"We'll have 2 minutes to decide the lineups," said Atobe.

"Sounds fine to me," replied Yanagi, getting his watch out. "I'll time it. We'll start... now."

oOoOoOoOo

The Rikkaidai side...

"So, is it just gonna be the normal lineup, Yukimura?" asked Marui, while popping a bubble.

"I don't see why not," replied Yukimura. "We'll need our top 2 doubles teams anyway, along with our fukubuchou and me, our buchou."

"But then that leaves Yanagi-senpai and me!" whined Kirihara. "I wanna eat ice cream!"

"Akaya, you've already had 5 ice cream cones in the past 40 minutes," replied Yanagi.

"But Yanagi-senpai, you said that you had a headache earlier today! You wouldn't be able to eat that much as fast!" Kirihara was desperate to have a spot.

"Remember, just because you may be the reserve does not mean that you won't get to play... I mean, eat," said Yagyuu politely.

"Hmph, fine. But it looks like fukubuchou doesn't wanna eat ice cream. Maybe Yanagi-senpai and I will both be guaranteed a spot just so Sanada-fukubuchou will be able to sit out!"

"Akaya, Renji just said that being a reserve does not mean that you don't be able to eat," said Yukimura.

Niou sighed. "This is taking too long..."

oOoOoOoOo

The Hyoutei side...

"I WANNA EAT ICE CREAM!" demanded Gakuto while banging his fists on the table.

"Mukahi-senpai, calm down..." said Ootori, sweatdropping slightly. "I'm sure we'll all be able to eat..."

"Doubt it," commented Shishido. "Because we'll win the first 3 games. I'll make sure of that."

"Shishido is right," said Atobe. "So we'll definitely use our 2 famed couples as well as Kabaji, for obvious reasons."

"Usu," replied Kabaji, because he's Kabaji.

Oshitari raised one of his eyebrows. "Couples?"

"Couples, doubles pairs, you know what I mean," replied Atobe, waving it off with one (glamourous) hand.

Ootori blushed while Shishido tried not to. Gakuto was trying not to latch himself onto Oshitari while said person kept his poker face on.

"Well, one thing's for sure," said Shishido. "We are SO not waking up Jirou right now, for many reasons."

Everyone else nodded.

oOoOoOoOo

Yanagi glanced down on his watch. "3... 2... 1..."

"TIME'S UP! EVERYONE SHUT UP NOW!" yelled Kirihara.

"Akaya-kun, that's not very nice," scolded Yagyuu lightly.

"Do not tell ore-sama to 'shut up', commoner," said Atobe, with slight annoyance in his voice.

"Now Atobe, be nice... let them suffer when they lose," said Oshitari, smirking slightly.

"Oh yeah?" said Kirihara. "Bring it on!"

"Now, now, Akaya, don't get so fired up when you're not even playing this... match?" said Yukimura.

"Ice cream match, sure..." mumbled Marui. "Well whatever, we're up first, Jackal!"

Jackal nodded. "We'll win for sure."

"Although I don't think your 'Iron Wall of Defense' will be as useful in this match," said Gakuto, a smirk playing on his lips. "It's all offense from here on out. Right, Yuushi?"

Oshitari's glasses glinted. "Of course." He turned to Hiyoshi. "You be the referee, alright? It's a senpai's request."

Hiyoshi sighed. "Fine. One set - ahem, one bowl match? Both teams ready to... start?"

"Sure," replied all 4 players participating.

Atobe snapped his fingers, causing one of the people working at the ice cream place (let's just call them ice cream men) to come over with two HUGE bowls of ice cream. "Saa, enjoy," said the ice cream man. He smiled before returning to the main counter.

Shishido blinked. "..."

"What is it, Shishido-san?" asked Ootori, his voice full of worry.

"...nothing."

Marui gasped. "WOW these ice cream bowls are HUGE!" he exclaimed. "There are a bunch of flavours and scoops, too!"

Hiyoshi twitched. 'Seriously, how long is it going to take them to actually start?'

"It makes me wonder how we're going to pay for this..." muttered Jackal.

"Did you say something?" asked Atobe. "Commoner, have you forgotten who I am? The great ore-sama will pay for it."

That's when it clicked in Jackal's mind. 'Oh right. They're Hyoutei. Makes sense.'

Atobe smirked. "However..."

Jackal raised an eyebrow. "However?"

"...I will only pay if your team wins."

Marui stood up. "WHAT! But these ice cream bowls are huge! We're not exactly Hyoutei-level rich, you know! We're not even close to being Atobe-level rich! How the heck will we be able to pay?"

"You're being quite rude, Marui-kun," said Yagyuu quietly, as he pushed his glasses up. "It's only fair."

"I know, but still!"

"Well it's obvious, isn't it?" asked Oshitari. "You'll have to win."

"Good luck with that," scoffed Gakuto.

Yukimura smiled. "Don't worry, I'll find a way for us to pay without worry. I think I should be able to make some sort of deal with the ice cream men."

'PLEASE just get on with it...' thought Hiyoshi.

"Wait, so we have to eat out of the same bowls?" asked Gakuto.

Atobe looked at Gakuto in disbelief. "This is doubles, remember? If you all were to have a bowl each, it would just be like two singles matches at once. You must cooperate. Ore-sama demands it."

Gakuto rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah..."

"Sharing one bowl in this match is like sharing one court, if you have two bowls, then it would just be like playing on two different courts."

"We get it, Atobe."

Hiyoshi sighed. "Can we just start now?"

Everyone else just stared at him before answering. "Oh. Sure."