Chapter20: Red Lines
"I am in love with a human I haven't met yet"
"Haaaa! I can't believe any of this!" Kikumaru sighed heavily. "I feel really sorry for Miyu-chan. Ochibi is merciless. How can he do this to Miyu-chan?" He grunted, putting both of his hand on his cheeks.
"Kurosawa-chan cried after he pulled Ryuuzaki-chan away. She was really hurt" Horio said.
The day that Ryoma took Sakuno's hand right in front of anyone was a clear answer they needed from them. They didn't need to confirm nor deny anything. However, another news they received early this morning, is somehow another reality slaps on them.
The news circulating about the tennis prince and their manager spreads like a snowball. Rumors that the two were been dating in secret even before that Ryoma and Miyu broken up and might be the real reason behind, speculates in the said blind item was really hard to believe in them. Though their named wasn't clearly stated and only initials. However, the clues given were not hard to guess. They clearly pointed and hinted it out. On how this kind of rumors and on how the pictures were taken (both faces were blurred) as if they were been followed all along, they didn't know and although the posted blog was already deleted three hours after posting it through online, the uproar it caused was already done; many did their screen shot and create their own sentiments.
"Nah. Nah. Let's not jumped on conclusion, okay?!" Oishi said.
"What conclusion we need to hear them out?" Fuji asks, obviously mad. "Evidence were clearly stated, and Echizen never open his mouth to explain. for what reason? Don't you think we wait enough for their reasons?"
"Nah. Fuji senpai, maybe Echizen has his own reasons why he still not telling us?" Momoshiro butt in. "Why don't we just wait for him to tell us?"
"Keh! Echizen didn't say anything about it earlier!" Horio rebutted. "And why he's not telling anything to us?"
"Horio-kun shut up!" Katsuo shouted.
"Nah! Echizen is not like that, I am sure that's not true anyway" Momoshiro defended his best friend.
"Then Momo, can you tell us the truth?" Fuji asks looking sternly to him. Making Momo flinched on the spot. "You seem to know a lot" he uttered menacing.
"Fuji senpai" Momo uttered.
"I'm sure you, Kaido including your girlfriends knew something. Now start telling us so we could understand" Fuji's restraint voice was evident. He was mad. Not because of his kouhai's new found relationship but because of the reason that everything that's weighing on his mind were all true. That the 'real reason' behind of their break up was not because of Miyu. But because of his kouhai. He suspected it, even before. He suspected the doubtful action of the tennis prince and the brunette girl. They seem to know each other even way before, and he was right. But what's hard to believe that his kouhai was capable of hurting Miyu. His kouhai whom he entrusts his childhood friend with.
"Tell us ... Does the rumor was true? You keep defending your friend even his actions were all wrong" Fuji spats.
"Don't throw your anger to a wrong person, Fuji senpai" from the distance the tennis prince said, his nonchalant face was clearly seen by them. He closes the tennis locker room as he stood there.
They all gasps seeing how he remains calm even in situation like this.
"Echizen" Oishi mumbled
Fuji smirked. "So, you are ready to open your mouth huh" he mockingly said.
"It depends" Ryoma shrugs. "Whether you all ready to hear me out or just to throw a fit, then so be my guest" he uttered. "I don't care whatever you think about me, you already did judge me anyway. But spare Sakuno with this. I won't stand idly when it comes to her" he mumbled in serious voice. He was so damn done today. Why people love to poke their noses on his personal affairs? Why he's been always the center of their attention anyway? He is not a showbiz personality, but why they need to deal with these? Can they just spare his private life? The heck, Echizen Ryoma really losing it right now. He was so close to snapping most especially right now! His wife was the most affected on this. And he has seeing her hurt like that. 'Damn it! Once I get hold of this source, I will surely make them pay!'
"So, where the rumors were all true then? You seeing Ryuuzaki-chan even way before?" Fuji asks, he was so mad that his senses were blinded by anger. "I never thought that Ryuuzaki-chan is capable of doing something like that, maybe really looks were deceiving" he spats angrily. Obviously, his way of thinking was clouded by anger. Anger towards his kouhai, anger for the girl he loves that is not Miyu.
Ryoma eyes flickered with rage. If Momoshiro wasn't fast enough to stops him he will surely enraged his senpai.
"Echizen" he holds Echizen on his shoulder.
"Take it back, Fuji-senpai!" He demanded. "Sakuno wasn't like that. You don't know anything about her well, so don't talk ill on her!" He growled.
Fuji smiled creepily. "And you do? Was what it? Three? Four months? since you met her and yet it's her you choose? Tell me. Does the time you spend with Miyu was nothing? You seriously found someone else that fast! Or did you two both knew each other and waiting for the right time!"
"Fuji-senpai!" The tennis prince shouted.
"Echizen! What's happening on you? just because of Ryuuzaki-chan?!" Horio retorted
"You shut up Horio! You're not helping!" Momoshiro refuted.
"Fuji... Echizen you both calm down!" Oishi said. Stopping them both. It was so fortunate that Tezuka, Inui and their coach were in the middle of their meeting.
"Why would I stop now? What am I say is true anyway, all of us were thinking of the same thing!" Fuji chilly voice echoed inside the room. "You abandoned Miyu just like that! Why? Coz Ryuuzaki-chan is way too accessible? You can easily do anything you want to her? Is she's good enough? too submissive for your liking? And Miyu was not? Did she give you what you wanted? Warm your bed? Why?! Why did Miyu done to you for you to hurt her like that?" He was so hurt for his childhood friend. Fuji eyes turns red, for the hatred he keeps for so long. For silently watching for Miyu whom crying because of him. For the pain he inflicted to the person he loves most.
"Goddamnit! Don't insult Sakuno like that, you fucking bastard!" Ryoma curse in English. Fuming mad.
"Oi! Echizen! Fuji is still your senpai!" Kawamura scolded him.
"Then, he should act like one!" He shouted angrily. "I didn't disrespect Miyu, as what you were claiming! You all fucking knew we already through! So don't you fucking disrespected Sakuno!" He was mad. So mad. All he can see was red.
"Calm down Echizen!" Momoshiro grabs him from his shoulder. Kaido helps him too.
"Fuji-senpai stops it! That is something you shouldn't have said!" Momoshiro countered. "No matter how mad you are, disrespecting Ryuuzaki-chan like that is out of line!" Momoshiro couldn't help but butt in.
"Momo!" Oishi stops him
"Mou! Since Ryuuzaki-chan came here we all messed up like this! And now we are Fighting!" Kikumaru exclaimed.
"Eiji! / Senpai!" Both Oishi and Kaido shouted in the same time.
Ryoma whom heard it loud and clear looks down, he was deeply hurt for what he heard. He wasn't expected it anyway. For years of knowing them, he was so sure that they are the first people who will be glad for him. That is why he was confident enough that they will understand them. Were they really like Miyu that much? That they can easily invalidated Sakuno like this? He was hurt for himself and most of all for his wife. Now, he really thanks enough that she was kind of busy right now and she wouldn't hear any of this for the people she looks ups to and admired. His heart constricts in pain just imagining her hurt face once she knew about this. Of course, he wouldn't let her knew this. He was hurt because the people he respects too much was capable of saying things like these towards the innocent girl just because she's someone he's been with, not the person they like for him.
Kikumaru was taken aback seeing the disappointment and hurt on his kouhai eyes he quickly regretted what he said. "Ochi-" seeing how his favorite kouhai steps back from them, he paused. He saw the flickering pain on his golden eyes as he looks down.
"You all honestly blaming her, don't you?" He asks in accusing, hurt, disappointment voice.
"No! That's not it Echizen."
"You honestly all think it was her fault, isn't it? You believed on those rumors" he smiled bitterly.
"Why? Isn't it true?"
"Fuji! Stops it already!" This time it was Kawamura whom stops him.
"Senpais..." Disappointment was evident on his voice. "I know how much you all wanted Miyu for me. I am not blind." he uttered slowly. "I followed you in everything you wanted when it comes to Miyu, even no matter how much I told you that we already ended" this time his voice calms down, yet the disappointment was still there. "No one listen to me at all. You keep pushing me to her." His eyes were bloodshed red. "I was waiting for you all to notice Sakuno's existence in my life. I was patiently hoping that you would all see it. Coz you were good by it anyway. You know, how excited I am to tell you about us?! But you were all blinded by the fact that I was for Miyu, and she was for me" he paused. "But don't you think your being too mean right now?" He looks straight in their eyes. "Sakuno likes you all" he said. It was fact. He saw how his senpais looks guilty. "She was always excited to see you all play in the court. She always looking forward to see you every day. She worries a lot on you all, she treated you as her older brothers. She really likes you all that every day she was living in fear that she might lost you all once you all knew the truth. Coz, she knows how much you like Miyu to me. She knows that Miyu will get hurt from the truth and here what she gets from you..." He bitterly smirked, "well... She seems right anyway, so what's the point of hiding this anyway"
"Echizen that's not it" Oishi said.
"Yes. You were right, Fuji senpai. " He cut his senpai off "We know each other for the long time, she's my childhood friend. We both grew up together. she is my fiancée." He said straight on the tennis tensai.
Gasps heard from everywhere. The freshmen trio's eyes widen in shocked.
"But the funny thing is... I don't know she's existing in my life... I totally forgot her, and meet after ten years"
Confused on his revelation, the regulars keep gaping like a fish.
"If you were all thinking that I cheated on Miyu, because I have a fiancée, maybe you were right. I cheated on her, coz I forgot Sakuno's existence in my life. I was wrong on that part. My loss memory of her wasn't a valid reason. I know right. I am truly sorry for that. But... I extend my apologize to the person whom I forgot and that's Sakuno, coz between the two of them, I made a huge mistake to her. For forgetting our promised together, for loving someone else that supposed and should be only her, and for hurting her. " He spoke.
"But Fuji senpai you were wrong in one part; Sakuno didn't wait for a right time for us. It's hers from the beginning. It's rightfully hers." He added.
"We only meet again a month after Miyu and I broke up. And you do know the reason why we broke up not because of Sakuno" He continued. "I don't care if you believe me or not"
No one spoke, they were all listening towards the prince prodigy biggest revelations.
"At first, it was a mere curiosity that's why I wanted to meet her. I am so curious about her. Coz ever since I knew about her, her existence she never left my mind despite not remembering her. And do you know what she first said after meeting me again?" He chuckled. " That she doesn't want to marry me. That we should stop this nonsense. That's despite of her waiting for me in the past ten years, she thinks of me first. Coz, you know what?" He paused. "She knows about me and Miyu. She knew I have a girlfriend way back then. That's instead of getting mad at me, demanding of why's. She remains silent and supported my relationship with her. She remains happy for us, silently supporting us. She respects Miyu's existence in my life. So much, that she's willing to sacrifice. Even breaking her own heart"
Momoshiro sniffs, it was the first time he heard their story for Echizen's own mouth. Despite knowing the truth, he never really heard the whole detail of everything.
"Yes, we keep seeing each other after our first meeting, it's my idea, coz, my growing curiosity didn't stop there. The very first time I saw her I known for myself that something is wrong. That even without us seeing each other, I know I will come back for her again. That everything was not curiosity at all, despite of the fact that she doesn't really like the idea, despite of thinking that I am doing it out of returning favors." He paused. He looks straight on their eyes. "I almost lost Sakuno" he uttered seriously, as he remembered that very moment on the forest. "I won't let that happened again. I'm married to her, Sakuno is my wife senpais" he uttered seriously.
Another sharp intake of breath heard inside the tennis locker room, even Fuji's eyes open wide on another blow of revelation. Speechless, they were all looking at him.
"I married her and that's the best decision I made. I married her not because of responsibility rather coz I know for myself I couldn't live without her. I love Sakuno so much that every strand, thread and filament of my body was for her. Only for her."
The regulars' eyes widen in shocked, they never expected that their kouhai will be this open from them.
"I am telling you this not to come clean or whatsoever. I am telling you this in hopes that you will be happy for me. Because I am so happy for my decisions. " He looks straight on Fuji's eyes. "I know how much you cared about Miyu, Fuji senpai. I'm deeply sorry for hurting her, but I wouldn't be sorry for choosing my happiness. Miyu deserves better than me. We both know that" he looks once again to his senpais. "I know you might disappoint with my decisions, but I am not. Sakuno is everything to me. She's more than life to me senpais. Though it's a pity that I couldn't share how happy I am now with you. I'm not asking for too much. I hope this is the last time you will disrespect my wife. She doesn't deserve this. You can be mad at me. I will take all the blame. But spare her with this. He said sincerely. "I am protecting my wife at all cost even it means I needed to protect her away from all of you" he bowed leaving his senpais alone.
Ryoma opens the door, only to find his wife standing behind the door, eyes swollen from tears, his eyes widen in fraction; from her back Inui senpai and their buchou were all listening just like her.
"Sakuno..."
"Ryuuzaki-chan"
"Gomen ne...I-" Sakuno who couldn't restrain her tears, cried. She dashed out on the door.
"Oiii... Sakuno" he started running chasing his wife.
Rinko blinks a couple of times; seems confused from what is happening, she looks on her surroundings.
"Where am I?"
The last time Rinko remember was, she is in her office, doing some important documents. She asks for her secretary for a cup of tea, still confused; she started walking again. Her feet walk on its own. her feet automatically stopped seeing a familiar pinkish long hair from a far
"Shiira- chan?!" She mumbled softly.
Shiira looks on her side, she smiled sweetly the same way she always remembers. Her innocent and radiant smile that brightens up a day of anyone.
"Hey, Rinko-chan" she said softly. The way she spoke reminds of her daughter. Surely enough, Sakuno take it after her.
"Why are you? - oh my God?! Did I die?! I am just enjoying my cup of tea y'know!" Rinko exclaimed, her eyes widening as she gasps horribly. She tried to recollect her memories earlier. For sure, she just having her tea! Did someone poison her?!
"Of course not! Silly" Shiira laughed genuinely. She smiled once again affectionately.
"Then..."
"I came here just to give you this" Shiira opens her palms as she handed it to Rinko.
Rinko did the same thing; she opens her palm wide; her eyes widen seeing a yellow chrysanthemum flowers place on her palm. It was so bright that it looks gold for the first sight. A bright smile came from Shiira's lips, she holds her hair that been swaying from the wind.
"Please take care of them for me, Rinko" she smiles before she vanished in the thin air.
Rinko abruptly opens her eyes, she gasps as she looks on her hand, found nothing on it.
"What a weird dream" she mumbled as she started massaging the bridge of her nose. On the same time, her secretary peek on the door, she smiled on her, before she went inside of her office.
"I thought you are still sleeping attorney" Hana, Rinko's secretary for years smiled. She places the piled of papers in the center table before resuming to the mini pantry on the other side "Oh! By the way, Ryoga-san called earlier, I told him you were sleeping, I told him that I wake you up but he said he might call you again." She informed while putting the reheated tea on her table.
"Ryoga? Okay I call him later. By the way, Hana-chan. You're family business is flower shop right?!" She asks gently sipping of her tea
"Yes. My mom loves planting flowers" Hana smiled. "That's why we are all name after flowers. Why attorney?"
"Then do you have any idea what is chrysanthemum means?" She inquired. Rinko was not a typical flower type of person. The hell she cared about one. However, she was so curious about her dreams though.
"Uhmm... There is a lot of meaning of chrysanthemum depends on country I supposed? But here in our country, white chrysanthemum means death, while red symbol of love. From other countries it means longevity, joy, happiness and vitality" she quickly explained.
"Weird" Rinko mumbled. " Ah! Forget it. I might finish these at home. You can go now too." Rinko smiled. "I will just make a quick call on my eldest." She smiled, before she went outside of her office
Hana just smiled back. "Weird. Why does attorney get curious about chrysanthemum?" She mumbled. "Did she dream about it?" She shrugs, she went back on filing the papers on the drawer " Ah! chrysanthemum is a conception dream, right? Is there pregnant in their family? Ah forget it! It might be not true anyway" She shrugs once again.
"Oi... Sakuno I'm done now, I already adjust the heat of the tub, just be careful on your steps-" the tennis prodigy stops on his litany seeing his wife who was peacefully sleeping on their bed. A smirked escape on his lips seeing how pleasant she looks like. Right after what happened in their school, his senpais, Momo and Kaido together with their girlfriends decided to go in the mall to unwind, which he completely agreed to lighten up her mood.
"What are you dreaming of?" He mumbled as he watched her while asleep, he leans his one on his chin as he enjoys looking at his wife. Sakuno was smiling and giggling on her sleep, whatever she was dreaming of, it seems so joyful and nice. Ryoma chuckled. "Sleep tight wife" he softly mumbled as he planted a soft kiss on her forehead.
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"Ara?! Where is Sakuno-chan?" Nanako asks the tennis prodigy seeing that he was alone.
"Sleeping" The tennis prince answered. He stared at the food in the table.
"At this hour? It's still early" Nanako commented.
"Sakuno- chan will not join us to eat?" Rinko voice echoed from the kitchen. She stared at his son intently.
"She's sleeping so soundly kaa san, I will just wait for her to wake up and we will eat together" he said. "Besides, we eat at the burger joint together with senpais. Ja, I will go upstairs now" he said before leaving his parents and cousin on the dining table.
"Keh! If I know they might engage into quarrel or whatsoever!" Nanjirou commented as he started digging his own food.
"Gahh! You scared me! Oi... Rinko what the hell you are doing there?" Nanjirou holds his own chest, surprise seeing his own wife, seating in the dining with lights off in the middle of the night. Rinko's face was serious as she looking intently on the box in the table as if she was offering her prayer on it.
"What are you doing?!" Nanjirou walks beside his wife. He yawned, seeing that it is exactly 12 in midnight. His eyes widen in surprise seeing the familiar things he first saw last 18 years ago, laid down perfectly on their dining table. "Oi, don't tell me? Don't you think we are too old enough for having a baby again?! Aren't you menopausal? OUUCHH! What was that for?!" Nanjiro dance, wincing in pain as Rinko step hardly on his foot.
"This is not mine! Idiot!" Rinko hissed. She massages her temples.
"Masaka?! Nanako is pregnant?" His eyes widen in surprise.
"Baka! This is for your daughter in law!" She almost shouted.
Eyes widening like a saucer plate, Nanjiro opens and closes his mouth, gaping like a fish and for the very first time in his life he couldn't react fast for the information's slowly sinking in on his mind.
"Yes. I suspected that Sakuno-chan is expecting" she sighed heavily.
"We? We are going to be grandparents?!" From shocked gaping mouth, Nanjiro's mouth turns into big huge smile. He taps his wife shoulder from so much delight. "I'm so proud of our son. See Rinko?! He really took after me?! Hahhaha!" Seconds later on, as if it finally stuck on his mind, his tears welled on his eyes as he comically crying, he wipes his tears with his arms as his tears looks like a broken water burst from the water tank. "Ahhh! I'm going to be a jiichan? Ji chan! Rinko! I'm so happy!"
"Ha! Nanjiro, it's not a perfect time to celebrate, if Sakuno-chan was indeed pregnant, don't you think they are too young for that?" Rinko sighed. "Sakuno-chan was still adjusting for her new school, they were just first years! It's not that long enough since they started schooling, how come your son got Sakuno-chan pregnant that fast? And for God's sake they were just 17 years old! How they supposed to know on how to take care of a baby let alone raise it? Seriously Nanjiro!" Rinko lamented.
"Keh! Of course, they are doing it! That's my son, so indeed he came after me huh." A huge grin appeared on Nanjirou's lips. "See Rinko? We got Ryoma too in just one try. I bet they did it too! I'm so proud of our son hahaahhaahaha!" He burst out of laughter.
"This is a serious matter Nanjiro!"
"And I am serious too!" He points himself " neh, don't you think you were thinking too much?" Nanjiro said in his serious voice. "When they decided to get married, you should expect things like this would happen Rinko" he said scratching his head. "Do you think your son will listen to you that no grandchildren not until they both graduate? Of course, he is our son. He is stubborn as hell but it doesn't mean he is an idiot who will simply put and put his sword inside a cave without thinking on his own actions." He spoke. "Of course, he knows he might get his wife pregnant"
"Ha! This is the problem with you Nanjiro, you trust your son too much! See what is happening?!"
"And this is the problem with you too Rinko, you overthink of everything. You think that everything should be done by order, by what shouldn't others think. Are we supposed to pleased them? So, what if others think about? So, what's now if they both young? It doesn't mean they are not qualified to be a better parent. You were judging them without seeing it first. " His brows furrowed. "That's why we are here. Right? We are here to guide them; we are here to teach them for whatever they need to know. If we are the one who first judge them because of having a child at young age, who will be one who will understand them? It's ours Rinko, we are their biggest support. We are the one who will give strength to them. It's not like that what they've done is wrong." He scratches his head.
"Remember, they are legally married. And besides don't you think you are being too much for our unborn grandchild? She supposed treated like a blessing because she is the one. It's a big blessing to us. She is given to us early for a reason not a problem to be solve" Nanjirou said putting one of his small fingers on his ear.
Rinko looks down.
"Or... You are worried for other thing. Rinko, I know you too well" Nanjiro spoke seriously.
Rinko fidgeted her hand on the table, she sighed heavily before she speaks "you do know what did Shiira-chan and Raiiki have been through before they finally have Sakuno-chan right? For series of trying to conceive for three years of marriage up to the couple of miscarriages they got into. We witness it all" a pain in her voice lace. Her eyes turn miserable as she remembered it all.
"Sure, they are mother and daughter but it doesn't mean that Sakuno-chan will ended like Shiira-chan. Nah, Rinko stops overthinking for everything. We supposed to celebrate! Haha!"
"Hah! That free spirited you have here, as like everything will be alright. That's the same common traits your sons take after you!" Rinko commented shaking her head in disbelief, a smile crept on her lips.
"Keh! If I know you were the first who was really excited for the great news." Nanjirou rebutted.
"It is still not confirmed! So, don't you dare tell this to your son! It seems they are pretty clueless about these things, Sakuno-chan said that it is because of her having a irregular period. But I highly doubt that. So, zip that big mouth of yours, do you understand?! Let them knew it first before we finally step in"
"Huh? And what these are supposed to be?" Nanjiro points out the pregnancy test kits in the table.
"Well-" Rinko blinks. Well, she badly wanted to let Sakuno-chan try it all to know if she's really pregnant, she is really itching for it, yet, however realizing how she's stepping the line, she contemplated.
"Keh! Admit it Rinko-chan, you were so excited to have a grandchild! Right?" He grins while wiggling his brows.
"Who said that!" Rinko looks away blushing. "Of course, I am so excited" she admitted blushing hard. Just thinking about their first grandchild makes her heart jumps in so much happiness. Though it was too early to have one, she will definitely shower him/her with so much affection. It's been seventeen years since the last time she carried a baby on her arms. Now that they might have one, the house full of silence will surely have a bright color when another member of the family finally come.
"See? So, you were not serious when you told them that do not have a baby not until they graduate right? I know you. It's normal, I am excited myself too." He laughed merrily. "Nah, Rinko what do you think our first grandchild? I hope it's a girl" he beams. "We raised two sons, and there is no good on raising two idiot sons, though Ryoma did a very good job now! Hahahaha. C'mon Rinko? When is the baby coming?"
"Ha! I told you it's not confirm yet! So don't you dare tell this to Ryoma!"
Sakuno was humming happily while arranging their bentos.
"Let me help you Sakuno-chan" Nanako said with wide smile; fresh from her morning bath, she hurriedly helps her to prepare their breakfast. earlier, she found Sakuno already cooking for their food. Though she insists to help her. the young lass told her that it was okay and just focus on her morning routine since she has a work early than the usual time. Although contemplated, she still did and promised that she will be fast and help her after "Hmmm... You seem in the good mood" she commented, seeing how she unusually extra lively today.
"Uhm!" Sakuno nodded with smile "I have a nicest dream last night" she answered.
"That's good to hear" Nanako said
"Ahhhh... Ohayou" Ryoma greeted them with a yawn, with sleepy eyes and disheleved hair, he look at his wife who seems extra happy today.
"Ohayo Ryoma-san!" Nanako greeted.
"Ohayo Ryoma-kun" Sakuno greeted with smiles
"Ara! What a feast we have here" Rinko cheerful voice echoed inside of the dining room.
"Ohayo Kaa san" Sakuno was the first to greet her
"Ohayo auntie" Nanako greeted. "Sakuno-chan prepares it all. I saw her earlier preparing for our breakfast when I came here"
"Hmmm... It seems that our Sakuno-chan is in the extra good mood today. I wonder what happen" Nanjirou commented. He seated right in front of his son.
"Uncle, she told us that she has a nicest dream last night"
"Hare?! I bet our Sakuno-chan finally realized how unfortunate she was because she married my stupid son! OUCH!" Nanjiro winced, he stood up, jumping in one foot, nursing his aching leg that been kick by his own son under the table.
"Stupid oyaji!" Ryoma grunted.
"Oh! So, what did you dream about?" Rinko asks delighted.
"Uhmm.. eto... It's kind' a weird but I really love my dream. I don't know why" she said, she took the chopstick that her husband offered. It was a usual thing he always did every time they eat together. "Uhmm... I dream of a huge dragon last night, uhm… it's flying in the sky with full of bright stars above. And I am just watching it from the window. It's looks fun just by watching it. It seems like he was dancing on the sky." Sakuno giggles as she remembers her dreams vividly. "And when he notices my presence, he went straight on our room and jumps on my arms and poof! He turns out to be a cute baby dragon!" Sakuno laughs. "I don't know, but I feel so happy just by imagining the cute baby dragon. It felt so real in my arms. I fully couldn't explain that feeling when he was in my arms"
"Heh, that's weird dreams of your wife" Ryoma chuckled, he puts some vegetables on her bowl. "Eat these" he said.
"It's so cute! And oh! It has the same eyes color like you Ryoma-kun!" She merrily said while munching on her food. She wrinkled her nose as she gulps the food on her mouth and drink plenty of water. "Mou! I don't like these!" She said as she put the vegetables back on Ryoma's bowl.
"But that's your favorite" The tennis prince brows furrowed. He stared on her "Ha! Fine!" He quickly submits, sensing how her mood suddenly change in just a snap. "What's my wife wants? Tell me"
On the other hand, Rinko and Nanjirou exchange meaningful glances, Nanjirou side lips rose, feeling so excited. For sure, it was really positive. He's going to be a jii chan soon!
"Haaaaa!" Sakuno sighed heavily as her feet finally touches the ground of Seigaku tennis court. Her excitement from earlier drop down as she realized what did happened days ago. It's been three days since that day. Ever since that day, the silent war between her husband and the senpais started. Contemplating to face the whole team, she tiptoed her feet on the side. 'Maybe I should resign as their manager' Sakuno hold her chest, for she really loves to them. She genuine care each one of them that it hurts thinking that it will never be the same as before.
After hearing the heated encounter of her husband together with the senpais just because of her, she lost a face to faced them. She felt like it was really her fault because her husband was having a feud towards senpais; most especially to Fuji senpai. She couldn't blame them though, Kurosawa Miyu is like a little sister to them and obviously, they felt betrayed by them hiding the truth about them. And to add fuel on the flame; Momo-senpai and Kaido-senpai been dragged on the enraged of the other senpais. It seems like just because of her, the harmonious teamwork of Seigaku splits in half. Though her husband won't admit it to her, she knows that Ryoma was having a hard time from it.
"Maybe I shouldn't go now? Isn't it?" She spoke in herself. "Demo- I don't want to neglect my duty as their manager! But... They might not want to see me" tears stung on her eyes just by thinking of it. The friendship she builds with her senpais suddenly vanished like that. It's her fault anyway yet she feels really sad about it. She sniffs trying to hold back her tears. Was it really wrong to be with Ryoma-kun? She knows really well that she was nothing compared to Kurosawa Miyu but she's trying her hardest right? Was that not enough?
"Ryuuzaki-chan?"
A voice pulled back Sakuno on reality. She looks up meeting the gazed of Inui senpai, well not exactly his gazed since he's wearing his thick square glasses.
"What are you doing here? They were all in the court now" Inui said.
Sakuno looks down, somehow, she couldn't look on his eyes. "Gomenasai! I am going now!" She bowed 90 degrees before rushing away from her senpai.
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"Hmmm..." Yamato sensei stared at his tennis team who were surprisingly quiet for the past few days. Weird it seems, but his team was the loudest. The only moment they were quiet was when they lost on their match (which didn't happen for the last three years) or when they were into fight (which rarely happen or never did since they treated each other more than a brothers) Their brotherhood bond is beyond compare, that sometimes, Yamato sensei, himself wonders where is the strong bond coming from. From their unbreakable trusts they had to each other up to unbeatable loyalty they giving to each other's. 'I got your back whatever happens' literally exist on their group. However, right now just by simply observing them, it seems like..."Is there something wrong with you guys? You were all surprisingly quiet" he chuckled. He eyed each of them, from Kaido who was standing from the last lane, who simply looks down, Momoshiro who looks away, their youngest and cockiest member, the tennis prince itself whom nonchalantly looks at him, as if he didn't ask anything down to the golden pair, Kikumaru who looks on the other side and Oishi whom simply sweat dropped and whistled, Fuji the tennis tensai whom surprisingly serious and Kawamura who scratch his head shyly.
"No one wants to answer me?" He asks chuckling. "Hai. Hai. I guess it can't help, isn't it?" He claps his hands making the whole team looks at him. "Well, well... I have some great news to you all." He makes his voice lively. "Since summer vacation is coming, the whole tennis association invites you together with the rest of the other teams to Tennis camp. Isn't it amazing?" He said in a cheerful voice.
"Suggoooiii! Ochobi did you hear that? Another tennis camps!" Nya!" Kikumaru delightedly hangs his arm to the tennis prodigy shoulder, they both flinched, realizing that they are not in good terms, he quickly took his arms away and pretended like nothing happened.
Yamato sensei chortled, grasping the situation fast. Tezuka whom silently looking at his teammates sighed.
" The tennis camp is in the middle of discussion right now, as of the moment, most of the invited teams given their positive feedbacks of joining. The teams that already decided were Fudomine High, Hyoutei, Yamabuki, Shitohonji, Rikkai Dai, Seigaku while the rest are still under negotiation. Aren't you all excited? Isn't it amazing?" He added "I guess this is the first time you were not excited at all. Are we not gonna participate? Should I withdraw our slot of joining?" He asks.
"Sou na" Kikumaru sighed, he dropped his shoulder
"Of course, we are excited! Right Echizen?!" Momoshiro utterly said. Trying to lift the mood of team.
Yamato sensei claps his hand. "And for more further details, Ryuuzaki-chan will brief you for do's and don'ts during camping trip and about the whole technicalities of tennis camp."
Sakuno sighed. She steps right in front of the tennis team, feeling so nervous she tightly grips the hold on her notebook.
"Uhmmm... For the upcoming Tennis camp" she started, trying her best not to give them a glance. She started talking without glancing everyone. And that's how the morning practice ended.
"Are you okay Sakuno?" An asks
"Uhm" Sakuno said as she tried her best to ignored the piercing gazed of the students to her. Since the news about her and the tennis prince spread, half of the school female students directly giving their dislike and hate to her. It was just three days since the news came out. Yet, Sakuno felt like dealing it for so long. She started to get so anxious and tired. She felt like suffocated at the same time.
"Don't mind them Sakuno, they are just envy and pathetically stupid who can't move on." Tomoka said, she glared one of the freshman girls whom look at Sakuno with dislike. "They will get tired of this eventually. So, relax, okay?"
"Haaaaa..." Sakuno sighed. She obviously didn't want any attention most especially when what she gets are hatred.
"But have you heard?" Tomoka asks.
"Heard what?" An asks confused.
"There is a new student in our class. Weird since summer break is near then they still accept student" Tomoka shrugs.
"Really?! That's really weird" An commented.
"I heard he's kind' a cute. I got a glimpse of him in the faculty y'know!" Tomoka grins.
Sakuno who is not paying attention to them yawns loudly getting the attention of her friends.
"Sakuno it's still early and yet you are already sleepy?" Tomoka brows furrowed
"Are you staying up so late at night Sakuno?" An asks. "I thought you were in final touch of our English project?"
"No, I sleep right after our video chat with Tohru-chan last night" Sakuno answered with another yawned.
"Huh? We ended our video call last night too early since you keep yawning" Tomoka said. "Are you okay?"
"Uhm. I am just really felt tired these past few days " she said covering her mouth.
"You know, you always been like that, you seem tired and sleepy. Are you sure you, okay?" An asks, her eyes meet Tomoka who asking the same question in her eyes.
"Hey Sakuno... Perhaps-" An hesitately asks
"Oi... You, okay?" From nowhere the tennis prince appeared, he stared at her worried. Students from the hallway looks at them, they were looking at them intently like they were some kinds of movie to watch. They even whispered to each other.
"Uhm" Sakuno answered. As another yawn escape her lips.
Ryoma wipes the tear comes out on her eyes due to her yawning. "Let's go. You seem so sleepy Sakuno, are you sure you really, okay?" He asks, gently pulled her to him not really holding her hand. Since everyone knew about them now, (though what they knew was they were dating and not literally the real relationship they had) what's the point of hiding anyway?
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"Ohayo... I am Arata Arima, I hope we can get along all." He smiled.
"Oh, he's cute right?" One of their female classmates said.
Ryoma, who surprisingly not sleeping in their class was looking intently to the new classmate of them with one hand on his cheeks, his typical bored posed. He was smiling so brightly in their front. He seems fine and friendly but for some reason, Ryoma didn't like the guy. And he didn't know why. His brows automatically furrowed when he notices how the guy looks at his wife, whom busy on scribbling something on her notes. His eyes never leave her. He chuckled seeing how she was so focused on her own world. Ryoma frowned. 'Did Sakuno knew this guy?'
"Arata-kun you can sit right beside Ryuuzaki-chan, the one with braided hair" Takumi motioned the vacant seat.
His frowned deepened more when the guy stops right in front of his wife. Smiling like an idiot. Sensing that is someone is looking at her, Sakuno looks up meeting his smiling face. Sakuno blinks once, twice and thrice. For sure, this is their new classmate they were talking about but he's staring at her with some familiarity and she didn't know why. Well, he looks familiar though. When did she saw him?
"Do you know him Sakuno?" Tomoka asks from her behind.
Sakuno opens her mouth ready to speak when their homeroom teacher beat her for it.
"Okay class, settle down. For our lesson for this day"
Sakuno quickly diverted her attention in the front listening for their sensei's lesson.
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"Uhmmm. Ryoma-kun just wait for me in our classroom, I just need to pee" she said while walking in the hallway.
Ryoma's brows furrowed. "You just peed before we went upstairs Sakuno" he said in mattery-fact-tone.
"Mou! But I really want to pee right now." She spoke.
"Fine. I just wait you outside the classroom, okay? Make it quick and please... Be careful on the toilet's floor" he reminded her like a child.
"Mou! I am not a kindergartener!"
"You are!" Ryoma smirked.
Sakuno pouted her lips as she turns to the other side, where the toilet is located. The tennis prodigy follows her with his gazed until she was already not on his sight.
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'baaaam!'
A loud kicking sound of something envelops the whole female comfort room. Surrounded by group of female juniors, Sakuno who was leaning on the tiled wall, looking intently on them. It was different group from yesterday. Since the news about them flashed, other students started to bully her more frequent. They started to become more intense just like now.
"Jeez. What did Echizen saw on you?" She smirked. "You are too boring!"
"Maybe she's gone well in... You know" the other girl said mockingly.
"Heh, right! Girls who seem demure outside were vixen inside right?" The one who kicked earlier, seems the leader of the group said laughing. "So, how about to-" she looks on Sakuno's uniform. "Let's see what's hiding inside of yours-"
"Sensei! Over here! Some group of juniors bullying someone inside!" A voice shouted from outside of the comfort room, echoed inside, alarmed and scared the group of female students all flinched, they were all hurriedly came out of the toilet leaving Sakuno behind.
"Haaaa!" Sakuno sighed. One thing she learned about being targeted by bullies was never let them see your expressions at all. She took another breathe as She crouched down on the floor, scared, her heart beat erratically inside her chest. Sakuno stay on that position, calming herself.
She's have been targeting by bullies and yet she has no heart to tell this to her own husband or even friends.
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"Does this happen often?"
"Oh!" Sakuno flinched in the voice she heard upon going outside of the toilet. She holds her own chest. "Mou! You scared me!" She almost shouted.
Arata Arumi, their new classmate was leaning on the doorframe of female comfort room, his blue eyes were seriously looking at her.
"It's you who shouted?"
"No? Recording" he waves his phone on the air.
"Thank you" Sakuno smiled. She slightly bowed her head to him.
"I am asking you, does the bullying always happening to you?" He intently asks, for some reason, he reminds of her own husband whenever he was serious like this. She stared intently on him. Somehow his blue eyes are kind' a familiar. His set of deep round blue eyes, Sakuno wonders where did she saw that. He looks foreign most especially on his disheveled blonde hair.
"This is my natural hair" he said touching his own hair. Making Sakuno blinks, confused on him.
"I said, this is my natural hair, I always dyed it black." He added pointing it out on her.
"Oh...kay" Sakuno answered. Although she was no idea why he was telling it to her.
He looks at her as if he was dissatisfied on her reaction, he looks like expecting more from her.
"Forget it" he scratches his head, seeing how clueless she looks like on him "so tell me, does they bully you like this? Why? Because of your boyfriend?"
'boyfriend?' boyfriend means her husband right? Not wanting to confirm nor deny anything, Sakuno blinks on him. Still dazed on why he talks to her so comfortably on her as if they are once lost friends.
"What are you doing?" From the distance, Echizen Ryoma was standing, both hands on his pocket looking sharply on them with expressionless face.
"Ryoma-kun!" Sakuno mumbled she walks straight on him, as if it was the natural thing to do. Her feet come naturally to him.
"Why are you here?" Sakuno asks with smiles.
"Wasn't it obvious? You took too long. I was checking on you. Why are you with him?" He asks, his eyes landed towards their new classmate, his piercing glance somehow makes Arata Arumi chuckled.
"Uhm. I don't know, I just saw him here."
"The male's comfort room was on the other side" the tennis prince said to their new classmate.
Arata Arumi smiled. He looks at them with amazed expression. He looks at the brunette girl with an expression that seriously the tennis prodigy didn't like.
"C'mon! Sakuno, our next class is about to start" he said, holding her hand as he started pulling his wife away to him. The tennis prodigy really didn't like that new classmate of them, and for the very first time, he didn't know why.
"Is this being necessarily? You see..." Miyu fidgeted her hands on the table, she was currently in the ice cream shop talking to someone. "It doesn't necessarily need that way you know... I don't want to hurt her or anyone... Regardless of what she did to me" the way Miyu speaks sounds like hurting.
"Miyu-chan... You are so kind. I don't know why Echizen-kun abandoned you to choose her" Kaneko Kaede spoke, she holds her hand.
"But ... she doesn't deserve-"
"Shhh! She deserves it! Everyone in our school started hating her! What a snake hiding on her sweet innocent facade! Ryuuzaki Sakuno will surely pay for ruining your relationship with Echizen-kun!" Kaneko spoke with vengeance. "I will avenge you from her! I promised you that Miyu-chan!" She spoke.
"Demo... I don't want you to get into trouble because of me. I know Ryoma too well; he won't stand idly without doing anything" Miyu said concern laced on her voice.
"Don't worry about it!" Kaneko beams. "I am the best in this field, you see I won't be called genius for nothing" She grinned. Well, Kaneko Kaede was best on her field. Her broaden knowledge, wide range and advance skills in computer programming and data system is something incomparable. That is why it was so easy for her to manipulate anything in their school blog. Hence, delete anything without a trace.
A ghost smirked appeared on Miyu's lips. She stared at Kaneko Kaede whom been her fan ever since.
"Kaede. Please don't put yourself into trouble. I will be okay." She said, getting more sympathy towards the girl. "If Ryoma really likes her, then so be it. I will wish them happiness" she added, sounded hurt.
"No! Echizen-kun was surely blinded! One day he will realize it was you! Whom he truly like! Don't give up just yet, okay?!"
"Thank you. Your words means so much to me"
Kaneko beams. "Ja. Demo, Miyu-chan, how did you get those pictures?" She asks innocently.
Miyu's eyes flickered from sudden question.
"Based on the resolution of those picture it seems not taken by ordinary camera or phone and base on the angle of every picture it seems not taken by chance. Like they being followed or something" She added.
Miyu blinks, she composed herself immediately, "I don't know. Someone gave it to me. Seems someone concern on my well-being." She sounded like in so much pain.
"Alright. I won't asked anymore. Ja Miyu-chan, see you tomorrow! We will watch for the tennis final match!" Kaneko beams.
Miyu smiled at her waving her hand; her innocent smile turns into frown once the young poor girl vanishes on her sight. She sighed, using people on her advantage was really easy. Now, she realized on how his own father could do such thing. She stood up on her seat and about to leave when Hikaru stood in front of her.
"Was it all worthy enough Miyu?!" She looks upset at her friend. "You basically stirring the truth from your made up lies! And what will you get from that?! Do you think Echizen-kun will come back on you once you successfully made them apart?! C'mon Miyu! You are far way better than that!" Hikaru angrily spats.
"You don't know anything! So better keep your mouth shut!" Miyu glared back at Hikaru.
"You obviously using innocent people at your advantage! You using Kaneko-chan to ruin Ryuuzaki-chan! You using Fuji-senpais feelings towards you to make their friendship ruins. Are you satisfied now? You successfully ruined Sakuno, most of your fans, Echizen-kun fans and even their school mates started hating her. The Seigaku regulars' friendship are in stake because of your made up lies! What did you exactly tell to the Seigaku team? What did you exactly tell to Fuji-senpai?"
"I am not done yet!" Miyu shouted. "After all your right, I am using them all for my advantage. And you can't stop me. No one will believe on you anyway"
"Miyu, I hope you won't regret anything." She softly whispered, seeing that there is no remorse on her eyes.
"Don't worry I won't"
"Anou... Senpais... Yamato sensei was looking for you all" Sakuno softly spoken each word without looking on their eyes. Her eyes glued on the ground, standing so awkwardly to their front. She felt sudden nervous. It's almost a week since that day. Since that day, the regulars barely talk to each other's, and if they did, it was only for a casual 'match' they had or 'technicalities' they need to discuss. But far from that they didn't have their usual teasing and conversation.
Most of the free times they had, the seniors (Oishi, Kikumaru, Fuji, Kawamura sometimes with Tezuka and Inui) will group themselves while the juniors (Momo and Kaido) including the tennis prince will group themselves. The feud caused by their relationship ruins everything. Sakuno blames herself from that. It was the truth anyway. She felt so guilty about it, and can't find herself look on their eyes.
"Oh..kay Ryuuzaki-chan" Oishi senpai was the one who breaks the awkward and earie silence. He smiled on her. Sakuno felt so guilty, she tried to smiled back, however it more looks like she was having a constipation rather than a genuine one.
She hurriedly turns her back after giving her respect to them.
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"Aaahhh! Yamato sensei is surely mean. I feel so drained. Tomorrow is our finals yet he let us drained like this" Kikumaru whine while opening his own locker inside the tennis locker room.
"Ohhh!" Oishi exclaimed.
"Nani! Nani?!" Kikumaru paused, he hurriedly went on his double partner's reaction. "Oh! This is you Oishi! A chibi version of you! Suggooi Oishi! This is so cute!" Kikumaru jumps in excitement, he stared on the drawing. Oishi's chibi version where he was smiling with a cute logo of good luck in the corner "Hare? What's the meaning of this?" There is a big circle divided into half, the other side was moon while the other side is a tennis ball it seems flying towards the sky.
"Hmmm... It seems moon volley, your special moves" Fuji answered. He stared on the paper he had in hand. It was him in his usual smiling face surrounded by animals like swallow bird, brown bear, whale, dragonfly and mythical creatures like phoenix, Qilin and dragon all smiling holding a sign of good luck. Realizing it was his counter moves he chuckled.
Momoshiro and Kaido looks on their own too. A soft chuckled escape on their lips seeing the chibi versions of them. It was a separate version of him and Kaido who simply brawling to each other. Kaido who looking at the right side ready to launch his tornado super powers and Momo who was looking at the left side ready to hit him with jack knife. Well, Ryuuzaki-chan did listen to their girlfriend's request that it supposed to be like this.
"Ah! I have one too!" This time it was Kawamura who speaks. He put the piece of paper in the air, letting the whole team saw the chibi version of him. It was him with eyes burning and arms bigger emphasizing his huge muscle while his other hand holding a big pole with good luck sign written on it.
"Ara? I got one too!" Kikumaru beams. It was a chibi version of him beaming so widely while his one hand doing a V-sign and the other one was holding a bazooka gun with good luck written inside. "Mitte! Mitte! Mine is so kawaii right?" Kikumaru jumps towards his double's partner.
"Ah!" Oishi answered.
Inui whom lastly who open his locker saw a chibi version of him, he was holding a pen and notebook just like a usual, smiling, leaning on a huge glass of juice which he assumes his penal tea drink with logo of good luck inside.
"Demo... Demo... Who draw these?" Kikumaru asks.
"It's from Ryuuzaki-chan" Tezuka who just came after their practice went inside. They all seems surprised at the same time.
The tennis prince whom been there, was silently listening to them, continue fixing his things as if he didn't hear them all. of course, he knew it. His wife spends nights to draw it all. Her sleepless nights and smiles while she did each one of their chibis and her giggles the moment she finished one. She was so excited that the moment they got the slot from finals she hurriedly started doing so. She once told him that it is her way to say her good luck to each of the senpais. However, they didn't need to know that.
With eyes close, he zipped his bag, ready to leave. "Ja. I'm going." He announces as he started walking outside the room.
"I heard from An, that Ryuuzaki-chan made all of these since we won last semi-finals, she was so excited for our upcoming finals senpais" Momoshiro uttered the moment his best friend closes the door.
Pain, guilt and remorse flashes on the faces of his senpais. They all look down, staring at the paper with sad expression on their faces.
"Mou! Sakuno? You are not listening!" Tomoka glared at her on the phone. They were currently in conference video call together with An and Tohru. Yes, her best friend Tohru became friends with An and Tomoka too. Every night whenever they are not busy, they do call each other thru video call. Tohru immediately becomes close to the two, given the fact how easily to befriend An and Tomoka. They even exchange numbers to each other and frequent texters even the three of them didn't see each other faces in personal.
Sakuno sweat drop. She stared at her friends faces on the screen.
"Are you okay Sakuno? You seem so tired these past few days" Tohru said in concern voice.
"Yeah! You are always spacing out." Tomoka huffed.
"Are you still bothered about the team? In school? Tell us Sakuno" An asks. "
"I am fine. Really" Sakuno answered with a smile
"Is Ryoma-san being with you Sakuno" Tohru asks seriously, she smiled but knowing her for so long she knew exactly what that's smile for.
"Uhmm ... He's with tousan, they were playing tennis. Why?"
"You see... We really wanted to talk this about you. Don't worry about Kyo, he will be out of nowhere not until we finished this discussion tonight. For sure, He will be busy for a while same goes to Ryoma-san." Tohru smiles.
"Sakuno, did you want to say something to us?" Tomoka asks.
"Is there anything bothering you Sakuno?" An seconded.
Sakuno looks down. She fidgeted her fingers before she looks again to her friends. "You see... Ano... " She sighed.
"Hey! Sakuno speaks up we're waiting you know!" Tomoka whine.
"My period is delayed" she whispered.
"Oh... My... God!" Tomoka stood up on her seat. She could clearly saw it on the screen. "I knew it!" She exclaimed. "Your pregnant!"
"We kind' a suspected it Sakuno" An chortled
"Mou! Not so loud please Tomoka-chan!" She looks on the door. "Ryoma-kun might go back in any moment!" She uttered. " And I didn't say I am pregnant! I am delayed" she emphasize.
"And so? Your delayed and you have a husband! You were not going to be worried like that if both of you didn't do any extra-curricular activities at night! Am I right?!" Tomoka hissed.
"Just let me finished first!" She irritated uttered
"See that, girls? She easily get frustrated now" Tomoka points her on the screen.
"Mou! Tomoka-chan!"
"Sakuno's menstruation is not pretty normal like us. Hers comes very early or sometimes late." Tohru explains. "It's really hard to predict her cycle. Plus, she experiencing PMS. Well, it's common though" She added.
"You serious?" Tomoka asks.
"You see... that's why I am not bothered. It's normal for me to crave for something before my period, it's kind of normal to me to feel tired but lately, it's kind of bothering me now" Sakuno paused. "You see... I started experiencing symptoms different from whenever I expecting my period..." She spoke. "I easily got irritated to Ryoma-kun whenever I saw him, and yet when he's not around I am missing him terribly, my unusual cravings starting to be weird each passing day, I usually feel dizzy and lately I been throwing up every morning." She spoke.
"Gosh! I'm positive it's a sign!" Tomoka exclaimed again.
"Have you tried using pregnancy test?" An ask "wait a second... Did you tell this to Echizen-kun?"
"No! and I didn't tell it yet to him. Mou! I'm scared."
"Why? " Tohru asks.
"I don't know. It's really hard to explained." She whispers.
"Are you not ready yet? Perhaps your worried about Echizen-kun?" An asks.
"I don't know. It's just-" A mix emotions for her. Sakuno couldn't figure out what she supposed to feel. If she was indeed pregnant, what she supposed to do? What will her husband would say? Are they ready? Sure, she was so happy just thinking of another life might be inside her. But it's scare her at the same time. Will she be a good mother?
"You wouldn't know not until you will talk to him, right? Tell him about this. Y'know!" An shrugs.
"And let's find out if we were going to be aunties! Okay? Tomorrow!" Tomoka shouted so excited.
"It will be okay Sakuno, you have Ryoma-san by your side and you got us." Tohru soothes her.
"That's right! That"s right! Let's find it out tomorrow! I'm so excited!" Tomoka shouted.
"Find out what?!" From her back, the tennis prince who was fresh from his bath asks, his towel was still on his shoulder, his hand leans on her seat. there is still a slight damp on his hair as he was staring on her intently. He looks on the monitor screen and saw her friend's faces grinning on him.
"Mou! You surprised me!" Sakuno glared at him, he raised his brows seeing how irritated she looks like. He sighed.
"Kaa san asks me to call on you, dinner is almost ready, your baked sweet potato and Tamagoyaki was already in the table." He uttered, a chuckled escape on his lips seeing how his wife eyes sparkles. "Your food choices are so weird these past few days" he commented. "Whatever, c'mon! There is a feast on the table. Just talk to them tomorrow" he points her friends on the screen.
"Mou! Your being rude to my friends!" She glared once again to him, irritated.
"You seriously getting weird, you know" he eyed her. "You always been so mad at me. Is there something wrong Sakuno?" He asks eyeing her suspiciously.
An, together with the two, Tomoka and Tohru snickered on the screen.
"Mou! Nothing"
"You seriously hiding something on me" he accused.
"I am not hiding anything!"
"Are you sure?"
"Mou! C'mon! You said we were going to eat?" Sakuno said, she looks at the screen and bid her silent goodbye to them. The three ladies did the same. Ryoma did the same too. He smirked on them before shutting down their computer.
They started walking through the door when Sakuno hugs him on his waist making the young prince raised his brows on her sudden action. Seeing how she smiled sweetly to him he just shakes his head and chuckled. Sure enough, his wife is acting really weird.
Three pair of eyes were looking intently on the bunch of home pregnancy test kits in different brands laid in line on the table.
"Should we check right now?" An asks.
"Mou! Wait a second! I'm nervous!" Sakuno shouted.
They were currently in Tomoka's house; since her parents and younger siblings were out of town leaving Tomoka alone for this weekend.
"Mou! What's with waiting! C'mon! It's stated it fast as 2 minutes! We've been waiting here for 10 minutes or so!" Tomoka rolled her eyes.
"But I am really... Mou! Tomoka-chan!" Sakuno shouted seeing how her friend deliberately looks on the kits.
"Oh my gosh!" Tomoka squeak. Eyes widening in fraction as she held her breathe.
"What is it?!" An curiously asks, just like Tomoka she look on the kits. "Oh my god!"
"Sakuno! We are going to be aunties!" Tomoka shouted in delight.
'What?' with shaking hands, Sakuno went nearer, she stared at the pregnancy test kits. Eyes widening in surprised, Sakuno held her breathe as she felt everything stops for a while.
Two red lines visibly seen on each of it.
Gah! One of the new characters revealed expect a lot of new characters from this point of story. Now, it's getting nearer and nearer. From this point we finally reaching my most hate parts. But for now, let's give them a lot and lot of happy moments.
I have to cut this part. Geez. I didn't expect this to be so long. Next chapter will be soon.