This is my first fic on something other than RyoSaku. And that something is Eiji's Adventures! This was meant to be hilarious, but if it's not, don't force yourself to laugh. :p
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis or any of the material within it.
Eiji's Adventures - Part one
"2400 yen…2450 yen…2500 yen…2520 yen…uh…2530 yen…nyaa" Eiji counted his coins in front of the cashier in the CD store. He rummaged through the small coin purse and felt nothing metal anymore, "Nya?" He flipped the purse upside down and tipped it, hoping 60 yen would fall out, "Eh?" Eiji's eyes open wide in terror. He was 60 yen off from buying the precious new CD of his favourite girl group The Chocolates!
The red haired boy glanced at the impatient woman at the cashier, and at the long queue behind him. He gave his smile of humiliation. He was defeated. He put all his coins back into his purse and ran out of the store.
"I'm heading home to get money, nya!" Eiji muttered to himself and ran at top speed. He wasn't aware of anything in front of him and resulted a big fall and a landing on his bottom. Eiji was scratching his head and adjusting to the atmosphere after his fall. He opened his eyes once again to reveal the villain who stopped him in his pace.
"Inui?" Eiji stood back up.
"Eiji, you are here at the right time, I was only wondering if you could run some errands for me." Inui's glasses gave an evil shimmer.
"Sorry, I'm busy right now, nya" Eiji prepared to start moving again but Inui blocked his way.
"If you're leaving, drink this." Inui took out his glass of juice, "This is the Inui juice remix v.10. And you're the first to try it."
The juice was dark blue, it was bubbling near the top and the bottom looked very thick.
The already horrified Eiji gave in straight away, "Nya? Okay, okay, I'll do it! Now tell me what it is."
"Take the train to Ginza; find the grocery store near the C exit of the station. There should be somebody waiting for you there-"
Before Inui even finished his sentence, Eiji already ran off to do the errand.
"Oi! Wait! I forgot to give you this!" Inui looked at his new remix of juice; Eiji ran away already, "I'll deal with it later."
He grinned evilly and thought to himself, 'My data was correct, I knew Eiji would be here at that time', and walked away, scribbling into his notebook.
Meanwhile, at the C exit of the Ginza station, stood a frantic Eiji trying to find the grocery store, the store was just behind the exit of the station and Eiji found it with his good eyesight all right.
"Eiji." Somebody said. Eiji turned and saw Oishi standing behind him, "So you've met Inui!"
"Hurry up, Oishi. Whatever Inui meant when he said 'errands', I'm not so free today."
"Ah, well, here's what, you see that corner over there?" Oishi pointed at the 'corner', "Turn when you get there and walk straight until you've passed two small streets and turn right. You should see a large shoe store. Go there and someone will be there for you."
"Hoi hoi, again? Now what are you guys up to?" Eiji tried to get Oishi to say something.
"If you don't do this, don't expect me to ever play doubles with you again!" Oishi posed his threat, though he felt slight guilt.
"Nya, don't need to be so angry, I was only joking, ne?" Eiji ran off, hoping this is the last thing he had to do today before he could go home and get his money.
Oishi sighed, "Phew! That was hard. I'm sorry for posing a threat, but I hope it's worth it."
The running Eiji was getting a little exhausted now, still not knowing what was up, he reached his next destination.
Panting for breath, he saw the next person he should meet in his 'quest'.
"Fuji? Now what?"
"See the path there? Just follow it." Fuji was smiling very pleasantly.
"Why? Nya I'm busy! I need to buy the new The Chocolates CD! I need to run home to get money! I can't carry errands now! Nya!"
Fuji smiled and tilted his head, and then he opened his eyes and made a very sharp glare at Eiji. Eiji wasn't immune to Fuji's serious face.
"Are you going or are you not?" said the oh-so-scary Fuji.
"Nya I'm going now! Along the path, ne?" Eiji ran off, fearful of the wide eyed and staring Fuji.
When Eiji left completely out of sight, the scary Fuji resumed to his normal happy face, smiling again, "Ganbatte."
At the moment, Eiji was hurrying along the path that Fuji instructed him to go along.
Nya, why does everyone seem grouped together against me today?
Having thought of that, Eiji stopped for a rest. He was almost out of energy.
"If I can buy a drink-" Then Eiji spotted a drink machine nearby, "Hoi hoi, lucky day." He ran over to the vending machine.
Eiji took out 120 yen and decided on what to buy, "Hm…should I get this…or-"
He was broken off by somebody calling his name, "Eiji senpai?"
Eiji turned around expecting one of the regulars. Duh, of course, it was Ryoma.
"O-chibi, what are you doing here?" Eiji looked around; 'here' was pretty much the middle of nowhere.
"I'm buying a drink." Ryoma pressed on grape ponta.
"Nya! That was my money, my drink money!"
"Here," Ryoma handed Eiji the 120 yen, "Oh, follow me."
Eiji blinked. Ne, so he is the next person.
Ryoma led Eiji through several streets and several alleys.
"Here we are." Ryoma suddenly stopped.
Eiji blinked some more, re-adjusting himself into the scenery that o-chibi just brought him into.
The…the CD store! I walked all the way back, why did I even bother to take the train to Ginza in the first place?
An image of Inui's juice remix v.10 popped into Eiji's mind, but he screwed that, he ran into store to see the CD and the beautiful cover on it again, forgetting that he still didn't have the money to buy the CD. Ryoma followed, and soon, all the regulars turned up and stood outside the CD store, waiting.
"Good job, Inui! I knew you could tell the location of Eiji easily from data!" said the happy Fuji.
"Oishi senpai, you posed a good threat," said a jumping Momo. He didn't participate in the luring, but he watched the whole thing happening.
Kaidoh hissed.
"Oi, whatcha hissing at!"
"You wanna fight?"
"Hey, you two stop it!" Oishi immediately tried to stop the two second years.
"Kawamura Sushi is reserved for us, right?" said Inui, scribbling in data.
"Yea, it is." said Taka-san.
Momo suddenly came out from the argument with Kaidoh and jumped, "Then plan finale is ready!"
"Momo senpai, stop acting like that!" said Ryoma.
"Nah, Ryoma, you don't know anything about plans."
Ryoma pulled his cap lower to cover his face.
Everybody suddenly fell silent as they heard a mournful cry from Eiji.
"SOLD OUT!" Eiji pulled his hair, "Nani? Are you kidding?"
The regulars peer into the store and saw a distressed Eiji grieving at a woman in the cashier. Then Momo stepped in.
"It's my turn!" Momo said, "Eiji senpai!"
Eiji turned and saw the whole group of regulars standing by the door way.
"What are you all doing here?" Eiji asked.
"Senpai, I have something better than a The Chocolates CD. Just follow us!"
Eiji doubted the fact that much of anything could be better than a The Chocolates CD with an alluring cover, but at this moment, there was really nothing better he could do, so he followed Momo.
"Hoi hoi, you haven't answered yet! What's everyone doing here? A meeting?" Eiji asked.
Fuji said that it was a meeting and flashed a smile, then continued walking.
They got to Kawamura sushi and entered. Immediately, as Eiji made the last entrance, everyone clapped and threw confetti all over him.
"Happy Birthday, Eiji!" Everybody clapped again.
Oishi walked over to Eiji and handed him a seemingly empty plastic bag.
"Happy Birthday."
"The CD store plastic bag!" Eiji took out whatever that was inside, "THE CHOCOLATES CD!" Eiji jumped and did several somersaults, "HOIHOI, NYA!"
Soon, everybody was laughing as they recalled the events that happened today. Eiji didn't need to run home after all, the errands were worth it.
Just at that moment, Inui stood up.
"And Eiji, my special birthday present for you!" He took out his Inui juice remix v.10 and displayed it for several seconds, "So.,..Eiji?"
Eiji was staring at Inui in disbelief, "What's inside it?"
"Edible ingredients." Inui's reflective glasses gave an evil glimmer.
Eiji was horrified, "Edible...? Dark blue bubbly liquid with a thick base? NO!"
"This will make your acrobatic tennis much more effective than it is now. Besides, you owe me for causing a stir today."
"You're lying! I am innocent! You stopped me from running home today!"
Momo grinned at Eiji, "So you don't want the CD? Give it to me, I want it too!"
"Hoi hoi, Momo! The CD is MINE!" Eiji clutched his plastic bag tightly like a big kid.
Fuji smiled, "If you don't want juice, I'll drink it for you in exchange with my wasabi sushi. It's very delicious," Fuji's smile became more adorable, but Eiji didn't take it in.
"NO!" Eiji protected his CD like it was his treasure.
"Eiji senpai, you look like o-chibi!" Momo pointed and laughed. Everybody joined in the laughing except Ryoma himself and Kaidoh who hissed.
"When did I clutch CDs like that?" Ryoma pointed accusingly, "Mada mada dane!"
Everybody laughed harder, and the day ended merrily with Eiji wondering why he had forgotten his own birthday while all the others remembered.
Haha! Finished! Well, if you saw that at the beginning, it said 'Part one', this means that I might continue and write more Eiji adventures because it's more fun.
Flame now. See, it's my first non-ryosaku fic here.
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