Growing Attraction

By: sTrawBerRyfAnsz

Summary-

Growing Attraction is a story of love, trust, friendship, betrayal, acceptance and denial. Every person has a secret, which they don't want other people to know, what if his secret involves someone he unconsciously love? Will the one he loves accept him? Or will he deny his true feeling?

Disclaimers: Takeshi Konomi owns them all; I'm merely borrowing them for this fic of mine! There will be some OC too, which are definitely mine…

Warnings: A bit AU, I created their past… And, maybe bits [or many] grammar mistakes.

Note- Hi again! I hope this time I updated fast enough for you guys! Thanks a lot for those who had reviewed! Starting from the next chapter, I decided to reply all of your cool reviews! *huggles all the reviewers* thanks a lot! I hope this bit makes you guys satisfied...

Warnings- Not beta-ed, sucky grammars, probably a bit OOC! [it's me you are talking about!] And shounen-ai hints with possible YAOI later... Hey this is what most of us want right? ^__^

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"Good Night Ji-san..." Their deep and slightly high voice said in unison to the retreating old figure. He turned around and bowed once with a small smile on his face.

"I'll be in my house if you need me" He added before turned back and continued walking. Being the school keeper, his small house, made from the same wood as the school building, was next to it. He lived with his wife and two children. Fuji and Tezuka met one of his children, Moriyama Takeru who had just completed his study on the university and were visiting his old dad. Takeru was taller than Tezuka by seven cm. With his black long hairs that were tied into a low ponytail, and a confident smirk on his face, he was a lady-killer. When the prodigy asked about his height, he laughed.

"This? I got this height from playing basketball. I was the forward back then in junior high, but now I can play any kinds of position" Takeru said as he ruffled Fuji's chestnut hairs. "I heard that you guys play tennis right? You both regulars?"

"Yes we are. This is our captain Tezuka Kunimitsu," The azure-eyed man stated as he introduced the stoic captain.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Takeru!" The dark-haired man said, with his hands extended towards the frowning Tezuka. The captain looked at it for a while, as if it's going to bite him. Then he sighed and bowed slightly.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Tezuka Kunimitsu"

Sheepishly, Takeru pulled his hands and commented on the traditional manner. He said he forgot about it since he'd been living in America for quite some time. Tezuka only nodded and said its okay as Fuji's merry laugh could be heard in background.

So that's how they met the first son of Moriyama Ji-san, whom they both thought was a pretty nice and straightforward person.

It's already dark now. Moonbeam lit their -bedroom-, well that was if you could call a classroom with hard floors and two sleeping bags as their bed, a bedroom. They arranged their sleeping bag across each other with a candle next to them for precautions. The taller man opened a few windows so that cool winds could slip inside and soothed their sweating forms. It was, a hot summer night after all.

"All set" Fuji said in triumph as he looked at -their- bedroom and received a nod as an affirmative from the other form standing beside him.

"So shall we?" Another silent nod was what he received from Tezuka. The unpredictable prodigy sighed inaudibly as he went to his sleeping bed. Another silence... Come on Tezuka, give me a break. Can you talk more? He thought bitterly. Am I not qualified to see your true self?

"..Night" A soft good night from the said man startled him a little. Quickly, with a shaky laugh, he too said a good night before went inside his sleeping bed. He squirmed, tossed around, and changed his sleeping position to find a suitable one for him to sleep. After some more squirming and moving, he felt himself drifting to darkness.

Dream Sequence

[WARNING: This part is not for under age people! So, if you don't want to see Fuji being tortured, you should just skip this part and scroll down until it says END OF DREAM SEQUENCE!]

"Beautiful... You are beautiful..." A hand caressed his blood stained face as the owner smirked and whispered in satisfaction.

"Please, stop... You are going to kill me..." Fuji pleaded as he looked at the man's smirking face. He laughed out loud as he heard the statement. He squatted down until he was face to face with the kneeling form whose hands were raised and tied by leather rope.

He put his hand under Fuji's chin and pushed the face up. "I will never kill you... I love you too much to kill you..." He whispered to Fuji's ears. His husky voice made the sensitive skin under Fuji's ears shivered.

"If you love me, then stop torturing me," The naked prodigy said as he tried to cover his nude form with the blanket around his legs. He was on the bed, with hands raised and tied with a rope to the bed's pole.

"Don't you see? I torture you because I love you... My sweet Shuusuke..." The form passionately whispered before he ravished the already bruised mouth. The kiss was demanding and intending to hurt and draw blood out. Fuji whimpered in pain but also pleasure. He hated himself for being weak, for letting his lover easily taking advantage of him. Moreover, he hated himself for feeling pleasure whenever he was with this guy... The perfect guy who went to the perfect school, Hyotei Gakuen.

"See? You are enjoying this aren't you?" He chuckled madly as he peeked at Fuji's obviously hard groin underneath the white blanket. Fuji couldn't answer nor speak, he was too ashamed by his dirty self and this pleased the man more than anything else...

"You bastard!" Fuji spat on the hand that was going to touch his private part but this didn't disgust the man, it only excite him more.

"Yes... That's the Fuji that I love..."

"A.." But before Fuji could utter the cursed name out in hatred, the man sealed his lips roughly.

"Now... It's time for some lessons" His voice, which was thick with evil intentions, made the still dazzled prodigy shivered. He got up from the king sized bed, went to the drawer, and took a knife, bandage and alcohol out.

Upon seeing this, his blue eyes widened in terror. "No..No.NO!" He shouted as he shook his head.

"Now, now... This will just hurt a bit..." The taller man climbed back to the bed and crawled to the trembling Fuji.

"Don't move, cause it will only hurt more..." He softly whispered as he sat on the prodigy's stomach and pressed the knife to the flawless skin.

"NOOOO!!!" Fuji shouted in horror as pain invaded his upper body, from torso to the lower abdomen.

End Of Dream Sequence

[Now you are safe! Read on!]

"NO!" His long, agony-filled voice ripped the calm night off. Being a light sleeper, the captain's body jerked up in surprise. He put on his glasses then looked around the dim room, lit by moonbeam in confusion until his eyes fell on the sitting shaking figures. From a far, Tezuka could see the small form trembling furiously; he could not see the expression because of the hands, which were holding his head.

"No.. Go away from me..." Soft pleading voice slipped out from the prodigy's shaking lips.

"Fuji?" Tezuka called from afar. "Are you alright?" He asked but received nothing as answer. Annoyed and worried at roughly the same time he got up and walked to the still trembling figure. It tensed when it realized that there was something in front of him. Slowly, Fuji raised his head and looked at Tezuka, with tears slowly flowing out from his blue orbs.

The taller man felt something disturbing inside him as he saw those crystal tears, shaking form, and pale complexion. He squatted down so that he could see the prodigy better.

"Te..Tezuka? Is this really you?" Cheerfulness had left his voice.

Tezuka sighed. "Yes its me, go back to sleep, it's okay now..." He realized that it's not exactly the right time to asked the smaller man what happened. Even of he did, Fuji would have lied to him and he hated liars.

"But... But I can't" Hesitantly, Fuji answered. His eyes were glued at the wrinkled surface of the sleeping bag. The Seigaku's strongest player frowned.

"Why can't?"

"It.. Its because... the nightmare..." The last word came as a soft whisper; soft enough for Tezuka to almost missed it. The captain nodded, knowing that his friend could only opened up this much to him.

"But it's over right?" Again, Tezuka asked as his hand tilted Fuji's head up. Their eyes met for the briefest moment before the prodigy broke it roughly.

"How can you say it's over? You know nothing," He whispered in annoyance. "You know nothing about me. You only need my power and winning streaks in tennis, so.. So that we can enter the Nationals. Its not like you cared about me more than anybody else on earth! Tezuka, you. know. nothing. about. me"

"Yes that maybe true. The pain is yours not mine. But just remember, I think of you as a friend not an object"

Upon hearing this, the prodigy brought his head up and looked at the emotionless face of Tezuka with sarcasm.

"I can't tell with just that Tezuka.. People often lie to comfort others you know"

An uncomfortable pause stretched on the dimly lit classroom.

"Then..." His deep brown eyes seemed to challenge those cloudy azure ones. "Then how can I prove it to you that I'm telling the truth?"

"You don't need to prove everything. I know everything; all you bunch of liars are just lying to take advantage of me! Just like him..." As he blurted out the word him, his body started to tremble slightly. Memories of deep pains and scars invaded his mind immediately and all he could do is watch and bear with it. He couldn't throw it away it had already became a part of him.

"I don't know who is this him you are referring to. But not everybody is like that"

"If not everybody is like that why was there no one to save me back then?" Fuji shouted furiously with a pair of blue eyes glaring at Tezuka's brown ones.

"It's just not your luck... Those kind of people are hard to find"

"Not my luck? How could you say something like that TEZUKA? Don't you pity me?!" He shouted louder, completely angry and annoyed by the calmness the captain displayed. Usually people would pity him and telling him that everything was okay. But Tezuka was and IS different.

"I can't pity you cause I don't know your problem"

"Fine! Fine... You don't know my problem? You want to know them huh?"

"I don't want to know them"

Fuji was loss at words as he heard the statement. He wanted to say something, to defend himself. However, instead of doing so his feet had taken him away from the room and without realizing, he had dropped another salty tears. As he ran from Tezuka, who hadn't even move or try to stop him, he brushed away those tears furiously. He didn't need this, not tears. The chocolate haired man needed courage and probably strength to keep on living.

"I hate you Tezuka!" He shouted as he leaves the room. The captain coldly watched the trembling back fading into the darkness of the night. He slumped down and looked up. Taking a deep breath, he spoke with pain.

"If you really hate me, you don't have to show me those tears..."

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The next morning an expressionless prodigy went back to the quiet classroom. He had yet again changed himself, not much but enough to protect himself from someone called Tezuka. His instincts of protection that he gained from his old painful experiences told him that Tezuka was dangerous. It had alerted him that he should not be too close to the captain for nothing could be gained from it.

And in the captain himself didn't say anything about the change. He chose to shut up, for now.

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TBC^___^

Author's final note: Angst, angst and angst! I want to go to the happy part quickly!!!!!! ^__^;;