Kyandi: Alright here's the next chapter!
Hikari: Told you it wouldn't take too long. She's in over drive with this story.
Kyandi: I'll take that as a compliment thank you!
Hikari: If you do that just proves how weird you are.
Kyandi: I'm not going to let you make me feel bad. I'm in too good of a mood.
Hikari: Fine. Then can we get on with this?
Kyandi: Yes ma'am we can!
Hikari: Don't call me ma'am. It makes me feel old.
Kyandi: How do you think I feel?
Hikari: Older?
Kyandi: Haha, very funny.
Hikari: I thought it was.
Kyandi: Anyway please enjoy and review!
Hikari: Kyandi-sama does not own Prince of Tennis.
Chapter 29 Slapping Is Too Girly
"The ocean!" Eiji, Momo, and Taka dived right into the water, Hikari watching from beside Ryuzaki. She was finally out of the silly sling, all of her injuries healing nicely with the help of her uncle. "I'm going to go change." Hikari told Ryuzaki.
"Right, don't take too long." Ryuzaki told her. Hikari nodded. She turned and took off to change. She had waited until they arrived simply because she didn't want to ride the train in her swim suit. Something about that was just creepy to her.
When she came back she found that her team had met up with Rokkaku's and the boys were all excitedly talking about beach volleyball. "Sounds like fun!" Hikari said happily making the boys turn to greet her. Half of them froze.
Many stared openly at her. To them, the Hikari that usually walked around in either her school uniform or baggy clothes, looked stunning in a silver bikini with blue butterflies. Over it she wore a pair of short black shorts and a sleeveless black hoodie.
Instead of her usual bandages over her left arm and leg today she wore coverings that looked like they had been cut out of a wet suit. Despite her team knowing about what lay under her bandages she still didn't like people staring at the scars.
None the less it was still very easy for them to see the girl's naturally slim and small built. Hikari raised one eye brow at them. "Apparently many of you seem to keep forgetting that I'm female." she remarked. All of the boys gathered their wits about them.
"Ka-chan you're really small!" Aoi said. Hikari blinked as she looked down at herself. "Is something wrong with that?" she asked confused. Aoi's teammates teamed up on him tell him to think before he talked.
"Nothing's wrong with it Ka-chan! I think what he meant to say is that you're awfully thin even for a girl your size and age! Though there's nothing wrong about that!" Saeki corrected for his captain. It was clear that the boy was nervous.
Hikari jammed her hands into her pocket. "I'm on a strict diet. I won't eat anything if its not on my daily menu. Except for water, the same is true for drinks." she told him. "Anyway if I knew my size was going to be the main topic today, I wouldn't have changed." she added.
"No, no! Its fine, really!" Saeki told her looking a little nervous more nervous as she played with him. Hikari gave a small laugh. "I was only pulling your leg, Saeki-san! Don't take it so seriously." she told him. Saeki rubbed his neck.
"It really doesn't matter to me. My weight and size is part of my tennis. I'm not shy about it. So don't sweat it so much." she added giving him a reassuring tap on the arm. "Higarashi you're keeping score!" Ryuzaki called.
"Right!" Hikari said turning to walk away. "Why aren't you playing?" several of the boys asked. "In case all of you have forgotten I'm still recovering from a shoulder injury." Hikari told them before she dropped to in the sand next to the score board.
She didn't mind sitting out. It was fun to watch the boys as they had fun. Even if half of them passed out from Inui's Juice and those who were beat by Ryuzaki and Rokkaku's coach were sit on. "You have them scared, Ryuzaki-sensei!" she said smiling up at her coach who smiled back.
It was really funny to watch the boys try their hardest to win and not have to drink Inui's juice. When Saeki and Fuji lost Hikari gave a fake pout. "Aw! What a shame. Saeki-san and Fuji-sempai were my favorites team-up." she said.
"I'll win for you Ka-chan!" Aoi told her taking one of her hands into his. Hikari looked at him giving him a smile before turning back to watch the match starting which was between Inui and Kisarazu and Ryoma and Aoi.
When Inui jumped to let the ball knock him out Hikari was not expecting Kisarazu to reach up to pull him back down only to pull Inui's swim trunks off. Ryuzaki, who was standing next to Hikari, instantly popped a hand over Hikari's eyes, the old Rokkaku coach doing the same from the other side.
"Alright, now that was something I did not need to see." she said. "You alright?" Ryuzaki asked when she and the old man finally removed their hands but only once Inui had his trunks back on. "Thankfully I have brothers, so that wasn't completely mentally scaring." Hikari replied. Ryuzaki pat her shoulder before going to play the final match against Ryoma and Aoi.
The two elders would have won if a zombie Oishi hadn't scared Ryuzaki, followed by the others who had drank the juice started acting like zombies. Aoi and Ryoma watched with slightly freaked out expressions from either side of Hikari who was covering a laugh with a hand.
"Wasn't today just fun?" Hikari asked the two remaining boys who looked down at her with a weird look, like she was crazy. "Yeah….fun." they agreed.
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"Thanks for coming with me Kaido-sempai." Hikari said looking up at Kaido who was walking beside her. When she had told he second year that she had tickets for the finals of the men's pro ABC open and had offered him one, he had agreed to come with her.
Hikari just didn't want to come all the way out there by herself and Kaido was the first of her teammates that she had run into. Kaido only let out his hiss like exhale. "There's our seats." Hikari told him pointing to the two seats just off the stairs. Hikari slipped into her seat, letting Kaido have the aisle seat.
"Hey did you hear? Rikkai Dai Fuzoku Jr, High, the defending National champions for two straight years, lost in Kantou!" Hikari and Kaido looked up as the loud voice reached their ears. "And the player that played in singles 2 against their Second Year Ace, was a little girl at that!" another added.
Kaido looked over his shoulder at the boys behind them. "The champions Rikkai are so lame! Gyahaha! Looks like they really are last year's news!" one boy said cheerfully with a laugh.
"Where's this Seigaku from? I've never even heard of them! Must be pretty lame to have a girl as a player." another added. Hikari didn't mind them saying that. It wasn't like she hadn't heard it all once before.
Heck she had even heard some of the same put downs from her own teammates when she had first joined. It was just talk and therefore really didn't bother her too much.
It was the next part that started getting under her skin. "Oh yeah, it seems that Rikkai's captain, Yukimura, had some kind of disease and couldn't play!" one said. "I hope his condition keeps on getting worse." another said.
"Besides, aren't diseases quite common nowadays?" the first asked. "Exactly! You've gotten the disease too!" the second added. Alright that was the last straw. Hikari hated cowards who talked bad about others when they were there.
Especially those to wished harm on another for their own gain. She was on her feet in an instant turning on the two, but Kaido was just as fast to react as her, hitting one of the males while Hikari effectively knocked another off his feet by sweeping his feet out from under him.
"Urk, who is this guy!? And what's with the girl!?" the two asked. "Are they from Rikkai?" the other asked. Kaido cracked his knuckles while Hikari crossed her arms over her chest. "Alright, you two want to get it on!?" one asked.
"Their pissed 'cause we were badmouthing their school's weak ass captain!" one said. "But letting such a junkie bastard on to the team and a crazy ass fan girl…the champions Rikkai have really fall-" the boy was shut up when Hikari slammed a hand up into his chin knocking him back onto his butt.
She would NOT let them talk bad about her sempai as well. It was bad enough that he had spoken ill of one of the Jr. High league's best players, but she absolutely would not allow someone to speak bad about one of her sempais.
Hikari shook her hand as she looked down at him. "Say it again. By Kami-sama, I dare you! I don't usually condone violence but so help me you say it again and I will." she told him darkly glaring at him with icy silver eyes as Kaido waited behind her, just waiting for her to move out of the way so he could beat the crap out of them.
The boy smiled up at her. "Weak ass captain. Or was it because I called him a junkie bastard?" he said. Hikari didn't even have time to react when one of the boys grabbed her by the wrist yanking her back before wrapping one arm around her so that his forearm was pressed to her throat.
Kaido snapped jumping forward to grab the boy when another grabbed him and flipped him into a wall. "Kaido-sempai!" Hikari pulled against the guy's grip on her but he only pressed his forearm harder over her throat keeping her in place.
Hikari tried to punch the boy holding her in the chin but it didn't seem to faze him. Kaido stood up to attack the boy again when another voice sounded. "Stop this at once!" Hikari turned. "Yagyuu-san?" she asked seeing him.
Yagyuu looked in her direction firmly eyeing the boys holding her before turning back to the man boys. "You guys are the champions from the Toukai District, Muri Ga Oka Jr. High, I presume. Do you guys want to be suspended form the National tournament?" Yagyuu asked.
The boys didn't reply to the subtle threat. "This person is not a player from Rikkai. Nor is the girl a fan girl from Rikkai. They are both regular members of the Kantou championship team, Seigaku." Yagyuu added.
"And I do not believe the lady appreciates you being so close to her. I do believe her punching you with a hand that already has broken fingers was sign of that enough." Yagyuu added gesturing to Hikari. The boy holding her looked down at her. "I suggest you let go of her before she feels inclined to do so again." Yagyuu told him.
"I already do feel inclined, Yagyuu-san, but it won't be his face, I punch this time." Hikari told him before she elbowed the boy behind her in the groan, making the boy release her and drop to the ground with a groan.
Hikari retreated to Kaido's side as Yagyuu continued to talk. "In any case, it seems that there has been a misunderstanding on both sides. For that I apologize…" One of the boys, probably the leader smiled. "Its alright. Lets just settle this with a tennis match. If we win she gets to come with me." he said.
From the looks of it neither Kaido nor Yagyuu were happy with the terms for both stepped up to block her from view. "You aren't honestly going to do this are you?" she asked the two. Both looked back at her. Yeah….they were. Lovely, just lovely. Exactly what she needed to end the day…another match gambling her relationship status.
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Hikari glared at the boys watching her as she rubbed the knuckles of her right hand. She should have punched with the left. She wished Yagyuu and Kaido would hurry up. Finally when both showed up, Hikari eyed the two, both of them giving her a look that said not to say a word.
The two had switched places. Fine with her. Hikari didn't mind playing along at all, especially since the boys challenging them had a scout with them anyway. Hikari herself was more then happy to sit there and add to her own data on the two. She pulled her data log out of her bag and popped it open in her hands instantly starting to write as the two played.
Inui-sempai will be jealous, she thought as she wrote. She wasn't surprised when Yagyuu and Kaido won. The difference in level was just too painfully clear. "Not bad! As expected of Kantou, even though you guys are still going down! We'll quietly withdraw today." one of the boys said.
Only because you have the data you think you want, Hikari thought as she closed her own data log. Hikari watched the boys leave the leader eyeing her as he passed. When they were gone she turned to Yagyuu and Kaido.
"Those….gentlemen…are the data gathering team for Muri Ga Oka Jr. High. They are a very annoying school who have established quiet a reputation for themselves at the Nationals." Hikari said as he read from her book.
"I'm not surprised that you two decided to switch places for this." she added looking at the two as Yagyuu pulled the bandana off his head and Kaido handed him back his glasses. "Though the Laser Beam was far slower then normal and the Boomerang was outside the Singles court. Something uncommon for the originals." she added. Kaido looked at her.
"Where you collecting data the whole time!?" he asked her. "Naturally." Hikari replied snapping the book closed. "Inui-sempai would be jealous. I wonder what he would give for data like this." she added with a charming little smile. Kaido let another one of his hiss like exhales. "Turn around so we can switch uniforms." Kaido told her.
"Right, right. Its not like I haven't seen half naked males before. I do just have seven brothers." Hikari replied as she turned her back to them so they could switch. When they were done Hikari turned back. "We best be getting back Kaido-sempai. I think I manage to break my fingers all over again." she told him.
Kaido shook his head at her as he walked over to her. "Why did you punch him then?" Kaido asked her. "If your suggesting I should have slapped him instead then don't. I don't slap, Kaido-sempai. It's too girly." she told him before turning to Yagyuu.
"Thank you for your assistance, Yagyuu-san. I really appreciate it." Hikari told him with a polite bow of the head. "Sorry to cause you any trouble." she added. Hikari and Kaido turned to leave when they heard him speak again.
"Kaido-kun, Hiri-chan…" Both Seigaku players turned back. "Yukimura…his surgery was successful. He is currently undergoing intense rehabilitation. Thanks…for what you two did back there." Yagyuu said holding out his hand.
Hikari smiled as Kaido shook his hand. "Our pleasure." Hikari told him, reaching up to place a small kiss on his cheek. "And again thank you for your help." she add with a smile as he readjusted his glasses a light blush painting his cheeks.
"Do not tell Niou-san about that." she told him meaning the kiss. "I doubt I nor you would ever hear the end of it if he found out." she added sternly. Silence fell over the three as they thought about what the Trickster might do. "Agreed." Yagyuu said quickly.
END
Kyandi: Alright all done for this chapter!
Hikari: Though now she has a question for you.
Kyandi: I know a few of you agree with the Hikari/Tezuka couple but it makes me wonder if any of you think she'd do better with another guy.
Hikari: So the question is do any of you think Hikari should be paired with someone else?
Kyandi: You can leave a review saying so or you can send me a message either way. I'm just curious.
Hikari: So while we leave you to answer that we'll move on to getting the next chapter ready.
Kyandi: So enjoy and review.
Hikari: Bye bye!
