Title: Killer Tennis 2
Author: Darth Claire
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Pairing: None, sorry
Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: Yeah, I know I said it was a one-shot but Anzai is a total masochist and wanted to get his ass kicked by Echizen again. Nameless Karate vice captain now called Kusanagi.

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"Kusanagi-sensei!" Eiji called. "I can't get this right!"

The vice captain of the karate team ran over to his usual problem pupil. He hoped that Kikumaru was good at tennis because he had absolutely no talent for the martial arts. He had tried pairing up with the implausibly flexible tennis player in order help him, but had soon discovered that Eiji could be very irritating in large doses. He had found it better to pair the spastic acrobat with his double's partner. Oishi seemed to learn things quickly when Kusanagi demonstrated them and could explain them in a way that Eiji eventually understood. Not to mention his patience with the bouncy redhead seemed to be inexhaustible. He couldn't understand Anzai Buchou's dislike of the tennis club vice captain. Kusanagi was rather impressed by him.

"No, that hand has to cross underneath. Yeah, like that. Oishi-san, keep working with him on that please."

"NOT THE LEFT FUJI!" Tezuka screamed. Such outbursts were very uncharacteristic of the stoic captain, but Fuji had a tendency to "forget" about Tezuka's bad elbow during self defense. Kusanagi ran over to see to the other thorn in his side.

"Sorry" He said in a chipper voice, releasing Tezuka from the arm bar. Kusanagi resisted the temptation to reprimand the smiling tensai. Fuji seemed to enjoy causing pain, so Kusanagi had paired him with the tennis captain, assuming Fuji would have enough respect for Tezuka as a friend and a captain to not be so much like himself. The plan had met with limited success. Fuji still seemed to enjoy torturing his captain, but Tezuka didn't seem as bother by Fuji as most people did.

Kusanagi shook his head and walked over to where Echizen was trying in vain to escape from Momoshiro's head lock. "One of these days I'll be tall enough to do this!" He threatened, flailing wildly and trying to catch his spiky hair senpai under the nose.

"Mada mada dane, Echizen!" Momo suddenly let go as he was choked from behind by his longtime rival, Kaidoh.

"Look who's talking you spiky haired moron!" Kaidoh gloated as Momo struggled against the hold.

"You wanna fight Snake?" Momo gasped. Kusanagi sighed.

"Momoshiro, turn your head into the crook of him arm, step out, drop down and elbow him in the stomach." He instructed the struggling second year.

"PRETEND to elbow him in the stomach!" Kawamura yelled. Momo wasn't usually the type of person who would take a cheap shot like that, but when it came to Kaidoh, he would take advantage of a loophole. It was probably a mistake to teach those two how to fight and actually be able to inflict some damage.

Kusanagi realized his error and nodded his thanks to Kawamura. One of the saving graces of the club was the bipolar senior who had taken karate before. Kawamura was a great help in instructing his teammates since he knew them better that Kusanagi did. It was a very strange group, but if you hung around long enough they were a lot of fun. The only one that bothered Kusanagi was Inui who had a weird habit of taking notes on everyone. Maybe he could convince Anzai to come back now that they had a handle on the basics.

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"You mean you actually managed to teach them something?" Anzai asked skeptically while he and Kusanagi stretched out for practice.

"I'm going to start teaching them a basic kata next week." Kusanagi bragged. "You should come check them out sometime."

Anzai would never admit it, but his vice captain was a much better teacher. By convention, the captain and vice captain were the two members in the 2nd and 3rd year with the highest rank. Anzai had never thought very highly of this arrangement as it presented the possibility of the captain being a 2nd year. He didn't like having a second year for a vice captain and took every opportunity to prove his superiority.

"Well if they're so good, let's see how they do in a few sparing matches." Anzai snapped back. Sometimes his vice captain could really uppity. It annoyed the hell out of the karate Buchou, but then again, there were few things that didn't. Besides, he would love the chance to 'accidentally' punch that stupid Oishi in the face.

"Give me a couple of weeks to work with them on that." Kusanagi said. He had run the team through some basic sparing drills, but he needed more practice with actual matches.

"Ok, we'll see just how well you've taught them in 3 weeks."

ooo Three Weeks Later ooo

"What is the meaning of this, Kusanagi-san?" Tezuka demanded. The Karate vice captain cringed. Knowing how much Tezuka and Oishi disliked Anzai, Kusanagi had 'forgotten' to inform them that the captain would be showing up to today's practice.

"Captain Anzai wanted to see how your club was progressing." Kusanagi ventured.

"I don't buy that for a second." Oishi mumbled. He was certain that Anzai had a far more sinister motive for setting up the format of the practice today.

"Very well." Tezuka said calmly. "We will proceed with the sparing as planned."

Kusanagi nodded and left to start organizing the club for sparing.

"Are you crazy?" Oishi asked in a hushed voice. "I don't think Anzai's here because he wants to "evaluate" our progress. He probably wants to humiliate us. I don't care how much we've learned, we're no match for the Karate club!"

"I know." Tezuka said. "I don't expect any one to win. Well maybe Kawamura, no one will think less of us for loosing sparing matches to the Karate club. The point of this whole endeavor was to teach our member's how to defend themselves. That's not something you can learn doing drills up and down the court. It's just like tennis. People tend to evolve faster when they play a match."

"Yeah, I'd like to evolve my fist into that bastard's smug face!" Oishi grumbled. They took their places in line.

"We're going to hold sparing matches today." Kusanagi announced to the two clubs. "Tennis club, remember that this is just practiced. Hit lightly, you don't want to kill anyone. Karate club," He said, looking pointedly at Anzai. "Same thing. Tennis club pair off with the Karate club. You'll have to take turns since we don't have enough gear."

"I'll take the first match." Anzai said strapping on the protective gear.

"So will I." Tezuka volunteered stepping on Oishi's foot to shut him up. He was not going to allow a death match between the two. A 'friendly' match between the captains would be better. Tezuka put on a set of sparing gear and squared off against Anzai. He was soundly beaten, but did manage a few hits. Anzai's expression said it was a few too many.

"Good job." Anzai said through clenched teeth. "Remember to keep your guard up."

Tezuka took the criticism gracefully, which irritated Anzai further, and they bowed. Fuji had the next match. A poorly aimed front kick caught his opponent in the groin, resulting in a disqualification for excessive contact. There was no doubt however that Fuji would be fully capable of defending himself in a real fight.

After they rotated through the small Karate club Anzai came up again. Kawarmura was volunteered by Tezuka before anyone else could speak up, much to Oishi's chagrin. Oishi stood on the side lines pouting until he felt a finger tap his elbow.

"Hey, Oishi-senpai." Ryoma said in a quiet, conspiratorial voice. Oishi looked at the freshman who was beside him holding a tennis racket.

"Anzai Buchou never did show us how to disarm someone with a weapon." Ryoma smirked.

Oishi smiled darkly and took the racket from Ryoma. Kusanagi signaled the start of the match. Oishi threw the racket at Kawamura.

"Taka-san!" Kawamura looked at Oishi and caught the racket without thinking. He immediately powered up to Burning mode and attacked. Startled, Anzai backed away to regain his composure. Kawamura swung at him but Anzai ducked and the racket swished over his head. Kawamura reversed the swing and Anzai instinctively parried, putting an arm bar on Kawamura and then twisting the racket out of his grip. Kawamura immediately reverted to his normal self and bowed in apology.

"I'm sorry sensei!"

"See Anzai!" Oishi taunted, trying to contain his laughter. Echizen had given up on that and was clutching his stomach. "People DO attack with tennis rackets!"

"Oishi! Echizen! 20 laps!" Tezuka ordered, struggling to keep a straight face. Anzai glared at him and resumed his match with Kawamura on more even footing.

"I don't see why Tezuka is so mad at us." Oishi said to Ryoma. "He was the one worried about us defending ourselves. Don't you think it's likely we'd use a tennis racket as a weapon?"

Ryoma nodded. "We've asked him to show us how to fight someone with a racket. It's his fault we had to force a demonstration."

ooo A week later ooo

"I'm pleased with this club's progress." Kusanagi said the next week at practice. "You did very well in the sparing matches last week. We're going to move on to some more advanced things this week.

"Certain people who know who they are," Tezuka said, looking pointedly at Oishi and Ryoma. Osihi rolled his eyes and Ryoma mutter mada mada dane under his breath. "Will be running laps for the next two weeks as they have proven themselves too immature to learn martial arts."

Tezuka glared at the two trouble makers. He would have made them pick up balls as well if they didn't have a match coming up. The club started learning the moves to Tae Kyoko Shodan and Oishi and Ryoma went to run laps. Oishi tried not to smile too much since it would earn him more laps from his already irritated captain. He was sure had caught a ghost of a smile on Tezuka's lips but the stoic, serious captain would never admit that in a million years. But whatever the punishment the look on Anzai's face had been worth it.

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The End