The school day would end, the babies would cry.

The babies were all silent. And once the final bell rang, there was a wave of crying dolls that echoed through the room.

Hikaru held out the baby to Ryoma. "Here Mama. You need to take it until I can talk to the tennis coach and get everything squared away. Hey. I need to know what you wanna name her."

"… I know a couple of people who will wanna name her."

"…? ... Who?"

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As the school day ended, Ryoma let out a long sigh. He reluctantly walked to the tennis courts petting the crying baby in his hands. He was treating the girl doll like he would Karupin. He thought you treat real babies like a pet. It was logical.

Once he got there, he found Kidoh and Momo doing their daily routine of challenging each other in various ways. Kikumaru and Oishi were playing a doubles game with Fuji and Kawamura.

Ryoma herd a second baby crying in the distance. He sighed once again. He went over to the sound that would soon sound all too familiar to him. He found Kachiro Kato and Katsuo Mizuno trying the quiet the baby.

"We were the second boy pair. We heard you were the other boy pair." Said Katsuo Mizuno, always reminding Ryoma of Oishi… just a little bit.

"Ya. We got a boy. We decided to name him Minoru. Katsuo is the father. I'm the mother." Kachiro Kato said that time. He started out saying it with a smile but near the end, he said it with a frown. Katsuo had a depressing smile on as he starred at Katsuo. He felt so bad for Kachiro because Kachiro didn't know he was truly the better chose for the mother roll.

Echizen said nothing.

"Ya." Began Katsuo. "We didn't know who we wanted the mother to be so the teacher decided Kachiro would be the mother. Which one are you?"

"Mother."

There was a long silence. The silence drove on until Kachiro stopped it. "Oh. I would have seen you more as the….. We'll see you at practice." And with that they left.

Ryoma went over to the doubles match being played by the regulars. Instead of comforting the baby, he put his hand over the speaker of the baby (in the mouth). That made it so the loud crying sounded like an equally loud muffled crying.

The Four boys playing the game except Fuji looked over at the crying doll in Ryoma's hands. After Fuji saw the others had become distracted, he too looked over at the baby. There were currently 4 crying baby dolls at the boy's tennis practice including Ryoma's and Hikaru's.

Kikumaru got an excited look on his face and started to jump up and down once he saw the baby. Momo jumped onto Ryoma's back. "Ryoma! Pink blanket. I see You got a girl. Are you the mother or the father?"

"Mother."

By this time the four regulars that should have been having a match had come over to see Ryoma's new baby.

There was a long silence. Fuji smiled, Oishi did nothing, Kawamura blushed, and Momo and Kikimaru got red in the face with laughter.

Ryoma just stood there starring at Momo Sempai who was now next to Kikimaru holding onto each other for support. A ghost walked out of Ryoma and turned around to face Ryoma.

"Hi mother!" said Sai.

Ryoma fell backwards at the shock of having a ghost walk through him. Kikumaru and Momo stopped laughing at look at Ryoma.

Momo blushed. That was his first time seeing such a scared face on Ryoma. It caught Momo by surprise.

"Cuuuute" whispered Momo.

"Are you ok Ryoma?" Fuji and to his surprise Hikaru said at the same time.

The two starred at each other. Fuji smiled at Hikaru. His smile somehow made Hikaru want to smile back. He did so.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Shindo Hikaru. Please call me Hikaru. This is my first day in Segaku tennis club." And Hikaru bowed at Fuji with that.

"It's a pleasure to have you here. I hope I can help you develop your tennis skills in some way." And Fuji Bowed at Hikaru with that.

Hikaru Blushed and said "well I don't really… play tennis. I barely know the rules." Hikaru was very embarrassed by this.

Fuji's face turned to look at Tezuka who was talking with the coach, smiled, turned around, and said to Hikaru "please allow me to teach you all you need to know."

"Thank you very much Sempai! I would love that but you don't have to do that. Really."

"Oh. It will be my honor."

"Um… thanks. I will try my best to learn all that I can from you!"

"Hikaru! Why don't you ever treat me with that type of respect?" Sai tried to but in.

"O-chibi! That's not how you treat a baby! Here let me take it." "Kikimaru then grabbed the Crying baby that was tossed on the ground when Ryoma fell over. Held it the correct way a baby should be held, and started patting its back.

Oishi blushed at the mother figure but caught himself right before Kikimaru looked over with an excited look on his face.

"Oishi! You hold the baby!" Kikimaru pushed the baby into Oishi's chest. Oishi grabbed it even though he didn't really want to.

"Um… I'm not the best with… babies." The baby's crying slowly got Quieter. There was a moment of silence, and then everyone herd a baby's snore.

"Aww! Oishi! What a great father figure." Kikimaru responded.

"Um. Ryoma. Take the baby back."

"But you got it to sleep Oishi Sempai."

"But… I'm really not the best with babies."

"Oh hey Ryoma, what's the girls name anyway?" Momo interrupted.

"I don't know." Ryoma said truthfully.

"Well I think it should be something pretty." Said Kikimaru.

"Um. I don't think so. I think it should assert authority." Momo replied.

As the two Sempai had a mini fight, Sai tried to start a conversation with Ryoma. "Well Mother. The fact that you can see me is really something. Maybe I should stick with you. Hikaru can get pretty annoying and is not very good a Go at the moment, but with a little practice, I bet you could be even better than Hikaru!"

During that whole conversation, Ryoma stared at the sleeping baby in Oishi's arms (Oishi was looking very nervous and was looking for some place to set the baby down). Ryoma was getting white in the face. A Go playing ghost following Ryoma around. Excitement.

Hikaru was talking with Fuji when he notice Sai was pressing Ryoma. He could tell Ryoma was getting uneasy. As much as Hikaru was enjoying that, he decided to put a stop to it.

"Um… Fuji Sempai. Would you mind if I go talk with someone for a moment?"

Fuji looked towards Tezuka. He was looking at Fuji and Shindo with a blank expression. When Tezuka saw Fuji look over, Tezuka looked away to face a boy picking up tennis balls and at the same time holding a crying baby. "Sure that's fine. I also have to talk to someone anyway." Fuji gave Shindo a smile that left Shindo uneasy and then left.

Hikaru caught himself and straightened himself out. He went over to Sai and the pale Ryoma and pulled Sai away. Everyone but Ryoma saw Hikaru dragging air into a secluded place.

"Sai… Echizen's face was amazing! That was great." Hikaru started laughing.

"Shindo? You are in the tennis club?" a voice in the background said. At the same time, Oishi was walking to Hikaru to hand him his baby. Before he was noticed by Hikaru and the suspicious character, Oishi hid behind the corner of the school building.

"Akira Toya. What are you doing at Segaku?" Hikaru's voice was not mad but more intrigued.

"You know what I want." Akira said.

"I said on my own time."

"I can't wait forever."

"Well it looks like your gunna have to."

Oishi was freaking out. He wondered what Shindo did. How much money did he owe? Oishi came out from his hiding spot, went between the two boys and pleaded "please, let's think this out rationally. The tennis club can find a solution to this if we work together."

"… Can your buddy's really play?" Akira asked.

Hikaru thought to himself for a bit.

"….. Echizen will be able to beat you in a fair game. Just give him two weeks." Hikaru replied a little too confident.

"…Ok. In two weeks, after your tennis practice is done, I will be waiting for this Echizen guy at the Go salon. But/"

"No buts. Those are the conditions. See you in two weeks. Get ready to get your but whipped by an amateur like the first time we played." Hikaru smirked as Akira walked away.

"Um… Shindo… what did you just do?"

"Thanks for the help Sempai." And with that, Hikaru walked away to Fuji Sempai and the man Fuji was talking to.

Oishi ran to Ryoma. "Echizen!" Oishi started in a whisper "Shindo is in big trouble. You got to help him out. You have to go through whatever training he has you go through."

Ryoma did not know how to handle an Oishi who was freaking out "Ok… I promise to help Shindo out. Now stay calm Oishi Sempai."

Oishi thanked him many times even though that should have been Shindo's job. The coach ordered Echizen and Oishi to have a one set match against each other. Without thinking, Oishi put the sleeping doll down on a bench near the tennis court with his jacket. Ryoma didn't bother to care either.

As the match started, Inui came over to see how the game was going. He noticed a baby doll by Oishi's jacket. He wrote down data in his green note book and looked at the baby again. He noticed the baby was starting to cry. He went over to the doll.

He started playing peek-a-boo with the baby and saw that the doll responded to the game with laughter. He was astonished with how advanced this baby was. He had to show someone. He decided to tell Kidoh.

It took a while to find Kidoh. When he did, he discovered Kidoh was behind a bush playing peek-a-boo with a cat. Kidoh looked up to see his Sempai holding a baby doll.

"Sempai? ... What are you doing with my little sister?" Kidoh frowned when he saw that the cat he was playing with had left.

"…This is a doll." Inui replied.

Kidoh got up from the ground and said "oh. Well that doll looks a lot like my baby sister." And Kidoh ran off to do some jogging.

Inui attempted to write down data in his green notebook while holding the baby at the same time.

Inui went to the tennis courts to find the other tennis club members running laps.

When Ryoma and Hikaru noticed Inui had their baby, they ran as fastest as they could. They passed every jogging tennis player to get to him.

When they got there, Ryoma pulled the baby from Inui's hands and held her in his own arms. Hikaru hugged the doll on the other side of her small body. "What were you doing with our baby!" the two parents said at once.

"I was gathering data."

Ryoma's eyes got wider and Hikaru asked "what does that mean?"

"… Shindo. I don't want you to ever let this man touch this doll. Got that?" Ryoma said.

"Roger that."

The three chatting tennis club members finished doing their laps. Ryoma had to hold the baby during the laps. Holding a baby while doing physical education Hikaru learned was very difficult.

Kikimaru and Momo went over to the parents and told them they had found a good name for their baby.

"Oh cool." Hikaru said. He really wanted to know what he was to be calling his baby. Sai (who was floating during the laps) was jumping with excitement to know what the name would be.

"Yep. We came to a compromise." Said Momo.

"what's the name?" Ryoma secretly wanted to call it Karupin 2 but he knew Hikaru would not go for that.

In unison, Kikimaru and Momo said "the name is Kimi!"