Title: Changes
Author: Archangel
Genre: Sap
Type: Multi-Chapter Fic (3 Chapters)
Pairing: SenRu
Notes: A comeback once and for all! This is specially dedicated to the crazy guys closest to my heart in this ML, Chache-koneko, Aki Midori, Cheeky, Diggler, Feng, Kit-chan, Ren-chan, Eddie-chan, Kim-chan, Anduril- chan. This is in line with Anduril-chan's Summer Fic Challenge but unfortunately I didn't make it in time. But then, here's a summer fic from me! Hope you like it!

Summary: On that one certain day he knew he wanted love. And on that one summer night, he came to get it. (Bad summary...very bad!)

Warning: Kinda long – read at your own risk. And, I expect comments similar to OOC but I hope you guys would look more into the story...hehehe (lame excuse). This is supposed to be a one-shot but eventually, I think ultra long shots can be boring so, I cut it into 3. nervous nervous... just read and review. archangel flies away

Changes, Chapter One By Archangel

Isn't it amazing, how one day I woke up and started to feel as if everything I had was worth nothing...that everything I hoped for in this life is of no sense compared to this aching, lonely feeling inside?

Isn't it miraculous, how on that day that I opened my eyes, I yearned for someone to embrace and for that person to hold me back?

Isn't it wonderful, how on that one special day, I yearned for love?

It's wonderful, isn't it? How one day I woke up needing warmth...but then it's something more than that.

I didn't care if it came from a girl or a guy. I just wanted love...I just wanted...

I looked upon my ceiling, followed the cracks along my coffee-tainted floor, still I felt so plain. Still felt so blank.

Amidst the intricacy of the painting on my wall, there's nothing. I see nothing.

Then I closed my eyes and tried to feel, I know I wanted something. I knew I wanted love.

Kriiing Kriiing Beeeeep

"Hi, this is Sendoh Akira! I can't answer the phone right now. Just please leave your message and I'll call you as soon as I can."

Beeeep

"Yo, Akira! Come on...you gotta cancel that god-damned practice tomorrow, pack your bag and your silly ass on the station, we'll all go to the beach! What the hell is wrong with you being so uptight lately? Ne, Akira...cancel the practice tom – "

"Stop it, Kosh." Suddenly, I found myself talking with Koshino on the phone. "Practice tomorrow, same time."

"You've got to be kidding me!" Koshino said in an exasperated tone. "First, you're not answering the phone, pretending you're not home. Now you're so edgy none of us can get you. What's wrong? Come on, we're like the only club in school who hasn't gone into a team outing. You know...the beach...the girls. Where's your manhood, man? It's summer!" I can't blame him though, it's summer alright but today is just...

"I don't care about the beach, more so about the girls –" I said. But Koshino Hiroaki was insistent.

Very insistent. "Maybe barbecue then?"

"Hiro..." Too damn insistent. And I could've hanged the phone if not for Koshino saying something that somewhere inside I wished it could've been true.

"Or maybe if I tell you that the-entire-Shohoku-team-meaning-your-one-and- only-Rukawa-Kaede will be on the same resort well maybe you'll cancel that practice and get you silly ass right on the beach, ne?"

"Stop that..." I hear myself say. But deep inside I wished he would be there.

"So what? Practice cancelled?" It would've been enough for me to cancel practice.

Yet I'm still hoping. "Are you sure Rukawa will be there?" Hoping against hope...

"Hey Akira..."

"What? Will he be really there?"

"I just made that up." Damn. "Come on, Rukawa isn't the type to be hanging out on the beach, right?"

Yeah...I should've known better – he's not the type. But I still wish we could hang out together. Hoping maybe that what I told him on the last game about being friends would come true.

Hoping maybe that I could bump into him one time.

Hoping we can talk decently for one moment instead of that trash talk on court.

Hoping maybe I could call him at night...

Hoping maybe I could be given a chance to...

"So, tell me, cancelled or not?" That is so impossible. It's getting out of hand.

"We proceed with the practice. 8 in the morning, be on! We all deserve that break! Look, if I don't go there tomorrow, I'm going nuts. With all the basketball and running and sprinting...give me a break Akira! We all need to have that break. I'll die! Come on, give it to me, Akira." God is good to have made only one Koshino Hiroaki. I don't know how many Koshinos could the world take when things go like this. "Give it to me! Cancel the on, say it...cancel the practice...cancel the –"

"Okay, okay." I said. "You're like the third person who's begging me to cancel that damned practice. Have fun."

"Wait up...so by the way you're talking, you're no coming. You have to go with us, you're not making sense." What's with summer , anyway? I thought.

"I'm not in the mood..."

"Don't be such a tightass, Sendoh Akira. Do you know the consequences of what you're saying not coming with us?" I know...the girls, the chicks, maybe hook up with them... "There will be a lot of girls there wearing bikinis and t-backs and you're saying you're not coming? Sendoh –"

I would have to give up. "Shut up...fine, I'm coming. When's that again?"

"8 in the morning, be prompt." That's supposed to be my line, right?

"Gotcha." I finally said. Then at the background I heard Koshino screamingly announce, "No practice tomorrow, we're on for the beach!"

"Yeah!" By the looks of it, I knew it was the whole team, they lured me into this. And I know I have this big sweat drop hanging on my head...and yeah, I guess we all need a break.

What is life, anyway? All of a sudden, I wake up in my bed thinking about my life and how I felt so empty despite all that glory. Feeling so useless amidst all that I've done with my mere existence?

What is love, anyway? Waking up in the morning wanting to love and be loved. Feeling that I needed love...that it's like the only thing missing in my life.

Nineteen years, I lived my life in the context of the books. I looked carefree but maybe inside I'm not.

I tried to be good and in reality I am but what?

I did good in all things, I'm an ace, yes. I'm at the top, yes. But what?

All is good and I thought I have everything...but what? Is that all there is to that?

Something's not right and something is missing. And maybe, hoping that maybe...

"We're here! Oh, God is sooooo good! Look at the girls!" Finally the time has come. We're at the beach and say what? Pretty girls in swimsuits and t- backs. Koshino was feasting in the sun, having the time of his life. The rest of the guys were melting with Koshino...and me?

"Nice beach." Yeah, nice beach alright.

I don't get myself sometimes. Last week I'm in my usual self, now I'm lurking at the thought that I needed love. And yes, there are plenty of girls today with their flirting eyes and cheeky smiles across their faces, bold enough to ask your name...it's disappointing. Well maybe if someone with foxy eyes and ebony locks, or someone tall with white complexion would just pop out of nowhere and ring the bell, maybe.

"RYONAN?!?!?! SENDOH?!?!?!" My silent reverie was interrupted at the mentioning of my name. Who it was? "Sakuragi-san!? Shohoku!?" Hikoichi said in a shock.

There you go...

And what? Among all the days of summer, all the beach resorts...we meet up here.

And my eyes wandered looking for someone...someone who owned a pair of foxy eyes and silky ebony locks.

Someone tall and with white complexion.

Someone like Rukawa.

Rukawa Kaede. There, at the end of the line.

Did I say love? Did I mention about me needing love?

Right in front of my eyes...I see love.

"Ohayo, Rukawa-kun!"

End of Chapter One

A/N: Whatever it is, tell me what you think. - Archangel