Rikkaidai's Newest Regular | A Prince of Tennis Fanfiction

Revelations [Mini Arc-Part 3]

A/N: Let's just say Heath Hasekura is Sora Amori....ok? Ok. ^_^

Sora's POV:

I smiled bitterly. Honan. Stride. Him.........I thought with a sharp, humourless laugh.

"Yes. I used to be a regular at the Honan Academy Stride club........" I muttered, feeling hollow and broken. "Well, at least, that was before he broke our friendship......."

Ryoma--since when did I refer to him as Ryoma?-- gave me an understanding gaze.

"It was him, wasn't it?" he asked, eyes filled with nothing but anger and sorrow.

I was surprised...yet not. He was famous, and popular. He was a prodigy too......

Yukimura-buchou glanced at us.

"You guys are talking about him, right?" he asked with a small frown.

"Wait! Who are you guys talking about?" Kirihara asked with a scowl.

Seiichi looked at him without amusement, and more of quiet fury.

Ryoma bit his lip--hard.

Shaking my head, I forced a sad smile.

"Please, forgive me. I don't want to tell you guys right now......perhaps on a later date," I said quietly. "And it's not like you don't know, buchou and Echizen-kun."

I saw Ryoma advert his eyes and Seiichi looking uncomfortable, and knew I was correct in my assumption.

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Ryoma's POV:

I let go of my lips from my teeth when I tasted a trickle of blood. Clutching my shirt tightly, I felt disappointment and anger--both directed towards myself. You only care about Amori since he reminds you of your precious Fuji-senpai, a small voice at the back of my head accused me.

No! I care about Amori! He's nothing like Fuji-senpai! I protested.

Stop lying to yourself. You think of Akaya as Momo, don't you? The voice taunted. Tsk, tsk, Ryoma. Still lingering on the past, hm?

I don't. I retorted. Of course, I'll miss them, but it doesn't mean I can't move on.

Right. Keep telling yourself that, would ya? You may seem cold, rude and untouchable, but we both know that's not true, Ryo-kun. We're both the same person, am I wrong?

Before I could reply to that, Seiichi already called an end to practice and we were the only ones left--Amori, Seiichi and me. Kano left at the pointed look Seiichi gave him. But only after Kano have a reassuring pat on Sora's back.

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Seiichi's POV:

I gave a small smile.

"Sora-kun," I began, "I expect you to win the upcoming inter-school mini-tournament. Your presence to the team is well wanted, especially Ryoma and me."

Sora looked up in surprise. Finally, he spoke.

"Why? Why do you guys care?" Sora whispered.

Ryoma snorted.

"Because we know. We know what happened. Me, through my fvcking--"

"Ryoma!" I scolded.

"Fine. My darling aniki, and Seiichi through rumours or people scared of him and told him as a way to impress him," Ryoma finished with the tiniest eye roll. Sora raised an eyebrow. I withheld a disbelieved look at Ryoma's mention of his aniki.

"Hai. And also because we recognize people who suffered the same fate as us. Your illness isn't a secret to everyone, Sora-kun. That is the only reason you transferred to Rikkaidai, no? Stride is too hard on your body," I added, voice surprisingly flat and bitter. I made a mental note to myself to ask Ryoma about his aniki.

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Ryoma's POV:

"And him! He abandoned you! He wasn't there for you! And after all the experiences and moments you guys had, he just ditched you like a piece of trash!" I shrieked angrily. Seiichi gave me a comforting half hug. You replaced Ryoga with Seiichi in your head, didn't you? I ignored the small taunting voice--with a little difficultly.

Sora looked pained, and so I clamped my mouth shut. I changed the subjected.

"Oi, on a second note, where do you live?" I asked, curious.

"Dorm B-2," Sora told me. "With Kano."

I turned towards Seiichi.

"Didn't you say the backup was supposed to live with the rest of the regulars?" I accused.

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Seiichi's POV:

I sighed.

"Hai, but since Sora's not really our backup as of yet and you've already settled in, it's not like I would shoo you out," I swore I hear a guilty relieved sigh coming out of Ryoma. "And plus, Sora-kun lives close enough, closer than Shun-kun ever was."

I had a quick mental debate with myself, but sided with my good side. "Sora-kun, mind if we regulars sit with you and Kano at your table in the cafeteria?"

Sora laughed, this time with a little humour added in.

"Why not? Who am I to refuse the famous buchou of Rikkaidai?"

I smirked.

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Ryoma's POV:

After we parted ways--temporarily--with Sora and walked back to our dorms, I was tackled by a hyper Akaya.

"Ryo-chan!!!!!!!" Akaya greeted me with a large grin. "You're back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

He didn't wait for my response, and nearly squeezed the life out of me as he hugged me tighter. To my chagrin, Marui laughed at me like there's no tomorrow.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahah, hehehehe, hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!" Marui giggled. "Sucks to be you, Ryo-kun! For once I'm glad I'm not you!!"

I scowled. I tried to send the SOS signal to the others, but Seiichi only gave me an evil grin. He even made Sanada restrain Jackal in helping me! And I thought we were friends! Seeing that Akaya momentarily let go, I quickly pushed him off and screamed.

"AKAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL GET YOU FOR THIS!!!! I'm going to take a tennis ball, smash it in your head and very soon you're going to land in the freakin hospital due to brain damage!!!!!!!!! And once I do that, I'm going to convince everyone that you're mental and make the freakin doctors put you in a freakin mental asylum so that you can rot away until you're old and defenceless!!!!!! But that's not all I'll do!!!!! I'll smash the window, so that all the tiny little shards will penetrate your body and make you feel, literally, the Pierce of 1000 Arrows!!!!!! After that, I'm going to give you a nice slow death courtesy of a tennis ball and a racquet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I said darkly, cackling with sadism at the blanched looks everyone but Seiichi gave me.

"R-Ryoma....." Akaya stuttered, face paled with fear. "I-I'm very, very sorry a-and--"

"Hm. I see you've been spending too much time with me, Ryo-kun," Seiichi said, amused beyond words. "Now, you're doing it wrong. I should have taught you better!"

Sanada blanched even further, if that was even possible.

"Seiichi, I don't think that's a very g-good i-idea......" Sanada said meekly.

I rolled my eyes. "I was kidding..............................people these days...Anyways, we're going to eat lunch in the cafeteria with Sora-kun and Akimoto-senpai."

People gaped--except for Seiichi and Sanada, of course.