A/N: Yay!!! I got 10 reviews!!! Thank you so much!!! All of you!!! Love you so much!!!
I'm in Bali now!!! It's an interesting place though I think I don't really enjoy my day here. I have lots of younger family who want to play with me so I have no time to think about the progress of my story. But hey!!! Here I am. Sitting in front of my laptop and trying to continue my story… I hope it progress well…
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Chapter 3
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It's all a bit odd for Ryoma after he woke up the next day, when he opened his eyes and found Tezuka lay beside him. After the noon rest he and Tezuka shared, they spent the night after supper for talking before they fall asleep. And what Ryoma considered odd was the feeling he felt when he looked at Tezuka's sleeping face.
His eyes closed and his breaths were even. His chest moved up and down softly under the blanket that covers his body from shoulder to toe. His mouth opened a bit (He's not drooling of course! I wonder how Tezuka looks when he is drooling… ^_^) and his cheeks shone with creamy color.
Ryoma felt… somehow peace. As if nothing more he has to concern about except the way Tezuka look. It brings him warmth, covering every inches of his skin. It feels like drowning himself in a tub full of warm water around a very chilly air. A calm sensation built from inside the deepest of his heart, overtaking his entire mind and his way of think.
He only watched Tezuka silently, neither moving nor speaking at all. He felt… filled. Somehow filled up by just seeing Tezuka's calm face. Just as he is all complete only by Tezuka's presence. Only by his existence.
Tezuka moved a bit while groaning softly though he didn't wake up. Ryoma still watched him in silent, while sometimes smiling for reason he himself didn't know. His mind flew to times when Tezuka was around him. He never really thinks about it since the small switch of feelings he felt during Tezuka's around it's not a really big deal that concerns his mind. But during such a vacant time, his mind automatically tried to dig everything he had about Tezuka.
There are times when he had Tezuka around him. When he unreasonably had too looked for the whole place his eyes could see for Tezuka's figure. When he had too at least know where he is, where he exactly stood or sat, or to know any simplest thing he did at that time. When he felt somehow… glad. He figures it to be an ordinary feeling he doesn't need to worry. Even though it does suppose to be extra-ordinary for such a personality Ryoma has, he ignored it.
"Echizen?" The soft voice calling his name brought Ryoma's awareness from his daydreaming.
Ryoma jerked his blank sight eyes and faced towards the groggily Tezuka looking at him. "Oh… Ohayou." Ryoma said. He felt surprised, glad, and embarrassed at the same time.
"What are you looking at?" Tezuka asked, trying to sit but failed.
"Betsuni." Ryoma answered then turned to the other side of the room. He stood up from the bed then walked to the door. He didn't turn back at all, but he felt everything is all set by then.
"Echizen." Tezuka suddenly called and it surprised Ryoma. The younger boy turned back at looked at the captain questioningly.
"Nani?"
Tezuka came into a staring position with Ryoma for quite a time, trying to fill his newly waking up mind with the sight of Ryoma's face. "Nandemonai." He finally said, throwing his sight away from Ryoma.
Ryoma kept looking at Tezuka's backing him figure before he turned away and left the room completely. As he left, Tezuka came in a serious thought Ryoma had before.
He asked himself for calling Ryoma's name just before. It was all so unreasonable, yet it feels right. When he seeks for the answer, he found nothing real could be said as the reason. It's merely a respond his body always reacts automatically when Ryoma's all around. Though he always succeed to prevent it before today. Perhaps that was all because he's still groggy.
Tezuka inhaled deeply and felt the cold air of winter slide through his nose directly to his lungs. His mind told him, today's gonna be cold.
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Morning passed to the night in uncounted time. Tezuka didn't really remember what happened the whole day after he separated from Ryoma that morning until this time when he laid himself on his bed at night beside his roommate again.
The room is dark, the light had turned off and he had covered himself with the blanket to protect him from the cold air around. He could hear the even breath from the boy who slept beside him which signed he had gone to his dream. The room is still and the stillness felt unbearable for Tezuka somehow.
This whole day, he had been thinking about Ryoma and the way things change since the first day he saw Ryoma from the upper class's window till now. The way Ryoma slowly slides inside his life and slowly but surely change his life. Change the way he thinks and the way he faced problem. Ryoma's presence affected him somehow. Forced him to look at him, to find out anything about him, forced him to think about him all the time.
And now here he is, lying on his bed, facing the ceiling and found himself hardly sleep. Tezuka closed then opened his eyelids by turns, trying to clear his mind by doing that. Ryoma's breathing sound filled his ears and someway forced him to stay aware. He had a strong urge to sit down and examine Ryoma's sleeping face the whole night, but his other urge to just lying down and listening to his calm breathing sound fought with the other.
After a few time, Tezuka sighed and won another urge despite the two other. He stood up from his bed, and then left the bedroom for some air. Perhaps, after the short night walking, he might clear his mind and has a good sleep. With just wearing his Seigaku Tennis Jersey upper his pajamas, he went to the cold of the winter night.
Ryoma woke up 15 minutes later, shuddering from the cold he felt and the looseness for his roommate. He opened his eyes groggily and looked around for the captain when he found out Tezuka was nowhere to be found on the bed. He didn't really wonder about Tezuka's absence since Tezuka is old enough to take care of himself. Instead he stood up and left the room for the bathroom.
"It's cold." That's the only word Ryoma said when his legs touched the floor and he started his steps to the bathroom that was placed 10 meters away from his bedroom. "Really."
Ryoma's body vanished behind the door of the bathroom when Tezuka appeared from the other corner of the path. He walked to the bedroom and opened it slowly, afraid to wake the smaller guy whom he left sleeping. But then, his eyes caught the sight of an empty bed, which mean Ryoma is up to nowhere. His first respond is to furrow his eyebrows then to closed the door and continued his walk for another reason, to look for Ryoma.
A suspicion popped up from his mind about Ryoma being wonder of his absence and went outside to look for him. That gave him a slight shot of guilty. He walked away slowly, trying to reduce the cracking sound from the contact of his foot and the wooden floor beneath him.
His mind asks him again. Why did he look for him? If it is the usual him, he would rather stay in the room and wait for Ryoma to come back before interrogating him. But, here he is, walking to the opposite direction of his arrival to search for the blue haired boy's presence.
Then, the door of the bathroom opened, appearing Ryoma's sleepy face with his eyes half closed right in front of Tezuka's face.
"Echizen?" Tezuka called.
"Buchou… where have you been?" Ryoma asked weakly.
"Short walk. Daijobu?" Tezuka frowned and he took some steps closer to Ryoma. Stopping right in front of the smaller boy.
Ryoma didn't answer. His half closed eyes fluttered sometimes. His vision gradually blurred. "Tezuka-san…" He called and Tezuka felt a bit surprised for the using of his name. "Samui desu yo…" He said distantly.
Tezuka stretched out his hand and caressed Ryoma's cheek gently. He slightly jumped at the surprisingly cold feeling under his touch that gave the younger boy a shudder for the big difference of temperature. "My… you are so cold." Tezuka said, throwing all his cold behavior. Ryoma's condition is the only thing he should concern at the very time. "Are you okay?" He asked again.
Ryoma looked at him once again before his eyes fluttered close and he fell directly to the floor. In automatic response, Tezuka held both of his hands and caught Ryoma's body before it reached the ground. Once again, Ryoma shivered under the warmth of Tezuka's body. He didn't open his eyes again.
"Oy, Echizen! Are you okay?" He pulled Ryoma's body and carried him up so he could see the younger boy's face. A second after, he inhaled in relief. Ryoma is sleeping.
Tezuka can't help to smile by the sight of Ryoma's innocent sleeping face. Gently he brought Ryoma back to the room and placed him back on the bed. He turned the lamp off as he himself climbed on top of the bed and laid beside Ryoma.
"Samui…" Not long after, he heard Ryoma's voice again while he shivered.
Tezuka stared at the ceiling again. His mind and heart dueling about the urge of looking at Ryoma's face again before Tezuka took the further step before he had a chance to think. He put his arms around Ryoma, encircling his small figure in a possessive embrace. He pulled the blanket up the cover both of their body and closed his eyes as he felt Ryoma relaxed.
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TBC
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A/N: Yay!!! I finish it after all!!! With all the disturbance I had today, this is seems like a miracle!!! I'm still in Bali and soon I'll go the beaches. I'm really looking forward for the scenery. (Hoping to get some inspiration! =P) If you are confused, 'samui' means cold in English. Anyway… still… I'm hoping for reviews! So… please let me know what you think about this story, okay???