Title : Unvoidable Fate

Pairing : Tenma x Taiyou / Tenma x Yukimura


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Chapter 7 - Bad feeling


Right after classes were finished Tenma headed to his apartment. He was worried yet again about that damn prince. Tenma couldn't relax on bit since the prince barge in and started to live with him.

Tenma was rushing that he didn't notice that there was somebody in front and he bump into that person. The almost fell down on the ground but an arm caught him before he could touch the ground.

"Yukimura?" Tenma says in confusion. The prince was wearing those sun glasses again and this time it didn't look like he was with his butler.

"Tenma." He smiled. Once Yukimura helped Tenma up the prince let go of the brunet.

"What are you doing here?" Tenma asked.

"I'm looking for a fellow friend and prince." When Yukimura said that Tenma felt like that he was talking about Taiyou, who else it would be.

"Who are you looking for?" Tenma asked.

"I'm looking for Taiyou since I heard he disappeared when his ceremony started."

"I knew it."

"You must care about him." Tenma said.

"Yes since we did grow up together and it surprised me when he disappeared."


"I'm back…" Tenma called out as he entered his apartment. "Taiyou..?" Tenma looked around but the prince was nowhere to be seen. Some books and the laptop lie open on the desk.

"What was he doing?"

CLACK

The bathroom opens, and Taiyou steps out with only a towel wrapped around his waist.

"Eek!"

"Wait why am so surprised when I'm a guy?"

"You're back..." He says.

"Put some clothes on, please." Tenma ask, turning his back on the prince.

"You get excited just seeing me in a towel?" He has a smirk on his face.

"What are you talking about?"

"It's warm and I want to stay like this."

"Geez, come on!"

"He's messing with me."

After a while the prince changes into some clothes.

"You're late today." He says.

"I had to do some test reruns and I also ran into Prince Yukimura." Tenma replies.

"Tests?" Taiyou looks confuse. Of course he would since princes don't go to school like a normal person would. They have tutors to help them with instead. It looked like Taiyou didn't want to talk about Prince Yukimura so he avoided the question.

"Were you looking at something?" Tenma asked.

"Something like that..."

"You know Prince Yukimura is worried about you."

"Is he?" Taiyou doesn't say much after that and goes back to doing something on his laptop. Tenma decided to make something to eat since he's sure that the prince hadn't had anything to eat and he was pretty hungry too.

As Tenma was making dinner his phone rang. The brunet's face turned sour. It was his mother, he hadn't talk to her for some time since he didn't want to then he recalled Hiroto telling him to call her once awhile and just talk to her if she called.

"What a pain!" He picked the call up.

"Okaasan." He said.

"Tenma, are you doing fine?" She sounded worried like always.

"I'm fine. I told you not to worry about me."

"I know but I can't help not to be worried." Tenma couldn't blame her after what they had to go through. The place that his mother lived was a good place when his father was still alive but now she's doing everything to take control.

"I wish you would come home." She spoke.

"I'm not ready yet but I promise I will come back." He said.

Their call ended and Tenma let out a sigh. He always had a hard time speaking to his mother. He loved her more than anything but he hated worrying her. He promised himself that he would be strong so she didn't have to worry about a thing, even if he had to pretend to be a normal person.

"Something smells good." Taiyou walked in the room when he smelled something good.

"I'm making some curry." Tenma smiled.

That night when Taiyou had gone to bed the brunet stayed up thinking. Taiyou was a prince with a great responsibility but the boy didn't seem to care. They were kind of a like since he also flee from what he was to be but his mother understand him. The difference was that Taiyou ran away without a word to anybody.

"How long are you going to stay here?" Tenma wondered. To be honest that Tenma didn't mind Taiyou staying with him since he had somebody to talk to but he would leave someday, he knew that.


The next day Tenma was heading to work early in the morning. In front of the café that he worked at he saw Hiroto.

"Why is he here?"

"Hiroto-san." Tenma said the red-haired man's name. The man turned and saw Tenma running toward him. "Why are you here?"

"I had some business nearby." Hiroto said.

"Is that so?" For some reason Tenma's couldn't believe what the man was saying, since he's a compete liar in Tenma's opinion.

"What? You don't believe me." He pretend to be heartbroken putting his hand to his chest.

The bell to the café door opened.

"Tenma, why haven't you gone inside yet?" Endou's face changed into a horrible one when he saw that Tenma was with Hiroto.

"Hiroto." He spoke.

"Endou-san." Tenma could see the horrible expression that Endou was making, it made Tenma confuse why his manager was making such a face but on the other hand Hiroto acted calm like nothing was wrong.

"Mamoru, it's good to see you." Hiroto smiled. Endou in turned manage to smile back but Tenma knew that the two were faking it all.

"They are so not fine."

"Tenma-kun come by my apartment after work." Hiroto said as he walked away before Tenma could say anything and he didn't even wave goodbye.

"He's the same as ever."

"Endou-san, are you okay?" Tenma asked.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Endou smiled. Tenma knew that Endou was hiding how he was feeling. The brunet didn't want to push things any more so he went inside the café and Endou followed suite after.

The day was busy a lot of customer came to buy a lot of their famous cake. Tenma enjoy the happy faces of every customer that came in when they tasted their cakes. The brunet enjoyed working in such a wonderful café, he got to see so many faces.

"Tenma!" Kazemaru appeared from the behind and hugged the brunet. Tenma got surprised from the sneak attack from the older man.

"Don't do that!" Tenma yelled after he turned around to face Kazemaru. The man always liked teasing him in any way possible. "Why are you here?"

"Why? Can't I be here?"

"You probably want to see Endou-san."

"If you know then don't ask, brat."

Tenma's mind then went to this morning when Hiroto arrived. Tenma was glad that Kazemaru didn't see Hiroto because he's sure they wouldn't be able to talk as well. Hiroto and Kazemaru are good friends but when Endou is involved it's a different story.

"What are you thinking of?" Kazemaru asked.

"N-Nothing!"


Just like Hiroto told Tenma the brunet went to Hiroto's apartment. He still lived in a fancy place even now. To Tenma it looked like the place kept looking bigger. Tenma rang the bell and the door opened for him.

"Hiroto-san, why did you want me to come by?" But Hiroto was nowhere to be seen. "Maybe he's taking a bath. But why did he even open the door when he knew I was coming." Tenma realize he was going to be here for a while so he messaged Prince Taiyou that he would be a little late.

Just then the door to the bathroom opened and Hiroto appeared with a towel around his waist.

"Why do the people I know always do this?"

"You're still here." Hiroto said.

"Well you did let me in. Can you put something on?"

"I didn't know you felt that way." The man was teasing him. Hiroto came back changed then he noticed something.

"You were with Kazemaru, right."

"How can you tell?"

"I've known him for a long time so it's not hard."

"You're weird."

"Say what you want. Anyway there was something I wanted to ask you." The man had the gleam in his eyes and when he did Tenma knew it was only trouble. Tenma tried to escape but the man showed no sign of letting him go. "It's nothing bad."

"When he says that it's something bad?"