Team Five
"This is SO unfair!" said Sengoku. "We have two televisions and we can't use either of them because of the stupid power!"

"Well, at least we can play Pictionary with this dry erase board you got us." Oishi said, trying to look on the bright side of things.

"I think it's unfair that Shishido won the individual competition just because he was sick and we all forced him to play." Said Kamio.

"It's not like he changed the family around." Itsuki said.

Just then, there was a knock at their front door.

They looked in the direction of the door quizzically, then counted up the team to make sure no one was an outside Pet today, and then Kamio finally got up to answer the door.

When he opened it, Choutarou was standing there.

"May I come in?" he asked pleasantly.

Kamio just stood there.

"Who is it?" said Itsuki as he walked over.

"Oh, it's just me!" said Choutarou as the rest of the family came in and allowed him to enter the house. "I brought some soup for Shishido to make sure he's all right!"

The family looked at each other and then back at Choutarou.

"I hate to be the one to break this news to you, Ootori." Said Sengoku as he put his hand on Choutarou's shoulder. "But…Shishido just died."

Choutarou blinked. And stood there stone faced.

"No way, we're just kidding!" laughed Sengoku. "We just wanted to see what your reaction would be!"

"I think you took it pretty well." Oishi commented.

But Choutarou was still standing there looking totally apathetic.

"Hello?" said Kamio, waving his hand in front of Choutarou's face but he didn't react in any way.

"Didn't you hear?" said Sengoku. "WE WERE KIDDING! SHISHIDO'S NOT REALLY DEAD!"

Choutarou then blinked again and looked like he was coming around back into reality, and was JUST about to think about giving Sengoku a piece of his mind when he heard Shishido roll over from the Parent's room and decided it was more important for him to be THERE so he dashed THERE.

"Shishido!" Choutarou said, running over to the bedside.

Shishido just lied their like a lump, but slowly opened one eye. "Choutarou?"

"Yes, me!" said Choutarou. "I brought you some chicken soup to help you feel better!"

Shishido didn't really react as the rest of the family stood in the doorway.

Choutarou looked up at them. "How high is his fever exactly?" he asked.

"Well, we were about to give him another ice bath just before the power went out." Oishi said.

"No…" Shishido whined SO pathetically.

"Ice bath?" Choutarou said. "I think it would be best to just draw the fever down from his head."

The rest of Team Five just stared at him.

"And…you can do that?" Oishi led.

"Of course!" Choutarou said. "First off all, you have too many blankets up here! It would be better to put them by his feet, which are, if you've noticed, icy cold. If you warm up his feet then he won't have such a high fever!"

"Chicken soup!" said Sengoku as he got distracted. "Awesome! We have nothing to eat here because we never went shopping! Someone get spoons!"

Choutarou ran over and slapped Sengoku's hand away. "That's for Shishido!" he said.

"Hey!" said Sengoku, caressing his hand.

"Hurry now!" said Choutarou. "We have to all work together to get Shishido back to full strength! Well? Why are you all just staring at me? This isn't helping…"

"Choutarou…" said Shishido weakly as he reached out for Choutarou.

"Yes, Shishido?" said Choutarou as he immediately ran to Shishido's side and waited eagerly for a response.

Shishido took a deep breath and mustered up the strength he needed to continue. "Don't bother with them." He said finally. "They're all lame."

"HEY!" said the whole family.

Team Six
"And then…when the woman opened the door…there was… A HOOK! ON THE DOOR!"

Atsushi shined the flashlight under his chin and made scary noises but everyone else in the family just stared at him. They were all sitting on the floor in a circle around where the kitchen table might have been if not for the fact that it was in so very many pieces.

"Not scary." Said Kaidou, crossing his arms.

"Aw…" said Atsushi, looking dejected. "I thought that story was scary."

"You don't have a scary enough face for the effect." Said Oshitari as he took the flashlight away and then handed it to Ryou. "You try it."

Ryou sat there with the flashlight.

Then he looked at Oshitari.

Then back at the flashlight.

Then he pointed at Atsushi.

Then at himself.

"WE HAVE THE SAME FACE." He said.

"Oh." Said Oshitari. "Right."

"Give me that." Said Kaidou, taking the flashlight from Ryou. "How's this. Ready? And then…" he lowered his voice even more. "When the woman opened the door… there was a hook… ON THE DOOR."

He shined the light under his chin, and everyone had to admit that it had a better effect when Kaidou did it.

"Amateurs." Said Akutsu as he took the flashlight and did the exact same thing, except this time, the rest of the family let out blood curling screams because they were so very frightened.

"I guess presentation does affect the story." Said Atsushi once he had regained his composure.

"You guessed right." Said Akutsu, offering the flashlight to Oshitari.

"Why me?" said Oshitari.

"Because you're the only one who hasn't told a story yet." Said Akutsu.

"That's not true." Said Oshitari. "The only person who's told a story so far is Atsushi. Ryou passed, and the two of you just repeated the last line from Atsushi's story."

"Well, we've already established that Ryou and Atsushi are not good scary story tellers." Kaidou said. "So it's pointless to have them tell stories."

"And we've established that the two of you are GOOD scary story tellers so why don't you two tell one instead?" said Oshitari.

"Well now we're in the dark as to how you are at telling scary stories." Said Ryou as if it bothered him. It might have, but it could have been a façade just to make Oshitari fall into a clever trap.

"Very well." Said Oshitari as he took the flashlight and put it under his chin just like everyone does whenever they tell scary stories no matter what their face looks like. "It was a dark and stormy night, much like this one, and the power was out, just like tonight…"

"No good, stop." Ordered Kaidou.

"What?" said Oshitari. "Already?"

"You sound like a recording of a romance novel on a book on tape." Atsushi said.

"Yeah." The rest of the team agreed.

Oshitari looked sad for a few seconds because of course he knew it was true so it would be pointless to argue a factual point.

Then he suddenly perked up.

"Wait." He said.

"What?" said the rest of the team.

"Why do you all know what a romance novel on tape sounds like?" Oshitari inquired.

They all sat there in silence, waiting for someone else to go first.

Team Seven
Sanada won the individual challenge. This was only because everyone else on his team failed, and the teachers figured that maybe he would have won if he had gotten a chance to play. The world may never know.

But, after surveying the family and the Inui and Renji duo reminded him of their data, Sanada just decided to keep everything the same. Inui stayed the Papa, Renji the Mama, Jirou the Sissy, Tetsu the Bro and Sanada stayed good ol' Rover. He's such a good sport!

After establishing that there was no way to fix their power, Team Seven suddenly came to the realization that their disco ball…oh that disco ball… the disco ball worked.

Even though it pained them, it was a source of light so they kept it on, which pleased Jirou, but no one else.

"What can we do?" said Tetsu.

"I'm bored." Sanada agreed.

"Let's have a DANCE PARTY!" said Jirou. "We've got the disco ball! Why not?"

They stared at him.

"We have the disco ball, that much is true." Inui said. "But it is impossible to have a dance party without music."

"And we're not going to have a dance party by the way." Sanada added.

"Aww…" said Jirou. "But I was talking to Gakuto and he said that his team has dance parties all the time."

The rest of his team just stared at him.

"Can't we have just ONE dance party?" Jirou begged.

"But, as Inui previously stated, there is no music." Renji said.

"And no." Sanada said more firmly.

"We can sing karaoke!" said Jirou.

"NO." they all said immediately.

"I'll keep the beat and one of you guys sing!" said Jirou as he started beat boxing but it really just sounded like…NOT beat boxing.

The others waited for him to be finished with attempting to get them to sing.

"Guys." He said. "If I keep the beat, and one of you guys sing, then the rest of us can dance. And then it would be a party."

"We already told you that we don't want to have a dance party." Tetsu said, trying to be polite.

"But there's no fun in not having a dance party!" Jirou whined.

"Sanada." Said Inui. "Please turn off the disco ball."

"No!" yelled Jirou. "Don't turn off the disco ball!"

"Why?" asked Sanada.

"Just do it." Inui said, sounding like he was commanding it.

Sanada just so happened to be closest to the light switch, so he turned it off and the disco ball stopped even though Jirou was begging him not to do it. Then, Jirou's pleas slowly quieted until they were no more.

Inui turned on the flashlight he just so happened to be holding and shined it on Jirou who was now sleeping.

"That was easy enough." Renji said. "Nice job, Inui."

"I know." Said Inui.

Then there was silence again.

"Now I'm bored." Said Sanada.

"Let's turn the disco ball back on." Said Tetsu. "That way Jirou will beg for us to have a dance party and we can fill our time with telling him that we don't want to have one."

"That's a good idea." Said Inui, nodding at Sanada who turned the disco ball back on.

Team Eight
The entire family was in the living room and everyone looked grumpy. EVERYONE looked grumpy. Except for Atobe who looked slightly less happy but still feeling fine.

Shinji actually looked quite content as well.

"SHINJI!" said Yuuta suddenly.

Shinji jumped. "Yes?" he said.

"What was the point of switching the family around so randomly?" Yuuta demanded.

"What do you mean?" Shinji asked.

"Well, we have all literally been in the same family roles since the beginning of this stupid thing, and you just so suddenly decided to switch us all to completely random things." Bane explained.

"Oh." Shinji said. "Well, that's exactly why I switched everyone. We've been the same roles the entire time and I certainly know that I was tired of wearing that apron and wanted to have a shot at this nifty tool belt that Yuuta's just been walking around showing off since he first got it."

"But what do you have against me?" said Jackal, tugging at the Pet collar.

"I must agree with the rest of the family on this one." Atobe said. "It was senseless to shuffle the family around so randomly."

"You're just mad because you have to wear a hat." Said Yuuta.

"And YOU'RE just mad because you have to wear a bow." Atobe pointed out.

"Well," said Shinji. "That's just the way it is now. The day is almost over, as is this experiment that doesn't involve tennis with the exception of today. It's doubtful we'll have another competition so it's not like anyone except the five of us will be affected by my decisions to broaden our horizons."

"Besides…" Bane said slowly. "I mean, with all the other families, I bet it really affects where everyone sleeps. But with us, we're all going to be sleeping in the same places we've been sleeping in the previous nights."

"Yeah, it really won't affect us at all now that I think about it." Yuuta said, rubbing his chin.

"There, you see?" said Shinji. "You were all giving me crap for no reason and I don't appreciate it."

"Well, wearing this bow is dumb." Said Yuuta. "And I personalized that tool belt and it had all my important stuff in it."

"Like this mint?" Shinji inquired, pulling a mint out of one of the pockets.

"Yes!" said Yuuta, snatching it back.

"And I was starting to get attached to that hat…" Jackal said. "I kind of wanted to take it home."

"You can have it." Said Atobe, adjusting it slightly. "It certainly doesn't do anything flattering for my hair."

"Guys, guess what?" said Bane randomly, looking at his watch.

"What?" said everyone because obviously they didn't feel like guessing. No one ever feels like guessing.

"There's officially only thirteen more hours until we get to forsake this house and go home." Bane said, relaxing.

When the others heard this, they relaxed as well.

"And then I'll never have to talk to any of you again." Atobe said with a sigh of relief.

"Same here!" said Yuuta. "If I really wanted to, I'd never even have to see you again, unless our school played yours in tennis!"

"Hm…I suppose." Said Atobe. "My, those would be short matches, now wouldn't they?"

Yuuta gritted his teeth, but he is far above sinking to the level of murdering Atobe like Fuji would have probably done. We all know how STRONG WILLED Yuuta is after all.

"I say, the faster we go to bed, the faster this thing will end." Said Shinji. "Like Christmas."

"Yeah!" said everyone. They were all in the Christmas mood anyway because they had watched The Grinch pretty recently. So they all retired to the same beds they had been sleeping in all week (or in Yuuta and Shinji's case, since they GOT the beds) and officially hit the haystack.