Quick Summary: Last time we saw the Seigaku regulars, they were laughing off the rather terrible IQ scores. But there was something missing from that carefree scene...
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GreenMamushi: Thanks to EstaticPetenshi for giving me advice on this story.
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The IQ Test
Chapter 3: P-Punishments?
Normal POV
"Seigaku regulars meet on the courts after school," Kaidoh read from a note in his locker. "It's in Inui's handwriting; how did he get into my locker?"
It was only yesterday when Inui announced the grave test scores to him and his team. I hope he didn't see the Hello Kitty poster in the back of my locker, Kaidoh thought as he stuffed the lined paper into his pocket, Hello Kitty is so cute, but it wouldn't go well with my reputation.
o0o0o0o
Momo sat in biology, pondering the short note he found in his gym bag. I wonder who wrote that note, he thought to himself, while staring out the window. Is it a trap? Maybe someone jealous of my skills is pretending to have the Seigaku regulars meet and actually plot some kind of revo-
"Momoshiro!"
"Eh, uh, probability is 76%!" Momo blurted, turning his body back to the front of the room.
"No Momo," his sensei sighed, "I asked you to define 'evolution'."
Momo sighed back. Whoever put that note there is paying for this, he thought as the class hysterically laughed at his random answer.
o0o0o0o
Kawamura entered the cafeteria at lunch period and glanced around. There, he thought as he spotted a glint across the room.
Taka-san strolled over to Inui's table. "What is the meaning of this Inui?" Kawamura asked, holding out the handwritten note he only knew too well was the work of this mastermind.
Inui's glasses gave a menacing shine. "You'll see," he commented, uttering nothing else.
Kawamura shivered. I can't read his face, he thought as he walked away. Those glasses do a good job of hiding Inui's "Fuji within". (A/N: everyone has a 'Fuji within'!)
o0o0o0o
"RRRIINNNGGGGGG!"
Ah, finally, Kikumaru thought as he made his way to last period. I don't think I can sit still for much longer.
He quickly skipped to his locker and pulled out his textbook and binder for World History.
"Oh, Eiji-kun!" Some Seigaku tennis team fan girls ran over and squealed in his presence. "Where are you going? And are the regulars going to practice today, too?"
Eiji backed away slowly. Sure attention is cool, but this was scary. "Um... No, we have not been informed of practice yet. I'm going to class now, bye!"
Eiji dashed for the stairs as the girls cheered him on. In his haste, he dropped an urgent looking note that he had not seen tucked between a World History book and binder.
o0o0o0o
Oishi got up from his desk as the other students rushed to their lockers. He let out a deep breath as he gathered his notes and left the building. School just ended, so he headed toward the Seishun Gakuen tennis courts.
"I wonder what Inui has planned for us," he mused. During fourth period, Inui went up to his desk and told him to meet the team there after school. "Another special training?"
o0o0o0o
Inui stood in Court A and watched the Segaku regulars slowly approaching.
"One, two, three, four, five, six... seven... Only seven...?"
Echizen and Fuji, Oshi and Tezuka, Kawamura, Kaidoh, and Momo. Where was Eiji?
Hmmm... He thought silently.
o0o0o0o
"Ah, Inui-senpai, why are we gathering here?" Echizen asked, a little bit annoyed. "There wasn't supposed to be practice today.
-Flashback-
"I see that many of you are in great shock," Inui said, after revealing the test scores.
The regulars had on some pretty fearsome expressions, especially Kaidoh and Momo, who tied with a score of 75.
"Go home and rest, there will be no practice this week. Please heal soundly from your mental unstableness."
-End of Flashback-
"Yes, I did tell everyone there was to be no practice today," Inui replied, "but I didn't gather you here for practice."
The team gaped at him in surprise, except Tezuka and Fuji and of course. He continued to frown and Fuji continued his sadistic smile.
"No, not practice, but punishment." He said it in monotone, though a chill went through the regulars' spines. Even Tezuka twitched.
o0o0o0o
This isn't good, Tezuka thought behind his cold manner. My Tezuka senses are tingling. I've lost some of my composure. Just what is that Inui up to? And what is in that blue cooler behind him?
o0o0o0o
Fuji stared with his usual smile at the cooler behind Inui. He already knew what was coming.
o0o0o0o
With uncertain glances, the team mates looked at each other nervously. What was to come next? The IQ test they took a few days ago proved how unpredictable and cruel Inui could be. What now?
With a slow motion, Inui picked up the carrier behind him and unzipped the blue top. He reached in and pulled out a large glass of... What was that strange color changing goop?
"Oh, gross!" Momo yelled, holding his nose to the terrible stench.
"Oh, God," Oishi whispered to himself.
"You probably know what comes next. Anyone with a score below 195 will have to drink two pints of my newest creation, 'WOW! OMG! The One and Only Best-All-Round Dreamiest Inui Juice- Better Than Sparta!'" Inui said with as much enthusiasm as he could muster, which wasn't much."
"What an intense name," Kawamura said, completely creeped-out by Inui's excited voice.
"Below an IQ of 195; that's Oishi-senpai, Kikumaru-senpai, Porcupine-chan, Echizen, and me!" Kaidoh calculated.
"What's with 'Porcupine-chan'? And what the hell is in that WOMGTOAOBARDIJBTS Juice anyway?"
The once neon green liquid, or substance, or goop, quickly became a ghastly dark purple.
"Among other things, there are many good vitamins, such as MSG, sulfur, pure potassium, tofu, raw fish, and nuclear acids."
Tezuka repulsed as Inui rambled on at the ingredient list. "And this is edible...?"
"Yes, it is. It may sting but it won't kill."
"Probably more than sting," Momo panicked, quickly saying a prayer to himself.
"Oh, one more thing before we start," Inui said. "If you can't drink it, then you can find a replacement."
The unlucky losers (those with below 195) gasped.
"R-Really?" Kaidoh's eyes widened. "Then, Fuji-senpai," he quickly turned toward Fuji, "please take my place and drink this concoction. As Inui said, it is full of good nutrients!"
Fuji nodded. "I wanted to try it anyway. I'll take your place Kaidoh, but I have to say, you'll be missing out on a lot of vitamins."
Momo caught on to Kaidoh's cunning. "Hey, you Mamushi! I wanted Fuji-senpai to drink my share!" He glanced at Kawamura and smiled coyly. "Hey, Taka-san," Momo grinned, throwing him a nearby racket, "that mean looking juice wants to pick a fight with you."
Kawamura's eyes lit into a brilliant fire as he caught the flying racket. "BBBUURRNNNINNNGGGG! GREAT-OH! No one messes with the Kawamura Takashi!"
He grabbed the huge glass of WOMGTOAOBARDIJBTS Juice from Inui's hands and chugged it carelessly. There was silence, and nothing happened to the bold Taka-san.
"Gosh," Oishi said quietly. "I guess we were scared of nothing." Oishi walked over to the cooler at Inui's feet and took out a two pint serving of the goop. "Here goes nothing."
Oishi put the cup to his mouth and sipped. "ARRNNGHHH..." He spewed the now pinkish fluids all over the ground and collapsed.
"O-Oishi-senpai?" Momo said with eyes widened in terror. Just then Kawamura began to spaz.
"Made made dane, Oishi-senpai, Kawamura-senpai," Echizen pulled down his cap.
"AARRGGHHHH! AHHHH!" Taka-san had a few seizures and began foaming at the mouth.
"The drink was strong, and he had about five servings," Inui explained to his horrified team mates simply.
As the seizures and twitching ceased, Kawmura laid sprawled on the ground with the whites of his eyes showing terror of the crap Inui dished up.
Echizen turned paler than his usual skin tone, which is very pale for a boy who played tennis in the sun all day, every day.
"I'll go next," Fuji said bravely. Even with his team mates falling one by one, he still smiled sadistically (is there no other word to describe his smile?).
"Inui handed Fuji a paper cup of IT." Fuji sniffed attentively. "Smells delightful," he said without sarcasm.
Echizen watched carefully; he wanted to see Fuji's horror-stricken face. But it never happened.
Fuji gulped the liquid-solid-drink-thing, and his smile grew. "Delicioso!" He exclaimed in Spanish.
"Eh?" Echizen was deeply disappointed. Fuji was a genius. He somehow survived this torture.
"Thank you, Fuji," Kaidoh said, "for replacing me." He looked down at the pitiful Oishi and Taka-san.
"Now for Echizen," Inui's eyes glinted with the darkest glint Ryoma had ever experienced. "Drat," he muttered. "But as long as Betsy is with me, I think I can make it."
He took the cup reluctantly, but Momo stopped the exchangement. He felt pity for the always-cool-and-never-wrong-Echizen who was about to be wiped out by a fearsome tactic.
"Wait a minute, senpai," he said to Inui, "but didn't you also get below 195 on the IQ Test?"
"I didn't take it," Inui simply replied, "so it doesn't concern me."
"Ah, but that's where you're wrong," Momo said daringly, staking Echizen's life on his little reason, "because the test said 'for Seigaku Members', not just 'Seigaku Regulars'."
Tezuka glanced at Momo thoughtfully.
Inui stared. It was true that he wasn't a regular, but still a member, and the test did have that on the front cover. Inui tensed and paled.
"Then, since I didn't take the test like Echizen, I would've gotten a 0!"
"No, you would have gotten a -2," Kaidoh put in, not wanting to miss out on looking cool (by outsmarting the data man), "because you didn't have a name on your test either."
Inui gulped while Fuji handed him the last cup of goop, the one reserved for Kikumaru. He looked at it disapprovingly, but poured the whole two pints into his mouth and swallowed.
"Aughhhh…" He moaned and fell over horizontally, hitting the ground with a thud.
"Ooohh…" Tezuka, Fuji, Momo, and Kaidoh stood there gaping at the sight. Inui was backstabbed by his own plan pretty darn hard.
No one noticed Echizen, who quickly splashed his share into a nearby tree. "We made it through this Betsy," he muttered. "I knew you were a lucky racket."
Inui came to, after being knocked out by his special concoction, and said weakly, with a great amount of menace, "Maybe this time, I was beaten, but next time, the training will be much, much more intense…"
The conscious regulars shivered and for weeks on had nightmares of Inui's next training menu…
- The "Otaku Corner"-
GreenMamushi: Thank you, everyone, for reading my fanfic, though I'm not an experienced writer.
2ManyShoez: But she has bad news.
FlippinWonka: And she doesn't feel like saying it so the short dude will!
TheSpunky(Short)Alchemist: One, I'm a girl. Two, I'm not that short!
GreenMamushi: Um… The news…
TheSpunky(Short)Alchemist: Oh, right. EstaticPetenshi wanted Mamushi to write another chapter of The IQ Test, but she won't. That's the bad news. This is the END!
GreenMamushi: You don't have to put it like that…
TheSpunky(Short)Alchemist: But she is going to write an awesome sequel!
GreenMamushi: I will try my best everyone! Wait for me!