Craze: Okay here another fic…MaruiRyoma Surprisingly I kind of like this pairing…once again this is un-beta and I'm sorry if Marui sound like Eiji TT
Marui: Heh…#blow a bubblegum# This is interesting…
Craze: Haha…so your bubblegum isn't out of stock this time?
Marui: Yea… anyway she does not own any of the tenipuri characters…#blow a bubblegum#
Craze: Thanks for the disclaimer Marui… and now on with the story…
Love, Love, Candy
It was a fine afternoon, wind was blowing, birds were chirping and all the tennis club members of Seigaku were having their practice session. Suddenly, a cheerful voice broke the calm and peaceful day.
"Ryo-chan!" the owner of the cheerful voice, Marui Bunta shouted excitedly, purple eyes sparkling.
"Oi, Echizen! Here come your seme." Momo teased.
"Hoi, hoi, Ochibi's boyfriend is here, nya." Eiji gave Ryoma a teddy-bear hug.
"Kikumaru-sempai…let go of me." Ryoma growled, struggling against his sempai's hug. Marui on the other hand felt a pang of jealousy growing in his stomach when he saw his boyfriend being hugged by others.
"Buchou."
"Un."
As Ryoma walked towards Marui, Eiji and Momo were cat-calling teasing boy wonder, making him felt extremely embarrassed. Suddenly, this incidents reminds him of the day when the school knew that Ryoma was dating Marui, it had really cause a ruckus back then compared to now, especially among the fan girls of Ryoma, they had created a protection squad to prevent Marui from getting any closer to Ryoma, but after a period of time, they had finally given up as they learn that Ryoma will not break up with Marui anytime sooner. So now, Ryoma is walking towards Marui, he grabs Marui's hand and drags him towards the locker room.
"Ryoma?"
"Follow me," Ryoma said.
In the locker room, Ryoma let out a sigh, looking at his boyfriend and demand for an answer for his appearance, "So…why are you here at a time like this, don't you have practice today? Isn't Sanada-san or Yukimura-san going to scold if you skipped the practice?"
"Nope, practice is cancelled today, Sanada needs to accompany Yukimura to the hospital for check up and because I really miss you, I have come to look for you." Marui exclaimed.
"Really, you should have inform me earlier… do you know that you have created quite a ruckus?" Ryoma finished and noticed the sad look on Marui, "Marui?"
"Ryoma, do you love me?"
"Huh? What are you talking about? I'll not be dating you if I don't love you, right?"
"Then why do you always allow your sempai to hug you?" Marui sulked.
"Heh… someone is jealous?" Ryoma smirked.
"Of course I'm jealous; you are definitely closer to your sempai than me." Ryoma sighed and gave Marui a kiss. Marui widened his eyes for a moment before he started returning the kiss, when they pulled away; both of them were looking dazed.
"Feeling better? I'll definitely not do that to my sempai, if you want to know what make you more special then them." Ryoma panted.
"Hai, hai." Marui smiled cheerfully.
"So why are you here? I'm sure that there is more to it then seeing me."
"Hehe… see! I baked you a strawberry custard cream cake." Marui explained, holding up the box of cake.
"Eh? How do you know that I want to eat strawberry custard cream cake?" Ryoma asked, puzzled by his boyfriend.
"Well, because your boyfriend, who is obviously me, is a genius, so I know that you wanted to eat strawberry custard cream cake." Marui displayed a victory sign.
"Domo, I'll eat it later after dinner."
"Okay... ne, ne Ryo-chan, tomorrow…"
"Tomorrow? I have practice, why?"
"Sou ka?" Marui's face sudden, 'Did Ryoma forget about what day is tomorrow?'
"Just kidding… and before you say anything, of course I know what day is tomorrow, it marked the third months since we first dated… anyway you want to have dinner at my place?"
"Okay, who is doing the cooking?"
"Kaa-san and Nanako-san of course, are you expecting Oyaji to cook?" Ryoma raised an eyebrow.
"Haha… of course not, though I wonder what the food will taste like if Nan-chan is doing the cooking." Marui chuckled.
"I believe that neither of us will want to know… since you are going to have dinner at my place might as well stay for the night so that you need not travel to and fro."
"Eh? I did not bring any spare clothes today."
"Che… it's not as if you don't have any spare at my house." Ryoma rolled his eyes, his tone fill with sarcasm.
"Hehe… you are right, I forget."
"Heh… and I thought someone mention that he is a tensai?" Ryoma teased.
"Ryo-chan is a meanie…" Marui mock pouted.
"Whatever…… I'm going back to practice now, wait for me, okay?"
"Hai." Marui smiled.
After practice, Ryoma and Marui were walking back to Ryoma's house, holding their hands. When the news that they were dating got out, not only did they create ruckus to their school but also Ryoma's family, for Marui's family because they have experienced three times of Marui dating a boy so they were used to it, anyway back to topic, Nanjiroh, Rinko and Nanako had a shocked when Ryoma introduced Marui to them. However, after talking to Marui for sometimes Rinko and Nanako became fond of the Rikkaidai red-hair genius except for Nanjiroh. Nanjiroh had taken in the news quite badly and started giving lectures on how he had brought Ryoma up and to have Ryoma dating a boy instead. After sometimes, when Marui became a regular presence in the house, Nanjiroh had no choice, but to accept what happened. Besides, he was on the minority side and speaking of minority, Karupin of course was fond of Marui right from the start because Karupin found the red-hair boy to be quite similar.
"Marui……do we really have to hold hands on the street?" Ryoma asked. He was kind of embarrassed from the attention they have attracted.
"Of course, this is so people will know that you are already taken." Ryoma sighed.
"Mada mada dane."
"No wonder I find there is something missing, you haven't said that trademark quote of yours until just now."
"Eh? Now that you mention it… I also find that there is something missing…" Ryoma looked at Marui and pondered for sometimes, "Aa! For once in a million years, it's really a miracle that you are not chewing or blowing any gum."
"Thank you very much for reminding why I'm not eating any gum."
"Nande?"
"My favorite bubblegum is out of stock." Marui complained.
"Che… you can try other types of gum, isn't it?"
"It different, the bubblegum is very special to me and I've vow to the 'bubblegum goddess' that I'll not eat any other type of bubblegum other then that."
"Bubblegum Goddess? Sometimes I really can't seem to figure you out."
"Of course, that why I'm a genius……haha…" Suddenly, Marui started to laugh as bubblegum triggered a part of his memories.
"What so funny?" Ryoma scowled.
"Speaking of bubblegum remind me of the first time we started dating."
Flashback
Mari was craving for his favorite strawberry bubblegum, and because his favorite bubblegum only sold in this very cool candy shop in Tokyo, Marui decided to Travel to Tokyo. Upon reaching Rabux2 Candy Shop (1), the biggest nightmare befalls on Marui. He was told that the last two packets of bubblegum had just been sold to a customer wearing a white cap not long ago and the new stocks will only be here two days later.
'Just my luck, the bubblegum is out of stock, how can I survive my training tomorrow?' Marui line of thought was being disturbed as he realized that he had come to a park where he was unfamiliar with. Then under one of the trees, a person lying on the ground, under the shade had caught Marui's attention. That person had a white cap covered his eyes and most importantly he was blowing Marui's favorite bubblegum.
Marui bounced over to the person and said, "So you are the one that bought the last two packets of my favorite strawberry bubblegum."
"Huh?" Ryoma looked up from his cap and saw a red-hair boy looking longingly at the packets of bubblegum in his hand.
"My strawberry bubblegum…" Marui cried. Looking at the bubblegum and looking at the crying stranger, Ryoma offered the stranger one packet of the bubblegum.
"Eh? You're offering it to me?"
"You either take it or leave it."
Marui took the packet of bubblegum offered to him and thanked Ryoma, "Honto ni Arigato, the name is Marui Bunta, Rikkaidai third year, yoroshiku."
"Echizen Ryoma, Seigaku first year."
"Echizen Ryoma? Seigaku? You are the freshmen regular that beaten Sanada in the Kantou Final?" Marui widened his eyes in surprise.
Ryoma raised an eyebrow and looked at Marui, "How did you know? Did you watch the match?"
"Actually I didn't really saw the match, because at the time we were in the hospital, but I'm one of the regular."
"You are one of the regular? You play tennis too?"
"You don't remember?" Marui was hurt, how could the freshmen regular not remember the genius of Rikkaidai?
"Should I remember?"
"Iie, not really, but I played in doubles two against Momoshiro and Kaido, just incase you wish to know."
"Heh… so you are the one that beaten Momo-sempai and Kaido-sempai, which mean you're quite strong… want to play tennis? I know a great place."
"Sure." Marui smiled.
After the match, both boys were resting on the bench panting hard. Marui had never had such a great match in a while, even though in the end he still loses, but of course the boy beside him had after all beaten Sanada. To say the truth, he was attracted by boy wonder play style and graceful movements on the court, but most of all it was boy wonder himself that attracted him. Marui had fallen in love with Ryoma and he did not deny it a bit. He turned and looked at the boy beside him, mesmerized by his every movement that he did not realize that he was staring at boy wonder.
"What are you staring at?" If anyone had turned to look at Ryoma, they would have noticed the faint blush on his cheeks, but Marui did not notice it.
"Iie… you are really good, I haven't have such a good match in a long time."
"Che……mada mada dane."
"Ryoma-kun…err… do you mind if I call you that?"
"Suit yourself, it not like the mouth is……"Ryoma widened his eyes as he felt pressure on his lips, though the kiss come and go in a flash, Ryoma was still shocked. He looked at the red-hair boy in front of him, who face was colored by the color of tomato.
"Ryoma-kun, I like you a lot, can I be your boyfriend?"
Ryoma hesitated for a moment, he did not know a clue of what is love, but he felt that if the person that confessed to him can play a decent tennis match with him, he didn't mind dating the person, as long they can play tennis regularly, so Ryoma nodded. Marui was ecstatic as Ryoma agreed to his propose. He gave Ryoma a kiss again which lasted much longer and that is how their relationship started.
End of Flashback
"Now come to thing of it, it's such an amazing memories that how our relationship had started because of one packet of strawberry bubblegum."
"Hehe… that is the reason why I say that the bubblegum is important to me and it my favourite, because it had bring you to me."
"Mada mada dane…" Ryoma smiled.
Not long after they had reached Ryoma's house, "Tadaima!"
"Okaerinasai! Ara? Marui-san is here too?"
"Hai, konnichiwa, Nanako-chan." Marui greeted.
"Konnichiwa, Marui-san. I'm sure that Obaa-sama will be delighted to have you here." Nanako smiled, "So make yourself at home, I'll go help out with dinner, it will be ready soon."
"Hai."
"Ryoma? Are you back?" Rinko walked out of the kitchen, "Ara? Bun-chan is here, I haven't seen you for ages."
"Rinko-chan… I'll be staying overnight too. Because I need to prepare for my final year exams so I've been really busy these few weeks. Anyway, here the strawberry custard cream cake that I've baked." Marui exclaimed and looked around, "Where is Nan-chan?"
"That really sweet of you, Nanjiroh is probably at the temple. Why not Bun-chan and Ryoma go watch some television programs or wash up first? The dinner will be ready soon."
"Hai, we'll be in Ryo-chan's room then."
Up in Ryoma's room, Marui was lying beside Ryoma on the bed, "It really seem like I haven't come here for quite sometime."
"You're after all a senior that are busy preparing for exams isn't it?"
"Okay, now you reminded me another painful memory. Ne, Ryo-chan? You live in America for most of your life, right?"
"Obviously, isn't it?"
"Can you help me with my English?"
"Did you lose……"
"Ryoma-san, Marui-san, dinner is ready." Nanako shouted from the dining room.
"Anyway let have dinner first and we'll discuss it later on." Ryoma sighed.
Dinner went on very well, Rinko and Nanako loved to watch Marui eating the dinner they prepared because Marui would always finish up the food, enjoying it a lot without any complains. Nanjiroh and Marui had also become best friend, as Nanjiroh found that Marui is much more interesting than his son, beside, Marui is probably the only one that will not tell Nanako and Rinko about his hidden treasure. After dinner and washing up, both Ryoma and Marui went back to Ryoma's room.
"I'm so tired." Marui yawned.
"Che… if you are tired… then I must already be dead from all those running…… anyway just now you were saying… Marui?" Ryoma looked at his boyfriend and found the boy already fall asleep.
"Shhhh… Karupin, come on, let play outside and let him sleep."
"Ohayo, Ryo-chan!"
"Karupin… five more minutes…"
"Ryoma, wake up…" Marui shouted and started shaking Ryoma vigorously. "Wake up!"
"Okay…okay I'm a wake… what do you want?" Ryoma grunted.
"Ryoma, you definitely love Karupin more than me."
"You aren't starting it again, are you? You seriously know that I'm not a morning person and Karupin had been my best friend since… forever."
"Gomen, gomen… but you need to get up and get change so that we can start on our date."
"…fine… I'll get change first."
"So… where do you want to go?' Ryoma asked.
"Rabux2 Candy Shop."
"You really do love sweet a lot, don't you?"
"My love for sweet is one thing; the other reason is because I want to see whether there is any strawberry bubblegum."
"Now should I be jealous that you love sweet better than me?" Ryoma sighed and they walked towards the direction of Rabux2 Candy Shop.
"I'll wait outside; I need to make a call first."
"Okay."
Marui walked into the shop and to his dismay, the strawberry bubblegum was still out of stock, he decided to go out until some one called him.
"Marui Bunta-san? There is something for you." The shop keeper said.
"For me?"
"Hai, here." The shop keeper gave Marui a wrapped up teddy-bear made out from many packets of strawberry bubblegum.
"Ano…do you know who is it from?"
"It from a customer call, Echizen Ryoma."
'Ryoma…'
Marui was touched; he didn't think Ryoma could be so romantic from his personality. Besides, He was the seme; shouldn't he be the one who give Ryoma the gift? Marui walked out of the shop and saw Ryoma standing there waiting for him.
Ryoma saw Marui walking out of the candy shop and asked, "So… You got what you want?"
"Un. Arigato, Ryoma." Marui thanked Ryoma and gave him a kiss.
"G-glad that you like it." Ryoma blushed for Marui public display of affection.
"Now, it's your turn to choose our next destination."
"I'm not really sure, I think you better decide."
"Well, let's go to my place then, my parents haven't seen you in a while too."
Hence, Marui and Ryoma went to Marui's house, but when they reached the house, instead of the normal noises made by Marui's younger brothers, the house was surprisingly quiet.
"Guess that mean we're going to be alone. All of them had gone to visit my grandparents." Marui explained showing Ryoma the notes his parents left for him, "Anyway, Ryoma you can go up to my room first, I'll go bring some drinks for us."
"Un."
Ryoma was very nervous now; he loved Marui a lot, no doubt. However, being alone in the house made him nervous, Marui may not always act like a seme, but in truth Marui is one, that was why Ryoma was nervous.
"Hai…Ryo-chan your favorite Grape Ponta."
"Domo… yesterday you say that you need help with English?"
"Yea…here the questions." Marui showed Ryoma the questions, Marui couldn't help but notice that Ryoma was trembling when he was explaining the questions.
"Ryoma? Why are you trembling, do you feel cold?"
"Iie… it just that…mada mada dane…" Ryoma blushed.
"Then why are you trembling?" Marui get closer to Ryoma, as he demands for an answer. For Ryoma it was the first time ever since he dated Marui, which he felt so uncomfortable when Marui was so close to him and he blushed deeper.
Marui who saw the blushed on Ryoma's cheeks realized that Ryoma was nervous. "Ne, Ryo-chan, why are you nervous?"
"I-I'm not nervous, who told you that I'm nervous." Ryoma stammered.
"Ryoma, no lying, we promised."
"A-aren't you at all concern that there only two of us in this house? Alone."
"Haha…Ryo-chan kawaii, so you have been worried about this?"
"What so funny?"
"Mou, Ryo-chan, don't worry I have promised Rinko-chan that I'll not do anything to you, other than kissing and necking, well at least not until you reached sixteen." Marui teased.
"You pervert." They kissed again, this time it lasted much longer than the other kiss, they explored and teased each other mouth, until neither of them can hold for much longer.
"C-come to t-think of it, I m-must really have the potential to be a seme then." Marui panted.
"What give you the idea?"
"Well, you knew that I've dated Niou, Yagyuu and Jackal before, isn't it? I was always the uke and none of the relationships lasted longer than when I'm with you as a seme."
"You aren't 100 per cent seme either; sometimes you behave like a uke."
"But Ryo-chan is 100 per cent a uke." A pillow flying at Marui's direction and Marui dodged it successfully.
"Anyway, why aren't you eating your bubblegum? You keep whining about how you are not able to eat it and now you have the bubblegum you are not eating it."
"Wow… you sure talk a lot today… as for the bubblegum, it is too significant to me for me to eat it."
"So you intend to leave it there for it to melt? You are weird." Ryoma said in disbelief.
"Then Ryo-can must be weirder to have a weird boyfriend."
"I really wonder how you are able to come up with such things."
"Haha… well, I'm after all a tensai." Ryoma sighed and they kissed once again before the both of them fell asleep.
Owari
Craze: Guess that this is my longest one-shot ever… so hope you like it.
