A/N: Two things before you read this. 1. For lack of better title, I called it Blame it on Niou. 2.I blame my art teacher for this one. He told us that he does mean things to people that fall asleep, and he gave us the meanest thing he's done to two sleeping kids. That's where the idea sparked this story. (I was actually planning to do a Fuji birthday one-shot, but I didn't have an idea. For that, I wrote this.) It's also been a long time since I wrote this wonderful story so hopefully it's good. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FUJI!!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Prince of Tennis. Takeshi Konomi does. If I did own Prince of Tennis, Kaidoh would be the protagonist of the story.
Also, I sort of kinda maybe borrowed a scene from Jimmy Neutron. Ya know, the episode where he makes the clones of himself and the evil one switched the sighns? That one. I don't own that scene. I borrowed it.

Fuji Shusuke was not having a good day. So far, his favorite racket broke; Kawamura had almost ran him over in Burning! Mode; he had almost failed his English test (he received a 71); his tennis game was off, and Yuuta wasn't going to visit him tomorrow (like he said he would). Anyone would agree that this was a crappy-day-before-his-birthday day.

That's when something came to him, in the form of a silver haired trickster.

Fuji had been walking down the right side a random street, trying to figure out why everything bad was happening to him, when he saw Niou. Niou was down a wide alley, standing beside two doors with a women's bathroom sign and a men's bathroom sign hanging on the door. When a woman entered the women's bathroom, he switched the signs, and ran away, hiding around the corner. Not long after, a man came and entered the women's bathroom (now labeled men's). Using his hands, Niou counter down from five until he hit one, then the women screamed and the man ran out of there like a mouse running away from a cat. Niou smirked at the prank he just pulled, turning around, he was face to face with Fuji (yes, Fuji walked across the street while Niou was waiting for said prank to happen).

"Teach me to prank?" Fuji asked, opening his eyes to show he was serious.

Smirking to himself, Niou replied, "Sure. But I have to ask, why do you want to learn how to prank people?"

"You can call it a 'birthday-present-to-myself'," satisfied with Fuji's answer, Niou began to teach Fuji everything there was to know about pranking, tricking, and lying (in case he was caught).

February 29th came fast, especially for the birthday boy, Fuji. He had thought up the perfect prank last night, without Niou's help. With the horrible weather conditions, heavy rainfall and winds coming in from the southeast, Fuji's prank would go off without any trouble. Especially since all club practices were cancelled, so everyone was allowed to leave early today.

At the end of the day, several first and second year classes had to listen to a women talk about how diets don't really work and the word 'diet' is an evil word. Most of her speech was just crap and opinions about dieting. Fuji was working the microphones and other technical things, so he was allowed to get out of class and listen to the women speak. His prank didn't involve the crazy lady, as dubbed by some of the students, but it did involve the teacher's support. And, as already preplanned, Momoshiro and Ryoma entered the auditorium with their classes and sat together. Kaidoh also happened to be there, lugging a small, heavy bag. Fuji had also talked to Kaidoh, and the younger boy would be taking photos of the end result of Fuji's prank.

Then the diet lady began talking and talking and talking and talking. Did I mention she was talking? And, ever so slowly, Momoshiro and Ryoma began to doze off. It began with the nodding of heads, then trying to keep their eyes open, and, before you knew it, the two were sound asleep.

When crazy lady was finished talking, the teachers had their students file out quietly. Even crazy lady left. That's when Fuji made his move.

The third year made his way to his two sleeping kouhai, trying not to wake them or it would ruin everything.

"Momoshiro, Echizen, wake up," Fuji shook the two boys until they woke up.

"Fuji-sempai, what are you doing here?" Ryoma asked rubbing his eyes to wake himself up.

"I stayed after school to work on a project and lost track of the time. I decided to take a walk around the school before I left to see who was still here and found you two sleeping," Fuji explained and smiled inwardly to himself. Everything was going according to plan.

"Stayed...after...school?" Momo asked realizing the situation at hand.

"Yeah, it at least six PM," Fuji answered.

The two boys, realizing the situation at hand, grabbed their book bags and bolted out of the auditorium. Fuji followed at a much slower pace, knowing what was going to happen. Momoshiro and Ryoma were going to be met by their teachers and classmates, everyone (except the pranked) would be laughing and taking pictures on their phones, and Kaidoh would be taking several shots of their faces with Fuji's camera.

When Fuji exited the auditorium, the two kouhai were blushing with embarrassment. And, for some odd reason, Tezuka was standing near the auditorium doors. The buchou of the tennis team then approached Fuji right then and there.

"Let me guess, you met Niou last night and came up with this prank," Tezuka, accurately, guessed.

"Who knows," Fuji smiled his all knowing smile. Momoshiro and Ryoma were getting scolded for sleeping during an important visitor.

"I bet you just wanted to do something special since your real birthday only comes every four years," Tezuka said walking off in the direction of the office.

'He's good,' Fuji thought as he watched Tezuka leave.