Tezuka's glasses glinted.
"Te-Te-Tezuka buchou!" Momo finally broke out. "We didn't know it was you!"
Tezuka took a deadly step forward.
Momo and Kikumaru backed away.
Tezuka took another deadly step forward.
Feeling desperate, Kikumaru shut his eyes tightly, turned his head away, reached out towards Tezuka and...
...tickled him.
Fuji laughed.
Tezuka was speechless.
His brain nearly shut down.
His mind went blank.
He was shocked beyond belief.
A quiet, nearly unnoticeable rustle came from the bushes.
"Taka-san, you're out." Kikumaru said in a high pitched voice.
Tezuka jerked back to reality. "Ki...ku...ma...ru!"
Atobe and Kabaji walked peacefully through the park, without a care in the world.
BANG!
"NOOOOOOOOO!"
BOOM!
CRASH!
"AAAAAAAAAARGH!"
THWACK!
BOOOOOOM!
Atobe sighed. "Commoners are so violent, ne Kabaji?"
Kabaji nodded. "Usu."
Eight minutes later, after Kikumaru and Momo regain their senses:
"So only Echizen and Fuji are left?"
"Mhmm..." Kikumaru trailed off. Then, getting excited, he said, "Let's make a new rule, nya! Whoever I find first has to drink Inui's juice!"
Everyone agreed, and Oishi shouted out the new rule so that Fuji and Echizen could hear it.
"Saa..." Fuji looked down at Echizen, his evil grin widening. He rested his hand on a nearby apple.
This should be interesting...
Kikumaru had been searching for the past fifteen minutes (Momo couldn't help because everyone was watching), and he couldn't find those two at all.
He frowned and scratched his head. Where could they be?
As if answering his question, someone yelled out,
"AAAAAAAAARGHHHH!"
Karupin raced towards the park, and Ryoma followed him furiously. He couldn't let him escape now...Not after he'd gotten so close...
Then suddenly, a hand reached out and grabbed him by his collar. He struggled and shouted, but the hand ignored him. It threw him on the ground, and he found himself surrounded by everyone in Seigaku.
They smiled sinisterly at him. Then, at the same time, they reached into their pockets and pulled out their cell phones. They all started ringing simultaneously.
Beep beep.
Beep beep.
Then they threw their cell phones into a pit, and began dancing around it, chanting:
"Beep. Beep. Beep beep. Beep. Beep. Beep beep."
He considered telling them to shut up, but, just then, a cold voice rang out, "If you don't sacrifice yourself to the alarm clock, you will have to drink my new Inui-Hyper-Remix-Deluxe..."
A phone came flying towards his him, and hit him on the head, and-
"AAAAAAAAAARGH!" Ryoma screamed.
He pushed himself up, only to be pounced on by Kikumaru, which made him hit his head on the bench.
"Ow!"
All the regulars (minus Fuji) were here now, and Inui stood towering before him, holding a large mug of steaming, purple liquid.
"My new Inui-Hyper-Remix-Deluxe," Inui held it out to him proudly.
Ryoma blinked. He could think of a thousand things to say right then, but, when he opened his mouth, the only thing he could say was:
"Never tasted, never tested?"
Inui blinked back. "Er...yes."
Ryoma blinked again.
"Ah, there is an eighty six point nine two percent chance that you were asleep when the new rule was made."
Ryoma frowned. "I'm not drinking that."
"You have to, Ochib! You lost!"
Ryoma started to protest, but stopped abruptly. There was something on his lap.
...An apple.
So he finally sees it. Now, he'll look up at the tree,
Fuji was right. Once Ryoma saw the apple, he looked up at the tree, thinking that the apple had fallen on its own.
Why don't I let him know that I threw it?
Slipping onto another branch, he pushed away a few leaves, so that only Ryoma could see him.
Ryoma's eyes widened.
Then, just for fun, Fuji smiled at him sweetly, tossed an apple a few time, and then bit into it.
Ryoma growled. "FUJI-SENPAI!"
All the regulars looked towards Fuji.
"Oh, look! I found him, nya!"
While Fuji was distracted, and started having a conversation with Kikumaru, Ryoma picked up the fallen apple, and straightened himself up.
"Now we can all play hide-and-seek!"
"Saa, that's a great idea, Eiji!"
Ryoma tossed it in his hands once...
"Can we get on with it?" Ryoma snapped, finally looking up.
Fuji smiled at him. "There's no rush."
...Then twice...
Ryoma made his second escape attempt. He didn't get very far. Fuji saw him leaving from the corner of his eye, and so he smiled sweetly, reached behind him, and dragged a rather grumpy looking Ryoma back by his collar.
...And then he raised his arm and threw the apple straight towards Fuji's head.
And Fuji went tumbling down to his well-deserved fate.
Ryoma smirked. "Mada mada dane."
"You know, Echizen," Momo said matter-of-factly, "You still haven't drunk the juice."
Fuji, who was lying flat on his face, let out an evil, maniacal laugh.
Ryoma sighed and admitted defeat.
