Chapter 13

Competition Part 3

"I hate his guts!" Faye shouted out while rallying with Saori. Saori was a good match for her since she was strong and wouldn't hold back.

"Who doesn't hate his guts?" Saori panted.

"I just can't believe he stole my first kiss! Now all of the guys from the other team are making assumptions! Assumptions!"

"I think that you need to learn a word called revenge. That's right, say it with me. Revenge." Saori had a sort of weird smile on her face as she said that.

"Are you really Saori?" Faye asked. "That soooo does not sound like the Saori I know."

"Oh sorry, I was pretending to be Kumiko."

"Me?" Kumiko asked. "Well, that was a terrible impression. You have to smile like this while saying it." Kumiko smiled a smile that showed all of her teeth and it was like she was the Chesire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. She tilted her head back and sort of looked down at Saori and Faye.

"Okay, stop that," Ayumi said, walking over. "You're starting to seriously creep me out, especially since you look like such a . . . doll."

"Isn't that the whole point?" Koizumi asked, wandering over too.

"No!" Aine shouted out. "You mustn't scare peole so! It's a bad thing, and can't we all just be nice to each other?"

"Tsk. Tsk. Aine. So typical," Ayumi scolded.

"I sort of agree with Aine, but I also think that it might be a good idea to creep out the other team," Miki said.

"I'll go scare the other team. Who wants to see?" Kumiko asked.

"Ahem!"

All the girls turned around to see their captain standing there.

"May I ask why you girls are all just standing here talking instead of practicing?" Tsubaki asked.

"Sorry Tsubaki-buchou!" all the girls said.

"You're being unfair, Tsubaki," Koizumi said smiling. She slid up to Tsubaki and put her arm around her. "We all know that two captains are fighting over you right now. First Tezuka Kunimitsu, and now Yukimura Seiichi from Rikkai Dai Fuzoku wants you!"

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Tsubaki said.

"Don't play dumb! Can't you tell that they both like you?"

"I cannot. Anyways, you girls just go ahead and do what you want. Practice is over for now." Tsubaki walked away and about halfway across the courts, the girls all saw Tezuka and Yukimura come to Tsubaki at the same time.

"I think that Tezuka normally wouldn't do this, but he's only hanging out with Tsubaki more because he doesn't want her and Yukimura to be alone together," Ayumi said.

"I have to agree with you there," Saori agreed.

"Since we have the rest of the day free," Kumiko started, "I think that we should mess with the other teams."

"Aw! But they're done too! Look!" Koizumi said and pointed. It was true, the other teams were leaving the courts and were heading who knew where.

"They're all gonna change and go to the beach," Faye said while shielding her eyes.

"We should do the same then," Miki said.

The girls all ran to their cabin and up the stairs. They quickly pulled on their swim suits and tripped over each other while going down the stairs. While they were heading down, and couple of the Seigaku boys were heading up the stairs at the same time.

There was a huge collision as they all crashed into each other. Unfortunately, Koizumi landed into Eiji's arms and Saori fell on top of Kaido.

"Watch where you're going!" Saori shouted.

"Hisssss, you watch where you're going!" Kaido hissed.

"Well I would! If you would watch over yourself!"

"Would you mind getting off of me?!" Kaido shouted.

Saori got off of Kaido, but then she stomped on his stomach and ran out the door.

"Why that—!" Kaido instead of going upstairs ran after Saori instead.

"Hello, Eiji-kun," Koizumi said. It was as if she and Eiji were in some awkward embrace while lying on the floor.

"Uh . . . Koizumi-chan?" Eiji asked. His face held a bit of fear in it because he thought that Koizumi was going to hurt him again. But his face was also a bit red from having a girl wearing a bathing suit lying on top of him.

Koizumi turned her head away from Eiji and looked back at the stairs. Her eyes bulged a little bit because none of the girls were there anymore! They had all disappeared!

"What the—?! What happened to all of them?" Koizumi asked to no one in particular.

"I think that they left," Eiji said. "Um Koizumi? Would you mind getting up?"

Koizumi got up, but she was still sitting on Eiji's stomach. There was a harsh and mean glint in her eyes. She may have looked dazzling like an angel to anyone else's eyes because of her long blong hair and deep blue eyes, but to Eiji, she looked like a monster that was going to tear him to shreds.

"Koizumi! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to break your guitar! Seriously! And I promise to pay you back, just don't hurt me! Please! I'm begging you for mercy!" Eiji blurted out.

The look in Koizumi's eyes got soft for a moment, but then hard again. "I'm not going to hurt you. Far from it, cat boy." Koizumi got off of Eiji's stomach and walked out the front door, leaving behind a very scared Eiji on the floor.

Meanwhile, on the beach, everyone was just chilling. The Hyotei and Rikkai Dai teams were on the beach and the Seigaku teams were too. Inui was standing near the waves writing in his notebook about the events that had happened that day. The water rose and touched his ankles and receded back to the ocean.

All of a sudden hands came from behind Inui and he thought that he was going to be hugged by a random girl. Instead, those hands didn't hug him, they grabbed the notebook that was in his hands and threw it into the ocean. Inui turned around to see a most stunning Ayumi in a very expensive bathing suit. She had a sassy look on her face and her hands were on her hips.

"I hate it when you take data on us," Ayumi said.

"It doesn't matter that you threw that out," Inui said. "I have an amazing memory, and I still remember everything that happened today. Also, I wouldn't be much of a very good data man if I didn't have copies of my notebooks."

"You know, you should go out and live a little bit instead of just taking data all of the time."

"Tennis is my life. You have no idea how important it is to me."

"Oh yeah? More important than your . . . glasses?" Ayumi reached up and snagged Inui's glasses before he could do anything. She ran away down the beach and Inui followed her.

"I can't believe you're able to chase me!" Ayumi called out behind her.

"I'm not blind you know, I can still see your outline and shape. Ayumi-san! Give me back my glasses!"

"No way Inui-sempai!"

The chase continued halfway down the beach before the two were interrupted by none other than Atobe Keigo.

"What are you two doing?" Atobe asked.

"Nothing," Ayumi said, handing Inui back his glasses.

Atobe casually slung his arm over Ayumi's shoulders and she squirmed under his arm.

He bent down to whisper in her ear, "You should get used to this. After all, we are . . . engaged."

"Don't remind me!" Ayumi shouted out.

Inui just gave a questioning glance at the two of them.

"I can't marry you," Ayumi said out loud.

"And why is that?" Atobe asked with a smug smile. He knew that she didn't like him, but that's what made her interesting, she was a challenge.

"Because . . . because . . ." Ayumi bit her lip as she was thinking of an excuse. "Because I'm already in love with someone! And we're dating!"

"Oh? Who?" Atobe raised one of his eyebrows, he hadn't heard that Ayumi was dating anyone.

"Um . . . Inui!" Ayumi ran to Inui and grabbed his arm. She started to drag him away and she said under her breath, "Please play along. My parents and Atobe's parents want us to get married, but I don't want to marry him, so please just pretend that you're my boyfriend and that we're in love. Maybe it'll cancel the plans."

Inui's glasses gave off a glint as he said, "I'll pretend for now, but you owe me something."

Kumiko sighed as she plopped down under her beach umbrella. She would think of ways to torture the other teams later, but right at that moment, she needed to relax and breath. She laid down on her beach blanket and closed her eyes. She was able to relax for a few minutes before someone came up beside her, she could feel their presence.

"Who are you?" Kumiko asked without opening her eyes.

"Puri~ I can't believe you forgot me."

Kumiko opened her eyes to see a half-naked Niou Masaharu. He was leanind over her and his silver ponytail hung over his shoulder. His spiky hair looked sharp, and the tiny birthmark on his face made him look a bit more feminine.

"Why are you here?" Kumiko asked coldly while sitting up.

"I can't even say hi to my crush when I want to anymore?" Niou asked.

"Crush?" Kumiko scoffed. "Yeah right. How about you go and try that lame pick-up line on someone else? Or maybe you already used it on every female on this beach already?"

"Ouch. You have spunk."

"And who ever said that that was illegal? Now leave me alone before I rip off your head or something."

"Such a violent girl," Niou stated, but he showed no indication of leaving. Instead he spread his beach towel out right next to Kumiko. "You can't tell me what to do or where to go, so I'm just going to lie here right next to you."

"Whatever," Kumiko snapped, "but don't expect me to talk to you or anything."

"I don't. Haha"

On the beach somewhere, a Momo and a Mei were making out like animals. Momo hadn't really expected to like Mei. He liked her . . . a bit. But not nearly as much as he still liked Aine. He thought that if he got with another girl, he would get over Aine and be able to make her jealous at the same time. She wasn't jealous though, she was happy for him. She was happy for the happy couple.

"Hmmm," Mei said, "I don't want to kiss anymore. Let's walk around."

"Okay," Momo absentmindedly agreed.

He and Mei were walking hand in hand and Momo was lost in his own world. He was daydreaming about him and Aine holding hands and walking on the beach instead. He didn't notice when Aine had come up to the two.

"Hi Mei-chan! Hi Momoshiro-kun!"Aine greeted happily. She held a bucket of seashells in her hands, and Momo knew that she was going to go and make another sand castle.

"Hello, Aine-chan," Momo said while not looking at her.

"Aine-san," Mei greeted coldly. "Well, me and Momoshiro have to go, nice to you. Talk to you later. Ta Ta. Whatever. Bye."

Mei dragged Momo away from Aine. Momo looked over his shoulder at Aine and he saw a sort of sad look on Aine's face from Mei's coldness towards her and the abrupt leaving of Momo and Mei. Momo felt a little bit of dislike sneaking into his feelings for Mei. He still liked Aine and he didn't want anyone to be mean to her, not even his current girlfriend.

Fuji had a smile on his face as he thought about the feel of Faye's lips on his own. He had kissed someone before, but he had never kissed Faye. Sure, they had been caught in some scenes that made them look like they were doing things, but they never really were. Like when they were caught in the classroom by Inui. It looked like Fuji had unbuttoned Faye's shirt and that they were about to go farther, but it was just that Faye had gotten beat up by his fan girls.

"Fuji-san!" a girly voice called out.

Fuji sighed before turning to the girl and giving her his fake smile. It was the captain of the Hyotei Girls' Tennis Team.

"Hello, Kyuri-san," Fuji greeted.

"Are you sure you don't want to go on a date with me?" Kyuri asked.

"I'm sure. I already told you that I'm dating Faye. I kissed her in front of you, isn't that enough?"

"You can kiss anyone and it doesn't have to mean anything. You'll have to do something more to convince me."

"Like what?"

"I don't know. Like have sex or something."

Fuji's eyes popped open at the idea of Faye and him having sex. It was an interesting idea, but he didn't want to have sex yet. And he wouldn't try to force Faye onto him.

"You can have sex and it doesn't have to mean anything," Fuji retorted.

"Yeah, but you wouldn't do that to her."

"You want to bet?" Fuji asked with his eyes open. He hated not taking a challenge, but he still wasn't going to force Faye.

"No, it's fine. I can see that you're serious about her."

"Good then. Now leave me alone Kyuri-san."

Tsubaki had been with Tezuka and Yukimura all day. It was obvious that they weren't going to leave her side until the other one did first, and Tsubaki gave out a sigh. Maybe the other girls were right, maybe the two did like her.

"Tsubaki, is it okay if we go and look at the stars tonight?" Yukimura asked smiling. He always smiled at her in the most gentle way.

"No Oguri-san, will you watch the stars with me?" Tezuka asked. He seemed very uncomfortable to be asking such things.

"I think," Tsubaki started, "that we should all go and watch the stars, the girls and boys from the Seigaku, Rikkai, and Hyotei teams. I'll go and organize that right now. I'll meet up with all of you tonight." Tsubaki ran off in the direction of the cabin. She sighed in relief as she got away from the two.

Behind her, glaring at each other were the two captains of the boys' team for the Rikkai and Seigaku tennis clubs.

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