Summary: Echizen Ryoma goes to a Japanese school. He quited tennis years ago but by a twist of fate he befriends all tennis regulars in the school. Echizen however joins the photography club. But when the tennis regulars figure out he can actually play tennis all hell breaks loose.

pairing: not know yet let me know who you liek to see together^^

disclaimer: I own nada noppes. I wish I did but I just don't.


Echizen Ryoma was a talented straight A student. He was talented in drawing, painting, acting, music, photography and singing. And above all he was good looking. Now this Echizen Ryoma was standing before a school in Japan. Yes of course he had been in Japan a few times and he spoke Japanese but he never actually lived in Japan. He sighed and raised his camera he took a picture of the front of his school.

The school was huge and that might be an understatement. There were four buildings other than the dorms and they were connected by a small hallway. It looked somewhat intimidating and cold but that was just the outside. The inside of the school was nice and cosy even though everything was huge. When you entered there was a hall with lockers. This was the main building. The building behind this building was the Rikkaidai building the building to the left was the Hyoutei building and the building to the left was the Seigaku building. Somewhere in the main building there was an office for the principal and Echizen was supposed to get his schedule there but he wasn't really focusing on that this moment.

He took a picture of the hall.

"You must be Echizen Ryoma." A man nearing his forties said. The man had black hair, a friendly face, brown eyes, a moustache and oversized ears. "I'm Sakujii Tsutomu the principal pleased to meet you."

"Ah, yoroshiku." Echizen muttered pulling his cap lower on his head.

"Shall I show you around the school?" Sakujii asked smiling while handing Echizen an envelope. "That's your schedule and some information you might want to read. Your books are in your room your things arrived yesterday. The key to your dorm is also in the envelope."

Echizen nodded processing the information he just got.

"You're in the Seigaku part of the school. So I'll start the guide there." Sakujii said guiding Echizen to the right. "You might or might not have heard this school is separated in three parts each with their own building. You have Seigaku, Rikkaidai and Hyoutei. The three groups can gain points during the year in different things. I believe Rikkaidai is leading t this moment. They get points for the highest test scores in each year and performances of each club. Some clubs are a mix of the three groups because there were too little people interested." Sakujii looked smiling at Echizen who took pictures of every part of the school he thought was particular interesting. "Every student has to be in at least one club. But being in more clubs is encouraged. Do you have any particular interests?"

Echizen looked up uninterested. "I like arts, music and photography." He said barely interested.

A teacher walked up to the headmaster at that moment. "Sakujii-kouchou, Ishikawa sensei was searching for you."

Sakujii looked as if realization dawned on him. "Oh yes that's right we were supposed to discuss a proposal of his." Sakuji turned to the teacher. "Tezuka-kun, could you please show Echizen-kun around and tell him a bit about the school?" Sakuji turned then to Echizen. "This is Tezuka-kun, He's captain of the Seigaku tennis team. He'll show you around."

Echizen nodded. "Yoroshiku."

Tezuka nodded before turning and walking in a random direction Echizen ran after him. Tezuka nodded to rooms and told what they were. He walked with his arms crossed and showed no emotions whatsoever.

Echizen just nodded and barely showed any emotion in return.

"Tezuka-buchou!" A hyper voice called from behind Echizen and Tezuka.

When Echizen turned around he saw a redhead accompanied by a black haired boy with a bowling ball haircut.

Tezuka nodded his head acknowledging the existence of the two.

"You are guiding a new kid around!!!!" the redhead said bouncing up and down.

Echizen had placed the two of them in the tennis team because they (the redhead at least) called Tezuka 'buchou'.

"I'm Kikumaru Eiji, yoroshiku ochibi-chan." the redhead said not one second stopping bouncing.

"I'm Ooishi Shuuichirou." the boy with the bowling ball haircut introduced himself while trying to make Kikumaru stand still.

"Echizen Ryome, yoroshiku." Echizen said pulling his cap down.

"Ochibi-chan?" Ooshi asked before Echizen could ask about it.

"My nickname for Ochbi." Kikumaru said proud.

Echizen wasn't happy he wanted to say something but Kikumaru decided to distract him. "Are you going to join the tennis club?"

"No."

"What club are you going to join?" Ooishi asked. He was surprised by the direct answer. Most people who transferred, transferred here because the tennis club he thought Echizen wasthe execption that confirmed the rule.

Echizen hadn't thought about which club to join yet so he didn't answer Ooishi's question.

Ooshi's eye fell on the camera in Echizens hand. "Are you going to join the photography club then? They don't have much members but Fuji says it's really fun!" Ooishi said.

"hn." Was Echizens reply. Echizen wasn't in the mood to deal with hyper tennis players. He didn't like socializing at all.

"Ochibi is no fun at all, nya." Eiji said.

Nya? Echizen thought. Is he a cat of some sort?


When the tour had ended Echizen fell on his bed exhausted. He opened the envelope and stared at the contents. A schedule, a paper with the rules, a paper to choose in which clubs you wanted to participate, a history of the school and some advertisement for the school.

Echizen looked at the list of clubs. He liked to do a lot of these things but he liked it better when people didn't know he actually could do these things. After a long time he decided to join the photography club. Not that much members probably all pretty good at photography he wouldn't stand out much. Most important it didn't require socializing.


Echizens first day was…. weird. Weird would be the best word to describe Echizens first day. Echizen himself used words like annoying, stupid, scary and tahts ort of words but because I'm the writer I decided the word should be weird.

"Class we have a new student he came from America. Echizen Ryoma can you please introduce yourself in front of the class."

"Echizen Ryoma. Yoroshiku."

In a second the entire class was whispering. "He's so pretty." "He's a guy?" "I wonder in which club he is." "Would he be single?" "I hope he'll sit next to me." "Isn't he a bit young to be a third year?"All that sort of things were asked accompanied by drooling and hungry stares.

"Echizen will follow third year classes even though he's only 15. That's why he's in this class." The teacher explained. "Echizen-kun please go sit next to Fuji-kun. Fuji-kun please stand up."

Fuji stood up and smiled brightly.

Echizen doubted if he should go to his place. Fuji looked creepy with his closed eyes and far too bright smile. Echizen decided it could do no harm to just sit next to him.

"Echizen-kun. How do you like the school so far?" Fuji asked him still smiling.

"Hm." Echizen said focusing on his textbook.

"Have you already decided on a club?"

"Sempai, I'm trying o focus on the lecture." Echizen said.

Fuji's smile grew a bit bigger. "You liked Japanese history."

"Hm."

"You're from America right?" Fuji's smile grew even bigger when he noticed Echizen tried to ignore him. "Why did you come to Japan?"

Silence.

"Shall I show you around the school?"

Silence once more.

"I'm sure my friends would like to meet you."

Echizen was slowly getting a headache from Fuji. Echizen just wanted to be left alone and focus on the lecture.

"Then it's decided you'll eat lunch with me and my friends."

Ryoma suppressed the urge to scream. "Yadda."

"Oh. I'm sure you could also go with one of the girls in the class I mean they've been staring at you since the beginning of class." Fuji was smart and had already noticed Echizen didn't want this.

Echizen shivered. There was no way he would go eat lunch with girls that started drooling as he looked at them.

"So shall I tell Hikaru you'll eat lunch with her?"

"Who's Hikaru?"

"The girl with the pink ribbons in her hair." Fuji said happy that Echizen finally replied.

Echizen shivered. That girl had been staring at him since the beginning of class. She seemed like the scary fan girl type. No way in hell he would eat lunch with her.

Fuji could almost see Echizen come to the conclusion that's better to eat lunch with Fuji than to eat lunch with a fangirl.


Echizen had always favored to eat his lunches alone in peace so he could review his notes from class, do something about his homework, daze off, fall asleep even, listen to music, draw and most of all not get disturbed in his own thinking.

"Ochibi-Chan!" A hyper voice jelled and Echizen cringed at the sound. "Fujiko! I didn't know you knew Ochibi. Is it because you both like photography, nya?"

"No. Echizen is new in my class I thought I would show him around a bit and make sure he didn't have to eat his lunch alone." Fuji said a large smile covering his face. "I didn't know you liked photography. You should join the photography club then."

Echizen almost regretted his decision to join the photography club. Who am I kidding it wasn't he almost regretted he regretted joining the photography club without almost.

"Ah I almost forgot to introduce my friends to you. It seems like you already know Eiji, that's Ooishi, Inui is the one with the glasses and the notebook, Tezuka is the one without a facial expression, Kaidoh is the one with the bandana." Fuji introduced everyone. "By the way where are Momo and Taka-san?"

"Taka-san had to talk to his teacher but I don't know where Momo is." Ooshi replied.

"67% chance he's off to get lunch, 24% chance he's got in trouble for eating lunch in the class, 10% chance it's something else." Inui said.

Echizen couldn't help but wonder if Inui had accidently swallowed a calculator and that it took over his brain.

"You're the new student Echizen Ryoma right?" Inui asked.

Echizen just nodded and opened his bento and decided to start eating his lunch and make his escape after that. For now it would do if he just ignored them.

Inui decided to take notes on the new student.

Eiji tried to talk to Echizen who to Fuji's amusement ignored every attempt of a conversation.

Tezuka and Kaidoh followed Echizens example and ignored it all.

Ooishi tried to cheer up a by now obviously depressed Eiji.

Fuji whispered something in Eiji's ear and Eiji cheered up immediately.

Eiji glomped Echizen and Echizen couldn't really ignore him anymore now which was exactly what Fuji had hoped for.

"So Echizen tell us about yourself likes dislikes." Fuji tried.

Echizen glared at Fuji for destroying his chance to ignore them all.

Fuji chuckled. "I like cacti, tennis and photography." He tried to encourage Echizen in talking.

Eiji who got the idea tried to help. "I like brushing my teeth and visiting petshops, nya. I especially like the cats there's a really cute one right now. He has black fur but in the light it almost seems green and he has huge golden eyes. "

Echizen continued ignoring them. He didn't want to talk about himself and he didn't want to hear about them either.

"Are you good at sports Echizen?" Inui tried.

"hn"

Tezuka was amazed that someone other than himself could ignore people the way Echizen did it but of course Tezuka didn't show this.

This was the moment Momo decided to come in. "Hi who's that?"

"Ah Momo." Fuji said. "Momo this is Echizen Ryoma, Echizen this is Momoshiro Tekeshi."

"You can call me Momo-chan."

Echizen thought it would be weird to call a sempai Momo-chan so he decided to ignore this last comment.

Lucky for Echizen the rest of lunch was pretty uneventful.


Fuji was smirking through class simply because he was the evil person he was. Fuji was interested in this new student. He would've left Echizen alone if he had simply answered the questions he asked but Echizen had to ignore him and that made Fuji interested. Fuji wasn't one you could ignore easily and Echizen had done it as if it was nothing and that of course fascinated Fuji.

Echizen had the feeling he was being watched through class but he just ignored it.

Most people in the class were completely terrified by either Fuji or Echizen. They were terrified by Fuji because he stared at Echizen with opened eyes and they were terrified by Echizen because he was able to ignore it.


Fuji dragged Echizen of to the photography club. (Do not ask me how but he somehow made Echizen spill which club he joined.)

"Fuji-san it nice to see you so early who's he?" A girl with red hair a little past her shoulders asked. She wore a slightly different uniform from the girls in Echizens class.

"This is Echizen Ryoma he joined this club I heard."

"Ah Echizen-kun. Pleased to meet you I'm Mwangi Haruka. I'm the president of this club. Do you have any experience with photographing?"

"Hai." Echizen said bored.

Mwangi smiled. "That's great. We do a few different things in this club. We study famous photographers, we study the theory of making good pictures, we of course make pictures ourselves, we criticize each other's pictures and we make a picture book about the school and the students."

"Ah."

"Do you have a camera yourself?"

"Hai."

"We would appreciate it if you take it with you next time."

"Hai." Echizen was annoyed why did he have to talk to her?

Mwangi in turn was amused. The boy was cute and antisocial, the perfect recipe for a good model.

The photography club had 7 members other than Echizen.

Fuji Shuusuke. Third year Seigaku. Also regular in the tennis club.

Mwangi Haruka. Third year Rikkaidai. She was president of the photography club and also photographer for the school newspaper.

Kioshi Neji. Second year Rikkaidai. He was part of the soccer club, newspaper club, track team and tennis team.

Minami Risa. First year Rikkaidai.

Kaida Narumi. Third year Hyoutei. Also part of the tennis team.

Kaida Hinata. Narumi's twin sister is also part of the track team. Vice president of the photography club.

Watanashi Satoshi. Second year Hyoutei. He was the son of a famous photographer.

So far Fuji was the only member from Seigaku but that changed with Echizens arrival.

They studied photos from different photographers and if Echizens didn't find Photography interesting he would've fallen asleep. There was one problem for Echizen with falling asleep. Risa seemed to have taken a liking of him and tried to take a picture if Echizen fell asleep it would be easy.


Echizen fell on his bed. He wanted to sleep! But of course teachers gave homework and he still had to make it and it hadn't been dinnertime yet he would miss dinner if he fell asleep now. Echizen stared at the empty paper before him he knew he had to write down the answers to the assignments but he thought it was useless. Too simple. Eventually he lifted his pen and started writing the obvious answers.


Chapter one I hope you liked it^^

I haven't decided on a pairing yet it could be anything as long as it's in Rikkaidai, Seigaku or Hyoutei^^ Please review and tell me which pairing you would like^^ I'm not just interested in who should end up with Ryoma but also other pairings I should put in there^^

Yoroshiku= pleased to meet you/ please take care of me

Kouchou= headmaster/principal

Sensei= teaher also used for doctor, writers etc

-kun= a suffix usually used for males younger than you.

-buchou= captain

Ochibi= Eiji's nickname for Ryoma means something like little one

Nya= Sound a cat makes (the sound my cat makes sounds nothing like nya but I guess that's the difference between dutch cats and japanese cats:P)

Kawaii= cute

Sempai= upperclasman.

Yadda= no

-chan= a suffix usually used for girls and cute beings^^

Fujiko= how Eiji calls Fuji

Taka-san= fuji's nickname for Kawamura Takashi. San is a suffix that's usually used to show respect it means something along the lines of mr or ms.

I believe I have all japanese words now if I missed one i'm sorry you can tell me and I'll edit it k?^^