Chapter 20

Harassment

It was the week after the tennis team had gotten back, and things were going downhill for the girls. Sure, they got stronger, and they were definitely more well known in the school. In fact, they were all the school was talking about. However, the girls didn't want the attention for once because the only people who gave them attention were the fan girls of the boys' tennis team. The girls had been harassed to no end.

"Please, please make it stop!" Koizumi was begging her teammates as she leaned against her gym locker, only to find her clothes missing. Again.

"I don't understand what's happening at all," Ayumi whispered. "There's no reason we should be treated like this. I mean, before this, we were nobodies, and now all of the girls hate us. How?"

"Well, I understand why they hate you," Saori commented.

"Why?"

"Well, you're dating data nerd."

"Urgh! We're not even dating for real! How is this possible? And what about Miki? She's been waaay too friendly with Takashi-sempai."

"We're just friends," Miki sighed. "Geez, what's everyone's problem? A day before the trip we hated the guys, and now what?"

"We still hate them," Faye replied nodding her head. "I mean, the only difference is that you're a bit closer to Takashi-sempai and Ayumi is dating data nerd. Come on, they don't even like each other! She's just doing it so she doesn't have to get married, and he's doing it because he wants to spy on all of us. Have you even seen them act like a couple at all?"

"They don't even talk," Aine said sadly. "And I thought we were all going to get along now."

"Oh Aine," Kumiko said in exasperation, "you know that we'll always hate them until the end of time. There's no way we will ever get along with them. I mean, even though Ayumi is 'dating' Inui-san, she's not really into him, and she seems to treat him like a stranger that is sprayed by a skunk."

"So no matter how much we show our hate for them, we'll continue to get harassed by their fan girls. That sucks!" Koizumi groaned. "I feel as if I hate them even more now."

"They didn't do anything to us though," Aine tried to reason.

"Yes they did! They did something to us just by being them! I hate their puny guts! And they broke my guitar!"

"Oi," Kumiko said, "don't tell me we're back on that again."

"Well they did."

"Who else is responsible for this turn of bad luck?"

All of the heads turned to Faye.

"What? I didn't do anything!" she shouted.

"Yeah, but Fuji is going around tricking every girl in the city into thinking he's in love with you."

"Well yeah, but that started way before the trip. I mean, I was the only one that was harassed! None of you were!"

"All of the fan girls think that we're together now!" Koizumi groaned. "That is just freaking disgusting."

"It is I have to admit," Kumiko agreed.

"Well way to make me feel better about dating data nerd," Ayumi said sarcastically.

"You know we love you Yumi," Miki said, placing a hand on Ayumi's shoulder, "but even though I'm friends with Taka-san, I really don't like anyone else on the team, and they don't like anyone else on the team either."

"Not even data nerd?"

"Especially not data nerd."

"Geez, you guys are really harsh."

Saori punched her gym locker before turning back to the others. "I am not going to go to class in my gym clothes. I mean, first of all, I'll get in trouble with the teachers, and second of all, do you see these shorts? They're not even shorts! More like underwear!" (A/N: Come on everyone, haha, we all know how Japanese gym uniforms for girls are, and they are totally weird and inappropriate! O.o)

"It's all the guys' faults!" Koizumi screamed. "I mean, if it wasn't for them, then we wouldn't be in this situation!"

"Tsubaki is the only one that's not getting harassed," Miki stated.

"I'm glad about that, but I wish we weren't getting harassed too!"

"Tell Tsubaki about it, maybe she can do something."

"You know what we should do?" Kumiko suddenly said. She was leaning against the gym lockers, but then she jumped up and grabbed Koizumi by the shoulders.

"W-what?" Koiuzmi asked sort of surprised/afraid.

"We should go with the original plan to ruin the boys!"

"The original plan?"

"The one Ayumi came up with!"

"I don't see how we can do that," Ayumi said. "I mean, it was possible before, but now that we're forced to spend so much time together, and with both of the captains right there all of the time. I don't see how we'll be able to get away and do it."

"That's why we won't! I mean, we'll just have to do it in plain sight, and make it look like an accident."

"What about the fan girls?" Aine asked, scared. She was sitting on the floor, huddled next to the wall. "What if they decide to hurt one of us! I don't want any of you guys to get hurt!"

"Geez Aine," Kumiko sighed. "Why are you so nice? Don't worry, none of us will get hurt, only the guys. And the fan girls. Since I hate them too."

"Do you like to hurt everyone you hate, Kumiko?" Faye asked.

"Well, only the ones I really hate."

"Well, to be honest, you seem to really hate everyone."

"Not everyone, I don't hate you guys."

"That's great to know," Saori said sarcastically. "What are we going to do though?"

"We shouldn't complain too much," Aine whispered. "I mean, they could have done so much worse to us, and the school day is almost over."

"Oh Aine," everyone sighed.

"That's it," Kumiko sighed. "We'll have to break into someone's gym locker and steal their clothes instead."

"What?"

"Yeah, we have to do that," Miki reasoned. "We should just text someone we know to bring us clothes or something."

"We'll have to miss class though! Who knows how long it will take?" Kumiko groaned.

"Oh shut up," Koizumi scoffed. "You hate school anyways. So it's no big deal for you."

"Whatever, I just don't wanna be stuck in the changing room until school is out!"

"Well, I'm going to text Tsubaki. Let's see if she can help us." Koizumi pulled out her phone and searched through her contacts for Tsubaki. As soon as she did, she sent a message to Tsubaki telling her about what happened to them.

After a while, Tsubaki texted back saying that she would be able to help them, but not until after school. The girls were forced to wait in the changing room for an hour while the last period of school went by. As soon as the bell rung, Tsubaki had rushed to the changing room with the girls' tennis clothes.

"Thanks Tsubaki," everyone said.

"I don't understand why this is happening to you girls," Tsubaki sighed. "What am I suppose to do as your captain?"

"Nothing I guess," Koizumi said. "Don't worry, we can take care of ourselves. You shouldn't worry yourself to much about us, okay?"

Tsubaki didn't say anything, just led the girls to the tennis courts. The girls were all angry and worried at the same time. They were glad that they didn't have to pass the boys' courts to get to the girls' side. They wanted to avoid any contact with the boys since it was the boys' faults for getting them in the mess in the first place. They also didn't want to see the fan girls that could have been the ones to take their clothes. The girls started practicing right away, ignoring the boys even though their practices were co-ed.

"What's up with the girls?" Eiji asked as he stopped to take a break. He had noticed that they came late.

"You don't know?" Inui asked Eiji.

"What's going on?" Momo asked as he headed over to them.

The boys started to gather around Inui, even Tezuka couldn't help but gravitate towards the data man.

"The girls are being harassed," Inui stated, taking a sip from his water bottle.

"What do you mean exactly?" Fuji asked with his eyes closed.

"They're being harassed by our fan girls. I heard some girls talking about it once in class. Supposedly, today the fan girls had taken the girls' clothes and left them in the gym changing room.

"No wonder Aine wasn't in class today!" Momo reasoned.

"Miki-chan wasn't in class either," Takashi added.

"The girls are hurt?" Oishi shouted. "How could we let this happen to them? We're responsible!"

"We simply cannot tolerate this type of behavior," Tezuka added stoically. "I shall have to speak to Tsubaki-san about all of this. I can't let her get hurt, I even promised her grandfather."

"Oh, I don't think she's the one that's hurt right now, Tezuka-buchou," Inui said. "She's the only one that's not being harassed."

"Oh . . ." Tezuka was relieved on the inside a bit because he didn't want Tsubaki to get hurt. He was glad to hear that she wasn't one of the people that were being harassed. After all, they were good friends, and he never would wish ill will on his friends.

"But they're harassing her friends. Sooner or later, she's going to get involved."

"So what do we do?" Eiji asked. "Since it is our faults."

"Well, we have been friendlier with the girls, maybe we should just ignore them again like before!" Momo suggested.

"Idiot!" Kaido hissed. "We can't do that, if we leave them alone then they might get more harassed. We have to do something about it if we want it to stop."

"Kaido has a point," Oishi pointed out. "We can't just leave the girls like that. It might just get worse."

"They're really mean to us though," Eiji said. "I mean, I'm still afraid to talk to Koizumi-chan. I'm afraid she'll end up punching me and killing me or something."

"Geez, is she really like that?" Ryoma asked from the sidelines.

"Yeah, she is."

"What do we do now though?"

The guys were left to think about what to do about their fan girls while the girls were still being harassed on their own court.

After the girls had gotten to their court, they had noticed that all of their tennis balls were missing. They went to the girls' tennis clubroom and saw that it was completely vandalized, and that most of the tennis equipment was missing. They had to go and search around the school to find what went missing. When they passed the boys' courts, all of the fan girls turned around to glare at them. The boys noticed.

"Hey! Girls!" Eiji shouted out, running towards them. "What happened?"

Koizumi didn't make eye contact with him as she said, "Our tennis equipment is all missing and we're searching for it."

"Why aren't you looking at me, Koizumi-chan?"

"What are you talking about?" Koizumi eyed the girls that were watching them as if she were hitting on Eiji. "Anyways, I have to go." Koizumi started running in the opposite direction.

"Koizumi-chan!" Eiji called after her. She didn't listen to him though, so he turned around and headed back to the courts.

"There's something wrong with the girls," Eiji stated.

"Why? What?" the guys asked.

"She didn't yell at me! Or glare at me at all! She didn't even look at me . . ."

"She wasn't mean to you?" Inui asked, writing in his notebook.

"We have to go talk to them," Fuji said.

"No wait," Oishi interrupted, "I'm not sure if that's the best thing right now. The fans are all watching us, if we stop practice just to help the girls, then the fan girls will think something is up between us."

"But if we do nothing, then they'll keep being harassed!" Momo shouted.

"There's really nothing we can do then?" Takashi asked. "I mean, I don't want them to be hurt."

"All of their tennis equipment was just stolen," Eiji added.

"This is really unacceptable," Tezuka said. "It's one thing to steal from the girls, but to also steal from the tennis club and the school? They don't deserve to go here. I'm going to go talk to the principal about it." Tezuka started walking away to the main office of the school.

Meanwhile, the girls were having a little meeting of their own.

"Tsubaki-buchou, are you okay?" Aine asked.

"I'm fine," Tsubaki said. Her clothes were a little dirty but other than that, she was unscathed.

"I can't believe they would do this. This is way to far, even for them. I thought they all respected Tsubaki," Ayumi sighed, she was pacing the small area they were in.

"They attacked you," Miki said that as a statement, not a question.

"I wasn't hurt," Tsubaki replied.

"Yeah, but only because you're Yakuza and you can fight and take care of yourself!"

"Tsubaki-buchou, do you know the consequences of what just happened?" Kumiko asked.

"I'm well aware," Tsubaki whispered.

"Just by the way you fight, they could figure out that you're Yakuza!" Koizumi angrily spat. "If they never attacked you we wouldn't be in this position. Anyone who saw you fight would automatically assume that you're Yakuza! They all respected you! They didn't do anything to you until now, I don't understand what changed."

"They already know," Tsubaki whispered.

"W-what?" Faye asked.

"They already know. They sent me a note."

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