Disclaimer: The Prince of Tennis and all of its characters are © to Takeshi Konomi. I do not own any of the characters used in this story so far (although I do not plan on using any OCs), but the story is still my property.
Kittymaru
Chapter 2: O-chibi-maru
The group of four leafed through the scrapbook, where they discovered some rather interesting and well, humiliating photographs. Momo seemed to have a tendency to put his finger on the camera lens. The three laughed at him. That is, until the doorbell rang again. This time, it was Kaidoh and Sadaharu stationed on the porch. Kaidoh held a large stuffed bear.
"Daigorou!" Eiji exclaimed as he hugged the bear. "Did you fall out the window again? I told you to be more careful! What would happen if you broke your leg and couldn't get back up?!" he told his bear seriously.
The others sweat dropped.
"I'm leaving then," Kaidoh hissed.
"Wait! Why don't you stay for a while, nya?" Eiji pulled Kaidoh into the house. "Eh, no offense Sadaharu, but why are you here too?"
"Data collecting," was all he said, obviously ignoring the rude question, and he settled himself in a chair by the window.
Oishi sighed. Eiji was going to get himself in so much trouble one day. "Are you sure it's okay for so many people to come over?" he voiced his concerns. "Your parents might not approve of it, Eiji."
Eiji gave him a grin. "They won't be home all weekend! They left on some sort of business trip and took my brothers and sisters with them. I've got the house to myself! As long as it's all clean when they get home, then I can do anything I want!" Eiji celebrated, bouncing up and down. "Hey, do you think we can have Taka cook some sushi for us?"
"Eiji," Oishi gasped, "Taka has to work!"
Sadaharu corrected him, "Taka has taken today and the two upcoming days off."
"Yay! I'll go call him!" Eiji rushed out of the room. Oishi sighed.
Ryoma asked, "Sadaharu, why are you really here?" All heads turned to look at the data master.
"Tezuka asked me to analyze Eiji's condition," he confessed, "to make sure that there weren't any sudden side effects."
Oishi gave a sigh of relief. Eiji could really be a handful sometimes, and Oishi was grateful for the extra help in controlling his, well, hyperness. Although, he would have to brave it himself through the night, but that was okay, he'd done it many times before. And, on the brighter side, Tezuka was in a better mood than before.
"…where do I put the bear?" Kaidoh asked, picking it up off of the floor where Eiji had dropped it when he rushed to call Taka.
"Oh, I'll take care of it!" Oishi offered, bustling over. "Thanks for returning it!"
Kaidoh gave a hiss in reply. Oishi dashed up the stairs.
"…why are we here again?" Ryoma questioned.
Momo answered, "We came here to get my scrapbook, remember?"
"Yes, but we have the scrapbook, so why are we still here?" he grumbled with a glare.
"He gave you the face, didn't he? There was a one hundred percent chance." Sadaharu stated robotically. Momo gave a tiny chuckle.
"He did. Any you fell for it too, Ryoma!" he added with a glare.
"Mada mada dane, Momo-sempai," Ryoma chuckled.
"Eh? I should be 'Mada mada dane'-ing you!" Momo yelled.
"Taka's coming over!!!" Eiji bounced in. "Now we get to eat tasty food!" he smiled. Momo and Ryoma stopped their bickering, and Oishi came back downstairs.
"You didn't trouble him, did you?" he worried. "There's no doubt that he has a ton of other things to do, and—"
"Relax, Oishi! You're such a worrywart!" Eiji told him.
Oishi still looked a bit nervous, but nevertheless replied, "Ah, gomen, gomen."
Eiji grinned. Then he plopped down on a pile of cushions on the floor.
"Ne, Sadaharu…what's the lowest score you've gotten on a test?"
"100%"
"Really? But you can't use your notes on a test!" Eiji said.
Sadaharu forced back a smile. "I don't use a notebook while I'm on the tennis court."
"But you can't…ooh. How do you remember all of that junk, nya?!"
"Data wa uso wo tsukanai yo," Sadaharu remarked. (Data doesn't tell lies)
"Eh?! That doesn't make any sense!" Eiji was flustered. "…or does it?! Nya! I'm so confused…" he tipped over sideways onto the cushion pile. The others just stared at him. He glanced at the cushions underneath him, a look of intense concentration passing briefly across his face, before he quickly picked one up and threw it at Momo.
"GAH!" Momo was hit in the face, falling backwards in shock with a big THUD.
"Momo!" Oishi gasped. Momo sprang to his feet and flung the pillow back at Eiji, but Eiji ducked, and the pillow soared into Ryoma, knocking his hat off. He glared, once again, and threw cushions at both of them, which bopped Eiji on the head, but missed Momo and hit Oishi square in the face. Oishi was momentarily stunned, but quickly recovered, flinging back the cushion which hit both Momo and Ryoma.
"Yay Golden Pair!" Eiji chimed as they high-fived.
"We can't let them win, Ryoma! Attack!!" Momo yelled, throwing off a torrent of cushions like they were Frisbees. Eiji jumped in front of Oishi and was hit by most of them.
"No, Eiji!" Oishi cried as Eiji fell to the floor, pretending to be dead. He glared at their opponents. "You haven't won yet!" he said as he started flinging tons of cushions at them.
"Ah!" Momo yelped as he was drowned in cushions. Ryoma was nowhere to be found.
"Nyaaaaa!!!" Oishi turned around to see Eiji smack Ryoma with a cushion. Ryoma stumbled backwards before rejoining with Momo, who proclaimed dramatically, "We'll get you yet!" Ryoma and Momo armed themselves with handfuls of cushions.
"Just give up! You'll never beat the Golden Pair!" Eiji shouted back as they grabbed some cushions too.
And the cushion war began.
Oishi jumped behind a pillar as Momo sent a flurry of pillows his way, and gathered them as they settled on the floor around him. He threw a few to Eiji, who jumped out from behind the massive couch and flung the ammunition at their two opponents, who sprang out of the way in the nick of time. Ryoma grabbed a particularly large cushion and chased Eiji in circles around the room, but soon spotted Oishi nearby and gave him a good, hard smack with it, sending poor Oishi tumbling to the floor. Eiji quickly ambushed Ryoma with a cry of, "NYA!" and sent the freshman to the ground as well, swiping the younger's hat in the process. Eiji plopped it on his head.
"Look! I'm O-chibi!" he grinned, before side stepping as Momo pounced at him, which sent Momo to the floor as well.
"No! You've betrayed me, Eiji!" Oishi wailed.
"Wahaha! O-chibi-maru has conquered you all!" Eiji cackled, running rampantly around the room, with his hands in the air. "O-chi-bi-MAR-U!!!!!"
Ryoma fumed, "Give me my hat back!" and tackled O-chibi-maru to the floor, stealing his hat back. But, Ryoma happened to push Eiji onto a pile of cushions, and got a good whack to the face. Eiji chuckled and scurried back to Oishi, who had picked himself up and was dusting himself off.
"I'm back! We won, Oishi!!!" Eiji cheered. "O-chibi's hat is so scary! I saw so many things…"
"W-what things?!" Oishi sputtered.
"I saw a lot of bright colors, and all of a sudden, I felt like taking over the world! And laughing maniacally! I have to admit, it was fun though." Eiji smiled.
Ryoma looked away. "My hat is completely normal, I'll have you know."
Momo must've been distracted, since he just got back up off the ground. "I demand a rematch!"
"Mada mada dane," Ryoma smirked.
"Yay! Let's whup them, Oishi!"
And cushion war II began.
During the cushion frenzy, Kaidoh and Sadaharu, who were still present in the house, had taken it upon themselves to empty the room of its valuables, thankfully, and had somehow avoided getting spotted or hit while braving the madness. Now they were sitting in the corner, a good distance away from the war, mind you. They found some lemonade, or I should say Kaidoh found some, because Sadaharu wouldn't settle for just lemonade. They watched in obvious amusement as Eiji flew around the room and Ryoma did the matrix to avoid cushions, only to end up falling on his rear. Sadaharu jotted down brief notes whenever he looked up, of course. It was too good of a chance to miss the data provided. The doorbell rang, which only the two still sane people in the room heard, if you could call Sadaharu sane, the others caught up in their competition. Kaidoh was the one to answer the door, Sadaharu not willing to leave his precious data, for there was too much information that could be missed in the span of a few seconds.
"Oh, hello, Kaidoh," Taka smiled from outside. Kaidoh said nothing as he led his tall friend inside, stepping over a few stray cushions along the way.
"Now, Ryoma!" they heard Momo yell, followed by yelps of surprise from the Golden Pair.
"Two can play at that game, nya!" Eiji yelled.
Taka froze as he entered the war zone, staring in astonishment at the disaster that was now the Kikamaru's living room. Cushions flew in every which direction, one blasting into the wall beside Taka's head, giving poor Taka quite a shock. Kaidoh seemed not to notice. In fact, now that Taka looked around, he saw that none of the cushions were going towards Kaidoh or Sadaharu. He decided to follow Kaidoh before he got hit.
"Ohayou, Sadaharu," he smiled. "What's going on in here?"
"I believe they called it a cushion war," Sadaharu answered. "I have to say, it is very amusing to watch."
Taka stared at the chaos. "Oishi too?"
"Surprisingly, yes." Sadaharu smiled. "It is indeed interesting data."
Kaidoh handed Taka a lemonade and pulled up another chair for him, which Taka took gratefully.
"How did this…thing start?"
"Ah, Eiji threw a cushion at Momo," Sadaharu informed.
Taka could hear Kaidoh murmur, "…and that baka threw it back."
"Ah," Taka muttered. Sadaharu was right; it was very entertaining to watch. "So why are there so many people here?"
"Oishi's staying the night, Momo came for his scrapbook, which Eiji did not return, and Ryoma rides home with Momo, so he naturally ended up here as well."
Taka nodded, "But what about you two?"
"Fssshhhhhh…I should be training right now…" Kaidoh growled to himself.
"I am here on Tezuka's orders," Sadaharu stated, "to analyze Eiji's condition for any sudden symptoms of illnesses, change in character and/or personality, and so on."
"You make it sound more complicated than it is," Taka gave a tiny laugh. "And Kaidoh?"
Kaidoh pretended not to hear him, so Sadaharu answered again.
"Kaidoh found Eiji's stuffed large, stuffed plush out in the yard in front of the house, hidden among the bushes below Eiji's window, and took it upon himself to return it to said acrobat."
"Again, you make it seem so much more complicated than it is," Taka chuckled.
It was that particular moment that Eiji decided to look at the audience and spotted Taka in his house.
"Yay! Taka!!!" he jumped, dropping his cushions at his feet. "You're here!"
The flurry of cushions stopped.
"Oh, hello!" Momo smiled.
"Mada mada dane, sempai," Ryoma chimed in.
"Hey, I bet you didn't notice him until now, either!"
"Konbanwa, Taka-san," Oishi greeted with a smile. "Thank you for coming on such short notice. I hope it wasn't too much trouble!"
"Ah, not at all," Taka replied, smiling. The doorbell rang again.
"Go answer the door, baka-sempai," Ryoma told Momo.
"Me?! Why don't you answer the door?!"
Oishi walked past his two bickering teammates and opened the door for their visitors.
"Hello, Oishi," Fuji smiled at him. Tezuka stood beside him.
"Hello! What brings you two over here?" Oishi stepped aside to let the two inside.
"I figured that it would be nice if all of the regulars were here. That's including Tezuka," Fuji turned and looked at their buchou with a victorious smile. Tezuka just sighed.
"Yay! Fuji-ko's here!" Eiji gave him a flying hug, almost knocking the boy over. Then he pouted, "Momo and O-chibi-chan were throwing cushions at us!"
"Oh, dear! We can't have that, now can we?" Fuji turned to stare at the two.
"Hey! You threw it first!" Momo cried.
"Yeah, but you threw it back!" Eiji stuck his tongue out at him. Momo steamed silently before grabbing a cushion and flinging it at him. Eiji ducked quickly, bringing Fuji down with him, and it soared over them…
…hitting Tezuka in the face!
Second Chapter Up! YIPPEE!!!
I am extremely sorry for the delay, I got sick recently and haven't had many chances to type with all of the work I've been doing. Well, I got it up! And I made my first cliffhanger! *O*
I'll try and get the next chap up as soon as possible. Again, if you have any story ideas or suggestions, please tell me! Arigatou, gozaimasu! ;)
Till next time!
Yukari