A snap was heard throughout the courts.

"Jiroh!"

Everyone turned to the direction of the sound and discovered the Atobe Keigo. Since when had he arrived? The only entrance or exit was the flight of steps. Fuji steely gazed at him.

"Atobe! Fuji agreed to play with meee!!" Jiroh went to Atobe and pulled him closer.

"Did.. I?"

"Jiroh, come with me," Atobe noticed Fuji's stare. He was catching on.

"Yo. Fuji!" A white haired teenager shouted from the flight of steps.

"Saeki! What are you doing here?"

"Atobe asked me to play with him." He conveniently half-lied as he witnessed Atobe's trouble.

Fuji smiled but didn't buy it. "Atobe.. again." He muttered under his breath.

Clearing his throat, Saeki continued. "Ryou and his brother are here too.." he turned to look at the pair of twins behind him. "Though, I didn't except his brother to have the same destination.

The twins were silently staring at each other.

"…"

"…"

"Atushi."

"Ryou."

"Your destination was here?"

"Who…"

"…called you?"

"Saeki."

"Mizuki."

"…."

They had walked together all this while and yet neither of them thought they were going to the same place.

"Saa, since you're here, let's have a match! Singles or doubles is fine." Saeki wrapped an arm over Fuji.

Fuji looked over to Yukimura, Tezuka (who had a slightly ticked expression) and Sanada. "Demo…"

"Fuji-senpai, you agreed to play with me first."

"Echizen! I thought y-"

"After your date, Momo-senpai."

"OI! YOU S-"

"It's no-"

"It's a date."

"I'm supposed to play with Echizen!"

"No, you aren't. I talked to him first therefore I get the priority to play him first. I was just trying to buy grip tape that day and Echizen took the last roll. He agreed to give me the rest if I beat him. I want that grip tape so if I beat him I can get the last roll. Then Fuji's little brother says that he should play Echizen first when it's obvious that it's my turn. And now even Akira doesn't care because he's too jealous over Tachiba-"

"Fuji-kun, I-"

"Who are you?" Fuji glanced at the St Rudolph's manager. "Anyway, Let's decide this with paper, like the last time then."

"I'll make them!" Mizuki fumed. Fuji was taking his grudge too far.

"Oh, thank you… Muliti-kun."

"It's Mizuki."

In the end, the original four participants didn't play. Sanda, Yukimura, Tezuka were referees. Kamio and Momo were playing doubles against Shinji and Echizen..again. The twins found themselves playing against Mizuki and Saeki. Atobe played against Jiroh. Fuji and Yuuta were left out, but Yuuta went to watch his manager's match, so Fuji talked to Ann.

"Hey, Ann isn't affected by Fuji." A voice whispered in the bushes.

"She likes someone else… however, that 'someone' hasn't been confirmed…" A tapping on a book was heard. "Look at the Kamio-Momoshiro Pair who were partnered again to play Shinji-Echizen Pair."

"AGAIN?! THE LAST TIME WE LOST BECAUSE OF YOU!"

'ME?! THAT WAS YOUR FAULT!"

'Urusai! Too noisy…"

"That grip tape…"

"Mika-senpai, are you sure about this?"

"Definitely. Now, just act."

Three girls entered the tennis courts. They inwardly grinned as they saw their Fuji-sama sitting on the beach, but scowled when they spotted a girl next to him.

"Who's that girl?"

"She goes to my little sister's school. She's Tachibana Ann."

"Hm… Tachibana.. I see. No matter,"

The girls strutted to Fuji and requested Ann for a game.

"You see, we'd like to play doubles but we've only got three people."

Ann frowned inwardly at the girls. They gave off a bad aura. "No, I'm sorry, I don't have my tennis racquet with me."

"We have an extra, so please?" Mika took out a racquet from her bag and pushed it to her.

"I don't play well unless I use my own," Ann refused.

"Please?" Mika leaned forwards, begging.

"Ano sa, she said she didn't wa-"

Perhaps Fuji should have known that the girls were after him and not Ann, but he fell for their trap anyway. As soon as Fuji lightly shoved Mika away from Ann, one of the girls behind Mika accidentally on purpose bumped into Mika, which caused her to tumble head first into Fuji. Fuji, whose body did not expect the sudden weight, fell off the bench backwards. They landed with Mika on top of Fuji. Mika blushed with such a close contact with her prince, but Fuji winced and brought out his left hand that was under him.

"Ow.."

In a flash, Tezuka was next to him.

"Fuji, are you alright?"

"I… don't know." He tried to twitch his left fingers to no avail.

Tezuka slightly glared at the girl on top of him. She scuttled quickly off him, yet she was oblivious to the injury she caused to Fuji. Tezuka took Fuji's left hand into his and poked at a few points. Each time, Fuji responded with a bite to his lip and tried to snatch his hand from Tezuka's strong grip.

"You're going to the hospital," and Fuji felt Tezuka's arms pulling him up.

A cold gush of air hit Fuji's ankle as he got up from the ground and he winced again. Fuji peered down to see a bruise on his right ankle. Suddenly, he felt himself being lifted up. Tezuka was carrying him bridal style.

"Tezuka, the limo is at the bottom of the steps. He'll bring you and Fuji to the hospital," Atobe flicked his phone shut and nodded to him.

Tezuka nodded to show his thanks and left the courts with Fuji in his arms.

"So, are you satisfied?" Ann mocked the stunned girls staring at Tezuka's retreating back. They stuttered a bit before high tailing out of the area.

After the people left on the courts heard the sound of a car driving away, they all let out a whop of laughter.

"Tezuka-kun…" Yukimua giggled as he grasped onto Sanada for support.

"They're so together," Yuuta face-palmed at his brother's ignorance.

The people hiding behind the bushes stepped out as well, much to the shock of Yuuta, Mizuki, the twins, Echizen, Kamio, Shinji, Momoshiro and Ann.

"Compatibility…"

"98 percent." Inui and Renji said at the same time.

"Hiroshi-chan, how come you never carry me like that?"

"You're heavier than me, Niou-kun," he stated flatly. "And we're still cuffed together."

"Oishi," Eji tapped his doubles partner's head. "Are you worrying again? They'll be fine, nya."

"Aa," Oishi sighed.

"Why can't we just use Tezuka and solve Fuji's problem once and for all?"

"Chances of that happening…"

"…is a… undefined success."

"What?"

"You see, Fuji's very unpredictable," Inui clicked his pen. "Even if he's slightly more predictable with the stress of the situation..."

"He's still unpredictable." Renji finished. "And there's also the problem of getting Tezuka to cooperate, since they'll be labeled together forever."

"Well, Shishido didn't mind."

"Well, it's Choutarou."

"That's true."

"Wait a second," Momoshiro spoke on the behalf of the people who had no idea what was going on. "Can somebody explain?!"