Sandra: Sorry everyone, I know I haven't updated, but I JUST finished exams, but now I'm here! And I got an even wickeder idea! Just you wait!

Ryoma followed his snake like sempai around the streets, glaring openly.

'What kind of training is THIS?' Ryoma thought, about to raise his arms behind his head when Tezuka's voice boomed in his head, making his head shake, when in reality, Momo-chan just threw a stone at his head to stop him from doing so.

"Ne, Kaidoh-sempai, what exactly ARE we doing?" Ryoma asked, Kaidoh stopped in his tracks.

'Communicate…communicate…hiss…'

"Ne, Echizen." Kaidoh started as he continued walking, but at a slower pace so that Ryoma can catch up to him.

"Hmm?" Ryoma looked at his sempai.

'What…am I…going to…say…?' Just then Kaidoh looked at Ryoma carefully.

"Wasn't you wearing that outfit yesterday?" He asked.

'Wow…a mouthful of words from Kaidoh-sempai…' Ryoma thought sarcastically, but nodded.

"Let's go." He said walking ahead again.

Ryoma followed.

"Ne, Inui, what's Kaidoh doing?" Eiji asked watching the two actually walk towards a destination.

"I'm not sure, there's too many variations…" Inui said adjusting his glasses.

"Let's follow, we can't lose them now!" Oishi said, as he lead the group.

After running after the pair for a while, Momo-chan was the first to realise where they were.

"Why are we…Viper's taking Echizen to…" Momo-chan started, just for Fuji to finish.

"The mall…?"

"Nani?" Everyone exclaimed.

"Good work Kaidoh. Let's go everyone, let's not get careless now." Tezuka said, as he walked into the shopping mall.

"He surpasses all my data, looks like I'll have to make an update." Inui said as he rewrite some of Kaidoh's data in his book.

"Try these on." Kaidoh said throwing a stack of clothes at Ryoma who stumbled into the changing rooms.

"Oi, that's no way to treat your girlfriend!" A familiar voice said behind Kaidoh, he turned around.

"Eh…" It was Tachibana's younger sister Ann.

"Oh, it's you Kaidoh-kun. You shouldn't treat your girlfriend like that! You know how rude that is!" Ann said, waving her finger at him like a mother to a naughty child.

"NANI! The Viper has a girlfriend!" Another familiar voice said.

"Shut up." Kaidoh said glaring at Kamio who walked up behind Ann.

"So what is this? A sympathy date? Knowing you and your scary face, no girl would go for you." Kamio said, laughing lightly.

"Why you…" Kaidoh glared and began to hiss very loudly.

"Then again, it's surprising you can get a date before that stupid Momoshiro powerhouse. Shows whose the better one out of the two…" Kamio was cut off.

"Oi Kamio what did you just say!" Momo-chan yelled as he ran out of his spying place and stormed right up to Kamio's face.

"It's the truth." Kamio said, shrugging.

"Bastard…well…just to let you know…" Momo-chan started not having a clue where this was leading, Kaidoh watched in amusement.

Momo-chan suddenly got an idea and smirked. He placed a hand at his ear.

Everyone looked at him and tried listening out for whatever Momo-chan was listening to.

"Do you hear that?" Momo-chan asked Kamio.

"It's a smile. A frown. A smile being turned upside down! Cause that's MY girlfriend in the changing rooms!" Momo-chan said.

"What?" Ann and Kamio said.

"What!" Kaidoh said shocked at his rivals outburst.

"WHAT?" The other Seigaku members said also in shock.

"WHAT!" Eiji practically yelled storming up to Momo-chan.

"MOMO! What did you just say! Who's girlfriend did you say that was!" Eiji yelled glaring at Momo-chan straight in the eye, flames burning behind him.

"Uh…Eiji-sempai…" Momo-chan was cut off by one more voice.

"WHAT!" And then the changing room door burst open to reveal Ryoma wearing a white strappy sundress and white sandals.

Ryoma was glaring fire daggers at Momo-chan.

"Wow…she's cute…" Kamio said blinking as he looked at Ryoma.

"Oh…heh… eh… Honey! You look beautiful in that dress!" Momo-chan said as he started losing his cool, sweat pouring down his face like waterfalls as everyone's heated glare made it feel like he was in the desert.

"Oi, not to be rude, but why would you want to date any of those guys? How about dump the powerhouse… or Viper…whichever one you're with and we go to the arcades some time together, I'll show you my moves on the DDR." Kamio said walking up next to Ryoma. Ryoma was so angry, he turned his fiery glares to Kamio who felt them instantly.

"Uh…ha…uh…Maybe some other time…Ann-chan! Let's go!" Kamio said as he ran to Ann, grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the shop in a breeze.

"Oi, Echizen, is that what you want? Hurry up and decide so we can pay and get out of here." Kaidoh said, being the first one to awaken from the situation. Ryoma turned his attention to Kaidoh, nodded and went back in to grab his other clothes, walked out to Kaidoh and went to the till to pay, forgetting about everyone else.

"That was…weird…" Fuji said, smiling.

"Ne, Eiji-sempai, I'm sorry, I just had to…oh come on Eiji-sempai, don't be like that…" Momo-chan begged as his redheaded sempai gave him the cold shoulder, and boy was it cold.

"Ne, Eiji, just forgive Momo. He said he's sorry." Oishi started trying to calm his doubles partner.

"CHE! I don't care!" Eiji said as he walked ahead of the two.

"Eiji-sempai…" Momo-chan called out sadly. Oishi sighed and pat Momo-chan's shoulder.

"Thank you for the generosity Kaidoh-sempai." Ryoma said as he ate his sundae.

"Be more communicative or I'll make you pay me back for all the stuff I bought you." Kaidoh said drinking his soda.

"Usu." Ryoma said.

"So…" Ryoma looked around the café boredly trying to think up a conversation.

"Have you got a girlfriend?" Ryoma asked, smirking slyly.

Kaidoh blushes and looked at Ryoma in surprise.

"What kind of question is that!" He yelled, everyone turned to look at them, Kaidoh blushed even more but coughed, glaring at everyone around them, they turned away quickly.

"Well, you said be more communicative. So I am." Ryoma said, smiling innocently.

"It's none of your business." He said, crossing his arms and closing his eyes.

"Then…" Ryoma suddenly stopped as he saw a familiar person walking in one of the café entrances and quickly picked up the menu to cover his face.

"Echizen, I am NOT going to buy you another sundae so don't bother looking at that menu." Kaidoh said, noticing Ryoma's movements.

"Shhh." Ryoma hissed, watching meekly as the person walked past him and sat on a few table behind him. He sighed and put down the menu.

Kaidoh blinked and looked to see it was Jirou, Gakuto and Yuushi that just walked past them. Now he understood.

"Ah! It's you! Hi again!" Another familiar voice said. Ryoma looked up to see Yuuta walking towards them, he groaned. Just his luck.

"You remember me right. Fuji Yuuta." Yuuta said, smiling softly at Ryoma.

Ryoma nodded and smiled politely, strained.

"What are you doing here?" Ryoma asked in his girlish voice, without trying to sound rude.

"Well, I'm hungry so I come to get something to eat, what a coincidence to see you here. I wanted to see you again." Yuuta said smiling, which made him look a lot more like his brother now.

"Do you mind?" Kaidoh asked, not liking the fact that he was being ignored.

"Eh, Kaidoh, what are you doing here?" Yuuta asked, now realising that the snake player was actually sitting there.

"I'm here with hi…her." Kaidoh said.

"Is he showing you around or something? If you want, maybe sometime…I can take you around town…" Yuuta said, blushing. Ryoma sighed. 'This can't get any worse, just go away!' He thought.

"Ah! Gakuto! Yuushi! That's the girl I was telling you guys about!" Jirou's voice cheered as he bounced over to Ryoma.

"Hi!" Jirou said pulling up a chair and sitting right next to Ryoma, Ryoma began edging away.

"You never answered my question from the other day. Do you want to go on a date with me?" Jirou asked. Ryoma blinked a few time.

"Ah…"

"Jirou, you're scaring her, and why would she want to date you anyway?" Gakuto said, smirking at the always sleeping but now awake boy.

"Ne, come on Kawaii-chan!" Jirou said.

"Ka…Kawaii-chan?" Ryoma asked, looking strangely at Jirou who just gave him a nickname.

"Yeah, seeing as I don't know your name, I'm going to call you Kawaii-chan!" Jirou said, smiling proudly.

"Oi, how dare you call her that! You…" Yuuta was about to insult Jirou, who stood up and glared at Yuuta.

"Get lost, she's mine." He said.

"What! Why you…" Yuuta continued angrily.

"What?" Jirou said back, chin up high, something Atobe would do.

"Can all of you GO AWAY!" Kaidoh said, growling as he glared at the people who decided to join them.

"You GO AWAY!" Jirou and Yuuta both said at the same time, then turned their attention back to each other.

"Let's go." Ryoma said standing up.

"Hai." Jirou and Yuuta said turning to Ryoma, just to see him walk out the shop dragging Kaidoh, waving off the other two before the door shut.

"Wow Echizen, you just totally blew them off! You really are a girl!" Momo-chan said head locking the freshman, but letting go when he felt a set of daggers stabbing into his back, mentally of course.

"Echizen, you always seem to amaze me, looks like we won't need to train you anymore. It seems that female acts and habits come to you naturally." Inui said.

"WHAT?" Ryoma exclaimed, everyone else laughed.

"However, we still got to have you practice being a girlfriend, so Kawamura." Inui started.

"You and Eiji can have a date at my family restaurant. It'll be on me." Kawamura said.

"Ah…Echizen, you're so lucky!" Momo-chan said as he nudged the boy. "You get free food!"

Ryoma shrugged easily, but inside, his heart was racing, he was going to be with Eiji for a whole evening acting as his girlfriend, having to be close to him…he suddenly remembered that time in the bathroom. He shook his head.

Eiji looked at Ryoma who looked really confused and flushed, he took this as a bad sign.

"Uh…ne…Inui, I don't think this date is necessary. I mean, I'm sure we'll manage. Nya." Eiji said smiling falsely which Oishi saw through.

'Why is he rejecting this offer?' Oishi thought.

Ryoma blinked and looked at Eiji, 'He doesn't want to go on a date with me? Then what about that time…' Ryoma started getting angry for no reason.

"Fine by me, I got stuff to do anyway." He said turning on his heel and walking off.

"Echizen!" Momo-chan called, but Ryoma continued to walk off. "What's his problem? Must be PMS" Momo-chan said laughing at his own joke.

Eiji watched the boy worriedly, then felt a pat on his shoulder.

"Oishi?" Eiji said looking at his doubles partner behind him.

"Go after him." He said, Eiji stared for a while, but smiled and nodded, then broke into a run after the freshman.

"Well, I guess that's all for now, I guess we can all go home…" Inui was then interrupted.

"Go home! No way, this is like in the movies! The girl runs off, the guy chases her, and then they have this big moment!" Momo-chan said as he ran after the two, Kawamura and Kaidoh chased Momo-chan to stop him, followed by Oishi who smiled, also wanting to witness this moment. Fuji smiled, "Just like in one of Yuuta's movies." The prodigy said as he broke into a run too. Inui and Tezuka looked at each other before following their team mates.

"Wait Momo! What if they want to be left alone?" Kawamura said finally grabbing hold of the other powerhouse.

"But Kawamura-sempai! This is the love confession scene! The power of love! Come on! Don't tell me you don't want to witness this?" Momo-chan said, turning to his sempai.

"Wa…wait…you know too?" Oishi asked as he caught up to the two.

"Know what? That Eiji-sempai has a thing for Echizen. It's O-B-V-I-O-U-S!" Momo-chan exclaimed waving his arms out like he exploded.

"We all know. It's written all over Kikumaru-sempai's face." Kaidoh said.

"It's only Echizen's feelings that we don't understand." Inui said coming up.

"So you all…" Everyone nodded.

"And you all don't…" Everyone shook their head.

"So you all will…" Everyone nodded.

"Look Oishi, stop worrying." Tezuka said, Oishi looked at his captain in shock, even their captain was up for this. Oishi nodded.

"Look! Eiji-sempai caught up to Echizen!" Momo-chan exclaimed as he hid in the bushes closest to them, everyone else joined him.

"I wonder what they're going to say?" Fuji wondered aloud.

"Do you think they're gonna get all gooey and lovey dovey?" Momo-chan asked snickering.

"There's nothing funny about that." Kawamura said, patting Momo-chan on the head.

"Hey what are you guys all doing?" Everyone jumped out of their skin and turned to see Mizuki and Yuuta standing there.

"Aniki? What are you guys doing?" Yuuta asked looking at his brother.

"Oh! Look Yuuta-kun, that lovely girl is with Kikumaru. Looks like a love confession." Mizuki said looking past the bushes.

"WHAT!" Yuuta exclaimed looking over.

"No way! Over my dead body!" Yuuta said and was about to run out when all the Seigaku members grabbed hold of the boy.

"Stop it Yuuta! STOP IT! Don't destroy this moment!" Everyone said.

"Let me go! Let me-"

"What are all you guys doing?"

They all turned their heads to see the whole of the Hyotei team standing before them.

"Ah! Jirou! It's your princess. Seems that Kikumaru is doing a love confession to her." Gakuto said pointing over to the pair.

Jirou gasped when his eyes looked in that direction.

"No way! I was the first in line to ask her out!" Jirou said about to run forward.

"Sorry, but Yuuta-kun's first." Mizuki said, grabbing hold of Jirou.

And now, a huge rumble between everyone started.

Meanwhile, back with a little while ago as Ryoma walked down the street, angry, but not understanding why, suddenly felt a hand grab his.

Turning he saw a pair of beautiful blue eyes.

"Ochibi-chan. Please stop for a moment." Eiji said pleadingly.

"What do you want?" Ryoma asked, glaring.

"I…uh…I'm sorry." Eiji said bowing his head.

"Sorry…for what?" He asked sarcastically.

"I'm not sure, but I know I made you mad, so I'm apologising." Eiji said looking up into those golden orbs for forgiveness.

Ryoma sighed and pulled his hand free.

"You don't need to be sorry about anything." Ryoma said turning away, as he was about to walk on, he felt Eiji embrace him from behind.

"Please, Ochibi-chan, don't go." Eiji whispered into Ryoma's ear, making him shiver slightly.

"Please forgive me. I'm really sorry. I…please…Ryoma-chan…" Eiji whispered, Ryoma's eyes widened, his name being called like that, it made him feel hot but nice as well as light headed.

"I…Aishi…" Eiji's almost confession was cut off when a bunch of people rolled out of the bush.

Jirou ran to Ryoma's side and took his hand.

"Kawaii-chan, don't go out with him, I asked you out first!" The Hyotei sleepy head who was awake said.

"No, don't go out with him, he's the last person you would want to date." Yuuta aid running over.

Ryoma's veins started popping out of his head as the huge argument around him about who he should date was getting on his nerve.

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" He yelled, everyone looked at him.

Sighing, he put on a girly smile. "I'm not going to date ANYONE! So bugger OFF!" Ryoma exclaimed, turning on his heel and heading off. Eiji blinked and followed Ryoma.

"That hurts doesn't it Yuuta-kun?" Mizuki said as he pat his team mates shoulder.

Yuuta's face look hurt, but then determination washed over it.

"I'll definitely win her heart!" Yuuta said, Mizuki smiled. "Let's go do some training, I'm sure when we meet her again, she'll definitely be in the palm of your hands."

Yuuta nodded and walked off.

Jirou stood there, until he finally snapped out of his shock.

"He's probably going to burst into tears or something." Gakuto said.

"SUGOI! Did you see how powerful she is! Totally blew my mind away! She's so cool! She's definitely going to be mine!" Jirou cheered as he jumped up and down in excitement.

"You just got rejected Jirou." Yuushi said, Jirou laughed.

"She's only playing hard to get! A girl like that! She's the perfect girlfriend!" He cheered bouncing off. Everyone sweat dropped but followed the boy.

"You know this isn't over Seigaku." Atobe said as he walked off.

The Seigaku members stood there and watched the Hyotei team disappear.

"Wow, this is just like in the movies! RIVALS!" Momo-chan said, now his turn to get excited.

"You shouldn't be to happy about that." Kawamura said.

"A little friendly competition wouldn't hurt Taka-san." Fuji said smiling at his friend.

"Ah! Let's go find them quickly!" Oishi said running in the direction Eiji and Ryoma went.

When the other team mates found the two, they was sitting in the burger bar, Ryoma eating as politely as Oishi taught him. Everyone sighed in relief. Nothing drastic happened.

"You know, come to think of it, when's this party again?" Kawamura asked.

"Saturday." Kaidoh said, plucking the ticket he received earlier out of his pocket.

"Wow, two more days to go! I can't wait!" Momo-chan said, Fuji smiled.

"It's been a while since I seen Tohma-san. We still have so much to talk about." Fuji chuckled. Everyone looked a bit scared, they knew that Fuji was a bit scary at times, but to think that Tohma was on the same level as Fuji was hell breaking loose.

"I wonder if we'll see any other familiar people when we go." Kawamura said.

"Probably not." Kaidoh said, putting his ticket back in his body. Oh how wrong was Kaidoh.

"Let's all go home now, I think Echizen's going to be fine." Inui said, Tezuka nodded.

"Everyone, let's go. It's no longer our business." The buchou said, leading the group away, Oishi being the last to follow, smiled as he watched his friend happily eating away with his crush.

"Don't mess up Eiji." Oishi said before leaving.

Eiji blinked as he thought he heard his name and looked out the window where the Seigaku regulars WAS standing, but was no longer there.

"Nani? Kikumaru-sempai?" Ryoma asked, tucking a piece of stray hair behind his ear.

"Nothing. Anyway, my cousin's party is really cool, there's all these famous people there! And you can meet my cousin Ryuichi! He's the coolest of people! And you can also meet Kumagoro-chan! And also…"

"Kikumaru-sempai." Ryoma interrupted.

"Nani?" Eiji asked.

"Shut up and eat." Ryoma said, but in a light tone, not sounding annoyed at all. Eiji smiled and did as told.

'This is…kinda nice…' Ryoma thought, sneaking a peak at his sempai eating his fries n a dazed state. Ryoma smiled slightly.

'…nice…'

TBC > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Sandra: Gomen, I know I haven't updated in forever, but I've finished exams, and now I'm going on holiday, so you guys might have to wait, but if you still want me to continue, then let me know! By the way, the party is gonna be so cool! But you'll only find out if you want me to update!