Chapter 30

We Are The Champions

A/N: I'm glad you guys enjoyed this, can't believe it's over! This goes out the graduating class of 2010!!!!

"So what are you going to go home and say?"

Ryan looked around at the balloons and the confetti, the Japanese team captains holding up the large gold trophy and the smiling girl on crutches before him. He held out his hand with a smile, "I'll tell them you changed for the better."

Rayah shook his hand, "Thanks."

"No problem Ray."

The girl moved towards her team and participated in the celebration. Smiling and laughing despite that she didn't have a wining match, despite the fact that she would never play this sport again.

Fuji grabbed everyone's attention and held up his camera. Ryuzaki took it and told him to join everyone else. Yuki stood next to Rayah, "I know he's proud of you Ray."

"I know he is too."

"Come on Rayah-chan, smile!"

Rayah laughed, "Nanako! You've taken a million pictures, we'll be more than fashionably late!"

Nanjiro hugged his son; "Soon we'll be sending you off to your senior prom." He whined over dramatically.

The female grabbed Tezuka's arm, "Maybe if we back away slowly, we can leave."

The silent boy nodded in agreement. Yuki raised her brows as the two teens entered the limo, "What-?"

"Please." Rayah interrupted, "Don't ask."

They pulled up to the school and filled inside the massive gym. It was decorated in blues, and purples, and whites, and almost every school was there. "All of the schools having one prom was a good idea." Oishi said as he approached the two couples.

Kikumaru bounded up behind him, "Nya! Ray-kun looks like a princess! Yuki-chan too!"

Fuji walked over with Yumi, the quiet girl simply smiled and waved. The young man smiled his usual creepy smile, "Haven't seen the pompous idiot yet."

"Ore-sama has arrived!"

Fuji continued to smile, "Seems I spoke too soon."

Atobe approached the steadily growing group of senior tennis players. "This is a worthy party." He turned to Rayah and noticed that Tezuka was busy holding up the nearest wall.

"Would princess like to dance?"

"I think the first dance of the night should be with my boyfriend."

Tezuka focused on Rayah as she approached him, "Would you like to dance Oto-san?"

He glanced around the room and seemingly took too long to answer as Atobe swooped in and grabbed Rayah's hand, pulling her to the dance floor, "Is Kunimitsu too stiff to dance with you?"

The girl bit her lip but smiled anyway, "He probably just doesn't want to, or can't."

Atobe frowned as they spun across the floor; "Ore-sama isn't stupid." He lifted her chin, "He loves you. Kunimitsu is just an idiot and he's too proud to say so."

He walked her back over to her boyfriend who had been watching their every move and forcefully put her hand in Tezuka's, "Kunimitsu don't be an idiot."

Rayah laughed, and pulled the boy onto the dance floor, "He's right you know."

Tezuka put a hand on her hip and started to dance, "Hn."

The auditorium was the quietest it had ever been. Sniffles from the females of the class echoed a bit as Oishi, the senior class president stood and moved to the podium, followed by the class Valedictorian, Tezuka and Salutatorian, Fuji.

Oishi smiled brightly as he fixed the mike, "It seems like just yesterday we were all walking into the doors of Seishun academy, and for the three of us up here, walking onto the tennis courts."

The tennis team whooped, "But now we are here, about to walk from these doors and away from this school forever. We can come back and visit but it will never really be the same."

Fuji and Tezuka took to the mike together. Fuji spoke first, "Normally one of us would give the final class address. But just because we got the best grades, doesn't mean we were well liked or even has the right to speak on behalf of everyone."

Tezuka stepped up and adjusted his glasses, "We decided that it would be best to let Rayah Echizen give the final class address."

The girl moved to the front and hit both boys playfully and wiped the happy tears from her eyes; "I really wish one of you idiots would have told me something sooner!"

The class laughed, "Now I'm probably gonna say something stupid. Ugh!" she took a deep breath, "Alright. I guess I want to thank everybody. If anything I didn't expect to be accepted so quickly. I mean who transfers in their senior year right? But even though I had my rough patches with people I felt like I was part of this class, this family. People I don't even really know stick up for me and say nice things."

She took a breath, "This class will go on to do great things, and not just our graduating class but even the one's from other schools. We've been through so much in this one year and we'll come out great because of it all. As someone who never really has faith in much, I have faith in this. So this is to you, the class of 2010!"

Cheers erupted and Rayah bounded back to her seat, in between Tezuka and Yuki, "So this is it?"

"Yeah."

The principal went up on the stand and smiled at the class and parents and teachers, "Seishun Academy, I present to you, the graduating class of 2010!!"

"He's coming Rayah." Fuji tried to reassure the girl.

The girl looked around the airport terminal, trying not cry. Tezuka had promised he would come to the airport to see them all off.

Atobe arrived with his designer carryon and sat down, deciding not to speak. He and Rayah were going to the University of California. It wasn't a secret that he had purposefully transferred to go to school with Rayah. Fuji and Yumi were also on the same flight, the artist and photographer going to L.A. Art Institute together.

"Flight 34 to Los Angeles, California is now boarding."

Rayah squeezed the handle to her small bag and tried to look over the heads of the many people in the terminal. Yumi gently put a hand on the girls shoulder, "Rayah-san, we should go."

"Oto-san is never late. He always does what he promises."

Fuji silently told his girlfriend to board the plane and took Rayah's bag from her stunned form, putting a hand on her back, "Come on Rayah."

"He promised."

"I know, come on."

The four young adults arrived in California. Atobe was surprisingly quiet, helping Rayah without any comments, no Ore-sama's or Princess' in his speech. Rayah appreciated it. Right now she wanted nothing more than to think about how one more person had left her behind.

She sighed as she picked up her small backpack and moved to follow her companions the large taxi.

"What the hell?!" she screamed as someone simply pulled her bag from her hand.

She turned a full circle to confront the person and she could only think to remind herself to breathe and not cry.

"Crying is very unbecoming."

"Tezuka you idiot!"

People were slightly startled as Rayah jumped on the boy. She squeezed him as tight as possible, "I thought you forgot about me."

Tezuka put down her bag and lifted her chin, kissing her full on the lips. "I love you."

"What?"

"All through high school I've wanted to say it about a thousand times. But I was too proud and afraid to get hurt. My grandfather made me realize that it was either now or never with you. I love you."

"I love you too Kunimitsu. You're an idiot," she laughed, "but I love you too."

Fuji and Yumi moved on to become a famous photography duo and couple.

Yuki and Yagyuu married right after college graduation and are awaiting their second child.

Kikumaru became a supermodel, his boyfriend, Oishi, is his manager.

Atobe became CEO of his family's company. No surprise there.

Tezuka transferred out of California U to Harvard, he is a partner at his own law firm.

Rayah never did decide on what to do, but decided to let a sadistic bastard take her picture. She's Kikumaru's partner.

Rayah and Tezuka broke up their sophomore year.

A/N: SEQUAL!!! Yes there will be one, did you guys really think that I would go through all that work of putting Rayah and Tezuka together just to break them up and not explain what happened? I mean really, what do you guys take me for?