Sweet Revenge
Disclaimer: I only own Sapphire, Smoke, Yageo, Tama, Ishida, the names of Eiji's family, the Eiji devils, Eiji angels, and the co-op attacks between the Guardians. I also own some of the plot of the story if you know what I mean. Anime, mangas, and games that are in this story that I do not own are Prince of Tennis, Yu Gi Oh GX, Chrono Crusade, Negima, Full Moon O Sagashite, Gravitation, Mermaid Melody, Marchen Awakens Romance (character mentioned at the beginning), Skip Beat, Ultra Maniac, and Dark Stalkers. Additionally, I do not own Ding-Ding Dong, American Idiot, Stuck in America, Moral Combat theme, Witch Doctor, Butterfly, Sexy Back, I'm Too Sexy, and Numa-Numa.
Me:… This story is my FAVORITE story, but I need more people to review it. (I also need to figure out how to post this story again and then repost the edited chapters.)
Yohko: Enjoy the chapter! Feel the wrath of the randomness of the Dark Stalker cast! BTW when reading the part about Eiji's and Smoke's match with each other, listen to Gomenasai by TATU.
Chapter 26: Sweet Revenge (or is it?)
Normal POV
The day of the USA-Japan match was today. Everyone was already lining up to get inside Tokyo Dome where the matches would take place. Unknown to them, they were entering dangerous territory as there were time bombs hidden among the many security cameras. There were detonators in other places as well. Tokyo Dome was a huge bomb and only the Dark Stalkers crew, Mr. Baker, and Smoke knew about it. The president told the cast to not say anything about the bombs placed around the dome because he didn't want a big panic to happen on this important day.
"Destroy the bombs during each break during the match," he told them, "That way, it will look like it's another Dark Stalker performance."
The Regulars were already getting changed in their side of the tennis court. Eiji was the only on who wasn't going to get dressed because he was 100 percent sure that he wouldn't be chosen unless the American team calls a special match where the voice actor of Felicia would face the remaining tennis player in a tennis match. While everyone prayed that wouldn't happen, Eiji had his hopes for that match. He was going to crush that ninja once and for all.
And if I can beat him, then I can let go of the past once and for all. Eiji thought to himself.
Mr. Baker knew who Kikumaru Eiji was very well because of how Smoke described him. He would not let him participate in the match no matter what. If he was in the match, then his plan to become rich and famous would be ruined. He negotiated with Mr. President for Eiji to wear this bracelet. He didn't give any details about it, but Ren already knew how it worked.
"This bracelet is used to get prisoners of war to tell them where their leader is," Ren explained, "If they don't obey then they get shocked."
Eiji grinned at the bracelet, "The American Team doesn't trust me THAT much."
Mitsuki sighed, "It's to be expected. Who knows what that ninja guy told the coach."
"I think," Ren continued, "That should the American team win each match individually, the bracelet will activate and electrocute you. Can you handle the pain, Eiji?"
"I've been through hell and back," Eiji replied, "I'll be fine."
Sho smirked, "If that's the case then put your costume on and get out there! You start us off!"
Eiji glared at the singer, "Why didn't I see this coming?"
Eiji quickly changed into his costume as well as everyone else. He was ready to go out and show them all who was the number one cat girl, but first, he asked Kaede, "Where's Sapphire and Judai?"
"Sapphire is healing Jun at the hospital right now. Judai is here and will proceed to act along with us near the end of the opening de gozaru. He refuses to show his face to us," Kaede answered.
That was all Eiji needed, "Then it's perfect then. Wish me luck."
With that said Eiji took a deep breath and stepped out of the room he was in.
The crowd was waiting patiently for the introduction of the tournament. Some people only came here to see the Dark Stalker cast as they heard about the OVA being remade into a better series. All of the schools in Tokyo were there to watch the match and cheer for their team. Azmaria was unhappy that she had to be visible and watch over the Seigaku Regulars. Eiji wouldn't tell her the reason to be visible. It was just an order she followed.
"Hey Oishi-sempai," Momo began. Oishi turned his head to the 2nd year, "What's the Dark Stalker cast going to say? I overheard some people associated with the movie that because of what happened to Manjoume-sempai, the lines were switched drastically."
"And why are you asking me this?" Oishi asked in an annoyed tone.
Momo sweat dropped, "W-Well, since you are the closest one to Eiji-sempai, I thought you would know."
Oishi was still ticked off at Sho's advancements toward Eiji last night. He was even more annoyed that his double partner would defend a pervert like him, "Well it doesn't seem like anymore since that Fuwa guy has been hanging out with him so much."
Momo was confused. Why was his sempai getting angry over the fact that an older man was spending time with 3rd year student? Momo finally got it and smirked, "You're not jealous of that guy, are you Oishi-sempai?"
Oishi's face lit up from anger that he was jealous of Sho, "That's not it."
Inui, who was sitting behind the two got out his notebook and read, "It's 95.72 percent that Oishi is jealous of this Fuwa person."
"And the other five percent of anger from Mitsuki's mansion being so noisy last night," Azmaria added.
Oishi continued to deny that he was jealous of Sho as Momo made the situation worse and Inui telling him that his data doesn't lie. Kaidoh just hissed as Taka told them to calm down since the opening was starting.
The voices of the audiences came to a soft tone when the lights went off and only the spotlights on the tennis court were left. Well, the Dark Stalker cast wasn't going to perform on the tennis court of course, so they brought this huge saucer like object to stand on. The saucer slowly ascended above the tennis court and just were everyone can see what was going on.
The voices grew louder when Eiji dressed in Felicia made his appearance.
"GO EI-…I mean FELICIA!" Azmaria cheered. She was forbidden to say Eiji's name while he was wearing Felicia's outfit.
Oishi blushed. The first time he saw Eiji wearing that sexy costume, he was baffled that his double partner would wear something like that, but looking at it now, it suited him perfectly. The only problem was that most of his body was revealing due to the costume, but know one seemed to care if the person cosplaying as Felicia was a male or not. All they knew was that that person was adorable wearing her outfit.
Eiji took a deep breath before he began the introduction. The person who was controlling the music (who was Maria) turned it to Felicia's theme as he spoke, "Welcome to the USA-Japan match! I am your host! The one and only cat girl Felicia! I assure you that these matches will make you awe for the Japan team! I will be rooting for that team by the way."
The crowd cheered for him telling him that they loved him and that they were his biggest fan or rather Felecia's royal fan anyway. Eiji continued to rant about how great the Japan team was and that the American team shouldn't underestimate them. His cheerful smile fell when Maria switched the song to that Ding-Ding Dong. (1)
"What the hell is with this song?!" he questioned forgetting his character completely.
The crowd didn't seem to care as they screamed at the zombie Lord Raptor making his appearance on the saucer. (BTW, there is a staircase that allows people to go up and down the stairs.)
"Deep in the night, I'm looking for some fun. Deep in the night, I'm looking for some love," Sho lip-synced.
Eiji fumed that this was what Sho was planning from the beginning. No one would care if he was yelling at him or not since they thought it was an act, but to Eiji, it was all about protecting his virginity from this pervert. "LORD RAPTOR! YOU STUPID ZOMBIE RUINING MY INTRODUCTION!"
"Deep in the night, I'm looking for some fun. Deep in the night, I'm looking for some -beep-," he continued to lip-sync.
"-groan- Do I have to sing to this stupid song?" Eiji asked.
Sho nodded his head quickly. Eiji groaned. Oishi was so going to be mad at him. He already spotted his double partner glaring at Sho, so if he did this…he didn't even want to think about it.
"You tease me. Oh please me. I want you to be my love toy. Come near me. Don't fear me. I just can't get enough of you boy,"Eiji lip-synced. He was surprised that he did it very well.
"Oh. You touch my tra-la-la."
The Seigaku Regulars scooted away from Oishi who was burning with jealousy for Eiji to lip-syncing with Sho. It was a dirty song after all.
The song was stopped to get back on track.
"Lord Raptor, is there a reason to interrupt my introduction?" Eiji asked in a Felicia like tone.
Sho smiled and when he did, the fan girls roared with glees, "Simple pussy cat. I simply don't want you hogging the spotlight. Besides…" Sho turned toward the crowd and flashed his shiny teeth. Some of the fan girls fainted, "The fans love me."
"Or you being a perverted idiot."
Sho ignored that comment as he got out his guitar, "And for my lovely fan girls, I will now sing a song."
"You mean lip-"
Eiji was cut off because Maria turned on the music again. The song this time was American Idiot. The plan was starting now. Mr. Baker would be very offended by this, but the American tennis players shouldn't.
"Don't want to be an American Idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind-fuck America."
The audience did not seem to care that the song was directed to the Americans. All they cared about was that their Sho was singing or rather lip-syncing to them. Oishi prayed that he would mess up somehow.
Momo sweat dropped, "He must really hate that guy…"
"Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the alien nation. Everything isn't meant to be okay. Television dreams of tomorrow where none of the words aren't meant to follow. For that enough to argue."
The song was turned off quickly and switched to Stuck in America. Sho was rather upset that the song was stopped in the middle and he was heating up the crowd. Takuto stepped up to the field and sighed.
"I'M STUCK IN AMERICA!" he announced.
No one got the joke at first until Eiji told him, "Jon, two things. One: What are you doing here? And two: This isn't America! It's Japan you dumbass!"
There were small chuckles coming from the audience. Jon sighed, "But…then why is this theme playing?"
Eiji and Sho looked at each other and then yelled, "TURN IT OFF IF! WE'RE NOT IN AMERICA!"
Maria gave them a glare and turned off the music.
"Are you going to explain why you're here?" Eiji asked impatiently, "Are you another one of those dark ones that come to ruin my show. Not like Raptor already did."
Takuto turned away from the cat boy. He gave a quick peak at his face and then turned away, "I-I just wanted to tell you something important since you're all famous and I'm just a lone wolf."
"Werewolf," Sho corrected.
"Don't tell me what I am!" Takuto shouted.
to see Oishi's reaction to the confession because he could clearly see Eiji's double partner from where they w
Sho knew that Jon was going to confess his feelings for Felicia. If that were to happen then the scene would end too fast, so he decided that he would but in before he told Felicia that he loved her. Sho also wanted to piss off a certain double partner.
"It's just that I lo-"
"I love you Felicia!" Sho interrupted.
The crowd was shocked at the sudden confession. A zombie was confessing to the cat girl! Eiji was at first shocked that those words came from the so called person who didn't know how to love someone. He frowned when he realized where he was getting at as Sho already had his arm on his shoulder.
"Sorry. I love someone else," Eiji said quickly.
The crowd gasped at the quick rejection.
"Felicia, I really do love you!" Sho said.
Eiji looked at the singer and smirked evilly, but to everyone else except Azmaria, it was a heavenly smile, "I'm sorry Lord Raptor, but I am in love with Jon Talbain."
Eiji lets his cat instincts take over as he glomped Takuto. Takuto blushed at the comment, but the blush was face as he was straight. Sho didn't say anything for 20 seconds…40 seconds…1 minute until finally he pointed at Takuto. Maria was already ready for the next song.
"That's it! Mortal Combat!" Sho announced.
Mortal Combat music starts. The crowd was either laughing that he announced Mortal Combat or cheered for a Dark Stalker fight. Takuto pushed Eiji as this was a man fight.
"The crowd is loving your idiocy," Eiji said with a sigh.
The two attacked as the song went on. Izumi appeared on the television to lip sync as the guy who announces the Mortal Combat theme. Some laughed at that part.
"MORTAL COMBAT!" the crowd cheered.
"Dark Stalker style," Eiji added but no one heard him.
Takuto was attacking Sho with his material arts skills that Jon used. Sho fought back as he turned into his zombie form which since he wasn't a real zombie, he just threw off his coat revealing a rather sexy outfit for a guy. More fan girls fainted for him being too sexy. Eiji just watched as the two fought. He was rather upset that he couldn't fight. He wished that the fight would end, but it wouldn't…or would it? When the song got to finish him, Takuto had already knocked the zombie to the ground and had his claws to Sho's neck. Oishi prayed that he would kill him, but that prayer wasn't heard.
"Excellent."
The song stopped as Takuto got off of Sho, "You have lost the fight. I declare that you won't go near my Felicia again."
Sho was in shock that he lost. He slowly dragged himself to the side of the saucer. While the male audience thought it was funny that his arrogance led to his defeat, the fan girls felt sorry for him.
"Serves you right," Oishi said.
None of the Regulars said anything to him.
Sho let out a deep sigh before he asked, "IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL HELP ME WIN THE WOMEN OF MY DREAMS?!"
Eiji and Takuto fell over anime style. He was still ranting about that loss. Maria turned the song to Witch Doctor and when that song was playing Mitsuki flew to the field. Everyone was thinking how cute she was in a bee costume.
"Don't give up," she encouraged the zombie, "You go o-eee. Oooo ah-ah. Tang-tang. Walla-walla bing-bing."
Q Bee was one of the nicer Dark Stalkers so she gave encouragement to him. Sho was filled with hope, "All right."
The song began and Sho went back to Eiji. Takuto was annoyed at Sho's persistent. Oishi was as well, but couldn't do anything about it as he wasn't the one on stage.
"I told the witch doctor that I was in love with you," Sho began to Eiji as he was really close to him which was the too close to comfort, "I told the witch doctor I was in love with you. And then the witch doctor he told me what to do. He told me o-eee. Oooo ah-ah. Tang-tang. Walla-walla bing-bing. o-eee. Oooo ah-ah. Tang-tang. Walla-walla bang-bang. O-eee. Oooo ah-ah. Tang-tang. Walla-walla bing-bing! O-eee. Oooo ah-ah. Tang-tang. Walla-walla bang-bang!"
Instead of Felicia falling head over heels over Raptor, she was traumatized instead and ran to the other side of the saucer. The audience laughed at Sho's failure. Sho ended up chasing the cat girl over around the saucer. Takuto didn't even bother stopping them. He just told Maria to change the song. She changed the song to Butterfly and when that happened, Kyoko and Kaede appeared out of nowhere. Kyoko was the one who kicked Sho in the face.
"Respect a girls privacy!" Kyoko shouted at him, "Otherwise, I'll come here and beat the crap out of you already dead man!"
The spectators roared at the appearance of the Chinese twins. Kaede was checking up on Eiji and asked if he had any injuries or anything.
"Mei-Ling, you shouldn't worry about me too much, nya. It's not healthy," Eiji told her. What he told her though was what he wanted to tell Oishi because he and Mei-Ling have the same personality.
"Sorry…but we can't just stand there and let that guy molest you," Kaede told him.
"And your lover wasn't even helping you," Kyoko added which made the audience laugh.
Takuto fell into a slump only for Q-Bee to fly over to him and tell him that everything would be okay. He perked up again.
Sho glared at Kyoko. She returned the angry stare. It looked like they were about to fight each other.
"SOS!" Mitsuki squeaked.
The audience laughed at her random word.
Kyoko and Sho ignored her as they got their weapons out. Hsien-Ko her drum as for Sho his guitar. A battle of music instruments. Eiji and Mitsuki who were the peacemakers told them to break it up, but Kaede stopped them.
"It's better if they fight," Kaede told them, "Those two have been rivals for a while so it's only natural for them to do this."
That surprised the crowd. They had a new pairing in their Dark Stalker pairing book.
Just when the two were about to fight the song switched to Sexy Back. The Dark Stalker cast gawked when Ishida came out with no shirt on (Donovon doesn't wear anything since I think he's an Indian.) The fan girls screamed as he mimicked the song. Maria was right behind him, but no one could see her because she was so short and he was so tall.
"I'm bringing sex back," he lip-synced, "Them other boys don't know how to act. I think it's special what's behind your back. So I'll turn around and I'll pick up the slack."
"You scare me Donovan, so I'll say this. Stop that singing. You suck…literally."
There was silence as Izumi turned off the music.
"I guess you're right…" Ishida said as he sighed.
"You're better off fighting the Dark in your own heart," Kyoko encouraged him.
"If you can do that, then you will be whole again," Kaede added.
Ishida stood up again and nodded his head in agreement.
What happened next was so unexpected that even Sho was shocked. Ren came out next in a very flashy outfit. I'm Too Sexy was playing in the back ground. Nearly everyone was calling out to him. What turned everyone on was when the song said that he was too sexy for his shirt. During that time, Ren grabbed his shirt, and ripped it off when the song said 'It hurts!' The girls and Eiji were turned on by Ren's sexy body.
"You should learn from your mistakes," Ren said in a serious tone despite the song still playing, "Otherwise, you will never surpass me."
"What did you say, you bastard?!" Sho questioned angrily.
The song was turned off as Ren got out another cape and covered his naked top. There was a lot of moaning and groaning in the crowd.
"I think that's all of the Dark ones," Ren said.
Eiji sighed with relief. Their comedy routine was almost over. The crowd started to boo which surprised them.
"HEY WHERE'S MORRIGAN?!" a guy asked in the crowd.
"WE NEED THAT SEXY SUCCUMB!" another man declared.
"BRING HER OUT!" another man demanded.
The guys weren't anticipating this. This must have been a part of Mr. Baker's plan. If they told them that Morrigan wasn't here, then this would all be useless and embarrassing for them. But they couldn't tell the crowd that the voice actor of Morrigan was raped two days ago and that he was in the hospital. They didn't say anything, but the Chinese twins broke the silence and when they did, the Numa-Numa song was playing in the background.
"She's already out! See?"
Kyoko and Kaede foresaw this event and did something in case the audience asked for Jun. Behind them was Morrigan or rather a punching bag with a drawing Morrigan on it. The drawing was deplorable that you couldn't recognize that it was her.
The guys stared at the drawing before they all laughed along with some of the audience.
"What the hell is that?!" Sho asked between his laughter which resulted in him being beaten up by Kaede.
"Whoever drew this doesn't even deserve to be alive," Eiji said bluntly.
Kyoko, who was the one who drew the picture went into a mood of depression.
"Is it that bad?" she asked.
"Yes," Eiji and Ren answered.
The yelling between the Dark Stalkers continued until gunfire was heard. The crowd panicked until they saw that it was a part of the act.
"We're all going to die! We're all going to die! We're all going to die!" Mitsuki declared as flew in a circle.
"Flying like that will get you killed," Maria warned in a low tone. People finally noticed Anita.
The other Dark Stalkers calmed down as Ren announced to the crowd, "Our time is up. The bounty hunter has found us and is planning to assassinate us all. Before that happens, we want to say that you must enjoy the tennis matches to ensure our safety. We hope you come watch the Dark Stalker movie when it is released featuring us Dark ones…" Ren looked at his fellow comrades, "And be one with the dark."
When he said that though, a bullet came out of nowhere and shot Takuto. Everyone gasped as they saw real blood coming out of him, but Maria held up a sign saying that it was only red paint. Eiji watched in horror as Takuto fell off the saucer.
"JON!" Eiji screamed as he reached out to his lover. Takuto tried to grab his hand, but he couldn't reach it and ended up landing hard on the tennis court.
"We can't do for him now!" Kaede told the cat boy as she prevented him from jumping after him, "We have to escape."
"But what about…Jon…he can't…"
"That bastard can't die easily you know," Sho told him, "He's a material artist that had more serious injuries than that. Let's scram!"
Gunfire was heard all over the dome. The Dark ones fled except Q-Bee who flew down and grabbed Takuto before flying into the exit door. That was when Judai (Yubel) appeared with his guns. He looked extremely different and he was different. He was in his female form for a change to make him more B.B. Hood like.
"Dammit! My prey escaped!" he cursed, "They won't get away!" Judai turned to the audience and glared at them. The crowd for once was scared of the brunette, "If you wimps don't cheer for the Japan team then I will shoot you in the head and then torch your body and then cut it into little pieces!" he threatened.
Everyone shivered at the brunette's threat. Judai's sadistic grin turned back into an innocent smile as he placed all of his weapons back into his basket and trotted away happily. After a minute or so, the audience clapped for the comedy routine.
"Those guys are amazing," Azmaria said.
"They were on fire," Ban said.
"Pants on fire," David joked. A lame pun that resulted in Ban slugging him on the head.
"That was not funny!" he told him. (Me: I just HAD to put a lame pun in.)
After the whole performance, Eiji was very worried about the fact that the Shinigami was shot.
"Who knew that Judai had a real gun…" Kaede mumbled.
"It's a good thing that Takuto was the one shot," Kyoko said, "Otherwise one of us might have really died."
Judai apologized for shooting the Takuto.
"It's okay. I still had fun. I'm glad that I'm already dead, otherwise it wouldn't of had been fun."
Eiji sighed with relief. He then glared at Sho, "But you were still trying to harass me in public."
"It's called showing affection Eiji," he told the red head.
Eiji scoffed as he told the cast that he was going back to his team to face the American team.
"Good luck!" Mitsuki cheered.
Eiji headed toward the locker room where everyone was waiting for him. The Regulars were all looking at Eiji a different way except Ryoma as he was the only one that praised him in English.
He went to his locker to get his jersey out when he stopped.
"What's wrong now?" Kilihara questioned him.
Eiji didn't say anything. He just took a step back and waited a few minutes. After the few minutes, the locker blew up surprising everyone.
"Stupid time bombs…" Eiji mumbled, Stupid Smoke.
"Eiji, are you okay?" Fuji questioned.
Eiji glanced at the locker. Not that much smoke. It was just a time bomb that could ruin his face, but nothing more. He sighed as he looked at his jersey, "I'm going to need a new jersey…nya…"
While most of the Regulars took this matter seriously, Eiji ensured them that the Dark Stalker cast had everything under control.
"The only problem is if they can deactivate all of the bombs in time…" Eiji mumbled to himself as he was positive that no one heard him.
"I still think we should report the American team for trying to hurt one of our members," Sengoku insisted.
Eiji sighed, "If you don't get out of here now, then it will count as a forfeit."
The president of the LME sat in the reserved seats where all the important people who were observing the match were sitting. Mr. Baker's assistant ensured them that the American team would win. Mr. President just scoffed.
"You shouldn't underestimate the Japanese," he told the assistant, "You could be surprised at what they can do."
What surprised Mr. President was the next guest invited to see the match.
"Yageo, what are you doing here?" Mr. President questioned.
Yageo sat in the seat next to the president. He smiled but it had no emotion to it, "I just wanted to see how the matches were going to be."
Mr. President eyed Yageo, "So you're fully aware of what's going on around here?"
"Why of course! Who doesn't notice all the suspicious things that are going on?"
Mr. President glanced around the room. Sure enough, there were plenty of time bombs that no one seemed to notice. He prayed that the Dark Stalker cast could remove all the time bombs in time during each break or so.
"So," Yageo began, "I see you're trying to find new recruitments for LME."
Mr. President glared at the man, "And if I am, what are you going to do about it?"
"Oh nothing. Nothing at all. It's entertaining to see how these young people become the greatest hits in Japan."
The president was suspicious of Yageo. He never trusted him ever since he met him, and he wasn't going to trust him now. He saw Yageo eyeing Eiji as the people who were going to play Doubles 2 were selected.
"You and Ogata have a good eye for young talented actors like that boy who plays the role of Felicia."
Mr. President didn't say anything. He wasn't going to say something that could get Eiji in trouble by this man.
"Oh! The match is starting!"
The people who were going to play doubles two were Atobe Keigo and Sanada Genichirou for the Kanto Junior Interval team. All members from Hyotei were already cheering for Atobe.
"He's as popular as ever…" Eiji mumbled.
"Jealous that everyone forgot about you?" Kilihara questioned.
"No, nya."
On the American team the cowboy Billy Cassidy (Me: Hate to interrupt but he reminds me of Irvine from FF8! -squeal-), and Michael Lee. The audience shifted their attention to the Americans and cheered them on. It was easy to say that the Dark Stalkers really didn't have that much influence…or did they?
They better win, nya. Eiji thought to himself.
Back with the Dark Stalker group, they were slowly deactivating the time bombs. The Shinigami had the easiest time sneaking around the seats and taking out the time bomb underneath them. For everyone who wasn't a Shinigami, they had a terrible time as their fans kept glancing at them whenever they tried to look underneath a seat. Eventually Sho lost it first and went back to the waiting room. Kyoko, with her temper, followed him shortly after. Judai still had the gun in his hands so he was threatening every person that cheered the American team on.
"You have to stop that Judai," Kaede told him, "B.B. Hood will lose fans at this rate."
"Silence Dark one!" Judai spat still acting like the crazy Little Red Riding Hood.
Kaede didn't say anything as she went over to the Rikkadai seating area. The students kept making conversations with her which annoyed her to no end. She didn't have to wait long as she got a call from her walkie talkie that all the Dark Stalkers had to carry around. Mitsuki was complaining on the other end that she can't reach this 'certain thing' which was a time bomb. Kaede sighed as she told the girl to ask someone else who wasn't busy.
The score was the Japanese team winning 4 games to 1 when Eiji got a call from Mitsuki complaining that Kaede wouldn't help her.
"You can fly for crying out loud!" Eiji yelled through the walkie talkie, "Do it yourself, over!"
Silence.
"You guys suck…over!" Mitsuki mumbled as Eiji heard Mitsuki's wings buzz.
There was a reason why Mitsuki didn't want to use her wings. She used it too long during the opening and if she used it anymore, it would hurt her back since she wasn't use to flying with bee wings. She groaned in pain as she removed the time bombs that were in the women's restroom. She attracted attention from some girls who entered the bathroom.
"Look mommy! There's a bee in here!" a little girl told her mom.
The mom has sparkles in her eyes when she saw Mitsuki.
"Can I have your autograph Q-Bee?" she questioned.
Mitsuki sighed. It was another fan…
"I need help here, over."
Eiji was hearing all kinds of complaints from the Dark Stalker cast. They were complaining about the fans and how the time bombs were so hard to detonate. Eiji heard an explosion coming from Kyoko's end. The cat boy shook his head. They were such idiots.
"With all this complaining, I'm going to have to help you guys, over."
Eiji turned to Tezuka and told him that he had to help the Dark Stalker cast.
"Just come back before the next match," Tezuka told him.
"Hoi-hoi!"
Eiji instantly vanished in a blink of speed. He was just showing off his cat moves that Felicia used.
The Dark Stalker cast met up in the waiting room. There everyone, even Ren was laughing at Kyoko's new hair due that she received when she tried to deactivate the time bomb.
"You having a bad hair day?" Eiji questioned his sempai.
Kyoko's response was her Kyoko devils that appeared behind her. Everyone silenced immediately. Ren was the first one to recover and calm her down. Kaede was the next one to recover. She went over to fix the girl's hair.
"Anyway," Ren began in a serious tone, "There are too many time bombs to deactivate, so we're going to have to deactivate them as soon as the match ends."
Eiji sighed, "You could have told me on the walkie talkie."
"Not possible. People will get suspicious of our activity if we continue to move the way we move now."
"I don't think so…" Mitsuki said, "A dotting mother asked me for my autograph."
"That's because you're cute," Kyoko told her, "Someone like Sho will be labeled as suspicious."
"As well as a flat chested girl with no sex appeal."
"YOU BASTARD!"
"Your mama is a hoe, so shut up," Eiji said quickly.
Sho said nothing. Kyoko snickered in triumph.
"The match is going to end soon," Judai said which broke the silence.
Eiji groaned. He wanted to watch the match, but with all the interruptions, he missed half of it, and they were getting to the match point. At least he got to see Atobe's new serve-----Tannhauser Serve.
"Don't worry about missing the match," Izumi told the cat boy, "I had front roll seats, so I can tell you what's been happening from the start to the finish."
"You make me wish I was dead," Eiji murmured.
Izumi explained to Eiji that Atobe and Sanada had a horrible doubles combination which Eiji already noticed. This was all the American team needed to change the score, but after Atobe showed his Tannhauser Serve, the Japanese team took the lead 5 games to 4. The game was later 6 games to 5 because Atobe and Sanada started working together.
"They're in complete harmony," Izumi told him, "Like a pair of dancers."
The cast looked at the TV screen which showed the match. Sure enough it looked like they doing some kind of dance.
"Looks like a Lain dance de gozaru," Kaede mentioned as she finished fixing Kyoko's hair.
"It's tango," Sho corrected.
"How do we know if you're correct?" Kyoko asked sarcastically.
"A tango's rhythm is four beats to a measure. It's similar to the rhythm of a two against two rally."
"That is correct," Ren said.
"To think that an idiot like you knew that type of stuff, nya!"
"I know a lot of things about music! Don't underestimate the singer!"
Atobe and Sanada win in the end 7 games to 5. It was all thanks to Atobe's Rondo Toward Destruction move or rather Tango Toward Destruction because both players did the two step move.
"Atobe is such a showoff…" Eiji mumbled.
"Just like a certain someone," Kyoko added.
They both turn toward Sho's direction. He looked at them dumbfounded, "What?"
Mr. President was very impressed at Atobe's and Sanada's win. He warned the guy who worked for Mr. Baker not to underestimate the Japanese team, but they didn't listen. The guy was very shocked that the American team lost the first match, and ensured everyone that they would win the next back and to sit back and watch the show.
"So Lory," Yageo began, "Did you decide on which of those two you're going to recruit?"
Mr. President glared at him, "Don't you ever call me by my first name."
"Fine Takarada."
Takarada did not answer the question. If he did, then he would be falling into Yageo's trap. He couldn't be trusted. He did however think that Atobe would be another great person for show business since he's so popular and he's very wealthy.
The next match was Yushi and Kilihara team against the Griffey Brothers Tom and Terry. Eiji was disappointed that he couldn't play in Doubles 1 that he was positive that he was going play if Smoke hadn't raped Jun. Ren was paying attention to Eiji's bracelet to make sure it wouldn't activate if the Japanese team won because the Americans are known for lying. Everyone else was going into the crowd disarming the time bombs and of course signing autographs for the fans. Judai wouldn't sign anything though as he threatened anyone with his dangerous assort of weapons if they asked him again, he would kill them.
"You're making people hate you more Judai…" Takuto mumbled. He still held the spot in the head where he was shot.
The other Dark Stalkers didn't mind this threat as if they were around the brunette then no one would ask them for autographs. Kyoko went over to Takarada who gave her the motion to get over there.
"What is it, Mr. President?" she asked him.
"How's the deactivation going?"
"Pretty good thanks to Judai over there," Kyoko answered with a grin.
Mr. President sweat dropped. He didn't know who was worse when he or she was mad. Kyoko, Judai, or even Eiji.
"Continue with your work," he told her.
"Understood."
The Dark Stalker cast had to stop deactivating the traps when the next match started. Hyotei and Rikkadai cheered for Yushi and Kilihara, but when the Griffey Brothers appeared onto the tennis court, the fan girls squealed with delight. This irritated Sho.
"YOU SUCK!" Sho shouted which resulted in Eiji (who was the one closest to him at the moment) kicking him in the ass making him fall over. Some people turned to the Dark Stalkers that were attracting attention.
"You need to shut up Raptor, nya!" Eiji told him as he dragged the singer into the waiting room.
The rest of the Dark Stalkers disappeared when the match started. The Shinigami went undercover and searched the dome for the people who were gambling. They found them in a dark part of the dome where no one saw them. Izumi went over to report the founding to Takarada. The female Shinigami and Ishida continued with the deactivation with the time bombs. Takuto decided to see what the four men were illegal gambling about. He flew closer to them and realized that they were trading pictures. He gasped when he saw who the pictures were of. Most of them were pictures that Smoke took of Jun when he was gang raped which disgusted him, but what he was more disgusted by was that there were some pictures of Eiji, his Mitsuki, Kaede, Kyoko, Judai, and surprisingly Atobe. (1). Smoke must have gotten these pictures some time ago because there was no way that Smoke could have taken them now with their guard up.
Still…why is Atobe on the list? Takuto asked himself.Don't tell me that that guy is going to join the LME industry too?!
Takuto overheard the men's conversation. It was about the pictures of course.
"This Hiroto guy is amazing," one of the guys said, "He should be a photographer instead of a serial killer."
"Indeed. The way he got this picture of Manjoume-kun having sex is perfect," another man said, "I would love to get in bed with him."
"But what about the girls?" the third guy asked.
"What about them?"
"This one has big boobs despite being 14!"
"I think she's 16. You know how teens are and how they lie about their age."
Takuto was stunned. Smoke was giving them all of Bad Luck's secrets. He was really trying to ruin them.
"And isn't Yuki-kun suppose to be a male? This picture seems to have him with tits."
"I think, Hiroto wanted to show us that Yuki-kun was a female in disguise," the fourth man explained.
That's where you're wrong. Takuto thought to himself. Judai's both genders.
The first man was looking at the pictures of Mitsuki and Kyoko and sighed, "These girls are flat chested. They're not my type."
"I bet they'd be good in bed though," the third man said sarcastically.
Takuto clenched his fist in anger. He wanted to use his werewolf claws to rake at the guy's head. How dare they say that Mitsuki was good in bed!
The fourth man was examining the pictures of Eiji and Atobe. He had a perverted look on his face, "It's hard to believe that these two are the youngest out of the rest of them."
"But I thought that Atobe guy wasn't in the LME industry yet."
"He isn't, but after this tournament, if anyone is alive after this, I'm sure Mr. President would recruit him. He's using these matches to find more recruitments after all for something undercover," the fourth guy explained.
That was all Takuto needed to hear from them. It was disturbing to hear all this perverted talk about his friends, but to say that the Mr. President was using them for something undercover was definitely a lie, right?
Takuto looked at the match score. The Japanese team was winning 3 games to 2. The Griffey Brothers weren't playing their best out there obviously. He glanced at Mr. Baker's face and glared. He wanted the Griffey Brothers to lose. If they don't get to Singles 1 then the plan would be ruined for them.
"You treat them like puppets…" Takuto mumbled, "But soon Mr. Baker, they will have a mind of their own and turn on you."
The game went on for quite sometime and it seemed one sided since the Griffey Brothers were doing horribly on purpose. The crowd was getting disappointed that they're hot bishonen weren't doing well. Oshitari and Kilihara made a pretty good combination though. Eiji still commented that they were still far from his and Oishi's combination. When the score was 4 games to 3, the Terry was the first one to fight back against the combination as he was the only one returning the balls. Eventually, Tom helped his brother with the comeback, and they dominated the competition 6 games to 4.
"That was a pretty good comeback," Sho commented.
"It was, nya."
"They're no longer Mr. Baker's puppets," Kyoko said.
As soon as she said that though, Eiji screamed. Everyone jerked their head toward Eiji's direction. Their eye widened when they saw that the bracelet activated when the American Team won. The thunder bolts were zapping the life force out of the aerobic player. Eiji fell to his knees as he clutched his heart. He wasn't going to let a few lighting bolts kill him. The electrocution stopped eventually. Eiji nearly collapsed to the ground if Sho had not caught him.
"Hey, are you okay?" Sho questioned.
Eiji looked up at the singer's face and smiled weakly, "I'm okay…somehow…"
Sho smiled faintly before he allowed the red head to rest on his knees, "That bastard isn't going to be let off the hook this time!"
"He was never going to be let off the hook to begin with," Kyoko corrected, "But after what he did to Eiji, I say we not only arrest him, but humiliate him as well."
"You're thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Yeah."
"You two will not do anything until ALL the time bombs are detonated," Ren ordered.
The two younger teens were forced to obey him. Sho lifted Eiji off the ground which the cat boy protested that he could walk on his own. Sho rested him on the bench and told him not to move.
"We're not going to let people see you in this condition," Sho told him, "And…I don't want that double partner of yours to yell at me. Not like I care what he says to me."
Kaede knew that was a lie. Sho really did care for Eiji, but if something bad were to happen to him in his presence, then Oishi would not be happy. She knew this because she felt Oishi's angry aura when Sho was close to him.
The cast left to continue deactivated the bombs. Unknown to them, someone that wasn't Smoke was watching them in secret. He waited until all but Eiji was in the room. The person was a man with dark blue hair and crimson eyes. He was wearing all black like a ninja, but he wasn't exactly a ninja. Once he was absolutely sure that no one but Eiji was in the room, he got out a weird contraption and turned it on. The room started to heat up. Eiji started to feel very dizzy.
Why is the room so hot, nya? he questioned himself, There better not be a fire in here…
The room continued to heat up to the temperature of a frying pan. Eiji's eyes became lifeless due to the strong heat. The man had him where he wanted. He stepped out of his hiding place with a weird contraption. He walked up to the aerobic player and set the machine down. He quickly hooked Eiji up to it.
Who is this guy and what is he doing to me?!
"This won't be long," the guy mumbled, "Just enough time to wipe out your memory of certain things."
The man turned the machine on. Eiji's body started to react to the impulse he was receiving from the machine. He groaned softly. Everything seemed to go according to plan according to the man until the machine caused a chain reaction that revealed all of Eiji's marks on his body. The soft groans started to turn into moans that constantly got louder.
"This isn't good!" the guy declared, "The louder he is, the more likely someone will hear me, and he's letting unleashing his energy so that annoying group can save him. Not good!"
If things couldn't get any worse for the man, he heard a chant that sounded like someone casting a spell. He realized too late as he saw someone throw a green spell at him. The spell hit the machine and destroyed it instantly causing an explosion that was sure to attract attention.
The man glared at the magic user. He was a boy around the age of 10 with brown hair and wore all green. He had glasses and carried a green staff that was pointed toward his direction.
"Rose, do your thing!" the kid ordered as he threw a yellow rose at the contraption that controlled the room temperature. It was broken in two when the tip of the rose hit it.
"Damnit!" the guy cursed.
"Siding with the dark side," the kid began, "And attacking a defenseless cat boy. You have no honor!"
"Brat!"
The two of them heard footsteps rushing into the room.
"Tch. You think that because of this one miscalculation that you've won brat? Don't think you've seen the last of me!"
The man disappeared in a whip of smoke. The kid sighed, "Another minion of that guy? I'm going to have my work cut up…"
The boy disappeared in a tornado of green leaves. When the Chinese twins barged into the room, there was no one in the room, but the yellow rose, the broken contraptions, and the fallen leaves. Eiji was sound asleep after the machine was destroyed resulting in his marks disappearing from his body or rather stop flashing.
"Someone was in here," Kaede stated the obvious.
Kyoko went over to the contraption and gave a mean stare, "Someone was trying to harm Eiji. I knew we shouldn't of had left him in here!"
Kaede wasn't listening as she picked up the yellow rose. For some stranger reason, she thought she knew the person who used this rose to protect Eiji. Negi-bozu…are you really here after 3 years of separation? (2)
When Eiji was being attacked by the mysterious man, Singles 3 began. It was Sengoku against Bobby. He said something very provoking in English which Ryoma translated. While Sengoku told him he didn't understand English that well he was obviously lying because he was easily provoked at the beginning of the game.
Mr. Baker's assistant explained to everyone that Bobby Max was a professional at many American sports and that he would surely overpower his opponent. Takarada was no longer paying attention to the match as he got a call from Kyoko explaining to him that Eiji was attacked by someone and then saved by someone who used a rose as a weapon. He couldn't relax knowing that one of the actors was attacked when he was alone. This proves that Mr. Baker was trying to end them as well as his career once and for all. Yageo seemed pissed off as well, but he didn't explain what was wrong.
Most of the DS cast were half way done. The progress slowed though when they reached the Seigaku seats mainly because of Sho.
"Is there a reason why you're here?" Azmaria asked.
"Just got to do something under the seat," Sho said quickly.
Sho should have waited until someone else came over their to deactivate the time bomb because the seat he was under was Oishi's. Oishi wasn't going to let him do whatever he wanted under the seat. (He probably put porn pictures underneath it.)
"Go away," Oishi said harshly. All the Seigaku Regulars moved away from the vice captain. He was still upset with Sho's sexual advances on Eiji.
Sho glared at him, "It's important."
"So?"
"-red vein- So you need to move out of the way."
Silence. The temperature of the room was colder as the two glare at each other.
"This is a side of Oishi-sempai I never seen before…" Momo mumbled.
"Fsshhhh."
The two were going to break into an argument. Good thing Tama appeared and whacked Sho on the head with her hammer.
"I was to do this section Sho," Tama told him.
Sho did not say anything. Oishi snickered at the singer which Sho returned it with a glare. Tama threw him across the field surprising everyone.
"Look mom! It's Super Man!" the little girl said to the dotting mother that asked Mitsuki for her autograph.
Sho was thrown toward Ishida who got him with ease. Sho was air sick from Tama's throw.
"We need you over there," Ishida said.
"-sweatdrop- Wait, you're not going to-"
Ishida threw Sho across the field to Tama which he hit her shell. She fell on the stairs where Azmaria was standing.
"I'm not a football, damnit!" Sho cursed.
Attention was to Sho. Oishi asked Kaidoh to hand over the empty soda can which he obeyed his sempai. What shocked everyone was that Oishi dropped the can on Sho's head.
"Guess he's the garbage man," Oishi said sarcastically.
"You bastard…" Sho murmured.
Sho slid off of Tama's shell. He slid all the way into the railing. Tama was almost done deactivating the time bomb. When she was finished with Oishi's time bomb, she noticed that she was hit a little too late. Azmaria gasped when she saw the time bomb in her hand.
"Now I see why you guys are flying all over the place," Azmaria said.
Tama ignored her as she placed the time bomb on Sho's head because she thought that the soda can could hold it. Boy was she wrong! The bomb went off and Sho was sent flying up in the air and then back on the Japanese side of the match.
"He sure can fly," Taka said with a sigh.
"I believe I can fly!" Takuto sung, "I believe I can touch the sky!"
"Stop singing," Tama told him in a serious tone.
Takuto was silenced immediately.
The audience's eyes were back to the match at long last. The score was 4 games to 0 with Bobby in the lead because of his enormous power. What he said after the 4th game surprised everyone who could speak English.
"Aren't you a friend of Manjoume Jun?" he questioned, "If you are, then avenge him for I was a man at the scene."
Sho instantly recovered from the blast and proceeded to walk over to Bobby and punch him in the face. It was a good thing that Atobe was there to stop him.
"Don't interrupt the match," he said strictly.
Sho was about to protest when Ryoma translated what Bobby said. The Regulars were surprised that the guy playing Sengoku had something to do with it.
"They all know about it!" Sho shouted, "They're just afraid to say anything!"
"Calm down, Sho!" Meroko screamed. She was the only Shinigami in her original form that only the magic users could hear her. She gasped when she realized that Atobe could see her.
"Tch."
Sho was forced to do nothing. He brushed Atobe's hand off of his shoulder and jumped onto the rail again. He was going to go check up on Eiji, but he decided that Oishi should come with him. He gave that gesture for him to come along. Oishi being stubborn around the singer refused, but Tama forced him to go.
"The cold chills stopped…" Azmaria mumbled.
Eiji just woke up when Sho barged into the room with Oishi and Tama behind him.
"Shuichiro? What are you doing here, nya?" Eiji questioned as he let out a big cat yawn.
Oishi took one look at Eiji to see that he was doing okay. He turned to Sho, "Is there a reason why I was brought here?"
It was Kyoko's turn to glare at Sho. Sho looked at everyone in the room and slowly backed out of the room, "I realized I have something more important to do, so come on girls! Let's party!"
Kyoko fumed at Sho's flirtatious talk as she chased after him. Kaede sighed and followed her 'little sister'. Tama grinned and followed the Chinese Twins leaving the Golden Pair in the room.
"They are such idiots," Eiji mumbled, "I didn't even get a good nap, nya!"
The room was quiet for a few minutes. Oishi didn't know what to say to his double partner which was the same for Eiji. Then it hit him.
"Why was that Fuwa guy hitting on you world wide?"
A red vein popped on the back of Eiji's head, "Is that all you have to ask? To answer your question, he tried to harass me world wide, but everyone thinks it's part of the DS movie, so…and then there's the fact that everything we did was by our own instincts."
"I see."
"You shouldn't worry about Sho, Shuichiro. I clearly don't like him that way."
"That's a relief."
More silenced fill the room. The two looked at each for a long time, blushed, and turned away from each other. There really wasn't much to say.
"Eiji," Oishi began, "Why are all the actors and Shinigami going around and looking under people's seat?"
Eiji was about to say something when he turned his attention to the TV. The match was already over. It ended in a draw because both players ran out of stamina. His eye's widened when he saw Mr. Baker reach into his pocket and pressed the button. Eiji instantly pushed Oishi away before he was caught in the shock. The bracelet activated and electrocuted the teen again.
"EIJI!" Oishi shouted as he reached out to him. When he did, he was pushed back.
Eiji stood his ground, and took the electric attacks. The shock seemed to be more powerful than the last. Not to mention that the shock seemed to last longer than the last. When the shock was finally done, Eiji almost fell to the ground if Oishi did not catch him.
"Eiji, are you okay?" he asked in a very worried tone.
"…No…"
"What was that just now?"
"Blame the damn bracelet," Eiji told him, "It sends electricity through one's body when the button is activated and that bastard Mr. Baker has the switch."
Oishi gasped, "Then that means."
"He plans to ruin Mr. President," Eiji said rather calmly.
"This is a serious matter Eiji!" Oishi told him, "We have to tell someone right away!"
"DS cast already knows and is on it," Eiji told him.
"But-"
"They're professionals at this kind of stuff. Trust them, Shuichiro."
All Oishi could do was trust his double partner. He was angry that he couldn't protect Eiji from people like Mr. Baker while Sho could.
"You should get back to your seat, Shuichiro," Eiji told him, "Fujiko's match is beginning."
Oishi nodded his head as he headed out the door. When he was gone, Eiji snuck out to check up on Fuji. He knew that something bad would happen if he didn't see him.
Kaede made it on time to see that Mr. Baker was talking to Fuji. She glared at the man. What lies were he trying to fill in her boyfriend's head?
Mr. Baker saw her. He didn't show any emotion until he was out of Fuji's sight. The face he showed her was a sinister face. She opened her eyes and glared at the man as he walked passed her. When he was gone, Eiji showed up shortly.
"Fujiko, what did that guy say to you, nya?" Eiji asked in a worried tone.
Fuji's eyes were already open when he responded to Eiji's question, "He told me to lose the match against Arnold."
"That bastard," Eiji and Kaede said at the same time with the same angry tone.
"Don't lose to them Shusuke," Kaede told him with a serious tone.
Fuji seem to be on the same level as them, "Understood."
Fuji left the room in order to get to the tennis court. Kaede scanned the room and detected many time bombs.
"Time to go Naruto in this room!" she declared as she used the Shadow Clone Jutsu to turn into 16 Kaede's.
"You can only do 16?" Eiji questioned, "That's lame."
"Be quiet! You're not a ninja!" the Kaede clones shouted as they all went to deactivate the time bomb.
"Guess I have nothing to do here, nya," Eiji said.
"What you can do," Kaede began, "Is make sure that Mr. Baker doesn't press that button."
"I got it, nya!"
Things went back to normal during Fuji's match with Arnold. Arnold was like a robot predicting Fuji's moves. It started to rain. When it did, the dome closed up. It easier for the Shinigami to find the big one on the ceiling. All five Shinigami started to deactivate it. They were lucky they were invisible, otherwise, Mr. Baker would have set it off.
"Couldn't we just slash at this thing?" Takuto questioned.
"If you do it, you might accidentally set it off, and the plan fails," Izumi explained.
"Damn. I got to bust out my sword!"
"I want to use my hammer!" Tama complained.
"You use it too much, girl," Meroko told her.
Half an hour later, the Shinigami dispatched the big bomb on the ceiling. Fuji won his match 6 games to 4. When that happened though, all the important people that were watching beside Takarada and Yageo left because they told Mr. Baker's assistant that even if the American team won the next game, it would be a draw. After they left, Takarada laughed loudly.
"People shouldn't underestimate the Japanese!" he roared, "And the Americans played a good match yet those guys are ungrateful for how skilled they are."
"You might want to tone your voice down Takarada," Yageo told him.
Mr. Baker's assistant didn't say anything. The last sponsor finally appeared to watch the final match and to negotiate with Mr. Baker and his assistant after she pulled them away from the main area and into the room where they spoke privately. Yageo decided to spy on them for the fun. While Yageo was gone, Takarada asked the DS cast about their progress.
"The big bomb is dispatched," Izumi reported.
"All the time bombs in the seats are deactivated," Sho reported. He was the only one who was physically injured for trying to deactivate the time bombs.
"The time bombs in the bathroom stalls are deactivated," Mitsuki reported from the girls bathroom.
"That includes the male bathroom stalls as well," Judai added.
"The time bombs in other places such are deactivated," Kyoko reported.
"All bombs are deactivated," Ren finished.
"I'm trying to take off Eiji's bracelet," Kaede said.
"Good job people. You will be awarded when this is over," Mr. President told them.
"Thanks president, nya!" Eiji cheered.
"You're still get your match Eiji," he told him.
There was no response from the red head. Only a moan because of a quick shock that came from the bracelet when Kaede pressed the wrong button.
Mr. President lost contact with all of them and smiled contently. No one would be killed on this glorious day. The only question now was what was taking Yageo so long to come back since Mr. Baker, his assistant and the sponsor was already back awaiting for the so called final match which was Ryoma Echizen vs. Kevin Smith. This was going to be a great match if Mr. Baker didn't blow it.
After this match, Mr. Baker will be arrested. Takarada thought to himself. He quickly phoned the Shinigami telling them to capture all the people who were illegally gambling in this dome.
"I already found them, so can I start a ruckus now?" Takuto questioned.
"No. When he is arrested, they will be as well," he told him.
"Roger that."
"O-CHIBI'S MATCH IS STARTING, NYA!" Eiji screamed.
Kaede had to cover her ears to block the scream. When she did, Eiji got another quick shock, "Sorry."
Eiji didn't say anything as he let her remove the bracelet once and for all.
"Contact with Mr. Baker is terminated de gozaru," Kaede announced.
"YES! Now I can sucker punch him at least once for once for electrocuting me," Eiji said with an evil grin. The Eiji devils came up behind him.
"And Oishi will be coming down from the crowd to stop you from killing him," Kaede said with a sigh.
"Speaking of Shuichiro…"
Eiji peaked outside to see if he was in the crowd. He wasn't in his seat next to Momo, "That's funny. Where did he go, nya?"
"The bathroom?" Kaede asked sarcastically.
"Very funny…not."
To those who wanted to know what happened to Oishi…let's just say it's best left unsaid. After Sho lost connection with Mr. President, he basically went back to flirt with the women. This disgusted the Mother of Seigaku to no end because it was bad enough that he flirted with Eiji who was in fact a male. Oishi followed Sho to wherever he was going and when he was alone ready to pounce on an unfortunate victim. Oishi kicked him in the back which was so not him and not expected that Sho fell flat on his face.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!" Sho questioned in rage.
"Stalking a women and then getting ready to rape her. Some honesty you have," Oishi told him in an angry tone.
"That's where I say 'I have no honesty'. I do I want."
That resulted in Oishi brining out his tennis racket (how he was able to carry it inside the building, we will never know.) and whacking the singer with it. He kept hitting him until he was knocked out. The people who were witnessing the scene took huge steps behind them and rushed toward their seat. No one dared to help Sho.
After a while, Oishi stopped whacking him only to realize that he knocked him out ten minutes ago and was only bruising his face more.
"Maybe I went too far…"
Oishi quickly glanced around the area he was in hoping to find a room where he could dump the perverted singer in. He found a bathroom stall that no one was in. He quickly dragged Sho to the bathroom and threw him into the bathroom, shutting the door behind him. He found a CLEANING sign next to the door and placed it in front of it.
"There. Now no one can become a victim when he wakes up," Oishi said with a grin. (Me: This is where a sign pops up on the bottom of the screen if it this was made into an anime saying, The only victim here was Sho!)
Oishi suddenly felt someone hit him on the back really hard. He blacked out. While he was knocked out, the person who knocked him out placed a bracelet on him that was the same as Eiji's, but cloaked it with a cloaking device.
"The stage is set," the person said before slowly walking away from the unconscious boy.
"Hibiki-san, there's no hope for him," the doctor told Sapphire.
While the America vs. Japan matches were happening, Sapphire was stuck trying to save Jun from death. The Ojama Trio were the only ones that stayed to watch the operation all the way through. No matter how smart Sapphire was though, Jun's body was failing him. The doctors were about to give up because his pulse was so slow that the machine was going to stop.
"There is no way in hell I'm giving up!" Sapphire declared, "I'm not doing this just for myself! This is for Eiji, Judai, and everyone who cares about him. He can't die like this!"
"Then maybe I can help…"
All the doctors turned in the direction of the voice and gasped.
"It's her!" Ojama Yellow declared.
"The girl that Kyoko-san mentioned in the book!" Ojama Green added.
"It's the girl who wrote the book about that war!" Ojama Black finished. (3)
"I will heal him," the girl said in a soft voice, "But his will to live must be strong in order to live."
All the DS members were having a great time with Singles 1. Mostly because they were watching Mr. Baker's attitude change toward Kevin. As Ryoma took the lead, Mr. Baker was losing his posture completely and going as far as slapping Kevin. Maria (Me: If you wanted to know where she was, she was sitting with her grandpa, but I forgot to mention that she was there typically because she was running around the area deactivating the time bombs while acting like Anita.) noted that when he was arrested that would count as assault for the fun of it. Ren was writing all the things that Mr. Baker did which would also determine how long he would be in jail.
While Eiji was cheering for Ryoma, he was searching the crowd for Oishi and Sho. It wasn't like Oishi to miss something this important, but because Sho was missing, he wouldn't be surprised if they got into another fight. That cleared that part out. He started searching for the person he would get revenge on. He didn't catch him with the American Team. In fact he saw him using his ninja moves to make himself invisible and stand behind the referee. Keep doing that while you can Smoke. You won't be doing that when I'm done with you!
Eventually the game reached tie break with no help from Mr. Baker's yelling. The Dark Stalker cast were already in position ready to pounce on the villains. Maria was still debating whether or not to turn on the music. In the end, she didn't turn it on. Sho (who came back along with Oishi) was debating how to beat Mr. Baker up at the end. He was just as sinister as Kyoko who was thinking the same thing. It was scaring all the Shinigami.
After Ryoma took the lead 4 to 1, Kevin unleashed something that Ryoma did in his match against Sanada-----a hurricane of techniques that he saw throughout all the matches. It surprised Ryoma, but because he knew how to defeat Fuji's move by heart, he was able to overpower it. After a long rally, Kevin realized something.
Father, was your opponent this fun? he asked his father who could not hear him.
When he asked that question Ryoma sent one last Cyclone Smash at him and winning the game 7 games to 6 with the tie break score 7 points to 4.
The crowd cheered for both of the players but mostly Kevin surprisingly which was fine by Takarada. Everyone was in position.
"ATTACK!" Maria ordered.
The crowd gasped as the DS cast minus Eiji and Jun surrounded Mr. Baker. The Shinigami revealed themselves in front of the perverted gamblers scaring the shit out of them.
"We've seen through your plan Mr. Baker," Sho declared in an evil tone.
"What is the meaning of this?" Mr. Baker questioned angrily.
"I'll be taking that."
Maria easily snatches the detonator from Mr. Baker. He realizes that to late as she hands the detonator to Kyoko, "Is this it big sis?"
"Yep. The detonator to all of these time bombs," Kyoko announced out loud surprising everyone.
"How did you?"
Ren cuts him off as he holds the paper with all the illegal things Mr. Baker did.
"The president of LME expels you from any tennis related events," Ren declared.
"He also wants to put you under arrest for illegal gambling, illegal use of the tennis money, and of course the time bombs that you wanted to detonate if the American team were to lose," Mitsuki announced world wide.
"Don't forget that wrist band that he forced Eiji to put on!" Maria added.
"Oh yeah! That wrist band that electrocutes someone if they did something wrong. We got to charge you for that as well," Mitsuki added.
"And we can charge you of abuse of the tennis players," Kaede said with a grin.
"You bastards. You were planning this from the beginning!" Mr. Baker shouted proving that everything the DS cast said was true.
A scream was heard in the crowd. Mitsuki sighed when she saw how bad Takuto was scaring the perverted gamblers.
"YOU'RE ALL UNDER ARREST FOR ILLEGAL GAMBLING AND PORN PICTURES OF MY MITSUKI!" Takuto screamed as he took all the pictures from them and cut them up with his sword.
"You're forgetting the other unfortunate pictures of everyone else as well," Izumi told the cat Shinigami.
"MITSUKI IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON TO US, DAMNIT!"
"…5 KP so shut up," Izumi finally told him which he calmed down immediately. (4)
Tama already whacked all of the perverted gamblers with her mallet. Ishida and Meroko had the hand cuffs ready. They quickly tugged the four men's hands behind their back and placed the hand cuffs on them.
"Four down. Two to go," Meroko declared as she threw the last hand cuff out to the open. Eiji was the one who caught it and jumped to the field like a cat.
"Sho, he's all yours!" Eiji shouted as he threw the singer the hand cuffs.
Sho caught it with ease and handed it to Kaede.
"Put your hands behind your back like a good little boy," Kaede taunted, "And your beat down won't hurt as much."
"You bitch!" Mr. Baker cursed.
He refused to move his hands behind him which resulted in Kaede using her ninja reflexes to forced them behind his back. She placed the hand cuffs on them.
"You're screwed," Kyoko told him with an angelic smile.
After she said that, Maria, Ren, Mitsuki, and Kaede backed up. Judai, Sho, and Kyoko were the ones who were going to beat him up, but first…
"Izumi, you're the closest to the music, so turn it on!" Judai ordered.
Izumi frowned as he turned the music to American Idiot. The crowd were shocked at how vicious the three Dark Stalkers were to Mr. Baker.
"This is for setting a time bomb in here, you poor sport!" Kyoko declared as she clawed his back with her claws.
"This is for all the suffering I received ever since these matches started!" Sho shouted as he sucker punched him in the face.
"This is for Jun!" Judai yelled in an evil tone as he kicked Mr. Baker in the balls.
Eiji was having fun just watching them go all out. He was waiting for them to be finished so they can announce the match with Smoke. Ryoma walked up to his sempai and asked, "What is the meaning of this Eiji-sempai?"
"Simple revenge delivered to yours truly, the Dark Stalker cast," Eiji said sarcastically.
"Eiji-sempai, you know what I'm talking about!" Ryoma shouted which surprised the red head.
Eiji sighed, "He was the one who ordered Smoke to rape Jun," he said bluntly, "And we'll all getting our revenge on him."
Ryoma was stunned that Mr. Baker had something to do with Jun's rape. Well he wasn't really the trustworthy type, and he could see how that man could fit in.
"Hey Sho!" Eiji shouted, "If you keep punching him in the face, the police won't be able to identify him!"
Sho and Kyoko stopped pounding on Mr. Baker immediately but Judai was filled with anger so he kept kicking him where it hurt. No one bothered to stop him. He had to let it all out.
"I think that's enough now," Mitsuki finally told the brunette.
Judai only stopped because he felt like it. Eventually the police really came and hauled Mr. Baker and the perverted gamblers away. Ren took the microphone from the director and announced that everyone not to leave.
"Because of the incident we currently have, we will have one more match for the players on both sides of the team who did not get to play," Ren announced.
That caught the audiences attention which made them want to stay for the match. All the tennis players were surprised that the DS cast were announcing one last match.
"How come we didn't here about this Eiji-sempai?" Ryoma questioned his upper classmen.
"Because nobody else was suppose to know until the very end," he answered bitterly. It wasn't intentional but he was fired up for the match he was going to play against Smoke. He stepped up to the field and the DS fans instantly knew that he was Felicia and called her name out instead of his.
"Get your ass out here Smoke! I know you're watching!" Eiji shouted.
In an instant, Smoke appeared in the think of smoke in front of the American team. The smoke was rather suffocating so anyone caught in the smoke coughed roughly.
"I'm surprised that you were able to keep me entertained for that long," Smoke said sarcastically.
The DS cast glared at the ninja who raped one of their own.
"I guess a cold greeting was coming," he said sadly.
"Shut up and get on the court!" Judai ordered in a dangerous tone.
Smoke turned to the brunette and smiled evilly, "I can't believe that you're brining out personal matters to the public. Sad really."
"What did you say you bastard?!" Judai questioned angrily.
"Shut up Judai!" Kaede snapped.
Judai was shocked that Kaede of all people would snap at him. He backed down. Mitsuki took a few steps back waiting for the chance for Smoke to move away from the American group.
"I'll play a match with Eiji of course," Smoke began, "I really wouldn't want to disappoint the crowd."
Mr. President was worried of the DS cast's safety. They were playing by his rules now so if someone on the tennis court got hurt, the crowd would think that it was all a part of their plan.
"In order to start though, you might ask your friends to move. They take up a lot of space especially that flat chested girl over there," Smoke said sarcastically.
Sho couldn't help but laugh at that comment since he agreed that Kyoko was flat chested. Kyoko glared at the ninja before she dragged the singer away. Mitsuki took the chance to zoom behind Smoke and to order the Americans to move out of the way.
"There's going to be some chaos if you don't," she added.
Kevin wanted to protest, but he knew Smoke and what cruel things he did. In fact the whole American Team knew what he was capable of, so they obeyed the blonde. Mitsuki sighed in relief as she rushed them. She didn't want to be near the ninja who hurt even Kaede.
Ren took Japan's side. Most of them didn't know what was going on beside the fact that a fight was ensuring. Ryoma was the most rebellious one of them all.
"Ryoma-bozu, you have know choice but to listen to us," Kaede told them, "We don't need anyone else getting hurt."
"But-"
"Echizen, I think it's best to let them handle things," Fuji told them.
"You've already won your match and you will be awarded afterward," Ren told him strictly, "And Eiji was waiting for this moment the whole time."
Ryoma didn't say anything as he was forced to go into the locker room which would lead to the upper area where everyone was sitting.
The referee was still debating whether or not to host the match. Kaede told him to take a break and that she would host he match as Mei Ling. The referee agreed for some peculiar reason. Eiji sighed when he saw that Kaede was seducing him.
He and Smoke were on two separate sides of the tennis court with their tennis rackets. Eiji gripped his racket tightly and smiled faintly. After this…I'll have no where to go…just like you Smoke…
Smoke noticed Eiji's faint smile and was rather confused. Shouldn't he be glaring at him for all the things he done?
"One set match, Felicia to serve," Kaede announced. She called Eiji 'Felicia' because that's how the crowd sees him.
The crowd started calling for Felicia. While Eiji liked the attention, he wished they would stay quiet. He needed to concentrate.
Eiji served the ball with such speed that Smoke didn't even bother going after it.
"15 love!"
Eiji served again and Smoke made little attempt to go after it.
"Love 30!"
…Don't tell me that…
"Love 40!"
…He's toying with me!
"Game to Felicia! Change court!"
The crowd cheered for Eiji's service ace, but Eiji was rather annoyed that he took that game as soon as the game began.
Smoke grinned when her saw the frustrated look on Eiji's face. He was going to annoy him so he wouldn't get the match he wanted. Smoke served the ball which Eiji easily returned. While Smoke returned the ball, he wasn't hitting it as hard as he could have. Eiji used his Kikumaru Beam technique to score again.
"15 Love!"
"YOU SUCK SMOKE!" Sho yelled.
"YEAH! GET OFF THE COURT!" Kyoko added.
"Both of you shut up!" Ren shouted.
The two dirty blondes silenced immediately. Takuto couldn't help but scoff in the distance which earned him a glare.
"Love 30!"
FLASHBACK
"Come on Crybaby A-ji! Can't you even return a simple serve?" A seven year old Smoke asked a seven year old Eiji. He had served the 20th ball and the red head still couldn't hit the ball.
"The balls too fast!" Eiji complained.
"Next…"
Smoke served again. Eiji tried to hit the ball, but it ended up hitting him in the face making him fall on his back. He began to cry. The black haired teen sighed.
"You're such a crybaby…"
Eiji looked at him with tears in his eyes. Smoke turned away. He regretted being so hard on him.
"…It's not hard Eiji. Just keep your eye on the ball," he instructed.
END OF FLASHBACK
"Felicia leads 2 games to 0! Change court!"
The audience's cheering became louder. The DS cast were quite disappointed with Smoke's ability.
As the two players were switching positions, Eiji stopped in his place and glared at his former friend, "Smoke. Play serious for a change," he told him harshly.
Smoke was rather surprised that Eiji asked him to play seriously instead of losing his temper. He frowned. He was going to have to play serious just the way Eiji wanted it, "Fine, just serve!"
Eiji gripped the tennis ball tightly in his hand. He would not lose to Smoke. He would humiliate him in front of everyone and get him arrested and possibly executed for his crimes. Eiji served the ball with speed. He wasn't surprised when Smoke reached the ball with such speed. He was rather relived that his former friend was being serious at long last. Smoke returned the ball a little faster than Eiji predicted. He couldn't use his aerobatics to reach the ball.
"15 Love!"
"And now the match begins…" Judai mumbled to himself.
There was a long rally after that. Neither player was letting up. Eiji surprised Smoke with his aerobatic play.
"Felicia leads 3 games to 0! Change court!"
Smoke sighed as the players switched courts, "The kid gloves are off Crybaby A-ji."
Smoke took the time to pinpoint where he would serve. If he wanted to use his ninja moves in this match, he would have to make it look like the ball was hurting Eiji and not the shuriken that he secretly hidden in the balls he was serving. When he served the ball at such speed, Eiji attempted to return it, but when he tried to, the ball grazed his right arm soaring passed him.
"15 love!"
Kaede opened her eyes to glare at Smoke when she saw the small cut on Eiji's right arm. She knew Smoke's trick technically because she was a ninja as well. I never knew he would stoop so low…
Smoke served again but aimed at Eiji's right knee this time. The cat boy didn't realize it in time resulting in his knee getting scraped.
"30 love!"
"You're telling me to be serious and now you can't even return my serves," Smoke taunted.
Eiji didn't say anything as he glanced at his injuries. He was still smiling faintly. Smoke was the one annoyed at Eiji's attitude toward his cheating. He served again at Eiji's left arm. Eiji moved too slow to get into position so the ball ended up knocking the tennis racket out of his hand.
"40 love!"
Eiji…why are you letting this guy cheat? Kyoko asked herself, Destroy him with that move!
"Game to Hiroto! 3 games to 1! Change court!"
Mitsuki decided to jump down to the court to check on the injuries that Eiji received. She wasn't much of a nurse, but she could tell if the wound was serious or not.
"The wounds aren't that serious," Mitsuki told him, "But you should be careful. I think he plans to cheat for the rest of the game."
"I know…" Eiji barely managed to get out.
"Is something the matter?"
"…No…"
Mitsuki was forced to step back as Eiji and Smoke changed positions. Eiji's hand was shaking when he bounced the tennis ball up and down. She worried that his past with the ninja would get to him.
Eiji served the ball that barely went over the net. Smoke easily returned the ball. Eiji struggled returning the ball because of his injuries and while he wasn't bleeding that bad, it was going to get a whole lot worse if the match dragged on.
"Game to Hiroto! 3 games to 2! Change court!"
Sho sighed, "The kid his serving game…"
"So much for revenge…" Takuto added.
"It's better this way," Ren told them.
They didn't say anything to Ren. All of them especially Kyoko knew that Ren hated the subject of revenge and while he still didn't talk about his past, something told them that it was a very dark past where he walked the path of revenge and somehow got his revenge but was dissatisfied with the results.
"Game to Hiroto! 3 games to 3! Change court!"
"What sucks more than anything," Sho began, "Is that he's not even playing serious."
"Just punch him in the face!" Judai shouted.
"That would make you feel better," Atobe finally said.
Takuto observed how they responded to Atobe's response. They all seem to be listening to him. If they listen to him, then that means they accepted him into the DS group.
It was Eiji's turn to serve again. He stalled before he served because he was confused. Why was he holding back now? He was disappointing the crowd and humiliating himself. Damnit!
Eiji served an extremely fast one. Smoke was surprised that his serve changed the next two games. That's still not enough Crybaby A-ji. Smoke started a long rally waiting for Eiji to use that move. He wanted to see if it really was scary, "Come on Crybaby A-ji! Weren't you talking about having revenge? I think I might embarrass you!"
Eiji wouldn't let him finish what he was saying as he hit the ball past him during the taunt.
"15 Love!"
Eiji didn't say anything as he walked back to his side of the court. Smoke sighed, "Can't even take a joke-"
"The jokes aren't funny if you're the only one laughing," Eiji said quickly in a serious tone.
Sho grinned, "Nice."
Eiji served again. He was determined to use that move on him now. Smoke realized this and allowed him to get into position, "Guardian of Hope," he chanted, "Lend me your powers to defeat Smoke once and for all and get back at what he did to everyone…HIKARU AKUMA!"
When Eiji hit the ball, there was light surrounding it, but it wasn't shining brightly like the time when he used it during the Rikkadai match. The ball moved at the same speed though. Smoke tried to return it, and that was when the Eiji devils appeared cursing at him, "YOU BASTERD!" "YOU NINJA BITCH!" "YOU MAN WHORE!" "HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME!" "You know that I like the color of your blood." Smoke was stunned at the fourth devil's comment which was the reason why he couldn't return the ball. All was silent as the devils were running amok.
"3-30 L-Love…" Kaede mumbled. She was feeling the dangerous aura coming from Eiji and his devils. The DS cast and the Regulars could also feel it.
"How does big bro give out such an area?" Maria asked Kyoko.
"He's just like me. Tee-hee!" Kyoko replied.
"'Tee-hee' my ass!" Sho yelled. He was so glad that he was far away from the red head.
Smoke hid his face under his hair. He laughed softly to himself, "It's funny how a grudge can become one's strength."
Eiji didn't say anything as he quickly served. His hatred for his friend was turned into power. Smoke noticed that he was getting more and more powerful despite him being serious. He was hoping he wouldn't use his last resort to get Eiji to hate him more than he already was hated, but he had no choice. I'm not going to use it yet.
"Game to Felicia! 4 games to 3! Change court!"
Takarada noticed that the dome was very quiet. He finally became aware what was happening and warned the DS cast what was going on, "There's sleeping gas affecting the people here! Protect yourselves!"
The cast was surprised that their was still a threat. They quickly covered their mouths before they inhaled the sleeping gas. Judai turned to everyone to announce to cover their mouths. The warning was too late though as almost everyone was inhaling it. All audience fell asleep. Only the DS cast, the Shinigami, Takarada, Yageo, Ryoma, Fuji, Oishi, Atobe and Tezuka stayed awake to witness the match since their was no gas around the tennis courts.
"Shit," Sho cursed, "We weren't warned of this."
"Shut up and keep your mouth closed," Kyoko told him.
"What's going on?" Fuji asked the DS cast.
"Why is everyone falling asleep?" Ryoma added.
After everyone was knocked out, Oishi left his seat to join the group who were getting their explanations.
"You might say that Eiji's plan failed," Judai answered.
"What are you talking about Judai?" Fuji questioned him.
Judai turned to Meroko and Tama who knew what to do. They flew around removing the sleeping gas allowing everyone to breathe again without inhaling the gas. When they were done, Judai gave the gesture that it was all right to uncover their mouth and explained, "Mr. President assigned us a mission to arrest Mr. Baker for all the reasons that Ren mentioned. I am not explaining that again. He also wanted us to arrest people who were illegally gambling. The match that is happening now was Eiji's plan to get revenge on that bastard."
The Seigaku Regulars were shocked that Eiji would plot revenge. It wasn't like him to hurt another person.
"And you're suppose to be Eiji's double partner," Sho said directly that comment to Oishi who knew him the most since Sapphire wasn't here.
Oishi didn't say anything. There was no way that I would know that Eiji would do such a thing. He rarely says anything about his past his relationship with that guy.
"Game to Hiroto! 4 games to 4! Change court!" Kaede announced. She was still coughing from inhaling to much gas, but it didn't seem to affect her.
"It's sad really!" Smoke began, "You wanted to embarrass me in front of a whole lot of people only to have them fall asleep on you. Sad."
Eiji glared at his former friend, "What did you do to them?"
"I put them to sleep of course. I didn't want them to see your crying face when you lose," he answered.
"You're going to regret that!"
"I won't Crybaby A-ji. I lost the will to care for people a long time ago. As a Dark Stalker would say, I removed all emotions of sympathy to anyone."
"You-"
"It's funny how you finally noticed the people who rejected you for how long?"
"Shut up and serve!"
Smoke sighed, "You'll never learn."
Kaede gasped when she saw the kunai in the tennis ball he served. Eiji attempted to return it, but the kunai ended up scratching his band aid. The band aid slowly fell off of the red head's cheek revealing the scar that he had been hiding from everyone so long. Those who did not know about his scar gasped.
"What is that scar?" Ishida questioned.
Judai and Azmaria were the only ones who Eiji showed the scar to.
"That," Judai began, "is what that bastard gave him six years ago."
Oishi turned to the brunette, "How do you know this much about him?"
Judai looked at him in confusion, "Didn't Eiji ever tell you about that scar? He told me along with Jun when he ran off that day you slapped him."
Oishi's eyes widen, "Then the reason why his cheek was bleeding was because-"
"I don't even know why, but for some strange reason, that mark will continue to bleed."
Oishi was very confused. What have I been doing while Eiji suffered like this…how can I even call myself a double partner when I hardly know about him…
"EIJI WATCH OUT!"
Oishi snapped out his thoughts to check the battle. He was so lost in thought that he wasn't even paying attention to the match. His world froze when all he saw was red.
Smoke was leading with a score of 40 love and he was out for blood. He took out a huge shuriken when he served the ball. Not only did he return the ball when he threw the huge shuriken but he manage to make a direct hit at The Guardian of Hope's stomach. Blood came gushing out. He was hoping to slice him in half, but that same light that protected Eiji earlier on today saved him from being split into two. The light disintegrated the shuriken but left Eiji with a huge wound that made the match impossible for him to continue.
"YOU CHEAT!" Kaede finally yelled as she ran over to Eiji along with Mitsuki, "How dare you use weapons in a match!"
Smoke sighed, "It's free for all lady if there is hardly anybody to watch the match."
"You bastard!"
Mitsuki glared at the ninja as well after examining Eiji's huge wound. Eiji would probably heal his wounds eventually, but still…
"I don't care if you're still in a tennis match, I rather fight you right now!"
"Finally somebody who agrees with me!" Kaede exclaimed as she got out a huge shuriken. She was about to throw it when Takarada screamed, "CALM YOURSELF KAEDE!"
All eyes turned to Mr. President who was staring down at them from his seat. Yageo was moving away from his friend.
"THE MATCH IS NOT FINISHED! DO NOT INTERFERE WITH IT!"
Kaede shivered at Takarada's tone of voice. To think that man could raise his voice…
She and Mitsuki backed down immediately. It had the same affect on anyone who worked under him. That didn't affect Oishi though as he forgot that Eiji was in a match (not like it was a match to begin with) and jumped down to the tennis court to help his double partner.
"Eiji get a hold of yourself!" Oishi told her double partner.
Eiji heard his double partner's plea, but chose to ignore it. He was on the verge of losing consciousness. Damnit. Why did I think that Smoke would play fair? He's not like Sapphire at all. My stupidity is going to get me killed one day…so I might as well…
While Eiji did hear his double partner call him over and over again, he chose to slowly lose consciousness. He was of course until Smoke said it.
"Crybaby A-ji, you better not fall asleep. If you do, you might lose the person you care for the most." All eyes widened when Smoke got out the switch that was used to activate the electric bracelet.
"How did he get one?" Tama questioned.
"You know that people can have more than one," Izumi told her, "The question is how is he going to use it and who's going to be shocked."
"Don't even think about electrocuting Eiji," Kaede said in a threatening tone, "That bracelet is already gone."
Smoke grinned sinisterly, "That's where you're wrong." He was going to enjoy torturing them all, "I had another one in case something like this were to happen and Crybaby A-ji was giving up. I simply cloaked the bracelet onto someone. And that someone will face a near death experience."
He pressed the button. Eiji's eyes snapped opened when he realized that the person getting electrocuted was his double partner.
"OISHI!" they call cried out.
Eiji's world seemed to have went black for a second. It was like he was inside his mind.
So the reincarnation of that bastard strikes again. said a voice.
Eiji glanced around the dark area he was in, "Who said that?"
The figure who spoke appeared in front of him. Eiji gasped, "You're…that kid who was…"
The one who was crying for my best friend Kikutori? Yes. I'm Gaia Yusuke for your information.
Eiji glared at the figure who looked identical to him. Sure his hairstyle was slightly different and he had that same scar that he had, his aura was different. It wasn't the aura that represented the Guardian of Hope, but the Guardian of Earth instead.
No need to glare at me. I just need to ask you if you want to kill that guy.
"Who?"
Have you already forgotten? Hiroto Smoke. The ninja who is recently trying to kill your double partner.
"SHUICHIRO!"
Yeah him. Do you want to protect him?
"Of course! If I don't protect him…then I'll…"
Yusuke smiled, "You'll kill yourself?" he finished.
"How did you?"
Let me say that I did that when I was still alive. Now in order to help him, you have to past judgment on him. Not as the Guardian of Hope, but the Guardian of Earth who someone else in another world possesses (5)
"I don't understand…"
Yusuke sighed, We don't have that much time! If you let me take over half of your mind then I'll be able to save him and past judgment to that bastard with this deadly tennis.
Eiji had no saying in it since he wanted to save Oishi so badly. "Do what you want with me! Just save Shuichiro!"
You don't have to say anymore.
Yusuke slowly walked over to Eiji and disappeared. The red head knew that he was inside his body since it was all hot and intense. He had no control of his body, but that was all right with him. He felt like he knew the person who took control of him.
In the real world Yusuke was in control of Eiji's body and quickly shattered the bracelet in a blink of speed. Oishi collapsed as the red head caught him.
"What was that?" Meroko questioned.
"It was too fast for me to see…" Azmaria added.
Smoke stepped back when he realized what he done, "Oh shit…"
Eiji still had control of what he said so he whispered something to Oishi that he was sure that he heard and then asked Kaede and Mitsuki to take Oishi back to the bleachers.
"Took you long enough to respond," Smoke taunted, "I was wondering if you were going to let that guy die-"
"Smoke."
Everyone noticed Eiji's change of tone. The tone was no longer happy go lucky. Even Smoke realized this.
"You're worse than scum Smoke. Not only did you kill all of those people in the past, you also hurt my friends…you badly injured Kaede during that time we were training. You nearly made Azmaria vanish. You toyed with Jun's feelings for Judai and raped him. You tried to ruin Bad Luck. You work with a bastard that only cares about his success in life and using everyone else as a stepping stone. You sabotaged these matches to make sure that the American team would win. You threatened to blow up the Tokyo Dome. I really thought I could have forgiven you, but not after what you did to Shuichiro…Smoke…" As Eiji said that a dark aura was surrounding him. It was the same aura that appeared when Smoke threatened to kill Oishi during the time that Seigaku was training for Rikkadai. The aura was even more suffocating than the last as it was making Eiji's hair bloody red. When he glared at Smoke, the ninja noticed that his eyes were full of hate and despair, "I'LL MAKE YOU WISH YOU'RE DEAD!"
What happened next should have been the coolest thing if you believed in angels since angel wings sprout from Eiji's back. However it was slowly turning red due to all the sins that Smoke did added along with his anger. You couldn't call him an angel, but you couldn't call him a devil evil since devil wings were black.
"Big sis…what's wrong with big bro?" Maria questioned Kyoko.
Nobody said anything as they were too stunned to see what was happening to the acrobatic player.
Not an angel, but not a devil… Kyoko thought.
This is just like the time when Kyoko…stood up for me… Sho thought to himself.
Revenge…was this powerful? Ren asked himself.
"Mickey," Izumi began to the blonde girl, "You once told us that you didn't see us as Gods of Death and called us angels instead."
"I did."
"What would you call Eiji?"
Mitsuki thought for a moment before answering, "An Angel of Death…"
Ishida noticed that all the wounds on Eiji healed instantly. The only one that didn't heal was the one on his cheek.
"Come on Smoke," he began in that dangerous tone, "Let's continue the match. Unless you're afraid."
Smoke shook his head. There was no way in hell that he would back down this match with this Eiji. He always wanted Eiji to play THIS seriously, "Why would I back down?"
The score was 5 games to 4 and it was Eiji's turn to serve. His serve increased in power by ten fold. He couldn't return the serve.
"Kaede, call it," Eiji told the ninja girl in a threatening tone.
Kaede didn't know why she was so afraid of Eiji, "1-15 L-L-Love!"
Each time Eiji served after that was getting more powerful and he was actually intending to hurt Smoke who was hurting him. While he continued saying it was an accident, it wasn't.
The game was soon 5 games to 5. Smoke served and realized that Eiji's returns were even more powerful than the serves. Smoke had a hard time keeping up with him and eventually lost his service game making Eiji lead 6 games to 5.
Smoke smiled when he saw Eiji bouncing the ball very slowly. Even though he was losing, he was gathering a lot of data for his boss that still wanted him. He was lost in thought that he was hit by Eiji's serve in the arm.
"Pay attention Smoke!" Eiji yelled.
"Whatever…"
Eiji served again and this time Smoke returned the powerful serve. Eiji wasn't at all surprised as he reached for the balls. Smoke noticed that the red angel wings were making him move faster. He could have said that he was cheating, but then again, he was cheating by using ninja tools.
There was a long rally after the score was 40 Love to Eiji. The red head only needed one more point to win, but when he served he was suddenly having flashbacks of both of them together.
FLASHBACK
"HEY SMOKE!" called an eight year old Eiji before the whole witness murder scene.
"Hey Eiji! What's up?" asked an eight year Smoke.
"There's something I have to tell you!" Eiji told him, but when he got closer to Smoke he tripped on a rock and fell to the ground. He started crying after that.
The Eiji today was witnessing this event again and shook his head. Why am I having this flashback off all the ones we had together?!
"Crybaby A-ji. You were just wasting my time after all. Where's Sapphire?" he questioned.
"Sapphire's studying as usual to get into that college as she's always saying," Eiji told him. He instantly stopped his whining when he explained her situation.
"I see. Well, what did you want to tell me?" Smoke questioned
Eiji blushed a crimson red as he played with his fingers afraid to tell him.
"The truth is Smoke that I-"
"You what?"
Eiji covered his ears. This was the time when he confessed his feelings to Smoke before he witnessed the murders.
"I…love you…"
"I can't hear you!"
"I said I love you! I loved you ever since you came into my life. You took care of me when my father told my mother to leave me with you…and I…thank you for taking care of me…"
Eiji was silent as he waited for the response of his friend. He began to cry when he realized that he ended his friendship when he said those three words.
The red head was shocked when he felt a hand on his head. He looked up to see Smoke smiling toward him with a slight blush.
"You know what Eiji? I loved you ever since I met you. I had no parents and everyone hated me, so I thought I didn't belong in this world, but when you came into my life, you gave me a chance to be happy with myself, and I'll return your feelings, but…"
"But what?"
Smoke sighed, "You're not old enough."
Eiji fell over anime style, "THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY?! WE'RE THE SAME AGE, SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?!"
"I know you're serious about this, but the age we are now…may just be a childish crush…"
"SO?"
Smoke sighed, "If you really love me, then continue to love me until you're 14. Then I'll be able to accept you as my girlfriend."
Instead of Eiji blushing like a schoolgirl he fumed, "I AM NOT A GIRL! NYA!"
"One of us is going to have to be the girl of the relationship and it's not going to be me."
"No fair!"
"Don't tell Sapphire about this though!"
"I won't!"
Eiji froze when he realized what went wrong in their relationship. It wasn't Smoke that didn't keep his promise. It was me all along…
Yusuke groaned. So that's what happened. You were the one who fell in love with your double partner and broke the promise with him. He never betrayed his feelings for you…even after all the things he did…
Eiji didn't even realize that he was crying. Yusuke turned to Eiji and frowned. The past really is repeating itself…
END OF FLASHBACK
In the real world, Eiji had critically injured the ninja. Smoke was stunned that Eiji went this far. Yusuke let Eiji take control of his own body. Smoke was surprised when he saw tears emerge from his former friend's eyes. He frowned.
"I'm sorry that I failed you as a friend…" he mumbled. He was sure only Eiji heard him before he collapsed to the ground unmoving but not dead.
When Smoke fell to the ground, Eiji fainted as well. He wanted to tell Smoke that he was also sorry, but nothing came out before he collapsed. The match was over so everyone jumped down to check on the Golden Pair completely forgetting about Smoke.
"He'll die if we don't get him to the hospital!" Mitsuki announced.
"Someone call an ambulance!" Sho ordered.
Maria was the one who called the ambulance that took the Golden Pair away. When she looked on the other side of the court, Smoke was gone, "Just like a ninja…"
Once the group left for the hospital, (Yageo and Takarada stayed behind to tell everyone when they woke up that the match was over and to go home.) in Takarada's huge limo that he allowed them to take, they instantly rushed to the waiting room and waited. Sapphire was out and stunned to see that the Golden Pair got injured during the time she was taking care of Jun.
"Before you go," Judai began as he grabbed the bluenette's wrist, "Tell me about Jun's condition."
"Do we have the time for-" Sapphire frowned when she saw the desperate look on Judai's face. One that wanted to know if his best friend was okay. She smiled, "Manjoume's fine. He'll be out in a three days thanks to a certain doctor that's better than myself."
What she said lifted a huge weight off the brunette's shoulder. He smiled brightly again as tears of joy filled his eyes.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to take care of the Golden Pair now. Be back in half an hour."
Sapphire went into the room to check to see if the patients were still alive.
"Good for you, Judai," Kaede said with her usual grin.
The room was quiet as everyone waited for the results. Half an hour later, Sapphire came out as promised.
"How are their conditions Sapphire?" Tezuka asked forgetting to use her last name in public.
"Oishi's fine," she told him, "He'll wake up soon and can get out of the hospital tomorrow. The shock wasn't that serious anyway."
"And Eiji-sempai?" Ryoma questioned.
The smile on Sapphire's face frowned, "He was injured badly. More mentally than physically. His wounds already healed surprisingly, but I don't know what's going on in that head of his. All I know is that he kept apologizing to Smoke in his sleep…"
"Big bro isn't dead is he?" Maria questioned.
"No. He's sleeping now, but when he wakes up, he probably won't talk to anyone for a week which is when we plan to release him out of the hospital."
The room's temperature lifted especially when Sho said, "The brat wouldn't die so easily."
Sapphire stared at the singer, "By the way. I was watching the beginning of the tournament, and I noticed how you were sexually harassing Eiji in public. Do you have anything to say?"
"Not at all!"
"…"
"Baka…" Kyoko mumbled.
"Anyway, if you have anyone to thank, thank Dr. Tomoe. She's a pro."
Kyoko's eyes widened, "You mean that girl who wrote that book about the war three years ago?"
"Yep?"
The Kyoko devils appeared behind her, "WhErE iS sHe?! I wAnT hEr AuToGrApH!"
"-sweatdrop- She left…like after she was done treating Eiji through the back door…"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
"Too bad Kyoko…" Sho said with a satisfied grin.
Ren was on the phone the whole time. He was speaking to Takarada who was informing him about what happened to everyone in the dome and that he should tell everyone to walk home in pairs. When he hung up the phone his face was rather pale and he was glad that no one was paying attention to him. Takarada told him something that might hurt everyone.
Smoke was still alive and his boss is on the move. He was going to recruit a lot of people to stop him and finish his experiment.
Mr. President…is this guy really threatening your business?
Me: The -beep-ing chapter is finally done with 18224 words!
Yohko: Holy -beep-! That was long!
Me: I know, and the next chapter is going to be longer since I plan on adding a WHOLE lot of OC characters. If you saw my Gaia page, I already made ALL of my OC characters of this story beside the antagonists. I can name them all now, but then that would take the fun away of revealing them in the next chapter. Notes!
1. If you remember in chapter 6 and 9 of this story, you know that Eiji was being spied on my Smoke. Smoke spied on other people without getting caught. Atobe wasn't mentioned because…I really didn't think that I would make his role as big as all the DS cast. This is a huge warning. From here on out, the DS cast will play the biggest role and everyone else beside Oishi, Sapphire, Ryoma, Fuji, and Tezuka will have a small role.
2. Another hint what happened after the war. Apparently, all the Mahora girls were separated from their teacher and winded up in another world. Kaede ended up in this world. Nodoka ended up in a world where a certain 10th Division Taichou finds her (for more information about Nodoka read All the Things She Said which will be posted shortly.)
3. If you really read chapter 21 then you would know who this person is. Hotaru Tomoe from the war and from the Sailor Moon anime makes a brief appearance.
4. To those who read Full Moon O Sagashite knows that Izumi does this to Takuto intentionally. KP means hate points which means how much Izumi is hating Takuto at the moment. The more KP Takuto has the more severe his punishment was. I think when Takuto had 10 KP, Izumi kissed him and when he had 500 KP Izumi had his partner Jonathon attack him. Since I took out Jonathon as part of the Shinigami group, Tama replaced him.
5. Yusuke is referring to Alviss from Marchen Awakens Romance from my story The Song of Hope. A hint of the positions 500 years ago.
Me: After this chapter, it's going to begin the ultimate showdown between Takarada and the person who is threatening his business. Here is the preview!
"NEGI-BOZU!"
-Kaede hugs the child who looks like Negi-
"Umm…my name is not Negi…my name is Springfield Nemi."
"Moko-chan!"
-Kyoko proceeds to hug Kanae only for her to move out of the way-
"-sigh- I can't believe we'll be working on the same projects from now on…"
"Speaking of the same project, why are you here?!"
"Ore-sama is here for the same reason."
"Good looks or because you're a complete idiot?"
"You should know the answer."
"YOU!"
-Judai points at Edo-
"Glad to see you too."
"Edo, why are you here?"
"I came looking for you and I happened to be accepted into the LME industry."
"Damnit! I thought I could get away from you! You sex bunny!"
"This is my first creation. He was built for the sole purpose for acting, and I will name him-"
"Mini mi!"
-Eiji steps on Sho's foot-
"…Rotor because he's a robot."
Silence.
"That was lame."
"…And I thought real men wore pink…"
"It takes a real man to do gymnastics with the women…"
-Sho takes a picture-
"Blackmail!"
"Edo, get away from Jun!"
"Why should I? Is it because you're jealous?"
"…You…"
"I think I'll just-"
-Chomp-
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!"
"A booby trap so I wouldn't have to face you're sexual harassment. It's bad enough that Sho is doing it to Eiji."
"Hey! Who's the girl, Eiji?"
"I don't know. All I know is, she's a samurai."
"First real ninjas, then real men, and finally real samurais?! THAT'S AWESOME!"
"-sweatdrop- Okay Wei-Ko. You don't have to attract attention with that Chinese accent.
Me: Even though I said that starting from chapter 26 it was going to be serious from then on, but I can't help but add one last comedy chapter before it gets serious. Something nice might happen at the end of the next LONG chapter. Anyway, please read and review. The rating will stay M. A character from Sakura Wars will appear in the next chapter. HAPPY NEW YEARS!