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Chapter 7: Problems

"Wait a minute, you just lost me!" Niou yelled exasperated.

"Shut up, Niou, this had nothing to do with you!" Rin snapped.

"Oh yeah? Well this had nothing to do with you either!" Niou countered.

"You wanna go?!" Rin narrowed her eyes and readied her fist.

"Let's take this outside!" Niou jumped up from his position on the ground.

"Idiot we are outside!" Rin sneered.

"Will you both just shut the hell up!" Akira yelled as she smacked the back of both third years' heads.

"Yoko-kun?" Yagyuu repeated staring at the first year.

"Sempai, I think you have me mistaken for some one else, but I really need to talk to you," the blunette explained. "You see, I'm Ando Kiki, Kyoko's younger sister. I need to ask you a favor!"

"Yes, please continue," Yagyuu turned back to normal. It can't be her…she has to be older by now…

"I need you to stop giving my sister lessons!" Kiki said boldly.

"What?!" Akira and Niou stood shocked.

"Kyoko, are you sure about this?" The orange haired captain asked for the fifth time.

"Yes," Kyoko nodded. "It won't matter anyways."

"Why not?" Mai demanded.

"You'll find out soon enough," and with that the blunette dismissed herself and exited the almost empty classroom.

At that same moment, Yukimura, Sanada, and Leslie entered the classroom. Yukimura's eyes lingered on the retreating figure of the blunette down the hall then turned to the red head. "What was that all about?"

"Kyoko came to me," Mai's eyes were full of sorrow, "and told me that she wants to quit the tennis club."

"Why?" Leslie demanded angrily, "we need her! You can't just let her go like that!"

"She said that I couldn't stop her no matter what I said," Mai replied sadly.

"So you just let it go!" Leslie screeched as she grabbed the captain by the collar.

"Leslie, calm down," Yukimura soothed as Sanada yanked the blonde off the captain.

"There must be a good reason behind her sudden resignation," Sanada added, trying to control Leslie.

"Oh there better be a damn good one," Mai replied, the sadness in her eyes now turning to anger.

Yukimura tried to think over what had happened moments earlier in his head. There was no way that that girl would leave the tennis team willingly. Something was up.

You see Yukimura was never the type to a let a team be broken that easily. Also he would do anything for Mai and he knew that she wanted Kyoko to stay no matter what.

Now the first thing to do, Yukimura decided was to confront Yagyuu. There was a sliver of hope that the Gentleman would know what was up because Yukimura had heard from Akira who got it from Niou via text message who had gotten it from Yagyuu himself who accidently let it slip that there was something going on between the two.

The fact that they had a relationship had been well hidden from the blue haired captain until just recently. Yukimura was going to get revenge for the little secret but decided to put that aside for now and get back to the matter on hand.

And just on cue, the purple haired third year came half-speed walking-half-running down the hall. Worry was written all over his face. Yukimura stepped in his way to stop him. "Yagyuu, I need to talk to you." The blunette looked the other boy in the eyes. "About Ando Kyoko."

"Yeah, you see, captain, I have to go it's really important," Yagyuu muttered quickly before pushing his way past the captain, an act that he was sure to regret in the near future and fell into full speed running down the hall.

"Well, that went well," Yukimura muttered under his breath. "Now to find Niou…."

Yagyuu ran down the sidewalk, his mind racing back to his encounter with his captain. He knew that pushing by him like that was rude and that he would have to apologize later. He probably would pay for it too. But right now he had more important things to get to.

Another cliff hanger....