Prince Of Tennis Fan Fiction ❯ The friendly match, side story to What If ❯ part 2, finale ( Chapter 2 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
Title: The Friendly Match!

Rating: PG-13

Type: 2/2, Side story to "What If"

Warning: Shonen-ai hints, don't read if you don't like... Not beta-ed.

Pairings: FujiRyo, TezuAto, MaruiEiji, JirouOC(Hiroshi)...

Disclaimer: No, I do not own Prince of Tennis... However, I did own my OCs in this fic...Namely, Hiroshi, Carl and James.

A/N: Sorry, if this fic is sloppily written... I just wanted to get this fic over and done with, so I can concentrate better on my other fics on hand. Wee! After a long wait, part 2 is now here! I don't think this chapter is well-written, am feeling very tired.. felt like sleeping now. So bear with it... Now, this is really the end... ^^ Running out of inspirations already...

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Kikumaru Eiji was red in the face when he rejoined the Seigaku Tennis club. He tried not to draw attention to himself, but that was impossible as Oishi had already spotted him.

"Eiji, why are you so red? Are you sick?" Oishi frowned at him worriedly.

"Huh? No, I'm not sick..." Eiji replied, trying to reassure Oishi. "Come on, let's go... the match is about to start..." Desperate to avoid the subject, he started to head for the court. 'Damn you, Marui... Why must you say something like that before a match...' Eiji cursed silently, oblivious to Oishi frowning at his unnatural behavior.

Due to the tight schedule, the afternoon match will be taking place in both courts. Both Rikaidai and Seigaku will be playing with players from St.Mary academy at the same time. Majority of the results were just like how the audience predicted, only there were a few exceptional cases.

Eiji happens to be one of such cases, he had been so preoccupied during the match that he can't seem to concentrate on the game. The fact that Marui Bunta was playing doubles with Jackal in the next court didn't help either, although Oishi had tried to cover up Eiji misses. It's impossible for Oishi alone to play doubles by himself, hence Seigaku doubles 1 lost to St. Mary with a score of 6-7.

Meanwhile, Rikaidai doubles 1 won with a score of 6-4. This alone, gets Eiji very upset. He refuses to talk to Marui for the rest of the day, blaming Marui for distracting him before a game. Even though, Eiji had tried his best to avoid Marui but eventually he still can't get away. Especially, Marui had resorted to trap him in the boy's bathroom and proceed to kiss him senseless.

When the two of them exited the bathroom, they were shocked to see a whole group of people crowding around the court. Curious to see what's happening, the two of them headed towards their respective teams. Rikaidai had won every game against St. Mary, that proves to show that Rikaidai was still the best among all schools in the Kantou region.

"Don't tell me Seigaku was still playing them?" Marui blurted out when he realizes that none of his team mates were missing from sight.

"Yes... apparently, Echizen Ryoma is still playing." Yanagi stated matter-of- factly.

"Eh? Ochibi is still out there on the court?" Eiji made a disbelieving noise.

"Eiji, where were you?" Oishi asked when he heard Eiji voice.

"Aa... sorry Oishi, was caught up in the gents by a certain 'someone'." Eiji replied, eyeing Marui from the corner of his eye.

"Oh..." Oishi caught the underlying message and divert his attention back to the game.

"Fuji, how long has it been going on already?" Eiji asked.

"About an hour?" Fuji frowned.

Eiji was about to say something when he caught sight of Hiroshi heading towards them with Hyotei players. Hiroshi glanced towards the court for a moment before stating "I suggest that everyone find some place to sit down, if you wanted to finish watching the game."

Everyone stared at Hiroshi bewilderedly, while Hiroshi sighed and replied "Their game will not end that easily... they'd played each other more than once. Each time their match could last for 2 or more hours, depending on their mood."

Hiroshi then stared at Ryoma and Carl respectively, before asking Fuji "What's their current score?"

There was a pause as everyone shifted their attention to Fuji, whom replied serenly "5-4, Ryoma leading..."

"It's about time then..." Hiroshi mumbled incoherently under his breath, as he did a mental calculating. After a while, he spoke up attracting everyone's attraction. "7-6"

"The final score would be 7-6, I would say Ryoma will win..." Hiroshi stated matter-of -factly. Ignoring everyone's puzzled look, he continued "Out of the 35 matches that took place between them, 34 was won by Ryoma. The only time Ryoma loses was 8 years ago back in America..."

Silence permeated the air as everyone shifted their eyes from Hiroshi to the two players, then back to Hiroshi again. The look of awe and disbelief were written all over their face, the only exception is Hiroshi. Since he had witness Ryoma and Carl playing each other in both official and unofficial games more than once.

With that, he left the site leaving the rest of them to watch the game. He needn't watched since he'd done that more than once in their own free time.

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True to Hiroshi's words, the match between Ryoma and Carl had lasted for a whole of three hours. The scores were just as Hiroshi predicted as well, Ryoma had won 7-6 against Carl.

Fuji and Ryoma was the last to leave the site. Ryoma was packing up when he found Fuji embracing him from behind.

"Fuji?" Ryoma prompted.

"You're awesome out there..." Fuji stated softly as he pulled Ryoma in for a kiss.

Ryoma's features soften as he leaned in for the kiss. No words were needed, the kiss had proved it all. The sun sets behind them as the two lovers lose themselves in each other passions.

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~Owari~

Date started: 22/04/05

date completed: 22/04/05