Chibi-Kari: I'm back again, sorry about the wait. I'm extremely food sensitive and the U.K. doesn't use preservatives in their foods, so I got sick for the first week, and then of course three flats all shared sickness…and I was in one of the flats. So here I am, still trying to recover and enjoy London. I snuck out and went to the River Thames Festival last night, against the rest wishes…and my flat mates and I have a bad habit of going out to the pubs every night. So, I haven't been updating. But I will. I don't own and I will be updating this in about two or so days. I'm leaving Friday for Amsterdam, so it'll be guaranteed before Friday!


Halfway Down the Block

Unpredictable Moods


Sakuno stomped through the room as she glanced at the clock. Ryoma should have been home by now, but he wasn't. Two minutes ago she had been planning a special night between them, but that was before he decided to be later than usual. His tennis tournament had gotten out several hours before and she had given him more than enough time to get home. Now she was furious. She felt something she never had before, a bubbling hatred for her dense husband. Suddenly all of the things that he had ever done wrong came back full force into her mind. It was driving her crazy.

She jumped slightly as she heard the key in the door, it could only be her husband, so she did the only thing she could think of. She reached over and as soon as she heard her husband's voice she took the glass that had been sitting on the counter and chucked it at his head. Luckily, Ryoma was used to ducking from balls coming at his head. The only thing that saved him, his superior tennis skills, was also that which was condemning him.

"What the-" He looked over from his crouch position near the floor.

Sakuno bounded towards the door, looking down at her husband.

"All my data could never have predicted that." The static voice of Inui rang through the doorway.

Sakuno's eyes widened when she looked up to see all the old regulars standing in her doorway. "What are you all doing here?"

"We ran into Ryoma after the game, and we decided that we would get some food and bring it over here so we could all celebrate and you wouldn't have to cook." Fuji said smiling his normal smile.

Her breath caught in her throat as tears came to her eyes. "Thank you all so much!" She ran forward and hugged Fuji, much to Ryoma's chagrin. Then she proceeded to hug all the rest of the members. Within seconds she was down on the floor next to her husband, hugging him and crying about how wonderful he was.

He lifted his wife with him as he stood and vaguely gestured to the broken remains of the glass, "What was that about?"

Her eyes widened in horror as she glanced down at the offending glass. "Oh I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me. I was just angry you were late. I'm sorry, don't leave me!"

"Why would I do that?" The question rang out, but it was more of a statement as Ryoma glanced over at the tennis prodigy that was smiling at his wife. "Even if you had hit me I still wouldn't leave you." He leaned in to give his wife a kiss on the cheek when Kaidoh cleared his throat, stopping all public displays of affection.

"Let's eat!" Momo yelled as he pushed his way through to the living room with the bags of food.

"Yes, let's." Sakuno said as she followed the taller man farther into her home.

They all settled down quickly on the floor and pulled out the food. Silence reigned as they all ate, that was until Eiji opened his mouth.

"Fuji, can you hand me that last piece of sushi, on the other side of Sakuno."

Silenced seemed to take over the room. Inui started muttering data under his breath, "There is a 97 chance that Sakuno will cry and a 120 chance that Ryoma will beat on Eiji."

"120?" Oishi asked as he looked over at the man that had seemingly pulled a notebook and pen to his hands out of thin air.

"Yes. 100 chance he will beat him up and then a 20 chance he will beat on him again when he finishes." Inui replied quietly.

"Oh." The tall man looked at his old doubles partner. This was not good, not good at all.

But before Ryoma could get up, something surprising happened. Sakuno leapt up and started to hit Eiji with a pillow. They all stared on in shock as she repeatedly barreled him with the pillow. Momo was the one to actually pull her off the rambunctious redhead when she started smothering the poor man.

"Well…" Inui stated looking on the scene. "I wasn't exactly expecting that to be the remaining 3, but my data never fails me."

Kaidoh stared at his old senpai in mild disbelief. Inui's data would never fail him because of his twisted logic. Sakuno was unpredictable that was for certain.


TBC

Chibi-Kari: Sorry again for the delay. I'm writing the next one right now! Please Review!