Disclaimer: Tennis no Oujisama does not belong to me, this plot does.
Summary: White Day's approaching. Marui Bunta got some help from Fuji Shuusuke to get gifts for his fan club. Inui spies...
YukimuraAme: This is a little something to wish everyone out there a Happy White Day! Hope you get a lot of gifts for return
A Series of Events II
Chapter 2 -- White Day
Marui Bunta set silently at his study table. Apart from the occasional popping of his bubble gum and the ticking of the clock, the room was of total silence. Marui stared at all the chocolate wrappers and scratched his head. March the fourteen was approaching and he still could not come up with anything as gifts to return to his fan club. He pulled out a piece of paper and wrote something on it but changed his mind almost immediately. He crushed the paper and threw it to the back of his room. "This is getting irritating. I need to hit the streets to get inspired!" He said to himself before standing up and heading out.
Fuji Shuusuke tried his best to pack the mountain-like gifts in his room. He still had a great heap in the living room and Yuuta's room and Yuuta was due to come home for stay-over. He did not want Yuuta to come home without a place to rest so at least he thought he should clear his own room and get Yuuta to sleep in his room with him. Suddenly, Fuji turned towards the calendar and his eyes flipped open, revealing beautiful blue orbs. The "fourteen" was circled clearly in red. He stood up and grabbed his bag before rushing out.
Marui Bunta walked down streets after streets, staring aimlessly at the countless displays in shops, occasionally stopping over at candy bars and cake shops. He had refrained from buying anything sweet for his fan club for fear that he might finish them before ever giving them away. He continued to walk down the street. Just as he was crossing the road, he saw a familiar figure across the street, staring at something through the windows of one of the shops.
"Hey! You're Fuji from Seigaku!" Marui called excitedly once he crossed the road and got to Fuji's side.
Fuji turned around to see Marui smiling at him and smiled back. "Hi Marui! Are you doing some last minute shopping for White Day too?"
"Yeah. But I don't seem to be able to find anything." Marui replied sadly. Then, his face lid up and he pulled at Fuji's arm. "Boy, am I glad to bump into you. You'll shop with me, won't you? Then you can give me comments and suggestions on what to get!"
"Ok, but I'll have to go get something for my sister first. Will you wait for me here?" Fuji asked.
"It's alright. I'll go in with you!" Marui replied brightly.
So the two boys walked into the shop together.
Inui Sadaharu took in this unbelievable sight. TWO BOYS walking into a gift shop HAND IN HAND and fifteen minutes later, they came out again, HAND IN HAND with a beautiful pink shopping bag in Fuji's hand. He whipped out his notebook and started scribbling madly.
"Oh my god! This is a date!" Inui gasped. He quickly took out his cell phone and punched in Kikumaru Eiji's number.
"Hello? Kikumaru resident." The voice at the other end sounded cheerfully.
"Eiji, Inui here. Rikkaidai's Marui Bunta and Fuji's out on a date." Inui reported.
"NYA? Where are you?" Eiji asked excitedly.
"Shibuya. Near Akiba—" Before Inui could finish his words, Eiji was already out of the door, flying towards Shibuya. Inui punched in Momoshiro's number next. Soon, he had finished calling every Seigaku regular, except for their captain. Base on the last experience when Inui tried to get Tezuka out when Momoshiro and Echizen went on a date with Tachibana An, Tezuka had hang him up two times. He was still pondering over whether or not he should call Tezuka.
"Fuji-kun! Look at that cute snowball over there!" Marui tugged at Fuji's arm and brought him closer to the window. The two boys peered into the slightly tinted glass of a small boutique and Fuji found the said snowball. Even though Fuji did not find it as cute as it ought to be, he still smiled and agreed with Marui that it was cute.
"Shall I buy snowballs for my fan club?" Marui wondered aloud.
"Why don't you just get small boxes of chocolate for each person?" Fuji suggested.
"But I'm afraid that I'm going to finish them even before giving them out." Marui complained.
"Well, then, what about lucky stars or cranes? You can make some for each person." Fuji tried again. He hoped that Marui would just agree with him so that he could end this aimless shopping soon and get home to clear his room.
"Where can I get them?" Marui asked.
"There's a shop three blocks down the next street. Let me show you the way." Fuji answered, smiling.
"Thank you so much, Fuji-kun!" Marui skipped happily down the street, tugging Fuji along with him.
Seven heads bobbed alongside the bushes.
"Ouch! Stop knocking into me na, you stupid viper!"
"Fushuu… why are you stopping so suddenly, you idiot!"
"NYA! STOP ARGUING OR THEY WILL HEAR YOU!"
"Eiji-senpai, I think you are the loudest."
"Nya!!! Ochibi's being mean again!"
"They are stopping. Everyone, quick! Take cover before they see us!"
"Eto… Oishi, we are already covered."
"Oh, yes, haha, we are already covered. Thanks, Taka-san, for the reminder."
"Just keep quiet, you guys. I'm still thinking of a way to get Tezuka here." Inui took out his phone once again and punched in Tezuka's phone number. Someone came to the line after the third ring.
"Hello? Tezuka's resident." Tezuka answered.
"Tezuka, big news! Fuji is out on a date with Rikkaidai's Marui Bun—" he stared at the phone for a few seconds before coming to terms with himself that he has yet, again, got hanged up by the captain. He sighed and punched in Yanagi Renji's number instead.
The two boys walked out of a handicraft shop, full of shopping bags in both hands.
"Here, let me help you with the ribbons." Fuji offered.
"Oh, you're so sweet, Fuji-kun. Will you be taking the train back?" Marui asked.
"Yes, I have to get home earlier as Yuuta's coming back." Fuji replied.
"Then I'll have to trouble you to help me carry the ribbons to the station." Marui said.
"No problem." Fuji's smile widen. "As long as I can get home earlier, anything goes." He thought.
They walked for a while and came to a nearby park. Suddenly, Marui threw down all the shopping bags and started running towards the mobile ice-cream palour at top speed and disappeared into the queue. Fuji sighed. He picked up all the bags and followed Marui into the park. He found himself a bench below the tree and settled down to wait for Marui.
Five minutes later, Marui emerged from the crowd, beaming triumphantly. He held a five scope ice-cream tower and ran back at Fuji.
"Fuji-kun! Look! The ice-cream man said that this is the tallest ice-cream in his shop." Marui reported excitedly.
Even though it was nothing amusing, Fuji nodded and smiled. Marui seemed contented with the ice-cream and probed down beside Fuji. As sudden as he ran towards the ice-cream palour, he jumped up again and dropped to his knees, picking up a ladybird with his thumb and index finger.
"Look! Look, Fuji-kun! This is so cute!" Marui exclaimed excitedly.
Fuji's eyes flipped open and widened. This, finally interest him. "It is indeed, cute!" Fuji agreed truthfully. He picked up a piece of leaf and Marui placed the ladybird on the leaf. Fuji then took out his camera and started taking pictures of the ladybird and Marui holding onto the ladybird.
Twelve dark shadows scrambled noisily across the park and attempted to hide behind the bushes.
"See, this is a 97 percent chance that they are dating."
"I see a 23 only. Marui's friendly towards everyone."
"This is a waste of my time. An hour of watching Marui-senpai flirting with Seigaku's tensai."
"Akaya, please stop moving. You are grinding on my fingers!"
"Hoh hoh! Hiroshi's angry… Akaya, you gotta watch it."
"Stop smirking, you purple hair freak. You're freaking me out with your freaking smirk."
"Fushuu… you're a gutless idiot."
"I don't need your comments, viper!"
"Umm… I think we are a little loud, they're going to hear us."
"NYA Oishi! I can't see!"
"OUCH! Eiji-senpai, get off me!"
"Why's he calling out to Oishi as he got onto that brat?"
"Renji, what's the meaning of this?" Sanada's eye twitched uncontrollably. He regretted following the team advisor to the park.
"Aa! Sanada!" Inui exclaimed. He pulled out his phone and thrust it into Sanada's hands. "You're the one most suitable to call Tezuka."
"This is an absolute waste of time. I'm leaving." Sanada said. He stood up and practically threw the phone at Inui as he left the group of "private investigators" behind.
"Fuji-kun! I think I just saw Sanada." Marui said.
"Oh? Where was he?" Fuji looked up from the ladybird and asked.
"He just popped out from nowhere and left the park. He's over there." Marui answered.
"Oh! Popped out of nowhere… anyway, Marui-kun, let's continue." Fuji said casually and turned to face Marui, reaching out to pull him close. All the "private investigators" gasped in surprise.
"See! This will make it a 100." Inui announced proudly. Renji ignored him and opened up his notebook to scribble.
Momoshiro put his arm around Echizen and smirked. He stretched out his hands in front of Echizen and Echizen sighed before taking out a pokemon sticker to hand over to Momoshiro. Next, he turned to Eiji and did the same thing.
"NYA? Fujiko… Momo, don't get cocky, I'll get you the next time." Eiji pouted as he handed a legendary pokemon sticker to Momoshiro. Momoshiro smiled from ear to ear as Niou and Yagyuu both handed a sticker each to him.
"Don't forget that you're supposed to divide them equally with me." Kirihara reminded Momoshiro.
"No problem!" Momoshiro sat, counting the number of stickers.
"FUSHUU! You were betting?! You idiot, captain will kill you if he knows." Kaido exclaimed.
"Then we only have to prevent him from knowing and we'll have to finish you here." Evil light glinted as Momoshiro, Echizen, Kikumaru, Kirihara, Niou and Yagyuu glared at Kaido.
"Hey, hey! No fighting please. Come on guys, break it up." Oishi tried to do his peacemaking again. Suddenly, the surrounding seems to get darker. "Oh no! I think it's going to rain, can we get some shelter?" Just as he got up on his feet, he came face to face with Fuji and Marui, staring down at the group of "private investigators". The "private investigators" stared back up at the two boys.
"What do you think you are doing here?" Fuji inquired, dangerously.
"Erm… picnic, yeah, picnic, you see?" Momoshiro managed to come up with an excuse after a few seconds of quick thinking.
"Yeah, pinic." The rest all echoed.
"What weird combination is this… Rikkaidai and Seigaku, selected members only, with no food." Marui cocked his head to one side and pointed out. "You guys were SPYING right?" Marui widened his eyes and asked accusingly.
Without replying, all the "private investigators" stood up at the same time and ran at different directions with two murderous geniuses hot on their heals, ready to kill.
End
