Fifteen Love (Masaru)

[Leanne]

Did Leanne mention she had joined tennis team back in 552?

Well, even if she didn't, she was here now on the tennis court with a racket in hand and her long blond hair up in a high ponytail as it rested limply on her back she she crouched slightly forward in a ready position. She held her racket in her right hand, and her left supported it as it pointed in her midsection with her legs straddling the white base T-line. Or whatever that was called. The sun was blazing down on her and her opponent in the large court. It was nice weather and it clearly showed that summer was coming.

Bop!

The nice resonating sound of the tennis ball hitting the right area of the racket filled Leanne's ears as her eyes followed the incoming ball. She shuffled over to the area raising her racket preparing to hit the ball back with her forehand. She sent it back cross court towards the baseline, at least, that was what she had wanted to do until it actually hit the frame of her racket sending the green tennis ball towards an innocent bypasser!

The tennis ball came twirling towards the bystander, and Leanne quickly yelled, "WATCH OUT!" as she began to run towards the young male around her age in her t-shirt and skort (skirts with shorts).

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to do that!"

Well as cold as Leanne was, she still had manners.

[Masaru]

It was Masaru's first day to school. This time, however, he was prepared. He had ordered a map of the school before going here, so he wouldn't have to ask someone to lead him around. That was a good thing, cause last time he got into a brawl with some crazy individual who seemed to only know how to say 'smash'.

Masaru didn't like violence, and hoped his first day he wouldn't have to bloody his hands teaching someone how much he hated violence with his fist. Today, he thought he should fancy himself with looking over the schools tennis courts. Tennis was an old favorite of his, and he never had the chance to play it recently.

So, that is how Masaru ended up roaming the Tennis courts. Unfortunately, he didn't bring a tennis racquet... so he wandered around watching some games. Masaru saw a racquet leaned up against the wall. He couldn't resist the temptation. As he leaned down to pick up the abandoned racquet, something flew towards his back.

Masaru felt something bump against his leather trench coat. It did a good job dampening any damage, so he wasn't quite sure what hit him, and assumed someone hit him for trying to take their racquet. He quickly turned around to apologize, a light Japanese accent dancing on his words.

"I am sorry, I just wanted to play with it for a little bit."
"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to do that!"

Both of the sentences came out at the same time, and Masaru realized there was a tennis ball rolling away from him. Oh, this is going to be an interesting conversation.

[Leanne]

"I am sorry, I just wanted to play with it for a little bit."

Leanne blinked as the guy had blurted out an apology the same time she did. Releasing a small chuckle Leanne noted that the guy seemed like a new student and was a immigrant like her seeing that they both had accents in their speech which most likely meant that they were born in another country of course! Leanne reached forward and picked up the ball that rolled away before turning back to Masaru.

Twisting the little ball in her hand, Leanne flashed him a friendly smile.

"Do you wanna play?"

Leanne pointed at the court as the other people from the school that were practicing waved at him. Leanne hoped he would, after all it would help knowing some more people and of course, brush up on some tennis skills! And the guy seemed to genuinely like the sport and Leanne would like to have an opponent that would improve her skills.

[Masaru]

"Do you wanna play?"

Not the kind of response Masaru expected, seeing as how he was just about to "borrow" someones racquet. Well, he was an adaptable guy. It seemed this school was less violent than the other one, for people began to wave at him from the other courts.

Masaru was slightly taken aback. This was totally different than the other school, and he wasn't quite so sure what to do in this situation. So he just shrugged and replied in a quiet voice.

"I would love to, but I haven't a racquet to play with."