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Sengoku tilted his head to the left, and then to the right.

 

He was idly considering the group of tennis players across the ballroom, the ones who Atobe had invited but not expected to come. The team that had stood cloistered among themselves, despite the number of people who had approached them.

“Stop staring Sengoku.” Minami hissed anxiously. “They’ll notice.”

“Everyone’s staring Minami.” Sengoku stole a grape from Minami’s plate of appetizers. “I think even Atobe was staring. I know for a fact Tezuka was staring. It’s not like Higa noticed.”

“They’ll notice. And then they’ll come over and… what are you doing?” Minami almost dropped his plate of appetizers, but luckily Higashikata took them away before Minami could.

“I’m gonna go talk to them.” Sengoku checked his hair in one of the ballroom’s many mirrors. “Maybe I’ll get lucky.”

Sengoku wiggled his way across the crowded room. He wasn’t quite sure why, but there was something undeniably sexy about evil, and Higa radiated it in droves.

 

--

 

Akutsu had already seen Chinen and shoved Sengoku in the shoulder before he could fully make it across the dance floor.

"Don't talk to them."

Sengoku grinned. "Who invited you here again?"

Akutsu grabbed his collar and let go, smoothing Sengoku's shirt for him. "How about I break your jaw?" he whispered sweetly.

Sengoku continued to grin. "Okay, I won't talk to the tall guy."

And Akutsu nodded and left him alone, pretending he was looking for the food table while he made his way over to Chinen Hiroshi who was being a wall flower near the punch.

 

--

 

Kite noticed the redhead from Yamabuki coming over and gave Kai a pre-emptive smack upside the head. "Don't talk."

"Awwwwww!" Kai whined, scrambling to catch his hat before it could fly off into the people filled room. "Why not?"

"Because you'll ruin our image." Rin stated, waving a dip covered broccoli stalk in Kai's direction. "You appear smarter when you're silent. And that's barely."

Kite pushed his glasses up and went back to glaring at the rest of the room. With any luck they'd be able to drag Tanishi away from the food, and Chinen away from Akutsu Jin, and be able to leave.

...hopefully.

 

--

 

Tanishi had stuffed the last bacon wrapped shrimp in his mouth and was about to move on to some other delicious Hors D' Oeuvres down table when he was confronted by someone small.

Small and cute.

"You ate the last one desu!?" he exclaimed, headband slipping down over one eye.

Tanishi's eye twitched and he put down the petit fours he'd been about to gobble down. "Ano..."

"I can't believe it! I waited all this time to come over here desu..." Dan put on the puppy dog eyes and looked at Tanishi's giant mound of food.

Tanishi bowed his head, his face flushed with embarrassment and held the plate out towards the chibi tennis player in training.

Dan took the plate and smiled up at him. "Thank you desu!" And he skipped away, calling for his "Senpai".

Tanishi's legs felt like they'd give out.

Dan...was just too cute.

 

--

 

Minami chewed on his bottom lip. Akutsu was over talking to the scary emaciated looking guy, and Sengoku was currently hitting on at least three of Higa's other players. Dan had just stolen food from the large Higa chuu member. "Hijikata do you..." Minami turned, blinking when he realized that Higajikata was talking with two people from Higa, one who was tall with a shaved head, the other of medium height with brown hair.

Wait, were they from Higa? They were wearing Higa school uniforms, but Minami couldn't remember them playing.

"Minami, come here. This is Aragaki and Shiranui."

 

--

 

Akutsu had his hand on the wall next to Chinen's face and was leaning in, looking up into the other guy's eyes. "So what do you think?"

Chinen sipped his punch and stared over Akutsu's shoulder. He saw Shiranui and Aragaki laughing with two of the plainest guys he'd ever seen and Sengoku dancing with Kai in a way that was clearly not appropriate.

Nearby though, trapped by three other people, was his Captain. Kite seemed to be in conversation with a group of people, but by the looks on everyone's faces, talking was the last thing on any of their minds.

Atobe Keigo's eyes kept sweeping Tezuka's figure while Tezuka keep staring intently into Kite's eyes. Mizuki looked liked he's bite his lip in two if Atobe didn't notice how shiny his hair was and Kite kept pushing up his glasses, even though they weren't sliding because he knew if he didn't do something with his other hand, as the other one was holding punch, he'd grab Mizuki by the shoulder and kiss...or something else out of line.

"Hey." Akutsu whispered in his ear. "Let me give you a tour of Tokyo...it starts in my pants."

Chinen's attention focused back on Akutsu and he stared him directly in the eyes. "Ever been down Okinawa way?"

"Eh? What's that got to -."

"Want to?" Chinen's mouth twitched in a sort of smirk and it blossomed into a smile when he saw Akutsu's cheeks go pink.

"I -."

"Follow me."

And Chinen tossed his punch over his shoulder and began to walk off, Akutsu following with a wolfish grin.

 

--

 

Rin struggled to keep his eyebrow under control. Fuji had already gone for the quirked eyebrow, while Yukimura was handling being 'softly amused'. Giving a huff Rin flipped his hair and brought out the sparkles.

Fuji's mouth twitched to the side and all the sudden a breeze sprung up in the room, ruffling Fuji's hair.

"You're both too relaxed." Yukimura stated calmly, running a hand through his hair. Seconds later he coughed, a spot of blood appearing on the corner of his lip, and dramatic shoujo bubbles appeared behind him.

"YUKIMURA!"

 

--

 

And the contest was on.

Leaning forward and clutching his chest, Yukimura's eyes smiled when Sanada came rushing towards him, ready to support him in anyway possible.

"Yukimura?" he asked gently, looking into his eyes. "Seiichi?"

Fuji frowned and looked around. Tezuka was still trying to capture Kite's gaze to no avail.

Yukimura looked up and wink at Rin, letting his head drop to his chest.

Suddenly, all of the Rikkai payers showed up, looking concerned and worried.

Rin growled and clenched his fist when suddenly, someone walked over and simply folded his arms.

"What are you guys doing?"

"Tachibana-senpai?" a voice called somewhere in the room.

"Tachibana?"

The Fudomine players appeared from the crowd around Tachibana and the buchou smiled, taking a few steps.

And Fudomine moved as one. They followed Teachibana around the room, in formation, Mori shoving people who got in their path.

"Don't crowd Tachibana-senpai's air!"

Ishida appeared with an ice pack. "Is your ankle alright?"

And Tachibana smirked. "It's alright you guys...stand down."

And they dispersed, Tachibana looking over his shoulder at Yukimura and laughing.

And Yukimura made a miraculous recovery, shoving Sanada away. "That son of a bitch..." He huffed and walked away, Fuji tapping his cheek.

"Damn, Tachibana is good."

Rin was agitated. "Yeah...well...our team is still the leading cause of death among the elderly, so there!" and the walked off, jerking Kai away from Sengoku and heading over to where Kite was still trying not to throw Mizuki to the floor and rape him.

"We're so leaving."