Hohoho, third chapter already! I tried my best to make Atobe proud in this chapter! I am not that good at paragraphing so please forgive my paragraphing and my sentence structure! Now this is really turning into some mystery story! The Tezuka and Atobe pairing will come in a bit later! So please wait!

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It was a beautiful Saturday morning and Ryoma had to drag himself up to go to tennis practice. He got dressed and walked out of his room to have breakfast downstairs. He walked past Atobe's room which is just next door to his. The room seemed quiet. The Monkey King must still be sleeping, Ryoma thought. Of all the rooms in the house, irritating Atobe had insisted that he sleep in the spare room next to Ryoma. "The guest should have the best room," he said, on the day he came into Ryoma's house. Ryoma couldn't care less. He had many visitors to his house before, thanks to his stupid dad. Last month, his dad let Coach Ryuzaki and Sakuno sleep over at their house because their house was undergoing minor renovations. What a mess! Sakuno insisted to cook dinner for everyone and all of them had diarrhoea for 2 days. What a terrible cook, she is!

Ryoma took his breakfast quickly and left the house. He had about 20 mins to reach school.

"Yo! Echizen!" came a familiar voice. It's Momo and he was cycling towards him. "Whoa! How's Monkey King today? Did he pester you again?"

"Monkey King? I didn't see him this morning," Ryoma said, not even looking at him. Momo got off his bicycle and walked beside him, pushing the bicycle along.

"What's with the attitude?" Momo asked. Ryoma seemed hostile that morning. Ryoma did not answer. Momo shook his head. "I've got news for you, hey are you listening?"

"Uh," Ryoma said. Momo shook his head.

"Oishi told Tezuka about what happened," Momo said. Ryoma frowned. Oishi can be a little irritating sometimes.

"Inui gathered some data and he suspect that something is not right," Momo said. "Something is going on."

"Huh?"

"Inui wondered why Monkey King chose to stay in your house instead of staying with his loyal servant, Kabaji. Only his kitchen is badly damaged but why must he renovate the whole house? What happened to all his servants? Inui think that Atobe has another mansion somewhere and Atobe chose to stay with you because of some unknown reason!"

"Ah... Inui is irritating as usual," Ryoma said.

"No, what is strange is how Inui got such data!" Momo cried. "I think Atobe is spying on you and your dad!"

"Ah, Momo-senpai! What's with the idiotic thinking?" Ryoma asked.

"Ryoma!" Momo suddenly said. He had stopped walking. His face was hard and serious. "Atobe is on to something and I want to know what it is!"

Ryoma walked on leaving Momo in his own world. Why is everyone making a big fuss about it? Now Momo-senpai decided to play Sherlock Holmes to solve the 'Mystery'. Ryoma found it irritating. What mystery? He didn't even like mystery novels. And that Monkey King had not really gotten on his nerve yet except for the part where he had Karupin caged. Ryoma wondered if Inui's calculations are really true. A mystery, eh? This sounds so interesting.

"Mada, mada dane," Ryoma said to Momo.

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"Is it me or does Ochibi seemed troubled?" Kikumaru said to Oishi at tennis practice. Both of them were watching a practice match between Ryoma and Kaidoh. The match had been going on for 30 mins and Kaidoh seemed to be putting up a good fight. "Ochibi should have finished him by now!"

"Do you think Inui could be right?" Oishi asked, suddenly. Kikumaru looked at him.

"Nya… Inui's calculation were never wrong. Oishi, did Tezuka say anything?"

Oishi nodded. "Tezuka told me not to worry. Atobe had nothing against Ryoma. Atobe's target is still Tezuka."

"Nya?" Kikumaru said.

"Ryoma is left handed and Atobe had a grudge against Tezuka. He may just want to train with a left handed player like Ryoma so that he could defeat Tezuka when he is fully recovered. At the same time, he may get to learn some skills from Echizen's dad too. That's what I think! But it doesn't sound like Atobe at all. He is too proud and he thinks so highly of himself. He wouldn't just do this sort of thing!"

"Mmmm... you are right, Oishi! But maybe Atobe got desperate?" Kikumaru asked. "Maybe he realised that if he can't defeat Ochibi, he will never have a chance to defeat Tezuka!"

"That's an interesting assumption, Kikumaru," came a voice behind them. Both Oishi and Kikumaru jumped.

"Inui! Don't sneak up on us like that!" Kikumaru yelled at him. Inui smiled as he straightened his glasses.

"Oishi. I suggest we sleep over at Ryoma's house so that we could investigate this case further!" Inui suggested. Oishi and Kikumaru looked at each other. Why is he suddenly so excited about this?

"Inui! That is too much! Ryoma would never allow all of us to sleep over at his house!" Oishi scolded.

"Eh? What's this talk about sleeping over at Ryoma's place?" Fuji said. Kawamura was with him. They had just finished their practice match.

"Ah? A party? Anyone need some food??" Kawamura asked. " I can get my dad to prepare some food!"

"Sounds interesting!" Fuji said, smiling. "Count me in!"

"But Taka-san, Fuji! We have not asked Echizen yet!" Oishi cried.

"Asked me what?" Ryoma said. He had just defeated Kaidoh. He looked at his senpais. "Eh… another meeting and senpais never invite me!"

"Eh heh, Echizen. We are planning to sleep over at your place tonight," Fuji said.

"Fuji!" Oishi scolded.

"So you all are really serious about coming to my place?" Ryoma asked. "Eh, why so sudden? Eh… senpais must be very free-"

"It's more like spying on Atobe," Inui interupted. "We can pretend that we are having a practice session at the temple so Atobe would not suspect anything!"

"Mmm... irritating plan," Ryoma said under his breath. "But if you all want to come, it's okay. Just don't invite the others-"

"AHAH! Sleeping over at Ryoma's!!!!!! SAKUNO!! DID YOU HEAR THAT?? AHAH! WE BOTH WOULD LIKE TO COME ALONG TOO!" Tomochan yelled from a distance.

"Tomochan!!! Shhhh!!" Sakuno cried. Tomochan ignored her and began to inform Horio, Katsuo and Kachirou. Ryoma groaned. He's done for.

"RYOMA-KUN!! WE WANT TO COME ALONG TOO!!!" the three freshmen yelled at the same time.

Ryoma closed his eyes. "Mada, mada dane," he said and walked away.

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