"Marui, why are you OOC in this fic?"
"How should I know? You're the one who made this!"
"I thought you were a genius..." Marui snaps in the background.
"I'll kill you if you make me more OOC than this!"
"Akaya-kun do it!"
"K' does not own The Prince of Tennis!" Akaya said as he stopped Marui from killing K'. Sakuno enters the scene and Marui changes drastically.
"This is very interesting. Marui must have turned schizophrenic. Hmm..." Renji noted his teammates reaction.
"What's wrong with you, Marui?" Niou inquired as Marui stared at the ground (he already ate his muffin, the whole of it).
Everybody was worried. Nobody else got the reaction and everyone was sure that there was no poison on the muffins.
Yagyu approached him to ask what was wrong and if help be needed when Marui suddenly slapped Yagyu's hand that was nearing his shoulder. He walked slowly, closing the distance between him and Sakuno. Kirihara just stared, following his senpai's moves.
He suddenly kneeled in front of Sakuno and said, "You're my little pastry angel!"
"…" there was silence. It took a lot of time before his words sunk into the heads of the others.
Everyone was shocked with his sudden behavior (Renji was jotting down everything, even his reaction to the taste of the muffin). Sakuno blushed and Marui continued, "Will you be the mother of my children?" Now, everybody got even more shocked. Renji's jersey was tipped off to the edge of his shoulder while the others had their mouths gaping wide.
"I-I…" Sakuno was so red that she jerked her hand from Marui's hold and backed off a bit while shaking her head side ways. "I-I'm so s-sorry!" then she ran off as fast as she could.
Marui was so serious that nobody took him seriously. He looked around and saw his teammates' mouths wide open and Renji's notebook was almost set on fire because of the friction created by his writing.
"What are you thinking, Marui-senpai!?" Kirihara was really pissed and he threw the ball that he was holding on his other hand (the other was used for holding his share of the muffins) to his senpai's head out of his rage. He threw it so hard that it bounced off the way it would have bounced off of a wall.
Everyone was surprised by Akaya's actions. Marui just left his head the way it was when it was hit by the ball.
Niou approached Kirihara and was about to slap him when somebody did so before him. "Sanada!" he looked at his fukou-buchou who was angry but still wore the same expression on his face. Then he returned to Akaya (who's head is twisted 360 degrees from the slap :P ), "Don't you know how to respect your senpai, Kirihara!?" Kirihara turned to him and looked at his eyes with those seriously scary green ones of his.
"Kirihara, Marui, 60 laps around the court!" Sanada ordered the two who made quite the fuss in practice. Marui was still on the ground while Kirihara stood with his arms on his sides, his hands clenching into fists. Marui got up and started to run around the courts and his kohai followed him. Marui gave Akaya a deadly glare that no one had seen before and the other returned the favor.
Niou Masaharu put a hand on his forehead and sighed, then muttered, "What's going on here?" he then returned to practice since he was afraid of feeling Sanada's wrath.
Sakuno ran and found herself already out of the school grounds. "Kami-sama what was that all about?" she wiped the sweat from her forehead and thought, 'Maybe I shouldn't hang around them too much.' So she thought and walked home before it's too dark.
She arrived at her house and released a very deep sigh out of her lungs. "Baa-san, I'm home!" she said while removing her shoes.
"Sakuno," her grandmother emerged from their living room, "You seem tired. What happened?" Sumire led her granddaughter to sit and she gladly dumped herself on the couch.
"It's a long story, Baa-san," she paused, "I don't want to talk about it." Her grandmother just gave her a smile and went to the kitchen to prepare for supper.
Their phone rang and Sakuno decided to answer it. "Hello? This is the Ryuzaki residence, how may I-" she got cut off again by her loud best friend.
"Sakuno!" Tomoka shouted and continued, "How are you? Did somebody in Rikkai bullied you!?" if there was she'd be really angry and would probably storm Rikkai Dai.
"That's very nice of you, Tomo-chan that you worry about me. But it's only my second day there, so…" she stopped; she remembered what happened in the courts.
"Well?" Tomo was getting irritated by Sakuno spacing out all of a sudden. "Sakuno!" her sharp voice deafened Sakuno for a moment and she rubbed her ear and shifted the phone to her other ear.
"I'm sorry, Tomo-chan for spacing out on you, like that." She paused as she heard her grandmother calling her to eat. "I'm just tired, you see. I've got to go, Baa-san's calling."
Then they said their goodbyes to each other and hung up. She walked to the dining room and sat down and started to eat. After that, she took a warm bath and went to sleep.
At the morning practice the next day
'Geez! What was that all about, Marui-senpai talking like that and all?' Kirihara thought as he was doing his stretching exercise. He was spacing out thinking what Sakuno would probably reply to that. 'That was a proposal…' he thought as he stood up and began his jog around the courts for warm-up.
Yagyu, Niou and Renji were talking to each other, inquiring as to why Marui was acting strangely.
"Hey, Yanagi, what do you think made him like that?" Niou asked. He was really confused. Jackal entered the scene and asked the same question. If Niou was terribly confused then how confused can Jackal be, considering the fact that he IS Marui's double's partner.
Renji cleared his throat and was about to begin, "I know that you're hypothesis is that he is in love." He turned to Niou ('Did he just read my mind?' Niou thought). "I wanted to test that hypothesis of yours, Niou, and just look at him." He pointed to Marui who was practicing like he always did. Their eyes followed Renji's finger and examined their teammate.
"He seems… normal." Yagyu added and Jackal approved him so.
"But look at him again." Renji added as Kirihara closed in to Marui.
The guys looked carefully as the two exchanged glares. They 'oohed' at the two who was having such heavy tension between them.
"Then how would you explain his actions yesterday?" Jackal was still confused.
"Don't you see, Jackal?" he paused making the right mood of excitement within their group, "It's because love makes you do stupid things." He almost whispered. Everybody was dumb-struck.
"So that explains his OOC-ness." Niou was satisfied when he had his hunch proven to be true.
"TARUNDORU!" they almost jumped when Sanada, their fukou-buchou, shouted. "Yanagi, Yagyu, Niou and Kuwahara, 60 laps around the courts!" they started running out of fear though Renji was just fine with it. He was happy that there was something new to observe in their team.
"I'm just glad we didn't get the slapping-of-a-life-time." Niou whispered so as not to alarm Sanada. They were unaware that when they were discussing, their buchou was listening to every word they said.
"Love, ne?" Yukimura murmured to himself as he watched the others run around the courts. "I wonder if you're up to the challenge, Aka-chan." He smiled as he returned to his own practice.
There ya go! hehe i hope that explained why he's, uh, like that... (laughs evilly at the thought of making marui more stupid) anyways, Happy Valentines! (I know that you put this fic in your story alert or whatever alert that is, review this fic as well. Because maybe you don't like what im doing to Marui, hehe.)