"Confession"
By: Setsuna- X

Summary: Ryoma wants to confess his feelings to a certain captain but doesn't know how to go about it so he asks the rest of the regulars for some tips. Pillar Pair TezuRyo
Disclaimer: PoT and it's characters do not belong to me
Warning: This contains mentions of boy x boy (yaoi, shonen-ai, BL, slash, etc.)
Pairings: Eventual TezuRyo. MomoxAnn, Golden Pair, InuixKaidoh
Note(s): May contain several OOC moments

Chapter Four- Personalities

Ryoma walked over to where Kawamura-senpai was stretching. After all the talks he had with his other senpai today he figured he should stick by the only one who he hadn't asked yet. Besides, he needed to get at least one more piece of advice, especially considering most of the other regulars had given him some already. After a quick glance around the tennis courts Ryoma noticed that Tezuka still wasn't present, which ultimately worked in his favor.

"Ne, Kawamura-senpai," called Ryoma, standing in front of the power player.

"Yes, Echizen?" asked Taka, wondering what the normally quiet boy wanted. Despite being on the same team he and Echizen hardly conversed; so this was nothing short of a miracle. Usually the young tennis star could be found mooching burgers off Momo and Eiji, or challenging every powerful player in sight.

"Can I ask you a question?"

Taka tried to hide his surprise at the request, but his eyes betrayed him as they widened. "Uh, sure, anything, Echizen, though I'm not sure if I'll know the answer."

Ryoma thought it over for a second and decided to ask anyway. "How do you show someone you like them?"

Now Taka knew that he hadn't hidden his surprise at all. His mouth had dropped open as his eyes grew ever wider than before. Ryoma didn't seem to like the expression on his senpai's face if his glare was anything to go by. The power player collected himself, but a light pink was spread across his cheeks.

"Ah, well," the older teen began awkwardly and nervously. "When you like someone and you want to show them then I suggest doing little things they'll appreciate, like buying them lunch or carrying their books; little helpful things."

Ryoma took this all in as he nodded his head in understanding, although it would be weird if he offered to carry Tezuka's books up to the senior's rooms. "Thanks, Kawamura-senpai," said Ryoma truthfully. At least he had the decency to not prod him about who he liked.

"No problem. Glad I could be of some help," the senior replied sheepishly while rubbing the back of his neck with one hand.

"Wanna play a match?" Ryoma offered as his thanks. He never really offered to play a game, so this showed how much he was grateful.

"Sure, just let me get my racquet," said Taka-san as he walked over to where he had placed his tennis bag. As soon as the older player touched his racquet his whole personality changed.

"OHH, GREATO!! I'M GOING TO BEAT YOU, ECHIZEN!" shouted the power player while swinging his tennis racquet around over his head.

Ryoma faintly smiled and took his place on the other side of the net. "You're welcome to try, Kawamura-senpai!" he shouted back.

Taka smirked as he began their rally by serving first. Ryoma ran up to the net after swiftly returning the ball over the net. Both players smirked as they played, each hitting the ball over to the other. After a few Drive B's and a Hadoukyuu the score as 5-3 in Echizen's favor. Seeing that he might lose the match Taka (while in his burning mode) yelled out to the tennis star.

"Echizen!" Ryoma's attention was diverted from his serve toward his opponent. "Still wanna know how to show someone you like them!?" yelled out the power player, catching the attention of everyone in the club, and also a certain Captain as he entered the court to watch the practice.

Ryoma was stunned. As he was about to serve the ball simply fell limply from his raised arm, his eyes wide with shock. He could hear the rest of the club members whispering with each other, especially the Regulars, who have seemed to bunch up together in a knit group.

"You have to beat them in tennis!" at last shouted Kawamura, swinging his racquet around. "COME ON, BABY!" he taunted.

Ryoma could feel the color drain from his face. Sure, he really didn't care that people knew that he liked someone, but the thing that bothered him was that now the whole club knew!

"Echizen!" called a stern voice somewhere from behind him.

Ryoma closed his eyes as he regained his breathing. He surely recognized that voice. It was that same confident, commanding, and strong voice that shouted orders for the team members to run laps everyday. Turning around, he opened his eyes and stared into the eyes of the person he had been asking about all day.

"It's your serve."

Ryoma nodded, surprised he was able to keep his composure, especially since he spotted Fuji-senpai smiling sadistically somewhere near Kikumaru-senpai and Tezuka.

Turning back to the game Ryoma vowed that he was going to pulverize his senpai for causing him such distress.

Launching a twist serve Ryoma gained a no-touch ace. His second serve resulted in a short rally, and soon he had won another game, ending the match at 6-3 with him as the winner.

"Mada mada dane, Kawamura-senpai," muttered Ryoma as he made his way off the court to get away from the obvious stares and whispers in his direction. He faintly heard Tezuka shouting to everyone to go back to practice.

TBC

A/N: Waaahh! omg… I'm so sorry everyone. I really haven't felt well these past 2 weeks and so wasn't able to post the chapter as promised, so here it finally is. Sorry again for the lateness. Anime Con at Rosemont, IL just finished last Sunday and I was dead tired from all the walking and shopping that I didn't have a chance to type this up. Regardless here it is and thanks for reading, especially to my reviewers and to those waiting for this chapter patiently.

yumi2482- thanks
AsianTennisPlyr- his confession should be coming up soon…
EvCaCeLy- Golden pair is always so sweet! Haha Hope your mom had a good time in France!
shadowhawk- haha, thanks for that very descriptive review—you could easily turn that into a cute drabble.
Gwynhafra86- Taka-san can give advice… just don't give him a racquet afterwards
mikkimikka- lol, thanks!
kj101- haha, ah, that Fuji…always sneaking around and doing things to entertain himself
Blue-eyed Fox- XD thanks!
Wild Dragon's Breath- Eiji loves toothpaste and brushing his teeth. He also likes getting new flavors and stuff. Thanks for the review!