YEAH! Another chapter. This one is super super long you can drive a moustache convertible across it. See Mal's superb author notes on the bottom. On with the story
Festival, cookies, and a whole lotta laps
Chapter 4
Few Days Later
Britt, Mallory, and Steph, were allowed to practice with the boys' tennis team after many hours of talking endlessly to the school board and to Coach Ryuzaki. After a grueling practice, which included running infinite laps, choking down Inui's homemade Fantastic Remix Juice, and playing tennis, Ryuzaki called the members together for a meeting.
"Listen up, everyone! I've graciously decided to let the tennis club participate in the school's cultural festival in a few days. After last year's fiasco, I would hope you guys will try harder this year, or practice will be a lot worse than today!" Ryuzaki said.
"Ooh! Don't worry! I can plan it all!" Britt yelled, "Well, with Mal and Steph's help, of course." Britt then leaned over to Mal and whispered, "Hey, what's a cultural festival?"
"Brittany, don't you watch any anime?" Mal whispered back, "Remember Magic User's Club and Azumanga Daioh?"
"Oh yeah! Okay! This will be fun, nyah!" Britt said excitedly.
"Well, I guess since you kindly volunteered, you can plan it, but make sure the boys are involved too! I think a girl's touch would help your plans a lot this year," Ryuzaki said. Even though the boys were a bit frightened at what the girls would do for the cultural festival, they were happy that they probably wouldn't have to do a lot of work. Or so they THOUGHT OH NOES.
"Okay, meeting after school, Hoi hoi," shouted Britt. The bell rang and everyone got changed for school. The girls worked on plans for the cultural festival during school.
After School
"Do you think Britt knows what's she doing with this cultural festival?" asked Ryoma to the rest of the boys who were walking to the classroom to meet with the girls.
"I don't know, but as long as there is going a lot of food. I'm fine with it," replied Momo.
"We just have to trust that the girls know what their doing," Oishi said trying to convince everyone the girls will plan everything right. All the boys enter the classroom where the three girls were in.
"I'm glad you guys are here. Now we can get some things done," said Britt. The boys looked at each other with scared faces.
"Okay, we girls have already come up with a few ideas for the festival. We'd like your opinions on them so we can pick one theme and go from there," Mal began.
"All right!" Britt said, "First, we have ideas for a café, a mini tennis tournament, or a contest to see who can survive drinking Inui's scary putrid beverages."
"Ummm, the last one we can get rid of right away," Eiji said, "I don't think that would attract many people, unless there was a really awesome prize for the winner."
"Let's get a dunk tank and put Tezuka in it!" Momo chimed in.
"Awesome! Dunking Tezuka would be hiljarious, but he wouldn't do it for any amount of money," Eiji said. Tezuka said nothing.
"Well, there aren't many kids at school who play tennis, and we should get as many people as possible, so the café sounds good," Oishi said.
"Nyah! We can make it tennis themed, well, obviously, but, yeah!" Eiji said.
"Fssssh…Thanks for being Fuku-Buchou Obvious," piped in Kaidoh who was sitting in the back.
"Yea we can make cookies and decorate them into tennis shapes!" added Steph.
"I could use my famous homemade secret recipe for cookies. Everyone loves my cookies, Isn't that right girls?" said Britt. Everyone looked around uncertain if Britt could really cook at all.
"Yep, when it comes to making cookies, Britt is the best," said Mal.
"Okay, but I need some help with cooking and getting supplies; plus, I think we need more than cookies," said Britt.
"Hoi hoi, I can help with cooking! Also I think someone should make a cake in the shape of a tennis racket. Wouldn't that be great nyah?" shouted Eiji jumping up and down.
"That's a great idea Eiji. I could make the cake," said Taka-san as he picked up a racket, "IT'S GOING TO BE BURNING! YEA BABY!"
"Who gave him the racket?" whispered Steph, with a sweat drop, to Ryoma who just shook his head no.
"Okay, so Eiji, Taka-san, and I are in charge of food. Steph, you and some other people can help served food and drinks," said Britt with some authority.
"I can help make some drinks," piped in Inui. Everyone looked in horror and moved away from him.
"NOOOOOOOO!" shouted everyone it seemed, well besides Fuji but we all know he's kind of queer. (AHAHA, double meaning…)
"What, don't I make good drinks?" questioned Inui with an evil look in his eyes.
"Yes, I mean no, we don't want to kill anyone," shouted Momo in the back hiding behind Oishi.
"How about Inui and Mal can help seat people, okay?" said Britt.
"Well I don't…" started Inui, but he was interrupted by Oishi.
"I think that since Ryuzaki put Britt in charge of everything, it's her decision. Doesn't everyone agree with me?" said Oishi. Everyone nodded their head rapidly.
"Wow you guys, I didn't know you had so much faith in me. Well back to planning. Eiji, Taka-san, and I are to take care of buying and making food. Inui, Mal, Tezuka, and Kaidoh are going to make a menu, seat people, and handle money. Steph, Ryoma, Momo, Oishi, and Fuji will be serving people their drinks and food, making decorations, and cleaning tables. Oh, and you three freshman there are in charge of advertisement, okay? Boy, was that a mouthful. Everyone is dismissed," Britt said while reading off her list of things. "Wait Mal, you're also in charge of the outfits we are going to wear, okay?"
All the boys were okay with all of the plans until the last part about outfits. Everyone was kind of fearful of what they would have to wear, but no one argued. They'd just have to wait and see what would happen.
Fast Forward To The Festival
The cultural festival at Seigaku had finally begun, and all of the booths were set up for the students to visit. There were a lot of popular booths, but there was one in particular that attracted many, especially the girls.
"Waiiiii! Look at Ryoma-sama in his cute outfit!"
"Fuji-sempai looks so handsome!"
"Aiiiiii! Tezukaaaa! I could just die!"
"I want HIM to wait on me!" said Mallory
"But you're working!" Steph said.
"Oishi-sempai, will you clean my table please! Hee hee!"
"Oh these outfits are just wonderful!" Britt said gleefully, "Awesome job on the design, Mal. Thumbs up!" Mal grinned sheepishly at the boys picking awkwardly at their clothes.
"Why do we have to wear these?" Ryoma asked, "I feel really stupid."
"Nyah, Ochibi looks good! Look at all the girls goggling at you!" Eiji teased while passing out slices of cake.
"Yeah, you're popular!" Momo added, giving Ryoma a noogie.
Yes, with a simple girl's touch, the tennis club's café/restaurant was a big success. There was plenty of good food, hospitality, and cute guys in waiter uniforms. Britt began to set out tennis ball cookies when the three freshmen walked in.
"Wow! What a turnout! This idea was pretty good!" Katsuo said happily.
"Yeah, but it's a good thing WE don't have to wear those tacky outfits," Horio snickered.
"HEY! Where have you guys been! Have you been advertising our café around school?" Britt asked.
"Well, it's not like we need to do any major advertising; look at all the people here now!" Horio defended.
"Yeah, we even advertised outside of school; we put flyers out on the streets and by other schools too," Kachiro added.
"AHAHAHHAHAHA! Look at Momoshiro in his cute little uniform! You look like a fairy princess!" a voice cackled from outside the door. The three freshmen, Britt, and a very red-faced Momoshiro turned around to see Kamio Akira, a redhead from Fudoumine Junior High School's tennis team, laughing so hard outside the door he had to hold onto the wall to support himself. Behind Kamio came his darkhaired teammate, Ibu Shinji, and their captain's sister, Ann Tachibana.
"Hmmm…Tennis Café? It doesn't look much like a café. They probably don't serve coffee here; it wouldn't be much of a café without it. I'll bet if they ever wanted to start a real café, they wouldn't make much business….although their outfits are quite stylish, I would never say that to their faces…" Shinji said to himself.
"Awww, so cute! Will Princess Momo get me a drink please?" Kamio teased.
"Baka! Why are you here!" Momo raged.
Ann said, "I think it's a very cute idea, and Momoshiro-kun looks very handsome! And look at all the people it attracted!" Momo grinned tauntingly at Kamio. Fudoumine wasn't the only school that came to see the Seigaku Tennis Café; kids from Hyoutei, Yamabuki, Jyousei Shounanand St. Rudolph tennis teams came as well. Britt was ecstatic that her café attracted many, but was also mortified at all the other schools that came in.
"Who are these people!" Britt shrieked at the freshmen.
"Well, they are…uhh…people from other tennis teams…probably wanting a look at our café?" Kachiro stammered, cowering behind Horio.
"Or laugh at it! This is a disaster! I don't want them here bothering our team!" Britt snapped, and stepped onto a desk to get everyone's attention. "Hold up! Everyone who is NOT from Seigaku and saw an ad for our café elsewhere, you must either find a place to sit or get out! I will NOT have you harassing our waiters or STEALING FOOD!" Britt yelled, staring at a Yamabuki player with reddish-orange hair stuffing cookies into his jacket.
"Aww come on. A cute girl like you shouldn't be so harsh," the boy said slyly.
"Don't even start with that, Sengoku!" one of the boy's teammates shouted.
"Dammit, but they're really good!" Sengoku said, while holding a plate of cookies.
"Give me those," Britt said, while taking the cookies from Sengoku, "Now sit down or leave." Many of the boys sat down; because they wanted to see the Seigaku boys serve food to them and see if they could get some trouble started.
"Wow, Britt was able to get everyone to sit down," said Oishi.
"Yep if they didn't listen what she would have done wouldn't have been pretty; here get back to work," replied Mallory while giving Oishi some cake to serve to a table.
"Fsssh… What would she have done?" asked Kaidoh.
"It doesn't matter and you, get back to work too or Britt will be mad and you don't want to make her mad," Steph told Kaidoh. Everyone get back to work quickly.
"Looks like everything is back in order," Britt said with a smile.
"Hey Britt, don't you think you should come down from the desk now?" said Fuji, who was giving cake to the waiters to serve. Britt looked down and realized she was still on the desk.
"Yeah, I think I should get down now too. I forgot I was up here," Britt said with a chuckle. Britt was about to get down when suddenly a tennis ball hit her on the side causing her to let go of the plate of cookies and fall off the desk.
"AHHHHH!" she screamed. Britt closed her eyes and waited to the ground hard, but that never happened. She opened her eyes slowly and saw blue cat-like eyes staring back at her brown eyes. After blinking a couple of times, Britt saw that Eiji had caught her before she hit the ground. Now Eiji was holding Britt 'bride style' and had his face close to each other causing both Britt and Eiji to blush.
"Nyah are you okay, Britt?" asked Eiji, who was still blushing.
"Yeah," Britt replied looking down. She could feel everyone's eyes on her which caused her face to turn even redder. Eiji put Britt down "Thank you, Eiji."
"Hoi hoi no problem, Britt," said Eiji with a smile. Eiji then walked back to help make some more food.
"So did you have fun holding Britt?" Momo asked while nudging Eiji with his elbow.
"I think we should just get back to work," replied Eiji with a blush on his face. Momo just laughed a little.
Back by Britt
Britt was about to shouted something, but someone interrupted her. This someone was boy with tan hair and purple eyes. He looked like he was a tennis player because of the light blue jacket he wore.
"Excuse me, but I think these cookies belong to you," said the boy.
"How did you get those cookies?" asked Britt looking at him with a devious glare in her eye.
"Well when you fell off the desk, I was able to catch most of them before they hit the ground," replied the boy.
"Well thank you then. Hey what's your name?" Britt said while taking back the plate full of cookies.
"My name is Kajimoto Takahisa from Jyousei Shounan School," said Kajimoto. Suddenly there was shouting on the other side of the room.
By Mallory and other people
"Did you hit the tennis ball at Britt?" Mallory asked some random people. She had been questioning everyone since the accident happened because she wanted to find out who did it and teach them not to mess with her friends.
"I hit the tennis ball," said a female, whoops I mean male, voice behind Mallory. She turned around and saw a boy with gray-purple hair, blue eyes and had a beauty mark on his face. He wore a Hyoutei uniform and there was a tall boy behind him that had to be related to some monster in a movie. "And so what if I did hit the ball? You cannot do anything to ore-sama. Isn't that right, Kabaji?"
"Usss," Kabaji replied.
"Why you," Mallory started to say. She was not going to let this boy get away. She raised her hand and was about to slap the boy in the face, but he grabbed her wrist in the air before she could make contact. Mallory tried to get away, but the boy was stronger than her which is normal for Mallory because she's a weakling.
"That wasn't very nice. Maybe you can make it up with me by going on a date," he said with a laugh. Mallory now struggled even more. She wanted to get away from this boy now.
"Please let go your hurting me," Mallory said with a small shriek.
"Let her go Atobe," ordered a voice behind Mallory.
"What if I don't want to, Tezuka?" said Atobe holding tightly on Mallory's wrist. Tezuka glared intensely at Atobe, but Atobe did not let go of Mallory's wrist. Tezuka grabbed Atobe's wrist hard causing him to let go of Mallory's wrist. Mallory ran behind Tezuka for protection.
"Save me from him, Buchou," shouted Mallory from behind Tezuka.
"Leave right now, Atobe or I will make you and your entire team ran laps and just to let you know I have my ways of making you run," said Tezuka while glancing over at Fuji and Inui who was holding a glass of Inui's juice. Atobe looked where Tezuka was looking.
"Fine ore-sama leaves now. Come on Kabaji," said Atobe.
"Usss," replied Kabaji.
Where Steph is wherever that is
Steph was desperately trying to set order back in the classroom. Momo and Kamio were fighting about who knows what, probably about who was dating Ann or Kamio was still sore about Momo breaking his bike. Nevertheless, things got pretty hostile, and ze fight broke loose!
"Oh goodness! Stop you guys, we're going to get in big trouble if a teacher or Ryuzaki sees a fight in here!" Steph cried. She tried to break the two apart, but got caught in the middle and received a smash to the face when Momo swung his fist to the side. Steph's left eye became swollen and blue, and she was none too happy about it.
"Baka! You hit Steph! Quit swinging your arms!" Oishi yelled. But Momo payed no attention to it; he didn't even realize what he did. Finally, Taka-san was able to break Momo and Kamio apart.
"Ehh, Momo-sempai needs to control his anger," Ryoma sneered.
"Shove it, Echizen! This guy pisses me off!" Momo snarled back.
"MOM! OH NOES! Are you okay!" Mallory cried. Steph nodded slowly. Taka-san offered to take Steph to the nurse, and she immediately agreed.
"Taka-san! Momo is so mean, he hit me!" Steph sobbed as she latched on to his arm, "I won't be able to see at all with my eye swelled up."
"It'll be all right, I can lead you around until your eye heals up," Takashi said.
"Really? You are so nice!" Steph said with her right eye all sparkly, since the left one didn't work at the time. And they walked to the nurse's office.
Back to the Café
Momo was sitting in a corner sulking. Everyone got back to work besides Steph and Takashi who were gone. Kaidoh was seating some new customers as Momo backed into him. This made Momo drop the glasses he was carrying.
"Baka Mamushi, you made me drop the drinks!" Momo accused.
"Fshhh!...Well you should have been watching where you were going and you bumped into me!" Kaidoh retorted.
"What was that Mamushi!"
"NANI!"
"Well it WAS your fault!" Momo snapped back as he pushed Kaidoh. Kaidoh shoved Momo back into a table and caused everything on the table to fly everywhere, showering the customers and 'employees' with food and what-not. Ryuzaki chose this superb moment to walk in.
"What's going on here!" She roared.
"It was his fault!" Momo and Kaidoh said at the same time while pointing at each other.
"This is a complete disaster; you guys can never participate in the cultural festival ever again!" Ryuzaki bellowed.
"And on top of that everyone must clean up; then, 100 laps!" Tezuka said with an expressionless look on his face.
"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" everyone moaned.
"This is horrible! Everything I try to do gets ruined! I just wanted to have a nice café, and it gets destroyed! Stupid freshmen, you never should have invited those guys! And Momo punched Steph and messed up the classroom all in one day! I'm so pathetic!" Britt sobbed and ran out of the room.
"Wait! Britt come back!" Eiji cried and ran after her.
"Yeah! You have to help clean up!" Horio added. Everyone gave him an evil look and Mal whacked him upside the head. All of the kids then helped clean up the classroom, and then ran their laps. Mallory walked up to Tezuka to thank him for saving her, then she only had to run 10 laps. The other players tried that trick, but it didn't work. Steph came back from the nurse's office, and she and Mal went to look for Britt.
End of chapter
Author Notes from Mallory: (again)
1.) Wayyy back in one of the chapters we told Takashi that he looked familiar to us and we asked him if he had an relatives in the U.S. – Someone else who works at Culver's with us looks like Taka, we are trying to get him to go to Anime Central and to cosplay as taka, but he keeps saying no. He does say 'burning' though, but only because we asked him too. (He still has no idea why we started laughing when he said it)
2.) "hiljarious"- From another tenipuri fan who makes hiljarious screen caps for PoT.
3.) 'fuku-buchou' – this is vice-captian right?
4.) the outfits – Mallory sews, a lot.
5.) moustache convertable - fromone of the Case Closed outakes, the episodewith the train murder. There were doctors and something about aorange and a blue line...I forgot...
Disclaimer: We don't own Prince of Tennis so youcan'tsue
