So here we are, the last chapter. Somehow I feel happy and sad on the same time. /:)

Disclaimer: Actually I really hope I could own them at least in my last chapter, but sadly I can't. The Prince of Tennis series, Niou Masaharu and the other characters as well as Rikkaidai Fuzoku Chuu belong to Konomo Takeshi-sensei.

I'm sorry for any grammatical mistakes and typos.

Enjoy to your heart's content!


Ch10: I hate him doing nothing

"Niou-senpai, where're you going?" Akaya asked as he saw Niou closed the door of tennis clubhouse.

"I suddenly remember I have something important to do." The older guy answered.

Akaya raised a brow. "More important than tennis practice?"

"Mm-hm." Niou walked passed Akaya and headed to the school building.

"But buchou and fukubuchou'll be mad if the know you're skipping practice!" Akaya tried to remind, but Niou ignored him and left.

"Geez, that Niou-senpai..." He grumbled. Mura-buchou wouldn't be pleased, and that would never ever turn into a good thing for sure!

Akaya turned the doorknob and opened the door. What he found next was really terrifying and life threatening.

"WHAT THE HECK!"


"Really, fukubuchou. I swear by the time I got here, everything had been in chaos! It's not me!"

"Is that true? You're not lying, are you?" Sanada kept interrogating with grim face. The regulars gathered in the clubroom, or supposed to be clubroom to be correct. The room was completely messed up now. One of the windows was broken, the photo frames on the wall were now scattered on the floor, some of the trophies were also broken, and the worst part was Yukimura's beloved vase was completely destroyed.

"I- It's true. I'm not lying. I won't ever dare to lie." Akaya squeaked.

"It's 87% that Akaya didn't do it." Yanagi stated, much to Akaya's slight of relief. At least somebody believed him, and it was Yanagi Renji the data man.

"I agree with Renji. I don't think Akaya did it." Yukimura smiled, as always. And as always, his smile had a certain meaning. This time it was I have an urge to kill somebody, tell me who did it or I'll kill you all.

Everyone gulped.

"Then, if it wasn't you, who did it?" Sanada asked another question with scary face. Actually, he wasn't scary, he was scared. 'Oh God, Yukimura's gonna kill me! He's gonna kill me!' He mentally shrieked.

"I don't know." Akaya squeaked again, this time he was even more nervous because of Yukimura's killer aura.

Yukimura patted the younger fellow on the shoulder gently, though the poor boy could only felt more pain through his nerve. "Can't you remember anything? May be there's something related to this incident."

Akaya frowned, trying to recall the past events. It was actually much harder than it seemed under this circumstance. "Uhm, let's see… This morning I overslept. I was barely on time for morning practice and got punishment from fukubuchou. I ran 30 laps. Then I stole some candies from Marui-senpai's bag. (Marui: *bubble popped* What? You stole my candies?) I went to class after practice but then I forgot that I was supposed to go to the laboratory instead of my class, in the end I got some assignments as punishment because I turned up late. There was a sudden English quiz on the third period and I couldn't do it at all. On lunch time I went to the rooftop, just to realize that I had forgotten to bring my bento this morning. I went to canteen to buy breed, but then I also forgot to bring my wallet. It was so lucky of me that I met Jackal-senpai there and successfully made him buy me a large set of tonkatsu. (Jackal: If he was actually going to buy bread, why did he ask me to buy him the most expensive tonkatsu in the menu? *mentally sobbed*) Then I took a nap on mathematics and science classes. Then I still had to clean the classes after school, and then... And then…"

"Akaya, I didn't ask you to tell us what you did this entire day." Yukimura twitched. "Just tell me irregular things."

Akaya scratched his head. "What do you mean by irregular things, buchou?"

Yukimura twitched even more. 'Calm down, Seiichi. He is Akaya. He is Akaya after all.' He reminded himself to refrain from killing Akaya. "Something like Sanada dances salsa, Marui chokes bubblegum, Yagyuu breaks his golf club, Niou impersonates a girl…"

A light bulb popped in Akaya's head. Oh Akaya, dear…

"Niou-senpai! I met Niou before I got here!" He proudly grinned.

"I see. So, it's Niou."

It was so slow of them in realizing thing. The trickster hadn't been there from the very beginning. Why hadn't somebody suspected him on the first place?

"It's 99% that Niou's the one who did it," Yanagi said his extremely late prediction. "And it's also 99% that you'll ask us to search for him no matter what."

Yukimura nodded. "That's right. But before that…"

"…I have to make sure that no one of you is an impersonating Niou… is what you want to say," Yanagi added. "And the most suspicious person is his own partner."

Everyone looked at Yagyuu, who had been silently stood there.

"Me?"

"Don't worry Yagyuu. Just a little test," Yukimura smiled as creepy as usual."Do it, Sanada."

Sanada faced Yagyuu.

"Wait, Sanada-ku-"

Yagyuu's word was cut by a hard, ear-tearing slap sound.

"Sanada-kun, why did you slap me?"

"Oh, so this is the real Yagyuu." Yukimura smiled in satisfaction.

"Pardon?"

"Actually, this is the new way we three invented to differ you from Niou. If it had been Niou, he would have yelled 'Why the fuck you slap me, Sanada?' or something like that." Yanagi explained.

Yagyuu sighed. Ouch, his cheek burnt so bad. Sanada knew no mercy. "I understand, but there must be some other way."

"This is the most efficient way." Yukimura said. His words were always final. Yagyuu didn't want to complain more.

"Now it's Akaya's turn." Yanagi's non-existed, data man's glasses glinted.

Akaya widened his eyes in shock and quickly ran behind Yukimura. "Y- You want to slap me too?"

Yukimura chuckled. "No, Akaya. I just wanna check whether your hair is real or not." He gently tugged Akaya's curly hair. "Nah, you're the real one."

"I think we should check each other as well." Yanagi said to Sanada and Sanada nodded in agreement as he took off his cap. They both tried to pull each other's hair but nothing happened. Negative results. None of them was Niou with wig.

Yanagi went to Marui and pulled the red hair. Same result, it was real hair, not a wig. Then he turned to Jackal, after staring at the half Brazillian guy for a while in skeptical way, he turned back to Yukimura. "They're really who they are."

Somehow Jackal felt sad. Why did Niou never interested to impersonate him? Why was he always skipped?

On other hand, Yagyuu mentally grumbled. (Mentally because gentleman didn't grumble) Why did he have to be the only one who had gotten slapped?

And no one ever dared to check whether Yukimura was really Yukimura or not.

"Alright then, Akaya, Marui, and Jackal go search for Niou. Sanada, Renji, Yagyuu, and I will stay here and clean up this place."


"Now, where's Niou-senpai…" Akaya looked around. The silverhead was nowhere to be found. Not on the tennis court (of course), not in the toilets, in classes, in the infirmary, not even around the school yard.

Jackal sighed. "I wonder why we always end up looking for someone."

"Oi Akaya, give me back my candies!" Marui nagged.

"Gee!" Akaya ran away. Marui ran after him, and Jackal ran after them. They ran around the school.

[20 minutes later]

"D- Damn you, Akaya!" Marui gasped, he needed more air to breath. "Y-You, little seaweed-haired brat!"

"Marui!" Jackal tried to remind his partner not to say a certain word. That was a taboo.

"…"

"Oh crap…"

"HYAHYAHYAHYA!"

[After another 20 minutes of running]

"I-I need sugar…"

"Hey, Marui, are you okay?"

"Sugar! Sugar! Jackal, buy me something! Now! Now! Now!"

"Sorry, but I don't have money anymore."

"I need sugaaaaaaaaaaaaaar! I'm dyiiiing!"

"Che. Senpai, you're exaggerating it."

"Crap! Everything is your fault, you seaw- UPH!" Jackal covered Marui's mouth. He knew they couldn't handle it anymore if Akaya turned into Devil Mode again.

"Akaya, find candy or something for him."

"Hai hai…" Akaya lazily looked around and (yes!) he found a random passerby.

"Oi, you! Yes, you, senpai! Do you have any candy?" He asked.

The asked girl nodded and gave him a candy from her pocket.

Akaya handed the candy to Jackal and Jackal hurriedly shoved the candy into Marui's mouth, of course after removing the packing.

"Marui, are you feeling better now?" He asked worriedly.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Marui suddenly screamed and ran away leaving them. "My tongue's burniiiiiing! Wateeeeer!"

Jackal looked at his vanishing partner. "What's wrong with him?" Then he finally noticed the candy's packing in his hand.

EXTRA STRONG PEPPERMINT CANDY

Oh, good…


"I see. So it's actually you who did it."

"W- We're really sorry, buchou!" Three first graders bowed in front of Yukimura with pale faces. "We only intended to practice a small rally behind the clubhouse, then one of us accidentally hit the ball too hard and it broke the window. We were so scared when we found out that the ball not only broke the window, but also damaged the entire clubhouse's interior."

Yukimura smiled. "Well, it's not like I can let you go that easily without punishment. However, since I appreciate your courage for telling me the truth, I'll decrease the number of laps."

"Thank you very much!" They cheered in relieved.

"Now, 100 laps."


"My data failed again, although there's still 1 percent possibility that it was caused by anybody but Niou. However, I'm pretty sure Seiichi's still mad about his vase. The probability is around 97%. That vase is very precious for him. He uses it to put in his favorite flowers, and he needs the flowers to penetrate the remaining of faint alcohol smell in this room."

"Yanagi-kun... Can you stop doing that for a while and help me repairing the torn photos of our Akaringo play?"

"Oh, right. By the way, Yagyuu.."

"Yes?"

"Are you the real Yagyuu or Yagyuu-Niou?"

"…"

In the background, Sanada was mourning the broken Make Over Competition trophy Yukimura had awarded him back then.


"I thought I was really gonna die. My tongue still hurts so badly."

"Marui-senpai, you're exaggerating it. It's only a peppermint candy."

SMACK!

"Ouch!"

"Guys, please. We haven't found Niou yet…"

"It's your fault, Jackal!"

"Why always me?"

"Because senpai's a baldy."

"Why everything always has to do with my head for God's sake?"


So, where was Niou?

Actually, if they had still remembered Niou's data, it would have been much easier to find him.

Niou Masaharu
often visited place in school: rooftop

Somewhere on the shady part of the rooftop, Niou peacefully snored with a black NDS in his hand.


That's our last chapter. I hope you're satisfied with the ending. Niou's not always the evil one. In this story, he didn't even pull any prank.

I also inserted my OCs here for the last time. haha

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