This is an Eiji and RyoSaku fic. It's about Eiji playing a trick on the innocent couples. It wasn't a nasty trick at all. Eiji wouldn't have been caught, if it hadn't been for Fuji and Inui's great help.
Disclaimer: I swear I never owned the Prince of Tennis. I really don't. I borrowed it, yesyes, that's the word, borrowed.
Enjoy the second part!
Eiji's Adventures - Part two - The Jacket Incident
"Hoi hoi, look! Isn't that O-chibi there, nya? With the coach's granddaughter?" said Eiji, who pointed at the lovely looking pair not so far away.
"Yeah! Hey, what do you think they are doing, walking along the 'quieter' area of the school?" said Momo, who joined in the spying with Eiji earlier on.
"Maybe the reason why we're here explains why they're here in the 'quieter' area of the school," said Fuji.
"Aw, Fuji, we're only spying on them. Those lovebirds are the ones which we lay suspicion upon!" said Eiji.
The first bell before the afternoon lessons rang.
"Nya! You two can go to class first; I'll stay here for a little while longer. Fuji, do you have your camera with you?" Eiji said.
"Saa…yes, you want to borrow it…but you'll be late for class!" Fuji said.
"You can cover for me, nya, the teachers like you anyway," said Eiji.
"Yeah, let's go, Fuji senpai," said the excited Momo, "And I want to see the results you get from the camera!"
With uncertainty, Fuji handed Eiji his precious digital camera, "Don't break it," Fuji warned.
"Hoi hoi! No problem!" said Eiji.
Fuji and Momo left, and Eiji stayed where he was, spying on Ryoma and Sakuno.
Meanwhile, Ryoma and Sakuno were having a little chat.
"You lost my Seigaku regulars jacket?" Ryoma said. He wasn't feeling too well now, after a thought of how the regulars would react if they knew what happened to the jacket.
"G-Gomen nasai, Ryoma-kun," Sakuno gave one of the deepest bows, "I d-didn't mean to…I didn't mean to lose it!"
Ryoma sighed. Now how could he deal with the explanation when he asks Oishi for a new jacket order form?
"Have you searched everywhere for it?" Ryoma asked, "Everywhere?" Ryoma repeated.
"I…I have!" Sakuno said.
Ryoma looked down, totally forgotten that he wasn't wearing his cap because it wasn't allowed during school.
He shouldn't have lent to jacket to Ryusaki in the first place. That afternoon, it was raining and the wind of blowing pretty hard. Ryusaki wasn't wearing enough clothes, besides her uniform and the cardigan. Also, her skirt was terribly short. Ryoma never understood why the school uniform applied such shameful skirts for girls. How did they feel in the winter, when the wind started bashing against your naked legs? Nothing, they could feel nothing because their legs were so numb.
And back to the topic, Ryoma lent her his jacket because the wind was blowing hard and she was sneezing. For some reason, their journeys home collided, so they were on the same path for half the journey. Ryoma told her to give him back the jacket the next day when she saw him again. Ryusaki agreed and left.
And so now, the girl came and told him that she lost the precious jacket. Ryoma looked back up, "We'll sort this out later. Right now, let's get to class."
Sakuno nodded and started walking. She tripped over a stone and fell over, landing on her knees.
"Itai!" She exclaimed. Ryoma didn't intend to catch her, even if he could have caught her in time. This was because she lost his jacket and he wasn't amused.
But anyway, Ryoma was a good guy in heart, so he lent her his hand and pulled her back up.
Meanwhile, the sneaky Eiji still peering from behind the bushes was chuckling furiously, "Aw, o-chibi is so mean to his girlfriend, nya!" And he snapped a picture of Ryoma pulling Sakuno up, their hands joining.
"Hoi hoi! At least he is still a bit of a gentleman," said the chuckling Eiji. He snapped another picture of the young couple walking together.
"Now I can blackmail Ryoma! Nya!" said Eiji.
He began to make to way to class. His hands lost grip of the camera at that moment,and the camera fell onto the ground, "Nya," Eiji assured himself as he picked up the camera, "The ground is made of earth, the camera should be okay. And besides, this is cheap equipment anyway. Nya!"
Eiji walked back indoors into the school. He turned the corner into the stairs and saw Ryoma with the coach's granddaughter again.
'My lucky day,' Eiji thought as he got the camera ready for another picture.
The camera wouldn't switch on, no matter how long Eiji held on to the 'power' button.
"Nya? Why…" Eiji examined the body of the camera, "It couldn't be because…nya!"
Eiji pulled his hair in horror, "What could I say to Fuji!"
The camera was Fuji's very good companion. Fuji brought it everywhere with him. Now Eiji destroyed it, he knew he was in deep trouble.
It's a cheap instrument, a cheap instrument, ne? NE? Eiji repeated that over and over again inside his head. He solidified himself to think that the camera was very cheap. He plucked up his courage and walked into class right before the bell rung for class.
"Eiji! You're finally here!" said the happy Fuji, finally able to receive his camera back.
"Uh…nya…uh…Fuji…I uh-" Eiji swallowed. Now how should he start?
At the moment, Sakuno's class was having basketball lessons in physical education.
"Tomoka, I'll leave first because I need to practise my shooting," said Sakuno. She was pretty hopeless at aiming the ball at the basket. And Tomoka knew that.
"Okay," Tomoka said. Then her friend ran off.
Tomoka was hymning a tune when she noticed Sakuno's locker wasn't closed, "Eh?" Tomoka wanted to close it for her, but she caught a glimpse of blue brilliance inside the dark locker.
Now what is that?
Out of pure and innocent curiosity, Tomoka opened her best friend's locker, "Now what's this underneath all her old bento wrappings?" Sakuno made lots of bentos for Ryoma, more than Tomoka ever made. The colour of blue was underneath all the previously used wrappings. Tomoka stuck her hand into the very bottom of the locker and pulled out the blue coloured suspicious thing.
"A Seigaku tennis team regulars jacket!" Tomoka almost yelled, "Size small…uh…" There was only one person in the whole tennis team which fitted into the size small, and that person was obviously…
"Ryoma-sama!"
In the very classroom of Eiji and Fuji's, also called class 3.6, the explosion of the century was about to occur.
"What did you just say, Eiji? I would like you to repeat it," said the opened eyed Fuji. His glare was sharp and it was scaring Eiji, who wasn't immune to the Fuji hostility.
"Iaccidentallydroppedyourcamera!" Eiji blurted out, "…and…onto the soil! And now it wouldn't-" Eiji was broken off.
"It wouldn't turn on!" Fuji held on to the 'power' button for ten seconds, "Are you sure that's all you did to the camera?" Fuji flashed a scowl at Eiji.
"Hai! And I took several pictures…!" Eiji stood up straight, lips turned down and eyes wide opened.
"Well, I would like to invite to for afternoon tea today after school. Just a quick one in the school cafeteria, it's very quick, I assure you." Fuji was smiling again, but his smile was turning slowly into an evil grin.
Eiji had a bad feeling, a very bad one.
After physical education, in the changing room in front of the lockers, stood Tomoka and her best friend Sakuno.
"Look what I found?" Tomoka took out the Seigaku tennis team regular's jacket and displayed it in front of Sakuno, "I found it in your locker!"
"You've been looking inside my locker?" Sakuno said, "Where did you find that?"
"In your locker, underneath all your bento wrappings," Tomoka said proudly, "Now, tell me about it. How did it end up in your locker? Ryoma-sama's jacket?"
"Ano…" Sakuno blushed, "I-" Sakuno was cut off.
"No, no need to explain, I know what happened now," Tomoka gave an evil wink and put one finger onto her lips to show that she would keep it quiet. She handed Sakuno back the jacket then walked away briskly to tell everyone else about her prideful discovery.
Sakuno beamed. Ryoma-kun's jacket!It's not gone!Then she stopped and thought for a while, Wait…I'm sure this jacket was never at the bottom of my locker, never…it wasn't there yesterday…or this morning…
Eiji, Fuji, and Inui were in the cafeteria after school. They were smirking secretively at something that Eiji just mentioned.
"Well, I took the jacket from her locker that day and-" Eiji was broken off by Fuji.
"You went into the girl's locker room?" Fuji questioned, "I never knew you were such a pervert, Eiji."
"Nya! Just that once, because I really had to take that jacket from her locker! No, wait, twice, actually, because today, at noon, I put it back…nya! But nobody was there, and no-one saw me, I swear!" Eiji defended himself.
"Saa, you're pretty good at this!" Fuji said, "Sneaking into the girl's locker room without being caught! You must have been practising!"
"Yes, there is a 93 chance of that. Nobody can be so skilled to sneak into the girl's locker room without being noticed twice. There was actually a 75 chance that you would be caught." Inui fixed the position of his reflective glasses, "Oh yes, and back to the main topic here…"
"Yes, Eiji, I brought you here today to discuss about the mending fee for my camera. And there are two things that you have to do," Fuji said.
"What, nya?" Eiji asked.
"First, you have to pay me back for the damages of the camera, 10,000 yen for the fixing of the camera and-"
"Nani? That is almost enough to buy you a new camera! And this one is only cheap, I bet, because it broke so easily, nya!" Eiji cried.
At that point, Fuji sharpened his stare at Eiji, his cloudy blue eyes revealed once and for all, "Cheap? This camera cost me about 60,000 yen. Now who said the word cheap?"
"Not me!" denied Eiji.
"All right, so 10,000 yen by tomorrow, that is. And also…" Fuji looked over at Inui, who was taking out something from his bag.
"Here it is! Vinegar mix v.15. I've meddled with the taste, and it should taste better than last time at the bowling competition. You see, last time, even Fuji couldn't withstand the extreme taste…and this time, there is only a 60 chance that Fuji would fall unconscious from this new taste," Inui adjusted the position of his glasses, which afterwards, beamed maliciously.
"60 chance that Fuji wouldn't stand the taste? That is so inconvincible! Fuji's tastes are weird!" Eiji exclaimed.
"Well, that's the whole point, isn't it? People who break other people's property without their permission will be punished," Fuji gave a sweet smile and handed Eiji the drink.
Sakuno was leaning against the wall at the school entrance, waiting for Ryoma to come out after tennis practise. She clutched onto the jacket very tightly.
How could I have missed out the jacket from the bottom of my locker?
She was deep in thought. When she looked back up, Ryoma was standing in front of her.
"Jacket," Ryoma said, pointing at his own, precious jacket which he thought was gone forever.
"Ah! Gomen!" Sakuno bowed and handed Ryoma the jacket,
"Where did you find it?" Ryoma asked, he wondered, because she confidently stated today that she looked everywhere for it.
"I…" Sakuno blushed, "I found it at the bottom of my locker…"
"I asked you if you looked everywhere, you said yes," Ryoma shook his head, "So what was covering it from your sight?"
"Eh?" The countless bento wrappings, was Sakuno supposed to say that? "Ano…just some cloth…"
"Hn," Ryoma grabbed the jacket and started to walk away. Several metres away from Sakuno, he stopped and turned back, "By the way, on a cold day, wear more clothes." And the arrogant brat walked away.
Sakuno stared at the shadow of the prince for a while, and a smile broke out from her face, "Hai…arigatou," she muttered under her breath.
At that moment, a loud crash was heard on the other side of the wall of which Sakuno was previously leaning on.
"Itai!" yelled somebody.
"Eh?" Sakuno walked to the other side of the wall, "Kikumaru senpai, Fuji senpai, Inui senpai!" The girl bowed at them, "What are you doing here?"
"Hey, Ryusaki-Chan! Wear more clothes on a cold day!" The red haired third year chuckled and coughed due to the sour drink a moment ago.
"We were listening to your conversation with Echizen just now," Inui said, further on adjusting his glasses.
"And we were all gradually leaning onto Eiji as we listened. Just then, Eiji slipped," said the smiling Fuji.
"And we all collapsed!" Eiji made the victory hand sign with both his hands and grinned.
"We just want to let you know, Ryusaki-san, that Eiji was the one who took the jacket from your locker," said Fuji.
"Eh?" Sakuno looked from the head shaking Eiji and the smiling Fuji.
"And he returned it. He put it underneath everything, right at the bottom of your locker," Inui nods, "Yes; my data says that there is a 78 chance that he would do that."
"I'm innocent!" said Eiji, who was still coughing from the rather sour drink from Inui.
"Kikumaru senpai!" said the embarrassed and rather mad Sakuno, "Why did you do that?"
"I didn't!" said the coughing Eiji. Fuji looked at Eiji and gave him a warning look, "Fuji! You're spoiling all the fun, nya! Fine, I did it!"
"Ano…ja!" Sakuno walked away briskly. She was quite furious because Ryoma probably thinks she's an idiot who doesn't look after belongings now.
And it's their entire fault. I'm telling obaasan.
The next day, Eiji, Fuji, and Inui were all targeted in the training.
"What have we got to do with this?" asked Fuji, panting.
"90 chance that Ryusaki sensei's granddaughter told Ryusaki sensei about what happened yesterday. She forgot that it was really Kikumaru's entire fault and mentioned our names, so here we are now."
"Saa…Eiji?"
"Nya, nani?"
The still smiling Fuji picked up his racket and a tennis ball; he aimed it at Eiji with 90 of his strength. Eiji was knocked over.
"Itai!" said Eiji, scratching his head.
"Oi! What are you two doing! Twenty laps around the courts!" said Tezuka.
"Fuji, couldn't you have done that somewhere else without Tezuka seeing it?"
"Eiji, couldn't you have found something else to do while you were bored?"
The two started running.
"There was a 98 chance that I would not get into any trouble today if I didn't talk to Kikumaru…" Inui started scribbling into his notebook.
After tennis practise, Momoshiro went to find Eiji.
"Hey, Kikumaru senpai! What results did you get from yesterday's work?" Momo nudged Eiji.
"Nya, ask Fuji if you want answers," the exhaust Eiji said.
"Saa, well, it was rather eventful. Echizen got his jacket back and," Fuji looked at Eiji, "And Eiji broke my camera."
Momo looked at both his senpais for a moment, and then burst out laughing, "You broke Fuji senpai's camera?" Momo chuckled for a little more.
"What's so funny? Don't you know how to respect your seniors?" the unhappy Eiji walked away.
"Oops," Fuji and Momo said simultaneously.
And did anything else happen to Ryoma and Sakuno? Well, Sakuno came to school the next day wearing seven jackets. Ryoma couldn't help it but smirk at the sight of the girl.
"Mada mada dane," he said.
Finished second chapter! I put this into the Eiji adventure fic because I thought this fic was related more to Eiji than to Ryosaku. I hope you liked it!
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