Hi! Leena here. First fic published. I do not own Prince of Tennis, otherwise it would contain a lot more Fuji than it does. This fic is going to have u-17 canon in the future, so I can imaginary compensate the lack of Fuji in The New Prince of Tennis. I hope you enjoy.

It was more or less a normal day. As normal as it could be for him, anyway, having just won the National Tennis Tournament, making him and the whole tennis club even more of a celebrity. In any case, his days were as busy as always, and his breaks still consisted in hiding away of the rest of the school on an empty room, in this case the locker room, with only Fuji. And Fuji standing beside him, looking beautiful. Tezuka as long ago accepted his not-so-friendship-inclined feelings towards the brunette, but also long ago decided he wouldn't act upon those feelings. Priorities. Tennis and school first, he didn't really have time to spare in love relationships. But right now, his beloved friend was asking him about one, and he was completely lost as how to answer.

"Nee, Tezuka... " he said.

"hnn?"

"What would you say if I told you I was gay?"

Tezuka's mind went blank for a few seconds, then answered "Our friendship is not conditioned by your sexual orientation"

"Ahh, I'm glad to hear that" the lithe boy said. Then after a few seconds of pause, he added
"Yukimura Seiichi asked me out"

Then Tezuka's brain collapsed upon itself. He always knew one day he would have to see Syuusuke dating, but yet... he wasn't prepared for it. He knew that a lot of people asked the boy out, he was, after all, extremely beautiful, smart, pleasant, atractive, strong, fun, and everything you could possibly want on a boyfriend, but the tensai had never mentioned any of those people to Tezuka before. If he just did, it must be because he is considering to accept, or maybe he already did.

"Do you like him?" Was all Tezuka managed to say after a few minutes of shock.

"Well, he is attractive, and nice, and we do have a fair amount in common, so I figured I may as well give him a chance. We are going on a date this weekend"

Tezuka felt his lungs run out of air. A date. With Yukimura. His beloved angel was going on a date. And he's not going to do anything to stop it. It hurt.
That monday, Syuusuke showed up to school singing. A love song, on top of that. Making an effort to hear the tensai's soft voice, Tezuka tried to understand the lyrics.
The song was about starting a new love. Tezuka didn't have to ask to know his date had gone great. But he did wonder who was the previous love that didn't go that well.
When Tezuka was about to greet the tensai, that for the first time hadn't noticed his presence yet, Eiji glomped him from behind.

"Nyaaaa, Fujiko, are you singing?"

"Ohayo, Eiji"

"Soooo... How did it go?" The redhead asked in a suggestive tone.

"Saa... " Syuusuke opened his eyes, but there was no threat in them, there were actually sort of... dreamy. Tezuka felt the sting of jealousy on his chest.

"mmm... so are you seeing him again?"

"Seiichi invited me to an art gallery opening this friday" Fuji answered.

Great, they were already in first name basis.

Staturday afternoon. Syuusuke was on his room, looking at his wardrobe with a thoughtfull face. After trying out three other outfits, he decided for a blue short sleeve button up shirt, open, a black t-shirt under, black pants and sneakes, completed with a silver bracelet.
After checking himself on the mirror one last time, he thought about what was about to come. It was his first date ever, after all.
Not that he didn't have offers, from the time he turned thirteen, he'd been asked out at least once a week by a lot of different people. But his heart had belonged to a certain someone for so long, he never gave any other person a chance before. What had changed now, was that his time together with that someone was coming to an end. He hadn't asked his buchou yet, but he had the feeling that Tezuka wouldn't be going to highschool in Japan next year, and 90% of the time, those gut feelings he had were true. And in any case, Tezuka hadn't given him a single signal during the past three years that he'd be willing to date him, or anyone for that matter. Tennis and school, those were his only occupations, and hobbies as fishing, hiking, bonsai and reading occupied the only free time he could have, and even then, even though Syuusuke had implied he would go with him, Tezuka had never invited him. Their relationship was limited to school, tennis and the walk to and back from school, because the captain had never accepted invitations from the tensai either. Finally, after all that, and after winning the championship together, a dreadfull sense of finality had been taking over everytime he looked at Tezuka's stone face.
That's when the very attractive captain of Rikkaidai Fuzoku Chuu asked him out. They met on the street tennis courts Syuusuke visits regularly, according to the blunette, by coincidence, but Syuusuke had the feeling the other boy was actually waiting for him. They played a friendly match, that turned out to be so intense, they ended up on the floor panting. It ended up on Fuji's loss, but it was a very close battle. The brunette hadn't feel such a thrill, ever. He wasn't playing for winning, not for just messing around, as he often did, he played because that was really fun. He played seriously, and for fun. That was something new for him. Then, Yukimura showed up in front of him, or more acuratelly, on top of him blocking the sun, because Syuusuke was still lying down. He helped the brunette up, and there was a tingling feeling that was so nice. They sat down under a tree and shared sport drinks. They talked about the match, laughed and smiled. They realized they had the same sense of humor, and that they understood each other quite well. Then, Fuji took out his camera and took a picture. It was an impulse he just followed, when Yukimura looked up to the sky, the wind dancing on his hair, the sunlight trough the tree leaves, the image was so beautifull, he didn't even think and snapped the picture. Yukimura looked at him with questioning eyes, and Fuji blushed.
"Sorry, was that weird? I like photography, and right now, you looked... I just... didn't think, just took the picture."
Yukimura laughed at that as if it was the funniest thing in the world. And then he asked.
"Fuji-kun. What would you say to a date with me next saturday?"
"A date?" He went blank for a few seconds, somehow, he didn't see that coming. "ehh, sure" He smiled for a second then he realized he was probably looking like a love-struck schoolgirl, and turned around.
Yukimura chuckled and took his leaving, promising to pick him up at his house, saturday 5:30 pm.
And there's the tensai now, waiting for the doorbell that's due to ring in two minutes now.
It did ring, exactly at the agreed time, like a clock. Syuusuke opened the door and his heart gave a somersault. Yukimura looked breathtaking.
"Shall we go?" Yukimura said with a smile that promised... something big.
Fuji nodded and took the arm that was being offered to him, without realizing how he'd look like the girl doing so. Yukimura led the way to a cab waiting for them, and took the tensai to a cafe next to a park. Everything was already prepared for them, the table was reserved and it had the most beautiful flower arrangement... of belladonna, lilly of the valley and autumn crocus.
"Do you like it? I ordered it for you" Yukimura said as he pulled out the chair for Syuusuke to sit.
"It's beautiful. Thank you" He felt himself blushing profuselly, not entirelly sure if for the flowers, the reservation, the fact that Yukimura pulled out the chair, or the fact that the flowers were... "They're all poisonous, and very expensive, the Autumn Crocus at least"
"Yes. Actually they make me think of you. Beautiful, tantalizing, but deadly"
Now, Fuji was sure that his face could not possibly get any redder. He gave Yukimura an open eyed smile that said thank you in a way that the blunette could not help but blush too.
That was when they discovered they both liked gardening too. It was hard to believe for him, as if he'd been on a dream, to discover that there was someone out there with so much in common with him, and so pleasant to be with...
Then Fuji took something out of his bag to give Yukimura.
"Yukimura-kun... here" he said, handing him a photograph "It's a copy of the picture a took of you the other day. I hope you don't mind I keep the original"
"Seiichi" he said smiling."Call me Seiichi"
"Seiichi" the tensai repeated with a smile."Syuusuke" he said then.
"Mind if I call you Syuu?"
"Syuu is perfectly fine"
The smile they gave each other that moment was perfect. The moment was perfect. After eating, they went for a walk in the park, and stood to watch the sunset. Seiichi slid an arm to hug Syuusuke's waist, the brunette turned to face him, and when their eyes met, it was so beautifull, so perfect, they just slowly leaned to each other and shared their first kiss together. Which was also Syuusuke's first kiss, ever.
Everything felt kind of dreamy from then on.
He spent the rest of the weekend daydreaming about his date, about Seiichi, about the next date they'd agreed on, and listening to the various love songs his sister played on the house's stereo while giggling at him. And for once in three years, Tezuka's name didn't even cross his mind.

Yukimura had been looking at Seigaku's so famous tensai from the moment they step in that stadium. During the match the boy had againts their trickster, Yukimura had a bit of trouble focusing on what he was supposed to -the actual match- because the brunette's body, running from one side of the court to the other, his mesmerizing blue eyes, his shirt lifting, his legs... all was a bit too distracting, even for someone with such a great self-control as him. And, as he could notice, it was a bit too distracting for a lot of other people too, including three Seigakus and a Shitenhouji.
He hadn't noticed that Seigaku's captain was gay before.
After the whole ordeal was over, something left Seiichi with a sad feeling on his chest. Probably the loss. But also the image of that Fuji Syuusuke's eyes that didn't go away.
There was something in those eyes. Something he wanted. So he went to the one person who could help him with that: Yanagi Renji.
Renji told him everything he knew about the so called tensai of Seigaku, which turned out to be not as much as he had expected. According to him, not even Seigaku's Sadaharu, that had studied him for three years, had been able to gather more data on the boy. That intrigued the Rikkai captain, it was... interesting. At leats it was enough to know where to stage a "casual" encounter with the Fuji boy.
That weekend, he went to stay in Tokyo, at his cousin's place. Saturday morning, he headed for the street courts Yanagi told him that Fuji often visited. The blue eyed tensai didn't show up that morning. He didn't show up saturday afternoon either, but Yukimura wasn't one to give up. Sunday morning he was there too, when he saw the smiling face he'd been waiting for.
"Hi, Fuji-kun!" He greets "Didn't expect to see you"
"Yukimura-san" The boy acknowledged him. "You're pretty far from "
"I came to stay with my cousin for the weekend, and felt like playing tennis. My cousin told me there where courts here. Want to play a friendly match?"
Fuji opened his eyes for a few seconds, giving him a quite intense look, then he closed them again, smiled and nodded.
It was intense, as his eyes. Pretty intense, unbelievably, the tensai could play perfectly well without seeing, and still push. Originally, he hadn't planned on going as serious as taking away his senses, but turned out the brunette could push him that far, thou when he did, he found out it was useful for hiding the lust that was starting to show a bit, watching the lithe boy running back and forth.
When it was over, they were both exhausted. Yukimura had a satisfied feeling, and he felt a very real smile break on his face as he stared at the sky. He stood up, looked at the other boy, on the other side of the court, still lying face up, and breathing hard. It was a beautiful sight. The blunette stood up, walked to Fuji, and standing by his side, leaned over his face.
"That was a great match" He smiled and extended his hand to help the smaller boy up.
"Yeah"
There was a sort of electricity when they touched, or at least that was what Seiichi felt.
They sat under a tree, and talked for two solid hours. Yukimura couldn't remember the last time he had a conversation that long, with someone that could not only keep up with him, but make him laugh that much, even outwit him sometimes. Everything was going amazingly, and Yukimura looked up to the sky, dazed for a few minutes at the wonder he had found, when he heard the click of a camera. Fuji had snapped a picture of him. He felt confused for a few seconds, until the boy turned completely red. He looked like he was about to stutter.
"Sorry, was that weird? I like photography, and right now, you looked... I just... didn't think, just took the picture."
Yukimura couldn't help, but laugh. It was not often that people got to surprise him like that. Fuji was definitly what he was looking for.

Tezuka wasn't one to eavesdrop, but somehow... he couldn't help it. Fuji was so dazed, he hadn't even noticed him, barely said hi, then he went ahead with Eiji, telling him about his date. Syuusuke never talked about such private matters, or at least, he'd never seen him do that before. And he had called Yukimura by his given name.
"We kissed" Fuji said blushing profussely. If Tezuka hadn't been so hurt to hear that, he would have been just marvelled at the sight of a blushing Fuji. He didn't even know Fuji's face could do that. Apparently, neither did Eiji, for the boy just stood there stunned for a few seconds while Fuji kept walking to school, then run to catch up.
"OMG, Fujiko-chan, you had your first kiss with Yukimura?"
"Shhh, Eiji, don't say it so loud! But yes, I did"
Tezuka couldn't keep listening. That was Fuji's first kiss. He could have been the one to take it. He could have been the one, but he chose not to. It hurts, but he knows is for the best. He's not supposed to waste time in love when he had so many responsabilities to uphold.
That week went quite fast. Fuji dazed, walking around while humming love songs, Eiji glomping people around and teasing, Tezuka being even quieter than usual. Classes were almost over, and they started having free periods, in which Tezuka noticed Fuji texting someone, and giggling like he'd never seen him do before. Eiji tried to peek on Fuji's texts, but the tensai wouldn't let him, which ended up in both of them playing a pretense fight for the phone and laughing. Inui commented during lunch time that there's 80% chance someone finally stole the tensai's heart, which surprised Tezuka, because he thought that if Eiji knew, surely the whole school would have found out already. Turns out the redhead is more reserved than he looks like. Kawamura looked as brokenhearted as Tezuka was when he heard Inui's guess, and Kaidoh just hissed and said
"That's his private matter, and besides you're not entirelly sure, sempai"
which actually seemed to cheer up the burning guy a bit.
Tezuka knew better, thou. Fuji wouldn't have kissed the guy if he wasn't going to seriously date him.