10. Rikkai. Prompt: burning hot sun and hard training sessions
Kirihara collapsed onto the bleachers, panting. "Buchou hates us!" he cried, rolling over onto his back and accepting the water bottle Yanagi handed to him. "I'm dying!"
"No he doesn't, and no you're not," Yanagi said. He dragged a towel across his forehead.
Kirihara pouted. "It's a million degrees outside," he said, giving up on drinking and instead dumping the rest of the water onto his face. "Why do we have to run so many laps?"
"Conditioning?" Jackal suggested, lumbering into view. Marui trailed behind him, half bent over and grabbing onto his jersey.
"I think I'm gonna be sick," he groaned. "Jackal, you have to carry me on the next lap."
Jackal snorted, arching an eyebrow. "Oh yeah, sure. I'd love to. Not."
"Y'all are sissies," Niou said, leaning against the fence. "What was that, three laps?"
Yagyuu glanced at him. "It was five, actually, and does that mean you're ready for the next set? We've still got three more to finish."
"Er – ehehehe, um, no, not quite ready yet," Niou said quickly, looking sheepish.
"You know, if we hadn't just had a three-hour practice I'd be fine," Kirihara griped. "Or if it were slightly less hot than two billion degrees."
"It's in the upper eighties at most, Akaya," Yanagi said, shading his eyes and glancing toward the sky.
"It's HOT, okay, senpai?"
"I agree," Niou said, pushing away from the fence and stumbling onto the bench. "Shove over, would you? I need to sit down."
"Water," Marui said, looking around for a free bottle. "Quick, before I faint!"
Jackal pushed him down onto a seat. "You're not going to faint," he said dryly, shoving a water bottle under his nose. "Drink."
"We seem to have lost our esteemed captain," Yagyuu said, glancing around the courts.
"Sanada's missing, too," Yanagi pointed out.
"They ditched practice!" Kirihara exclaimed, eyes going wide. "That's so not cool!"
"I sincerely doubt they ditched," Yanagi said. "They're around somewhere."
Kirihara ignored him. "Maybe we can sneak off since they're not here," he said eagerly. "That way I won't die from heat stroke."
"I suggest that you don't."
Kirihara winced. "Oh crap," he muttered, swiveling around to see Sanada standing a few feet away, his arms crossed. "Umm, I was just kidding, Sanada-fukubuchou! Ehehe."
"Where's Yukimura?" Jackal asked.
A blast of cold water to the back of his head was his answer.
"Here," Yukimura said calmly, as Jackal yelped and spun around. The rest of the team followed suit, Marui wringing out the side of his shirt that had gotten caught in the attack, and Yanagi shaking water out of his hair. Yukimura smiled, tapping the end of one of the school's hoses against the palm of his hand.
"Buchou!" Kirihara exclaimed, standing and backing away warily.
"Where'd you get that?" Niou asked.
"I wasn't aware the school had hoses of that length…" Yagyuu said.
"I was watching you run," Yukimura said, still smiling pleasantly as he continued tapping the hose. "It was pathetic. Stumbling around like you were first years and you hadn't been to a Rikkaidai practice before. And just because of a little heat."
The team collectively took a step closer together.
"…It is approximately eighty-seven degrees," Yanagi spoke up. "With clear skies and little to no wind, plus the slight humidity which makes it feel about ninety-four degrees."
"Yes," Sanada said, whipping a Super Soaker Max Infusion XXP 500 out from behind his back. "Which is why we decided to cool you down a bit."
The team collectively blinked.
"Oh shit," Marui said.
"RUN!" Kirihara yelled. And then he promptly found himself with a face full of water as Yukimura turned the hose back on before he had even taken two steps.
"Last person who manages to stay mostly dry only has to run two more sets of laps instead of three," Yukimura said, turning the hose onto Yagyuu. "Akaya's already out."
"Aww man!" Kirihara stomped his foot against the ground.
"You telling me you didn't see that coming?" Niou asked, pulling Kirihara in front of him and ducking down as Sanada took aim.
"It's not that!" Kirihara said, scrambling away and hiding behind Jackal.
"Then what is it?" said Marui, who was also using Jackal as a shield.
"Now I'm cold!"
END