A girl with short hair and glasses teetered precariously on her swivel chair as she craned her neck to look over the top of her wardrobe. Thinking that the object in search was inside one of those shoe boxes, she pulled them towards her, making the film of dust that coated the boxes and dairies on top of the wardrobe to be disturbed and disperse around the girl's face.

The girl sneezed and sorely wanted to scratch her itcy nose but both of her hands were busy holding the shoe box while trying the keep her balance at the same time.

Once on the floor, she opened the box and she rummaged through the old letters and other small trinkets but what she was searching for wasn't there. "Where could I have put it?" Noor wondered for the fifth time that day.

She humphed sitting cross-legged on the floor with the box in front of her as she thought of other various places she might have put it the last time.

"Ohayo!"

Noor looked up to see the redhead beaming cheerfully before he took a seat beside her and asked curiously, "What are you doing?"
Rukawa who had come with him wheeled the blue computer seat towards him and sat down to do some sleeping.

"I'm looking for a set of nailed hooks to hang my wall scroll," the girl replied.

"Wall scroll?" queried Koshino who has just appeared, "Where is it?"

"Over there," Noor pointed towards the edge of her bed where a wall scroll was indeed leaning against the wall beside it.

Koshino walked over and unrolled the scroll for them to see. At that moment Mitsui and Kogure chose to appear and with them was Sendoh.

"Wow! It looks good!" whistled Mitsui.

"Very good," Kogure agreed.

Koshino snorted, "It's not that great."

"That's because we're not in there, Koshino-kun," Sendoh put out, looking at the wall scroll which shows Akagi, Hanamichi, Rukawa, Mitsui, Kogure and Miyagi in their red jerseys, each players in different view points.

"Ne, you look good here, Hanamichi," remarked Sendoh, "and so does Rukawa."

"Of course, I look good in every picture!" said the redhead proudly.

Koshino rolled his eyes and proceeded to roll the wall scroll back.

Noor sighed, "I guess I have to buy another set of hooks then. I have searched everywhere I can think of."

Koshino was about to place the scroll back in its position against the wall when he suddenly felt something attach to his leg. Looking down he saw a small person clinging to his jeans and looking at him with wide adoring eyes. However, the feature on the being that made Koshino think of someone was its hair which was unbelievably standing straight up.

Koshino did a small shake of his leg and then another one but the small creature held on. The boy turned around towards the others.
"Uh, guys," Koshino said, "something's stuck to my leg."

The other players stared. Noor merely laughed, "Oh! Kira-chan has found you!"

"Who?" the boys chorused.

Noor bent down to pull the chibi off of Koshino's jeans but it merely clung tighter.

"Kira-chan," Noor repeated, standing straight up as she could see that the chibi intends to stay attached to Koshino's leg, "It's a chibi of Sendoh. Kinda like you, Sendoh, only super deformed."

"Really?" Sendoh asked scratching his head. "Where did you get him?"

Noor beamed, "Chibi-land."

"Where?"

"Y'know, Chibi-land. The land where cuteness rules created by the sweetness and innocence of an otaku's mind," explained the girl.

"Uh... yeah..." Hanamichi said scratching his redhead. Then he shrugged, "Whatever. Hey, is there a chibi of me?"

"Of course!" said Noor. "He's here somewhere..." she muttered looking around.
"Ichi-chan!" she called out.

"You call my chibi Ichi? Why not something manly?" protested the redhead.

"Well, I can't call it Hana-chan. It'll get confusing because I call you Hana," explained Noor as she bent down to look under the bed. Her head and her arm disappeared under the furniture for a moment before she pulled out a squirming chibi from underneath.

"Well, I didn't find Ichi-chan, but I found Aki-chan. He was hiding behind the comforter bag" said the girl setting down an irate super-deformed Koshino on the carpeted floor, "Kira-chan's must've bugged him again."

"Kawaii!" said Sendoh, sitting down cross-legged. "Come here, Aki-chan," the spiky-haired boy coaxed the chibi.

Aki-chan looked at him suspiciously for a few seconds before he zipped towards the spiky-haired teen and hid inside the loop of Sendoh's knees. The chibi hesitantly took a peek at the other chibi who was still holding onto Koshino's legs and who also looked torn between wanting to chase chibi Koshino and wanting to stay with the real Koshino.

"Now where is he?" Noor wondered out loud as she continued crouching on the floor scanning the nooks and crannies.
"Hey, I found Kimi-chan and Ashi-chan," announced the girl. She pushed a pile of books aside and behind it was a super-deformed Kogure reading an open book with a super-deformed Mitsui standing on the pages, acting as a paper weight.

"They are adorable!" exclaimed Kogure as he bent down to look at them. Mitsui joined him and both of the boys started to get acquianted with the chibis.

The short haired girl stood up and walked towards her wardrobe guessing, "Maybe he's in here." She yanked open the bottom shelf and sighed. "Well, Ka-chan is here," she said carefully taking out a sleeping super-deformed Rukawa from the folded pile of clothes, "Maybe then Ichi-chan will come out."

Careful not to jostle the sleeping chibi awake, she placed the chibi in Hanamichi's arms. The redhead tried hard not to start cooing like a girl at the cuteness of the sleeping chibi's face when the chibi suddenly shifted and burrowed closer into the folds of Hanamichi's shirt. The redhead's macho facade crumbled.
"Noor-chan! Can I keep him?" Hanamichi pleaded, his lower lip trembling.

"I'm sorry, Hana-kun, you can't. But you can come and visit him anytime you want," Noor said consoling him.

Suddenly, a creak was heard and the girl turned her head towards the curtains, already knowing what made that noise.

"Ichi-chan!" Noor cried out, "Get down from there this instant!"

The boys turned their heads to where the girl was calling to and to their surprise saw a redheaded chibi balancing itself on the curtain railings.

"I told you not to climb up there again," Noor continued scolding the chibi, "You're too heavy! Now come down here before you bend the railing!"

The chibi scowled but he made a leap towards the moving fan, making Noor shriek in fright. The boys watched in amazement as the redheaded chibi was twirled around and around before he let go and was flung towards Rukawa's sleeping form.

The fox-eyed boy was startled out of sleep at the feeling of something hitting his chest before it plopped down on his lap. He opened his eyes, intending to give the person who dared to disturb his sleep a piece of his mind, but what greeted his sight was a super-deformed person with rumpled red hair and wide brown eyes looking defiantly at him.

Rukawa blinked. Looking around he could see other chibis beside the other players, all looking at him silently.
"Did I miss something?" he asked.

The spectacled girl went forward to pick up Ichi-chan, relieved that Rukawa wasn't angry for being woken up for once. "This is Ichi-chan," she introduced the chibi to them, before she introduced the other chibis to Rukawa alone, "That is Ka-chan, Kimi-chan, Ashi-chan, Kira-chan and Aki-chan."

Then Ichi-chan began struggling in Noor's arms forcing the girl to realease him. Once his feet reached the floor, the chibi ran with its short legs towards Hanamichi and stood on tiptoe to peek at the sleeping Ka-chan. Then he looked at Hanamichi closely before gazing back at his small friend. Satisfied that Ka-chan was safe, Ichi-chan humphed and turned around to head towards Rukawa who was still sitting on the chair.

Reaching at Rukawa's feet, the chibi tugged at the boy's pants as he looked up at the fox-eyed boy. Rukawa understood and with care he lifted the chibi up and placed it back on his lap.

"Why, Rukawa," smiled Mitsui, "I didn't know you could be so gentle."

"I happen to like stray cats," Rukawa told them as his fingers combed Ichi-chan's locks.

"Ichi-chan's not a stray cat!" Hanamichi said annoyed. Suddenly the chibi inside his arms fidgeted and Hanamichi instantly lowered his voice. "Don't call the tensai's chibi a stray cat!" the redhead hissed.

"A monkey then," Rukawa said much to Hanamichi's anger, as he continued to work on Ichi-chan's hair.

"Temme! Kitsune!" roared Hanamichi and it was of no surprise that the chibi in his arms woke up with a start. He opened his bleary eyes and blinked when he realised that he was lying in Hanamichi's embrace. He quickly sat up and looked around to see Ichi-chan enjoying a grooming from Rukawa. Without a change of expression, the raven-haired chibi looked up at Hanamichi again before looking back at Ichi-chan. Then Ka-chan tugged at Hanamichi's sleeve and pointed towards Rukawa, wanting to be carried there.

Hanamichi obliged and dropped Ka-chan on Rukawa's lap to join Ichi-chan when to his horror the raven-haired chibi gave a good kick at Ichi-chan's hip. Ichi-chan growled and lunged at the fox-eyed chibi, sending both of them tumbling down onto the floor where they continued to kick and hit and each other.

Koshino laughed, "Somehow I'm not surprised that has happened."

The other players nodded their heads in agreement.

"Noor-chan! How do I stop them?!" asked Hanamichi in panic as he looked at the wrestling chibis.

Noor sighed as she headed towards the door, "Let them be. They're just playing coy."

"Where are you going?" asked Sendoh.

"I'm going to the shop to buy a set of hooks to hang that wall scroll," she told them, "C'ya later."

With that she shut the door behind her but was just in time to see Kimi-chan run hurriedly towards the fighting pair with a worried look on his face and Ashi-chan close by his heels.

~The End~