A/N: Wow!

It has been a long time fanfic readers! Since I've updated and been writing here. It had been 6 long, full years to the day of dedication to fanfic and thrill.

Sorry for not updating more often but that broken laptop set me back a whole lot and many other unforeseeable events in my life these past few months. Nonetheless I once more attempt a comeback to fanfic with this release.

I owe my faithful readers, followers, and reviewers my thanks and a apology for making them wait so long for this moment. Their constant support has always been close and their time they take to review , comment etc. is appreciated. While I'm at all theses thank you, we might as well all thank my muse for reappearing again as well! XD

Last but certainly not least, this year will also be memorable. It's been a long time since I've released my first thrill PoT story but this year four of my stories will close there books by the end of this year. Koori No Ouji, Fated, Club7 and Secret are winding down which makes room for my 3 new stories I've begun. This year I present Remember Me, Be With Me, and Emotions. Please take the time to read and review them if you have the time and patience to. I will use that as judge to see if they will continue or be dropped while on the first chapter.

Thank you for six long years and go do the major reading :)

Emotion

Rated: M

Summary: Fuji and his childhood friend have just agreed to put their "love" to the test before taking the plunge into marriage. Would they regret their Uncle's challenge?

Chapter I: Do You Know Love?

Tokyo, Japan

Aikawa Residence

March 25th

Fuji tried not to think too much on his impending future, it was something that was pretty much expected as one aged. You eventually age and marry and that just happened to be the point in his life that he was at.

There was no use denying that even at the age of twenty seven he didn't ever want to settle but as the oldest son to a thriving company, it was his duty to choose one of the many respectable girls from their impeccable families. And so he did… he decided to go about it the same time his childhood friend and decided to do the deed as well.

"You should've done it ages ago," Tezuka had chided.

Perhaps he should've but he didn't feel the need to even pick up his pace when Tezuka settled for a girl and was well on his third kid at the same age as he. In fact, Tezuka probably has informed him more than once in a single sitting how Aikawa and he are the only two toiling about at being bachelors when their whole alumni they had graduated with had already starting married life or well into it.

"How long are you going to stand there?"

Fuji's eyes focused on his surroundings and unclouded from his own thoughts as he turned his head towards the man who had called out to him and smiled genuinely. The slight teasing frown on the man's face amused him as much as the day his parents had dragged him to one of their parties and set him before that same teasing frown on an eight year old boy. He had mistaken the boy's frown that day to be displeasure but now he knew better. The boy had merely grown though; his habits were quite intact. Still he admired how after all these years that boy had still been able to keep his amber eyes as "expressive" as he liked yet "hidden". His jet black hair didn't shield his eyes either though they fell roguishly around his eyes as if framing his face.

"Just long enough to wonder if we're doing the right thing two months from today." Fuji teased walking towards his friend. He had been asked to come and here he was."Well Saito?"

"Haa…. What do you expect? It was bound to happen." Aikawa said with a slight shrug and sigh

"Saito…. Are you resigning yourself already?" Fuji teased with a small smile.

"Didn't we already resign ourselves to this when we got down on our knees four months ago?" Aikawa asked with a raised brow.

There wasn't a single thing in their bones that noted they were resigning to their fates. In both their mind it was just another step in life they had avoided till now and was now fulfilling their duty. Perhaps it was due to their similar thinking that they had been friends for long and if Fuji was honest, he'd say at one time he would've dated Saito. Sadly Aikawa was one hundred percent straight and he was bi.

"Come on Syuu, Renji-ji is waiting…" Aikawa said with a sigh. His outcast uncle ever only visited when he thought his family needed guidance and when he had heard that his favorite nephew and his best friend were finally going to take the plunge he had immediately sent word that he'd be there.

Fuji smiled. He liked Renji-ji's humor and advice but he was quite nervous when Renji-ji's intuitive mind was tuned onto you as a target… as it would be today. The man had good sense and could read Fuji like a book sometimes. It was going to be no lie when he sat them in the hot seat. He'd know instinctively that they were merely doing the deed to get it done and over with instead of being as Renji-ji. Marrying for love and no less than that for him…

"You got your poker face on?" Aikawa asked leading the way inside his house.

"Yes… hopefully better tuned than it was last time," Fuji said with a chuckle as he remembered the time Aikawa and he was sat in front of Renji-ji to explain how they had gotten the keys to the shed to explore Renji-ji's mini car years ago.

"He'll still read us like a book…" Aikawa said with a sigh as he took a seat in his living room.

Fuji didn't answer. He was settling himself across from Aikawa and trying to remember exactly how masculine this living room of a bachelor was…. Before Ayame-chan took over and made it more "family". Honestly, he'd miss the sparse furniture with paintings hung on the pale walls when the wife would replace it in favor of family photos and "comfortable" furniture that would crowd the room soon. He himself would miss his own bachelor space when Haruhi became his wife.

"You two don't look like you've resigned happily into fiance's"

Both men looked up with genuine smiles when the voice reached them and they looked up to see the deep dark eyes that seemed to read too much yet search for more in their depths. They were used to seeing Renji-ji dressed in jeans and a t-shirt. That just meant he was yet again inventing something else and being holed up with it. Today though, his hair was clean and he was in a pair of black slacks and dress top.

"Where did you go before here?" Aikawa asked getting up to hug his uncle with a smile.

"You don't want to know," Renji grinned returning the hug before turning to do the same to Fuji. "But besides the fact of my appearance today… figuratively and literally, tell me about the lucky brides."

"Syuu would like to start," Aikawa volunteered the hot spot quickly first to Fuji.

Fuji merely smiled at Aikawa widely and thanked him for being so considerate as he moved to sit next to Renji-ji.

"I can only gather from that is that you two have picked up girls you could live with in the long run and hastened to the alter right?" Renji asked with a sigh looking from one to another.

"Something like that…" Fuji said a bit embarrassed that they both had been read so easily. "But Renji-ji… you may very well enjoy Haruhi-chan. She smart, funny, cooks well and has a good job."

"In other words," Renji started looking intently at Fuji. "She's the classical ideal girl and seemingly good mother in the long run."

"Ah…"Fuji tried to think of something else to say but nothing came to mind.

Sure, he wasn't going to propose when he first met Haruhi but she had been likeable enough and he sex was satisfying enough and she was pretty. So when it came down to it he picked his two years involved girlfriend to be his bride.

"Saito… yours," Renji said shifting his attention to his nephew.

"Er… Interior designer, twenty-five, pretty, independent, headstrong…" Aikawa said with a smile.

"I see…. The classical goal-orientated girl who'll do whatever it takes to succeed." Renji nodded in understanding. "Did she even come close to an inch of what your aunt Ishtar was?"

"Ummm….her sense of humor?" Aikawa said after thinking really hard. In his opinion it was very hard to measure to Renji-ji's wife… his beloved Aunt Ishtar who had died the year he turned fifteen. Even now that he was twenty-seven, he still remembered her gentle touch and how very much Aunt Ishtar had loved Uncle Renji.

"You two…."Renji shook his head. "I thought you two were above just picking one out of the litter."

"We'll make it work," Fuji said in a solemn voice. He had once dreamed of having someone like Aunt Ishtar by his side too but that dream had slowly faded as his many affairs, girlfriends, and boyfriends never measured to the petite, adventurous woman who was there more often than his own mother for him. She had accepted that he was bi so much better than his own mother as well.

"I can only wonder if you can say that down the road… some four years from now." Renji stated. "Both of you are approaching this the wrong way. If you're not impulsively acting on love, if everything is calculated then your supposed "love" is fake. This isn't the foundation to build your life on… puppy love and respect will never be stronger than love." Renji lectured.

Neither spoke as they took the criticism. They both knew that "loving" their spouse would not be enough for Renji-ji but it what else could they do when they had already decided their ideal fairytale wasn't going to happen and they were going to have to be without a heart and settle for what they could get.

"So my question is boys…" Renji finally said breaking them out of their thoughts. "Are you guys willing to put your "love" to the test?"

"What do you mean?" Aikawa asked looking lost.

"You both are determined to do this and I'm not your father nor can I stop you but I want you both to do something for me for the next month. If you both still decide to continue onwards to your wedding then I will give you my blessing but I want to know if there really is any of me inside you two." Renji said looking seriously at both.

Fuji swallowed as he caught Aikawa's eye. They both knew that with similar thoughts and feelings made them all close and everyone was familiar with the fact that Renji-ji rejected his place in the company to do what he liked to do best, married someone outside the circle unapproved by his family and lived happily for all those things.

"I would do it…" Fuji said with a nod finally. "I would do it and put my love against your lesson."

"Saito?" Renji questioned.

Aikawa nodded not hesitating either. It seemed they both wanted a reprieve of their impending future… if even for a moment so what harm could taking a challenge do?

Renji nodded with a smile. "Then let me introduce you to my challenge." Standing he headed to the door and looked back at the two following behind. "Hopefully it'll do the same thing it did for me to you both."

"And what was that?" Aikawa asked following his uncle to his garage.

"Teach you love as you shall teach it." Renji said with a smile.

A/N: So that ends this chapter but hopefully we'll get some votes to stay hopeful that this story will get continued. Do review and leave your thoughts.