A/N: Here's the next chapter. Thank you to everyone for your undying support. I'm glad that I make you laugh since this IS a humor story. I hope you continue to read my fics. RxR~

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Chapter Nine: Episode Three

While the players were waiting for the show to start, Kirihara poked the nose of his teddy bear and giggled. It was currently seated on their table facing him. The players sitting with him on the table looked at Kirihara with a what-the-fuck-are-you-doing? face. They were Shiraishi, Marui, Jiroh, Jackal, Niou, Yagyuu and Yanagi.

Kirihara noticed the stares at him and looked up at them with a confused expression while he utters an innocent, "What?"

They sighed intending to brush the off the topic but Niou pressed on the topic saying, "Are you gay or what? What are you doing with a stuffed toy?"

The others looked at Niou with thankful and at the same time troubled faces. They were thankful that they would know the reason for the stuffed toy but troubled that Kirihara might go devil mode on them.

"I'm not gay! Catherine is a girl!" Kirihara answered with an angry voice. The rest sweatdropped as they all thought, 'Catherine?'

"Who the heck is Catherine?" This time, it was Marui who asked.

"She's Catherine." Kirihara grinned as he showed them the stuffed toy. They looked at him in disbelief.

"I'm getting worried over him." Yanagi muttered.

"Why is it named Catherine though?" Shiraishi asked as he looked up.

They all stopped talking once they heard the familiar sound of the screen when it shows the title.

Title: Initial A

Instead of a magic pen, you got us crayons? -Marui

Well I thought doing it with a crayon would be more fun! -Kirihara

"More fun?" Are you a kindergartener? -Jackal

Everyone looked at Kirihara who was smiling watching the video while hugging his 'Catherine'.

"It's hard to believe a devil like him can be such a child inside." Atobe commented. Everyone nodded.

"For the first time in my life, I have to agree with the monkey king." Ryoma added.

"For the thousandth time in my life, I ask that you stop calling me monkey king. It does not fit my royal image." Atobe countered.

Ryoma looked at him with bored eyes and said, "Whatever." then smirked and added, "Monkey king."

Atobe glared at Ryoma and was about to speak but they were hushed as they can't watch in peace with all the talking.

The screen was showing that Jackal, Marui and Kirihara, who was now joined by Kawamura, was chasing after a dog. Jackal was having a hard time running while carrying all the stuff.

Marui snickered at the scene and glanced at Jackal who was sighing.

"I bet it was Bunta who made Jackal carry all those stuffs." Yukimura commented with an amused smile on his face.

They were watching the part where Kirihara was trying his best to get the stuffed toy Kawamura was gonna give to his relative and Jackal was being licked and glomped by the dog in the background.

"He's really different when he's outside the courts." Tachibana commented as they all saw Kirihara in a new light. While they looked at Jackal with sympathetic eyes.

Ah, senpai! You can sew? -Kirihara

Yeah, it'll get sewed! By Jackal, that is. -Marui

Again, me? -Jackal

I'm a genius, after all! -Marui

They all watched Jackal with sympathetic eyes once again.

"I really feel sorry for him now." Mukahi commented. Everyone agreed.

"That isn't what being a genius is." Fuji commented with his usual smile.

"It's pushing your work to others." Yuuta added.

Then the screen showed Akutsu and he immediately glared at the girls. They noticed death staring at them from behind their backs and they turned around nervously.

"I-Is there something wrong?" An asked nervously to Akutsu.

"I thought you told me I wouldn't be in this show." Akutsu said with a threatening voice.

"I-It isn't an embarrassing or funny scene anyway, A-Akutsu-sama." Tomoka nervously answered and used the honorific 'sama' thinking it would calm him down.

Oh yeah, Dan. Have you seen Sengoku anywhere? -Minami

Sengoku-senpai? He said "I'm going out on a scout out!". He left school with binoculars a while ago. -Dan

On a scout out? We're having a meeting after practice. I even told him to come to the club house no matter what. -Minami

He was skipping happily -Dan

Shit! He ran away again! -Minami

They all looked at Minami who was feeling pissed off again as he remembered that moment in his life.

"He's an unreliable captain." Zaizen bluntly stated which stabbed Minami straight on. More arrows stabbed him as they all agreed at how unreliable and ignored he is.

The screen showed Dan and Akutsu training.

"It's hard to believe how they're so close to each other. They have a huge difference in personalities." Sengoku commented.

"A loud blabbermouth mentioned that Akutsu-san ripped open the tennis fence just to get the omamori the desu guy brought him." Ryoma stated. Akutsu snapped his head up and glared at Ryoma.

"Oh! Really? That's kinda sweet." Momo commented in which he earned a glare from Akutsu.

"Ah! Young love!" Eiji sang while Momo commented, "You're stealing my line, Eiji-senpai!"

Akutsu stood up but Sengoku held him down with a sweatdrop while saying things like, "Calm down Akutsu!" while he laughs nervously when he was glared at.

The screen then showed the meeting of Akutsu, Dan and Kirihara and Akutsu saving Kirihara from the bullies while Kirihara thanked him.

They all stared at the two with disbelieving eyes. Especially at Kirihara.

"He was being bullied but didn't go devil mode on them." Shiraishi commented.

"That's kind of weird. For a devil like him on the court to be bullied outside the courts." Momo added.

"That's dumb. It's the perfect excuse to go devil mode on them." Niou said.

"Waaah! I can imagine Kirihara-san as a girl." Tomoka commented while her fantasies start.

"Yeah! He's gonna be such a moe character!" An joined in.

"Koshimae will be the tsundere type when he's a girl!" Kintarou joined the conversation.

"What kind of language are they speaking?" Kai asked.

"Even if it's Japanese, I too, do not understand what they are talking about." Kite shrugged.

"It's the otaku language!" Jiroh excitedly shouted as he joined in the otaku circle.

"What is tsundere?" Ryoma asked.

The players around them sighed at the unknown language around the room.

Kirihara and Marui butted in and joined the otaku circle as well, "Tsundere is a type that is cold but is actually warm and kind on the inside."

"They have such a confusing personality." Kamio commented.

"But it really does fit Echizen though." Momo snickered which earned him a glare from Momo.

"What do you mean I'm a tsundere? Whatever term that is." Ryoma asked.

"W-Well, you might be cold all the time but you're actually kind to your cat and to -cough-Ryuzaki-san-cough-." Momo answered as he faked a cough mentioning Sakuno.

"That's right, that's right! Ochibi is such a tsundere! How cute!" Eiji teased while he snickers.

Momo and Eiji laughed until they were hit by tennis balls straight in the face in courtesy of Ryoma.

"What is moe then?" Kawamura asked.

Marui answered, "It's about cute and lovable characters."

"My Catherine is very moe~" Kirihara stated as he snuggled his teddy bear. The rest of the people in the room, except the ones who are part of the otaku circle, looked at Kirihara with a deadpanned expression.

"...Let's not go there. Just put in the next disc." Shishido butted in.

Sakuno obeyed and placed the next disc as the other girls are busy with their otaku talk in the otaku circle.

"The next one is about Oishi-senpai and Kikumaru-senpai. They kind of had a fight in this." Sakuno explained the contents of the next disc.

"Oishi and me having a fight?" Eiji repeated in disbelief as he went to his thinking posture, "Hmmm. When we fight, which is very rare, I usually forget it so I wonder what this fight was about."