Tennis was over. Tezuka sighed. What was the world coming to? Kaido had never been late before! It was because of that…..girl! He knew it! All girls caused trouble. They weren't capable of having an intelligent conversation with ANYONE!! At least, the girls he knew were like that. If Tezuka had to do a project with a girl, they would always blush and stammer out meaningless phrases. This resulted in him doing all the work.

He continued walking to class with all his negative feelings about girls spiraling around him. Then he started thinking about the tennis team to cheer himself up. They were going to win the Nationals, he was sure of it. They had won once, and now their abilities had increased tremendously. In fact- WHAM!!!

Tezuka's train f thought was cut off as he crashed into a girl. His tennis reflexes allowed him to catch her before she fell.

"Thanks!" she said gratefully, looking p at him. Tezuka felt like someone had just dumped a bucket of ice cold water over him. Her eyes are so beautiful……

Tezuka mentally slapped himself for thinking like that. True, her eyes were bluer and brighter than Fuji's, but still….. She was a girl!

"U-u-um, sure…ok…hi…?"

"Right," Kristi said standing up. "C'ya…." And under her breath "Freak….."

Tezuka slapped himself, this time physically. How could he have been so stupid?

"Listen….." the blue-eyed girl said turning right when Tezuka's palm made contact with his cheek. "Um…never mind." She said turning around with a slightly scared look.

"Nice." Tezuka jumped 10 feet high.

"It's okay." Fuji said as Eiji nearly died laughing beside him.

Tezuka glared at both of them. "30 laps."

That just made Eiji laugh harder.

"200 laps!"

Those words succeeded in making Eiji stop and look up at the captain with a sad face. Tezuka sighed and turned around, coming face to face with Fuji's sadistic grin.

"I'll tell everyone about… this incident if you make us run the laps."

"Nobody will believe you."

"Aww! That's right, nya Fuji! Who would have thought that our Captain slapped himself?" Eiji added.

"We can bring a witness!"

Tezuka nearly had a heart attack. Not the pretty girl!

"There were no witnesses." The Seigaku Tennis captain lied.

"That's what you want us to think." Eiji said catching on.

I let my guard down! Tezuka thought forcefully. "I will let you skip drinking Inui Juice for this MONTH if you don't talk/write/tell anyone about it."

Eiji was on the verge of agreeing, but Fuji said, with an evil smile, "Tezuka, you forgot that I like Inui Juice."

Tezuka ignored Fuji and turned to Eiji. "Are you okay with that?"

"Yes, nya!" Eiji said happily and bounded off before Fuji could hurt him for giving in so easily.

"What do you want, Fuji?"

"I want you to ask her to come to tennis practice everyday."