Chapter 2
Jujiroh Oni carried the baby with the three of them to wherever they went in the morning. All the other camp participants stared at them and constantly asked them how they ended up with a baby. Jujiroh explained that they found him outside their room.
"I just hope it is no practical joke." Hoo Byodoin said.
"Tokugawa named him Daisuke." Kanata Irie told everyone.
"Too bad there are no girls here. They would help greatly." Shuji Tanegashima said.
Coach Saito approached the camp participants surrounding Kazuya Tokugawa, Jujiroh Oni, and Kanata Irie. He pretended he did not know anything about the baby boy he left outside their room. "Oh, a baby boy. How did this happen?" Jujiroh explained for the umpteenth time that he was found outside their room.
"I think this would be good for all of you to help take care of the baby."
"EHHHHH!" All of them chorused loudly.
"It can help with your mental state. You can learn how to tolerate the baby's cries and tantrums. This can help mental disturbances in tennis matches by focus."
The participants nodded and agreed to his argument somewhat.
"Well, someone will need to be responsible for baby supplies, feeding him, changing him, putting him to sleep, bathing him, and everything else that a baby boy cannot do."
Everyone looked at each other. None of them wanted to change a baby's nappy. None of them knew how to. In fact, none of them wanted to help the Daisuke. They just stared at him.
"I will be responsible for putting him to sleep." Kazuya volunteered. The others stared at him in awe, even Hoo Byodoin. Daisuke seemed to understand since he giggled.
"I will feed him." Jujiroh bravely volunteered.
"I will help him bath." Kanata smiled.
"I will be in charge of buying baby supplies." Coach Saito volunteered. He had a daughter. He knew how to take care of a baby. "Someone needs to change his nappies."
No one volunteered.
"If no one volunteers, I will just randomly pick one of you."
Everyone stared at each other. It was still silent.
"Well in that case, the rest of you can take turns!" Saito smiled teasingly.
"EHHHHH!"
"Well, I am off to buy baby supplies." With that, Coach Saito left the camp to drive to the nearest shopping center.
An hour later, Coach Saito returned. He bought many cases of nappies, baby formula, wipes, soap, a small tub for the baby to be washed in, some more clothes, and one pair of small sandals.
"All this should last awhile." He announced.
Now that there was baby formula, Jujiroh went ahead and made milk for Daisuke. The milk was poured in a bottle. Jujiroh made sure he followed instructions. He returned to Daisuke, carried him in his arms, and fed him the milk. Daisuke was sucking happily on the bottle.
When Daisuke was done, Jujiroh patted him harmlessly to make him burp. Kazuya took Daisuke off of Jujiroh and returned to their room to put him back to sleep. Kazuya watched him fall asleep. Rather than attend tennis practice, he stayed in the room and watched over Daisuke. Kazuya had always wanted a little brother. Since Ryoma was off spending time with his older brother Ryoga, Kazuya felt lonely. Now that Daisuke was here, he could take advantage of the situation.
Daisuke woke up three hours later. Kazuya was lying (and secretly sleeping) on the spare bed for the past three hours. Kazuya picked Daisuke up and carried him back to the Lounge. Kanata took Daisuke off of Kazuya to give Daisuke a bath.
When the bath ended, Kanata was quite proud of himself. He managed to change him successfully. Daisuke looked around happily and pointed to Hoo. Hoo stared at Daisuke then walked over to him. Daisuke patted Hoo on the head then pulled his hair. Daisuke was giggling but Hoo was not at all happy. However, even Hoo knew better than to harm a defenseless child. He let the matter go. Hoo walked away.