Ohayõ minna! Thanks to all those who read and especially to those who reviewed my previous (and first) story Stolen Lips.

-anek: Thanks for the nice review. I completely agree with you about the characters behaviour, but I did say they were OOC. I love your fic Love Zone, by the way...

-novque: Thanks for reading the fic before I posted it. Hope you like this one too.

-mada: Thanks for the feedback and that you wanted my story to your site.

Pleez, people, R&R. I love getting reviews and it helps me write faster --grins--

Sooo... Let's see now. There shouldn't be any real spoilers in this fic, since even I don't know when this's supposed to happen. But anyway, it's winter (you can probably guess 'cause of the Winter festival, which, by the way, I made up). If I can, I try to put many people in this story besides Seigaku's team members (I've seen the anime to the end of the Rikkaidai matches at this point... so I'm familiar with the charas that far). I'll try to include at least Kamio, Shinji, Yuuta, Mizuki, Akutsu, Atobe, Jirou, Marui, Kirihara... etc. And by the way, this is rated for PG-13 due the future chapters. I won't probably change it to R 'cause my sisters don't really like yaoi, but if you want me to do so, I can ignore my siblings and take things little further... --evil smile--

Disclaimer: I almost own Eiji (my sister made me a six page long doujinshi birthday "card", starring Eiji and Shuichi (from Gravi)). But in reality the Prince of Tennis belongs to Takeshi Konomi.

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Chapter 1: Great idea?

"Mou, Inui. How come we all had to stay here even though the practice is over already?" Eiji whined, clinging onto Ryoma's neck.

"Kikumaru-sempai", Ryoma gagged. "You're choking me."

Inui straightened his glasses and opened his notebook. "It seems that all the members of Seigaku's drama club have suddenly fallen ill. If nothing is done with this matter, there will be no play to present at the Winter festival that is to be held in three weeks. And the play would have been the main event..."

"No offence, Inui-sempai, but what exactly does this thing have to do with us?" Momo asked, also hugging the choking Ryoma. It started to look like the freshman regular was starting to run out of air.

Inui grinned. "I have promised to the drama club president to take care of this serious matter. I will be directing the play and you will be the cast."

Everybody stared Inui mouths and eyes widely open – Exept of course Fuji, who was smiling as usual and Tezuka, who was, well, Tezuka, as always.

"You gotta be fucking kidding me!" Momoshiro shouted.

"Hsss... I'm not doing it..." Kaidoh hissed.

"I... I can't act", Kawamura looked terrified.

"Neither can I..." Oishi muttered.

"I hate acting. You can count me out", Ryoma growled, finally free from his sempais' deathgrip.

"Those of you who will not participate will help me in developing the new series of my juices..." Inui said with a calm voice. "It seems that the freshmen will no longer help me with them. I wonder why it is..." Inui continued his quiet mumbling, while the others were suddenly very quiet. They were all – with the exeption on Fuji and Tezuka – very pale and a tad green on their faces.

"What about tennis practices?" Tezuka asked with a clearly disaproving tone in his voice. It was obvious he didn't like this idea.

"They're of course still held as usual", Inui said, smiling, "but for those who'll help with the play – and that includes all the regulars – the practices are little shorter. Ryuzaki-sensei has already approved it. There are no actual matches for a month at least, and it's important that this play will happen. It should also be good for the team to do together other things besides tennis."

"Why exactly are the drama club members all sick?" Ryoma asked, glaring at his sempai. "You didn't happen to give them some of your new juices, did you, Inui-sempai?" The regulars stared at Inui horrified.

"Nya, Inui! You can't do that!" Kikumaru shouted, jumping up and down while hugging Oishi's arm tightly.

"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about", Inui said calmly. None of the regulars looked convinced.

"Ne, Inui?" Fuji asked and all the others turned to see what the tensai had to say. Fuji opened his glimmering blue eyes and smiled mischievously. "What play is it going to be?"

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to be continued...

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Sorry 'bout this chappy being so super short. I wanted to start this story already but I also still need to figure out myself what the play's gonna be. You can give me ideas if you like, but I have some requirments for the play I can't tell you yet. I don't even know the pairings yet, but probably at least some normal ones like Golden Pair and TezuxFuji etc. Or maybe FujixEiji, at least as the main characters of the play... Anyway, lots of pairings to come, especially after I mix the other schools into this mess...

Eiji: "Nya, did Inui give his juice to the drama club members?"

Luma-chan:"Eh? Eiji? What are you still doing here? I thought I ended the chapter already."

Eiji: "Yeah, but I think Inui's lying about the juice thingie so I wan't you to give me the answer."

Luma-chan: "Uh... But I don't know that. They were sick already when this chapter started, so..."

Ryoma: "Of course it was Inui-sempai's doing."

Momo: "Gah, he probably made this just so he could collect some weird data on us again."

Fuji: "I think this is gonna be fun."

Momo: "Yeah, but Fuji-sempai also likes to drink Inui's juice."

Luma-chan: "Eh? All you guys're still here? Not that I mind, of course, but we should give the readers a break already. Well, ja ne! I'll be staying here with the regulars for a moment longer..." --smile, smile--

Oh, and by the way, I'm not really sure when I'll be updating since I'm in the middle of another story (Digimon fic My feelings for you). I'll probably update the one I feel like, though reviews might help me decide... --grins--