"TENNIS!" Iori, Koji and Kohei shouted in shock of what they would be doing with the club next.
"Why Tennis?"
"Just chill out and listen. Do you know what the buddy system is?" Tokita asked the guys.
"Ain't that when you dive in pairs or something?" Koji asked as the other guys and Aina looked at him.
"That's right. It's very important to develop a feeling of trust between you and your buddy. Especially since your lives could depend on it while underwater." Tokita explained.
"That's why we're having tennis doubles matches. This is to strengthen your bonds, so it should make for a good exercise." Kotobuki stated following Tokita and afterwards the guys bar Koji huddled up together.
"So what's the real reason?" A letter was pulled out and given to Chisa. It was from "Tinkerbell".
"If we lose, I swear I'll transfer the miss Izu and male pageant second place prize money to PaB." Chisa read the letter. Iori and Kohei were distraught realizing who they'd actually be playing against whilst Koji just had a blank face along with Aina and Chisa.
"I'll play with Iori as a team. We were dive buddies along with Chisa last time so it makes sense. Plus I don't know if I can trust Kohei with something as active as tennis." Koji stated adding a slight insult to Kohei.
"HEY!"
Chisa and Aina were looking over a diving magazine that talked about popular locations to dive at. "Miyakojima, huh. Never been there before."
"Wow, this place look so pretty. I want to go!"
"I want to go to Barcelona." Chisa and Aina looked at Koji confused at why we would want to go to Barcelona. "What?"
"Why Barcelona?" Koji pulled out an old skate mag talking about the skate scene in Barcelona. Spots such as Macba, Paral-lel and Sants. "You want to go to Barcelona, for skateboarding." Koji nodded his head. Everyone kept talking about diving and the tennis match until everyone left and went home.
The next day, Peek-a-Boo were at a tennis court as were Tinkerbell. Most of the other club members, i.e. the guys would be cheering them on and drinking. The setting was a best of three. One team would be Tokita and Kotobuki which was logical. Another was Chisa and Aina. Lastly it would be Iori and Koji. The others would be watching on
Tinkerbell then showed up and were face to face with the diving club. They were quickly going over the rules and the guys were insulting each other. The captain Kudo spotted Aina and tried to hit her up. "He thinks they've never met before." Iori says to Kohei looking at what was unfolding before them.
"Her makeup is like armor protecting her from her enemies." The two clubs took their places and Tokita and Kotobuki were first up for Peek-a-Boo. Tokita was serving first and oh boy. Was it a serve.
Tokita smashed the ball as hard as he could. It was so hard that he knocked the racket out of a Tinkerbell member's hand and scored the first point for himself and Kotobuki. It certainly shocked Tinkerbell as Iori and Kohei looked on with smug grins. "How was that?" Tokita asked nonchalant after what he just did as Kotobuki gave a thumbs up.
"Yeah, it looked like it counted." The Tinkerbell players conversed on what to do before Tokita served again. Smashing the ball again, one tinkerbell member somehow deflected the shot but soon realized that was bad for him and his team-mate. "Alright, leave it to me." Jumping up. Kotobuki smacked the ball back down and somehow scored as the PaB members looked on.
Iori and Kohei checked on the other guys and found them completely wasted and naked… again. "To think they actually passed out from drinking."
"What's going on here?"
"Tinkerbell… offered us free drinks. Looks like we drank… too much." One guy said before passing out and spilling his drink. However the bottle still had quite a bit of booze left in it. Or what seemed to be booze. All of a sudden, the liquid evaporated as quickly as it appeared shocking the two "idiots". Iori and Kohei explained it to Nanaka and Azusa and it didn't seem to bother them at all. It was quite normal after all. Getting back to the game though, Tokita started to stumble before falling over and Kotobuki was in the same state.
"For some odd reason, their teamwork became more and more sluggish." Nanaka told the boys who immediately realized the cause.
"Those two definitely drank in secret." Iori and Kohei mentally said in sync. Everyone in else in PaB began thinking that Tokita and Kotobuki were going to lose, but Iori and Kohei weren't going to let happen. Somehow.
"Kitahara. Isn't there anyway we can cure them of their drunkenness?"
"I've got it." A court change was requested giving the tinkerbell members a chance to refresh and to a drink. Unfortunately for them…
"W-What is this?!"
"The drinks are different from before." The Tinkerbell member spat out their drink and the bottles fell to the ground and spilled. Almost immediately the liquid evaporated. Just like with the guys of PaB. So due to the Tinkerbell members unable to play. Tokita and Kotobuki won the first match for Peek-a-Boo.
"Did you do something?" Chisa asked Iori and Kohei as she and Aina were getting ready.
"We had a plan to turn the tide in our favor."
"Rather than sobering up our members. We decided to get theirs drunk as well."
"What happened to sportsmanship?" Aina asked.
Aina and Chisa were playing against two girls as well, but they tried to mock Chisa after what happned at the Miss Izu contest. Koji looked on momentarily. 'Not a good idea.' Koji thought to himself as the game played out. Unlike the last one with Tokita and Kotobuki. This game seemed like a proper tennis match. Back and forth the ball was played but it seemed like Chisa and Aina were getting the upper hand. The members of Peek-a-Boo were happy seeing how well the two girls were working together.
"Let's do a cheer. Repeat after me." Iori suggested to the others. "Chisa, nice buddy!" Everyone started cheering as well. However the guys misinterpreted it and chanted about Chisa's body. It wasn't well received by Chisa. The Tinkerbell girls played on focusing on Aina to try and score some points back and knock her over. "Hey! That was dangerous!"
"They're aiming for the body." Koehi explained holding out a tennis rule book.
Chisa retaliated back with one of her own. Taking out her anger, with Aina trying to somewhat calm her down.
"She was aiming for their bodies too." Said Nanaka.
"Good aim." Azusa followed up. It gave Iori the idea to chant again along with everyone else.
"NICE BUDDY, CHISA!" The club chanted over and over and again the guys misunderstood the chant embarrassing the younger Kotegawa even more and in the end. Tinkerbell won the second game. Koji went back down to the court to try and help in anyway. Whether it be comfort Chisa. Or save his brother from another mauling at the hands of Chisa. Thankfully he was able to do both, but only just.
The last game was about to start and it would be Iori and Koji against Kudo and one of his lackeys as the two brothers thought of it. Once again, Iori was in nothing but his boxers and Koji took his shirt off since it was dripping with sweat from skating earlier.
How'd you think this will turn out?" Tokita asked Nanaka.
"I'm not too sure. I just hope they do well." Iori was serving first and what came next was shocking. Iori smashed the ball so hard that the Tinkerbell players didn't react until the ball was behind them.
"Fifteen-Love."
"Here I go." Iori smugly said serving another missile again. Kudo gave it back but Iori blasted the ball again and scored.
"Thirty-Love."
"I didn't know Iori was good at sports."
"Yeah Iori." Koji smirked at his brother.
"Anything apart from swimming. Leave it to me."
"Leave skateboarding to me Iori." Getting back to the game. Iori and Koji kept piling on the pressure on Kudo and four-eyes. They kept scoring and scoring, racking up the games but so did Kudo and his team-mate. It soon actually came to a finally game. "Hey Iori. Let me serve this time. I want to blow this guy's ego apart even more." Iori nodded and so the brother swapped places so that Koji was serving this time.
"Damn. Now are recordings won't be useful since it's him serving now. Although we have an idea of how he plays from earlier." Kudo whispered to himself. Koji bounced the ball of the ground repeatedly. Koji thought of an idea to try out. Instead of throwing the ball from his hand into the air for a serve. He bounced the ball high off the ground and blasted the tennis ball much like his brother.
"Fifteen-Love." Kudo and four-eyes couldn't stop the ball in time and looked at Koji in disbelief. Sure he was a skater, but he should've been just that right… Wrong!
"Thirty-Love." Again Koji made a powerful serve catching tinkerbell off guard to score. Kudo was really getting pissed and both Koji and Iori saw it. Once again it happened.
"Forty-love." Kudo and his team-mate were arguing this time. Both Kitahara brothers watched on amused at the demise of the tennis club. "Come on guys. You can still make a comeback, but we might only have to make one more serve. So let's go." Koji said egging them on.
"That's it. You're not scoring from another serve again." Kudo yelled ready to fight back. Koji served again but this time Kudo got his racket on the ball firing back. Iori swung back, with return fire from four-eyes. Going straight to Koji, he blasted the ball one last time and there was nothing Kudo and his team-mate could do. It was over.
"Game count. Four-Six. Peek-a-Boo wins."
Everyone in Peek-a-Boo cheered as they had won against Tinkerbell. Kudo and Four-eyes were arguing and fighting even more now. Iori and Koji looked on smiling.
"Nice job Iori."
"Nice serves Koji" Iori and Koji bumped their fists against each other's.
"You know looking at that. It reminds me of you and Kohei arguing with each other. Most likely would've happened today if he teamed with you. You probably would've knocked him out with the ball on a serve or something." Koji said to his brother. Iori began picturing it in his head and smiled.
"Yeah you're right. Probably would've been shit at this."
"HEY! I would be very good at this!" Kohei began fighting with Iori and Koji about their opinions. Later on everyone was back at Grand Blue celebrating their victory. Tokita and Kotobuki had an announcement to make.
"And with that, we got the prize money. Let's have an overnight trip."
"Our destination will be Okinawa!" Kotobuki announced.
"Okinawa!" Aina and Chisa gasped in shocked.
"Seriously!" Koji, Iori and Kohei, all said at the same time. Iori then spotted a magazine about Okinawa that they were looking at earlier in Tokita's hand. Thinking it was about diving which it partially was, everyone seemed excited. However the guys were laughing about for another reason. One far more sinister and… booze oriented. A tradition known as… Otori.
A/N Author's Notes: Okay I will not lie. This chapter was a pain in the backside to do. I originally wanted to have Kohei playing just like in canon, but wanted Koji playing with Iori as well. So I made the decision and had both Kitahara boys playing together, and hopefully you guys like it. I also hope you look up Barcelona skating since I mentioned about it in the chapter.
So please give an honest, constructive opinion about what I can do better with this as I'm enjoying writing about Grand Blue. Nothing abusive or rude You.
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