Princess of Tennis

Ride to Hyotei

Yuki's P.O.V.

I slowly fitted in with Seigaku and most of time, I was sleeping in my classes like Ryoma and then the teacher would call on me, get shown, and the whole day would pass quickly until tennis practice started. Some of the non regulars started to accept me once I kept beating the regulars. I played against Eiji (who insisted I call him that), Oishi, and Kawamura whom I all beat.

The freshmen quickly accepted me and before long, I acquired a fan club, consisting of both boys and girls. However, some of the non regulars like Arai and others still have not accepted me and most of the time, they would challenge me to a game. Before that could happen though, Kuni-chan would step in with his buchou aura and assign him laps and occasionally me, he couldn;t be biased after all.

One day during tennis practice, before I could go into the girl's locker room to change, Kuni-chan stopped me.

"Yuki. Today, we have arranged a practice match with Hyotei which means Atobe will be there. Will you be coming?"

My eyes widened. I would get to see Kei-chan again. "Yeah, I'll be going Kuni-chan. Thanks for warning me." and I leaned up and kissed him on the cheeks.

Narrator's P.O.V.

Tezuka stood still for a minute with his hand cupping his cheek and a huge blush on his face.

Yuki's P.O.V.

On the ride to Hyotei, I found that it was impossible to concentrate or sleep or even do anything on the bus. I sat next to Kuni-chan who was rubbing his temples and looks like he is getting more creases. Syu-chan sat on my other side and he looked like he was switching our water bottles with a bottle labeled INUI. Behind us was Ryoma, Momoshiro, and Kaidou. They were the loudest along with Eiji and they caused the most noise. Momoshiro was bothering Ryoma, while getting in Kaidou's way, making him mad.

Next to them was Oishi Taka-san and Eiji. Eiji sat on the outside and was bothering Ryoma along with Momo. Oishi and Taka-san was trying to pacify Momo and Kikumaru. Ryoma who was getting teased decided to make it worse by making comebacks and infuriated both Momo and Eiji. Inui just sat in front of them and decided to take notes for his data.

The bus driver did not look so well either. I felt bad for him and long ago, I decided to plug in some ear buds and cranked my music to the highest level. However, a phenomenon which I couldn't believe happened. For some reason, I could hear them through the earphones and the music was on the highest setting.

Fianlly deciding that I was done, I yanked out my ear buds, making Kuni-chan turn around towards me. I stood up and turned around towards the 3 troublemakers.

"RYOMA. STOP retorting to everything they say. MOMO. STOP teasing Ryoma and KIKUMARU, STOP bothering Ryoma. There are people on this bus and you guys are clearly lacking manners so BE QUIET until we get to Hyotei otherwise you all will be playing matches with me until you learn your lesson." and while I scolded them I gave a Kuni-chan glare, which seemed to go the trick.

For the rest of the ride, everything was silent and I dozed off on Kuni-chan's shoulders while I felt the soothing hands of Syu-chan carress my hair.

Tezuka's P.O.V.

I rubbed my temples and I did not want to take some pills because I was saving them for later when Kikumaru would get in a fight with Hyotei's acrobatic member and also for Atobe's narcissism. Yuki had headphones and they were loud, as I could hear them very clearly; however, she had an irritated look on her face. Trying to block them out, when I felt her move, I looked to see her stand up.

"RYOMA. STOP retorting to everything they say. MOMO. STOP teasing Ryoma and KIKUMARU, STOP bothering Ryoma. There are other people on this bus you need to be considerate of and you guys are clearly lacking manners so BE QUIET until we get to Hyotei otherwise you all will be playing matches with me until you learn your lesson." and she gave one of my glares at them. Soon, everyone was quiet and the three in the back didn't dare to make a sound.

I sighed at the quietness that existed for the first time whenever we traveled to other schools. Yuki-chan slowly dozed off on my shoulders and I shifted her head so she would be more comfortable. I smiled at her innocent sleeping face [sorry if he sounds creepy] and reminiscence the times I spent with her and all the times she had saved me. It's funny how she used to always separate Atobe and Sanada from fighting and the charm still works. She'd scold everybody but me because I was actually trying to pacify the argument. Fuji and Yukimura, the troublemakers, started the fight in the first place.

Fuji played with her hair and her hands, lullying her to sleep.

"Yuki-chan is special huh Tezuka? Able to make them be quiet for the first time on a ride to other schools..." he chuckled.

"Ah..."

"Looks like the bus driver appreciates it too. Well, I say she deserves some rest." With that, the whole bus was quiet except for the music blaring from Yuki's headphones. Mentally, I also made a note to scold her on turing the volume too high.