Chapter 3

Three Challenges! Red and Blue!

It was Friday afternoon and Kumiko had invited all of her friends over to her house for a sleepover. Kumiko lived in an old-style Japanese house that was pretty roomy, the walls of her house were mostly made out of glass, and inside of her house were artifacts from Japanese history. Kumiko was rich, but not as rich as Tsubaki or Ayumi. Her mother was a tea ceremony master, and made a lot of money. While her father worked as one of the CEOs of the AO corporation. Her family was old-fashioned, and that's why they lived in a house that was shaped like a temple instead of a modern-day house.

Kumiko was getting the house ready for the guests, she had invited everyone over, except for Tsubaki, since she wasn't in on the plan yet. It was hard to keep anything from Tsubaki, Tsubaki was their leader, and she was a good one too. But everyone knew that if Tsubaki found out about the plan, she would cancel it immediately. She would not stand for war on the courts against her own school.

The doorbell rang and Kumiko ran to get it. Standing outside was Faye, Saori, and a very nervous looking Aine. They all came through the door and set their stuff down in the living room.

"Hey, thanks for letting us use your house, Kumiko," Faye said. "Are we staying in the living room, or in your room, or what?"

"We can hang out where ever you want to stay," Kumiko said coyly.

"K-Kumiko? Y-y-you're voice is w-weird!" Aine exclaimed. "W-what are you up to?"

"Nothing, just follow me, we'll all go to stay in the den in front of the fireplace." Kumiko had a smile playing upon her lips while she said all of that. Kumiko led them down the stairs and into a room that had glass that covered one whole section of wall, there was a fireplace set next to the wall that was closest to the glass and there was a giant-screen TV. But that wasn't all that was in there, there were couches and chairs all over the place, and there was also some video game consoles. There were other things too though, there was a pool table, a fooseball table, and an air hockey table.

Saori whistled out loud and said, "Wow, I haven't been to your house in forever, I almost forgot you were this rich."

"Yeah, but this is nothing compared to Ayumi's and Tsubaki's house. They're way richer than me," Kumiko replied, getting quite comfy on one of the couches.

"So...why do you guys have this room again?"

"I already told you at least one hundred times, Saori!"

"Sorry, sorry, I always forget."

"My brother got our dad to hire someone to build this room for us, but now that he's off to college, he left this room for me to keep."

"Oh...."

There were thumps as the girls heard some people coming down the stairs. Ayumi was the first to come down and after her came Miki and Koizumi. While the new arrivals were getting situated, there was a certain little girl hiding behind one of the big couches that surrounded the whole room.

Aine was planning to sneak out the back door and leave so that she wouldn't have to go through the terrible plan that the other girls had. She probably wasn't going to break Momo's heart, unless the girls were to pressure her into it again. During practice the other day, the girls already got her to say "yes" to going along with their plan. Aine was all for the plan, just not this specific part of the plan, there was no way Aine would be able to go and break someone's heart, she was too soft and nice to do that. So for Aine to break someone's heart just for a plot to get revenge was pretty hard on her. She admits that she doesn't like the boys' team, but she could never hurt them like that emotionally.

"Oh Aine!!!!" a high, girly voice sang out.

"Oh Ayumi-chan! Please don't make me do it! I don't want to! Make someone else! Please, I'm begging you!" Aine cried out in desperation.

"-chan? Anyways, youknow that's not possible right at the moment, Aine. You're the only one who can do this, no one else from the boys' team likes anyone from the girls' team except for Momo, who likes you."

"I won't be able to do it. I'm not strong enough, there's no way I will do it."

"We all swore to each other the other day that we would do the plan, remember?"

~Flashback~

"Okay so everyone in on the plan? I know we all agreed at the school earlier, but I want to be sure about this," Ayumi said.

It was after school and the girls were all hanging out in a storage shed, "putting away stuff" for Tsubaki.

"We're all ready, Ayumi. Just get on with it already!" Koizumi yelled in annoyance. Ayumi had been repeating the same thing over and over again for the past ten minutes.

"Okay, everyone put there hand out."

Everyone put there hands out with the palms up, mimicking Ayumi. Ayumi then took out a small knife.

"Ohmyfreakinggod! What is that?! Do we really have to do this?" Miki asked freaking out.

"Yeah, we have to make a blood oath. The cut isn't going to be big, it'll be small and just enough to bleed."

"O-okay...."

Ayumi held out the knife again and made a very small cut on her palm, it barely bled.

"Is that what you call a blood oath? That is the tiniest cut I've ever seen," Kumiko responded after Ayumi cut herself.

"I can't make a big cut. If anyone in my family sees the cut, I'll get in trouble. They'll just say, 'You can't scar such pretty skin, especially if it's the skin of the next heir of the AO corporation'."

"Why suggest a blood oath at all then?"

"A blood oath seems right, and you can cut however deep you want!"

Ayumi passes the blade to Koizumi, who was at her right. She took the knife and also made a small cut on her palm. Everyone made a small cut on their palms, but Miki was so frightened by the idea she almost fainted right after she did it. Kumiko was the last person to cut her palm and she made a big, semi-deep cut on her palm.

"Okay everyone, let some of your blood drip on the floor and repeat after me," Ayumi started. "I swear to get revenge on the Seigaku Boys' Tennis Team, no matter what, even if it cause me pain, either physically or mentally. I will not bend, even if they beg me and scream. I will do whatever it takes to win in the end, and if I so break this oath, may I be stabbed by one-thousand needles."

"'I swear to get revenge on the Seigaku Boys' Tennis Team, no matter what, even if it cause me pain, either physically or mentally. I will not bend, even if they beg me and scream. I will do whatever it takes to win in the end, and if I so break this oath, may I be stabbed by one-thousand needles'," every one of the girls said in unison after Ayumi.

~Flashback End~

"Do you want to get stabbed by one-thousand needles, Aine? You did swear, and it was a blood oath too," Ayumi snickered.

"N-n-no...," Aine said, taking in a big gulp of air to clear her brain from the needles thing.

"Since you have no idea on how to be mean, we'll all help you out!"

"Of course that's expected from you Ayumi, you break hearts all of the time. Guys hang over you like bees over pollen."

"No one from the boys' tennis team likes me, so you'll just have to do the deed."

"I'll admit that I don't like them, but breaking someone's heart is too drastic!"

"Whatever Aine, let's just get you prepared for tomorrow. Everyone, get in a group! We gotta help Aine learn how to break a boy's heart!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing and came to sit down next to Aine. They were all excited to get to the real first phase. Punching a couple of boys for being perverted didn't really count.

"What you do is rip out the organ called the heart and crush it," Kumiko said.

"That's terrible, Kumiko! Not that kind of breaking a heart! Aine, what you do to make it painful is this; you dress in your cutest clothes, you have the time of your life, and just when he thinks that you guys will go on another date, because that was the best date in the history of dates, you tell him you hate him and that you never want to see him again. But to make it easier on you,make up an excuse of why you can't date him," Koizumi instructed.

"Or you can just cancel the date after being late for two hours," Miki suggested.

"Koizumi, you are a-ma-zing! You are incredible at this. Miki, that's not breaking someone's heart, that's like saying 'Sorry I couldn't come this time, but we can go on a date next time or something'," Faye squealed out.

"So the shy American girl finally gets excited over something," Saori inquired. "You feel like a part of the group now, Faye?"

"Yeah, now that the plan is in action, I actually feel like I'm a part of something, not just the new American girl."

"See Aine, the plan is bringing us together, so suck it up and go along with it! Anyways, now that Aine knows how to kind of break a heart, we should do something fun now!"

"I have to agree with you there, I did not want to spend all of my weekend on teaching innocent Aine how to break a heart," Koizumi replied. "We should have a sort of contest, let's form into teams, and have a competition against each other."

"Since there's an odd number of people, I'll be the referee," suggest Miki.

"Okay...if that's what you really want. But you'll miss all of the fun!"

"I don't like to do these kinds of things anyways, so I'll have fun being the referee instead."

The first challenge was to see who could drink the most lime juice. The teams were: Red Team; which had Kumiko, Ayumi, and Saori, the other team was the Blue team; which consisted of Aine, Koizumi, and Faye. The Red team chose Kumiko to do the challenge and the Blue team chose Koizumi to, Koizumi could eat anything, and Kumiko was able to handle any flavor of food.

The two girls were sitting at the kitchen table with at least ten cups of lemon juice in front of them. As soon as Miki gave the go-to, the girls started chugging down the lemon juice. You could see their faces distort in the weirdest expressions.

"Go, go, Koi-zumi! Go, go, Koi-zumi!" the Blue team shouted.

While the Red team shouted, "Ku-mi-ko, fighting! Ku-mi-ko, fighting!"

"This is soooo sour!" Koizumi gurgled between gulps. But it sounded more like, "Shich ij sho sower!"

Koizumi already drank six cups, while Kumiko drank four. Kumiko tried to step it up, but just produced a loud burp.

"Okay, I can't drink anymore!" Kumiko burped out.

"Ew, at least say excuse me," Ayumi joked.

"Oh yeah! We won! Oh yeah! We won!" the Blue team yelled out as they all booty-bumped each other. "That was so easy! It was like taking candy from a candy machine that's broken and spilling out candy!"

"Oh, ha-ha. Just 'cuz you guys won this challenge, doesn't mean you'll win the next," Saori warned. "We'll win the next for sure."

"How do you know that?" Faye asked.

"Because I'll be doing the challenge."

"Then you guys will definitely lose! Burn!" Koizumi shouted out.

The next challenge was to see who could stand outside in their underwear and bra the longest without getting caught by one of the neighbors, and they had to make loud chicken noises too. Saori went for the Red team, just like she said she would, and Aine was going for the blue team.

"God, I'm embarrassed," Saori muttered as soon as she and Aine were out in the front yard. She could hear the other girls snickering, and she instantly regretted having said that she was going to go this round and win. She looked down at herself, and she was wearing what Ayumi called "sexy lingerie". It was lacy, kind of see-through, and baby-blue. She was so embarrassed, she could feel her face and neck heat up and turn red.

Aine had already started clucking like a chicken and even started dancing around in her plain, purple cotton under-clothing.

'Why the hell did I wear this?! It's not like I was going to do anything tonight!'

"Saori! Start clucking or we lose!" Ayumi called out.

Even though it was super embarrassing, Saori started clucking. She did say she was going to win, and she never did like to lose. Aine's clucks were getting louder and louder, and Saori was determined not to be the quiet one and lose to Aine, even if they were best friends, so Saori was clucking louder too. Now they were up in each others' faces and clucking at each other as if they were crazy.

"Hey! Will you wackos SHUT UP?!" at least nine voices called from the house right next to Kumiko's. "First the screaming about drinking lime or something, and now clucking?!"

Nine dark figures crossed the other house's yard to stand in Kumiko's front yard.

"Aine-chan?!?!?!" a kind of familiar voice called out from one of the figures.

"Oh....god..." Saori whispered as she saw all the faces of the Seigaku boy regulars staring at her and Aine. She could hear the rest of the girls waiting on the front porch burst out laughing as they too, saw the guys.

"Ohmygod! So who won?" Koizumi asked running down with the other girls to go to Aine and Saori.

"The Red team won. Saori was doing a much better job than Aine at the clucking, and she's wearing sexier lingerie," Kumiko argued.

'Not the time to mention my lingerie Kumiko!' Saori could feel the guys' eyes shift to her and she could almost feel their stare brush her up and down.

"The Blue team won! Aine started clucking first, and she clucked louder and longer. Saori took at least two minutes just standing there before she actually did the challenge!" Koizumi argued back.

Koizumi and Kumiko were arguing about who won, while everyone else was laughing. They didn't stop until Miki said, "They were both caught at the same time, so that means that no one wins, it was a tie."

"A-Aine-chan! What were you doing?!" Momo stuttered, his face turning bright red at the sight of Aine.

"What did it look like I was doing? I was trying to win a challenge," Aine confessed, her gaze at the ground, she didn't want to look at any of the guys.

Just then Ayumi came and said, "Okay perverts, stop looking. And close your mouths, they're gonna drop to the floor. And have you heard of manners? You should look away, unless you like the sight. Which you probably do, since you are perverts by the way." Ayumi draped a towel over Aine and one over Saori. "If you guys want more 'action' come over to Kumiko's place, now." Ayumi led Aine and Saori into the house.

"Yeah, you guys are welcome to come in if you want...!" the others laughed. They couldn't stop laughing and were almost rolling on the floor.

"Come in!" Kumiko said, wiping a tear from her eye.

The guys hesitantly followed the rest of the girls as they entered the house. They all went to the den and settled on one of the many couches. The girls burst out into laughter again, and the boys definitely thought they were weird, (but hot).

"Okay...so what are you boys doing here?" Faye asked, getting straight to the point.

"The house next door is my house," Tezuka replied, stoic.

"So you guys were having a sleepover too?"

"Yes..."

"Okay, our turn to ask the questions," Inui said, getting out a notebook. "What were you guys doing? Red team? Blue team? Limes and lingerie? Whose house is this?"

"Ummm...we were having a competition and we split up into teams. Aine, Koizumi, and Faye are on the Blue team. While Saori, me, and Ayumi are on the Red team. This is my house. Ummm...the first challenge was to see who could drink the most lime juice, and the second challenge was to see who could stand outside in their underwear while clucking the longest without getting caught. The Blue team won the first challenge and the second challenge was a tie. Miki is our referee," Kumiko said without even looking up.

"Wow....."

The boys' minds were still filled with images of Saori and Aine in their undergarments. They just couldn't get the image out of their minds, no matter what they did or thought. Most of the boys were thinking of Saori, since she did have more curves, and she did look older. But Momo could only think of Aine, even if she was small, he still liked her and he couldn't wait for their date tomorrow.

"You guys are thinking of Aine and Saori in their undergarments, right?" Faye asked.

"How did you know?" Eiji shouted out loud.

"The...the auras around you! They are red and full of lust! Now they are pink, for love and embarrassment! Are you falling in love with the girls' team?"

"You can see auras?!"

"Yes I can. And it's because I'm an American!"

"Really?!?!"

Koizumi burst out laughing and said, "She can see auras because she has a sixth sense, idiots. Not because she's an American, how racist!"

While the conversation was going on, Inui was recording down everything that he heard. The three other girls came down to the den, though two of them were quite flustered and embarrassed, while the other one just walked down, laughing at the other two, loudly.

Aine and Saori sat with their group, and they sat very far away from the guys. The guys were staring at the girls and couldn't stop either. It was weirding them both out, so the guys decided to go back to Tezuka's place.

But before Momo left, he went up to Aine and gave her a kiss on her hand and said, "See you tomorrow at our date, volunteering." He gave her a smile and a wave and left.

"There is one challenge left guys, and I think I know what it should be!" Miki screamed as soon as the guys had left. "Okay, whoever gets one of the guys' pair of boxers first, wins! And the losing team has to pay for lunch for the winning team! Faye, Ayumi! You guys are up!"

"Aww man...." Faye sighed. "Oh well, might as well get on to it now."

"I'm gonna go too now! See ya later Toots!" Ayumi said before skipping out of the room.

Ayumi was going to sneak in, but Faye had a different plan. She went up to the front door of the Tezuka's house and rang the doorbell.

Inui opened the door with a surprised look and asked, "Faye, what are you doing here?"

"I need a favor. Can I come in?"

"Yes, of course."

Faye came into the living room where all of the boys were talking about the girls and their second challenge. Faye just ignored what they were talking about and sat down. They all stopped talking and stared at here. Faye was shy, but she turned as brave as a lion when it came to challenges.

"I need one of you guys' boxers to win the third challenge," Faye said, once again, getting straight to the point.

"What?!" the boys shouted in unison.

"At least I'm asking you instead of sneaking into your house like what Ayumi is doing now. I don't want to pay for lunch for the other team, they'll clean me out. So, I need to get one of your boxers."

"No way! We are not going to give a girl one of our boxers!" Eiji yelled.

"I knew this would happen, so I've come to compromise. What do you want?"

"Simple, all of the regulars from the girls' team, has to date someone from the boys' team. You guys ignore the boys team all of the time, and seem to hate us. So just go on a date with us, it doesn't have to be a real date, it could be just playing tennis together or something. We just want to get to know you guys since you're on the tennis team too. But you guys always push us away. Do you hate us or something?"

"Okay, fine. But I'm not sure if Tsubaki will agree. But I can probably talk her into it."

"Oh, and the guys get to pick who they want to go on the date with. Let's do it tomorrow, since Momo and Aine-chan are already going out, we can go out at the same time they do."

"This seems like a real date, not a little 'know each other/friends going out as friends' deal. It actually sounds like 'a real date couples go on'. Fine...but you guys are paying for the whole date."

"Seems good to me, everyone agree?"

"Yes...," the other guys said.

"Okay, so give me your boxers or whatever."

"Eiji-sempai, you were the one who thought of the deal, so you give her yours!" Kaido called out.

"Fine...." Eiji fished through his bag and came up with plaid boxers and threw them at Faye. "There you go. Don't forget the deal, Aura Girl."

"Shut up. Just 'cuz I have a sixth sense, doesn't mean that you can make fun of me." Faye slammed the door on her way out.

She ran back to the house and held up the pair. She shouted, "Blue team wins!"

A moment after she shouted that, Ayumi came in panting and said, "Awww man! Red team lost! Man, I should have been faster! I guess we owe you lunch...."

"You guys...," Faye said. "We all have to go on a date with the boys."

"What?!"

"They said that if they give me the boxers that we had to go on a date with them. And they get to choose who they want to go with...."

"Good job, Faye!" Ayumi shouted out in joy. "We can use this to our advantage. We can use this as a plot to get revenge on them!"

"But we hate them! How can we pretend to like them tomorrow?" Saori asked.

"Just do what you have to do. I have faith in you guys. So...let's get ready for our dates tomorrow!"

"Awwwww...." the whole neighborhood could have heard the loud groan that the other girls gave out as they flopped on the couch.

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