Hello, fellows! It's my new story here! It's still the Tezuka Fuji story. Can't move on from them still. Hope you like this too.. Enjoy!
"We should add black here." said the red haired man.
"No, no, no. I think dark blue is better." said the blue haired man.
"But, it will damage the composition, won't it?" replied the previous man.
"But, still.. I think we should add blue here." His friend insisted.
"Geez, this will be endless. What do you think, Fuji?"
The sandy haired man tilted his head from his book. "Hm?"
"What color would you add to this section? I think black is better but he thinks about dark blue."
"Saa.. I think black is better." He answered.
"Bravo! Finally! See? We should have done it from the start to save time." He shouted with bulging eyes and filled with happiness.
"Tsk. That's noisy!" The blue haired man messed his hair.
"Maa.. But I think you should put in some dark blue in the right corner to give more details." Fuji continued.
The red haired man looked at the picture again and frowned. "You think so?"
"Hai."
"Yosh! Let's change this and collect it before the lecturer leave. Let's move to the library! Move! You, lazy ass!" The red haired man stood up.
"Alright, alright." He followed his friend.
"Thanks for your help, Fuji. Let's go to drink next time we have free time." He grinned and made an drinking gesture.
"Don't mind it. It's my pleasure to help you." He waved.
When both of his friends faded from his vision, he continued reading his book. He loved to read at his university's park. It was a sophisticated yet comfortable place, many students use this place to read or just enjoying their time together. The autumn breeze was the best, it wasn't too hot to make you dehydrated yet wasn't too cold to make you sick.
His phone decided to disturb his peaceful moment, or rather it was the caller who disturbed him. He took his phone and checked the caller. He hesitated for seconds to pick up the phone or not to pick it up.
Not wanting any curse and punishment from the caller, he picked it up. "Moshi Moshi, Sei-chan."
"Syuu-kun, meet me in thirty minutes. I'll send the location's information."
"But—" it was hung up.
He cursed himself for picking up the phone.
This wouldn't be a good news, whenever his beloved cousin call him it never be a good new. He just hoped that he didn't have to sacrifice his free time for his cousin's necessity, whatever it was.
His phone beeped not any longer. He opened the mail, the address written wasn't too far from his university.
He put away his books and drawing equipments, stretching here and there to help his blood circulation, took some deep breaths then he readied to go. He did his rituals leisurely for he knew he needed his full power to deflected his cousin's antics and well, his cousin would definitely be late.
"Fuji-senpai! Konnichiwa!" one of the girls from the tennis court called him when he walked beside the tennis courts to the university's gate.
"Konnichiwa!" Fuji replied.
The girls squealed at his response. He smiled at them and continued his walked. He waited at the traffic light and sighed.
He loved his cousin, he truly did. But, he was too much. When they were children, Yuta always been his sister and his cousin's center of bullying. They would put him on girlish clothes and laughed at him, took some embarrassing photos of him, and even adding some wasabi into his food. Fuji had always been helping his younger brother whenever he could. He learned that when he smiled together with his evil siblings whenever they put on some girlish clothes, they would lost interest. He never let them to take his embarrassing photos for he too took their embarrassing one. Whenever they put in some wasabi in his food he would turn the table by asking some more.
The door bell rang when he opened it. He often came here when he had to finish his paperwork and assignments. He was glad that the lunch hour had passed, the cafe was quiet by then.
"Welcome, Fuji-san. Nice to see you here today. Are you ready to order? We have chicken steak with black paper for the main course and lovely chocolate pudding as dessert, today."
"Saa.. I think hot cocoa will be sufficient for now."
The waitress took his order and walked to the counter.
He took out his book and started to read when his order arrived. He was curious about what would happen to the protagonist after escaping her jail now.
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"I'm sorry! I'm late! I have to do something before coming here. Are you waiting for too long?" his cousin's voice drew his attention back to the 3D world.
He looked at his watch, it was one hour later than the promised time. As expected. His cup was emptied long time ago. "Maa.."
"I just need a glass of water, please." He waved at the waitress when she approached them.
"I can't believe it that these happen at the same time." His cousin said.
Okay, it had started.
"I don't know how to handle these. I am doomed. Both Gen-chan and Tezuka are injured when playing tennis. Gen-chan can't take care of himself, he can't even prepare his own meal properly. I even found him eating the almost expired food from his fridge. Can you believe it? I can't leave him, can I? He can't even find his uniform when we were at senior high, I had to remind him everyday, then. He went to school yet forgot to bring his bag. He often yelled at our kouhai who failed the match. The funniest one was he didn't realize that he took wrong class and followed the test that held for that class, too. He freaked out when he thought he failed the test. Oh, my. It was so hilarious. But again, Tezuka is injured too. I don't know what to do. Then I found a solution, I can go to Gen-chan's place and you can go to Tezuka's place and pretending that you are me. It's great, right?" His speech was too long that Fuji almost didn't catch it till the last sentence.
"What?! Hold on!"
His cousin didn't stop talking about his Gen-chan's condition and how he was so hurt.
"Can you talk slower and clearly.. Please?"
"I want you to pretend as myself and take care of my boyfriend." He said it briefly.
"You want me to what?" Fuji almost shouted, almost.
"Yeah. He is injured at his previous match." He took out a newspaper from his big bag and gave it to Fuji.
Since when did he bring these bags and papers? Fuji thought.
The newspaper was folded neatly and it was folded at the sport section. Fuji read it briefly. It was about a world class tennis athlete who was injured on his eyes at a tennis tournament. The temporarily blind condition made him had to cancel his plan in participating the matches for rest of the year.
"Why did you show me this article?"
His cousin sighed. "And they call you a tensai. He is my boyfriend." He pointed at Tezuka's photo on the newspaper.
So his boyfriend is an athlete now? Fuji thought unamused.
He put the newspaper away. "Why do you ask me? He is you boyfriend." He continued still uninterested.
"Yes, I know but Gen-chan is injured. I'm worried sick about him. He is too proud to ask for help." He placed his temple on his hand which placed on the table. He looked so stressed out.
"I mean, why me?" He pressed at the me.
"I don't want to do this. I like Tezuka so much. I don't want to deceive him but Gen-chan's condition makes me can't think clearly. He needs me. And then.. I realize that I have a way out. You."
Fuji didn't say anything.
"We are similar. Height, voice, our temperament and nature too. Even our hair are similar, you silly."
"No. Mine is brown and yours blue." Fuji deflected.
"So what? He can't see it anyway. I just need you to replace me until I make sure Gen-chan is okay. It won't be long, no more than two days. I promise." He gave Fuji his best puppy eyes.
"Shouldn't you worry about your boyfriend more than your childhood friend? Normally, people would fly rightaway to his lover if his lover is injured. Why do you care about your childhood friend more?" He tried to be reasonable.
"Why do I feel that you are not siding with me?" Sei-chan pouted.
"It's not about siding which way but I think you have to care of your boyfriend more than your friend, no? Your friend has many other friends. They can help him. Your boyfriend on the other hand, needs you the most now. Shouldn't you support him at his worst condition? He is helpless now."
"I know but the one who can take care of Gen-chan and know him the best is me."
"Well, what about I go to your childhood friend, I have met time several times now so he kows me and you can go to your boyfriend?" Fuji tried to find another solution.
"NO! No! You can't!" He stood from his position.
"Okay, okay. You don't have to yell at me, you know?" He raised his hands as a sign that he gave in.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I didn't have enough sleep these days, I constantly move from here and Gen-chan's place. Syuu-kun, please, help me this once, ne? I know I shouldn't leave Tezuka alone but I can't leave Gen-chan when he is suffering." His eyes watered.
And you can leave your boyfriend to a stranger, Fuji thought silently.
"Syuu-kun, I hope you can help me. I don't want to say it but you owe me once." He pleaded at Fuji but the blue eyed man didn't feel the older man was pleading l, he was blackmailing him instead.
Fuji knew his cousin would do anything to make him succumb.
"Alright, alright. I'll do it." He said it finally.
"Really?"
"I have no choice, don't I?" He felt his migraine started to pound in his head. He needed a cup of coffee now, thick and bitter.
"Oh, that's good! Thank you, Syuu-kun! You just need to do it until I'm back from Gen-chan's place. Don't worry, I won't be gone for too long, I'll be back before you realize it!" His mood changed as fast as the typhoon.
Fuji smiled at him. "I hope so Yukimura Seiichi, I'm just pitying your boyfriend. He needs you the most at his state now yet, you take him for granted." He said but his cousin was too busy calling his childhood friend.
It would be a very difficult time to face but as long as he didn't owe anything anymore, he would do his best. Even if that mean he had to pretend as another person.
That's for the first chapter! next will be soon. I hope it sooner than soon, though. Good night!
Ps. Happy birthday FujI Syusuke!