Rumor Has It

by mcangel1976

There are a lot of rumors floating around the middle school tennis circuit. They have been gathered here for your enjoyment... uh warning... uh pleasure... you get the point. There is no telling what is true or not since they are rumors, but they have to be true if everyone is talking about them and spreading them. Right? At least part of them? No one is safe from the rumor mill.

12. Kirihara, Rikkai Dai, and Easter Bunny

A/N: Happy Easter! Here is a special rumor just for the holiday. Enjoy!

Rumor involving: Kirihara Akaya, second year ace and regular member of the Rikkai Dai tennis team (and a student who is a bit unstable on the courts… maybe off the courts as well), and in a roundabout way the rest of the Rikkai Dai tennis team.

Rumor has it that Kirihara Akaya wholeheartedly believes in the Easter Bunny and begged and pleaded with Yukimura to have the whole team write letters to the Easter Bunny. Niou Masaharu tried to scoff and get out of it saying, "You write letters to Santa, not to the Easter Bunny." It is said that he was instantly knocked to the ground with one of Sanada's torundorous. He decided it was best to quell his arguments for now. Supposedly by the bluenette's orders, everyone on the tennis team wrote the Easter Bunny a letter and Jackal (because he was the most responsible and least crazy), was tasked with mailing the letters to the Easter Bunny. Kirihara didn't trust the half-Brazilian to mail the letters because he saw Jackal talking to Niou, so he decided it was his right and responsibility to go with his caretaker to the post office and make sure they get mailed. According to the rumor, they got mailed and then on Easter morning, someone dressed as a bunny suit and went over to Kirihara's house and left an Easter basket and several eggs scattered around the yard for an Easter Egg Hunt. The ace swears it was the real Easter Bunny, and no one on the team is fessing up to the deed. Some rumors claim it was Niou messing with the younger teen. Others say it was Jackal or Marui under orders from Yukimura. Still another says it was Yanagi so that he could watch from a distance and gather data. No one knows for sure, but according to rumors, the Easter Bunny received the letters from the Rikkai Dai tennis team asking him to fulfill Kirihara's wishes so that they didn't have to write any more letters… I would think this might mean more letters in the future though. Is the Easter Bunny real? I don't know, but Kirihara believes.