Tsuki: Eep! (Runs around in circles)
Eiji: Nyah, Tsuki-chan, what's wrong!?
Tsuki: (Points out to readers) Look at all those people out there! They've all been dedicated to our story and we haven't even said thanks yet!
Eiji: You just did, nyah.
Tsuki: Oh… (Looks out to reader) Anyways, thanks again to all our loyal readers! Enjoy this next chapter!
Chapter Begins
Eiji's POV
"Nyah, Tsuki-chan here's the food you… wanted…?" I turned in circles a couple times looking for Tsuki-chan. "Nyah? Where'd she go?"
Looking over my surroundings, I let my eyes wander a bit as I looked for the lost girl. Or maybe it was me who was lost… Nyah, I don't know! This is too confusing!
I started walking in some random direction, the food I had bought still in my hands now cooling off in the evening air.
"Nyah, excuse me, but have you seen a girl with long black hair and black eyes around here?" I asked as I approached a small family.
"I'm sorry, but no," The woman said, her blonde hair swaying slightly as her little kid ran behind her.
"Ah, arigatou…"
With that I walked in a different direction to ask a few more people. As I stepped under the tent of a game-booth I tapped the person in front of on the shoulder. I couldn't help but think that he looked familiar as he turned to see who had tapped him.
"Nyah, have you seen a girl—"
"Eiji, where have you been!? We've all been looking everywhere for you!"
"Nyah, Oishi!?" 'Uh-oh…'
Tsuki's POV
"So what if we are a bit lost? What's it to ya?" I said, looking at the guy in front of me. He had to be at least a couple of years older. His reddish brown hair was cut short and spiked. He had a couple piercings on his brow, I noticed, and one on his lip. I grimaced as he took a step towards me, a little too close for comfort.
"Wow, you're a feisty one," He said, stepping a bit closer. "I like that in girls."
His hand lightly grasped my chin but I slapped it away.
"Look, I'm especially grateful for you 'concern' but I have to get back to my friend. Come on Tsumi-chan, let's get going," with that said I picked up half of the stuffed animals while Tsumi-chan grabbed the rest and we started to walk away.
"Wait a second," I felt the guy grasp my wrist lightly, "Nobody walks away from me!"
"I believe that I'm trying to walk away," I said, glaring into his muddy brown eyes. "Now let go."
"Look, you're coming with me whether you want to or not," He growled, his grip tightening slightly. In the background I could hear Tsumi-chan gasp which earned her a glare from the guy in front of me. "And you're not going to tell anybody about this… or else."
"I… I…"
While he was distracted I took that opportunity to escape. Clutching the stuffed animals closer to me I swung my leg back before kicking forward. I heard a grunt of pain before I felt the guy let go of my wrist and fall to his knees; obviously I had hit his groin.
"Come on Tsumi-chan," I yelled while grabbing her with my free hand. "Run before he gets back up!"
As we quickly sped through the thick crowd murmuring small apologies here and there I saw Tsumi-chan glance back at the man through the corner of my eye.
"Don't you think that kicking him… there was a bit brash Tsuki-sempai?" she asked as we stopped behind a cart to rest, sure that we had lost him.
"Huh? Well, I guess so… but I was actually aiming for his shin…" I sweat-dropped.
Eiji's POV
'I'm in trouble…'
"Eiji, why didn't you contact us when you were late for practice today!?" Oishi said in that worried tone of his as the rest of the regulars found us.
"Nyah, we had practice today?" I asked, thinking back to what Tsuki-chan had said earlier today.
"No duh Eiji-sempai," Momo yelled. "We have practice everyday because we're regulars." He said it slowly like he would with his little sister just to tick her off.
"Nyah, but Tsuki-chan said that we didn't because it was a short day…"
"There's a 100-percent chance she lied and said that just so she could get out of practicing today and you were dragged along because you were with her at the time," Inui murmured as he scribbled in his notebook. "She'll have to make up for today somehow."
I shivered a bit as I saw the evil glint in his glasses.
"Nyah… but Tsuki-chan wouldn't go that far to get out of practice would she?"
"Well she was complaining about it during lunch today…"
Flash Back to Lunch that Day (Eiji's POV)
"I can't believe Ryuuzaki-sensei tricked me into joining the tennis regulars," Tsuki-chan complained as Fuji, Kaidoh, Taka, Momo, her and I all sat down at our lunch table.
"Nyah, she didn't trick you Tsuki-chan," I told her as she slumped forward onto the table.
"Yeah Tsuki-sempai," Momo interjected. "You just started rambling on and on about how you were going to prove to Tezuka that you could be good enough to be on the team."
"Well I didn't mean it!" She yelled at him. "You people should know by now that I don't mean half of what I say! And stop calling me 'sempai'!"
Momo and I laughed as Fuji chuckled slightly when Tsuki-chan started to anime cry. She glared our way before proceeding to hit her head against the lunch table.
"Tsuki-chan, are you okay?"
Turning around we saw that Oishi had just walked up to the table. I guess when he saw Tsuki-chan whacking her head on the table he went into "mother-mode".
"She's just being lazy saying she doesn't want to go to practice today," Momo said, a smirk on his face.
"I'm not lazy!"
"Mada mada da ne," Ryoma murmured as he sat with us. I could see Tsuki-chan glaring at him.
"And what the heck is that supposed to mean?"
"Don't you get the sense of déjà vu?" Ryoma smirked, pulling his cap down over his eyes.
We could all literally hear Tsuki-chan growl as she tried to jump him. Taka had to hold her back before she finally calmed down enough to sit and eat.
"You know, this is all your fault Fuji," she said, grumbling slightly.
"Saa, how so?" Fuji smiled.
"If you hadn't invited me to that weekend practice of yours then I would've never touched my racket ever again and I wouldn't be in this situation." She explained.
"Saa, but I do remember it was you who showed up at my house first which led me to inviting you," he countered.
"Well I wouldn't have been at your house if it weren't for your brother, who, may I add, has yet to apologize!"
"He wouldn't have hit you if you weren't outside wandering around."
"Well I wouldn't have been wandering around if I hadn't been so bored that day."
"Maybe you wouldn't be so bored if you came with us."
"Maybe I would've gone if I was invited to go earlier and… wait… what?"
Fuji smirked as Tsuki-chan stared in confusion for a few seconds before returning to her hateful glare at the tensai.
"Oh you and your little… mind games!" She yelled at him.
"Nyah, Tsuki-chan, that belongs to Fujiko," I said, watching as she snatched his cupcake straight out of his hands in anger.
"Don't you think I know that," she said, taking a big bite out of it before swallowing. "It's payback for inviting me to practice. Ugh; I'd do anything to get out of it today!"
"Ne, Tsuki-chan?"
"Yes Eiji?"
"You have pink frosting on your nose…"
Flash Back Ends (Eiji's POV still)
"Hey, where is Tsuki-sempai anyways?" Momo said, snapping me back to reality and also back to where I had begun when I found the regulars.
"Nyah, I can't find Tsuki-chan! She's lost!"
"Hey, where'd Kaidoh go?"
"Now Kaidoh is lost too, nyah!"
Kaidoh's POV
"Phsssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……." (Translation: Where am I?)
Tsuki's POV
"Well then… now that we're all safe and sound we should get on a going to find both yours and my friends," I said as Tsumi-chan finished catching her breath. "Not much of runner… are you?"
"I have… slight… asthma… so I don't… do sports… or anything like it… to often…" she said, panting every now and then.
"Oh… why don't you have an inhaler?"
"I do, but I left it in my bag and when my school's tennis regulars dragged me over here one of them took my wallet which happened to be in my bag."
"We really do have to find them now, huh?"
"Please and thank you,"
"Let's get going then!"
"Wait a second you little punk," I turned towards the voice, only to find the same guy I had kicked earlier. "I think you owe me a little something before deserve to get away."
I swallowed a lump that had been forming in my throat loudly, my eyes looking around for another way to escape without having this guy follow us.
"Maybe you didn't understand."
Out of the corner of my eye I could see that Tsumi-chan had started backing away slightly. I glanced over to the big guy ahead of me to see that he had gone forward a few steps—he was now directly in front of me. I could see him raise his huge fist in the air, a wicked grin spreading across his face.
Growling lightly under my breath I readied myself for the impact.
"Gah!"
Opening my eyes in shock, I was surprised that I hadn't been hit. Looking up to the front of me, I was expecting me to see the big guy just fooling around. Instead I saw Kaidoh… err… Kaidoh's back.
"Kaidoh! I'm alive!" I yelled while hugging my "teammate" around the neck as best as I could. "I never thought I'd be so happy to see you!"
"Phshhhhh, you should be more careful…" He stated, looking at the big guy that he probably beat to the ground.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," I mumbled while letting go of him. I turned back to Tsumi-chan to see she was surrounded. "Tsumi-chan, what happened!?"
I saw a guy with silvery hair stand up from the group surrounding Tsumi-chan. He looked at me a bit weirdly before turning back to the group.
"Hey, Tsumi-chan, are these your friends?" I asked.
"Yumph!" I heard a ruffled reply.
"Well then I guess my job is over with!"
Smiling approvingly at the small group hugging my new friend to smithereens, I turned to face Kaidoh once again.
"Ne, wait a second," I thought, looking at Kaidoh for a full minute before sudden realization hit me. "If you're here then that means—!"
"Tsuki-chan, you're alive!"
Almost immediately I was knocked to the floor in a tackle-hug. After recovering from my sudden shock, I looked up to see that the person who had knocked me over was none other than the red-head Eiji that I had been looking for!
"Eiji, I found you!"
"Nyah, nu-uh, I found you!" he argued as we stood up off the floor. "Where were you, nyah? I was worried!"
I blushed slightly as waterfall tears streamed down Eiji's face in a cute manner. He was worried about me?
"I'm sorry to break this little love fest but," I saw that one of the guys who had been in Tsumi-chan's little group walked over to us. He had reddish-pink hair and seemed to be chewing on a piece of gum. "We wanted to thank you for returning Katsumi-chan to us. We've been looking everywhere!"
"Humph," I walked over to him, glaring slightly at them all. "Well maybe you wouldn't have lost her if you hadn't made her hold all of your stuff! And stealing her bag that had her inhaler in it!? What kind of friends are you!?"
They all sort of sweat-dropped slightly as Tsumi-chan stepped out of the little group and walked over to where I was still glaring at the guy with the gum.
"A-ano, Tsuki-chan… I, uh… sort of volunteered to hold all of the things… it's not their fault… honestly."
I smiled sweetly over at her before looking over at all of them.
"Well, I guess it's alright then… I'll see you later then Tsumi-chan!"
"I don't think you're gonna get away that easily Tsuki-chan," Eiji muttered gloomily.
"Why's that Eiji?"
"Because we're here."
I froze when I heard that voice. Turning to my side with wide eyes I stared into the cold glaring eyes of Tezuka-buchou…
"You… are in big trouble." Momo laughed at me as I stared at the rest of my team. I knew there was something I was forgetting.
"OkaythanksforallyourhelpinhelpingmefingmyfriendTsumi-chanandI'mgladIhelpedyoutoosoIhavetogonowmaybeI'llcomevisityoubye!"
"Tsuki get back here! Don't run away or you'll be in even more trouble!"
Chapter Ends
Ack! I tried my hardest to made this chappy good but I had to rush it! I'm sorry for the horrible job! I promise more awesome chapters to come in the near future! Bye!
