Summary:With elite characters like Tezuka and Fuji, kikumaru can't help feeling out of his league. But when he finds himself becoming a creature of the night, the tables turn. But will kikumaru keep his humanity or lose everything he's ever known. Yoai, Tezuka/Eiji/Fuji and a lil OC. please Read and Review.

My first fic, would love the feedback.

'thoughts'

"spoken words out loud"

'spoken words in the mind'

The sun was ascending toward the buildings in the west indicating it was late afternoon. The sun would be setting soon, but that didn't cool the tennis courts.

"Naahh!" Eiji cried out in relief as he sat down on a bench. Having just finished a tennis match with his doubles partner Oishi, he grabbed his water bottle with his name on it and chugged greedily. His eyes falling on a certain honey brown haired tensai having a practice match with their Masonry faced captain. Fuji. Smart, talented, gorgeous and completely out of his league. Yes Eiji was best friends with the genius, but Eiji saw no way he could challenge the Tensai and be on his level in a series romantic relationship. Tezuka on the other hand, was the great, hardworking, respectable, not mention Greek god nearly tennis pro, captain of their team. He'd have a better chance at getting Fuji's heart than Eiji. That is, if either of the boys were interested in the same sex.

Eiji sighed, he was over thinking again. It was best to live in the moment and think about those kinds of useless dribbles later.

"Eiji, I'm pretty sure there's no more water in that bottle." Oishi commented, and Eiji stopped sucking on his straw to give his green eyed friend a sheepish grin.

"Oops, guess I was thirsty." He said pulling back some of his short red locks from his face.

"Eiji, you've been kind of distracted lately. Is everything alright? Have you been feeling well?" Oishi asked worriedly. Eiji smiled softly. Leave it to his doubles partner to since his insecurity.

"I'm fine."

"Are you sure? You can always tell me Eiji." Oishi reassured.

"It's okay Oishi, your over reacting! "

"Ok. Okay. Just making sure." Oishi smiled worriedly, like the mother hen he was. Luckily his attention was then drawn to the two second year regulars who began to bicker loudly.

"Momoshiro and Kaidoh are fighting again…"he mumbled narrowing his dark eye brows. He got up from the bench he was sharing with Eiji and worked his way over to separate the two rivals.

Although Oishi means well, Eiji knows he could never tell Oishi his real issues. He had to disguise them in scenario involving the opposite sex in order to get his proper opinion. When Eiji found that in his second year at Sengaku, he was attracted to men, asking small, harmless questions reviled that Oishi was pretty homophobic. At first it hurt the red head to know that Oishi would never truly accept him, but he found that rather than losing a friendship as well as discomforting his other teammates, he'd keep his secret till high school or maybe college.

He signed.

He had done a lot of research, more than anyone would expect of him, Eiji Kikumaru, to do. He found that the Homosexual community was frowned upon in Japanese society. He tried testing the waters with his family and got different responses and none of them really positive. Mostly uncomfortable confusion. He cleared up things quickly and resolved to believe that if his family acted in such a way, then his teammates would be no different. He did quite well except for his occasional melancholy moments when he felt alone, frustrated, and well inferior.

He often wondered if he was more like their brunet captain, would be able to win everyone's approval or at least one. He had been crushing on Fuji when he realized he was gay. It was surprising and yet bothersome at the time. He felt guilty going behind Fuji's back swooning after him, like some fan girl, yet pretending to only want to be just friends. He even had night mares where Fuji would find out and feel betrayed, ending their friendship instantly. But it was just had an innocent crush. Which also lead to other kinds dreams of hope.

"Kikumaru -sempi, aren't you going to wash up and change like the rest of the regulars?" one of the freshman asked, jutting Eiji out of his train of thought.

He looked around and found only the freshman left to pick up the balls while a stream of Regulars and second years enter the club house. He could see Oishi looking back over his shoulder with a concerned look.

Crap.

Eiji got up and ran to join the rest of the group. It wasn't like him to not hear their Captain's dismissal, let alone, not notice most of the tennis team leaving the courts. It was going to be another one of those days where he needed to be left alone with his thoughts or he would worry everyone. Letting out a sigh, he hurried to get changed and make a break for it.

The club house was a contrast inside by view not temperature, like many small buildings if Tokyo it had no air conditioning.

"A little distracted today Eiji?" the soft voice that could only be Fuji's caught Eiji's attention. "Momoshiro is talking to you."

Eiji stared at the long lashes of Fiji's closed eyes, taking another moment to rethink what he just said to him. Quickly Eiji turned to the spiky haired Momoshiro in apology.

"Oh, sorry Momo-chan what did you say?"

"I asked if you wanted to get some burgers with Echizen and me." Momoshiro looked down at him with a hopeful expression, not caring that he had to repeat the question as long as his sempi could save his wallet.

"Oh, nya, sorry Momo-chan I can't, my mom asked me to come home as soon as practice is done." Eiji lied. Receiving a small frown from Momoshire and his wallet, as well as, a quizzical brow from Fuji. And of course Fuji could always tell if Eiji was lying, which made things a little more difficult. Especially since he was trying to keep his feeling a secret.

"I'm leaving Momoshiro-sempi." Echizen said as he walked out the club house back in his school uniform, following Kawamura and Kaidoh.

"Hey! Wait for me you little punk!" Momoshiro yelled out to the freshman, as he grabbed his tennis bag and ran for the door.

"Why did you feel as if you needed to lie to them? I'm sure a simple 'no' would have been fine." Fuji inquired. That did it.

"Eiji, what is wrong?" Oishi all but jumped on him. Eiji threw Fuji a look of irritation and sighed deeply.

"Okay so, I'm not feeling well! I'm just gonna go head home." He said grabbing his tennis bag and making his way to the club house door ignoring Inui's quick scribbles in his book, and passing Tezuka who watched him with his ever stone cold face as Eiji pushed the door open.

"Eiji wait, I'll walk with you." Oishi tried but Eiji turned feeling his temper release.

"I'm fine Oishi, you don't have to MOTHER ME!" and with that he turned and walked out the door.

Granted there was no reason for Eiji to give Oishi such an attitude, being a worry wart is just who he is. But, Eiji needed his time alone to think, brood, feel sorry for himself, whatever! He wasn't going to get it at home with his obnoxious (not that he wasn't) family crowding the house. So he mind as well get it on the walk home. He would call Oishi later tonight and apologies for being so rude and come up with something reasonable to tell the tensai since he knew he'd be playing twenty questions in the morning.

The sun was beginning to set. The houses and streets began to dilute into Orange tones, the sky on fire at the horizon. Eiji liked sun sets, and decided he'd go to one of his favorite places to think.

Climbing to the top of a crate that looked out over a creek some feet below, he took off his tennis bag, setting it down. Then plopped down next to it. He pulled his knees to his chest and wrapped his arms around them. Leaning his chin on his knees he sighed looking out at the changing colors of the foliage before him and city in the distance.

This feeling would pass quickly. Tomorrow he'd be the same bright, loud, and happy Eiji everybody knew. Just right now he needed to be well, human.

It was the cold that woke him. He was shivering. Night had fallen and with it the temperatures. Quickly Eiji grabbed his phone from his bag to look at the time. He couldn't believe he fell asleep out here.

The phone read 9:53pm.

His mother was going to kill him!

Night had fallen and the sky was clouded only allowing the moon to show in short moments.

Quickly rising from his sitting position, noting at the pins and needles in his right leg, he moved to grab his bag when a glimpse of white caught his eyes. Looking down into the trees in the dried creek Eiji could see what looked like a person, possible a man, faced downward in the ground. Adrenaline kicked in and Eiji with his cell phone in hand, climbed quickly off the crate. Shaking the pins and needles from his leg, he moved quickly around the crate and down to the dried creek. The person wasn't there earlier. Eiji would have notice someone lying in the creek when he first climbed the crate.

The Clouds covered the moon light leaving Eiji have to focus harder on details. Coming to a stop just a couple of feet away from the person, he saw that yes it was a man. Then Eiji felt a jerk of fear.

"H…Hello? Are you alright?"

'What if he's dead?'

Eiji reached forward, staring at the man's back, wanting to see the rising and falling of his back to show he was alive. But something stopped him cold. Eiji was shaking!

'What's wrong with me?'

"Those are your human instincts telling you to run." Eiji heard a muffled voice coming from the down faced man, but before Eiji could think what to say, in a blur he was on the ground. His phone thrown from his hand in the process. The sudden impact delayed in Eiji's mind at first but suddenly caught up with him.

The moon light reviled the man hovering over him. He had black hair and matching black eyes that contrasted his pale skin. The man probably the age of thirty had a vicious expression, with teeth like that of a wolf. Eiji was stunned.

With no warning, his neck was yank to the man's mouth, and he felt sharp teeth sinking into his neck. Scream in pain as he felt his blood lining his neck and pool under his head. He fought, he struggled! The man was larger than him, twice his size, and felt as cold and hard as steel. It was useless. Then Eiji tried clawing at the man's eyes. Which earned a loud, deep growl into Eiji's neck. He felt his right arm being yank from the man's face, then broken in an instant. He screamed bloody murder for help. Fear gripping him completely. He was going to die! "Someone please help!"

He yield out his brothers' names, his father's. And when the monster above him, still latched onto his neck with no sigh of letting go, dislocated his left leg, he cried out for his teammates.

He lost all energy all at once. His limbs growing heavy and his voice falling to a whispers.

"Fuji…please…"

With tears, his eyes blurred and he could bring them back into focus. Almost in an instant they were on fire. The darkness of the night around him seems to brighten. The sounds of the creek around him seem louder than his thoughts. He was dying. Just before a star dies it shines its brightest. His mind was aflame.

Abruptly, the latch jaw on his neck was ripped away. Did he have a big gaping hole in his neck? He was disorientated. The smell of his blood engulfed his senses.

"Surely you did not believe you could do as you pleased in my domain?" A voice like velvet laced the air.

A loud growl over whelmed Eiji's ears, and his head fell to his left reviling two figures in a bright blur of Orange, yellows and red, his nerves in his eyes over firing. Eiji could make out one figure was smaller than the other.

He let out a breath, Eiji's lungs as if under pressure, his body heavy. He wanted whatever weight that was on him to be lifted. But there was nothing but air about him.

"I was only feeding!" A voice only a monster from the movies could make yelled out. "I had no intention of challenging you!"

"I hear you are wanted in Tanaka's territory. Is that why you ran so blindly into mine? Aa, but no matter…" a board tone played in the one with the lovely voice.

And in an instant, a loud cry rose like an animal in great pain and a sound like the tiring of meat were heard. Eiji wonder if a bucket of water was being dumped on the ground, then felt rather than heard something tumble down near his feet.

"Hm, and who is this Tezuka is you're calling out to?" The smooth voice glided through the air again. Was Eiji still talking out loud?

Eiji heard a feet shuffle of feet next to him, then a gasp. But anything after that was lost on him. He could no longer feel the cold solid ground beneath him. Was he sinking? Then hands gripped him and he felt discomfort. The ground was better! The ground was more comfortable those hands!

'No… not yet, my young one.' A beautiful voice pierced his mind.

Eiji barley recognized the sound of clothes moving on skin. In a moment he felt hot liquid on his lips. It tasted sweet and full flavor he had no mind to describe.

'Drink.'

It was a little think and he was thirsty, very thirsty. In a moment his lips wrapped around cold skin and he was conscious of a light feathered laugh. Eiji eyes were shut and he couldn't remember when they closed. Opening them he saw the bright colors from before defuse back to colors of the moon lit evening. His mind was reeling.

He was swallowing fast. Gulping greedily, as if there was no end to his hunger. He was in someone's arms. He felt his back on their chilled, strong, solid chest. Eiji's hands holding onto the person's cold elbow and hand, his mouth on their wrist. Wasn't his arm broken? He couldn't feel it. He couldn't feel anything, just the fluid running down his throat and filling his stomach.

Swiftly the wrist was pulled from his mouth and Eiji let out an objecting whimper. The sound of light laughter tickled his ears, and then Eiji began to feel again.

Pain.

It rushed threw him like a rollercoaster and over whelmed him to the point of blacking out.

He remembered waking briefly to seeing his chest and legs laid out before him, being dragged backwards. He heard his name being yield out in the distance, before the pain was too much and the darkness engulfed him once again.

To be continued…

AN:

If you're confused at the end as to what just happened between the two men while Eiji was obviously dying good, lol you'll find out later. ^_^ The next chapter u get Fuji and Tezuka's points of view. Stay tuned!

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