A/N notes: Yo! Thankies for all the reviews!! I'm touched! And thanks also for correcting me, I appreciate feedback of all kind! *bows* To my recent reviewer who wrote a quite long review to me: Domo! It was thoughtful of you! I just like to say that I was more in to the theme of Fuji playing Ryoma (not always in the heartbreaking way!!), so I kinda wrote the chapter of pure lust and a lil fact, but thank you for being alert and telling me. I'll concider it and try better in the next one :D
Anyways, back to the story then. Ja!
Disclaimer: sadly not mine
Warnings: Yaoi (more pairings coming up than just the first one) and spoilers and blah, blah! Enjoy and R&R, please!!
Chapter 6
Ryoma opened lazily his eyes, he wouldn't have wanted to wake up yet. He had another Fuji dream! The young tennis player moved a little hearing a soft moan from next to him.
With wide opened eyes Ryoma stared at the form laying next to him, hugging his chest. It wasn't a dream!
And Fuji hadn't left yet, probably because he was still asleep, the boy told himself in order to not get so disappointed when Fuji would wake up and tell him something like "Ja, I had a great time! We should do it again some other time." and then never call or…Ryoma made a disqusted face. 'Never call?!'
He sounded like a girl, even though he was the uke in this relationship…or one-night stand.
Fuji made a sleeping noise and the smaller boy moved closer to him, wrapping his arms back around the tensai. He decided he should try to sleep. Who cares if they'd be late for school! But Fuji wasn't so far from waking up now and a couple of minutes later two ocean blue eyes opened.
"Ohaiyo." he mumbled and gave a slight yawn.
"Ohaiyo." came the answer. Ryoma wasn't sure whether he should move or not, so he remained still in Fuji's embrace.
"What time is it?"
Ryoma moved a bit to take a look at the alarm clock on the bedtable."It's -"
"We're gonna be late for club practice, won't we!?" Fuji then interrupted a bit amused.
"Hai…" the other boy answered.
"That's like my Ryoma! We better get dressed then. Do you mind if I use your bathroom quickly?" the older boy then asked, receiving a gesture from Ryoma to go ahead.
The two of them tried to sneak unnoticed into the locker room to change into their tennis uniforms, Fuji wearing an extra pair of Ryoma's school shirt and jacket since his own clothes were a little unclean after last night.
Quickly they had changed and tried to blend in with the other regulars, as if they had been there the whole time.
"Fuji! Echizen!" Plan failed, as the two guys walked over to a waiting Tezuka-buchou. "20 laps. You were late."
"It was only 30 minutes late." the younger boy tried to explain. He was in no condition to start the morning running around the court. He was still sore from the night with Fuji.
"30 laps." was the answer.
"Ne, Tezuka." Fuji started coming up to him."Maybe you shouldn't drive Echizen so hard today…"
So we were back to calling him by his last name, the shorter boy thought gazing his two senpais.
Tezuka twitched, realizing what Fuji was talking about. "Fine, but you're running 20 laps." he then said and Fuji gave him an innocent smile. Oh yes, the prodigy could get away with anything.
Ryoma blushed, when the tensai turned his gaze at him, before starting to run around the court. Tezuka left only telling Ryoma to take it easy today.
The smaller boy was a little embarrassed over the fact that Fuji had just let their captain know what had happened between the two team mates, but at the same time he was grateful that he didn't have to run in this condition.
He sighed taking off towards the courts again. On his way there he heard Kaidou's voice from behind the corner of the club room.
"What do you mean by that, senpai?"
"Exactly what it sounds like! It's a date!" Inui's voice said.
"That's not what I meant! I meant about the thing you said about Fuji-senpai!" Kaidou's irritated voice almost shouted. Ryoma froze hearing Fuji's name. He remained rooted where he was standing.
"Ah that. I believe there's an 89% chance that Fuji, who is not one to be late, was late this morning because of personal affairs."
"What kind of affairs could Fuji-senpai possibly have to miss of practice?" Ryoma shut his eyes. There it would come, Inui could actually have found out about it!
"I believe Fuji is dating Eiji." was the answer. The black-haired boy opened his eyes. Didn't he mean Echizen? Or did he hear wrong?
"Eiji-senpai?" Kaidou's voice sounded full of disbelief. "But it wasn't Eiji-senpai who was also late today, it was Echizen."
"Ah, but Echizen is often late. Kikumaru and Fuji have always been best friends, but lately there's been a rumor going around in school saying that they would have been seen making out in between their classes."
"And you believe it?!" Kaidou doubted Inui would just believe anything that was told to him, without actually gathering some data on it first.
"Well lately Fuji has been very over Kikumaru all the time, that is before the rumor broke out, and now I believe they're trying to keep it all a secret." Inui said and Ryoma could hear pages being turned in the other boy's notebook. "I can't be precise though, since Fuji isn't the kind to let other people see the real him, and Eiji is always clinging on every one, especially Oishi being his doubles partner. So you see I can't give you a straight answer to that, but let me ask you something."
The bandana boy kept quiet, so Inui continued soon. "You have never been interested in gossiping before, and my data tells me you aren't now either, so how come you want to hear about my theories about Fuji being late?"
"Eh!?" To Ryoma it sounded like Kaidou was about to faint or something.
"My data on you, and you are the person after Tezuka and Fuji that I have mostly collected data on, tells me you changed subject to avoid my question about asking you out!"
"That's not it! Don't make fun of Kaidou Kaoru!"
"As I thought…" Inui sneered scribbling down new data in his notebook.
"Inui-senpai, stop writing those stuff!" Kaidou's voice started fading in Ryoma's ears as the younger boy turned around and headed into the locker room instead. Outside Fuji was still running and the rest of the regulars were doing self training.
The young tensai walked over to his locker changing back into his school uniform, casting an eye every now and then at his extra uniform lying in Fuji's locker. He was tempted to walk over and smell Fuji's scent on it, but decided to keep the little pride ha had left and let it be.
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"Tadaima." Ryoma said stepping inside his house. He had had a long day, especially since he couldn't shut out what Inui had said about Fuji. The younger boy kept wondering if he had gotten Eiji-senpai as well, and who it was that he was gonna play next.
Fuji hadn't even tried to get a hold of him the whole rest of the day.
Ryoma threw of his shoes, hearing his father walk into the hall.
"Oi boy, who was that nice looking boy you left with this morning?"
The smaller boy froze. Had his father seen Fuji?!
"What boy?" came his always as annoyed voice.
"That cute light brown-haired one who picked you up for school this morning!" his father replied.
"It was Fuji-senpai."
"Hmm…Fuji, eh? The Seigaku tensai?!" His father only received a fast "hai" from his son, as the other boy walked up to his room closing the door behind him.
Ryoma lied down on the bed, hugging Karupin softly against him. He still couldn't believe what had happened during these last couple of weeks, and he certainly hadn't asked for his life to get so complicated in the process.
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"Hello. I wonder if I could speak to Echizen Ryoma?" Fuji's delightful voice said in the phone.
"Eh, Ryoma? He's up in his room, in fact he never left it since he came home from school today." Echizen Nanjirou's lazy voice replied. Fuji opened his blue orbs.
"Souka." was the reply.
"And may I ask who I'm speaking with?"
"Ah, forgive me. Fuji Syusuke, senior from Ryoma's school."
"'Fuji'?" the father remembered.
Ten minutes later there were knockings on Ryoma's door. "Ryoma, I have a message for you." Nanjirou said, waiting for a reply. When none came he continued. "It's from that cute boy that walked you to school this morning. He called, but I said you were up in your room so he told me to say: 'Your boyfriend says hi'. And that talk later on monday."
Ryoma sat up straight in his bed. "Domo."
He heard his father's departing footsteps and lied down again.
Now what was that all about?! Was Fuji gonna continue his game? What more did he want? Did he want to see Ryoma suffer? Was this the last phase in his scheme before he starts all over again with someone else?
Ryoma tried to shut out all the questions, but the just kept coming back to harass him again…just like Fuji did. Fuji was really taking over! Ryoma never thought he could fall for someone, but he did, and this was all new for him now. A new area which not even tennis or a 'mada mada dane' could solve.
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The little tennis genius had had a rough sunday. All he could do was wait for it to be monday, and when it did he wanted to avoid the inevitable.
Ryoma sat alone at a table, not really touching his lunch, just staring at it.
"Is there room for one more?" a too familiar voice said and Fuji sat down in front of him.
"What do you think you are doing?" the smaller boy muttered not even looking up.
"I'm having lunch with my boyfriend." came the cheerful answer.
"Fuji!! Mou Fuji!!" a beat red Kikumaru Eiji rushed over dragging his golden doubles pair partner with him.
"Eiji, your face is as red as your hair." Fuji's smile widened.
"Nya!! Stop with the rumors, Fuji!!" his blue-eyed friend cocked his head to the side as if not understanding what the red-head was talking about. "The ones you started with like a month ago or so! Yeah mister, I've got you all figured out!" Eiji yelled pointing a finger at his friend.
"Rumors?!" Inui's voice suddenly was heard behind them, his notebook opening in his hand and his pencil ready in the other one. "That can't be right…that's illogical."
"Yeah, rumors! Fuji started a rumor saying there was something between us!" Eiji whined to the guy.
Fuji gave a soft, harmless chuckle. "Eh? You think I was dating Eiji?" In the corner of his eye he watched Ryoma to see if there was a reaction. Eiji's never ending whining caught his attention back, but still never letting his eye leave his boyfriend's form.
"But it worked, didn't it? That little scheme of mine." he then mused at the Golden Pair.
"I see, Fuji let everyone think that he was dating Eiji so that Oishi would realize his feelings for his doubles partner!" Inui offered an explanation. Ryoma looked bored at the bunch of them.
"They weren't the only ones I played." Fuji said, aiming his smile towards Inui. The other boy's eyebrow twitched. "I just thought you and Kaidou could need a helping hand."
Inui looked like he just lost all faith in logic.
"Iie data." He then returned to scribble something down in his notebook.
"Mada mada dane." Ryoma suddenly said picking up his lunch and arising from his seat. "I'll see you all at afternoon practice." he muttered as a goodbye and started walking.
Fuji was quick on his feet and caught up with the younger boy. "What's the rush?"
Ryoma just eyed his senpai quickly, not bothering to stop.
Fuji took a halt behind him. "You aren't jealous, now are you?"
The question made the smaller boy stop walking and he turned around to face his smiling senpai.
"Why would I be that?" he then muttered in disinterest. "It's not like we're together."
Fuji slowly showed his eyes, smile smoothly disappearing from his lips. He hadn't expected just that.
The tensai was finally starting to realize what was bothering the younger boy."We went out and-"
"One date doesn't make us dating."
Fuji gave a small smile. "I guess not, so we should probably go out on a few more then."
Ryoma turned his back against the tensai. "Later." he mumbled and started walking again, not having anything to reply to that last comment. He was proud that he had been able to keep his hurting on the inside, safe from Fuji. The other boy would never know now.
"Yeah, later." Fuji smiled after, what he concidered, his boyfriend and turned to leave towards the other direction. He had some errands to run and things to prepare.
