Hey, it's me with a new chapter! Hope you guys like it!
Anyway, sorry for the long wait I was at the summer capital of the country where I live and wao...was it memorable. I suffered from a severe stomach ache and my relatives told me I had food poisoning. Ugh...
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I DO NOT OWN PRINCE OF TENNIS!
Looking up at the bright sun, the junior ace of the Rikkai Tennis team couldn't help but feel excited. One, it was the weekend right now. Two, he was at the local tennis courts with the other tennis regulars having training and fun at the same time although the main reason he was jumping for joy was because there was no topaz eyed, silver haired baka onna around.
The weird and quiet Arianna Rie was not around to tort- *coughs* I mean annoy the one and only Kirihara Akaya.
He could practically dance around the whole tennis court because of this with very awkward dance steps that could make him gain weird looks form other tennis players at the court right now. Fortunately, Sanada was there or else he'll be suffering a lot of slaps and laps from him and maybe even from their captain for giving a bad name to their reputation which is a word, Yanagi had pointed out, Kirihara has yet to learn.
I know you guys were wondering why in the world the whole tennis team regulars were at the local tennis courts when they could be at their enormous tennis courts at their school training. Well, my answer is very simple: Niou happened.
Yes, the silver haired trickster did a prank again...a prank that went overboard…again.
And to make a very long explanation short, this is what happened.
The whole tennis court of Rikkai Dai Fuzoku was forbidden to be used by the 'Plant Mutation Committee' because of the sudden appearance of yellow and red colors on the field near and inside the tennis courts. Looks like Niou was able to formulate some sort of paint that gives the substance it touches, the given colors and make it look sick…like what the 'Plant Mutation Society' thought it was and again…Niou's prank had gone overboard…way too much.
Flashback
"What the hell happened here?"Marui yelled looking at the tennis courts. 'Almost the whole field is covered with the color red and yellow!'
Kirihara who was behind Marui also looked shock. "Who the hell did this?" He snapped and turned his head towards a certain freshman.
"You did this didn't you?" He growled.
Rie looked at him in confusion.
He grabbed her arm and forcefully pulled her towards the field. "Look at this!"
Rie blinked. "It's red and yellow."
"YES I AM VERY MUCH AWARE THAT IT'S RED AND YELLOW!" He yelled. "Now do something about it!"
"How? It's not my fault." She said looking at the second year.
"What do you mean it's not you-"
"What's going here?" Yukimura asked walking towards the three with the rest of the regulars behind him.
"Yeah" Jackal muttered scratching his head. "What's with the noise here, Akaya?"
"Don't tell me Rie-san did something to get on your nerves again now?" Yanagi asked but soon stopped on his tracks as he saw the strange colors on the fields of the tennis court. "W-what"
Along with Yagyuu the other regulars also stopped in their tracks and stared at the field in shock.
"See Buchou? The baka onna did this!" Kirihara whined. "Told you she wasn't a good person!" He said and then stuck out his tongue towards said girl.
Marui slapped his forehead. "Is he honestly going to take over as the next captain of the Rikkai Dai tennis team after we graduate?"
Yanagi sighed. "Unfortunately, yes…"
"Hey!" Kirihara yelled. "What does that mean?"
Marui faced the yelling second year. "Nothing…we were just talking on how someone as mature as yourself will handle the next generation of Rikkai tennis members."
"Oh" Kirihara blinked. "Well of course I'm very mature AHAHAHA!" Kirihara laughed.
"In the opposite way of course." Niou muttered.
"HEY!" Kirihara yelled. "For your information I am very mature and besides the culprit who did that," He jerked his thumb towards the fields. "is the baka onna!"
'You're the baka around here…' They all thought in unison.
Rie raised a brow in amusement and put her hands on her waist. "Wow…I'm surprised you were able to solve this case. Congratulations" She said with a hint of humor.
"See?" Kirihara said to his teammates. "She's guilty!"
"Oh yeah…" She trailed of looking to her side. "and pigs suddenly gain magical wings and manage to fly and you got squished by one of those flying pigs."
Marui and Niou chuckled.
"Why you…" Kirihara growled. "It's not you, isn't it?"
"You just realized that?" Jackal asked.
Kirihara blushed and folded his arms over his chest letting out a small 'Che'.
"Yep he just realized it." Marui said slapping his forehead once again.
"Then who could've done it?" Jackal asked.
"Kekeke…" A creepy laugh was heard gaining their attention. "I think we know who the culprit is... Ke kekeke"
"Who's there?" Yukimura narrowed his eyes turning his head towards where the laugh was coming from.
"Kekeke… I am very glad that you asked that question. I am none other than the great Mizuhiro Aki!" Said a boy with messy black hair who was wearing a lab outfit.
'What the-' Kirihara thought.
"Then are you the ones who did it?" Yukimura asked.
"We'll be able to answer your questions once all of my friends arrive." Aki answered. "Kekeke…"
Then appeared a boy who was wearing a pair of very thick glasses and looked like he was a junior. "And I am the ever handsome and charming Hashiro Dei!" He shouted and winked at Rie.
Rie suddenly got cold. 'Why is it that I'm feeling like someone is looking at me. A very lame person…'
'So lame.' Marui thought.
'Retards' Niou thought.
"Sexual harassment" Kirihara pointed out. "I hope he's the last one."
Sadly he's not.
"Oy, don't forget me about you fools!" Said another boy. He was wearing a lab coat the same as the other two have. "Sorry to make you guys wait." He said in a 'not-so-charming' voice. "I am the genius of the three, Yoji Akiyo!"
The two other idiots immediately looked at the newcomer in awe. "How can we forget you, oh great teacher?" They cried with tears in their eyes.
The junior suddenly pumped his fist up in the air. "Now the three of us are now together. Let's show them who the real popular students are!"
"TA DA!" They shouted in unison.
Marui and Niou suddenly felt nauseous.
'Ultimate retards' Kirihara thought. 'Three idiots doing those things… Even the baka onna is way better than them.'
'99.99% lame and 0.01% sensible people' Yanagi thought.
'That's just wrong.' Jackal thought. 'In so many ways'
The three idiots did a very stupid pose that resembles the pose of the power rangers…a lot, complete with the VERY long and unneeded introduction.
"An organization that studies the activities of abnormal plants!"
"An organization that keeps the people safe from the monstrous mutations of plants!"
"An organization that makes all the ladies crazy before our presence!"
"Together…WE ARE THE-"
"The Association of Stupid Scientists!" Rie said pointing her finger towards them.
"YES WE ARE THE ASSOCIATION OF STUPID SCIENTISTS!" They said with pride.
Silence…
"WAIT THAT WAS WRONG!"
"Hm…the Assocation of Stupid Scientists, right? Interesting initials" Yukimura mused.
Niou looked at their captain. 'Initials? A.S.S?'
"A.S.S?" Marui thought out loud. "HAHAHA! THAT'S A NAME THAT CERTAINLY FITS YOU GUYS WELL!"
"YEAH A NAME THAT SUITS PEOPLE LIKE YOU!"
"YOU GUYS ARE MAKING A VERY BIG MISTAKE!" The trio yelled. "WE ARE THE-"
"The Association of Weird Perverts"
"YES…WAIT I MEAN NO!" They stomped their feet. "FOR PETE'S SAKE, WE ARE THE PLANT MUTATION SOCIETY!"
"So you're guys are now P.M.S?" Niou thought out loud. "The initials sounds very…disturbing."
"THEN STOP THINKING ABOUT IT!" They yelled. "We are the Plant Mutation Society! PERIOD."
Marui started waving his hand in shooing gesture. "But that name is too long and too troublesome. P.M.S is good enough."
"No wonder, you guys don't have too many members." Niou smirked. "I've been hearing of a club that studies strange plants but I didn't think it was real."
"AARGH!"
Kirihara jumped up. "Senpai-tachi, I think they're PMSing right now."
"SILENCE!"
"NO, THE THREE OF YOU SHOULD SHUT THE HELL UP!" Sanada yelled making all of them stop from their argument.
'Fuku-buchou?' Kirihara gulped as he looked at the fuming vice-captain.
Sanada was WAY pissed off.
"Now," Sanada started. "state your reason for coming here." He demanded.
The regulars save Yukimura cringed at the tone in Sanada's voice. They only heard this tone of his when he was scolding one of them because of poor performance and they were even more surprised when they saw the people of the "Plant Mutation Society" or as they like to call PMS only had on a neutral look.
They didn't know whether it was their imagination or not but they knew they saw a glint in their eyes when Sanada asked that.
Akiyo smirked and started twirling some strands of his hair. "Well the reason is of course very obvious, Sanada-san."
"Kekeke…we are here to analyze the strange thing that has happened here on the fields of the tennis courts…kekekeke" Aki said creepily.
"Like hell we'd let you!"
Marui, Niou, Kirihara were about to smack the three when the boy wearing glasses, Dei started moving his pointing finger left and right. "Too late"
Dei and Aki were holding some long yellow plastic bands with the words imprinted "KEEP OUT!" on it. "Look for yourselves"
All the regulars turned their heads to the entrance to the tennis courts to only see that it was shut closed with those yellow plastics covering it everywhere!
Oh was Sanada pissed. He cracked his knuckled ready to beat a whole lot of sense into those three.
He stepped forward and glared katanas at them. Daggers would be put to shame compared to his dangerous glares.
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO THIS." He stated.
Akiyo smirked. "Oh but we do, thanks to the principal's approval of course." He showed a paper showing the principal's signature approving the trio to analyze the tennis courts.
'Why?'
Well of course, the principal only did it because the three had nothing better to do than wreck their beautiful garden into one of their weird experiments.
"Kekeke… We can't let such an opportunity to pass." Aki said and in his hands were strange devices. "We can't let such opportunity go away without us doing an experiment on it." He said with a creepy glint in his eyes.
"He's crazy." Kirihara muttered to Niou and Marui who both nodded.
"Well with this conversation done, I guess we still have to go back to business." Their leader said walking past by the tennis regulars.
"See you guys later." Aki said walking towards their leader.
Dei winked at Rie and also left. "See you later, girly."
They all went to their stupid experiment unaware of the dark aura that was coming out of two students, Sanada and Rie. I think you all know the reason why.
Flashback ends
And that's what happened.
Niou shuddered at the unexpected even that had happened. He may have done the trick but he ssure did not expect the P.M.S showing up. He was sure that the team was pretty much pissed on what happened and he was sure that event will be glued to their heads for a very long time even if they did not like it…AT ALL.
But he was sure their buchou knew he was the one who did it and boy…he was so sure he was going to suffer a whole week for this. Their buchou is a very well-known sadist and who knows what he'll do to him.
He may not be so sure about this but he had a feeling Arianna knew he was the one who did it but she kept her mouth shut, which he was thankful for, because their fukubuchou was already emitting flames of rage at the moment which was very visible to those who have eyes. Heck, she was even sweating from the "FLAMES OF HELL" he was radiating from his body. He had a clue Sanada had a hint but he was too caught up in his annoyance that he didn't bother to notice it. He was definitely MAD. Oh joy…
The P.M.S group or whatever you guys are…go to HELL.
"Game to Yanagi-Kirihara pair 6 games to 4!" Jackal said.
"YATTA!" Kirihara yelled juming up and gave his opponents a V sign for victory.
"Che" Niou said looking to the side swinging his racket on top of his shoulder. "You just got lucky."
'Besides, we would've won if I weren't just too bothered with Sanada's constant rage.'
"But that's not what the match said!" Kirihara stuck out his tongue.
"Brat" Niou said and went to the benches to drink some cold water and try to ignore Sanada's aura of rage. "We would've have won if I just wasn't too concerned about my safety."
His doubles partner for this match, Jackal was confused. 'What's with Niou's sudden change? He's supposed to usually prank either one of us right now. Like last time with what he did with Bunta.' He then looked towards the direction of Sanada and gulped nervously. 'He must've been too distracted by fuku-buchou's rage right now.'
Yukimura sighed and rubbed his temples. He wasn't really into the plan of training here in the street tennis courts because of the fact other tennis teams of other schools might spy on them and he didn't want that to happen especially since the Nationals are coming soon.
He looked around the place and raised his brow. That's odd… As far as he could remember the tennis courts here were usually crowded but now, they were the only ones here right now. That's weird… He turned to face their vice-captain only to momentarily stop as he saw the 'flames of hell', that Rie had kindly pointed out, radiating from Sanada.
"Sanada," Yukimura called snapping Sanada from his anger. "I'm going to go around and take a look at the other tennis courts. Something doesn't seem right."
Sanada's eyes widened for a bit before nodding. "I'll look after a team."
With that, Yukimura checked out the other courts to go look around leaving Sanada to look after the rest of the team.
The stoic vice-captain was a bit relieved the team was not too noisy. Or so he thought.
"GET BACK HERE BRAT!"
"YANAGI-SEMPAI! HELP!" Kirihara yelled running behind the data master's back for safety. "I TOLD YOU IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!"
"LIKE HELL I'M GONNA BELIEVE YOU!"
A drenched Niou ran after the yelling kouhai shouting somethings about a 'porcupine idiot' and 'it was all an accident.' or something like that. It seems like Niou had gotten an early 'bath' thanks to Kirihara. The junior was just drinking a bottle of water when he noticed that their buchou was walking away and that he didn't notice that he was slowly losing grip of his bottle until it fell down, spilling its contents to the person below him who by chance was none other than the trickster, Niou.
Marui was laughing really loud as he saw the two run around the courts like a idiots. They were like a cat and a mouse. Akaya jumped over the net while Niou wasn't too lucky as he tripped and fell face down on the hard floor. Ouch.
"IT WASN'T MY FAULT!" Kirihara shouted.
"AKAYA! NIOU!" Sanda called making the two said boys wince. "Stop it. Now! Niou, go change into your spare clothes and Akaya, keep quiet and don't let yourself get distracted!"
"Hai" The two shouted in unison as Niou quickly went to the bench where his bag was lying and took out his spare clothes and dashed away but stopped midway when he realized something. "Can somebody tell me where the restroom?" He asked sheepishly.
Yagyuu sighed and gave him the directions.
"Okay, gotta go!" Niou dashed away to the rest room. "See you guys later…and you too brat" He said with wicked smirk towards making Kirihara gulp slightly with the threat.
"I would've been glad if he said thanks." Yagyuu said getting a towel.
"But this is Niou" Marui raised a brow. "he's like the total opposite of who you want him to be or the total gentleman you are."
'Bastard bushy rat tail hair.' Kirihara thought.
He may be seen as an idiot by almost the whole campus (even his fanclub but they all ogle him) but even he isn't that dumb enough to say that out loud or else he'll be spending the next two weeks in Niou's kingdom of hell…or worsen the things the trickster was about to do to him and even he doesn't want to know what he'll do to him.
Kirihara shuddered from the thoughts going through his mind on what'll Niou will do to him. He could already enumerate twenty-one and the rest were absolutely horrible.
'Huh?' Kirihara's ears heard faint sounds of other people besides themselves having a match. He smirked. Looks like he was going to have some fun and he left inconspicuously and let his ears trace the location of the match. The others didn't even notice he left.
In another court, a certain senior with droopy eyes caught a scent that he couldn't ever miss. 'This smell…it's…it's…HIS!' Boy does he have a strong sense of smell or what?
Catching the sweet scent, the boy jumped up and down in glee. "Oh boy! He's here! He's here! He's here!" He started clapping his hands like a child who got a very big lollipop as a gift earning the stares of his companions.
'What's got him so pumped up this time?' A tall boy with deep blue hair wondered. 'Yare, yare, this too troublesome.'
He didn't have time to even think again when the over excited teen started running to a random direction who in the process, dragged him which caused a chain of 'dragging the person nearest to you in an attempt to stop the over excited teen' which of course, miserably failed and I do mean MISERABLY failed because in this process, there were yelling and screaming.
Oh boy…this could only mean one thing…
Meanwhile, back with the Rikkai Dai regulars, our favorite sugar addict suddenly got a sudden chill on his spine as he felt a very familiar presence as well. Unfortunately, the latter didn't take it too well as much as the other one. On the contrary, he absolutely hated it. HATED. IT.
Niou seemed to notice his discomfort and smiled slyly. "Looks like someone's 'obsessive fanboy awareness signal' is tingling…" He teased nudging Marui on the shoulders.
"So you mean he's here?" Jackal asked.
The trickster started to cackle. "Who else? Who else in this world has a very unhealthy obsession with him to the point in where he formulated his volley attacks from him? Who else has a box full of Marui's matches in DVDs? And of course who else, has a plushie toy that was made to look like him?"
Niou snickered and slapped his doubles partner on the shoulder. "Can't you help but feel sorry for the poor ball of fat?"
Yagyuu glared at his rude doubles partner but nonetheless sighed. "…Yeah…"
Marui Bunta can accept that fact, that he had a fanboy but having a fanboy that has a human size and a small teddy bear sized plushie of him was WAY out of the question. But how the hell did Niou found out about that? That was supposed to be a secret.
Snapping out of his trance, Marui mouthed out two words that described what he felt right now.
"Oh…shit"
Niou smirked. "This is going to be fun." And yes, he was going to enjoy every single bit of the red head's state right now. "Oy, you ball of fat!"
"What?"
"Say cheese!"
CLICK!
Damn…you, Niou
"Saa, I wonder how Bunta will react when he finds out his number one fanboy is here in Kanagawa?" Yukimura mused. "Oh well," He faced the person beside him carrying two plastics full of cold mineral water bottles. He would have carried those two plastics instead but the person insisted or in that person's case just continued on walking towards their destination, to the street tennis courts. "Shall we quicken our pace?" He asked.
He smiled when he received a nod.
"MARUI! MARUI! MARUI!" Hyoutei's volley specialist yelled throughout the courts as he excitedly searched for his idol.
Oshitari sighed at the sight their teammate was causing, and being the cool and calm person he was, he faced the Rikkai Dai regulars. "I'm sorry for his actions."
"Oh no" Niou smirked. "You don't have to apologize…in fact, We-Yagyuu elbowed him on the chest- Ouch…I mean, I should actually be thanking you instead, thanks to your volley specialist over there, we saw Bunta running around like an idiot trying to hide someplace where he couldn't find him."
"Um…yes…" Jackal looked to his side uncomfortably remembering the scene the red head caused a while ago. "He first tried to hide behind the trashcan but then decided to hide somewhere else instead for safety precautions…as not to re-enact what happened last time he encountered Akutagawa-san."
Yanagi nodded his head. "He even said that he'd rather do suicide with all of his sweets than to experience what happened to him the last time. 'Which was seven months, five days and fifteen minutes ago to be exact.'
Sanada observed the Hyoutei regulars. "Why are you here?" He demanded. He was not very pleased with other rival schools interrupting their training session and he also did not like the idea about hearing another one Atobe's annoying speeches about his great prowess. He did not like it and nor does he want hear that pompous voice of his.
"Ask that egoistic diva" Shishido said. "We don't even know a single thing on why did he even bring us here in the first place."
Sanada gritted his teeth.
"By the way, where is he anyway?" Gakuto asked looking around.
Indeed, the acrobatic player was right. Where in the world did that Atobe go now?
Their questions were soon answered as Atobe showed up on of the benches on the third floor with his ever loyal 'bodyguard'/ childhood friend, Kabaji, who was carrying a bouquet of roses.
"Ore-sama no bigi ni yoi na" He smirked as he descended down the stairs with Kabaji following him and as he descended down the stairs, Kabaji kept plucking rose petals off of the flowers and let it fall down on the path Atobe walked on…for special effects and to let his 'charming and powerful' ore-sama ego grow even bigger.
"You!" Shishido yelled at the diva. "What's with the flower-y entrance."
Atobe flicked some of his hair and smirked. "Ore-sama does not like his spotlight being taken away so Ore-sama made a clever way to make an entrance to lighten the situation you commoners stand in right now."
Shishido felt that their captain shouldn't have even answered his question and instead made the vein that popped on his forehead throb even worse. "So to say, you just wanted to have a flashy entrance."
Atobe snapped his fingers, showing he was pleased with his answer. "Very good, Shishido. It seems that being with Ore-sama has been very beneficial to your intellect. Ore-sama has once again showed why every fellow students should look up to him as a role model, right Kabaji?"
"Usu"
'Or affect their stress level to an increasingly high level.' Oshitari added in his mind rubbing his temples watching their kouhai and Shishido's doubles partner, Ootori try to calm down the fuming dash specialist.
"Ore-sama is higher than any of you commoners."
Sanada, with no kind and sweet Kouhai to stop and calm him down was already burning in rage.
"Atobe!" He roared. "Leave this instant and get out of my sight!"
Everyone present except for Atobe covered their ears from the loud outburst of Sanada.
Atobe pretended like he didn't even heard anything and just yawned. "And what if Ore-sama doesn't want to? Besides, Ore-sama has also come here to look around and train."
"And since, I'm already here," Atobe continued looking at the fukubuchou of Rikkai Dai. "And I've found you here as well, let's have a match."
"I refuse." Sanada replied immediately.
"Come on now, that gruff face of yours will only make you look older as you look now." Atobe smirked.
"I still refuse."
"Then this match will decide who is more superior."
Sanada snorted. "Someone of your level won't be able to defeat me."
Atobe chuckled at this. "How are you so sure now? Why decline a match with Ore-sama when you're sure it won't waste your time, ahn?"
"You're still as cocky as ever, ne Atobe?"
"Well of course, Ore-sama is the greatest." Atobe said. "People who decline a match with Ore-sama aren't in their right mind, you know or maybe it's because you're afraid to lose, ahn?"
Sanda glared at the smirking diva and grunted. "I accept but there is no doubt that someone like you will be beaten."
"Let's see about that."
Yukimura looked to the person behind him. "How did you know Niou was the one who did 'it'?"
"I know someone who is very interested in the fields of art and that person taught me a lot of things when I was a kid. So from my experience it was really easy for me to distinguish the texture between a textile paint and some rare yellow-orange fungus."
Yukimura nodded.
"And besides" the person added. "I heard from some bypassing seniors that there was a student who was experimenting on some paint and other stuffs to make it look like a rash or something which I guessed was him and he only made my guess correct from what happened."
Yukimura nodded. "I have heard those rumors as well but I didn't think that he was going to do that. So far, only me, you and Renji know that he was the one who did it. Genichiro was too caught up in his rage to have noticed it."
The person looked up to only see the 'Child of God' smile…but that smile looked too angelic to be true. This was a smile of pure evil. Oh boy…
"Niou, next practice, you'll see hell."
The Rikkaid Dai regulars and Hyoutei regulars sat on the benches and all of them were anxious on what the outcome will be. A match between two of the best tennis players in the nation is something rare and something to definitely look forward to. A match between Hyoutei's tennis team captain, Atobe Keigo and Rikkai Dai's tennis team vice-captain, Sanada Genichirou. Who will win?
Atobe was to serve and everytime he bounced the tennis ball the atmosphere around them grew thicker.
GULP
"Try to return this!" Atobe yelled, a small glint visible in his eyes.
"Leave us alone!"
"What? I only asked for a match."
"And I refuse!"
Atobe missed his serve and a small vein popped in his head.
"Fault"
Atobe tried to serve again…but failed again when the noises suddenly became louder.
"Double fault! Love-Fifteen" A vein popped.
"SHUT UP!" popped!
"NO YOU SHUT UP!" popped!
"WOULD YOU TWO JUST KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT?" Atobe yelled at the two.
All of the regulars looked at the direction where the Hyoutei captain was shouting at only to see Kirihara and two people they didn't expect to see in Kanagawa, Ibu Shinji and Kamio Akira of Fudomine.
Noticing the blue haired sighing, they could tell that the rhythm tennis player and the Devil of Rikkai Dai were in an argument, probably because of Kirihara.
"Kamio-san?"
"Oh, it's you guys." Kamio looked at them for a while before glaring back again at the black haired boy. "Just leave us alone, will you?"
"If we have a match." Kirihara replied nonchalantly much to Kamio's dismay.
Yanagi sighed, noticing the red head's growing ire. He walked up to the curly haired boy and gave him a good hit on the head.
"Ouch!"
"What was that for?" Kirihara yelled rubbing his head. "What did I do?"
"You were clearly disturbing on what would become a good match."
Kirihara blinked in confusion. "What do you mean by that? I was only asking him," He jerked his thumb towards Kamio. "for a match."
"And I refuse" Kamio replied getting a glare from Kirihara.
"It just shows you're a chicken."
"Why you-" Kamio said tightening his hand into a fist but a hand stopped him. "Ibu"
"Stop, Tachibana-san wouldn't want you to get in a fight." He said. "Besides, it will be too troublesome if you did get in a fight and I'll have to stop you and Tachibana-san would scold me on why I didn't try to stop you…" He continued to mumble.
Kamio sighed and gave one last glare to Kirihara before moving besides the mumbling boy.
"Tarudoru, Akaya!" Sanada yelled.
Yanagi nodded. "Indeed, it was really not needed of you to start a fight, Akaya."
Akaya crossed his arms over his chest. "I only wanted a match."
"Apologize" Yanagi said.
"But-"
"Apologize" This time Yagyuu was the one who said it. "It is very improper of a gentleman to not apologize if he has done something wrong, Kirihara-kun."
Kirihara turned away with his back facing Kamio. He turned his head a bit to face him. "Sorry" He said hesitantly.
Niou grinned and walked over to the junior and ruffled his hair. "Aw…the brat's all pouty now."
Kirihara grumbled and smacked his hand away. "No I'm not!"
Niou grinned maniacally and whispered in his ear. "Don't worry. You will be when I'm done with my latest trick on you." He said making the junior move back and hid behind Jackal.
Back at the courts, Atobe's eye was twitching nonstop because his match was stopped and he was ignored. 'How dare they ignore Ore-sama…'
"It seems you guys are already getting along now." A voice chuckled.
"NO WE ARE- Buchou!" Kirihara shouted surprised by their captain's appearance. "You're back!" He smiled.
Yukimura nodded. "Yes I am and I have brought someone here as well." He said moving aside to show the guest only to make Kirihara's eyes widened.
"Baka-onna!" He pointed to Rie. "You're alive!" He yelled making the girl raise her brow.
She decided to ignore what the seaweed-head just said and looked around to see people she didn't know. 'Probably students from other tennis teams' She thought noticing that all of them were carrying tennis bags. She wondered if she should've wore her school uniform instead of what she was wearing which was a green tank top hidden behind a blue jacket with sleeves that seemed too long for her considering it almost reached the end of her hands, and a pair of pedal pants but she shrugged the idea off. It was her choice anyway.
'An eyepatch?' Those who didn't know the girl thought. 'Must be some issues.'
"Yo Rie-chan!" Niou waved. Yagyuu and Jackal greeted her while the others nodded their heads at her.
Rie greeted them back in respect then she faced the glaring junior. "Seaweed-san" She greeted.
"I'm not a seaweed-head!" He yelled at her only to get zero progress.
"Sorry seaweed-san" popped!
Rie looked around and noticed one of her senpais is missing. "Where is Marui-senpai?" She asked only to be answered by a glomp from none other than the red-head himself. "Arianna-chan!"
"Marui!" Jirou yelled in glee. "You're here!"
"Crap" He muttered under his breath making the only girl look up at him. He immediately hid behind her in an attempt to hide himself as the curly haired boy ran towards him. "Arianna-chan, help me!"
Too bad, Niou quickly pulled Rie away, so the barrier separating him and Jirou disappear. "She's too innocent to see the horror of fanboyism." He remarked pulling her.
'I don't think there is such a thing as fanboyism.' Jackal sweatdropped. 'He only did for amusement.'
Poor Marui…
Just as Marui thought he was going to be glomped to oblivion, a voice saved him, "Jirou, Ore-sama orders you to stop."
With that order, Jirou stopped. "Eh? How come?" He cried.
Atobe rubbed his temples. "Ore-sama does not wish to remember what happened the last time nor see it happen again. You nearly killed your idol in a very…very embarrassing way that Ore-sama does's want to recall." He said making all of the Hyoutei and Rikkai regulars nod while the Fudomine regulars and Rie wondered what it could be.
Marui noticed their looks and gave them a pale face. "It's a long…painful story"
"And a good blackmail material too" Niou added. "puri"
"I see you guys have made friends with a girl." Oshitari smirked. "Not a fangirl perhaps?"
Rie shivered and pretended to throw up when she heard the 'fangirl'. "Ugh…"
Atobe was amused with the girl. She may not be a fangirl but nobody can ever reject Ore-sama's charm. He flicked his bangs and walked up to the girl and gave her his most charming smile. "Ore-sama is honored to see such a cute maiden here of all the places." He said putting his right hand on his chest. "It must be fate." He smiled.
"He's killing her." Gakuto murmured to his doubles partner. "She's going to die."
Rie looked at him oddly, she couldn't quite understand why there were suddenly roses picturing him and there were pink bubbled surrounding him. She shuddered. Of all the color it had to be pink! Pink! And here she thought men hated that color. Oh well…the world is changing might as well the inhabitants too.
"Pathetic" She simply said, a word that was so foreign to the diva.
Pathetic
Atobe felt an arrow stab his chest. PANG!
"Weird" She added. PANG!
"Idiotic" PANG!
Atobe clutched his chest in a painful manner. Thunders suddenly appeared behind him to emphasize the shock that there was such a female that could reject his charms and even insult him. The arrows of rejection hurt too much. She can't be a girl…that's right. No girl can reject him. She must've been living under a rock.
Shishido couldn't hide his laugh anymore. It was killing him. "AHAHAHA!" He laughed. "The great Atobe Keigo was rejected" He wiped a tear from his eye.
"And most of all…" She pointed her index finger towards him. "that pink bubbles and red roses picture you made was so…old and cheesy."
Old
Old
Old
PANG!
That's it. The Hyoutei regulars couldn't hold it in anymore, they were laughing really hard except for Ootori, Oshitari, Hiyoshi and Kabaji who were just chuckling. Such an amusing girl she is.
Even the rest were laughing except for Sanada, Yanagi, Yagyuu, Jackal and Yukimura. They were by far amused.
Atobe was…well dead in the inside so to say. No girl has ever insulted his charms before.
"Looks like our little friends over here is immune to Atobe's charms." Yukimura said. "Interesting…"
"The girl isn't so bad!" Shishido crouched down to face the girl and smiled. "You know, you're the only girl I've met who has ever rejected his smile!"
Rie blinked. Oshitari patted her head making her eye twitch. "Congratulations"
"Ne, ne, What's your name, kid?" Shishido asked.
Rie felt a vein pop but remained her façade. 'I'm not a kid.'
She looked to her side and said, "Arianna Rie, pleased to meet you." She glanced at them.
"Nice name" Ootori smiled.
Then after that, they took their turn in introducing to her. Rie almost had a headache. She couldn't possible remember all their names at once.
Gakuto stared the smaller girl. "You know, Arianna doesn't sound Japanese."
Yagyuu nodded his head. "It's actually Italian."
Niou gave a low whistle. "Nice"
"I just came back from Italy a month ago. My father's Japanese while my mom is Italian." She said. 'Though my mother actually looks like Japanese except for her hair.' She added.
A black blur suddenly appeared in front of Rie. "What th-" She got cut off by Kirihara. "Italy?"
"Yeah"
"That's impossible." Kirihara said.
"And why is that?" She asked looking at the seaweed head. "It's not seaweed-san's business."
"You're lying." He said.
"What makes you say that?"
Kirihara stomped his feet and counted. "First and foremost," He said. "Italian girls are pretty and beautiful!" He then observed her from head to toe. "you're plain and un-cute." He drawled the last word.
"You're not graceful." He added.
"That's not a good thing to say." Ootori said.
"Is he always like this?" Oshitari asked.
"I'm afraid so." Yagyuu nodded.
"It's better if you don't interfere." Yanagi said writing something in his notes.
As they continued to observe Kirihara insult her, they noticed the girl didn't even speak until now…
"You…"
"You?" Kirihara repeated.
"You've got some nerve insulting me!" She said in an icy tone. "Speak for yourself, you're just a seaweed head idiot!"
"What was that, baka-onna?" He said glaring back at her.
"I said you're just a seaweed head idiot!" She yelled and stomped her feet. "You're just asking a one way ticket to the moon!"
"I'd like to see you try!"
"Oh yes I will!" She said and hit him with the plastic bag which was awfully heavy.
"ITTAI!"
CLAP!
They both looked to their side to see Yukimura smiling. "That's enough you two," He started. "How about you guys settle this in a tennis match?"
"NO!" Kirihara and Niou shouted in unison with different reasons of course.
"She knows how to play tennis?" Shishido asked.
"Technically, yes…but things lead to misfit when she actually played the last time." Yanagi answered.
"Uh…" Gakuto looked at the trickster of Rikkai Dai. "Is he okay?"
Yanagi looked to where Gakuto was looking at and sweatdropped. "There's a hundred percent he did this to protect himself from last time."
Niou was holding the garbage can lid and used it as a shield over his head against any stray balls of Rie ever hit him again.
"Buchou, I don't think that's such a good idea! She can't even serve normally!"
"Yes I can!" Rie said.
"No you can't!"
"Now, now" Yukimura sighed. He gave one of Marui's extra rackets to Rie since Marui agreed to let her borrow one of his rackets. "Here, Arianna-chan and remember," He gave a quick glance to their team's trickster and then faced her again. "Don't hold back when you serve, okay? Show us what you're really capable of."
Niou felt a chill run down his spine. He had a feeling that what their buchou meant by 'don't hold back when you serve' wasn't really encouraging as he thought. No, it had a darker and more painful meaning towards it. He mentally cursed. Buchou was expecting for Rie to hit the balls and let it hit him. Oh hell no…
'Oh hell yes' Yukimura thought smiling like an angel.
How ironic, he was smiling like an angel though his aura was like of a devil's. The people near him, Sanda and Yanagi were smart to back away in rush manner. They wanted to live, thank you very much.
But things took off in an unexpected twist which Niou was grateful for when the two, Rie and Kirihara engaged themselves in a tug-of-war battle. Correction: Tug-of-war battle on Marui's racket. Kirihara really didn't want that girl to play, huh?
"That guy is too stubborn huh?" Shishido whispered. "What's with those two?"
Jackal rubbed the back of his head. "He's just jealous."
"You guys have been babying him too much, huh?"
"…I suppose"
"Let go!" Kirihara said. "You don't even know the rules! Besides, I still have a match with Kamio!"
"Then at least let me serve once." She said trying to pull the racket.
"Let go!"
"Ie"
"Let go!"
"Ie"
"Let go!"
"My racket!" Marui shouted fearing for the life of his racket.
"They're like children." Oshitari commented.
"Well I think they're cute!" Yukimura smiled.
"I hope you're right about that." Oshitari trailed as he took another look at the two. 'Maybe…'
"Let Ore-sama handle this." Atobe said and walked towards the two. He snapped his finger. "Ore-sama no bigi ni yoi na." He smirked but he failed miserably as the two just ignored him.
"Ie"
"Argh!"
"Oy, Ore-sama said for you to stop." Atobe snapped. "Commoners like you should obey Ore-sama's orders!"
Atobe's eye twitched when he noticed they were still arguing AND ignoring the great Ore-sama a.k.a him.
"Listen here-ACK!" Atobe yelled as he was thrown to the ground painfully. Feeling the solid ground come contact with his face, he groaned in pain. "Ittai!"
They expected for the two to stop and take time to at least notice the Hyoutei diva but sadly they looked like they didn't even bulged…or even noticed that they hit someone. They just remained arguing like the uncaring brats they were acting like now.
Everybody facepalmed. No…triple facepalmed.
Kirihara moved back to get some more space to pull the racket out of the girl's hands and because of his movement he had unknowingly stepped on the body of one Atobe Keigo. Umph!
"Huh?" Kirihara wondered as he took another step back. Umph! "Did you hear that?"
"What?" Rie asked blinking completely forgetting that they were fighting as she also stepped on the Hyoutei Tennis team captain. Umph!
"Hear that?" Umph!
"Yeah" Umph!
"What is it?" Umph!
Soon, the two started walking over the body of Atobe Keigo wanting to find out whose body this was only making the diva more pissed off by each step they took on his body.
"It's soft…but hard, feels like a pillow." Twitch
"A pillow made of rocks." Twitch
"STOP IT YOU PEASANTS! ORE-SAMA IS NOT A PILLOW NOR IS HE MADE OF ROCKS!" He snapped at the two.
The two took a step back more like Kirihara held Rie's shoulder and pulled her with him when Atobe exploded like a volcano.
Atobe's eye twitched uncontrollably. "Peasants like you should respect ORE-SAMA!"
Rie was lost. 'Oreo-sama? Since when did the topic got to cookies?' *
"Who are…you?" She inquired looking at him. "And who is Oreo-sama?"
Twitch
Laughters were heard behind her and the loudest of them all came from Shishdo and Gakuto. "HAHAHA! Oreo-sama, that's gold!"
Atobe slapped his forehead. 'Relax, she's only a girl,' He looked at her again, 'A small cute girl who is not aware of the greatness Ore-sama has shown. Patience, Ore-sama shall not allow his patience to run out because of her, someone who was just introduced.'
He looked at her and smiled (while his eye was still twitching). "Ore-sama is me," He pointed to himself showing he is the one she was asking about.
"Ore-sama's name is Atobe Keigo."
Rie nodded as if she clearly understood what he meant and gave him a blank look.
"So Oreo-sama's name is Atobe Keigo." She then tilted her head in confusion. "Then why do you call yourself after a cookie?"
Atobe slapped his face groaning mentally as the hand slid down his face. "It's Ore-sama. Ore-sama calls himself Ore-sama because of his great prowess."
"Now say it properly, O-re-sa-ma" He explained.
"Ore-sama"
"Good now-"
"Then why does it remind me of Oreo? Are you really hungry?"
Atobe slapped his forehead…three times. "This is hopeless."
The others were still laughing and even Sanada was smiling at Atobe failing. It was obvious that the stoic fuku-buchou of Rikkai Dai held dislike for the Hyoutei Captain and vice-versa so why not enjoy the 'misery' of the person whom you dislike now or might never see it again.
"Maa, maa," Yukimura said but his eyes had a glint. "Why don't we stop now? And Akaya," He called to their junior ace.
"Hai, buchou?" He asked.
"You can let go of her now." Yukimura said looking at the hand that was currently holding the shoulder of the snow-white haired girl. "Unless you don't want to, it's understandable."
Kirihara's eyes widened . "A-as if! I don't want to catch her cooties?" He yelled shaking his head to emphasize his point.
Yukimura was amused. "Whatever you say, Akaya."
Kirihara sighed.
Yukimura walked away towards the benches where the plastics were placed. "But, you know I would believe you if you let go."
Kirihara looked at his right hand and it was still on Rie's shoulder. He immediately let go of her and pushed her away, softly then he walked to the benches where his bag was, to hide the small tint of red on his face. He wasn't used to touching girls rather than his big sister, he may not like the baka-onna but she was still a girl.
He needed a drink. Kirihara took the water bottle from his bag and opened it. He expected a feeling of refreshment from the cooling sensation of the cold water but he got none. Oh yeah, that's right, all of the content of his water bottle was unintentionally spilt on the head of his bushy haired bastard of a senpai. He grumbled inside his head. "Damn"
"Arianna-chan!" Yukimura called out. He motioned for her to come over and as she did so he whispered something to her which made the freshman take the plastic bags in a quick manner but as soon as she took the plastic bags she was suddenly pulled down from the weight of those plastic bags. What is in that thing?
Marui popped one of his bubble gum. "Need some help?"
She shook her head and walked up to the Rikkai regulars.
"Here" She said giving them the plastic bag.
Marui and Niou were dumbfounded. "What?"
They looked inside the plastic bag and saw lots of water bottles.
It was for them?
"You guys were training right?" She asked. "Here"
Niou and Marui stared at each other before grinning and took the plastic bag. "Thanks a lot! Rie-chan!"
RIe blushed, embarrassed. They called her by her first name, she was not used to it since her old classmates called her names she didn't want to remember.
"She paid for it." Yukimura added.
All of them gave her a smile, even Sanada (well he smiled a bit).
"Thanks"
"Seaweed-san" She called.
Kirihara turned around, he saw a water bottle thrown towards him and before it got the chance to hit his face, he caught it. He smirked and stuck his tongue out at her. "Missed me"
The girl turned around. "I did it on purpose.'
"Che" Kirihara drank from the water bottle. "Thanks He muttered.
Yukimura walked towards the Fudomine and Hyoutei regulars and gave them the last plastic bag. "Here you can have it. She told me you guys can have it." He said. "You guys weren't bad, she said."
"Well she wasn't so bad herself," Shishido shrugged his shoulder. "Too bad she's in your school. If only she was in Hyoutei, I would have loved to see Atobe like that everyday."
Atobe glared at him. "Remind me later Kabaji to give him laps next practice."
"Usu"
Shishido waved it off carelessly. "Yeah, yeah but it will be so worth it though, O great Oreo-sama."
Ootori chuckled. "Thing would've been interesting if she were a student in Hyoutei." He said looking at Rie and Kirihara glaring at each other. 'They're at it again.'
"Ne, ne, how'd you met her?" Gakuto and Jirou asked. "Someone like her doesn't fall out from thin air."
Yukimura smiled his sadistic smile. Maybe he could mess with their heads for a while.
"Actually, she did fall from thin air."
"WHAT?"
Yukimura smiled. "We met her when we saw her falling down from the sixth floor. Akaya was yelling that Niou killed somebody. We didn't know she was the one he was talking about."
The two blinked.
Did they hear him right? FELL? From the SIXTH FLOOR?
"Yes, she fell, quite sad, you know."
Yukimura put his left hand on the corner of his mouth meaning he was going to tell them a secret. "Actually, she's a product of a resurrection ritual Niou performed."
They looked at him as he grew another head.
While all the two of them were dazed, Yukimura called over their topic subject, Rie.
"Arianna-chan," Yukimura said. "Didn't you fell down from the sixth floor?"
"Hai"
Their eyes turned to the size of saucer plates.
"And didn't you fell into unconsciousness when you landed on the pool?"
"Hai"
Their faces were now similar to a goldfish gasping for air. "So sad…"
"So she is a product of a resurrection ritual." Gakuto breathed out. "Who knew Niou had it in him."
Yukimura nodded grimly. "But don't tell her that or else, she'll turn into ash, okay?"
The two nodded their head vigorously while Atobe shook his head.
"Good" Yukimura nodded.
"AH!" Marui shouted looking at the wall clock. "It's already time! I need to go now. Mom is going to kill me if I'm late! Or else," Marui paled. "She might ground me from sweets!"
Yukimura looked at him. "All right, practice is done! See you guys on Monday!"
"Hai!"
"Ore-sama and his team shall leave as well." Atobe announced. "See you guys in Nationals."
"Bye, Rie-chan!" Gakuto waved.
Jirou jumped up and down. "Okay, bye Marui! And bye Rie-chan." He said and glomped the smaller girl. "Don't turn into dust okay?"
Rie gave him a look. "What?"
"Nothing" Jirou said goofily. "Bye!"
Kamio looked at the time too. "We better catch the next bus to take us back home."
Ibu nodded. "Yeah"
"We're taking our leave too. See you in Nationals." Kamio said leaving with his friend.
"Today was pretty eventful." Yagyuu commented.
"Indeed." Yanagi said writing down notes from what happened today.
"Well gotta go! Sweets to save!" Marui yelled running home.
Yukimura talked to Rie, "Would you still like to show us your control over your serve now?"
"Sure"
Yukimura talked to Niou for a while then he returned with a racket in his hands. "Here, this is Niou's. Try just one serve."
"Can I hit seaweed-san with it?" She asked.
Yukimura nodded. "Remember to not hold back."
Niou gulped. He suddenly had a feeling he shouldn't have let her borrowed his racket but then again he'll be promised with torture if he declined. He gulped and quickly took the garbage can lid again.
Kirihara also gulped. This is bad…really bad. "B-buchou, you can't be serious."
Rie bounced the tennis ball up and down.
"This should be interesting." Jackal said.
Rie smiled darkly and the temperature around the tennis court suddenly got colder.
Kirihara gripped his tennis racket tighter.
Rie threw the ball high up and then she smashed the tennis racket to the ball with much force the ball was like a gun, loud, fast and deadly. When the racket made contact with the ball, it was like pulling a trigger of a gun, it may look harmless but once that trigger was pulled, the bullet comes out in a fast but deadly speed but in the form of a tennis ball.
Kirihara wasn't able to even respond as the ball went past him, very fast. Good thing it missed him by just a few inches.
Rie's eye twitched. "I missed again." She mumbled. "And here I was, going to show him how I controlled my power to him…" she grumbled under her breath pulling the hoodie of her jacket over her head. "Che"
On the contrary, the tennis ball bounced to the pole behind Kirihara and hit it and bounced back straight to the back of his head, hitting him. "ACK!" And then the ball bounced again to other places hitting innocent objects and in that process it had also hit the head of one Niou Masaharu. "Itte!"
Rie smirked. "See?" too bad, Kirihara didn't saw it since he fell down face-first from the force of the ball and was left grumbling things about baka-onnas and stupid super bouncing balls.
Yukimura smiled, pleased with what happened (particularly on one thing…two things). 'She cleared all the three requirements. Next thing we need is her agreement and the papers needed but those things will just be easy.' He smiled angelically, the smile of the devil.
Yanagi inwardly shuddered sensing the dark aura slowly coming from Yukimura. This is not a good omen. Not at all and he has a feeling it will involve him even if wants to or not.
"Yukimura-buchou's turning Arianna-chan into a sadist." Jackal said.
Niou stood up and rubbed his sore head and grumbled under his breath. "How'd he managed to brainwash her."
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