Title: The Wrong Brother

Pairing: Fuji/Ryoma Yuuta/Ryoma

Rating: PG-13

Summary: AU Life was getting too complicated for Echizen Ryoma. First he finds himself engaged to a boy before ever knowing his name and then he realizes he may have fallen for the wrong brother.

A/N: To anyone one wondering about my other story Smile for the Camera I have not abandoned it and I do intend to update fairly soon so hopefully this story will help ease the wait. Oh and Ryoma might be a little OC in this story even with the AU part because of his role.

Disclaimer: Don't own Prince of Tennis or the movie "While You Were Sleeping."

Chapter 1

He never knew his name. It was enough that he saw him from his booth every morning, amidst the bustle of suits scrambling to catch the morning compute to work. They had never spoken; Echizen already felt like enough of a heel to be obsessing over some older man like a preteen girl with her first crush.

But there was something there. Every morning the man would deposit an el token at his register and look through the glass window. He would smile, and the early light reflecting off his handsomely chiseled features would stir something inside of him that he had never known was there.

But that was it. He wasn't a lovesick female like his landlord's granddaughter. He never pictured marriage, with two kids, a dog, and a white picket fence around a picture perfect house. He wasn't an idiot either. If the man with short choppy brown hair decided to one day say hello and invite him for a drink, he wouldn't mind ending the night in his bed.

And then one morning it changed completely.

It started the same. Echizen was bored stiff collecting tokens while overweight middle-aged men in business suits shuffled past him, writing him off as a piece of the scenery like the pay phone or the graffiti on the walls. And then he was there, pausing to drop in his token and look through the glass window. There was the smile that made him feel something and then surprising enough he opened his mouth. "Merry Christmas." the voice was quiet and a little rough and yet it was perfect. Ryoma blinked and opened his own mouth to reply. Then closed his mouth as words seemed to abandon him.

'Baka!' he cursed himself under his breath as the moment past and his mystery man headed for the el platform. What the heck was wrong with him? All he had to do was say hello, or season's greetings, or even cute ass wanna screw? At least none of his co-workers had been there with him. If Momo-san had been there he would have never lived it down. His self criticisms were suddenly broken by the sound of shouts from the platform.

Echizen leaned forward over his register counter and caught a glimpse of a gang of teens gathering around his guy. They grabbed his wallet, and then shoved him hard. "Hey!" Echizen shouted, before pushing the door on his booth open and running to the platform. He didn't know why, but it always seemed to get under his skin when someone picked on anyone weaker than them. He thought it must be something to do with a conditioning of living with an idiot for so many years before his father took off.

When he reached the platform the teens were no where in sight and the young man was lying on the el tracks, unconscious with blood dripping down his face. "Sir?" Echizen called tentatively, leaning over the edge of the platform to reach for the man. All he got was a groan, and the faint sound of a whistle. Looking back he watched horror-struck as the latest el train started for their platform. Cursing in every language he knew, Echizen quickly reacted by jumping into danger and onto the tracks. He grabbed the stranger and looked back- there was no time and he couldn't throw the man up onto the platform he was bigger than him. Instinct had him pull the brown haired stranger towards him and together the two rolled quickly off the tracks onto the end of the platform in a corner between where the platform starts and the tracks end. There the el thundered past them with Echizen breathing heavily on top of his mystery man, staring inches away from the face he had imagined every night. Before he could lean down and take advantage of this perfect moment, the man opened his eyes. "Hello," Ryoma whispered before the young man's eyes closed again.

At least this time he had said something.

It was chaos in the hospital.

Ryoma had been there when the ambulance arrived and actually was allowed to ride with them. When they punched through the doors to the emergency room Ryoma was reluctant to separate from his guy especially now that they were holding hands. He imagined that now after sharing words and holding hands they could maybe jump right to the sex for their second date. Unfortunately a very persistent nurse grabbed his shoulders and separated him from the mystery man.

"I'm sorry sir but you can't go in there while the doctors are working." her name tag read An.

"But I can't leave him." Echizen surmised his common sense had left with him leaping off the el tracks because why he imagined for one moment that he a perfect stranger would be more useful than a crowd of doctors was beyond him.

"Are you family?" the girl questioned.

"Well no," Ryoma admitted truthfully only to realized quickly that this was the wrong answer. The redhead's face closed up and she spun around.

"I'm sorry sir but only family is allowed in." the girl dismissed him quickly and headed for the blocked off double doors.

"He's only the man I love." Ryoma muttered under his breath with a sigh and then blinked slowly. What the hell had he just said?

A couple feet away a certain red-haired nurse with a sweet spot for romance novels sighed as well and pushed through the double doors to check on the new patient. She sincerely hoped he was alright, the two boys made such a cute couple.

The tubes were scaring him. Why the hell were there so many needles sticking in his stranger's body? Was he really that sick? Was he about to die?

Ryoma spun around to stare at the nurse An who had brought him to the young man's room. "Is he alright?"

"Actually he's in a coma right now. The doctors aren't sure how long it will take before he wakes up. Maybe if you talk to him he would wake up for a familiar voice." An offered, giving Ryoma a gentle shove towards the bedside.

"What should I say?" Echizen asked peering closely at the handsome face now covered in stitches.

"Oh whatever comes to you I suppose. Of course you could always try other means to wake him up." An suggested with a raised eyebrow and a wink. Before Ryoma could ask what she was talking about a crowd of voices was heard outside the room.

"Is this the right room?"

"Oh there he is."

"Yuuta my darling boy what happened to you?"

The crowd of voices emerged into the hospital room and surged up towards the bed. Ryoma, feeling overwhelmed, darted back towards the door as he glimpsed what he assumed the man's family surround him. One middle aged woman holding desperately tight to his stranger's hand turned to stare at him in suspicion. "Who are you?"

"I'm-" Ryoma started then stopped as he had no clue how to explain. A stalker?

"He's the young man who saved your son from the mugging, ma'am." an officer explaining walking into the room. "He jumped right on the el tracks to save him."

Unfortunately at the same time, An had decided to be helpful. "He's Yuuta's fiancé."

And then chaos broke out.

About an hour later Ryoma found that he had now been introduced to all members of the Fuji family, complete with close family friends and had developed a strong dislike of the nurse An. Thanks to her the Fuji family now consider him Fuji Yuuta's fiance. As soon as he could he grabbed her and pulled her out into the hallway.

"What is going on? Why did you tell them I was engaged to Yuuta?" Ryoma demanded, golden eyes flashing his anger.

"Because you said so back when you first came in." An protested.

"Just because I said I loved him didn't mean we were in a relationship. I didn't even know his name." Ryoma hissed, glancing back at Yuuta's room.

"Well next time you start talking to yourself tell yourself that you're single and leave it at that." An said with a huff and spun around to leave.

"So you're not involved with Yuuta." a quiet voice spoke up behind him. Ryoma swore under his breath and spun around, surprised to find himself facing one of the Fuji family's old friends, Tezuka.

"I didn't do this to hurt him." Echizen blurted out as he stared up into the serious gaze of the older man.

Tezuka stared at him for a long moment, until Ryoma started to fidget under his gaze and then nodded. "You don't seem the sort of person to do that to Yuuta. It's just that the boy has gone through a string of bad relationships and I didn't want him hurt anymore."

"I'll tell them the truth." Ryoma promised.

"See that you do." Tezuka agreed.

And yet somehow, when they walked back into the hospital room Ryoma couldn't seem to find the words to disappoint Yuuta's parents or grandparents.

"So how did you two meet?" Yumiko, Yuuta's older sister asked.

And Ryoma found himself speechless once more.

The Fuji family could convince you to do anything. They had fully accepted him into their family, and eagerly listened to his description of the relationship that never happened. And now they had convinced him to spend Christmas night with them.

Apparently Yuuta had separated himself from the family when he got older and besides his job they really knew nothing about his life. Ryoma could tell they wanted to hear all about their prodical son but he really had nothing to go by. Tezuka kept staring at him and he knew he had run out of whatever leeway the older man had given him.

And yet he still couldn't tell them the truth. He had thought about simply never returning to the hospital and letting Tezuka explain but he couldn't do that. Somehow being with this family made him feel like he was a part of things which he hadn't experienced since his father had been around. Thinking about the old man made his face scrunch up and he frowned as he heard the doorbell ring. They already had parents, grandparents, family friends, and sibling. How many more family members were there?

He was answered by Yumiko crying out the name, "Syusuke!"

Tbc...