(#80) Why?
Rating:T
Warnings: Almost non existing sex, insecure Eiji.
Type: One-Shot
Summary:It almost was too good to be true and that made Eiji insecure.

A/N: Haha… back to the bed… I fail so damn hard. Oh well, at least tokyogirl agrees with me that it's a good place! Don't forget to thank her for beta reading this!

TG: invades a/n, bed has become the longest topic in the world O-o

Me: You have nooo idea x'D

By the way did you guys notice that the summary actually rhymed?

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Sometimes Eiji wondered if it really was aright for them to be together like this, being tangled together in a mess of limbs, skin and sweat, their clothes discarded somewhere on Oishi's otherwise clean floor. They were both panting softly as they recovered from their lovemaking, Eiji was of course the one of them that recovered first, and when Oishi let out a small whimper and nuzzled his head into the crock of Eiji's shoulders the acrobats hands were already there to catch him and encircle the others neck with his arms, letting his hands idly play with the loose strands of locks that had came undone during their act.

As the redhead stared up at the ceiling he once again couldn't help to think about that there where so many others that deserved Oishi like this, he had after all a pretty big fan base back at school, and those fans were more loyal then his own fans would ever be. Oishi deserved someone smart and clever that he could discuss his homework's with, not someone as himself that practically made Oishi do his own homework's instead. Oishi never complained though, but sooner or later Eiji was afraid that the other would grow tired with his incompetence.

But when he felt Oishi's hot breath against his neck as the male whispered his name into the empty air, before hungry lips found his own, Eiji temporarily forgot his thoughts and let his mind wander away.

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At practice he couldn't stop thinking about how utterly hot Oishi looked from afar, and Eiji knew that the only thing that kept girls from throwing themselves all over him was the weird hairstyle that he himself had come to love over the years. Oishi had, after all a very handsome face and a pair of very green eyes. Oh how he wanted that those eyes would look at him and him and alone. How he wished that that gentle voice would only speak to him and not everyone else as well. Yes he was a bit possessive when he jumped on Oishi's shoulders when he decided that the other had talked long enough with Tezuka, and he was fully aware of his childish behaviour when he whined until Oishi gave in and left the freshmen to complete their swings alone while the Golden Pair played a match against each other.

It was thrilling, to play against Oishi. It was an indescribable feeling to have those green eyes nailed on him and becoming the entire thing in the other male's world. When the others mind was so occupied trying to read the acrobats moves that the black haired male didn't even hear the coach's assembly call, then Eiji felt truly satisfied.

And when they walked home together and he was clinging to Oishi arm and chatting away like his life depended on it, he wasn't even sure about how much of his words actually reached Oishi's ears. He let his gaze fall on the ground and became silent, it didn't even take half a minute for Oishi to catch on, stop and look down at his lover with a worried look on his face.

"Are you aright?" and he nodded on response, a weak grin painting his lips.

'Maybe I am afraid that it will end' he silently thought for himself. As they sat in front of each other in Oishi's room, their books scattered all around the floor. To him, their relationship sometimes seemed too good to be true. Oishi was simply to kind, he was too childish and they fitted together so well that he, on more than on one occasion, had thought that something like this couldn't be real. At least not for very long.

But somehow they had managed to be together for years, and nothing had really changed. It was like those relationships between the hero and the heroine in the movies he used to watch when he was small. 'Happy ever after…' he was grown up now and knew that there wasn't a single relationship that hadn't some kinds of problems. And still…

Eiji was currently biting at the end of his pencil as Oishi succeeded in solving another problem in his math book. He looked up and gave Eiji a victorious smile before he dove down again, aiming for the next problem.

"Why me?" Eiji didn't know where it came from, but his voice didn't falter and he didn't look away as Oishi lifted his head and looked at him.

"Huh?"

"Why me out of all people?" he was biting his lower lip now, Oishi's puzzled expression hurt him more than he wanted to admit. He didn't want to be the one to end Oishi's fairytale but the other had to wake up sometime, and he had to as well. Oishi shrugged his shoulders and looked at him before letting out a small sigh as he pushed away his books, making clear that Eiji had his entire attention.

"Is it because it's convenient since we are the Golden Pair and everyone is pretty much expecting it anyway?" Oishi raised an eyebrow as he looked at him.

"What are you getting at Eiji?" he asked eyeing the redhead curiously.

"I just… you know…that it's… this is almost too good to be true you know… we are rarely fighting and…"

"Eiji" Oishi interrupted with a sigh. He had a lot of homework to do, and truth to be told he really couldn't afford taking a longer discussion this time around. "What about that book I loaned from you and lost? Or the coke that you dropped into the aquarium, even though I told you to not stand so close to the aquarium when you drank it?"

"But I told you that it was an accident!" The acrobat cried. He still felt guilty about making Oishi change all the water inside the tank since the fish probably wouldn't feel very well if they stayed to long in the brown liquid. He had helped him of course, after Oishi had scolded him before the raven haired male had to try to soothe him since Eiji actually was very fond of Oishi's fish as well. "And I really liked that book you know! You should be more careful with my things!"

"Comes from the one that almost killed my fish."

"I said that I am sorry!" he bit his lower lip in order to come up with a comeback. "But you made me wait outside your classroom the entire lunch break today! And that was only to come rushing from the other end of the corridor when there was only five minutes left, stating that you had forgotten that you had an important meeting with the student council. Is it that hard to send me a text message or something?" he leaned backwards with a triumphant smile only to be met with Oishi's own triumphant one.

"And who is the one that is almost always late when we are going somewhere? You don't send me any text message then"

"Don't lie Oishi, I do send you text messages…"

"…only if you're more than half an hour late." Oishi threw his pile of books a quick glance before he once again decided to speed up the conversation. "Eiji, this was all from last week, are you still stating that we don't fight?" Eiji pouted and looked away in defeat. "Fine, but it still seems… you know…"

"That we are trying to hard?" Oishi had a smile in the corner of his lips as he interrupted again. "Truth to be told I am not trying very hard, I don't feel the need to do so since I am able to completely be myself when I am with you…" he crawled around the table until he was sitting behind Eiji, his arms went around the others thin waist and pulled the acrobat closer to himself.

"…but why me?" the acrobat whined. "Why me Oishi?" he leaned back, his head resting against the others shoulder.

"I could ask you the same Eiji. "Why me?" Eiji could feel the raven haired male nuzzling his neck before Oishi's nose buried itself in his red locks.

"Because…because..." he felt Oishi's breath ghost over his ear before a soft kiss was placed on his cheek and he whined softly, telling the other to continue. "…you know… you're good at tennis…handsome, smart, athletic…" Eiji found out that he could go on forever, there existed just too many things that he liked about Oishi, and said persons mouth was getting dangerously close to his own. "Mouu… I just don't know. I can't really help that I fell for yo...hmmpfff"

Eiji had lost count on how many times Oishi had interrupted him that day, but this time, as soft lips covered his own he found out that he didn't care.

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A/N: What the hell is wrong with me and this angsty Eiji? That aside I think a few how you have noticed that the theme list have gone through a short change. From the beginning I used the manga art challenges theme, but now I have officially joined the real fic challenge on lj… well… at least I have submitted my golden pair claim… And truth to be told the majority of the themes I had already written was on the list, so there is no real difference more than its "official" or whatever you want to call it. (And that I am not doing the themes in order anymore)

To CanAnn: Yepp, in the last chapter they were only friends, but hell, they still acted like they were married xD