I know this probably wouldn't occur within the Diamond no Ace timeline considering the fact that the *spoilers* third years retire after the summer tournament, but idk I wanted it to be about Kawakami for some reason. Just pretend that they didn't loose to Inashiro by one point or something like that.

Everyone's kind of OOC here, especially Tetsu, but whatever.

I don't own Diamond no Ace but does anyone know where to read the chapters bc all I've gotten is up to chapter 236 and then chapters 380 and up and I really need more than that.

The moment the clock reached 12 am on March 25th, Kawakami was woken up by someone shaking him vigorously. He opened his eyes and found Miyuki staring down at him, a smirk on his face.

"Good, you're awake," Miyuki said. "Hurry up and get dressed. Everyone's waiting."

"We're having practice at"—Kawakami glanced to the space above the door—"12 am?"

"Not even the coach is that cruel." Miyuki walked over to the closet and began pulling out clothes. "I must admit, you have a pretty nice sense of style."

"If we're not going to practice, why did you wake me up in the middle of the night?"

"To celebrate your birthday, of course." Miyuki tossed over a pair of cargo shorts and a light green t-shirt. "Hurry up. You don't wanna make the senpais mad."

Kawakami watched Miyuki leave and smiled to himself. They remembered!

When Kawakami finished and went outside to meet his fellow teammates, he was greeted by a shockingly not-shitty rendition of "Happy Birthday" by Sawamura, who in turn received several punches on the back by his senpais.

"Be quiet, you idiot," Kuramochi whispered. "We're gonna get caught."

"Caught?" repeated Kawakami. "What are we doing?"

Miyuki chuckled. "I told you. We're celebrating your birthday."

"We need to hurry before someone wakes up," Jun said, putting Kawakami into a headlock before he could escape.

The group nodded and followed him. After tiptoeing quietly past the dorms and sneaking out of the gates, they made it to the streets.

Kawakami broke free of Jun's grip and stepped in front of Miyuki. "You haven't answered my question yet. What are we doing?"

"I've answered twice, but since that's not what you want, I guess I'll tell you," Miyuki said. "We're going to a karaoke bar."

"A karaoke bar?" Kawakami repeated. "I can't sing."

"So?" Miyuki replied. "None of us can. It's just for fun."

"I don't know..." Kawakami said. "I mean, I don't think it's worth sneaking out and possibly getting in trouble just so we can celebrate my birthday..."

"That's exactly why we're celebrating," Masuko said.

"You've been really quiet lately," Tetsu added. "More so than usual."

"We just wanna cheer you up," finished Miyuki.

"After all, what kind of senpai would we be if we didn't know how to keep our kouhai happy?" Ryousuke asked.

The rest of the walk was met in a comfortable silence, except for Sawamura who yelled about anything and everything, earning him multiple smacks from his senpais. When they finally arrived, Tetsu walked over to the counter with his fellow baseball players closely behind. "Excuse me, ma'am?"

The woman looked up from her magazine and smiled. "Yes, sir, how may I help you?"

"Can we please have a room for"—Tetsu turned around for a moment—"ten people?"

The woman's eyes widened. "T-ten?"

"Yes. Is there a problem?" Ryousuke asked.

The woman shivered under his gaze before shaking her head. "N-no. I apologize if it came across that way, sir. Please, follow me."

She led them down a long hallway. "I apologize for our lack of privacy. We had a mishap that caused our automatic machine to break."

Sawamura, Furuya, and Haruichi were we behind the group, hearing sounds from the other rooms.

"She can't sing," commented Sawamura when they passed a door with a loud, almost shrieking voice.

"A lot of them can't," agreed Haruichi. "They all sound like they're screaming. But it's weird. Most karaoke bars have sound-proof walls."

They stopped at the final door in the hall. The woman cleared her throat and said, "Here is our largest room. Please enjoy yourselves."

She excused herself and scooted past the Seidou baseball team. As she walked by Haruichi, she leaned into his ear and whispered, "Good luck, honey."

"Huh?" Haruichi turned to ask her a question, but the lady left before he could say anything.

"Let's go," Miyuki said, opening the door.

The room was, for a lack of a better term, very pink. Haruichi and Ryousuke's heads could easily blend into the walls of the room, or the bed, or the carpet, or just about anything in the fucking room.

"Why's it so pink?" Sawamura asked as he and Furuya both plopped onto the bed located in the center of the room.

"Oi, don't sit down before your senpais!" Kuramochi said, shoving them off. "And who knows? Maybe this is how karaoke bars are. I've never been to one, so..."

"I haven't either," agreed the rest of the team.

"Whatever," said Jun. "It can't be that hard, right? Let's just turn on the TV."

Ryousuke felt suspicion well up in his gut. Something felt weird about the room; he just couldn't explain what. As Jun dove for the remote, Ryousuke suddenly realized what was going on. In no more than five seconds, he covered Haruichi's ears and turned him around so he wouldn't face the TV.

"Aniki?" Haruichi said. "What are you doing?"

Ryousuke did not reply and turned his head towards Seidou's center fielder. "Jun, don't turn on the—!"

"AHH! Harder, please!"

"You like that, don't you?"

"Y-yes, I do! M-more!"

A long silence filled the room as the Seidou regulars took in the recent turn of events. Sawamura and Furuya immediately fell to the ground with foam around their mouths and eyes rolling in the backs of their heads. Kuramochi, Kawakami, and Masuko turned three shades of pink and stared at the floor, while Miyuki and Jun simply stood with their jaws open.

Tetsu coughed and went over to shut off the TV. Nobody said a word for an excruciating five minutes. The silence was finally broken by Haruichi, whose ears were still covered. "What's going on, aniki?"

"We...this is a love hotel," stated Tetsu.

Jun leaned over and punched Miyuki in the arm. "You asshole! You said this was a karaoke bar!"

"It is!" Miyuki replied. "I looked it up! This is the address for a karaoke bar!"

"It doesn't seem like one!" yelled Jun. "You damn kouhai!"

Tetsu placed a had on Jun's shoulder before he could punch the catcher another time. "It was probably a mistake. Let's go. I don't think anyone wants to spend more time in here."

Kuramochi pulled Sawamura's leg and dragged him out the room, while Miyuki did the same with Furuya. Ryousuke left his hands covering Haruichi's ears, earning stares from his teammates.

"Is that really necessary, Ryou-san?" asked Tetsu.

"I refuse to let Haruichi be tainted," Ryousuke replied.

"He's not a kid anymore, so he—" Jun tried to respond, but cut himself off when he saw Ryousuke's threatening glare.

"Haruichi will stay pure forever; I'll make sure of it," Ryousuke said, pulling Haruichi closer.

Jun, Masuko, and Kawakami shivered. Damn brother complexes.

The woman at the desk was justifiably confused when she saw that the boys were already leaving, despite being there for no more than fifteen minutes. "Excuse me, sirs? Was the room not to your liking?"

"No," Tetsu replied. "We just...we didn't know this was a love hotel. We thought it was a karaoke bar."

"Oh..." the lady said. "I see. I was wondering why there was a large group of young men and only one female coming here."

"Female?" Miyuki mouthed, until he remembered that Haruichi was with them. He smirked. We could use Kominato-kun's feminine appearance to our advantage some day...

"Aniki?" Haruichi asked. "Why are we leaving? I thought we were going to sing karaoke."

As soon as they walked out the doors, Ryousuke finally removed his hands from Haruichi's ears. "We had a change of plans."

"Why were you covering my ears?"

Ryousuke did not reply and instead turned to Kawakami. "So, what do you want to do now?"

"Huh?" Kawakami said, still mortified by what had transpired a few minutes ago.

"It's only 12:30," Jun replied. "We don't have practice tomorrow so we have all the time we want."

"I—"

"If you say we should go back, you're going to be my new sparring partner instead of Sawamura," Kuramochi threatened.

Kawakami glanced at the pitcher, who was still unconscious on the floor, and gulped. He glanced up and read the sign across the street. "Can we go play laser tag?"

Tetsu followed Kawakami's gaze and nodded. "Laser tag it is."

After seven minutes of Kuramochi and Miyuki punching and shaking Furuya and Sawamura, with the occasional kick from Jun and Ryousuke, neither of the pitchers had awoken. Haruichi was the one to wake them up.

He leaned down and said into Sawamura's ear, "Eijun-kun, Coach Kataoka says if you don't wake up, you won't pitch in the next game."

Sawamura immediately bolted up, nearly knocking Haruichi down in the process. "NO WAY! I'M NOT LETTING THAT BASTARD FURUYA—!"

Ryousuke kicked his leg and said, with a smile, "Shut up."

Haruichi's tactic for waking up Furuya was different, and took not even two words. "Sa-chan."

Furuya rubbed his eyes. "What happened?"

"You saw your first porno and blacked out," Jun said. "Now c'mon, let's go."

"Hey, Kominato-kun," Kuramochi said as they crossed the street. "How do you know how to wake up Sawamura and Furuya? I room with Sawamura and it takes me throwing him out the door for him to even open his eyes."

Haruichi blushed. "When we had the summer training camp, Furuya-kun and Eijun-kun would fall asleep in the bath and almost drown. I just kind of guessed what would wake Eijun-kun up."

"And what about Furuya?"

The blush on Haruichi's cheeks intensified. "One day, we were hanging out and Eijun-kun was bragging about how I called him by his first name and not Furuya, and so Furuya-kun called me Harucchi to see what I would do. Eijun-kun got mad that Furuya-kun was using the nickname he gave me and they started arguing. To shut them both up, I called them Ei-chan and Sa-chan. They both fainted, and so I figured that if that could make them faint, it could wake them up as well. I still don't know why they fainted, though."

It's because you're too damn cute for you own good, Ryousuke thought. Next to him, Kuramochi shivered, as if he could feel what Ryousuke was thinking.

Fortunately for the Seidou team, there was a sale, allowing them to have ten players for the price of five. Tetsu denied Kawakami's offers to pay, saying that the whole team had pitched in, giving them more than enough money. The difficult part came when they had to chose partners.

"I'm with Harucchi!" Sawamura declared, pulling the shorter boy towards him.

Furuya said nothing and chose to reply with a tug on Haruichi's other arm. For a few moments, Haruichi was being strung back and forth, his cheeks a bright shade of red.

"Haruichi," Ryousuke said, placing a hand on his little brother's shoulder, "will be my partner."

Sawamura and Furuya nodded, knowing it was wise to not go against Ryousuke, no matter how much smaller he was. The groups were decided, and then came the next dreadful step: team names.

"Let's be Team Fuck-You-Guys-We're-Gonna-Win," Miyuki suggested to his partner, Kuramochi, who agreed.

Sawamura yelled, "Then we're Team We-Will-Beat-Demon-Senpai-And-Kuramochi-Senpai!"

"What are you writing, Furuya-chan?" Masuko asked, reading over the pitcher's shoulder. "Team I-Will-Beat-Sawamura?"

While his team argued, Seidou's captain sighed to himself and went to the counter to give the group name's himself. The pink team, consisting of Haruichi and Ryousuke, was Team Kominato ("How original, captain!" said Miyuki, voice dripping with sarcasm). The blue team (Kawakami and Sawamura) was Team Relief Pitchers. Miyuki and Kuramochi, who both had green, were named Team Most-Likely-To-Mess-Everything-Up-And-Give-Me-Problems-Like-That-Time-At-The-Beach, which barely fit in the maximum character amount ("We returned the boat eventually!" Kuramochi indignantly yelled). Jun and Masuko had orange and were Team Looks-Too-Old-To-Be-In-High-School. Tetsu and Furuya, red, were originally Team Tall and Silent, until Jun changed it at the last second as revenge for what the captain had dubbed his and Masuko's team. Tetsu and Furuya were now Team Shit-At-Shogi-And-No-Social-Skills.

The objective was simple: be the last man standing. All five teams would be placed into separate sections in the room. The team of the final person left would win. When Sawamura asked what the prize was, Tetsu declared that the two winners would get to boss around the team for one day. Everyone on the team who wasn't a sadist (Haruichi, Furuya, Sawamura, and Kawakami) shivered, fearing what kind of commands would be given.

"Haruichi," Ryousuke said.

"Yes, aniki?"

"Do you remember the last time we played laser tag?"

Haruichi smiled and nodded. "Yeah. It was at Ken-kun's birthday. Why do you ask?"

"You got first place out of fifty people, correct?"

A blush could be seen of the younger Kominatos cheeks, despite the dark lighting. "I-it was only because I'm so small that nobody could see me past the tall structures."

"You're too modest, Haruichi," Ryousuke said with a light smile as he ruffled his brother's hair. "If I remember right, you had the most accurate shot rate too."

A loud bell rang in the room, and the Kominato brothers could already hear the sounds of lasers being fired.

"Your bald head makes you stand out too much, Masuko-san!" Kuramochi yelled as he and Miyuki snickered.

"Kuramochiiiii!" snarled Jun, already running after the duo while Masuko sobbed in the corner.

Ryousuke smiled and pointed his gun towards the right. "Let's go this way, before we're next."

Haruichi shook his head. "No, if we go that way, we'll definitely be next."

"Oh?" Ryousuke said with an eyebrow raised.

"Eijun-kun probably heard Miyuki-senpai and Kuramochi-senpai, and so he'll go over and try to get them without listening to Kawakami-senpai. And Furuya-kun will sneak away from Yuki-senpai to go to Eijun-kun," Haruichi replied. "Without their partners, Kawakami-senpai and Yuki-senpai will be more careful, unlike Furuya-kun and Ejiun-kun. One Miyuki-senpai and Kuramochi-senpai meet them, they'll all focus on each other."

"And that gives us an opportunity to attack," Ryousuke finished. "Top marks, good analytical skills, and a proficiency in video games...When the third years graduate, I'm going to tell coach to make you the new spy for the team."

Haruichi did not reply and stared at the ground. "A..aniki?"

"Yes?"

"When you graduate...will you still talk to me?"

"Of course. Where's this coming from, Haruichi?"

"It's just that...when you came to Seidou, you stopped talking to me, even when I started going here too. I don't want it to go back you when you used to only talk to me when you wanted to insult me."

"I'm sorry about that, but I promise you, we'll keep in touch. You're my baby brother, after all."

Meanwhile, Kawakami was torn between running after Sawamura or hiding until the game was over. The sound of steps snapped him from his thoughts. He brought his laser up by his cheek, his finger already on the trigger. When he saw that it was Tetsu, his relaxed slightly.

"Did you get abandoned, too?" the captain asked.

Kawakami nodded. "Sawamura wanted to go after Miyuki and Kuramochi."

"How typical." Tetsu noticed that Kawakami still had his gun drawn and said, "I won't shoot you, go you can relax."

"Oh, um, yeah." Kawakami let go of his gun and let it dangle limply from the strap around his shoulder.

"You seem happier now," Tetsu commented. "This was a good idea, I see."

The shorter teen smiled. "Even though we had that...thing happen earlier, it's pretty funny, now that I think about it. And it makes me happy, knowing that you all went through so much trouble."

"You're our relief pitcher. We need you to rely on when our idiotic first years are acting out or our ace can't pitch."

Kawakami bit his lip and didn't say anything, opting to stare at the floor instead.

"That's what's been bothering you, " Tetsu observed.

"Next year...Tanba-san won't be the ace anymore. I really want to have the number one jersey, but I know that Furuya will be the one to get it."

"You're right. Furuya will have the number one jersey and he'll be the ace." Tetsu paused. "But that doesn't mean he's more skilled than you."

"What do you mean?" Kawakami asked, his eyes widening.

"Being the ace means being under tons of pressure, even more than the average pitcher gets. You're self-destructive and have a tendency to blame yourself. We can't rely on you to start off a game, because your insecurities would overtake you and throw you off your rhythm."

Kawakami swallowed. He's right.

"But you also have the stamina that Furuya lacks," explained Tetsu. "Your ball control is as perfect as possible for a second year and you have unwavering trust in the catchers, be it Miyauchi or Miyuki. You have faith that the people behind you will save your mistakes. You understand that the team needs to work together to win. We trust you as much as you trust us, and when you step onto the mound, we relax because we know that you give your all in every game. That's why your the relief pitcher."

"Th-thank you, captain," Kawakami stuttered. "I didn't...I didn't know that that's how the team felt."

Tetsu smiled slightly and was about to reply when he felt the vest around his chest vibrate. Kawakami glanced around, searching for the culprit, when his vest began to vibrate as well.

"I guess we're both out, now," said Kawakami.

Tetsu nodded. "I don't see anyone. Whoever it was must be very sneaky."

All the way to the lower half of the left wall, almost completely across the room from the duo, Ryousuke smiled at Haruichi and pat him on the back. "Your sniper skills never cease to amaze me."

Haruichi blushed and moved his hair around to cover his exposed eyes. "I was just lucky."

Ryousuke brought a hand to Haruichi's face and pushed his bangs back. "You should stop covering your eyes. They're quite nice, you know."

"Everyone says I look like a girl because of them," Haruichi said as he put his hair back into place.

"And having bangs so long they cover everything but your mouth doesn't do the same?"

"You always have your eyes shut, anyways. I don't understand how you can see like that."

Ryousuke brought a finger to his lips and made a "shh" sound. Haruichi followed his gaze and saw Sawamura tiptoeing through the labyrinth. Furuya was on the other side of the wall, and both were about to run into Kuramochi and Miyuki. Behind them was Jun, who was carefully trying to get a clear shot off of them without being detected.

Haruichi bit his lower lip in concentration. He could try for a shot to Jun, but that would also reveal his and Ryousuke's presence to the others. He glanced around for an opening, finally focusing on a taller section of the wall.

"Follow me," he whispered. Ryousuke did so and they walked as quietly as they could down the slight slope. The structure was wide and tall enough for both of them to hide behind.

Being small has its perks sometimes, Haruichi thought. He brushed his hair out of his eyes, allowing for one vivid pink one to show. He poked his head out the left side and brought his laser gun with him. He pulled the trigger between his fingers back and smiled as a bright beam of red light shot from it, hitting the center of the censor of Jun's vest.

The center fielder roared loudly, making his presence known. "WHO THE HELL SHOT THAT?!"

Miyuki and Kuramochi turned around, the temporary moment of distracting allowing for Furuya and Sawamura to jump out.

"GOT YOU!" yelled Sawamura. He pulled the trigger several times, keeping his aim at Miyuki.

Each shot missed.

"Don't announce yourself before you get a shot on, dumbass!" Kuramochi said, aiming at Sawamura, who dodged. "I hate you and your damn flexibility!"

"So, Furuya-ku~n, are you gonna shoot or not?" Miyuki teased, grinning at him.

Furuya shook his head. "I'm only aiming for Sawamura."

"Really?" Miyuki smirked. "You have a one-track mind, don't you? I think we're the only four left, with Jun out now."

Haruichi and Ryousuke grinned from their place behind the wall. Haruichi spotted a mirror and fired the laser straight into it. The beam of light bounced off and hit Sawamura's back censor.

"What the hell?!" he and Kuramochi yelled at the same time.

"You said we were the only ones left!" Kuramochi exclaimed.

Miyuki replied, "We should be. We took out Masuko earlier, and the captain and Kawakami were probably taken out by Jun already."

"I didn't," Jun said, walking over. "I was too busy trying to take out you damn kouhais!"

"Then it's probably one of them," Miyuki said. "I didn't think the captain had it in him!"

Furuya stepped towards Sawamura, who had been pushed to the ground by Kuramochi, and shot the laser.

"I'm already out, bastard!" Sawamura yelled.

Furuya ignored him and continued to shoot at his rival pitcher. Sawamura's vest vibrated each time, barely leaving room for him to breathe.

"Stop it!"

"No."

Sawamura began to do the same and soon both boys were shooting at each other, not even caring how disruptive they were being.

Kuramochi quickly fired a laser at Furuya, just so that he was officially out. He looked at Miyuki. "Come on. We need to find the captain and Nori if he's still wandering around."

Miyuki nodded and they walked towards the north, their guns drawn in case of a surprise attack by Tetsu or Kawakami.

Haruichi and Ryousuke took advantage of their turned backs. The brothers made brief eye contact (as close to eye contact as they could get, at least) before nodded and drawing their guns.

"Hey, Miyuki," said Kuramochi.

"What?"

"I feel like we're forgetting something."

"I do, too."

The two stopped for a moment, wondering what it was that they couldn't remember. Realization finally dawned on both of them.

"Ryou-san..."

"Kominato-chan..."

Ten minutes later, the Seidou players were seated in a small room, reading the scores that flashed on the TV.

Most Shots Fired:

1. Sawamura, Eijun

2. Furuya, Satoru

3. Kuramochi, Youichi

4. Miyuki, Kazuya

5. Kominato, Haruichi

Most Shots Landed (Shots Landed/Shots Fired):

1. Kominato, Haruichi, 5/5 (Players Hit: Yuuki, Tetsuya; Kawakami, Norifumi; Isashiki, Jun; Sawamura, Eijun; Miyuki, Kazuya)

2. Kominato, Ryousuke, 1/1 (Players Hit: Kuramochi, Youichi)

3. Kuramochi, Youichi, 2/15 (Players Hit: Masuko Tooru; Satoru, Furuya)

"I didn't even land a shot before Kuramochi-chan got me out," whined Miyuki.

"I didn't fire either," agreed Tetsu. "Kominato-kun is a good sniper. I didn't even see him."

"That's because we were across the room," Ryousuke replied, smiling proudly at Haruichi, who was gaping at how fast Sawamura was eating.

"Has Kominato-kun done this before?" Kuramochi asked.

Ryousuke shook his head. "We did it once at a friend's party, but other than that, no."

Kuramochi whistled. "He's got good eyes, that's for sure."

"FURUYA YOU BASTARD! THOSE WERE MINE!"

Furuya blinked at him and turned to Haruichi.

"STOP IGNORING ME!"

Haruichi wailed at Sawamura's loud yells. "Eijun-kun, please be quiet."

"WHY DO YOU THINK YOUR SO MUCH BETTER THAN ME, HUH?"

"Because I am."

"AT LEAST I CAN HANDLE THE HEAT. YOU FAINT AFTER AN HOUR IN THE SUN."

"I do not."

"YES YOU DO!"

"I don't."

"DO!"

"Don't."

"DO!"

They went back and forth. The older team members rolled their eyes, as this was a regular occurrence for them.

"They're being annoying again!" Jun roared, going over with Kuramochi to hit the pitchers.

"Stay," Miyuki said, earning a glare from Jun. "I'm curious to see what Kominato-chan does."

Haruichi looked like he was ready to cry, because all he wanted was to eat his food, not have his two (unfortunately) best friends argue over him. With a pout, he said, as loudly as he could over their yells, "Sa-chan! Ei-chan! Please, stop!"

The two pitchers glanced at Haruichi for a moment. His cheeks were tinted pink with frustration, his lower lip jutted out in a childish pout. A loud thump resounded in the room, with Sawamura and Furuya falling straight into their food.

The senpais stared on in amazement.

"He...they really faint," Miyuki stated. And I can't blame either of them...that might have been the cutest thing I've ever witnessed.

"He's adorable, isn't he?" Ryousuke asked. The team turned to look at the older brother, who wore a large grin.

That...that's not normal, Kuramochi thought with a shiver.

Forget brother complex. We're entering incestual yaoi manga here. Miyuki bit his lower lip.

Jun kept on glancing back and forth between the brothers. They look so much alike, though. Wouldn't it be vain for Ryou-san to...to think that way about his younger brother?

I'm scared, Kawakami internally screamed.

Haruichi was oblivious to the stares and reached into his back pocket. His eyes widened when he couldn't feel anything.

"What's wrong, Haruichi?" Ryousuke called.

"I...I can't find my phone."

"Did you leave it in the laser tag room?"

"No. I think I last had it at the karaoke bar."

The team visibly stiffened. They were just starting to forget about that horribly awkward incident, and now...

"Then let's go get it," Ryousuke declared. He walked over to his younger brother and ruffled his hair. "You're too forgetful, Haruichi."

Haruichi shoved his hair off. "It's your fault. You dragged me out before I could grab it." Ryousuke laughed.

Kominato-kun's got Ryou-san wrapped around his finger and he doesn't even know it, thought Kuramochi. That's terrifying.

Fifteen minutes later, after waking up Furuya and Sawamura for the second time that night, the Seidou Baseball Team was back inside the fabled love hotel. Tetsu explained to the woman at the counter of their dilemma, and she allowed them to retrieve the phone. On the way, Haruichi's ears were covered once again by Ryousuke, while Sawamura and Furuya clasped their hands over their own, not wanting to relive that traumatizing memory. Haruichi eventually found his phone under the bed. The process would have been quicker had Ryousuke not forcibly kept his hands on Haruichi's ears.

"Let's go," Tetsu said. "It's probably around 5 am by now."

The team nodded and walked out the door.

"We'll be staying here for five days," a familiar voice said. "I didn't tell anyone where we were going."

...only to walk into Coach Kataoka and Takashima.

Nobody knew what to say, or if they should say anything at all. The two adults stared at their team. The light from the lamp above created a glare on both their glasses, making their eyes as visible as the Kominatos'.

The whole team started to sweat uncontrollably, except for Ryousuke, who, for some reason, still clamped his hands on Haruichi's ears, and said small pink haired boy. He couldn't see what was going on, because Ryousuke had pulled him behind Masuko.

I knew it, Ryousuke thought.

Oh my God, they're probably pissed that we're out on the town instead of resting like good athletes should, Kawakami thought. It's all my fault.

I wondered why the coach gave us five free days, Miyuki groaned in his mind. Of course. Rei-chan's birthday is in five days. Oh God.

I don't know what's worse, thought Jun. Them seeing us or us seeing them.

Coach Kataoka coughed while Takashima pushed up her glasses.

Please don't say anything. Please just move out of the way and we can pretend like this never happened. Please. Kuramochi begged every god he knew.

Kill us now, Masuko pleaded. Nothing can be worse than this.

"I understand that you are all teenage boys and that you will all have sexual urges," Coach Kataoka began, "and I applaud that you all waited until there was a brief period without practice. I just ask that you make sure Furuya, Sawamura, and Kominato are able to walk by the end of the week."

And with that, he and Takashima went into their room.

The Seidou Team walked outside in complete silence.

They thought we would all...Kominato and Furuya and Sawamura... Kuramochi thought.

I wouldn't be opposed to that, though, thought Miyuki with an interested glance to Haruichi's ass, earning a kick from Ryousuke.

Tetsu regained his composure and said, "Are we all here?"

The team weakly replied with a chorus of "Yes, captain." They were ready to leave, when—

"HEY! YOU BOYS! YOU DIDN'T PAY FOR YOUR FOOD!" yelled a woman from the laser tag place across the street.

"What? Of course we did, right, Tetsu?" Kuramochi said. He turned to their captain, who was already running down the street.

"Sprint!" Tetsu yelled.

The team did so without thinking, causing the woman to cry out, "YOU COME BACK HERE, YOU CHEAP BRATS! OFFICERS, PLEASE CATCH THEM!"

The cops nodded and began running after the teens. "THE MORE YOU RUN THE MORE WE'LL WANT TO ARREST YOU!"

"YOU DIDN'T FUCKING PAY?!" roared Jun. "YOU'RE THE RESPONSIBLE ONE, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!"

"I didn't have enough money," replied Tetsu with a pant. "And this is good exercise, isn't it?"

The team made it back to Seidou, thanks to the fact that they were all athletic and young. The cops followed them in, however, and was ready to put the cuffs on Haruichi, who had been lingering in the back.

"You're under arrest for trespassing and theft," the officer said.

"But I'm not trespassing," Haruichi objected.

"Do you expect me to believe that a tiny little boy like you could ever make it into Seidou?"

"But..." Haruichi bit his lower lip. The rest of the team was too far ahead to hear anything. He tried to think of a way out, because he seriously did not want to get arrested. "N-NII-CHAAAAAAAN!"

It took three members of the baseball team to pry Ryousuke off of the cops. After waking up a very annoyed Chris, he had convinced the cops to drop the charges. He had told them he was Animal's son, and all three of the officers just happened to be huge fans. The team then got a very stern lecture by Chris, although the third years, Miyuki, and Kuramochi managed to escape when Chris turned his back.

The next day, the members of the team who didn't attend last night's sneak out watched as the best players on the team performed sub-par compared to their usual selves. They seemed tired and flinched whenever they heard the words karaoke or love. Briefly, they all wondered why they were working out instead of staying in to relax like most people would.

The only two normal ones were Tetsu and Ryousuke. When the others were done working out and got ready to leave, Ryousuke smirked. "Where do you think you're all going? Don't tell me you forgot about last night?"

The Seidou regulars shivered, fearing what the sadistic teen would request.

"I'm hungry," Ryousuke stated. "And I think I heard your stomach grumble earlier, Haruichi. Kuramochi, would you please go to the kitchen and cook us something? It has to be good, or we'll send you back to make more."

"Aniki..." Haruichi whined. "Don't be mean."

"I'm not. I'm simply seeing that they all follow their promises."

Pretty soon, the rest of the team was at the two Kominatos' bidding, though all the commands came from Ryousuke. He had told Furuya, Sawamura, and Kawakami to wash his clothes.

"Hey, Nori-senpai?" asked Sawamura as he folded Ryousuke's underwear.

"What?"

"Did you have a good time yesterday? I think we'd all feel bad if you didn't."

Kawakami smiled and shook his head. "To be honest, I think it was the best birthday I've ever had."

I didn't wanna end it there but I got really lazy so yeah. And I didn't intend for the story to get this long. I'm planning on making more chapters that will most likely be a lot shorter than this. Regarding my other story "Family", I'm working on my second chapter, so it should be done by Saturday.