Title: Meet me on the roof.
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Characters: Eiji/Tezuka
Prompt: 57, Lunch
Word count: 729
Rating: T?
Summary: Eiji and Tezuka have lunch on the roof.
Standard disclaimer applies
5/100
The hours flew by as Eiji wanted to see Tezuka and get away from everyone, especially Oishi and his ranting Ame his and Ame that and he had been asking questions about what happened last Friday and Eiji avoided it as much as he could with excuses like he didn't want to be late for class, how un-Eiji wasn't that? It would be so much easier to forget him if they weren't the 'Golden Pair' everyone expecting them to win and be happy. It was all so fake with the cheering and so on, they just wanted them to win or to date them. The usually happy Eiji was tired of this charade, he longed after college and moving away from all this. Eiji reached the stairs and began moving up to the roof.
Tezuka sat on the edge waiting, now he was sure he had to ask Eiji what had happened that day when he found him crying.
The door opened and revealed a smiling Eiji, Tezuka felt like it was too long ago he had seen that smile on the acrobats face. Eiji sat down next to him and opened his bento, it was filled with delicious food and he opened his own. They talked for a while about their tennis game this morning and Tezuka gave Eiji a few pointers on what could be done better or if he wanted to try something new that he could always try it against Tezuka. Eiji was truly happy and amazed, the cold captain had told him bits and pieces of his life as they sat on the roof.
"If I may ask, Tezuka, why are you living with you grandparents?" Eiji wondered.
"It's not parents, grandpa owns the house and my parents often go on business trips and they don't want me to be alone." He answered.
"Oh, I see." Eiji nodded in agreement.
"So what about you, how big is your family?" Tezuka asked. They had known each other for years yet they knew so little about each other.
"I'm the youngest of five, I have two older sisters and two older brothers." Eiji answered and smiled at Tezuka.
"Oh, that's a lot…" Tezuka looked a little sad, he had always wanted a big family.
"Nya, Tezuka, the wait for the bathroom in the morning…" Eiji protested wildly and continued:
"And being youngest you always get the last of everything. But not the toothpaste, nya, they're mine. I love toothpaste and brushing my teeth." Eiji rambled.
Tezuka just sat there smiling enjoying the younger male rambling about his family, the sister's dog and when his mother had parakeets. Rising from his place with a handstand and began bouncing around a little.
"You don't have any siblings do you Tezuka?" Eiji suddenly asked.
"No, I don't." Tezuka answered.
"That must be so nice, getting all of the attention." Eiji sighed.
"Think about it the other way around, too much attention. Didn't you wonder how I got to class 1?" Tezuka explained.
"I hadn't thought of that. Nya, Tezuka that's not good." Eiji realised.
"No, it isn't." Tezuka agreed.
"But I need to study more, I want to be a top student to." Eiji smiled at Tezuka.
"You need help? I thought you and Fuji studied together?" he answered.
"Me and Fujiko studying?" Eiji broke down in laughter then wheezed and continued:
"We could never study… He has quit trying to get me to understand."
"What? Given up?" Tezuka wondered.
"Mhm, I can't concentrate longer than an hour or so." Kikumaru confessed.
"I used to have the same trouble when I taught Fuji our first year at Seigaku." Tezuka told him quietly.
"Ha? Fujiko needed tutoring?" Eiji smiled.
"Yes." Tezuka nodded.
"Can you teach me to? Do you think you can?" Eiji asked.
"Aaa. I can try." Tezuka agreed and rose from his sitting position.
Eiji glomped him smiling.
"Thank you Tezuka."
Lunch continued and Eiji got to know more about his captain. Sharing stories about various things and fist time they played tennis. Eiji broke in a fit of giggles when Tezuka told him about his first encounter with tennis, he caught a tennis ball from his three year older cousin that had just joined the tennis club at his school, by that time Tezuka was four.
This was how it was supposed to be, this felt right.
Title: You? Study?
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Characters: Eiji/Tezuka Former Seigaku regulars.
Prompt: 27, Parents
Word count: 866
Rating: T?
Summary: Eiji comes over to Tezuka's to study.
Standard disclaimer applies
6/100
"Eiji-sempai, do you want to go for burgers after practice today?" Momoshiro asked.
"No, can't. I have a study session." Eiji answered honestly.
"Study? You?" Momo began giggling and all regulars from the school turned around to see Momo gasping for air.
"What happened to him?" Oishi wondered and looked at Eiji.
"I just told him I have to study tonight." Eiji answered and shrugged.
Oishi and Fuji had joined Momo in laughing, it hurt Eiji's feelings deeply that the team thought so low about him. He turned around and saw Tezuka smiling at him, it seemed so unreal, Tezuka knowing him better than Oishi and Fuji, his two best friends. It's scary that someone you don't know that well knows you better than your friends.
"Are you ready Kikumaru?" Tezuka asked and motioned to the changing rooms.
"I'm hitting the showers now, how about you?"
"Aah, I'll be ready shortly. Wait for me?" Tezuka said.
"Mhm, I'll be waiting." Eiji nodded and went to the changing room.
"They sound like a couple…" Momo whispered to Kaidoh.
"Like you would know how a couple sound?!" Kaidoh said and hissed.
"What are you saying Viper?" Momo growled and Oishi stopped the trouble between the two regulars and sighed. Then Oishi went after Eiji and saw his team mate coming out of the showers with only a towel around his waist.
"Eiji!" Oishi gasped.
"Oishi! What are you doing here? Now?" Eiji gasped to.
"I came to ask you where you have been and why you are avoiding me?" Oishi accused Eiji.
"I've been busy… Oishi… You're always busy, with Ame. I've kept away so you don't have to worry about me." Eiji shrugged.
"Eiji." Oishi sighed.
"What? You are. Now I have to get ready, I'm meeting Tezuka. We're studying at his house tonight and his parents are coming home from their latest business trip." Eiji said and began dressing as Tezuka arrived and entered. Swiftly shrugging out of his clothes he said:
"I'll be out in two minutes Eiji." Not noticing Oishi standing there gawking.
Eiji began dressing and Tezuka came out from the showers seeing Oishi staring at him, then looking at Eiji.
"Oishi, I didn't notice you there." Tezuka excused himself.
"Tezuka what is going on?" Oishi wondered.
"What do you mean?" Tezuka questioned his vice-captain.
"Why are you and Eiji sneaking of and… You are stealing my best friend…" Oishi sighed.
"No Oishi. Tezuka is helping me, and besides you have Ame. Don't worry." Eiji answered as he was finished and waiting for the captain to dress.
"But you could have at least asked me to help you." Oishi almost wailed.
"No. I couldn't." he smiled sadly and continued: "Some day I will tell you why I promise."
"Eiji, are you ready?" Kunimitsu asked and the two went outside and began their walk to Tezuka's home.
Finally arriving at his house Tezuka went inside with Eiji and raised his voice:
"Grandpa, I'm home. I brought Eiji with me, we are going to study."
"Welcome back. Hi Eiji, it's nice to see you." Tezuka's grandfather greeted the two.
"Hi, thank you." Eiji greeted the old male.
"We are going to my room." Kunimitsu told his grandfather. After prying of his shoes at the door Eiji followed Kunimitsu to his room.
"Wow, such a neat place. So clean." Eiji said looking around.
"Mmh. We don't like to clean, so we keep it clean." Tezuka answered.
"Aa, sounds reasonable." Eiji agreed.
They sat down and began the study session, beginning with Tezuka's favourite subject, world history. It was easier to work with Tezuka and Eiji actually understood what he explained. Nodding they continued on and the first hour just flew by, Eiji didn't notice it and Tezuka continued as long as Eiji was thinking and making an effort he felt like it was for the best.
Moments later Eiji sighed and lost his focus.
They then ventured down to the kitchen as Kunimitsu had promised that he would make dinner. The two teenagers were talking in the kitchen as a door opened and they heard:
"We are back."
"We are home."
"My parents… " Tezuka sighed, and Eiji turned to him saying:
"I can take care of the kitchen, you go greet them."
"But that's rude, I can't do that." Tezuka answered.
"Yes, go!" Eiji urged him to go, putting his hands on Kunimitsu's shoulders and gently shoving him to the kitchen door.
"Mother, father welcome back." He heard Tezuka tell his parents.
"Mitsu, I missed you so much." Eiji heard Tezuka's mother tell him and he heard the hug the mother got from her son.
"Come with me." He told them and the three Tezukas entered the kitchen.
"Who is this Mitsu?" His mother asked.
"Kikumaru Eiji, meet my parents." Kunimitsu said, introducing his friend.
"Kikumaru, you are the acrobat, right?" Tezuka's father pondered.
"Yes. Tezuka-san" Eiji answered and got shooed out of the kitchen as the mother in the family wanted to continue the cooking.
It was nice to see the whole Tezuka family together and Eiji felt a little out of place, except when they talked about tennis. That was their common ground.
A/N: What do you think:)