It seems to me that I paired SanaYuki in all of my fanfics xD I dunno, maybe some habit? But they are destined to be together :D

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Smiling Days 3 - Slowly, but surely

Wednesday, August 8th, Kei-chan's Paradise, 11AM

Momo stood near a water pool, wearing only swimming trunks. It was hot day, temperature raised to 37 C or maybe even more and one hotel employee recommended him to go swimming to the hotel swimming pool.

He started to run, closely before he reached an edge of the swimming pool he jumped highly into the air and when he pitched into the water, it splashed everywhere around.
"Hey! You idiot! You made my book wet!" Some guy with sun glasses, who had laid on a deck chair near to the swimming pool, stood up an started to shout.

"Sorry! I think nothing so much happened, right? Only the cover is wet! And it's hardcover, if I see right." Momo wiped water from his eyes away and focused to the second person.
The second person made the same, he took off his glasses.

"Viper? What are you doing here?"

"I was reading my book until you disturbed me!" Normal people will hug themselves or something if they meet after few years. But these two started arguing. It seemed like their fight didn't have end, until next people suddenly appeared.

"Oh! Hello you two! Wow! What a coincid-"

"MOMOOOOO! KAIDOOOOOU! WAAAAW!" Somebody attacked those two by hug, almost dinged them off.

"Eiji...senpai? Oishi-senpai?" Momo and Kaidou immediately forgot their arguing and Momo started excitingly speaking with former Golden Pair. Kaidou only watched them, he wasn't too talkative if we don't count his quarrels with Momo.

"Fshuuu..." After super long talk about life and everything, how they met here and more, they refreshed themselves by swimming. Momo's and Kaidou's eyes almost popped out and Momo burst into laugh when they saw Golden Pair. It was because...they were performing synchronized swimming. That's Golden Pair for you. Still the same.

There was a diving board, 15 meters above the pool. Momo climbed there and took a run on it, he wanted to jump to water, but his leg slipped and he fell down like a bag of potatoes.

"Mada Mada Dane."

"Hey, are you okay?" Eiji worried whether is Momo okay and almost didn't notice newcomers.

"90% that he is okay, maybe he sees stars around head but that's all."

"Don't let you guard down."

"Eeeeh? Tezuka-san? Echizen? Inui?" Momo rubbed his head. He thought he had some kind of hallucination, from how he had fallen down. Momo winked.

"They are real, idiot," Kaidou said and started new fight.

"Who are you calling idiot? Viper!"

Inui's mind was working. He didn't believe in random meetings like this. When here is almost whole Seigaku, Fuji and Kawamura must be near somewhere.
98,75% that they are wandering somewhere near. Yes, Inui didn't give up his data and he used them in his work. He worked as trainer of sprinter club in Tokyo. He used data to calculate speed of his trainees and more.
And of course...He was still making his Inui Juice.

"Wow...hello everyone," a soft voice peeped. Kawamura and Fuji (with his kind, otherwise called/known sadistic smile) appeared! Seigaku was gathered.

"FUJIKOOO! TAKA-SAN! WAAAAAW! THIS IS LIKE DREAM! YAHOO!" Fuji and Kawamura were as Momo and Kaidou, attacked by Eiji's warm hug.

When they were together there, all of them remembered memories which they shared. How they worked hard to win National. They had gone or run through hundred laps, drunk litres of Inui Juice, had so many sleepovers (which usually ended by some injury), played so many games together. Of course, they bethought of Ryuzaki, who had iron nerves with them and pushed them to better play.
It was time, when everybody was smiling and laughing together. Even Tezuka, remember?

I don't believe that this is a coincidence. Does somebody manipulate with our lives? Somebody had to make this. That certain somebody was watching them through cameras. "Be awed of my prowess." It was not a luck that they met by the swimming pool. Atobe made Seigaku arrived as first and then, through hotel employees he inconspicuously sent a word to go to the swimming pool.
Ingenious, isn't it?

1PM, Kei-chan's Ultimate Cruise Ship, somewhere between Kyuushu and Iki Island

"Ne, Yagyuu, this ship is amazing! They have a swimming pool, many shops and restaurants or tennis courts!" Niou was scanning a plan of the ship. The ship was HUGE.
Super huge, inside was a red carpet on the floor. On top walls were crystal chandeliers, which sometimes nicely tinkled, walls were covered by gold wallpapers or mirrors.
Everywhere were people, fussing here and there. This ship was getting around whole Japan.

"Let's check tennis court!" Niou was pulling Yagyuu that direction. Around court was crowd of people, excitingly watching some match.

"Ah? Who could play that so many people are interested in?" Niou said and beat way forward, holding Yagyuu's wrist and tugging him forward.
Those two playing..."Sanada-kun and Yanagi-kun!" Yagyuu shouted, but in that big mess, only Niou heard him and nodded.

"Where is Sanada, there is Yukimura!" He was sitting on a bench, properly watching those two playing. That was utter fact. Yukimura was a top tennis player and somebody like him needed a trainer, a bodyguard, a manager. Sanada was doing it all. (Plus role of lover, but that was obvious, wasn't it?) How he was able to do it, who knew. Well, he was Sanada.
He defeated Renji 6-4. The crowd applauded a lot, that kind of tennis they had never seen. The tennis of a guy with closed eyes whose predictions never fail fought with a guy who could hit invisible hits and could awesomely quickly move from one side of court to a other side. And Yukimura-sama, the top Japanese tennis player was there too!

"Hah, Renji, good to play with you again, after some years. You still play excellently, even you play only sometimes due to your studies." Renji was a student at university, in Kyoto. He wanted to became a professor, so he attended a prestige private university. To make some money to pay school fee, he was in his free time working as translator, to Japanese from English and vice versa, it earned him a lot of money, in Japan weren't so many people who could fluently speak English.

"Yeah, with you too, Genichirou." Yukimura stood up, handed them two towels. They went to change, secretly followed by Niou and Yagyuu. After changing, Renji proposed to go a patisserie, to celebrate their meeting after years. Niou and Yagyuu were hidden in crowd of people, still following them.

Sanada took wind, like a dog (that bodyguard instincts).

"I feel here a presence of spies!" Suddenly Sanada disappeared. Niou and Yagyuu were looking up for him. Abruptly someone bashed them into their shoulders and started to shout, almost made them faint.

"HA! I've caught you! Ha? Who are you? Paparazzi? Stalkers of Yukimura? Fans? Spies, taking data on Yukimura?" Niou and Yagyuu slowly turned, looked into Sanada's dark eyes.

"You are...NIOU AND YAGYUU?"

"Hey!" Niou greeted calmly.

"Nice to see you again, Sanada-kun!" Yukimura and Renji hurriedly came to exchange greetings.

80% that this is not a coincidence. Even Renji didn't abandon his data. After exchanging few words together, they continued in way to patisserie. Before they could went in, door flew open and a one red head person was knocked out by some hysterical old woman.

"Never. Ever. Dare. To. Come. Here. Again." She darkly hissed, properly pronouncing and stressing each single word. She was followed by tall half Brazilian guy. He apologized her.

"Don't apologize, you are here always welcome, it's not your fault," she said by soft and almost affable voice. "But you, I don't want to ever see you again."

"Marui! Jackal!" Yukimura said softly, not surprised to see them. Today he saw so many of his old friends, so this was normal.
90% that this is not a coincidence.

"Wow! Hi! What are ya doin' here?" Marui's eyes got wide, smiling, styling his messed hair.

"We can ask the same! Hey, I'm curious, what did you do to that woman?" Niou said, skipped a greeting. They can do it later.

"Aw, nothing so much..." Marui loved cakes, desserts and all kind of sweets, so he became a famed pastry cook, owned a sweetshop somewhere in Kanagawa. Regarding to his many years of experience with sweets, he could recognize what was used to preparation of the dessert, what is moreover or missing. He could feel whether it is good or bad.
He just told the woman that dessert was too dry and not sweet and ice cream was melting too fast, in that heat. So she kicked him out. That's the human gratefulness. Someone tries to help and it ends like this.

"Well, I guess we won't go to patisserie. What about a bar?" Even it was afternoon and everywhere was light, in bar was dark, only source of light were opalescent lamps. Everything there was in dark colors, floor, walls, tables, chairs, and in air was pleasant scent of cocktails and alcohol. In that time, there was only one man, sitting under lamp and adversely drew something, before him was a laid glass with some cocktail and a little netbook, and barman was there.

"Guys, do you see the same thing as me?" That man with seaweed hair. Last missing Rikkai member...?

"H-hey, are you Kirihara Akaya?" Renji carefully asked. Man looked up and stopped drawing.

"No." But Rikkai regulars were sure, that man sitting before them was Akaya. His lines of face, hair, eyes, everything was identical, he was only taller then before. Akaya didn't have twin, if Renji remembered correctly, he had only an older sister.
Then who is this man?

Hm, I think it's little bit nonsequenced? :D Okay, that was Seigaku meeting, let's see next time what's with Rikkai? :D And maybe Hyotei and Shitenhouji! :)

Thanks for reading, con-crit and comments are welcome!

Maya :)