The next school day, Ryoma stared up at the building. It would only be for a little longer that he'd walk through those doors. His heart ached just thinking about it. Though, he new Kaidou was right. He couldn't act any differently just because of moving. He didn't want people to remember him as a sulking kid.
"Got to pull myself together…" Ryoma mumbled to himself.
"Echizen, when were you planning on telling me?" Inui stood behind the shorter boy.
"Tell you? What are you talking about?"
"Moving."
"Ah, well," he quickly turned around and looked up at the older boy. "Inui-senpai, I want everyone to have happy memories of me, so I can't sulk about this. Thanks to Kaidou-senpai, I understand that now."
"It's not like we won't be able to see each other again. Even though us third years will be moving onto college doesn't mean we won't take the time to come say hello."
"It'll be hard."
"Don't think so negatively about this."
"It will be though…seeming that I'll be in America…"
"I see. Kaidou didn't mention that."
"I don't think he knows."
"Don't you think it would be best if everyone knew where you were moving? It would be better than you just disappearing one day."
"I'm…not sure…"
"It's up to you, Echizen. I just don't want you to regret any decisions you make."
Hey, senpai, can I ask you something?"
"What is it?"
"What would you do if you liked someone but was too afraid to tell them?"
"Hmm…I would use the data I have collected on them to see which way would be the easiest to approach them."
"That's not very helpful."
"Why, do you have someone you like?"
Ryoma's cheeks began to change to a light red color. He turned away and noticed Momoshiro. "I'll talk to you later, Inui-senpai."
"Interesting," Inui smiled as he pulled out his green notebook. "This will be good data."
"Hey, Echizen, why'd you leave before I got to your house?" Momoshiro demanded.
"Hn? Sorry, Momo-senpai. I needed to do something thinking," Ryoma explained.
"Oh! I heard that you invited some people over to your house this Saturday. Why didn't you invite me?"
"You can come too."
"Then again…I was also told by Eiji-senpai that you won't even be there."
"Yeah, I'm going out for a little bit."
"With Fuji-senpai, right?"
The younger boy looked off to the side. "How'd you know?"
"Well, I was talking to Eiji-senpai, and he was saying how he was going over to your house on Saturday along with Kaidou and Inui-senpai. I asked if the others were going as well. Eiji-senpai then told me that he knew Fuji-senpai wouldn't be there because he has a date. He also said that you wouldn't be there. When I asked why, he told me that the two of you were going out. I don't really know what it all meant. It was kind of confusing because Eiji-senpai was just going on and on."
"Kind of like you."
"What?!"
"I was the one that asked Fuji-senpai to go out with me this Saturday. I knew he would understand why I didn't want to be at my house. I never asked him to go out on a date with me…he's the one that said it was a date."
"Wah! So it is a date!"
"I never said that!" Ryoma clasped his hands onto Momo's mouth. "Please lower your voice."
"Date…it's a date," he mumbled through Ryoma's hands.
Ryoma began to blush again. He quickly pulled away from the older boy and ran off. "Stupid senpai!"
"Echizen has a little crush. It's so cute when he gets all embarrassed like that. Fuji-senpai is so lucky," Momoshiro laughed as he headed into the school building.
Tezuka and Fuji stood in the hallway talking about the homework from last night. The atmosphere was calm around them until one particular red head came running down the hall towards them.
"Fuji~!"
"Good morning, Eiji," Fuji smiled.
"Does Tezuka know? Did you tell him? Is what you said last night really true? Are you two going out? Is it official? When did this all happen?" Eiji's questions came out so fast they could barely be understood.
Fuji giggled. "Eiji, you're so nosy. "Tezuka knows what's going on this Saturday. I told him yesterday during lunch. Echizen and I are going out on a date this Saturday. We're just going out to make Echizen feel a little better. As for when this happened…yesterday morning."
"Wow! Fuji and Ochibi! Who would have seen that coming?"
"If I knew you were going to go this far with all of this, I would have never told you. Please keep this information to yourself."
"But―"
"Class is going to start soon," Tezuka flipped through the papers in his hands. "We should get going, Fuji."
"Of course, Tezuka," Fuji smiled and walked off with the taller boy.
"Fuji!" Eiji whined. "Things are looking interesting."
NOTE: Yeah, it's a short chapter. I know, I know. Sorry. Next chapter should be where Echizen has all his guests over and his "date" with Fuji.
I'm really sorry about how long it's been taking me to update lately. I've been working on a Prince of Tennis website (along with a forum). The website is mainly to advertise the game I'm in the process of making, but it's also to let people read doujinshi and other things (If you want to check out the website, the link is my homepage in my profile.). Yeah, so I've been working on the art for the game and the script for it as well.
Though, I've finished the website for the time. I will focus on my fics for a little bit. I'm trying to decide what fic to start next (that's why I have the poll in my profile). Also, once this fic is finished, I have my new FujiXRyoma fic started. I know it's early, but I had to start it when I came up with the idea. When it comes to FujiXRyoma and FujiXEiji fics, my fics usually revolve around Ryoma or Eiji. I make them suffer terribly because I'm not a nice person. Well, for my new FujiXRyoma fic, Fuji is the one that the story is revolving around. It won't be posted until I'm closer to the end of this fic though. The title for it is "Without Sight". If you really want to know more about it, head over to my profile. Details about all the fics I have planned can be found towards the bottom of the page.
Anyways, I've rambled on enough about that. I need to update "The Pressure of our Love" and "Somewhere Beyond the Musical Notes". I might do that later on tonight though. I might have to cook dinner. I'm not sure though. I have to figure out what's going on. This must be really odd to read when this chapter has been posted for awhile. I never really thought about that. It doesn't matter though. Maybe I can confuse people. It's always fun to confuse people.
Enough! I will stop now. I've said more than enough. Thank you for reading this chapter. I will try to get back on a better update schedule. I'm so slow. Thanks, again, for reading. I really do hope you enjoyed this chapter~!
