PUNLESS?
by Collapse Overture
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis.
A/N: On the phone with my friend, she said something offensive to me, and I said "I take offense to that" and then I was like "whut? hahaha Offense, a fence. That's a Dabide pun. PFFT!" And so, I had to write this. It called to me. XD I'll be writing another one soon because I said something stupid about what someone from NUMB3RS looked like and made it into a bad pun. I'll write it eventually. XD Enjoy!
Dabide sat content on the bench of Rokkaku's tennis courts, his doubles partner warily at his side. The redhead hadn't said one pun all day and it was really unnerving Bane to no end. He was just waiting, preparing for the kick to the head he'd have to send Dabide once he slipped with one simple, idiotic word, and pronounced it entirely the wrong way. Bane hated Dabide's puns and sometimes wondered why he had to be the one partnered with the second year. But always, one look at that blank face that held utter excitement at all the right times and he was lost and remembered just why he woke up every morning.
Finally, though, it was their turn to practice. They had to play singles - against each other, nonetheless - and they both stood, racquets in hand, and made their way to their own respective sides of the court. Saeki and Aoi had decided to do something different for their training schedule. Original singles players play against each other and doubles partners play against each other. Needless to say, Saeki felt somewhat bad for his own doubles partner - and himself for that matter - when they began playing; Itsuki had played against him but had remained bewildered and asking incessantly over and over again 'Why, Saeki-san, are we playing this way? Why? We always play doubles. You don't like me anymore? Why don't you like me anymore?'
After all that, Saeki had to declare the match over and allow Bane and Dabide to play.
Before the game started, Dabide stretched, still holding onto his racquet, and Bane watched, waiting to begin.
Once the game started, Bane felt the sudden urge to let Dabide win and let up somehow in his game. He felt somewhat bad to defeat a younger player, but then again, he didn't want to embarrass himself. Though, he did let up, if only a little, but Dabide still noticed.
"Bane-san," he called, smacking the ball back to his regular partner. Here comes a pun, Bane thought, and Dabide continued, "No offense, but I'm sure you have no game today. I don't much like you playing this way. It's embarrassing."
Okay, so something was definitely wrong with Dabide today. He didn't come up with some lame pun to get him back in the game even though it was something the redhead usually did. That was partly why Bane had a slight tendency to let up in his game; he wanted Dabide to say something stupid and wake him up. It made him feel . . . important, somewhat. But it didn't stop him for actually being offended by that statement, cute or not.
"I do take offense, Dabide, now -"
Before he could finish, a blank grin spread across the redhead's face and Bane inwardly smacked himself for phrasing what he said that way.
"Bane-san, you take a fence? Where, exactly, do you take the fence? Pfft!"
That was all it took. Bane ran towards the net, jumped over, and made his way to his doubles partner. In one fluid motion, he smacked the other boy upside the head hard and shook his head. "That.wasn't.funny!" he grumbled, but he couldn't stop himself from grinning and pulling Dabide into a headlock. He had to admit, after basically a whole practice of no puns, he was really looking forward to the redhead's lack of humor. One day, somehow, he'd quite possible thank Dabide for being the way he was. But for now, they had a game to finish; a game of which Bane was fully ready to play seriously.
Review. I try my best to be funny, really. I just fail miserably. ):