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Of Snakes and Shrooms 03

Kaidoh smirked as he watched in satisfaction as Momoshiro ran the laps he'd been given It served the power player right. It would teach him not to disrupt practice. It was times like these when he wondered why Momoshiro was his his vice captain and not someone like Echizen. The second year was much more responsible. But of-course, he had to remember that it was Tezuka that had made the decision.

He let out a small hiss and set his mind back to a few days ago. What had the Hyoutei captain bee thinking? Why would he want to date him? He barely knew the other captain outside of tennis. Other than tennis they were basically strangers and as far as he knew, tennis was the only thing they had in common.

He sighed. Talking about it to someone would probably help a lot more that thinking about it, but all he really had to talk to here was Momoshiro and Echizen. He wasn't going to talk to either of them about this. He also didn't want to bother his former senpai about something like this either.

With a shake of his head to clear it, the Seigaku buchou called the end of practice for the day. After he spoke a few words of encouragement and a few about working hard to make it to the nationals, he dismissed everyone. He locked up the club room after everyone was gone and proceeded to head home.

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Hiyoshi took a deep breath as he stood outside the Seigaku school grounds. He had left Hyoutei practice a bit early. Ohtori would deal with the team. He was glad Sakaki hadn't been around or he might be in trouble. Hell, he still could possibly get in trouble for this. Tam captains weren't supposed to skip. Of course it was all Ohtori's fault. The other had talked him into coming here. The silver haired male had said that he would cover for him. He hoped so. Hopefully, Kaidoh wouldn't think that he was stalking him or something.

Kaidoh felt a small sense of dread when he spotted the Hyoutei captain outside the school's gate. He turned the corner quickly, pretending not to notice Hiyoshi. Thankfully, the other wasn't standing in the direction that he needed to go.

Hiyoshi barely noticed the other. If it wasn't for the bandanna atop the other captain's head, he would have missed him. "Kaidoh-kun!" He called before heading towards him.

Kaidoh let out an irritated hiss and turned to face Hiyoshi. "What do you want stalker?"

Hiyoshi winced slightly and sighed. "I'm not a stalker, I just want to talk."

Kaidoh stayed silent and let him speak.

"Okay first, I want to say I wasn't stalking you nor have I ever been stalking you."

Kaidoh glared at him. "Then what were you doing?" It sure had looked like stalking to the bandanna clad boy.

"I was watching tennis matches," Hiyoshi began. "I didn't even mean to follow you. I just got lost in thought and everything went downhill from there."

Kaidoh continued to glare. "Why brig this up now?"

Hiyoshi sighed. "I was thinking that maybe we could get along and be friends." It was an easier suggestion than asking the other to date him again.

Kaidoh looked away to think. He didn't really care for being friends with the other. He rally didn't care to talk to him either. "Che... can't see why you'd want that..." Didn't rejecting him the other day give him some kind of hint

Hiyoshi stopped himself from reminding Kaidoh that he liked him. "I can't see why I wouldn't..."

There was a moment of silence between them.

Kaidoh snorted. "Sure whatever..."

"Really?" Hiyoshi blinked. Kaidoh had actually said yes. A smile slowly made itself know on his face.

"Yeah..." Kaidoh stared at Hiyoshi for a moment. The other didn't have to look so damn happy about it, did he? Hiyoshi's face had completely brightened. "You can uh... leave now..."

"Oh..." Hiyoshi nodded. "I'll see you around Kaidoh-kun."

"Yeah... whatever..." Kaidoh shook his head and headed home.