A/N: Thanks to ketchupblood for my luverly inspiration. Amused-ness.
Chapter Five - Taking Missions
"Alright everybody," Momo addressed the group which now included Fuji. Once more, they were meeting at Ryoma's home. Ryoma was currently gagged and bound to a chair. "It seems Mamushi has gone and gotten himself captured again."
Eiji jumped up. "We must save him! He's our comrade!" They nodded in agreement. 'Don't leave comrades behind' was their motto. They were conveniently ignoring the fact that Fuji was partially responsible for the capture of Kaidoh. And that they had tied up own of their own just a few minutes ago; but hey, these guys don't like to follow logic unless it suits them. Getting back to the story.
"Tezuka is holding him captive in Sumire-chan's office," Fuji reported. "She's helping Tezuka so we need to watch out for her too." Ryuzaki might be a problem. They couldn't go around knocking out old grandmothers, now could they?
"Um…What about finding proof that Tezuka really does eat books?" Taka interjected. "We need that too." He brought up a good point. They need proof, real proof so they could show it to the world.
"We should spilt up," said Inui. "Half go to rescue Kaidoh, the others follow Tezuka."
"But…We only have five people," Momo noticed. Ryoma's struggling in the background was ignored. "Eiji-senpai, would Oishi-senpai help us?"
"Hmm…I don't know," Eiji murmured. "He might join the Dark Side. He is Tezuka's best friend."
"And as his best friend, Oishi will want to help Tezuka," Fuji smiled. "But if not, he can be part of the Kaidoh rescue team."
"So, Oishi, Kikumaru, and Kawamura will go rescue Kaidoh. I shall join Fuji and Momoshiro in trailing Tezuka," Inui decided. "We all have our missions. Move out and meet back up here tomorrow. The fate of the world rests in your hands."
The ending of Inui's speech getting the five way too gung-ho, they became ninjas and disappeared. Eiji and Taka went to grab Oishi while Fuji, Momo, and Inui went on stake out.
And what of our poor freshman, you may ask? Well, Ryoma was left behind, still tied up in his room. He buried the anger he felt and let it fester. One day…One day they would all bow down before the great Echizen Ryoma! But until then, Ryoma immersed himself in his delusions as he waited for someone to remember and come back to untie him.
"Do you ever get the feeling that we're forgetting something?" Eiji asked Taka worriedly as something nagged at the back of his mind. The duo were currently sneaking out of the Oishi household with the third member of their rescue team thrown over Taka's shoulder, still fast asleep.
"Don't worry," Taka replied, shifting Oishi. "You'll remember eventually. Now, where should I set him down?"
"Ooh! Let's go the park!" Eiji said, excited. "We can swing on the swings!" And like ninjas again, they disappeared and reappeared in the nearby park. Eiji took off running for the swings but was pulled back by Taka. Oishi had been laid down on a bench where he still slept.
"Hey, Eiji. We still need to rescue Kaidoh. Shouldn't we rescue him from the clutches of the evil Tezuka?" Taka knew how Eiji's brain worked. And the promise of an adventure/rescue mission would knock him back on track. Predictably enough, he was now shaking Oishi awake and trying to pull him to Seigaku at the same time.
"Oishi! Oishi, wake up!" Eiji shouted into his ear.
The result was instantaneous. Oishi shot up, almost hitting Eiji in the process. He coughed a bit (in case you didn't remember that he was still sick) before remembering what woke him. "Eiji! What's wrong?" he asked. Eiji had sounded a bit panicked. But maybe it was just him being hyper again as Oishi took in the sight of the acrobat bouncing around.
"We need you to help us." Taka explained what had happened while he was out for the day.
"So Tezuka eats books and Kaidoh's been captured and we need to go rescue him?" Taka and Eiji nodded. Oishi sighed and mulled over the situation. One day. This is what happens when he's gone for one day. The team falls apart and everybody goes utterly insane.
Another sigh. He needed to talk to Tezuka and the quickest way would be to go along with the plan. "Ok, let's go get Kaidoh."
"Yay! Oishi's coming!" Eiji cheered. He and Taka then did their ninja disappearing thing, leaving Oishi to sweat-drop. Because that's what anime people do, you know. They sweat-drop. A blink later, and the pair were back, grinning sheepishly.
"Sorry…We forgot you didn't have ninja powers," Taka said.
Oishi blinked at them. They really had gone insane! "You don't have ninja powers!" he yelled. And with a bright flash of rainbow-colored light and prancing ponies, the voice of logic took hold and their ninja powers disappeared.
"Hey! What'd you do that for?" Eiji whined as the trio walked to the bus stop.
They got on the bus and Oishi said, "Because it doesn't work! You aren't ninjas, you're tennis players. Now, what's the plan to rescue Kaidoh?"
"We were just going to teleport in there, grab him and teleport out," Taka told him. "Other than that, we didn't really have time to plan." It almost sounded accusing but everyone knows Taka's a nice guy and would never say anything mean.
"Ok…Then I guess I have to think something up." Oishi thought for a bit. "I'll distract Tezuka," so I can talk to him, "Eiji can distract Sensei, and you can grab Kaidoh and take him back to HQ."
The two nodded, it sounded like a good plan. Now to put it in action.
Meanwhile, Momo, Fuji, and Inui were already at the school. Momo was currently trying to figure out how he got stuck with the two sadists of the team. Every once in a while, they would chuckle evilly at the same time and glance back at him. He shuddered; he just knew they were planning something.
Tezuka had yet to be spotted. The three were slowly making their way down towards Ryuzaki's office, using their ninja powers to dodge behind conveniently placed plants. Why? Because that's what always happens in the movies, that's why.
"Inui-senpai, what if Buchou isn't in Sensei's office?" Momo asked anxiously. His sixth-sense that only liked to pop up when it felt like it was telling him, "Danger! Danger! Danger, Will Robi—Momoshiro Takeshi!" Not a good sign. It also told him that he watched way too many movies.
"There's a 49 percent chance he is not there," said Inui. "There is a 48 percent chance of him being in the clubhouse and a 1 percent chance of him being at the roller-rink."
"Roller-rink?" Momo repeated. "You're joking, right?" He looked at Fuji. "There's no way he'd go skating. Have you seen who we're talking about?"
Fuji grinned. "The roller-rink. Apparently Tezuka liked it after I took him skating one day."
Momo looked away and once again questioned why he was stuck with the two top competitors for "Most Insane Seigaku Regular."
"Why is Sensei's office not getting any closer?" Inui suddenly asked. They stopped moving. It wasn't getting any closer! It still looked the same distance away as it had when they first arrived.
"Maybe," Fuji squinted down the hallway. "Maybe it's a trap." And with those fateful words, the group fell through the hole the appeared in the floor. They landed on the hard ground with loud 'Oof!'s.
It was pitch black. The hole above had closed back up. The three slowly stood up and walked around blindly with their arms outstretched, trying to find an escape. Suddenly, lights flickered on above causing them to flinch. Out of the shadows stepped an ominous figure: Tezuka. The three who had set out to stalk him gulped nervously. They hoped the rescue team showed up soon to help them!
Back at the Echizen house, Ryoma was slumbering. He was dreaming dreams of causing bodily harm to his fellow teammates. Another person crept up behind him and dragged him away. Ryoma snored away, oblivious to the going-ons of the outside world.
A/N:Yay for new chapter! I think I've gotten back into the rhythm! (Kamio equals love.) And my chapters are slowly getting longer too! Yay for exclamation points! And yay for random things that appear out of nowhere and I don't think this can even be semi-realistic anymore! (Considering I was thinking about having Tezuka swoop down from the ceiling like a vampire in the last scene, but I settled for shadows.)