Hello Readers! Okay, first of all I want to thank everyone who reads (And reviews!) Now, I want to make some responses to some of the review I did get.

First, to Merissala- Yeah, I didn't make it clear (It will make more sense later on), but Fuji is a FALLEN, not a vampire. His story comes in later, I promise. I was amazed when your review was so short, but thank you for it!

LittleAngel22493- Okay then… Updating… NOW! Thanks for your review.

To White Alchemist Taya- Er… Yeah… It wouldn't be any fun to make everything just WORK… I have to entertain my sadistic side too… Speaking of sadists, as for Fuji…It's a secret! Thanks, as always, for your review.

MazdaKitsune- Yay! CHICKEN DANCE!!! Doo doo doo doo doodoo -clap clap clap clap.- Hahaha… Love bite… Funny, but who knows? (I certainly don't… ') Thanks for reviewing -Does chicken dance anyway.-

XXxEmileighxXx- Yep, it's weird, but it wouldn't be as fun otherwise!! As for the comment about throwing out the vampire myth, it's a myth, I can do whatever I please because none of it is factual. Thank you for your review!

Disclaimer- I do not own Prince of Tennis!

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"One more time I'll hold you tightly, and whisper 'I love you'. Now I am holding a bouquet of love in both hands. Let's smile and kiss, as in our memories. Ah, the scars of a disturbed heart are muttering your name over and over," It was Kunimitsu's voice that she heard as she drifted to sleep, and it was his singing that awoke her in the morning. He gave her a very small, apologetic smile. "Did I wake you?"

"Yes," She breathed, smiling as she tried to brush her 'bed-head' with her fingers. "But I don't mind. It's about time I should get up anyway." Kunimitsu watched as she began up the stairs to get ready. She turned back to him with a smile. "You don't have to stay: you can go home and get ready you know. I won't cry; that's only if I never see you again. Remember?"

"If that's what you want," Kunimitsu said, and Amaya smiled.

"I'll see you at school," She let her words out as a whisper, and then Kunimitsu was gone. She sighed, leaning back and sinking down the wall. Why hadn't she been able to say 'I love you'? Not that he had said it himself… Part of her feared, even now, that the only thing that attracted him to her was her blood. Maybe, he was only trying to get used to her, so that he wouldn't have to struggle when they sat side-by-side in the classroom. She hated that she was second guessing him, but it made no sense for someone like Kunimitsu to fall in love with a normal, mortal girl like her. "God," She muttered, "Why can't life ever be simple…?"

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"Back? And alone?" Ayashi sounded surprised, "Isn't that strange… Did she send you off alone? No, don't tell me, I've already seen it in your mind." He was smiling still as he went on, but a change in his tone alerted Kunimitsu to how serious he was being. "What are you doing? You must realize that it's careless and stupid to get a human involved with us."

"I know," Kunimitsu said, "I know it's dangerous, but I'm not sure what else I can do. She wouldn't just leave me be if I suddenly acted like I had no interest in her again."

"But what is your interest in her? I'm not getting a clear reading…"

"That would make sense," Kunimitsu answered, shaking his head, "Because I don't know myself."

"Hmm… Well, that aside, I have a surprise," Ayashi said, then smiled before disappearing. Kunimitsu didn't like the sound of that at all.

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"Kunimitsu-kun?" Oishi asked at morning practice. Kunimitsu, however, was still thinking on what Ayashi might be planning. "Kunimitsu-kun?" The second time, this got his attention. "Are you alright?" Oishi asked, "You seemed distracted."

"Fine," Kunimitsu said, "But, yes, a bit distracted." He admitted. Just then a tennis ball came out of no where and hit Kunimitsu in the back of the head. He turned around, an annoyed look on his face, to see Ayashi, who was covering his mouth with a surprised look on his face.

"Sorry!" He hollered, then moved over, "I was sure you'd see it coming!"

"So you aimed for my head…?" Kunimitsu said testily. Ayashi laughed, a bit nervously.

"Now now, don't be so upset! I suppose I just had too much faith in your abilities…" Ayashi smiled. Oishi looked between the two.

"Who is this, Kunimitsu-kun?" he finally asked, the other starters starting to come around as they finished the drill they had been doing.

"This is my cousin, Ayashi," He said, eyeing Ayashi suspiciously, "But I don't know why he's here."

"Hey, hey, hey!" Ayashi said, "Can't you see the uniform? I'm going to be going here until I get on the move again. Shouldn't be too long, just a few months." Ayashi's eyes widened about a fraction of an inch, and then he whispered so quietly that no one but Kunimitsu was sure to hear. He concentrated on not moving his lips as he said, "Your sensei, Ryuzaki, is coming with some news…" Ayashi chuckled, 'This could be interesting…'

"Alright, everyone! Gather!" Ryuzaki's loud voice carried a certain amount of authority as the boys all moved nearer to her on the courts. "I've been volunteered to do this years school play." She picked her starters out of the crowd, "I want all of the starters in the production. This is mandatory." She smiled slightly at the distraught looks covering several of the boys' faces. "The play is Romeo and Juliet, and I've already assigned most of the major parts, although I could use a few more people for the extra parts. And, we need a Juliet. If anyone knows a girl that would like the part, get them to come to me."

"What's going on?" Amaya asked, a confused look coming across her face as Ryuzaki looked at her with a suspicious-looking smirk.

"Yushinata-san," Ryuzaki said, her voice laced with honey, "Would you mind playing Juliet in our school production of Romeo and Juliet?"

"Uh," Amaya felt a sweat drop forming on her forehead, "Sure, why not?"

"Excellent!" Ryuzaki clapped her hands together, "Practice is over, everyone, except for the starters and anyone else interested in being in the play, is dismissed." Everyone moved off of the courts and into the locker rooms, leaving the starters and a few others to go closer to Ryuzaki and hear what fate she had assigned them.

"Alright!" Ryuzaki said, getting all of their attention. "The roles are as follows, Momo-kun, you'll be Mercutio, he's one of Romeo's best friends, and a real wise guy. Taka-kun, you're Benvolio, another of Romeo's friends, you're the level headed one. Kaoru-kun, you're the fiery Tybalt, you should have no problems with it, and Shuichiro-kun, you'll be the Friar that gives Romeo advice and marries the two lovers. Sadaharu-kun, you'll be Master Capulet, Juliet's father, and Eiji-kun, you can be the apothecary that sells Romeo the poison in the end." She looked around the crowd, "… Horio-kun, you can be the Juliet's nurse, and Ryoma-kun, you'll be her son, Peter. Kachiro-kun and Katsuo-kun, you two can be Gregory and Sampson, slaves for the Montague, Romeo's, family." She smiled as she got ready to say the most important roles, "Juliet, of course, will be played by Yushinata-san, and then Paris and Romeo will be played by Kunimitsu-kun and Shusuke-kun respectably."

Amaya's jaw dropped. She had to kiss Fuji and turn away from Kunimitsu?! Even if it was only in a play, that just seemed like too much. Kunimitsu wouldn't show it, but he was just as upset about the pairing. Ryuzaki, it seemed, was the only person in Tokyo who hadn't heard about him and Amaya.

"I'm sorry," Fuji whispered in Amaya's ear as Ryuzaki rattled off a few more small parts.

"I'll live, I guess," Amaya sighed, then realized what she'd just said, "I'm sorry Fuji-kun! I didn't mean anything by that just now, it's just that…"

"It's alright, I understand," Fuji smiled. Kunimitsu watched the two for a moment, and then sighed.

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"Alright!" Ryuzaki clapped, looking at the crew on stage. It was after school, and after tennis practice, and they were beginning play practice. "Let's just have a quick run through, every one reading their parts. Follow the stage directions as best you can." They proceeded to read through the play, finally getting to the scene where Romeo meets Juliet, and Amaya's acting skills were really put to the test.

'I'll pretend as best I can that he is Kunimitsu-kun,' Amaya told herself, and then let her mind take effect, just as it did with her parents. Fuji began to read his line, moving over to take her hand in his.

"If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." He kissed Amaya's hand, but she was in control of herself, and took on the self-preserving mood of Juliet.

"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hands too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do not touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss," Amaya said, chastising Fuji, as well as Romeo.

"Have not saints lips and holy palmers too?" Fuji asked, smiling as he tilted his head ever so slightly to the side.

"Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer," Amaya answered, turning her head so that she did not look at Fuji directly. Neither of them were reading off the parts anymore, they were already reciting from memory.

"O, then, dear saint," Fuji said, his voice earnest as Romeo's must have been meant to sound, "let lips do what hands do! They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair." Amaya turned back to him, her eyes piercing, as if to say that Juliet would not be won so easily.

"Saints do not more, though grant for prayers' sake," She told him.

"Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged," He kissed her with nothing more than a peck on the lips, seeming completely unaware, and not nervous at all considering all of the faces watching the two. Amaya's eyes widened, but it was still only in character.

"Then have my lips the sin that they have took," She said, and Fuji smiled again.

"Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again," He leaned in, and this time the kiss was deeper. Amaya's eyes widened, but she did not return the kiss. They parted.

"Y-you kiss by th' book," She said the final line, and Ryuzaki called for them to stop.

"I'm sorry, Amaya-san," Fuji smiled apologetically, "I'm afraid I got a bit too into it."

"I-it's alright," Amaya assured him, but it was difficult. If she hadn't been pretending he was Kunimitsu at the moment he kissed her, she might have run out.

"You two are really good at this," Ryuzaki said, "Do you have the parts memorized already?"

"I own the book," Both Amaya and Fuji said at once, then Amaya averted her eyes.

"Well, keep up the good work," Ryuzaki smiled, "Though if you get 'carried away' again during the production, Shusuke-kun, then we may both hear a thing or two from the principal!"

"I won't," Fuji promised, then Ryuzaki turned to everyone else.

"That's it for today," She announced, "Good work everyone, now head home." Everyone began to depart, Amaya slipping out the stage door. Ayashi came up behind Kunimitsu and whispered again for only him to hear.

"She was imagining Fuji-kun was you," Ayashi informed him, but Kunimitsu said nothing and only headed after Amaya. Ayashi shrugged and headed home.

Amaya leaned back against the wall, sinking down. She felt terrible, though nothing that had happened had been her fault. She didn't notice Kunimitsu standing beside her for sometime. When she did see him, she jumped. "Kunimitsu-kun! I'm sorry, I didn't see you there."

"No problem," Kunimitsu muttered, his voice barely audible.

"Kunimitsu-kun… Kiss me, please," Amaya said, staring off into space, "I don't like the feeling of Fuji-kun's lips being the last on mine."

"You're being quite dramatic about this," Kunimitsu said, a bit louder this time, "Don't you think it might be safer for you to be with Shusuke-kun?"

"What are you saying?" Amaya asked, looking up at him with pained eyes, "You're the one I love, Kunimitsu-kun."

"But Shusuke-kun… would be better for you," Kunimitsu said, trying to keep from looking into those hurt eyes. Amaya looked to the ground, then stood up.

"I'm going home," Amaya said, then began to walk away, Kunimitsu began to follow on silent feet. Amaya stopped, but didn't turn around, "Don't follow me, Kunimitsu-kun. I revoke my invitation." Kunimitsu just stood there as she walked away.

'This is what I wanted,' Kunimitsu reminded himself, 'So why does this suck so bad?'