The Fantastic… uh… Tennis Regulars?
By Old FiatDisclaimer: I own up to vol. 11. I don't own the characters, I just drive them crazy. I also do not own the Hornblower books or any Jane Austin novels.
Notes: I've decided this started in the middle June. So, no imagining it in January.
Dedication: My older sister, who posts chapters for me, tells me what things are stupid and tells me to "Hurry up and finish chapter three!" With out her hyper active-ness and odd encouragement this never would've started. Give 'er a hand!
Chapter 4: That Saint Rudolph SpiritYuta Fuji, Yoshiro Akazawa and Hajime Muzuki sighed. A junior high field trip to the nuclear power plant. Blech.
Yuta was reading a paperback titled Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. Hajime was playing solitaire on his laptop. Akazawa was doing a book of crossword puzzles.
"We're here," called the teachers in charge.
Hajime put away is laptop; Yuta and Akazawa put away their books-Yuta carefully marking his page before hand-and they stood up.
:I'm just going to skip most of the tour/field trip and get to the important part. 'Kay? Also note that I know almost nothing about Nuclear Power Plants. Bear with me though. –Old Fiat:
Ms. Suzuki (science teacher, grade 7) gestured at the room around them. "This is a room where they store dangerous gases. There are none in here now, because they kindly removed them from here and cleaned the room. They will fill it back up again in five minutes."
The students looked around the room. Shinya whispered something to Atsushi and he snorted.
The rest of the students filed out. Yuta stayed behind to look at something. Most of the tennis regulars hung back to wait for him.
"Come on Yuta," said Ichiro Kaneda. "We'll lose the rest of the class."
Suddenly the huge doors locked. Yuta looked up.
"What was that?"
"Our death," said Shinya Yanagisawa and Atsushi Kisarazu.
There were gases seeping into the room. The dangerous ones. Eek.
Hajime backed against the wall. Yuta took out a handkerchief and began breathing through it. Nothing worked though. Yuta shut his eyes and opened them.
Huge red beams of energy shot out of them.
"Shut your eyes!" said Akazawa. "Hold my hand."
Yuta's energy beam had blown a hole through the wall. And they all ran through it.
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Yuta lay in the hospital bed with bandages over his eyes. He tried to open his eyes but the bandages were on too tight.
"Yuta?" said a familiar female voice. "Yuta baby?"
"Mom? That is you right?" he grabbed her hands and reached up her arm until her got to her face.
He could remember once the gases had come into the room but nothing after that.
"Hey Yuta," said an all to familiar voice.
"Shusuke," said Yuta gripping on to his mother as though never to let her go. He wanted to be alone with her. Then he said to her, "Why are my eyes bandaged?"
"I don't know, the doctors won't tell us."
He heard people coming into the room and Akazawa's voice say, "Mrs. Fuji, do you mind if we speak to Yuta alone?"
Yuta could imagine he scene. Shusuke glaring at Hajime, Akazawa charming his mom to death, Shinya smiled as nicely as he could with those duck lips, Kaneda and Atsushi bowing. He could imagine it.
"Alright," said Mrs. Fuji. "Come on Shusuke. Let Yuta be alone with his friends."
Once they had left and shut the door. Akazawa sat down in the chair next to Yuta. "You feeling alright?"
"I feel great," said Yuta, sarcastically. "I can't see a thing, my mom and Shusuke have probably been here for days and she still calls me baby. I feel great."
They reminded Yuta of what happened and told him Hajime was working on a lense that could do something to get rid of the energy beam.
"It will let it shine through, but the lenses will cause it to break in to bunches of tiny molecules," said Hajime, explaining quickly. "They're almost finished."
"In Japanese," said Shinya, raising an eyebrow. "He's making magic lenses that will let you open you eyes, but not kill everyone. They're almost done."
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Once the St. Rudolph tennis regulars had left to ward, Shusuke grabbed Hajime by the collar of his shirt.
"What did you do to my brother, you sneaky, lying, jerk?" said Shusuke, glaring at him. "Did you take out his eyes with a corkscrew? Did you take them out because he hasn't twist-spinned his arm off yet?"
"I didn't do anything," said Hajime, pulling Shusuke's hand off. "Yuta did this to himself. He doesn't care for you anymore, Fuji. He wants his own life, not yours"
"You can't say that, you're the one that uses him."
"Am I?" Hajime's cold eyes narrowed. "Or am I helping him? You aren't the Genius Shusuke Fuji, all you are is a poor boy who blames others for things going on in his life."
Shusuke just stood there while Hajime Muzuki walked away.
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Yuta was let out of the hospital once summer vacation had started. Hajime had finished the lenses long before, but the doctors wanted to make sure he was completely okay.
Yuta was in St. Rudolph for a bit longer, to finish the rest of his schoolwork. Once he came into his house Mrs. Fuji was the first one to greet him.
"Yuta! Why are you wearing those silly sunglasses? Take them off, I want to see your pretty blue eyes," she reached out to take them off.
Yuta backed away. "I'd rather keep them on, if that's okay."
Shusuke was in their room when Yuta flung his bag on his bed.
"Yuta," He set aside the book he was reading, Pride and Prejudice. "Want to go outside and play a match?"
"Sure," said Yuta. Pulling out his racket. "Let's go."
Once outside Shusuke looked at Yuta's glasses questioningly.
"Why are you wearing those sunglasses, you'll get raccoon eyes once you tan." Shusuke snatched the glasses.
Yuta shut his eyes as fast as fast as possible. "Give them back!" He said, reaching blindly towards Shusuke.
"Yuta? Are you okay?" Shusuke looked worried.
"I'm fine," said Yuta, shoving them back on his face.
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Hajime walked over to the Fuji house the next day. Once he knocked on the door, Yuta answered.
"Hey Hajime," he said in surprise. "What are you here for."
"We're going over to my house to practice. Except for Takuya Nomura and . They're both are on summer vacation."
Yuta wrote on a post-it-note where he was going, stuck it on the fridge and jumped on his bike.
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Once at Hajime's house they all stated playing each other in the back yard. Akazawa vs. Kaneda, Hajime vs. Shinya, and Yuta vs. Atsushi.
Akazawa started off the game with an excellent serve that, of course, Kandea hit back. The game went on, etc., etc.
Then, when the game was at 4-3 (Akazawa in the lead), something happened.
As Akazawa got in the position to hit the blur-shot, Kaneda was really tense, ready for anything and then-
"Two Akazawas!" exclaimed Shinya.
Akazawa completely missed the ball coming at him. He stared at the replica of himself standing in front of him. Then it turned back into Kaneda.
Hajime's eyes flashed. Interesting. "Huh huh."
Kaneda bit his lip and said quietly, "I'm sorry?"
"Forget about practice!" said Hajime, standing up. "We've got discovering to do!"
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Yuta watched as they began to talk to Kaneda.
"Relax," said Hajime. "Now try to imitate me."
Kaneda morphed suddenly into Hajime and then back into himself.
"Well," said Akazawa, to himself. "Two members of the team now have freaky super powers."
"I heard that Yoshiro," said Mizuki, turning to him. "And if my beliefs are correct, it might have happened to you, me, Shinya and Atsushi too. So we have to start experimenting. Come over here."
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Bonjour! It's Old Fiat! I have a trivia this time. The first person that gets it right chooses Akazawa's power! Second Shinya's. Third Atsushi. Forth Hajime. You must not be my sister to guess.
Here's the trivia question: Who does Eiji live with?
See you next chapter!
-Old Fiat