Disclaimer at Chapter I

Chapter II

Hanamichi Sakuragi walked towards the fence that surrounded the school and climbed over it. He had been doing that ever since he came to Shohoku and it was for a simple reason - the school gate was too far from the gym, jumping over the fence was much quicker and sensible (at least to the red- head). Suddenly, he felt someone landing gracefully like a cat beside him and swerved around to see the fox-eyed youth straightening up.

"Oi kitsune, what are you doing? I thought you had a bicycle?" Sakuragi asked.

"Sent for repair. Crashed it against a truck last night." Another simple and short answer.

"Ahaha! I know it's bound to happen since you always sleep even while cycling. Haha..." Sakuragi laughed his usual loud and boisterous laugh. Rukawa had no time to retaliate as the bus came at the moment and the two tall boys chased after it.

"Shimatta! Stupid bus, made me run all the way! Don't know why it comes so early today. Usually I had to wait for more than 15 minutes. Stupid!" Sakuragi cursed as he finally caught up with the bus and boarded it but not before Rukawa boarded too. "Aa. You're living in my district too?"

"Um."

The bus was crowded and there was only two seats left at the rear. Rukawa, being the earlier one to board the bus took the one at the window. Sakuragi, not wanting to sit anywhere near Rukawa (in case that kitsune would do anything strange since Sakuragi insisted that the stupid kitsune was mentally unstable because he couldn't beat the tensai), decided to stand. Rukawa merely raised a slender eyebrow at Sakuragi's decision. The bus suddenly jerked to a stop and Sakuragi, who was not holding on to anything, stumbled and almost fell.

"Do'aho!"

"Teme! You stupid kitsune. How dare you insult the Tensai?"

"Do'aho! If you can't stand properly, then sit and stop making a fool of yourself. Or are you too afraid of me?" then Rukawa did something very un- Rukawa, he smirked! The usual ice-prince actually showed some emotion.

"YOU!" Sakuragi was now fuming with anger and he sensed all the other passengers staring at him. "What you staring at? This is none of your business! Go back to your own world, you nosey people!" But the passengers continued to stare.

"Humph! I'm the Tensai and I'm not afraid of anyone! I'll prove it!" Sakuragi turned around and sat down beside a smirking Rukawa.

"I. Said. Go. Back. To your. Own. World! And stop staring, you pathetic people. Never seen a Tensai before, ne?" Glaring at the staring passengers, Sakuragi growled. "If you continue to stare, you'll all get heat-butted by me!"

With the threat hanging over their head, and upon seeing flames igniting in the red-head's eyes and the vein popping at the forehead, the passengers quickly turned around. Still they felt the red-head's eyes boring at them, so they did not dare to turn to look anymore.

Suddenly, Sakuragi felt a weight on his right shoulder and he turned to see Rukawa sleeping with his brunette head cushioned on Sakuragi's shoulder. Normally, if these kinds of things happened, Sakuragi would have start shouting at the "baka kitsune". But now, he was just stunned, too stunned to even breathe.

"Beautiful...my Kaede..." he whispered. Kuso! Where did that come from? Sakuragi's panicky brain started to questioned his own reaction. But he was too mesmerized by the sleep fox-eyed boy to care. Indeed, he was stunned by Rukawa's beauty, in fact, he found Rukawa really cute when he slept. He had never really noticed the sooty long eyelashes that were of perfect contrast to the dark-haired boy's porcelain face. And yes, those dark bangs of his... how soft and shiny they looked... he wanted to touch that face and those bangs that had tumbled onto the kitsune's face, hiding his eyes...

Sakuragi reached out one trembling hand and brushed gently against the smooth cheek. It's so soft and warm...a bit too warm... so unlike how he appeared to be. And his hand found its way up to the forehead and gently push the dark bangs out of the sleeping boy's eyes...

Ruakwa's hand suddenly grabbed Sakuragi's hand and held it close to his heart, as if hugging it, and snuggled closer to the warmth beside him. Sakuragi's heart skipped a beat as his stomach did a flip-flop. He forgot to breathe for almost one whole minute as he just stared at the sleeping form beside him with unbelieving eyes. Slowly he exhaled and shifted his position gently (so as not to wake the other boy) so that his own red head rested on the dark-haired boy's.

Unconsciously, Sakuragi's eyelids felt heavy and began to drupe lower. Soon, he himself fell asleep, with his head still resting on Rukawa's head and his hand still clamped in Rukawa's hand, feeling the boy's heartbeat.

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