Author's Note: Well thanks for reviewing and for telling me if I should make Tezuka, Raiko and Kaidoh's love triangle into another story. Anyway here is one of the last few chapters of this story.

RECAP:

LUNCH (SEIGAKU REGULAR'S SIDE)...

"That's strange." Raiko said as she looks around her.

"What's strange?" Fuji whispered behind her making her turn around and looks at the tensai.

"I couldn't find Tezuka anywhere." Raiko said as she still looks around her, trying to see any sign of his brown hair or his spectacles.

"He said something about feeling sick and getting some fresh air." Fuji said and looks at Raiko who's face quickly change into worry. "Why, don't you find him and make sure that his okay." Fuji added voicing what Raiko wanted to do.

"I Can't... Kaidoh..."

"He'll understand, I'll even talk to him if you want." Fuji said with an encouraging smile.

"Thanks, Fuji. I owe you one." Raiko said and kiss Fuji on the cheek while Oishi, Inui, Momo and Kawamura witness it. (A/N: Kaidoh and Eiji went to the bathroom at this scene.)

Chapter Fourteen: What Love Is All About

SOMEWHERE INSIDE THE PARK...

Sakuno was walking with her head down as her feet bring her to God knows where. Along the way she bump into someone hard making her loose her balance but before she could hit the hard cement strong arms enfolds her.

"Sakuno, are you alright?" a familiar voice said and as Sakuno looks up to find the owner of the voice to be none other than Tezuka Kunimitsu himself.

"Tezuka..."

"You better sit down, you look like you've seen a ghost." Tezuka said and help her to the nearest bench to sit.

Neither Tezuka nor Sakuno spoke. Both were just sitting on the bench waiting for one of them to break the silence and at the end it was Sakuno who broke the silence between them.

"What are you doing here?" Sakuno asked looking up at Tezuka who was looking at the passing crowd.

"Inui got three free ticket so he invited me and Fuji to come along." Tezuka answered still not looking at her and Sakuno wondered is he mad at her or is he still hurting from the breakup and for once in her life Sakuno realized that she didn't know Tezuka pretty well, she thought she does but she didn't and in fact she realized it was only Raiko who understand him and no one else, even Fuji nor Inui could tell his mood the way Raiko could. "The other Regulars are here too and of course you already know that Raiko is here when she had performed in the opening ceremony." Tezuka added on not knowing that Sakuno was deep in thought.

"What did you say?" Sakuno asked when Tezuka looked at her when she didn't even gave any reaction on what Tezuka had said.

"I said that you already know that Raiko is here in Germany too." Tezuka said still looking at her.

"Yeah, of course, i've seen her when she performed in the opening ceremony." Sakuno said as her thought started to wonder towards Raiko nagain but before it did Sakuno put a stop to it and listen to what Tezuka had said about Eiji and the other Seigaku regulars being here in Germany too. "Seriously." Sakuno could only say.

"Yup, Raiko got a whole bunch of free tickets so she invited the others here and they are all in here in this same amusement park." Tezuka said not looking at Sakuno again.

"That's great, maybe we could meet up later on for dinner." Sakuno said then added, "That is if you're okay with it."

"Why wouldn't I be?" Tezuka asked still not looking at her.

"I know I had broke our friendship after I had broken up with you and I know it's entirely my fault but somehow I wanted us to be friends again, I know it was too much to ask of you but you mean a lot to me and Ryu, especially Ryu, for you had become a part of his life, you were like his father when he had none before." Sakuno whispered as tears started to fall and she didn't try to whipe them a way. The hurt and frustration she felt for Ryoma and the coldness that Tezuka was emitting towards her had taken it's toll.

"Sakuno don't cry." Tezuka said whiping her tears away. "I stand by my words and I told you, we'll be friends and that's what we are friends." Tezuke added when Sakuno looks up at his face.

"But how can we be friends when you can't even stand the sight of me?" Sakuno added without breaking the eye contact.

"What are you talking about?" Tezuka asked confused.

"You barely look at me, as if you're disgusted with me." Sakuno answered and explained to him his action for the past minutes.

"Sorry, it's not that i'm digusted of you or anything, i'm just thinking." Tezuka answered, "We're friends okay so don't worry about it." Tezuka added and smiled tenderly at Sakuno and after that both had embrace each other.

Unknown to them in one side not far away from the bench where they sat someone is taking their picture.

"Friends, tell each other their problem maybe you want to tell me what's yours." Sakuno said after the hug and the old Sakuno was back.

"And what? You'll tell me yours." Tezuka asked one of his eyebrow was raise.

"Yup, that's how it works." Sakuno said with a smile.

"Well, if that's the case, why don't you tell me yours and then i'll tell you mine." Tezuka said eyeing Sakuno who's smile vanish.

"Well, it's about Ryoma, I love him and I'm confuse, I wanna know what he felt towards me now but at the same time I don't." Sakuno said now staring at the passing crowd. "Not only that I'm having all this what ifs and the reality that Ryoma might have been doing all this sweet things not because he loves me but because of Ryu and I'm scared that I might fall for it and then at the end find out that it was for Ryu and not for me." Sakuno added with a heartfelt sigh.

"I known Ryoma and he's not the type of person who shows his emotion, he is not good at it and when he does show it, it's not the way you would imagine it to be. All I can say is You've been in pain already, you've already lost him once and giving it another shot might make a difference." Tezuka said also staring at the passing crowd.

"What if I find out that he was doing it just for Ryu?"

"He was gone in your life for so many years and look at you, you still made it here." Tezuka said looking at Sakuno, "Beside, what if his not." Tezuka added making his point.

"Then it means that he loves me and only me and not because i'm his son's mother, We'll be together forever, We'll wake up every morning and find each other, I'll be the one waiting for him to come home, I'll be the one to smooth his forehead like I always do when we were still together and most of all We'll be a family, Me, Ryoma and Ryu." Sakuno said looking at Tezuka and realizing that she had nothing to loose but a lot to gain.

"By the look of things, I did my part." Tezuka said smiling at Sakuno. His happy that at least someone he knows is going to be happy and be with the one they love but that leaves only him and his feelings for Raiko.

"It's my turn now to help you. So tell me what's wrong?" Sakuno asked looking at her friend.

"I've been blind, I hurt the person that I thought worth nothing but my friendship and now she moved on with another guy that I know. And I know if I tried getting her back I'll hurt the guy and I don't want that to happen, I respect him as well as I respected my other friends and her as well." Tezuka said summing all his problem.

"You must be talking about Raiko and Kaidoh." Sakuno said and added, "I felt the same way as you were before when you had started courting me, Raiko is my friend and I know that if I said yes to you then i'll be hurting Raiko and I don't want that."

"Then what change your mind?" Tezuka asked when Sakuno didn't say anything else.

"I saw someone loves her the way that I love Ryoma but she only had eyes for you, I guess I was selfish, I wanted someone to be Ryu's father and someone that I know I coud learn to love and I saw all of that in you so I said yes even though knowing that i'll hurt Raiko at the process and as times pass by I thought I really had learned to love you and Raiko and Kaidoh would be happy together but I was wrong I could only love you as a friend nothing more and Kaidoh and Raiko couldn't be happy together for she still loves you..."

"By the looks of things they are now." Tezuka interupted as images of Kaidoh and Raiko holding hands together flash in his mind.

"That's not the point, love is not fair, it could never be, Love is about being able to understand someone's feeling or mood and Raiko could read you like an open book even though you don't let anything out. and that's why you need to tell Raiko how you feel, you might hurt Kaidoh in the process but if he really loves Raiko then he'll let her go because loving someone is learning how to let go." Sakuno said and with that she had kiss Tezuka on the cheek.

On that process Tezuka saw a movement behind the bush and he saw a familiar female face running away from the bench where he and Sakuno were sitting and not only that the familiar face had tears in her eyes.

"Raiko..."

"Tezuka?" Sakuno asked confused.

"I think I saw Raiko and she was crying." Tezuka simply answered.

"I think she saw me kiss you and she had the wrong idea." Sakuno said and when Tezuka still hadn't move added. "What are you waiting for this is your chance to tell her how you feel, go after her and explain everything to her."

Tezuka was jolted from space and without saying good bye run towards Raiko's direction. Hoping against hope that he won't loose her again the same way he had when he was to blind to see that Raiko is the one for him. For so long he'd been searching for the right girl for him and all this times she'd been standing by his side.

"Tezuka!"

He heard Sakuno shouted and he stop so he could look back at her.

"Gambatne!"

He smiled at Sakuno before completely disappearing into Raiko's direction.

Well folks, that's the end for this last chapter and as you can see I'm also ending the Raiko, Tezuka and Kaidoh's love triangle in this story and I might post a preview summary of my up and coming RyoSaku pairing fic. But until then don't forget to review!