Happy Chinese New Year!

Thanks for the reviews! Seems that most of you wish you had boyfriend like Shiraishi. Well, I do wish too! XD

Disclaimer: Konomi-sensei owns the Prince of Tennis, its characters, Shitenhouji, Rikkaidai, and of course the Oshitari family. I wish I could have gone to the festa :'(

Like always, please bear with any typo and/or grammar error.

Oh, by any chance, do you know what color apatite is? If you do, you might have found a little trick I'd set up in the previous chapter~ *feeling like I'm gonna pop those dreamy balloons in your head*

Ch4: Sono Yancha ni Kiss

Kouki hold her breath; his face was really close to her. They're just an inch or two apart now. She froze on her spot as her eyes locked on his half closed ones. His apatite orbs were really pretty, nearly as blue as the clearest sky.

Wait! Blue?

Shiraishi's eyes weren't…

She quickly shut her eyes in reflect and pulled her face back, and before her head could proceed what was really happening, she heard a quite loud smack sound.

"I don't care whether you're also called as trickster outside the court or not, just don't touch her."

She slowly opened her eyes in fear, only to find 2 Shiraishis in front of her. Well, one literally curled on the ground by her feet while the other stood behind the first one with his racket.

"Ouch, that's hurt, you bastard!" The trickster growled rubbing his temple; his wig had slipped, revealing his real silver hair.

"I don't really like fist-fighting, but it's okay if you really want to have your nose broken." Shirashi glared dangerously at Niou.

Niou only looked back at him silently. As a trickster, he knew well when enough was enough, when it was better to keep his mouth shut than to pour oil on the fire.

"The practice is over. We're leaving." Shiraishi said as he grabbed her arm and dragged her with him. He walked really fast, making it difficult for her to caught up, and soon the silverhead behind disappeared from her vision as they exited the rooftop garden and went downstairs.

"Shira-" She tried to call him but he didn't answer, he didn't even bother to look at her and kept walking.

"Shiraishi… Wait, Shiraishi!" She struggled to release her arm from his grasp. "It's hurt."

He finally stopped and looked at her. He quickly released her as he understood what she meant.

"What the hell were you doing? Ditching practice like that."

"I- I didn't mean to do that."

"Then why did you go with him?"

"I didn't know that it was Niou-san. I thought it was you."

"So you're saying couldn't even tell that he was a fake?"

"Who knew he would do such a thing, and I did realize that he wasn't you on the last minute."

"If you realized it then why did you still let him to kiss you!"

"But we didn't kiss."

"Of course you would have if I hadn't interrupted!"

"I.." She couldn't find any word to defend herself. Tears of anger and frustration started to built on the corner of her eyes. He frowned seeing this.

"Don't cry!"

"I'm not!" She yelled back.

She hated being accused like this. He should have known that she hadn't intentionally done it. Why couldn't he understand even just a bit?

"Fine! Whatever!" He turned around and left her behind.

She wiped her wet eyes as she saw him walked away.

Oh great, now he was really angry to her.

"Shiraishi's so scary. Na, naa, Zaizen, will he omit poison from all over his body?" Kintarou asked bluntly. Thanked God the said captain was in different room; otherwise he would have been killed by the poison.

"Who knows…" Zaizen answered shortly, although it wasn't really an answer. He actually didn't really care about what was going on, but somehow he knew that it was better not to make Shiraishi even more irritated by random babbling he usually told to his a-little-too-innocent junior.

"EEEH!" Kintarou pouted. "You do know, don't you? You should know! You always know everything!"

Zaizen twitched. Why couldn't this brat just leave him alone?

The Shitenhouji gang didn't need much time to realize that something was wrong between Shiraishi and Kouki. They had even found out what had happened back.

"I do understand why Shiraishi is so mad about this. Heck, he does have the right to get angry about this!"

"You're so mean Yuu-kun! It wasn't like Kou-rin cheated and went with another guy on purpose either!"

"She couldn't even tell that it wasn't him! That was really unforgivable!"

"It was really unexpected, you know! Who would have thought that the other guy would have done such a thing!"

"They've known each other for a long time! She should have known that Niou guy had been a fake!"

"But she did realize it, didn't she? It wasn't that bad!"

"Yes, she did just when the faces were only an inch away. She should have realized it earlier! It was still unforgivable. We men have our pride!"

"Stop nagging like that! Don't you feel sorry for her even just a bit? You're the worst, Yuu-kun! That's why I don't wanna be with you anymore!"

"Wait! Why does this suddenly have to do with us!"

"That-"

"Oh, shut up you two!" Kenya groaned as he kicked the two used-to-be-lovers out of the room. "Don't mix up the problems; they're already irritating enough as they are now… And you two should somehow find a way to end your silly fight."

With a blam he closed the door right in front of Yuuji and Koharu. He desperately sighed as he could still hear the two arguing outside. Well, it wasn't their first time having a fight. They would reconcile eventually… Please, as soon as possible, he wished, because it was really pain in the ass.

He sighed again then turned to see his cousin, who was literally dead and drowned in her own depression.

"You completely understand who the wrong one is, don't you?"

Kouki slightly tilted her head which was resting on a low table in front of her to see him. "Yeah."

"First, you ditched the practice and went with another guy." He stated as he sat beside her.

A blade of guilt stabbed her as he pointed out.

"Then, you couldn't even tell that he was a fake Shiraishi."

Another blade stabbed her.

"Then, you almost kissed the guy who wasn't your boyfriend right in front of your real boyfriend."

If the blades had been real, maybe she had been dying from the lost of blood now.

"And finally, instead of apologizing, you tried to defend yourself, argued with him, yelled back and finally made everything even worse."

She really wanted to hit her head hard onto the table every time she remembered her stupid act back then. She really had made everything worse. Shiraishi would have forgiven her if she had just simply apologized without being egoistic.

No, she wouldn't have been that easily tricked if she could have kept her mind calm back then, if she hadn't let herself become too concerned about the kiss and other silly things…

Again, why regrets always came last?

"Apologize then..." Kenya said again. "Perhaps it's already too late, but being late is still better than doing nothing."

She nodded. She knew she had to ask for forgiveness, but she was really scared. It was the first time she saw Shiraishi angry like that. What if he didn't want to forgive her? What if he wanted to break instead? What if…

"Ouch!" She felt a sudden pain on her forehead then looked up to see Kenya, who apparently had just flicked her on the forehead.

"Stop being so pessimistic and coward." He stood up and walked to the door. "It's your own problem so you have to solve it by yourself. Apologize to him. The sooner the better, okay?"

She watched him exiting the room then rested her head again onto the table.

She did want to apologize and put an end to this depressing problem as soon as possible, but how?

Shiraishi looked like he didn't want to talk to her for a quite long time. She couldn't expect him to easily forget everything and acted normally toward her like nothing had happened by tomorrow either.

She sighed.

How could a supposed to be fun trip like this turn out to be so wrong?

Sorry for the OOC-ness. I made everyone yelled at each other… (everyone except Kintarou and Zaizen)

I always wanted to try to throw them (Shiraishi and Kouki) into fight since the last time they only had misunderstanding. Well, they don't really fight though... It's just Shiraishi gets angry because Kouki did something wrong.

I feel bad for Niou. Sorry, I made him into a bad guy here. I promise I'll give him a better role next time! *pats Niou*

Ah, btw, the title is taken from a lyric of a song called Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! (sung by Buono!). The song is really encouraging. I made Kenya act based on the impression of that song. At first I wanted to entitle this chapter just like the song's title… but I changed my mind because it looked too cheerful and didn't match the story in this chapter.

So… Anyone suspected that it wasn't Shiraishi but Niou in the previous chapter? Anyone knew that apatite is blue? Anyone wondered why didn't Shiraishi talk about flowers/plants even though they were in the garden? Anyone realized that I didn't mention that it was Shiraishi even once? XD

Please review and tell me what you think about this chapter. Any concrit is welcome!

Ah, my birthday is coming in less than a week. Anyone want to give me present? *got smacked*

Hona mata! :3