disclaimer: nope, i don't own any of this.

Chapter 2

Kanehara was watching as Fuji and Oishi played. The tensai and the playmaker both seemed relaxed and in no way in a hurry.

She had specifically chosen this pair for today because of the silent competition going between her and Inui.

They were both going after the tensai's elusive data.

Although Inui had already figured out how the tensai did the triple counters it turned out that
Fuji could constantly alter the little details that prevented Inui from predicting the exact results each time Fuji did one of the counters.

Because of this it seemed that Fuji had started scheming against her and Inui in an effort to make their job harder.

Kanehara had already listed 32 alterations for the tsubame gaeshi that Fuji had used to foil Inui's predictions.

Shoot. There it was again. Kanehara's eyes narrowed at the shift in the way Fuji gripped the racket. He had changed the tsubame gaeshi. Again.

"That's another excellent way of doing the tsubame gaeshi, Senpai."

Fuji just smiled at Kanehara but then he was always smiling wasn't he?

Although this time Kanehara was sure that he was also laughing at her.

It really was too bad that Inui juice had absolutely no effect on him. She really loved this little fight with Fuji-senpai.

It was almost like doing battle with a master strategist.

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"Hoi, hoi Fujiko! Are you being mean to Maika-chan? Nya!"

Eiji-senpai had jumped on Kanehara again.

She now just couldn't think of him as Kikumaru-senpai with the way he was always hugging and pestering everybody.

Anybody else was an old lady when compared to Eiji's energy.

He was now cheering his doubles partner and berating Fuji for being a mean senpai to Maika.

Kanehara just laughed at the redhead's antics.

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The week that she had been working with the regulars had been surprisingly enjoyable.

Collaborating with Inui had inspired her competitive nature especially when they had started the data collecting contest.

Oishi and Kawamura were just very nice and polite although Kawamura could get a little too excited once he got his hands on a racket.

She had a great time working with Eiji who absolutely loved being the center of attention
when she had asked him to show her his acrobatic moves during a game.

Echizen was so intense when it came to tennis but he didn't seem to mind her when she came around with her clipboard.

Tezuka was scary at first but she had gotten used to the buchou glare and actually felt smug that he couldn't make her run laps like the members.

She certainly enjoyed Fuji's perverse way of being friends and Momo was just funny in that he seemed to take a lot of pleasure in annoying Kaidoh.

Kaidoh Kauro.

Now there was another story.

The hissing would definitely increase in intensity every time Momo picked fights with him
especially when Momo would point out that Kaidoh was stupid by not even bothering to talk to her.

Not that Kaidoh actually did much talking with anybody. And Kanehara certainly felt uncomfortable around Kaidoh.

Sure, he looked scary but she always had a feeling that he just didn't like her.

Maybe it was time to work with Kaidoh now. She had been putting it off since that first day when it had seemed that he had hissed at her.

I'm just sort of easing the story into kaidoh territory, let you know how kanehara is working with the rest of the team.=)

oh and i really don't want to make kanehara mary sue-ish, so comments would be appreciated.=)