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Chapter 10

Up on the trees, a man was whistling to a tune, while holding a pair of binoculars and scanning the area. He would have sounded like a normal bird to any outsiders.

He was about to start swaying along with the tune when he spotted what he was looking out for.

There.

A white bus, with big and bold letterings in purple, which read out, 'Atobe', was cruising down the winding road.

"Hoho. Target lock on." He joked, placing the binoculars down and taking out a sniper rifle.

Seconds turned to minutes, and minutes turned to hours.

The tennis players were still waiting for the coach to arrive. And they were losing hope, fast.

"Atobe! Didn't you say that the bus is going to come today?" Shishido yelled at his captain.

"Yes. Ore-sama definitely told them to come today."

"Then why isn't it here?! We've been waiting for HOURS!"

"Shishido-san. Let's just wait a while more. Maybe it'll come later."

"Argh fine, I get it already, Choutarou." Shishido crossed his arms angrily.

"Probability that the bus got into an accident 54%." Inui suddenly said, appearing right behind the Hyoutei regulars.

"Accident?!" Kikumaru shrieked.

"I would hope not." Oishi fiddled with his fingers, a worried expression on his face, which the tennis players are starting to wonder whether it was permanently on the Seigaku's vice-captain's face.

"28% that it's just delayed."

"I doubt a simple delay would take hours." Yukimura said, folding his arms across his chest.

"The rest of the 18% is unknown." Inui finished, snapping his notebook shut.

"So we're betting on accident or unknown. Awesome." Niou commented, hands shoved into his pants pockets, leaning against a wall.

Pop.

Marui was on the floor beside Niou, casually popping the bubble blown from his gum like he had no care in the world. If one looked deep into his eyes, they would realize that his outer demeanor was simply a bluff.

"What should we do now? Sit here and wait like idiots for a bus that would probably never come, or go and find something to do?"

Eyes focused on Mukahi.

"We're not going to have to spend another day here are we?" Hiyoshi asked.

"We don't have a damn choice do we?"

"Gakuto-"

"Unless Atobe can somehow miraculously contact that stupid bus driver or something, we're stuck here. Until someone comes." Mukahi continued ranting, ignoring the death glares that was being sent to him by his captain.

Oshitari sighed, picking himself up from where he was sitting on the carpet. Brushing the dust off his pants, he turned to Atobe.

"Shall we just go back then?"

"How are we going to go home then?"

"What?" Oshitari waved his hand in the air. "This is Japan. Our coaches and parents would probably wonder why we've not reached home as planned and send people to come and check on us."

"Ah true."

Those sitting on the floor plucked themselves off and they all dragged their feet back to the recreation room.

When they went in, all of them made a beeline for the couches and plopped down onto them.

"Us being there and here makes no difference." Hiyoshi scanned the area.

When they were waiting by the front door, they were either sitting, or standing, just passing the time by staring into blank space. Now, even though they were back in the recreation room, they still did the same thing.

"What can we say? We're boring people who don't know how to entertain ourselves." Shishido tried to crack a joke. Laughing lamely by himself before fading off when no one else laughed.

"Argh…someone, do something." Kirihara groaned.

"Another movie? Kirihara-kun?" Yagyuu suggested.

"Yagyuu-senpai. Seriously?" Kirihara turned his head sideways, his cheek now resting against expensive leather, and looked at Yagyuu weirdly.

"Yagyuu, remember the last time we did?" Yanagi asked.

"We can just avoid any movies with those scenes."

There was a silent agreement.

Out came the huge row of movies and into the DVD player one went. Atobe ordered Taki to keep an eye, or ear, on the doorbell, just in case someone comes to pick them up while they were watching the movie.

The tennis players also found out that Atobe had 3D glasses available for them to use…

"Wooo…" There was a whistle.

"Man, those guys are boring." The male was lying down on his stomach on a tree branch, hidden by leaves, his legs hanging off the sides, hands on the binoculars as he spied into the mansion. "They're just sitting there watching movies."

"Separate them." An oh so familiar voice crackled through the handheld transceiver that was hanging on his belt. "Getting them one by one is so much more fun. You know who to go after. Hahaaa! Over."

"Princess has given the order. Oh yeah~!" The man rejoiced, pushing himself off from his previous position and into a sitting position. "It's fun time~"

They spent the entire day and night watching movies. Unfortunately, there was not a single sign of anyone coming to pick them up. The doorbell eagerly waiting for a person to press it had to wait a little longer, it seems.

"Is anyone coming…?" Kikumaru asked for the 10th time.

"Not yet Eiji." Oishi replied, the answer the same every single time.

Suddenly, the lights started the flicker.

"What's going on?" Atobe asked, annoyed at how the lights flickered on and off, on and off, plunging them all into total darkness, and back to brightness.

"Are the lights faulty?"

"No. Ore-sama's lights do not do this when they blow."

"…what?..."

"Forget the details! Inui, Yanagi? Any of you have any idea?"

"Hm…this is strange indeed." Inui mused, a flash of light showed that he had his hand on his spectacles.

"Sadaharu, do you think that it's the breaker tripping?" Yanagi asked, stumbling, trying not to trip over the other regulars' feet, towards Inui. The lights going on and off that quickly made the walk almost impossible, however, Yanagi managed.

"No Renji, if the breaker tripped, the lights wouldn't flicker like this."

"Atobe! Is this only happening to this room?" Sanada roared from one side, to Atobe, who was on the other end of the mini-theatre (just the left side of the recreation room with the TV and couches) in the recreation room.

"How will ore-sama know?" Atobe shouted back.

"Atobe, check?" Mukahi rolled his eyes.

"Mukahi, why don't YOU do it?" Atobe was seriously getting very annoyed. Mukahi was getting on his nerves, insulting his fabulous villa, his abilities, and now using that kind of tone on him. Atobe made a mental reminder to make sure that Mukahi receives his punishment for that when they reach home.

"Ask your servant! He's right by the damn door!"

Yup, Atobe really had to punish the acrobat.

"Taki! Check the hallways!" Atobe ordered.

They heard a soft creak, a sign that Taki was opening the door.

"Keigo-sama! It's the same out there."

"What the hell is going on here?"

"I wish I knew darn it. Stop asking!"

"Inui, figured it out yet?"

"Sorry Tezuka, not yet."

"-obility that it's the-" One could hear snippets of the data masters' conversation, as they were speaking in hush whispers, and others were a bit too noisy.

"We should just check the breaker." Oishi suddenly piped up. They had been waiting for the data masters to come up with a conclusion, but unfortunately, they didn't seem to be able to.

"But Oishi." Atobe pointed out. "The breaker is in the basement."

Oishi looked back and forth, trying to see as many faces as he could in the horrible lighting (the flickering lights). "I can go down there and take a look."

"No Oishii!" Kikumaru cried out, latching onto Oishi's left arm.

"Oishi. The danger." Tezuka reminded.

"But we've checked the whole place, there wasn't anybody else in here."

Tezuka pursed his lips together.

"I'll be back in a jiffy, it won't take me long. I promise."

"How do you plan to find your way there?"

"I was the one who looked at the basement earlier Tezuka. I know where it is." Oishi turned to look at Atobe. "Atobe, do you have a flashlight or anything?"

"Why?"

"I can't see very well when the lights are like this."

"Taki."

"Here Keigo-sama."

"Here you go Oishi." Atobe passed the flashlight to the Seigaku vice-captain.

"Oishi. Do not let your guard down."

"I won't."

"Why isn't Oishi back yet?"

"It has only been a minute Kikumaru." Tezuka replied. "He couldn't have reached yet."

"Oh."

"This flickering of lights is making me dizzy."

"Suck it up."

"What did you say?"

"Be a man and stop complaining."

"Guys, stop."

Ding. The lights suddenly stopped flickering and stayed on like before.

"Oishi must have done it." Kikumaru rejoiced.

"Ah." Inui and Yanagi stopped their conversation and looked at the lights in confusion.

"I was right Sadaharu. It had something to do with the breaker."

"This is illogical."

"I'm hungry."

"Again Akaya?" Marui grumbled.

"Marui-senpai! I don't have endless supply of gum like you do!"

"Shut up and eat this." Niou chucked a piece of gum that he stole from Marui at Kirihara.

"Oi! THAT'S MINE!"

"Marui, sharing is caring." Yukimura flashed a smile at the self-proclaimed genius.

Marui leant back with a sigh, sinking into the soft couch. He couldn't argue against Yukimura. No one could. Unless they wanted to face certain death.

"Why isn't anyone coming? Shouldn't our parents be wondering why we're not home yet?" Sanada asked.

"It's been nearly a whole day since we were meant to be back. They should realize it by now." Oshitari mused.

"That's really strange indeed." Tezuka added.

"Tezuka…where's Oishi?" Kikumaru asked again, this time, he was a bit frightened.

"He should have been back by now." Inui looked up from his notebook.

"I'm going to go look for Oishi!" Kikumaru exclaimed, running out of the room in a flash.

"KIKUMARU!" Tezuka yelled, but was unable to stop the acrobat from disappearing. Tezuka rubbed his temples and sighed.

"Inui, let's go."

Inui quickly followed Tezuka out of the room, and they made their way to the basement.

The Hyoutei and Rikkaidai regulars looked at each other and shrugged, before making their way to the basement as well. They had nothing else to do anyways.

"OISHIIIIII!" They heard an ear-piercing yell. It had to be Kikumaru.

"NO OISHI DON'T LEAVE ME!"

Tezuka knelt down beside Kikumaru and looked at his vice-captain. Oishi's two antennae looking hair were sticking up. Tezuka glanced to the right, and looked at the breaker. It looked relatively safe. He then turned to look at Oishi again.

"Electric shock." Inui suddenly said.

Tezuka looked at the breaker again.

"Probability that the cause of it was from the breaker is 79%."

"Kikumaru don't touch him!" Tezuka stopped Kikumaru, who was reaching out to touch Oishi.

Tezuka observed the breaker again, slowly standing up.

"Hm?"

There was a slip of paper stuck on the top of it. Tezuka frowned. Carefully, he plucked it out and read it.

"Seigaku again." Sanada commented, just arriving at the scene. He had meant no harm from that comment, but it had caused a huge uproar.

"Someone's after Seigaku! I'm sure of it!" Shishido exclaimed, turning to face his teammates and pointing a finger at Oishi.

Atobe furrowed his eyebrows together, rubbing his chin. "That's true."

Kikumaru jumped up and screamed at the other two schools. "THAT'S NOT TRUE! Who would be after us?!" He was shaking, from anger or from grief, they couldn't tell.

"Your team has been getting eliminated one by one." Mukahi sneered.

"Gakuto…stop it." Oshitari placed a hand on his doubles partner's shoulder.

"Everyone, there's another note."

Tezuka lifted up the note for all of them to see.

"Only the kindhearted ones would come down here. I had a 50/50 chance of getting the right one."

"What the hell does that mean?"

"I don't know." Tezuka looked at everyone in the eye. "Let's go back."

He then started to walk out of the basement, climbing up the stairs. Inui had to drag Kikumaru off Oishi and followed their captain.

Tezuka stopped halfway up, when he realized that the other two schools were not following him.

"Hm?"

"Sorry Tezuka." Yukimura said. "I'm afraid we can't stick together anymore."

Tezuka mouth made a firm line. "Why is that so?"

"Whoever it is, is definitely aiming for Seigaku." Yanagi explained.

"Renji…we don't know that."

"Sadaharu. Data does not lie."

"What do you mean?"

"Have you not noticed? First, it was Momoshiro and Kaidoh. Both from Seigaku. Next was Kawamura and Jackal. Jackal was not in Seigaku but he had been with Kawamura at that time."

"But what about Kabaji? The murderer even said on the note that he was aiming for Atobe."

"Ore-sama does not know why anyone is aiming for him, but ore-sama agrees with Rikkai. Your team is being targeted Tezuka."

"…"

"Kabaji's case is the only one that does not fit the theory, however, it doesn't deny the fact that the rest of the murders have been from Seigaku."

"That Fuji guy is missing as well. Who knows? He may even be the one who's behind all of this." Hiyoshi said.

"WHAT?" Kikumaru was shocked beyond belief, gripping onto the railing like he could break it into two. "Fuji will never do such a thing! He'll never!"

"Fuji will never do anything like that." Tezuka agreed.

"We'll never know will we?" Mukahi said.

"We reckon it's best to split up now." Atobe and Yukimura said in unison.

Tezuka stared at the two captains for a few moments. "Fine."

"What? Tezuka!"

"Kikumaru, stop it. We can't force them if we don't want to."

"Sorry Sadaharu."

"It's okay Renji."

The remainder of Seigaku left after that, leaving Hyoutei, Rikkaidai and Taki in the basement, with Oishi's body.

"Atobe, you're being targeted as well. Rikkai will not hang around with Hyoutei too."

"It doesn't matter to ore-sama. Do whatever you want." Atobe waved his hand lightly. After climbing up the flight of stairs to the first floor, both teams went in different directions, Taki following Hyoutei of course.

A/N: Because they must always have a fall out in these kind of stories. Sigh.

I made a creepy male. Creepy female + creepy male. Why do I keep doing this?

Will I kill everyone? Maybe. Maybe not.

By the way, if anyone's wondering, I did not forget about the girl in Chapter 5. Hn. Just putting it out there.