A/N: As promised, here is another extra chapter. This one it set before the events of the main story, and is pretty much all for laughs. Not many pairings are mentioned in this chapter, but like I said, it's my attempt at a pure humor chapter.
On the Other Side Extra chapter 3(21)
We're going camping!
"So let's if we understand correctly, youre making us go camping in the middle of the forest for three days?"
"And nights."
Sanada glared at their coach. If he wasn't the one training them(although doing a rather bad job at it) he'd have punched the man in the face. If only for the sake of the younger players with them.
"So," Mifune started, "All you little bastards are going to be camping out, starting tonnight, for three days and nights."
He then began to explain the what everyone had to do before sending them out with supplies.
"That damn coach better have a good reason for making us stay out in the woods for three days." Shishido complained. "Did he even say what to look out for?"
"He said there are a few bears, snakes and a few wolves." Hiyoshi shrugged. "Nothing too bad." Shishido gave him a look.
"Fuck you and your screwed up logic." He snapped. It might have been because he was forced to carry one of the crates containing supplies(Read: They drew strings to decide. GUess who lost?) but he seemed a bit more irritable than usual.
They walked for around another hour before they reached the area to set up camp, and most people were glad to finally be freed of their burndens.
"So how dark do you think it gets here at night?" Zaizen asked as they set up their tent. Hiyoshi shrugged.
"I dunno. Very?" He looked around. "Think there are any ghosts?" He saw Zaizen flinch out of the corner of his eye, and he smirked.
He knew what they were doing tonight.
But first they had to get the tent done.
"Let's hurry up and finish, this is boring." Zaizen nodded.
After successfully setting up the tent, the two decided bothering the others would be fun. Of course, that got them a 'Tarundoru' from Sanada and they were sent off on their next task. Gathering firewood. They decided then that they would make Sanada's time during this campout hell. Starting with all the memories Hiyoshi had of their early childhood.
"Y'know, one time when we were playing in the rain, he accidentally ripped his raincoat and had to wear one of my mom's old ones." He said, and Zaizen looked at him.
"Seriously?"
"Yup, it was pink and floral patterned." He said with a smirk. Zaizen smirked.
"I bet."
"He also hated it when I cried. He used to panic whenever I showed signs of tearing up." He said, looking up. It was getting dark, and they seemed to have enough wood. "I think we have enough, let's go back." He said, adjusting the wood in his arms.
" 'Kay." Zaizen looked around, then he frowned. "Wakashi?"
"Yeah?" He asked. Zaizen sounded unsure of something.
"Do you remember the way back?"
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"Okay, now all we're waiting for is the firewood." Sanada announced. He looked around. "Zaizen and Wakashi aren't back yet?"
"They're probably just taking their time." Yuuta said. "You know how lazy they can be."
Sanada nodded, so they decided they would wait.
And wait.
And wait.
For about thirty minutes.
"They still aren't back yet?" Niou complained. Indeed, it was rather strange for them to be gone so long.
"You don't think they got lost, do you?" Oishi asked worriedly. Shishido grimaced.
"Knowing Wakashi, probably. The kid has absolutely no sense of direction. At all." Gakuto and Kabaji nodded along.
"What about Zaizen?" He tried again. Zaizen was a genius, surely he'd be able to-
Kenya snorted. "Please, the kid gets lost on the way to the courts. One time he got lost trying to find the bookstore in the shopping district." He laughed. Then realization hit him. "Oh shit."
Renji sighed. "So, we've got two directionally-challenged second-years wandering around in the middle of nowhere, at-" He paused to look at his watch. "7:00 pm, in the dark, with the possibility of being attacked by bears, snakes, and wol-"
"Aaahh, stop it! I don't want to hear anymore!" Oishi said, waving his hands around. "We have to go find them!"
Most people nodded, while some sighed.
"Won't they just find their way back eventually?" Shinji asked. Of all people, they weren't expecting him to say it. "They were the one's who wanted to go and get firewood in the first place."
A groan and all eyes turned to Sanada. "Let me guess, you told them to go get it." He sighed and nodded. "Then you go get them."
Sanada raised an eyebrow.
"You sent them out there, so naturally you would be the one to get them if they got lost." Shinji finished. Sanada frowned.
"That doesn't ma-"
"Relax Sanada, I'll go too." Shishido said, raising a hand. "I'm worried about Wakashi anyway, he doesn't deal well with the dark."
"I wanna go!" Kintarou piped up. "Koshimae too, he'll come!" Ryoma groaned.
"No..." But Kintarou had already grabbed his hand and was pulling him in the direction Yuuta said he saw them go. Kenya followed after them.
"I'll go too, to watch them."
And thus the search party was off.
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"Is it just me, or does it feel like we've gotten even more lost?"
Hiyoshi looked up. He didn't like that color, it meant it was getting dark. He didn't like it at all. Zaizen looked at him, wondering why he was so quiet.
"Wakashi?" By the look on his friend's face, Zaizen guessed he hadn't gotten over his fear of the dark. He sighed. "C'mon, we need to hurry up and get back to the camp."
Hiyoshi nodded, deciding that taking his eyes off the sky would get him to ignore the ever-changing light.
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"Wakashi!"
"Zaizen!"
Ryoma sighed. Why did they have to get lost? Weren't they at least 14? They shouild be able to find their way back. The fact that Kintarou had a good grip on his wrist and was dragging him wherever he went did little to ease him.
"Zaaaaiiizeeeen!" Kintarou called, holding a hand up to his ear to listen for any response. When he didn't hear any, he sighed. "Where are they..."
"We'll find them." Ryoma said automatically. "Then we'll make them do our chores for making us come out and look for them." Kintarou grinned.
"Yeah!"
Sanada watched the two, a small smile slipping. It almost reminded him of when he and Yukimura were kids, the way the two supported each other.
"Oh? Sanada's got a soft spot for kids?"
He jumped when he head Shishido's voice next to him. He turned with a scowl. Shishido waved it off, chuckling.
"Atleast now we know you can smile."
Kenya, all the while, was turning over rocks and shaking trees in an attenpt to find the missing second-years.
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"Did you hear something?" Hiyoshi asked, looking around. He could have sworn he heard someone call his name.
"No." Zaizen said, then paused. "Actually, yes. just now."
They strained their ears for any sound, before Hiyoshi's head turned.
"That way, I think I heard Shishido-sempai." He said, walking in the direction of the sound.
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"Wakashi!" Shishido called again. He froze when he heard rustling a few feet away. The others heard it too, as they were all still and facing the same direction.
"Sempa!"
Kenya's face broke out into a grin at the sight of Zaizen and Hiyoshi walking through the trees, the wood still under one arm each. He quickly ran forward, scooping his kohai up in a hug. Kintarou followed, clinging to his friend from behind.
"We were looking for you guys!" He cheered.
Hiyoshi growled, glaring at his sempai as Shishido pulled on his cheeks.
"I~diot. We were worried about you." He said with a grin. Sanada raisen an eyebrow.
"Is this how your team punishes people?" He asked. When he thought about it, he could never remember any time when he'd seen anyone on the team punished.
"Only him, Sanada, only him." Shishido chuckled, yelping when Hiyoshi swatted his hands away. Ryoma walked up to him.
"I'm just telling you this now, you and the other one are going to be doing our tasks fpr the next few days for making us come out here." He said, gesturing to Kintarou. Hiyoshi frowned, but knew it was only fair. Despite him not showing it, he could tell from the tone of his voice was a bit - if ony a bit - worried too.
Shishido smirked. "Well, Wakashi, look like you've gotten over your fear of the dark." He laughed, not noticing how the younger boy paled quickly and how Sanada had facepalmed himself.
Shishido ended up carrying a rather terrified Hiyoshi back to the camp, with Zaizen giving him a 'you shouldn't have said it'.
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All 27 middles schoolers sat around the - rather large - campfire, chatting away as if it were a real camp out. Hiyoshi grinned from his seat between Sanada and Zaizen, standing up and clapping his hands. Everyone turned their attention to him.
"Campfires call for ghost stories. Anyone got one?"
There was a short silence as he pulled out a flashlight and tossed it to the first person who raised their hand. Which, ironically, was Inui.
"I'll start." He said, catching the flashlight. He began with a tale about a haunted inn in America that he had heard about.
Hiyoshi sat back down, receiving a jab to the side from Zaizen, which he laughed off. Zaizen glared at him. "Asshole."
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"And that was how we spent a good three days in the mountains."
Akaya stared at his friends for a good thirty seconds before he burst out in laughter.
"You people really have nothing better to do than cause trouble, eh?" He said between laughs. Zaizen threw a book at him.
"Speak for yourself."
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Oh god I had to pick this chapter to start procrastinating, didn't I? I started watching videos and reading through my old fics while I was typing this. But luckily I got it done at 2:00 and am gonna head to bed. Like I said, it was my attempt at a purely humor chapter, it was the best I could do. I almost made the mistake of adding Akaya in during the firewood part, then reminded myself 'wait he's not with them'. I had actually intended to start it off with him asking about what they did there, but then it turned into this.