Kumiko: meep! I'm updating early :3 I only got 8 reviews for the last chappie but I shall forgive people n.n''

Ryoma: yeah right…

Kumiko: (whaps ryoma on the head..er…cap XD) :D

Ryoma: T.x

Kumiko: I'll forgive ryoma too, if he helps me with the reviews n.n (holds up ultra super pointy knife of do0m!)
Ryoma: O.o …..fine
Kumiko: wai:3 (glomps ryoma) n.n''

xxlemonsxx –

yes yes when tezuka arrives, ryoma died in fear along with momo and kikumaru XD

Ryoma: you killed me!

Kumiko: no I didn't, technically you're still alive, otherwise you wouldn't be able to be helping me with reviews n.n ne?

Ryoma: …I got killed T.T

Kumiko: stop being ooc! (whap whap)

Ryoma: hai…

Rainrukawa –

I read your review and felt the urge to review your story n.n I don't know if you checked, but I reviewed twice in your fanfic with Tezuka as a guardian angel for Fuji :D it was so touching:3

Ryoma: you're so sensitive..it's only tezuka-buchou u.U

Kumiko: so you wouldn't want me to be sensitive if you died? U.u

Ryoma: anou…no (drinks ponta)

Kumiko: wahhhhh! Ryoma's so mean! (mimicking Momiji from Fruits Basket)

Ryoma: … (gives Kumiko a ponta)

Kumiko:D

Thekoryu –

You're so right! Kikumaru really is like the trix rabbit! But I'll tell you something..(spoiler for today's chapter!) I shall make Eiji-senpai victorious! Vuu! (trying to imitate the sound kikumaru makes representing victory)

Akira Nimura –

XDD once it was dead silent in my house and my friend, showed me this website for Japanese people to learn English, and it went like this: "What's this? What's this? It's a ant! What's this? What's this? It's a cockroach! Now you know your creepy crawlies!" I practically laughed my head off XDD my sister was sleeping and woke up from my laughter XD

dream-angel114 –

nee-san, who WOULDN'T do anything to see Echizen Ryoma with his hair spiked up with water? XD there are three possibilities of what it would be like: 1) he'd actually look like Momo (O.o), 2) he'd look really cute (n.n), 3) he'd look like he just wet his hair and messed it up (XD)

ki-ku-maru BEAM –

XD he might be! Never thought of it that way…OMG TEZUKA'S OUT TO GET US ALL! RUN AWAY! or maybe it's just me and ki-ku-maru BEAM XD

Sushi-dono –

Naw I don't think you're that sadistic, I think that Fuji trying to kill Kikumaru and Momo is also quite cool XD maybe I SHOULD have done the water fight at Hyotei or Rikkaidai, I can totally imagine Atobe being hit in the face by a water balloon! Even better, an INUI JUICE BALLOON! BWAHAHA!

Ryoma: you're insane…(sips ponta)

Kumiko: (death glare)

Ryoma: O.o

Kumiko: (uses authoress powers to make Ryoma's wallet empty again) :3

Ryoma: T.T my money…

Kumiko: I love it when ryoma's crying :D because it's so rare XD

Ryoma: U.u

DnKS-giRLs –

Indeed it is a dreadful combination XD toss Fuji in there and it's a DEADLY combination n.n'' which reminds me, this chapter will be one of those deadly combination days :D

(A/N: I'm not going to do any author notes in between the story this chapter because people think it ruins the flow, so if you don't get anything, ask in a review and I'll gladly tell you next chapter n.n)

Phase 4 (Chapter 4) – Playing with Voodoo Dolls of Doom at Kikumaru Eiji's House

Step 1 – Prepare the plushies.

Kikumaru dialed the phone number of Fuji Syuusuke and listened to the dial tone ring for 3 seconds.

"Moshi moshi? Syuusuke Fuji, desu."

"Fuji! It's Eiji. Come to my house in 10 minutes, nyan! I'll tell you the details later!" with that, the neko-like Seigaku student hung up.

Kikumaru had already called Ryoma and Momoshiro. He originally wasn't' intending to invite Fuji, but because Fuji was so lethal, he thought it would be better to invite him after all.

10 minutes later –

"Ding dong!" Eiji's doorbell chimed as three people waited at the front door. Kikumaru opened the door and greeted his regular prank assistants and Fuji.

"What exactly are we doing, Kikumaru-senpai?" Ryoma plopped down on to one of the couches in the living room and pulled his cap low, planning to take a nap.

"Mou! Ochibi! Don't fall asleep! Come into my room, but until we get up there, everything is a hi-mit-su!"

Fuji followed Kikumaru up the stairs, while Momoshiro dragged Ryoma off the couch.

"Ta da da da! Kikumaru Eiji's special voodoo dolls! Nyan hee hee hee…"

Momoshiro and Ryoma jumped back at the word 'voodoo', while Fuji wore a smile of interest. There before Kikumaru, were several dolls, eight of which resembled the Seigaku Regulars, Kikumaru not included.

"Eiji-senpai! That's just evil! Not making one of yourself and making ones of us!" Momo stared at the spiky-haired doll and eyed it with fear.

"This is interesting…Did you make these by yourself, Eiji?" Fuji picked up the plushie with thin rimmed glasses and a serious look on its face.

"Hai, nyan! It took me a week, so you three better not break them!"

"Kikumaru-senpai…what do you plan on doing with these plushies?" Ryoma had a slightly worried tone in his voice.

"Well…hee hee hee…"

Step 2 – Use the plushies.

Fuji still held the plushie with the serious look. He stared at it and smirked a creepy smile. "Eiji, do you have a feather?"

"Hoi! Of course! But what do you need it for, Fuji?"

"Just something…" Fuji sat on Kikumaru's bed and started brushing the feather against the plushie's nose, back and forth.

At the Kunimitsu household –

Tezuka woke up with a weird feeling that morning. But he ignored it and decided to finish reading his book.

"Ahh.ah..ahh…CHOO!" Tezuka sneezed so hard that his neighbour heard and looked at him through his room's window.

"I must be getting a cold…"

Back at Kikumaru's house –

Momoshiro looked at the other plushies beside the Seigaku Regular plushies. He spotted a few plushies with black jerseys and picked one up. "…Kamio! ….heh heh heh…"

At the street tennis courts –

Ibu looked over to where Kamio was sitting and laughing insanely. He walked over to his fellow Fudomine friend and started talking.

"You know you shouldn't laugh so much, Kamio. It's true that studies show if you laugh more you'll live longer, but it's not guaranteed, because you might hurt your spleen from laughing too much. It's also very annoying to the people around you because they might think you're laughing at them, when you're actually laughing at something that's not funny at all, but that might just be me. What are you laughing at Kamio?"

Kamio was laughing so hard that he was crying. "I..hahahaha….don't…hahahaha.. know..hahaha..why…Shinji…I'm just…hahaha…laughing…because…my body..hahahah. is making…hahahaha… me..HAHAHAHAHA!"

Ibu sweatdropped and ignored Kamio.

Back at Kikumaru's house –

"Momo-senpai, what are you doing to that Kamio plushie? It looks like you're abusing it.." Ryoma was slightly scared of his revengeful senpai at the moment.

"I'm tickling him. I once heard from that mumbling guy from Fudomine…what's his name? Shinji Ibu? I heard that Kamio was extremely ticklish."

Kikumaru and Fuji were both having fun torturing the Tezuka plushie, when Ryoma found the All Mighty Monkey King plushie.

"Nyan! That's the Atobe plushie! What are you going to do with that ochibi?"

"…the monkey king, huh? I have some ideas…."

The next day at the Seigaku tennis courts –

"Ohayo gousaimasu…" Ryoma greeted his senpais and grabbed his tennis racket for some practice. He looked up and realized that several people were missing.

"Ryoma! Come over here for a second." Ryuzaki-sensei gestured for Ryoma to go where she was standing.

"What is it, sensei?"

"Several of our Regulars have called in sick today, except for you, Momoshiro, Kikumaru and Fuji. Do you know what's going on?"

"anou…no I don't know anything.."

"It seems that members of other school's tennis teams have called in sick also. Including Kamio from Fudomine, Sengoku from Yamabuki, Sanada from Rikkaidai, and Atobe from Hyotei."

"Nyann, Ryuzaki-sensei, it might just be a coincidence!" Kikumaru appeared all of a sudden with a HUGE smile on his face along with Momo and Fuji.

"I suppose you're right…well then, since only the four of you are left I'm counting on you to practice your hardest for your fellow teammates that are sick! You got that?"

"Hai!" All four of the remaining Seigaku Regulars responded.

Ryuzaki Sumire extremely doubted everything was a coincidence, but she let it go. "I'm really getting too old too keep up with these boys…"

Playing with Voodoo Dolls of Doom at Kikumaru Eiji's House

Results: SUCCESS

End of Phase 4 ------

Kumiko: I don't think anyone's going to oppose Kikumaru now that he has those dolls O.o

Kikumaru: Heh heh no Kappa! No one, nyan! not even Tezuka!

Kumiko: no one except for me, ne? (holds up keyboard threatingly)

Kikumaru: anou…hai, nyan!

Ryoma: …U.u Kumiko-chan..(gives Kumiko the Atobe plushie)

Kumiko: hehe now to tell our readers what ryoma did with the atobe plushie! The truth is, he gave it to me, and I gave it to my neighbour's dog :3

Ryoma: hee hee hee…

Kumiko: good boy, Ryoma n.n

Kikumaru: (gives Kumiko the Ryoma plushie)

Kumiko: wai! BWAHAHA! I shall use this for future chapters :D but not now because Ryoma gave me the Atobe plushie :3

Ryoma: (sighs)

Kumiko: bye bye until next chappie!