Prince Of Tennis Fan Fiction ❯ The Elements of Tennis ❯ Fuji, the Miracle Worker ( Chapter 36 )

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The Elements of Tennis
Chapter Thirty-Six

Fuji finally manages to catch up with Akari about an hour later; it wasn't hard, he just had to follow her path of destruction. Luckily, she hadn't traveled down any of the main roads because there were some pretty badly beaten up trees that took the brunt of her anger, and had they been cars there would be some serious suing going on in the city that night.

"Akari-chan, are you feeling all right?" he asks when he finds her sitting on a rock in a huff.

"What makes you think I'll ever be all right again? You ruined it! I worked my ass off and you ruined it! It's all your fault! You were the one who made me use it! You were the one who made me jeopardize the safety of my racket! I told you I didn't want to use it! I told you how important it was to me! I told you everything! And what did you do? You tore my heart out by destroying one of the only important things that I possess in this life! You're horrible!" she screams at him as tears falls down her face. "It was so beautiful before," she states quietly as she pets her racket and sniffles.

"Is that all that this is about?" Fuji smiles.

"That's not all, it's a big deal!" she swears.

"This is what you freaked out about at the tournament as well, isn't it?" Fuji smiles again as he approaches her.

"Don't come any closer. I won't give you the opportunity to do anymore bad deeds, you bad bad bad man," she complains as she hugs her racket close to her body.

"Here, let me just see it, I'm not going to ruin it, I promise," he swears as he holds his hand out gently for the racket.

She looks up into his eyes and holds out her racket as a tear falls from her cheek.

Fuji does not take the racket from her grasp as he gently wipes away the offending smudge and then proceeds to gently lift his hand to her face and wipe away the tears that cover the face of the one that has managed to capture his heart so easily.

"There, is that better?" he asks, the smile never leaving his face.

Akari looks down at her racket to see it sparkling white once again.

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"You're welcome," he interrupts her.

"You're the best!" she squeals.

"Come on, I'll take you home," he offers.

"'Kay!" she agrees as they head off towards her house.

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Meanwhile, Kurai finally manages to meet up with the person she had been trying to get to all night.

"Sorry it took me so long, I got held up by my friends trying to pull me into an annoying game," she smiles at a homeless woman and her children sitting in an ally near the park. "Here, I brought some sushi from Kawamura's Sushi restaurant. Dig in."

"You're really too much, Kurai," the woman states in an appreciative manor. "Without you my children would probably starve. Thank you so much."

"It's no big deal, really. Oh, and before I forget," Kurai states as she puts down her bag and begins digging through it, finally managing to pull out a bag of healthy breakfast items, "here's some snakes for the morning. You see, I've got a date tomorrow so I won't be able to stop by in time for breakfast."

"A date? With who?" the woman asks, curiosity covering her face as her children eat the sushi.

"It's just Kenji. It's something our families make us do. It's not that big of a deal, it just takes a day out of my life to deal with it," Kurai laughs a little. "Well, I better be getting to bed, I don't want to be tired for tomorrow, after all."

"Of course, thanks again, Kurai," the woman nods her head.

"Thank you, Auntie Kurai!" the three children celebrate as they wrap her in hugs.

"No problem," she smiles as she pats them all on the head before heading off with her bag to the center of the park, the area where no one ever travels to due to their busy schedules in life. There, she finds a tree with large roots that create a small cave. Home sweet home, she thinks as she crawls into the cave.

Once inside, she pulls out a blanket and spreads it over her body as she leans back into the roots within the cave that make up her pillow. Slowly, she drifts to sleep, her mind cluttered with expectations that her parents had for her and how she had to fulfill each and every one of them to obtain her freedom. How she couldn't allow herself to fall for anyone no matter what the case until she was free. How she had to push the face of Seigaku's red-headed Kikumaru Eiji out of her mind possibly forever.