Chapter 12

Competition Part 2

"No!!!!!" Yoshikuni Koizumi shouted out. "Why me? Why not someone else? Like Saori or Ayumi or something?!"

"Hey!" Saori and Ayumi shouted at the same time.

"Why? How could the gods curse me so?" Koizumi was kneeling on the ground and huge tears were coming out of her eyes. She wouldn't stop crying no matter what anyone said to her. In front of her face was her guitar, and it was smashed to smithereens. "Why? Why? Why?!"

"Koizumi! Calm down!" Miki knelt down next to Koizumi and tried to get her off of her knees.

"Why?! My guitar!!!!!" Suddenly, Koizumi's head snapped towards Eiji and she jumped to her feet. "I am going to kill you, Kikumaru Eiji!!! You destroyed my guitar! You brought it outside and then slipped and fell on it! I am going to kill you!"

"Nya! Please calm down, Koizumi-chan! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Eiji shouted out, slowly backing away from her.

"I forgive you!" Koizumi's face broke in a smile and she walked up to Eiji and gave him a hug.

Everyone stared in shock at Koizumi's sudden change of attitude, and Eiji was very grateful she wasn't going to hurt him.

As Koizumi was hugging Eiji she said, "Psych." Her face changed into something scary and everyone was shocked into seeing Koizumi all evil looking. Her hands found their way to Eiji's neck and she started strangling him while shouting, "You thought I actually meant that?! If 'sorry' was enough, there would be no need for hell!!!!!!"

"Koizumi(-chan)!" All of the boy and girl regulars shouted out.

It took all of the girl regulars to yank Koizumi off of Eiji while she was shouting stuff like "*bleep*" and other various things of the sort.

"I am so sorry," Eiji said, kneeling down on the floor with his head to the ground. "I am begging you to forgive me."

Koizumi ignored Eiji's apology and stormed out of the cabin.

"Eiji-sempai! Are you trying to get yourself killed or something?" Ayumi asked.

"I didn't mean to hurt her! Honestly! I didn't mean to make her guitar all . . . bad looking."

"Bad looking? You destroyed it! You know that it's important to her! You know that her guitar is her life. She yelled at Momoshiro-san one time because he bumped into her bike and her guitar fell off of her bike. Thank goodness it was in a case, or else Momoshiro-san would not be alive at this moment."

"I wouldn't be alive . . . ?" Momoshiro asked. "Uh . . . I'm never going to be near her guitar again . . ."

A silence filled the air before Tezuka said, "It's about time we start to train, this is our second day here, and we already had a break day yesterday. So everyone, let's get to work!"

"Yes, sir!" the girls shouted all silly like laughing at each other.

"Be serious everyone," Tsubaki scolded.

All of the regulars went outside and started running. The sand was slowing all of them down, which was giving them a great workout.

"You . . . know . . . what's a great idea?" Saori said between gasps. "If the guys want to train harder, they should run on the sand with us on their backs."

"That might just kill them," Ayumi laughed out loud. "Ohhhh, Koizumi's going to get in trouble if she doesn't show up right now. She must still be angry at Eiji-sempai."

"Who's talking about me?" Koizumi suddenly appeared out of nowhere and was running alongside of the girls.

"You're not angry at Eiji-sempai anymore?" Ayumi asked.

"You know I can't hold a grudge." Koizumi's face was expressionless as she said that, and Eiji who was on the other side heard, sighing in relief.

"I wouldn't believe her if I were you," Faye whispered in Ayumi's ear. "She's still angry, her aura is blazing red and she's super duper angry."

"Seigaku boys' tennis team!" various voices called out. It was the part of the Hyotei and part of the Rikkai girls' tennis teams. The other half must have been at the other two schools training grounds.

"Psh! It looks like that guys are distracted, so let's ditch them and run to the beach tennis courts," Saori whispered.

"I don't think it's such a good idea to leave the guys with fan girls," Aine whispered back.

"Stop being such a goody two shoes, Aine!"

"I agree with Aine," Miki stated.

"You know what? You Aine, are only saying that because Momo is dating someone from Rikkai, and you Miki are only saying that because you and Takashi-san are friends. So get over them!"

In a second, Saori grabbed the two girls by their arms and ran off with the other girl regulars. They were running as fast as they could, and at least Saori was strong, she was able to half drag them while they were running.

Of course, the girls made it to the tennis courts first. They all started to train like crazy for some reason. It was like they were trying to get through with their training first, but that wasn't going to work, because no matter how fast they trained, they were suppose to train for five hour, which meant that going fast was going to mean nothing.

"Everyone, please calm down," Tsubaki ordered.

All of the girls stopped and looked at Tsubaki.

"Wow," Koizumi said, "you are seriously different from at school and at home. When I go to your house, you're more laid back, and at school you're this whole different person. Is it because you can't act like a true yaku—!"

"Be quiet!" Tsubaki whispered in Koizumi's ear. Her hand was over Koizumi's mouth. "Don't say it out loud!"

After Koizumi nodded furiously, Tsubaki finally let her go. "I only am serious at school because it helps restrain me."

The girls all nodded as if they understood, but they truly didn't. Tsubaki gave a sigh and started to train with the other girls. After about thirty minutes, the guys finally showed up. The girls didn't say anything they just trained harder.

Saori was doing situps on the edge of the courts, and as soon as the guys came, Kaido started doing situps too. As soon as he started Saori was going even faster, and when Kaido saw her going faster, he went faster. Soon, they were both doing over three hundred situps, but neither wanted to give up first.

It was time to rally, and the girls almost made a show of saying that the war was still technically on, even though the captains forbade it. Right away, Koizumi had challenged Eiji. It was part of her revenge on him. He gave a big gulp and started to rally with her. Koizumi was hitting the tennis ball so hard that it couldn't really even be considered as rallying. Also, her shots were always aimed at someplace hurtful . . .

"Nya! Koizumi! Stop trying to hurt me!" Eiji shouted out.

"I'm not trying to hurt you at all, Eiji-san," Koizumi replied, her innocence radiating out of her in a possibly dangerous way. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

Koizumi still played incredibly dangerously with Eiji until Tsubaki and Tezuka couldn't take it anymore and both said, "How about we all go and train with the other teams?"

"Why?" some of the regulars cried out.

"It will be good data on them," Inui stated, a glint came in his glasses and his eyes sparkled strangely.

"Uh . . . okay . . ." everyone agreed to go, they knew that when Inui was in that mood, he was likely to give them some Inui juice.

The teams walked over to the other courts and started watching them for a moment before Inui interrupted the practice by asking his friend, "Renji, is it okay if both of our teams practice with both of your teams?"

"Of course," the man called Renji said from Rikkai.

"Eh? What is going on here without Ore-sama?" a voice called out from the distance. Soon the Hyotei teams had come and they were all training together too.

All of the girls from all three teams looked annoyed with each other. They didn't want to make eye contact, and they didn't want to even be near each other. Of course, the Hyotei and Rikkai teams were trying to flirt with the other teams, but the girls from Seigaku just wanted to run out of there.

"I hate this awkward feeling!" Faye whispered. "I hate seeing all of these auras mixing with each other all weirdly. Let's ditch."

"I agree there," Ayumi said.

"We are not going anywhere," Tsubaki said from behind them.

"Woah! Tsubaki-buchou . . . What are you doing?" the two girls sweatdropped.

Tsubaki was holding on to the back of both of their shirts. There was an expression in her eyes . . . the expression that she usually had when she was at home! It was her tough yakuza personality showing through. There must have been something about the beach that was making her all . . . yakuzaish.

All of a sudden Koizumi lunged across shouting, "Damn it! Snap out of it!"

Everyone turned to look at Koizumi just as she slapped her hand over Tsubaki's eyes. There was an awkward silence as all of the boys and girls from the other team looked at them. Three. Two One. Tsubaki snapped out of her regular personality and took Koizumi's hand off of her face. She held a blank expression on her face and continued to act as if nothing had happened.

"That was a super close one!" Saori whispered.

"You're telling me!" Koizumi agreed. "Why is it always me that has to protect Tsubaki?"

"Because you're her best friend," Miki answered. "Friends help each other. We all know that any of us would have done that, but you did it first because you have an instinct for it. You've been protecting her in that way since elementary school. And she protected you from bullies."

"But I can't protect from a monster."

"What monster?"

"Look over there." Everyone followed Koizumi's glace and saw Yukimura talking to Tsubaki.

"Hello, Tsubaki," Yukimura said.

"Hello," Tsubaki replied.

"That was a bit . . . exciting, wouldn't you agree? All of a sudden, the blond girl from your team jumps across the whole court and slaps her hand over your eyes."

"That sure . . . was . . . interesting."

"Well, I just wanted to make sure that your were okay, Tsubaki. You are okay, right? You're not sick or injured?" Yukimura placed his hand over Tsubaki's forehead as if to check her temperature, but to everyone else, it looked like a sort of secret flirting technique.

The girls from Seigaku ran up to the guys from Seigaku and shooed away the other girls from the other teams.

"Tezuka-san! Aren't you going to do something about that?" Ayumi asked.

"Do what about what?" all of the guys asked.

"That!" Ayumi pointed towards the obvious lovey-doveyness between Tsubaki and Yukimura. "Are you going to lose to the captain of a different school?"

"Wait, why are you helping Tezuka?" the guys asked.

"Well, we'd rather have Tezuka get with Tsubaki than Yukimura who we don't even know that well. Now go over there and do something!" The girls pushed Tezuka toward the two people.

"Do you think he actually like-likes her?" Saori asked.

"Yes," Inui replied. "You should see him in class. He always talks to her and pretends he doesn't understand stuff when he does just so he can ask her for help and talk to her."

"Serious?!" all of the girls asked.

"Serious."

"Are you telling us the truth?"

"He is," Fuji replied for Inui. "I've seen him act like that."

The girls all turned towards Tezuka and saw that he was conversing normally with the two other captains.

"He's not making a move! How come?"

"He is Tezuka after all."

"Oh, I see your point."

Meanwhile, over at the other group, Tezuka had just gotten in the conversation. "Oguri-san, what are you and Yukimura-san talking about?"

"Oh, just stuff about tennis," Tsubaki replied.

"There was nothing super important in our conversation," Yukimura stated. There was a hard glint in his eyes when he said that. "I was actually having a private conversation with Tsubaki.

"I should really get back to my team," Tsubaki said.

Just as she was turning around, a voice called out, "Momo-kun!!!" It was the girl Mei from Rikkai, she ran up to Momo and jumped on his back. Both Momo and Mei were laughing and hugging and kissing each other like crazy.

"I think I'll go over there with you, Tsubaki, and stop the flirting that's going on," Tezuka said.

The two captains came back to their team just as the Hyotei girls' captain walked over to the Seigaku team. She thrust out her hand at Fuji and kind of purred, "My name is Kyuri, and I'm the captain of the Hyotei girls' tennis team."

"Hey!" Koizumi called out. "You said that you played singles three to me yesterday."

"I lied." Kyuri said that with no regret. Then she turned her gaze back to Fuji and her expression turned into a sexy one.

Faye was witnessing the whole thing, and the only thing she could think of was, 'Yes! Someone's flirting with that sadistic sempai of mine! Maybe he'll actually start to like her and leave me alone! Then I won't get jumped by random people anymore! Please, please like her!!!' Faye was cheering on the inside.

"Would you like to go out on a date?" Kyuri asked Fuji.

"I'm sorry," Fuji replied. He then walked over to Faye and grabbed her arm. "I'm dating this." He pointed his finger at Faye's head.

"What?!?!?!" all of the girls and guys from Seigaku shouted out.

"We are not dating!" Faye fumed. "He's lying to you guys!"

"I don't care if you're dating someone else," Kyuri stated.

"I'm sorry again," Fuji replied.

"I won't give up." With that, Kyuri started to walk away, flaunting her 'ass'ets.

"This is gay! Why did you lie to her and say we were dating?!" Faye shouted at Fuji.

"But I'm not lying," Fuji said innocently.

"But you're not telling the truth because we're not dating!"

Faye turned to her teammates just to see tears in their eyes. "Faye, how could you? First of all, how could you date someone without telling us? Second, how could you date the enemy?!"

"We're not dating!!!!!"

"I think we are," Fuji said, his head popping up right beside Faye's as he hugged her from the back, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Don't believe him!" Faye shouted as she elbowed herself away from him.

"We are," Fuji said to all of his teammates including the girls.

"I cannot believe this," Inui said while writing furiously in his notebook.

"We. Are. Not. Dating." Faye said through her teeth. She was shaking with anger.

"I'll prove it to everyone that we're dating," Fuji said.

"You can't though! Because we're not!"

Fuji opened his eyes and grabbed Faye's chin and forced a kiss on her mouth. All the while, she was punching him and kicking him. She even grabbed onto his head and tried to force his head away from hers.

When he finally let her go, she shouted out, "You first kiss stealer!"

"Okay, that was obvious that she so did not want to kiss you!" Saori shouted out.

"I think you guys are not dating," Ayumi said.

"We're not," Fuji replied. "I just wanted to steal her first kiss."

"Oh, that's it!" Saori said, rolling up her sleeves, but Tsubaki smacked the back of her head and dragged all of the girls away to a court far far away.

"I can't believe you just did that," Eiji said to Fuji.

"You have guts," Momoshiro replied.

"It's wrong to force a kiss on a girl," Oishi stated.

"Whatever," Fuji said. "Let's go train."

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