Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis.
Everyone knows the myth about the Three Fates. How they held power over each and every human. What if the Fates had one string labeled Ryuuzaki Sakuno? They never comprehended how many other strings she would intertwine with. This is the story of Sakuno and her year at Rikkaidai Senior High. About how she changes the lifestyle of the school the Rikkaidai tennis regulars have grown adapted to. So it begins...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
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"NIOU! Don't use me for target practice!" Marui Bunta exclaimed.
"Why not? I need the practice. So why not practice my aiming and accuracy on the tennis court? I've been losing in darts lately." Niou Masaharu replied.
The air soon filled with the pair bickering at each other.
Sanada Genichirou heaved a sigh. He opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by Yukimura.
"This wasn't exactly how I imagined practice to be like on my birthday." Yukimura Seiichi said.
"Sorry buchou." Marui and Niou said in unison.
"It's not my fault he has such bright hair." Niou muttered.
"I heard that!"
"Are you guys always like this?" Jackal Kuwahara asked.
"You should have heard them in homeroom this morning." Yagyuu Hiroshi said.
"There's a 89.5 chance that in 4 minutes and 28 seconds they will continue arguing about an irrelevant topic." Yanagi Renji stated.
Sanada heaved another sigh.
"At least Akaya is being normal." Sanada mumbled.
He glanced over to see the Junior Ace drop his racket and proceed to run off the tennis courts.
Or not. Sanada thought.
"Sakuno-chan! Sakuno-chan!" Kirihara Akaya yelled. He ran over to the slender figure of 16-year-old Ryuuzaki Sakuno.
She had grown quite tall since her first year in middle school. Now she was 5'8". But the tennis regulars all still towered over her in all their 6'0" or higher glory. She had also gotten better in tennis. Much better, in fact, that she was now captain of the girls' tennis team at Seigaku.
"Hey there Sakuno-chan." Kirihara said, not breaking a sweat due to the intense training he endured at Rikkaidai.
"Hello Akaya-kun." Sakuno said softly, saying his name the way Kirihara insisted she should the first day they met. She felt comfortable saying it now from all the weekends and school breaks they've spent together with the other Rikkaidai regulars.
The others saw Kirihara and Sakuno talking and they too dropped their rackets to join in their conversation. Sakuno politely greeted all of them as they came over.
"What are you doing here Sakuno-chan? Are you lost again or something?" Kirihara asked.
"I don't get lost that easily Akaya-kun. I just came by to drop something off." She replied. Everyone noticed in her hands were a packet of papers.
"What are those papers for, Sakuno?" Yukimura calmly asked, reaching for the packet.
Sakuno put the papers behind her before Yukimura could reach them. "Something."
She didn't know Sanada was behind her. She realized too late when she felt him pluck the papers out of her hand.
"Acceptance for Transfer Request to Rikkaidai Fuzoku Senior High." Sanada announced what was written across the first page.
"Eh?!?!" The other regulars said.
"You're going to transfer to Rikkaidai, Sakuno?" Niou asked just to make sure.
"Hai Niou-san." Sakuno was trying to get the papers back from Sanada who now held them high in the air to keep out of her reach.
"Really? That's great." Marui said, running over to hug Sakuno. Therefore, disabling Sakuno from trying to get her papers back.
"Marui. Please let Ryuuzaki-chan go. Sanada. Please give Ryuuzaki-chan back her papers." Yagyuu subtly ordered.
Having been released from Marui and having her papers given back, Sakuno thanked Yagyuu.
"Will you be staying in the dorms?" Jackal asked Sakuno.
Now that the regulars were in high school, they wanted to explore certain freedoms. They weren't the only students at Rikkaidai who wanted to stay in the dorms. Other students decided as well and now there was a small minority of students who didn't live in the dorms. Living in the dorms was the 'in' thing to do as of the moment. Their parents allowed them to stay in the dorms as long as they came to visit over the weekends. Luckily, the school administration put the regulars as roommates and in the same dorm. Yukimura and Yanagi roomed together. Jackal and Yagyuu roomed with each other. Marui and Niou were roommates. Finally, Sanada and Kirihara roomed together. Yukimura, Yanagi, Jackal, and Yagyuu were fine with the living arrangements. Marui and Niou argued all the time when they were in their rooms and Kirihara would always try to test Sanada's patience with him. All four filled out transfer requests but were denied because someone told the principal "A team that plays together, sleeps together."
"No. I'll be staying with family." Sakuno averted her gaze from the regulars and was searching for something in her bag.
"That's a shame. Miyu would have loved to room with you." Yukimura was talking of his sister whom Sakuno was good friends with.
"I would have like to room with her, but my bro-- I mean my aunt wanted me to stay with her instead." She wondered where she put that package.
"Ah. Here it is. For you." Sakuno handed a package wrapped in blue-and-white striped wrapping paper to Yukimura. "Happy Birthday Yukimura-san."
"Thank you Sakuno. You didn't have to do that." Yukimura was examining the package, wondering what could be inside. The other regulars gathered around him to see the package.
"It's alright. It's your 18th birthday after all. And you're such a good friend of mine Yukimura-san." She glanced at her watch. "Oh no. I'm almost late for the meeting with the principal. I'll see you all later." She waved good-bye and started walking a bit quickly toward the main Rikkaidai school building.
Once she was out of sight, Kirihara turned to Yukimura. "What are you waiting for buchou? Open it!"
"Now?" Yukimura held up the package in question.
"I'm rather interested in what Ryuuzaki-san has given you for your birthday Seiichi." Yanagi said with his ever-present data book on hand.
"Alright." Yukimura was rather reluctant to open the present in the presence of others. But he did so anyway. Having ripped away the wrapping paper and making sure to not litter, Niou announced what it was.
"It's a book." Niou was confused as to why Sakuno would give their captain a book. Maybe she got Yukimura and Yagyuu mixed up.
Yukimura flipped open the book.
"It's a book full of drawings." Yukimura flipped page after page. Sure enough, each page contained a sketch of a landscape. After the first ten pages, the images were soon of various flowers and plants.
"It's seem Sakuno knows how much you like gardening. Isn't art your best subject Seiichi?" Sanada questioned his friend even though he already knew the answer.
"It is." Yukimura's eyes were fascinated from the details that were put into each sketch.
"There's a 87 chance that Ryuuzaki-san drew these. Sadaharu said that she was part of the art club while being captain of the Seigaku girls' tennis team." Yanagi was jotting down notes each time Yukimura flipped the page.
"Wow. Sakuno's really good at art. She might even be better than buchou." Jackal remarked. Everyone turned to face him. "Or not." Jackal sweat dropped.
"She is better than I am though. Much better." Yukimura said. He still was amazed that Sakuno could do such artwork. Each drawing looked like it came to life. She was able to capture the breeze in some of the landscape drawings. If there were raindrops in the painting, she drew each detail like the drop that was slowing rolling off a leaf.
All the other regulars were too busy ogling at the drawings that they didn't notice what Yanagi was writing in his notebook.
Note: Ryuuzaki Sakuno is proving to be a very excellent source of information. Must begin taking notations when she is around the tennis regulars to monitor the reactions of the regulars.
'Yes.' Yanagi thought. He smiled somewhat evilly. 'The next year was going to be very interesting.'
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This story is going to be very long. Hopefully. I'll upload the final chapter to "What's going on?" soon. Just wait a bit longer.