Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis (unfortunately) and I do not own Full House.
A RyoSaku™ fanfiction.
Ryuzaki Sakuno, an internet novelist, "wins" a trip to China only to discover that her house is sold! Not only that but it is sold to the undefeated tennis champion, Echizen Ryoma. Complications continue to surround full house. Is this their fate?
"Once upon a time... there lived a young girl who lived in a luxurious home filled with love, but she did not realize that she, herself, was going to fall in love," muttered Sakuno Ryuzaki. She leaned back in her chair and stared at the computer screen. She sighed, turned off the monitor, and dropped herself on her bed to enter her deep slumber when her cell phone started ringing.
"Eh? Who's calling me at this time?" she asked herself as she glanced at her wall clock, reading that it was almost 11:00 pm.
"AH!" Sakuno screamed as she tripped over a box on the ground. Even though she's already 22 years old, she is still the same clumsy girl as ever.
She groaned as she got up and then commenced rummaging throughout the clothes and who knows what on the floors of her room, searching to answer her phone call. Her room was not exactly the cleanest nor was it the largest.
"Ah! Here it is," she cried in relief.
"Moshi moshi?"
"Sakuno-chan! Turn on the TV! Ryoma-sama is on!" Tomoka Osakada loudly exclaimed from the other end and quickly hanged up.
Sakuno fringed at her best friend's sudden shout before reaching for the remote control to turn on the television.
And there he was. Echizen Ryoma. 22 years old. Professional tennis player. He has not changed much except perhaps he grew much taller as a result of Inui's suggestion of drinking two glasses of milk a day from when Ryoma still attended Seishun Gakuen Jr. High.
Sakuno smiled at this thought, but the middle school days are over...
The announcer stated, "Echizen Ryoma, shortly after obtaining his 4th consecutive win in the Grand Slam, will be stopping for a short visit in Japan tomorrow afternoon but will leave for a flight to Shanghai, China for an interview. He is unstoppable! What will he conquer next?"
Then the news station replayed a few clips of Ryoma's matches, and the young woman watched in awe as if she was still wearing her middle school uniform, watching from behind a fence like before.
Back then she had the biggest crush on this Echizen, but he failed to display any sort of returned feelings and lacked emotion in general. When he left to play in the U.S. Open, he stole her heart, but that was also when she had began to let him go. She still wondered about him and how the life of a famous, handsome professional tennis champion was like.
Many things have happened over these past few years since she had last seen Echizen Ryoma. Within nine years, her seniors graduated from high school and then universities and some even entered the circuits as Ryoma did. Many of them she remembered from middle school and high school, even those from other schools like Hyotei Gakuen, Fudomine, and Rikkaidai Fuzoku.
Sakuno, after graduating high school, moved into the home her father had built soon and attended a nearby university. Her father was an architect and interior designer; with his great talent, he built a beautiful home that he could not live in for long because he and Sakuno's mother were killed in a car accident soon after completing the house.
The home rightfully belonged to the Ryuzaki's, but immediately after the accident, Ryuzaki Sumire, Sakuno's grandmother, took custody of Sakuno and brought her from Kanagawa to Tokyo. No one lived in that home before except for those who rented it at times.
In addition to this, when Sakuno moved back into her legal home, Tomoka could not possibly let Sakuno live by herself and insisted on moving in with her. But with that, when Tomoka moved in, Satoshi Horio, Tomoka's fiancée, also insisted in moving in; maybe more like threatened. Perhaps it was a match made in heaven or the destiny of hell breaking loose, you can decide on your own.
"By the way... if Tomoka-chan doesn't want me to live by myself, how come she isn't at home?" Sakuno pondered but decided not to think else of it as she turned off the television and fell back into her dreams.
"Maybe I'll meet Ryoma-kun once more. If it is our fate, then we shall meet again..."