Chapter 4

Sliding the class door open, Harumi stepped in with a smile. But, she immediately withdrew towards the corridor, upon glancing at the numerous death glares. Shivering she took one more step back and realized that there was someone behind her. She looked up to see Shusuke looking down at her, puzzled. Pouting, she pointed in.

"Don't worry, I'll protect you" Fuji reassured her chuckling; proceeding to nudge a still pouting Harumi forward. "HARUMI" someone yelled' causing the said person to jump and cling on to her knight in shining amour. "Hey, it's just Eiji. Calm down already." Fuji said laughing aloud.

"What is wrong? Why is everyone unfriendly, nya?" whimpered Eiji moving closer to his friends. "Well Eiji, the most popular guy in our class is taken by our class' kidnapper" explained Fuji. "NYA! NO, NO, NO!! EVERYONE HIDE THERE'S A—"

"EIJI! There isn't any kidnapper" the evil mastermind sighed.

"But.. but.. you said.."

"What I meant was, because Harumi and Tezuka are partners, most of our class is just jealous"

"OH.. Now I get it" grinned Eiji.

Shusuke Fuji shook his head in disbelief and looked at Harumi.

"Harumi?"

The person in question, however was standing near Tezuka's place and talking with him. The tensai's smile widened. "I should talk to Inui about this" he thought.

After tennis practice

"What the heck!!" yelled a surprised Harumi as someone grabbed her from behind. "Kikimaru had overheard coach ask Echizen to accompany Sakuno to a place. Fuji and I have devised a plan to spy on them. You game?" challenged Inui. "You had to ask me?? Course I'm game. So what's your plan?"

The gang, excluding Tezuka, Kaidoh, Taka, Oishi were quickly drawing out a plan.

They decided that Inui, Fuji and Tatsuya would be the spies and Kikimaru and Momo would help in if anything went wrong.

"But I want to be a spy as well" wailed Eiji.

"But Eiji, being a spy is nothing compared to what your job is. If anything at all went wrong- you'll save the day"

"Oh…. Alright then!! Eiji Kikimaru to the rescue!!" beamed Eiji as he marched off.

"Nice work, there Harumi"

"He..he.. thanks Shusuke. But he's so gullible!"

"That's exactly why our job will be easier" added Inui.

"Now to business." Stated Fuji, his eyes open.

Ryoma and Sakuno headed to the tennis shop to re-string Sakuno's racquet. The pair hardly muttered a single word. (Much to the disappointment of the spies). However, there was a lot of other give-aways. Sakuno would not stop blushing all the way. She'd take small peeks at her crush every now and then. Sometimes when Ryoma catches her, she'll trip. But every single time Ryoma would catch her.

"Aw.. these two make such an adorable pair"

"Iie data"

"You have the emotional capacity the size of a mustard seed!"

"Hn.. I'm not a girl you know."

"Saa.. Echizen likes her alright"

"Momo would LOVE this!!"

Thanks to his cap, Ryoma was able to steal glances of Sakuno. In fact, he looked at her a lot more than Sakuno. This did not escape the stalkers.

"Ryuzaki! Will you please open your eyes and walk!" exclaimed Ryoma who helped her for the tenth time.

"Ss..sorr..sorry Ryoma-kun"

"Mada mada dane, Sakuno"

With that said, the pair walked into the shop. " Alright Momo, do your job" Fuji said over the phone. "Yosh! You got it!"

Meanwhile (with the spies)

"What are you guys doing?"
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Sorry this one is short. Any guesses who's the mysterious guest?? And THANKS A LOT for all of you who reviewed. THANK YOU!!!^_^