Here it is, the Chapter Three. In regards to the Pillar Pairing, wait it out, some flash backs will have that pairing to it. I realized that I've only been writing around Yuuta, so I'm gonna switch it up this chapter and focus around the elder Fuji brother. There will most likely be a story after this revolving around Tezuka and Ryoma, won't be as long as this one is (God I hope not). Anyway, please enjoy. R&R, thanks.

Summary: With the breaking of a promise, Yuuta's world becomes unstable and seeks other people to try and bring that world back from the brink of destruction, but even after going as far as to try and repair things, will Yuuta ever find a way to repair the damage done (especially in his heart)?

Warnings: This is yaoi, YuutaxMizuki, FujixTezuka, YuutaxAtsushi, Fujicest, and Kisarazucest, and mentioning of TezukaxRyoma.

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis, nor any characters in this fic. And I do not own any songs you see, which belongs to Life House. I also, Prince racquets owns the Prince Triple Threat Vendetta, I just happen to own one.

// Sever the skies

Bury the truth

Forget the time

These were the years

You tried to leave behind

Whatever we are

I still remember the way we were //

"Saaa, he's left, hasn't he, Tezuka?" Both boys were alone, gazing at Seigaku's tennis courts. Everything was abandoned, practice cancelled due to everyone planning on seeing their prince off at the air port. The two third years were still hanging around.

"Yah." Fuji knew the captain wasn't exactly in the best of moods.

"You didn't even want to hang around to see his plane take off?" Tezuka glanced over at the other boy.

"No, nothing good would've come from it."

"Say, if you're going to be lonely, why not go out with me? You've always had to have noticed that I care greatly about you. And I don't wish for our captain to become useless with losing someone he really cares about." Fuji's smile seemed to change from fake to simpathy.

"If it's what you want." Fuji then gave a small quick pout.

"You make it sound like a bad thing, Tezuka. Ryoma will return in a couple years to return to come to high school with us." Tezuka pushed up his glasses and started to walk, Fuji following right at his side.

"Our pillar decided to leave when the team decided he would be the most important." Fuji smiled.

"You didn't see him as just a pillar, Tezuka. You loved him, didn't you." Tezuka resisted the urge to smack the other third year for the comment, or command laps.

"Suppose so. Too late now."

"It's never too late. I'll teach you all you need to know, so when Ryoma returns, he'll be the lucky one to have your love." Fuji slightly envied the boy, not really knowing that he had someone who would be eagerly awaiting his return. It must be nice, to have someone waiting for him.

"Go back to reading your fairy tale stories, Fuji." This comment earned a chuckle.

"You gotta be kidding me." Tezuka was sitting on the floor, Fuji stretched out on his bed glancing over the other's shoulder at the book, reading along. What teacher in their right mind would make them read over break. Fuji rolled over onto his back and stretched.

"Sad that the boy had to die because he was in love with the main boy. That was a nice way to kill him off, ganged up and mobbed on. Is this really going on in society today that makes it important for us to read it?" Fuji was doing all he could to yawn.

"I suppose so. Makes me wonder where the stones are in this story and why they haven't come to stone either of us yet." This caused Syuusuke to laugh.

"Because neither of us are the main character of the story, it's just that simple." Tezuka shut the book.

"Who's story? Ryoma is the main boy of my story and Yuuta is your's. I'm just your toy to deal with ignoring your brother's antics." Fuji scooted over and nibbled on Tezuka's earlobe.

"Lies. I really do love you, Tezuka." The front door opening and closing caused both boys to listen to the voice that was talking.

"Tadaima." It was Yuuta, by the sounds of it he was chilled to the bone from the winter weather.

"Welcome home." Yumiko was the first to greet the youngest member of the family by the sounds of it. "And you must be Hajime Mizuki. It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Yuuta's elder sister, Yumiko. Please make yourself at home."

"The pleasure is mine." Fuji made a disgusted look at hearing the conversation going on.

"This is an interesting turn of events." Fuji's voice was cold, already plotting how to ruin Mizuki's evening, even if it displeased his brother.

"It's Christmas Eve, don't ruin the holidays for your brother." Tezuka's voice brought Fuji out of his thoughts.

"Fine, fine, I'll play the right older brother mode." Getting up, he stretched. "Then I should pop down and greet him. Would you like anything while I'm down there?" Blue orbs rested on the other boy, who nodded slowly.

"A glass of water would be nice." Fuji simply gave a michivious smile before slipping out of the door to head downstairs, not hearing Tezuka give an exhausted sigh.

"Welcome come, Yuuta." Fuji smiled to his brother before slipping behind Yumiko and into the kitchen.

"Fuji, no snacks." The said boy chuckled.

"No, no, just getting drinks, Nee-san. I wouldn't think of ruining my apetite tonight." He tugged a water bottle out of the fridge and emptied it into two cups.

"Dinner won't be done for a while, so please just relax." Fuji passed by the trio.

"Does Aniki have company?" Yuuta whispered to Yumiko.

"Yes, Tezuka is over for dinner with us. I'm supposing that's why Mizuki is here, Nee-san had you invite him. Or he had the nerve to invite himself." Fuji and Mizuki went into a glaring match, cut short by Yuuta stepping between them.

"I invited him, Aniki." Yuuta grabbed Mizuki's hand. "Let's watch a movie."

Mizuki smirked at Fuji before being lead into another area by Yuuta. "Oh oh, but no scaries one. Can't have my dear Yuuta-kun afraid to death again."

Fuji seemed to storm up the stairs, leaving a slightly confused Yumiko behind. He kicked the door closed with his foot before handing Tezuka the glass. "I can't stand that guy."

"I take it you're refering to Mizuki." Tezuka was back to reading the book for school. He didn't need to pay complete attention to know who Fuji ranted about lately. He almost spilled his water on his book when he phone began to vibrate.

"Oh, does Tezuka have something naughty in his pocket?" Fuji joked around.

"You wish." He tugged out his cell phone, flipping it open to read the text.

America is so boring, missing Seigaku and everyone. Tell them I say hi and Merry Christmas.

It was such a Ryoma thing to do, and also of Tezuka to remain in touch with the boy even though they were seperated by such a large space. But he supposed if two people were really in love, distance doesn't matter a bit. Maybe he should've seen there wasn't a huge gap between him and Yuuta, but maybe there always had been a valley between them that neither wanted to cross.

"He'll be returning our second year in high school, won't he?" Fuji sipped on his water.

"Yah."

"And then you'll be returning back to him." Tezuka drew his attention from the phone to his "lover," if that was even the right term to call someone like Fuji. His heart belonged mainly tied to Ryoma, but was currently being guarded by Syuusuke.

"You make it sound so wrong and that nothing now means a thing." Fuji chuckled, wasn't that the point of all of this?

"Ah, suppose I am. But it's true, and you know it. Hopefully by then Yuuta will be back here, then it won't get lonely. But that fool Mizuki won't be here anymore." Tezuka rolled his eyes, focusing on replying back to the boy now in America.

Dinner time came to be sooner then one would've thought it had. Yet one wished there would've been more time before. The room was completely cold and the air was suffocating. Coming from two certain people, Fuji Syuusuke and Hajime Mizuki. Yumiko couldn't understand it, while their parents were a little clueless that there was turmoil on the other side of the table. Let's just say it wasn't a very comfortable dinner to sit in on. Yuuta and Tezuka feeling like the outcasts, barely able to take the evil auro passing across the table between the elder brother and Yuuta's boyfriend. Fuji could care less that his brother has been dating Mizuki for the past three months, he still couldn't stand the boy.

Needless to say, dinner passed by slowly than one could hope for, or maybe it passed by quickly but no one took notice. For Yuuta, it felt like an hour too long. He released a breath he hadn't known he kept holding as soon as Mizuki announced he had to get home since his parents were expecting him. The youngest Fuji escorted him to the front door.

"Your brother is always so interesting, Yuuta-kun. Never dull around here. Anyway, call me tomorrow and tell me all about your christmas. I left a present for you under the tree." Mizuki chuckled and kisses Yuuta before leaving. Fuji's evil auro behind Yuuta gave him away.

"Aniki, it's not nice to spy." Yuuta turned around to glare at him with grey eyes piercing right through the boy. He felt a little happy to see his brother protective, but was still so mad for the broken promises.

"I can't accept you being with the boy who thinks about nothing but himself." Yuuta passed right by him.

"Oh? And you're any different?" Buzz! Wrong thing to say. Yuuta took off right up the stairs.

"You really ticked him off over something." Yumiko was in the door way with Tezuka. Fuji sighed.

"I don't know what I did. Was it me being protective over him being with Mizuki?" Tezuki walked over and planted a kiss on Fuji's head.

"Don't think about it too hard or you'll keep yourself up all night and it's christmas eve. Just try to forget about it and have fun." He was slipping on his shoes as he spoke, hand on the door as Fuji spoke up.

"You have fun, too. And talk to him, he'd be happy to have a call from you." It heart ached a little, but he faked his way through a smile. It was a Fuji thing, being able to decieve. Tezuka nodded and left.

"Now to figure out about Yuuta. He can't stay up in his room or he'll miss out on the opening a gift before the morning." Yumiko seemed a little concerned. "Will you go get him Syuusuke?"

"Me? Why not you?" Fuji looked to his sister.

"You two have always been closer than I have with him. So go bring him back down." She pushed him off to go get his brother. Fuji shuffled down the hall way, knocking on his brother's door, which opened on the first knock. Yuuta was collapsed on his bed, face first in the pillow. A grew orb glanced at Fuji for a split second.

"What do you want?" The words were more cold than he had intended for them to be.

"Nee-san wants you to come down stairs, Yuuta. We can't open a present without you there. It wouldn't be the same." Fuji found himself gazing around the room, taking in the familiar sight of the messy room.

"Is that it?" Yuuta had been hoping for more, hoping for way more than that.

"And sorry for how I reacted with Mizuki here. I unknowingly hurt you...No, I knew I hurt you, but thought it best for you not to be with him. It's not right, he'll end up hurting you. And I don't want anyone to hurt my little brother." Fuji sighed softly, suddenly getting smacked in the face by a pillow.

"Idiot! That sorry doesn't erase anything. It could be as good as never said for as much as I care. Mizuki wouldn't hurt me. So don't assume things." Yuuta got up, rubbing his eyes and brushing past his brother as he rushed to the living room. Fuji hugged the pillow gently, taking in the scent of Yuuta.

"If only you knew, Yuuta..." He tossed the pillow onto the bed before joining his family in the living room. They only really started to celebrate the Christian holiday after Yuuta's birth, wanting to spoil their children more since they weren't around as often, and Christmas was the perfect time. Yuuta was sitting on the floor near Yumiko who sat in a chair brought in from the kitchen. Fuji sat on the couch with their parents.

"Now everyone is here. Yumiko, why don't you decide what gift everyone gets to open tonight." The eldest child got up and knelt down next to the tree, going through all the gifts, her voice humming lightly. She drew into her arms a giant box for Fuji and a big box for Yuuta and a small box for herself and her parents. She handed them out, both boys blinking at their presents from the other brother.

"Kaa-san, why don't you start." Fuji smiled, figuring it'd be best to end with Yuuta.

"Oh, alright." She began to unwrap the present from her loving husband, opening up a small box to find a single diamond necklace. The gasp really showed she loved it, if no one got the hint by the minute long kiss she gave her husband. Their father was the next to open a gift, excited at the sight of a new camera to take pictures of all the places he goes to. He had accidently hit the last one into water.

"Fuji, you're next." Yumiko chirpped up. Fuji nodded and started at the plain wrapping paper, which was so Yuuta. Blue orbs focused on the new racquet the rested in the large box. A Prince Triple Threat Vendetta. Tugging it out, he ran a finger along the rim and over the synthetic strings, able to tell they weren't true gut strings.

"Yuuta... This is a wonderful gift." He hugged the racquet, favoring it above his current Triple Threat racquet.

"I didn't really know what to get you, I saw it and I thought it'd fit you. It'd make a good spare if you really need one. You don't really need to-" He wasn't looking up at his spoke, but did when the elder boy cut him off.

"No, no, this will be my new racquet to use. Thanks, Yuuta." So much for being mad, Yuuta couldn't help but smile a little. Who wouldn't when Fuji was giving your a true loving smile. Their attention turned to Yumiko who had started to open a present from Fuji. She gasped at finding a bottle of perfume, her favorite.

"Fuji, you always get the best gifts." She was holding herself back from hugging her younger brother to death.

"I just notice what people need and like. But now for the best of all. Yuuta, open your gift." Yuuta gazed down at the present on his lap. The box felt heavy. He could remember when he was little, how he and Fuji would shake some of their presents when they were supposed to be asleep. A small chuckle left his lips as he thought of this, tearing apart the wrapping paper to stare at a a clothes box.

"You got me clothes, Aniki?" Grey orbs stared at Fuji, a small bewildered look on his face. Fuji laughed.

"No, no, open the box Yuuta." He smiled and Yuuta opened the box, stopping dead in his tracks at first sight.

"Aniki..." He almost dropped the top at the sight of the cover picture of him and Fuji eating cake on his third birthday, his face covered in cake from Fuji smashing cake in his face.

"What is it, Yuuta?" His mother's voice brought him out of his daze. Shakily, Yuuta pulled the photo album up out of the box. It was like his past coming to haunt him. Hadn't he just torn up pictures of them from his childhood? Now, as Yuuta flipped through the pages, they were all right there in this book.

"Do you like it, Yuuta?" The said boy could hear the hint of nervousness in Fuji's voice. Yuuta huffed and looked off to the side.

"I don't like it, Aniki..." He smiled, "I love it. Thank you."

"Let me see, let me see." Yumiko tried to take the album from Yuuta, but he just pulled it close.

"No, it's mine." A small fight between the brother and sister ensued, their mother commenting to Fuji.

"That was so sweet of you, and so creative." She was so proud of her son, both of them.

"I thought it was something Yuuta could use, being so away from home and always so busy. It's nice to sometimes remember the past." There was a loud crash as Yumiko's chair hit the floor and Yuuta was up and struggling to get out of Yumiko's grasp.

"I'll get mom to make you give it to me."

"Noo, Aniki, help." Fuji smiled, he missed the scenes where his brother needed his help. Getting up, he took the album from Yuuta, who blinked.

"Now Nee-san. If you can't play nice, no one gets to see the album. It's going back to school with Yuuta. I'll let you see all the pictures I used later." Yumiko finally let go of the youngest brother, who toppled to the floor.

"Fine." She was acting more like a child than an adult. Fuji handed the album back to Yuuta.

"Take good care of it, Yuuta. It's our past. No matter what, you can't erase that."

Such a nice way to end a chapter, to end with new beginnings. But it won't last. Back to Yuuta mode, The unthinkable happens between the second year and the third year boy toy. And this event leaves Fuji depressed and slowly increasing the gap between him and Yuuta. Will anything ever be solved? Find out next chapter.