= = = Fragments of Memories = = =
Warning - Shounen-ai, PG-13, some angst, mystery.
-Windy-
Whee! I'm back from vacation!! ((Please look at my personal profiles for other details))
-Dew-
To our Reviewers -
HappyCamper - Tezuka have forgotten Ryoma-kun for a reason, let's hope the best for them ;)
Haru No Uta - Make Ryoma-kun die? NO - - - - -!!!! They'll remain as a happy bunch, I'm not that heartless [sweatdrops] Yup, Fuji and Kawa are ma-rr-i-ed XD
Kawaii Kinomoto - Many thanks, This will probably be a few chapters.
tezuka eiri - Ryoma-kun dead? No, Ryoma is alive and well, right Echizen-kun? ((Ryoma - [Death glares at the author])) Whoops...
Kaisuke - Arigatou, that's such a lovely word! I'll do my best!! :D
wolfie - You think Ryoma-kun have died? NO is the answer my dear, try guessing again [smile]-Tetra-
This fic isn't AU, but it's quite supernatural. It's mostly revolved around Tezuka this time. And we don't own Prince of Tennis.
-Windy-
If you're looking for MomoKaidou, it's not in this fic, it'll be in another [smiles]
Pairings - TezukaxRyoma, Hints of SanadaYukimura, OshitariAtobe, Golden Pair, TakaFuji, InuiKaidou and MomoAnn.
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= = Chapter 2 - Reality Memory = =
Toudai - Tokyo University of Japan.
It was a new day, an early afternoon for the students of Toudai. Tezuka Kunimitsu and Oishi Shyuichirou were both making their way through the school grounds.
"Last night was really fun wasn't it Tezuka?" Oishi stated. Last night, the whole Seigaku group were inside Taka-san's sushi shop and celebrating the arrival of Tezuka from Germany.
"Ah," Tezuka replied. As they made their way through the university gardens, suddenly two familiar people appeared before them.
"My, my, if it wasn't Tezuka," Atobe Keigo flicked his hair as he walked towards the ex-Captain and ex-Vice Captain of Seigaku. Oshitari Yuushi was walking right next to him.
"Ah, long time no see Atobe." Tezuka shortly replied.
"I never knew Atobe-san studies here, what is your major?" Oishi asked. It's true that Atobe is not a student of Toudai, but it's also true that Atobe is in the university very often recently.
"Heh, you're correct that I don't study here, I just came because he's here," Atobe pointed at a sighing Oshitari behind him, "Right Kabaji?"
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"Ano, Atobe, remember that Kabaji is gone off to his classes?" Oshitari reminded. No wonder the 'Usu' sound can't be heard.
"# # Of-Of course I know that!" Atobe fumed.
"Ara, aren't you Tezuka-kun?" another familiar voice softly struck into the square conversation.
The four young adults turned to looked at the source of the voice, and saw a smiling Yukimura Seiichi and stoic expression Sanada Genjichirou were pacing towards them. "It IS Tezuka-kun!!" Yukimura confirmed.
"Ah, Yukimura," Tezuka nodded.
"When did you come back?" Yukimura asked with a smile.
"Just yesterday, right Tezuka?" Oishi said.
"Ah."
"Yuki," Sanada showed his watch to the ex-Captain of Rikkai.
"Ah, it's that late already?" Yukimura then excused himself, "Excuse us, but we must go, we'll be late for our lecture classes," Yukimura smiled and left while waving and clutching onto Sanada.
"We have to leave Atobe," Oshitari mentioned.
"Ah. Farewell then Tezuka," Atobe dragged Oshitari away while sounds of 'Yuushi' and 'Keigo' could be heard.
As the others were away, Oishi bitterly smiled at Tezuka, "I forgot to mention that they are.... well, a couple now."
"Is that so?" Tezuka replied. Seems like the stoic Buchou was as clueless as ever.
"I'll catch you later Tezuka, I have two more classes left. You can go home first," Oishi said.
"Ah," Tezuka watched as his friend's figure was out of sight and then went to towards his final destination of the day - the library. Personally he could have just gone home to study, but with Kaidou and Momo being in the flat, you'd hardly gain any peace, and with the additional of Kikumaru afterwards, home is a hard place to study. As he came to the huge book-stored white building, he observed in awe(Without change of expression) before opening the glass doors and going inside.
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Inside the library, Tezuka was seated on a quieter area beside the windows inside the white building. Very less people are inside the library at this moment since most have either returned home or still have classes left. Whereas the former Buchou was supposed to be concentrating on the biotechnological formulas, his mind was instead, thinking of another thing. And that, was about the child he met in the tennis courts last night. The figure of the boy, the way he is dressed, the words that he has said...
"Heh....it's really rare to see Tezuka Buchou zoning out in public."
Golden eyes... navy hair with a green shine...
"........ it's also rare for Buchou to forget other people too......"
The protection - familiar black wrist band...
"It's me Buchou! Stop joking around already!!"
Who was he?
"Zoning out again eh, Buchou?" the same familiar voice suddenly became real.
Tezuka immediately lifted his head upwards from his notes and as he turned his head to scan the room, he saw that the same kid - the child from the tennis courts last night, dressed in a senior highschool uniform, was actually leaning on the desk he was studying on and looking at him with big bright cat-like eyes. Wait a second.... what is a senior highschool student doing in here?
"Whoa-- these looked very hard!" the short boy was examining the toudai student's hand-writing.
"What is a senior highschool student like you doing here?" Tezuka asked.
"Mada mada, what's the big deal? The university is open up to everyone TEZUKA-BUCHOU," the teenager sarcastically replied.
With that, Tezuka's eyebrows twitched and sighed, "You look too young to be a senior highschool student. Who are you anyway?"
"It's not like I want to be this height!!" the boy replied with an angry tone. With a sudden saddened expression the boy lowered his head and frowned, "Mou Buchou... mada mada dane! I'm Ryoma, Echizen Ryoma! Now do you remember!?"
"............." I don't. Tezuka thought. But why does my heart ache because you're frowning? "Ah."
"Really!?" Ryoma's frown turned into a small smile, which made Tezuka's heart lightened up. 'Strange', was the word that Tezuka came up with.
"So then does that mean you remembered our promise?"
"...ha?" What promise?
".......you forgot our promise?"
"Ah... I didn't forget," Tezuka lied. "Say, where did you get that black wrist band?" Tezuka finally asked a question that had bugged him for a while now.
"This?" Ryoma held up his left hand and pointed to his black band, "A very important person give it to me..."
"Who was it?"
"Hmm...... I forgot," Ryoma playfully stuck out his tongue.
".........oh."
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"....Say.... how did you suddenly disappear yesterday?" the thought suddenly struck Tezuka's mind.
"Oh? What are you talking about? I-"
"-Ah! It's Tezuka-kun again!" Yukimura's was suddenly heard. Tezuka saw that Yukimura and Atobe were both coming towards them.
"Oh!? It's Ryoma-kun!?" Atobe's eyes gleamed.
"Ah, it's Monkey King," Ryoma teased.
"It's ATOBE KEIGO, Ryoma-kun # #," Atobe said throught gritted teeth.
"You...." You stayed? Tezuka found out that Ryoma was still by his side.
"Ah! Ryoma-kun!" Yukimura smiled as he reached out his hand to the youngster. "It's rare to see you here! Shouldn't you be in school?" Yukimura observed Ryoma's uniform.
"I had many free classes this afternoon, I may as well leave the school," Ryoma shooked Yukimura's hand.
"I see. Say, you haven't grown much have you?"
"[sighs] I did drink two bottles of milk everyday, I just don't understand what's wrong," the boy said.
"Really now?" Atobe examined the child. The skin is as white as snow. No wonder, the milk's functions must have concentrated on that more than the height.
"Keigo!" Oshitari suddenly came walking from the library entrance.
"Yuki!" Sanada came right after Oshitari Yuushi.
"Heh... so you're all love-birds now?" Ryoma smirked at the re-united double couple.
"Now, now, Ryoma-kun, that is not a word to be use at such an age," Oshitari waved his index finger while Sanada remained in silent.
"Che," Ryoma pouted.
"Well, it's all thanks to TEZUKA that took away our first love," Atobe said in a loud tone and eyed at Tezuka, who was confused with the former Hyotei captain's remark.
"Mada mada dane," Ryoma worded out his usual quote with a smirk and smiled at Tezuka.
"............" Tezuka remained in silent.
"Ch' Ore-sama can't bear to watch this anymore! I know! Ryoma-kun, let Ore-sama gave you a tour of the university shall I?" Atobe winked at Ryoma.
"Do you know your way around Toudai?" Sanada pointed out with a strong force which pressurized Atobe.
"Of-Of course I do! Yuushi will show us around! Right Yuushi?"
"....Ah," Oshitari sighed.
"So what do you say Ryoma-kun?" Atobe smiled in an 'Ore-sama' way.
"Yadda," Ryoma answered.
"Why not?" Patience, patience Keigo...
"I want Buchou to show me around," with that said, Ryoma clutched his hands around Tezuka's arm and stuck out his tongue at the King of Hyotei.
"Zannen ne Atobe?" Sanada darkly taunted.
"Urusei! Will you stop pointing this and that out to me every now and then!?" Atobe furiously said while Oshitari held him back.
"Hmph!" Sanada looked at the other way.
"Maa, maa... Genjiichirou," Yukimura frowned but smiled.
Tezuka looked at the boy that was holding onto him. He was shocked with the youngster's action at first.... but then it somehow felt ...right.... and comfortable... he could feel that the lad was cuddling against him, his warmth seeping into his clothes... with that he could feel that his cheeks were starting to heat up-
"Ano...would you guys keep it down?" Oishi suddenly appeared and came over to the group.
"Oh! Tezuka's here? And Yukimura-san, Sanada-san, Oshitari-san and Atobe-san as well??" Fuji Syusuke came right behind Oishi.
"Oh, if it wasn't the tensai of Seigaku... what brings both of you here?" Atobe stared at Fuji and Oishi boredly.
"Well, I had to get some reference before I leave, and I met Fuji along the way so we decided to come here together..." Oishi said and felt anxious with Sanada staring at him.
"Sou da ne, I went pass and saw Tezuka among you all, seems like you're all having fun, and you were all loud and all, this is the library, so I thought we should inform you all to keep it down," the tensai smiled.
"Gomen ne, we're all happy to meet Tezuka and we're also excited to see Ryoma-kun again," Yukimura explained.
Blue orbs suddenly opened, "...Ryoma-kun?"
"Yeah, Echizen Ryoma, that is!" Atobe stated.
"Echizen.... Ryoma?" Oishi's face sweated.
"It's been a while ne senpai-tachi," Ryoma-kun finally spoke up for himself and the other taller figures moved out of the way to show his presence.
Both Fuji and Oishi were astonished to see Echizen right before their eyes. Both of their faces paled, both exchanged looks to each other, and finally Fuji pinched the cheek of a nearby Atobe.
"Ow! Ow! Ow! OW! Let go Fuji Syusuke!!" Atobe smacked the prodigy's hand away, "It hurts you freak!!"
"There, there," Oshitari gently rubbed Atobe's reddened cheek while Atobe affectionally glued himself into Oshitari's embrace.
"It's...... not a dream..." Fuji's hand began to faintly shake lightly though unnoticed by anyone.
'A dream? ...What's going on?' Yukimura suddenly noticed.
"Senpai-tachi are you feeling okay?" Ryoma observed the pale faces of Fuji and Oishi.
"Ah... ah... well... you-" before Oishi could finish, his sentence was taken over by Fuji, "Iie, nandemonai Echizen, it's just that we haven't seen you for a long time," the tensai of Seigaku recomposed himself and smiled.
"Oh," the boy naively responded.
"So uh... Echizen, you're here... won't your parents get worried at this time of the day?" Oishi stammered.
"It's only a late afternoon, why would they be worried?" Atobe mentioned.
"What if it was you being his parents?" Sanada questioned.
"I would be extremely worried!!" Atobe said. "........Hey wait a minute!!"
"You said it yourself," Sanada taunted further.
"Why you!?"
"HORA!! SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY!!" the librarian suddenly yelled at them, which most of them immediately went quiet.
"Mada mada dane," Echizen said as soon as the librarian was out of sight. "It's getting late...I'm going home now, later Buchou," Ryoma said, and flung himself around Tezuka's neck and kissed him on the cheek, released him, leaped off him and turned around to leave the building while smirking. Everyone in the group was still in shock, especially Tezuka. Okay, so first he was halcullating things, then it turned out to be real like Fuji have just said, and it was so real that the 'thing' had kissed him!? What on earth!?
"I can't bear it anymore!! We're leaving Yuushi!!" Atobe dragged Oshitari out of the door.
"Excuse us too," Yukimura smiled and pulled his lover along with him.
"..........." Fuji and Oishi exchanged shocked looks and carefully observed Tezuka.
"Ne Oishi...." Tezuka began.
"Ah...ah... hai?" the egg headed friend reacted.
"I don't understand.....who is that child? I..... don't recall to remember him at all...."
".........Well....."
"......He was your Kouhai, and a tennis club member that you appointed him to become the pillar of Seigaku... Tezuka," Fuji explained. And he is also someone very important to you Tezuka...
"Really?" But I..... don't remember any of that at all........
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Outside the Toudai grounds, Yukimura and Sanada were walking along with each other.
"...Ne Genji?" Yukimura started.
"Hn?"
"Back there just then....... something felt awkward..."
"Ah. It's like Tezuka doesn't know who Echizen was...."
"And Fuji and Oishi is hiding something too. And most importantly... Ryoma-kun looked lively... but something is missing from him...."
"Ah."
"..... I wonder.... what happened ever since we graduated to senior highschool?"
.......Tezuka.... did you forget Echizen when you came back from Germany?
And Ryoma-kun..... it feels like his presence isn't here with us... ...
= = TBC = =
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-Windy-
Whee-! Second chappie done!! Kinda short eh? Well, I didn't want it to be a long essay anyway. Probably 2 or 3 more chapters of this story I'd say.
-Dew-
This was the quickest detailed chapter you've written!
-Windy-
Yeah... it sort of took me 2-3 hrs to finish typing it. Usually the others take me weeks and weeks and weeks - which adds up to around 24 hours in total?
-Tetra-
Do beware of grammar and spelling mistakes. We've proof-read it once and we'll do it again in the future. Chapter one has been proof-readed and replaced.
-Windy-
All I can say is that this fic would probably have angst in the future, either in the next chapter of the 4th or even both. And no, Ryoma is not dead, so there [smiles] Well then, later!
-Dew-
Reviews minna!!
Finished on 28/06/2004
Last revised on 28/06/2004