Some people believe that fates lie in the stars. Niou didn't. That garbage was for fortunetellers and teenage girls with too much time on their hands. Rikkai Dai had a lot of different types of people, but most of them didn't buy into that garbage either.
To people like Yanagi a star was: "A self-luminous celestial body consisting of a mass of gas held together by its own gravity in which the energy generated by nuclear reactions in the interior is balanced by the outflow of energy to the surface, and the inward-directed gravitational forces are balanced by the outward-directed gas and radiation pressures." At least, that's what the dictionary said a star was, so Yanagi probably felt the same way.
The stony-faced, serious sort like Sanada didn't care one way or the other about stars. His mind was too focused on tennis.
Yukimura thought that stars were pretty, sure, but they didn't have anything to do with fates. Otherwise someone would have found a way to make horoscopes more accurate. There had been plenty of instances where a horoscope said that an unlucky week would cause 'something important to be broken' but Yukimura's tennis record was still unscathed… minus the Echizen incident of course.
Obviously, the stars lied.
Jackal grasped a little of the romantic notion that other people got from stars, but, that was just Jackal. Either way, he wouldn't do anything crazy because of the stars.
Marui on the other hand, might. It just depended on what he was getting out of it. He wouldn't go out of his way to bother with the celestial bodies unless he got something out of it, but you never really knew. Marui did have his own surprises.
Crazier still would be Kirihara, if he ever slowed down enough to think about the mysteries of space. But he didn't. He was too concerned about his 'cool' appearance and he was yet another tennis-brained tennis player. No surprise there.
But the craziest one of all, no matter how much Niou tried to deny it, was himself. All it had taken was a single sentence from Yagyuu, saying how he thought the stars were really pretty this time of year, and he had flipped. There was no other way to explain why, in the middle of winter, he, Niou Masaharu, would tear apart his house getting hot cocoa, blankets and a telescope, just so he could watch some stars of all things with Yagyuu.
( Author's Note: Umm.... Yeah. This is the first thing I've written in awhile so... yeah. Sorry about how odd it is. I'd appreciate some constructive criticism though! And this story is dedicated to SakuraIroKaze since she's the one who posted the challenge. I actually finished it! =D)
