This is a very… gross and strange little short chapter, but I hope you all enjoy it regardless. And happy birthday to me as well. YAY! I'm such an ecstatic person…

Chapter Fifteen: Torment
"You want me to buy you a what!" Kirihara screamed. It wasn't just an ordinary scream, it was a really, really, really loud scream (not girly of course) that had effectively repelled several girls that had wanted to enter.

"A sanitary napkin," Fuji replied bitterly. "You know, it's like an absorbent-"

"Stop! Please!" Kirihara wailed. It was embarrassing; this situation was way too embarrassing, not to mention disgusting as well. "I know what it is, but…!"

"Surprising," Fuji remarked sarcastically.

"I refuse!" Kirihara stated forwardly. Fuji could only bitterly laugh. Now she knew why Yumiko always acted so sarcastic around 'that' time of the month.

"Then I suppose we'll never finish our mat-"

However, Fuji was cut short when the door to the girl's restroom swung open and none other than the other Rikkai regulars stood in the doorway, looking at Kirihara with unreadable looks. Well, actually, Niou and Marui were trying to contain their laughter, but failing to do so as they burst out in tears and snickers, pointing at the less than amused and madly blushing Kirihara. Yagyuu and Jackal remained blank, though the slight twitches in their facial features showed some hints of disturbance in their composed selves. Yanagi has a sad smile on his face, being the only one to fully understand the situation. Sanada, however, had the most menacing glare ever imaginable. His arms were crossed, his lips were in a frown, and his voice was definitely not one of those that sounded happy.

"Akaya!" Sanada boomed. "What are you doing in there?"

"Well, I'm- I was- She's- … um…"

"Aka-"

"WAH! Wh-what are all of you guys doing there!"

Immediately, the Rikkai regulars swiveled around in time to see a girl hightail her way down the hallway. Kirihara slapped his forehead. Now he had not only managed to trespass into a women's restroom, but he had also successfully made his sempai's and teammates look like perverted teenagers as well. Kirihara feared the punishment.

And so while Kirihara was forced about scrubbing every square inch of the tennis court with a measly toothbrush, Marui, Niou, and Yagyuu were hitting the streets under Sanada and Fuji's order to get her some 'much needed things'.

"Why do we have to do this?" Marui whined as the three got onto a bus. "I mean, shouldn't Yanagi and Jackal be doing this instead?"

"Nah," Niou shrugged. "They'd just give some lame excuse like 'I'm needed here more' or 'You guys are better suited for the job' even though they all want to say 'It'll ruin my perfect reputation and since you guys already have red marks on them, you should be the ones going'."

"Yeah, true," Marui agreed sadly as Yagyuu uncomfortably shifted his glasses. "But then why is Yagyuu here? Wouldn't he be the first to stay behind?"

"Someone had to watch over you two," Yagyuu replied swiftly.

Marui decided that his life was ending.

It was nerve-racking, honestly, standing in the middle of the aisle looking at a huge wall of sanitary napkins and among other things. How was a teenage boy like Marui who never paid attention in health class suppose to know what to buy? He would ask for help, but it'd make him look like some freak, and Marui didn't like being thought of as a freak. It wasn't until he realized he'd look even more freakish gawking at sanitary napkins all day than asking for help did he actually, well, asked for help. (Not before making up a random story that would make him look innocent.)

"Um, excuse me, my sister needed some, erm…" Marui trailed off as the store clerk blinked at him before looking at the things next to where the boy was standing.

"Sanitary napkins?" she suggested. Marui blushed and nodded. Oh, the embarrassment of it all! Someone was going to owe him a lot of bubblegum.

"Eh, yeah…" he said. Who knew shopping was so hard?

Apparently, shopping wasn't all that hard, or at least it wasn't to Yagyuu and Niou. Well, actually, just Niou really because Yagyuu was sort of torn between just fainting on the spot and just calmly going through it while his mind screamed bloody murder. (Of course, he kept this all to himself so he was still Yagyuu on the outside with a personality rivaling that of a rock. …Okay, maybe that of a painted rock, with all it's pretty little colors and patterns, but still a rock.)

"What's wrong, Yagyuu?" Niou asked innocently, or so it seemed anyhow.

"N-Nothing, nothing," Yagyuu muttered as Niou grabbed him by the wrist and hauled him into the store, the silver bell tingling overhead. Immediately upon entering said store, Yagyuu had to use all his control power over his body to stop blushing, and since it was Yagyuu, it worked out quite well, though it still didn't justify that he was just plain uncomfortable being in a place and situation like this.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Niou asked, slightly paranoid.

"I'm fine, fine," Yagyuu informed him in a very Yagyuu manner.

"Whatever you say, Yagyuu, whatever you say," Niou said sarcastically. Then he gave his double's partner and good friend a push towards one of the employees that worked there, who was currently engrossed in her magazine. "Now use that gentleman charm of yours to get us what we need."

If anyone else had seen him in such a situation, Yagyuu's reputation would've come shattering down around him in forms of laughing Nious.

"Yanagi, why did you create such a thing?" Fuji bluntly, still in the sanctuary of her stall. Yanagi had taken up the task of keeping an eye on her while Marui, Niou, and Yagyuu went out to get her the necessary things and while Sanada and Jackal supervised Kirihara's 'punishment' to make sure he didn't cheat. (Of course, Yanagi had locked up the bathroom to ensure no intrusions would occur unless they could be confirmed as one of the Rikkai regulars.)

"I'm not sure, to tell you the truth," Yanagi answered from a top a sink. (He wasn't about to sit on the floor.) "Perhaps it's out of curiosity."

"Did you create any other 'Magical Chemicals'?" Fuji asked, much in the fashion of a little girl listening to an intriguing story told by her grandfather.

"I did," Yanagi confessed. "Quite a lot of them actually."

This surprised Fuji. Well, actually, she shouldn't have been because if there was a 'Magical Chemical 3.8', you could only speculate that there were others, right? "So what are the other ones? And what do they do?"

"Well, I'm not quite sure of all the effects of them yet," Yanagi concluded. "I've kept most of them bottled up now in small amounts. Actually, in truth, this is the only one who's effects I know. The rat I tried it on was the first one that didn't die."

Fuji twitched. Well that was reassuring. Lucky chance that Inui didn't find some other poison? She didn't know. All she knew was that this Yanagi person was scary on court, but god-like off of it.

"I am never marrying!" Marui declared as he stormed into the girl's bathroom, face flushed and blushing as he threw down the bag that contained the sanitary napkins Fuji had needed.

"You asked one of the store attendants for help and she asked you what kind you wanted and you just happened to end up picking one that they didn't have there so the attendant phoned the whole store asking and every then ended up staring at you, correct?" Yanagi dictated the events to a stunned Marui.

"H-How did you know!" Marui cried as he blushed even more. Yanagi gave a light chuckle as a response. "Th-That's not funny! And it was so confusing! She asked if I wanted the ones with wings or something! Are they supposed to fly?"

"Can you just give them to me?" Fuji asked, slightly exasperated. Marui huffed as he slid the bag under the stall. "Thank you."

It was just then that Niou appeared with an agitated Yagyuu, or as agitated as Yagyuu could get. The trickster had a smirk on his face while his lips sprouted snickers, which could have only meant trouble.

"Oh, come on, no harm done!" Niou insisted as Yagyuu caught him by the wrist to prevent him from hiding behind Yanagi. "I swear I didn't know that her sister worked there!"

"Yes you did!" Yagyuu hissed, but let out a sigh after and composed himself. He shouldn't be like this. He was, after all, suppose to be the levelheaded one of the bunch.

"You went to a store to by women's undergarments, and the store attendant you had Yagyuu asked was actually the sister of one of your classmates, correct?" Yanagi asked Niou again with his awesome perspicacity of the situation.

"Wow, how did you know?" Niou said, letting out a low whistle. Yanagi just smiled his Yanagi-knowing smile.

Fuji sighed, and thus, here, the day at Rikkai comes to a close…

"Fuji…"

The voice on the other end was displeased, frustrated, and tired. Fuji wondered what could have driven her captain to be like this. Perhaps something happened? Hmm…

"Tezuka, what's wrong?" Fuji asked obliviously. "I didn't do anything!"

"Fuji, what have you done?" the Seigaku captain said, waving off her last comment.

"What do you mean, Tezuka?" Fuji inquired. "I haven't been-"

BEEP!

"Fuji Syusuke I shall KILL you!" Kirihara screamed before he hung up. This gave Tezuka more than enough reason to suspect that Fuji had indeed been up to something.

"Fuji…" Tezuka repeated.

"… Fine, maybe I did do some things," Fuji admitted bitterly. "But they were beyond my control, Tezuka!"

"Fuji…" Tezuka groaned. Then he sighed. "I suppose you'll be back at Seigaku tomorrow, correct?"

"If that's what's going to happen," Fuji said. "And I'll be back to normal as well I suppose."

"Let's hope that's the case," Tezuka said. "Where are you staying?"

"Well, actually, since everyone at Rikkai have turned a blind eye on me, I was kind of hoping…"

Tezuka did not like where this conversation was going.