And the third chapter rears its ugly head! Yay! Again, thank you so much for the reviews! Just looking at them all made me smile so much my face practically split in half! ^_^

Anyway, everything stated in the last two chapters still applies…

So no, I don't own Prince of Tennis. *reluctantly unties Kaido*

As much as I'd like to get all of us into sleeping bags and tents with the regulars, I think they'd kick us out. *sniffs* And I keep trying to figure out how to work the pairings in…*sweatdrops*

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Day One

1:23 PM [13:23]

After getting their passes and a few maps and guidebooks, the many teenagers took off towards their campsite. Which was exactly that. There were no RVs or bathhouses or anything of that sort. Thick forest covered the entire area, though there was a clearing to the immediate left that looked as though something had died in it recently.

Eiji dropped his bags and stretched, beaming over his shoulder at his weary partner who still had the faint imprint of a tennis racket's strings on one cheek. It seemed he'd been hit more than once. Eiji began pouting and tugging at his friend's arm in an attempt to cheer him up.

"If it makes you feel better," He grinned, "I would have taken the hit for you!"

Oishi smiled and feigned a swoon. "I know. You're just so brave."

"Oiiishi!" Another pout.

Meanwhile, under the watchful eye of their coach, the rest of the team began to unpack their belongings, a lot of which were useless. Most of them had honestly thought they'd have some chance to play tennis, but that didn't seem to be the case. While some of them had rather strange sleeping bags and tents (for those who had brought their own), it was the pajamas from earlier that were coming back to haunt them.

"…Kittens, Echizen?" Momoshiro laughed and tugged at the cloth, having obviously regained his confidence since the bus incident. He received an exasperated look and a snippy response.

"Yeah, you have a problem with it?"

"Jeez, don't get so defensive!" The taller boy muttered, unzipping the 'bag-o-tent' Ryuzaki-sensei had handed him, watching the smaller boy for a response. "As a matter of fact, I think they're very cute on you!" He put quite a bit of emphasis on the word 'cute.'

Ryoma blinked owlishly at him, seemingly at a loss for words. After a moment he turned back to what he was doing, though Momo was sure he saw a blush beneath the boy's long bangs. He grinned and continued to struggle with his "half-a-tent" or whatever it was.

"You know, Tezuka, we should probably be setting up our own tent." Fuji murmured mildly, his trademark smile in place. He idly brushed a few strands of hair out of his eyes.

There was a pause.

"I'm assuming that means I should set up the tent." Tezuka intoned, cracking what might have been a small smile in the other's direction. Fuji never stopped smiling at all.

"Well, if you're offering..."

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3:02 PM [15:02]

"This is quite possibly the most pointless thing ever made." Kaido growled, pulling half-heartedly at the side of his tent. It was really quite small, and folded up into a bulky triangle if he touched it too much. This obviously put him at a major disadvantage whenever he tried to clamber inside it. Inui and Taka hovered behind him, neither showing any interest in offering their help.

"Possibility of Kaoru Kaido having success with this tent on the first try, 35%"

"Inui-san, this is at least the fifth..." Taka breathed, slightly amazed at how the attempt had failed so many times. Behind him Inui gave a secret sort of smile and stepped forward to assist Kaido, who was at his wit's end. He seemed to have developed some sort of eye twitch in the last few minutes.

Inui adjusted his glasses. Had he not a reputation to keep, he probably would have laughed at the hopeless expression gracing the young man's features.

And elsewhere in the woods…

"This is haaaaard!" A certain redhead wailed, tugging at the jumble of rope, zipper and plastic before him and looking mournful. It might have been a tent at some point, but we just can't be sure…though further evidence of this was the wooden stakes lying a few feet away.

"Well, you didn't expect it to be all marshmallows and fireside stories, did you?" Oishi stated calmly and patted his friend's shoulder in a comforting manner while spreading out their sleeping bags.

"Of course! What else are you supposed to do when you go campi—!" Eiji promptly tripped over a tree root hidden in the underbrush, flailing his arms around. Oishi's attempt to grab him ended in them both somehow becoming tangled and sprawled in the remnants of their tent and covered in leaves and twigs.

"If I didn't know better, Eiji," Oishi blinked, pulling a few strings and strips of nylon out of the other's hair and smiling softly. "I'd think you were losing your touch."

"Oishi! I am not!" Eiji whimpered, working up the best puppy-dog eyes he could manage. "I don't see why we couldn't have gotten a foldy-tent like Taka!" He pointed through the trees where three familiar figures were struggling with a bulky, bright yellow triangle. The one he identified as Kaido was looking particularly murderous.

Oishi sighed.

"Well…it'll be getting dark soon. We should probably try to figure this thing out, unless you want to sleep without…er…shelter? There are plenty of mosquitoes buzzing around just waiting…" He grinned at the look of disgust on the other boy's face.

Eiji squeaked and began untangling himself much faster.

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4:45 PM [16:45]

"So, has everyone got their tents and their groups set up," Ryuzaki began, "Or will I have to assign you all myself?"

Many of the club members shifted uneasily and looked around.

"For those of you who have no sleeping arrangements as of yet, I will decide for you. There's enough room for everyone, don't worry." She took Inui's clipboard from him and read it up and down a few times before putting some of the members in pairs.

"…Echizen? Why are you on this list?"

Ryoma looked severely peeved. "I'm not staying with that moron!" He pointed at Momoshiro as though he were some sort of hideous bog beast. The boy in question shrugged and stuffed another marshmallow in his mouth.

"Well, that's too bad. You two are already paired, so off you go!" She pushed the vertically-challenged child in the general direction of his tent, ignoring the muttered "crap" that came from him.

She looked around for the girls on the trip, spotting them off in a group. Sakuno waved cheerfully at her, and she noted with a hint of amusement that the poor girl already seemed to have some sort of rash on her face. She assumed they had already figured their own business out, so she moved on.

"Remember, you can fit three to four people in these tents!"

Kaido scowled darkly from behind Inui and Satoshi, an unfortunate sophomore who had tried to help them with their little problem and had ended up with it caught on his head. It had taken the fifteen minutes to get the blasted thing off, and he was still hyperventilating from the experience.

Never again, he vowed. Never, ever again.

Inui would be putting it up next time.

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No, I'm not bashing Sakuno. *sweatdrop*

As for the 'foldy-tent"…er…it's a tent that unfolds. O.o Not sure if everyone got that. Yeah. I had one way back one, it was pretty sad and it did close on my cousin's head. It was a very interesting experience.

I'm so rusty at this! I haven't written a fanfic in a while, and I know how slowly this is going…but I think the next chapter will be the most fun yet! I can't wait for the smores! *dances around like an idiot* In any case, I hope you all liked it! Please review, okay?