Tennis no Ojou-sama: A Prince of Tennis Fan Fiction

CHAPTER 14: Ryouko versus Hiroshi Wakato

All of the Seigaku members saw how the situation got that way but none of them were able to interfere. Not even Hanamura-sensei and Ryuzaki-sensei. There was far too much commotion and it happened so fast.

"We can use this court, can we, Captain?" Ryouko told Tezuka.

"Go ahead." Tezuka answered.

"Eh? Tezuka!" Kikumaru said in alarm.

"Buchou, I don't think that's a good idea." Kaidoh commented.

"Let her, senpaitachi. She knows what she's doing." Ryoma suddenly commented from behind them.

They all looked at Ryouko take out her racket and come towards the net where Wakato was waiting.

"Just to be fair, I'll let you serve first." Wakato told Ryouko.

"Sure." Ryouko said.

"I'll be the referee." Ryoma said as he climbed up the referee's seat. "You have a problem with that?" He said to the people with wide eyes all looking at him. It was an unexpected thing for Ryoma to do.

"I think it's fine." Wakato told him.

"Okay then." Ryoma said. "The best of one set match. Fujioka service play."

Ryouko was once again holding the racket with her right hand. She bounced the ball twice before letting it fly.

It was an ordinary serve, but it was faster and far stronger than what she showed them for the past days.

"Service ace. 15-Love." Ryoma announced.

Wakato whistled. "You have some skills."

Ryouko ignored him and served again.

"The same thing won't work twice!" Wakato said as he returned the ball.

Ryouko returned it easily. It became a rally of shots until Ryouko twirled her body sidewards to her right before returning Wakato's ball. It shot up so fast in a straight diagonal line and hit the ground in split-seconds.

"Whoo!" Kikumaru cheered.

"Adding more speed to the ball by twirling her body before hitting made it much easier for her to maneuver. A smart move." Inui commented.

"30-Love." Ryoma announced.

Ryouko was able to land more shots, occasionally improvising her positions to make her shots faster and stronger.

"Game won by Fujioka. One game to love." Ryoma said.

"O-ho. So that's how you play..." Wakato said aloud.

"It's time." He thought.

The fangirls murmured excitedly to each other.

Wakato got into position and threw his cap high up in the air. "Change!" He shouted.

"Over!" His fangirls chorused loudly.

"There it is. The copying technique." Fuji said.

True enough, because Wakato's serve looked exactly like Ryouko's. Even the angle, the speed and the point where it landed. Wakato also used the same techniques she used against him, increasing the power and strength of his shots several-folds more than Ryouko's.

Wakato's fanclub cheered their hearts out.

"Fujioka has a small body." Tezuka suddenly said. They all payed attention.

"Because of that, she has to think of methods to make the balls she hit have more strength and power and she arrived to the technique of making her body maneuver freely to provide more time for her in exerting her strength to the ball by throwing her body weight towards it. But if a male with more body volume does such a technique, the results will be more elevated."