Here is the 14th chapter. ^^ sorry for the wait, especially with ending it like this (not really, I like to see you all suffering mwhuahauhauauhaha… huhum. So where were we?)

There isn't much to say so enjoy reading it. ^^

Disclaimer: Prince of tennis is the property of Konomi Takeshi. Not mine.

7 Undeserved punishment

AUTHOR'S POV

"Let go of me! Get off!" Momo's voice yelled.

Everybody ran in the direction where Momo's frantic cries came from and they all ended up in the living room. Momo stood there with some man behind him. The man had a tight grip on Momo's arms and was trying to counter Momo's struggles. Momo held Fuji's camera in one hand as he tried to break free of the unknown man's hold on him.

The man looked up when he saw that more boys had entered the room. He slightly let go of his grip on Momo, and the second year took that opportunity to push the stranger away and run to the rest of the team. They stood there motionlessly for a moment, looking at the man as the man looked at them.

"What are you all doing in this house?" the unknown voice asked, interrupting the silence. He kept a steady gaze on all of the boys. He seemed unnerved at the fact that 7 boys stood before him as he stood there with a certain air of authority.

None of the team members spoke as they all thought that this was Fuji's father, although he didn't look like Fuji at all. They didn't have a thing in common to be exact.

"Well? You boys are trespassing. You broke into this house, and you were planning to steal some stuff weren't you?"

The regulars thought about the accusation the man had made. They realised that if people had seen them going in the house, they must have looked like some kind of gang to those peoples.

"…No, sir. We weren't. Do you mind if I ask who you are?" Oishi, the mother hen of the group, asked the man carefully for his identification. They still weren't certain who this man was, and they were all tense while thinking that something could happen any second now.

What if the man suddenly tried to run, or worse, attack someone? They should be ready for anything.

"I'm from the police, my name is Ishikawa Noriko. And who might you be, and what are you all doing here?"

The all sighed as Ishikawa showed his badge which earned them a weird look from the man. Ishikawa Noriko was your average police officer; he wore casual clothing with a brown jacket, he had short brown hair and brown eyes, he was of average height and had a strict expression.

"We are friends of Fuji Syusuke, we came to pick up some of his stuff, sir," Oishi answered.

The eyes of Ishikawa widened for a second before he replied: "Fuji Syusuke? You mean the boy who got abused by his father? The son who's father we are searching for?"

"Hai," Oishi said as all the regulars looked saddened and Oishi's tone had softened too.

"I see. I thought you were thieves. Someone called the police to say that she saw a group of young guys enter the house, and since I was the closest in the neighbourhood, I had to come to check. Sorry for being so forceful," he said as he looked at Momo.

"…oh.., no problem," he said back.

"But you should all be careful, Fuji-san is still not arrested and the place where he most likely would be is around this house. He is most likely waiting for Fuji-kun to return here."

"We know. That's why we all came, that way we had an advantage," Inui explained.

"Good thinking, but it's still too dangerous. I can not allow that. So next time call the police if you need to be here. Okay?"

"Hai!" they all replied in unison.

"Where is Fuji-kun staying? The Police don't know where he is and he still needs to explain everything to us," the police officer asked.

"He's staying at Tezuka-buchou's, nya!" Eiji answered.

A look of confusion crossed the older man's face as he looked at the red head. "Tezuka-buchou?" he asked.

"Tezuka Kunimitsu, he's the one who saved Fuji from his father. He's our tennis captain and Fuji's best friend," Takashi told the policeman.

"Ah, okay. Thank you. Can you say to Fuji that he needs to come by the police office one of these days? We really need to talk to him, he might know of some places where his father could be."

"Sure, we'll tell him when we drop Fuji's stuff off at Tezuka's house," Oishi answered, and the man nodded in response.

"I'll stay here. You go and grab the stuff your friend needs," Ishikawa said, and they all went back to their previous jobs.

Once everything was collected and everyone was back in the living room, they said goodbye to Ishikawa and went out of the house with everything Fuji had asked them to bring.

But what nobody noticed, was the man, peeping from behind a bush under the window sill. The suspicious man wore a jacket and the hood was over his head. His face was hidden in the shadow of the hood, but a sinister smile was still clearly visible. He must have heard the entire conversation the boys and the policeman had. And knew now where the one he aimed for was hiding.

When Ishikawa also had left the house and was out of sight, the fishy man came out of his hiding place. He ran in the direction of the nearby park, searching for a place to sleep and to think out his plan.

A couple of minutes later and the now loud group arrived at Tezuka's house. Kaidoh rang the doorbell with all the other regulars behind him, with some of them holding Fuji's belongings. Ayana, Tezuka's mother, opened the door and smiled at the boys.

"Come on in, no need to keep standing outside," she said as she stepped aside to let the boys enter.

After everyone was inside, Ayana said: "You can put the bags inside the living room for now." The team did as asked and brought Fuji's stuff into the room.

"Where are Fujiko and Tezuka, nya?" Eiji asked while looking around.

"Oh, they are upstairs in the guest room, you can go see them you want. It's the first room on the right. I'll bring some snacks up," she said as she left the boys alone and went to the kitchen to get some drinks and snacks.

The group went upstairs and knocked on the door. After they heard Tezuka's voice saying 'come in' Echizen opened the door and walked in with the rest following their ochibi.

As everyone had entered the room and the door was closed, Tezuka looked up from the book he was reading. He looked at his team mates and saw surprised, slightly shocked expressions.

The regulars were looking at their buchou reading a book on the bed while their tensai was sleeping soundly. But that wasn't what shocked them. Fuji actually lay half naked with his head on Tezuka's stomach.

"What?" Tezuka asked as he kept getting this weird look from the regulars.

"Tezuka, you are aware that Fuji is sleeping, with his head on your stomach, aren't you?" Inui asked.

"Well, of course. What kind of question is that, Inui?" he asked while trying to cover up the slight blush that appeared on his cheeks. They all kept staring at him, their eyes full with curiosity, surprise and from Oishi, a sort of understanding.

Tezuka suddenly felt the need to explain the scene to his friends.

"Fuji was tired after we came back from school, so I immediately went to the guest room with him. My mother came in a bit later with the dressing for Fuji's wounds. So I-"

Tezuka stopped talking as everybody's attention, including his, turned to the door where Ayana came in with a tray full with drinks and snacks.

"What are you all standing here for? You look like you just saw some...Oh my!" she said as the boys went to stand a bit aside so she could enter properly. She then saw her son sitting in bed with his half naked friend sleeping on his stomach. Her eyes glinted mysteriously, and Tezuka knew exactly what his mother thought. As soon as she could, she would have another 'talk' with him. He was REALLY looking forward to that one.

"Kunimitsu, why is Syusuke-kun sleeping? I thought you had to help him dress his wounds?"

"I was explaining it, mother," Tezuka said and after a nod from her, he explained further: "So, since I had to help Fuji with rubbing the dressing onto his back, he had to take of his shirt."

So far all the regulars and his mother seemed to understand and they all looked at him in a way that told him that they wanted to know more. Their curiosity had taken over the fear of prying into Tezuka's business and earning numerous laps to run for the next tennis practice.

"Like I already said; Fuji was tired, so he slowly fell asleep. He started leaning back, right as I was done with putting new bandages on. His head fell on my chest."

A look of confusion crossed the eyes of all the people in the room. Wasn't Fuji lying on Tezuka's stomach instead of his chest?

"I wanted to grab my book, so I could read a bit while he slept. But when doing so he shifted and ended up on my stomach. I…I didn't want to wake him up, so I let him lie on my stomach. And a little later you guys came in the room," Tezuka ended his explanation.

All the eyes were still on him, but this time they all looked like they understood and most of the shocked expressions were gone. Though some still kept looking at him in a weird way; some of them even thought that that was the longest period of time they had heard Tezuka speak on end.

"What I still don't get is why he didn't pull his shirt back on?" Momo then asked.

"Baka, Tezuka-buchou explained it. It's because he was too tired!" Kaidoh reacted.

"Who are you calling a baka, mamushi?"

"Fshuuu, you of course, are you deaf too, peach!"

"Kaidoh, Momo! Stop arguing now is not the time." Oishi came in between while Inui had his data book again to scribble down yet another fight of the second years.

"But I think Momo is right," Takashi shyly said, turning the attention on him.

"Ah, you hear that, mamushi!" Momo almost yelled.

"Momo, be quiet or you'll wake Fuji up," Tezuka then said and the bickering between the two stopped immediately, both afraid to get laps from Tezuka.

"I think so too," Inui said: "You see, there is 93% that Fuji would pull his shirt back on; even when tired, if one of us would have helped him. He does not look comfortable around us with his shirt off. But that percentage with Tezuka is a lot lower. The chance that he feels much more comfortable around you, Tezuka, is 78%. It might have something to do with the fact that you saved him. But I personally think that's only one of the reasons for it."

TEZUKA'S POV

I was about to react to that, when I got interrupted again. All the eyes of my teammates and my mother were on the sleeping figure once again as he stirred in his sleep. We all thought that he might wake up. But that wasn't the thing.

Fuji snuggled closer to me; his arm went over my stomach as his body came closer to mine. His head came to lie a bit higher on my torso too and he sighed happily as his body relaxed again. He appeared to be asleep again, but not even a minute later a word came over his lips that made everybody in the room freeze.

"Mm….Mitsu…" Fuji's soft voice mumbled.

It stayed quiet for some minutes as everybody kept looking at Fuji to see if he was about to wake up or not.

This was the second time he had said that in his sleep, I wondered why. This simple thing made my heart beat faster and a small smile was forming on my lips. But before anybody would notice I quickly put my neutral expression back on. I then looked around to see the reactions of the others.

I first noticed Inui, who was furiously writing down in his data book. Next to him stood a blushing Kaidoh who tried to look away, his rival, Momo, was acting in the same way. Echizen, who stood in front of Momo, had pulled his cap down, Takashi was politely looking away with a slight blush. Then there was Eiji who just stood there with some kind of thoughtful expression, he was undoubtedly thinking about something weird. And then there was Oishi and my mother who were looking at me and then at Fuji and then at me again.

Both of them looked to me in a way that made clear that they had just seen me smile. After noticing that my gaze shifted between the two of them, they looked at each other. The two of them then got these weird knowing smiles on their faces, telling me that they knew that the other knew. And I sighed in response.

"Ne, Tezuka?" Eiji asked in a whining tone, breaking the silence. I just knew that he was going to say the weird thing he had been thinking about. "Why is Fujiko allowed to call you like that? Can I call you Mitsu too? Nya, please!"

I almost, almost face palmed myself if not for that it woul ruin my reputation. Instead, after all the other regulars, minus Oishi and Echizen, burst into laughing, I just said to Eiji in a tone that made clear not to ask this again or otherwise it would be laps around the house for him: "No."

Eiji started to whine to Oishi who was trying to talk some sense into his doubles partner. Echizen just mumbled the usual 'mada mada dane, senpai', Inui who was again frantically writing stuff down in that little green book of his. And the others were trying to stop laughing in fear of receiving extra laps.

A lot of questions came from Inui and he then wrote down my reactions to it before asking another one.

"Look, I can't help it that he calls me like that in his sleep, Okay? And, no, he has never called me that when awake, and he won't be doing that either. And no, Inui, I don't know why he said my name in his sleep, who knows what goes around in that head of his. Perhaps he's teasing me in his dream; it won't be something surprising, knowing him."

The teasing part seemed to be a good explanation since he did tease me endlessly and the others all the time. It won't be a surprise if he came up with his ideas in his dreams, because most of the time the things he did, didn't make any sense to person that didn't go by the name Fuji Syusuke.

I sighed again when thinking that I actually fell in love with that person. Even though Fuji is weird and sadistic, I wouldn't want to fall in love with somebody else.

I looked back at him, with a gentle gaze, before reminding myself that I wasn't alone in this room.

My eyes looked over to my mother as she just stood there for awhile. She was taking in the scene and looking at the still fast asleep boy in my lap, before making it even worse.

"Oh, Kunimitsu, that reminds me. Will you be sleeping here again with Fuji? Or are you going to sleep in your own room tonight?" she innocently asked.

I'm absolutely sure of it, my mother must have gotten infected by Fuji in this short period of time.

Mamushi: snake

Baka: idiot, stupid

On to the next chapter, tadaaaaa!

But for that... you have to wait.

So I hope you liked it. ^^ the 15th (wow 15th already :p) chapter is now with my beta xTheTricksterx. I'll warn you, ;) cliff-hanger.

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