I graduated! Yay! \o/

I'll be off to the University of Leuven next school year, to (thrum ruffle…) do 'Japanologie' in other words Japanese studies. ^^ so excited!

But back to the story, here is the fourth chapter. I hope you enjoy it my dear readers and be content with it. Because I will be leaving in two days on a holiday for two weeks. So no typing then, and no fifth chapter. I have no idea when the next one will be ready. Since my parents will leave a week later as well on a holiday and they will take the laptop along with them. So if I don't have a laptop of my own, then you might have to wait for a month or more for the next chapter. But I'll try to do my best.

Just enjoy this chapter and please review. ^^

Disclaimer: I do not own POT.

Persistence : chapter 4

FUJI'S POV

I sat in my room finishing the last of my homework for the day. It was evening by now and the heat of earlier had been washed away by a quick but effective thunderstorm. It was clearing up again as the clouds drifted away from each other. This meant that tomorrow would most likely be another scorching day of tennis practice.

I put all my stuff away and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and go to the toilet before going to bed. It was still early, but I was already tired and wanted to sleep. So I walked downstairs told my sister and mother goodnight before going up to my room again. I checked my cacti at the window and decided to leave the window open for a small part. I heard something crack in the tree next to me and looked outside. I didn't see anything so I brushed it off for a bird that flew away. I left my curtains open so getting up in the morning wouldn't be that difficult.

I went to my bed and pulled off my t-shirt and pants so I was left in only my boxers. I went underneath the blankets and pushed off the lamp on my night table. I slowly drifted off to sleep, fully relaxed hoping for a dream of Tezuka.

Xxx Time laps xxX

I was musing over the dream that I hadn't had, unfortunately, as I made my way towards the school. I was a bit later than otherwise since my sister had insisted that I ate my breakfast which she had made. I walked towards the club room for morning practice as I saw some of the non-regulars already outside bouncing some balls back and forth. They greeted me as I smiled back at them and entered the room. Everyone's eyes momentarily landed on me to see who had come in before minding their own business again. I walked to my locker next to Tezuka's and put my bag down.

"Good morning, Tezuka."

"Ohayo." He answered curt as always.

I opened my locker and noticed something falling out of it onto the ground. It seemed to be some kind of envelope. I decided to pick it up after having hung op my jacket in my locker.

"Another letter from one of your fans, or is it a love letter from one of your admirers?" Inui asked interested.

"Mou, Fuji-senpai is so lucky. He gets all the attention from the girls and even from some males as well, it's so unfair you get them all just with smiling at them. So unfair." Momo whined.

"Nya! Fujiko is just so good looking!"

"What do you mean with that Eiji-senpai? Am I not good looking?"

"Baka! Of course not!"

"What did you say, Mamushi!"

"That you're ugly!"

"Have you seen yourself already? Should I get you a mirror or something, viper!"

"Fsssshhh…."

"You two, stop it! Eiji just meant that a lot of people find Fuji attractive. I'm sure that there are those who find you guys attractive as well. But we shouldn't forget that the most important thing is the inside that matters, not the outside." Oishi explained like some holy saint.

"Mada mada dane, Oishi-senpai."

"Indeed Oishi, the looks are also very important. There is 97,23% that people first look to the body before to the character. Fuji has a very high appeal to a variation of people, both female as male. In other words almost everybody finds him sexy looking. Even I have to admit that." Inui calmly stated as everyone was a bit shocked at his final statement.

"Nya! I think Fujiko is sexy as well!" my best friend said while jumping happily up and down. And somehow this led to everyone talking about my looks. I bent through my knees as I picked the envelope up while listening to the others and grabbing the stuff I needed from my bag.

"Fssshhh…"

"Hahaha, even Kaidoh agrees."

"He does look good." Echizen remarked dryly before Kaidoh could react to Momo's outburst.

Takashi and Oishi both kept their mouths shut, thinking it wise not to say their thoughts out loud. Inui then got an interesting idea which made him grin eerily. Everyone noticed and stepped a bit away from him afraid of what the data specialist was about to do or say.

"You also think Fuji is good looking and sexy, right…Tezuka?"

"Ah." He immediately remarked as everyone's eyes popped open and mouth agape. I stood up and also looked with open eyes at him. It was quiet as Tezuka noticed the shocked reactions and realized to what he had unconsciously agreed.

"II data" Inui responded a couple of seconds later and Oishi tried talking about something else entirely to divert the attention from our captain. I was still looking at him while he was pointedly ignoring me, but I didn't miss the slight blush that had formed on his cheeks. My stomach fluttered in response to all of this, knowing that Tezuka found me attractive. My body hadn't reacted repulsed but more in a giddy happy way.

I then remembered the envelope I was holding and put the other things I also held into my locker for a moment. I decided to first change and then open it. So I quickly changed as most of the others were almost done as well. The golden pair was still talking but they were actually ready to go outside as was Tezuka who seemed to wait for something. I grabbed the envelope and saw Tezuka turn slightly my way as in curious to who the letter was from. He must have thought that it was from Ito again. But that thought hadn't crossed my mind just yet. I thought it would be like always, some girl who wrote about her undying love for me and was too shy to confess to me directly.

I opened and was surprised to find no letter, all that was in it looked like some pictures. I pulled them out and my eyes opened once more as I saw myself on them.

The first one was from me in my room sitting at my desk, probably doing homework. The next one was from me putting my stuff away while bending over with my ass towards the camera. The third was me seemingly pulling my shirt off, and that was followed with me pulling my pants off. I shivered as I saw the next one with me lying peacefully in bed and unaware of anyone.

I knew that the pictures had been taking yesterday night and it scared me a lot since I had let the window open even for a small part. If someone had wanted to enter, they could have done that easily from one of the tick branches that hung towards my room. So that must have been the sound that I heard coming from that tree. It had most likely been the one who had taken the pictures. I shivered once more and tightened my hold.

I grabbed the last pictures and looked at them with horror. They were from this morning…

After eating the breakfast made by Yumiko, I went to change. But my mother was in the bathroom and I didn't know for how long she would be in there. So I decided to change in my room. All I needed to be in the bathroom for was to brush my teeth and quickly comb my hair.

But those certain pictures had been taken while I had been changing; me pulling my shirt off with my face towards the window, an other one when I was pulling my pants off still towards the window,…Me pulling my boxers off making my crotch visible while still turned towards the window, the next one was me turned away and the one after that was me bending over to grab a new pair of boxers. But in that one, was my back pointed towards the window, having a full view on my behind. My hands were already trembling with fear and disgust as I looked at the final picture.

They fell out of my hands as the last one was printed in my mind and didn't want to leave my head, even not when pinching my eyes closed.

The last one was a close up from a hand around a bare erection with a "Mmmmh,…." written on it in a blood red colour.

I leaned heavily on my locker which made everyone, who hadn't been looking already, turn their attention towards me when hearing the loud iron thud coming from my locker.

"Fujiko?"

"Fuji! What's wrong?"

"Senpai?"

Evernyone asked as I slid towards the ground and landed on my ass leaning with my back against the locker and pulling my knees close to me.

"I…I left my window open…." I muttered softly, yet everyone had heard it as no one dared to say anything. Everyone was shocked to see me like this, believe me I would have been too.

I saw from the corners off my eyes Tezuka bent down to be at my height. He looked to me with concern in his eyes as he turned towards the pictures and picked them up. I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I didn't even stop him from looking at the nude ones. He quickly looked through them and his eyes widened with every picture he saw. His knuckles turned white as he gripped them harder and harder in what must be probably anger.

"Tezuka? What's wrong with Fuji? What's on those pictures?" Oishi asked very worriedly.

"Fuji…" was all he said as explanation. Everybody looked confused as nobody understood it.

Eiji, who had apparently been looking over Tezuka's shoulders, replied after him: "They are pictures of Fuji when he was sleeping."

"You mean…Someone took pictures off him while he was sleeping and then put them in his locker?" Momo asked dumbfounded. Eiji merely nodded in response.

"Fuji is being stalked?" Takashi softly whispered but this made everyone look in my direction as I was still huddled against the locker.

I snapped out of it when I heard something that sounded a lot like a growl coming from Tezuka. I looked at him and saw him crumpling up what was probably the last picture. He stood up, put the pictures in his pocket to throw them away later and then looked at me.

I must have looked pleading, scared, for his eyes immediately softened and he bent down once again. "Come on…let's get you some fresh air." He said as he softly took my arm and pulled me up. I went with him without looking at the others, eyes pointed towards the floor but not really seeing anything. He put me down on a bench outside and quietly sat beside me, knowing that I wasn't really up for a talk.

AUTHOR'S POV

The other regulars were still in the clubroom not sure on what to do. They all stood there silently, trying to process everything until Echizen came in between and cut the silence: "Did Tezuka-buchou just growl?"

"II data…" Inui whispered again though it was clear in his voice that he was more worried about Fuji then about his new data. Takashi then gave the idea to go outside and start practice so Tezuka could calm Fuji down without having to worry about the other tennis players. They all agreed and went outside to the courts. Only Oishi and Eiji stayed behind because the vice-captain wanted to ask his partner something.

"What are you hiding, Eiji?"

"Nani?" the red head asked surprised.

"You aren't telling me everything, and I do believe that Fuji wouldn't react like that if the pictures were just from him sleeping." Oishi looked kind but strict at the same time at Eiji which told him to be honest, to trust him.

And that was just what Eiji did: "There is only one picture from him sleeping, the others are from him changing to go to bed and to go to school." He told quietly.

"Changing?...Are there any where he is, you know….naked?" Mother hen asked. All Eiji did was nod in response. Oishi gasped as the information sunk in.

He then made a click: "Do you think it's from the same person who gave him those…condoms and..lube.. ?"

"Probably…"

"Eiji you know more…Does these kinds of things happen more to him?"

Eiji looked helpless for a while not sure whether to tell Oishi, but finally deciding to trust his double partner. "You have to keep this a secret. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to tell this from Fuji."

"I promise."

"….Well…you see, Fujiko….."

TEZUKA'S POV

"Fuji? Are you okay?" I asked him softly. We had been sitting in silence for a while now and I decided to ask him about everything that had been happening lately. I would see Fuji going somewhere with guys I barely knew, see him receiving letters daily, getting stared at all the time and more unwanted attention.

The blue eyes boy nodded his head before answering: "Yes, thank you. I was just…surprised."

"Surprised? That's all you are? Aren't you angry, scared, shocked…?"

"I'm…" he started but shut his mouth again, he was clearly distressed.

"Fuji, tell me what has been going on. I need to know."

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