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"What's going to happen to Eiji, sensei?" Oishi asked as the whole team along with Saeki, Kajimoto, Kirihara and Ootori stood outside the infirmary door awaiting the news to their red headed friend.
"He has a mild concussion, but right now thankfully he's just sleeping" Ryuzaki-sensei sighed with relief,
"Thank goodness" Choutarou smiled as the rest of the teens, let go of the breath they had unknowingly held.
"Is it alright if we see him Ryuzaki-san?" Kajimoto asked politely deeply wanting to apologize to the red head for his teammates part in all this, not noticing a pair of green eyes as well as a number of paired orbs watching with curiosity at the four boys not from Seigaku.
"I'm not sure, give it a few days and I'll see if it'll be okay"
"But…" Momo started when the coach cut him off
"No buts Momoshiro, I said give him a few days, and when you're here keep your voices down"
"Yes ma'am…." they responded thus, hanging their heads everyone was forced to leave the infirmary hall as quietly as they were told; and get back to training although most if not all wanted nothing to do with tennis.
"How is Kikumaru?" Sengoku asked as the Seigaku regulars came back to the fields, seeing the gloom and sadness on each and everyone's faces the carrot top could already get an idea, it was pretty bad.
"He has a mild concussion but right now he's sleeping" Inui spoke up seeing the vice-captain was already disheartened by his doubles accident.
"What happened to Kamio and Wakato-san?" Kaidoh inquired seeing that the two who had started the fight were no longer present,
"They were called back by Sakaki-sensei" Yuuta said noticing a face he had never seen on his brother before; one of hopelessness, fear, sadness, and something else he couldn't quite put his finger on.
"I bet they're going to be sent home" Momo said sadly as a fellow second year he had befriended had done something as foolish as getting in a fight! Of course he understood why the guy did it, if anyone said bad things about Tezuka he'd be sure to punch the guys lights out!
"It wouldn't be a surprise" Kajimoto said nonchalantly even if he was speaking of his teammate. When he felt a pair of eyes on him, "is there a problem Oishi-kun?"
"Is it alright if we talk to you, Ootori-kun, Kirihara-kun and Saeki for moment?" the vice-captain of Seigaku asked politely looking at each of the guys who seems to care a bit too much about his doubles partner.
"It's alright with me" Choutarou said just as politely
"It's okay with me as well" Saeki said as Kajimoto and Kirihara nodded to the green eyed boy as the rest of the team watched,
"It'll just be a moment, but Sengoku and Fuji-kun could you please leave us?"
"Huh? Sure" the carrot top shrugged as the younger Fuji brother did the same taking one last look at his older brother.
"What is it Oishi?" Saeki asked folding his arms as Seigaku surrounded the boys from the other teams.
"I've noticed something that I don't quite get….and I'm sure the others have as well" eyeing his teammates who understood their fukubuchou and nodded in agreement.
"What?"
"Why are you all always with Eiji-senpai?" Momo spoke up, for once not being the slow one in all this
"Ha?" Kirihara let out at the odd question aimed at him as well as the others, who stood just as awkward and silent
"You're always talking to him and hanging around him, and we want to know why" Kaidoh said looking up at the third years and glaring at the second years,
"We're just friends, is that wrong?" Saeki said a kind smile on his face,
"No, but there is a fine line between friendship and….something else" a gleam shown on Inui's glasses looking at each of the guys through his thick glasses
"Are you trying to say something Inui-kun?" Kajimoto glared
"Now now everyone, this isn't the right time to be like this! Eiji's really hurt right now, and if we're all having a conversation about him it'd be best to have him here" Taka-san broke the glaring contest between most of the Seigaku regulars with the regulars of the enemy teams.
"Taka-san is right…we'll have this conversation again when Eiji gets better" Oishi said with a nod; meaning for the others to go back to their group and train for the fight with the Americans. Breaking up the gathering with an awkward silence filling each of its participants with worry, for the outcome of all this.
Three days pasted since Eiji's accident and contrary to the rumors, Kamio and Wakato weren't sent home but they were under no circumstances able to be nominated to join the Dream Team in the invitational tournament.
Things seems to go back to a sense of normalcy beside the fact that the teams were one short of a red head, still sleeping in the infirmary. However that didn't mean he couldn't have visitors! Just one at a time.
And so everyone had made a schedule to visit the boy, each person would get two hours every three hours in a day, only if they gave him peace on Sundays. So far Eiji had been visited by every one of his teammates as well as some other visitors from the other boys Eiji had befriended, along with others.
"Eiji-san….I'm sorry I couldn't stop Kamio from hitting you, I was right beside you and I-" sad honey dew orbs gazed upon the peaceful face of Eiji, a blush on his cheeks. The day after Oishi first confronted him and the others about their friendship with the acrobat, the vice-captain alone had got them again and this time they had hid nothing.
Choutarou came out and said that Eiji was a close friend of his and nothing they could do or say was going to change that, Kirihara had said the same thing to a degree but Saeki and Kajimoto were different when asked by the lot of Seigaku.
'I wonder why….' the silver haired boy thought as he reached over to hold the third years right hand, smiling at the warmth radiating from it
"I love you Eiji-san…is that so bad?" when a flutter of red laces crossed honey dew orbs and dark indigo stared up from white covers. "E-Eiji-san!?" was this possible?! Is this a dream?! Is Eiji really awake?!
"….C-houtarou-chan…." a murmur on dry and broken lips
"E-Eiji-san! Y-you're awake!" yes! It was true! T-this wasn't a dream! It was real!
Both sharing a smile of pure happiness when a question was asked "did you really mean what you said….Choutarou-chan?"
"E-eh?"
Not looking away Eiji kept his eyes on the younger boy, "do you….love me?" a hint of an emotion present deep within the weakness of Eiji's voice.
"Where are you going Fuji-senpai?" Momo asked his brunette haired upperclassman as the slender body began to walk towards the building,
"I'm going to use the bathroom, would you like to come along?"
"N-no thanks senpai" looking away the second year ran off once he saw that smile on his senpai's face.
"Suit yourself" the ever closed tensai smirked, walking up the hill towards not the building or its restrooms, but one place only. He was going to see Eiji. Ootori was taking much too much time and it was already over two hours! He was going to see why.
Not liking the feeling of foreboding deep in his gut as he got closer to the infirmary hall, since Eiji had fallen he and Echizen had never spoken but he knew if he even spared the younger boy even a glance, he would do something Eiji would never forgive him for. But that still didn't take the pain of not knowing why Eiji had kissed Ryoma. There was no lie in those pale forest green orbs, and Fuji didn't like that.
The fact that Oishi and the rest of the team had finally caught on that those boys were around their Eiji, made a part of the genius happy but when he had caught word that they had been confronted again; it had made him nauseous, in the way Saeki smiled, how Ootori had stood tall and proud that he was friends with Eiji, how Kirihara looked all of them in the eye and said that Eiji was not only his friend but Rikkai's as well telling them of the red head's meeting the Champions before hand, how Kajimoto held a gleam in his sangfroid lilac colored eyes.
He had to talk to Eiji! Fuji had to get everything straight and the only way that would ever happen was if he talked to Eiji, but right now all the tensai wanted was for his best friend to wake up.
He was never good without the red head beside him anyway, it was a wonder how he had survived for so long without the boy by him before they had met in freshman year. When they had first met each other in the tennis club, Eiji was a bouncy, bubbly, loud boy that appeared to be the exact opposite of himself. It was only after the boy had talked to him and started to follow him and want to be with him did Fuji begin to loosen up.
He started talking more, smiling more and laughing at the most stupidest things, with this red head beside him Fuji looked at life differently. And after three years did the tensai finally see how much the boy meant to him, how painful and lonely life seemed to be without Eiji bouncing along him, his laughs, his smiles, his very being….
"Eiji"
Opening the door to the latter's room, Fuji slightly winced at the gleam of the sun through the open windows but he was here, and Eiji was in this room…but so was Choutarou.
Leaning over Eiji the edge of the second years lips on the red head's caught Fuji's wide light azure orbs automatically,
"F-Fuji-san?!" shocked honey dew stared up standing upright, flush all along his face.
"…"
"I-it'd be best if I go now, my time's up" holding his head down Choutarou ran past Fuji and out of Eiji's room leaving dark indigo to stare into light azure.
Me- oh!!!!!!! Now Choutarou-chan kissed Eiji!
How many kisses will Eiji get before he finally kisses Fuji?! I have no idea! And I'm the writer! Hahah
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