Chapter 10

"Hmmm, I wonder what's taking ochibi, nya." Eiji spoke as he crosses his arms, he looks at Fuji "Should we go check on him?" Fuji asks "Eiji, Fuji, have you both seen Momo?" Oishi asks, Eiji blinked "Eh? Momo nya isn't here as well?" Fuji suddenly heard the gym door opens. He looks at the direction of the door and saw Momo enter with a towel on his head. Eiji then went to Momo "Momo nya! Where have you been?" Momo looks at him and smile but his eyes had a different expression "Oh, I just went to the lockers to look for something."

Ryoma then came in the gym "Yoh ochibi!" Eiji waves his hands as he ran towards him. Momo looks at Ryoma, and when Ryoma notices him, Momo immediately looks away. Fuji who saw the whole scene, was a bit shock and suspicious. Fuji approaches Momo "Saa~ Momo did something happened?" Momo looks up at Fuji and shook his head with a small smile "Iie, nothing's wrong, Fuji-sempai."

Morning practice was over, and much to their surprise, the rain turned into storm and they were stuck in the gym. Oishi opens the door of the gym and almost had a heart-attack as soon as the thunders boomed "Unyaa~!!" Eiji jumped, totally surprise and terrified and glomps Ryoma "E-Eiji-sempai~!" Ryoma tries to wiggle out of Eiji's grip "They should've cancelled classes from the beginning." Oishi stated as he closed the door "But… the weather reporters only said it was going to rain." Taka said, the lights from the gym suddenly went out, even though it was morning, everything was dark like it was already midnight, Fuji smirks and looks at the regulars and the other members of the tennis team. Everyone shivered, they probably can't see Fuji's smirk but they can feel it.

"Saa~ with such a wonderful weather, why don't we share ghost stories?" Fuji said as his smile grew wider "NYAA!! NO GHOST STORIES!!!" Eiji yells as he hugged Ryoma tighter, thus, letting the poor boy run out of air "E-Eiji-sempai… s-stop…" Oishi immediately reacts and luckily tracked where the both were and try to pull them apart. Everyone can't see a thing until Tezuka turns on a flashlight "For now, we should stay in the gym until the storm is over. In the meantime, there are candles and flashlights right here *points the flashlight at a box next to him* Don't let your guard down." He said, the members starts taking some flashlights, candles and matches.

The regulars (except for Tezuka who was just watching the group) were grouped together as they form a circle and was sitting on the ground while a candle was at the middle "It's like we're in a camping trip nya!" Eiji said excitedly "Maybe we should start planning for the next tournament…" Oishi spoke, Momo flinched and looked at Ryoma. Ryoma had his knees up to his chest and was just staring at the fire with a blank face, Momo couldn't stand it, why was he so calm? Isn't he going to abandon them from the tournament? When is he going to tell everyone?! Is this some kind of revenge for the stupid prank he made? He could feel himself shake in anger "What's to plan in the tournament?" Eiji asked as he puts his arms behind his head "We're going to win in the end for sure!! As long as everyone's here nya!" Eiji said with a grin, everyone just chuckled (except for the serious members) Momo stared at Ryoma again, hoping the boy would react, but only find him still staring at the candle. "Saa~ now that that's settled, shall we start sharing ghost stories?" Fuji spoke as his eyes slowly opened, the flame of the candle flickered, everyone shivered "W-what's this feeling?" Taka spoke, scared, everyone was shivering, obviously scared, but the most scared one was Kaido, who was violently shivering and seem like he was going to faint soon. Fuji starts talking about a story of a girl who died and about the body of the girl being missing… Ryoma was just staring at Fuji with a bored face while the others somehow ended up huddling behind Ryoma. Momo was scared as well, but he did not dare go behind Ryoma, he was still angry and confuse… no one noticed this because they were too scared to notice this, except for Tezuka.

And so as the story ended, everyone sighed in relief, although they were still scared. Thunders kept booming and this didn't help them calm down one bit. Ryoma sighed as he pulled his legs nearer to him (Author: kawaii~) he felt cold and tired. He watches Oishi calm Eiji, Kaido, Taka and the others who were scared, while Inui was writing stuff on his notebook and Fuji chuckling at their scared expressions. Ryoma yawned and notices Momo looking at the candle, anger and confusion was painted on his face. Ryoma frowned slightly and looks at Tezuka who was looking back at him. Ryoma looks away. What's the point of deciding when the decision was already made because of the contract!! He felt like he was trapped in a middle of a maze and was being forced to go to another way when he already decided the other way. He felt regretful, he felt stupid, he felt cold. Literally. He shivered and sighed, he was probably getting a cold. After all, he did just got wet by the rain. Eiji glomps him out of nowhere… he felt warm "Neh ochibi, did you get scared?" Ryoma could only stare at his sempai "Zenzen…" (Is that how it's spelled?) Eiji pokes Ryoma's cheek "You don't need to lie… just admit it nya~!" Ryoma ignored his sempai and shivered as soon as Eiji lets go of him, who then went to Oishi and starts rambling stuff.

Ryoma stood up and went to a nearest wall and sat down again at the ground then lean against the wall, he wanted to sleep and lean on something or someone… it would be better if it was a person 'cause it was more warmer than a cold wall. He sighed as he pulled his legs towards his chest. He then thought of the upcoming tournament… so he's really going to leave them… or…

The sky rumbles, and slowly the storm was clearing… and the lights finally went back on, Ryoma yawned as he slowly stood up. He felt a bit better after that short nap, "Neh sempai, when's the next tournament?" a first year asked Oishi "It's three days from now." Oishi replied "Yosh!!! Let's do our best for the next tournament!!" Oishi added, there was a chorus of energetic "HAI!!!"s Momo suddenly felt angry and looks at Ryoma who was leaning against the wall while his eyes were shadowed "As long as everyone's here… it's a sure win, neh ochibi?" Eiji said looking at Ryoma, Ryoma looks at the regulars they were looking at him, he made a small smile "Hai." He said in a soft voice, and all of a sudden he was grabbed by Momo by the shirt "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?!" Momo gripped his shirt tightly, everyone was surprised and confused, what's happening? Momo then said in a low voice that only Ryoma could hear him "W-why are lying to everyone like this?! Why are you trying to let their hopes up when you're just gonna let them fall at the end?!" Momo raises his fist in the air and…

FINALLY I UPDATE AFTER HOW MANY MONTHS…. again XD

So what do you guys think? Cliffy isn't it XD, thanks for the reviews if it weren't for them I would've given up on this fic, sorry if there were wrong spellings and wrong sentences… then again it's kind of normal, because NOBODY'S PERFECT!! Please review!! TY!!!