A/N: Hey guys! I know it's been about 2 years since I've updated this fic, but honestly, I just had no inspiration whatsoever, it was really depressing to me. Especially since I had inspiration for some other fics, but none for this fic and I really love this fic.

I just got back inspiration for this fic! I really used to think though that nobody liked this fic, so I didn't update for a long time. But I'll try to regularly update this from now on.

Also, if you guys will, I'm starting to feel this way about my other fic too. So if you guys like a fic with not only romance, but drama and anst and friendship and ANOTHER GIRLS' TENNIS TEAM, then check out m fic Winners and Losers which is about the girls' tennis team at Rikkai Dai. Make sure to review! Because you guys know how much I love them. :) I decided to update since some people cared enough to message me and ask to update.

Chapter 21

Bluffs

"What the hell are we going to do?" Koizumi demanded. She paced around the girls' locker room. They had ended practice early and were discussing Tsubaki's problem.

"Well?" Koizumi turned towards the others and glared.

"We have no idea," Miki stated. "None of us know how to stop the fan girls."

"Tsubaki?" Ayumi called.

Tsubaki had been leaning against the lockers, listening to the girls talk about the current situation. There was nothing she could do if the fan girls knew that she was Yakuza. She could get kicked out of the school, and everyone would know that she was the heir to the fearful Oto clan. Her body sagged as she thought about the trouble that she would inadvertently cause her family and the people who followed their clan. Not only that, but she would bring trouble to the girls' team and to all of her friends. Including Tezuka.

"Oh, Tsubaki-buchou," Aine whimpered as she brought in bandages and disinfectants. She set the first aid kit down on a bench and went bade Tsubaki to come over. She started to clean Tsubaki's wounds.

"I'm not hurt," Tsubaki protested. She only had a few scuff marks from the fight.

"Did you fight?" Aine softly asked.

"Not really, they tried to, but I got away."

"I thought they respected you," Faye put in.

"We need to protect your secret," Saori added. "I won't let you get kicked out of this school."

"None of us will let that happen," Koizumi said. "None of us will willingly let you go. You're our captain. You're my best friend." Koizumi sighed and sank down onto the bench. "I have no fucking idea what to do now."

"We can't do anything about this situation in the locker rooms," Kumiko rationalized. "We're going to have to get revenge on them. Make them cry, blackmail them, threaten them, do anything we have to do in order for them to keep their damn mouths shut."

"We are not doing anything of the sort," Tsubaki cut in. "I will not allow any of you to jeopardize yourselves or the team over me."

"But—"

"No buts, end of discussion." Tsubaki concluded. She swept past all of the girls and left the locker room.

"We have to do something," Aine said, almost near tears.

"Obviously," Ayumi agreed. "If I could, I would buy the fan girls and lock them up in my dungeon or something."

Everyone did a double take. "You have a dungeon?"

"Well, no, but a basement is basically a dungeon."

"Come on, we have to be serious," Miki interrupted. "We're talking about our captain here. Her life is on the line. If people find out . . . how will she ever get accepted into a different school, or university? Or anything for that matter. How will she ever get a job?"

"She's the heir of the clan, she doesn't need a job," Koizumi began. "I do agree with Miki though, we have to do something. First things first though, we should probably stay away from the guys."

"Agreed. They're ruining our lives even more. I almost wish that we were as nonexistent as before," Ayumi said.

"But maybe . . ." Koizumi started pacing again. "Maybe we could use their help."

OoO

"Hello?" Tezuka Kunimitsu answered his cell phone. It was eight at night, and Tezuka was just going to start on homework.

"Is this Tezuka-san?" a girl's voice rang out on the other end.

"Yes, it is, now may I know who I'm speaking to?"

"This is Yoshikuni Koizumi. Vice captain of the girl's team."

"Ah." Tezuka switched the phone to his other hand as he headed into his room.

"Listen, I know you and Tsubaki are tight. I know that you like her as a friend, and I also know that you care about her more than you let on. I've talked to your best friends, Oishi-san and Fuji-san."

"Where is this getting to?" Tezuka hated to mince words, and right then, Koizumi was just going in circles. He wanted to know what she was getting at when she talked about Tsubaki. Was she suggesting that he liked her in more ways than one?

"Tsubaki is in trouble, huge trouble. She might be kicked out of Seigaku."

Tezuka became a little more alert. "What happened?"

"Apparently, some fan girls found out that she's Yakuza, and we have no idea what they're going to do with the information."

"How did this happen?"

"I have no idea."

"Don't wory, Yoshikuni-san, we'll get through this."

OoO

The next day at school, the harassment towards the girls seemed to have lessened somewhat. Maybe it was because all of the fan girls knew that there was a chance the team would be disbanded if Tsubaki's secret was revealed. If not, the girls had no idea what the fan girls were planning to do with that information. It was impossible to even guess what was going to happen between the two groups.

"Why are we doing this?" Eiji complained. He had been following fan girls around all day secretly with Inui and Fuji.

"Tezuka-buchou asked us to," Inui explained, as if that was all that was needed.

"Well did he say why?"

"No, not really. It has something to do with Oguri-san though. I heard that Yoshikuni-san had asked Tezuka-buchou to do something about something last night."

"That made so much sense." Eiji rolled his eyes and sat down on the ground. "I'm tired, and I'm afraid of how the fan girls will react when they find out we're following them. They'll probably be extremely ecstatic."

"Well," Fuji started, "I know the truth."

Inui and Eiji looked at him expectantly. "Well?"

"I heard the fan girls know that Tsubaki-san is a member of a Yakuza clan."

"Oh my god," Eiji's face turned a sickly pale color as he stared at Fuji. "Don't you remember what happened at Tsubaki-chan's house when we went there? Her body guards are going to kill us when they find out that we couldn't keep her secret a secret. My god, we're going to die, and we're going to be hunted by them. Her guards are big and scary!"

"It wasn't any of our faults," Inui stated. "We don't need to worry. We just have to figure a way to keep those fan girls from blabbing. Tezuka told me to do whatever it takes."

"He gave you full reins to do whatever to keep Tsubaki's secret?" Fuji smiled.

"Yes."

"Well then, I guess I have a plan."

"What is it?" Eiji jumped up with happiness.

"Round up the other guys and see if they can seduce the girls into keeping the secret, and if they can't . . . well, me and Inui will take care of them."

OoO

Momo and Eiji walked down the halls with a purpose. They would head to the tennis team fan club, and they would get the job done.

"When are the others going to come?" Eiji asked with determination on his face.

"Soon, they're going to come in a few minutes," Momo replied with the same amount of determination on his face. They reached the classroom where the meets took place and burst in.

"Hello there . . . ladies," Eiji smiled as he flipped his hair out of his eyes in an Atobe-like gesture.

All of the girls in the room were silent for a few seconds before they burst out in giggles and screams. They all hopped up and ran towards Momo and Eiji. Eiji almost lost his composure when they grabbed at him. He tried not to shiver as he felt their claws on him. It was hard to pretend to be into the girls when he was disgusted at their obsession with the guys and their viciousness to the girl regulars.

Eiji allowed a small shiver to go through his body before he gained his composure again. "I see that you're all excited to see us." He forced a wink at the girls.

"We are!" the president squealed as she hugged both Momo and Eiji. Momo shot an SOS look at Eiji as more girls rushed at him and pulled them both into the room, forcing them to sit in desks as they surrounded them. They just stared at the two boys until they started to get uncomfortable.

Momo tried to break the awkwardness by saying, "So, ladies, I've heard that you've been harassing the girls' tennis team."

All of the girls' smiles turned into frowns instantly at the mention of the girls' tennis team. They all exchanged glances at each other before looking back at both Eiji and Momo.

"Don't tell us that you're here to defend the girls and ask us to stop harassing them, because they stole you from us."

"That's not what we're here to do at all," Eiji assured. He smiled at them. "We have nothing to do with the girls I promise. We were just forced to go training together. If we had a choice, we wouldn't even associate with the girls."

"We'd rather associate with you girls," Momo added seductivel. He grabbed the hand of one of the girls' and kissed it. They all went mad, thrusting their hands into Eiji and Momo's faces until they had both kissed all of their hands.

"Where the hell are the others?" Momo whispered to Eiji.

"No fucking clue," Eiji replied. "I'm getting really freaked out, I wish they'd just come already!"

They turned their attention back to the girls. They stared intently at the two with a look that bordered on obsession. Their smiles were as wide as their faces and they shuffled almost nervously as Momo and Eiji exchanged weirded out looks before they got to the point.

"Even though we would love to spend all day with your beautiful selves, we have to get to tennis practice soon," Momo sighed.

"Of course!" the president replied. "We would never keep you guys from your passion!"

"We want to ask something of you first though," Eiji put in.

"What is it? Of course we'll try everything in our power to do it for you."

"Well," Eiji's voice got lower, "we were wondering if you could leave the girls alone, not because we like them or anything, if it was up to us we wouldn't do a thing for them, but it's just that we share the same tennis courts, and you harassing them gets in the way of our tennis."

All of the girls had shocked looks on their faces, and some of them even looked as if they were about to cry.

"We don't want to get in the way of your tennis!" a girl shouted as she burst into tears.

"We're not trying to sabotage you or anything," another girl cried.

"Also," Momo tried to put in, "I heard that you guys have some information about a certain Oguri Tsubaki."

Most of the girls were still crying, but the ones who weren't answered, "We were just bluffing. We were going to lie to the principal. We thought that if we lied and said she was Yakuza, then the tennis team would be disbanded, and that Tezuka-sama would stop being so nice to her."

"Can you guys now do that?" Momo asked. "It will cause a lot of trouble for the boys' team too. They might think that we were involved if you told that lie, and then we'll get in trouble too."

That last comment made all of the girls start crying.

"We won't do anything! We promise!"

"That's a good girl," Eiji coaxed at one. "You guys are saving the boys' team right now. Just keep that in mind, and please, don't harass the girls, we'll just get in trouble too."

"And you're sure that you just made up the lie about Oguri Tsubaki being a Yakuza?" Momo added.

"We're sure!"

"You girls are the best." The two got up with winks and smiles and left as quickly as they could.

OoO

"So that's what happened," Momo concluded, "and no one even came to help us, we had to do it ourselves."

"Well, me and Inui were busy," Fuji stated.

"I'm proud of you all," Tezuka praised. "You all helped a lot."

"It looks like me and Inui won't need to use this," Fuji sighed. He lugged out a two liter pitched of Inui juice and set it all before them.

"However, if you all want, you can all drink the juice," Inui stated, pointing his pencil at the pitcher while he went back to his notebook.

All of the regulars shivered before going back to the conversation.

"It actually might be good that you didn't come, Viper," Momo said to Kaidou. "You don't know how to convince girls to do anything."

"What the hell did you just say?" Kaidou hissed, rising up to fight with Momo.

"You fucking heard me."

"Enough!" Tezuka boomed.

"Sorry, buchou," the two apologized.

"I wouldn't have been able to do that," Takashi admitted, rubbing his head.

"It's okay, Taka-san!" Eiji exclaimed. "We took care of it!"

"I'm glad that there's no more trouble for the girls," Oishi sighed, "but you guys had to trick the poor girls' hearts."

"Don't be like that, Oishi!" Eiji cried. "The girls are good now."

"I'm just glad that the whole Yakuza thing was just a bluff."

"I'm glad too," Tezuka stated. He looked at his watch. "I should go to Tsubaki's house and inform her of the good news." He nodded his head towards everyone and left.

"Do you think . . . ?" Oishi asked.

"Maybe . . ." everyone replied.

"Why else would he ask us to do anything in order to keep Tsubaki's secret? I'm sure that he wasn't afraid of getting beat up. It was definitely something else," Momo nodded.

"He probably does then," Fuji agreed.

"It seems impossible though," Takashi stated.

"I know, but there's no other explanation. He does. There's no way he doesn't."

"Yeah, and he's even going to her house to tell her in person the good news."

"He definitely does," everyone agreed.