avoided you, since the day we met her." Seiichi couldn't answer this question. It was to painful.

Maybe, time passes different for them. Ryoma never did know. She was as child always so close, with her brother. But one day that changed. She and her brother did go other ways. She thought for a long time, it was better so. But...as she saw his painful smile, it wasn't better anymore. Either way, she couldn't go to him. Because she was envious, of him and their older brother, Ryoga. Their father would always play with the boys and forget her. And Seiichi did spend more time with their father, as he grew up. He also forgot her, somehow. And with that Ryoma was sad. She began to think, that if she beats her brother in tennis, he would spend more time with her. So, fun changed into desperation. Desperation, because she couldn't beat him. She started to think, he was the strongest opponent it gave and forgot about others like their father. Her style wasn't hers anymore. It changed into copies, of other players. As Ryoga realized that all she could think of was beating Seiichi, he took her to America. It helped her a lot. She started, not just to think, of beating Seiichi. Since she came back to Japan, she thought that playing with the regulars, of Rikkai's tennis club was fun. But nothing lasts forever. The day Ryoma saw, what the rule of the tennis club was, she started to avoid them. When it gave one thing Ryoga taught her, it was, that after all everyone needs to loose.

Seiichi didn't remember when it began. When Ryoma started to change. One day, she began to think of tennis as live. As they were children Ryoma loved to play tennis. But it wasn't something serious. Because of this, their father thought he would wait, until she grew up and decided to take it serious. No one excepted it to be that soon. She changed so much. She began to train harder and harder and thought of nothing but tennis. She began to forgot people, that didn't play tennis and weren't good in it. But one thing was worse. Tennis had driven Ryoma crazy. It was the first time, in his entire life, that he hated tennis. I t gave a second time, when Ryoma did go back to America. He lost completely the hope, that they could save their relationship. In distress, he blamed tennis. How happy he was, as she came back, for one year, as he began to suffer under his illness. It showed him, how much she cared. But nothing lasts forever. One day, she broke again, under pressure from tennis. So, Ryoga decided, to go again, with her to America.

Somewhere in Tokyo, in a temple was a boy with black-greenish hair. He sat in his room and thought. Yeah, Echizen Ryoga thought, about memories from years ago.

For Ryoga tennis was fun. Also, his younger brother loved playing tennis. Their little sister played tennis but she didn't see it as serious, as them. But one day, that changed. She trained hard. Ryoga thought nothing of it, first. He just dismissed it, as some mood of her. But what happened, next, opened his eyes. Someday, as he came home, from school, he saw her cutting her beautiful hair. As he asked Ryoma, why. She just said, it came her in the way. He started then to notice the changes. But what happened later, showed all, how much she changed. She won a match against him, with the score 7-5. This shocked him but her words, that only he could hear, "I'm not good enough, to beat Nii-san." Were what shocked him the most. He brought her to America, because it would heal her. He learned one thing there. She always says "Mada Mada Dane." but to the person she says it the most, is herself. After all she could never beat Seiichi.

The Rikkai regulars, sat in the hospital room, of their Buchou. They talked about stuff as it knocked on the door. The door opened and a male and older version of Ryoma came in. "Yo, Seiichi." Yukimura just starred at him and said, "Ryoga." If that what they recalled was true, then this must be the siblings older brother, Echizen Ryoga. "Why you are here?", Seiichi asked curiously. "To talk." "Talk? About what?" Ryoga looked at him, with a serious look in his eyes."About Ryoma."

Seiichi's heart stopped.

Tick, Tack, Tick, Tack. She looked at the clock and couldn't help but be worried. Today, no one of the regulars came to school. What happened? She didn't know that they weren't there because of her.

His eyes were wide. " She...Ryo...Ryoma wanted to beat me, because she thought that when she won, I could again spend more time with...her?" Ryoga nodded and Seiichi couldn't believe it. But he really wanted.

The regulars, who where kicked out of the hospital room, thought about a plan. A plan to show Ryoma that they understood what she meant. They really did. It wasn't easy to accept, that their methods were shit. But they managed. The just needed to show it her, and they would.

They didn't know that they don't need a plan.

A/N: Is this so better, to read? I hope. The chapters are like always short. Sorry, for that. I upload the next chapter on the weekend.

Thank you for reading!