- - - Fragments of Memories - - -
-Windy-
Ahh...gomen, it's been a while! I have been very active in the FET forum lately (sweatdrops) however, if you have time, do go and look at my life journal, because if you're a Tenipuri fan, you'll spot funny comics drawn by me or other nice Tenipuri stuff I've found and the links are posted in my LJ. Once I have time, I'll post them in my profile smiles.
It appears that this site is being difficult, cutting more key characters out. I'm planning to just set up a Fiction LJ, and if I do that, would anyone go and read from there in the future?
-Tetra-
To our Reviewers -
Haru No Uta - That would be a HIMITSU. . . lalala. . . Anyway, at first, I thought you were trying to flame me, then when I read to the last bit, I realized it wasn't (sweatdrops)
tezuka eiri - Hmm.... you're right on some of the options, demo, I won't keep the suspense forever, the most I can do is another 2-3 chapters smile , ne please don't mind me asking, what does eiri mean?
wolfie - Well.... you can say Tezuka IS forgetful but not amnesia.... BTW I thank you for being supportive in this fic (smile)
Tricycle - Ryoma? He's alive and well ne Echizen-kun? ((Echizen - glares at the author )) Ara, ara....
Tricycle ((Again, aren't you special? (smile) )) - Well, you'll find out very soon as to what happened to Ryoma.
AppleSeed - Thanks for your support (smiles)
Mercury Angel II - Well, I guess something awful DID happen to Ryoma-kun after all....
Kaisuke - Uh.... ((Ryoma - Mada mada dane))
To Mizuko - uhh.... I don't think Ryoma's that bloody....
AngelDust - Here you go!
Silver-Kun - Thanks for your support! (smile)
babymar-mar - Here you go.
Craze - You'll find out in the last chapter.
Anonymous - Well.... you'll know in the last chapter (smiles)
-Dew-
100 percent Shounen-ai, 50 percent Supernatural, 100 percent TezukaRyoma fic, plus hints of SanadaYukimura, OshitariAtobe, Golden Pair, TakaFuji, InuiKaidou and MomoAnn. Plus, Italics are thoughts, Bold are emphasize, and these brackets ( )... meant actions.
-Windy-
I'm thinking of either ending this in the next chapter or on the 5th. It's meant to be a short one anyway.
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- - Chapter 3 - Memory of Truth - -
A week has gone pass by ever since the library incident.
Nobody or anyone has ever seen the boy since then, except for one person. Frequently, Tezuka Kunimitsu does meet Echizen Ryoma around the area of Toudai, but only for a short while, they'll probably meet after or during lunch time, the boy stays until the time comes for most student's day ends in Toudai, Ryoma always leave before the students start to crowd around the main gates of the university to go home. This incident has happened nearly every day and despite the fact that Tezuka is beginning to gradually accept the boy's company, he was remained rather curious about Ryoma ever attending his own highschool.
And then one day... ...
"Buchou!!" Ryoma called out.
Echizen. Tezuka turned around and looked above him. The golden-eyed boy was standing above on a set of stairs within the grounds of Toudai. Tezuka was standing right below the grey stairs and watched as the boy proceeded towards him. The boy was wearing his usual senior highschool uniform but with the same average 1st year height for a junior highschool freshman.
"Bu-ahh!" Ryoma lost his balanced, tripped and fell down from the stairs.
"!!? Echizen!!" Tezuka reacted quickly and caught the falling Ryoma from below. He held the boy in a pose that a prince would usually hold a princess. And immediately after that, Tezuka tightly embraced the little cute figure.
"Bu-bu-buchou!?" Ryoma blushed.
"..................." What am I doing? Tezuka's mind suddenly thought. He has only known the boy for about a week, but his body seemed to have reacted to such things. Even though it felt a bit right.... Was he scared that the boy could have got injured? His body told him that he wanted to hold him to confirm to himself that Echizen was fine, unharmed and standing right in front of him.
"Buchou?"
"............." Snapping back to reality, Tezuka released the genius boy and gently patted Ryoma's head. "Daijoubu?"
"I'm alright Buchou. Mou-- don't pat me on the head! #" Blushes.
"........." Inside Tezuka's heart, he smiled. Thank goodness he's fine.
"Ne, ne, Buchou?" Ryoma suddenly wrapped his arms around Tezuka's left arm.
"Hn?" Startled by the boy's sudden actions.
"Today after school... how about we... go out together?" a mild of pink blush is seen across the boy's face.
"Eh?" What? Did I hear that right?
".......... Mou--!! # Buchou!! Don't you have any other expressions? Do I have to say it out 'clearly'?" Ryoma complained while blushing more.
".........You mean......." a date?
"............" Ryoma looked the other way as his face seems like he has reached his blushing limit. His old habit came back as he pulled his cap to hide his face. However, he didn't wear a cap this time.
".................." Tezuka smiled unnoticed by anyone. "Right, were would you like to go?"
"?" Confused eyes looked up at him.
".........I meant after school, were would you like to go?"
"!!" Shocked for a split second, Ryoma then mildly smiled a 'mada mada dane' look. "How about to the city center?"
"The city center?"
"Even though it's going to be noisy, I really wanted to go there today. Onegai--?" Ryoma pleaded with his sparkling eyes.
"......fine," Who can say no to such eyes?
"Yay! Then, I'll meet you later this afternoon, later Buchou!!" Ryoma pecked Tezuka on the cheek before happily leaving a stunned spectacled former captain on the spot.
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Afternoon. Most Toudai students are leaving the main building.
Fuji Yumiko and Kawamura Takashi were bothing waiting outside the building for the same person - Fuji Syuusuke.
"Taka-san, I really have to thank you for looking after our Syuusuke so well!" Fuji's sister Yumiko bowed while Kawamura also did the same.
"Iya... I'm just making sure everything's best for Fujiko-chan," Taka-san scratched his head.
"Ara?" Yumiko suddenly spotted a familiar duo far away as she straightening her back up again. "Isn't that?"
Kawamura directed his gaze along the line with Yumiko's and happened to see a small figure clinging onto the former Seigaku junior highscool captain. "Tezuka and..... Echizen?" Echizen... he's... ...here?
"Poor buy...." Yumiko frowned with sympathy.
"Eh?" Kawamura looked back at his sister-in-law with confusion.
"That boy with the navy-green hair.... such a poor soul.... when will his lover ever realize it?"
"Nee-san! Taka-chan!" Fuji Syuusuke suddenly appeared behind them both and greeted them. But realized something was wrong when he saw the startled expression on their faces and that they were looking in a different direction. "What is it?"
"Ah Syuu-chan!" Kawamura turned his view around and smiled at Fuji. "It's.... just look over there..." Taka-san pointed at his previous view.
"......!? Echizen!?" Fuji's blue orbs widened once again.
"Syuusuke.... that boy is in danger..." Yumiko mentioned.
"Danger?" Blue orbs flicked at his sister.
"Ah. If his lover doesn't realize it before it's too late."
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"Buchou-"
"No."
"Nande!?"
"NO."
"Buchou no Keichi!!! I'm 17 already! # #"
"It's illegal for kids under 18 to go into the pub," Tezuka Kunimitsu sighed.
Yes indeed, our Buchou and Oujisama was walking together within the malls of the city, and as they came across a rather 'interesting' looking bar, Oujisama wants to try it out. Of course, our 'flawless' Head Student Council rep wouldn't allow that to happen.
"# # Mou---!!" Echizen pouted and whispered, "Buchou no Baka!!"
"Pardon, what was that Echizen?" Tezuka's glasses gleamed under the afternoon sky.
"Nothing!! # # Mada mada dane!!" Echizen looked the other way and sulked.
Seems like he's mad after all... Tezuka eyed the small sulking figure below him. Despite the fact he got the little boy angry, he was feeling rather happy about it. Why? He examined the face of the boy from the side. ...... Maybe it's time to make him smile again. "Echizen..."
"Nani yo!? # " Echizen replied with a hint of sourness in his tone.
"...... I know a place that serves great Japanese meals. Want to go?"
"......Yadda."
".... They've got really good grilled fish there..."
"!!?? Really!!?? Yeah!! I'm going! I'm going!" Ryoma's previous mood was now switched over with an excited and joyful attitude.
So like a cat.... Tezuka happily sighed at this remark. ... Wait a second... it's true I've been Echizen for a while now, but how do I know he like Japanese meals, plus his favourite is the Grilled Fish? ...I clearly remembered he didn't tell me and I didn't ask him either....
"Buchou!!" Echizen's voice pierced straight through Tezuka's thoughts. "Is something wrong?"
"No. Let's go Echizen."
"Hai!!" with that said, the boy wrapped his arms around the taller lad's right one and they both carried on walking, Tezuka leading the way.
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"Ah Oishi!" Kawamura greeted. "Everyone's here now!!"
After encountering with Tezuka and Echizen's event, Fuji called every single one of the former Seigaku regulars to come and see the following coming events.
"I'm sorry we're late!!" Oishi quickly bowed and apologized.
"It was Momo-chan's fault that we're all this late!!" Eiji voiced out straightly.
"Eiji!!!" Oishi anxiously yet gently scolded.
"Ahh... Eiji-senpai you don't have to rub it in!!!" Momo said nervously.
"Serves you right for talking with the phone too much," Kaidou flatly said.
"Nani!!?? # # " Momo glared daggers at Kaidou.
"You want to fight!?" Kaidou growled back furiously.
"Bring it on-" before Momo could do anything, something, or some kind of strange looking coloured engulf in a transparent glass was placed in front of his eyes. He looked at the source that was holding the drink and followed the source and saw Inui's glowing glasses.
"Momoshiro, I'll be very happy if you could try this out for me," a mischievous smile appeared in the calculating freak's face.
"Ah... iya.... I'll pass...." Momoshiro paled at the sight of it.
"What's that phone thing about?" Fuji smiled.
"Actually, Momo-chan appears to be going out with Tachibana no imouto," Eiji slyly whispered the info.
"Oh," Fuji continued to smile.
"Saa, shall we go now Syuusuke?" Yumiko asked.
"What's happening?" Inui looked at the three people that summoned their whole group here.
Fuji opened his bright blue orbs and began, "We've seen Tezuka with Echizen again."
"AGAIN!?" Oishi cried.
"Heh? Nani Nani?" Eiji looked at his lover and then at his best friend.
"That's illogical, there's no way we can see Echizen." Inui pushed up his glasses with his index finger.
"But we did see him!!" Taka-san reasoned.
"Look," Fuji pointed at the window glass of a certain traditional Japanese restaurant.
"Keigo..." Oshitari glanced over at a certain table.
"Ah." Atobe nodded his head to his lover whom was sitting opposite of him.
The Hyotei couple were sitting in a certain spot within a traditional Japanese restaurant. Ironically, it appears they were in the one that Tezuka and Echizen was in. They sat a couple of tables away from them and it appears that the Seigaku couple did not notice their presence.
"Should we greet them?" Oshitari looked at his lover.
"No. Look over there Yuushi," Atobe pointed outside the window.
Oshitari followed Atobe's finger and saw that all former Seigaku regulars and a woman(Yumiko) was hiding within the bushes and trees. "They are..."
"Ah. Suspicious isn't it? Ore-sama thought that we'll follow them to find out. I'm getting a bad feeling on this," was Atobe's last words as he stared at Tezuka and the looking rather pale Echizen before them.
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"Arigatou Gozaimashita," the waitress greeted good-bye to Tezuka and Echizen.
"Nice?" Tezuka eyes wandered over to Echizen's face.
"Mada mada dane--" Echizen said, but in truth, it was rather pleasant.
"Ne Echizen..."
"Hmm?" Ryoma looked at Tezuka with his big gleaming eyes.
"................what Senior Highschool do you go to?" Tezuka lightly blushed at Echizen's previous reaction.
"Seigaku Senior Highschool of course!!" Buchou is strange, why is his face a bit red?
"Oh... . .Since when did that highschool get so many free study classes?"
"Huh?"
"You seem to have a lot of free time."
"........What are you talking about-"
"-AAAAHHHHHH!!!" voices suddenly screamed out from a certain spot in the mall.
Tezuka and Echizen turned to look at the source of the voices. And came across many paled faces.
"O-Ochibi!?" Eiji hid behind Oishi.
"I-Illogical...." Inui sweated.
"Phsshhhhh--?" Kaidou backed a little away.
"E-Echizen!?" Momoshiro pointed at the small pale figure before them.
"?" Tezuka looked at his friends confusingly.
"Senpai-tachi..." Echizen turned his whole body around to face them and starting walking towards them.
"No!! Don't come any closer!!" Momo held out his hand motioning Ryoma to stop.
"Eh? What's wrong Momo-senpai?" Echizen raised his eyebrows.
"What is happening here?" Yukimura and Sanada suddenly appeared.
"Yukimura, Sanada!?" Tezuka looked behind him.
"Myself and Sanada were just back from a check-up from the doctor, we walked and then we saw all of you. What's happening here?"
"Exactly, Ore-sama would like to know that too." Atobe and Oshitari finally came out.
"Atobe-san, Oshitari-san!?" Oishi was surprised to see them here.
"What is happening here, why are you all gawking at Echizen as if you've just seen a ghost?" Atobe demanded to know.
However, he did not know this sentence had an affect on the Seigaku regulars.
"Well?" Atobe repeated.
"Echizen," This time it was Fuji. "Echizen, which Highschool do you go to?"
"Ha? Seigaku Senior Highschool."
"Then tell me, who is the head master of that school this year?"
"Of course it's Head Master Kurosawa!!"
"No, Echizen. Yes, Kurosawa-san was the head master, but he retired this year. This year's head master is Sakaki Yuuichi. I rechecked this with Horio and the others."
"Echizen. You did not go to that Highschool at all, ever since I've been studying in there and the same goes for the others, plus Momo and Kaidou are a year behind us, they know that as well," Fuji's words broke the silence.
"What are you saying? I AM at that highschool!! You all want me to be there right?" Ryoma anxiously replied back. He was sandwiched between the Seigaku group and Tezuka, the Hyoutei and Rikkai coupling on the other side.
"You would have been in the same year as Horio and the others, and you don't know that?" Fuji asked again.
"Echizen..." Tezuka looked at the stunned Ochibi before him.
Ryoma then turns around, "Buchou, I did go to that Highschool!! I...I....!!! Buchou LOOK OUT!!"
Tezuka turned around to see a very flashy motorbike speeding towards his direction. Before his muscles could react and he should jump out of the way, Echizen was one step faster. He pushed Tezuka out of the way, the taller guy was pushed towards the Seigaku group, Yukimura and Atobe was dragged out of that motorbike's direction by their lovers.
However...
"ECHIZEN----!!??" Anxious voices shrieked out in the afternoon open air.
The so-called young boy was lying flat face on the ground. The whole group hastily went over to the boy's side, and Tezuka was the one to make Echizen lie back having his face off the ground.
A minor audience formed around them, whispers transferred from this side to the other.
"Ne ne, what are they doing?" A random young woman asked.
"I think it's that guy with the dark brown hair and glasses that got hurt by that horrible motorbike driver," a random guy replied.
"Poor thing, so it was that motorbike driver that collided into the young man? Speaking of which, where IS that driver?" the same woman questioned again.
"Drove away, before the guards could get him. Oh well, seems like it's only a minor damage to this young man here, he looks fine," the man replied.
"Yeah, well that's it settled then," and so the woman started to walk away, followed by that same man and finally the crowd spreaded.
Fuji and Yumiko, who was both listening to such conversations, Fuji glanced over at his sister, "Nee-san..."
"Ah.." Yumiko looked back at Tezuka still holding a very pale looking Ryoma in his arms.
Ryoma did not bled, which seemed rather strange, however his eyes were closed and he seemed to have stopped functioning.
"Echizen!!" Tezuka shook the boy for the third time. "Echizen!!"
"Try checking his pulse!! His breathing and his heart!" Yukimura commanded.
Before Tezuka could put Ryoma back down, a small hand was placed on his arm. "Echizen?" Tezuka saw that it was Echizen's hand.
"Buchou..." Echizen weakily opened his eyes, but he can only manage to open them half-way. "Buchou..."
"Echizen!!" Tezuka placed his own hand on Echizen's one.
"Buchou... you believe in me right?"
"Echizen...I..."
"...Buchou doesn't believe me?"
"Echizen..."
"....Buchou....doesn't..." Eyes closed. "...believe me..." Hand slipped out of Tezuka's and touched the ground.
"E-Echizen!?"
Suddenly, the small boy's body was becoming transparent. Slowly by slowly...
"!!!!" Everyone had their eyes wide open on this.
"Echizen!!" Tezuka's voice sounded a bit hoarse from the calling. "Echizen!!!" Tezuka tries to embrace the transparent boy in his arms tightly, but before he could do so, the weak figure had vanished out of sight completely.
"!!!!!!!!!" Tezuka, on his knees, was feeling that the world has just turned its back on him. "...Ryo..Ryoma..." he managed to silently voice out.
"........" Everyone with sad expressions had their head bowed down, some looking out for a possible outburst reaction from Tezuka.
"Te-Tezuka, let's go... you're injured, we should go get you treated," Oishi went over to his friend's side.
".........Oi....Oishi....." Tezuka's hoarse voice lifted everyone's attention. "What...happened?"
"....Tezuka..." Oishi frowned.
"Fuji too... tell me.... what happened in the past?......Why.....can't I.... remember it?"
"Tezuka...." Fuji hesitated.
"Please...tell me..."
".........Hai. I shall do that," Fuji said as Oishi casted a worried look at him. Fuji nodded in response and he glance at his sister, who nodded as well, and finally he turned to face Tezuka.
"I will tell you what happened, everything that you have told me and Oishi in the past. Everything you want to know."
- - - To be Continued - - -
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-Windy-
I really wanted this to be a 5 chapter story, but it doesn't seem that way. Many people like their last stories to be an even number rather than odd, I actually like all numbers, except for 13 and 14.
-Dew-
We apologize this was so late. It's because Windy-neesan was busy and lazy so she didn't-
-Windy-
Hey!! You don't have to rub that in do you!? # #
-Dew-
Mada mada dane--!
-Windy-
........ Ahem, anyway, should I be an evil person to have Ochibi dead or should I have Tezuka following after him?
-Tetra-
Wi-Windy-sama (pales)
-Windy-
It'll depend on my mood---
-Dew-
Devil.
-Windy-
..... Whatever, it's only a joke. In truth, I have the fourth chapter done, but I've decided to wait a few days, because I think it's best for the readers not to rush on this plot. You need to think for a while on this chapter and I don't want the readers rushing this plot otherwise you won't understand the ending.. But I'll have the last chapter up in a few days, so look out for it (smiles)
-Dew-
Oh yeah, you may spot the words "Buchou no Keichi" meaning "Captain, you're mean!" and "Baka" is "Stupid/Idiot". Also, those Sakaki and Kurosawa people does not exist in Tenipuri. Just to let you know.
-Tetra-
Well, well, we apologize for the possible grammars and spelling mistakes in this chapter. Oh, and the OOC of characters.
-Windy-
The next chapter is definitely the last one. Sore ja!!
Finished on 15-09-2004
Last revised on 19-09-2004