This will have multiples chapters to it, so I'm hoping you'll be looking forward to them! And yes, I like ice cream. xD

Also, the timeline for this fic is after the Nationals. Just thought I'd point that out. :P

Sanada sighed as he licked his vanilla ice cream cone.

Flashback

"Hey Jackal, do you want to go out for ice cream tomorrow?" asked Marui. "Just think of it as a celebration for passing all of those exams."

Jackal thought of a moment. "Sure, I'll go."

"Marui! Jackal! Get back on the courts and finish your match against Niou and Yagyuu!" boomed Sanada's voice from not too far away.

Marui rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah." He popped a bubblegum bubble.

As the doubles match went on, Yukimura went up to Sanada. "Go out for ice cream, eh?" he asked, raising an amused eyebrow. "Not a bad idea, don't you think, Sanada?"

Sanada grimaced. "I don't know..."

Yukimura smiled. "Why don't we all go as a team? All of the regulars, at least. We deserve the small break."

Kirihara walked in from behind. "Sounds good to me!" he said happily. He proceeded to the rest of the courts to tell the rest of the regulars about the plan tomorrow.

End Flashback

And that's how Sanada found himself licking ice cream, and trying not to kill whoever was the next one to scream 'BRAINFREEZE!'

"...and for 90% of the time, that's Akaya," said Yanagi, as he licked his butterscotch flavoured ice cream cone. Sanada was shocked for a moment because his mind had just been (seemingly) read, but then thought for a moment and realized that it was Yanagi that had said that and therefore had no reason to be surprised.

Sanada sighed. It was going to be a long afternoon.

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"BRAINFREEZE!" yelled Kirihara once again.

"Saa, Genichirou, calm down," said Yukimura, noticing how Sanada grew tense once more. He licked off a piece of his strawberry flavoured ice cream.

"Just how many ice cream cones has he eaten..." muttered Sanada.

"He has just started his 5th one, Genichirou," stated Yanagi.

"Hey, fukubuchou," said Kirihara, now recovered from his brainfreeze. "You should really finish your ice cream cone, it's melting."

Sanada gave Kirihara a slight glare before turning to his ice cream to lick. He really hated feeling sticky whenever melted ice cream dried all over his hands.

An angry vein popped up on his head when he heard some voices coming from not too far away.

"Hey, that guy over there's ice cream is melting and now he's trying to lick it all off. Isn't he such a noob at ice cream?"

"You can't be noob at ice cream, stupid."

"Shut up, Shishido!"

"He's right, Gakuto."

"You mean you're siding with him, Yuushi!"

"Ore-sama demands for you to quiet down. It seems that 'that guy over there' is someone we are somewhat familiar with."

Sanada cringed when he heard the last voice. Niou, who had just happened to sit next to him, elbowed Sanada. "Hey, isn't that the guy that came over to our courts a while back to play against you?"

"Ah, it seems that someone has been able to recognize the great ore-sama's glorious voice." Sure enough, Atobe, along with the rest of Hyoutei, had come to the very same ice cream place that the Rikkaidai regulars were seated in.

"Psshh, isn't he the guy that lost to that Seigaku freshman in the Kantou finals?" asked Gakuto to Ootori.

"Shhh, Mukahi-san, Atobe-san had also lost to that same freshman, remember?" whispered Ootori while glancing nervously at Atobe.

"Oops."

Luckily for them, said person did not hear them. "Lame," muttered Shishido under his breath.

"Atobe," said Yukimura. "I hope I don't sound rude, but whatever are you doing in Kanagawa?"

"We just decided to have a bit of a change," replied Atobe.

"Or rather, Atobe did," said Oshitari off-handedly.

"What was that, Oshitari?"

"Oh nothing."

"Well!" announced Atobe in all of his glory. "Since we ARE two opposing teams in a way, it is only natural that we should have an ice cream eating contest! It shall be in the same form as a normal tennis tournament!"

"Um, why?" asked Marui, blowing a confused bubble.

Atobe sighed. "I just SAID, since we ARE two opposing teams in a way, it is only natural that we should have an ice cream eating contest!"

"That guy's weird," whispered Niou to Yagyuu.

"Ore sama can hear you, you know."

Yagyuu cleared his throat. "So doubles 2, doubles 1, singles 3, singles 2, singles 1 and reserve?"

"Precisely."