Prologue

One year before it all started.

"Wow! No way!" one tennis team exclaimed, stunned by the score board at the Kantou Tournament. "I never thought that that school's girl team was stronger than Rikkai Dai's!"

"Well, I heard that they have this one girl who's equally as strong as their boys' team captain…" some random guy said.

"Actually she's even stronger than their captain." another boy commented.

"No way in hell is that true!" Someone else exclaimed.

"If I recall her name was, Koyumi Sayaka. She's currently captain of the Kurōdo Junior High girl's team," another person interrupted.

"Hou… So our girls' team was too weak, eh?" a boy with grayish purple hair said with a smirk. "I really want to meet her in person and see whether the rumors about her are true."

At that moment a certain team that had a blue/white uniform with the name written on each member's back, which said "Seigaku", approached the board to see their girls' teams' results.

"So our school lost, huh?" Fuji said with his famous tensaish smile.

"Hn…" a stoic and handsome boy said.

"Hey, I also heard that this school's mixed doubles pair is very good," the others went on. "Ah, you mean both captain doubles? Koyumi/Tsudeyoshi pair if I recall." This remark was accidentally overheard by Seigaku that just happened to be standing by.

"Koyumi? Who's that?" asked Oishi.

"Ah, Koyumi Sayaka. She's the one who's leading Kurōdo Junior High to the top. With her in charge, Kurōdo just secured their no.1 spot in the Kantou Tournament."

"So the rumors are true then?" asked Inui with his usual notebook in one hand and a pencil in the other. After his question was confirmed he started to scribble down more notes before looking up again. As he looked up eight girls in black and blue tennis uniforms slowly passed by. All girls turned to look at the crowd standing next to the board and snickered amongst themselves "So were becoming quite popular."

"Ah."

But one girl with long black hair just past by the Hyotei's captain (Atobe) and then went by a stoic boy with an emotionless expression not even looking back, only smirking to herself thinking "We'll meet someday. And when that day comes, I'll have the pleasure crushing you."

One year later…

Prefectural Tournament. Atobe vs. Tezuka. At the end of the tie breaker a girl with long black hair and blue eyes stood next to her friend and observed the match quietly.

"I can't believe that guy is willing to still fight. He's risking his arm not knowing real pain in this world. I guess it was my arrogance that got me this far."

"Sa-chan!" a girl with long, wavy, red hair said "I wonder who'll win!"

"Seigaku," said Sa-chan and at the same moment, turned around only for the referee to announce Atobe as the winner.

"Ah! Sa-chan, you were wrong! Hyotei won!" said the red head, following her friend.

"Hyotei won this match but they still have to play the deciding match for the team. And Seigaku will win. Understand, Yu-chan?"

"Huh… But isn't that boy too small to play such a rough game?" asked Yu-chan pointing out at Seigaku first year regular.

Sa-chan turned her eyes to said boy and said "That brat can beat anyone when his eyes are like that."

"Huh… Aren't you going to watch the game?" asked Yu-chan.

"I told you that Seigaku will win. There's no point in watching it. Not any more," said Sa-chan again and this time with a depressed look.

"Ah, I see," was Yu-chan's reply. "What happened to you? You were always so keen about tennis even if the players were a lot worse than you. Is it because of that incident?"

"And were back at the result board of the Kantou Tournament." stated a reporter

"Ah? Kurōdo Junior High didn't participate this year?" Most teams were astonished at this new piece of information.

"Why? The girls' team were the national champions last year. What happened this year? I thought that girl was strong," commented a random guy in the crowd. The other teams approached the board over hearing the discussion.

"I heard that there was some sort of accident and the captain of the girls' team bailed and disappeared right after the Kantou Tournament . No one really knows what happened but it's really strange."

"Well, maybe our girls' team will be lucky this year since the Kurōdo Junior High bailed. Haha!" said Midoriyamas' team members.

"Hn, whatever. Let's go!" said the captain of Hyotei. "Pff. Talking about some insignificant stuff. Bunch of idiots."

Hyotei left and Seigaku stood there for a while to observe the results.

"Our girls' team needs a captain that can lead the team, ne Tezuka?" said the tensai.

"Ah," was his reply.

"But we'll have to wait until high school. Now it is too late for them to reach the top," interrupted Inui.

"Ah, you're right. Let's go!" said the captain.

As our story unfolds, we find ourselves two years after the actual Prince of Tennis events, when all of the regulars have entered high school, where they continue to play tennis for their school to become the no.1 Nation wide. But what will happen if the story goes on not only with the fighting spirit and friendship? What if it involves several stories about love, hate, friendship, death and sacrifice? Wait and see what happens in the first chapter.