Surprised? Double update!

Honestly, I had fun with writing the small fight between Kirihara and Kouji. It's not going to stop there...there's more to come~

Thank you for reading~

and

Enjoy~

I DO NOT OWN POT! I ONLY OWN THE OCs

Rikkaidai tennis court

Rie's head was down as Yukimura scolded her about the earlier event. "You shouldn't have done that to Akaya especially after what had happened to him." He scolded her lightly.

"But seaweed-san insulted Kouji."

'Innocent my ass. He is anything but that.' Kirihara glared at her.

"And Akaya" Yukimura called out as he turned to look at him. "You shouldn't have also taken the chance to take advantage of Rie-chan too." He smirked inwardly.

Kirihara blushed beet red and started waving his hands. "I told you! It wasn't like that!" Oh god, why did his senpais love to embarrass him?

"Really?" Yukimura smirked. "Fine, go get ready for our new training menu today."

At the word of 'new', Rie's head immediately perked up as she remembered the folder she gave to him which carried all of the info she managed to get from observing the tennis club members. She was his eyes and Clau will be the one to make up a more 'suitable' training for them.

And in all honesty, she didn't know what Clau had in mind.

Just as Rie began to walk toward the girls' locker room to change Yukimura had stopped her. Rie blinked and looked up at the smiling buchou. "There's no need for you to join today's practice."

"Huh?"

"There's no need for you to join today's practice. Lupollo-san has other plans for you from what I've understood from him. Now go and get changed." His smile grew making mentally flinch.

Okay, she did not want to know what plans Clau has for training.

"OKAY! LISTEN HERE YOU LOT OF WEAKLINGS!" Clau shouted sporting none other than one of the Rikkaidai jersey uniforms and a pair of comfortable looking sneakers and hanging around his neck was a beautifully made silver whistle with unique marks on it. "TODAY'S TRAINING WILL BE HELD NOT HERE BUT AT THE SWIMMING POOL! SO GET YOUR ASSES OUT THERE AND RUN!"

"FIRST YEARS. COLLECT ALL THE TENNIS BALLS AND MEET THERE!"

Clau felt a nerve pop as no one was moving. 'This should get them to move.'

"If you weaklings don't move now," He said getting something out of his bag. "I'll have to make you drink this whole bottle of health juice I just made this morning...with all the healthy ingredients I could find in the fridge."

"I've got three whole bags filled with these juices."

That hit a fear among the tennis club members as they ran towards the swimming pool fearing for their lives...and digestion. 'This is madness!' The regulars thought as they all lead the tennis club members toward the swimming pool.

"Be there by 5 minutes!"

Rie would've also liked to run but Clau's hand on her shoulder sent chills up her spine. "I have a different plan for you, little girl." He smiled. Rie gulped nervously before nodding.

When all of the Tennis members arrived at the swimming pool. More than 30% didn't make it and had to drink Clau's special concoction. And as a result, all of them either fainted or had stomach aches. The poor souls.

The tennis members released a sigh of relief. At least they weren't going to drink that poison or whatever it was.

Clau took notice of it and smirked. 'That's where you're all wrong. That's where you're all wrong.'

"If you guys think you're safe then you're all wrong. Very wrong..." He had a certain glint in his eyes. "The ones who drank my health juice are way luckier than you guys. They actually had a reason skip this hell training."

Everybody tensed.

"Anyways," He shook his head. "ALRIGHT! REGULARS SEPERATE FROM THE NON-REGULARS! NON-REGULARS GO FIRST."

At this, Marui, Niou and Kirihara mentally cheered while the rest had a bad feeling about this.

"Move to the swimming pool and bring your rackets."

That raised questions. The non-regulars looked at their tennis uniforms and then to the black haired male.

"Yes," Clau jerked his thumb to the swimming pool. "And yes, you'll be wearing your jerseys. And don't worry, you guys won't get wet. Just some injuries, is all." He shrugged off nonchalantly.

"What?"

"Get. In. Now." He ordered leaving them speechless.

The non-regulars' eyes widened at what happened to the pool. "What happened to the water?" One member asked.

"They...drained it?"

This made them more suspicious but one look from the black haired man, they immediately kept their mouths shut and went to the now empty pool that resembled a cage to them.

"Get ready." Clau then turned to the regulars. "Look closely because this is what's going to happen to you later...but harder."

All of them gulped.

"All right!" He faced the non-regulars inside the swimming pool. "This is all what I have to say to you guys: Don't get too injured over there, okay?" He grinned.

"WHAT?" All of them shouted in unison. What does he mean by injured? He's joking right?

"What he means to say is that. Do your best in this training, okay?" Yukimura said. "Your goal is to hit the green ball to the baskets surrounding the pool. Remember, green balls only, okay?"Yukimura reminded them. "Oh yeah, every wrong ball is equivalent to ten laps." With that finished, Yukimura went to the regulars leaving the gaping non-regulars to their doom-I mean training exercise.

The non-regulars looked at each other smiling nervously. 'You've got to be kidding me.' They all thought.

"And don't even get any ideas about not hitting any of those green balls cause if any of you don't even hit at least 30 green balls in those baskets then you'll be drinking my own home-made health juice."

GULP

"GET READY!"

This isn't going to be hard, right?

This isn't going to be some training exercise that would endanger their lives, right?

Their captain wouldn't allow that right? He is a known sadist but won't, right?

Right?

Too late...

"GO!"

As soon as the words had escaped Clau's mouth, tennis balls immediately started hitting the non-regulars mercilessly.

"What the hell?" Marui shouted.

Niou's eye twitched. "Hey, aren't they the girls' tennis team?"

Marui blinked. "You're right." All of the regulars looked at them. They were positioned all around the pool. "And are those tennis ball launchers?"

"Yeah..."

"And they're using that to attack them?"

"Yes..."

"Buchou!" Kirihara shouted to the blue haired captain. "The girls' tennis team's disturbing our practice!"

Yukimura chuckled. "I know. They're actually part of this."

"Huh?"

"That's right," Clau appeared beside them holding a folder and notebook in his right hand. "I asked them to take part in this exercise."

"And they agreed?" Jackal asked in surprise. It was no secret that the girls' tennis team had some sort of grudge against their counterpart because the whole student body had ignored their accomplishments for these past years because of them.

"Yes. They said 'yes' immediately when I asked them." Claude then grinned. "That is, after I said that they had a chance to potential chance to hurt your members."

"They're doing quite a good job if you ask me."

"MY ARM!"

"WILL YOU GUYS STOP THIS!"

"MY EYE! MY EYE! "

"SHIT!"

"They're enjoying this too much." Kirihara muttered looking at the sadistic and pleased looks the girls had after causing pain to their members. "Monsters..."

"They still haven't let go of last time." Yagyuu looked to the side not wanting to see what was before him.

Clau raised a brow. "Last time?" He looked at the blue notebook with him. "You mean where one of your members got into a fight with one of the girls' tennis team and it ended with almost all of the members getting into a fight with the other?"

"He was belittling and insulting one of the girls, right?"

"Yup" Niou replied. "How did you know about that?"

"It's in this notebook." He showed Rie's notebook. "She's been writing very interesting things here and that includes the events that had happened with both of the girls' and the boys' tennis team. For reference." He quickly added the last one.

"It was understandable why they would be mad. One of our members had just said that he was superior to them."

Marui frowned. "We're the ones who kept winning though, not them."

"Some let it go to their heads." Yanagi added. "But that member had been expelled since he had been causing nothing but trouble to the school and other clubs as well."

"I never knew that they had such a grudge against us that would make them do..." Niou looked toward the non-regulars and then to the girls. "this..."

"I'M OUT OF AMMO!" One of the girls shouted.

"FIRST YEARS! GIVE US AMMO!"

"GIRLS! LEAVE NO MAN CONSCIOUS!" I REPEAT! LEAVE NO MAN CONSCIOUS!" A girl they recognized as the one who had hit one of their teammates in the eye shouted.

"OSU!" All of them saluted.

They all giggled evilly. 'They won't be able to hit the green ball this way.'

"DIE!"

"We have to go through that later?" Kirihara asked nervously. "What good will we get in this?"

"Focus" Clau answered as if it was nothing. "Learn to concentrate on the one ball I tell you to hit even with all those other balls in your way. The key is to look at the movement of your opponent focus your eyes on your target and you'll be able to follow your opponent's movement."

"Even if it means all your bones will break, so be it!"

"What kind of training is that?" Kirihara yelled angrily.

"MWAHAHAHAHA!"

All of them shivered.

"You're doing this on purpose, huh?" Marui glared at Clau. "Making us watch this knowing we will be next!"

Clau only smirked.

"Crap" Marui looked at the mess that was before him. "They really did leave no man conscious." And if there ever was someone who survived…well-

BANG!

They would shoot him to unconsciousness.

"MWAHAHAHAHA!" The girls laughed.

"Crazy banshees" Kirihara muttered.

Marui banged his head on a nearby tree. "We're goners."

"Not exactly," Clau placed a reassuring pat on his shoulder which only made the red head sulk more. "Thanks for the effort, Himawari-san." He faced the girl behind him.

"My pleasure" A girl with shoulder-length auburn hair tied into a low ponytail said. All of the regulars except for Sanada, Yukimura and Yanagi gulped at the sight of her. Himawari Ari, the girls' tennis club captain, gave them a glare before smiling at Clau. It was a known fact that the girl loved the tennis club a lot and would do anything to make their club even stronger and get revenge against the boys' tennis team.

"Don't worry," She said making 'shooing' motion. "Our job's already done here. We did enough damage here to soothe our anger for a week or so-"

"You mean hitting our members with a tennis ball launcher isn't enough?" Marui shouted.

"No." Ari glared.

Silence ensued.

"Pack up! We're going back!" Ari shouted to her club. "Mei, lead them back."

"Hai~" A chirpy voice saluted.

"Hey Jackal-kun and Marui-kun~" A girl with short messy light orange hair said. She had panda bear pins on the side of her hair.

"Hey, Shiroki-chan" Jackal greeted his hyperactive classmate. Marui was too sulkish to greet his classmate.

"Boy, was it fun to beat the shit out of your members, huh?" She smiled brightly at them. "Gotta go!"

Ari sighed. "By the way, where is Arianna-san? I'd like to thank her for having the idea of having a mixed practice with you club."

"Rie-chan/Baka-onna did what now?" Niou and Kirihara shouted together.

"She had the idea of the mixed practice but I had the idea of the tennis ball launchers." Clau answered.

"Great, leave it to the psychopath holding a nail gun to come up with something like that." Marui mumbled under his breath as he looked at the man who glared at him.

"Did you just say something? Akai-san?"

Marui cringed and immediately looked to the side whistling trying to look innocent. 'Niou?' Marui thought as he looked at the trickster walking toward the unconscious tennis members. 'Just what is he planning to do? He's probably looking after them.' The red head suddenly shook his head vigorously. "Just what in the world am I thinking? Him? Caring? The hell!"

Meanwhile, Niou took out some sort of device out of his pocket and pointed it one of the unconscious member's head and pressed it.

ZAPP!

And just as the trickster pressed it the unconscious member's body started trembling from the shock uncontrollably until it was brought back to unconsciousness with the distinct smell of fried chicken following him.

"Hey!" Niou called out to regulars. "He's still alive!"

"NIOU YOU FREACKIN KILLED HIM!" Guess who said that.

This is not going to go well...

"OKAY, REGULARS! LISTEN UP! I'M STEPPING UP THE LEVEL OF THE DIFFICULTY! PREPARE YOURSELVES!" Clau shouted from the sidelines. "And before I forget to even mention this but, you aren't the only ones in a difficult situation. Your little maiden is also in one right now." He smirked before pointing towards one of trees near the swimming pool. And boy was it tall...

A muffled sound filled the regulars' ears as they quickly turned to where it was coming from only to have their jaws drop at what greeted them. Dangling upside down on a branch was none other than Rie! Her mouth was covered by a bandanna as she struggled to at least shake it down her mouth by shaking her head.

"Mmmphggh phrou phlastared!" She shouted. Rie couldn't remember what happened after Clau wanted to speak with her. All she then saw was black and the next she knew she was tied up upside down dangling on one the tallest freaking tree in campus. She was so going to kick that Italian man's ass when she gets down.

"The heck..." Jackal gaped.

"Rie-chan, are you alright?" Marui shouted waving his hands for emphasis only to receive a dull look from the said that undoubtedly says 'What-Do-You-Think'.

"Oy!" Kirihara glared at Clau. The man was getting on his nerves but this was something else. "What the hell are you doing? You know about her fear, right? Then what's the big idea of doing something as outrageous as this?" And he even calls himself as the baka-onna's guardian...

"Buchou, are you going to stand for this?" The junior faced Yukimura who remained calm all throughout the event.

Yukimura shook his head. "This is beyond my control now, Akaya. He is now taking over our practice menu so I can not interrupt." He narrowed his eyes at Clau. "Besides, I'm sure Lupollo-san has an explanation for all of this, am I right?" He wasn't informed that the freshman was going to be left dangling upside down on a tree with her mouth gagged. He was missed out on this. He did not want any of their kouhais to be facing any traumas. NOT ONE.

Clau raised a brow. "Re-lax. I know what I'm doing. You should be focusing on your training right now. From where I come from, I've faced worse."

'Just where exactly did HE come from?'

"BEHOLD!" Kirihara looked at his right hand and saw...'A remote? Where did that come from?' Clau pressed one of the buttons there was and suddenly they weird a weird noise and it was becoming louder and louder with each passing second.

Rie's eyes widened at what were making those sounds. 'Tennis ball machines?' As soon as several of those tennis ball machines surrounded the swimming pool it stopped. "Instead of tennis ball launchers like the last time, this time we'll be using tennis ball machines I borrowed from the school instead for this training." Clau explained resting on of the tennis ball machines. "Yep, this baby is going to whip you guys into shape." He said casually. "And of course," He pressed another button and another weird noise started making its way but not toward the regulars but toward the maiden instead.

"Since this is going to be their battle, it will be your battle too, bambina*."

The silver-haired girl's eyes widened as she saw it was aimed at her. What was she supposed to do? Wriggle her way to freedom? Well yes...it's one of her options right now. Rie made a mental note herself. 'Scratch what I planned earlier, I am going to kill the bastard...'

"Same rules and same goal and penalty as well! But this time you guys need to hit 75 green balls this time!" Clau turned his head to look at the dangling girl. "And remember use your senses to see the movements and analyse it very clearly. Your handicap might give you your advantage."

"GET READY!"

"EH?"

"FIRE!"

Let the wreckage begin.

Rie's eyes widened because at the same time those tennis ball machines started firing the one under her began as well. She winced as a tennis ball almost got her head. She had no choice but to move her body to miss the incoming balls at her. At the same time, think about what Clau had mentioned before this started. 'Handicap...advantage...senses?' What did he mean by handicap? They were all in a handicap. He was practically trying to break our bones! The freshman gasped in pain as a tennis ball hit the side of her face. Gasp? 'Looks like the bandanna had somewhat loosened up as I was in the middle evading.' She dodged another tennis ball as she swung back and forth. 'Advantage...'

"Aren't people really interesting to observe?"

"Bambina, look around you. Details are very important."

"Idiota! Remember you senses..."

What about my senses?

"AUGH!"

'Seaweed-san!'

"Damn it all!" Kirihara yelled as he tried to concentrate. There were too many balls coming at them with unbelievable speed. He couldn't catch their movement. "I can't see it! WHERE'S THE GREEN BALL!"

"Behind you!"

Taking the warning to heart, he immediately swung his racket and had hit the incoming ball to the basket. Turning around, he saw that the ball he hit was none other than...a green ball. The first green ball. "YATTA! Arigatou," He turned his head to the source of voice and stared. "Baka-onna! You can speak."

Wait.

"Oy!" He shouted as he evaded the tennis balls. "Can you tell us when and where the green balls are coming?" She could see everything from up there after all. Maybe there's a reason to her being there up in the sky after all.

"She won't be able to do that." Clau answered the junior. "All of these balls are coming from everywhere with unbelievable speed. She won't be able to see where the balls are going much more the green balls mixing with the normal tennis balls."

Kirihara glared at the man. "AND WHOSE FAULT IS THIS?"

"WHAT'S THIS GOING TO HELP US WITH TENNIS ANWAY!"

Clau's eye twitched. "I told you already, concentration, focus-"

"YEAH YEAH! CONCENTRATION, FOCUS AND CRAP! WE GET IT! IS THAT ALL?"

"Crap? LET'S SEE IF YOU HOW YOU HANDLE THIS!" Clau immediately pressed another button making the tennis ball machine shoot faster. "THIS IS NOT CRAP! THIS IS TRAINING!"

"THIS IS NOT TRAINING! THIS IS MADNESS!"

"I AM TELLING YOU THAT THIS TRAINING WILL HELP YOU SEE THE TRUTH! A TRAINING TO SEE A MAN EVOLVE-"

"THERE'S A GIRL OVER HERE!" Rie yelled.

"SHUT UP!"

"NO YOU SHUT UP!"

"TARUNDORU!"

"ITTAI!" Kirihara fell face-first to the ground as one tennis ball hit him in the back of his head.

Clau smirked. "Oh and if you're still interested I know another benefit from this training."

In all honesty, he didn't want to know. HE DID NOT WANT TO KNOW. But curse him and his mouth as he spoke the forbidden word. "What?"

"IT WILL RAISE YOU TOLERANCE OF PAIN!" He shouted as he raised the level.

All of the members groaned in pain.

The freshman swung to her left as she barely evaded two balls coming. 'This is getting harder...' Rie nervously thought looking at the troubled regulars. "Senses...? Just what did he say again about senses?"

"Idiota, remember your..." Come on think! "senses work better together when one of them is not in use. Close your eyes...tell me if you notice anything different..."

Rie closed her eyes. I can hear the breeze, the falling leaves, the students running around and shouting...and the gears of the tennis ball machine... Just then, Rie snapped her eyes open and critically observed the pool and the machines. 'If I can't use my sight then how about my other senses... Is that what Clau was talking about?'

Hey eyes focused on any kind of detail she could find that would help with the machines. 'It hurts...my eyes hurt just looking at it.'

Jackal shouted. "To your right, Yanagi!"

But before Yanagi could even react a tennis ball had already hit his shoulder. The master winced.

"Handicap..."

Rie blinked. Realization hit her. She won't be able to tell where and when the green ball may be coming but she could warn them before it could hit them. She could see everything that's happening because...

She was up here.

This height gave her the advantage.

"Fukubuchou! To your right! Something's coming at you!" Rie shouted to the senior.

Sanada immediately hit the ball before it could hit him.

"Marui-senpai! Left!"

Marui evaded the ball aiming his face.

"Thanks!" Marui waved his hand to the girl before side-stepping to hit a green ball.

"Jackal-senpai, Behind you!"

Jackal dodged.

Maybe dangling upside down on a tall tree wasn't too bad. She could after all help her senpais with this.

"Ittai!" She yelped as another tennis ball hit her.

Wrong. Screw Clau and this Tolerance for Pain training.

Rie panted after warning her teammates several times now. She knew she wouldn't be able to hold on if this keeps continuing.

'Senses...'

'Let's see how far what Clau said will go.' Rie panted. 'I'm starting to feel dizzy now.' With that she closed her eyes.

Bang

Bang

Bang

Bang

Bang

"Green ball!"

Bang

Bang

Bang

Bang

Bang

"I see a green Ball! Just beside you!"

'I see...' The silver haired girl sighed. 'So that's what his plan was. Idiota! Why didn't I think of it before! He planned this from the very start!'

Rie took a deep breath before shouting, "Senpai! If you guys want to know, I found a way you guys could hit the green balls!"

That grabbed their attention. Clau only raised a brow.

"What?"

"Trust me on this one." She yelled "Close your..." Her head felt like it was spinning. 'Damn it'

"Close your eyes!"

"But-"

"Onegai! Trust me on this one!"

"She did warn us about those incoming tennis balls. There's nothing to worry about since this is Rie-chan we're talking about." Niou sighed before smiling.

"It's our best shot." Marui added.

"It's our only shot, senpai." Kirihara butted in.

"MOU!"

"Enough." Yagyuu interrupted. "Let's trust Arianna-san's words." With that the regulars closed their eyes.

Rie smiled in relief. "Use your ears and hear the shots of the tennis ball machines. Count until 13 when I give you my signal. Whoever is near the 14th ball...hit it! Be quick about it!"

With the message clear, they all nodded as they waited for the girl's signal.

'I wonder how long I'll last...I'm feeling sick right now.' Rie grimaced as she shook head. She needed to do this for the team. 'Concentrate!'

Just as she saw a quick green blur she immediately shouted, "NOW!"

'...11, 12, 13...'

"Yanagi-senpai!"

Yanagi, who was the nearest person when the 14th ball was shot he immediately swung his racket to hit the ball and shoot it to the basket.

The regulars opened their eyes to take a peek and widened their eyes when they saw that what Yanagi had shot was a green ball indeed. "YOSH!"

"Concentrate!" Rie shouted making the regulars close their eyes again. "Now!"

'..13...'

"Niou-senpai!"

Another green ball had been hit.

And the regulars counted again.

"Fukubuchou!"

And another green ball was hit.

Yukimura was impressed on how their maiden managed to pick up on the pattern. It seems Clau did plan all of this. It would be impossible for the regulars to notice the patter because they were evading the balls coming at them and with the speed of those balls... Even he didn't think of it.

"I see she's figured it out, huh?" Clau sighed. He wasn't surprised. He knew she do it. Why not? He was the one who trained her after all.

'If she's going to be part of a team then she better do what she can to help the team.'

Soon all of the regulars had got the hang of the pattern and didn't need Rie to point out who was the nearest regular to the 14th ball.

"But will they be able to make it to 75 balls?" Clau smirked. Yukimura chuckled. "You'll be surprised at how my teammates will handle this."

"The time Rie-chan told them of the pattern will be the time they'll completely win this."

True enough, after the tennis machines had all gotten out of tennis balls, the regulars had his more than 200 green tennis balls. Clau was impressed as he gave a low whistle. "You lot aren't that bad, after all."

"I...never...want to go through that again." Kirihara said in between pants. He clutched his arm as it had been several times by the tennis balls.

"I second that." Marui joined in as he sat on the ground tiredly raising his fist in the air. "I need some sugar...fast." It was a good thing he ate a lot of shortcakes before their practice began or else he would've collapsed there in the middle of their training.

"Puri..." Was all Niou could say.

"Looks like Lupollo-san's were true about our concentration." Yagyuu fixed his shirt.

"I never knew I could react that fast just by using my ears." Kirihara muttered. "Maybe he isn't so useless after all."

"But he's still scary..." Marui mentally shuddered.

"His ways may seem...absurd but...he seems to have a reason for all of this." Yanagi said looking at Clau.

Sanada nodded.

"Um...hey, I know you guys are happy this is all over but...there's a girl dangling over here!" Rie waved her hands at the regulars trying to get their attention. "Get me off of here so I can kick that man's ass! Get me off of here!"

"Rie-chan!" Marui panicked as his tiredness immediately went away. "Don't worry we'll get you back on sweet and safe ground!"

No need.

The branch that she was tied to broke causing her to fall like the last time but this time there was no body of water to save her but the solid ground. The freshman braced herself and put her arms around her head hoping to save it. She waited for impact.

"RIE!"

But she felt nothing but landing on something soft yet hard at the same time. Rie blinked as she looked down on what she landed on.

But the real question was: Who?

"Jeez...you're such a troublesome baka-onna." A muffled voice said. That was when she noticed the unmistakable curly black hair of the junior. 'Seaweed-san'

Let's see, when the branch that kept the silver haired girl from falling broke the first one to quickly react was none other than Kirihara Akaya. Moving faster than any other member that was running to her rescue, he hoped to catch the girl with his arms and as I said hoped because as soon as the girl was within reach, Kirihara learned a very painful story from gravity. She crashed on top of him making him fall face first on the ground.

"I guess I looked really uncool, huh?" Kirihara managed to give the freshman who was sitting on his back a small grin. After he said that, he was then tackled back to the ground by Marui and Niou.

"Acting like a hero in front of the girl, huh?" Niou teased.

"Oy!" Jackal, the ever caring one, kept telling the two to get off of the baby to which he was only ignored for. "HEY!"

Yagyuu sighed as he made his way over to the silent girl. "Are you okay, Arianna-san? Any injuries?"

He got no reply.

"Are you okay? Do you have a fever? You seem...red." Yagyuu pointed out as he saw the slightly red face of the freshman as she stared at the ace of their team. "Must be from what had happened." He concluded before joining Jackal in telling Marui and Niou to stop messing with their kouhai.

Clau, who didn't miss the blush on the girl and knew the reason why she got it twitched his eye in annoyance. "Ragazzo Riccio*..."

"Tarundoru!"

"You've been big help to today's practice, Rie." Sanada nodded to her. "Thank you."

That snapped her out of her reverie. Rie looked up and nodded.

"Looks like I'm going to have an interesting time teaching you all about data, Rie." Yanagi patted her head.

"Oy! Stop that, senpai!" Kirihara tried to pry of his senpais as they messed with him. "Cut it out!"

"I guess I looked really uncool, huh?"

"You seem really busy, huh?" Clau taunted the girl he was looking after. She was surrounded by several files. She glared at the man as she started putting them into folders until there was only one paper left.

Clau held an ice pack to his throbbing head. Man, the girl can fight. True to her words, she did kick Clau's ass for what happened. 'Being quiet, huh?'

Clau picked up the paper and took a good look. "A practice match? With another school?"

Rie turned to him and took the paper from his hands. "Hai, buchou told me we were going to have a practice match with a school called "Satokai Gakuen"."

"I see...sounds fun." Clau smirked. "Mind if I give you a ride to that school?" The person he had asked that question immediately flinched and stood frozen at her spot. "Thought so. Looks like I am." He didn't wait for the answer.

OMAKE

Yanagi and Rie sat in one of the tables the school library had. Rie's ability of observing was improving a lot. So Yanagi thought that it was finally time to teach her one of the most important things he wanted to pass down.

"So why do I have to learn probability again?" Rie raised a brow.

"In collecting data it is very important to also the chances of it happening. That is why calculation is very important." Yanagi repeated for the fifth time already.

It just happens that his apprentice was weak with the subject Math...how odd.

"Listen Rie, this is the solution to get..." Everything Yanagi mentioned came in one ear and out with the other. "Did you understand what I was saying?"

Rie decided that it was the right thing to be honest. "No. Nope. Nothing~"

"What is so hard with what I'm teaching?"

"Senpai, you added other lessons not even related to our first topic."

"Like what?"

"Triangles...tangents and pythago-something theory."

"It's for future purposes."

"I'm only a freshman."

"So?"

"I DON'T get it."

Yanagi found it odd for her to be having a hard time understanding such a simple lesson. If she was an observer won't that mean she'd have a better understanding than others? If so then understand what the teacher is teaching would just be nothing to her.

Okay, they'll be starting with basics...

"Rie"

"Hai senpai?

"What's the first word that comes to your head when you hear "tangent"?"

"Tangerine?"

Never had Yanagi wanted so much to bang his head on a table until his head bled until now.

"I'm only a freshman barely passing Algebra, senpai." Rie added. 'Besides, it'd be better to give me a book to read so I could understand better...'

Here are the translations:

Bambina: Little girl

Ragazzo Riccio: Curly Boy

Idiota: Idiot

I don't know when the next chapter will be posted but you all have already been given a tip on what's it about. My mom enrolled me in some study sessions so I'm still stuck with homeworks -_-

If some of you haven't seen it yet, I've already drawn how Rie looks like, so feel free to take a peek. BUT it's not really...good. So please bear with me because it's also not very clear. I pictured it using my phone. I did my best .

About the topic of changing the title. My sister thought really hard for this. "My Seaweed Head"

Sounds fitting, right?

Reviews and Constructive Criticisms are welcome!