A/N Another chapter up! Oh yes, I forgot to mention in my previous chapters (curse my short memory!) But this takes place before the kanto tournaments. Sorry for not telling you earlier!

disclaimer: I do not own prince of tennis, nor do I own any other anime. The only thing I own here is my ocs.

Chapter 4: An unusual practice

A few days later, practice began as per normal. Only this time, Tsukiko called up a meeting with the girl regulars inside the clubroom.

"Erm, remind me why we're in the clubroom?" Nami said questioningly.

"Do YOU want to get mauled by fangirls?" Asked Kyoko.

"...No..."

"Thought so."

"All right, from now to the end of the Kanto tournament, we will be practicing with the boys." said Tsukiko.

"Eh? But why?" asked Akina.

" Because, I feel that our team still has a lot more to work on. Especially if our goal is to become as good as the boys." replied Kaida.

" In fact, I talked about this to our coach, and he agreed to consider let us play in the boy nationals-" Tsukiko was cut off.

" WHAT!? The BOY nationals?!" exclaimed Chieko.

" Let me finish." said Tsukiko, giving a fierce glance at Chieko, who shrank back immediately.

" We were on the subject of the nationals, and the coach agreed to consider asking the people who set up the Nationals to let us play against losing teams."

"Meaning?" Haya looked at her.

"Meaning, we will play against each of the teams that lose." Said Tsukiko.

"So then, what if we win?" asked Kyoko.

"We enjoy watching the aura of humiliation they give off, and possibly laugh at their demise." replied Tsukiko. Sadistically. The rest of the team shivered, except for Haya and Chieko.

"So we train alongside the boys so that we can improve faster. That's a good plan." said Kaede.

"And, you can get more data, Kaede-chan!" Tori glomped Kaede.

"All right, they will be expecting us now. Lets go." And with that, Kaida ended the meeting.

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"So let me get this straight, we are training with the girls so that they can get better and things like that?" Marui had trouble getting the information in his head.

"And so they can compete in the nationals? What do we get for that?" Akaya questioned.

" ...Honestly, I have no idea." replied Yukimura while the two deadpanned.

" We can see first-hand what the girls are capable of." Sanada answered for Yukimura.

"Ah. That clears things up a little... Not really though." Niou said.

"What Sanada means is that we can see how good the girls are and train them to be better."

" I still don't see what we get out of this." said Niou.

"Oh, here they come." The regulars looked toward where Yukimura was looking. They saw the girls make their way to the courts.

" Hi everybody!!!" exclaimed Tori and Yoko simultaneously. They rushed to the courts at full speed. Unfortunately, that also made them oblivious to the fact that the door was to the courts was shut.

" Oh no! Crash landing!" The fence rattled violently as the two girls slammed into it. The boys couldn't help themselves, they burst out laughing. Hard. The two girls glared at the laughing regulars (well, only Sanada, Yanagi and Yagyuu was actually concerned for their welfare). Then, they smirked mischievously.

" Uh-oh. Hey! Run as far away from them as possible!" Yelled the girl regulars. Unfortunately the guys didn't seem to notice them.

"Target sighted." said Tori as she looked at Niou. "And locked on."

"Same here." said Yoko, only she was looking at Marui. The two boys were the ones laughing the hardest.

" Ready?"

"Yup."

" Suffocating tackle glomp of doooom!!!!" The two cried out as they charged toward their senpai's.

"Gack! Can't... Breathe... Kichida...-san!" Marui said as he gasped for air.

" Same...here..." Niou and Marui acted like fish out of water.

" Thats why its called the 'suffocating tackle glomp of doooom (!)'" Said Tori proudly. "But seeing as our senpai's will kill us if you die, we'll let you go."

The two girls got off their senpai's. Niou and Marui gasped for breath.

" That's...dangerous..." Said Yagyuu.

"That's why we warned you." The girl regulars came onto the court

Marui eyed a small silver animal perched on Chieko's shoulder. " You brought that thing to school again?"

"I'm supposed to. And don't call Puri-chan a thing. She hates that." Chieko patted the little animal's head soothingly while it glared angrily at Marui.

"Puri..."

"Thanks a lot. Now it's mad and I have to waste the last bar of chocolate on her." Chieko gave Puri a square of chocolate, which it ate happily.

"Can I have-" Marui started.

"No."

"Why-"

"'Cause you made Puri-chan angry." Chieko replied smoothly.

"No fair..."

Tsukiko and Yukimura called the regulars.

" Right, lets start practice. Run 30 laps, now!" shouted Tsukiko.

" You guys too." added Yukimura.

They all ran their laps, but after 25, Chieko started to slow down.

"Keep it up!" yelled Kaida. Chieko ran faster, but only for a while. At 29, she started to slow again.

" This is the final lap! You can do it!" encouraged Kaede. Chieko matched her pace with Keade's and soon, they were finished. Chieko was panting hard, as well as Tori, Yoko and Amaya.

"Huh, they've got pretty low stamina." Akaya said.

" Like you're better than us." Chieko, who was sitting on the courts panting got up and glared at him. " I've got fast recovery skills, mind you." She wasn't panting anymore.

Niou just smirked and said "Puri."

"What're you smirking about?" asked Chieko. Niou shrugged.

When they had finished warming up, they had a few practice matches. They didn't feel the need to go all out, so it was just a normal match. Normal meaning Akina was quick to reach any ball, Chieko just acted as bored as she could against her opponent, Kohana, and Tsukiko and Kaida just played a regular match.

On the boy's side, Yanagi was muttering 'Ii data...' while watching the girls, Yukimura stood there smiling, Sanada was 'Tarundoru'-ing some poor, unlucky first year who thought to take a break, Niou was pranking Kirihara and Marui while Jackal and Yagyuu played a match against each other. Which makes us wonder why the three of them can slack off. Well, Sanada Tarundoru-ed and slapped them so I guess that makes it better.

At the end of practice, Haya gave cupcakes to the girl and boy regulars.

"Why are you giving this to us?" asked Marui.

" Because I feel nice today." said Haya.

" Down the hatch it goes!!" yelled Tori as she took a bite. " Yum!" All the regulars ate their cakes. Well, Marui didn't eat it. He devoured it, inhaled it, whatever you want to call it.

Then, Haya so happened to look at the bag. It was soaked with a greenish-brownish-blueish-reddish-yellowish mixture. Then she realized that the drink that Chieko asked her to keep must have spilled in the bag. Uh-oh. She had taken one of the cupcakes too. What will happen now?

Kaida and Tori was the first to react. Kaida smiled brightly while Tori's smile faded until she had no expression at all.

" That was sooo yummy, Haya!" said Kaida SMILING.

" Kaida is smiling! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!" Chieko and Yoko ran around in circles screaming.

"Tori-chan, are you okay?" asked Kaede nervously.

" I'm fine." replied Tori stoically.

" What's happening?" Jackal said nervously.

" Maybe this is because of the cupcakes?" suggested Marui.

" If it is, we're all doomed!" yelled Akaya. Just as he spoke, there was total chaos on the court.

The girls had now changed personality. Completely. Tsukiko was acting like a fierce tomboy, Kaida was acting like a sugar-high squirrel, Chieko was taking down notes, Kaede was laughing like this was a prank, Akina was smiling creepily, Kyoko was trying to calm everyone down, Haya was flipping and jumping around while laughing, Kohana was acting like she had no business with these people, Amaya was panicking, Nami was just cool and calm, Yoko was hiding behind Tori, who showed no emotion.

" The cupcakes must have switched their personalities!" Marui panicked,thinking that the same could happen to them.

" Calm down, everything will be fine." said, no ordered, Sanada. But it wasn't because at that very moment...

"Puri." said Niou.

" This isn't the time to be saying puri, Niou!" yelled Marui.

" Puri." Niou said again.

" Marui-senpai's right! Stop saying 'puri'! yelled Akaya.

" Puri... Puri!" Everyone could see Niou was panicking.

" Niou, are you saying this on purpose?" asked Jackal.

" Puri!"

" I think that's no." Jackal said.

" Puri! Puri puri!" Niou panicked.

" Puri." Chieko's little pet now sat on his shoulder.

" Puri..." The two had an interesting conversation.

" Wow... Niou-senpai understands the creature..." said Akaya.

" Hey Akaya... do you have that burning desire to win like in a match?" asked Yagyuu.

" No, why Yagyuu-senpai?" asked Akaya.

" Your eyes..." Akaya's eyes were red. But they're attention was diverted to...

" S-Sanada?!" The fuku-buchou was smiling. Smiling. And it wasn't a small smile either. Oh no, it was a wide 'I'm sooo happy to be alive' kind of smile.

" Oh my gosh! Its the end of the world!" yelled Akaya, running in circles.

As for the others, Marui's desire for sweets had gone, Yagyuu was (gasp) swearing in several different languages, Jackal was... well, he...

" J-Jackal/senpai..." Everyone stuttered. Jackal... had grew hair.

"Oh my * bleeping* gosh." said Yagyuu. Then, everyone started panicking again.

Except for Yukimura. He had miraculously escaped the plight of the poor regulars. Guess he really is the child of god...

Ah... another chapter done. I'm leaving for Japan for ten days... or more. So, I won't be updating. Anyways... Please review everyone! I know you're reading, but reviewing lets me know if you like or dislike the story and makes me update faster! Everyday if I get enough! ( But, exams and stuff may prevent me to update though...)

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