Time Travel

"If you could ever go back in time, where would you go, nya?"

Kaidoh hissed, "What type of question is that?"

Eiji pouted, "A damn good one!"

Kaidoh rolled his eyes as Oishi admonished Eiji for his vocabulary.

"Me…I would go back to when I was kindergarten. Nothing was better than snacks and nap time!" Momoshiro beamed, "Ah, Miko-sensei…so beautiful were you."

"I would go back to when my parents were about to do the freaky to get my brothers, nya. They're so mean to me…," Eiji trailed off as his imaginary ears drooped.

"Okay then…I would go back to when I got my first fish. I had so much fun with Spider," Oishi said as he began day dreaming about his dead fish.

"I would go back to before my little brother was born."

"Why?"

"The brat's a little bug that I can't wipe off the bottom of my shoe," Kaidoh grunted as Hazue appeared in his head.

Everyone chuckled at the flustered snake boy.

"I would go back to when Renji and I played our first chess game. If I had only moved left instead of right, I could've won. Then I would have all of the bragging rights," Inui looked depressed for a moment.

"I would go back to when I had my first sushi. It was a once in a lifetime treat I'll never forget." Kawamura began to drool but caught himself and laughed nervously.

"Sa, I would go back to when I was little and Yuuta got in trouble with those older kids. Then I could really go all out on them," Fuji laughed evilly and Momo, who was sitting next to the brunette, moved away slowly.

"What time would you go to Echizen?"

"Me," Ryoma sat back for a bit and took a sip of Ponta he got from his secret stash in the locker room. "I would go back to fifth grade."

"Why?"

"That was when Buchou was at my school in Northern California. Good times," Ryoma nodded as he sipped again.

"What- Buchou used to live in America!?"

"Oh yes, yes, when he was there…it was interesting to say the least. When I came here, I didn't even recognize him because he had brown hair."

"Tezuka's hair was a different color?"

"Yep, it was a silvery white with pink, purple, blue, and green streaks near the end. Also, one eye was completely covered by his bangs and he didn't wear glasses."

"Really?"

"He wore contact lenses that made his eyes green."

"My data, it doesn't add up to something that would involve Tezuka dying his hair."

"Oh yeah, do you have a laptop?" Inui nodded and pulled out the portable computer. He turned it on and connected it to the school's internet. None of the Regulars believed Ryoma's story. It was just so… un-buchou-like.

Ryoma entered in a website and it brought him to a school's homepage. He clicked on the achievements link and a picture of ten boys and girls standing together appeared. One boy had the exact same appearance as Ryoma had described. He scrolled down where there were individual close ups of each person in the group photo and one or two paragraphs about them.

He stopped on the blonde boy's photo and pointed to the name.

Kunimitsu Tezuka, age 11, seventh grade

The younger Tezuka also had on blue braces…and was….SMILING!?

No, he was grinning ear to ear.

"Younger Tezuka looks so different," Fuji commented before grinning. "Inui, print it out! Print it out!"

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Tezuka, who wasn't with the team yesterday because he had an orthodontist appointment (concerning his retainer), was suspicious the moment he woke up. When he got to school and people had papers in front of their faces and were giggling when they saw him put him on high alert.

He walked into the clubhouse and saw a picture of a boy on the door. It wasn't any boy…it was him when he was eleven.

And only one person knew what he looked like.

"ECHIZEN RYOMA!!!"
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