KitsuneFreak: Okay, it's chapter 5 everybody, the highest number of chapters I've hit yet. Let's hope that this keeps up. KiriharaAkaya, what you asked for was a really cool request. It'll go perfectly with what I had already planned. Tee Hee Hee. (Sadly, I think it'll have to come later on) But to get back to the story, here's a list of the pairings that we already know of. Cheesy names are TEH BEST.

Tezuka x Blossom x Atobe (triangle)
Eiji x Tezuka
Oishi x Cockroach
Oshitari x Sakuno

TEH-ALMITEY-DISCLAMER-OV-DUUM: Lyk never! (Eww, bad grammar. But now that that's over with, on to the story!)

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

With the Arch Enemies (not Atobe & Tezuka):

Mizuki popped out from a pile of apples and he rubbed his head.

"Jeez, note to self: NEVER steal data-freak's money." His face suddenly grew worried as he searched about for something. "Ringa? Ringa? Where are you? " He shoveled around in the apples for a while before picking out the largest and reddest one. He brushed off the invisible dust around it and just stared at it…almost stupidly…but for the sake of Mizuki's image we'll say charismatically. Then he pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the apple clean, all the while humming random tunes from various love songs, since he couldn't remember a whole entire love song.

Not to far from where Mizuki sat Fuji appeared to be sleeping. But he conveniently woke up for the sake of the fanfic ten seconds after we had just stated that he appeared to be sleeping. Awoken by the noise that a certain apple adoring fool was making, he rubbed his eyes before they focused on Mizuki. He looked confused for a moment, before shaking his head and standing up. Walking over to Mizuki, he held out his hand as if to help him up. Mizuki cowered before the almighty hand, as though expecting that it would somehow slap him silly.

"What? I'm just trying to help you up," Fuji said in a tone that wasn't too harsh.

"Ummm, no" replied Mizuki going all valley girl for a second while he was hitting the hand away.

"Why not?" asked Fuji.

Mizuki took in a deep breath and answered at Mach 5, "There's probably a cobra hidden in your sleeve or something and the second I grab on, it'll jump out, bite me and inject me with all its poisonous glory, which will probably make me die a horrible death or something while you're sitting on the side cackling manically watching me melt in a puddle of goo…And even if that was never going to happen in the first place, I'm still not going to take your hand since it COULD happen, for all I know……or maybe I should just stop reading books on Cleopatra."

"Look," Fuji said with really unusual pout, "I just want to help."

"Fuji, you are supposed to be in angry mode right now. You usually are in angry mode whenever you see me anyway."

Fuji stood there like: o.O?

"Remember the incident with your brother, you know, Super Rising?" Mizuki waved a hand in front of Fuji.

And Fuji is now like: O.O?

"Okay, okay, okay. To put it simply, you're supposed to make an attempt to kill me right now," Mizuki explained, then added as an afterthought, "Just not like, RIGHT, right now. You see, I like living and all and I still wanna grow up and get married have kids and see them grow up and stuff."

"…"

Peering into the tensai's unreadable eyes he asked, "You're gonna kill me now, right?"

Looking up, Fuji gave an adorable smile and giggled, which very much scared the living and dead daylights outta Mizuki.

"Awww, you're so cute Hajime-kun!"

And it was now Mizuki's turn to go: O.O

-before running far far away of course…..

With a certain tensai after him……

Desperately trying to give him a hug….

WTH? O.o

At a Distant Park:

A man in an orange shirt obsessively hugged a tree. Passersby fled when they saw him and environmentalists patted him on the back.

At the Local Hospital:

"So what happened exactly?" the doctor asked.

"I don't know! I was just walking on the street, minding my own beeswax and bam. Next thing I knew, I saw one of my prize students totally knocked out on the ground" Ryuuzaki explained. Her granddaughter was sitting nervously next to the occupied bed in the hospital room.

"Well, is there anything else that you saw? Maybe something that could have caused Ryoma Echizen's sudden collapse?"

"Hmm," Ryuuzaki mused, "I do remember seeing an orange blur followed by another blur that seemed to be spouting colorful words. But other than that it was all just a blur."

"So you saw two blurs?"

"Pretty much."

The doctor sighed and got up. "All right, come with me." He then led her to Ryoma's bed where Sakuno was already sitting near.

"W-will he be okay?" Sakuno asked softly.

"Yes, I'm sure he will but he hasn't woken up in the past ten minutes so I'm going to have to take drastic measures," replied the doctor who turned around and began to do his doctor stuff.

Ryuuzaki had a look of horror on her face and stood between Ryoma and the doctor. "Whoa, hold on a sec! You're not gonna do what they do in all the movies and stuff where the guy doesn't wake up right?"

"Sorry?"

"I WON'T LET YOU SUPER SHOCK MY STUDENT!" and Ryuuzaki suddenly had all the knowledge in the world of martial arts as she Kung Foo-ed the poor doctor…

But of course, she was, undoubtedly so, an old ha- err… woman and she fell down half-way through her kick and landed on her head... unconscious. The doctor had backed away eyeing the messed up heap slowly and his eyes moved over to Sakuno.

Sakuno was rooted to her chair and she was all like: O O
O

(All 3 circles)

"I-I'm so sorry…" stuttered the doctor, "I'll go get someone to take care of this."

"…" said Sakuno.

Not really waiting for a response the doctor ran away in an attempt to get away from a crazy psycho lady who randomly assumed that he was going to shock a kid to consciousness. He was just going to get a glass of ice water and pour it on the kid's face. Like, how inhumane would that be?

With the Couple that Hasn't Been Mentioned in 1½ Chapters:

"Look for the last time, I don't, I repeat DON'T like you at all!" Oshitari yelled back at Ann who apparently stuck herself to him like a magnet.

"But, but…" she gave him the deadly puppy eyes of submissive doom.

"No but's."

"What about our marriage and the baby. Think about that!" Ann cried.

"We're too young!" Oshitari then added as an afterthought, "and no, we're not ever getting married or having children for that matter."

While Ann's grip only got stronger she was all like: T.T

"Le-let go, I think you're cutting off circulation to my brain," Oshitari gasped. And Ann loosened her rather firm grasp. "Thanks."

"Date me."

"Beg your pardon?"

"I want you to take me out on a date."

"Of course not!"

"I won't let go then."

Oshitari looked around and saw that some people were already starting to give them odd stares and wanting to get it over with he sighed and said, "Alright, I'll take you out on ONE date within the next 3 days but in exchange you have to help me with something."

"Mmkay."

Back at the Hospital:

Ryuuzaki was sitting on the chair that Sakuno was sitting in initially with 2 icepacks to her head. Sakuno sat on the circular spinney stool. She had been forced to sit their after the first spinney stool collapsed under Ryuuzaki so she offered her chair to her grandma as an act of polite kindness. But Sakuno admitted to herself that the spinney stool was very uncomfortable.

"Ugh, I have a headache," Ryuuzaki grumbled.

"…" said Sakuno.

"It's a killer headache, too."

Sakuno was all like: -.-

"I can't believe headaches could hur-"

"Okay, you can stop now!" Sakuno whined a little louder than usual. Her grandma, the stool and the stark white hospital room was etching on her nerves.

"What's wrong?"

"Grandma, stop talking about the headache."

"If you had a headache, you'd be complaining too you know!"

"We've been here for 30 minutes since you woke up from falling off the spinney stool and in ¾ of that time you have not said anything other than that headache." Sakuno buried herself in her arms tiredly, "I think I'm coming down with a headache too."

Their argument was interrupted for Ryoma stirred suddenly. Both women struggled to push each other out of the way as they rushed to check up on Ryoma.

He gave a wide yawn, "Wha-?" He looked up only to see eyes staring down on him.

Ryoma blinked.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

"AAAAAHHHHH!"

Back to Ann & Oshitari:

"Okay, so you'll need to dress up as a girl and monitor her movements," Ann said wrapping up the conversation easily.

"Wait, dress up as a girl? As in female?" Oshitari asked though he already knew the answer.

"Yup. It's the only way if you want to know her likes and dislikes which would heighten your chance of successfully wooing her though I don't understand the point since she won't fall for the likes of you," Ann explained.

Oshitari looked totally heartbroken at that statement. He waved his fist at the sky before saying, "Do you not believe in me?"

Ann disregarded his peculiar action and nudged closer, "Well, you could always just go with me."

"Umm, no."

Now it was Ann's turn to be totally heartbroken, "But, but I already planned our honeymoon!"

"Not happening," Oshitari said dully as he stood up to go home.

"But I'm pregnant!"

Oshitari hoped that this was a lie.

With Inui:

"Hmm, today I've collected 5 pages worth of notes on LP9." Inui looked at something small scribbled in the corner of his unmarred green notebook. He examined it carefully for a while before sighing contentedly. He flipped through the notebook and looked a the many corner scribbles and read each one before adding 5 new scribbles in the corners of the new 5 pages he used on recording data on LP9 and its effects and side effects. His scribbling only became more profuse with each passing second. Manic laughter erupted from his room and echoed throughout the universe that chilled all spines.

With Tezuka, Blossom, Atobe, & Eiji (the latter 2 have no idea of the other's presence):

Eiji and Atobe both peered over from their hiding spots at the happy couple. One of the few happy couples. It seems as though the captain and vice-captain have the best of relationships. Darn them. But ANYWAY, to put it simply, Eiji and Atobe were stalking Tezuka and Blossom. Currently, they were playing toss the rings at the bottle.

"How distressful!" Atobe muttered to himself lowering his binoculars. "Ore-sama would have thought that Tezuka would have thought of a more romantic place than this! Oh, what hardships poor sweet Blossom must be going through."

On the other side of the tent that Atobe was hiding behind, Eiji used his uber cool eyesight instead of relying on a pair of binoculars. "Hmm, if I just run out and push that plant into the campfire next to that clown over there, then all my worries would be resolved…No, no I can't do that. Tezuka-kun would never understand, he'd think that I was ruining his life when, in actuality, I'm saving him."

Eiji gave up pondering as he stepped back to stretch. All that stalking was making him tired. But it was when he leaned back that he noticed the silvery hair of Atobe.

"What the heck is he doing here?" Eiji asked himself recognizing him immediately. He tiptoed over and put his hand on Atobe shoulder. The response Eiji got was, for lack of better terms, strangely painful. The second the hand touched the shoulder, Atobe's hand came flying out of nowhere and slapped Eiji across the face, leading to Eiji's undignified yelp.

Turning around, Atobe realized who he slapped. "Oh, Eiji, it's you."

"What was that for?"

"Safety measures," Atobe answered simply.

"Right," Eiji stepped back a bit. "So what are you doing here?"

"Ore-sama was just about to ask you the same thing."

Both looked at Tezuka and Blossom at the same time before looking at each other.

"Okay, so which one are you following? I'm tailing Tezuka."

"Blossom."

"Yeah, okay so-" the name registered in Eiji's head, "Wait, it has a name?"

And so, the two began to bicker about names and plant rights. Unbeknownst to them, Tezuka had already left with Blossom.

Oshitari's House, 9-ish:

Ding-dong!

Oshitari got up to get the door, wondering who would be at his house this late at night. He checked his mental list of possibilities.

"It can't be the girl scouts, they come at around 4, and we aren't expecting any guests." He checked off a couple more things on the list. "No one from the tennis team knows my address except for Gakuto, but he's probably watching his favorite TV show by now…" Oshitari then concluded that it must have been some unwanted visitor and he had no idea how right he was. And the door opened to reveal…

"Oh god, it's YOU!" the door slammed in the younger Tachibana's face. Ann banged on the door and this time Oshitari opened it, looking a little more prepared.

"Yes?" asked Oshitari in a strained voice.

"I'm here to check on the kids."

"We don't have any."

"…" Ann said playing with her hands behind her back.

"Look if there's nothing really important, I'd like to get back to studying."

"…"

Oshitari sighed, "Okay, I'm closing the door now. So good bye!" he slammed the door behind his back locking it firmly. 'And good riddance' he mentally added.

Ann however stood where she was staring at the place where Oshitari once stood. A slow evil smile spread upon her face.

At the Tennis Courts the Next Day w/ the Regulars:

The practice session that morning wasn't too abnormal. If it weren't for the fact that Fuji kept staring out into space, Tezuka brought in a plant bedecked in a small dress, Oishi could not stop talking to his shirt pocket, Eiji glaring at the plant at random intervals and Inui's mad scribbling. Sakuno and Tomoka weren't around to cheer them on since Ryuuzaki had asked them to help her out in cleaning up a mess that happened in her office.

The regulars were lining up for special training tips from Inui when Ryuuzaki came back with Sakuno and Tomoka, all carrying magazines, books, etc.

Ryoma ogled in their general direction before saying, "Oooh. Foxy mama."

And the tennis people were all like: OO!

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

KitsuneFreak: Just to let you know, that last line Ryoma said was actually said by a friend/enemy of mine, not that he meant it though. We were all acting in select parts of the play Macbeth but we could Improv any time we wanted. FYI it was used to describe Lady Macbeth. The audience had heard and all broken out in laughter and half of us, as the cast of the Improv, were ROF (literally) because it was so funny.

Oh and Happy Extremely Belated St. Patty's Day! -pinch- Yeah, I bet you're not wearing green. So Read & Review peoples, they make me happy, hyper, and hyperventilate (okay not really). So if you're still looking for an OCP then you still have time to submit them! Rules are still the same as in chapter 4.

One more question, should Sanada be included in this entire mess? I just thought of a possible part he could play. It'll make him rather OOC in a very IC way…. That did NOT just make sense.

R&R!