Stars Together
Fuji Syuusuke x Echizen Ryoma
A/N: OMG! My first fic for PoT! ) I'm SO excited! I hop everyone likes it… We're going to start off with Fuji and Echizen having a tennis match, then the plot will hopefully evolve to where I want it. I hope you enjoy it… Here's my story! Douzo!
As Echizen lobbed the tennis ball over the net, Fuji saw it as the perfect time to use one of his special returns, Tsubame Gaeshi, the Swallow Return, and won the match, 7 to 5. Fuji smiled his usual smile, and walked up to the net to shake one sweaty Echizen's hand. Although the youngest Seigaku regular had lost to Fuji, he was content with the results, though Fuji had only begun to get serious. Like Inui once said, he was one of the few that liked watching Fuji's games and the progress we would make. Echizen stood up and walked to the net.
"Mada mada dane, Echizen." Fuji used Echizen's favourite saying, causing him to blush a little. "You know, you're getting better." He smiled, and held out his left hand. Ryoma reached out and put his hand into Fuji's and shook it. Just then, Fuji's eyes looked down at his arm, and saw a small, dark, purple blotch on his forearm, and he opened his eyes. It was a bruise. He looked grabbed Echizen's arm gently, and lifted it up to get a better view. Echizen was startled by this.
"Echizen, what happened?" Fuji was concerned; he saw another bruise on his arm. Now he knew why his game had been a little off. "Is someone bothering you?" Echizen coiled his arm back to his sides and frowned.
"No, I don't know how I got these bruises…" He answered honestly. He really didn't know how those bruises got there, and he wouldn't have noticed if Fuji had not pointed them out.
Fuji looked into Echizen's eyes and saw no lies clouding them up. He closed his eyes again, but the smile did not return. "Ok. I believe you…" He said reluctantly. He could tell that Echizen wasn't lying to him, but it still bothered him that he did not know. "But if anyone is bothering you, you can tell me." He looked at the boy standing before him, and smiled. He didn't realize it, but he was staring at Echizen and it made Echizen blush.
"Hai, Fuji-sempai." He turned around and picked up his tennis racket off the ground, and grabbed his water bottle, squeezing it onto his head to cool off. He searched through his memory, trying to remember what could have caused those bruises to be on his arm, but to no avail, nothing came up that seemed to fit the situation. "Maybe when I was playing with Karupin…?" He shook his head and decided to not think about it for now.
After he had changed into his school uniform, he stuffed his clothes into his bag, and closed it. He swung the bag onto his shoulder and walked out of the little room, remembering to lock it up afterwards.
As he passed the quiet tennis courts of Seishun Gakuen, he thought of how full of life it could be, the sounds of tennis balls bouncing on the ground, random girls cheering the regulars on. Something in his mind clicked. He remembered back to when Fuji and he had that unfinished match. He smirked. I wonder when we'll finish that match… Echizen looked at his watch; 5:20pm.
"Better get home before Oyaji goes mental on me." He quickened his pace.
He turned to the corner to the familiar shrine, and stepped onto the stone step. He wondered if his Oyaji would meet him at the door… or maybe he was to into his little magazines at the moment. None the less, he had to be careful not to let him see him get in the door. He inaudibly opened the door and surveyed the house. It was quiet. Too quiet.
"Tadaima." He said in his usual monotonous voice. He walked into the kitchen and looked around. His eyes landed on a square white sheet of paper, with messy writing on it. He recognized it at once. Only one person could write chicken scratch like that, and that was his old man.
Echizen,
Gone out for dinner w/ your mom. It's our anniversary, which I bet you forgot ALL ABOUT! Better get ready to give something nice to your mom!
--Nanjiroh
On the bottom of the note, the writing changed, to beautiful flowing hand writing, which must be his mother's own.
P.S. - I think your cousin left you some food. She's gone out too. Don't stay up too late Ryoma, you have school tomorrow morning. Xoxo
He read the note again and then put it back onto the table. His stomach grumbled.
"I wonder what she left me…" He rubbed his growling stomach, as he rummaged through the contents of the fridge.
After having a nice dinner quietly all by himself, he put the dishes into the sink. "I'll get them later." He said to himself. He walked up the wooden stairs, with each step up the stairs creaked and moaned. The house was an old one, but it was home none the less. Echizen walked into his room, not bothering to turn on the lights. He used up what was left of his energy to take off his clothes, and put on a nice clean pair of pajamas, then threw the covers off his bed and fell face first onto his pillow. He reached up towards his alarm clock sleepily, and without looking at it, set it to wake him up at 7:15am.
Echizen turned in his bed and facing his ceiling, he thought of the practice he had with Fuji-sempai. His mind drifted to when He found the bruises on his arms. That face he had made. Was it annoyance? No… it looked like worry. Ryoma recalled those beautiful azure eyes staring at him, like they were searching through his deep into his soul for the unknown.
He smiled at the thought of Fuji-sempai. Inui had once said that he was the only one who had the peculiar taste for Fuji's power. Or was it the other way around? He couldn't really remember anymore. All he really wanted to do was sleep… But the thought of the mysterious bruises kept him thinking.
"Maybe I did get them from playing with Karupin. Ok, we'll stick with that for now." Echizen yawned.
Little did he know that it was more than just random bruises. It was something much more serious.
To be continued…
A/N: wow! Haha, I've been trying to write this fic for a zillion years now. I made my friend read through the first rough and she was like, I think you should add on a real beginning. It'll just be too confusing without it. So, being me, I did, and this is the product of it. Then it took another billion years to name this story, and then it finally came to be after a whole week of sulking around. X.x" Anyway! I hope you all liked it. " I'll try to update soon, so it'll get better. ) Review and comments appreciated!