Tennis no Ohjisama
By Dj
Standard disclaimers
Chapter 3Kaidoh's POV
Kaidoh stilled when he heard the offending greeting. He did not need to turn to see who it was. That irritating, overly enthusiastic (though not really to him) voice could only belong to one person. The last person he wanted to see at the moment. For a second, Kaidoh was tempted to pretend he hadn't heard the voice and continue wallowing in self-pity. Usually, he would, but this was Momoshiro Takeshi aka Stupid Monkey, and Kaidoh never dealt with him in the usual way. His pride refused to let his greatest rival see him in this state of dejection. It was too humiliating.
Besides, if I don't acknowledge his idiotic presence soon, he'll start shouting at me with that annoying boom of his. As if my head hasn't had enough abuse.
Taking a moment to rearrange his facial muscles back to his customary scowl, Kaidoh straightened himself and turned around.
'What do you want, monkey?'
'Ah...' Momo hesitated.
'Fshuuu... Hurry up. I've got better things to do with my time than listen to a monkey stammer.'
'Teme! Hmph. Well I'm sure trying to murder a wall with your head is very productive.' Momo's uncertain expression had turned into a sneer. 'What? Your snaky little body can't take down a homo sapient and has to resort to proving your strength to a wall?'
Kaidoh did not reply. It was not that he did not want to lash out or tear the loudmouth monkey to pieces. He did. However, Momoshiro actually had a right to gloat this time. He had hit the nail right on the head.
'Got you there didn't I? Knew you were a useless excuse of a snake.'
Silence.
'Grr... What's with the silent treatment! Hey respond will you! Even though you were an insufferable snake at least you were one! Now you're just a moulted piece of skin.' When there was still no answer, Momo finally decided he's had enough. 'Fine! You know what? Go back to bashing your head. See if I care!' With that, Momo stormed off.
The silence that followed had a different cause.
Did he just say... 'care'?
Momo's POV
He had wanted to say something positive. He really had. But at the look on Kaidoh's face and his haughty tone, the words of encouragement just did not come out. Instead, he automatically went into attack mode and started hurling -well deserved- insults at Kaidoh. That snake had this uncanny ability to bring out the worst in him. Usually, he liked to think of himself as a friendly (if not too friendly) and generally nice guy. However, when faced with Kaidoh, everything was just different somehow. Usual didn't seem like a word that could be applied to him, or dealing with him. One would not see him raging unintelligibly at Ryoma or Fuji over the slightest provocation, would one?
Damn that baka mamushi! I'll never try to empathize with him again. This is how I get appreciated! He can remain that flaccid and limp piece of skin for all of eternity if he wants to. I don't care.
Wait a second. Where did that come from? Of course he did not care. Who cared about how some –ex-snake was doing. Certainly not him. He had much better things to do with his time than worrying about his rival.
WORRY?! No way. He was not worried. What the hell was wrong with him today.
K'so. I'm not thinking straight. Shall go have a match with Ryoma. Yeah. That'll help restore me to normal...
A/N: The last part was kinda abrupt wasn't it? Wanted to ext it a little but the next part doesn't really continue so had to leave it as that... Bah... Sorry that i take such a long time to produce such short chapters. Can never do long chapter well for some reason. And i'm focusing on my X fics more i guess... Sorry peish! Well... go click that nice little button at the lower left hand corner and review k? You can write anything you think...Don't mind flames if you think this sucked (cos i'm not too pleased with it myself)... But don't flame the pairing k? ;)
Oh yeah... Is this how they fight? kinda fgt cos got a little out of touch with the manga... Hope it's not too OOC. sweat