About this collection: Memories is a collection of short stories, drabbles, and ficlets all written for the 30_kisses challenge on LJ. This challenge is to take a list of 30 themes and write a story around each. The theme can be interpreted however you want, but every story must contain a kiss in some form (even if it's just a Hershey's kiss).

I chose to upload these all in one story instead of separately because some of them are rather short. In every "chapter," I will give you the theme I based the story around, as I did them out of order (it's allowed and pretty much expected). Some of these will have plot; most will not. Don't expect regular updates. This is a "write when I feel like it" thing. XD

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, nor am I making profit off of them. I'm just a sad, sad little person.

Theme: #013; excessive chain
Title: Jealousy

There were days when Oishi wondered if he gave Eiji too much leeway; times when he wondered if he let his touchy-feely partner get away with too much. Today was slowly amounting to one of those days and this was definitely one of those times.

With his arms crossed over his chest, Oishi leant back against the chain link fence surrounding their school's tennis court. The team was currently in the middle of practice, but Oishi's eyes were more drawn to the sight beside him than to the light volleys happening on the green clay before him.

"That's what I keep saying, o-chibi!" The familiar voice of Eiji, his boyfriend of several years, had grabbed the attention of anyone unlucky enough to be standing nearby.

"O-chibi's" indignant huff somehow made it through all of Eiji's whining. "Senpai, I don't really understand what the problem is."

Oishi took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Honestly, he couldn't even remember what the argument began over. All he knew was it had been going on for some time before he had started paying attention. The only detail relevant to Oishi at that moment was the fact that Eiji had gone from having his arm draped across Echizen's shoulders in his usual friendly fashion to standing in front of him and cupping his face.

What had originated as curiosity over the situation was quickly turning into jealousy, but he wasn't yet sure if he should intervene at that point. He trusted Eiji. He didn't want to get worked up if this turned out to be nothing. After all, it would all turn out okay in the end, right? It always did. A firm believer in the "if you tell yourself something enough times, you will eventually start to believe it" philosophy, Oishi stood back and let his own reassuring words keep him from acting.

Eiji's shoulders rose and fell in an annoyed sigh. "Your hat is the problem! No-one can see your eyes if your hat's brim is always in the way!"

'Echizen's eyes?' Thoroughly confused, Oishi really wished he had caught the beginning of this exchange (or at least the last five minutes of it).

"What does it matter if no-one can see my eyes?" Echizen's voice rang of defiance. His lips made a firm line on his face.

Eiji looked utterly frustrated. Oishi knew the reason for his upset: Echizen wasn't understanding the point the redhead was trying to make. 'Whatever that might be,' Oishi mused. Confident that this wasn't going anywhere he'd have to worry about, Oishi was now completely comfortable with watching the event unfold.

"It matters! It matters!" Eiji insisted. His hands moved from Echizen's cheeks to his shoulders, giving them a light shake to emphasize his point. Eiji glanced back at Oishi with an exasperated expression. A faint gleam in his eye was all the warning Oishi had that Eiji's intent might not be so innocent after all. With not another word, Eiji plucked Echizen's hat from his head and placed it atop his own.

Echizen's immediate displeasure was apparent. His lips were poised to protest the pilfered headpiece, but Eiji's index finger against his mouth stopped whatever may have come out.

"Girls need to see this cute face in order to fall in love with you," Eiji explained further, using a logic that only made sense to him. He leaned into Echizen's face, his lips not even a centimeter from the other boy's. "Ne, Echizen?"

Two things happened simultaneously after this. Echizen grew some awareness of the situation and pushed himself away from his senpai. At the same time, Oishi walked the three steps it took to get to Eiji and pulled him away from the younger boy by way of a hand on his shoulder.

This was too far. He gave Eiji a lot of slack, but this...this was too much. The nerve! For him to actually think about kissing another person was too much for Oishi. He turned the other boy to face him, fully prepared to lecture him on the proper decorum one should exhibit while in a relationship...and stopped when he saw the look on Eiji's face. The devilish smile that adorned Eiji's lips and the utterly mischievous glint in Eiji's deep blue eyes stopped Oishi right in his tracks.

He placed a chaste kiss on his shocked partner's lips and spread his arms around him. "I was wondering what it would take for you to reel me in, Oishi."

Oishi's tension left his body with a deep sigh. He held Eiji close and buried his face in his partner's hair. A soft chuckle escaped him; he couldn't help it. It really was impossible for him to stay mad at Eiji.

Yes, he definitely gave Eiji too much leeway, but he knew Eiji would always come back to him when the day was done. It always turned out okay in the end.

A/N: To those fans of And Here, We Meet Again: I have not abandoned it! I apologize very, very deeply from the bottom of my heart! D: Life happened. I plan on finishing chapter 5 and getting the epilogue done this weekend. Hopefully, 5 will be up next Friday (always leave time for editing ^^). Keep your fingers crossed!