Chapter 8: Filler chapter #2
"Nya… I can't believe we're stuck counting these votes!! I mean seriously, shouldn't some other club be doing this, like the ping-pong club? We could be having fun, playing tennis or training or…" Kikumaru sighed grumpily as he sorted the vote slips in to separate piles.
"Running laps? Kikumaru stop ranting or else…" Tezuka stated. He was in charge of keep the regulars on task, as assigned by the principal. It was a relatively easy job seeing as he had all this authority over his team already, but then again… If Fuji or Inui had been assigned, the moment they looked away there would probably be utter chaos.
"Eh? I've got 50 votes so far…" Ryoma muttered. The shock from Ryoma getting more votes then Oishi or Kikumaru set in slowly around the room.
"WHAT?! How did you get more votes then me and Oishi combined?!" Kikumaru shouted. His shout caused everyone within a 500 meter radius of the room to wince and rub their ears.
"Saa, I've got 100." Fuji chuckled.
"Fshhhhhhhh… I'm tied with Echizen." Kaidoh volunteered.
"H-how am I in the finals? Iii data… I've got 20 votes so far. Amazing!" Inui stated as he scribbled stuff in his handy-dandy green notepad. He probably left his notebook at home accidentally.
"Nya… I've got 12 votes… What about you, Oishi?" Kikumaru whined.
"Ahaha… I've got 11 votes." Oishi replied.
"We're losing to INUI?!?!?!?!" Kikumaru yelled. He was terrified at the thought of writing a poem 'inferior' to Inui's , but we all know his poem was way better than Inui's… so what happened?
"It looks like most of Kikumaru's fangirls either forgot to vote or were some how otherwise occupied and therefore couldn't vote." Inui said.
"But that doesn't explain why Oishi doesn't have that many votes. Wait I have fangirls?" Kikumaru muttered.
"Isn't that one obvious? No one likes fish poems anymore." Ryoma replied grumpily.
"Saa, it's true." Fuji muttered.
Kaidoh and Tezuka nodded in agreement. They both like fish and all, see as Tezuka had a Koi fish pond and Kaidoh like pets in general, but neither of them liked poetry about fish, especially about a dead fish.
"I guess it can't be helped… Entering my fish poem was a bad idea." Oishi laughed, but you could tell on the inside he was frowning and thinking emo thoughts.
Tezuka twitched when he noticed Kaidoh and Momo had gotten into another argument over nothing important. He twitched again when he noticed no one was sorting the votes anymore. Tezuka got one of those hilariously exaggerated vein marks when he saw Oishi in a corner trying to cut himself with a tennis ball.
"Alright everyone, 50 laps around the school!" Tezuka shouted. Something went boom, which everyone assumed was Tezuka's patience transforming into rage.
As the tennis took off running some of the rabid fangirls spotted their favorite regulars and chased after them. The regulars saw this and started running faster ad eventually they stopped doing laps altogether and ran away from the fangirls.
"S-shoot! Why are the fangirls still here?!" Momo shouted.
"Fshhh… Who cares?! Just keep running because if they catch us it'll be the end of someone." Kaidoh hissed back.
The other regulars nodded in agreement and continued their running towards a safe place.
Meanwhile, Tezuka glanced out of the clubroom and noticed that the regulars had disappeared. He glared angrily at the track route, but the anger dissipated when he notice a cloud of dust that looked familiar.
In fact it looked like the team was headed straight for the room behind him with fangirls chasing them. Tezuka blinked once, twice, three times.
Oh-no! Not those mentally unstable fangirls! Last time they managed to capture Kaidoh of the regulars he missed practice for the rest of the week! Tezuka thought. He threw the door open and gestured for the regulars to hurry inside. After they had all run in Tezuka slammed the door shut and with Taka-san's help pushed a locker in front of the door.
Fuji boarded the windows from the inside, and Kaidoh was sitting in a corner shivering with fear. His previous experience with fangirls didn't turn out too well.
"Ne senpai-tachi, why were we running from those girls?" Ryoma asked grumpily.
"Because, Echizen, those girls happen to be fangirls of the extreme type. 75 percent chance more then 50 percent of them were either Kaidoh or Fuji fans. The left over were probably just following the crowd because fangirls are insane like that." Inui stated as if it weren't absolutely ridiculous to say.
"But why were they chasing us?" Ryoma persisted.
"Obviously because they are too obsessive to leave us alone, or because Tezuka wasn't there to stop them with his glare of doom," Inui stated.
All of this must have been too much for Ryoma because he suddenly started laughing extremely hard. Inui glanced at him with a strange look. Tezuka twitched because once again no one was counting the votes. Fuji produced some rope and proceeded to tie Ryoma's hand together as well as gagging him.
Inui grinned and silently helped Fuji shove Ryoma into a broom closet that happened to be inside the clubroom. Unfortunately Ryoma couldn't protest or show the he was calm because he was tied up and gagged.
Tezuka watched all this calmly. Then he turned towards the other regulars, tilted his head while grinning evilly, and said extremely calmly, "If you don't start counting the votes again, you'll end up like Echizen."
Then he frowned angrily and shouted, "GET TO WORK!"
The regulars unanimously agreed that Tezuka had lost it as the got to work. Inui and Fuji got back and glanced at Tezuka who motioned for them to start helping. They glanced back towards each other (not in that way) and shrugged before walking to help out.
Five hours later it was time to go home. The regulars finished counting all the votes and gave each other hi fives and prepared to go home with smiles on their faces, minus Tezuka because his smile means bad things are in store.
They all went home except for Fuji who felt he was forgetting something and had hung back while he figured out what. The broom closet door rattled on its hinges and Fuji suddenly remembered. He'd forgotten his camera!
"Fuji, I think you forgot to get Ryoma out of the broom closet." Tezuka pointed out since he was tired of waiting for Fuji to remember.
"Oh yeah! That too…" Fuji laughed.
He untied Ryoma and the two rushed to grab their stuff and run out of the club room before Tezuka exploded.
手塚ゾーン!!! Tezuka Zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone!
Just so you know these votes are not based off the actual votes because there just aren't enough real votes to make this fic funny.
Kikumaru: 0
Fuji: 2
Oishi: 0
Ryoma: 1
Inui: 1
Kaidoh: 1
Currently Fuji is winning with 2 votes. Ok, since I still need more votes, anyone who has voted can vote again, but no more than twice and not for the same two people. That means any one person can vote twice for one person then once for another person.
In the next chapter, I hope by then I'll have enough votes to announce winner, but if not then expect more randomness and random players from other teams to appear.