Okay, so I know it's been awhile, and if you hate me that's okay, but you shouldn't…okay maybe you should.

Disclaimer: If I could, I would (And things would be different). But I don't.

"So remind me again why we're doing this?" Ryoma muttered as he peered out from behind a bush.

"I've already told you five times," Inui sighed as he looked out from behind a tree.

"Yeah, I know that, but one more time, I'm not quite sure I understood it."

"Tezuka let practice out early, and then left immediately, we are following him to determine the why. Although there is a 97.3% chance it has to do with Kara," Inui answered him as he pushed his glasses up his nose. The subject of their conversation sneezed, looked around the empty park, shrugged, and continued walking. When he was out of sight a sigh of relief went out and they tumbled out of their hiding spots. Ryoma was behind the bush with Fuji, both of them suspiciously mussed and a few twigs were caught in Ryoma's hair. Inui came out from behind the tree and helped Kaidoh climb out of the tree. Oishi and Eiji stood up from behind a bench. Momo moved from behind a large rock and Taka followed.

"Don't you think he would have told us if it had something to do with Kara," Eiji complained, "After all, she's our friend too!"

"That's probably why he doesn't want us to know," Oishi pointed out.

"Nya…" Eiji's hurt expression made Oishi feel slightly guilty and he pulled Eiji close.

"Sorry."

"So does this have anything to do with tennis?" Ryoma asked. Everyone looked at him in disbelief, the same expression written on all their faces, are you kidding me?

"NO!"

"Then why do I have to be here?"

Fuji smiled and pulled Ryoma close, "Because we are doing this as a team, and because you know you want to be here." Ryoma rolled his eyes. Fuji's smile grew larger and he whispered something in Ryoma's ear. Ryoma turned bright red and pulled his hat down over his face.

Inui looked at the two closely and scribbled a few words in his notebook while the others looked on in confusion. Fuji just smiled and Ryoma avoided looking at any of them. The group turned the corner Tezuka had just walked around and found themselves in front of a large building with a banner bearing the words "Japan Gymnastics Sub-District Qualifiers" in large bold letters.

"It does have something to do with Kara!" Eiji exclaimed in excitement. The underclassmen looked at him in confusion.

"Kara is a world class gymnast," Inui explained flipping back a couple of pages in his notebook, "But according to my data she was injured a 2.5 years ago in a balance beam accident." Fuji smiled.

"She was just standing on the bar."

The seniors, minus Inui, started laughing while Momo, Kaidoh, and Ryoma stood there watching.

"Kara has a remarkable sense of balance, so for her to injure herself doing nothing is remarkably funny," Inui explained as he scribbled some more notes in the notebook.

"So are we going to go in?" Kaidoh asked as the seniors finally stopped laughing.

"Of course we are mamushi, we haven't figured anything out yet!" Momo stated rolling his eyes.

"Shut up baka!"

"Who are you calling baka? You stupid snake!"

"YOU you baka!"

"Inui, could you tackle your boyfriend while we get Momo?" Oishi asked under his breath as they began circling the two fighting juniors.

"I'm not getting involved," Ryoma muttered moving as far away as he could before a hand clamped on his arm and he found himself looking into Fuji's blue eyes.

"You are definitely getting involved," Fuji said with a smile that made Ryoma shiver before he nodded. It took five minutes before they were able to drag the two teenagers apart and by that time Tezuka had disappeared into the building.

"Well," Oishi said looking at the others, "I guess we should go in." They nodded and pushed open the doors.

Well there you are, chapter five, sorry it took so long. R&R I accept hate or love -Scarlett Letter