Hi guys! Author eunjus2 here! I made this into two chapters instead of one (too) long and I hope you don't mind.

And remember, I'm trying to write my two stories Poor little kouhai and How to create gossip: Niou and Yukimura style so that stuff that's only just mentioned in one of the stories might be written about more in-depth in the other story.

And now, you can start to feel sorry for poor Marui cuz he's gonna get himself kicked badly in these two chapters.

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Marui was exhausted and he was also out of foul words to shout. He didn't even know the scores anymore. All he knew was that it felt like his whole body was in pain.

Akaya had hit him with a knuckle serve again. He could already feel one of his eyes blacken, not to mention his abs and one of his knees where Kirihara had hit him.

"Are you ready Marui-senpai?" the other boy said while licking his lips, before throwing the tennis ball high up in the air. Kirihara had managed to keep all of his service games so far, and Marui had kept most of his own too. And it was probably the best game he'd ever played.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" a voice suddenly bellowed and Kirihara dropped his ball. Because Sanada had arrived, and he was apparently in a foul mood.

"Hi fukubuchou…"

"WHY are the two of you playing on the courts this time of the day?! EXPLAIN YOURSELVES!"

"Why're you here Sanada-fukubuchou?" Marui said, popping his gum. "Shouldn't you be home doing your homework?"

"Seiichi asked me to- THAT IS NONE OF YOU BUSINESS! The tennis courts of Rikkai are NOT your private playground! I want to hear an explanation from the two of you AND I want it NOW! MARUI!"

Kirihara gave Marui a quick glance. One that told his senpai another knuckle serve would be coming his way if he told Sanada the truth about why they were on the courts.

"Yanagi set us up so that Akaya will have a spot in the Finals if he wins against all of us and I was up first cuz I wanted it over with" Marui said in one breath.

"That- that's unheard of!" Sanada gasped, eyes widening. "How dare you do this? And doing it without asking for Yukimura's permission first?!"

"I think Yanagi did something like that already" Marui said vaguely, hoping it would satisfy Sanada enough to make him go away.

"…I really don't know what to say about this" Sanada sighed. "But you may continue with this… this…"

"Giving-our-kouhai-an-extra-chance game?" Marui suggested.

"Hey!" Kirihara protested.

"Well, we are y'know" Marui said, smiling. "We could've refused you this great opportunity. But we didn't since we're such good senpais."

"…you all must be the worst senpai in history."

"Well, you must be the un-cutest kouhai in the world!" Marui snorted in a way that made Kirihara furious.

"You- you're fat senpai! Fatty-senpai!"

"WHY can't the two of you get along? Alright I'm leaving now and when I come back the two of you better be gone from this court. Do you hear me?!" Sanada said, and started walking away.

"And you're my stupid kouhai - you're failing English!" Marui shouted over the net.

"At least I'm not the one taking extra Home Economics with the first-years!" Kirihara screamed back from the other side.

Sanada stopped. And he slowly, slowly turned around to face the two troublemakers.

"Marui… is that true?" he whispered, walking towards the self-proclaimed tensai. And Marui instinctively knew when to run for it.

So he dropped his racket and ran, with Sanada chasing after him.

"YOU'RE DISGRACING THE TENNIS CLUB!" Sanada roared. Kirihara was sitting on the ground, laughing.

"Akaya" Yanagi said. The data master had managed to creep up to him from behind without him noticing.

"AH! I mean… hi Yanagi-senpai!"

"… What are Genichirou and Bunta playing? Really now…"

"Uh…"

"Never mind that" Yanagi said, frowning. "I do need to speak with Genichirou though. Yukimura called and said he had something to explain to us. And it was urgent…"

"I think Marui-senpai got away" Kirihara interrupted. "Somehow… And it's starting to get all dark, too."

"Alright then, I'll grab Genichirou and get out of here too" Yanagi said. "Akaya, go and find Bunta for me will you? And then please call Jackal and agree on a time to play."

Kirihara sighed

"Alright, alright. But could you grab our stuff and take it to Marui-senpai's place later?"

"Renji! You've got some explaining to do!" Sanada bellowed, interrupting them. Kirihara chose this as his time to sneak away, and went to get his senpai who had escaped into the park that was nearby school.

TO BE CONTINUED IN NEXT CHAPTER