Team Five
Shishido awoke the next morning. Thankfully. There had been questions as to whether or not that would happen for a little while there.
He actually didn't feel like he was about to die anymore. He definitely didn't feel well enough to get up and run around or do really anything, but at least he wasn't on his death bed anymore.
He wondered why THAT was.
He looked in the corner of the room to see Choutarou sleeping in a chair.
He was JUST about to say something and wake him up when the door flung open and there was his accursed family.
"You're not dead!" said Oishi. "What a relief!"
"No thanks to any of you." Said Shishido with a glare.
This caused Choutarou to wake up. He looked disoriented for a minute or so with an expression that was all like, "Wait, who are these people?" but then he remembered where he was.
"Shishido!" Choutarou exclaimed, running over to him. "Are you feeling any better?"
"I'm feeling a lot better actually." Shishido admitted.
"Who ever thought that actually taking care of you would make you feel better?" Sengoku said.
"It's all because of you guys that I got sick in the first place!" Shishido accused.
"Well, that may be true, but it's only because you were acting so crazy." Said Kamio. "So technically it's not our fault at all."
"What do you mean, acting crazy?" Shishido demanded.
"After you tied yourself up and chloroformed yourself as a trick to get us to let you back in the house, you started saying that Momo had tied up all his teammates and was forcing them to listen to seminars about how playing doubles wasn't that great." Oishi reminded him.
Shishido and Choutarou looked at each other and then back at Oishi.
"THAT DID HAPPEN." They both said.
"Sure, sure…" said the rest of the team.
"I'm hungry." Itsuki complained. "We don't have anymore cereal in the pantry. Or anywhere else for that matter."
"I'll make something!" said Oishi.
"But Sengoku's the Mom." Said Kamio.
"I can't cook!" said Sengoku.
"Neither can Oishi!" said Kamio.
"I'LL make breakfast." Said Choutarou.
"No, Choutarou!" said Shishido. "You shouldn't have to feed them!"
"I'll make breakfast for you too, Shishido!" said Choutarou as if that's what the issue was. "I don't mind!"
The rest of the team looked at each other.
"You can if you want to." Said Sengoku with a shrug.
"I do!" said Choutarou as he left the room.
"Choutarou!" Shishido called out to his pal as he tried to get up and chase after him but then he realized he was more bedridden than he originally thought so he decided instead to just continue to lie there like a lump.
The rest of the family just left him alone in there and went off into the kitchen to see how creative Choutarou was going to be since they didn't really have any food left in their house after neglecting to go shopping at all.
"Hey Ootori," said Kamio as the family sat down at the kitchen table in anticipation of their breakfast.
"Yes?" said Choutarou as he searched through the shelves and drawers.
"Does your team know you're here?"
Choutarou paused for a moment. "I mentioned something about it."
"That's good enough for me!" Kamio said.
"Us too!" Oishi and Sengoku agreed.
Team Six
"Akutsu, you can't leave NOW!" said Atsushi as he watched Akutsu walk around the house in search of anything he might not have pocketed that he wanted to take with him.
"Why not?" said Akutsu.
"We have to go meet the coaches very soon and then they're going to let us go home!" said Ryou. "But if you leave now then we'll probably be disqualified from whatever happens!"
"So what?" said Akutsu.
"Maybe my coach will get so angry with your rebellion that he'll kick me off the Rokkaku tennis team!" said Ryou. "And then I'll have to… join St. Rudolph or something!"
"What's wrong with St. Rudolph?" said Atsushi, putting his hands on his hips.
"YOU'RE on it." Said Ryou. "DUH."
"Hey!" said Atsushi, at a loss of anything else to say.
"All right, I'm leaving now." Said Akutsu as he went to the front door. "I'm far too impatient to wait just a few more hours to get this over with that I'm willing to take the chance that you'll get kicked off your respective tennis teams."
He opened the door and turned around only to be faced with Kaidou and Oshitari.
"What do you guys want?" said Akutsu.
"We just wanted to know that we're not willing to allow you to take that chance." Said Oshitari. "Kaidou?"
"Right." Said Kaidou as he pulled a frying pan out from behind his back and hit Akutsu over the head with it. Yes, it was that same frying pan that already had Akutsu's head dented in the top.
Akutsu fell limply to the floor as the twins ran over.
"Way to go, you two!" said Atsushi.
"Yeah, good thinking!" Ryou agreed.
"Let's drag him back inside and hope he stays out for a few hours." Kaidou said.
They all dragged him back inside just like they said they would and then they noticed that his pack of cigarettes fell out of his pocket.
"Would you look at this?" said Oshitari. "What do you say we get rid of these so we don't have to deal with him smoking just in case he wakes up early?"
"Or better yet, let's try smoking!" said Atsushi.
The others stared at him quizzically.
"Well, all right." Oshitari shrugged as he handed everyone a cigarette.
They all lit up the cigarettes with the matches they just so happen to keep in their pockets. After one intensely long inhale, three out of four of them hacked and coughed like there was no tomorrow.
Kaidou, Ryou and Atsushi immediately discarded the cigarettes and wondered what possessed them to do that in the first place.
Oshitari, on the other hand, stood there with the cigarette daintily in his hand and blew the smoke out of his mouth with such form that one might be under the impression that he had been smoking since the very day he had been born.
"Please don't do that in the house." Said Kaidou as he continued to cough.
"Oh I don't plan on smoking." Said Oshitari. "I am just as revolted by it as the rest of you are. I suppose I'm just a natural or something to that effect."
He discarded his cigarette.
Just then, the entire room went black for a moment. Then two spotlights shone on Choutarou and Oishi who were both standing there all dressed up like before.
"Remember, kids." Said Choutarou. "What looks dumber than a cigarette in your ear?"
"A cigarette in your mouth." Said Oishi.
"DON'T SMOKE!" they both said together.
Then the room lit up again.
"Hm…" said Team Six with a collective TEAM NOD.
Team Seven
Renji, Inui and Sanada entered the living room to see a strange sight. Jirou was doing what looked like a tribal dance of excitement as Tetsu appeared to be trying to detach the disco ball from the ceiling.
"Jirou, I'm not sure I know exactly how to do this…" Tetsu said nervously.
"Nonsense!" said Jirou. "You're doing fine!"
"Excuse me." Inui cleared his throat, and the two of them stopped their activities and looked over at the three that had just entered.
"Yeah?" said Jirou.
"May I inquire as to what is going on?" said Inui.
"Oh." Said Jirou. "I'm just waiting for Tetsu to finish getting the disco ball detached from the ceiling."
"That much was clear." Said Renji. "I think Inui meant to ask WHY Tetsu was detaching the disco ball."
"Because I asked him to." Jirou answered.
"Why?" Inui asked.
"Because I can't reach it." Jirou replied.
"But why did you want the disco ball detached from the ceiling?" Sanada said, trying to speak slowly and clearly.
"Well," Tetsu said. "Jirou wanted to take the disco ball home and since we're leaving soon, he was worried that we wouldn't be coming back and then he'd miss out on the disco ball."
"But what about that disco ball?" said Inui, pointing at the OTHER disco ball that had never been set up.
"What about it?" Jirou said.
"What's wrong with it?" Renji said.
"Nothing." Said Jirou.
"Then why do you need that disco ball?" Sanada asked, pointing at the disco ball that was half stuck in the ceiling.
"Because I want both of them." Jirou said as if it were the most obvious thing in the entire world. And to him, I'm willing to bet that it was probably among one of them.
"And he asked me to help him…" Tetsu said.
"And he's an upperclassmen and you just wanted to be cool, right?" Sanada finished up.
Tetsu nodded, looking ashamed.
"If Jirou was jumping off a bridge, would you?" Renji said.
"Well, only if it made me REALLY cool…" Tetsu admitted.
"I don't have any objections to Jirou taking the disco ball home." Said Inui. "I just hope it doesn't break while Tetsu is taking it down."
"Well you guys know how to do all that crazy electronic stuff, right?" said Jirou excitedly. "Could you guys help too and take it down? Anyone really. Anyone who's taller than me. Which is…anyone…" Jirou looked pretty sad as he trailed off and realized how short he was.
"I refuse to have anything to do with the disco ball." Inui said flatly.
"We must agree." Renji and Sanada… agreed.
"I'll be really careful with it." Said Tetsu.
"All right…I'm putting all my faith in you!" Jirou said.
Tetsu wasn't about to admit that he was nervous now as he continued to work on getting it down for his new friend.
Renji and Inui shrugged at each other and went off to do something that has to do with data, leaving Sanada there all by himself. Except he was there with Tetsu and Jirou.
"I just don't belong in either group." Sanada sighed.
Team Eight
Everyone in the team was in the backyard with the hose turned on full blast. It's not like they were engaged in some well mannered frivolity or anything by spraying the hose at each other or frolicking through it. No. They were just letting it run into the grass. They were being wasteroos.
"Do you think that's enough water?" said Bane as he prodded the damp ground with his foot.
"Let's just leave the hose on when we leave." Said Yuuta.
"Yes." Said Shinji. "This will certainly show all the coaches how much we despised this experiment of theirs."
"Yes." Said Atobe sarcastically. "This'll show them."
"You have a better idea?" said Jackal.
"No, no." said Atobe. "Flooding the backyard of this random house is, I think, the perfect plan."
"Yeah…that's what we were saying…" said everyone, eyeing him suspiciously.
"Well, it's almost noon." Said Yuuta, checking his watch. "We should start making our way down there so we won't be late."
"Even though our coaches specifically said that we were going to go home at noon…" Bane said with a groan.
"Well, the limo should be here any minute." Atobe checked his watch.
"LIMO?" gasped everyone.
"Yes." Said Atobe. "Of course. If I am to go straight home after this silly thing we're doing at noon then I require a limo."
"What limo is this?" said Jackal.
"Why, our limo of course." Atobe said.
"Wow." Said Shinji. "You're really not that bad of a guy after all."
"Of course not." Said Atobe, looking mildly confused.
That's when he noticed the limo pulling up in the front yard.
"Oh, there's my limo." He said. "I'll see you all at the tennis courts."
"Wait!" said Yuuta. "You mean you called the limo for YOURSELF and expect us to just WALK?"
Atobe actually looked like he couldn't think of a response at first. "Well obviously." He said finally. "What did you think I meant?"
"Well you said OUR LIMO." Jackal reminded him.
"Yes…as in the Atobe family limo." Atobe said. "Well, one of them anyway."
"That's just being mean for no reason!" said Bane as the four of them chased him to the front yard.
The chauffer had the door opened for Atobe already.
"I'm sorry, but there's simply not enough room for all of you." Said Atobe.
"What are you talking about?" said Yuuta. "That limo could comfortably hold a third world country."
"No it couldn't." said Atobe as he sat down.
"Don't be a jerk!" said Jackal. "Redeem yourself for all the pain you put us through all week by letting us take a short ride in your limo! It's not going to kill you, is it?"
Atobe said there for a minute or so.
Then he grabbed the door handle.
"Yes." He said. "It will."
Then he slammed the door shut.
The chauffer ran to the front seat, jumped in and then sped off with tires screeching at a speed that rivaled that of an ice cream man who was asked to wait for a kid to get his dollar inside.
"DAMN YOU ATOBE!" yelled Yuuta as he dropped to his knees and the screen panned out so it showed the earth and an explosion right where Yuuta had been being EVER so dramatic.
