Title: Forget to Remember
Author: timelessloveaffaire
Genre: some anguish, love story
Warning: yaoi/ shonen ai and death
Summary: Due to his predicament and broken heart Fuji decided to go elsewhere, far away from home. Leaving to find his soul, forget the pain which resided in his heart and the one who'd caused it. Fortunately or unfortunately because he was involved in a tragic accident and forgot … He forgot all including himself….
Disclaimer: POT is not mine, how I wish it's mine!
Special THANK YOU for my Beta Reader: Hihana^_^
Prologue
Bright day
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It's another bright day for everyone especially for a certain blue eyed boy…
"Good morning Yuuta-chan, Cedi and Leon Did you all sleep well?" asked Fuji with his melodic voice, speaking with his three favourite cacti placed in his window sill. He named his cactus after Yuuta of course, his beloved younger brother, Cedi after the protagonist of his favourite cartoon, which he had watched when he was young and Leon after Leon Worth, the author of his favourite book: The Little Prince.
It was Monday and that meant school, so he went straight to his bathroom, took a shower, brushed his teeth, changed into his uniform and walked downstairs to eat his breakfast.
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"Good morning nee-san!", Fuji greeted his sister Yumiko.
"Morning to you too Syuusuke! Have you been sleeping well?"
"Great! You?"
"Peaceful."
"Glad to hear that."
"Here's your breakfast and bento Syuusuke."
"Wow thanks nee-san you're the best.", and proceed to eat his food happily. "Your cooking tastes delicious."
His sister just chuckled in response to his remarks.
Both their parents were living in the states, their father having moved for the sake of a well paid job and their mother had decided to follow since all her children were mature enough and capable of taking care of themselves, while her husband was all alone there. He wasn't getting any younger and might need some extra care. Yuuta was staying in St. Rudolph's dormitory, but visited them on weekends.
"Ok hurry up if you don't want to be late for your first class, I'll drop you off at your school."
"Really? Then let's go." Fuji looked at his sister, a piece of bread still in his mouth and his glass of milk still in his right. He got his bento, grabbed his bag and shoved it on his right shoulder. "Come on nee-san.", said Fuji excited.
"Hai, hai you're so impatient, I'm just locking the door. Go on and seat yourself in the car."
After a short but peaceful ride they finally arrived at their destination.
"Here we are!" Yumiko stopped and parked her car in front of the main gate of Seishun Gakuen, Fuji's school.
"Thanks for the ride nee-san, take care of yourself…bye!" Fuji waved his right hand at his sister with a genuine smile on his face.
"Be good and study well, I'll see at home, bye bye!"
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There was no morning practice today because of the up coming exams and on his way to his class room, Fuji met up with Eiji.
"Nya Fujiko you're here." Eiji ran towards his best friend and hugged Fuji tightly, while jumping exasperatedly.
"Good morning to you too Eiji!" Fuji said and then chuckled because of his best friend's funny antics.
"Hey Eiji calm yourself, you're hurting Fuji and some of the student are staring at us." shyly said the mother hen of their team, Oishi: "Good morning Fuji."
"It's nice to see you Oishi!"
Finally Eiji untangled himself from Fuji. "Humph Oishi is such a spoilsport, you're not complaining when I hug you like that!", said Eiji with a big pout on his lips and folded his arms in front of him.
"E-Eiji.", mumbled Oishi while blushing from ear to ear.
"It's that so Eiji?" asked Fuji with a sadistic smile on his face.
Eiji nodded furiously. "Hai Fujiko… He even returns my hug."
Before the conversation could go any further, Oishi carefully distanced himself from the two and as the chance resented itself he immediately ran away…
"Hoi Oishi where are you going? You've promised to walk me to my class room!"
Oishi stopped abruptly and turned to face Eiji. "Sorry Eiji. I have to go, I forgot my first class will start any time soon and don't worry Fuji will walk you to your class room, right Fuji?! See you at lunch break." Then he went straight to his class room without looking back.
"Oishi is acting strangely lately, I wonder what's bothering him.", asked Eiji innocently.
Fuji smiled at his naïve best friend: "you will know soon…"
"Eh you said something Fujiko?"
"Huh? Nothing, let's go!"
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"Oishi."
Oishi stopped pacing when he heard his name being called. Then he saw his best friend and ever stoic captain, Tezuka.
"Tezuka, s-sorry I didn't notice you."
"It's ok, just don't let your guard down!", replied Tezuka sternly.
"Hai!" Oishi just rubbed the back of his head and smiled apologetically.
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"Hay finally it's lunch time, you have no idea how bored I was during the lecture and I'm so starving." Eiji said bleakly.
"Then let's eat, nee-san prepared my bento.", announced Fuji happily.
"Really?! I bet it's delicious."
"And I bet there's a 93.8 percent chance that it contains wasabi or any other kind of spices."
"Nya!!! I-Inui d-don't dare startle me like that again and don't come out anytime you want!" Because of the sudden appearance of Inui, Eiji frighteningly hid himself behind Fuji's back.
"Eiji you should have gotten used to it by now, right Inui?!" Fuji said with a amused smile.
Inui just smirked.
"S-so Fujiko is it true that there's wasabi in your bento?" Eiji frigidly asked.
Fuji put his index finger on his chin as if thinking seriously. "Hmmm… maybe!"
"Nya Fujiko you're so mean!"
"It will be more delicious if you combined it with my newest mouth-watering SUPREME INUI JUICE!" Inui said with a glint on his glasses and shoved the pitcher in front of Eiji's face, it contained a mixture with a red green colouring and it stunk. When you looked closely enough you could see some unidentified insects swimming in it. Eiji's face turned grey and it looked like he was about to faint.
"It looks yummy Inui!" Fuji said nonchalantly. Then Oishi and Tezuka appeared and joined them in their table.
"OISHI!!! I'm so glad you're here please save me!" Eiji leaned on Oishi's shoulder and sobbed comically.
"Eiji what's wrong?", asked Oishi while comforting his friend.
"Fujiko and Inui are so mean to me! They want me to eat wasabi and drink that juice!", explained Eiji while crying and pointed his index finger to the pitcher held by Inui. And by the looks of it Oishi felt shivers just by the sight of said juice.
"It's ok Eiji we could share my bento and I'll buy you your favourite drink, come on Eiji let's go."
"Tezuka isn't ok if we go now?"
"Ah."
"Later Inui, Fuji." Then Oishi and Eiji went to some peaceful place, where there's no wasabi and Inui juice.
"Can I have some of your juice Inui?" asked Fuji as if it's the most delectable thing in the world, just second to wasabi.
"Sure!" Then Fuji accepted the cup that contained red green liquid and drank it all without wasting a drop.
"Hmmm it's a bit spicy, I love it." Fuji described and then licked his lips.
Tezuka just sat there in front of his team mates as if nothing horrible had occurred but deep inside he felt so frightened by what he just saw.
"Oh hi Tezuka, I didn't notice you are there!" Fuji stated to his captain with a smile plastered on his face. "Sorry I just didn't hear you."
And Tezuka feel annoyed and embarrassed because of that comment. "Hn."
"Would you like to try the juice that Inui made for us?!", offered Fuji while shoving a cup that full of Inui juice in Tezuka's face. "Yeah captain why you don't try it!", added Inui.
Tezuka's brow twitched a little bit. "No thanks, I have my own water here."
"Ok, if you say so! Ne, Tezuka do you have some plans for this coming Saturday?", asked Fuji. Inui excused himself saying that he forgot to add the most important ingredient to his juice.
"No, I don't. Why?"
"Would you like to go on a date with me?!", asked Fuji cheerfully. Tezuka just stared at him blankly, while gaping. Waiting for Fuji to say that he was just joking. Apparently not.
"Tezuka?"
"…" still no reply.
"Tezuka are you ok?!"
"Yes!" Tezuka answered abruptly, as if just woken from a nightmare.
"Really you agree to go on a date with me?! That so nice of you Tezuka!" Fuji smiled sweetly at Tezuka.
"No I didn't agree on that one, I say yes I'AM OK."
"So you don't want to go out with me then? But you just said that you're free on Saturday, why change now?", Fuji said gloomily because he was being rejected.
Tezuka felt suddenly guilty at seeing Fuji like that. He immediately explained Fuji what he truly meant. "Well you see Fuji it's just that I…I."
"Yes Tezuka?!"
"Ok fine." Tezuka accepted feeling defeated. But Tezuka suddenly heard a giggle from his companion, then he looked at the tensai with his eyes saying "what-heck-is-so-funny-explain-or-50-laps-around-the-canteen!!!"
Then Fuji regains his composure seeing his captain demanding an explanation. "Tezuka I was just joking when I said date, I was actually referring to a match since I miss playing tennis and I'm sure you do too, coz we only have little time to practice due to the upcoming exam…that's all. But still you should have seen your face, when I mentioned the word "date"! It was priceless!", said Fuji giggling.
Feeling relieved, Tezuka just nodded his head. "Ok see you at the court on Saturday at 7:00am." But before he could stand up and leave, he heard Fuji say something to him.
"By the way Tezuka are you disappointed that's only a tennis match, are you expecting that we do something else?! I'm so flattered when you agreed to go on a date with me, come to think of it. You've never accepted anyone's offer and I'm just wondering what makes the difference with mine? I'm must be very special to you. Ne, Tezuka!!!"
Tezuka instantly walked away from the tensai with a very flushed face, due to the humiliation and anger he felt for the brunet.
While Fuji smirked and celebrated his victory secretly …
"Soon Tezuka…soon!"
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(TENNIS PRACTICE)
"Everyone 30 laps now!", ordered their moody Buchou.
"And if someone stops in the middle of their laps, you will have to drink my newest Supreme Juice. I just added a very important ingredient to it!" Inui laughed evilly.
"Nya Oishi let's run!" Eiji grabbed his double partner's right hand and ran as fast as he could. Oishi just blushed and everyone on the court ran their laps with a very grey face.
'BURNING!!!COME ON BABY!!!" Taka-san chanted monstrously.
"Fsssh get out on my way you idiot!", hissed Kaidoh to Momoshiro
"Who are you calling idiot?! You snake head!", Momo countered.
"Mada mada dane!", said the young prodigy and bowed his cap.
Seeing this, Tezuka ordered another 10 more laps for both Momo and Kaidoh. Both second years groaned exasperatedly.
Meanwhile Fuji silently jogged to Tezuka's side.
"Such a bright and peaceful day isn't Buchou?!", asked Fuji nonchalantly.
"Hn." Curt replied of Tezuka.
"I assume you're already reviewing for our up coming test."
"Aa."
"Me, I haven't started yet!" Yes Fuji was a genius so he really didn't need to burn his brain just to pass the exam, though that was not the real reason.
"You should not let your guard down!"
Fuji chuckled on his Buchou reply. "Of course I'm not, you will help me right?!" It's not a question but more of statement and Tezuka knew it.
"And why would I do that?" Tezuka replied coldly still angry from their earlier encounter. But Fuji didn't seem affected at all and as if he forgot everything that happened during their lunch time.
"Because you don't want that one of your team-mates got the lowest grade in their exam and cannot graduate this year and has to repeat a year, for the very sad reason, that his buchou refuses to help him, Ne Buchou?!" "…"
"Buchou!" But still no reply. Then he tried again. "TE-ZU-KA!"
"EVERYONE ANOTHER 20 LAPS!"
Everyone sighed heavily, except Fuji, who just smiled at his victory smile again…"Such a wonderful day!" He said to no one.
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"Minna-san that's all for today. You're dismissed!"
After hearing that from their coach Ryuzaki, all members of the club sighed in relief, coz today their practice had felt like eternity. They immediately went straight to their club room, they all were exhausted and sweaty, so everyone took a shower and changed into a clean t-shirt and went home!
"Ne Fujiko what did you do to buchou? He's so moody and scowling all day, he really looked scary!", asked Eiji Fuji silently, scared of being overheard by his captain and running laps at the last minute.
"Isn't he cute?! At least he has another facial expression!" Fuji said in a matter of fact voice.
Did he hear right? "CUTE…TEZUKA!" Is there something wrong in the world?! Eiji knew as well as everybody that Tezuka is handsome, attractive and all. But why was it so weird to say CUTE to describe Tezuka, he just couldn't get it right and to think it's coming from the tensai, he didn't know what to feel whether to feel happy coz Tezuka had a different facial expression aside from being stoic according to Fuji or feeling creepy because the way Fuji described Tezuka as CUTE, really it's no big deal but… "AHHH!!! I DON"T WANNA THINK ANYMORE!!!" Eiji screamed miserably.
"E-Eiji are you alright?", asked Oishi concerned, after seeing the sudden behaviour of his Eiji, I mean his double partner.
"Nya Oishi!" Eiji cried like a child that lost his way home and hugged Oishi.
Oishi patted his head to calm his friend down while blushing. "What's wrong Eiji did you lose your favourite toothpaste?"
"NO, no, no!!!"
And Oishi being a mother hen started to panic and do what most mothers do when their children had tantrum attacks. "Eiji please don't cry, I promise I'll treat you to your favourite ice cream parlor today and I'll walk you home." After hearing that, Eiji looked up to meet Oishi's eyes. "Really you'll do that for me?!", asked Eiji with cute puppy eyes!" For Oishi seeing Eiji so close and so cute like that he couldn't help but blush from head to toe and just nodded his head. While Eiji changed from depressed to being energetic. He jumped and jumped and did acrobatic stunts. "Yippy! Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream!!!"
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Before Tezuka could open the door of his cubicle to take a shower, he saw someone leaning against the door and that someone was a certain tensai. "What is it Fuji?", asked a stoic Tezuka.
"Nothing much, just reminding you of our review session today. So will it be my place or your place?!", asked Fuji simply.
Tezuka thought about it for a second, then he choose his place, coz he knew he was safe there, all he had to do was scream and his parents or his grandpa would immediately burst into his room if Fuji tried to do some terrible pranks on him. But of course Tezuka didn't scream like a teenaged girl watching some horror movie, so he just had to be extra cautious while dealing with Fuji. Or simply he should not let his guard down! "My place, anything else?"
"That's all, you can take your HOT shower now Tezuka!" Then Fuji walked away from the door with an unnoticeable smirk on his face.
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"Hey Echizen let's grab some burgers my treat!" Momo offered his kohai.
"Sure!" Then Ryoma drank his favourite Ponta.
"Kaidoh!"
"Yes Inui sempai?"
"I have colleted all the data that you'll needed to improve your boomerang snake attack and make it more powerful and, of course, with a perfect menu for that!" Kaidoh felt like there was a cold wind that ran over his body, causing him to stay frigid as Inui mentioned his "perfect menu".
"Hoi, Hoi! Oishi hurry up, I can't wait for my ice cream!"
"I'm coming Eiji, just a moment. Tezuka here's the key, sorry for the trouble, I know it's my duty but you see it's Eiji." said Oishi apologetically.
"I understand, it's fine. You can go now."
"Thanks Tezuka, see you tomorrow!"
"Fujiko-chan?"
"Yes Taka-chan, what can I do for you?", asked Fuji good natured.
"I was wondering if you like to drop by our restaurant, because I'm practicing preparing wasabi sushi and I'd like you to taste it first, if it's ok with you?" Kawamura blushed shyly while explaining, being very different from their earlier practice.
"Wow, really you want me to take the first bite on your own made wasabi sushi for free?! Oh I would really love that. Your sushi is the best." But suddenly Fuji frowned because he remembered something. "But you see I remember that I have other engagement to today, Tezuka and I have a group study together at his house. I'm sorry Taka-chan maybe some other time."
"Don't be sorry Fujiko-chan. It's ok; I just save some wasabi sushi for you tomorrow!"
"Promise?! That's so sweet of you Taka-chan, I can't wait to have it tomorrow, thank you!", said Fuji cheerfully.
"Well I think I should go on now, bye Fujiko, Tezuka."
Tezuka just nodded his head. "Bye Taka-chan, take care!", waved Fuji. "Saa, Tezuka shall we go?!"
"Ah." Then Tezuka locked their club room.
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They walked in , pure silence, but not an awkward silence, a comfortable one. Then suddenly Fuji hummed some unknown song to Tezuka.
"Is that a song you humming?", asked Tezuka but instead of hearing a reply, Tezuka heard Fuji chuckling, which irritated him slightly. "Did I say something wrong?"
"No, sorry bout that Tezuka, it's just that I think everyone knows that song, well I forgot that you're different from the others!"
"Hn!"
"When you say nothing at all!"
"Huh?"
"That's the title of the song!"
"Aa."
"RING RING RING!!!"
"Oh it's my cell phone, just a minute Tezuka. Hello nee-san? Huh?… really as in now?! Oh I see ok I'll be there within 15 minutes….ok bye!"
"Is there something wrong Fuji?"
"Oh nothing much, it's nee-san, she said that I should come home as soon as possible, coz my mom just came back from state and she's on her way now."
"Then you should go, so it means our group study will be postponed!" Tezuka ordered feeling relieved and lucky this time.
"Yeah I guess so, but don't worry we'll do it tomorrow, I promise. I have to go I told to nee-san that I'll be home within 15 minutes…bye Tezuka. See you tomorrow!"
Before Tezuka could say anything, Fuji was gone. "Great just when I thought I was saved!" mumbled Tezuka to himself.
Itutuloy!!!!
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- Itutuloy means "to be continued" hehehe