Night Two
Team One
"Look everyone!" Taka exclaimed as he ran into the house and into the living room. "We have another comfy chair! This is awesome!"

"Oh Taka." Said Fuji, looking very pleased.

"I am going to bed!" Mizuki announced as he went for the door of the Kids room.

"Did you finish your task?" Yana asked.

"I did it already!" said Mizuki as he ran into the room.

"Speaking of which…" Fuji said. "Kirihara, isn't there something you want to ask me?"

"What?" said Kirihara. "No."

"Oh, I'm sure there's something." Fuji coaxed.

"No." Kirihara raised an eyebrow.

"Just ask him something so he doesn't kill you." Yana hid behind Taka.

Kirihara thought hard. "Oh wait!" he said. "There IS something!"

Then he looked uneasy as Fuji only waited.

"Um…Fuji…?"

"…Yeeeeeeeeeess?" Fuji said.

"Do you wanna uh…" Kirihara paused slightly. "Uh…switch clothes with me?"

"No." Fuji replied with a slight laugh.

"WHAT?" demanded Kirihara.

"Ask me again in ten minutes." Said Fuji. "Maybe I'll say yes."

"Why I outta…" Kirihara started rolling up his sleeves.

But Fuji didn't even give him the time of day as he turned his back to Kirihara and looked at Taka. "Taka, have you noticed anything out of place recently?" he asked.

Taka paused. "What did you take?" he asked.

"Oh nothing!" said Fuji. "I was just wondering if you could show me that really nice knife of yours that you use to cut sushi with."

"That's my favorite knife ever!" Taka said, getting overly excited. "You want to see it?"

"Mm-hm." Fuji nodded.

"Don't let him hold it!" Yana whispered as Taka went into the kitchen and walked in a few circles.

"Wait…!" said Taka. "I can't find it! It's not here where I left it!"

"Oh…how unfortunate…" Fuji sighed. "Oh! Now I remember. Mizuki was in the backyard burying it under that tree this morning before the challenge."

"He was…what?" Taka gasped as he ran outside to check up on that.

"Why would Mizuki do that?" wondered Kirihara.

"I have no idea." Said Fuji as he sat down.

"Hey, you know what?" said Yana. "Let's all have a snack! I'll make it and then everyone can eat some of it!"

"Okay, as long as I don't have to do anything." Said Kirihara.

Yana then proceeded to whip up some microwave popcorn and pour it into a bowl. It only took a couple of minutes, and by the time he had finished, Taka had come back in and was whining as he cleaned his knife off in the sink.

"I'm going to ask Mizuki why he did this after he wakes up." Said Taka.

"How very authoritative of you." Fuji complimented.

"Everyone, have some popcorn!" said Yana.

Taka and Kirihara both ate some popcorn, and then the bowl came to Fuji.

"I'm not hungry." Fuji said.

"Oh come on, just have one." Said Yana.

"You can never have just one!" said Fuji with a big smile.

"Do you want to switch clothes now?" Kirihara asked Fuji.

Fuji didn't reply, he only stood up. "Say, do you suppose Mizuki is asleep yet?"

"Yeah probably." Yana replied.

"I'll be right back." Said Fuji as he disappeared into the Kids room and closed the door behind him.

The other three sat there for a few seconds.

"Oh my god, he's going to kill him!" said Yana in the quietest voice he could.

"Guys, guys, we've suspected that at least four other times and he hasn't done it yet." Said Taka. "I bet we're just having another big misunderstanding."

"Or maybe he's making us THINK that he's not going to kill him, but then he'll kill him." Said Kirihara. "Then we'd be accessories to murder, because we knew it was going to happen but we didn't do anything about it."

"Family," said Fuji as he appeared in the doorway and pulled Mizuki out. Mizuki looked quite disheveled and was attached to a leash. "We'll be back in a couple of hours. Don't wait up."

The rest of the family clung to each other in fear as Fuji dragged Mizuki out the door.

Team Two
"These tuna fish sandwiches really hit the spot, Ootori." Said Marui as the entire family sat at the kitchen table eating tuna fish sandwiches and Choutarou stood up while holding an empty can.

"Thank you!" said Choutarou, looking content. But then his face changed to a look of sadness.

The others slowed their chewing and then looked at each other.

"What's wrong?" Eiji asked.

"Do you have tuna fish with Shishido or something?" Momo asked.

"Well, yes…" Choutarou answered. "But that's not what's bothering me." He put the can on the table. "It's just…" he gave a heavy sigh. "I worry about the dolphins."

"WHAT?" demanded everyone else.

"This can." Choutarou said, pointing at it. "If I had taken the time to read it, I would have noticed that it didn't say 'dolphin safe' on it! So…now I worry about the dolphins…"

The rest of the family didn't exactly know how to respond to that.

"And Shishido and I eat tuna together sometimes too, so I miss him…" Choutarou went on.

"I know how you feel." Said Eiji, his eyes filling with tears. "Oishi and I eat tuna together all the time. And it's not the same if he's not here."

"And—" Gakuto began.

"HOLD ON." Momo interrupted, standing up. "Let's stop this before it even starts, okay? Let's talk about something else besides your doubles partners not being present ALL THE TIME."

"But what about the dolphins?" Choutarou said.

"Let's talk about something besides that too." Momo rolled his eyes. "How about our tasks? Did everyone finish their tasks today?"

"I don't know if a certain person is in the right state of mind to help me complete my task." Said Gakuto as he vaguely looked up at Choutarou who had decided to distract himself with washing the bowl he had used to mix the mayonnaise and tuna. But that just inevitably made him sadder because he remembered that time he had mixed tuna and mayonnaise together for Shishido, and Shishido had told him that he had used the perfect amount of mayonnaise.

"What's your task?" Marui whispered.

"I'm supposed to get in a fight with Ootori." Gakuto replied, loudly enough for the table to hear but quietly enough so Choutarou couldn't.

"That shouldn't be that hard." Said Momo. "He's on the verge of crying right now anyway."

They looked over at Choutarou who was sniffling and wiping his eyes.

"But that's mean…" said Gakuto.

"Just tell him that the dolphins suck or something." Said Momo. "And tell him you slept with Shishido and his mom at the same time."

Gakuto looked pretty annoyed with that statement.

"Did someone say something about Shishido over there?" Choutarou asked, coming over with his dripping wet bowl.

"No, no, no!" said everyone frantically.

"Oh…" Choutarou lowered his head and returned to the sink.

"Well, I finished MY task already." Eiji reported.

"And remember that walk we took earlier, Eiji?" said Marui.

"Uh…sort of." Said Eiji.

"Well, that was MY task." Marui said.

"Well, as long as we're just sharing what our tasks are, I might as well just tell you mine so we can actually do it without me seeing weird." Momo said. "I have to switch clothes with you, Marui."

"Uh huh." Said Marui, taking another bite of the non dolphin safe tuna.

"So we can do that like…when we're getting changed into our pajamas." Said Momo. "For a second or whatever."

"Whatever…"

"So I'm the only one who won't complete my task?" Gakuto whined.

"Ootori might not have." Eiji said.

"I just completed mine." Said Choutarou, walking over.

"Aw man!" said Gakuto. Then he paused and looked up at Choutarou who looked like he was ready to burst into tears. "Uh…hey Ootori… um… I'm glad this tuna isn't dolphin safe."

Choutarou gasped and dropped the bowl he was holding so it shattered into a million pieces. He took a few deep breaths and then ran out of the room in tears.

"Whoa." Said everyone.

"That counts as an argument, right?" said Gakuto, standing up. "I'm going to go apologize now."

Team Three
Since Tezuka was incapacitated in the living room, lying down and resting his shoulder, Tachibana didn't have any trouble sneaking into his stuff and shifting through it to find something to steal. And frankly, he didn't really mind messing up all of Tezuka's things, especially after he made him the PET damn it!

It had to be something precious, but something that he wouldn't notice was missing until at least tomorrow, just to be safe.

That's when he found a tennis racket at the bottom of Tezuka's bag.

"What?" said Tachibana. "I thought our coaches took away everyone's tennis rackets! This guy snuck his tennis racket in with him!"

So Tachibana decided that this was his item he would steal so he calmly exited through the backdoor and circled around the house into the backyard just so he definitely wouldn't be noticed. He dropped the racket into the hole he had already dug previously and filled it up. Even though it burned his soul to dirty such a wonderful thing, it couldn't be helped.

He entered through the backdoor. Tezuka was on the couch and glaring at him as he walked in, almost as if he KNEW what he had just done. But let's get serious here. How could anyone know? It's not like he's FUJI or anything.

"Why were you in the backyard?" Tezuka inquired.

"Because I felt like it." Said Tachibana.

Just then Aoi walked in wearing a set of Yugi Oh! pajamas that were obviously WAY too big for him.

"…Why are you wearing Kabaji's pajamas?" said Tezuka.

"Because I RULE!" said Aoi, striking a pose. "My task is complete."

"Wait, so if you're wearing Kabaji's pajamas then…" Tachibana started just as they heard the sound of Kabaji rounding the corner.

Tezuka and Tachibana both covered their eyes because they just didn't want to see that. They heard the backdoor open and then close, and Aoi finally told them it was all right to open their eyes.

"Oh phew." Said Tachibana. "WHY would you do something like that?"

"Take a wild guess." Said Aoi, looking annoyed.

"Aha." Said Tezuka and Tachibana.

"Speaking of which, has everyone finished their tasks?" Tezuka asked. "I don't want our team to get penalized just because you let your guard down."

"I have." Said Tachibana proudly. "And I'm pretty sure Kabaji did his too because he wanted to go on a walk earlier and I went with him…and it just seemed TOO random."

"Yeah, and remember how David was throwing raisins at us and bet us that we wouldn't eat them off the ground?" Aoi said.

"Oh yes." Said Tachibana and Tezuka.

"Apparently his task was to make sure we all ate something that wasn't considered a meal." Aoi explained.

"He could have just asked us to eat some raisins." Said Tachibana. "I WOULD have."

"Good." Said Tezuka. "All that's left is to do one thing."

Tezuka once again activated the Tezuka Zone, and within a few seconds, David entered.

"What do you want?" David said, sniffling.

"I wanted to apologize for saying that your puns were annoying." Tezuka replied.

"So…you love my puns?" David said.

"No, I hate them." Said Tezuka.

"Oh." said David, trudging out of the room sadly.

"Oh and by the way, why did Kabaji go outside into the doghouse?" Aoi asked.

"I don't know." Said Tachibana. "Maybe he doesn't know that he's not the Pet anymore. But I'm not about to argue with him. I'll sleep in the Kids room tonight as long as he doesn't mind."

Then all the captains gave each other thumbs up and clicked their heals. Except for Tezuka since he was bedridden. And Aoi tripped as he came down because his pajamas were way too big. And Tachibana was temporarily uncoordinated and fell on his face. They all mutually decided that they would never do that again, and just stop at the thumbs up.

Team Four
"We really should have won that race today." Said Saeki.

"I know." Said Sakurai.

"I worked so hard." Said Hiyoshi.

"I didn't get to do anything." Ryoma said.

No one wanted to blame Yukimura for being sickly…but it was his fault. But no one was going to say it.

"I'm sorry for burdening all of you." Said Yukimura because he knew it was his fault since just because he's sickly doesn't mean he's stupid.

"Oh, it's not your fault!" insisted everyone.

"It's not fair that I didn't get to do anything because I don't have a chance to win the individual challenge." Ryoma sighed.

"We like it that way." Said Saeki. "Now you'll definitely stay the Pet forever."

Ryoma sighed. "What's the point of keeping me the Pet forever?" he said even though he already knew the answer.

And they all knew that he knew the answer so they decided not to even bother wasting their breath to answer him.

"So have we all just mutually decided to just screw doing our tasks?" Sakurai asked.

"Yeah…pretty much." Said Saeki. "I know I haven't even bothered to attempt to do mine."

"Yeah, and mine's pointless and lame and doesn't have anything to do with tennis." Ryoma said, leaning back in his chair.

"Well, anything that isn't related to tennis is pretty pointless and lame." Hiyoshi said. "But there's no way your task is even as close to being as pointless and lame as mine is."

"No, I bet mine's MUCH more pointless and MUCH lamer." Ryoma said. "Besides, it's a bigger waste of time than yours because it's MY time."

"YOU are such a tool." Said Saeki.

"Me?" said Ryoma.

"Yes." Said Saeki. "THAT'S why you're always going to be the Pet."

"I thought it was because I was born a year or two later than the rest of you." Ryoma reminded them.

"Well, that too." Saeki admitted.

"But that's a better reason." Ryoma said. "Tell me I'm always going to be the Pet because I'm a tool, not because I'm born in a certain year."

"I feel like punching you." Hiyoshi said honestly.

"Only because I beat you in tennis." Ryoma said smugly.

"No, because you're a tool." Hiyoshi corrected.

"Oh." said Ryoma.

Then they all sat there silently and didn't say anything for a little while.

"Okay…" said Saeki. "We are so boring…"

"Let's play video games or something." Said Sakurai as he stood up and went to the video game counsel and turned it on.

They played a quick round that involved four people because Yukimura passed out again. And, when Ryoma arose the victor, he stood up and adjusted his hat.

"You all still have a lot to work on." Ryoma said as he walked away.

"Man, I hate that kid." Said Saeki.

"More and more every day." Sakurai agreed.

"I've had enough of him." Said Hiyoshi as he stood up and started advancing towards where Ryoma had disappeared to, but Sakurai and Saeki both leapt atop him in order to prevent any murders on their team. That would just make them look bad.