KitsuneFreak: Okay, the weird late messages have corrected themselves. No problems now. In retrospect, I should have named the plant Marilyn since it would also go along the lines of TeniPuri but it's easier to play with the name Blossom. Also I should have reserved this chapter to come in at least 3 chapters ahead but since I was thinking about Shinji and what should happen then…yeah….Geez, if I say anymore I'll give away the whole darn thing. Oh, and there will be a few references to my other PoT oneshots, but you don't have to read them to understand what's going on.

And, I think I'm going to approach a new type of disclaimer message for once. -clears throat- Ahem… -song plays in background-

If you don't own Prince of Tennis clap your hand! –clap, clap–

(Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Mushroom, Mushroom…)

With Inui, on his way to a Department Store:

"I guess I'll just have to use the money to buy a new bottle then," Inui sighed as he trotted along. He kept going until he spotted a little kid at a lemonade stand. He assumed that if he were to replace the kid with himself and the lemonade with LP9 then things could get better for his data gathering. Plus, he could make some money. So he paid the kid 25 yen and took over the lemonade business. He sat there on the chair and watched the kid frolic away. Looking at his watch, he noticed that it was already 5 p.m. and the people were gradually starting to lessen. But Inui was a patient fellow.

Shinji had gotten very bored of beating people at street tennis (although he secretly admitted to himself that it was very fun indeed) and remembered that he was lacked shampoo so he went and bought himself a nice big 23.7 ounce of H&S shampoo. However, for Shinji to get home he had to pass Inui and his lemonade stand. Things seemed uneventful because as Shinji walked by, Inui didn't appear like he was going to pounce on anybody. Muttering to himself about overpriced shampoos Shinji heard a noise. A faint meowing noise to be exact. Looking around he spotted an orange fluff caught underneath the tires of an old parked car. Putting his hand to his chin pensively, he muttered, "Should I go help save that kitten? Hmmm, I should."

(Un) Fortunately Inui heard the question and thought that Shinji was asking him.

"It's probably a good idea if you don't want that cat to be hanging onto your conscience."

"You heard me?" Shinji inquired with a bewildered look.

"Yes. It's hard not to hear someone at approximately 3'6" away."

"Oh is it? I always thought that if you're at least a foot away then no one could really hear unless they were purposely eavesdropping."

"Umm sure," Inui nodded, "So are you going to save that cat?"

"I thought about it."

"And?"

"I officially decided to save it."

A minute passed as neither boy moved. Inui cleared his throat, "Aren't you going to save the cat?"

"Oh, I had already decided to save the cat before you talked to me but you said that if I didn't save it then the cat would always bug me. Surprised by your acknowledgement of my existence I confirmed that you were listening in and you reinforced this fact by saying that it wasn't hard to hear someone 3'6" away and then you asked if I was going to save the kitten and I replied with a yes and I was thinking of the best way to do it and was just going to save the kitten but you interrupted me and asked me if I was going to save it so I looked up to answer you and that's why I haven't saved it yet."

"Okay, so I'll leave you to save the cat now," it wasn't that Shinji annoyed Inui…

"Just one thing."

"Yes?" Inui's eye twitched rather visibly.

"Can you hold this? I can't rescue the kitten if I'm holding this at the same time," he handed Inui the bottle of H&S. Then he ran off in the direction of the little kitty.

…It was just the fact that Shinji said everything in a monotone.

Very annoyed at Shinji already, Inui decided to get a little payback by adding 1.3 ounces of LP9 to the shampoo making it a whopping 25 ounces of shampoo…with other added ingredients. Inui shook the container to make sure it was all evenly spread out and then sat, watched, and waited. He watched as Shinji fished out the kitten's tail out from under the parked car. While Shinji petted the cat, a lady in her forties or so walked over. After a brief moment of talking, Shinji handed the kitten over, waved to the lady and walked back to Inui.

"Who was she?" Inui asked, curious.

"After saving the kitten she came over and I conveniently learned that she was the owner. I told her that she should probably be careful in caring for her kitten because it could happen again and there might not be someone to save it so she said that she was really sorry for causing me all that trouble and that she'll keep a careful eye on the kitten but before she left she offered me some money for helping the kitten to which I declined since I thought that it wouldn't be right."

"You could have just told me that she was the cat's owner, you know," Inui stated matter-of-factly.

"Oh I see," Shinji pondered a moment and held his hand out, "Guess I better thank you for holding onto the shampoo."

Inui placed the bottle in Shinji's hand but refused to let go. After several tugs on Shinji's part, he looked at Inui questioningly. Inui's free hand shot out with the palm faced upward. Still not getting it, Shinji raised an eyebrow.

"25 yen," Inui provided.

"25 yen for holding something for me for a couple of minutes?" Shinji asked uncertainly.

"You took 10 minutes," Inui checked his watch, "No, make that 8 minutes 34 seconds."

Shinji looked hard at Inui then concluded that there was no way that Inui was going to let go of his precious until he got the money.

"Fine," sighed Shinji. He pulled out his wallet and pulled out several yen and threw them down on the table. "Go buy yourself some juice," he muttered.

Inui's hand loosened for a single second but it was enough for Shinji to pull hard on the bottle and sprint his way home. He wanted to get back as soon as he could so he could take a nice shower, finish up homework, have a nice conversation with the wall and finally go to sleep.

Inui on the other hand counted up the cash to find that Shinji had given him 5 yen too less and he was very displeased. But he didn't have any time to give off steam because it was getting late and he should quickly head to the department store to buy his mom a new perfume bottle and head home. He closed down the lemonade stand and was about to go about his normal business until… hewasattackedbyarandommuggerwhoranoffwithhis20yen! OMG! He chased the mugger up and down the streets of Tokyo, determined not to lose his newly earned money.

With Fuji and the Unsuspecting Victim:

Fuji watched with hate burning inside of him at the man who approached. It was Yuuta's idol.

Mizuki.

Grabbing two apples in his hand that conveniently grew on the tree; he held them up waiting, out of sight. As Mizuki passed under Fuji's tree, Fuji dropped both apples one after another. They landed on Mizuki's head with two distinct THUDs. Mizuki swore under his breath and looked up into the tree. He could see no one. So he picked up an apple from the ground and blindly hurled it into the depths of the tree. Being a tensai that Fuji was, he was able to dodge it easily. Things weren't as easy for Mizuki because the apple that he threw hit an apple-laden branch. Of course, that would mean that Mizuki was just showered by more apples of destruction. Fuji just smirked at his enemy's suffering.

Mizuki shoved off all the apples that covered him and heard a strange…battle cry? Looking up, he watched as a man wearing an orange shirt run in his direction but he was pretty sure that the battle cry came from behind him. Fuji had also heard that cry from his perch in the apple tree but, unlike Mizuki, he didn't have the ability to see where it came from since leaves were blocking 76 percent of his vision. So he relied on his sense of sound rather than sight.

Mizuki squinted at the figure that was behind the orange shirted man and noted that it looked oddly like the data-freak at Seigaku. Looking again he confirmed that it WAS indeed Inui.

"Get back here and give me back my money you insolent little mugger!" Inui shouted followed by several very colorful words and pulled out a sling shot.

Fuji, who was still in the tree, heard Inui and said to himself, "I didn't think that Inui could be so indecent!" We must remember the fact that Fuji can't see them from his position so we can't assume that Fuji knows that a mugger really did steal Inui's money.

Mizuki watched as Inui swung the slingshot dangerously around his head before taking something that looked like a seriously oversized pill and placing it in the pouch to aim and launch it.

"The change of hitting the target at a distance of 5 feet: 100 percent," Inui released the pink capsule. However the one thing that Inui failed to calculate in his rush is that the mugger was running. In other words he was aiming for a moving target whilst he was moving himself. That tiny detail could throw off the entire calculation. And it did. The mugger utilized Mizuki as a trampoline to climb up the tree. So Mizuki was inevitably hit by the misfired capsule and let out a small yelp. Fuji still had no idea what was going on until some guy wearing an orange shirt climbed up on his branch and proceeded to push him off the branch that was, like, on HIS tree. And the tree was like HIS turf.

For Inui, running after the mugger was his primary issue. He didn't really care who he took out as long as he got his money back. On the way to the tree in the park, he had already shot like 5 other random people. So as he came closer to the tree he reloaded his sling shot and shot at the moving figure within the leaves. It hit someone's leg and with a yelp Fuji came tumbling down on top of Mizuki.

Going into Super Inui mode, he glowed with a green aura as he fitted the projectile tightly in the cushion and let it fly wherever it may. Several seconds passed as the entire world held its breath. Then, 20 yen came floating down. Satisfied, Inui continued his initial mission before he got distracted by the mugger which distracted him from closing the stand which distracted him from the initial mission. But we're smart and could've figured that out ourselves.

With a Newly Formed Couple:

"I love you,

You love me…"

There were several raised eyebrows and a few people even found the courage to look up.

"We are happy family…"

What they saw was what they assumed to be seriously insane child sitting alone on a small table singing to himself or rather his cupped hands in front of him.

"With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you…"

The crowd at the café watched him as he hugged in beat with the song and looked like he was going to kiss something in his cupped hands but stopped like an inch away.

"Won't you say you love me too?"

At the end several people gave him a standing ovation for being so brave as to sing such a thing in public. One of them even added, "He's so enthusiastic about life and loves everything. Now everybody let's all return the favor!"

And so everyone suddenly broke into song. For a few people who did not know what was going on in the café (since they were outside) they assumed that it must have been Happy Hour. They also mentally added to themselves that they would not go near it with a 39½ foot pole. Like, what café in their right minds would brainwash all of its customers into singing such a song? Taka happened to be passing by and recognized a singer and went in hurriedly to see if his friend was all right.

Shaking his friend he shouted above the musical din, "Oishi! Oi, Oishi, you okay?"

Oishi looked up from his hand, "Huh?"

"I was wondering if you're okay…"

"Yeah, I'm fine. No problems here."

"Okay, then I'll le-" Taka stopped suddenly as his eyes grew as wide as saucers when he looked at the THING crawling around on Oishi's arm which paused.

"Oishi, do you see what I see?" Taka pointed.

"Huh?" Oishi stared at the spot for a while and put his other hand on his cheek happily. "Oh, look. It's giving me a hug!"

While Taka did a double take, Oishi was squeaking in delight.

Finding his voice Taka asked, "You know that that's a… bug, right? A cockroach, to be exact."

Oishi blinked.

And then ran away with the aforementioned bug screaming, "You're just jealous 'cause she's more beautiful than you are!"

And Taka ended up doing another double take.

"Isn't Oishi supposed to have a colossal fear of cockroaches?" he mused. "From what I've heard from both Inui and Eiji, he supposed to have one. So why is he suddenly interested in some bug?" Taka couldn't mull over the issue anymore because he suddenly had various images that involved Oishi, a cockroach, and a wedding dress. And that made him do a double take. Again.

Poor Taka.

With Tezuka & Blossom:

"Ah, what a splendid view!" Tezuka exclaimed from the highest seat in the Ferris wheel. He looked fondly upon Blossom and held on to one of her leaves. He then let out a laugh that seemed too frolicsome for the likes of him. Because of that, It came out as more of a maniacal laugh than anything else. As the wheel's seat lurched downward, the plant seemed to slide away from Tezuka…

Away down the Ferris wheel, a small red-headed figure with uberly mad acrobatic skillz tried to climb up the many metal bars to reach them. On the other side of the wheel a peculiar silver haired boy was watching them via binoculars.

With Kamio in the Mall:

"Ugh. What's with all this junk?" Kamio stared disgustedly at the many shopping bags that he hung on to and checked the list to see if he forgot anything.

Tachibana:
hair gel
small red circular stickers

Shinji:
L'Oreal shampoo
grip tape

Sakurai:
solid color bandannas

Mori:
Caps

Kamio didn't have to look at the list anymore because he knew that aside from those things, everyone else wanted Tachibana Worship cards. It had been easier to get them first. The entirety of Fudomine (excluding Tachibana himself) frequented the store so often that the owner decided to make a tiny section of the store just for them. Some cards had stuff on them like 'Tachibana is Fudomine's Love' or 'You are my Sunshine' that was written out with tiny Tachibana's all twisting around to form the word. There was even a 'We (heart) Tachibana'. After he had payed for the cards, he went to Macy٭s and searched around for bandannas (Sakurai insisted that they come from Macy٭s). While he was paying for the bandannas there, he saw Akutsu prowling around, looking oh so very evil with a miserable touch. It almost looked like someone had stuck him in a ballerina outfit and threatened to blackmail him, but Akutsu couldn't NOT do so because of one reason or another. But Kamio sensed the evil vibes with his rhythm vibes and left the store as soon as possible.

While searching for other Fudomine necessities he saw something horrifyingly scary behind a store window that almost made him wet himself before he ran as fast as he could all the way back home….I'll just let you fill in the blanks of what he saw.

GET YOUR MIND OUTTA THE GUTTER. IT'S NOT THAT… (whatever that is)

(Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Mushroom, Mushroom…)

KitsuneFreak: Oh this can be annoying…I'm starting to feel as though I can't write well anymore… Ugh, that's the worst feeling ever! Especially if you're in the middle of writing fanfics. (Or it could just be because somebody forced me to eat sea cucumbers for dinner (Bleargh!)) Are my chapters still funny? Also, if there are any OCPs (Original Crack Pairings XD) you'd like to read that I haven't really thought about then just request. The main people that I haven't worked with (and are able to work with) are the rest of Hyoutei and Rikkaidai. Please don't ask for stuff like Yuki-Kiri, or Sana-Yuki, or the Dirty Pair. They're meant to be totally random and cracked. Read and Review please!

Onegai shimasu!

R&R!