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Hey there! This is my first multi-chapter story and I would really appreciate it if you would review it. Well, hope you'll enjoy it. Have fun reading?
Chapter 1
"Have you ever killed anyone before?"
Fuji stared at the girl with a distorted grin in front of him. He was baffled. He had just been having a normal conversation with the female, who was asking him for directions, a few seconds ago when she started acting weird and spouted out such a ridiculous question. He stumbled a few steps back.
"Um, no…"
The girl gave a maniacal laugh. "You should try it. It's fun."
She licked her lips, before continuing, stepping forwards with every two words that she said, "Guess what? There's going to be a bloodbath…" The girl stopped in mid-sentence. She grabbed her head with her hands, shaking it furiously. Fuji stared in horror, unable to react to the unexpected scene.
The girl stopped. She looked up, blushing, "What…? Um…I got to go." She stuttered and dashed off somewhere.
Fuji stared, and stared at the direction that the girl dashed off to. 'What did I just witness?' he thought.
He continued to look at the disappearing figure of the girl. Frightened, he grasped the handles of his tennis bag tightly and ran home, never stopping for a second. It must have been quite a sight. The normally calm and composed prodigy was running as if his life was at stake.
Fuji slammed the front door shut. He leaned on the back of the door and slowly slid down, ending up slumped on the floor. Fuji panted, trying to get his breath back.
"Syuusuke, what are you doing on the floor? Get up and go take a shower, dinner is ready in 10 minutes."
Fuji looked up, to see his sister glaring at him with her hands on her hips. He slowly picked himself up from the floor and made his way up the stairs and into his room. Shutting the door behind him, he switched on the lights and dumped his bag beside his table. He collapsed in his chair and thought back to the scene before.
"Bloodbath…" He muttered under his breath. What bloodbath? He shook his head furiously. It had nothing to do with him, yes, nothing to do with him. Fuji tried to convince himself to calm down and banished the dreadful feeling in his heart. He remembered his sister's words and went off to do the daily routines.
"Syuusuke, you'll be going over to Atobe's villa for the weekend right?" Fuji's sister, Yumiko asked.
Fuji swallowed the food that was in his mouth and nodded. The both of them were having dinner alone at the moment, as Yuuta was still at St. Rudolph's dormitories and their parents were on a vacation overseas.
"Do you need me to send you there?"
"Ah, no, it's fine nee-san. We'll be meeting up in school before Atobe comes to pick us up."
Yumiko nodded in understanding. "Don't forget to pack your stuff." She pushed her chair back and stood up, dishes in her hands.
Fuji followed not long after and placed the dishes in the dishwasher. He went back into his room and started to pack for the trip. A week ago, Atobe, Tezuka, and Yukimura had arranged for a tennis camp with the three schools. Realising that they needed a place for the tennis camp, Atobe offered to use one of his spare villas. Well, instead of offering like how normal people would, Atobe used the term 'Be awed by my generosity'. Therefore, Seigaku, Rikkaidai and Hyoutei would be having a training camp over the weekend at Atobe's villa, which was the reason why Fuji was packing.
Fuji had almost finished his packing when Yumiko opened the door and popped her head in.
"Need any help?" She asked.
Fuji shook his head. "I'm almost done."
Yumiko glanced around her younger brother's room and invited herself in. Plopping down onto his bed, she fidgeted uneasily. Noticing his sister's uneasiness, Fuji raised an eyebrow and asked her what was wrong.
Yumiko took a deep breath and stared at Fuji in the eye, well, at his closed eyes. "Syuusuke. I need you to listen to me."
Fuji was shocked at his sister's tone. It wasn't the same tone that she'd always used. It was the tone that she uses when she predicts that anything bad was about to happen. He opened his cerulean eyes, staring back at his sister's brown orbs, gesturing for her to continue.
"Answer me truthfully. Did you happen to meet anyone…" She paused, trying to come up with the right word. "Anyone…strange today?"
'Strange?' Fuji thought. He recalled the girl that he had met on the streets earlier that day. She was…peculiar in a way, how she changed personalities so fast. He wondered if that was what his sister was referring to and nodded uncertainly.
Yumiko gasped. She placed her right palm on her forehead and started muttering words that Fuji couldn't hear. Fuji stayed still. His sister's strange behaviour was unexpected, he didn't know how to react. It was when Yumiko had finally stopped her weird chanting that Fuji opened his mouth to question the older girl.
"Nee-san? What's wrong?"
"Syuusuke…" Yumiko stood up, staggering a little. "Just be careful tomorrow…"
She stumbled over to his bedroom door and let herself out, shutting the door tightly behind her. Back in her own room, she brushed her fingers over the cards laid out on the table. She had been doing some divinations for her family and her prediction for the cerulean eyed prodigy was a spine-chilling scene. All she could do at that moment was hope for the best…
"I'm leaving!" Fuji called out before leaving his house. Softly humming a tune, he made his way to Seigaku, where the regulars would be gathering up before Atobe arrives.
He put a foot past the school's front gates and was immediately attacked by a hyper red head.
"Fuji~" Kikumaru exclaimed, throwing himself onto the prodigy.
"Morning Eiji."
Fuji detached Kikumaru off his body and greeted the Seigaku vice-captain, who had just appeared behind them.
"Eiji! I told you not to jump on people like that! You'll give them a heart attack!" Oishi nagged. It was Oishi's nature to act like a worried mother hen over the Seigaku regulars.
"Ehh~? It's fine isn't it? I do that to O'chibi all the time!" Kikumaru jumped up and down on the spot. "And he's fine isn't he? No problem!" Kikumaru made a peace sign with his hand, nearly sticking it into Oishi's eyes.
Oishi whacked the red head's hand away and exclaimed, "EIJI! My eyes could have been poked out just now!"
Kikumaru sheepishly grinned, "Oops. My bad. Sorry Oishi."
The trio made their way over to the tennis courts, where Tezuka, Inui, Kawamura and Kaidoh were already waiting at. The only people missing at the moment were Momoshiro and Echizen, both with the tendency of being late.
Tezuka greeted the trio with a slight nod, eyes flashing around hoping to catch sight of the two missing regulars. Realising that they were not going to appear within the next minute, Tezuka frowned. Atobe would be here in 10 minutes and two of their regulars were still not assembled! They've let their guards down!
"Probability that Momo and Echizen will arrive just when Atobe comes is 94.67%." Inui commented, not looking up from his green notebook.
Just like Inui had predicted, Momoshiro and Echizen showed up on Momoshiro's bicycle the moment Atobe's bus pulled up at the front gates. Through the windows of the bus, the Seigaku regulars could spot the Hyoutei regulars sitting comfortably and smirking at the two that were late. The bus doors swung open and Atobe climbed down the stairs.
"The camp has not even started yet and two of you are already late. How unsightly." Atobe crinkled his nose and gestured to the Seigaku regulars to board the bus. "Come on my magnificent vehicle now. We still have to pick up the Rikkaidai members in Kanagawa, and that's not anywhere near here."
Atobe snapped his fingers and Kabaji jumped out from nowhere, grabbing the Seigaku regulars' stuff and dumping them somewhere in the compartments of the bus. Kikumaru and Momoshiro stared at the gigantic second year in awe, they had not expected someone to get their bags for them. Surely, the way that Atobe lived his life was totally different from how normal people would…
They all boarded the bus and the bus left, moving off to pick up the Rikkaidai members.
Meanwhile, back in the shadows of the school ground, a lone figure stood staring at the leaving bus. She grinned evilly, oh, how her plan would work finely…
The bus ride was quiet. Fuji felt a chill down his spine. Blinking a few times, he simply shrugged it off and looked out of the window at the scenery.
The bus skidded to a stop when they arrived outside Rikkaidai Fuzoku. All the 8 regulars from Rikkaidai were already lined up at the front of the school and they orderly boarded the bus, after listening to Atobe's speech about how marvelous he was. Sanada stomped past Atobe and nearly scowled. He disliked the narcissist Hyoutei captain. They just simply couldn't get along. It didn't help that he had to endure his teammates' troublemaking syndromes as well as the narcissist comments from Atobe. Sanada was definitely going to need lots of aspirin on the trip.
As they've picked up all the people going on the training camp, the bus made its way to Atobe's villa. Sitting at the back of the bus were Niou, Marui and Kirihara. Three troublemakers sitting together? On a bus? Oh, what a disaster.
Sanada quickly realized his mistake of allowing the three to freely choose their seats, however, he was already too late. Marui was comfortably sitting while chomping on a strawberry cake, Niou was resting his head on the sugar lover's shoulder, probably thinking of nice and interesting pranks to do during the ride, and Kirihara was…well…taunting the other players. Sanada was about to get up from his seat to separate the three but was stopped by Yukimura who placed a hand on his shoulder, shaking his head. If Yukimura was telling him not to get involved, he wouldn't. Sanada would never go against Yukimura's words after all. Thus, he sat back down, pulling his cap down, hiding his eyes. He could only wish that they wouldn't do anything drastic like blowing up the bus…
The ride wasn't as horrible as Sanada had thought. All they had managed to do was stick Marui's gum in the other teams hair, sing like idiots and annoying everyone else on the bus, and releasing bugs (bees, beetles, spiders) that Niou mysteriously has in his bags. Yup, nothing drastic. At least they didn't create some bomb and blasting them all off the universe.
What they did receive was hatred from the other teams. Sanada could clearly see steam coming out of Shishido's, Momoshiro's and Kaidoh's ears. They were the ones that were affected the most, as they provided the troublemakers with the best reactions, making them provoke them more.
'Tarundoru.' Sanada thought. '150 laps when we reach our destination! How dare they bring Rikkai's name down like that.'
"Alright, we're here! Everyone off the bus now!" Atobe announced. The middle schoolers all turned to look out of the windows, gasping when they saw the building in front of them. They were so shocked that they were not able to move, well, except for the Hyoutei members as they were used to it. Atobe practically had to get the Hyoutei members to kick the Seigaku and Rikkaidai regulars off the bus, earning glares from both schools, which quickly went back to staring at the building wide-eyed.
"That…that…that's a VILLA?" They exclaimed in sync. Atobe had told them that they would be staying at one of his spare villas. However, the building in front of them was nothing less than a castle. The only word to describe it was: extravagant.
"Ahn~? What about it?" Atobe asked, unable to comprehend why they were shell-shocked. It was simply a tiny villa.
"THIS IS A FREAKING MANSION!" Kirihara screamed.
Atobe waved his hand. "Yeah, yeah, who cares. It's just a small villa. Follow me." He strutted over to the wide doors of the building. The door opened and revealed a huge row of maids and butlers bowing down before Atobe, greeting him with, "Welcome Keigo-sama."
Atobe snapped his fingers in the air and said, "Be awed by my presence!"
"No one's really awed at all…" Kirihara muttered under his breath. Niou snickered beside him. Echizen had overheard the second year ace of Rikkaidai and pulled his cap down, hiding his grin.
Atobe then instructed the staff to escort the guests to their rooms. They all scattered, following their respective maids or butlers to their assigned rooms.
Kaidoh and Momoshiro had unfortunately, for them, been assigned rooms beside each other. Both rivals glared at each other fiercely before opening the doors and stomped into their own rooms.
In a certain room, a girl was smiling and whistling while she wiped a revolver that was in her hand. She had been so happily sitting there when she heard the room door burst open. Shocked, she glanced around frantically and found a wardrobe to hide in. She had chosen to use that particular room as she had thought that it would not be occupied.
She cursed under her breath. It was a miscalculation on her part. Guess things would have to go out of plans for now. She checked her revolver and made sure that it was loaded. Cracking open the wardrobe door, she peeked out through the gap and saw a scary-looking male wearing a green bandana walk in. Her eyes followed his every movement. At the moment when he turned his back towards the wardrobe, she charged out and cocked the end of the revolver at his head, finger resting on the trigger. She smirked. Checkmate.
Kaidoh sensed danger. All of his senses were screaming it. His body tensed up and he slowly rotated his head. His eyes widened with fear when he saw the tip of a revolver aimed right in front of his face. His body started to shake, he struggled to open his mouth to speak when…
BANG!