Sorry this chapter took so long to post. All three of us have been busy because school just started and we all have different plans during this time. Hopefully the next chapter won't take as long but who knows. Okay well enjoy the next chapter.

Villa, Chicken, and Ballroom Dancing

Chapter 6

"Nani! What…what is THIS!" Momoshiro was standing in front of his house, staring in bewilderment at a letter he just received in the mailbox. Why? What would trigger him to do something like this? He didn't really have time to ponder it; he was running late for morning practice, and Tezuka would not be pleased. Momo slipped the letter into his pocket and hopped on his bike. Maybe the other guys got a similar letter? Momo wondered to himself.

At practice

After running 10 laps for being late, Momo headed towards the courts.

"Hey, Eiji-sempai. I'm curious; did you happen to get a letter from Atobe Keigo sometime today?" Momo questioned as they did leg stretches.

"Nyah, I sure did! All of the regulars did, actually; it sounds like fun!" the redhead replied.

"Letter from Atobe Keigo, from Hyoutei? Oi, Echizen, what was the letter about?" Horio turned to ask Ryoma.

"Some kind of party; sounds too fancy for my liking," Ryoma said dully. Ryoma zipped open his tennis bag and gave Horio the letter. It was written on scented lavender stationery with flowers bordering the outside corners.

Greetings, Ryoma; you are fortunate enough to be cordially invited by ore-sama himself, to ore-sama's villa for a soiree at 6:00 PM. There will be a wide variety of activities, and food will be provided. Please respond ASAP.

P.S. Ore-sama only invited boys from the various school tennis teams, so if you wish, you may bring a guest, preferably female, unless you don't "swing that way". The more, especially girls, the merrier!

"Sugoi! Echizen got invited to Atobe Keigo's party!" Horio exclaimed.

"Umm…all the regulars got invited," Kachiro said, reading the letter behind Horio's shoulder.

"Are you going to bring a girl, Ryoma-kun?" Katsuo asked.

"No," Ryoma replied bluntly. With that, he walked away and started to practice serves.

"Jeez; Echizen will never get a date with that attitude," Horio remarked. The boys continued practice until the school bell chimed and they went to change.

"I wonder if I should bring a girl?" Momo wondered.

"Nyah, me too," Eiji added, "I really want to ask Britt, but I don't know if she'll go with me; she didn't seem to like Atobe when he came to our school."

"That's because he completely destroyed all the work she did for the cultural festival and beaned her with a tennis ball. I think she likes you anyway, so she would go with you,"

"True. I wonder if any of the other guys will ask a girl, nyah," Eiji said, looking around at the other guys. As Kaidoh's eyes met Eiji's, his face flushed and looked away.

"Fshhh…I'm not asking anyone,"

"Come on Mamushi! You should ask Mallory's sister; she's obviously got something for you!" Momo grinned, pulling his arm around Kaidoh's neck, which was a bit out of character.

"I don't need your input, baka," Kaidoh hissed and stalked out the door.

"Heh, he's definitely gonna ask her," Momo said, "You think Tezuka will ask Mal?"

"That would be a bit out of the ordinary for our buchou," Fuji replied, shutting his locker, "but we'll see how things turn out today." The boys left the changing room and headed to class.

In the school hallway

"AHHHHH! Mal! Steph! Karley! Guess what!" Britt exclaimed, jumping up and down.

"You realized you can't get cheese curds in Japan?" Steph guessed.

"No…"

"You realized there is no Culver's in Japan?" Mal guessed.

"NO, I…"

"You learned how to use the vending machine outside?" Karley guessed.

"Ahh, no, not yet. Even better! Eiji-kun asked me to go with him to a party this weekend!"

"Lucky! That's so awesome! Where is the party?" Steph asked.

"It's at Atobe Keigo's villa. Eiji says that he's not as bad as he seemed at the cultural festival."

"Well well. The princess Atobe is giving a ball. Were the other players invited?" Mal asked.

"Yeah, all of the regulars were. It's so awesome!" Britt said excitedly. Soon she noticed the pained looks on her friends' faces, and realized that they had not been asked. "Oops, hehe, sorry guys,"

"You..you're so…"

"..cruel." Mal said, with her's Steph's and Karley's eyes widened and shined with tears.

"…mean," Steph said.

"…malicious," Karley said.

"Pick one…" Mallory said.

"Don't worry guys, you'll be asked, I'm sure of it, nyah!" Britt said optimistically.

In Steph's class

Steph continued to sulk over the fact that she hadn't been asked to Atobe's party. She buried her head in her arms, when someone tapped her on the head. Steph looked up to see Momo's violet eyes staring down at her.

"Hey Steph, I'm relaying a message to you from Mamushi, since he's too shy to say anything." Steph looked shocked. Oh no, Kaidoh wants to ask me! Steph thought. Well, at least I'm getting asked, but Karley will kill me if she finds out.

"Mamushi wants to know if Karley wants to go to Atobe's party with him," Momo said.

"Oh, Karley?" Whew, that's a relief. "I'll ask her, but I'm sure she'll go; she really wanted to," Steph said.

"Awesome, thanks. Did any of the guys ask you yet?"

"No. Mal wasn't asked either."

"Really? I just heard from Fuji-sempai that Tezuka asked her in English class,"

Steph was thunderstruck. "Oh…well, that's good...I guess no one wants to take pathetic old me..." Steph said softly, her eyes filling up again. Unfortunately, Momo noticed.

"Whoa, Hey! Don't…don't cry Steph! It's okay! I'm not finished! Along with Mamushi, Taka-san wanted to ask you; they're just both pretty shy with girls," Momo said nervously.

"Really? YAYYYYY! I'M NOT PATHETIC!" Steph said, pumping her fists in the air.

"Ahemm, may I continue with my lesson today?" The teacher stared at Momo and Steph with an incredibly annoyed look.

"Gomen nasai, sensei!" Momo and Steph said in unison. After school, the girls gathered together, told each other about their dates, squealed and fangirled, and went out to shop for something cute and flattering to wear to Atobe's soiree.

Fast Forward Schmeep Magic! To the Night of the Uberly Cool Soiree!

The night of Atobe's groovy soiree had come. The Seigaku regulars and the four girls took a bus out to the Keigo villa, which was incredibly big and decorated fancy.

"Wow, this Atobe guy must be loaded!" Karley said, admiring the house.

"Yeah well, there's one thing he can't buy," Steph said.

"What's that?" Mal asked.

"…..a dinosaur."

Ignoring Steph's insane comment, they walked up to the large front door and rang the bell. A butler answered the door and invited the boys and girls in.

"Ahh, Seigaku! Welcome!" a voice called from atop a large staircase. Atop that large staircase stood Atobe, dressed in a frilly flowered lavender shirt that matched his stationery perfectly. His shiny bishounen hair sparkled from the light of the large chandelier hanging from the tall ceiling.

"Thank you for inviting us here, Atobe," Tezuka said politely.

"Haha, I would never turn you down Tezuka, or your wonderful team. And you brought some lovely girls as well! Make yourselves comfortable; the others are outside, and I must make more preparations for tonight's festivities. Come Kabaji." With that, Atobe sauntered down the stairs with Kabaji trailing close behind.

"Usssss." Kabaji replied. The others walked toward the backyard, where there was a huge patio area with chairs and a long table that held a wide variety of food and drink. Further back, there was a large in-ground pool, a hot tub, and a path that led to several tennis courts. A lot of the other boys were there already, some with girls as well. To Momoshiro's greatest displeasure, Kamio was there, and had brought Ann with him.

"That baka, why did Atobe have to invite him?" Momo said angrily.

"Chill, Momoshiro, don't start a fight, or we might not be invited to anything again!" Oishi snapped.

"Okay, Oishi-sempai, if he makes sure to stay off my case and-WHOA! Look at all that food!" Momo sprinted over to the table and piled a plate up with food.

"Hey, Momo! Save some for the rest of us!" The Seigaku students went to the table and grabbed some food as well. Soon, they all scattered and found people from other schools to talk to. Tezuka and Mal talked with Tachibana Kippei, the captain of Fudoumine's tennis team. Ryoma, Eiji, Britt, and Momoshiro amused themselves by finding a marker and drawing on Jirou Akutagawa's face, a Hyoutei player who was sleeping on a beach chair at the time. Inui and Rikkaidai's Yanagi Renji discussed new data they collected on their fellow teammates. Fuji managed to spot his younger brother Yuuta hiding under the table. Oishi was trying to prevent Karley from obsessively glomping Kaidoh every minute, not that Kaidoh minded that much.

"Wow, what an…interesting party," Steph said, "Where are all the so called activities we were promised?"

Steph's question was answered when the back door burst open and Atobe stepped outside.

"Ore-sama is here and ready! It's time for some fun AHAHAHAHHAAAA!" Atobe cried as his entrance was accompanied by spiffy lighting effects and background music. Some guests looked around to see where the music came from, but the rest cheered and were awed by Atobe's awesomeness.

"Follow ore-sama to the living room!"

"Which one?"

"…..the big one!"

"They're all pretty big."

"Shut up and follow me!" Atobe strode into the house and everyone followed. They went into a large over decorated room with several squishy chairs and a gigantic flat screen television fixed onto the wall.

"Sugoi! What a huge TV!" Momoshiro said.

"Are we gonna watch movies?" Eiji asked.

"No, even better!" Atobe replied. He pulled out a remote, pressed a really big green button, and the floor in front of the TV opened up. Two platforms rose up out of the floor.

"Yay! A Dance Dance Revolution tournament!" Kamio cried happily.

"Does he even use half of the stuff he's got in his house?" Shinji mumbled softly to himself.

"I'm gonna totally dominate at this!" Kamio shouted.

"All right, here are the rules for the tournament: two people will compete at one time, obviously. Whoever wins will move up, the loser will be eliminated. The rounds will go like this until all pairs are done. Then, the winners in the same bracket will play, and this will go on until two people are left. Songs will be randomly picked and the difficulty will be on light, since some people may not be as coordinated. Understand? All right, 16 people can go for each tournament and there will be 8 brackets to start. Whew, I'm tired of talking, let's go!"

And so the DDR tournament began. The first matchup was Yuuta against Fuji.

"Aniki? Oh jeez…" Yuuta sighed.

"Guess I'll open my eyes for this," Fuji said slyly. Even with his eyes opened, Fuji (Syusuke) still got beaten, pretty badly. The next match was Steph against Mukahi Gakuto, that flexible redhaired guy from Hyoutei. Steph totally dominated over Gakuto, who wasn't too happy about getting beat by a girl. Next, Mallory beat Ann in the next match. Then it was Atobe against Shinya Yanagisawa.

"This is a bit awkward, da-ne."

Atobe won, because he's just that great, and Yanagisawa was too freaked out to concentrate. (da-ne) Next were Karley and Kiyosumi Sengoku. Sengoku was lucky enough to beat Karley by a couple points. Britt and Taka-san were next; Britt won, because she's obsessed with the game, and Taka had never played it that much. The next two matches were pretty intense: Kajimoto versus Eiji, and Kamio versus Momoshiro. Eiji managed to win his match by jumping up and down on random arrows. Momoshiro tried his very best to win, but Kamio was just too good, and Momo passed out on one of the squishy chairs.

"Mada mada.."

"You finish that and you're dead Echizen!" Momo shouted. Ryoma cut off his insult and smiled evilly. And so, the second round began; the next match was Yuuta and Steph. Yuuta won because Steph was too busy staring at him the whole time. Next was Mallory and Atobe; it was a pretty intense match but Mallory pulled out a pretty sweet victory. Atobe was quite impressed with Mal's mad DDR skillz. Sengoku was, unfortunately, not lucky enough to beat Britt in the next match. Kamio was unstoppable, and completely creamed Eiji in the final match of the second round.

"Nyah, I'm not very good at this game," Eiji said sadly.

"It's okay Eiji. I will avenge you!" Britt said. In the third round, Mal beat Yuuta in the first match. The match with Britt against Kamio was extreme, but Kamio managed to win.

"Darn, sorry Eiji," Britt said. The final match commenced; Mal against Kamio. More background music kicked in. The match seemed to go on for a long time, and finally, Mal just got too tired. And so, the DDR champ was Kamio, as if anyone had any doubt. (mal note: I almost won? Wow that's really shocking really…")

"Booyah! I'm the best! No one can match my DDR awesomeness!" Kamio bragged.

"Okay Kamio-kun, it's time to be quiet now.." Ann said. Kamio continued to brag, causing Momo to be incredibly pissed off.

"You're gonna get it now, baka!" Momo yelled. With that, Momo quickly hoisted Kamio over his head, ran outside and threw him into the pool. Kamio started to thrash his arms around and spit out the water in his mouth.

"Bastard! You're dead!" he snarled.

"What a great idea!" Atobe said. Everyone stared at Atobe strangely.

"What…should we throw Momoshiro into the pool, da-ne?"

"No! We should play chicken!" Atobe cried happily. It seemed like a strange idea, but eventually, everyone agreed. So everyone went to go change into their swimsuits and got into the pool.

"Chick, chick, chicken! You got your C you got your C, you got your H you got your H, you got your I you got your I, you got your K you got your K, you got your O you got your O, you got your E you got your E. What's that spell? I don't know I don't know I'm illiterate illiterate. Yay!" Mallory, Steph, and Britt sang. (mal note: see ending notes)

Everyone just stared at the three weird people.

"Alllllll righhhtttttttt, now everyone pick a partner; I will choose Kabaji, obviously," Atobe announced.

"Ussss." Kabaji said.

"All right! I'm gonna go ask Ann-chan," Momo said. Unfortunately, Kamio had already taken her as a partner. "Darn it, that jerk! Echizen! You're my partner!"

"Okaaayy..do I really have to play?" Ryoma sighed.

"Yes! And we will win! Or you're in trouble!" Momo threatened.

"Nyah, hey Britt, will you be my partner?" Eiji said, his face a bit flushed.

"Oh, sorry Eiji, but I already have Kajimoto as a partner," Britt said.

"Nani! Fine then," Eiji said angrily, "Oishi! Be my partner! We'll be the Golden Pair, nyah!"

"Eiji, that only applies to tennis, you know," Oishi said.

"Not today! We'll be the Chicken Golden Pair!" Eiji said flapping his arms like a chicken.

"You're….kind of hopeless.." Oishi sighed. Soon, everyone else paired up: Mal and Tezuka (strangely he played), Steph and Taka-san, Karley and Kaidoh, Inui and Mizuki, Yuuta and Yanagisawa, and Ohtori and Kirihara.

"Okay, everyone has a partner, now, the lightest of each pair will go on the other's shoulders, and we can begin the game!" Atobe said, already sitting pretty on Kabaji's shoulders. This process took some time.

"Ow! Echizen, you're kicking my face!"

"Well, help me then Momoshiro!"

"Weeeee! I'm queen of the world!" Steph shouted on top of Taka-san's shoulders.

"Not if I can help it!" Britt said from behind, and pushed Steph off and into the water.

"Hey! We didn't even start yet! Ahh, I got water up my nose," Steph cried.

"Sorry Steph, just warming up," Britt said mischievously.

"Hmmm, judging by our major height differences, our mass will be incredibly different as well. I believe you should be on top, Mizuki-san," Inui said.

"Gee, you think?" Mizuki said sarcastically.

"Okay everyone! The game will begin shortly! Here are the rules! Once you fall over, you or your partner on top, you are out! The last team standing wins! And no extreme violence, please, I don't want have anyone in the hospital, it would greatly tarnish my reputation!" Atobe announced through a megaphone, "Are you ready! Let's….umm…chicken!" Atobe threw the megaphone aside, accidentally hitting Jirou and waking him up.

"CHICKEN!" everyone cried.

"Uhh…what was that?" Jirou said drowsily, and fell asleep again. And the fight began! Everyone cautiously walked around to see who they would attack first.

"Quick Tezuka! Attack Karley!" Mal cried. Tezuka showed no real enthusiasm, but he obeyed. It was kind of hard to tell if he was having fun or not. Karley and Mal duked it out for a while, and Mal finally got her sister into the water.

"Dang it, Mal! You can't attack your own flesh and blood right at the start! It's mean!" Karley cried.

"Ahahahahaha-AHHH!" Mal cried as she was suddenly pushed sideways into the water.

"Yay! Got you Mal!" Britt said happily, "The buchou went DOWN!" Meanwhile, on the other side of the pool, more intense…chickening was taking place.

"Echizen, you suck! You're such a wimp!"

"Shut up Momoshiro! I'm trying!" Ryoma and Kirihara were trying to knock each other down, and Ryoma wasn't doing very well.

"Echizen! Your hand is in my face! I can't see!" With Momoshiro's vision obstructed, he ran into Ohtori, causing both teams to fall. There was a huge splash next to the two fallen teams; Yuuta and Yanagisawa managed to take out Sengoku and Shinji.

"You bastard, I'm really pissed off now. I didn't really want to play anyway, I'm not that good. And that swimsuit does nothing for your figure.." Shinji said.

"Another one bites the dust, da-ne!" Yanagisawa cried.

"Okay, that was really lame," Yuuta said.

Meanwhile, Steph and Taka-san were heading towards their next "victim", which was team Kamio and Ann.

"Let's dominate, Takashi-kun!" Steph cried.

"Ummm, all right," Taka-san said timidly.

"Hey, this might help Kawamura-sempai!" Ryoma cried from the side of the pool, and tossed him his tennis racket.

"Ryoma, how will a racket help in chicken!" Steph asked.

"ALL RIGHT! I'M BURNING! LET'S GO!" Takashi roared, swinging the racket wildly. Ann screamed and fell backwards into the water. Kamio freaked out and backed away into Yuuta and Yanagisawa, causing that team to lose as well.

"Need I ask?" Ryoma asked with an evil grin.

"I think we're doing pretty well, Britt," Kajimoto said.

"Oh yeah, we're unstoppable!" Britt cried. Suddenly, Atobe came in from behind and pushed Britt into the pool.

"Jerk! That's mean, nyah!" Britt said. Eiji was knocked into the pool by Mizuki, and he and Oishi were out. Steph and Taka-san also fell victim to Atobe's evil chicken tactics.

"Ha ha! I am the greatest! There's no one that can beat our duo! Ha ha ha—ACK!" Atobe was too busy gloating that he didn't even see Mizuki pull him down from behind.

"Hmmm, we're a pretty good team eh, Sadaharu-san?" Mizuki said while twirling a piece of his hair.

"Indeed."

"You! How..how dare you defeat ore-sama!" Atobe cried, his shiny bishounen hair completely soaked. He jumped out of the pool and ran into the house.

"Wow, what a sore loser." Mal said. Everyone got out of the pool, dried off, and went back into the house. Inside, they all waited around to see when Atobe would reappear. After about 45 minutes, he did reappear, in a fancy lavender suit and he had re-gelled his hair.

"All right everyone. We will end the evening with some dancing! Isn't that swell!"

"Dancing? But..I'm not very good," Momo said.

"How tacky, and I'm not just talking about the lavender suit," Ryoma added.

"Yay dancing! Mal, we'll be good at this!" Britt said excitedly.

"Do we have to dance with someone else?"

"Yes! And when the music changes, you change partners," Atobe announced.

"But, there aren't as many guys as girls here. Does that mean some of us will have to dance with guys?" Kamio asked.

"Yes! And if you complain, too bad! I don't care! Now, find a partner and a place on the dance floor!" Atobe said. He started the music, which was classical, and some people started to dance.

First some pairs where Tezuka and Mal, Steph and Taka, Karley and Kaidoh, Britt and Eiji, Ann and Momo, Kamio and Random Person #47, and some guy pairing, which would be kind of scary to mention.

"Eiji, is something wrong?" asked Britt looking at the trouble looking red-head.

"Hoi hoi nothing is wrong, Britt," Eiji replied kind of angrily. Britt just sighed. She knew there was no use in arguing with Eiji.

"This is kind of fun," said Steph to Taka.

"Hai," replied Taka.

"Karley, could you let go just a little," said Kaidoh who was practical getting squeezed to death by Karley. Karley just blush a little and let go, but not much.

"I think Atobe may be up to something," said Tezuka.

"Oh, relax, Tezuka, you're becoming like Britt. This turned out to be a regular party. Well sort of," said Mal

"Okay, everyone switch partners," cried Atobe.

The second group for dancing was Steph and Yuuta, Karley and Sengoku, Britt and Kajimoto, Ann and Kamio, Mal and Atobe, and still guy pairing that shall not be mentioned.

"I think something is wrong with Eiji, Kajimoto," said Britt.

"Don't worry about him right now. Let's just dance then maybe we can fix the problem," said Kajimoto, who sounded a little annoyed.

"I'm so lucky," said Sengoku with a smile.

"And why are you lucky?" asked Karley.

"That's for me to know and you to find out later," replied Sengoku.

"Don't you think it's kind of scary how your brother always smiles?" asked Steph, while looking over at Yuuta's brother.

"I have to agree. He is even worse at home so partly why I don't live at home, but at school instead," replied Yuuta.

"So Mal how do you like ore-sama's home?" asked Atobe.

"It's cool and…"

"I know and I'm super great, isn't that right?"

"I think it's time to switch," Mal said quickly and left.

The three round was Karley and Kirihara, Britt and Oishi, Mal and Ohtori, Steph and Ryoma, and Ann and Yanagisawa plus other groups.

"I think Eiji is mad at me," said Britt to Oishi.

"I'm sure it's not anything too bad. I will talk to him later okay?" said Oishi motherly.

"Okay and now we have to do something about this music," said Britt.

"I hear you, Britt," said Karley while dancing with Kirihara.

"Do you want to change?" asked Britt.

"Of course, did you bring the CD?" asked Karley.

"Never leave without it. Let's go," said Britt looking at Steph.

Britt and Karley left with an evil laugh, which left Oishi and Kirihara to dance with each other. Britt and Karley made their way to the stereo. Karley put in the CD and pressed play. The classical music was stop and some hip-hop music started to play.

"Now let's get this play start and really dance," shouted Britt. Everyone nodded their heads and started to rock out.

"Look what you did to ore-sama's party," shouted Atobe at Britt.

"Hey she just made it better," said Karley pointing around and sure enough everyone was dancing a laughing.

Karley and Britt went a joined everyone on the dance floor. After hours of dancing and Kabji doing a little break dancing, the party came to an end. The Seigaku members left the party together. The boys dropped the girls off at their house and left.

"Well wasn't that a great party," said Mal.

"I would have to agree," said Steph.

"I don't know what would make it better," said Karley.

"Cranberry horseradish?" Mallory asked.

"I tried that already and it wouldn't make this any better." Steph said.

"But the face you made would!" Mallory replied.

"I know," said Britt with an evil smile, "Pillow Fight."

Each girl grabbed a pillow and started to fight. After a long fight and two broken pillows, the girls went to sleep not knowing what problems that were to follow in the next couple of weeks thanks to the party.

End of Chapter

Random Authors notes from Mallory for chapters 5 and 6! YAY applause

Britt-"Which suck!"

Mal-"Shut it Ochibi-chan"

Ch. 5

1.) Karley being tall. When we said she was tall that was an understatement. Karley is the youngest of all of us and the tallest of all of us as well.

2.) In my own defense I don't hurt Steph… on purpose!

3.) 'your ma's a sadistic hag.' 'oh yeah she is.' – if you met my mom you would know.

4.) Trip to nowhere. – we go on one of these every summer with work. Like last year we went to the Wisconsin dells. Great fun!

5.) Tubing – Britt and I tried this up at her cottage. It was soooo much fun!

Ch. 6

1.) Britt's problems with a vending machine. – self explanatory (Britt- I would just like to say for the recorder that it only happen once okay)

2.) Schmeep – the random schmeep did you catch it? It's a long story but it's just a made up noise I make occasionally.

3.) 'There's one thing he can't buy…. A dinosaur." – the Simpsons

4.) Chicken song -- This is something someone from work made up. He's looks like Taka-san… really…

5.) Random Person #47 – This is Nicole she didn't want to be in the story unless she was random person #47. why 47, you ask? She sees that number everywhere and it haunts her.

6.) Cranberry horseradish – my mom bought this on sale once and never opened it and Steph decieded she NEEDED to try it one day. It tasted so bad! lol