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War of the Egos
4
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After the arduous tennis practice (made worse by the occasional teasing when Tezuka wasn't listening), Ryoma headed for the vending machines to buy a Ponta. Momoshiro spotted him and walked over.
"Hey! Echizen! I hope you didn't take us too seriously. It's just that we haven't had so much fun since Kaidoh sat on an ant nest."
Ryoma almost choked on his Ponta.
"Kaidoh did what?!"
Momoshiro grinned. "We wouldn't let it go for an entire week. Still, better to sit on an ant then what happened to that Sakuno right?"
Ryoma's glanced up.
"What happened to Ryuuzaki?"
"Didn't you see? Oh, that's right. You were doing your laps. Well, while you were dragging your legs around the court 20 times, the rest of us saw her being carried out on a stretcher. Apparently she fell down the stairs and twisted her ankle."
Must have tripped on her hair thought Ryoma. He smiled, he could just picture that in his head. But Ryoma was also worried about Sakuno. He couldn't shake the feeling off. He decided he should do something about it.
Ryoma entered the florist and looked around. There were hundreds of flowers, toys and balloons everywhere. Now, which ones will suit Sakuno? He went up to the counter where the shopkeeper was already serving a boy around Ryoma's age.
"I wish to buy a bunch of these assorted flowers for friend. Her name's Ryuuzaki Sakuno. She's currently at the hospital across the road, I'm not sure which ward though. Can you please deliver it to her?"
"Certainly sir."
Ryoma's head turned towards the boy. It's the same boy from yesterday! The boy caught him staring.
"I'm sorry. Do I know you?"
Ryoma blinked. He didn't think his staring was that noticeable.
"I'm a friend of Ryuuzaki."
"Oh. I see. Pleased to meet you. I'm Atori."
"Echizen Ryoma." Dammit, this guy is so polite. No wonder Sakuno was smiling at him yesterday.
"Are you being served sir?"
Ryoma glanced up.
"I would like to buy two bunches of assorted flowers for Sakuno. The same one Atori mentioned earlier. Please deliver those to her too."
"Certainly sir. Do you want me to say who it's from like this gentlemen here or do you wish to remain anonymous."
"Tell her it's from Echizen Ryoma."
"Certainly sir."
Atori glared at Ryoma.
"Madam, on second thoughts I'll like to buy another bunch for Sakuno plus a balloon."
"Certianly sir."
Ryoma glared back at Atori. This means war.
"Oh, I almost forgot the balloons. Send her two of them. And a teddy bear too." Ryoma smirked at Atori.
"Add a teddy bear, five balloons and a box of chocolates." Atori smirked back.
"Add two boxes of chocolates another bunch of flowers and nine balloons."
"Add the biggest bunch of flowers, three more boxes of chocolate and ten balloons."
"Add the biggest teddy bear you've got!"
"Add the biggest box of chocolates you've got!"
"Add ten more bunches of flowers!"
"Oh yeah? Add eleven!"
The shopkeeper rushed back and forth between the two. She tried as hard as she could to write down both their orders. These two are mad! she thought. Still, I've never gotten such big orders before.
"Add twenty more bunches of flowers and ten more boxes of chocolate!" Ryoma shouted triumphantly. Atori, furious, marched out of the store.
"Mada mada dane." Ryoma called after him.
"Okay, so you ordered thirty-three bunches of assorted flowers, eleven balloons, one normal-sized teddy bear, one extra large teddy bear and twelve boxes of chocolate. That's 643 dollars. Anything else sir?"
Ryoma stared at the shopkeeper, dumbfounded.
"Is it okay if I just get a card?"
A/N: Sorry about the price of the stuff not being in yen. I didn't know how to convert it from Australian dollars. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! And don't forget to review review review!!!