And this was written because, well, the idea came to mind as I was trying to sleep two nights ago and I just had to get it down on paper. That and I just love the Golden Pair hehe. Although I have horrible timing in deciding to write this the week before an SAT test. Wooo? Anyways, let the set up of the story plot commence~. And yes, Eiii does have a girlfriend but rest assured she won't last for long kekeke...

Teach Me

A Golden Pair Fanfiction

CHAPTER ONE: Unshakeable Determination

This was it. Varsity tennis player of the Seigaku team, Eiji Kikumaru, had finally decided. He had waited long enough and it had come to his attention that today just had to be the day. He definitely wasn't going to chicken out this time, he'd make the move.

Yes, today would finally be the day that he'd kiss his girlfriend.

It was about time he'd do it too. One would think that, during the time a guy and a girl had been going out for four weeks, they'd have already kissed multiple times. No, here that was not the case, because for Eiji and his girlfriend, otherwise known as Yumiko, that was not how their relationship had started off at all. Really, they had been taking it slow since the beginning, limiting themselves to small actions such as holding hands, or snuggling. It actually wasn't very surprising to everyone that the two hadn't gone any further, because it had taken months just for them to even get together.

'But,' Eiji thought determinedly, sitting in the back of his first period classroom not really paying much attention to the lesson at hand, 'I'm not going to wait a whole other set of months just to kiss her.'

He couldn't do that for, he was certain, that making her wait would only convince his girlfriend that he was possibly not serious about her, and he did not want that. He didn't because, he was sure, that Yumiko was his perfect match since he greatly enjoyed hanging out with her, talking to her, and joking around with her. They just had so much in common, and many times Eiji had found that he could completely relate to her. So of course, he had concluded, that this strong adoration he had felt for the girl was love. It had to be since he had never been this close to another girl before, and it was because of this "love" he had gone out with her in the first place. The thing was, as it turned out, Yumiko ended up being his first girl.

It wasn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, Eiji Kikumaru was rather glad that his first lover was such a fun and enthusiastic girl like Yumiko. The only problem was that, because she was his first, it made the redhead inexperienced in all matters that revolved around the concept of dating which only made Eiji especially nervous about how to go about them.

That was basically why it took him so long to make a move, mostly because he didn't want to do it wrong. For once in his life, Eiji wanted to appear mature about all this "love" stuff that he did for his date just so that he could stand out as "manly" to her. However, there was also the fact that he didn't want to mess up because he knew that Yumiko had had boyfriends before and he didn't want to seem awful when compared to them. He was very wary about that matter; he just wanted to be the best for his girl.

'Except the best doesn't wait a whole month just to kiss his date,' Eiji thought dryly to himself as he sunk low in his chair. 'She probably had dates that would kiss her within the first week! I'm probably the only one who waited so late…'

He was about to start sulking, but stopped himself shortly before it even happened.

'No,' he thought as he strainted himself back up proudly. 'That's not the way you're supposed to think Eiji Kikumaru. She may have had dates before but that's not the point! The point is that you're going to kiss her today and make it the best memory of her life!'

"Whatever it is you're nodding to yourself about, I'm certain it's not directed at the six pages of literature homework we just got assigned today."

"Huh? What?" Eiji was suddenly taken aback by the sound of his classmate's voice, Fuji Syuuske, and he turned to look at the brunette the second he had spoken. "We have six pages of literature homework?"

Fuji smiled knowingly in response, "I figured that your mind was elsewhere."

"Nya, I'm in so much trouble now Fuji! I don't even know what the teacher was talking about half the time! Please Fuji, give me your notes?"

Fuji handed the redhead his notebook without any hesitation, and watched as the boy frantically began to scribble down all he could into his own before class ended. Fuji gazed in amusement for a short while before he threw in his inquiry, "So, what were you thinking about that kept you so busy the whole class period, Eiji?"

"Hmmm," Eiji looked up from his notebook just for a second before replying quickly. "Oh, well, nothing important really."

"Oh, is that so?" Fuji replied, a sly tone in his voice. "I just thought that it possibly had to be about something very important, considering the way you had your eyebrows furrowed the entire time. Honestly, I haven't seen you look that determined since the doubles 2 match you had just last week."

"I am not!" Eiji argued back childishly. "It's nothing important like I said! I was just trying to remember this program I watched on TV last night was all."

"Really now," Fuji played a disappointed sigh, "and here I thought you might've been thinking about more serious subjects like Yumiko."

"O-of course not," Eiji attempted to protest, but he couldn't, not seriously, because he had not expected Fuji to catch on so promptly. The blush on his cheeks was for sure evident, but he tried to hide it as he lowered his head closed to the paper below him, pretending to be intensely absorbed in the process of taking notes.

For Eiji, this was practical embarrassment because everyone kept figuring it out all the time. It wasn't just Fuji, but Momo, Inui, Kawamura, and the others too could somehow tell whenever it was that he was contemplating about his girlfriend. Was it that obvious, just by looking at his face, to notice when Yumiko was the topic that was crossing his mind?

Fuji gave a light sigh, leaning back in his chair before continuing, "Let me guess, today's the day isn't it?"

"What are you talking about, Fuji?" Eiji's attention was caught at that instant with his friend's simple yet perplexing statement.

"You've finally gathered up the courage to kiss Yumiko, haven't you?"

At this Eiji's whole face burned, his jaw dropping simultaneously as his thoughts were overcome with shock. He couldn't even believe it, Fuji knew about that too?

"Ah, judging by your facial expression I assume that I must be correct." The brunette's grin appeared to grow wider. He was surely enjoying his classmate's reactions.

"H-how did you know that?" Eiji finally managed to move his lips after gathering himself from the earlier state of stupor.

"I can simply tell, practically in the same way I usually figure out most other occasions." Fuji stated plainly as he picked up the papers he had laid out upon his desk, shuffling them into a much neater pile at the center.

Hearing this made Eiji shift in his seat, suddenly feeling uncomfortable about the person he was sitting next to. "Yeah, well, it's starting to get kind of creepy, Fuji. Can you not figure out people so easily next time?"

Fuji only gave a small laugh, "Oh, we'll see."

'No wonder they call him a genius.' Eiji thought to himself as he turned a crinkled page over in his notebook before he proceeded in copying. 'It's like he knows everything already.'

With that, Eiji made a mental note never to underestimate his classmate again.


As the afternoon drew closer and closer, Eiji found that his conscious was growing increasingly nervous with each minute that passed. He also discovered, not too much later afterward, that he was trying to talk himself out of his decision every now and then too; making up stupid excuses like the day was too bright, that the birds were maybe too noisy, that in the morning he hadn't brushed his teeth well enough, his shirt was wrinkled, but he kept catching himself in those fibs before it could infect his set train of thought. He had promised that he would go through with kissing Yumiko, and he was intent on doing so. Somehow.

However, when tennis practice after school had rolled around, it became harder and harder for the 9th grader to keep a peace of mind. He felt like he was losing it, a sense of panic engulfing him whole. By that time, it was pretty much obvious to the other tennis club members that Eiji was struggling to keep himself together, what with the acrobat constantly messing up on his serves and returns. Every shot he made suddenly wasn't going in the directions he wanted to anymore and, as a result, Tezuka had made him run laps more than he'd probably ever run before, not that he even bothered to complain because he was too busy focusing on breathing 95 percent of the time.

When practice had finally come to a close Eiji had found it a miracle that he was even standing in one piece.

"Nervous?" An unexpected inquiry had drawn him out of his worries as he was slipping his arms back through the sleeves of his shirt back in the training room.

His eyes immediately caught the sight of his famous doubles partner, gentle and supposedly motherly, Oishi Shuuichiro. For some reason, just seeing his closet friend had offered some kind of comfort that helped to calm his frantic thoughts just a bit. He was grateful for that and right then he thought, for a split second, that Oishi was probably the reason he'd managed to make it through the afternoon's practice sane.

"So you know about it too huh?" Eiji asked him with an uneasy tone as he sat down on a nearby bench, lifting his foot to tie up his sneakers.

"Actually, Eiji, I think most everyone knows by now." The other replied with a small smile. "You weren't exactly that good at hiding it during practice."

The redhead gave a dry laugh, wiping his sweaty palms onto his pants nervously, "Yeah, well, this is kind of a big thing for me. I'm not sure how to take it, nya."

"Because it's your first kiss…?"

Eiji nodded, feeling his heart flutter at the thought of it.

"Then, my word of advice to you is to not think about it too much." Oishi gave his friend a soft pat on the head. "And, I'm sure that even if you mess up, Yumiko won't banter you too much about it afterwards."

Eiji bit his lip, pausing in hesitation for moment before continuing shyly, "Mou, Oishi, it's not just that… there's the fact that, Yumi-chan- "

"Kikumaru-sempai," A voice called out from the doorway, an all too familiar shorty looking at him in a rather unpleased manner. "There's some annoying girl waiting outside that's been asking for you."

"Nya, Oichibi, why are you so mean?" Eiji hopped up from the bench, past conversation forgotten as he was temporarily pooling with anger towards the insulted that had been directed at his dearest. "You are talking about my girlfriend, and don't you forget that she's your sempai too!"

"Whatever."

Had it not been for the fact that his girlfriend was waiting for him outdoors, Eiji might've chased his known-to-be-disrespectful underclassman all around the school campus just to get him to take back what he said and to apologize. For now though, he'd have to wait to get back at Echizen with some other kind of torturous method whenever he could, and he vowed on this as he hurriedly grabbed his tennis bag that had been stashed under the bench before skipping away in the direction of the door. All other thoughts aside, he focused on his game plan as he stepped out of the doorway and found himself face to face with his lover.

"Finally you arrive, Eiji!" The petite female cheered with enthusiasm at the sight of him, rushing to embrace her boyfriend with her light peach and nearly fragile arms, her tied up chestnut hair lightly blowing in the wind. "I was starting to get worried that you left me here all alone to get bored to death!"

"Nya, Yumi-chan, you know I'd never leave you alone!" Eiji was relieved of all pressure and emotion just in that simple moment in which he greeted his girl in the gleeful way that he always did.

"I'm so glad." She chirped happily in response, backing off of the acrobat as she combed her bangs out of her face, revealing her honey colored irises and rose-colored lips. Eiji could've gone on being distracted by her looks for a good ten minutes, but she broke off his dreamlike state with her next question: "So, shall we start on our walk home?"

Just like that, a bazillion butterflies were unleashed to wreak havoc within Eiji's stomach.