Okay, so I like the freshman trio (at least I like them in this) But this is the regulars, nya!

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Chapter Three- The Freshman Trio

The music started back up.

It showed a scene of the tennis courts with the regulars swinging their rackets and practicing.

"Great-o! Burning!"

"Don!"

"Taka-san, keep your stunts over there!"

"Sorry, Momo,"

Tezuka and Oishi met at the front of the stage. "Tezuka, above all else, our regulars are really determined, aren't they."

"That's true. That's Seigaku's secret to strength."

Fuji nudged Tezuka. "You're smiling! You should smile more Tezuka."

Suddenly the fifteen year old had the urge to smile. He fought it of course.

The screen went to Momo and Kaidoh. "For Momoshiro and Kaidoh, they practice after school lets out." Next it showed the tensai and the acrobat.

"And for Fuji and Eiji, they truly are rivals, aren't they?"

"Inui takes down our data and fuels our fighting spirit."

Said teen pushed up his glasses. "That's nice to know. Ii data,"

"And what about you?" Tezuka asked.

Oishi looks nervous. "My rival?" Their heads turned to look at each other.

"Is it me?" Tezuka takes a step away.

The egg-head blushed and avoided his friend's eyes.

"That makes you laugh?"

This made the audience laugh.

"No," Tezuka's head was still turned away.

Fuji smiled. "You sure about that Tezuka?"

"…Hai…"

"Alright, let's begin practice!" The brunette turned back to him and nodded in agreement.

The music got louder.

Inui: "Overcome those weights! Swing with them! To be undefeated, you have to win! To win, you have to be strong!"

"Are you saying we're not strong senpai?" Kaidoh asked, unsure.

The bespectacled boy turned to his kouhai. "No, I'm saying you must get stronger, but you are already very strong Kaidoh."

The boy lowered his head and blushed as Inui placed a hand on his shoulder. "Fsssh, thanks senpai."

Fuji grinned to himself. There was love everywhere.

They all just needed a push.

They danced, swinging their rackets to the tune.

Kaidoh: I'll show you what endurance is! Pushing until the pain gets comfortable.

Momo: It's no big deal. This kind of suffering tastes just like honey.

Fuji: I'm not gonna lose to you!

"You never want to lose to anyone, Fuji senpai."

"Of course Echizen."

Fuji and Taka: I'm not gonna lose to myself!

Everyone: The one who's undefeated #1 will be me.

Eiji nodded his head. "Love this music, nya!"

Tezuka: Pressing forward, challenging my limits!

Oishi: On the brink of collapse, I want to look up at the sky with a smile!

Fuji smiled. "I always have a smile."

They looked at him.

Eiji: I'm not gonna lose to you!

Eiji and Inui: I'm not gonna lose to myself!

Everyone: The one who's undefeated #1 will be me.

"The chances of us actually being able to dance like that are merely an 11 percent."

"Saa, I can dance like that."

Inui adjusted his glasses. "I wasn't including either you or Kikumaru in my data as I'm sure you—who can do anything brilliantly—and him who does acrobatics can dance like that."

"Thanks nya!

"Yes, thanks Inui."

Tezuka coughed but no one paid him any attention which made him frown.

Poor buchou. 

The actors seemed to be struggling with the rackets. Those weights must've been getting heavy.

Everyone: Facing the future! If we keep leaping forward, one day we'll sprout angel wings—

"I want wings, nya!"

"I want them too, I do!"

—and fly to the top of the world! Facing the future! If we keep leaping forward, one day we'll sprout angel wings and fly to the top of the world! Surely! Surely! Surely!

The crowd applauded as the music stopped.

"That was a good song." Tezuka admitted. Though he wouldn't admit that it had moved him somewhat. Saying that he liked it wasn't almost going overboard for him.

Fuji smiled and grabbed hold of Tezuka's arm, Inui peeked over the edge of his notebook. "Saa, it really was."

Some odd sounding music started up as the stage once more lit up, showing that none of the regulars were there.

Eiji frowned. "Where'd we go nya?"

"We probably went to get ready for the next part." Taka answered.

Oishi narrowed his eyes at the screen. "Is that Horio, Katsuo, and Kachiro?"

"It's huge!" Horio stated.

"Whoa, awesome!"

"It's so spacious!"

"Ya-ho!"

Kachiro grinned in amazement. "Wah, cool, cool, cool! I'm gonna do it too!" He placed his hands around his mouth and called out, "Ya-ho!"

Audience: Ya-ho!

Katsuo pointed to himself. "Me too, me too!"

Horio and Kachiro stopped him.

"You can't."

Horio: Its really awesome. They even do Panpashin here.

The unobrowed boy placed his hands on his hips.

Katsuo: Panpashin?

Kachiro: What's that?

Horio: How come you guys don't know that?! Well, the Panpashin is like, the pan-pacific-big-open-tennis thing!

"… what?..."

Katsuo: Oh, I see, the "Pan Pacific Big Tennis Open"!

Kachiro clapped: Way to go, Horio! You're so smart!

Horio: You're just an idiot.

"That's not nice, not nice at all."

Kachiro: That's not funny.

Katsuo: Of course not.

Horio: You guys really don't know anything. In this stadium, you could stack three standard sized tennis courts end-to-end!

"That is very big, fsssh."

Horio: Everyone look, the roof is 27 meters high!

Kachiro: 27 meters!

Taka blinked. "That's also very high.

Kachiro: Amazingly high!

Horio: And did you know?

Katsuo: Ready, start!

Horio: For dressing rooms there are 6, no, 504 of them. Why exactly 504? Because on a tennis court there are 504 line intersections!

Everyone clapped.

Horio: All lies.

"Che, of course they are."

Kachiro and Katsuo: Lies?

Kachiro: Horio-kun, you're always…

And as they said this a figure made his way to the stage.

Echizen narrowed his eyes. "Baka!"