Yo, minna! How's your life going? This is chapter 2!! Yay… Anyway, disclaimers!

Disclaimers: I do not own, nor do I wish to own, the Prince of Tennis or any of the characters from the Prince of Tennis used in this fanfic. But I DO own the poems.

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Chapter 2: The Strange Day

Kikumaru and Fuji were in their ever-so-much-fun English class, and the teacher was making everyone read their poems.

"Kikumaru-kun, please go ahead and read your poem."

"Eh? But I'm not -" He was cut off as Fuji elbowed his side. "Ita… Hai, sensei."

He walked up to the front of the class rubbing his side and muttering about how he was going to hurt Fuji later. He recited a poem while glaring at Fuji. So I guess he memorized it the night before…

After he finished, everyone applauded… Well, almost everyone. Fuji was sitting at his desk laughing so hard that it almost looks like he was having seizures. Kikumaru stalked back to his desk and hissed at Fuji, "That's enough!" with an evil grin.

Fuji stopped abruptly and cocked his head as he glanced at Kikumaru. "Is some thing wrong?" He said while chuckling silently.

Kikumaru rolled his eyes. "Does it look like something's -"

He was cut off by the teacher calling on Fuji to read his poem.

"Eh? Ano… Hai, sensei…" Fuji replied still looking at Kikumaru, who is suddenly snickering silently.

He walked unenthusiastically towards the front of the class and recited a poem. The class applauded politely as Fuji walked back to his desk. Kikumaru on the other hand was laughing so hard that if someone poked him he'd probably fall over and start rolling on the floor laughing. As a matter of fact, he started coughing as if he couldn't breathe… Next thing you know he was on the floor STILL laughing, but he wasn't breathing...

"Saa, this could be a problem," Fuji muttered rolling his eyes. Then he went over and whacked Kikumaru on the back a few times. (Kikumaru is in the sitting position, mind you)

"Oi, Fuji… Ita! Fuji that hurts, nya!" Kikumaru yelped after the third whack. Obviously, Fuji was whacking him really hard.

"Saa… Looks like he's breathing again…" Fuji said cheerfully as Kikumaru glared at him.

"It's your fault I was laughing in the first place!" Kikumaru hissed.

"Maa, calm down, Kikumaru. We wouldn't want anyone else getting hurt, would we?"

"Whatever." Kikumaru pouted and sat back in his chair. Unfortunately, at that moment the fire alarm went off. "Nani?! Such bad timing…"

After the fire drill, everyone in the school laughed at Kikumaru's misfortune, excluding Tezuka, Ryoma, and Kaidoh.

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Tennis Practice

"Ok, you know what to do, right? Go run your laps, and if you fail to finish a lap within 55 sec you must drink my Deluxe Penal Tea." Inui said clearly enjoying the looks on the regulars' faces when they saw him holding a pitcher of bubbling purple 'juice'.

And then, they started running. Within the first ten laps all the non-regulars were given the Penal Tea.

"30 more laps!" Inui reminded them.

"I won't drink that even if I die!" yelled Momo. He picked up speed and pulled to the front of the group.

"Fsssssssss… I'm not drinking that!" Kaidoh hissed as he caught up to Momo.

"Kawamura-senpai, here's your racket." Do you need to know who that is?

"BURNING! OUT OF THE WAY!!!!" Taka-san yelled as he dashed between Kaidoh and Momo.

"Echizen!! You did it again!" Everyone, excluding Tezuka and Fuji, yelled as Ryoma ran behind Taka-san.

"Heh, mada mada dane, senpai tachi… Uh-oh." Ryoma sweat-dropped as the other regulars caught up with him looking very angry.

Fuji smiled and said, "Echizen is always doing that. But that juice looks so good. Ne, Tezuka wanna try it?"

Tezuka sweat-dropped. "No thanks."

"Saa… That's too bad." Fuji muttered as he pulled ahead of Tezuka, who muttered to himself, Damn it, now I have to catch up. This is going to be so much fun…

Eventually they finished all 50 laps, and managed to end the last lap in a tie, again.

Oishi panted, "Inui, you're going to kill us with all this running."

"Really? But I enjoy doing this." Inui muttered while smiling.

"Saa, I want to try some of that Penal Tea." Fuji said walking up to Inui cheerfully.

"Sure. I've got an entire pitcher if you want to drink it." Inui said cheerfully. Heck, he was even smiling. How unusual.

Fuji opened his eyes as he glanced at the Penal Tea. "On second though, I'll pass."

Inui frowned and sighed, "Was it something I said? I was only trying to be cheerful."

Tezuka sent the regulars and non-regulars to their separate practices, and practice continued as usual

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Fuji went home in his sister's car, which happened to be an expensive looking silver one. Everyone else watched him go with expressions that say 'aw, I want to go home in a car like that…'

"So… How many of you are in the poetry contest?" asked Ryoma.

Inui glanced at one of his notebooks. "According to my notes Fuji, Kikumaru, and Kaidoh are the only ones participating."

"Hmm? Really? Cause I get the feeling that the rest of us are going to be forced into it." Ryoma said nonchalantly.

"Ochibi, what makes you say that?" Kikumaru asked. He glomped Ryoma from behind.

"Eh? Just a feeling. Now could you please get off me, senpai?"

"Ah, gomen. Gomen." Kikumaru reluctantly let go of Ryoma.

"Senpai-tachi, see you tomorrow." Ryoma said waving slightly as he headed toward his house. Everyone else shrugged and went their separate ways.

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The evil 'grin' I'm referring to is the one Kikumaru has in Episode 99 when his hair was covered in white paint. Momo was laughing at him and he got mad.

The night before the events of this chapter, Fuji and Kikumaru swapped poems and dared each other to read it in front of the class. That is why I put 'a poem'. It makes the story more random.