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Chapter 3

"Whoo hoo! We're finally here!" Edji yelled as he jumped off the bus stretching his arms and legs. The regulars and their two accompanists had just arrived at the edge of the lake side forest.

"So this is it huh? It's pretty nice. I love the peacefulness." Oishi commented. "No more busy hectic city life for a whole week!"

"Thanks, Sakuno and I spent a lot of time picking the perfect place." Tomo-chan said while helping Sakuno off the bus.

"Sheesh, we came all the way here for this? There's not even a log cabin, let alone a tennis court. We're going to have to sleep in tents. I hope we have enough." Ryoma said unhappily searching for some sign of civilization.

"Fshu. Where's that spike head idiot? I have a present to give him for that spit wad he shot at my head on the bus" Kaido said after getting his things off the bus.

After everyone had finished getting their supplies off the bus Tezuka announced, "From here, we will jog to the lake and around it twice. Just because we're on vacation doesn't mean we can forget about the tournament. The two girls don't have to jog around the lake, but they have to keep up with our pace towards it."

"Aw, but this is vacation. We should be relaxing and swimming in the water." Edji complained with a thought bubble going from his head that pictured him swimming in the lake, all happy and laughing.

"Would you like to run twice as many trips around the lake?" Tezuka warned coldy.

"No thank you." Edji said while crouching behind Oishi.

"Good. Then let's go."

"Hai." Everyone said and then were on their way. It was a down hill jog so it was a lot easier for the two girls. After a while though, Sakuno was starting to tire from the non-stop jogging. She wasn't used to more than 20 minuets of tennis practice.

"Tomo-chan, I can't go any farther. I'm going to collapse." Sakuno said panting.

"Come on we're almost there. Just a little bit farther" Tomo-chan encouraged while helping Sakuno by carrying some of her luggage for her.

"Do I hear a damsel in distress?" Moshiro said.

"Sakuno is so tired she can't go much farther." Tomo-chan informed.

"Well then I'll carry you." Momoshiro suggested while picking Sakuno up onto his back. Ryoma scowled at this action. Sakuno did not see this but still blushed.

"No it's ok, it's just little bit longer like Tomo-chan said right?" Sakuno protested.

"Nonsense. Such a beautiful girl shouldn't have to suffer." Momoshiro said. At this Ryoma couldn't keep his mouth quiet.

"Hey, why don't you go flirt with your girl friend. Or did she already break up with you?" When Ryoma said this he immediately took it back.

'Fuji's plan better work, because I'm trying to bare all of this crap Echizen is throwing at me.' Momoshiro thought cringing his teeth.

"OOO. Echizen just defended Ryuzaki. Is he in love?" Everyone chanted (except Tezuka and Oishi).

"I am not. I just don't think it is right that my senpai should be hitting on a girl who's not his girl friend." Ryoma's face was staring to turn red. This was very rare. He knew he would never ever, in his life say something like that, but he couldn't think anything else to say. So he pulled his cap down over his head.

"What happened to the carefree teem mate I used to know? All of a sudden this girl makes you say things about love. Maybe he's really starting become an older more responsible boy." Fuji taunted with his little smile planted on his face.

"……. Nah." The sempais said together in a humorous voice. The rest of the way, everyone was quiet and observing the nature. Ryoma, on the other hand, was staring at the ground with his hat pulled over his face. Along with the grouchy Kaido who stared annoyingly at his surroundings.

'The sooner this trip is over the better.' Ryoma thought.

They reached the beach of the lake and set all their things down. Then the regulars set off on their two rounds around the lake. This left the two girls to talk everything over and organize the supplies.

"Oh no! We're short on tents. What will we do?" Sakuno exclaimed.

"What?! That'll mean we have to share tents." Tomo-chan said despairingly. "I know what to do. We can ask for help from the sempais. They always know what to do." she added confidently.

"Yeah, great plan." Sakuno said nervously. Just then the regulars came back.

"Hi. Sakuno and I just discovered that we do not have enough tents for all of us." Tomo-chan announced excitedly.

" Oh yay. And that's good why?" Momoshiro asked sarcastically.

"We have to share!!"

"Share tents? How many do we have?" asked Oishi.

"About five. That would mean each tent gets two people. All we need to do is decide which two go in each tent." Tomo-chan said while winking at Fuji giving him the OK.

"I know what to do. We can write our names on sticks and then draw two sticks for each tent." Fuji suggested with a smirk on his face.

'I don't have a good feeling about this. Especially when he has that smirk on his face.' Ryoma thought to himself.

"Yeah that's a great idea." Momoshiro said. " Let's start."

"I got the sticks and I have written everyone's name on them" Oishi said holding them up. " Now , who will get to pick them?"

"I think Fuji should get to pick them. After all he got us here." Sakuno said not knowing what her suggestion would get her into.

"Why thank you. I will." Fuji reached into the can and grabbed the first two sticks, "Momoshiro and Kaido."

"WHAT?" They said in unison. 'How come Fuji choose Kaido and my stick? When he said he knew which sticks were who's, I didn't expect him to purposely make me and Kaido share the same tent. I guess he really does like to see people suffer.' Momoshiro thought, still scowling at the thought.

"Next is Edji and Tomo-chan." Fuji announced.

"Oh! Well, she's quite energetic like me?" Edji said, trying to point out the good side of her.

"Yay! I get Edji!" Tomo-chan shouted then thought, 'Thank you Fuji.'

Fuji pulled out the next pair and got Tezuka and Oishi. "So, I get Tezuka huh? This way we can discuss our tournament line-up plan." The stick pulling kept going on until they got to the last to people, Sakuno and Ryoma. Which of course would make them share a tent.

'Ryoma-kun? Sharing a tent with me? Oh no. What do I do? This is all because of my carelessness. I should have double checked all of the supplies. Why me?' Sakuno thought despairingly.

'Ryuzaki's in my tent huh? This should be interesting.' Ryoma thought. ' I just hope that these tents have room separators. I don't want the senpais to get any ideas.' With that every one left to set up their tents before dark hit.


So what did you think? I finally told you the tent part of the plot. The next chapter is going to be better, I hope. I'ce been trying to so hard to lenghthen the chapters, but it's not woring.:(

Is there enough detail?

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