Author's note: Plz review and tell me any parts that was not like Niou. Niou is one of my fav characters! He is a cute trickster after all. I started writing this story in my Art class, i was surprised my teacher did not notice me, he must have thought I was vigorously writing down notes! anyway, I thought of this story as a Three Demons fic but somehow, Niou came into the equation, weird isn't it? anyway, here it is! (even though i got this story to work on, I'll not abandon the other for my pride of being a Dirty Pair fan)

Disclaimer: i do not own Tennis no Ouji-sama!

Rikkai Daigaku Fuzoku Chuu or for short – Rikkai Dai - was famous for its harbour of the Three Demons, respectively Kami no Ko (Child of God) – Captain Yukimura Seiichi, Koutei (Emperor) – Vice Captain Sanada Genichirou, and the Master – Treasurer Yanagi Renji. They ruled the Tennis Club with absolute authority, even Niou, someone who enjoyed standing up to authority, would not try to mess with Yukimura. He is the man standing on top of the Three Demons after all.

But ruling a mere Tennis Club was not satisfying enough to them, Yukimura had said, on the first day of entering Rikkai Dai, " Now together, we can start taking over this place." The other two did not object, as it was not impossible for Yukimura, he was not called Kami no Ko for nothing. With Sanada and Yanagi by his side, he was invincible. The first one to test the wrath of his was Niou Masaharu, when they were in first year. The aspect that differentiates Yukimura from the other two and puts him as their leader was what made Niou make a mental note to not disobey Yukimura. True, Yukimura was kind and caring, that is if you were on his side or you were just plainly an idiot or inhumanly naïve. Yukimura was like Fuji Shuusuke in personality, only way more extreme.

Niou's first impression of Yukimura when they met coincidentally at the school gates were 'It is Rikkai Dai after all, I shouldn't be surprised if there was a boy that can be this feminine…this inhumanly graceful and beautiful.' Niou was very perceptive, as he noticed that Yukimura was a boy straight away when others may need to wonder why a girl was wearing a male uniform and blink a few times before realising ' Oh, he is male.'

Niou being Niou, he felt the need to tease Yukimura because of his fragile and cute appearance (imagine what he would have looked like in first year! *hugs*) against his better instinct, which was blaring and flashing a warning sign for some reason unknown to him then. He found going into danger to be a thrill, but after this incident, he always, most times at least, thinks twice when his instinct was giving a warning, though he pulls his tricks anyway. Niou was surprised that Yukimura was the Honour Student, the student that got the highest marks in the entrance exam), not knowing that Yanagi and Sanada also achieved full marks but did not like the idea of a speech in front of the assembly. Niou began to brainstorm the tricks he could pull on Yukimura – taking away his PE kit and replace it with a female set, throw a rubber at a teacher in class (they were in the same class) and claim it to be Yukimura's (Amendments : this won't work even if Niou gets his hand on to Yukimura's rubber as which teacher would blame a honour student?), ask him in front of his friends a question he could not answer to mock him, and if by any chance, those did not work, he can always put an old unused mobile in his desk tray and ring it during class tomorrow, the teacher would have a lot to say about that!

So Niou tried everything he had brainstormed.

In their PE class, Yukimura said he was not feeling well before he opened his locker to take his PE kit out, so he went to the infirmary and stayed there for the period.

'A coincidence, don't worry; he does not know you are on to him, pure luck.' Niou thought to himself.

He did frame Yukimura in Literature class, but the teacher did not accuse Yukimura of it as Niou forgot that rubbers don't have their owner's names printed on the surface.

'OK, that was a miscalculation. This guy is damn lucky!' Niou concluded that little episode.

During break, he had a class mate, through bribing, go up to Yukimura to ask a question, 'Yukimura-kun, how would you solve this question? I need help.' That classmate looked at Yukimura for an answer. But before Yukimura spoke, Yanagi said in a cold tone, known to be a common feature of the Three Demons – their tone of speech can be really chilling if annoyed, "Can't you see that we are busy? The answer to that question is 56148.09852 to 5 decimal places; the formula to the question is on page thirty-eight of your maths book, now go!"

'Is this Yanagi a machine? That question requires several formulas including the Sine rule, is he one of those super humans that has a calculator planted in his brain?' Niou reflected on his actions, 'Ok, so what if his freaky friend interrupted, I can still continue. Target is Yukimura, not Yanagi; it would be easier to focus on one at a time. Anyway Yanagi would be next for messing with my genius plan… they are a bit simple for a genius plan, I didn't think fooling with a first year requires more…no, it's just that he is very very very lucky, that's all. Final. Period.'

The next day, Niou came in very early, extremely unlike him as he would have preferred to sleep the first period away in his comfy bed, he slipped the phone into Yukimura's desk drawer and went to get his breakfast in the cantine since he rushed to school. In English, he called the old mobile using his own under the desk, well out of teacher radar. A beautiful but clear classical melody flowed through the class room (he purposed changed the ringtone to classical, he presumed Yukimura was that type. Mistake number 1 – stereotyping). It came from Niou's desk drawer…(Mistake number 2 – leaving the classroom for breakfast).

"NIOU MASAHARU!" the English teacher roared.

Niou was confused before realising what must have happened – someone saw him putting the phone into Yukimura's drawer and put it in Niou's after Niou left. But who could it be? And who can remember another person's seat number in a class of fifty in one day (Niou knows Yukimura's because he took a mental note of it)? Niou handed the old phone over, and despite his wailings about how the phone was not his and someone put it there to frame him, the teacher told him to stand outside and replied that no one in this class, no, the whole Rikkai Dai would be evil enough to do that to a first year on their second day. The class laughed at his cheesy ringtone as classical did not suit Niou, and also at his idiotic but half true excuse. Before leaving the classroom he stole a glance from Yukimura : Yukimura was sitting in the middle with Yanagi and Sanada at either side. He was wearing that smile, the smile which Niou would come to know so well, a smile that says "I love you" while hacking you to death.

That concluded Niou's first attempts at tricking Yukimura. Niou did not give up, he has yet to realise how the Three Demons rule.

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Author's note: It was a pain to think of the tricks that Niou would do, I prefer to think myself as a perfect student, at least in behaviour, so I've never tried those stupid tricks out, I doubt Niou would either, I do apologise not being able to think on par with his master mind. anyway, I think the next chapter Niou would, hopefully if I can think of any, bring his tricks up a level, (don't blame Niou Plz, it was my fault, gomenasai) if you have any suggestions that you think can fool Yukimura, even it it cant i bet its better than throwing a rubber at the teacher, plz post it on the review or by e-mail! and if you do i'll credit you for it if i use the idea, thanx. plz review!