The Kitty and the Viper

It was off today, the entire rhythm that he lived his life by was off. So badly that he had put the cereal he had eaten away into the fridge and the milk into the cabinet without even realizing it, he had worn two different shoes to school though luckily he had an extra pair for tennis that he changed into, and he had nearly tripped while walking there. Blech! The idea of dressing up as a little slutty kitty cat was bad enough but when he was forced to realize that he had dressed like that for Kaidoh of Seigaku? He had no idea where such perverse thoughts could come from! The merely thought of that kiss had him shaking!

It wasn\'t that snake that he wanted anything to do with, there was already someone that he had his eyes on but...

Practice was a huge mess, he had taken a header that had him scrapping up his knees and elbows while trying to get a ball that should have been easy enough to get. He had ended up rolling a couple times and landed perfectly on his back, looking at the net in an almost mirror image of his dream. He had abandon the courts, face burning with shame after that much to the surprise of his team mates and had not even turned back even when Shinji, Tachibana, and his other teammates had called out to him.

The rest of practice was spent with him hiding out in the nurses office, he was getting his scraps looked at was all. Honestly though when he finally admitted it to himself he knew that he just didn\'t want to face them, felt guilty for having such dreams about a member of a rival school. What would they think of him if they knew that he had kinky dreams about Kaidoh of all people? Would they be angry with him?

Things didn\'t get any better either as time progressed either. As he had learn it wasn\'t just hard it was almost impossible to really avoid everyone from the team for an entire day. He had classes with some, lunch with others, passed them in the halls, then there was the afternoon practice that he was wanting so desperately to avoid. It seemed that the harder he tried to avoid them the more often that he crossed paths with them. Lunch had been an exercise in futility. He couldn\'t eat, didn\'t want to eat and when he tried all that he could taste was the kiss he had shared with that Seigaku idiot.

He had abandon his food not even bothering to throw it away or clean up after himself. He had just hurried off so that he could instead head outside to run laps around the court his ear phones in place, blasting away one of his favorite songs as he ran. Maybe if he tried hard enough he could get back into his rhythm? Could forget his dreams and move on?

His running and listening to music had made him late to class and while he had gained back his balance at least he couldn\'t really clear his mind of the images. He was sitting next to Shinji in that class, his doubles partner and good friend. He had spent that entire period thinking on his dream and what it might mean, maybe that it wasn\'t Shinji that he wanted? Even if it weren\'t Kaidoh maybe he was just a way of his mind saying that there were others out there. Just because Shinji was his Doubles Partner didn\'t mean that he had to be his partner-partner right?

The idea that Kaidoh was the one for him never crossed his mind, after all that idiot had tried to hit him... course he had provoked the reaction but still that wasn\'t the point.

He hadn\'t made it to afternoon practice as instead he had been called into the principles office where they started to ask him a million questions thinking that something was obviously wrong with him. He was out of touch with his friends, he wandered off, was late for class, didn\'t eat, got hurt. It was when they started to get personal with the questions that he had told them that it was nothing but a bad dream and stalked out of there. His principle was not his mother! They shouldn\'t be bothering him with such silly questions. How embarrassing. Instead of going to the courts to catch the last twenty minutes of practiced he skipped out on it and fled to the street courts to hide out.

Course it figured that Ann was there, he was having a day filled with the worst of luck so he was sure that it would get back to Tachibana that he had been at the street courts when he should have been at school practicing with them and readying for the up and coming tournament. He turned to flee and instead of getting away he ended up on his back with someone on top of him. He opened his mouth to curse them out... only to realize it was Kaidoh and he almost choked on his tongue...

(( Ta-Dah! Akira\'s half at long last. The next part will be the fun part hehehehehehe. *looks back and forth* hehehehehehehe! *killed by Kaidoh and Akira* ))