Understand or Face the Consequences!

Old Fiat

Disclaimer: Ummm… I do not own Prince of Tennis. I'm just a dork with TOOO much time on their hands and having loads of fun! C:

Notes: Come to think of it I don't really own this story idea… Also some of their lives are like how they are in my other story 'My Life' some of them aren't.

Summary: In an effort to make the team understand each other better Coach Ryuzaki and Inui send the regulars to some kinda wizard guy to make them understand each other better. RxR!

Currently Listening: Weird Al! Whoop! And a bit of one of my sister's mixes.

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Chapter One- Fighting and Telling and Doing

Coach Ryuzaki watched her tennis team regulars play doubles against each other and looked at Inui mournfully. "They really suck, don't they?"

Inui looked at her, his eyebrows raised above the thick rims of his reflective glasses. "Well… their teamwork is…" he struggled to find the right word to describe it. "…lacking."

Ryoma and Tezuka were playing Shusuke and Taka. Ryoma and Tezuka were a terrible doubles pair- Kunimitsu kept not letting Ryoma go to any of the balls in the beginning then Ryoma had to elbow him in his injured shoulder to get one of the balls and then Kunimitsu hit him on the knee and the ended up fighting and screaming at each other until they got Taka and Momo and Kaoru to pull them apart. Then they just kept letting through balls because they kept competing on who could get to the ball sooner and leaving whole sides of the court open.

With Shusuke and Taka their teamwork was just off. They seemed silently hateful of each other and were- in short- doing the same thing as Ryoma and Tezuka; competing with each other while competing with someone else.

On another court it was Eiji and Oishi versus Momo and Kaido. As usual Kaido and Momo were attempting to kill each other in the middle of a rally. But Eiji and Oishi were the real surprise.

It seemed as though the bond of trust between them had been cut. Eiji was exhausting himself by trying to hit every ball and topping Oishi. Oishi was trying to get to every ball as well but was quieter about it. Like when Eiji missed quite an easy shot Oishi returned it giving Eiji a look that seemed to say; 'Look-I-Can-Hit-This-Why-Can't-You?'

Inui looked at Coach Ryuzaki. "Scratch that: Their teamwork sucks. Royal."

"What should we do?" she asked looking at the over-grown ninth-grader. She really did trust his advice, even though he kinda creeped her out.

"Well… I was thinking of something. It's a long shot but…" he whispered something into her ear.

A grin curled over her face. "That would be perfect Sadaharu. Absolutely perfect- Seventh graders!" she called to the team. "Pick up balls! Eighth and ninth graders! Hit the showers! Regulars! Meeting in my office once you're done showering!" She smiled to Inui. "Call that priest guy. We're going to have an interesting time this week."

Sadaharu pushed his glasses up his nose, "Sounds fun. Are you going to tell them before we do it? Or are you just going to let them find out on their own?"

"We're telling them. Unfortunately when you become a teacher you have to tell students if you're going to screw with their lives."

"Do they have to consent?"

"Nope."

"Sweet."

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The regulars filed into Coach Ryuzaki's office. Tezuka's hair was still spiky from being towel dried, he had a black eye, swollen lip and several over cuts and bruises, Oishi was glaring at Eiji (Inui had told her that Ejij and Oishi had been screaming at each other from across the locker rooms), Taka and Fuji were just not looking, Ryoma had a large bruise on his knee and others on the rest of his body and Momo and Kaido had the same reaction to each other; they either glared or ignored each other.

The Coach looked at them and shook her head in shame.

"These are my fantastic tennis regulars," she said looking at them. "Sadaharu and I- Taka, what the hell are you doing?"

Taka was rearranging all the things on Coach Ryuzaki's desk. He twitched as she said that. "I'm sorry coach."

"I asked you what the hell you were doing. Tell me- WHAT THE HELL YOU WERE YOU DOING!"

Taka looked at his hands. "It's nothing. I… um… have OCD…"

Sadaharu's glasses glinted as he whipped out his notebook and scribbled this down. Shusuke looked at him coldly-

"You too, eh?"

-Inui's pen went faster than the speed of sound.

"Um, yeah."

"That must be useful in sushi. But," she said dangerously. "That is not what this meeting is about. We wanted to give you boys an idea. Inui- take it from here."

Inui stepped forward. "One of my cousins once was having trouble with his relationship so he went with his girlfriend to see a priest and- despite how ridiculous this sounds- they switched bodies until they understood each other better."

Silence.

"What?" said Momo, quivering with laughter.

Kaido gave Inui a look. "I don't believe in that kind of crap."

Kunimitsu did nothing.

Taka looked at Inui as though in pain (Inui's glasses had gone slightly crooked).

Ryoma joined Momo in his laughter.

Oishi and Eiji were too buy mouthing at each other; 'I'm gonna mess up your life' to show any reaction to anyone but each other.

Shusuke raised an eyebrow. "I'm intrigued."

Tezuka finally spoke. "Don't you have to have consent from us and our parents before you try to screw with student's lives?"

"Nope."

"Dang. Well…" Kunimitsu thought about it. If they didn't need his consent they could push him into anything they wanted to, which meant he couldn't just say 'I refuse.' "Whose body will I have?" he then muttered, "If this crap works."

"Echizen Ryoma, you and him will switch; Taka and Fuji switch; Eiji and Oishi switch and Momo and Kaido switch," Coach Ryuzaki smiled. "Stay longer at practice tomorrow so we can meet with this priest guy. Got that? Good, go home."

They filed out.

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Tezuka tried to remember if he'd done the procedure for if this worked. Lock diary and hide key, put asthma and allergy medicines out where Ryoma could find them, hide picture of his girlfriend, keep planner out where he could find it and write out list of chores that he did so he wouldn't get in trouble for not doing them.

Eiji seemed as though he hadn't slept the night before. His eyes were puffy and he kept yawning during drills. He tried to do one of his acrobatic tricks and landed on his face and broke his nose. "No biggie," he said as one of the seventh graders tried to help him. "It's been broken so many times before."

Finally practice was over and they all piled into Coach Ryuzaki SUV and went to a shrine.

Coach Ryuzaki parked the car and they all walked into the shrine and were greeted by a priest. "Hello Mrs. Ryuzaki, are these the boys?"

Momo made a choking noise. "Mrs.?"

"Shut up Momo. Yes, these are the boys- except this one," she pointed to Inui.

"Alright boys each of you grab the person you're being switched with, now," he took several incense burners and put one in between each of them. "Repeat after me:" he then went into a string of old Japanese, the team did their best to repeat.

"Now let go of the other person," he took the incense burners and put them… somewhere…

"I'm still in my body," said Eiji, poking his torso. "I do feel funny though."

"Tomorrow you will wake up in the other's body. Thank you for coming."

Coach Ryuzaki drove them all home. Ryoma was the last one to be dropped off. He walked into his house and fell asleep with in minutes of being in his room.

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Hey, I'm sorry about not writing in 'My Life'. I just didn't have any want to so I wrote this.

Please Read and Review.

By the way, I know nothing about Shinto-Buddhism so don't kill me!

-Old Fiat s. Italy