My life right now is so messed up. I am trying to write the story and do my homework at the same time, but in the end I didn't finished finish any of those tasks. I am feeling so bored and now, especially on the weekends since I am at home all day. I can't believe that already 300 people read this crap already, I never thought it was going to be read by that much people. I should really try to correct my grammar and punctuation mistakes for you guys. Life is so hard which is why I always read manga and manhua to cheer me up.
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Tanaka Yuki POV
"Hello! My name is Tanaka Yuki, and I am from Rikkaidai. Mind if I practice with you guys?" I ask politely while trying to put up the warmest smile I ever made in my life. "Are you one of the regulars in Rikkaidai? Sure why not?" they answered in unison. Although they agreed to my request, I can see the reluctance in their eyes showing that they weren't comfortable around me. I tried my best to be kind and friendly so I didn't scare them away, and gradually we were all became friends and were laughing and chatting with each other while playing casually. It took some time but I thought it was worth it since I made new friends in a different school, suddenly one of the girls that I made friends with started talking about Atobe and how marvellous he was. When Atobe's name was mentioned, a fire lit inside of me. Why does everyone in this school talk about Atobe in such a good way? What's so great about him? Just because he is grand and gorgeous and his father owns the school doesn't mean that everyone who attends this school has to worship him. "Atobe is just rich, what is so good about him anyways? Why do you guys always talk about him?" I questioned them straightforwardly since I didn't like lying to myself. "Atobe is the most fantastic person in the school, he is our king," they replied, clearly annoyed at me. My new group of friends seems disappointed in me for talking about Atobe in that kind of way and left me by myself.
I was confused about why they were upset with me, I was only saying about what I thought about him. What's so wrong about that? Boredom hit me again since my new friends ditched me for badmouthing their *oresama*, I decided to warm up since that was the only thing for me to do and I might be playing my match soon. As I wandered around the school, I found half a tennis court, where I could hit the ball to the wall and it will bounce back like a player returning my ball. It resembles a squash court but in a tennis style, I was warming up for at least 30 minutes until Marui came running and informed me that Sanada is halfway into his match which means that my match is going to be next. Marui ran off after telling me the information since he probably wanted to go to his bag to find his lovely cake. I decided to go to my allocated court early and waited for the match to start since I was starting to get bored with warming up.
I wandered around the tennis courts, trying to find my court in them but was failing terribly. It took me at least 5 minutes to find my court. By the time I entered my court, I saw the empire already there. He was setting up the net and checking if any of the players had arrived yet, I reported that I was present and was ready to play. We are now waiting for Jiro to arrive, I was pretty sure that he overslept. I saw Atobe sitting in the stands murmuring something to Kabaji which made him exit the court, possibly finding the *sleeping beauty*. Shortly after, Kabaji entered the court carrying the sleeping Jiro on top of one of his shoulders. "Jiro, wake up!" Adobe command which immediately woke Jiro up but he still looks like he hasn't slept for days.
The match between me and Jiro started and the empire decided that I could choose first since it doesn't matter for a practice match, I choose to serve first since I wanted to test out Jiro skills by using my twist serve. I start the match by using my twist serve on Jiro, and he tried to return the ball but his racquet flew out of his hands. " 15-love!" the empire shouted. The game went on smoothly and I claimed the first two sets. Throughout the match, Jiro got a lot of points off me because of his magic volleys. He can freely control where he will hit a volley from any positions with just a snap of his wrist, regardless of the irregularity of the position he is in at the time and where I hit the ball to. In the end, I won with a score of 6-2. Sanada and Yukimura started scolding me because I was careless which ended up with him going 2 sets from me. Rikkaidai got a total of 5 wins which means that we won all the matches, Atobe came up to Yukimura and ask him to chat about something important. It wasn't my business so I decided to stare at the sky and daydream until Jiro came up and shouted in my ears. "Hah~I completely lost, but I want to play you again!" he said with a defeated looked. He asked me to give him my wristband but I refused to give it to him which made him to forcibly take it and put it in his tennis bag. I spotted another wristband in his tennis bag which resembled the one which Marui wore, I wondered if Jiro took Marui's wristband since he idolises him.
When we were about to leave Hyotei and board the bus, the regulars from Hyotei waved goodbye to us. I was quite shocked when I saw Jiro wide awake and waving at me with an ecstatic smile, the bus ride back to our school was shorter than I expected. We got to school early which means that we might have to go back to class but Yukimura got permission for the principal for us to go home. I was about to exit the school gates until Marui, Jackal, Nio, Kirihara blocked my path and ask me if they could come to my house to play. Since I was nice, I reluctantly agreed. Sanada, Yagyu and Yukimura decided to come as well since they wanted to supervise the brats in case they got into any trouble. Now, I am going to bring seven guests to the Echizen household, Marui, Jackal, Nio, Kirihara, Sanada, Yagyu, and Yukimura. What if Ryoma comes back home early and gets into a fight with my teammates? I was already regretting my decision.
We took the train together and walked to my house when we arrived Marui asked me why the nameplate of the house isn't Tanaka but Echizen. I told them that I will explain to them when we get inside, as we entered the house Auntie Nanaka welcomed us and we greeted her. I told them to go to the yard where it was more spacious, they did as they were told and entered the yard. Seeing that there was a tennis court surprised them since they weren't expecting that there would be one in my house, I told them to relax on the benches and explained that I this house isn't owned by my family. The owner of this household is my uncle, he let me stay here for the time I am in Japan. I didn't notice that Uncle Nanjiro was walking behind me since I was explaining the complicated situation to them, suddenly, I felt a tap on the back and I slowly turned around. It was Uncle Nanjiro, he greeted my teammates and asked if anyone of them wanted to challenge him to a match of tennis. Kirihara hastily replied that he wanted to play, everyone in the team thought that it was definite that Kirihara was going to win except for me. They don't know that Uncle Nanjiro was one of the best players in the world until he wasn't. I was confident that Kirihara was going to lose since I am stronger than Kirihara but I lost to my uncle. We were missing an empire so my team chose me to be the empire of the match since none of them was bothered to strain their eyes after playing against Hyotei.
Kirihara was arrogant and was certain that he was going to win but eventually he lost the game, although he used his specialty like the mode, devil mode, and angel mode, he was crushed by the former pro player. "Game and match! 6-0. Winner Echizen Nanjiro!" I announced I saw that everyone was disappointed that Kirihara lost. Sanada walked towards Kirihara and raised his hand, he was about to slap Kirihara but I stop him right on time, I told everyone that Uncle Nanjiro was a pro player before so it wasn't a big deal for Kirihara to lose to him. Everyone's eyes were full of shock and realisation hit them, Echizen Nanjiro, also known as *Samurai Nanjiro* for his invincible tennis skills during his earlier years as a professional tennis player. Sanada lowered down his hand as he heard that, my teammates were in awe. Everyone was surprised that the once invincible player was now a monk in a temple and I didn't blame them, suddenly the door opened and Ryoma was visible. Everyone gasped as they saw the rumoured rookie that Yanagi was warning us about.
Yukimura Seiichi POV
We came back to school early from Hyotei and Kirihara asked if I could gain permission from the principal for us to leave early, I went to the front office to find the principal to see if he allowed us to go early. Fortunately, he answered yes and I walked back to the gates to tell them the good news. I saw the Yuki-san heading toward the school gates but Marui, Jackal, Nio, and Kirihara stopped her. They were definitely up to something since they were all grinning like a fool, I used my sensitive ears to eavesdrop on them and found out that they were going to her house. I was suspicious of their actions so I told Geni'chiro (Sanada) and Renji (Hiroshi) to come with me to supervise the brats in case they got into trouble.
We boarded the train and got off after approximately 10 minutes, she led us to a house which has a nameplate clearly stating that it was the Echizen household but her last name was Tanaka which made us a bit confused. Marui asked why it said the Echizen household when her last name was Tanaka, she told us that she will explain once we got into the house. After we enter the house, a middle-aged woman welcomes us and we greeted her back. Yuki-san orders us to go the yard and relax on the benches since it was spacious there, we did as we were told. She started the explanation but after a few seconds, a monk walked up to her and tapped on her shoulders. He greeted us and asked if anyone wants to challenge him in tennis, and there was no surprise that Kirihara was in. We all agreed that Yuki-san should be the empire, but the main reason we let Yuki-san be the empire is that being the empire will strain your eyes since you have to watch the ball carefully to see if it is in or out. The team was betting that Kirihara was going to win this match since we thought the monk won't know how to play tennis and will be crushed by Kirihara but it was the complete opposite, the monk won the match with a score of 6-0 even though Kirihara used all his modes. We were disappointed in Kirihara and Sanada walked up to him and raised his hand to slap him but was stopped but Yuki-san. Yuki-san told us that the monk was once a famous pro player. Echizen Ninijiro? Isn't he the professional tennis player who won the Grand Slam but disappeared after. Suddenly, the door opened as I saw Echizen Ryoma. The super rookie who Yanagi warned us about.