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As the annoying girl and the short boy walked onto the court with the challengers, Annie sighed. 'How on earth do I get myself into these situations?' Her friends thought the exact same thing. Arai and Echizen, again, had another verbal tennis match. "There are some that play tricks because they are weak." This provoked the second year boy. He turned back to face the boy and said, "What? Are you saying I hid it?" Echizen just continues walking to the court and shrugged his shoulders while saying, "Who knows?" He placed his foot on the ground and rubbed it against the surface. "Okay, let's play." By then, many people on the court had their attention on the little one. This was going to be a match they didn't want to miss.
"You're confident. I will completely crush you." the cocky second year said. "Oh will you please just shut up already?" Annie said, tired of him constantly talking. He sneered at the girl, then walked to his position with his partner. Annie and Echizen did the same, and got into position. 'Look what you did Annie!' Adrian thought and all three of them sighed. Arai threw the ball in the air and served it. It headed towards Echizen's direction. She knew that he wasn't going to hit it. The girl ran towards the ball and returned it. The ball bounced back to the other side and the partner attacked it. Again, Annie had to run back to her side and get the ball. This continued on for a while. She, again, simply returned the ball back. Arai ran towards the ball and attacked it back to the opponent's side. The boy wearing the cap ran towards his. He got it, but due to the fact that he was using a crappy racket, the ball didn't go to the expected place properly and hit the net.
'Crap.' the girl thought. Using that racket was a bad idea. The boy then returned to Arai. "Hey hey, what's going on? You're the one with the big mouth. You also." and he pointed from the boy to the girl, "Now you're going to suffer till the end." With that said, he served again, but with more power this time. The ball bounced to Echizen, and he hit it. Again, the bad racket was having a big impact on how the game was turning out. The ball went out and bounced off the metal gated wall on the other side.
Everybody that was watching the game knew that that racket was pretty much useless because the person using it could not control it. Playing with it, you wouldn't be able to hit with it normally. Annie looked back at Arai. She could see that he had a look of pride and "Who are the fools now?" look on his face. She looked back at Echizen to see that he was looking at the battered up racket. He tapped at the strings and said, "Hmm, I see." Arai said loudly from the other side of the court, "Fool, trying to be tough. But you have no chance in hell!"
The girl with the many mood swings just felt like taking that ball and shoving it in his mouth to shut him up. His constant talking really got on her nerves. The annoying person served again. Ryoma ran towards the ball and returned it. When it landed, Arai's expression was priceless. Annie just smirked while everybody else was still amazed. "That was slow." He said. This was when Arai just cracked. "Shut up!" he yelled, "Just because you could return one ball!" Annie was on the verge of cracking up. "Awww... Is the wittle baby going to cwy?" This just provoked him some more.
The three boys just smacked their foreheads. "Annie..." They muttered. "Why you!" He threw the ball in the air and served again. Echizen returned the ball back to him. The guy with the anger management problem missed like an archer shooting for the bull's eye, then ended up missing, only to have the arrow hit something else.
Echizen then served. Arai's partner ran towards it then lobbed it. 'Perfect.' she throught. She jumped in the air then smashed it hard back to the other side. The ball bounced off the pavement of the court, but ended up hitting the partner on the face. "Oops... Did I do that? Gomen." She said that while having a smile on her face. 'She's definately evil.' Many people including her friends thought.
The poor guy was on the ground, most likely knocked out. Arai ran to the guy and started shaking him. "Wake up you fool!" He shook him harder. While he was busying himself, Echizen spoked to the girl, "No bad." She winked while replying with, "Same to you O'chibi." The people around them were surprised. They were just some people that had just shown up, and they were beating one of the most scariest people in the club.
Ryoma then served the ball. He threw it high and served it. 'I can't lose this. I have to beat them.' Arai thought. He caught up with the ball. He had to return it for his partner. Let's just say that the partner was still slightly out of it all. Echizen then attacked the ball again, sending it to the partner. The boy got back to his senses, and returned the ball. As the ball was coming towards Annie's direction, she had saw that the partners on the other side were very persistant at returning balls that bounced. 'Hmmm... I know...'
The ball was coming closer and closer. She positioned herself, and swung her racket. It had made contact with the ball and sent it back. It was going to land in front of Arai and he knew it. He simply just stood there, waiting for the return. 'Yes! I got it!' He raised his racket, hoping it would give him the extra edge on returning the ball. The girl's eyes locked on the ball, 'Bingo.' she thought. Arai swung his racket, but only to be cutting air. Gasps could be heard throughout the whole court. "Huh! Where's the ball!" The sophomore was surely surprised.
"A...Arai... Errr..." One of his friends said. "What is it!" He was definitely frustrated by now. The two people on the other side had surely pulled on his cord. "Look down." Annie said. Arai looked at the girl then looked below him. He's eyes went wide. The ball was right beside his feet. "Huh? The ball didn't even bounce!" Eiji said. Inui smirked and took out his green notebook. "Ii... Data..."
Annie and Echizen could see Arai's face on the other side. His eyes were twitching and he was burning up. They smirked and said at the same time, "Mada mada dane." The sophomore looked like he was going to do a lot of killing, and the first victims were going to be the bratty bitch and the cocky boy. The two were in control of how the game went. They had the power. They were controlling the game like how an artist controls his brush. "Let's continue shall we?" the girl said and got back into position.
It was then Ryoma's turn to serve again. He threw the ball high up in the air and smashed. Arai ran towards the ball. You knew he was frustrated. No only by the fact that he was being beating badly, but by a short annoying girl and a freshman with a messed up racket. Arai reached for the ball, but didn't put it in the right place. Annie then served. The ball went high in the air. She jumped and sent it to the other side. The partner, who was now already up, but still was a bit dizzy, sprinted towards the ball. He, of course, missed. Instead, he got hit, pretty hard, by the ball again! 'Yup. Just as I expected.' and she smirked.
After laying there for about 2 minutes, and getting yelled at, the partner stood back up, and got into position. Annie served again. It landed by Arai and he returned it. The only problem was that he returned it straight to Echizen. "If I remember correctly, Echizen is going to return to the empty side." Dickson thought. Ryoma struck it to the other side of the court, which was completely empty. Arai's eyes shot open. It looked like he had just saw Tezuka crack a smile or something. He was working hard. They could tell because he was getting frustrated and he was sweating a lot. He got the ball, but it went inside his jersey, and landed within the court. Echizen then served and knocked the ball that was there before, out of the court.
Arai dropped to his knees. He couldn't believe it. A cocky freshman and a bratty girl had just beat him. Well, of course they would have beaten his partner, but they beat him! He stared at the two in shock, as well as other people. Many people were intrigued by how those two could work together, but especially at the boy. Being able to control that racket had made him a person that would be a great competition.
Kaidoh was next to the other regulars. He turned away from the game and hissed. "Fshhh... What a fool. Losing to a sophomore and a girl." He then walked away, saying he had to go on a "Washroom break".
"Ok, my warm up is done." The freshman said. Annie nodded and said, "Yup. Mine also." Arai was taken back and his eyes went wider then they were before, if that was possible. "Echizen, a string is broken." Horio said. He looked at the racket and said, "No worries." while stretching his left arm. He looked back at the older boy and said, "We're going to finish this, senpai." Annie then joined in and said, "Yeah. I really don't like leaving things unfinished." and smiled. Arai then started freaking out and took a few steps back.
Other people on the court was starting to worry also. One of them said, "H...Hoi hoi. Just leave it here." Another one joined in and said, "It's just practice." The pair just said at the same time, "No." and Echizen served.
Little did the people on the court know, they were being watched by not only Oishi, but the buchou himself. "Tezuka, what do you think?" Tezuka was very pleased. "I don't condone breaking the rules. Make everyone run laps." Oishi was taken back. "Eh? Even the regulars?" Tezuka didn't even have to look back. "Everyone." he said in a monotone voice and walked out of the room.
The two left in the room looked at the door. Oishi turned back to the courts, while the coach was looking at the schedule. She had a pleased look on her face for she had saw the name of the super freshmans on the sheet for the knock out tournament.
Authors notes:
Dickson: Gomen! I was kind busy and lazy for awhile so the 5th chapter was kinda slowed for awhile. I promise to work faster… ughh stupid headache. Well see you next time.
Annie: Awww... Get well soon Dickson! Oh yeah! Don't use that painkiller that didn't work! Use the Advil! If it hurts still after that, well, you know what to do...
Adrian: I don't get any good lines... This sucks! Thanks a lot annie!
Annie: Gomen Adrian... Don't worry, in a future chapter, which is most likely going to be posted in March, you are going to have a huge chunk of it based around you. Jeez... Just calm down...
William: ...