It All Started With a Bet

The Beginning

Hi! I am sorry for the long wait. Christmas and New Year were really busy days for me. I only had the time to post this today. I hope this compensate for my absence. I hope you like this. This will be a long chapter so please brace yourself. Domo.

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

Chapter 9: The Beginning

Chapter Summary: The curtain had finally risen and everyone was performing on stage.

'Everybody so everybody
Days we grew up are days are we treasured show
Everydoy show is beginning
curtain has risen
Make your own storyline
Dream as if you will live forever…'

~ C. H. A. O. S. M. Y. T. H – One Ok Rock ~

The students of Seigaku were busy attending different activities of the school that day. It was the school's foundation day and each club and class was performing individually. Seigaku boys and girls tennis club decided to go to the gym where a big play was being implemented. Some students were staring at the casts who would do roles of their own;

Les Misérables

Cast:

Echizen Ryoma – Marius Pontmercy
Kanzaki Honoka – Cosette
Ryuzaki Sakuno – Éponine
Kachiro - Jean Valjean
Katsuo – Fantine
Osakada Tomoka – Mrs. Thénardier
Horio Satoshi – Mr. Thénardier
Student A – Enjolras
Student B – Javert
Student C - Gavroche

Some students were already watching the play. It was when the young Cosette was left by her mother, Fantine in the house of Thénardier. Fantine promised the she would give them money in return of taking care of her daughter while she was away and working for their living.

Cosette stayed in the couple's care together with their children. She was mistreated with the couple and ordered her to do all the work. There were times that she felt jealous of the kids playing outside their houses.

She even saw Éponine playing outside with the other kids but she couldn't. The young blonde girl started dreaming of a 'castle on a cloud' wishing that it would take her there… someday.

She suffered under the care of the Thénardier until Jean Valjean found her when she was eight years old. The poor girl also learned about her mother passing away, leaving her alone. But the good man promised her that he would be her father from now on.

Cosette was taken away from the couple and traveled with Jean Valjean for years.

"Are you ready, Sakuno?" Tomoka whispered to her after that scene.

"I think so…" She replied as she watched the others doing their performance. Gavroche and the gang were singing on stage. It was the time they were showing themselves in front of the stage. They were minutes to show. Sakuno turned around from the stage, took a deep breath, lifting her hand, face palm, wrote something on it and acted like she ate something from it.

"What are you doing?" Tomoka asked raising an eyebrow in the process.

"I am gathering courage." She answered as she looked at her.

"By eating an invisible food from your hand?"

Staring at her best friend for a couple minutes, she gave her a tiny smile and replied, "It was something I learned from him."

"Him?" Tomoka asked curious about the person she was pertaining. When she didn't answer and was only giving her an understanding look, comprehension got her and reacted a little late, "oh, him!"