Prince of Tennis: Ryoma's Mysterious Sister, Echizen Ryoka!

~Ch 23~ Lady Luck's love or hate? Part 1

Ryoka's POV:

Let me get this straight. Seeing your best rival losing before a tall data cyborg is not at all amusing or hilarious.

Ryoma collasped on one knee after he missed a shot. Ok, maybe ever so slightly funny, but definitely not amusing.

I was watching Ryoma's match from the second floor of Seigaku window. You could say that I was taking a break from my new fan club. Yeah, I have a fan club on my first day at Seigaku. Anyway, now I finally understand the pain of my dear cute twin brother, that said, I could hear that loud girl Tomoka and that surprisingly annoying girl Sakuno cheering quite loudly.

Ryoma then declared how he will use some move he was planning to use for nationals. How cocky, I'm proud. And so he revealed the ever so unique one foot spit-step, I slightly widened my eyes as to see it totally beat Inui-senpai. And no, I totally did not take some pictures of his defeat, I never do black mail. *chuckle*

Then my phone rang, it was Ryoma. I knew because his ringtone was him singing a song I composed. Just to tell whoever is listening to me right now, Ryoma is literally one of the best singers I ever heard, however he always insisted that I was better. I answered the phone with my normal voice, "Hi~ my darling nii-san, your match was quite an interesting match to watch, seems like you enjoy your decisions to come to Seigaku~" I said in a teasing tone. I looked through the window to see him smile gently, however, besides a quick glance I was currently focusing most of my sight on Sakuno and Tomoka who was squealing or blushing furiously at my brother's gentle smile which he rarely showed. Hmph. For some reason it kind of annoyed me. Perhaps I just don't like it when people my gender openly showed their feelings.

"Baka, do you really think I wouldn't sense you nearby?" I whistled, damn his twin senses are good. I smirked mysteriously, as I opened the window, and found him staring up at me with a smirk. I chuckled, "I'll see you back at home, Seiryuu-san." I hanged up. Then I stretched and let myself look around.

And it was only then that I realized that the door was looking quite wore out, and then I noticed the certain loud bumping noise that came from behind, along with a couple of fairly loud screams of my other name. I sweat dropped. 'Masaka....'

In that instant. The door burst open and in swarmed many many fan girls who immediately caught sight of him. "MASAHIRO-SAMA!!!!!" They all yelled in unison. I smiled a polite princely smile, totally ignoring my inner panicking side. Then I decided to fully trust my instincts. Run.

Out of the open window I jumped out and landed next to Ryoma, fan "Fan girls, diversion, now I understand your pain, later." I said quickly, Ryoma, who pretty much thinks exactly like me (duh, twins) immediately knelt down and then pushed my foot up. I leaped in the air and landed on the top of the fence surrounding the tennis court. I could see the spectators widen their eyes while Ryoma saluted me slightly and then took this chance to escape himself before the fan girls noticed him. I was about to turn and escape when something . . . . . electrifying caught my eye. I turned to see a Fuji with his eyes opened staring at me with slight shock. Is it really that strange to see someone use acrobatics in public? However, his shock quickly faded as his eyes closed and he had that same kind smile on his face. Hmph. I raised my eyebrow, well that was interesting. I saluted to him before I jumped off and landed on a nearby tree, then jumped and landed on another tree further away. I didn't really care where my destination was as long it was far far away from those ...... animals.

You might think that it might be harsh for me to call them animals, but I have every right to. After all, some of those girls were still chasing me right now. And one of them had a rope and was trying to lasso me. Maybe being in this look might not be such a good idea after all.

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Frighteningly, those few crazy girls who actually managed to follow me actually made me run all the way to the train station, quickly, I ran to the next random train that was just about to depart, I threw my tennis racket at the closing doors as I then slid beneath them and grabbed my tennis racket just in time before it broke.

I breathed a sigh of relief. I then began to look around at the random train I took. I then chuckled aimlessly in amusement and defeat. I took a train that lead all the way to Kanagawa prefecture. That was quite a long way from Tokyo, and it was quite late, so the last train from Kanagawa to Tokyo probably already left. Did Lady Luck really hate her that bad?

With a small sigh I checked my phone for the time. About 7. I called Ryoma and he sent me some sympathy as well as playful amusement and told me to just spend the night there with his rules of no talking to stranger and such. Its great and kind of annoying at the same time to have an way over protective older twin brother, but it was a nice feeling to know that he cared just that much.

"Well, since I'm here, might as well get something to eat." I said out loud with a stretch. Running away from those girls, not to mention dodging their many attempts to pull her down, was quite work out, it could even match to the work out she had everyday. (Shin-chan: Its probably best if you don't know Ryoka-chan's regular work out unless you want to wonder if she is even human in the end)

I quickly stumbled upon a nice smelling ramen shop. I stepped inside with a light Masahiro greeting. The place was quite empty, in fact, I was actually the only customer their. A brown skinned man gave me that usual look of widened eyes I usually get from people who see me for the first time before he gave me a homely smile.

"Oh, I am very sorry, but my son is coming here with his tennis team, so this place is currently reserved for them." I had raised an eyebrow slightly, and before I could reply, I heard the door slid open and someone saying "Hey, pops! I'm back with my team."

I then turned around and found myself staring at the Rikkadai tennis team who was staring back.

I'm starting to wonder about just what dear Lady Luck was planning.