A/N: I wanted to write a sequel and this is what happened. To be perfectly honest, i have no idea how this came to be.
All the first stringers were gathered in the dining hall but for Miyuki, Kuramochi, Furuya, Kominato and Sawamura. Chatter were heard all around, they all knew what this meeting that Maezono called for was all about. At practice, they had noticed that there had a been a change in how those five reacted to each other.
Miyuki was teasing Sawamura endlessly which was no different from normal but somehow it just looked like he was flirting with the southpaw pitcher add to the fact that Sawamura was blushing bright red while shouting back at Miyuki, they definitely knew something was wrong with the battery.
Kominato and Furuya were also quite distant from each other, well it was more like Kominato was avoiding the pitcher at all cause and Furuya looking dejected. Another strange thing was that Kominato who normally ate meals with Furuya and Sawamura had chosen to sit with Toujou and Kanemaru instead, ignoring his best friends.
Kuramochi on the other hand was spacing out quite a lot and was heard muttering to himself somethings which sounded like "Impossible, no way." It looked like he hadn't slept well at all. They also noticed that when practicing with Kominato, Kuramochi at times looked scared and at times his eyes were gentle as he watched the pink head move but it felt like his mind was somewhere else.
"Zono-senpai, do you know why their acting weird?" Toujou asked. He and Kanemaru had been subjected to Furuya glaring at them during meal times.
Maezono scratched his head, he didn't know where to begin. He had been looking for Jun when he had overheard the conversation. Well, more like it was shouted for all to here, namely courtesy of Sawamura. He decidedly told a quick version if what he heard last night.
"I don't want to think that my life's decided for me." Toujou said.
"Forget that, it means we're not real." Kanemaru shouted.
That caused a stir amongst them and he let the team cool down after finding out about them being an anime and manga before continuing.
"This is what I'm talking about." Maezono had brought out his laptop and showed them what was on the screen, they crowded around it and saw the names of their teammates and senpai's.
"Zono, this is?"
They took a closer look at the pairings and think they know the reason for their teammates acting strange. Had looking at the stories awakened something in them?
"What the hell, their mostly gay pairings."
"Well some of these pairings are possible."
"Hideaki, what are you saying?" Kanemaru asked in disbelieve.
"I think today is all the proof we need."
It was not like they had not noticed the possibility of those pairings. Sometimes the way they acted around each other gave off the feeling that they were more than friends.
"Let's look at our senpai's."
Soon they were searching for their senpai's pairings.
"Hmm, Masuko-senpai doesn't have any pairings does he."
"Who would they pair him too? He only likes his pudding."
"So Masuko/pudding."
Everyone started laughing at that ridiculous idea.
"Hahaha, if they did that then Kuramochi's would be Kuramochi/video games."
"You guys seem to be having fun."
That voice shocked all of them and when they turned they noticed that Ryousuke was in the dining hall with them and he looked slightly angry.
They gulped as Ryousuke walked up to the laptop and stared down. "I see." They didn't know why Ryousuke looked so bitter, maybe Ryousuke had been affected by what he saw yesterday as well. "I suggest you look at your own pairings." The smile was back on his face.
"Let's start with Zono." No one dared to stop Ryousuke as he took the laptop away.
Last night in his sleep he just couldn't stop thinking about the shortstop. No matter how hard he tried, his dreams would always go back to the shortstop. He was planning to take a walk to clear his mind and process what he had seen during practice when he overheard the lame joke, he got so annoyed and decided to crash their fun.
Zono cowered when Ryousuke glared at him and the rest of the team looked at him with pitying eyes.
He felt a hand on his shoulders "Ma, calm down you're not his first choice anyway." But of course Zono couldn't calm down at all as Ryousuke was practically squeezing his shoulders.
It was true, Haruichi had called him earlier and wanted advice on what to do about his new found feelings towards one of his best friends.
Ryousuke was certain that when they found the site, something had changed within him and probably everyone else who had looked at it that night. He had a strange feeling that what he was feeling right now towards the shortstop was by the work of something he couldn't control. For all he knew this could have been the work of a fan, making them read their pairings then giving them strange dreams and feelings.
Well if that was what was going on, he had decided that his other teammates should experience it as well, what he did not expect was that Haruichi still had more pairings. He glared at Zono at first but he was mostly certain that he had nothing to worry about when it came to Zono.
"Let's continue." They were even more afraid now as they saw Zono slump into a seat.
"Kawakami/Miyauchi."
"Eh!" Kawakami shouted.
"Must be because Miyauchi-senpai grabbed your private area in a match."
Kawakami's face turned bright red, it was something he didn't want to remember. "It's not like that. Can we move on?" Wanting a change of topic.
Ryousuke smiled and clicked on the next few names.
Kanemaru began to shout when he saw his pairing "No way, Hideaki and I are just friends."
"Say something." Kanemaru said when Toujou remained silent.
"Aa, forget it this is just ridiculous." Kanemaru left the dining room and Toujou followed after him.
"What are you all doing here?" It was the caretaker and he had come to lock up for the day. They quickly apologized and left the dining room.
Ryousuke went back to his room and once again his mind was full of thoughts about his shortstop. He was going to have to accept these new feelings of his. The smile on his face grew bigger at the thought that he had also helped some of his teammates with their own feelings. He was going to have to check out practice again tomorrow.
