Disclaimers: I don't own Prince of Tennis, but I own Kikumaru and Fuji =P Muwahhahaa! Does anybody ever read the disclaimers? =/

"... Kikumaru-sempai..." the young freshman muttered, then added silently to himself, "shut up already."

The jumpy, redhead whined once again, not hearing his younger teammate's comment. "Mou! I'm so hungry, and so thirsty! 'Oy, Oishi! Buy me some ice cream after this stupid practice, nya?" he called out to his doubles partner, who just looked at him and smiled gently. "YAAAAAY! I want to get out of here now! Why is Tezuka being mean to us?! Making us all run 50 laps in less than 5 minutes?!" he continued whining. This has been going on since they started practice.

"Eiji! Don't say that, Tezuka just wants us to be in shape for the Nationals coming up," Oishi explained. He looked around, wary for Tezuka, worried that if he heard Eiji complain, will make then run another 50 laps.

"Oishi-sempai is right, demo, this is too much!" Momoshiro Takeshi, a second year sophomore panted.

Suddenly, a dark shadow loomed over them and with a deep voice, said, "Whoever comes last place will drink Inui's Super Special Experimental Vegetable Juice."

Everybody froze their tracks and looked at him, wide-eyed.

"I won't drink that!" Eiji Kikumaru screamed.

"Didn't you just say you were thirsty?" came the sadistic voice of the sadistic Inui with his sadistic humor. "You can stop running now and rest... But be sure to drink my juice..."

Eiji gulped loudly and cried, "No! Not anymore! I'm going! I won't lose!" and with that, he raced off, leaving the others 20 feet behind him.

"'OY! Come back here! Matte, Eiji!" Oishi yelled.

"Hissssss. I won't lose! Move out of the way, Baka Momoshiro!" Kaidoh Kaoru, the mamushi of the group, pushed Momoshiro out of the way, causing him to lose balance and fall on the floor. This caused the others right behind him to lose their footing as well and they all came tumbling down the floor. Everyone grumbled angrily as they watch Eiji and Kaidoh race away from the danger.

Momoshiro stood up and ran as fast as his legs could take him and caught up to Kaido. They pushed, grumbled, cursed, yelled, and made fun of each other, whatever it would take for one of them to lose.

Fuji, as always, smiled and continued running. The others followed suit. Soon, Fuji caught up to Momoshiro, Kaidoh, and the now tired Eiji, without putting much energy. He smiled at them and said, "I wonder why everyone is so scared of Inui's juice? It tastes good..."

"Shut up already, Fuji! Nya! I won't drink that! You can lose now then if you want to drink it that bad!"

"But I want to see everybody..." his eyes opened, revealing fox-like eyes, "suffer." Those last words he said brought chills to everyone's spine. "Ne?" he added and smiled again. He ran faster and passed the three former winners.

"GAH! FUJI!"

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"Kawamura Takeshi, you win," Inui said, pushing up on his glasses [that's one of his hobbies].

"GREAT-O! BURNING! I BEAT YOU!" Kawamura shouted at the top of his lungs in bad English. He pointed at everyone in the group and made fun of them. When he's in "burning" mode, he isn't afraid of anybody. Eiji gritted his teeth and sighed defeat, Fuji smiled, Kaidoh and Momoshiro glared at each other, Oishi sighed, Ryoma stared at him with a blank expression in his face. "YEAH! OH BABY!"

"Now, for those of you who lost *cough* losers *cough*, please drink my Super Special Experimental Vegetable Juice," he held up a pitcher in his hand and served 6 cups and gave it to each and one of them.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

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"That was hard practice, ne, Eiji?" Fuji said to his companion. He looked at him sideways and got slightly annoyed, but smiled nonetheless. There was Eiji, happily licking his ice cream, which Oishi bought for him after practice.

Eiji grunted and chirped, "But this ice cream is good, nya! It took all my tiredness away! Not to mention that nasty aftertaste in my mouth! Oh, you want some, Fuji?" he offered his ice cream to Fuji. Fuji shook his head and declined his offer. He looked away angrily without Eiji noticing.

"Doshtano [sp], Fuji? Is something bothering you?"

"Aa... yada. Gomen ne, Eiji. I'm just thinking," he lied.

"Hmm, ok, if you say so. Thanks for walking home with me, Fuji! It's been a while since we walked home together, ne? I think that was 3 years ago, nyahahah! Do you remember, Fuji?"

"Hai..." How could he not? That was the first time he realized that he has special feelings towards his best friend. He looked in front of him, towards the setting sun. What a wonderful view...

"What a wonderful view, ne, Fuji?"

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Weeeee fluff here! Muwahaha. Uhm, there's more if you're thinking that that was a stupid way to end it ^^;; Next chap. Will be coming up. Oh yeah, I'm thinking of making a tenipuri webby! With lots of screenshots, nya! Be sure to visit it once I'm done with it! ^~^ weeee.