Chapter 2: If anyone doubts you, just trick them

By the time she reached the locker area, she started hunting for a white-haired guy. If she wants to be the best prankster in the school, she needs to defeat the great trickster or at least get ahead of him in some way, she thought bitterly.

"Lucky!" She snickered maniacally as she spotted him alone. She approached him in a predator's eating stance. "Almighty senpai! Hello!~"

What a sickening uncute tone she came up with, Niou thought. "Hey kiddo. Here to remind of the deal, no?"

Rin challengingly nodded. "Hehe.. I thought your short-term memory already forgot, well, as expected from the world-renowned trickster!"

It didn't take a genius for Niou to catch her sardonic remark. "No worries. I'll be the trickster you will always be proud of. Talking 'bout Ms. Kaichou," He showed her some toy plushies ranging from cute to adorable in a mocking clueless face she's ever seen. "..I don't know how to really impress her but I heard she has a thing for random cuteness. I wonder if these would be enough though.."

A vein popped on her head. She was right! He was always one step ahead on scheming! But she was not about to lose confidence in herself like some drama queen she often chanced to watch because of her stupid brother. "Hehe.. I didn't know that almighty senpai has a tendency to gossip about people's likes! Anyway, shouldn't you verify your sources first?" 'Take that! Kaichou doesn't like anyone pampering her with sweet random stuffs at all! Nyehehe! Where the hell did the random cuteness even come from! One sick bastard you are senpai, don't go forcing someone to like your stuffs!'

"Really? Well, let s see about that then." He left with his usual smirk on and somehow Rin clutched her teeth at his self-confidence wondering where he gets all that.

The English subject period ended in what Rin described as plain easy, meh, she treats every subject a piece of cake, not to mention, the remedial classes too. It was because when the teacher gave an example of proverb saying that 'Practice makes a man perfect.' and made Rin give another, the raven hair just recited it much too proudly, "Practice makes a man perfect and after that he can RIP." that caused the whole class laughing in hysteria.

"How's your goal on claiming the trickster title, Rin?" One of her buddies asked while chewing on the food.

"Hehe.. Not so fast. I'm still on my way there." She smugly replied. Their peaceful yet heated conversation was interrupted when someone dashed to their table looking frantically surprised. She stomped accidentally on it causing a stain mark on Rin. They all gasped.

Oh-oh! Never anger the part demon..

"R-Rin I-I didn-" But she was but off by the expected hissing sound that came from no other than the split ego of Rin.

"I just had an idea." Rin hissed before licking her lips none too femininely and walked away. Everyone knew what she's up to, but spontaneous that she is, they least expect troubles or detentions for the unpredictable girl.

"Don't tell me she's going to Kaicho? She really means trouble.. What news were you about to tell anyway?"

The newcomer inhaled then exhaled carefully. "Some anonymous admirer dared to give Kaichou plushies!"

"What?" Everyone yelped in unison. As everyone knows, Kaicho's most hated stuff would be toy plushies. Giving her something of the like means death itself.

She knocked on the door and just a few moments later, a familiar figure appeared. "R-Rin?" The student council president approached the unusually pitiful-looking teen. "What happened to you? Come in."

"Niou actually caused that? What a cunning man tripping you without a piece of guilt! How unmanly!.." Rin secretly snickered while the stoic president ranted hatefully. Despite the president's strict and coldness, she actually is quite submissive when it comes to her.

Flashback-

The raven-haired teen went straight to where Niou spends most of his break time in. The rooftop. How she knows was beyond anyone's knowledge.

"Look who's here." The white-haired trickster didn't get up from his lazy sprawled stance. He then noticed the stain mark on her clothes. "Oh, the clumsy one just proved how life is so cruel. What happened there?"

"Nothing out of norm as you said. Heh." Niou recognized that tone as a form of taunt. "What I mean was.. this stain here would signify my overthrow of your trickster title! Hehehee!" She smirked when he frowned. 'Maybe you've had goose bumps all over your body senpai!' But little did she know that Niou's thought process went like this, 'This kid must be crazy..'

"Later Alligator!" She turned to the stairs with a successful smirk and closed her eyes for victorious effect but eventually, she fell on the way.

"OW!" Niou heard that and scratched his head. He strode briskly and helped her up, keeping his chuckle on a minimum but failed. "Seriously, what a clumsy fellow you are."

'What the hell? Is that what I get for acting coolly like this trickster? "Damn it senpai! That's where it hurts!"

"Watch your mouth kiddo. You won't get yourself a boyfriend if you keep that up." He sauntered her to infirmary but she already told him off. "Who cares.. Geez senpai talking about boyfriend and stuffs give me creeps."

Niou looked amazed by her romance-stuff nonchalance. "You sure you okay?" He asked seemingly worried but Rin, busy with her foot balance only heard. Niou took a closer look and he was right. She was wearing wrist and ankle weights.

"Yeah yeah. I guess. Thanks senpai." She smiled in a carefree manner. Then it hit her. If it weren't for the deal, they would have been good friends but Rin shook her head in realization. "Don't get me wrong because the game's not over yet! Don't get careless almighty senpai! Hehe.." She left in limping strides.

"Eh?" Niou blinked at the sudden change of reaction but waved at her back. He then muttered, "You should say that to yourself, kiddo." He walked off to the opposite direction.

Flashback Ends-

It wouldn't actually hurt to lie for the win, no?

"..Guys these days are just so ill-mannered, I mean those in the 42nd street of.." The raven-haired teen sweat-dropped. Really. Her rants annoyed her more than anything else because they kinda felt endless and it would feel very wrong stopping her yet she did.

"Kaicho, you're right about that! So from now on, let's ignore senpai!" 'And let me have the pleasure of taunting him, hehe..'

Rika, the president, looked determined as well. "Ignore him, Rin? That's the least I can offer that bastard for what he's done. He needs detention!"

Rin's eyes managed to pop out. No, not yet. "N-No no no no Kaichou! You don't need to do that! I mean, let's face it.. his.. mind is twisted and all b-but nothing of a good scolding or d-detention can faze him, ya know.. just ignore him!" she sheepishly reasoned. 'oops that sounded like an intention giveaway!'

"No! I will bring this matter to his homeroom adviser for the detention."

"NO! Don't.." Here goes nothing.. She put up a sickeningly pitiful face that even the saints can't come up with. Rika, having seen the change sympathized the younger teen. "He's a great trickster after all.."

"Fine. If you don't want it then it's settled." Rin mentally applauded. There are certain things that only manage to succumb to her act.

But wait. Rika herself is a con artist. 'No Rin. That guy needs some morale beating!'

Niou felt the wrath of the ice rock president not when he managed to get away with detention only to be slapped to by Sanada because of his tardiness. Albeit his futile attempts to reason what really happened, he still needs to face the 40 laps feeling dead tired after that.

'Damn that brat.. Two can play at this ga-' Before he could finish that thought off, a tennis ball hit his head.

"What the fuck?" He groaned and automatically glared at the shaking non-regular. "You are so dead." He bit every word while slowly going over the first year's direction in an ecstatic fits of rage.

How their practice ended was to Yanagi's history of Rikkai tennis record as the most swear-and-trick-filled, 'You don't mess with a trickster..'-vibes practice ever.