Hey guys!

Thanks so much for all your support on our championship (even if we lost by 1 point.)! Anyways I hope you guys enjoy this chapter! This is the last one by the way &Cries&. I can't believe I actually finished this! Thanks everyone!

PS: sorry for the OOC-ness!

Disclaimer: I do not own The Prince of Tennis…

Previously…

Sakuno was swinging on the swing tearing a little. She wipped her face with her hanky, suddenly she was shadowed by someone else's shadow. She looked up to see who it was. It was no other than our Prince, Ryoma.

"R-R-Ryoma-kun…?" Sakuno stuttered at his name.

Present…

Sakuno wide eyed looked at Ryoma who was panting heavily and sweating a little as well.

"H-How d-did y-you f-find m-me?" Sakuno asked softly not missing to stutter in the process.h

"I've been waiting for you at the theater for an hour and a half! And Chelsea told me where you were." Ryoma exclaimed as he went over to Sakuno. He took hold of wrist and pulled her off the swing. "We have to go."

"R-Ryoma-kun." Sakuno muttered. Ryoma looked at her and saw that tears were falling from her eyes onto the ground.

"Sakuno…" Ryoma said softly. He turned to face her fully, he let go of her wrist and held both of her shoulders and then pulled her into a tight embrace which made Sakuno red as a tomato. "Please don't make me worry anymore, tell me what's wrong."

Sakuno was still crying but she was as well shocked and dumbfounded by Ryoma's sudden embrace. Ryoma pulled her out of the embrace but still took hold of her shoulders. He gazed at her brown eyes demanding to know what was wrong. Sakuno tried to look away but her chin was held by Ryoma in place. She gazed at his hazel eyes.

"Tell me what happened." Ryoma wanted to know. He continued to look at her eyes in a demanding way. Sakuno had no choice but to comply.

"S-Some girls t-threatened me t-that if I g-go t-to the p-play then t-they w-would h-hurt y-you and the others." Sakuno blurted. Ryoma let go of Sakuno and he clenched his fists firmly.

"Those Bas*****!" Ryoma exclaimed in anger.

"R-Ryoma-kun…" Sakuno called out softly. He turned to her. "P-Please d-don't h-hurt t-those g-girls…" Sakuno requested. Ryoma's eyes went wide and he just sighed.

"I won't ask you for the reason, but I won't hurt them." Ryoma said. 'For now.' He thought to himself smirking as well.

"A-Arigatou." Sakuno said still red as a tomato. "Gomen…" Sakuno muttered. Ryoma looked at her direction. "For t-troubling y-you."

Ryoma placed his face near hers', near enough that one inch closer one of them would move would make their lips touch. "For you I'd do anything."

"Let's go." Ryoma said as he intertwined his hands with hers. Sakuno already red enough as it is would blush more if she could. They made their way back to Seishun hand in hand.

Theater Room…

"AHHH!" Horio screamed. "THE PLAY SHOULD HAVE STARTED 15 MINUTES AGO!" He screamed as he peeked outside the curtain to see what the regulars, more specifically Momo and Kaidoh are doing to pass time for Ryoma to arrive with Sakuno. The regulars decided to help them out.

"Where the hell are they?!" The director shrieked. "Horio, Katsuo!"

"Hai?!" both of them said at the same time. The director faced them with blood red eyes.

"Go and kill us some time as well!" the director barked.

"H-HAI!" they chorused in fear of the red director and his red eyes. 'He reminds me of Kirihara!'

On stage…

Momo and Kaidoh who were trying to kill time were acting a drama where the guy died for the girl so Kaidoh had to wear a blonde wig, blush on his face, eyeliner, and a fluffy pink dress with frills.

"No my love, don't die!" Kaidoh said in a high pitched voice. He was very, very pissed off.

"I'm sorry…." Momo said as he started to act coughing.

"STOP!" One of the people in the audience stood up. "YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO LOOK ANGRY WHEN IT IS A DRAMA SCENE!" he continued. He then started criticizing their acting. Kaidoh on stage was trying his best to hold back from attacking the guy there and then. Well that all ended when the police came in and dragged him out of the theater.

That was when Horio and Katsuo decided to take over.

"129695739!" Horio started screaming random numbers.

"4567498573!" Katsuo did the same thing. A few minutes later one of the children in the audience stood up and said random numbers as well, a few more children followed. Katsuo and Horio just sweatdropped...

Backstage…

The director was pacing very worriedly in front of the theater door. That was until the door suddenly opened. His head shot up as he saw Eiji.

"They both have arrived!" He exclaimed. "I gave them their costumes so they are already dressing up."

"THAT IS GREAT!" The director almost fainted from happiness. "BOTH OF YOU!"

"Hai?" two boys came over.

"Tell Horio and Katsuo that they can stop! And you will tell everyone else to get ready and to it discreetly!!"

"Hai!" The boy said as he rushed to the stage. The other boy went screaming for everyone to get ready, so much for being discreet.

After a few minutes…

Ryoma and Sakuno arrived all ready and dressed. The director said that they will discuss their punishment after the play. They finally were able to start play.

Last Scenes of the Play…

"O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love!" Ryoma said a loud as he drank something. "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." He said as he fell to floor.

Then a boy entered with a lantern, crow and spade. The boy was acting as Friar Laurence. "Saint Francis be my speed! How oft to-night Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?" He recited with much feeling.

Then another boy came in. He was acting as Balthasar. "It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master, one that you love."

(From here I'll just put it on script form…)

Friar Laurence: "Who is it?"

Balthasar: "Romeo."

Friar Laurence: "How long hath he been there?"

Balthasar: "Full half an hour."

Friar Laurence: "Go with me to the vault."

Balthasar: "I dare not, sir my master knows not but I am gone hence; and fearfully did menace me with death, ff I did stay to look on his intents."
Friar Laurence: "Stay, then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me: o, much I fear some ill unlucky thing."

Balthasar : "As I did sleep under this yew-tree here, I dreamt my master and another fought, and that my master slew him."

Friar Laurence: "Romeo! Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains the stony entrance of this sepulchre? What mean these masterless and gory swords to lie discolour'd by this place of peace?"

Enters the tomb

Friar Laurence: "Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too? And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour is guilty of this lamentable chance! The lady stirs."

(I'll stop the script format now…)

Sakuno realizing her cue acted like she was just waking up. She stood and recited her lines. "O comfortable friar! Where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be, and there I am. Where is my Romeo?"

"I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep: A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away. Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee Among a sisterhood of holy nuns: Stay not to question, for the watch is coming; Come, go, good Juliet, I dare no longer stay." The boy responded.

"Go, get thee hence, for I will not away." Sakuno said as she watched the boy leave the stage. She walks over to Ryoma/Romeo and kneels to his side. "What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end: O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? I will kiss thy lips; haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make die with a restorative."

Then everyone waited in anticipation as the kissing has finally arrived.

In the audience…

"Nya! I'm so excited it's almost the kissing scene!" Eiji whispered. He was literally shaking his seat in excitement. "Our Ochibi is growing up nya~"

"So young so young." Momo said.

"99% possibility of them kissing." Inui said as he closed his green notebook.

"I just hope they don't overdo it." Oishi worried like a mom would.

"Fshhhhhh." Was all Kaidoh said.

"Saa, let's take some pictures shall we?" Fuji said as he evilly smirked. He felt someone tug onto his sleeve.

"Ne, Fuji nii-san can we go get ice cream?" Chelsea asked.

"Not now Chelsea chan I promise we'll get after the play k?"

"Hai!" Chelsea said happily. She turned her attention to Ryoma and Sakuno.

On stage…

'Mou, it's already the kissing scene!' Sakuno panicked in her head. 'What should I do?' Sakuno thought. Her face was near enough that about their lips are 2-3 inches apart. Ryoma sensing Sakunos' panicking decided that he should take the initiative. He lifted his face so that his lips could meet hers' and they finally had their 1st kiss. (unless you count the one in Surprise Ryoma). The curtains closed. Enormous clapping was heard as well as wolf howls.

Backstage…

Everyone was celebrating the successful play, even if there were some problems before the play happened. They were either patting the backs of Sakuno and Ryoma, and congratulating them or they would make comments on their kissing scene.

Sakuno who was still too embarrassed to confront Ryoma just stood in the corner. Suddenly she was grabbed by the wrist and dragged outside by a boy with a signature white Fila cap.

Outside…

"N-N-Nani R-R-Ryoma-kun?" Sakuno asked all flustered. She was drove against the wall with her in between Ryoma and the wall.

"R-Ryoma-kun?"

"Ryuuzaki." He said gazing into her eyes. "I-I-I r-really l-like you." He said stuttering (that's a first). Sakuno who couldn't believe believe what he just said stayed silent wide eyed. The confession finally processed in her brain and she smiled.

"I-I r-r-really l-l-like y-you t-too." She finally said with a tomato like face. Ryoma suddenly hugged her. She hugged him back as well. They shared a moment together until…

"OCHIBI!" Eiji called out. Both he and Sakuno had to let go to their dissatisfaction.

"Ah, there you too are." Oishi said walking towards them with Eiji and the others.

"That was a really good play." Fuji commented. While Tezuka just nodded his head.

"Ryoma oniisan and Sakuno oneechan were really great!" Chelsea said smiling.

"100% percent of the crowd enjoyed it." Inui said as he stopped scribbling on his notebook.

"Che." Ryoma replied smirking.

"Nya, I really like the kissing scene the most!" Eiji said grinning like a monkey.

"I know!" Momo said joining in with Eiji. "But I could have done it better."

"Fshhh, I bet everything would have went wrong if you were there." Kaidoh mockingly said to Momo.

"What was that MAMUSHI?!" Momo asked angrily.

"Tsk, mada mada dane." Ryoma said smirking.

"WHAT WAS THAT YOU COCKY BRAT?!" Both Kaidoh and Momo chorused.

"Stop or 50 laps." Tezuka warned.

"G-Gomen." All three said.

"Anyways, what was the punishment the director gave you?" Oishi asked.

"Ahem." Inui said making everyone look to his side. "The director was too happy to think of any punishment so he left it to me."

"Uh-oh…"Everyone chorused thinking the same thing. Ryoma was the 1st to do any action he grabbed Sakuno hand and ran off.

"Hey!" Everyone else chorused as they ran.

Somewhere…

"U-Ummm, R-Ryoma-kun where a-are w-we going?" Sakuno asked timidly.

"I'm taking you home." Ryoma said plainly. They walked in silence just like they always did when Ryoma would bring her home.

When they got to the front of her house Ryoma stopped and looked at her. "I'll pick you up for school tomorrow at exactly 7."

"H-Hai." Sakuno replied. Ryoma gave her a sudden peck on the cheek and left with one hand waving his hand to say 'see ya tomorrow.'

Sakuno waved back with a slight blush on her face.

'I can't wait for tomorrow.' Ryoma and Sakuno both thought. 'I love you.'

END

Well that's it…

I can't believe I actually finished this story &cries&. Hope you guys like this story! I'm really sorry if this was very OOC! Thanks so much for supporting me I couldn't have done this without you guys! Please review! Hope to see you guys next time!

PS: Sorry for all the grammatical errors and spelling errors!

Ja!

-kataiookami