Hello anybody reading this! Sorry it's kind of short this time, but I wanted to post today instead of tomorrow in honor of Bunta's birthday. (Which doesn't make sense, because he doesn't really do anything in this chapter.) Oh, wait. Wow. Am I at twenty five chapters? Oh, I guess I'll have to go throw myself a little party now. Oh well, moving on.
Blufox- Bunta! Bunta! And Gakuto is just Gakuto...
Purplerainn- Okay, I'll update then.
Kagerou Fuji- Ah, I'm not old enough to drink either (And honestly feel no need to) so me and my friends play it with root beer. It's always a bad thing to leave the table when you're playing with us, because we've been known to put hot sauce in people's drinks when they go to the bathroom.
EmoButterfly1- No problem, and I like updating fast. (I get bored otherwise.)
Ahgwa- 'I never' isn't scary... When you play it with the right people...
RaiPheonix015- You really want Atobe to know, ne? Well, Jirou doesn't want to tell him, so I don't know if he ever will. (Tell him, that is, there are certainly other ways to find out.) And I've decided that you must be a good person. Suffering characters gooood. -Laughs.-
KiriharaAkaya- -Reads review again.- ... -Laughs.- Yeah, I agree. Best type.
Disclaimer- I do not own Prince of Tennis
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"I've never been kissed on the lips before," Fuji smiled, looking around the circle. He took a drink, as several other people followed his action, until it became apparent that Saeki, Dan, and, surprisingly, Ryoma, were not going to take a drink.
"Ne, Ochibi? Momo hasn't kissed you yet?" Eiji said, looking incredulous. "Nya! No way!"
"I thought... No, I saw you two kiss, that day at the river bank," Fuji frowned slightly. He was talking about the same day he had started dating Kunimitsu, so he couldn't be wrong. He had scrap-booked the entire day in his mind. He couldn't be wrong.
"That was on the cheek," Momo said, grinning slyly, "You couldn't have gotten that good of a look at it, could you Senpai? You were running in the opposite direction, thinking of nothing but Tezuka-Buchou." Kunimitsu shot him a warning glare.
"Hmm... That would make sense," Fuji said, ignoring the second half of what Momo had said. "And Dan-kun is still young, so it would make sense that he hasn't had his first kiss yet, but, you Saeki?"
Saeki looked incredibly guilty, and everyone watched him intently. "Um... Well, until recently I didn't really have anyone I really wanted to kiss, and I guess, um..." Suddenly, both Saeki and Tachibana, who had already been sitting side-by-side, were invisible. They remained so for several moments, as all eyes turned instead to Kunimitsu, who had but a wisp of a smile of his face. When they finally reappeared again, Saeki, blushing, took a drink and that was that.
"I've never jumped off of a barn before," Taka offered meekly. Momo, Eiji, and Wakato had to drink to that. Wakato was the only one forced to explain why he had decided to jump off of a barn, as it had already been expected of Momo and Eiji.
"I've never had a crush on someone from another team," Ryoma said next, and surprised everyone by taking a drink after his own statement. Taka, Kabaji, Youhei, Kouhei, Tachibana, Saeki, Hiyoshi, and Sengoku all took their drinks before the Seigaku team pounced on Ryoma, demanding to know who, and when this all was.
Ryoma, characteristically unrattled, leaned back so that he was resting on his hands, and answered. "I thought that Kentaro Aoi had pretty eyes when we first met him. Then he wouldn't stop talking, and the crush was over." Several stunned faces swept around the room, and then many people started laughing.
"Alright, Alright!" Momo waved a hand when he had gotten over his bit of laughter. Despite that fact that he still felt minutely jealous of Kentaro, that had been something, he figured, worth knowing. "I've never... I dunno... I've never made out with someone in a public place." Oh. Well, that one was interesting. Most of the Hyotei players, with the exceptions of Choutarou, and Kabaji, had to drink to that. Akira, Shinji, Niou, Yagyuu, Eiji, Oishi, Yuta and Mizuki took their drinks soon after.
"Yuta!" Fuji gasped. He then turned to glare at Mizuki instead.
"Oishi-senpai?" Kaido asked, looking confused.
"Movie theater," Eiji said, and a few 'oh's went around the room.
"My turn! My turn!" Eiji exclaimed. He looked around the room deviously. "Nya, I've never had sex before." He then took a drink, followed by Oishi, and all of the people who had taken a drink for making out in public, with the exception of Yuta and Mizuki.
"Are we playing with penalties?" Kunimitsu then asked. A few people looked confused, so he elaborated, "When someone is caught in a lie, are they supposed to be punished?"
"Yeah, that would be fun. Inui Juice, maybe?" Jirou suggested, as several faces on the Seigaku team went slightly green.
"I don't have any with me," Inui said, looking quite sad about that. After that, talk went to what the penalty should be. Fuji, instead of putting in his two cents, was watching Kunimitsu carefully. Did this mean that Kunimitsu had lied about the lest question, and was wanting to know what would happen if he was caught? He waned to know. He wanted to know, but had no way to ask.
"Saa," Fuji said, deciding to wait, "How about they have to down the rest of their glass, and then sit out?" This plan was agreed upon, as it didn't seem like it would be very fun to just sit around while everyone else got to play and trick people into telling their secrets.
"What's the point of lying anyway?" Bunta frowned, "If the kid over there--" he motioned at Ryoma "--Can read minds?"
A few people shrugged.
"Not fair!" Jirou huffed, "He would just let his teammates get away with lying."
"I don't intend to use my power," Ryoma said, "But it's not easy not to. It would be better if I had one person to focus on..." Never glances around the circle.
"Go ahead and concentrate on me, Echizen," Tachibana offered, clearly seeing that Ryoma didn't care who it was, as long as it wasn't Momo. He thought he could understand that. Ryoma nodded. It was Gakuto's turn next.
"I've never had dirty thoughts about a teacher..." And the game went on.
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After that they moved on to play other games as suggested, until everyone settled in to just talking again. Fuji noticed soon after that that Ryoma and Momo had fallen asleep. They had, apparently, opened up their sleeping bags so that one was underneath them and the other was on top. Fuji smiled as Ryoma moved closer to Momo in his sleep, and Momo draped an arm over him in a way that could only be described as protective.
Fuji chuckled softly as Kunimitsu came over to his side. "Saa, they're adorable aren't they?"
"When they're not talking," Kunimitsu whispered back. Fuji chuckled again.
"I wish I had my camera," Fuji said, looking at the beautiful picture that he feared he would never get another chance to capture.
"Here," Kunimitsu said, pulling a digital camera out of his pocket. "I grabbed it for you. The professional style one wouldn't have fit into my pocket, but I figured you'd want this."
"You're wonderful," Fuji kissed his cheek, and then took the picture. He looked at the screen as he checked to make sure it was properly centered and not blurry. He grinned up at Kunimitsu again, and then looked back to the other two boys. "Hmm..." 'How wonderful it is,' he thought mildly, 'To be young and in love.'
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Jin Akutsu took a look around the room, seeing how many people were now filtering out to their own sleeping bags, or crawling into sleeping bags with their significant others. Part of him really wanted to do that too, as he glanced down at the freshman at his feet.
They had danced together before, of course, because that stupid 'Lucky Sengoku' had pushed them out together, and the freshman had been too polite to refuse. Dan Taichi was always polite. He worked his hardest at everything, and looked up to Akutsu like he was some kind of God.
There was no doubt that the freshman loved him. Or, at least, thought he loved him. Akutsu knew better. Dan was just a good little boy, confused by feelings of respect, thinking that he felt something more. Akutsu, or part of him anyway, wanted Dan to love him. To return his feelings.
Still, Akutsu knew better then that as well. Dan Taichi, the truth was, was just too good for Jin Akutsu. Akutsu knew this. He proved it every time the kid did something nice for him, and he responded by lashing out to hurt the freshman manager. Still, somehow, the younger boy always found some way to forgive him.
He had told him before that Ryoma Echizen would be a better goal, but somehow the kid had come back to him. He didn't understand it. He couldn't be with the freshman, though and it seemed to him that he was only wasting the younger boy's time. He didn't want to do that, it was stupid, but, when the freshman had said that he had never been kissed, Akutsu had wanted to be the one to give him his first kiss.
Looking around now, to make sure no one saw, he leaned down over the young manager, and brushed his lips against the other boy's.
The headband clad boy moved slightly, and Akutsu jumped backwards. Instead of waking up, however, Dan nearly repositioned himself and smiled. He then said something very quietly, and Akutsu had to lean back in to hear.
"Hmm... I love you, Akutsu-senpai... Desu..."
Stunned, Akutsu blushed furiously, and crawled into his own sleeping bag before anyone could question his earlier actions.
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Taka had gone outside with Kabaji at the other boy's request. It was late, but the night was somehow still pleasant, and the stars sparkled high above without a care in the world. Or out of it, Taka supposed. He was so enraptured by the beautiful sky that he didn't notice at first as Kabaji took his hand.
When he did notice, he blushed furiously, but made no movement to get away.
"Kawamura-san," Kabaji said softly, looking out across the grounds as he spoke.
"Anou... You don't have to call me by my last name," Taka said, also turning out to look at the scenery.
"Takashi-san?" Kabaji asked, now turning to Taka, who was surprised that Kabaji had even said that much.
"You can call me whatever you, um, what to... Kabaji-kun," Taka said, trying to smile and reassure the younger boy.
"Hmm..." Kabaji seemed to think that over. He chuckled a little, a strange yet alluring sound, that struck Taka's ears as pleasant.
"What?" Taka said, touching Kabaji's shoulder lightly. Kabaji chuckled again and shook his head. "Tell me..."
"What if," Kabaji smiled slightly at him, "I wanted to call you 'baby'?" Kabaji shook his head again. "But that makes no sense, I told you I--"
Taka silenced him with a kiss, short and sweet, lips only. A pure kiss.
Then Taka pulled back, the look in his eyes anything but pure. "I told you, you can call me anything you want."
"Usu," Kabaji smiled again slightly, "And what are you going to call me?"
"Hnn..." Taka felt that he was being charmed. Somehow, Kabaji had brought out another side of him. He didn't feel bashful, and this certainly wasn't his 'Burning mode', so he had to be something different. Oh, that was it, Kabaji had made him his 'Baby'. "I prefer to call you 'Boyfriend', Munehiro-chan." Kabaji really smiled then, and lowered his face so that Taka could kiss him again.
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"There they go," Fuji smiled, seeing how Kabaji and Taka had fallen asleep, hand in hand. "That leaves..." He glance around the circle in the middle of the room. "Atobe-san, Akutagawa-san, Oshitari-san, Mukahi-san, Yukimura-san, Sanada-san, and then you and I." Kunimitsu nodded in response, as everyone Fuji had named settled down in the empty space they had left in the middle of the sleeping bags. "What to do?"
"Hmm... I hear that you are very good at poker, Tezuka-san," Yuushi smiles softly, but his eyes are daring. "Why don't we all play a game of that?"
"Poker!" Jirou sounded excited. He tugged on Atobe's sleeve, and the buchou nodded.
"Aa, strip poker?" Yukimura asked with a smile of his own.
"Is there another kind?" Fuji asked mildly.
"Sounds fun," Gakuto nodded, smiling again.
Kunimitsu and Sanada just gulped and decided to hold on for the ride.