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Chapter 4 Fun

"Do you think they like each other? I mean they do spend a lot of time together." Kirihara said as he leaned forward to look around Yanagi to look at the table on the other side of the small room in the library.

Just a few tables down, Yagyuu sat with Hisame helping her with some of her homework. When she mentioned that she was having a little trouble with her math homework to Kirihara, he had suggested she ask Yagyuu for help, saying that Yagyuu was the best with math. Niou could have helped her if she had asked, but he doubted she'd ever ask him for anything.

When she had asked Yagyuu, Yagyuu had agreed to help her during a break without a second thought, hence why the two were huddled at a table in the library, Yagyuu basically leaning over her shoulder to point out how to work a question.

Yeah Yagyuu was good at math but Niou knew he was better. Though Niou doubted the girl really needed help in the first place. Kirihara had said that in the last week she had received the top scores in their class.

"Maybe." Marui agreed with Kirihara as he looked at the two. "Maybe their dating and Yagyuu just hasn't told us yet. They make a good couple if that's true." Marui added. Niou scoffed. "Yagyuu doesn't date. He doesn't have the time between school and tennis." Niou said making his friends look at him.

Niou was leaning back in his chair, his legs stretched out in front of him. He had his eyes closed like he was sleeping and his hands were jammed into his pants pockets. The perfect image of a lazy teenaged boy.

"I don't know, Niou. It looks like the two of them get along really well. He might like her. And the two of them look good together. Yagyuu deserves a nice girl like Hisa-chan." Marui said looking back at the two.

Niou cracked open one eye to look at the two as well, fighting back the laugh he wanted to let out at the word 'nice'. Hisame was the farthest thing from nice in his mind. But of course that was only to him.

She would never be mean to anyone else. Niou watched as Yagyuu pointed out something and Hisame turned to give him a smile.

Niou really was getting tired of watching scenes like this one and they were popping up a lot lately. All week the two had ended up doing one thing or another together. If Hisame stayed at school late to use the library, Yagyuu walked her home.

If Hisame ate lunch alone outside, Yagyuu would eat with her. If Hisame needed help with homework, Yagyuu would help her with it. It was really starting to look like the two were a couple, though Niou knew better.

It was all Hisame's doing. The girl was clever and was playing on Yagyuu's gentleman side. She was setting up situations where Yagyuu couldn't help but help or be of service. And she was coming up with a lot of them as well.

It seemed that Hisame really did like Yagyuu…a lot. Whenever he was near she was polite, nice, and smiled a lot. Now when Niou was around…all he got was cold glares, tart replies, and over all bad attitude. "There's a 54.485% chance that their just good friends." Yanagi said as he peered at the two as well.

Niou didn't like those chances. It was too close to being fifty, fifty. "I hope they start dating. I like Hisa-chan with him." Kirihara said. Niou chuckled.

"I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you, brat. And you just like her period. She could date me and you'd still like it." Niou told him making Kirihara glare at him. "Not true! Hisa-chan would never date you anyway." Kirihara snapped back though it didn't bother Niou in the least.

Niou had a lazy smirk on his face as he watched his doubles partner with the girl. Niou had spent all week coming up with a plan and if it worked and he won in the end then not only would the two not get together, Niou would be able to torture the girl everyday of her life until he graduated.

Maybe even longer if he went to college near Rikkai. For as long as he knew her he could torture her. And if he played his cards right, then that would be a very long time.

If it worked then that would make it his best plan since suggesting switching places during matches with Yagyuu back in middle school. And that plan had worked out great. Now he just had to put his plan into action.

If he knew the girl's attitude like he thought he did then she would react exactly as he wanted her to. Now he just had to talk to her without Kirihara, Yagyuu, or anyone else being around. Maybe lunch would be a good time to do that. Niou smirked to himself. This was going to be fun for him. Really fun.

"What are you smirking about Niou?" Marui asked looking at the silver haired boy. Niou shook his head. "Nothing." he replied. All three of his friends turned to look at him.

All three knew that when Niou Masaharu said it was nothing, yet had that kind of smirk on his face, then ninety-nine, point nine, nine, nine, nine percent of the time….it wasn't nothing. The Trickster was cooking up some kind of plan in his head.

And knowing Niou like they did…it wasn't going to turn out well for any of those involved in it. They just hoped that none of them were involved in his latest plan.

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Hisame couldn't help the smile on her face. The week had been…well great. She had bested Niou…twice, and had spent a lot of time with Yagyuu. In her book that was a good week. She was even sitting under her usual tree in the court yard, waiting for Yagyuu to join her for lunch.

He always did whenever she ate outside instead of eating in the class with Kirihara and his boyfriend, Yanagi. Though Hisame liked Kirihara and his boyfriend, she liked spending time with Yagyuu more. Kirihara didn't seem to mind though.

Shoes suddenly appeared in her line of view announcing the arrival of someone else. Hisame looked up a smile on her face thinking it was Yagyuu who was now standing in front of her but instead of Yagyuu's kind smile and polite gaze behind his glasses looking down at her she was met with the annoying smirk and evil teal gaze of Niou.

The smile quickly vanished from Hisame's face as she looked up at him. Her eyes narrowed as she looked up at him. Now that was one face she didn't want to see. Not now and not ever really.

Niou smirked as she looked up at him. Well…glared really. It was clear the girl was far from happy seeing him before her and she wasn't trying to hide that fact from him at all. She wanted him to know that she didn't like him and that he was free to turn around and leave the way he had came.

"What do you what, Niou-sempai?" she asked him, not too nicely and adding a mocking twist to the word 'sempai'. She always seemed to add that twist now. Like she was mocking the fact that he was older then her.

Niou dropped to sit next to her, a smirk on his face and an evil glint to his eyes as he looked at her. Hisame looked at him and scooted away from him putting a good two feet between them. "I asked you what did you want." she repeated a little sourly as she looked at him.

It was painfully clear that she didn't want him anywhere near her only making Niou want to laugh at her. "I want to make a bet with you." Niou told her. He watched as one of Hisame's eyebrows shot up as she eyed him. He knew he had caught her attention then.

"What kind of bet?" she asked cautiously as she watched him. Niou's smirk grew. This was going to be good. Really good. "You like Yagyuu." he stated. Hisame's guard was up quickly. "What makes you think that?" she asked.

"Because your horrible attempts at flirting are obvious to me." he told her. Niou watched as a frown curved Hisame's lips down. She was angry that was for sure. "What about it?" she asked defensively. Niou smirked. "You're wasting your time. Yagyuu doesn't date and he's not interested in you." he told her.

"Who asked you." she retorted sourly. "Its none of your business anyway." she added. "But it is. Especially when your distracting him and we have important matches coming up soon." Niou told her. Hisame scoffed.

"So I have a bet for you. One week." Niou said holding up one finger. "One week?" Hisame asked raising an eyebrow. Niou nodded. "If you can get Yagyuu to like you in one week, you win. If you can't, I win." Niou told him. Hisame eyed him. "And what do I get if I win?" she asked him. Niou smirked. Hook, line, and sinker.

"If you win then you can ask me for one thing. And every time you ask, I have to do it." he told her. That really hooked Hisame. She could use that to her advantage in so many ways. She could basically making him make a fool of himself.

"For how long?" she asked. "For as long as we know each other. Rather that be until I graduate, or even after that." Niou told her. A smirk of her own curved Hisame's lips up. Niou could see the evil little glint in her eyes as she thought the proposal over in her head. But then the smirk was gone.

"And what do you get if you win?" she asked eyeing him. Niou's smirk couldn't possibly get any bigger then it was right then. "Same stakes if I win." he replied. Hisame eyed him but she didn't seem to catch on to what he was thinking.

That worked well for Niou. If she knew what he was thinking then there would be no way in hell she would agree to it. He watched as she thought it through. "Alright, deal." she agreed. "And if you lose you can't back out of it. If you do I'll make sure Yagyuu and no other guy at this school will talk to you again." Niou told her. Hisame nodded.

"No backing out for you either then. If you do I'll see to it you don't play tennis ever again." she told him. Niou smirked as he held out his hand. "Deal." he agreed. Hisame shook his hand. There was no way she was going to lose to him. Not now and not ever.

Niou smirked as he got to his feet. "Don't cry when you lose then, Bubble Head." he said as he got to his feet and walked off leaving her to scowl at his back. He was going to enjoy the outcome of this whole thing. Really enjoy it.

END

Kyandi: Man you have to love Niou's mind!

Hisame: Out of the two of us, only you like his mind.

Kyandi: And?

Hisame: Forget it.

Kyandi: Huh…if you say so.

Hisame: Lets get going.

Kyandi: Fine. So everyone enjoy and review!

Hisame: And we'll be back soon!

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