Hi everyone! I'm FINALLY back from that reallllllly long break! Hopefully, I'll have better luck with this story than with my other one.

Disclaimer: I DON"T OWN PRINCE OF TENNIS!


Watching the little prodigy in silence, Fuji Syusuke stood off to the side, silently assessing the match. Ryoma was currently matched against Kaidoh, and as far as he could tell, their little ochibi was having no difficulty in reading Kaidoh's movements and returning the balls while Kaidoh was having difficulty finding ways to tire the other. As he heard the famous, "Mada mada dane," come from Ryoma, he felt a real smirk cross his face for a moment before it fell back into its usual smile. Really, that phrase was going to get him into some trouble one of these days. Soon, the match ended with Ryoma as the winner, as usual.

Then he turned to his coach and current boyfriend, Tezuka. Realizing that he was only looking at Ryoma, Fuji felt a bit disappointed, but brushed it off, saying that it was only because Ryoma played really well. In the past, he had seen Ryoma look at Tezuka with admiring eyes, but he told himself it was only because he had yet to beat his stoic buchou. Sometimes, when he saw that Tezuka was paying a bit too much attention, to Ryoma, he would walk over, and talk to Tezuka about something tennis related.

In fact, it seemed that the only reason he and Tezuka went out was all because of tennis. It began with Tezuka beating him in that one match. He swore that one day he would beat the captian. Soon, the friendship he held for the stoic man soon blossomed into love, or so he thought. Ignoring these thoughts, he went back to practice.

Everyone was dismissed and they all went into the club room to change. Following them, Fuji entered the room only to see that most of the Regulars had already changed and were preparing to leave. The only ones who were still changing were him, Tezuka, and Ryoma. Changing at a much slower pace, he offered to lock up the club room, and the other two left shortly as well.

Once he finished locking up the room, he began to leave when he thought he could hear voices coming from around the corner. Getting close enough to hear, he realized that it was only Ryoma and Tezuka talking. About to join them, he paused when he heard Tezuka speak.

"…B-buchou… but…. Fuji-sempai…"

"What about him? Ryoma, I love you."

Feeling his heart break into millions of pieces, he peered around the corner to see what was going on, opening his eyes in shock at what he saw.

Ryoma was backed up against a wall, pinned between Tezuka's two strong arms. Paying no heed to Ryoma, who was trying desperately to get out of his strong buchou's grasp, he leaned in, much to Ryoma's denial, and was about to force himself on the young boy before Fuji stepped out, rejection obvious in his eyes.

"Kumimitsu?" he whispered, looking up with tears in his eyes, hoping to see them come walking, Ryoma with his infamous smirk, and them saying something about this just being a joke or something, and when they did break apart, Fuji began to hope, but was crushed. Tezuka, making eye contact for merely a second, gave him the answer he was looking for.

They were over.

A single tear flowed down his cheek before he turned around and ran, forgetting his things that lay on the ground. Ryoma, cap pulled over his eyes, looked up at the sound of footsteps, to see Fuji's retreating figure running in the direction of the park. Reaching out to follow him, he hesitated, looking back at Tezuka. Seeing as the older boy made no move to follow Fuji, he looked down and ran after Fuji, not once looking back.

Collapsing under a tree, Fuji looked up with teary eyes, seeing the sky being filled with dark clouds. Why Kunimitsu? Well, I guess its Tezuka now. It's all Ryoma's fault. If he hadn't come here, then I…then Tezuka… then we… Not much later, rain began to pour from the sky. It was as if the heavens were also crying over his loss. "Fuji-sempai…" Turning around, he found Ryoma, hands on his knees, panting heavily from running to catch up with him. Staring at him for a minute, he slowly got up, facing the ground and stood. Neither of them made a noise or attempted to move in any way.

"Echizen…" Said boy looked up, concern heavily lacing his eyes, when he heard his name whispered. "Echizen… IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" Fuji screamed at him with opened eyes filled with anger mixed with sadness, now looking up, not bothering to hide the tears that were flowing freely. Taken aback, the olive haired boy took a few steps back before falling down. "If you hadn't come here, then Tezuka and I… then we would still be together! And… and…" Unable to take it anymore, he fell down on all fours and began to openly weep. Unsure of what to do, Ryoma slowly got back up, hesitating in the first few steps, but walked over to Fuji, putting his arms gently but firmly around his tensai. "Fuji-sempai, it'll be okay." "But I've lost him…" he murmured softly, but loud enough to hear. "So?" Ryoma asked cockily, much to Fuji's surprise.

"Just because he likes someone else doesn't mean the world's over, Fuji-sempai. If you get pushed down, you've just got to get back up and find someone else," he stated simply. Staring indignantly at the younger boy, Fuji glared, replying, "That's easy for you to say, considering my old boyfriend is now your current one." Stunned, Ryoma looked at Fuji with confused eyes before asking, "Huh?" "Don't act stupid, Echizen! I saw you and Tezuka together right after we left the club room , remember?" Ryoma smirked at this, leaning over so he could whisper into Fuji's ear, "Fuji-sempai no baka (please tell me if that's worded right!). How can I love him when I love you?"


Okay, so that was kinda short. You don't have to tell me :/ Anyways, please review! Feel free to demand me to update if you think I'm too slow. :P I'll try to get in another chapter before school starts on the 8th for me, so wish me luck! Reviews also help :D

Oh, and I'm kinda going with the flow here, so I have NO IDEA on what to write about next. If you guys want to help contribute ideas, that would be SO greatly appreciated! Thankies!

~DarkStar