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Anger and A Memory

Another afternoon practice, a useless one since the tensai wasn't there, and the redhead known as Gakuto somberly made his way towards the courts as the last to leave the locker room. His carefree jumpiness was still noticeably absent and instead he was feeling completely blank, like a chalkboard wiped clean.

Dragging his feet slowly he nearly ran into Kabaji who he found upon looking up was directly in front of him and blocking his path. As always Atobe Keigo, the bucho of Hyoutei, was standing beside him in all his elegant cocky so called glory. Moving his attention to him as he snapped his fingers in the usual flourishing way of his the bucho soon spoke.

"Mukahi, your new doubles partner will be Hiyoshi now. Ore-sama wants you begin to practicing with him now," spoke the bucho as it took a few moments for his words to sink into Gakuto's mind.

Growing furious at even the idea of getting paired with his kohai the redhead glared angrily up at Atobe. "Play doubles with Genkokujou freak? No way!" He yelled a scowl lining his previously blank features.

"That wasn't a choice, Ore-sama was told by Sakaki-sensei that you're to be paired with Hiyoshi," Atobe replied with a slight frown towards Gakuto. Obviously he didn't have a choice in the matter but the acrobat didn't much care. There was no way he was going to just partner up with that damn Hiyoshi.

Without even thinking the redhead spun on his heel before at his bucho's words and stomped off leaving behind a very shocked Atobe along with the always stoic Kabaj.

Ripping open his locker upon reaching it the acrobat was fuming inside. How dare they expect him to pair up with someone else!

Grinding his teeth together as he ripped off his tennis outfit to change into his normal clothing Gakuto's hands shook. There was just no way that he was ready for a new partner, no damn way. Yuushi had left only a day ago and now they were trying to force him with someone else something completely unforgivable in his eyes.

In only a matter of moments until he was dressed and ready to leave which he did with a slam of his locker. Once more he stomped away this time towards the gates that served as Hyoutei's exit.

Unlike last time Gakuto pulled out his cellphone to call his driver to pick him up as there was no way in hell he was going to walk. The redhead was full of pent up anger as he waited impatiently for a car to arrive and pick him up.

At that moment he couldn't care less about how made Atobe would surely be or even the punishment he would get for skipping out on practice let alone yelling at his bucho. No kind of punishment that the perfectionist could come up with would phase him at that moment, nothing could.

Nothing but anger filled his mind as he repeatedly went over his bucho's words in his mind. Atobe had acted as if assigning Gakuto a new partner was no big deal, like it didn't matter, but to Gakuto that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Couldn't they see that he wasn't ready for a new partner, that he couldn't handle it? Without Yuushi he was nothing, just a bouncy ball destined to run out of steam and soon.

All too soon did an obviously expensive car pull up at the gates causing the redhead to rise from his position on the curb and walk over to it. Opening one of the back doors he slid inside tossing his bag onto the floor before leaning back against the seats with a sigh.

Long ago did his anger fade to reveal his depression that swirled about his mind like dark clouds filled with rain. Telling his driver to take him home in an unusually dejected voice he sank lower letting his back slide down the seats with a squeak of leather.

Averting his gaze towards the ceiling of the car he twisted himself so that he was lying instead on the seats and moved an arm to cover his eyes. All that he could see was Yuushi anyways; the blue haired tensai was plaguing his every waking thought, even his dreams. He knew that he was obsessed with him, he had always been that way, but he couldn't help it anymore...Yuushi had become his support and now it was gone.

Turning onto his side and letting his arm flop against the seat he let out yet another sigh staring blankly ahead of him. The drive seemed to be taking forever though he knew that really it wasn't, just felt that way. Impatient as he was it only seemed to heighten in his current state.

"You shouldn't have left," he mumbled to himself selfishly thinking about how Yuushi's absence had affected him. Never had he bothered to think about how the tensai was feeling, how it affected him, seemed that didn't matter at the moment. Maybe that was another reason why his doubles partner had quit, because he really was a selfish creature.

"Yuuushi!!"Cried the ever bouncy acrobat as he propelled himself to glomp his partner. Ignoring the others rather obvious sigh as he did this Gakuto just felt an immense happiness at being able to wrap his arms around Yuushi. Snuggling his face into the well muscled chest he took a deep breath breathing in his partners alluring sent.

"Gakuto," the tensai began with a shake of his head as he glanced down at his partner with his gray eyes. Not saying anything more then that it seemed that he had decided to appease the hyper bundle for once. Of course hardly anyone could see why he chose to do so, even Gakuto couldn't.

Humming happily as he continued to clutch the taller male Gakuto smiled brightly to himself keeping his eyes closed in order to more fully appreciate the others presence. Snuggling himself even closer he finally felt Yuushi's arms wrap around him comfortingly.

Though his happiness was short-lived as he heard the words he knew were coming but still wished they wouldn't. "...I should go, I've got plenty that I should be doing, and we should be practicing anyways," spoke the tensai

Molding his lips into a pout he glanced upwards agitated that Yuushi would even want to leave. "Come on Yuushi, have some fun for once. You never just have fun anymore with me," spoke Gakuto who had added a slight whine to his voice. He felt cheated that his partner was so willing to just up and leave him.

Once more Yuushi gave a sigh, a longer one this time, as he closed his eyes as if debating something within himself. Without warning he suddenly leaned down to press his lips against the redheads effectively surprising him.

Gakuto nearly melted into the kiss his own lips pressing back against the others having to stand on his toes to reach. For now this was enough he thought, it was enough to know that Yuushi couldn't leave without at least this.

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Finally chapter two is done and its actually longer then the first chapter was, wow. Hope everyone likes this so far and yes sadly Gakuto will be all angsty for a bit longer. Though in the next chapter Hiyoshi is finally going to appear and we all know sparks are going to fly...

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