It All Started With a Bet

Jondrette Girl

Hye! I am back with the new chapter. I am so focused at the novel. Well, I am actually a novel lover, reasons why I don't have time to write fics because I am reading. Gomen for that guys. It's just that my muse is abandoning me and I need some time to think about it. Reading novels would give me some ideas. I hope you could wait… for now, this is the next chapter. I hope you'll like this. Domo… :)

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Prince of Tennis and never will.

Chapter 7: Jondrette Girl

Chapter Summary: She promised that she would do her best to the role. No matter what even she was only…

She couldn't quite stop laughing as she watched them practicing on the court. With her intense persuasion, Sakuno was able to have Kanata play against Tomoka that Sunday morning. Tomoka called her that day and thought of something to do then this popped out to her mind. Her best friend was fine of the idea, it was her other friend that she was worried about.

Kanata was still wary of Tomoka's sudden appearance in that court the last time she brought her there.

She should've warned the silent boy first before she brought her. What done is done and now he was making a progress. He made a promise that he would do his best to be friends with Tomoka.

Playing on the court was one way to do that.

"Ganbatte, futari domo!" She shouted cupping her hands to her lips.

Tomoka looked at her for a while and shouted back. She was beginning to sweat due to the game, "Better do your job as an umpire than cheering us Sakuno," She smirked as she looked back at Kanata, "Hit it!"

Kanata was all fired up as he began with his elegant stance and served once again. As Sakuno watched the boy with his stance, she thought that everything about him was perfect, his moves, his hits and his tactics. That the thing she remembered the first time she met him in that very court.

She often wondered if he could have a good match with Ryoma and it would probably be worth remembering if that happened.

"Hey!"

She blinked when Tomoka called once again. Both of them were staring back at her. Seeing the conclusion of the game, she giggled before she announced the winner, "Six games to one! Game, set, match! Ichigata Kanata!"

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"Girl, I know you were not paying attention to our game for the last second." Tomoka said wiping the sweat on her forehead. She was sitting on the ground together with Kanata who was also wiping his own sweat with his towel.

She gave her a timid smile as she opened the lid of the bottled water that she brought and gave each one of them before she finally replied, "I was just thinking…"

"In the middle of our game?" Tomoka raised an eyebrow at her, "You were the one who gave this idea."

"I was not entirely out of the game," Sakuno looked at her as she opened her own bottle, "I was just thinking the first time I met Kanata-kun."

Stopping from drinking his own bottle, Kanata looked at her with an amusement in his eyes. It seemed that it got his attention.

She looked at her bottle of water as if she was concentrating of its volume that contained there, "Kanata-kun…was rallying on that wall when I first saw him here," She started eyeing the wall with the 'WIN' letters in the middle, "He was awesome. I knew that he was good that time."

"He served that purpose," Tomoka said eyeing the same wall before she looked at the boy, "You are good at tennis. Why hide it to the public?"

Kanata didn't see that coming. The girls saw him react and sort of waited to his answer. He only shook his head and smiled at the same time… giving enough disappointment for them.