A/N: I know, I know! I have too many stories to be releasing a new one but I really wanted to release my sister's favorite of the ones I have sitting on my desk. This is dedicated to her. It's more of a preview but hopefully it'll be well received and you'll all support this story as well.

It's been a long time! I'm so happy to be back from a very long Hiatus and am very sorry for it since many have convinced me I left behind lots of hopeful people so here I am! Back and writing for all of you! Don't worry, the Thrill community just has a lot of drifting writers who are indefinitely on hiatus or just gone.

I really hope Lady Androgene, Unreal phantom, Sweet Obsidian Rain, Playgirl Eugene, InnoncentXSorrow, Firey Chronicles, Ishka, UtSuKuShIiMoOn (yes dear cousin, YOU!) and many others will release some Thrill as well soon because it'd be boring only to read my own work and nothing new from fellow Thrillers. We must keep the thrill alive or else pillar pair will take over D:

Anyways review and enjoy this Back to School Release… if I'm on schedule then Halloween should have a mass update!

NOW go read and review and make me happy after such a long Hiatus!!

NOTE: The age won't correspond with the original ages set by Konomi-sensei so don't be confused if the age gap is lessened or widened between characters.

Disclaimer: we all know I don't own PoT… if I did, I'd be rich, Fuji and Ryoma would be together, and I wouldn't be on fanfic XD

Complicated

Rated: M (for later events)

Summary: AU Ryoma's best friend has just confessed he's deeply in love and needs Ryoma's help to make it work. Agreeing to help in the midst of boredom, Ryoma didn't guess it'd involve his ex-boyfriend and a WHOLE lot of lies.

Pairing: N/A

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Chapter I: Promise

Tokyo, Japan

Seigaku High School

Tuesday afternoon

Testing the tip of his mechanical pencil, Ryoma was quite satisfied that it was sharp enough for what it was going to be used for. Turning to the person sitting to his right, he jabbed the tip of his pencil into the boy without the slightest hesitation or sympathy. Obviously it woke the boy up from his daydream and earned Ryoma a worthy glare.

"What the hell Ryoma!" The boy asked with a scowl as he rubbed his jaw where the sting was still present.

"Shouldn't I be asking that Kyohei?" Ryoma asked with the slightest sign of sympathy for the damage he caused on Kyohei's 'million-dollar' face.

"I don't know what you're-"

"The hell you don't." Ryoma cut in. " You've been down as hell for these last two days that I've been back."

"It's nothing important…" Kyohei said with a frown. "Since when did you start sticking your head in other people's business anyways?"

"Since you started digging in mine." Ryoma snapped remembering Kyohei's probing questions on his attention span in homeroom and history.

"Che!" Kyohei merely muttered as he stuffed his head into his arms and ignored, to Ryoma's irritation, Ryoma once more in favor of his own world.

Honestly Ryoma would, under any other circumstance, not care for the problems of his classmate but this was a bit different. This was his roommate and for the time being, the only boy he considered a friend.

Ryoma often considered knowing Kyohei a hindrance…other times a blessing. He had been a hindrance when they first met. Asayuki Kyohei happened to be the youngest son of Asayuki Ren, a famous model for many name brands and Asayuki Zhang, a talented fashion designer for top agencies in and out of Japan…. not to mention Echizen Rinko's boss.

Yep… that was the connection they held on their first introduction. Rinko had casually brought her bosses son home since he was the same age as her 'baby'. From there they had started a weird relationship since it wasn't long after their first meeting that Rinko announced she was dragging the whole family to France for a year since she had to be over there with her boss. Ryoma had refused and therefore Rinko had no choice but to have Ryoma stay with Kyohei at an apartment complex near the school. Therefore, the hindrance turned into a blessing for that part and the only remaining problem was that Kyohei and he had to keep it a secret that they lived in that apartment complex alone. It was strictly forbidden for students to live apart from their guardians at Seigaku High and whoever was caught, was punished and even suspended for long periods of time.

It had been one year since they started living together and Ryoma considered it better than living at home. He had visited his parents, who had just come home a month ago from France, a week and a half ago and he decided it was torture to live with a doting mother and perverted father opposed to Kyohei who didn't say anything unless it was needed.

"Ne Ryoma… why do you insist your gay?" Kyohei asked looking at Ryoma with an unreadable expression.

"Well… I wasn't attracted to girls and if you remember, I dated a couple guys." Ryoma said with a small shrug.

"Yet the girls still chase you…" Kyohei said with a sigh.

"Are you saying the girl you like is chasing after me?" Ryoma asked with an amused grin.

"NO!" Kyohei said with a deep frown. "What makes you think that?"

"You've been looking lost, dazed and everything but yourself since I came home!" Ryoma said with his own frown. "What happened for the week and a half I was gone?"

"Not much…" Kyohei said with a sigh.

"You-" Ryoma didn't say anymore as he reached over and punched Kyohei on the arm.

"Echizen! Since you have so much time to play around in my class, why don't you come and write a sentence using the subject we're talking about?" Masasugi-sensei said with a 'perfect' frown as many of her male students often sighed.

"Fine Masasugi-sensei…" Ryoma said standing to head to the front of the class. "But you know I'm good at Kanji already…"

The class wasn't surprised as Ryoma wrote the sentence in perfection as he usually did although he was not attentive at all.

"Good enough sensei?" Ryoma asked with a tilt of his head.

"…Aa…" she answered with a frown at his behavior. " I'll send you to the hall next time I catch you being non-attentive again."

"Okay sensei… hopefully you'll send Asayuki with me so I won't fall asleep in the hall." Ryoma said with a small grin.

The class filled with giggles and laugh at Ryoma's comment. Ryoma had the tendency to always fill the room with laughs with his retorts.

"You like Tezuka-sensei don't you?" Kyohei asked after Ryoma settled back in his seat.

"Why would you think that?" Ryoma asked with a frown.

"Because it's obvious when you only pay attention in homeroom and history…" Kyohei said with a small smile. " You make it pretty obvious to me."

"So what if I do… although they said he's dating someone at the moment right now…" Ryoma uttered with a frown.

"Who's they?" Kyohei asked.

"My sources…" Ryoma said with a smirk, "so it's none of your business."

"What if he's not gay like you?" Kyohei asked with an amused smile. It was the first time in the week and a half he was gone that Kyohei had a genuine smile directed towards him on.

"My sources tell me he's dating a guy." Ryoma clarified. "So now that you've finished shuffling through my business, what about you're troubles?"

"What trouble?"

"It's obvious something is on your mind… plus you asked about me being gay at a strange time… you know I can't relate to you and your straight relationships!"

"Shut up Ryoma…" Kyohei said turning to face the teacher, "I think I'm finally serious about the relationship but his father definitely won't approve of being more than friends. You know while you were gone they had moved in and I didn't really care but then I saved him from a drunk in the front of the apartment building…. I realized I felt strange and stuff around him…"

"Hold on!" Ryoma said almost forcefully turning Kyohei back to face him. "Did I just hear you say 'He'?"

"Yeah…" Kyohei said with a blank look.
"I thought you were straight…" Ryoma accused looking at Kyohei as if he had been replaced for the moment with an alien.

"It's your fault you changed me into seeing the other side." Kyohei accused back.

"Like hell I did…" Ryoma said with a half-smirk, "Orientation isn't contagious you know."

"With you it is!" Kyohei snapped.

"I didn't know I had so much influence over you."

"You don't." Kyohei said with a scowl, "Would you help me cover though?"

"Cover?" Ryoma asked

"Aa…you know…just keep the dad from knowing anything is up…"

"Kyohei… does the boy even know your giving him those kinds of look?" Ryoma asked with frown.

"He was the one who made the one who accepted it!" Kyohei said with a smile. "He wanted it just as bad as I did."

"You guys didn't do anything on my bed did you?" Ryoma asked with narrowed eyes.

"Yes we did multiple things on it Ryo-dear." Kyohei said sarcastically.

"Oh… like what?" Ryoma said with a raised brow.

"Prev…"

"I knew you were just bluffing…" Ryoma said with a smirk. "You probably know nothing…"

"I know enough!" Kyohei said with a frown.

"Oh?"

"Are you two quite done?"

Both turned to see Masasugi-sensei staring at the both of them with a deep frown.

"Sorry…" They both said and she sighed shaking her head. "Since time is up, get ready for your next class, Tezuka-sensei will be here soon!" She said gathering her things as the class representative asked everyone to stand and bow.

As soon as she was out the door Kyohei turned back towards Ryoma and spoke once more. "Yuu-nii is coming to tomorrow to see us."

"Is he?" Ryoma said with a smile. "How about Mika-chan?"

"She visited while you were gone." Kyohei said smugly.

"Che!" Ryoma scowled turning away from Kyohei. He was the youngest of three kids and his older siblings visited him often enough to dote on Ryoma as well. Yuu was twenty-five and living in Osaka taking care of a store the family owned there while Mika, Kyohei's sister was twenty-two and living in a different residence in Tokyo. She was a famous J-pop artist in Japan so it was rare for her to visit even if she lived a lot closer than Yuu.

"Anyways you'll help?" Kyohei asked a bit wearily.

"Fine." Ryoma sighed out putting his head on his desk lazily. " It's not like I have something better to do."

"Well aren't you busy trying to pursue a forbidden relationship?" Kyohei whispered out as Tezuka stepped into the door and snapped Ryoma in 'perfect' student mode…or rather 'perverted mode'.

"Just shut up before I retract the promise."

"I know you would never retract your promises." Kyohei said with a smile.

"Hn…" Ryoma merely said as he focused on the slight twitch of Tezuka-sensei's brow when he asked the last row why no one did they're homework.

'Kunimitsu… you're mine….' Ryoma thought silently as a smirk graced his lips.

Kyohei on the other hand got the drift of the daydream Ryoma was in and turned to pay attention. A shudder apparently ran up Tezuka-sensei's spine and Kyohei heard many muffles of laughter as the others tried not to notice the obvious shudder either. Kyohei was almost positive the shudder was because he felt Ryoma's 'want' of him.

xXx

Tsuki Apartment

"All right… who is this person?" Ryoma asked mildly curious as to who could've made Kyohei turn the other way. They had just finished school and came back home when Kyohei insisted on introducing the guy he liked.

"I'll go get him… he lives on the next floor." Kyohei said dropping his book bag. "Are you going to wait here?"

"Of course." Ryoma said as he walked Kyohei out. Watching Kyohei dash up the stairs, he glanced at the floor below theirs… which was ground floor and watched as people coming home from work headed upstairs and the ones heading to work headed out of the apartment. Ryoma watched with mild interest as everyone walked in and out of the building until his eyes were drawn to a certain couple walking towards the stairs. His eyes widened as he recognized the authoritative strides, the never-changing face and the mature glasses on their homeroom and history teacher.

"What's Tezuka-sensei doing here?" Ryoma thought with a slight frown. It'd be bad if he found out Kyohei and he were living away from their parents and home!

Following them closely, he moved towards the stairs where they were coming up and tried to listen in on their murmur of conversation. Suddenly without warning, the other guy hugged Tezuka tightly and Tezuka returned it. Ryoma swallowed back a fit of jealously that was curling to explode from inside and moved behind the corner and into the apartment before Tezuka could see him again. It didn't matter why he was here now; Ryoma's was locked on that smiling guy holding 'his' Kunimitsu!

'It seems the guys who goes out with him lives here!' Ryoma thought as he shut the door and turned only to see Kyohei standing there with a slight smile.

"I… er…" Ryoma started then noted the boy standing next to him. "This is the one?" Ryoma asked looking over the slim boy who had a stupid cuteness to him. Over all… he looked devour able next to Kyohei who was manlier.

"This is Hiro," Kyohei introduced. "He's fourteen."

Ryoma eyes opened in shock at Kyohei….which eventually turned into a glare… then to disgust.

"What?" Kyohei asked with a lifted brow.

"You…I can't believe you…."

"What do you mean… I know he's a little young but-"

"A little?" Ryoma said stopping the urge to knock Kyohei on the head. "He's fourteen and you are?"

"Eighteen.. just four year-"

"Pedophile!" Ryoma labeled in one breath. "You're a pedophile for making such an innocent boy fall for you!"

"That's why I need you to-"

"Forget it! I'm not helping you break the law. Asayuki Kyohei! You're parents are rich and popular but that doesn't mean the law will look the other way when you -… yeah! With t his boy."

"Do you disapprove of us?" The boy asked.

Ryoma nodded, that was all he could do since the boy spoke as gentle as he looked.

"You promised!" Kyohei argued

"That was before I knew you were committing a crime!" Ryoma muttered opening the fridge for a Ponta.

"I thought you would never go back on your word… I thought you rose to every challenge Ryoma!" Kyohei accused.

"Yadda!" Ryoma said popping his Ponta open to take a gulp.

This….This was too much!

A/N: That's the little preview everyone gets. Please review a few of your thoughts in and this story will be continued in the future :) preferably after another of my stories wrap up.