Disclaimer: We do not own the characters. They are from the anime prince of tennis.
Friday.
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It was lunch time. All the regulars' (including Kirihara, since Ms. Latnem had let him out of jail for today since his parents were getting suspicious and worried) appetites had dramatically decreased, so they were all at the library, carefully running over their plan.
"Okay, so Marui," began Yanagi, "you must be very careful to not let your instincts take over. You mustn't crave for 'ragus'—"
Kirihara leaned over towards Jackal. "Could you remind me again why are we code-wording 'sugar'?" he whispered. "I don't get it."
"You see," muttered Jackal back, "we don't want to remind Marui of his old craving for it, so we are trying to steer things away from the subject. If we must say 'sugar' though, we will say the Secret Communication Code aka. S.C.C., so Marui won't be upset."
"What's the Secret Communication Code?" asked Kirihara.
"You reverse the name of all products including sugar so Marui won't get frustrated and angry. So 'cake' becomes 'ekac', 'ice cream' becomes 'eci maerc', and so on..."
Kirihara nodded. He understood...sort of. "Hey, Yanagi-senpai, can I go get some puc sekac from the tressed aisle in the cafeteria?"
"I can't understand a word you're saying," remarked Niou, rolling his eyes.
But Kirihara continued to speak in S.C.C. "Does anybody want me to bring them some etalocohc ekac from the tressed aisle? I've also heard there's some yrrebwarts ekaceseehc there too, and I've also heard that they're selling etalocohc seadnus dosed in elpam purys..."
Niou murmured something rude to Yagyuu about Kirihara at that point. Marui looked up at Kirihara in wonder. "What on earth are you saying? I cannot understand a thing."
Kirihara sighed and pouted. "Gosh, and I thought that they would understand..." he suddenly looked at Jackal.
"What?" demanded Jackal.
"Is it just me or is it that only you are using the S.C.C.? Thanks a lot, I just embarrassed myself in front of my teammates." Kirihara moved away, avoiding Jackal. Jackal felt unspeakably hurt.
"Yanagi's also using the S.C.C.!" retorted Jackal, desperately trying to regain self-esteem.
"Where were you guys?" questioned Sanada as he plopped down on a chair beside the table where all the regulars were sitting.
"At the library," answered Marui. He poked at his French fries. "Ew...these fries are soggy. Blah!" Marui sighed and lifted a fry up with his fork, as if inspecting it. "If only this fry would turn into a piece of-"
Yanagi cleared his throat to interrupt Marui's little daydream. "Anyways, I believe that the bell will ring in exactly 3.29485 minutes..." But no one was listening.
Everybody was silent. Marui continued to poke at his fries, lifting them slowly to his mouth and chewing. Everybody stared.
Marui wiped his mouth with a napkin and sighed. "I feel like eating something sweet."
Everyone gasped and were speechless. Was all their work going to waste?
Yagyuu coughed. "If you would like something sweet, Marui-kun, then I believe that I may have the right thing for you." He whipped out a package from behind his back.
"This is..." Everybody else gasped. "...cough drops," finished Yagyuu. "And they're the Deluxe Delicious Lemon ones."
Kirihara's mouth watered. "W-where did you get them? They weren't supposed to be out until next month!"
Yagyuu smiled (or was it a smirk?), and adjusted his glasses. "You see, you can get deluxe things like cough drops, napkins and so on at the Gentlemen Society for free."
"Wow!" exclaimed Niou. "All for free? Gosh, I want to join too."
"Sorry," apologized Yagyuu, "the Gentlemen Society is for gentlemen, and no offence, but you, Niou-kun, don't really fit into the category."
"What other free things can you get there if you qualify as a gentleman?" asked Jackal.
Yagyuu pondered the question for a while. "Well, I believe that at every meeting, which is once a month, they will provide a free dinner, which includes steak, finely done mashed potatoes, crisp fried chicken, vegetable medley, rice, spaghetti, and so on. For dessert, however, there are many different puddings, ice creams, tarts, pies, and also c—" Yagyuu immediately stopped talking. The look on Marui's face was pitiful.
Sanada cleared his throat. "We're-" But Niou and Kirihara hushed him.
"Seriously, we're-" Niou and Kirihara hushed him again.
Sanada was starting to get mad. "Stop hushing me! We're-" But Niou and Kirihara continued to hush him.
Sanada was really mad now. "WHAT I WANTED TO SAY WAS THAT WE'RE LATE FOR OUR CLASSES!" he roared.
Jackal looked at him, blank-faced. "We know that," he answered. "Just to tell you, this is a library. No shouting." Niou and Kirihara just stared. But Marui wasn't going to just stand there and do nothing.
"I want sugar!" he bawled, sitting on the ground and kicking his legs.
Yanagi tucked his hand in his pocket. "Very well then, I guess you can't take it anymore..." He then extracted a small vial of a neon green liquid which swished dangerously in its container.
"What is that?" questioned Sanada, who felt that he must understand everything.
Yanagi flipped his data book. "According to my data, that's one of my friend's concoctions, and apparently it's named...wait a second...aha. Here it is. 'Inui's Deluxe Sugar Juice', and it's made of 30% secret ingredients, and 70% sugar-"
"Give me that!" exclaimed Marui crossly. He grabbed the vial and downed the contents in one gulp. "What is this?" he asked, smacking his lips. "It doesn't taste like sugar."
Yanagi observed Marui with a mild interest. "Actually, it's not sugar. It's merely 'sugar replacements', which my friend Inui invented, and it's made from 10% wild ginger, 26% wild tomatoes, 34% sea cucumbers, and 20% of various Chinese herbs. And I almost forgot-10% of his other juice, the 'Inui Appetizer Juice', which is supposed to get you to eat stuff. That's where the neon green comes from."
Everybody's jaw dropped to the floor. They turned and glanced at Marui, who was now a ugly shade of green (matching the liquid's colour), and was clutching his mouth.
"You don't look very well," declared Yanagi, overstating the obvious again. "Would you like to be excused to the bathroom for a while?"
Marui nodded, and rushed away. Everybody sighed, and shuffled back to their classes.
Practice.
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"Why aren't Kirihara and Marui here?" demanded Ms. Latnem. (Niou secretly mouthed 'issues!' to Yagyuu)
"I guess Kirihara's at detention, but for Marui? I don't really know," lied Jackal. Marui was still barfing in the bathroom.
Ms. Latnem held here clipboard to her chest and started walking away. "Very well. When Marui Bunta comes, tell him to go to the club room. It's time to test his resolve...I shall be leaving." As she turned to leave, Niou slipped a watermelon peel out of his pocket and threw it in front of Ms. Latnem. As usual, Ms. Latnem slipped and fell on her face.
Niou dusted dirt of his shoulders like in the movies.
"How do you do that all the time?" asked Jackal, curious. "I never seem to see you eating anything."
Niou grinned. "I have my ways."
A/N: Thanks for reviewing, everyone! We really love reviews. It gives me motivation to continue writing.
Forgive me, this chapter may be slightly uneventful and even boring, but I really do want to have 3 parts and a 'act' part for each person, so this is why I lengthened the story a little. The next chapter will be sort of short...not really.
You see, right now my catchphrase is 'issues!' and I care-freely use it when somebody is doing something or acting stupid, or if someone is acting mental and constipated. Which in this case, the 'somebody' is Ms. Latnem.
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