Not MY fault for the late update. I had it ready when it was around one week and a half but then my stupid pc had to go crazy and so I lost my chapter which I had to retype and that took me quite long. And then Friday I had it finished and was about to reread it before uploading it but then the pc went crazy again. And So I lost the ending off my chapter somewhere around Tezuka's Pov and had to rewrite that for a second time. So excuse me for my late update.

I'll warn you, I was getting very irritated with having to rewrite it again since I liked the first time the story the best but it is impossible to write it just like the way before so yeah this will have to do since I'm sick of writing this chapter. So since I'm sick of thic chapter I didn't reread it before uploading it, so if there are more faults than usual that why. Also the chapter is still uncorrected like the two before this one. I'll contact my beta in a moment to ask when they will be ready so I can change them into the right ones.

I hope you like this chapter, I have no idea when the 26th will be ready so please be patient with me. and thank you my twin-sister Akai-tenshi for some inspiration to put into this chapter. ^^

Enjoy reading my dear readers.

7 Undeserved punishment

FUJI'S POV

"Fuji? Fuji? Wake up, Fuji." I heard Tezuka's voice softly saying as I felt a slight pressure on my hand. I opened my eyes groggily as I looked at the direction of the voice and saw my captain's gentle expression.

"Tezuka?" I then asked, questioning the reason why he wanted me to wake up.

"The others are here. Didn't you want to be awake when they visited?"

"Hm?" I intelligently replied before looking around and seeing the room filled with people. I rubbed my eyes one for one with the back of my hand and then I heard Eiji yelling: "Nya, Fujiko is acting like a sleepy cat. Kawaii!"

"Says the one who always says 'nya'," I answered and smiled as I looked at Eiji who was now grinning madly.

"Konnichiwa, mina," I then said as I smiled at all of them. They all smiled back and greeted me.

Tezuka and my family were still in their usual places. Inui and Takashi stood behind my bed and Kaidoh stood near them while leaning against the wall. Momo stood next to the chair where Yumiko sat with Echizen a bit in front of him. Eiji and Oishi stood the closest to the door and next to my bed in between Kaidoh and Momo, which was a smart move especially since we were in the hospital.

"Fuji, how are you feeling?" Oishi asked, acting like a worried mother.

"I'm quite okay. And how are all of you doing?"

They all answered they were fine and that they had missed me, Eiji and of course their buchou at practice although some didn't really want to admit it and tried hiding it by pulling their cap over their eyes.

"Oh! Thank you for the teddy bear," I said as soon as I remembered it. I added that I was really happy with the present. From then on we talked about a lot of different things as I was completely awake now and smiling happily at seeing my friends again.

I looked at every one and noticed a lot of relief on their faces. They must have been worried about me. And now that they could see me awake and smiling, they most likely were reassured that I was doing fine. It must have been horrible to see one of your friends lying there. I didn't want it to happen to me, although being the one lying there wasn't the best option either. I looked at Eiji and thought about what I would have done. If he had been the one lying asleep for a long time because of my carelessness, I would have been devastated and feeling guilty every time I saw him lying on the bed with his eyes still closed. Then a thought even worse came into my mind. What if Tezuka had been the one in my place? How would I feel? Probably even more devastated and unable to leave my place next to him in case something happened. I looked at Tezuka and then thought;

What had Tezuka felt when staying by my side the entire time? What was he still feeling seeing me so weak?

Tezuka then looked back at me and saw me staring at him in what was probably a weird way. I quickly covered my musing up with a smile and looked back at the others. I could see from the corners of my eyes that Tezuka was still watching me before his eyes became more gentle and he slowly turned his eyes away from me.

When looking away from Tezuka I noticed Inui and Echizen both looking at my hands with a questioningly and almost grinningly way. I followed their gaze to my hand and then saw that Tezuka's was still holding mine. Whether he had just forgotten that he was still holding my hand or that he was aware of it, I didn't know and actually didn't mind it either. I liked the warmth coming from his hand and the comfort it gave me. I smiled at looking at our entwined hands and missed the knowing look between the two of them as they had watched me.

"Ne, Eiji. Do you have everything packed?" Oishi suddenly asked his doubles partner.

"Ah! I just need to get my stuff from my room and check out at the reception hall. Nya! I'm so glad I can be out of here!" Eiji said bouncing up and down: "Ne, ne. Oishi? You can stay over, right? My mother told me you could sleep over and it's Sunday tomorrow so we don't have school and-" Eiji started summing up al lot of reasons for Oishi to stay as everybody looked half laughing at them.

Oishi intervened and quickly answered while smiling that he already had his stuff with him because Eiji's mother had called him to ask if he could stay over. He also lifted the bag that stood besides his feet to emphasise his point. Eiji smiled widely as he hugged Oishi tightly who blushed in response.

I sighed as I thought about the fact that I probably needed to stay here a lot longer. Yumiko and some others heard as well and they looked at me before their expression saddened slightly.

"It's okay, Syusuke. I'm sure you can go home with us soon enough. I already put my stuff in my old bedroom, so I'll take care of the two of you once we are home. I'll search for a job in the neighbourhood and-" but the rest of her words were already lost to me as all I could think about was 'home'.

My eyes had opened and I was staring shocked in front of me to nothing particular. "Home?" I said in a barely audible whisper, but yet everyone had heard it. They were all looking inquiring at me and a bit concerned as they had noticed the strange tone on my voice.

"Yes, Syusuke. Home, our house. You want to leave this hospital right?" She asked as all the others kept their eyes locked onto me.

Flashes of different memories started to form before my eyes again; My sister leaving the door with suitcases, my younger brother looking sad to me as he too left to go to his new dorm, the missing attention from my father, the silent dinners, the pain when lying on the floor recovering from the punishments, the showers trying to wash away the tension in my body, the mirror seeing my bruised body, the footsteps of my father coming up the stairs, the floor of my bedroom as I stare at it, seeing my father's feet in front of me, the panic and fear in my heart as I await the following blows, the crying. The depressions.

My breathing picked up and tears were forming in my eyes. I shook my head trying to get rid of the memories, my eyes tightly shut and my body trembling from remembering the pain that was done to me. The heart monitor let the others hear my heart picking up it's pace from the panic that started to overwhelm me. I knew they were all worried again, I didn't even need to look at them.

Then other pieces of my memory found a way to the front of my mind as I felt the pressure in my hand lightly increase as if to say that it was all okay; Tezuka taking me away from that dreadful place called 'home', Tezuka's arms around me as I woke up in a foreign bed, his eyes opening as he woke up, the care of Ayana, the soft couch as I watch TV with my beloved buchou, the understanding from Tezuka's grandfather, the stoic boy's soft touches as he treats my wounds, the love and care of the Tezuka's household…

I opened my eyes, the panic had decreased a little and I looked desperately at Tezuka with tears falling from my eyes. I softly repeated the same word, but in a whole different context for me and with better memories attached to the word: "…Home?"

Tezuka's eyes widened even more and so did the others. They had been scared by the sudden change in my happy behaviour and now shocked to see me looking desperately at Tezuka while crying. All their eyes taking on compassionate and sad looks as they saw the mental damage everything had done to me. Tezuka quickly looked up at Yumiko and Yuuta to then focus back on me.

"Yes, home," he said as his mournful eyes looked me in the eyes. They had a gentle tone in it and an emotion I couldn't understand and had only ever so often seen in those brown orbs.

I smiled weakly at him, trying to let him see what it meant to me as a heavy weight seemed to be pulled of off my shoulders. Suddenly I felt the need for comfort and did something without really realizing I was doing it and saying it.

"…Mitsu…" a soft plea came over my lips in a heartbreaking voice as everybody's eyes widened again at hearing Tezuka's given name. I lifted my arms in the air in Tezuka's direction while trying to sit up. I tried getting closer to him, like a child who was asking for his mothers embrace.

Tezuka's eyes widened yet again and seemed hesitant to react. He knew what I wanted but he was probably scared, thinking about the first moment I woke up. But he saw me still trying to get closer to him and wincing at the pain it was causing me as my eyes were looking pleadingly and tearful, at him. He slowly stood up and went to sit on the side of my bed. He first put both his hands on my arms before moving them up to my shoulder. He then came closer to me in a faltering way before softly hugging me, ready to pull away any minute.

But instead of starting to scream and trash violently, I put my arms around him and grabbed the back of his shirt tightly in my hands while covering my head in the crook of his neck. As I started to cry softly, I let my body relax in his comforting hold. His hand was on my back softly caressing it while his other hand was on my head stroking through my hair.

"Hey what are you…doing…" a nurse suddenly yelled, dying off at the end of her sentence. She must have noticed my increasing heartbeat and came to check on me. She probably saw Tezuka hugging me, and took the conclusion that that was the reason why I was panicking until she saw the way I was holding him tight to me. I heard my sister say something to the nurse, probably that everything was okay now, and I could hear the nurse react with 'unbelievable' as she left the room again.

I didn't think about what the others would take this for, or what Tezuka would think about it. I just wanted to be selfish for once and not let go of my own comfort 'zone'.

AUTHOR'S POV

All the others were shocked, saddened, yet relieved and softly smiling at the strange scene in front of them. Fuji had started to panic and nobody knew what to do, they were just looking, hoping that Fuji would calm down or that Tezuka could do something. They were all thinking the same, and that was that the only one to be able to stop this was either Fuji himself or Tezuka, although they didn't know how. Yuuta was about to call a nurse, afraid for Fuji starting to scream and becoming violent again. But at that moment Fuji's behaviour seemed to change a bit even though it wasn't really for the better.

It tore at everybody's heart to see Fuji's pleading eyes, with tear drops rolling down his cheek, but at Tezuka's heart the most. He had wanted to take a hold of him and try to calm him down, but he knew that by doing so, he would only worsen it. So he could only stand by and watch, hoping for the best as he subconsciously increased the pressure on the hand he was still holding. As he heard Fuji's voice say in a desperate tone 'home' while looking at him with those blue enchanting eyes, he immediately knew what the boy meant.

He knew Fuji wanted to go home with Tezuka, Fuji saw that as his home and not that place where to much bad things had happened to him. Tezuka looked at Fuji's siblings as they also looked saddened by their brothers hurt. It was clear that after the three made eye contact with each other, they all understood what Fuji meant. Yumiko almost unnoticeably nodded as Yuuta did the same only clearer since he knew that it would be better for his aniki.

Tezuka seeing the approval of the others answered to the panicking boy that it was okay. But what Fuji did then shocked him the most.

TEZUKA'S POV

Hearing Fuji say my given name, well a part of it, and seeing him trying to stretch his arms in my direction in a way that clearly said that he wanted to hug me, made my heart beat a lot faster. But I had doubtful feelings about it. I shouldn't be hugging him since he could react like the previous time, and like when Eiji had tried to hug him as well.

But seeing Fuji's desperate look at me and the pain he had while trying to get closer to me, persuaded me to give it a try. I was constantly ready to pull back away and to create more space between us when needed. My body also craved to comfort him, to feel him relax in my hold so I was sure that he would be calm again.

I barely noticed the eyes that were on me as I stood up. But I was sure that they were there, looking at my and Fuji's every move. Right now, it was not my reputation of being stoic and all the time serious that was the most important. It was Fuji, and I knew they would all understand what I was doing especially since they all knew about my feelings for the tensai.

I sat down next to Fuji on the hospital bed and slowly leaned forward. I waited for a reaction as my hand came in contact with his arm and then slid to his back to stay there and comfort him. I then felt his hands taking a tight hold of my shirt as he buried his face in the crook of my neck. My breathing sped up slightly with the close contact with Fuji as I moved one of my hands to the back of his head to trace my fingers through his hair. I felt him relaxing in my hold as his body slowly stopped trembling and my own inner panic for Fuji died down as well.

We stayed like that until he had completely calmed down and the rest of the regulars had stayed quiet while watching us. I didn't want to let him go, but I couldn't really stay seated like this. So I slowly pulled away as to not alarm him. He let go of the back of my shirt and looked questioningly at me in a still pleading way. I was about to stand up as I softly smiled at him in a reassuring way. But Fuji quickly grabbed my arm and looked as desperate as he probably could.

It made me want to kiss him and I had to control myself as I went to sit a bit better on the bed and stayed there. I looked to Fuji and saw him smiling gratefully at me which made my heart flutter. I then reminded myself that when seeing my mother I should ask her if Fuji could stay at our home. I didn't think my mother would mind, she was worried as well about Fuji's health.

"…Tezuka….?" Fuji's soft voice asked as he pulled me out of my thoughts.

"Hn?" I answered as I looked at him. I was a bit disappointed when he didn't say my given name again. Because although I wouldn't admit it, I liked the way it sounded in Fuji's soft and beautiful voice.

"I…I need to go to the bathroom,-" he said in a slightly embarrassed tone: "Can you help me stand up?"

"Ah, sure," I said. Nobody questioned why Fuji had asked me to help him and not his brother or somebody else. They just looked at us curiously.

I pulled the blanket off of him to the end of the bed and saw him shivering from the sudden cold that was coming over him. He was still wearing a hospital gown which was really thin and didn't give much warmth. A thought suddenly came to my mind that he was wearing a hospital gown where the ropes were at the back. That meant that if they were too loose you could probably see a big part of his backside. I suddenly hoped that Fuji was still wearing boxers otherwise that would be really embarrassing for him and really hard for me not to stare at him. I really had the presumption that Fuji's cloth hung to loose around his body and didn't really look forward to finding out, although a part of me desperately wanted to find out. I automatically tuned out that part of my mind as it wouldn't help me in keeping myself in control in front of the others and towards Fuji.

I offered him my hand as I stood up bending a bit so I could easily reach Fuji as he placed his hand in mine. I then slowly pulled him into a sitting position at the side of the bed. Fuji groaned and Yumiko was the first to ask what was wrong. Fuji just answered that with all the lying down his body was really sore and it hurt a little when moving. He moved to sit a bit better and the gown slid for a part of his right shoulder. He pulled it back up with his free hand, covering the bandages on his shoulder up. I now knew that the cloth was way too loose and that it seemed like it could fall off every second.

He smiled at me saying that he was ready and I offered him my other hand as well. He took a hold of it and then slowly went to stand up. Most of his weight came on me as I kept him steady. He put more weight on his legs and feet until he could stand on his own. He then let go of one of my hands and tried to take a step. He groaned again from moving but took another step despite the pain.

He let go of my other hand as well and walked further. Every regular looked worried at him. They were all ready to support him or catch him when he would fall as he passed them one by one.

I let my eyes wonder over his back. The gown barely covered anything of his backside. I looked at his back that was for a part covered with bandages and the rest looked like it was getting better. Fuji's skin was still blue and purple with bruises. But the black ones had faded into purple bruises and those were in turn fading out as well. It would be great if most of the bruises would be gone by the time Fuji is allowed to leave the hospital. That way Fuji wasn't constantly reminded to why he had been in the hospital when standing in front of the mirror.

I looked lower and my eyes widened as I saw Fuji's underwear. It was definitely not his own but probably one of the hospital it self. Fuji's sense of fashion would never let him wear this. It was a plain white briefs that were very tight fitting and seemed to be the tensai's second skin as the curves of his ass were clearly visible. I tried to tear my gaze away from there and look to something else, but was unable too. Only when Fuji suddenly stood still was I able to look up at him.

He stood right before the door of the bathroom as he asked Eiji who was closest to him to open the door. Eiji smiled and said of course as he pulled the door open and let Fuji enter before closing the door again to wait for Fuji saying he could open it again to let him out.

I looked around me, glad for Fuji being away from my vision for a minute or so, so I could control myself again and reprimand myself for being unable to look away. But when I looked around I noticed that I hadn't been the only one who had been watching our tensai.

Oishi was blushing and trying to look anywhere except for where Fuji had been standing, Echizen had his cap pulled over his eyes as Fuji's sister and brother were still politely looking away. Eiji looked very normal while waiting for his best friend, Inui on the other hand had this very weird grin on his face again and he was looking straight at me. I shook off the thought that he had seen me looking at Fuji with something more than mere interest but with something that was more akin to lust and want. So I quickly looked away from Inui's knowing gaze and saw kaidoh blushing really hard, just like Oishi, while pointedly looking away from the bathroom door. Momo on the other hand was openely staring to the place where Fuji had been standing and if he was indeed still standing the second year's gaze would be still focused on Fuji's behind, which I didn't like. Takashi was also blushing but he was still looking at the same place where Momo was looking at.

Eiji then moved and opened the door for Fuji who was wobbling back out. He thanked the redhead before he made his way back to the bed. As Fuji past the regulars again one by one, the most had the decency to look away but the two who hadn't moved their gazes, still hadn't. And it started to irritate me that they were looking to Fuji like that. When Fuji got to the end of the bed a bit in front of me he suddenly seemed to be falling through his knees. I catched him in my arms so he could lean his entire wait on me. Some of the regulars had squeaked out his name in surprise and worry as he had almost fallen. Fuji looked in pain as he softly grunted.

"Are you okay?" I asked worriedly as he tried to regain his balance again.

"Hm… I think so, my knees suddenly felt really weak. I'm sorry."

"It's nothing. You shouldn't apologize."

Fuji looked up at me as he had rebalanced himself and stood now steady on his legs again. He was still in my embrace and was slightly blushing as I was telling myself that I should let him go. But then my eyes caught two pair of eyes that were still staring at Fuji and I remembered that the cords of his gown were really loose. I looked back at him and only now noticed that the cloth had once again slid for a part off of his shoulder. I moved my hand and laid it on his arm and then softly mover my hand up, pulling the cloth with me so it would lay back on his shoulder.

"Is it okay if I retie the cords again?" I asked him.

He looked surprised for a moment but answered okay a bit later. He seemed a tad unsure and scared of what I would do as my hands moved to his back again. I kept looking at him telling him with my eyes that I wouldn't hurt him and I knew that he trusted me as he softly smiled back at the look in my eyes.

I then touched his skin with my fingertips as I searched for the first cord. I found it and told Fuji that I was going to untie it before redoing it. He nodded in response but still seemed tense. I undid the knot in it and held the cloth together so it wouldn't fall off his shoulders. I then retied it before gently moving to the cords a bit lower.

Fuji seemed to relax in my hold and he softly let his head fall against my shoulder. He sighed softly in a content way, a sigh only I could have heard. My heart beat a bit faster but I focused on the small ropes. I was holding myself in when I reached the lowest ones that were right above his ass. I had to keep myself from accidentally brushing against his behind.

When I was done I retracted my hands from his back but put them on his arms instead. He looked back up at me with those enchanting unearthly sapphire orbs that made my heart race. I then saw his tongue coming out of his mouth to wet his dry lips. It left them with a soft glance on them that made them even more kissable. I looked back to Fuji's eyes which were still open and looking into mine. It looked like the two of us were about to kiss each other as we were intensely staring at the other. I paid no attention to all the others who must be standing there looking shocked or grinning at us.

The two of us seemed to be in our own little world for the moment as Fuji's lips seemed to come closer to mine or maybe mine were moving closer to his. Until a cell phone suddenly went off that broke the spell that was around us. Fuji closed his eyes again and stepped out of my embrace as I loosened my hold on his arms.

Yumiko excused herself and stepped out of the room while picking up her phone. I internally sighed at the interruption but knew that it was actually for the best. I had no idea how Fuji would react if I would kiss him and I had told myself that I couldn't kiss him as long as I wasn't sure if he would be okay with it. Even if that meant that I could never kiss him. I thought back on the kiss I had given him on the lips when he had been asleep. I told myself that I should lessen my thirst with that memory.

Fuji went to sit on the side of his bed as he softly blushed making him look really cute. I was pulled out of my thought of Fuji by Eiji who suddenly yelled out loud: "Nya! You looked like you were going to kiss each other!"

Oishi quickly made Eiji quiet again with just one look which made Eiji's eyes widen in realization of what he had just said. Fuji's blush darkened as he looked to his lap. Every regular knew to not say anything more except for one who had to make it worse.

"Ha! I don't think one of them would have minded that!" Momo said getting all kinds of looks in his direction. One, that came from me that would have send him running 100 laps if we were at practice at the moment and not in a hospital. I saw Echizen roll with his eyes at Momo's stupidity and Oishi looking worriedly at Fuji's reaction.

The Tensai stayed silent but seemed slightly shocked to what Momo had blurted out. After the shock went away he seemed to be thinking about something in a worried manner. He went to lie back in his bed as Yumiko came back in. There was this awkward silence until Eiji started talking happily about a new movie he wanted to see with all of us. This distracted everyone again and the mood lightened.

Half an hour later and the regulars said that they would go and eat something in the nearby restaurant. They asked if I or one of Fuji's siblings wanted to go with them and I could see them staring at me. Fuji looked saddened for a moment, probably thinking we would leave him alone here for an hour or so. But I answered them that I would stay with Fuji and that the others could go. I didn't mind. I didn't want to leave Fuji behind.

Fuji tried to convince me that everything would be okay but I noticed the hope in his eyes on the fact that I would stay with him. I told him that I still stay and was not in the mood to go to a restaurant. I would get me something from the cafeteria when I was hungry.

They ultimately left and told us that they would be back in about an hour or so, maybe less it depended on how many people there were. The regulars would then stay for another hour and then leave to go home with Oishi going to Eiji to have a sleepover.

The door closed behind us and I revelled in the silence it gave me except for the still beeping sound of the heart monitor but I was able to tune that out already. 10 minutes later and Fuji whispered my name, making me look at him.

"Ah?" I asked telling him that I was listening.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"And…can you please answer with the truth and not with what I might want to hear?"

"Of course. What's wrong?" I asked him as I was getting a bit worried about the way he was behaving. He seemed to be nervous and hesitant to ask his question while he was looking to his lap.

"Do…do they know?...I mean…Do you…know?" he asked with scared eyes as he looked at me for a second before looking down again.

Thank you for reading and please review for all the problems I had with this chapter. :p

Look forward to the next one. *sadistic grin*