Prince of Tennis – Checked
Genre(s): Friendship/Humour/General
Rating: K
Characters: Echizen Ryoma/Niou Masaharu (actually, characters will adjust with every chapter. It's various pairings. But, again, friendship, no romance. Well, maybe with a bit mix of romance.)
Summary: //AU, possible AR// Assorted fics consisting of your every high school daily… er, normal life. Or not? Because chaos can ensues anywhere, anytime. Especially if you are a certain tennis player…
A/N: This fic is dedicated to Crenius-kun, HalfMoon-Smile, Ai-Kitsuneko Yuurei, and my awesome friends. In this story, the seniors are in their second year in senior high while the freshmen in their third year in junior high and the sophomores are in their first year in senior high. I've warned you, possible AR. Also, I borrow the school name, it does exist. So, enjoy!
Chapter 1: The Trickster
Nihon Daigaku Narashino. One of the rare boarding schools exists in Tokyo. There was the place where Echizen Ryoma, 14, spent his high-school daily life. Or, like he would rather say it, trapped.
Ryoma moved back to Japan from America last year. His father, Echizen Nanjiroh, was once a legendary pro tennis player, known around the world. However, outside the tennis stuffs, Echizen Nanjiroh wasn't an ideal figure of a 'father'.
"Stupid old perverted man," like Ryoma usually mumbled when his father came up to a conversation.
How did Echizen Nanjiroh become a certain 'perverted old man' in front of his very son's eyes, we will deal with that later.
Stupid old perverted man of father: checked.
The first day Ryoma entered the said school, he found that the education system was quite unusual and, well, interesting for him. It was divided into three main departments: Mathematic, Science, and Social. From his entrance test, Ryoma was placed, much to his dismay, to the Mathematic Department.
It's just very great, isn't it?
Days of oh-so-charming numbers and variables: checked.
Like most of boarding schools, Narashino also had its own dormitory area. Ryoma's assigned room was in the A-1 building. The first impression that he got when he saw his room, not bad. The room was quite big, with two beds, two desks, and two wardrobes added with a bathroom.
This meant, he would definitely get a roommate.
Wow, interesting!
Definitely not.
Privacy infraction: checked.
Because Echizen Ryoma does not share with anyone. Echizen Ryoma operates alone.
Let the mada mada da ne vanished for now.
2-A of Mathematic Department.
Or so it was written on the gold plate right above the door.
Ryoma slid the door open blearily. Pairs of eyes quickly drifted to him.
He blinked. How… very annoying. Well, Echizen Ryoma never liked the crowds.
But then, they just suddenly returned back to their own works.
Except one.
A silver-haired boy with a weird pigtail on it, grayish narrowed eyes, and a rather v-shaped face. The boy kept staring at him, so he stared back at the silver boy. Echizen Ryoma is famous with his remarkable deadly glares and stares no one, no one ever beats him in this.
New rival of glaring contest: checked.
The silver boy suddenly chuckled and Ryoma narrowed his eyes. He looked at the teacher's desk. The teacher himself was busy with his own works or whatever. He walked forward to the teacher and said in a low voice, "Good morning."
The teacher stopped writing and looked up, pushing down his thick glasses, "Yes?"
Ryoma resisted the urge to roll his eyes and instead he said, "I'm the new student."
The teacher's eyes widened in realization and he laughed nervously. "Oh, yeah, I'm – well, I'm sorry, I didn't notice when you opened the door. Well, here – " he stood up and called out to his students. "Everyone, stop working for a while. I want to introduce to you your new classmate."
The students got their heads up, looking at Ryoma. "Class, this is Echizen Ryoma, from America. He's still 14, but he manages to follow our grades, so he will join with us from now on. Please make a good friend with him."
"Echizen Ryoma, nice to meet you all." Ryoma mumbled and bowed slightly.
Chatter began to spread among the students.
One of them raised a hand. The teacher asked, "Yes, Yukimura-kun?"
Yukimura smiled brightly as he asked, "Is it possible that you are a son of Echizen Nanjiroh, Echizen-kun?"
Ryoma blinked and growled before he answered flatly, "I am."
The silver boy smirked and raised his hand too. "Niou-kun?"
"Why are you so short, chibi?" Niou smirked, his eyes nailed on Ryoma's. Ryoma narrowed his eyes and smirked too as well, "Tennis has nothing to do with your height, Niou-senpai."
Niou was startled at this and then he smiled, "Good answer, chibi. I'm playing tennis too. Would you join our team? We would be honored with a genius like you."
The short answer made the whole class laughed, "Mada mada da ne, Niou-senpai."
Yukimura, who sat right behind Niou, was chuckling. "Interesting… Echizen Ryoma."
"And why do I have to sit right next to you?"
It was the lunch time and somehow, Ryoma trapped with Yukimura and Niou in the cafeteria. He sighed.
"Well…" Niou shrugged, "who said that I want to?"
Ryoma quickly brushed Niou's face and saw a sly smile on it. "Ne, Niou-senpai."
"What?" Niou raised a brow.
"Play a match with me."
Yukimura chuckled. "Hm, I would love to see your tennis, Echizen-kun."
"Don't underestimate me, chibi," Niou jeered. "Don't you know how they call me?"
"Don't know."
"They call me the Trickster, chibi. Once I have seen you play, and don't be surprised if you lose to me. Remember that."
Yukimura chortled.
"We won't know until we have one, Niou-senpai." Ryoma said placidly. "Mada mada da ne."
"That's enough, Haru," Yukimura interrupted genially. Somehow Niou was stunned at this and he backed off, glaring at Yukimura, cringed. Ryoma was curious with Niou's sudden behaviour. "Well, Echizen-kun, I am the tennis club captain, and I would love to take you to our club after classes today to see how our club in your opinion is. Tell me where your dormitory is and I will pick you up at seven, and after that, we can have our dinner together with the other regulars."
Ryoma thought about it for a moment. Should he accept Yukimura's offer? But then, it would be good to have someone to take him around this huge school area, and it wouldn't be good if he got lost here.
"Fine then," he responded. "Mine is at A-1 building, room 5."
Niou choked his soda and he shouted, "WHAT?"
Ryoma shrugged. "Why?"
Niou groaned, "That's my room too, idiot! They told me that I would have a new roommate since Tezuka's movement to the other dorm, but why didn't they tell me that… that… you will be replacing Tezuka?!"
Ryoma's eyes widened in disbelief, "Yadda!"
Yukimura snickered in glee as he saw his friends wailing each other, "Oh, this is going to be very interesting. Should tell Gen-chan about this."
First chaos: checked.
//Chapter 1: The Trickster – fin//
Well, that's for the first chapter. This idea just suddenly popped out… with simple 'what ifs' and so on. It's just interesting for me to put up an unusual pairing. I hope I did this well and you like this. I will update once a week in the weekend. I'm sorry if I didn't update the We Are Here for One Another, but don't worry, it's currently in progress and I will update next week along with this. So, tell me what you think. I accept pairing suggestions and your ideas. I'm looking for a current beta too for this. Do PM me if you want to.
And wouldn't it be nice if I receive what you think, or in other words, review?
~zephirus