I updated! I worked hard on it, and I hope you guys enjoy it. It's not as exciting as my other chapters, in fact . . . it's sort of uneventful, but not so uneventful! So you should still read it! I mean, it's quite funny and there's a lot of things that happen between the couples. So enjoy!

Chapter 15

Competition Part 5

After Koizumi had told Fuji and Faye, they all split up to find the others and they all had a spring in their step for knowing that Tsubaki and Tezuka were going on a date with each other. Kind of . . . Yukimura was there . . . but they had forgotten that for the moment. They had decided to round up all of the others. It was kind of tricky to get Inui and Ayumi because Atobe seemed to be watching them like a hawk.

"We need a plan," Koizumi stated.

"Obviously! We can't spy on Tezuka-buchou, Tsubaki-sempai, or Yukimura-san if they're not here!" Momoshiro grunted.

"Well, how about this, I'll call Tsubaki and pretend to be all worried and then I'll ask her where she is. She'll definitely tell me! I'm her best friend after all, and not only that, but if I act really worried about her, it should work."

"Well call her now!" everyone shouted at the same time.

Koizumi quickly whipped out her cell phone and pressed the speed dial number she had for Tsubaki. The phone ringed for a long time before Tsubaki's voice came out with a "hello".

"Tsubaki? Tsubaki? Is that you? You had me so worried! I didn't see you anywhere on the beach, and I thought you had disappeared or something! I thought something happened to you! Where are you right now? All of the girls are worried about you!" Koizumi half-screamed that in a panicked voice and she made the words sort of blur together because of how fast she was talking.

"I'm fine," Tsubaki replied. "I'm just going to have dinner with Yukimura-san and Tezuka-san."

"Yukimura-san and Tezuka-san? Where? What time will you be back?"

"Yukimura-san insisted on having a fancy dinner at that restaurant called House on the Water. It's the one that's sort of near the beach here. It's called the House on the Water because it's the restaurant that's on the dock that's practically standing in the water. We're not going to eat yet though, we're just going to look around for a bit until 8:30, then we'll eat."

"Oh! I know that place. Okay then Tsubaki. I just wanted to know that you were safe. Now that I know where that place is, it makes me feel better. Now be safe okay? Bye."

Koizumi turned towards her friends and the boys with a smile on her face.

"What?" Kaido asked. "Where is it?"

"It's that fancy restaurant near here called House on the Water."

"What?" Ayumi screamed out.

"What's wrong with that place?" Inui asked.

"Urgh! Atobe's parents own that place! They had it built when Atobe bought all of the beach houses here. They wanted a fancy restaurant nearby. What if Atobe's there?"

"I hope he's not! He'll ruin all of our plans!" Saori exclaimed.

"I know!" Ayumi groaned. She flopped down in a nearby chair and had her hand on her forehead.

"Wait," Miki, the rational mind, said. "What about our outfits? We didn't bring anything formal because we were just suppose to train here. No one will let us in that restaurant dressed like how we are now!"

All of the girls and guys looked down at their jeans and t-shirts before looking at each other and nodding.

"So . . . what are we going to do?" Miki ventured to ask.

"Hmmm," Koizumi pondered while rubbing her chin like an old Asian man, "I guess we could go shopping, but I didn't really bring that much money with me, I didn't think we would need a lot. I guess I could get a pretty good dress for seventy dollars. My only concern is that what if the waiters notice that it's not some million dollar dress? Will they kick me out?"

"I don't think so," Faye said in reply to Koizumi's pondering. "However, if you do buy the dress, you won't have enough money to pay for dinner since it is a fancy restaurant owned by Atobe's parents. So it's got to be expensive."

Everyone was muttering about the money expenses and they were all worried about how they were going to get in. They wanted to know what was going on with the three captains. The girls wanted to protect Tsubaki from the two guys and the guys wanted to watch Tezuka try to be "datey" and romantic with a girl, even if another guy was there.

"Hellooooo! Am I no longer visible or something?" Ayumi had a hand on her waist and she was bent forward a bit. She had an exasperated look in her eyes and her mouth hung slightly open in wait of an answer.

No one said anything.

Ayumi rolled her eyes and said, "If you've forgotten, my family is the second richest in all of Japan next to Atobe. Right now it is 7:45. Yeesh, late dinner for Tsubaki, but then again, we haven't eaten yet either. Anyways, that leaves us with forty-five minutes to quickly get a cab over to some store. The mall is the best bet, and then we'll have to hurry over to the restaurant."

"We have to be in disguise," Koizumi said. "So that means that not all of us can go inside."

"What?" everyone asked. They all wanted to see what was going on with the three captains.

"Well, it will be too obvious if all of us go inside. So half of the couples will stay outside and watch through the windows with binoculars. Oh, and you have to wear black clothing, and the other half will all separate and go in at separate times with our partners and pretend we're on a date. Got it?"

There were a few mumbles of complaint, but one look from Kumiko silenced them all.

"So . . . who's going to go in? And who are our partners?" Kumiko asked.

"Wait!" Aine suddenly shouted out. "You said that we have to pretend to be on a date if we go inside right?" Aine looked at the ground with a blush on her face and her two index fingers were touched each other. "Does that mean that we actually kind of have to go on a date with the guys?"

The room was silent for a few heartbeats before it burst into chaos.

"I don't want to go on a date with any of the guys!" Saori shouted out.

"Neither do I!" Faye agreed.

"I don't want to go either," Kumiko grumbled.

"I know!" Koizumi said. "I really don't want to go with any of them. I hate their guts!"

The guys had angry/annoyed looks on their faces.

"What?" Koizumi asked.

"It just makes us feel soooo much better when you admit that you hate us," Momo said.

"Well sorry, but it's the truth."

The guys all grumbled.

"We have to cooperate!" Miki exclaimed. The rational head came out once again. "If we want to do this, then we have to work together! And we can't all just stand here grumbling and muttering about useless things when we should all be in a cab right now! So before we go, we have to pick out who stays outside and who goes in."

Everyone was embarrassed at being yelled at by Miki since she was usually so level-headed. She barely yelled at anyone, so to be yelled at by her meant that they were actually complaining too much. Plus, she had a point. They all had to think fast and work together if they would make it in time to watch Tsubaki and Tezuka . . . and Yukimura.

"Okay!" Koizumi shouted, once again the leader. "The teams that stay outside should be Aine/Momo-kun, Miki/Takashi-san, Ayumi/Inui-san, and Ryoma-kun/Sakuno-chan. Speaking of which, where is Sakuno?"

"Hiding I think," Kumiko said.

"Well, whatever, we'll find her. So the teams inside will be me/Eiji-san, Saori/Kaido-kun, Faye/Fuji-san, and Kumiko/Oishi-san. Got it?"

"Wait!" Faye burst out. "I don't want to go with Fuji-sempai! He's sadistic, I hate him, he stole my first kiss, his fan girls always want to hurt me, and he's always tricking everyone into thinking we're a couple!"

"That's why you two are going in," Ayumi reasoned.

"Well, why don't you and Inui-sempai actually go inside and be the couple since you actually are one!"

"Well, Inui-san likes to study from a distance, and that way, he won't look suspicious for writing in a notebook all the time. Plus, we're not even a real couple. We're a pretend one."

"So? We're all going to be in disguise, so you can pretend to be a couple some more!"

"Since we are all disguised, that means you should be able to pretend to be a couple with Fuji-sempai."

Faye groaned loudly before glaring at Ayumi.

"You don't want to go with me Faye-chan?" Fuji asked too innocently. "That really hurts me feelings you know. I do like you, whether you believe it or not."

"Fa-ker!" Saori whispered.

"We don't have time for this!" Koizumi interrupted. "Ayumi, call two of those van cabs and then we can all get going."

Ayumi called the cabs and in minutes they were there. The group split into two and got in the vans. They split according to what they were going to do for the mission. The groups were people-who-are-going-inside and people-watching-outside.

They all raced into different stores as soon as they got int the mall. Half of them went to a formal tux/dress store while the other half just when to regular stores to buy black clothing. Ayumi had told them to stay together and she intrusted a credit card to the other team while she went with her team. The other team was going to need it more anyways.

The girls in the going-inside team went to the dresses while the guys got their tuxes. The guys were actually pretty fast since they just picked a black tux with a white dress shirt. They got some bow ties to look more authentically "rich".

The girls were taking a long time. Koizumi and Faye were looking while Saori was unenthusiastically looking very very slowly, and Kumiko wasn't even looking! She was just lounging in a chair looking at a magazine.

"Kumiko!" Oishi scolded. "You have to find a dress quick! You dont' want to make everyone wait, do you?"

"Okay okay. Gosh. You're such a mom. I already know what I'm going to get!" Kumiko walked over to a plain, silk, black, strapless dress and paid for it with the credit card. Even though the dress was plain, it cost $250 since they were in a fancy store.

"That's quite a bit for a dress," Oishi stated. There was a crease in his forehead as he worried.

Kumiko walked past him rolling her eyes and sat down again with her bag. "Stop worrying. It's not that much money for Kumiko. I mean, barely anything Ayumi has in her house costs $250, everything is always more! She that rich. So don't worry. Anyways, how much were your tuxes?"

Oishi had an ashamed look on his face as he replied, "It cost $400. We all got the same tux. It is a very nice tux too, but I'm glad we're not in a store like Burberry or anything, or else it would cost thousands."

"Like I said, don't worry, okay Oishi-san?" Kumiko had a caring look on her face for a moment before it turned evil. "But if you want, I can teach you how to not worry. And then maybe we'll be friends. And I'll show you everything there is to know about how to be like me!"

"Um no thanks. I think that would actually be a bad idea. It's not a good thing to be mean or sadistic Kumiko-san."

Kumiko still had an evil look. "Or . . . I can always force you to not be scared."

Oishi gulped loudly before shaking his head. He sat down next to Kumiko to wait for the others.

Koizumi was having a hard time finding a dress. She just wanted to buy it and then get out of there. "Eiji!" she barked out.

"Yes?" Eiji had an almost scared expression on his fast as he slinked over to her. He was still remembering about what Koizumi had done to him. He was afraid she was still angry.

"Help me find a dress."

Eiji dutifully looked through the dresses and saw a teal colored one-shoulder. It was simple enough, but elegant and energetic at the same time. "How about this?"

"Perfect!" Koizumi shouted as her head shot up. She was just about to buy it when she groaned. "Everyone! We have to buy shoes! We'll look like idiots going there in sneakers." She quickly rushed to the shoe section and grabbed a random pair of golden wedges. "These are my size? Perfect." She rushed to pay for the dress and shoes as Kumiko groaned loudly.

"I have to get shoes too?" Kumiko complained.

Oishi sighed in a motherly way and said, "What's your shoe size? I'll just go over there and get you something simple."

"Thanks I guess," Kumiko said. "I'm a size five."

Oishi sighed again at Kumiko's chilishness. She could be like such a kid sometimes, but at others she could be either a very scary and sadistic person or a teenage girl who had a very bad temper and a bad mouth at that. She would be a bad influence on children. Oishi picked some black flats and rushed to pay for them with the credit card. It was being passed around like a beer bottle at a stupid teenager's party.

"What do you think of the shoes?" he asked Kumiko.

"Yeah, yeah, they're fine. They're perfect. Black flats with a black dress," Kumiko replied with her arm slung over her eyes.

By the time Kumiko had gotten her shoes, Faye had gotten her shoes and her dress. A black halter dress with a pale pink bow around the waist and a pair of pale pink heels. She didn't want to go with Fuji, but she just had to suck it up and follow everyone's direction. She avoided him as much as possible, and when she went up to pay, he was there.

"Are you avoiding me, Faye?" Fuji asked, right on the target. Faye noticed that he used her name without a suffix. "We are going on a date after all. It's not nice to avoid your date, Faye."

"I'm avoiding you because I have to spend the whole night with you. So I'm trying to see you as little as possible until then," Faye replied.

Once she said that though, Fuji began following her around everywhere so she couldn't ignore or avoid him.

Saori was waiting for them once Faye had payed. No one had seen her choose a dress or shoes, but she had the box and the bag, they did see her at the register, but they didn't see what she got.

Ayumi had called the cabs again, and once they were outside, the cabs were waiting. Ayumi had a frantic look on her face as she was waiting in one of the cabs. She looked a bit relieved once she saw then, but the glare in her eyes said to get in the cab and hurry up. So they scrambled in the cab and got back to the beach house.

Ayumi's team had all dressed in five minutes and Ayumi was fretting over the girls. "You guys can't just go in like that!" she exclaimed when she saw them in their dresses. She was glad that the dresses all reached above their knees, if it was knee length or longer, it would have looked too "prom" and that's what she wanted to avoid. "You have to do something special too! Come to my room."

They followed her obediently.

Ayumi was in such a rush. She did Kumiko's hair in a high ponytail and let her borrow a pair of diamond studs and a diamond necklace. She moved on to Koizumi next. She let her wear a gold necklace and brushed her hair out more. Koizumi had stunning, long blond hair. She secured Faye's hair in a low, side bun and shoved her outside with a matching diamond bracelet and necklace set. Since Saori had short hair, she just brushed it out so that it was smooth and straight and forced Saori to wear some earrings.

The girls walked down the stairs and the guys couldn't help but stare. Some of the guys knew what was coming since they saw the dresses and shoes, but when Saori came down, Kaido was so shocked he couldn't even move. Saori wore a black and white strapless that was elegant, and for once, she didn't look gruff. She looked exactly like she did that time when he and Saori were together at the Hanami festival making wishes on flowers. She looked soft and feminine and vulnerable.

"Okay!" Koizumi shouted out. "No time for gawking! We have to get going!"

They all rushed into the cabs again and got to the restaurant five minutes after Tsubaki, Tezuka, and Yukimura got there.

"Request tables that surround their's, okay?" Ayumi instructed.

"Got it," they all said.

They entered at separate times, and Koizumi went in first with Eiji.

She had requested a table with the maitre' d. She and Eiji quickly covered their faces with their menus as they discussed things.

"Can you see them?" Koizumi whispered an inch away from Eiji's ear.

"Yup, perfectly," Eiji replied. "Can you?"

"Yeah, do you see the others coming in?"

"Fuji and Faye-chan just entered. I see Saori-chan and Kaido-kun right behind them. I have no idea where Kumiko-chan and Oishi is though!"

Koizumi quickly texted Kumiko and asked her what was up, but when she and Eiji looked out the window, they could see that Oishi was scolding Kumiko for doing something mean and Kumiko was just looking annoyed and angry at him. Shortly after, they entered.

Koizumi and Eiji lowered their menus a bit to look at the three captains, and what they saw shocked them so much they almost gasped out loud.

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