Thanks for clicking, reading and following this story until this far. Here I present you: the third chapter. It's not as long as the previous one, I'm kinda afraid you will be bored by reading long chapter so I tried to make a shorter one. Hope you like it! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I own neither the Prince of Tennis series nor its characters. However, I do own the notebook, Marui's lollipop, the stolen cookies and my nameless OC.

Forgive me for any grammatical error. Critiques are always loved though.


Ch3: I hate him messing with the data book

It was a random peaceful day. The Rikkaidai tennis club regulars had just finished their usual after school training. They were gathering in the clubroom.

There was not any particular activity.

Yukimura and Sanada were discussing about upcoming training menu and how to improve the non-regulars' skills.

Marui was stocking up his sugar needs by eating sweets, which had been given by his fangirls earlier.

Jackal was reading the latest issue of a certain monthly sport magazine titled 'The King of Tennis'.

Niou was lying on a couch lazily, half-sleeping with earphones connected to his ipod.

Yagyuu was packing his bag, preparing to go home soon.

Yanagi, as usual, was scribing things down on his notebook with amazing speed.

And Akaya, had nothing to do, was watching his data-maniac senpai.

"Say, Yanagi-senpai…"

"What?" Yanagi replied without even looking to the only junior.

"What do you write in that notebook?" Akaya asked, still staring at Yanagi.

"A lot of stuff." Yanagi answered shortly.

"Such as?" Akaya asked again.

Yanagi finally stopped writing and looked back to Akaya. "Record of tennis matches and our practices, information about tennis players." He explained not in specific way.

"Hmm…" Akaya nodded with his point finger tipped on his chin, the data book sound very interesting. "May I read it?"

"…"

Everyone, who had been busy doing this and that some moments ago, looked at Ayaka and Yanagi. Yukimura and Sanada stopped talking. Marui froze with a huge lollipop stuck in his mouth, Jackal stopped reading, Niou put off his earphones, and Yagyuu stopped putting his belongings into his bag.

"No."

"Why not?"

"Just 'no'," Yanagi suddenly stood up and grabbed his own bag next to him. "I still have an appointment after this, now excuse me." He put the notebook in his bag and left.

"Huh?" Akaya was confused with Yanagi's sudden left.

"Well, Akaya.." Yukimura approached his youngest teammate. "Renji will never ever show what he had written in his notebook to anybody, not even to me nor Genichirou."

Sanada nodded silence.

"The probability of Renji letting us to touch his notebook is… 0.00000001%" Niou imitated Yanagi.

"Aah.. I also want to see what inside that notebook." Marui licked his lollipop.

"I'm doubt we can see it." Yagyuu's glasses glinted as he turned away to lock his locker.

Jackal sighed, starting to read his magazine again. "The day we could read that notebook will probably like dream comes true."

That was how they closed the topic about Yanagi's notebook and they quickly forgot about it.

No one bothered to talk about the notebook again until several days later…

The dream did come true!


Akaya finished his training a bit early than usual and went to the clubroom alone. Yanagi had told him earlier that they would held a meeting to talk about club's necessities, so the 2 year regular decided to take some rest there while waiting for his senpais.

And there, as he entered the empty clubroom, he found a notebook laid on a desk near the lockers. It was green and on the front cover, there was Yanagi's name.

"Wow! Yanagi-senpai's notebook!" He cheered as he realized what he had just taken. Then he looked around, "Yanagi-senpai won't mind if peek a little, right?"

He opened the book excitedly, and on the first page, some words were written in thick bold tint:

THIS AWESOME TOP SECRET NOTEBOOK IS PROPERTY OF THE MOST AWESOME DATA MASTER OF THE CENTURY, YANAGI RENJI
(RIKKAIDAI FUZOKU MIDDLE SCHOOL CLASS 3-F #19)

"What the?" Akaya blinked as he read the very first page. After recovering from his small shock, he proceeded to next page.

HOW TO USE

I

A person whose name is written in this notebook will not die, at least not because the name is written in this notebook.

If the person's basic information is not written in 9.184879124 minutes after the name was written, nothing will happen. The said person will not die, not because of this notebook.

"Death note?" Akaya mumbled to himself. He was about to read the 3rd pharagraph when suddenly the door opened.

Niou, Marui, Yagyuu, and Jackal walked in. They had just finished their double match. Seeing the brat was frozen in shock as if he had just seen ghost, they approach Akaya.

"What's wrong, Akaya?" Jackal asked in worry.

"Oi? Akaya? " Marui waved his hand in front of Akaya's face. "Akaya- what's that?" He exclaimed as soon as he noticed the thing that Akaya was holding.

"It looks like Yanagi's notebook." Yagyuu's glasses glinted (again) as he said his opinion.

"REALLY?" Marui took the notebook from Akaya's hand.

"Hey!" Akaya complained as Marui took the notebook.

"Did you steal it?" Marui teased.

"Of course no!" Akaya pouted.

"Whatever," Niou cut, an evil smirk was drawn with his lips. "Let's read it together."

"Is it okay if we read it? I mean we don't have Yanagi's permission." Jackal sweatdroped, trying to remind his teammates what had happened some days ago, but no one paid attention to him.

"Let's see..," Niou read the notebook from behind Marui's back. He was taller than the redhead anyway, so it wasn't hard to do so. "How to use?"

"It looks like death note." Jackal commented as he read it too.

"Screw this up! Let's see more interesting part!" Marui turned the pages.

"More interesting part?" Akaya asked with confused expression,

"The players' data." Marui grinned to his kouhai.

"Let's see…" Yagyuu mumbled as he skimmed through the notebook. "Practice records, intra-school rank matches, region tournament, national tournament…"

"His handwriting is really tidy and neat." Marui commented.

"I think it IS obviously tidier and neater than yours, Marui-senpai." Akaya smirked as he teased his senpai.

Marui popped a bubble. "Don't say as if your handwriting was readable! It's as horrible as your hair! Plus there are waaaay to many kanji errors!"

"Hey hey. You two please stop." Jackal tried to calm down the two.

"Here it is! The regulars' data. Puri." Niou said, he didn't really care about Akaya and Marui's fight, they were always like that anyway. Why bothered?

"Rikkaidai Fuzoku Middle School tennis team's **th captain: Yukimura Seiichi,," Yagyuu started to read it loud so that the other could hear him.

"Did you just call me?"

The five regulars froze. Yukimura and Sanada were standing on the door. No one had realized that the two had come.

"Bu-buchou! Fu- fukubuchou!" Akaya gasped.

"Did you just call me? I'm pretty sure I heard my name." Yukimura looked at Yagyuu (since it had been Yagyuu who said his name) then his blue eyes spotted something interesting in the gentleman's hand. "Is that.. Renji's?"

The five nodded.

He smiled. "I see. It's interesting. I wanna know what he has written it that book as well. Please continue."

"Tarundoru." Sanada mumbled under his breathe. He knew that it was wrong, reading Yanagi's notebook without permission. However, since he also wanted to know about it, he didn't stop his fellows. (Actually, he couldn't, because Yukimura had said that he wanted to know as well.)

Yukimura Seiichi

Rikkaidai Fuzoku Middle School, class 3-C #21
Date of birth: March 5th, Pisces
Blood type: A
Often visited place in school: the campus flowerbed, rooftop garden
E-mail: snowwhite_sei(a)hotme,co,jp

(*)Hates chemistry because the chemical smell reminds him of hospital

Using headband:
53.23532186% - to prevent sweat streams down his gorgeous face
21.54315% - just a fashion signature
13.52352% - because it looks good on him

Always smiling:
74.3523% - in order to make the other scared in different way (much like Seigaku's Fuji)
13.4324% - because he's always happy
2.21421% - something is wrong with his face's muscles (much because of his illness)

"Eeh.. I think this's not really related to tennis." Marui went pale; somehow, Yukimura's current smile scared them.

"Fufufu… Marui, continue it."

"Y- yes, sir."

Sanada Genichirou

Rikkaidai Fuzoku Middle School, class 3-A #10
Date of birth: May 21st, Taurus
Blood type: A
Often visited place in school: Japanese-style room
E-mail: fuurinkazanrocks(a)yapoo,co,jp

(*)Suck at fashion trends
(*)It is said that he used to be handsome and hot

Wearing cap:
46.34633% - to prevent heatstroke
45.96325% - simply because he love cap
2.35261% - fashion signature (but I'm doubt it is. Since he has no fashion-sense)

Fuurinkainzanrai
100% - because he's addicted by ancient Japanese

"…"

It seemed that it was the worst idea to read the data when the said person was there. If Sanada had been bringing his katana, they were quite sure that he would have cut the data book into pieces.

"Should we continue?" Jackal asked nervously.

"Sure." Yukimura smiled, he did neither really care about the now-covered-with-murderous-black-aura Sanada nor about his scared-to-death teammates.

Kirihaya Akaya

Rikkaidai Fuzoku Middle School, class 2-D #6
Date of birth: September 25th, Libra
Blood type: O
Often visited place in school: tennis court
E-mail: eigosucks(a)hotme,co,jp

(*)Very bad at English
(*)Good at Japanese, but suck when it comes to kanji
(*)Obsession: defeating big three
(*)Becomes very sensitive when being called 'seaweed hair', especially if it is originally said in English

Chances of falling asleep in certain classes:
100% - falling asleep in English class
50% - falling asleep in another classes
0% - falling asleep in P.E. class

Red eyes mode:
the most illogical way to explain it is dirt gets into his eyes

Devil mode:
can't be explained yet

"So there is something that Renji can't explain. This is interesting. Fufufu…"

"Mada mada dane. Puri." Niou imitated Seigaku's Echizen Ryoma, pretending that he was wearing cap.

Yagyuu Hiroshi

Rikkaidai Fuzoku Middle School, class 3-A #20
Date of birth: October 19th, Libra
Blood type: A
Often visited place in school: student council room
E-mail: thegentleman(a)laserbeam,org
Personal blog: laserbeam,org

(*)Has no worst subject
(*)Cleans his room daily
(*)Dislikes haunted house
(*)Uses his allowance at fundraising

About his glasses:
45.63% - it's a fake because he can still play tennis match well without it

Meeting him inside or outside school:
50% - it's not the real him

Akaya giggled. "In another word, it's 50% that it's Niou-senpai."

"Niou-kun, do you impersonate me that often?" Yagyuu turned to his double partner; the said person looked away and whistled.

"Shall we continue?"

Kuwahara Jackal

Rikkaidai Fuzoku Middle School, class 3-I #12
Date of birth: November 3rd, Scorpio
Blood type: O
Often visited place in school: staff room, reference room
E-mail: jackal_kuwahara(a)gleemail,co,jp

(*)Loves enka
(*)Spends most of his allowance on Marui and Akaya

About his head:
50% - he regularly shaves it
50% - It is naturally bald

"That's it?"

"I think so…"

"It's quite… short?"

"Who cares?"

"Who's next?"

"Uhm, Marui Bunta…"

"Me?"

"Yes."

"Can't we just skip it?"

"No."

Marui Bunta

Rikkaidai Fuzoku Middle School, class 3-B #16
Date of birth: April 20th, Aries
Blood type: B
Often visited place in school: home economics room
E-mail: bunbun(a)gleemail,co,jp

(*)Master at baking cakes (although 99.99% I'm sure he'll eat his handmade cakes by himself)
(*)Lack of stamina
(*)Somehow has a rapid fanBOY named Akutogawa Jirou

Possibility of chocking bubblegum during tennis match: 0.000000000000000001%

Self-proclaiming genius:
99.99% - because he feels so

Consequences of eating too much sweets:
34.54545445% - sugar high
32.521% - toothache
29.53162% - obesities

Marui pouted as Akaya laughed hard.

"Oh, you do have a fanboy, Marui-senpai."

"Well, well," Yagyuu tried to calm down Marui, whose face was now nearly as red as his hair. "At least you won't die of chocking bubblegum as you did back then in the play. Yanagi-kun guarantees it."

"I think we should quickly finish reading this before Ranji comes back." It was now Sanada's turn to read. "Yanagi…Renji? Renji wrote data on himself?"

"Let's hear what he wrote about himself." Yukimura smiled in excitement.

Yanagi Renji

Rikkaidai Fuzoku Middle School, class 3-F #19
Date of birth: June 4th, Gemini
Blood type: A
Often visited place in school: library
E-mail: yanagi_renji(a)yapoo,co,jp

(*)Master at mental math, haiku, Go, Japanese chess, tea ceremony
(*)Has the same strange hobby as Seigaku's Inui Sadaharu: inventing healthy drinks
(*)NEVER EVER puts his data book carelessly

Being locked inside a nearby toilet by someone while the rest of his team read this notebook – 100%

Has just successfully managed to get out from the toilet and is heading to the clubroom - 98.421%

"Huh? I don't understa-"

The door was suddenly opened. It was Yanagi.

"Sorry I am late. Somehow I couldn't get out from the restroom." He said, much to everyone's confuse.

"Late for what?" Jackal asked, trying to buy some time for the others to hide the book.

"For our meeting, of course," Yanagi noticed his team mates' strange behaviour. "What are you hiding from me?"

'Uh..." No one could answer.

"What's that?" Yanagi asked again.

"Well, Renji," Finally the captain spoke up. "Akaya found your notebook and we… read it."

Yukimura showed the notebook.

"That's…"

'We're really sorry. I know that we shouldn't." Sanada apopogized.

"not…"

"Oh, Yanagi-senpai, I'm so sorry. I know you didn't give me permission to but I still-"

"mine…"

"Yours what?" Everyone's eyes widened, except Yukimura, because he just wouldn't do such a thing, and Yanagi's, first because he wouldn't be surprised by his own words and second because his eyes were closed.

"That's not mine." Yanagi repeated calmly.

"No way. It really looks like yours!" Marui exclaimed.

Yanagi took out his data book from his bag. "See. This one IS mine. That's not."

"Then... Then whose book this is?" Akaya stared at the book in Yukimura's hand.

"Let me see." Yanagi took the fake data book and read it. He smirked. "I assume you were reading my data when I arrived here. I think you should finish reading this until the very end." He handed the book to Akaya.

Akaya read it. "Oh, there's still another data under Yanagi-senpai's. It's… Niou-senpai's?"

"Read it." Yukimura ordered.

Niou Masaharu

Rikkaidai Fuzoku Middle School, class 3-B #14
Date of birth: December 4th, Sagittarius
Blood type: AB
Often visited place in school: rooftop
E-mail: petenshipuri(a)hotme,co,jp

(*)There is not much specific data on him

The possibility of the readers of this book being tricked again – 100%

The possibility of him having run away by now – 100%

P.S. this book is 100% a fake. However the data in this notebook is really the truth even this is just a trick. So, trick, fake, or truth?
P.S.S. I pity you for being tricked.

"Where's Niou?"

They looked around, but the trickster was nowhere to found.

"If I'm not wrong, he wasn't even here from the very first time I got in."

"TARINDORU! NIOU!"


"That was very amusing." Niou laughed as he took a bite of chocolate chip cookies he had stole before from Marui. Of course, the victim had not realized at all.

"Is it okay if you stay here? I mean, they'll easily find you here after everything that's written about you in that book." A girl approached him.

"it's okay. They won't really believe the data after all." He looked at small house near the tennis courts. Probably Sanada was getting mad right now.

"I did leave a P.S. though…" The girl mumbled.

"Huh?"

"Nothing. Anyway it took 2 days to write that silly book so I'm expecting a full mark at tomorrow's math test."

"Okay, okay."

"Well then, I'm leaving. It's getting late. You have to pay for this too." A moment later, she disappeared behind the only door there.

"Puri." Niou still watched at the far away clubroom. He predicted, soon the regulars would look for him like crazy…


That's it. I put an OC there, since it's easier this way to write, explaining what Niou was doing. If you haven't understand it yet, she was the one who wrote the fake data book (that's the reason why it is written in tidy handwriting. Well, personally I think Yanagi's original handwriting should be neat and tidy) What do you think? Please give me your opinion.

Some of the data are based on fanbook and some are from my own random predictions. The emails and Yagyuu's blog are fake of course XD (Pardon the (a) and comas because if I write it with 'at' symbol and dots the emails will disappear)

The trick, fake, or truth? Idea was popped in my head as my shuffled mp3 player played the song when I was writing this chapter.

Last words, thanks for reading and please review :D