It seemed to be an average afternoon at the Fujiyama Carnival. The birds were chirping, the sky was clear, and the oh-so golden sun was shining. By pure coincidence it was one of the few days that Seigaku regulars got off from tennis practice; and it just so happened that the carnival was in town.

Speaking of which, the regulars were, at the moment, at the star attraction of the carnival: The Devil's flight.

"You may never return from Devils Flight!" a pompous voice that impersonated the devil shouted from a scary-looking roller coaster intercom.

Ryoma Echizen was never usually fazed by anything, but this seemed to be one of the few exceptions. When it came to huge a freaky-looking roller coaster like the "Devils Flight" he wasn't very enthusiastic to try it.

"Hoi hoi! Having fun, Ochibi?" His over enthusiastic senpai, Eiji Kikumaru, wrapped his arm around his neck and grinned. Ryoma gave a big fat sigh.

"Yeah, I'm having loads of fun Eiji-senpai," he said sarcastically, making Eiji laugh and squeeze him into an even tighter hug.

"You're a little brat, you know that?" Eiji said, chuckling. Ryoma felt like he was being choked and started gasping for air. Finally, Momo stepped in and stopped the strangling of his kouhai by putting a hand on each of their shoulders and getting their attention.

"Hey we're here to ride some rides, not hug Echizen to death." He paused for a moment to grin at Eiji, then looked up and pointed at the roller coaster.

"Let's go on that one!" he shouted gleefully.

Fuji looked up at it and smiled. He loved scary rides, especially the roller coasters."Yeah, it looks fun" he answered, he turned to Tezuka, who, in his normal stoic manner, was also looking up in his at the coaster.

"What do you think Tezuka?" Fuji asked his captain.

Tezuka, who didn't really care for the fact that he was there in the first place, gave Fuji a slight nod..

"OK, let's go!" Eiji and Momo started to run towards the ride, but Oishi stopped them before they could.

"We need to stay together, remember?" he reminded, making them back pedal to the group.

"AHH! Oishi, we're not gonna be able to ride if we don't hurry!!" Eiji cried, pointing to the long line that was starting to form.

"Umm….shouldn't we reconsider this?" Taka asked, making everyone turn and stare at him.

"What are you talking about Kawamura-senpai?" Momo asked jokingly.

"Yeah, you're not scared are you, Taka?" Eiji said, smiling in a playful manner.

"Ummm..." Taka seemed to shrink back a little in embarrassment.

"Mada mada dane, Kawamura-senpai," said Ryoma, tipping his hat slightly, although he was also pretty nervous about the ride, he sure wasn't gonna show it

"You know Taka, sometimes you might think that something is going to be horrible and you don't want to do it," Oishi started, smiling, "But once you do it you find that there's nothing to worry about".

Taka thought about this, then smiled. "Thanks Oishi", he said, nodding.

Inui decided to pop in and ruin the moment, "Ii data."

"Can we go now?" Momo asked as he and Eiji whined.

"The lines starting to get long," Kaidoh added in.

The regulars got to the line, managing to get in it while only having to wait for two or three coaster rides to go. The line split into three different lines at one point to accommodate the three roller coaster cars (that ran together in single-file).

Ryoma was next to go through the turnstiles, he paused to look at the sign above his head. "No exit after turnstiles" it said. Ryoma took in a deep breath when no one was looking and walked through, giving himself silent praise as he made it.

"Wow this is a long line," a guy in front of Eiji and Momo mumbled.

Ryoma felt like he knew him from somewhere. Finally the boy turned to laugh at one of his friends jokes and Ryoma saw…..Ryoga.

Oh crap.

"Ryoga?" Ryoma choked out, still a bit surprised at seeing him there in the first place.

Ryoga turned and saw his little brother, he beamed. "Oi, Chibisuke!!" he called. He pushed through people to get to the group.

"What are you doing here didn't you already graduate?" Ryoma asked flatly.

"Yeah, but that won't stop me from coming here, I didn't expect to see you here" Ryoga replied while chuckling. Ryoma pouted a little.

"Mada mada dane, Ryoga." Ryoma tipped his hat in his trademark fashion.

"Hmm…hehe well this should be fun, I'm gonna sit in the very front, and raise my arms, and scream my lungs out; it'll be awesome. Hey Chibisuke, you should come ride with me," said Ryoga, putting an arm around his little brother's shoulder.

Well, that was exactly what Ryoma did not want to hear.

"What's this about sitting up front?" Momo said, going back to talk to Ryoga and Ryoma.

"I'm sitting in the front and Ryoma's gonna go with me", Ryoga said, ruffling the said boy's hair

"No way, I'm going in front," Momo half-shouted.

"How about this," Ryoga suggested, "lets play Janken; winner gets to sit up front."

"You're on!" came the obvious reply.

So the game commenced. After a few times of tying, Momo won. Turning, he headed to the first line

With that, before Ryoga could do anything about it, Ryoma headed to the third line.

"Ah man I wanted to sit in the front" Ryoga said, giving a small glare to his little brother, but then he smiled.

"So you wanna go in the back? It does always feel like the ride is going faster there." Ryoga then pushed Ryoma, who gave a small gulp after hearing what he said, towards the back seats where they stood in line to get the last cart as it roller coaster barreled through on the tracks with people whooping and hollering.

Ryoma felt a bit uneasy as Ryoga pushed him through the set of turnstiles when they headed for their seat. Sitting down, he looked up as he heard a loud ruckus going on in the front of the roller coaster; the yelling was clearly audible, and he could see the squabble, too. It was Momo and...

Isn't that guy that acrobatic player that Eiji-sempai beat?

"Hey jerk, this is my seat!" Momo yelled, grabbing hold of Gakuto's shirt.

Gakuto snickered. "Sorry pal, ya snooze ya lose" he said, sticking out his tongue and flicking Momo off.

Momo was about to punch him when a worker stopped him, telling him and Gakuto that if they couldn't stop fighting, then they'd be taken off the ride by security..

And neither of them wanted that.

So, grudgingly, they sat down next to each other in the front seat, glaring at each other.

Ryoma observed the others that he knew on the roller coaster: Eiji and Oishi were a 4 seats before him, in front of the Golden Pair, Inui sat and Kaidoh was with him; then Taka and Fuji were in the back of the middle car, Tezuka and some random guy sat two front of them; The Monkey king a.k.a Atobe and that guy named Shishido sat a seat ahead of them, then that Saeki person from Rokkaku.

"I didn't know there were so many of our friends here" Taka said, getting Shishidos attention. Shishido looked back and actually smiled.

"Yeah you didn't think we'd skip out on this did ya?" he asked, giving Taka a thumbs up. Taka smiled and nodded.

"Ne, Ryoga, why do you wanna sit with me anyway?" Ryoma asked flatly. Ryoga just shook his head and chuckled a bit as the harnesses came down over their heads.

"Well Chibisuke, I-" Ryoga stopped short because his hand hit something sticky inside the cart. He looked at his hand to see a putty-like wad of gum placed right on it.

"Eww...Gross!" he said, flicking it off his hand, this earned a discrete laugh from Ryoma.

Suddenly Eiji pulled out a camera and began to take pictures, or at least he tried too, but one of workers waved a hand in front of his camera.

"Hey kid, can't you read? No cameras." The guy said pointing to a sign at the front. Eiji put the camera away. Gakuto who had, who heard what the man said, his his camcorder in his jacket pocket, catching the eye of Momo who just shrugged it off.

"OK! Here we go!" the ride attendant called out, everyone started hollering and cheering, and waving their arms.

The ride started, Ryomas heart leaped into his throat. Ryoga was whooping and hollering along with everyone else.

"Come on get pumped!" Ryoga said, nudging Ryoma lightly. Ryoma just smiled as they gradually made their way up the ramp.

(Ok, and I'm gonna stop the 1st chapter here because this is getting a little too long for a 1st chapter, with all the detail and stuff so read this and tell me what you think! and also credit to SNK(aka my beta) who helped me out with this story thank very much!)