AN: Thanks for the reviews!

Oh no… I've really fallen back into my habit of never updating. I'm really sorry I had exams and I really needed to do well.

Also, I've started working on the next story. It's Sanada x OC, so more Rikkai! And I watch the Prince of Tennis Musical Dream Live 1st! I totally started to fangirl over Fuji (Kimeru)!

Okay, so I'm two days late to dedicate this chapter to Ryoma… Oh well! Happy belated birthday, Ryoma-kun!

This chapter is has not had a beta look over it. You have been warned.

Enjoy!

-Coco

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Chapter 13: Team Night plus a Problem

"So what exactly are we going to do for team night?" Ootori asked, breaking the silence.

They turned to Atobe. "Ore-sama thinks that we should start with some group bonding."

"Like what? That stupid fall back into someone's arms thing?"

"Well, Shishido, Ore-sama didn't ask for your opinion. Right, Kabaji?"

"Usu."

"What about truth or dare?" Niou suggested.

"No."

Everyone turned towards Rie.

"Why not?" asked Gakuto.

"Because it's stupid," she replied, turning away for them. Gakuto stuck his tongue out at her, causing Rie to roll her eyes. "Very mature."

"Well," he smirked, "I am older than you."

Yuushi wrapped his arms around the younger girl as she started to pout. "Yuushi," she said, in a voice as sweet as honey, "Gakuto-kun is being mean to me again."

Yuushi looked at his doubles partner. "Gakuto, that's no way to treat a lady." His voice held a mock sternness in it which in turn made Gakuto start to pout.

"Yuushi, you're so mean!"

"Yeah, Yuushi, you shouldn't be so harsh to poor little Gakuto-kun."

Yuushi stared at Rie. Honestly, at times she could be downright bipolar.

"Gakuto-kun, I'm sorry for Yuushi's meanness," she said, looking at the acrobat.

Gakuto smiled at her. "It's okay. I'm used to it by now."

The other Hyotei regulars had been watching the exchange only slightly amused. They were almost used to it by now… Meanwhile, the Rikkai regulars had sat through it rather awkwardly.

"So is that a yes for truth or dare?" Niou asked.

"No," Rie answered quickly.

"No?"

"Yes."

"Wait, yes?"

"What? No."

"So… no?"

"Yes."

"Yes?"

"Niou Masaharu, I swear if you do that one more time I'll hurt you!" Rie was used to Niou's stupid games, but she still hated them and got annoyed surprisingly easy.

"But, Rie, darling," he started, "Akaya really loves truth or dare."

"Yeah, it's so much fun!" the second year stated. He had already started jumping up and down with excitement.

Rie bit her lip uneasily. On one hand, she was almost positively she knew what Niou was planning… But on the other hand, she did own Akaya for leaving the Rikkai team night without seeing him. She sighed in defeat. "I guess truth or dare isn't that bad."

Niou smirked in response. "Everyone, form a circle so it will be easier. You get two chickens, one for a truth and one for a dare. If someone chickens out your can't ask/dare the same thing again. Other than those each time you want to chicken out there will be a penalty. And no dare repeats."

"Niou-kun, I think there should be some rules about what is allowed to be asked or dared," Yagyuu spoke up."

"Good idea, Yagyuu. For dares, nothing that can hurt the person being dared or anyone else. And for truths… um… I don't know. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it."

"Okay. Now I think Rie should get to ask first," Yukimura said, smiling.

Everyone turned to her as she scanned the group of boys carefully. "Yuushi," she said innocently, "truth or dare?"

Yuushi thought hard for a moment before replying. "Truth."

"Hmm… Who's your favorite team mate?"

"…"

"Yuushi?"

"Must I answer?"

"Yes. I'm afraid you must."

"I… I suppose it would be… I think it's a tie."

Rie scoffed. "Yeah right! You just don't want to have to choose between Gakuto-kun and Atobe-san."

The Hyotei regulars, minus Gakuto, Atobe, and Kabaji, snickered.

"That's not true."

"Then answer."

Yuushi sighed. He knew he was going to have to answer sooner or later. "Gakuto."

"Ha!" Gakuto shouted, jumping up from his seat. "In your face, Atobe! Yuushi likes me better! Yuushi likes me better!" Gakuto started doing a victory dance… At least that's what the others assumed it was.

Atobe narrowed his eyes at the red head and watched as Yuushi and Ootori tried to calm Gakuto down.

"Niou-san," Yuushi said trying to get them back on track.

"Yes, Oshitari-baka?"

Yuushi twitched. "What did you just say to me?"

…

Niou smirked at the reaction. "I said 'yes, Oshitari-baka?'"

Oshitari looked as though he was going to say something. But in the end he replied simply. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare," the silver haired boy replied.

Oshitari thought for a moment before smirking. "I dare you to quit tennis for the rest of the year."

For a moment the world seemed to stop. Everyone stared at Oshitari in shock. Then Rikkai erupted in a chorus of "What?", "Are you insane?", "Stop messing around!", "and "No way!".

"Haha! Awesome dare, Yuushi!" Gakuto said doubling over in laughter.

Niou frowned. This didn't sit well with him. Obviously he'd use his chicken, so why had Oshitari-baka dared him? "I'm gone use my chicken."

Oshitari smiled. "Okay, so you're going to use your one chicken. Your turn."

The Rikkai regular felt like face palming. How did he not realize that was what Oshitari-baka getting at? Oh well, what's done is done. "Oi, Akaya, truth or dare?"

"… Truth."

"Who's your favorite person in this room?"

Akaya's mouth fell open and his eyes grew wide.

The Rikkai regulars turned and faced him, all of them waiting for the answer.

"I… My favorite person is…"

"Come on, Akaya, it should be an obvious answer," Niou said. Inwardly, he was rolling on the floor laughing. He knew that normally the brat would say Yukimura, but since Rie was here he was probably freaking out. Niou knew that Rie wouldn't really care either way, and that Yukimura would understand no matter what.

"It's Yukimura-buchou," Akaya blurted out.

Oshitari leaned over and whispered into Rie's ear, causing the girl to frown. Her eyes slid over to Akaya then back to Oshitari. She whispered something back quickly as she shook her head.

Akaya's shoulders slumped. Worry was apparent in his eyes.

"Akaya," Yukimura spoke up, "it's your turn to chose someone."

Akaya looked around. "Rie-chan, truth or dare?"

"Um… I guess I'll be the first to pick truth."

"Why are you getting married? I thought we were dating," he said the second softly with a slightly hurt tone.

Rie's brow furrowed. "Married?"

"He," Akaya pointed to Mukahi, "said that you and Oshitari were getting married."

"Oh, that!" Rie's face broke out in understanding. "We aren't getting married. You don't need to worry about it. We were engaged, but that was back before Niou and I started dating."

"Okay!" Akaya smiled brightly at her.

"So… Marui-san, truth or dare?"

Niou noticed that a few of the Hyotei regulars were pouting slightly due to the fact that Rie hadn't chosen them.

"Dare, of course!"

"I… dare you to spend the rest of the night with Jirou-kun."

"Yippee!" Jirou shouted jumping up and down, meanwhile Marui sweat dropped.

"I think my chicken will-," he started, but when he noticed the kicked puppy look Jirou was giving him, he stopped. "I think we're going to be best friends by the time tonight is over." Jirou squealed and glomped Marui.

Jirou beamed at Rie. "Thank you so much, Rie-chan!" He got up and glomped her as well.

"No problem, Jirou-kun."

"Marui, it's your turn," Jackal said softly to his doubles partner.

"Right! Let's see… Sanada, truth or dare?"

"Dare," the capped boy said.

"I dare you not to give us laps for all of next week!"

"No."

"You have to!"

"No."

"Yukimura-buchou, he has to right?"

"Well, Marui, he could use his chicken."

"Che, Sanada a chicken? Wait till I tell everyone at school."

"Niou-kun, you shouldn't say things like that."

"Genichirou, there's a 79% chance that if you use your chicken now that Masaharu-kun will have something worse for you later."

"Fine, no laps. Atobe, truth or dare?"

"… Ore-sama chooses dare."

"I… I dare you not to say 'ore-sama' for the rest of the night."

Atobe gapped at him. "Pardon?"

"All it means is you have to say 'I' instead of 'ore-sama'. That is… unless you're chicken."

Atobe glared at Sanada. "Ore… I… I mean I'm not chicken."

Sanada smirked slightly. "Then it's your turn."

"Rie, truth or dare?"

Rie stared at Atobe. "But, Atobe-san, I already went."

"Ore… I don't care."

"Um… dare."

"I dare you to… kiss Yukimura."

…

Rie could feel the blush creeping its way onto her face. Things like this are why she hates playing this pointless game. She knew that Akaya and Yukimura were probably expecting her to use her chicken, but she couldn't. Niou most likely had a thousand tricks up his sleeve to make her say something against Yuushi or Akaya.

"What are you going to do, Rie? Yuushi asked her quietly.

With a sigh she stood and walked over to Yukimura. She could feel the sixteen pairs of eyes watching her as she knelt down in front of Yukimura. Taking a deep breath she leaned forward and pressed her lips to Yukimura's.

For a moment it seemed as if the world stopped. Then the next moment, all of hell broke loose.

Yukimura jerked away for the girl, which startled her causing her to trip. Yuushi and Atobe, who thought Yukimura pushed her, was up in a second. To former was checking on Rie while the latter started yelling at Yukimura. When Sanada saw that, he started to yell at Atobe. Then, Shishido made a boorish comment about Yukimura and Sanada, so of course Niou and Marui had to defend their captain and vice-captain. However when Jirou tried to get Marui's attention, the self-proclaimed tensai accidently hit the boy due to his wild hand motions. When Jirou started to cry Atobe began yelling again, but this time it was Marui. Meanwhile, Ootori was trying to comfort Jirou and quiet Shishido, Jackal was trying to comfort Akaya, Yagyuu was trying to get Niou to stop screaming insults at the Hyotei regulars, Gakuto was jumping up and down cheering on his team mates, Yuushi was trying to stop Gakuto, Yanagi was trying to calm down Sanada and reassure Yukimura, Kabaji was simply sitting there watching the madness around him, and Hiyoshi had left earlier to go to the bathroom and when he saw the fight in progress he simply stayed away.

"Stop fighting! You're all being stupid!"

There was silence as they stared at Rie. Her cheeks were stained with tears and she was shaking.

Yuushi was at her side in a second. "Rie, are you alright?"

"I hate listening to all this screaming," she said, her voice shaking. "Can't we all just get along."

As the regulars watched her start to cry again, their expressions changed. Some of them filled with guilt and some with sorrow.

"Rie-chan?"

The girl looked up to see Akaya staring at her.

"Why did-"

"Akaya," she said, cutting him off, "can we please not talk about this right now. I don't think I can take it."

Akaya frowned but nonetheless nodded.

"Rie, maybe you should go lay down," Yuushi said.

"Oshitari's right," Atobe agreed as he motioned for one of his maids.

"You guys promise there won't be any trouble?"

"Cross my heart," Yuushi said with a smile.

"Relax, princess, nothing will go wrong," Atobe said, hugging the girl.

Please, oh please, don't have let Atobe-san just jinx it, Rie thought to herself as she left the room.

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AN: Okay, so be honest… Were that OOC? Tell me what you think!

Oh and I hope everyone had a good holiday!

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