I do not own The Prince of Tennis

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"Now, that everyone's finished with the warm-up-"

"THAT was just a WARM-UP?!" Marui shouted, cutting Yukimura off mid-sentence.

"Ahem" Yukimura cleared his throat, giving Marui a look of disapproval.

"Don't interrupt Captain Yukimura!" Sanada bellowed. But actually, his saying that was kind of also interrupting Yukimura, wasn't it?

"Ahem!" Yukimura coughed rather loudly before continuing. "As I was saying, now that we've all completed the warm-up exercise. Let's move on to-"

"PLAY TENNIS!" This time it was Kikumaru who rudely interrupted the Captain.

"Yes, exactly right play tennis." Yukimura nodded.

Everyone looked quite pleased at the prospect of playing tennis; after all they were a bunch of tennis freak-os.

"But, first" Yukimura continued, "We will be lightly jogging back to the street tennis courts"

This warranted some groans and mutters of disapproval from the teammates. Everyone knew Yukimura's definition of 'lightly jogging' was just plain running.

"But, Yukimura, those courts are at least 15 kilometers [about 10 miles] away!" Shishido protested.

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"You know, I was thinking…." Kikumaru said, jogging next to his new partner, "we need to come up with names for the rest of the teams!"

"I don't think that's necessary." Shishido bluntly stated.

"We're only in these teams for three days." Mizuki, smartly pointed out, as he and his partner Fuji came jogging directly behind the Gilver pair.

"I'm not talking about these teams, I'm talking about our doubles 2 team. Marui and Jirou still don't have a team name. If a doubles team doesn't have a name, well, they can't legally be considered a doubles team." Kikumaru reasoned.

"Hmm…it's true." Fuji nodded seriously.

"I already thought of a name for our team. 'Genius Pair.' " Marui stated as he and Jirou came to join the two pairs of joggers.

"Oooh Marui-kun! You're so smart!" Jirou applauded enthusiastically.

"I feel like that name doesn't really suit you two." Shishido said. Declaring yourself as a genius is so lame.

"Yeah! When I hear the name 'Genius' I immediately think of Fuji! So, my first thought is that the Genius pair would somehow involve Fuji! But instead it's Marui and Akutagagwa. How weird." Kikumaru agreed.

"I think, perhaps, Marui wants to be called the Genius pair, because he enjoys calling himself a Genius." Mizuki mused, fingering a lock of purple hair.

"Maybe Marui should play doubles with Fuji then. That way the name 'Genius pair' could actually make sense." Kikumaru reasoned.

"Eh?! What?! Marui-kun, we never even got to play doubles once together and now you already want to leave?" Jirou asked Marui in distress.

"Akutagawa, please take a moment to calm down." Fuji smiled, slowing down his pace to rest a reassuring hand on Jirou's shoulder. "How about instead of changing our doubles partners around, we just change the name."

"How about 'addict pair?'" Mizuki suggested.

"Huh? I'm not an addict!" Marui refuted.

"Yes, you are! You're a candy addict! And, Akutagawa here is a sleeping addict!" Kikumaru pointed out.

"So, it's the 'addict pair' now?" Shishido asked casually.

"Nooooo!" Marui moaned.

"What about 'unbreakable habit pair!'" Eiji exclaimed. "It's more upbeat and has a winning ring to it. We can call them the UH pair for short!"

"Like, uhhh I can't think of a very good name?!" Marui asked sarcastically. Genius pair was an awesome name if you asked him.

"NO! Like, UH! The noise people make after hitting back a tennis ball in a ferocious competition! Duh, Marui." Kikumaru rolled his eyes.

"I love it! Kikumaru, you're the greatest!" Jirou enthused.

This entire conversation, Yukimura and his partner Sanada had taken the lead of the pack and were many strides ahead of the rest of the team. Sanada glanced back, and to his horror realized his teammates were not 100% focused on the task at hand! He was about to yell something, when Yukimura put up a hand to silence him.

Yukimura turned around to face his teammates, now jogging backwards. In an all too up beat voice Yukimura shouted,"Quickly now! Let's try to make it back to the tennis courts in 2 minutes! It will be fun!"

Before anyone had time to protest, Yukimura was running off at full speed in the direction of the street courts. Somehow, after playing against Echizen Ryoma that one time, Yukimura had developed a very twisted sense of fun.

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After a long sweaty day of training the team arrived home at around 5:00pm. Everyone was starving, because no one had the forethought to pack lunches. Most of them hadn't eaten anything the entire day. Poor Sanada and Shishido had to rush off to their choir practice without anything to eat or without taking a shower.

Since Marui, Jirou and Eiji all attended the Culinary Arts University, they decided to rotate days to cook for the team during the retreat. Tonight was Marui's night to cook.

"My house has five bathrooms! So, while Marui is cooking our dinner we can all take a bath!" Jirou informed his teammates.

Murmurs of approval were heard from the teammates. Because they are MEN it didn't take them very long to take a bath. Except for Mizuki, Fuji, Yukimura, and Kikumaru, because they have to use many special products in their hair. And, Jirou, because he fell asleep. When the clean crew returned to the kitchen, they were shocked to find Marui had already finished his bowl of instant ramen.

"Instant ramen! Is this what they teach you in culinary school?" Mizuki spat. He was not going to eat that trash.

"Finally you guys are finished with your baths, that took like forever. I think your food got cold. Sorry." Marui gestured to the five bowls of instant ramen sitting at Jirou's kitchen table.

Eiji shuddered in disgust. When ramen gets cold, it gets all slimy and sticks together. He didn't want to eat it! "I'll just whip up something else for us to eat real fast." Eiji offered.

"Ah. Thank you Kikumaru. I'm famished." Yukimura said graciously.

"No need. I like it better like this actually." Fuji smiled, slurping the cold ramen.

"I can't believe Marui-kun made this ramen just for me! I feel so special!" Jirou grinned, joining Fuji at the table. He too began slurping the cold, slimy ramen.

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Sanada and Shishido returned to the wonderfully fragrant smell of Kikumaru's omelets. Or omelet rather… Kikumaru decided it would be better and faster to make one GIANT omelet that took up the space of Jirou's entire kitchen table.

"Did you know when you share and omelet with someone you forge a friendship for life?" Kikumaru spouted randomly, glancing to his right at Shishido. Shishido was trying hard to focus on his food, ignore the hyper guy on his left, and not think about how much he missed his old doubles partner.

Kikumaru next looked to his left, where Yukimura was seated and smiled at the scene before him. An omelet sharing ritual!

Sanada, who was seated directly across from Yukimura, was dutifully piling food on to Yukimura's plate, despite the fact that Sanada himself was obviously ravenous. Yukimura was the Captain and Sanada's best friend; it was important to make sure he had enough to eat! Even though Yukimura knew Sanada was starving, maybe even hungrier than he was, Yukimura just pleasantly sat and watched Sanada fill his plate with omelet.

Then there was Mizuki. Poor Mizuki's partner wasn't there to share the omelet with him. Mizuki had to eat all alone, but he didn't look too disappointed by it.

Free time was set-aside at the end of the day to work on homework

Yukimura sat in an armchair the corner of the living room. He had a big easel set up and was working on painting a portrait of his lovely Aimee. Sanada was sitting next to Yukimura, working hard on a piece of calligraphy. This wasn't his homework. It was just something he had to do.

Fuji wasn't working on any homework. He was kneeling next to the coffee table, just talking casually to his cactus, Ansel, about his day. Fuji didn't have to work on homework because he was a genius. Also, he had already taken those pictures of Mizuki and the sunrise earlier.

Mizuki was also not working on any homework, he was instead rummaging through his bag pulling out large bags of loose leaf tea.

"Would anyone like some tea? I brought my travel tea set." Mizuki offered.

"I'm not drinking tea out of that tea cup, it probably had lead in it." Sanada scoffed.

Mizuki glared at Sanada.

"I'll take some tea." Fuji smiled. Even if it meant being nice to the enemy, a chance to hold the antique English tea cup in with his own hands…

Mizuki handed Fuji a piping hot cup of Earl Grey tea.

"Look at them. Making friends." Yukimura softly cooed, only loud enough for Sanada to hear. "Mizuki, I'll take some tea too if you don't mind."

When Mizuki was about to hand Yukimura the steaming hot cup of tea, Sanada suddenly swatted it away.

Just in time, Kikumaru caught the teacup with his ultra quick reflexes and handed it directly to Yukimura. Meanwhile, Mizuki and Fuji were giving Sanada the death glare of 'you almost broke a very precious antique'

"No, Yukimura, you mustn't! The cups are poison!" Sanada yelled.

But, it was too late, Yukimura was already drinking the lead tainted tea! "Relax Sanada, it's just a little lead." Yukimura laughed somewhat condescendingly.

Just then, Shishido groaned loudly, causing everyone to look up at him. "I hate transposing. It's so lame!"

"Here, have some tea, it'll help you calm down" Mizuki said, handing Shishido a cup of warm Earl Grey tea. Glancing over at Shishido's homework, he realized something was terribly wrong.

"Oh dear, it seems your transposing all of this completely in reverse. You need to go up a whole step Shishido, not down a half step!"

"Oh, thanks Mizuki. I never realized you were so good at music. Almost as good as Choutarou."

"Did you hear that Ansel?" Fuji whispered to the cactus, "Shishido usually has Ootori help him write his homework, but now that Ootori isn't here he struggles. Fufufu"

"That's not what I said!" Shishido flushed.

Suddenly everyone heard a loud "Kyaaaaa" and looked up to see Sanada with his Kendo sword doing practice swings across the room. This also isn't part of his homework. But, it's something he has to do, or else he might stop being a Sanada.

"Can you stop being so loud? I'm trying to work on my 'Theory of Cooking Yummy Things' essay." Kikumaru remarked. Kikumaru was flipped over upside-down on one of Jirou's couches, so his head dangled off the seat cushion. He had his laptop perched on his stomach.

Everyone just stared at Kikumaru. Had he really just asked someone else to be quiet?

"What? You're still working on that essay? I totally finished it in like 20 minutes. Because I'm a genius!" Marui stated smugly.

Jirou was asleep on one of his other couches. But if he were awake he would say something along the lines of "Wow, Marui-kun you're so amazing and cool!"

"How did you finish it so quickly?" Fuji asked, still facing the direction of his cactus, Ansel.

"Copy and paste from Wikipedia. It's not like the Professor actually takes the time to read those anyway." Marui answered, unashamed of his blatant plagiarism.

"OH! Great idea!" Kikumaru shouted as he went to find the Wikipedia page all about 'cooking yummy things'

"Tarundorou!" Sanada shouted, eyes still focused ahead on the make-believe enemy he was hitting with a wooden Kendo sword

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Even though they are supposed to be weekend bonding/training for 4 days or something, this is the last chapter concerning that. Because, otherwise it would be too boring. And, I want to finish this sometime soon :3