Okay, I just want to say something and I'm going to post this note to my other fics as well. This got me thinking after I got a certain review last week

If you don't like yaoi, or yuuri, or better yet any homosexual stories, then just don't read these kinds of stories!! I don't mind if you're homophobic or anything or if u bash my story because of how lame it may be, but don't put morals into this. Don't say that these things, guyXguy/girlXgirl, are morally, ethically, religiously, or culturally wrong. It is just offending to certain people. I am a girl and I am heterosexual, I am not bisexual or homosexual, but I admit to read these yaoi stories as obviously, I write shounen-ai here on fanfiction. I respect things like this and I am not saying that it is wrong in anyway because these things aren't things that we cannot control. I grew up traditionally Catholic and if anyway, I thought that these things were disgusting –which I don't, obviously– then I wouldn't announce it to the public. I have a number of gay friends too. No matter what your view is, people like those should be respected no matter how wrong you think they are. Bash me all you want, but please, don't bash the morals (homosexuality) of these kinds of stories because you are in turn bashing people like them.

I hope I didn't offend any of you out there, but if you know that it's a guyXguy story and you think it's morally wrong, then don't read it.

Thank you.

Disclaimer: I do not own POT

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In love?

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It was tennis practice yet again and like always, Fuji was there in his uniform, watching the regulars practice. 'I wish that I could play with them,' he thought to himself. 'But I couldn't. Maybe next time, in a new school or probably a new town,' He sat there quietly and kept his eyes on Tezuka who was training and leading the others. He wasn't completely mesmerized by his movements though as he noticed Inui walking near him and noticed that he stopped to take down some notes on his notebook. "Inui-kun," he said to gain his attention. Inui, however, stiffened when he heard that voice.

'Oh no,' Inui thought. His hands stopped writing and he froze on the spot. It was only yesterday that he found out that Fuji was a man and he was having a hard time to keep quiet and not to stare at Fuji.

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Flashback: Yesterday

"What were you doing there, Inui-senpai?!" Kaidoh exclaimed as he stared at Inui's fallen state.

"I was just looking for new ingredients for my new juice, then I heard you guys whispering and you both seemed tense and I thought that something was wrong," he looked forward and avoided Kaidoh's eyes and for a reasons he didn't know, he started blushing. "Is she really a guy?"

"Uhm," Kaidoh said and he looked down, a blush appearing on his cheeks. "She is."

Inui finally looked at him with a surprised face. "Why did he tell you? Does everyone know except me?"

Kaidoh still avoided his gaze and mumbled his reply.

"What?" Inui asked. He didn't hear Kaidoh's words.

"I…" Kaidoh mumbled again.

"I really couldn't hear you."

"I fell on him and touched his chest, okay?!" Kaidoh said out loud as his cheeks got redder.

"You what?!" Inui exclaimed.

"I fell on him and touched his chest," Kaidoh repeated, this time much more calmly.

"Oh, okay," Inui said, not wanting to know any more.

After that though, both returned to the courts. The moment they arrived, Kaidoh was called to have a practice match against Kawamura while Inui had to wait for one of the practice matches to finish so that he could have a practice match too. In the corner of his eye, he saw Fuji beside Tezuka. Both were just standing there in silence as they watched the practice matches. Unconsciously, his eyes started to wander on Fuji's body. He stared at his face, 'She can't be a he, her face is just too feminine.' His eyes then wandered to the shoulders. 'Her shoulders are a bit wide but it isn't that broad.' Then, his eyes went down to his chest and his gulped. 'She's a bit flat,' and he blushed. 'Stop looking at her chest, Inui,' he said to himself and went to lower his gaze; however, his eyes immediately went back to his chest again. 'Kaidoh really touched her chest?!' he mentally exclaimed to himself and didn't notice that someone noticed him staring at Fuji.

"Nyah!!" Eiji, out of nowhere, popped out and surprised Inui.

"Ah!" Inui exclaimed and turned around with his hand clutching his heart. "Don't surprise me like that!"

Eiji cocked his head to the side, "but you surprise us like that every time!" he said and then brought his arm around Inui's shoulder and faced both of them towards Tezuka and Fuji's direction. "It looks like you're quite interested in her," Eiji teased and looked at a blushing Inui with a smug grin on his face. "But it looks like she's falling for Tezuka."

"Ha?" Inui looked at Eiji. "I'm not interested in her that way," he calmly said.

"You're kidding me," Eiji teased even more. "You were checking her out! I could even see you blushing!"

"No, I was just-" Inui started but apparently, he was cut off.

"Inui! Kikumaru!" Tezuka said out loud from the other side.

"Yes!" Inui and Eiji both exclaimed as they straightened up with fear on their faces due to the surprise and also because they were talking about Fuji who was just beside him. Both had the same thoughts also. 'Please he didn't hear what we were talking about!' Inui had another thing in his mind in addition to that, 'Please Fuji didn't see me checking her out!'

"Your turn to have a practice match," Tezuka said loudly on his spot as Fuji was smiling sweetly at them.

"Yes, buchou!" The both exclaimed as they were still calming down from the surprise that they had and ran towards the courts to start their match. During the match though, Inui couldn't concentrate. He kept glancing at Fuji and kept thinking. 'is she really a guy?!'

End Flasback

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"Inui-kun," Fuji said again as he approached him. He didn't get any response though until he was beside Inui who was obviously frozen. "Are you okay?" he asked and touched his shoulder. That movement caused Inui to move back and nervously laugh.

"Ha?" Inui said as he was trying to look away. "I'm okay, nothing's wrong. Just," Inui looked at him and looked at his body again, 'is she really a guy?' and looked back at his eyes, "I'm just tired. You go back there and just relax. Don't worry about me," Inui said nervously and it clearly showed in his movements. His hand couldn't stop moving and his smile and laugh just showed nervousness.

Fuji, however, "are you sure you're okay?" asked him that.

"I am," Inui said as he tried to calm himself down but was having a hard time. 'Don't look at her body and wonder if she's a guy. Look at the face, the face.'

"You don't look okay, you're not acting okay either," Fuji said.

Having Fuji dote on him wasn't helping his curiosity at all. He just wanted to blurt out, 'what are you?! A boy or a girl?!' and he was trying his hardest not to say anything of the matter. Lucky for him, he was saved by Tezuka.

"Inui"

"Tezuka," Inui, who was really grateful, turned to look at Tezuka who just finished with his practice match and was headed their way.

"Go there and practice with Oishi," Tezuka told him.

"Okay," Inui replied and hastily left. 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.'

"Tezuka-kun," Fuji said.

"What is it?" Tezuka looked at him.

"Nothing," Fuji replied and turned his head to watch the others practice.

'There's something about her,' Tezuka thought as he brought his eyes away from Fuji. 'I feel relaxed with her, as if she's someone who is going to be really special to me.' Tezuka looked at his face then turned back to look at the other members again. 'I want to get to know her better.'

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The next day, Tezuka was eating outside with Oishi, Eiji and Kaidoh. Practice just finished and they felt like eating out. They invited the others but they didn't feel like coming, maybe because of exhaustion or maybe they wanted to go somewhere else. In Ryoma and Momoshiro's case, they wanted to go out with them but they went to another place to eat.

"Hey, Tezuka," Oishi called his attention.

"Hn?" Tezuka looked at him.

"I was wondering," he started, "are you interested in Fuji?" he asked with a soft teasing smile. "You two seem kind of close."

"Nyah!" Eiji exclaimed, "I was wondering that too! She's a nice girl and she's really pretty! You two look good together too!"

As for Kaidoh, however, he stayed quiet and looked down to stare at his food as he continued chewing. 'don't say anything, don't say anything.'

"Actually," Tezuka started as he tried not to blush with the sudden question. As always, he was able to keep that blush away and keep his emotionless face as he looked at no one in particular. "I'm planning to ask her out this weekend."

"Nyah?!" Eiji exclaimed with wide eyes as he felt excited for Tezuka. He wanted to say something more though but Kaidoh suddenly choked on his food.

"Kaidoh!" Oishi said, "Are you okay?" he asked as he patted Kaidoh's back as they were seated next to each other.

"I'm," Kaidoh said but couldn't stop coughing, "okay." 'This is bad.'

"Anyways," Oishi started again but this time looking at Tezuka. "She seems to be the first girl you were really interested in, Tezuka. You turned all those other girls down."

"She is," Tezuka replied as he continued eating. He'd known Fuji for over a month and ever since then, he just couldn't stop thinking about her. He'd bring her everywhere he goes too. He invited her to eat with them after practice but she declined saying that she had some things to do. As always, Tezuka, being a gentleman, offered to walk her home but Fuji replied with a "no need to, you go eat already and I'll go home by myself."

Both Eiji and Oishi were excited for their captain finally being interested in someone. Kaidoh, however, seemed really uncomfortable and was staring at anything but them.

"Kaidoh!" Eiji exclaimed to get Kaidoh's attention.

"Yes, Kikumaru-senpai?" Kaidoh finally looked at him but he was still obviously bothered.

"Don't tell me that you like Fuji too!"

"What?!" Kaidoh pulled away and almost fell off his chair.

"You do?" Oishi asked as he and Tezuka both stared at him.

Kaidoh turned to look at those two, Oishi and Tezuka, with a shocked face. His gaze concentrated on Tezuka's though. It was his usual face but for Kaidoh, he felt as if he was slowly being killed with those hazel eyes. "No, I don't!" he brought his hands up and his eyes were widely opened. "It's not what you think!"

"First Inui," Eiji started again, "then Tezuka here," Eiji was counting with his fingers, "and now you?" Eiji stared at him.

"What?!" Kaidoh just snapped his head to look at Eiji.

"Yeah," Eiji said, "Inui was checking out Fuji earlier."

"He was?!" Kaidoh exclaimed. 'but he knows that Fuji is a guy!'

Suddenly though, Tezuka spoke. "Do you like Fuji?"

Hearing that deep voice, Kaidoh panicked even more as he froze for a second and slowly faced Tezuka. When their eyes met, Kaidoh just felt that he was being burned. "No!" He exclaimed as he was gripping his chair tightly. "I don't!"

"Come on," Eiji started again, "you were obviously uncomfortable when Tezuka said that he was planning to ask her out. If you don't like her, then why were you acting like that?" he questioned Kaidoh.

Kaidoh turned to look at Eiji with a still shocked face as he could feel both Tezuka and Oishi's stare on him.

'Uh-oh,' Oishi started thinking, 'three guys fighting over Fuji? This will be bad,' he turned to look at Tezuka whose eyes were still fixed on Kaidoh. 'This will be really bad.'

As for Tezuka, 'Does he or does he not like Fuji?'

"I…I…" Kaidoh began stuttering. 'I just can't tell them that Fuji is a guy! I promised him.'

"Well?" Tezuka asked and made Kaidoh panicked even more.

Kaidoh, not being able to take it anymore and not knowing what to do, abruptly stood up, grabbed his wallet, took out some money and put it on the table as payment for his food. "I'll go now, I have homework to do," he said and abruptly left.

"Hmm, you have some competition, Tezuka," Oishi said and turned to Tezuka who didn't reply but was now texting someone.

Tezuka may be the quiet one, but he isn't someone who gives up a fight. Most guys, most of the time, would pick their friends over the people they like, leaving their crushes alone once knowing their friend likes her. For Tezuka, it's up to the girl to choose who she really likes among those group of friends who like her. Now, he is just thinking that Inui and Kaidoh are both planning to ask Fuji out. If only he knew the truth but he didn't, so he wanted to make the first move among the three of them. He didn't reply to Oishi's statement but sent a text message to Fuji.

"Are you free this Saturday?"

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TBC

Woah, this is a long chapter~~~ Soooo…. Feel free to comment 