Glass 5: Rikkaidai's Insanity and Immunity
Yanagi sighed wearily as he steered the cooler full of Inui's two concoctions nearby the club house.
"Ne, Yanagi-senpai, what's in that cooler?" Kirihara asked.
"You'll find out the next time we have practice." Yanagi sighed.
Yagyuu paled. He was in contact with Oshitari, and had heard about the evil of Inui's juices.
"Please don't be what I think it is…" He muttered as he walked towards a corner of the courts and began warming up.
Sanada glanced over at the cooler, and although he was curious about its contents his expression betrayed nothing.
"Yanagi-kun, if anything is dangerous in that cooler, you'll probably get laps from Yukimura-bucho." Yagyuu sighed.
Niou walked towards the group and grinned. He stole Kirihara's racket and ran off without a backward glance. Kirihara growled sharply and ran after him. The two ran around in circles, causing some of the onlookers to grow tired. That is until Yukimura walked onto the courts.
"Maa, what's this? You guys are slacking off? I guess that means you guys want to run laps… Run 30 laps, please everyone. Niou, you'll have to run 10 extra laps for picking on the younger club members, and Kirihara, you'll get more laps if you don't stop glaring at people." Yukimura sighed. He was slightly amused by Niou's antics, but as captain he can't let people get off easily just because he thought they were funny, now could he?
Yagyuu got a call from Oshitari after the morning practice.
"Moshi moshi? Ah, Oshitari-kun, what's wrong?" Yagyuu responded politely.
"I see. Hmm…? We'll have another practice tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. …What? I see, this is Inui's doing. I'll see what I can do." After that Yagyuu snapped his cell phone shut and went too class.
The next day, after practice
"Regulars, please gather around. Renji has an announcement." Yukimura said loudly. He never shouted because it was bad for his health.
"Thank you Yukimura. Everyone, I'd like you to try on these drinks. There are five cups of each, so we'll draw straws to see what order we are picking cups." Yanagi explained.
Niou got to pick first. He, Yagyuu, Yukimura, and Sanada got the blue juice, while everyone else took green juice cups. Everyone drank their cups at the same time.
Instantly, Marui, and Jackal crumpled to the ground.
"Ah! They died." Niou muttered before Sanada fainted. Yukimura looked surprised at Sanada's unconscious 'corpse.' Yanagi and Yagyuu simultaneous fainted after that, leaving Niou and Yukimura to stare at each other.
"Who do you think caused this one?" Niou asked cheerfully.
"Probably Inui. It's not like there's anyone else who could get something to taste so… Interesting." Yukimura chuckled.
The two laughed for a little while, but the laughter was cut off as the unconscious Rikkaidai members slowly go up in various zombie-like states and tried to take Yukimura and Niou with them.
Sanada had landed on his face and was doing a stunning job of reenacting Fuji's zombie performance during the bowling incident. Jackal and Kirihara had landed on their backs while the others were sort of dragging themselves up and trying to grab Niou and Yukimura's ankles.
Niou shouted a string of curses without thinking. Amazingly it stopped the zombie-regulars for a moment, but that's all the time the two needed to turn tail and run. No one wants to face a pack of zombies even if the said people are the polite yet somewhat sadistic Yukimura and Niou the Trickster.
"Niou-kun, where are you going?" Zombie-Yagyuu called. Zombie-Sanada tripped on a tennis ball and fell over. The other zombies slowly began catching up to Niou and Yukimura.
"Bucho, what should we do??" Niou almost shouted.
"We need to find a cure, or we can just hide out at Fuji-kun's house." Yukimura suggested. They decided to catch a ride on the bus and arrived at Fuji's front door a several minutes later.
"Saa, what brings you two here? Isn't it a school day? You two should be at home or something." Fuji greeted when he opened the door.
"Inui's drink turned our other team members into zombies!" Niou shouted.
"Saa, it that case, I guess it'd be alright for you to stay here for a while." Fuji said amiably.
An hour later, the two were still relaxing and playing random games on Fuji's computer, when they heard another knock at the door. Fuji opened it and they saw Yanagi on the door step leaning heavily on the wall.
"Do you have something for headaches?" He groaned.
Fuji, being the kind person he was, tossed Yanagi some pain killers and led him inside.
Then Yukimura's cell phone rang. It was Sanada.
"Sanada? Are you ok?" Yukimura asked.
"Y-yeah, but I've got this huge headache." Sanada said briefly. In the background, there was even more groaning, which Niou and Yukimura took to be the others awakening.
Everyone went home peacefully and Yanagi reported his 'discovery' to Inui, although grudgingly. Inui had gotten him 1000 laps for the next week on top of his usual training schedule of running 10km, 100 push-ups, 150 sit-ups, and various other activities.
Thus world was once again free of Rikkaidai zombies. For now anyway…
Knuckle Serve! ナックルサープ (They say the same thing…)
Yay! Next chapter! If it's kinda short, I'm sorry. I'm pondering what to do to the characters next… Don't worry the next arc will be up in a 3 weeks or so… Stupid science fair… Why do we have one of those anyway?