Oh god I'm going to be dead by the end of this chapter! Please just read and enjoy don't kill me for this! -cowers under a rock- EEEEEE!
"Kunimitsu, what brings you here?" Echizen asked getting up from his chair, "is everything alright?"
"Nothing in particular Ryoma, I just thought it would be best to visit you, that's all. Is there a problem in that?" Tezuka asked giving a small bow to the man in front of him.
"I suppose not," Echizen gave a skeptical look. "Though you haven't called me by my first name in almost half a century. Why the sudden change in heart?"
"I realized my mistake, in leaving you. It was careless of me to resent you."
"So you've finally come to your senses. I'm pleased to hear this, Kunimitsu. What about that human boy?"
"What about him?" Tezuka asked.
"Haha, I won't be fooled that easily Kunimitsu. You've got something up your sleeve don't you?"
"Not at all, I've sincerely come back to you."
"Prove it to me." The smirk on the boy's face widened, the current Tezuka wouldn't go so far as too actually prove something like this.
"You really want me too?" Echizen nodded. Tezuka let out a mental sigh as he walked over to the boy. If he wanted confirmation then Tezuka would give it to him in the convincing way he could think of.
"Yes Kuni-chan I do." Echizen was expecting just a kiss or something like that, but instead Tezuka picked him up bridal style just like he used to. It sort of felt nostalgic to him, he liked it. "Kuni-chan what are you going to do?"
"That, Ryoma, is a surprise."
"A surprise just for me?"
"Just for you…"
"YAY!" Echizen smiled wrapping his arms around Tezuka's neck. "I like this type of convincing."
"Aa, as do I Ryoma." Tezuka replied as Echizen placed a kiss on his lips. So began Tezuka's own run of lies.
"Atobe have you seen Kunimitsu?" Fuji asked coming down stairs. He decided that by now if Tezuka hadn't calmed down then he never would. He was only being a concerned boyfriend was wrong with that? It wasn't his fault that he was naturally curious.
"Ah, umm…he," Atobe hesitated. He wasn't expecting to be asked this so quickly, it was too soon to do that just yet. He needed a good excuse and fast. "He…went out for a while…for some fresh air." That should suffice the honey haired boy for now.
"Oh really? Good then this is the perfect time to for me to talk to him." Fuji smiled heading towards the door.
"Ahahaha, Ore-sama doesn't think that would be such a good idea. Tezuka has been very stressed lately. Allow him to have his moment of peace; you can speak to him anytime." Atobe laughed nervously. 'Little twit, just leave it alone! GO AWAY AND STOP SPEAKING! He's trying to help you so just shut up!' Atobe's face unconsciously twisted itself into a very grim look.
"Atobe what's wrong with your face?"
"SHUTUPANDGOBACKTOYOURROOMNOW!(1)" Atobe shouted waving his arms around in the air.
"Excuse me what did you just say?" Fuji questioned as Atobe proceeded to push him back up the stairs.
"Don'tquestionmethisisforyourowngood!(2)" 'Quickly quickly, the faster you leave, the less I have to worry about you finding out!'
"Atobe what's wrong, slow down I don't understand a word you're saying. HEY! STOP THAT!" Fuji struggled as Atobe proceeded to push him into the bedroom that he and Tezuka shared. "ATOBE!"
"Ore-sama is very sorry for this Fuji, but please just stay here and don't ask anymore questions." He closed the door quickly hoping that this would be the end of the discussion, but hopefully not his life. To die at the hands a five year old, how pathetic a death, one that was not worthy of someone as great as Atobe.
"AAAGH! I'm OVER THIS!" Fuji yelled from the other side kicking the door violently.
"Just remember this isn't Ore-sama's fault!"
"THEN WHO'S IS IT?"
"Tezuka's!" The movement of the door immediately fell, Fuji's yells ceased.
"How is this his fault?" Fuji's words where muffled from the door making them barely audible to Atobe's ears.
"Because, he isn't here, He returned to Echizen's home."
"He did what?"
"He thought that he was causing you too much trouble by continuing this façade. Fuji, it pains me to tell you this but Tezuka…he doesn't love you. He never did." If Fuji wasn't crying now, then Atobe most certainly would for him. Though such displays of weakness where beneath him and pretty much everyone else for that matter, he couldn't help but feel sorry for the boy. "Fuji I'm sorry." Atobe opened the door and poked his head in too see how Fuji was taking this news.
"You're lying to me. You have to be because I'm not laughing Atobe" Fuji replied from the floor. He was crumbled up to into a ball, his legs drawn in his chest with his chin resting on his knees. Atobe couldn't see if he was crying or not, Fuji's bangs made sure of this. Nor did Fuji's voice give any evidence of the grief or hatred he was expecting to come from the boy.
"Ore-sama wishes he was, but this is the truth Fuji." When Tezuka returned Atobe would defiantly harm him in someway for making this scene. What could he do now to help? Atobe was at a loss of what to do.
"Atobe, could just please hold me." He trembling slightly as he asked. Atobe complied; kneeling down next to Fuji he wrapped his arms around the small trembling frame. He didn't like the boy, but no one deserved this kind of pain and betrayal by someone else.
"Kunimitsu wouldn't do this, he hates Echizen-san. What good would it do him to return to that?" Fuji asked looking up at Atobe. His eyes fully open revealing the piercing mixture of sapphire and cerulean, along with painful crystalline tears falling from them. "Why would he lie to me? I thought he loved me!" Fuji's voice remained even and calm his breathing only quickening for a moment before slowing back to pace.
"When one has lived around lies for so long, it's only natural for that person to learn how to lie, so much that they eventually convince themselves that it is truth." Atobe replied petting the fine silk like hair. This all but brought back too many memories for him.
"Atobe, Atobe! That Tezuka guy is out here lying on the porch he doesn't look too good!"
"What are you yelling about; Ore-sama is busy Jirou."
"Just come on!" Jirou yelled from the door.
"Fine."
"HURRY UP!"
"Ore-sama is coming just hold on!" Atobe replied making his way to the front door. "Now what where you say…ing…TEZUKA!" Atobe immediately bent down next to the man that was currently occupying the area in front of the door.
Jirou hadn't been lying when he said Tezuka didn't look well, in fact he looked down right lousy. His face was red with fever, his breathing irregular, clothing tussled. "Good god! Kabaji get him inside, Jirou go and get Oshitari."
"OOOh something exciting!" Jirou grinned running off.
Within a few minutes the tasks were complete. Tezuka was inside carefully placed on a bed, with Oshitari giving him a quick once over.
"The most I see wrong, is exhaustion and fever, probably some hunger as well." Oshitari sighed looking over at Atobe, "You don't think he ran all the way here do you?"
"Tezuka run? HA, Tezuka doesn't run from anything." Everyone gave him a very curious look along the lines of 'then-what-did-he-do?' "Tezuka sprints away from things."
"There is a first for everything," Tezuka groaned propping himself up in the bed.
"Tezuka-san you need to rest, you're in no condition to be moving."
"I understand that Oshitari, I just need to speak with Atobe alone for now." Everyone turned to Atobe giving him a confused look.
"Well you heard him, out now!" Atobe grimaced as the rest of the house filed out.
"I didn't want to listen anyways," Mukahi grumbled crossing his arms over his chest.
"Now what is it Tezuka."
"He's gotten himself another."
"What?" Atobe asked looking at the stoic face for some kind of clue as to what Tezuka was talking about.
"No I correct myself, he has two now."
"I still don't follow Tezuka." Atobe said as Tezuka just stared at him. "Wait you don't mean that he's." Tezuka gave a small nod before looking straight head at the wall.
"He has."
Atobe let out a sigh, and began to pace about the room, muttering incoherent things. "This is unacceptable; Ore-sama will not stand for something like this. You have feelings too despite the fact that you act like you have none!" Atobe, to say the least, was furious. He wouldn't allow it; Echizen was not going to just throw Tezuka away. Tezuka was his friend this just couldn't happen.
"Atobe."
"How dare that little runt do this to you."
"Atobe." Tezuka raised his voice a little higher this time.
"I'm plotting Tezuka not now!"
"ATOBE!"
"WHAT?" Atobe turned and faced the persistent man, "What do you want?"
"I was going to ask, if it isn't too much trouble, may I stay here for the night."
"Of course you may Tezuka, you needn't ask. Besides do you think Ore-sama would let you return to the hell hole sick?" Atobe laughed.
"Thank you Atobe," Tezuka's voice was low, so much that it was almost inaudible. Atobe looked up from the lack of command in the voice. What was that on Tezuka's face? Was that a tear?
"Tezuka," Atobe muttered sitting down on the side of the bed. When he lifted Tezuka's face they where there only two, but that was more than Atobe had ever seen come from the man in front of him. Tezuka reached up and wiped one away. Blinking several times he stared at the tear, almost like it was a foreign object. "Ore-sama has never seen you cry before."
"Who said I was crying?" Tezuka glared at the man, "I never said that."
"You face is showing it, Tezuka." Atobe muttered staring at the covers that covered Tezuka's legs. "It's my fault for introducing you too the little bastard."
"You didn't know and neither did I, Atobe. It can't be helped, actually it's expected. He was bound to become bored with me eventually; I just wasn't ready for it yet."
Tezuka Kunimitsu not ready for something? That was not the most expected of things to hear right now. But he said it was expected, so then why he wasn't ready Atobe didn't know. He was contradicting himself in a way. Atobe rubbed his head and grimaced, he was getting a headache from thinking about that.
"Something wrong?" Tezuka asked.
"No, just a headache that's all." 'All because of your contradictions!' Atobe got up from the bed, and began to walk towards the door.
"Atobe," Tezuka spoke looking up from the bed covers with an appreciative look. "Thank you."
"Of course, anything for you Tezuka, you're a dear friend of mine. I can't risk loosing you to something as silly as a fever." Atobe smiled before closing the door.
This wasn't exactly like that time, but it was close enough for Atobe to remember Tezuka's moment from before. By now Fuji had stopped his crying and had fallen into a tired sleep. He wasn't sure how long it had been, though that didn't particularly matter. Picking the boy up he laid Fuji down on his bed making sure he was covered and comfortable.
"Atobe, Niou and Yagyuu are back." Yukimura said from behind Atobe placing a hand on the man's shoulder. Atobe flinched at the sudden contact.
"Don't do that, tell someone when you come barging in," He hissed turning around.
"They're in bad shape Atobe, Yagyuu has a few scratches. We aren't sure the extent of any broken bones or anything. Niou, he had cuts, bruises, you name it he's got it right now." Yukimura commenced to telling.
"Is one of them conscious enough to explain what happened?"
"No not yet, Yagyuu just now fell asleep."
"This waiting game is getting annoying." Atobe frowned crossing his arms over his chest.
"Well while we are waiting, why don't you tell me and Sanada where Tezuka went hmm?" Yukimura asked his ever constant smile in place. "We have yet to be informed."
"Tezuka doesn't wish for others to know. It might hinder the plan."
"Atobe we have a right to know, Fuji probably knows."
"No you don't, and all Fuji knows is what I've been allowed to tell him. That's how secret this is." Atobe replied.
"I heard and so did everyone else, he was yelling at you."
"He didn't want to believe what I was told to tell him."
"And what was that? That is if I'm allowed to know."
"That Tezuka doesn't love him anymore and that he never did." Atobe stated without skipping a beat. Yukimura stopped and stared at him.
"It is just a lie of course right?"
"Of course it is! Tezuka would give anything to be with that boy, he loves him dearly."
"Then why go to such extremes?"
"He has his reasons." And that was that Atobe wasn't going to discuss anymore than that. He probably had already said too much, but this was Yukimura so it should be alright.
Ok so I think some people are going to kill me for this chapter TT-TT Please don't thank you.
Poor Fuji, but this is all for his own good...I think...I DON"T KNOW! I"M SO TIRED AND CONFUSED AND HUNGRY! WHY WON'T MY MOTHER FEED ME NOW!? Oh wait...never mind...
(1) SHUT UP AND GO BACK TO YOUR ROOM NOW!
(2) Don't question me this is for your own good!
Yeps thats what Atobe said...if you couldn't read it!
Review guys I like that, at this point I'll welcome flames...FLAME AWAY! Why because I would after reading this chapter...Thanks! OH and I have a poll on my profile concerning my next oneshot pair so please go and vote! If you don't then I'll choose and thats no fun!