Team One
"Well, we got our comfy chair, our television, our bunk beds and our couch taken away." Said Taka as they entered the house and saw all their new furniture. "But now it's like that never happened because we got that extra comfy chair from the time we won the challenge and we got everything back!"
They entered the living room and then remembered that they had an extra couch instead of a television.
"Well, except we have an extra couch instead of a television." Said Fuji.
"Let's look on the bright side!" said Yana. "Now no one has to share a bed!"
"That IS a good thing!" said Taka.
"Very different from last night when we all shared the same bed." Said Kirihara.
"Well what about our special prize for winning today?" Mizuki wondered.
"Do you suppose it has anything to do with that big cake sitting on the kitchen table?" Fuji tried, pointing at the gigantic cake that was taking up practically the entire table.
Everyone slowly crept over to it as if it would attack them.
Congratulations today! was written on the top in frosting.
"I love how we didn't win a single event, but overall we did the best." Said Yana randomly as he went over to the silverware drawer and returned with a couple of forks.
"This isn't bad." Said Kirihara as Yana passed out the forks.
"No thank you." Said Fuji as Yana tried to hand him a fork.
"What, don't you ever eat?" Mizuki questioned. "I seriously haven't seen you eat a single thing since we got here."
Fuji stood there silently.
"Are any of you on Ootori Choutarou's tennis team?" he said.
"No." everyone answered in unison. And even if they WERE on his team, there's no way they would ever answer in the affirmative.
"I see." Said Fuji, taking the fork from Yana and then sticking it violently in the cake.
Everyone looked at the fork and then at the now Scary Creepy Fuji.
"I need to alleviate my anger on something less soft and defenseless." He said.
Everyone remained quiet.
Then Yana mouthed to Taka, "SAY SOMETHING."
Take cleared his throat. "So…" he began hesitantly. "Maybe we could all just eat this cake for dinner and dessert. So you don't even have to cook for us tonight, Fuji! Isn't that great?"
"I love cooking for my family." Said Fuji turning back into Pleasant Creepy Fuji.
"Well look, now you don't have to." Said Kirihara.
Fuji gave a heavy sigh. "I guess not." He said as he walked away, making his way towards the Parents room.
Everyone watched him go and then calmly sat down at the kitchen table, spooning cake in the mouths.
"You know why we've never seen him eat?" Mizuki whispered.
"Because he always eats when we're not watching?" Taka tried.
"Because he DOESN'T EAT." Said Mizuki. "You know why? Because he's actually the devil."
"Mizuki, REALLY." Said Yana. "Some people are just EVIL. Right, Taka?"
"Uh…I don't know…" said Taka. "Kirihara?"
"Don't ask me." Said Kirihara.
"There, you see?" said Mizuki. "I knew it."
"I am SO glad we got that extra couch…" Taka said.
Team Two"Whoa, you got a wading pool, a slide AND a radio?" said Momo as he ran to the window and looked outside. "No way! We really lucked out on this one! Eiji, you're the best Pet there is!"
Then Momo went outside to get a closer look, leaving everyone else inside.
Eiji cleared his throat. "We need to talk about Momo's behavior earlier today." he said.
"Yeah," said Marui. "But he won't want to hear it."
"I bet if we all teamed up against him, we could take him." Said Gakuto. "I bet Ootori could take him on his own! What do you say, Ootori?"
Choutarou went to the sink to look for any dirty dishes. "Well," he said. "It's just that…Momo has to live with what he did to us, and don't you think that's punishment enough?"
The rest of the family stared at him.
"NO." they said finally.
"Well, I'm not interested in taking this any further." Said Choutarou.
"Did you FORGET what he did to us?" demanded Marui. "And YOU? And SHISHIDO?"
"No…" said Choutarou. "But forgive and forget. That's important. And I don't want to be apart of anything you three are going to do so just leave me out of all your little plans."
"Fine." Said Gakuto, crossing his arms. "We're not going to get any help from him. The three of us should be enough to take him out."
"Are you sure?" said Eiji. "I mean, he took me and Marui at the same time. And did you see him take out Shishido?"
"We can't just let this slide though!" said Marui.
That's when Momo came back inside.
"Nice job picking the best stuff ever for us to take home." Said Momo as he went to the radio and turned it on. And it just so happened the 'Forgive and Forget' by Blondie was playing.
Everyone stared at him, except Choutarou who was quite preoccupied with washing dishes.
"Come on." Said Choutarou. "If Shishido can forgive me for hitting ridiculous serves at him for hours on end, then it's not that hard to forgive Momo for going temporarily insane! It happens to the best of us!"
"Oh what the hell." Said Eiji. "If Oishi can forgive me for playing doubles with anyone that ISN'T him, then I can surely forgive Momo too!"
"And if Oshitari can forgive me for getting tired out so easily in all of our matches, then who am I to hold a grudge against Momo?" said Gakuto.
"And if Jackal was here right now, he'd DEFINITELY say to forgive Momo." Marui finished off.
"Aw you guys and your doubles!" said Momo. "I think today has been a very important experience for all of us!"
"How so?" said Choutarou.
"Well, I've learned to respect people who play doubles and treat it like it's MORE than just playing tennis with two people on the same court." Said Momo. "And it's none of my business to tell anyone that it's JUST playing tennis with two people on the same court!"
"And what have we learned?" said Marui.
"You've all learned that I'm stronger than all of you!" said Momo.
The doubles people looked at each other.
"He's got a point." Said Gakuto.
"Group hug!" said Eiji.
"I love hugs!" said Choutarou as all five of them got together and hugged like it was their job.
Team Three"Do you have some sort of sick obsession with chairs, Tachibana?" Aoi asked. "I just have to ask."
"No, why do you 'just have to ask'?" Tachibana said.
"Because…" Aoi took a deep breath. "Have you noticed how many chairs you have managed to acquire for us?"
Tachibana looked around. "…What do you mean?"
"Well," said Aoi. "Not only did you make a chair for us in the very first challenge, but in this challenge you got us two more of these huge comfy chairs AND a beanbag chair."
Tachibana took a moment to look around the living room area to see that there wasn't a lot of floor space, and it was mostly covered by various chairs previously mentioned by Aoi.
"So what's your point?" Tachibana glared at him.
"We don't need this many chairs." Aoi said. "THAT'S my point."
Just then, David walked in and the two captains stared at him.
"Well?" Tachibana led.
"Well, Tezuka woke up finally." Said David.
"And?" Aoi said.
"And then he fell back asleep." David answered.
"Oh." said Tachibana and Aoi.
"You know, he's going to wake up at some point and then he's going to be up all night wondering why he's not tired." Said David.
"Maybe we should give him more Nyquil." Tachibana suggested as he looked at Aoi.
"You don't have to give me a hard time." Said Aoi. "I didn't think there would be a difference between Dayquil and Nyquil."
"Why not?" demanded Tachibana, sounding offended at Aoi's ignorance. "How could you possibly not anticipate a difference between those two? One is Dayquil and the other is Nyquil… as in DAY and NIGHT… as in TOTAL OPPOSITES."
"You know what?" said Aoi. "I don't have to take this from you!"
"Whatever," said David. "Guys, let's not fight. Let's think of the good thing that came out of this mix up with Dayquil and Nyquil."
"That's true." Agreed Tachibana. "We know now that Tezuka will definitely not win the individual challenge."
"And that is a good thing." Aoi said.
They all got up and slapped each other five in a big circle of joy.
"So now what do we do?" said Aoi. "We have ten thousand chairs and only three people."
"Actually, in this room we have four chairs, plus a couch." David corrected. "And only five in the other room. So we could technically seat eleven people if we so desired."
"All thanks to YOU Tachibana!" said Aoi.
"Guys, think about it." Said Tachibana. "THOSE chairs are for the kitchen. The couch is for sleeping on. What if someone spilled something on one of the comfy chairs and made it not-sit-on-able? We'd have this extra chair and everyone would have someplace to sit."
"Why didn't you choose one of the others things BESIDES more chairs?" Aoi asked. "There was a whole pile of furniture and you were one of the first people in line to pick."
"The other options were stupid." Said Tachibana. "They had a wading pool and a slide and stuff like that."
David and Aoi looked at each other. "AND YOU TOOK MORE CHAIRS?" they yelled angrily.
Team Four"All in all, everybody, I think we did pretty well in the challenge today." Said Sakurai as everyone sat around the kitchen table with some Fanta in glasses.
"HERE HERE!" cheered the entire team as they clinked their beverages.
"Where shall I begin?" Sakurai went on. "Why, Hiyoshi performed superiorly in the challenge in which all he had to do was stand on a podium longer than anyone else."
"Yes, yes I did." Said Hiyoshi with a nod.
"SPEECH!" said Saeki.
"Oh no no, I couldn't, I'd be too embarrassed…" said Hiyoshi.
"SPEECH SPEECH!" cheered the rest of the time.
"Oh very well." Said Hiyoshi as he stood up. "It all started a little while ago when I was studying martial arts at—"
"Okay, okay, we weren't serious." Said Sakurai.
"You guys were practically chanting it." Said Hiyoshi.
"We were going to stop after you refused us a second time." Ryoma admitted.
"Oh." said Hiyoshi, sitting back down.
"And how shall I continue?" Sakurai went on. "Yukimura, if you hadn't gotten ill then Saeki would have never been able to step up to the plate and successfully serve many opponents."
"Well, what can I say?" said Yukimura.
"Don't be modest." Said Sakurai. "And you, Saeki, you performed superiorly as well. What, with your ability to jump out just when we thought we were disqualified and then do a bang up job, coupled with your tenacity in winning back the most important of all our pieces of furniture…" Sakurai gave a sigh of satisfaction. "I could go on forever. Being in your presence is truly humbling."
"It has been an honor working with the team." Said Saeki. "And lest we not forget YOU as well, Sakurai."
"Oh no," said Sakurai. "You're going to embarrass me!"
"When will you meet another man in all your years who could candidly put on a pair of high heeled shoes and dance to songs such as Zoot Suit Riot and Elvis's timeless I Can't Help Falling in Love?" Saeki narrated. "Never. Sakurai, you are one of a kind."
"I'm turning all red!" said Sakurai as he did just that.
"To our team!" said Yukimura, once again raising his glass.
"Our team!" said Hiyoshi.
"Our team." Said Sakurai and Saeki at the same time.
They were just about to drink when Ryoma cleared his throat.
Then they stared at him.
"What?" they all said.
"You guys forgot about me." Ryoma said. "You haven't said anything nice about me yet."
They blinked.
"You know, how I did really well in the challenge and whatnot?" Ryoma suggested.
"Ryoma, you did horribly in the challenge." Said Saeki. "You made Sakurai trip and therefore caused us to place poorly in that round."
"ME?" said Ryoma. "Sakurai tripped himself and crashed into ME!"
"That's irrelevant!" said Saeki. "Don't bother Ryoma. You're a first year and your useless."
"Aw…" said Ryoma. "I thought we were all being friendly to each other."
Everyone looked at Ryoma's sad face as he sat there looking at the floor and sniffling occasionally. They felt bad.
"Okay, okay, Ryoma." Said Hiyoshi. "We do have ONE nice thing to say about you."
"Really?" said Ryoma between sniffles.
Everyone raised their glasses.
"You are the prince of tennis." They all said together.
"I'll drink to that." Said Ryoma, and they all clinked and drank for a final time.