Disclaimer: I do not own prince of Tennis or any of its characters. I only own my original chars.
Warning: Spoilers for latest manga chapters. Shonen-ai fic. Angst in some chapters. Suggestive/naughty hints in this chapter.
Parings: Tezuka X Echizen. Momoshiro X Ann
(This chapter is followed by chapter 12 in Life After Seigaku)
A/N: Setting the major angst in the next chapter. Be warned that it would not end happy.
Trumpet-Geek, I was always under the impression that people in America are quite open-minded. Not very clear about this, so thanks for your info. Forgive me if I had said something offensive.
arsenic-graffiti, don't worry, my fingers are still fine. It helps to train my typing skills. (mind. I'm not a touch typist, but thanks to this fic I can at least type much faster now)
Harry Draco Malfoy, yup, angst basically means sad scenes in the story.
Crossover Masters, yup, the sequel is KuniRyo, and the idea is so crazy that I wonder if I should post it.
darksaphire, actually Tina is still around as a minor character. I had thought of letting her make a cameo appearance but that would ruin both my stories, so she'll make an appearance after the angst, after which I will get rid of her once and for all. For now, know that she lingering in the background like a ghost. XD
To everyone else who have reviewed as well, thank you.
One more thing. If possible, always read Echizen, Our Buchou first before reading Life After Seigaku.
To the story then…
Echizen, Our Buchou
By: Gwynhafra
Chapter 10
Ryoma was in high spirits as he went for practice that day. Their tests would be starting from today, and the first subject was English, which was a piece of cake to Ryoma. After all, he used that language a lot when he was back in America.
Also, he noticed that his tennis players were improving, thanks to Inui's weights training, which was a good thing, as the district games were coming up next.
"Ohayou, Momo-senpai." He greeted his best friend.
Momoshiro, who was chatting with Katsuo and Kachiro, gave a yelp at hearing Ryoma's voice. "Aa...O...Ohayou...Echizen." he scurried off, leaving down a blinking captain.
"What's wrong with him?" Ryoma wondered aloud. He turned his questioning gaze to his fellow sophomores, who shrugged.
Ryoma decided that it wasn't important. Momoshiro was the most cheerful person he had ever seen. Whatever was bugging the vice-captain, he would most likely get over it soon.
With that reassuring thought, Ryoma decided to call all the players to practice.
"Listen up. The District Competitions would be in the middle of this month. All of you are to give your fullest attention. Got that?"
"Hai! Buchou!" they chorused.
Ryoma turned slightly and noticed Momoshiro giving the prodigy what seemed like a wary look, though when their eyes met, Momoshiro jumped as if he was electrocuted before jogging off to talk to Kaidou, something that the usual Momoshiro would not do. Of course, he and the Mamushi began fighting almost immediately.
The captain frowned, but decided not to think too much about it as he went to check on the first years.
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Momoshiro was relieved to see Ryoma walk away, as his head was still too messed up with what he saw yesterday.
'Tezuka-buchou kissed Echizen-buchou…Tezuka-buchou kissed Echizen-buchou…oh my goat! How could Echizen like kissing another guy?! That is so wrong…I never knew that he was gay! What am I going to do…Tezuka-buchou kissed Echizen-buchou…'
"Momoshiro-kun. You're being very narrow-minded." Inui commented, making him jump again. (The dunk smash player was feeling edgy after all)
Inui had a tendency to creep up behind friends before breathing down their necks, and Momoshiro hasn't gotten used to that yet, though Echizen has.
"Inui-senpai…how long has Echizen-buchou…been like this?" he asked.
Inui flipped through his notes. "Hmm…technically they started dating during the holidays, though sparks started to fly some time before the District Games last year."
Momoshiro looked horrified. "What! He had been gay for so long?! I can't believe I never knew about it at all, and I was the one who hung out with him the most. He looked so normal that I never knew. Oh goats! What if he falls for me next? What if I become gay too?"
"Could you stop it with that hyperactive brain of yours? I've calculated an 83 percent that your reaction would be exactly like this, but it's still annoying!" Inui's glasses flashed as he got fed up of Momoshiro's antics.
Momoshiro looked slightly green. 'My best friend is gay!!!' he thought miserably.
"Echizen-kun is perfectly normal. It doesn't matter if he likes Tezuka. Feelings come naturally after all, and he has no control over that. You don't have to act like he has some kind of disease." Inui coaxed.
Momoshiro was having conflicting feelings within himself. Part of him wanted to stay as far as possible from the boy, while the other part of him treasured their friendship too much to even think of breaking it off.
"Instead of letting your mind roam like that, why don't you talk to Echizen and see what he has to say about it? You were the one who pestered me to see who he was dating after all."
"I thought that he was dating a 'she'. I didn't expect the 'she' to be a 'he'…" Momoshiro began muttering in a fashion that was similar to Fudoumine's Ibu Shinji.
Inui sighed. Fuji was right after all. They might have revealed it too early.
Momoshiro looked like he had finally made up his mind as he stood on his feet.
"Alright! I've decided to talk to Echizen!" he said.
"Talk to me about what, Momo-senpai?" the devil himself asked.
Momoshiro's courage deflated immediately as he gave a powerful shudder, like someone had poured a bucket of ice water on him.
"I CAN'T DO IT AFTER ALL!!!" the dunk smash player wailed as he ran off, tearing at his hair.
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This was the first time, perhaps, that Ryoma actually hated the English exams. Two hours were allocated for the paper, and Ryoma always finished his within 45 minutes, but he still had to remain seated in the hall for the rest of the time until all their answers were collected. Only then would they be allowed to leave the hall.
Well, one hour and fifteen minutes was a lot of time to kill as Ryoma sat there. Usually he would have just taken a nap until the time was up, but this time, his mind was too occupied to sleep.
There was something definitely wrong with Momoshiro Takeshi. His friend had been ignoring him…no…avoiding him was a better word for it, and no matter how he tried to rack his brains, he just couldn't think of how he might have offended the senior.
'What did I do…?' that line repeated itself in Ryoma's head.
"Echizen-kun? Echizen-kun. Please hand in your paper." Ryoma snapped out of his thoughts to find the whole class laughing at him. The teacher was standing next to his desk, with everyone else's answer sheets in her hands.
"Sorry." He handed over his papers.
As the whole class left the hall, Kachiro and Katsuo came up to their captain.
"Are you alright, Ryoma-buchou?" Kachiro asked.
"You're not falling sick, are you?" Katsuo added.
Ryoma shook his head, though he did not elaborate further.
Kachiro and Katsuo both exchanged looks. They really did not know how to deal with this.
"It's difficult if one finds out about conflicting issues…" Takahiro muttered as he walked past. As usual, Kachiro and Katsuo ignored him, as they never could understand what the chessmaster was talking about.
Just then, Momoshiro poked his head in.
"Ah. Katsuo-kun. Kachiro-kun. Let's go for a snack." He was looking at the ceiling, the fan, the blackboard…anywhere else but at Ryoma.
"Sure!" both of them hurriedly packed their bags.
"Ne, Momo-chan fukubuchou. What about Echizen…"
The sophomore blinked as he didn't finish his question, for Momoshiro was already gone, and he was quite sure the third year had been at the door a few seconds ago.
Both of them cast a look at their captain, who got to his feet, carrying his bag. "Go on ahead. You don't need to worry about me." He spoke in a dead voice.
"Ryoma-buchou…" his two classmates gazed worriedly as Ryoma walked past them, his expression unreadable.
As Echizen got to the door, to his surprise, he found the chessmaster standing there.
"For you. Eat this and cheer up." The chessmaster said without a change to his expression. Ryoma realized that the boy had shoved a meat bun into his hands.
The chessmaster then turned and walked off, though he halted in his steps after a while.
"It would be a good thing to go speak to the vice-captain. Any longer and your friendship might be in danger." He said.
Ryoma blinked as the boy walked off. After a while, he smiled. The chessmaster was always acting like he couldn't care less about anything. Who would have known that he actually had a kind side?
With that, Ryoma went home pondering of how he should talk to Momoshiro.
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"Ne. Momo-chan fukubuchou…did you and Echizen-buchou…have a fight?" Katsuo asked tentatively.
Momoshiro nearly choked on his burger at Ryoma's name. He gave a forced grin.
"Now why would you think of that?" he tried to laugh it off, though he was not convincing anyone.
"Fssshhh…" Kaidou was in the cafeteria as well. His rival knew him so well that he had already detected that there was something bothering Momoshiro, and he brought his homemade lunch to eat here as he was worried for him.
(Kaidou: "I'm not worried for that baka Momoshiro! Fsshhh!")
"The both of you had not spoken at all today. Also, isn't that usually Ryoma-buchou's seat? I've never seen you in the cafeteria without him before." Kachiro looked at the place which Kaidou was now seated on, though he quickly looked away as the snake-shot player glared.
Momoshiro wanted to avoid that topic the whole day, and his temper flared at Ryoma being brought up as a subject again.
"Could you all just stop talking about Echizen!!!" he yelled, causing the whole cafeteria to go silent.
Kachiro and Katsuo flinched, while Kaidou's eyes narrowed.
"Momoshiro. If you're not happy about something, don't take it out on us!" the snake shot player snapped.
"What did you say, Mamushi?" Momoshiro seized the front of Kaidou's shirt, effectively starting off yet another fight.
Both Kachiro and Katsuo stayed low until the two tennis players were dragged off by Tsun and Itsuki, who, luckily, had stayed in the cafeteria as well after school.
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Ryoma was glum as he sat on the park bench. Even Ponta did not help to lighten his mood.
"What's bothering you?" he heard his boyfriend asked.
Tezuka came to sit next to him, and Ryoma leaned against the senior high captain, finding his presence comforting.
"Momoshiro." He mumbled.
Tezuka's glasses flashed. Was Momoshiro bullying his Ryoma?
The next moment, Ryoma had launched into complaints about Momoshiro, speaking so fast that even Tezuka had trouble keeping up with him.
"He's been avoiding me all day, and I have no idea what I did wrong!" the senior high captain waited patiently as Ryoma ranted on.
Once Ryoma was done, he sagged against Tezuka again. "I have no idea of what I should do. I don't want him to hate me." He said finally.
Tezuka stroked Ryoma's hair, an action that he knew the younger boy found soothing.
"I've seen the two of you together and I know how strong your friendship is. For Momoshiro to be acting like how he is now, I don't think he's offended. I have a feeling there are other reasons." Tezuka stated his opinion gently.
Ryoma blinked at him. True. Even if he made Momoshiro mad, that guy would usually calm down if Ryoma bribed him with burgers. This round, he was avoiding Ryoma as if it could save his life.
Ryoma groaned and massaged his head, feeling an oncoming headache. "Now what do I do…"
"Speak to him. If he wouldn't talk to you, get someone else to speak to him." Tezuka suggested.
"He wouldn't let me anywhere near him. I wonder if there's anyone else who could actually speak to him." Ryoma closed his eyes as he tried to come up with an idea.
After a while, he opened his eyes and gave an irritable sigh. He couldn't think up of anything.
"I'll do my best tomorrow then. I must leave now. My parents set me a curfew now that they know I'm dating."
"Good luck." Tezuka said, giving him one last hug before letting Ryoma go.
"Thanks. I have a feeling I would be needing a lot of that."
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Speaking to Momoshiro was a task easier said than done.
For Momoshiro seemed to have developed some kind of radar, detecting Ryoma's presence from far off and fleeing to safety before Ryoma could get anywhere near him.
Unless Ryoma had suddenly developed the powers of telepathy, there was no way he could remotely talk to Momoshiro.
"Momo-senpai…" Ryoma tried again that day for the umpteenth time, but Momoshiro had already flown off, leaving down a cloud of smoke and a few first years sprawled on the ground like bowling pins.
"Ch…" Ryoma walked back to his class. He passed by Tsun and Itsuki's classroom without noticing that both of them had been observing him.
"Yup. Now I agree with you, Keita. Those two are definitely fighting." Tsun said.
"I noticed Momoshiro muttering to himself a lot. Did he hit his head somewhere?"
Tsun shook his head. "No way. He has a very thick skull after all." Both of them snickered, though they both gave a yelp of pain as their teacher hit them on the head with her plastic ruler.
"What do you think you're both doing? Pay attention!" she scolded.
"Hai, sensei." They apologized sheepishly.
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The next day, nothing had changed; as Momoshiro made sure he stood on opposite ends of the tennis courts, away from Ryoma.
Of course, everyone could sense that, for the captain and vice-captain were always together.
"Hey you three! You're standing too close together!" Momoshiro snapped at the three first years, who were swinging their rackets for practice.
"Sumimasen, Momoshiro-fukubuchou." They apologized, looking confused by Momoshiro's weird order. They inched a few steps away from each other before continuing their practice.
Momoshiro knew he was being oversensitive, but there was really nothing he could do about it. He couldn't help wondering just how many gays were wandering around in the tennis clubs, and it seemed like everyone was standing too close to each other to his liking. He had the strong urge to request for the boys and girls tennis clubs to be merged.
He could feel Echizen's sharp gaze all the way across the courts, and was careful not to make eye contact with the Seigaku captain. 'I don't like guys! Please don't look at me like that, Echizen...' The vice-captain thought desperately.
"Alright. That's all for today's practice." Echizen called out, letting everyone off early.
Momoshiro gave a sigh of relief as Echizen walked off, though he could hear some of the members whispering about him and the captain having a fight.
"I know why! Echizen-buchou probably owed Momo chan-fukubuchou some money, and now Momo chan-fukubuchou is angry with him." Horio said sagely.
"Oh? Really?" Horio's audience gasped, throwing Momoshiro a look as he passed. He did not even bother to correct Horio.
'How troublesome...' a certain Chessmaster thought as he watched how the vice-captain was acting whenever Echizen got near him.
Takahiro was not known to be one of the most observant people on the tennis field for nothing, and he could see how both parties were actually dying to speak to each other, though Momoshiro was being very cowardly.
He could see that they missed each other's company as he was more emphatic than he actually let on. Well, all these drama did seem interesting, and since he had nothing better to do, he decided to give those two a hand.
He walked past a rather low-spirited Echizen, turned around a corner and noticed Momoshiro coming from the opposite direction. Without changing his expression, (something he was good at ever since he was a child), he walked up to the dunk smash player.
"Momoshiro-fukubuchou. Class 2A is giving out free hamburgers."
That got the vice-captain's guard down as he rushed off to grab a prize, and he collided head on with Echizen.
"Ah, gomen...Echizen!" he paled, looking like he had seen a ghost.
"Momo-senpai..." Echizen blinked in recognition.
A split moment later, Momoshiro tried to make his escape, but Ryoma was way faster. Darn his split steps!
"I would like you to explain why you've been avoiding me these few days." Ryoma's eyes were angry diamonds.
Momoshiro blew up completely.
"Cause you're GAY!!!" he yelled, causing birds outside to take flight.
It was a good thing he had yelled so fast that barely anyone caught what he had said, and everyone was just staring at him because he had yelled.
Ryoma's eyes narrowed. The next moment, he had seized his senior by the sleeve and shoved him into the nearest class, which was vacant. The prodigy then shut the door behind him.
"Excuse me?" Ryoma asked, though his tone indicated that he had heard Momoshiro the first time, just that he didn't want to believe his ears.
Momoshiro used a few tables to put some distance between himself and the other boy.
"You're gay...and I never knew..."
Ryoma closed his eyes. He had no idea how Momoshiro had found out, but he did not expect his best friend to have such an extreme reaction.
"So what?" He finally opened his eyes again, giving Momoshiro a challenging stare.
"What? How could you even say that..."
"I'm asking you, so what?" Ryoma repeated.
Momoshiro massaged his head. "You don't even feel disgusted? You're a guy! You're supposed to be dating girls, not guys! How could you even like being gay?"
"Gender does not matter to me. Besides, if I date a guy, it makes me bisexual. If I date a girl, it still makes me bisexual..."
Momoshiro had no idea what Ryoma was talking about, and it was shown clearly on his face. The Seigaku captain noticed that and gave a wave of his hand.
"Never mind. Forget what I've said."
Momoshiro stared at his best friend. "I can't believe it's Tezuka-buchou you're going out with, and I had such high respect for the both of you."
Ryoma was quiet at that. Momoshiro interpreted that silence as guilt, and continued on.
"I think you would have been better off dating that Tina girl...or Tomoka...or how about Ryusaki's granddaughter? She likes you after all."
"Momo-senpai. Why do you like Tachibana's little sister?" Ryoma suddenly asked.
Momoshiro blushed slightly at that. "Well…no particular reason…because she's cute, I guess."
"Hmm? So if she wasn't cute you wouldn't have liked her?" Ryoma challenged.
Momoshiro's eyes flared angrily. "Don't insult my feelings for her!" he snapped.
Ryoma gave him a stare. "Then why are you insulting my feelings for buchou? By suggesting that I go out with someone else, you don't think I'm being serious with Kunimitsu."
"K-Kunimitsu? My gosh…you're even calling him by his name…" Momoshiro felt faint.
Ryoma turned away from him. "I like Kunimitsu. Whether you want to accept the fact that I'm gay or not, it's up to you."
"Echizen! Are you even thinking about your own future? If you date a woman, you can have a family in the future, but what is left for you if you date a guy?"
Ryoma turned back to him, and Momoshiro couldn't quite read what emotions were flashing past in Ryoma's eyes.
"I see. So you take Tachibana's little sister as a baby-machine. I find your thinking rather pathetic. At least I'm not taking Kunimitsu as a walking stud."
Echizen walked off and threw the door open. "There is no point in speaking with you. With that mentality of yours, our friendship would be going nowhere. Mind, it's Kunimitsu who suggested that I should speak to you. Now I'm wondering why do I even need to bother." Ryoma walked off, and Momoshiro felt a twinge of guilt at seeing how unhappy the other boy was.
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"Was I wrong, Ann-chan…?" Momoshiro asked later that day.
Ann said nothing as she finished her drink. Currently, she was beginning to question what was it she liked about Takeshi. Her boyfriend was really dense.
"Ne. Ann-chan. By how you're not surprised about what I told you, I have a feeling you already know." Momoshiro stated.
Finally, his girlfriend stared at him in the face. "Of course I did. I've told you before never to underestimate a woman's intuition."
Momoshiro gave a groan and buried his face in his hands. So everyone else in the whole knew about those two dating. He was probably the only idiot left who didn't know.
Ann could see the conflicting thoughts in Momoshiro's head and reached across the table to touch his hand lightly. "Takeshi. How much do you value your friendship with Echizen-kun?"
At her words, memories rushed through his head. Echizen and him enjoying burgers after school. Echizen and him playing street tennis. Echizen treating the whole team in Kawamura Sushi after their win in the District preliminaries.
Now he really missed hanging out with his apathetic best friend. Of course, Echizen had never really shown it or said it out loud, but the captain had really thought of Momoshiro as a friend.
"Imagine if it had been a reverse situation, and Echizen-kun is heterophobic. How would you feel if he avoids you after knowing that you are dating me?"
'I don't want to lose his friendship.' Momoshiro thought.
Another thought contradicted the first. 'But he's gay! Why would you want to hang out with a freak?'
'I don't care! Aside from that, he's pretty normal.'
'But he's gay…'
'Ah! Shut up!' Momoshiro willed away the other voice in his head.
Ann could see her boyfriend's determination to apologize to the Seigaku captain and beamed. "Echizen-kun is no different than he was before you found out he's dating Tezuka-kun. You're only scaring yourself, Takeshi."
Momoshiro winced. He still didn't like the idea of gays, but he would make an exception, and only for his best friend.
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"Is it Momo chan-fukubuchou who owes Echizen-buchou money now?" one of the tennis club members asked.
It was the reverse situation, as Momoshiro looked like he wanted to speak to Echizen, but the captain was avoiding him. Echizen did not let his personal emotions show much, as he seemed normal to the rest of the club members, but the more observant ones like Inui and Takahiro could see that the golden eyed captain was holding a grudge against Momoshiro.
"Echizen, listen I…"
"Takahiro! You're up next for a match against me." Ryoma deliberately raised his voice to block off Momoshiro's words as he picked up his racket and proceeded to have a game with his classmate.
Momoshiro now knew what Ryoma must have been feeling these few days. He felt a twinge of guilt, but hurriedly suppressed it.
Fortunately, Ryoma was not the type to be angry forever. A few rounds of tennis got most of the steam out of him, and Momoshiro was able to approach him after practice.
"Echizen." He said warily as he approached the younger boy.
Ryoma did not bother to look at him, gulping down his Ponta with intense concentration.
Momoshiro put both of his hands together before his face in an apologetic gesture. "Gomen, Echizen. I was such a jerk to you these few days. Please forgive me."
Echizen threw him a bored look. "Why are you talking to me? I'm a gay. Isn't that a taboo word to you?"
Momoshiro did flinch a little at that. "Well…uh…I still don't like the idea of guys liking guys…"
Ryoma made to get up from his seat. Seeing this, Momoshiro hurriedly continued on.
"But I hate the thought of not having you as a friend even more, so maybe I'll just…ignore this little detail…I mean, you and Tezuka-buchou would be an exception…"
Ryoma was secretly amused at how the homophobic was struggling to phrase his words. Ah well, Momoshiro was brought up to think this way, and Ryoma would be unfair to Momoshiro if he thought that the other boy could change his mentality so quickly.
He continued to drink his Ponta, ignoring the pleading gaze Momoshiro threw him.
"Please forgive me. Ne, Echizen?"
Ryoma did not speak until he had finally finished his drink. He flung the can, which fell into the nearest bin easily.
"Ground…50 rounds. Go." Was the only reply from the captain.
Momoshiro hung his head. Yup. There was no way Echizen would forgive him after all. He supposed he would have done the same if Ryoma had questioned his relationship with Ann as well.
"Hai…" he began to run his laps.
"Momo-senpai." Ryoma's voice made him turn back. The Seigaku captain was actually smiling a little.
"After you're done, meet me at the school gates. We'll walk home together." With that, Ryoma got up from his seat to check on the first years in charge of cleaning the courts.
Momoshiro's face lit up almost immediately. "Hai!" he answered more enthusiastically before doing his laps.
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Ryoma was in high spirits as he called his boyfriend up to tell him about everything.
"He's still not entirely comfortable with the idea about guys dating, but I'm glad that he's making an effort to acknowledge our relationship." He told Tezuka.
"Aa. That's good." The Kanto High player replied.
Even though the both of them were dating, their calls to each other still had a lot of pauses in between. Well, they're not the type to speak much, after all, and they could interpret each others thoughts quite well, so words were hardly needed.
However, Ryoma detected almost immediately that there was something different about Tezuka's silence that day.
"What's wrong?" Ryoma asked worriedly.
He could picture Tezuka shake his head over the other end of the receiver. "Nothing you should worry yourself about."
Ryoma frowned. "Kunimitsu. I thought you've promised not to hide anything from me if you have something troubling your mind. It's your school, isn't it?"
There was a pause. Ryoma knew that Tezuka was wondering if he should tell the younger boy or not.
"Aa." The Kanto High captain gave in and told Ryoma about the recent events in his school.
Ryoma scowled. He really wanted to kill that witch of a headmistress.
"Kunimitsu. Let's go on a date. Tomorrow, meet me at the usual park." Ryoma made up his mind in an instant.
"Eh?" Tezuka was obviously confused, since it was usually him who asked to go out for dates.
"The district competitions are coming up soon anyway. Let's use this as a way to practice…and for you to let off some stress. In fact, to make sure that the both of us play seriously, let's set a punishment for the loser." Ryoma smirked.
Tezuka's mood seemed to have lightened up. "Very well then. So if I lose, do I have to shave my head?"
"I wouldn't want you to lose that hair of yours, Kunimitsu." Ryoma secretly loved running his fingers through Tezuka's light brown hair. He always wondered what shampoo his boyfriend used. "Instead, you would have to treat me to lunch for a whole year if you lose."
There was a pause on the other end. "Very well then, and if I win…you would have to do whatever I say."
Ryoma grinned. Tezuka would probably make him do all the housework, or help to mow his lawn…or maybe he had to run 100 laps?
"Alright. It's a deal then. Neither of us would be allowed to run away from this."
"Aa."
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Ryoma wondered what was keeping the Kanto High captain. He had been waiting for nearly fifteen minutes already, and the usually punctual captain was nowhere to be seen.
Finally, he could see Tezuka running over from a distance. The older boy screeched to a halt next to him. "So sorry I'm late."
Ryoma's eyes bulged at the sight of his boyfriend, for Tezuka was wearing this very, very tight black shirt. He could see the outline of his boyfriend's perfectly toned body. Could Kunimitsu even play in such constricting clothes?
Once Ryoma had managed to stop staring and drooling, he picked up his racket.
"Let's have a good game, and don't expect me to go easy on you this time, Kunimitsu."
"Aa."
It turned out that Tezuka could play perfectly, as he pinpointed the shots at all the corners. Ryoma on the other hand could hardly play at all. Tezuka was not bulky, like Kawamura was. His lean body was slightly muscled at all the right places, and Ryoma found that to be severely distracting as his muscles moved with every return he did. He was concentrating more on holding back a nosebleed than on the game.
Needless to say, Ryoma was completely pulverized, 6 games to 3.
"What's wrong with you?" Tezuka asked, striding over to Ryoma's side once the game was done.
Ryoma shook his head to clear it. "Nothing. I hope you're feeling better now, with whatever was bothering you."
"Aa." Tezuka smiled.
His smile turned into a grin seconds later. "You've lost, Ryoma. Now you have to do whatever I say."
Ryoma lowered his cap. "Usu."
The Seigaku captain remembered something at that moment. "My parents are out today. Want to drop by my house?"
Tezuka's grin was so wide that Ryoma wondered if he had been wise to ask about the punishment. "Aa."
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Momoshiro hummed to himself as he made his way to Echizen's residence.
He had just gotten some coupons for Pizza House's from his cousin, and while he was tempted to ask Ann-chan to go out with him, he decided to ask Echizen instead, to make up for all the times he had been ignoring the other boy.
Echizen's pretty cousin greeted him at the door. "Ryoma's in his room. Do you want me to call him or would you like to come in?" Nanako asked.
"I'll go look for him myself then, thanks." Momoshiro stepped in. "Sorry for intruding." He said, making his way to Ryoma's room. He was familiar with the place anyway, since he had been here before.
Reaching Ryoma's door, he raised a hand to knock when he heard his captain yell.
"Yadda!!!"
He froze. The king of eavesdropping immediately did what he did best as curiosity had gotten the better of him. He pressed his ear to the door, listening hard.
There was the sound of a zip being pulled open, and he heard Tezuka give a chuckle that made all the hairs on his arms stand.
"I'm not letting you escape from this, Ryoma." Was the senior high captain actually purring?
Momoshiro felt his heart fall to his stomach. Echizen. Tezuka. Alone in a room. Not good at all…
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Ryoma backed away from Tezuka, who had just pulled out the most obscene thing he had ever seen in his life.
"Stay away from me! Don't you dare come near me with that!" he panicked.
Kunimitsu advanced, and Ryoma backed off hurriedly, though he tripped and fell butt-first on his bed. Seeing that Tezuka was coming closer, he gave a meep and scooted away from the crazy Kanto High captain. It was only when he felt his back pressed against the wall that he knew he was trapped.
His boyfriend smiled evilly at seeing him cornered. He crawled up to Ryoma, still holding that thing. "What? I thought you were the one who agreed to the punishment, Ryoma."
"I didn't expect this! I'm not prepared for this. There's no way I'm putting that in my mouth. It's huge!"
Tezuka placed his hand under Ryoma's chin. "A promise is a promise. Open up."
"But…there's stuff oozing out of that thing…" Ryoma whined.
"That's normal." Tezuka forced it into Ryoma's mouth, and a sharp taste hit the poor junior high captain's tongue.
Immediately, he tried to spit it out, but Tezuka gave him a warning look. "Don't spit it out. Swallow it. You can suck on it a little if you'd like."
Ryoma scowled. His throat was beginning to hurt. Kunimitsu definitely looked like he was enjoying this. The older boy's glasses glinted.
"Oh? You look like you want more." He said, and Ryoma's eyes widened.
The next moment, Tezuka had shoved it deep in him, and tears sprang to Ryoma's eyes. It suddenly felt so hard to breathe.
"Kunimitsu, please stop…I can't take it anymore…" Ryoma didn't care that he was outright begging now. How would he have known that was dating such a sadist.
He felt something warm, and wet…
His fingers touched that substance, and his hand shook at seeing it. Red. Blood.
"Maybe I overdid it…" Tezuka frowned, pausing for a while.
"I'm bleeding, so of course you overdid it!" Ryoma snapped at him.
Tezuka seemed to consider it before giving a shrug. "Ah well. We're almost done anyway. Just hang in there a little while longer."
Ryoma groaned. "I can't take it anymore…Kunimitsu…please…I'm going to…"
"ECHIZEN!!!" Seigaku's vice-captain/power player barged into the room at that moment.
To be continued…
A/N: Ufufufufu…I dislike reading cliffhangers, but I sure like writing them. I'm as sadistic as Tezuka. XD
Well then, I wondered if I've bullied your imaginations enough. Will leave it free to your imaginations as I take my time writing the next chapter. Don't feel like posting the next one so soon. I really don't like the idea of any more flames. It'll kill my mood to write.
I was once homophobic. Very homophobic. I'm more tolerant towards it now, or else I wouldn't be writing this fic, but I tried to remember what my reactions might have been like when I wrote the part about Momoshiro. I hope it turned out alright. Please give me feedback for this.
To think I'm already throwing a few hints about what the sequel would be like. (Hint: the conversation between Ryoma and Momoshiro). Wonder how many of you might be able to pick up the hint. Whatever it is, I'm NOT going to give out any more spoilers. Kekeke.
Well then, Read and review. No flames please.
-Gwyn