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Prince of Purity
Chapter Three: Tuesdays with the Momoshiros

"Momo-chan, where do you think you're going?" said Eiji, frowning. "It's Tuesday! We always eat burgers on Tuesdays! Right, Ochibi?"

Ryoma shrugged and tugged at his cap.

Fuji's smile widened and he gave off a flowery aura often seen in shoujo mangas whenever a bishounen says 'hello' or does something very charming. "One, the path Momo's walking to is heading towards his house. And two," said Fuji , "Momo-chan is holding books intended for an elementary student-"

"Which is fit for his elementary mind," muttered Kaidoh, but no one heard him, because they were all too focused on what Fuji had to say.

Which is what we should focus on, too, because what Fuji had to say must be really important, right?

"Conclusion: Momo is stuck to tutor his younger siblings as punishment for – and I'm just taking a guess here… going home late because he was doing…"

Fuji's smile widened.

"Activities… with Ryoma-chan… like ki-"

Ryoma's eyes widened. Fuji knew what happened? What…

"O-oi Fuji-senpai!" cried Momo. "There's no need to get to that!"

Oishi and Eiji looked curious. "What were Momo and Ryoma doing?" they both asked in unison.

Kawamura laughed and said, "Knowing Fuji, he's probably tease them and say they were ki-"

Ryoma panicked (on the inside, of course) and gave Kawamura his tennis racket.

"THEY KICK KITTENS BABY! BURN IN HELL YOU EVIL-"

There was silence and Ryoma took his racket from Kawamura.

Kawamura looked around nervously. "I went on burning mode again, didn't I?" said Kawamura softly.

Everyone nodded.

And then Fuji spoke up. "Ah, Tezuka and Inui here are really good at tutoring! Why don't we help Momo, hm?"

Inui's glasses gleamed. "I'd love to," said Inui and Momo shuddered.

"Oi, Inui-senpai! I-" don't want my little siblings to know I have weird friends or be poisoned by your juices of hell "I'm fine, really!"

Fuji smiled at Tezuka.

"You'll help Momo, too, wouldn't you?"

Momo tried to smile at Tezuka. "Really, buchou! I-" don't want my siblings' legs to hurt just because you'll assign them laps if they got a problem wrong "I don't want to trouble you."

Tezuka, who wanted to enlighten children and show them the fun of arithmetic and world history, naturally didn't get the hint. "I don't mind."

Eiji frowned. "Unfair, I want to meet Momo-chan's siblings, too!"

Fuji laughed. "Why don't we all go to Momo's house? I'm sure Momo would love to have us around," said Fuji, smiling pointedly at Momo.

"A-ah, yeah,"

...

"Nice place you have here, Momo," said Oishi, taking in the traditional feel of the house. He didn't expect Momo to live in such a place – he always thought Momo's family would live in a more modern house.

"Uh, thank you, Oishi-senpai," said Momo.

Inui's glasses gleamed and he adjusted them. "What's this? The room's temperature rose by two percent…"

And then there was a hearty laugh.

"So you're home Takeshi!" said a loud voice coming from a rather large lady in a pink kimono. "Come on, I'll cook your favo… oh, so you have friends over!" The lady noticed the regulars who were staring uncomfortably at her. "I'm so sorry, I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Takeshi's mother!"

There was silence until Tezuka spoke up. "It's nice to meet you, Momoshiro-san-"

Momo's mother laughed and patted Tezuka on the shoulder. Tezuka almost flinched. "You're such a handsome young man! Don't be shy, you can call me Etsuko-chan! I really don't mind," Etsuko beamed. "You know, we should all go swimming together! What do you say? That would be wonderful, right, Takeshi?"

Momo shrugged and looked away, mortified.

Etsuko seemed to get the hint and she said to the regulars, "Ah, I'm sorry for getting carried away like that. It's just been so long since Takeshi brought some friends over, and I'm just really happy to know such nice people are taking care of him." she laughed and then looked at Momo, "Takeshi, should I tell Kenichi and Haruka that you won't be tutoring them anymore?"

Etsuko's voice dripped with subtle malice, but everyone in the room felt it and shuddered in unison.

"Actually, Etsuko-chan," said Fuji charmingly, "We'll be helping Momo here in teaching his siblings. I hope you don't mind, Etsuko-chan."

"I don't mind. Just…" Etsuko paused and went on, "really, all nine of you?"

"Yes!"

Now that Momo thought about it, nine junior high students teaching two elementary students was kind of ridiculous.

But what was more ridiculous was when Etsuko grabbed Momo's arm and whispered to him, "Who was that friend with brown hair? The smiling one?"

"You mean, Fuji-senpai?" said Momo, scared.

"Yes, him! I want you to take a picture of us together later, okay?" said Etsuko excitedly. "He's like an angel!"

If only naïve Etsuko knew…

...

"Takeshi-nii-chan!" two small children ran to Momo and hugged him tightly. Momo laughed softly and rubbed their heads, almost forgetting that his friends were in the same room as he was. "We missed you, nii-chan!"

Momo laughed. "But I've only been gone for a few hours," said Momo.

The two children grinned and Momo flashed them a huge smile, too.

Not one of the regulars would ever admit that he scene in front of him almost brought a tear to his eye.

"Data…" muttered Inui, and suddenly, the nice shoujo manga mood was ruined.

Momo finally noticed his friends' presence and laughed nervously. "Guys, this is Kenichi," said Momo, gesturing to a boy who looked very different from Momo. Kenichi's eyes were slanted and his hair was definitely not as spiky as Momo's. "And this is… wait, where's Haruka?"

Fuji's smile faltered. "I'd appreciate it if you asked your little Haruka to stop ogling Tezuka."

Haruka was smaller than Kenichi and she looked a lot like Momo. Her hair was spiky and braided, and her brows were very thick, too. "I never knew Echizen-san was so good-looking," said Haruka, her eyes shining at Tezuka.

"O-oi, Haruka! Stop that!" said Momo, prying his sister off Tezuka. "Sorry about that, buchou!"

Haruka looked thoughtful and said, "Hm, then this must be Echizen-san!" said the girl, running to Fuji, who sweat-dropped.

"Wrong!" said Kenichi and pointed at Kaidoh, "that's Echizen-san! Echizen-san should have a lot of muscles and he should be very manly, so if there's anyone in this room who's the ultimate epitome of manliness, it's him!"

Inui nodded. "You are correct, Momoshiro-kun."

Kaidoh blushed and hissed.

"Uh, I'm not Echizen-"

The two children glared at Kaidoh and snapped, "Hey, we're thinking!"

Kawamura sweat-dropped. Just a moment ago, the two of them seemed like such angels.

"Wait!" the two said in unison, "This is Echizen-san!" Kenichi and Haruka pounted at Ryoma and they grinned. "I mean, now that I thought of it… Takeshi-nii-chan did say Echizen-san looked like a cocky brat…" said Kenichi thoughtfully.

At this, everyone snickered. Ryoma scowled.

"And chibi rookies aren't supposed to be so tall!" said Haruka, trying to make a gesture to how tall Tezuka was. Tezuka frowned.

"And I don't see how someone as beautiful as she could possibly be on the boys' team!" said the two, looking at Fuji, who sweat-dropped once more.

"Uh… shouldn't we be teaching Momo-chan's siblings, nya?" asked Eiji, sweat-dropping.

"Oh yeah,"

...

"It's apple," said Ryoma, "A-P-P-L-E. Write that ten times."

Both Kenichi and Haruka did so, their eyes gleaming with happiness and Ryoma thought maybe, just maybe, the brats could be kind of cute. But not as cute as Momo-senpai. No, wait- stop. Ryoma willed himself to stop thinking about Momo.

Ryoma took a sip of his Ponta and coyly glanced at Momo because maybe his senpai was watching him, too, just maybe.

…Ryoma would never admit he was disappointed when he was greeted by the sight of Fuji and Eiji making lascivious hand gestures at Momo, who didn't really notice. Apparently, the two didn't really care for the young impressionable children in the room.

"It's like they only want to pay attention to Echizen, really," said Oishi in jealousy.

The regulars nodded and sighed. Kaidoh never got to teach them how to play tennis, Inui never got them to try his juices, Oishi never taught them how to bake cakes, Fuji never got to tell them how babies were made, Eiji never got to teach them how to call cats, Kawamura never taught Momo's siblings how to burn trash and Tezuka was devastated because he was really looking forward to show the fun of arithmetic and world history.

But none of their feelings could compare to the jealousy Momo felt.

Wait, Momo was jealous?

Well… Ryoma never taught Momo English, and he actually looked like he was warming up to Momo's siblings. Didn't it take a while for the two of them to become friends back then? And wait, wasn't Ryoma the one who told him that he was in love with him?

Then why was Ryoma getting all close to his siblings like that?

Momo realized that this was too much.

He was not getting jealous of his younger siblings and Ryoma must have at least some integrity left.

I enjoyed writing this chapter so I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter too. There will be a second part for this chapter which I will post... really soon. ^~^ Thank you for reading and please leave a review!

(And the next chapter will have more MomoRyo scenes! Really! ^^;)