A Day in the Life (Captain Edition): Tezuka Kunimitsu

6:30 AM– The tranquil atmosphere surrounding the Tezuka residence is disrupted by one radio playing from a room somewhere down the second floor corridor. Tezuka Ayana, not used to the concept of putting the words "radio" and "playing" together, climbed back upstairs after washing the dishes from their breakfast. She finally detected where the sound was coming from– her son's room.

Perturbed by his sudden interest in listening to the radio, Ayana quietly knocked on the door. The sound disappeared right after the first knock. The door slid open and she found herself facing her son.

"Is there something I could help you with?" Tezuka Kunimitsu asked with his usual polite manner. His face betrayed no emotion, also as usual.

"Ah, I was just wondering why you suddenly decided to listen to the radio," his mother replied with a gentle smile. "I was always under the impression that you preferred your classical music CDs."

At this, the younger Tezuka showed the slightest hint of discomfort as a pursed his lips together very slightly. "I found the station with English lessons. I believed it would be useful for class."

"Well, carry on then," Ayana said, still with a gentle smile, and walked back downstairs.

Tezuka closed the door and listened to the radio once again.

"Repeat after me! Twinkle, twinkle, little star! How I wonder what you are!"

And he thought to himself: English is a very odd language.

8:00 AM– Morning practice had just ended for the Seigaku Tennis Club. Based on the data inside Inui Sadaharu's notebook, the statistics for the morning are as follows:

5: people given laps by the captain, three received fifty while the other two received a hundred

3: unsuccessful attempts done by Inui to get Tezuka to drink his latest concoction

2: times Tezuka had to drag Kikumaru, Momoshiro and Echizen back from the club room because they insisted on playing with their Nintendo DS during practice hours

7: attempts done by Fuji to get Tezuka to change his facial expression, one of which was slightly effective (He asked: "Hey, I heard you were listening to the radio this morning.")

3:20 PM– A meeting was held in the Student Council room. The committee members arranged their seats in a circle, with their president's seat somewhere close to the blackboard.

Tezuka led their incredibly tedious meeting as he proposed around five new policies. No one begged to differ because the words came from the Tezuka Kunimitsu. Which automatically meant that they are absolutely perfect and do not need to be scrutinized.

Meeting for the day was adjourned.

6:00 PM– Afternoon practice had just ended for most members of the tennis club. However, the regulars had to stay behind for a short meeting regarding their manager/data-gatherer's evaluation of their current performance.

"Starting with the freshman," Inui said, peering at Echizen through his glasses, "while your techniques and play style are of exceptional quality, your ethics do not set a very good example for the rest of the team. If you continue to act in such a slack manner, this may cause the team to follow your attitude, leading to the downfall of the team."

Kikumaru began to laugh and tease his underclassman, only to be cut off. "The same goes for you, Kikumaru. Although the problem with you is less of lacking in effort but in concentration."

"Momoshiro, you eat too much. Cut down on the burgers. Your jump becomes lower with each trip you take to fast food joints. Kikumaru and Echizen, stop going with him there. You're encouraging him." To this, the three grumbled about how they were always the ones who got the most negative comments.

"Kaidou, you should try my latest recipe–" but he was cut off by Kaidou abruptly saying "no way". "Your loss, then."

"Kawamura, if you could somehow," Inui said, with emphasis on 'somehow', "control your Burning Mode, that would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise… Just work on your control."

"Fuji, do not bring your camera to the courts. I bring the camera. Not you. So stop trying to take over my job." Realizing that he was no longer giving comments regarding tennis, Inui coughed and continued, "Your tennis skill, however, is already at a very high level. Just continue practicing as you always do. I recommend working on power."

"Vice captain Oishi, you spend too much time with Kikumaru. Why is that?" Inui fixed his glasses in a rather ominous manner. "Anyway, I'm just saying you should not be influenced by that guy's attitude–" To this, Kikumaru yelled "Stop picking on me!" but Inui ignored that. "–because your current efforts are at optimal efficiency."

"As for you, Tezuka…" The two looked at each other with a gaze full of highly concentrated austerity. They might as well have been speaking telepathically. And to the rest of the team, calling it 'telepathic communication' was the only way they could have rationalized what happened. After all, the next thing Inui said was "that is all".

Tezuka dismissed the team, but not before reminding them not to let their guard down. Of course, no one really understood what he meant by that. Were they not supposed to let their guard down against slacking off? Against illness? Against random thugs in the street? So no one bothered trying to understand it anymore and just nodded like robots upon hearing the captain's daily "yudan sezou ni ikou".

8:00 PM– The dust covering the television of the Tezuka household has been disturbed. The little grey particles were startled. And they all asked, "Who dares disrupt our slumber?" But upon seeing the person seated just behind the living room coffee table, they had to resign themselves to having their slumber disrupted.

Tezuka Kunimitsu turned on the television. He flipped through the channels as he looked for a show that would pique his interest. Singing teen idols? Boring. Cooking show? Slightly interesting, but boring. People climbing a mountain? He already watched this episode. An eating contest? …Awesome.

And so, Tezuka watched the people on TV stuff themselves with various dishes, from appetizing-looking meals to food that looks like a certain teammate of his made them. And all the while, the room was quiet, save for the sounds coming from the television. No laughter, no comments. One had to wonder why in the world Tezuka would watch a comedy show if he wasn't intending to laugh.

9:30 PM– Tezuka took out a thin blue notebook from his desk drawer. It was the journal where he recorded his daily activities.

After he finished detailing all the boring things that happened to him that day (such as "I recited five times in history class, I wrote the character for 'succeed' in calligraphy class, I ate unacha for lunch…"), he added a strange comment at the end of his journal entry.

"I learned that the radio and the television are very funny, yet troublesome, devices. They almost made me laugh. I should not let my guard down against them."

Author's Note: While I made up most of the stuff here, I did get his schedule from the PairPuri fanbooks. Which means, Tezuka does watch people eat on TV.

I will probably write about Atobe next time. Tune in until then!