AUTHOR TIME!
Ah thank you all so much for the reviews! I read them all! It makes me so very excited when I see that I got one… mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Death on the Horizon will be updated whenever I get together with my colleague and fellow collaborator of evil. Yeshf. We already have some of the new lines and stuff ready. As for the Eiji/Cucumber incident… I'll let you use your imagination, hmm? Fuwahaha.
It seemed like I had something else to say… oops oh well. Oh just so you know, things in (()) are thoughts. You could've gotten that on your own but OH WELL. OK.
It was Tuesday afternoon and time for tennis practice to begin. Inui had arrived early; eager to see how is test subject would be doing. Inui flipped through the pages of his infamous notebook of doom to where he most recently left off and started a new entry.
TUESDAY
I am eagerly waiting to see if my morale booster is effective. Tezuka makes the most-fitting subject because of his seriousness and calm demeanor. If all of the Seigaku members could suddenly become as energized as Taka-san when he gets a racket, our success rate would go up 11 percent...
Inui waited. Almost everyone had arrived to practice except for their stoic captain. Oishi started to get worried, as he worries about everything.
"Do you think Tezuka's alright? He never misses practice… I even saw him at school today."
The other Regulars looked around. Tezuka was no where in sight. He had completely dropped off everyone's radar. Most people on the team didn't have a relationship with him other than the member-to-captain one. Many of the tennis players consulted with Tezuka's only close friend, Fuji.
"I talked to him today at lunch. He seemed perfectly fine. I find it odd that he would just disappear like that… not like him at all…" His voice seemed to drift. His thoughts were apparently elsewhere.
Inui started to become nervous. Thoughts of where things could've gone wrong swarmed and flocked inside his head. He started to write in the notebook feverishly.
Oh god what if I killed him? Like a sudden death thing? It's virtually impossible but the thought still lingers in my mind. Now I have to go search for the body and—
Inui's train of thought was suddenly derailed by an unfamiliar shriek.
"HELLLOOOOO EVERYOOOONNNNEEE!" Shouted Tezuka with lots of exclamation points. His face was beaming and he was smiling and jumping around. It was a terrifying sight for all. "IS IT TIME TO PLAY TENNIS ALREADY? WOW IT IS SO TRUE THAT TIME DOES FLY WHEN YOU ARE HAVING FUN!"
More silence.
Cricket: chirp chirp
Oishi's jaw dropped in shock, Fuji's eyes opened, Eiji pinched himself to see if he was really awake and seeing this, Kaido started to choke on some water he was drinking, Momo just stared, Taka fainted, and Ryoma found it amusing. Inui whipped out his notebook and started to write.
No good. I must have overdosed him.
Eiji popped over to Inui.
"EHH? This is your doing? What did you do? What on earth is wrong with Tezuka!" said Eiji while Tezuka was prancing about nearby; chasing invisible butterflies.
"It was a simple morale-boosting formula. I was seeing if it was effective on even the most serious people… apparently, I gave him an overdose… which provides me with interesting data," Inui replied nonchalantly.
"Well you have to FIX HIM because he might hurt himself!" Eiji pointed to Tezuka's most recent location, on the ground on one of the courts, where he was busily gnawing on a tennis racket.
"HEY MY GRIP TAPE," said Ryoma, finally getting off his lazy bum to get his precious taped racket away from his captain. As he reached for it, Tezuka reared back and snarled. Ryoma withdrew his hand. Tezuka went back to business.
"Welllllllll what do we do now?" asked Momo.
Inui shut his notebook quickly. Smiling, he said, "Now we experiment with our test subject." Inui walked over to Taka (who is on the ground) and poked him a few times so he would regain conscienceness from his previous blackout.
"Hn? What's going on?" said Taka sleepily.
"You're going to play a match with Tezuka!"
"WHAT!"
Inui handed him a racket. You can guess what happened.
"RIGHT! LET'S GO! I SHALL BURN THE CAPTAIN!"
"Hoi, Tezuka!" Inui yelled over to Tezuka (DUH) on the ground.
"Hn? What is it? ARE WE GOING TO PLAY LEAPFROG!" said Tezuka excitedly, getting into frog leaping position.
"Uh no not today, you're going to play a tennis match with Taka instead!"
"OOOOOOH!" Tezuka leapt up from the ground, and still holding Ryoma's chewed racket, he ran out to the court where Taka was waiting and swinging his racket around.
Inui was excited that he was about to see his trial experiment in action! If this worked… Seigaku could potentially become invincible! Soon the news had spread to the entire Seigaku tennis club that their loving powerhouse and (recently) loony captain were going to duke it out. Swarms and masses of people flocked around the tennis court. Tezuka was happy to be getting a lot of attention. He waved to everyone exuberantly. He spotted his dear friend Fuji in the crowd looking on, his face bereft of emotion.
"LOOK, FUJI! I'M PLAYING TENNIS!" He screeched, waving some more at his colleague. Fuji's ears perked up and his mouth opened a little. It closed and it became a kind of warm smile. He waved back gently. ((Maybe it's not an energizer… but something else…)) Fuji thought to himself. ((I have a theory… hmm it's time to do some tests of my own…))
"ALL RIGHT, TEZUKA! LET'S GO LET'S GO!"
"YEAH YEAH!"
The two started to yell. Oishi had to walk out to the courts and get them both to calm down and start the match. It wasn't going to be a real match, just have them play long enough to see the effects of the experiment in action. Taka spun the racket to see who would be serving.
"Ok," he said as the racket spun. "You call it".
"Hmm… ROUGH!"
"Ok!'
"NO WAIT!"
"HUH?"
"SMOOTH!"
"FINE! I GET ROUGH, THEN."
"NO I WANT ROUGH!"
"YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE!"
"I AM THE CAPTAIN AND I SAY I GET ROUGH!"
"OK WHATEVER!"
The racket was coming to a halt. It had gone for a while, well, because Taka had spun it – so it was a very good spin.
Smooth.
"I CHANGED MY MIND! I WANT SMOOTH AGAIN!"
"YOU CALLED ROUGH AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT!"
"SHH NO I DIDN'T!"
Oishi ran out to the court. "You guys need to calm down! It's rightfully Taka's serve!"
Tezuka glared at Oishi and Oishi took notice. He froze under Tezuka's icy gaze. Oishi shut his eyes and shook his head.
"STOP THAT!" He squealed running away. "Let's start the match! Taka's serve!"
Tezuka grumbled and sulked back over to his rightful spot in the court.
Taka tossed the ball up in the air and hit it with much… vigor. Yeah that's the word. VIGOR.
"BAHNIINNNNGGG!" He yelled smashing the ball, sending it careening into Tezuka's side of the court. A glint of light came from Tezuka's eyes. ((It's over now)). Tezuka shifted his arm back, preparing to strike.
"No way! Tezuka's not a power hitter? What's he doing?"
Tezuka swung forward at the incoming object.
KA-POW!
The ball moved with lightning speed and quickly bounced into and out of Taka's side of the court.
"Yeah! Score one for me! Fifteen – love, baby!" Howled Tezuka.
"Net!"
"WHAT!"
Oishi pointed to the net. A hole had burned completely through it. It was the exit wound from the ball. Everyone watching gasped at the newly received power and force of Tezuka. Taka shivered. Tezuka glanced up at him. "That's you next time."
Taka gritted his teeth. He didn't know that Tezuka could be so… intimidating!
"Ah Inui! I want to quit!"
"I haven't gathered enough data yet…"
"INUI TAKA'S LIFE IS ON THE LINE!" Eiji squealed.
"Do you want an encore of the Eiji/Cucumber incident?"
"AH YOU ARE BOTH EVIL!"
"Hey where's Tezuka?" asked Oishi.
No one had noticed that Tezuka had vanished from the courts at all. Everyone had been watching Inui, Eiji, and Taka argue… that is… everyone but Fuji. Fuji was always very perceptive. He had neglected to mention anything to the others because he was conducting a mini experiment himself.
Taka walked over to the vacant half of the court where Tezuka had previously been standing.
"Ah! He left a note!"
"Where'd he get the paper and writing materials from?"
"I dunno."
"Well what does it say?" asked the inquisitive crowd.
Taka picked up the folded note, opened it's edges carefully, and started to read.
Dear Sirs,
It has recently come to my attention that I am bored. It is mandatory that I solve this problem immediately. So I have left you to go steal Ryoma's cat, Karupin.
Love and hugz
Tezuka
Ne ne? Chapter not so bad? Mnnn I am working on it… just to warn you, the plot is going to get increasingly weirder as this goes on… I have it all planned out. Muah ha ha ha. Thanks for your patience with my writing… I do have lots of homework. Mmyeah stay with me on this one! Give your night to me, datte bayo!
