Prince of Tennis disclaimer by Konomi Takeshi-sensei
Love So Sweet
by Rin Shouta
Rate : T
Genre : R
omance, Friendship, Drama, Angst

Pair : Perfect Pair (Tezuka Kunimitsu x Fem!Fuji Syusuke aka Fuji Syuko)

Warning : Gender bender. AU (Little Canon), OOC, typos, etc. I planned to make this fanfic full of fluffy and sweet moments, but who know? :) Don't like, don't read. I've warned you, 'kay?


#4 Second Year JHS; Classmate (Part 1)


"Tezuka-kun."

"...Tamura-senpai, what's the matter asking me to come here?"

The girl named Tamura Eiko smiled. In both hands were holding a medium-sized black tube containing a graduation charter. Today she graduated from Seishun Gakuen with other seniors. For whatever reason, Tezuka was asked to come to the back of the gymnasium after the graduation ceremony was finished.

"Err, you didn't expect... if I were going to shoot* you now, Tezuka-kun?" (*In Bahasa Indonesia, 'shoot' could mean confess too)

Tezuka's right eyebrow raised. He shook his head slowly.

Tamura squatted down while breathing heavily. "You really are clueless..."

Without feeling awkward or uneasy, Tezuka asked. "Tamura-senpai seriously wants to shoot me? With a gun?"

"You don't even know the meaning of the shoot I'm talking about..."

"...sorry."

The senior took a breath and then threw it through her mouth. She again stood up straight in front of Tezuka. The difference in their height was quite far, around ten centimeters. But that didn't make Tamura illfeel or anything like that.

"Tezuka-kun, listen to me. I only say it once."

Tezuka's head nodded once.

Tamura's hands touched the other's shoulders, even though her right hand still held a black tube containing a graduation charter. They looked at each other. Tamura's face seemed red and Tezuka only looked back at her expressionlessly.

"I like you, Tezuka-kun. I see you as a woman to the man she loves. I hope you want to consider me as your girlfriend, even though we are different in age and will be in different school after this."

Silence with a face still expressionless. That was all Tezuka gave, before both of his hands slowly pulled Tamura's hand to not touch his shoulders again. The boy bowed.

"I'm sorry, Tamura-senpai. But, I can't."

"Why?"

Tezuka's body straightened up and raised his head. "I don't know what to feel liking someone is."

Tamura's expression seemed to be holding back tears. "I can teach you—"

Tezuka shook his head once.

"So, you don't want to give me a chance?"

"I'm sorry, Tamura-senpai."

This time Tamura's head looked up. Her eyes blinked several times, trying to get rid a pile of tears that ready to flow to her cheeks. After she felt the tears disappeared, she smiled at Tezuka who still looked at her expressionlessly.

"May I ask?" Tamura asked in a trembling tone at the end.

"Yes." Inwardly, Tezuka began to feel uncomfortable.

"Are you rejecting me because without knowing you are getting interested in someone?"

Tezuka's head shook answering the question.

"What's about Fuji Syuko?"

Hearing the name of the girl who once claimed to be his stalker, Tezuka's eyebrows frowned. "Why is Fuji-san's name to be brought up in this conversation, Tamura-senpai?" He asked, not understanding.

Tamura's forefinger touched the wrinkles between Tezuka's eyebrows, but the boy immediately took a step back. They paused for a moment. A sense of shock clearly reflected in their eyes. The flashback when Fuji touched the area that was almost touched by the senior in front of him slipped into Tezuka's mind while Tamura just put on a sad expression and wanted to cry.

Fuji-san... Tezuka's eyes closed for a moment then looked straight at Tamura. "Senpai."

"Hmm?" Tamura didn't return that look. Her head slightly bowed.

"I'm sorry. But I really can't be your boyfriend, Tamura-senpai."

"Aa. I know. Thank you, Tezuka-kun."


Love So Sweet


Tezuka Kunimitsu closed his eyes when he recalled the incident a few weeks ago. For the first time he was confessed by the opposite sex. The thing that made him unsure was that the girl who confessed him was two years older than him. But there were other things that Tezuka wasn't calm about. Why did Tamura-senpai mention Fuji-san's name? He thought to himself.

Not only that, Tezuka was also surprised. Why didn't he like wrinkles between his eyebrows to be touched by other people. In fact, he didn't want to imagine that it really happened.

If the incident with Fuji-san in the library?

Unconsciously Tezuka's left hand touched the area. He could still feel Fuji's touch until now. Sometimes Tezuka became ashamed of himself when he remembered it.

"Aa! Tezuka-kun, ohayou."

And the person who he thought was standing right in front of him.

Tezuka cleared his throat for a moment. "Ohayou, Fuji-san."

They walked side by side without talking about anything. Fuji walked on Tezuka's right side while greeting several people she knew. Tezuka's brain was thinking again, he didn't know, since when he felt comfortable when Fuji Syuko was nearby as he was today. Fuji herself also seemed comfortable when the girl spook and was only repaid with short words or just body language, such as nodding or shaking head.

Their footsteps stopped right in front of the notice board. Tezuka's hazel eyes moved to find his name. When his eyes scanned the names for class 2-4, he caught Fuji Syuko kanji's name there.

"I'm in class 2-4," Fuji muttered.

"Aa." Tezuka continued his activity.

Not far from Fuji's name, his name was written clearly on the same paper. That meant he was classmate with Fuji for one year later in class 2-4. Tezuka wanted to smile, but his intention was undone.

"We're classmates, Tezuka-kun." Fuji looked at him and smiled sweetly. "Yoroshiku ne."

"Aa, yoroshiku onegaishimasu," Tezuka replied as he lowered his head slightly.

"Wow! I'm also in the same class with you, Fuji-chan!"

Suddenly a black haired girl hugged Fuji's neck from behind. Seeing Fuji's happy expression, Tezuka involuntarily smiled thinly and was seen by the girl named 'Itou'. At a glance Tezuka saw Itou grinning as if to say, 'You're caught, Tezuka'. From that moment on Tezuka felt he had to be more guarded than before when he was near Itou.

Fuji's upright arm was hugged by Itou and took her away to class 2-4 on the third floor. Tezuka trailed behind them. From the way they spook and their body language, they seemed comfortable with each other.

"To be honest I'm bored because I have to be in your class again, Tezuka," Itou said.

Tezuka's eyebrows frowned. He didn't remember being in class with a girl named Itou Akari.

"Tezuka-kun, you have been in class at Seiharudai Daiichi, said Itou-chan."

"Sorry, but I don't remember," Tezuka admitted.

Itou laughed hard enough and waved her right hand in front of her own face. "Right, right? Tezuka must have forgotten, Fuji-chan," said the girl.

Fuji shook his head. She wondered why Tezuka could forget one of his classmates in elementary school. But from Tezuka's attitude, Fuji knew that the boy really could not be familiar with people, especially with the opposite sex.

"Aa! Fuji-chan! Itou-chan!" The feminine voice but quite loud attracted their attention.

"Wakaba-chan!" Itou took off her arms from Fuji and now hugged the girl called 'Wakaba'.

Tezuka's eyes paid attention to the girl's movements on his left. Fuji smiled. From the radiance of her eyes, she looked happy. The girl looked up and her smile grew even more. "They are my close friends since the first year," Fuji said.

"Are you happy?" Tezuka cursed at his stupid question.

"Of course. It's nice to have friends like them."

Fuji's smile spread to Tezuka, they entered class 2-4.


Tezuka x Fem!Fuji


Since before the winter holidays, Tezuka was appointed as Vice Captain of the boy's tennis club by the previous Captain. Some members agreed with that, although not a few also disagreed. But whatever the opinions of others, Tezuka didn't care. Yamato-buchou had appointed him and all he had to do now was to carry out his duties as best he could.

Because he was the Vice Captain, Tezuka was allowed to see the form of new students who wanted to join the boy's tennis club. He also offered to help Kuwahara Naoya, the club manager, selecting the form. From dozens of forms, there was one paper that attracted his attention.

"Fuji... Yuuta..." Tezuka muttered.

Kuwahara looked at him. "I was also shocked when I read that name, Tezuka."

"Is he Fuji-san's brother?" He asked.

"It seems like that? From the picture he looks like Fuji-san, right?"

Tezuka read the contents of the form until the last line. The address was the same. Deep down, he was grateful to be able to find out the address of Fuji's house so that he could confirm Fuji Yuuta's identity as the girl's biological brother.

He remembered, Fuji several times had brought up about her younger brother who was often being a victim of her ignorance with his brother. Tezuka began to wonder whether Yuuta's ability was the same as Fuji who had defeated him at the end of the first summer vacation. Although he admitted that the informal match was one-sided because his left arm was injured.

But Fuji's true ability also couldn't be underestimated. Tezuka realized it every time the ball landed in his area with a loud enough sound. Once or twice the ball landed produced a small hole in the surface.

"Are you curious about him, Tezuka?" asked Kuwahara.

"Aa." Tezuka put Yuuta's form on another form stack.

"But from the attitude, he doesn't like to be compared to his Aneki."

Now Tezuka's right eyebrow raised. Confused. "Why?"

Kuwahara's shoulders lifted. "When I asked, 'Are you Fuji Syuko's brother?', he immediately replied, 'If so, why?'. His expression looked annoyed. Not to mention when I called 'Fuji-kun', he asked me to call him 'Yuuta' only." A soft laugh came from the black haired boy. "Their relationship looks like they don't get along, right?"

"Is the relationship between siblings like that?" Tezuka asked curiously.

"Well, most of them don't get along, anyway. You don't have a brother or sister, Tezuka?"

The asked one just shook his head slowly.

"Oh, you are an only child. Congratulations, bro. You don't need to feel a fight between siblings, haha."

Tezuka knew, Kuwahara intended to invite him to joke, even though his tone sounded sarcastic in his ears. Curiosity reappeared in his mind, how the siblings' relationship in the Fuji family was. Are they getting along well or all this time behind the joy when Fuji told him about her brother, hid the sadness in her heart.

The next day, new members from the first year were allowed to take part in club activities. This time the boy's tennis club was scheduled to use all the courts. The day after tomorrow, there would be a joint practice between boy's and girl's tennis club.

Outside the court near the club room, Tezuka and Wakamatsu Rei (Captain of the boy's tennis club) watched the first year members running around the tennis court area. The pair of Tezuka's hazel eyes focused on the brown haired boy. He didn't look out of breath. His body posture when running made him be able to control his breathing well even though he had circled the outside court five times.

"Are you interested in the brown haired kouhai, Tezuka?" asked Wakamatsu.

Without looking away, he answered. "Yes, Wakamatsu-buchou."

"You're annoying, Mamushi!"

"You suck, Peach Butt!"

"What did you say!?"

"Fsssh!"

Wakamatsu laughed wryly. "Momoshiro and Kaidou. They always fight, ckckck." He looked to the right side. Tezuka were still paying attention to Fuji Syuko's brother. Wakamatsu's expression seemed thinking about somthing. "Tezuka, do you want to have a match with him?"

Tezuka looked at him. "With whom?"

"Yuuta-kun. You look very curious about him."

Silence was the response given by Tezuka. The boy thought even though Fuji Yuuta was Fuji's younger brother, it didn't mean that his abilities would be the same. His eyes focused again on the hordes of first year of club members who had begun to enter the tennis court after running ten times around the outside court.

"If you allow, Wakamatsu-buchou."

"Ok. I'm a bit curious too, hmm~"


Perfect Pair


Fuji Yuuta had already gotten out of the boy's tennis club room when someone called him. He turned and saw the club's Vice Captain approaching. To be honest, Yuuta realized that he was often being watched by this senior, but he didn't want to bother.

Yuuta bowed before asking, "What's wrong, Fukubuchou?"

"Do you have time on this Saturday?"

"I have."

"I want to practice with you, Yuuta-kun."

Yuuta's face looked shocked. Many people said that the Vice Captain of his club, Tezuka Kunimitsu, was one of the strongest members of the club. Who would have thought he would like to take a practice match with a junior like him. But Yuuta didn't immediately accept the invitation. The boy was convinced that there was something behind Tezuka's invitation. Of the many reasons, somehow the name of Fuji Syuko entered Yuuta's mind.

"Is it because of Aneki?" Yuuta asked to make sure.

Tezuka didn't answer. He continued walking towards the school gate.

Yuuta put on an expression of dislike and walked back to follow his senior's steps. Then his eyes narrowed as he saw the figure of his sister standing near the school gate and waving her hand. A sigh was heard when his name was called in an excited tone.

"You made a promise to go home together, Yuuta-kun?" Tezuka asked.

"No. I told her to go home first," Yuuta answered flatly.

"Yuuta, okaeri~" Without permission Fuji immediately hugged her favorite brother, even though she was replied with an annoyed exclaim from Yuuta. She also stood between two boys with both hands hugging her brother's arms. Her expression grew even more cheerful when she looked at Tezuka. "Hello, Tezuka-kun. We meet again."

"Are you waiting for Yuuta-kun?"

"Un. I want to quickly hear the story of Yuuta's first day joining in tennis practice."

"Even though you can wait and hear it at home, Aneki."

Fuji smiled broadly at Yuuta's words. "So what?"

"I haven't been able to join in the practice match. Just like you when you were in the first year." Yuuta looked at Tezuka who was seen stealing glances at his sister. He frowned while looking at Fuji and Tezuka in turn. Something was strange, Yuuta thought.

"I thought you would change the rules after becoming a fukubuchou, Tezuka-kun."

"Being a fukubuchou doesn't mean having the right to change the rules, Fuji-san."

"Hmm~ sou ka."

Didn't want to be overwhelmed by curiosity, finally Yuuta asked, "You two close friends, huh?"

Both Fuji and Tezuka looked at Yuuta before they stared to each other. Tezuka didn't seem to want to answer as Fuji just smiled. Actually Yuuta had heard his sister mention Tezuka's name several times at home, but he didn't know that they were this close. With Fuji's attitude that including extrovert person, Yuuta didn't feel surprised if they could be friends. The thing that surprised him was Tezuka's eyes that looked at his sister with a different look.

Heeeh... maybe...

"Aa, Aneki, Tezuka-fukubuchou invited me to practice on Saturday tomorrow," Yuuta said.

With fast movements, Fuji immediately looked at Tezuka. "Tezuka-kun."

Again Yuuta was curious. His sister called Tezuka's name in a warning tone. Not to mention the hug on his arm increasingly tightened. Was something wrong with the story?

"It's okay. Just normal practice," Tezuka said in a convincing tone.

"But I know, in the end you will play seriously," Fuji replied.

"It's okay, Fuji-san. Nothing to worry about."

"You can practice as long as I take a look. And don't protest."

Tezuka sighed. "Aa."

"Are you two dating?"

The spontaneous question from Yuuta made the two lovebirds silent. Tezuka looked away and Fuji stared fiercely at her brother. Yuuta didn't dare to make a sound anymore because his sister didn't seem to like the question.

Even if yes, there is nothing to worry about, thought the youngest Fuji family.

To Be Continued