"Confession"
By: Setsuna- X

Summary: Ryoma wants to confess his feelings to a certain captain but doesn't know how to go about it so he asks the rest of the regulars for some tips. Pillar Pair TezuRyo
Disclaimer: PoT and it's characters do not belong to me
Warning: This contains mentions of boy x boy (yaoi, shonen-ai, BL, slash, etc.)
Pairings: Eventual TezuRyo. MomoxAnn, Golden Pair, InuixKaidoh
Note(s): May contain several OOC moments

Chapter One: Rivals

Ryoma knew that he liked his captain and he was willing to let the older boy know. The thought of rejection never crossed his mind. Ryoma just reasoned that Tezuka had the right to know about his feelings. If someone liked him he figured he would at least like to know too. Thus he decided to confess his feelings. The only question was …how?

Ryoma walked down the stairs and into the kitchen, wondering if he should ask his oyaji about it, since the older man was always claiming to know all about relationships. But as he saw the growing, perverted grin on his face Ryoma decided that he would rather keep his sanity. After breakfast Momo-senpai came to pick him up.

"Momo-senpai?" began Echizen, riding on the back of the dunk smash players bike as usual.

"What's up?"

"How do you show someone you like them?"

"What?!" yelled out Momoshiro as he suddenly put on the breaks. The bike came to a screeching halt. Ryoma's head hit Momo's back as both boys stumbled atop each other onto the floor in a tangle of limbs.

"Ow…" muttered Ryoma as he clutched his head. "What was that for, Momo-senpai?" he demanded angrily.

Both boys picked themselves up gingerly, mentally checking if they had any injuries.

"Your question caught me off guard!" cried Momo indignantly.

"What do you mean? Just answer my question." Momo righted his bike and clambered on, followed shortly by Ryoma. They began their trek back to school.

"Who do you like?" asked Momo rather curious. He wanted to know who had been able to capture his cold and anti-social friends' eye. It really didn't seem as if Echizen had an interest in anyone.

"Just answer my question, Momo-senpai. When you confessed to Tachibana's little sister did you do anything special or different?"

Before Momo would have blushed and stuttered whenever his relationship with Ann was mentioned, but now he was in his 'happy-couple' mode.

"Well," he began lightly, "When I confessed I gave her a bouquet of her favorite flowers."

Ryoma gave him a dead-panned look, though Momo couldn't see it at all.

During English class Ryoma wondered if Tezuka would like flowers and if he did which ones were his favorite kind. As he continued to think about it he realized that he didn't even have money to buy flowers anyway. Though he might find some outside…

As Ryoma made his way to the cafeteria for lunch he spotted Kaidoh eating by himself. The older teen seemed to be eating quite serenely as the tennis prodigy walked over. Ryoma sat across the other boy.

"Kaidoh-senpai," called Ryoma, startling Kaidoh from his intensive eating. The snake-shot player brought his head up, a glare for disturbing his peace on his face. The older teen simply grunted in greeting.

"How do you show someone you like them?"

The suddenness and content of the question caused Kaidoh to choke on his lunch and then instantly blush. Ryoma looked on at the rapidly reddening teen in confusion. His large golden eyes were trained on Kaidoh and his head tilted to the side. Kaidoh didn't know what to do or say. Was his kouhai confessing his feelings for him in a round about way? But Echizen was more blunt than that. If he had wanted to say he liked him then he would have said it already.

Too bad Kaidoh's mind wasn't working so logically.

All he could see and think about were those large, luminous eyes and the alluring emerald-black hair framing that small pixie-like face. Kaidoh could feel his face heating up once more. Sure he could admit that the younger tennis player was cute, but he didn't reciprocate his feelings.

Ryoma was becoming annoyed. He had been trying to regain his senpai's attention, but it seemed that the snake-shot player was stunned silent. Before Ryoma could utter another word, however, Kaidoh suddenly spoke.

"I'm sorry, Echizen. I'm, uh, flattered you feel that way about me but I can't return your feelings. There's already someone I like."

Ryoma just blinked at his senpai confusedly. 'What?'

Kaidoh quickly packed up his things and turned around, ready to leave the lunchroom lest things become more awkward, but bumped into someone as soon as he turned.

"So, Echizen has a crush on Kaidoh, but Kaidoh like someone else. Ii data," said Inui as he scribbled in his notebook. He had come down to the cafeteria to buy some bread, but came over to hear the conversation between the two normally quiet tennis players. He had to admit though that he didn't expect to hear such interesting material.

Kaidoh, if possible, became even redder as the person he had a crush on was suddenly standing in front of him so close.

"So Kaidoh, who do you like?" asked Inui, somewhat jealous. He had liked his kouhai for a while now, but didn't think the boy was mature enough to start having feelings of love for other people. Why else would he spend hours coming up with perfect training menus for someone if he didn't like them?

Kaidoh shifted his eyes nervously. He never expected his senior to ask him that. Running away that moment seemed like a good idea, but maybe he could finally rid himself of that heavy feeling in his chest. Echizen was still looking on at the whole thing, so maybe this was the perfect opportunity to let Echizen down. The younger boy could see that he really did like someone already and prove that it wasn't just an excuse to turn him down.

Gathering all the courage he could muster, as if it was a tennis match, Kaidoh steeled himself from any answer his senpai would give him. Despite his efforts his face was still crimson.

"I—I have a crush on you, Inui-senpai," Kaidoh managed out, his gaze shifting to the floor immediately.

Both Ryoma and Inui were struck silent.

Inui's notebook clattered to the floor as if in slow motion. If someone were able to see behind the glare on his glasses they would see his eyes widen tremendously. He was in a state of shock. Ryoma was fairing a little better at least. After the initial confession he started analyzing the circumstances that surrounded the bandanna-wearing boys' confession.

Kaidoh-senpai had simply crashed into the person he liked while turning around and confessed. It seemed like a plausible way to gain the other persons, in this case it is Inui-senpai, attention. Seeing all that he needed to Ryoma slipped away to his next class.


TBC

A/N: New story, and finally a multi-chaptered one. This probably won't be more than 5 chapters. Thanks for reading. This will be updated once a week or maybe sooner depending on how fast I type.