Chapter 4

As usual, Student Council's members have to gather on Monday. Usually, when she opens the door, a certain bespectacled will be there doing the work already. However, Yukimitsu was the first one to arrive at the Student Council's room. She lazily put her bag down beside her as she sat down and began drifting in her dreamland again.

Her ankle was recovering very well now. Thanks to her brother who always keeps nagging her once he caught her moving around too much, which of course she was quite annoyed with. She wants freedom and does not like to be in control by somebody. The doctor said she should be quite well by next week or earlier. She was more than happy to know that she can actually join the team on their second match, that's it if they make it in the first round.

Last Saturday, Ruizawa had phoned her. The game between Seigaku and Hyotei had postponed to Monday, which was today. They had leave early this morning to continue their match. It does not really matters when they have their match. What really that matters is that they probably won't be backing the afternoon. That means Tezuka won't be back too. So, who is going to finish his work?

Guess I have to finish THESE all by myself again…Yea, AGAIN. She sighed as she land her eyes on the two piles of paper on her left and sighed again as she looked at those letters which were on her right.

Well, I think they should be alright to win the match. I wish them good luck though. Luck? Then, her mind drifted back to Saturday. Gosh…! I hope he did not mistake that I got a thing for him. What if he did? Man…that's so embarrassing! She blushed thinking of that.

Well, you can always make it clear with him the next time you see him. Right.

She got up and went to stand by the window while waiting for the others. She stood there and looked down. An empty tennis court. Thinking of someone? Keep that out. Can't I look at the tennis court? Jeez…

Suddenly, the door cracked open. A few of girls coming in.

"Good afternoon, Yukimitsu-chan." One of them greeted.

"Good afternoon." She smiled. "Where's the guys?"

"Late as usual, I mean whenever the president wasn't here. Probably still taking their own sweet time eating."

"Ha! Just because our handsome guy was not here eh?"

"Don't worry, I'll tell him later." Her eyes narrowed just to see the expression of the girl sitting next to her.

"What?! No! Yukimitsu-chan, please don't. Pretty pretty please." A pair of crystallized puppy eyes was now looking at Yukimitsu. The others were laughing. This is because the girl's boyfriend happens to be one of those who were late.

"Hahaha! Don't worry, she won't do it. Right?" Assured the other one.

She turned to Yukimitsu who nodded with a smile. "I was just joking."

"Mou, Yukimitsu-chan, you're so mean!"

"Huh? Me? I thought I just help your boyfriend from being punish. No?"

"Hn! Nevermind. I know you must be jealous cause I got a boyfriend and you don't."

Yukimitsu can't stop laughing at that, along side with the others.

"My, my. Why do you think she should be jealous over you? There's a bunch of guys out there waiting for her."

"I know. But, she never get herself a boyfriend before." God…do we have to discuss about this again? Yukimitsu sighed again.

"Hey, I do think she's right. I'm curious about that too. Why is that, Yukimitsu-chan?"

"Can we not discuss about this?"

"No. You must answer this." One of the senpai said.

She sighed again. "Okay, this is once and for all. I'm not interest on having a relationship right now."

"Oh…so when?"

"I don't know."

"So wasted!" All of them looked at the girl beside Yukimitsu.

"What? Don't you think it's so wasted since our Yukimitsu-chan here has such a pretty face?"

"Hm…I do pity them somehow." The other girl said, nodding her head in agreement.

"Hey! I'm not the only one you should say wasted to. Look around you." She was trying to defend herself actually.

"Hm…true enough." Then, she thought of something. "Hey!"

"What?"

"Why don't we have a competition?"

"About what?"

"About who'll be the next one who gets herself a boyfriend. The last one will get punishment. Deal?"

"No way. We have to study now, no time for that. Besides, you already have boyfriend. So that means you don't have to worry about that. That's not fair."

"Well, I'm your referee. So, that makes it fair and square. Come on, it'll be fun." She was smiling happily.

"Hm…it does sound fun to me. Count me in then." A senpai agreed.

"No. I'm out of this."

"Wow there, no one will be except from that." The senpai said.

"What? Why not?" Yukimitsu asked.

"No means no, Yukimitsu-chan." Her senpai answered with a smile.

"So that means we do not have any choice then?"

"Yupe." The only girl that's in a relationship answered.

A few of them cheered while most of them sighed.

"Hey, girls! What cha talking about? Gossiping about us huh?" The door bang opened and a few guys came into view.

"You say it, we're girls. Therefore, it's girls' talk. Guy should stay away as far as possible."

"Yea, it's better not to know what they're talking about. You wouldn't want to know about it." The other commented.

"Well, what should we do since they're late girls?" A senpai asked.

"Sing a song for us!" One of the girls suggested.

"But Yukimitsu-chan, shouldn't the meeting starts now?" A guy asked, trying to get away from the punishment.

Yukimitsu just shrugged over it. "You guys better be quick to finish singing or I'll have no choice but to tell Tezuka-senpai about this."

"Hai!" Thus, the guys picked out a song and sang. After that, they had their usual meeting.

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"Seigaku!! Fight! Fight!"

"Seigaku!! Fight! Fight!"

Those non-regulars were cheering aloud to support the team. However, they were still no match for Hyotei. After a while, the match had finally ended. Hyotei cheering team was still as loud as ever…although they have lost. (And, Atobe's hair was cut short by Echizen!! LOL!)

"Oi, Echizen! Let's go get some burger."

"Hai…" Just as both of them were ready to go…

"Hoi, Momo, Ochibi! Wait for me nya! I'm coming too."

"Eh? Eiji-senpai's coming too?"

"Hoi? Can't I follow?" An evil grin immediately appeared on both Echizen and Momoshiro's face.

"Of course you can come along, Eiji-senpai. You are more than welcome instead. But, it'll be your treat." Their grins grew wider.

"Ne, ne, Momo. For a moment just now, I thought you guys are going for a date. So, you guys didn't want me to come along nya."

"What?! E-Eiji-senpai, you-you what?!" Momoshiro was dead shocked by that and Echizen was choking hard on his drink.

"Eiji, it's not nice to talk like that." Besides, these things aren't right and they certainly aren't-" Oishi finds it very hard to let the word slip through his tongue as he was really not used to those kind of words.

"Demo Oishi, sometimes I do wonder what they are doing when they go out together."

"What?!" Oishi was dumfounded with his golden-pair partner.

"You know, when Inui and Kaidoh are going out, Ochibi with Momo, Fuji and-" The name of Tezuka's immediately stopped in the middle of his throat when a dead glare was sent to him by their emotionless captain.

"And…and Kawamura nya. Right, and Kawamura." He nodded to himself while saying that and thanked his self-control for not saying Tezuka's name aloud or he will be dead meat by now.

"Ki-Kikumaru, I'm not going out with Fuji. I swear I'm helping my dad all the time. I-" Kawamura was trying to explain himself when Fuji suddenly cut in.

"Maa, Eiji really has a good sense of humor."

Was it just my illusion or what? I thought I just saw Fuji opened his eyes nya. Fuji can be quite scary sometimes.

Kikumaru rubbed his eyes and looked at Fuji again. He was greeted by the ever-smiling face of the tensai again. He made a mental note to himself not to get in Fuji's way again.

"Fssh…"

"Everyone, Kaidoh's dating with me." Inui adjusted his glasses nicely on the bridge of his nose. His glasses flashed as he carefully observed everyone's expressions.

Everyone was caught shocked with the new piece of information of their teammates. Echizen burst out his ponta while Kikumaru had his mouth hanging open widely. While Kawamura and Oishi were too shocked to have any emotion, Fuji just put on his usual smile and Tezuka with his emotionless mask as he did it most of the time. Momoshiro looked at Inui with a dead shocked expression before he turned to Kaidoh and dropped his bag unconsciously.

"I-Inui-senpai." Kaidoh was totally startled by that.

"Hoi, Inui! You're joking, right?"

"Ma-Oi, mamushi! I-I never thought you-you're that kind of guy! Never thought of it before. This's really unbelievable, totally unbelievable."

"I'm not, you baka!" Kaidoh answered him with a glare.

"Who are you calling a baka? You gay guy."

With that, Kaidoh had one of his vein that is on his head broke. "What did you just said?!"

Thus, they kept on arguing. Their senpais were too shocked and haven't had enough time to process the new piece of information that they had just received.

"I-Inui, you're not serious, right? Please tell me that you are not serious about this. You shouldn't be. This-this is just not right." Oishi was shaking his head all the way while he was trying to confront himself that Inui was just kidding.

"Hm…ii data." Inui was scribbling furiously on his notebook, leaving his fellow teammates in confusion.

"Hoi, I-N-U-I!! You're just joking, right? Ne, Inui?" Kikumaru was bouncing upside down waiting for Inui's answer; he really needs his answer.

"Inui, I…I don't think this is nice to play with." Kawamura said while looking down.

"Inui, you really have to make it clear. This is not true, right?" Oishi asked in a worry tone. He was sweating all over now.

"Of course." All of them looked at him at a moment before they all dropped in an anime style, minus Fuji and Tezuka of course. Fuji just giggled while Tezuka just shut his eyes, trying hard to bear with this nonsense.

"Mada mada dane." Echizen just pulled his cap down.

"Oi, Echizen, let's go now." Their argument just died out all of the sudden with Inui's answer. Now, Momoshiro really felt like leaving for his burger.

He put his arm on Echizen's shoulder and dragged him away before Kikumaru jumped onto them. There went the three to their burger. While they were on the way, they were still talking about why Kikumaru should spend them since he is their senior.

After they had bi good-bye to each other, they went home separately since the afternoon practice has been cancel.

"Tezuka, what do you think of our next opponent?" Fuji asked when Tezuka and him was on the way home.

"A tough one."

"Hm…" Fuji was deep in thought. He was slowly processing those words of Tezuka's.

"Fuji, you'll have to be careful if you play against their captain."

Fuji smiling face vanished as he knew this was a serious matter since Tezuka had stopped walking just to talk about this. He became curious on his second thought.

"Their buchou? I thought we should be more careful with Chitose from Kyushu. No?"

"There's no doubt that he has reach the national level. However, their captain's most scary in their team."

Fuji thought for a while. "I see. So, you're saying that I will be playing with him."

"Probably."

"I'd like to." Fuji opened his eyes, showing Tezuka that he was serious about this too.

"Hn…"

Just then, his smiling face was on again. "Ne, Tezuka. Don't you think it's a good idea that we go on a date just like what Eiji had said just now?"

Fuji giggled as he saw Tezuka twitched his eyebrows and a vein seems to pop on his fore head.

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"Who do you think you're to hurt Igarashi-sama's feeling? You're not even worth in his presence!"

"Yea, who do you think you are, huh? A sleeping beauty? Hn!"

Juno was using one of her hand to cover her mouth from yawning out loud.

The elder girl pushed Juno forcefully, causing Juno to hit the ground. She was very annoyed with Juno's yawning face.

"Hey! It hurts you know. Ow…" Juno was rubbing her back softly.

Then, they started to pull Juno's hair and hit her. Juno could only defend for there were four of them surrounding her. She could not fight back for sure.

"Enough!" Five of them immediately turned to the voice.

"Bu-buchou!" Juno was dumfounded by that. She did not expect anyone to be around. Moreover, Yukimitsu-buchou. The other four was shocked, showing clearly that they were caught by shocked.

Yukimitsu felt like laughing at their funny faces, but she kept it. "This is enough. Let her go."

"What did you said? Who do you think you're, huh? It doesn't mean that we have to listen to just because you're the vice-president of the student council!"

"Hey, what if we teach her a lesson too? I've had a great dislike towards her. She's always around our Tezuka-sama. What do you say?"

Our Tezuka-sama? Although she was keeping a cool stern face outside, she was actually laughing hard inside when she heard they claimed that Tezuka was theirs. My, my, Tezuka. You'll have no idea your fans have no shame at all to call you as theirs. Ha!

"Sure thing. So that she will stay away as far as possible from our Tezuka-sama."

While their concentration slowly turned to her now, Yukimitsu motioned for Juno to go first as she will take care of this. They were now more interest on getting Yukimitsu than Juno.

They were talking about all sorts of things about how she should respect towards the seniors, get away as far as possible from Tezuka and threatened her that they won't forgive her if she dares to get any closer with Tezuka again.

Tezuka, Tezuka, Tezuka. You're really just trouble. Or should I say your fans? No, you're a trouble for me too.

"So then, what if I tell Tezuka-senpai that you guys are involve with this? And then, the discipline master will know too."

Suddenly, one of them lost her cool and pulled Yukimitsu just like she had pulled Juno, causing Yukimitsu to hit hard on the wall. Ouch! This…they're really going too far for this.

"You-you try-"

"What do you think you guys are doing right now? Group up to bully others just because of some guys?! Just because you didn't get their attention, it doesn't mean that you can go around and bully others. What kind of nonsense is that? Your parents don't pay your school fees for that. Do remember that you are here to study."

They were speechless for a moment. They certainly did not expect her to explode like this. And as they thought about her words, they found that she was actually right. They shouldn't do this. However…

"I…I don't care about that!"

"What do you mean you don't care about that? You don't care about your parents who take good care of you for all these years? You should be glad that you have parents to be with. Some others did not even have a chance even if they are praying hard for everyday."

Silence…

Their heads were all down after hearing all these. They felt regret for their earlier actions now.

"We…we're sorry…"

"Don't do this again. Understand?"

They nodded before they quickly went off. Some of them even got their eyes red.

"Buchou?" Juno quickly went to her when they had leave. She had never seen her captain that angry before. "Are you alright?"

"Juno, didn't I tell you to go first? Why are you still here?"

"I…I was worry about you."

"I'm fine. Don't worry. How about you? Did they hurt you?"

"I'm alright. But, how come you're still here, buchou?"

"I should be the one who asked that question. Anyway, I was in the Student Council's room when I heard some noise. So here I am. What about you?"

"I…er…"

"Well?"

"I overslept again you see. Hehe…" Juno was scratching her head sheepishly.

"You overslept again?" Yukimitsu can't help but sighed. "You this. Alright, go home now and be careful, okay?"

"How about you?"

"I still have some work to finish. You go home first." Suddenly, Yukimitsu felt that her head was very heavy and her vision became blurry.

"Hai." Juno smiled brightly.

"Ok…" She blacked out.

"Bu-buchou!!" Juno quickly got a hold of her captain before she hit the floor.

"Buchou, Buchou." Juno was shaking Yukimitsu gently, trying to wake her up. But, failed.

What happened to her? Ow…! What am I going to do?


Author's note:

I've changed the end of chapter 3. Well, not too much, just a bit. Just in case you guys didn't realize. Hehe…

White Alchemist Taya – Thank you for reading, reviewing and your suggestion too. When I read it again, yea, I did felt strange somehow. Hehe, so yea. I've changed it. I hope it's good enough. Oh and, do you mind telling me what does 'beta' means? I'm quite poor with words. Haha…scratching my head.

CelicaChick – Oh, don't worry about that. I know how it feels. Sometimes, I just scanned through a story when I'm tired, hehe…But, feel free to tell me what's confusing about the story. I'd like to work on it. And…you've chatted with her?! So, you know her then? Oh my…haha. Anyway, thank you for reading and reviewing.

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Phew…! Finally I've finished chapter 4. Do tell me what do you think. I'll be glad to hear that. And also, suggestion's very much appreciated. Oh man…I'm so sleepy. I'm better off to bed now…

Ja!

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