ii Data vs Playing Doubles With Five People
"This match is between ii Data and Playing Doubles With Five People!" Ryuuzaki announced. "Will those two teams please come forth and ready themselves for the doubles match?"

Playing Doubles With Five People all got into a huddle that was a little too close for the comfort of anyone except these five particular people.

"Remember," Eiji said. "No matter what happens, we've all learned so much from this experience!"

"Yes," said Choutarou. "Even though we had some bumps along the way, we've come together and managed to become a very tight team."

"All we have to do is keep playing our own games and we'll have no problem filling the void of those doubles partners that you guys miss so much!" said Momo.

"I have faith in our ability to go forward and fight for what we believe in!" said Marui. "And we believe in a world where doubles is the primary way to play tennis!"

"If we just focus on what's important to us and ignore any taunts and ill words from our opponents…" Gakuto finished up. "Then we can win within ourselves and on the court."

"It is because of this that we are truly playing doubles with five people." Said Eiji.

The five of them then separated.

Meanwhile, the ii Data team were all just standing in a formation that sort of looked like a circle, but not really. Sanada and Tetsu were on the bench being silent, Inui and Renji were making notes in their data books and reading up on their opponents, and Jirou was sleeping.

Tetsu looked enviously at Playing Doubles With Five People.

"I'm a doubles player too…" he frowned.

"Ootori and Gakuto from Playing Doubles with Five People!" called Ryuuzaki. "Please take the court for your match against Inui and Renji from ii Data!"

"Yes ma'am!" they said.

Inui and Renji put down their books and went to the court as well.

"You take the first serve, Ootori." Said Gakuto.

"Right!" said Choutarou as he did his famous SCUD SERVE OMG!

Since he had recently perfected it so that not even Inui's data could foil it, he managed to score all the points for that particular game, and then it was time to switch courts.

"No problem!" said Eiji as he gave Choutarou and Gakuto water bottles.

"I haven't really done anything." Said Gakuto.

"Well, it's not our serve anymore so we have to be careful." Choutarou said.

"We might be in trouble when it comes my time to serve…" Gakuto admitted. "I don't know what to expect from Renji."

"I know Inui has a really great serve." Momo said. "So look out for that."

Choutarou and Gakuto looked at each other and then went to the court, passing by Inui and Renji who were just silently marching.

"I will be serving for this game." Said Inui as he did just that.

And schooled them.

Choutarou looked sad. "No offense, Gakuto, but if you were Shishido then you would be able to return those serves."

"Well I'm not Shishido so leave me alone!" said Gakuto.

"Hey, hey!" said Eiji, standing up. "Don't fight, guys!"

"I didn't mean to start a fight." Said Choutarou, looking even sadder than before.

"I didn't mean to snap at you like that." Gakuto said. "I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry too." Choutarou said.

"Enough, enough!" said Ryuuzaki, looking irritated. "Let's get this last game over with."

"It's your serve, Gakuto." Said Choutarou.

"All right!" said Gakuto as he served the ball like a normal tennis player, and then quickly returned to the front of the court while Choutarou retreated to the back.

Since this was the first play that wasn't a score off of a serve, Inui and Renji were able to use their data tennis to succeed. However, Gakuto and Choutarou's plays as a team were quite unpredictable. They both usually played doubles and played on the same team, but Inui and Renji had to admit that they had never gathered data of the two of them playing together. AT THE SAME TIME. ON THE SAME COURT!

"40-15!" said Ryuuzaki, pointing at Play Doubles With Five People.

"I'm glad this match is short." Said Gakuto. "Short matches suit me best."

"We just need one more point." Said Choutarou, tossing the ball to Gakuto.

Once again, Gakuto served like a normal person, and this volley continued back and forth for quite a while, until Gakuto unleashed one of his BRAND NEW MOVES THAT NO ONE HAD SEEN YET (and I made up just now) in which he… uh… gets good air off of Choutarou's head and sails towards the lob that Inui had been pretty sure would be unreachable.

Even though Choutarou was a little bummed out that he had been stomped on, the ends justified the means when they were awarded with the victory.

"That was an excellent game." Said Renji as everyone politely shook hands.

They returned to their appointed areas.

"I anticipate a disastrous outcome of the remaining matches." Inui told his team.

"Why?" said Sanada. "They're all doubles players. We can beat them."

"I'm a doubles player too." Tetsu said for the second time.

"Singles 3!" said Ryuuzaki. "Tetsu from ii Data versus Eiji from Playing Doubles With Five People!"

"I am SO nervous, guys!" said Eiji to his teammates. "What if I don't do a good job? What if I lose the game?"

"Don't worry!" said Momo. "You've played singles before! Remember how you used to play singles before your first year of middle school when you started playing with Oishi? Remember that?"

Eiji nodded. "That was a long time ago." Eiji said woefully.

"We believe in you, Eiji!" said Choutarou.

Eiji still didn't look convinced, and his feet were dragging as he made his way towards the court.

"This looks bad…" said Gakuto.

"We have to find Oishi to give Eiji the strength to play singles!" said Momo, jumping to his feet.

"Yeah!" said Marui. "Where do we find him?"

"I've been here the whole time!" said Oishi as he jumped out of a bush. "I would never miss one of Eiji's matches!"

They stared at him.

"Well, why were you hiding in that bush?" questioned Marui.

"Because!" said Oishi. "I just was! Back off!"

"Okay, okay, fine…" said Marui, rolling his eyes.

"EIJI!" Oishi called to Eiji.

"Oishi?" Eiji perked up and looked around. And then he spotted Oishi. "Oishi! There you are! You came to watch my match!"

"I wouldn't miss it for the world!" Oishi said.

"Oishi!" exclaimed Eiji as he faced Tetsu and looked determined.

Tetsu frowned once again. He wished Sakurai would jump out of a bush to support him and give him strength to play singles. But that didn't happen. And because of that, he felt even more discouraged than he was before.

With the avid support of Oishi AND his entire time, Eiji didn't have much trouble playing against Tetsu. And he felt it necessary to go totally all out and use ALL his acrobatics and all his special moves just because everyone was watching him and he wanted to impress Oishi, even though Oishi's seen them all before like a hundred times.

"Game set and match!" said Ryuuzaki. "The winner is Eiji from Playing Doubles With Five People!"

"Hurray!" said Eiji as he ran over and jumped into the arms of his team. Oishi ran over too.

"You did great, Eiji!" Oishi said.

"It was all because of you, Oishi!" said Eiji. "You gave me the strength I needed to play singles! But I don't ever want to do it again."

"Oh Eiji!" said Oishi.

And then they hugged.

For like an hour.

And they would have hugged forever if they weren't promptly stopped by Eiji's teammates.

"By the way, your team name is awesome!" said Oishi, giving Eiji the thumbs up as he ran off to find his team all over again.

"Thanks Oishi!" said Eiji as he waved goodbye to his best friend ever.

"Returning to our tennis matches…" said Ryuuzaki, clearing her throat loudly. "Could I have the Singles 2 match ready to go? Marui from Playing Doubles With Five People and Jirou from ii Data!"

"What?" said Jirou, sitting up immediately. "Did they just say that I was playing against Marui?"

"If you don't win, Jirou," said Inui. "Then our team will be knocked out of the competition and Sanada will not have an opportunity to play any tennis at all."

"But…but…" Jirou stuttered. "I can't win against MARUI!"

"You better win against Marui." Said Sanada as he grabbed Jirou's collar threateningly.

"Hey!" said Jirou, pulling away. "Don't hate!"

Sanada let him go and Jirou ran to the courts.

"Do you think Jirou will be able to win?" Renji asked Inui.

"Unfortunately, it is most unlikely." Inui replied.

Jirou stood at his baseline while Marui stood at his own.

"Hey!" Jirou called. "Remember me?"

Marui raised an eyebrow. "Er…sure." He said.

"The fact that you beat me so bad two years ago is really psyching me out." Jirou confessed.

"Psyching you UP or psyching you OUT?" Marui clarified.

"Out." Said Jirou. "I honestly don't think I could ever beat you and I might as well forfeit right now!"

"DON'T. YOU. DARE." Said his team quite angrily.

"But I won't!" Jirou assured them.

The match commenced and everyone watched intently. It was SUPER interesting because both Jirou and Marui had a similar style of play so it all came down to whoever was simply more talented.

Momo was sitting at the edge of his seat.

"I kind of hope that Marui will lose just so I'll get a turn." Momo said, caressing his racket excitedly.

"I can see why." Said Eiji. "It has been SO long since the last time we got to play tennis."

Choutarou came back from looking at the giant easel.

"Guys!" he exclaimed.

"What?" said everyone, jumping up.

Choutarou took a deep breath. "If we win this game…" he started. "Then the next team we play against is Shishido's team!"

"OMFG Oishi's on that team too!" Eiji yelled as he ran over to double check just to make sure.

"Now we DEFINITELY have to win!" Choutarou said.

"If Marui doesn't beat Jirou then it's all up to me!" said Momo. "I'd be a liar if I said I wasn't excited!"

"Game set and match!" came Ryuuzaki's voice from the courts.

Everyone spun around in slow motion to see Marui standing there with that LOOK that you get when you know you're all like: I won. Snap.

"Marui won!" said Playing Doubles With Five People. "SNAP!"

They all ran over and cheered for him as Jirou sadly went back to his team. They were all shaking their heads in a disappointed fashion as if they hadn't lost their games as well.

"Great." Said Sanada. "Now I'm the ONLY PERSON who didn't get to play tennis."

"Momo didn't get to play." Tetsu pointed out.

"But his team is moving onto the next round." Sanada reminded him. "So no doubt he will get the opportunity."

"Oh yeah…" said Tetsu, hanging his head low.

"Winners!" said Ryuuzaki. "Playing Doubles With Five People! They will move onto the next round to play against The Rhythm!"

"Let's take a look at the lineup for the second round, shall we?" suggested Sakaki as he gathered everyone around. "There will be only two matches, so this is the semi-finals. Whichever two teams win this game will play against each other to determine the winners."

"The first match will be SHATS versus Pillars!" said Ryuuzaki.

The two teams eyed each other.

"I look forward to getting an opportunity to play against you, Tezuka." Said Fuji, looking quite evil.

"We're not matched to play against each other." Tezuka said. "I'm playing Singles 1 and you're playing Doubles."

Fuji paused a moment, frozen in his evil pose.

"Well, nevertheless." He said. "In general, I look forward to playing a match against you."

"Oh." said Tezuka.

"You guys CAN switch the lineup if you want." Said Banji.

"No, we're all right the way we are." Said Fuji as if he answered for every single person. IN THE WORLD.

"ANYWAY." Said Ryuuzaki. "As I previously stated, Playing Doubles With Five People will play against The Rhythm!"

"Oishi, MY team is playing against YOUR team!" said Eiji as if it wasn't the most obvious thing ever.

"That's so exciting!" said Oishi. "I'm glad you and I don't have to play against each other, though."

"Tell me about it!" said Eiji with an overly animated sigh of relief.

"Say, where exactly is Shishido, anyway?" said Choutarou since he had obviously had a lot of inner monologue about Shishido just then and had just suddenly come to the realization that Shishido wasn't present.

"He's uh…getting himself psyched up for his next match!" Sengoku said.

Choutarou paused. "Oh." he said. "I guess he does that sometimes."

"Who win the tournament?" said Ojii. "The team with too many captains on it? The team with too many people who play doubles on it? The team with too many evil people on it? Or the team with random miscellaneous people who don't really get along?"

Everyone stared at him.

"Hey…" said Sengoku. "We're not random miscellaneous people!"

"And what do you mean 'evil people'?" said Yana. "We're not evil. Well, Fuji is. But the rest of us aren't."

"I am TOO evil!" said Kirihara.

"I'm pretty evil." Mizuki agreed.

"Okay fine." Said Yana. "But me and Taka aren't evil."

"Well me and Kabaji aren't captains." David pointed out.

"ALL RIGHT ENOUGH." Said Ojii. "Forget I said anything."

"We are going to take a dinner break so you can all have a breather before we continue!" said Sakaki. "We want the four winning teams to come back in one hour! The rest of you can go to your houses if you want because we don't expect you to come back."

"Houses as in our real houses that we ACTUALLY live in?" Ryoma said.

"No." Said Sakaki. "The fake houses that we're forcing you to live in."

"Oh." said Ryoma with a frown.

"So be back in one hour, you teams that aren't losers!" said Banji.

"RIGHT-O!" said the non loser teams as they gave their coaches the thumbs up.