A/N notes: "I want Fuji to be happy too, he's worked so hard to make everyone else happy!" Yoshikochan, that made me go so aaaww! I love to receive all of your comments :wai: they are all so uplifting!
And Am loves Syusuke, my little corrector ;D You save my day!

I'm thankful with my lovely orb beta-reader, who got through this loong chapter so fast…we didn't want to leave it hanging on a cliffhanger for so long!

Disclaimer: It's for the best that I don't own too much… XP

Chapter 10: Shinji x Kamio…mostly

No, No, No, NO, NOOOO!

Tezuka felt like banging his head against the floor until his scull broke. And of course with his luck all of his fellow regulars had decided to show up at the same time and found them like this. It wasn't fair! Life wasn't fair! Kami-sama wasn't fair!

The regulars kept their stare at Tezuka and Fuji.

Tezuka and Fuji stared back, not knowing what to say.

And the regulars kept staring, until Inui interrupted the very heavy silence that hung over them. "Iie data. Fuji is seme…"

The rest of the regulars' reactions were various. Oishi blushed his head off, together with Kaidoh who was a little embarrassed by the data-collector's comment. Eiji and Momo broke out into laughters and practically rolled on the floor and on the ground outside the locker room, Taka was stuttering something that was supposed to be words but became mumbles, and Ryoma just pulled his cap down to hide a smirk.

Fuji shot Inui a pressed smile, before getting up and offering a hand to Tezuka. Tezuka of course had no intentions of even accepting a gesture like that one and as soon as he was up on his two, slightly shaking, legs he left the locker room with a fast mutter; "Get changed and start practicing!"

Fuji who was half naked already and the only one not in the middle of a reaction of some kind, was the fastest one to change and came out to seek his captain, finding him by the still empty courts.

Tezuka was staring out into nothing, which wasn't really anything new. He looked so vulnerable at the moment where he was fumbling to button his white school shirt. Fuji carefully stalked over to the form and put on his most comforting smile.

Atleast none of the non-regulars that were starting to appear just now had witnessed what Tezuka will probably remember as the most embarrassing memory from this school.

"Tezuka?" Fuji's voice came, filled with sympathy and probably hoping to avoid laps. Tezuka simply gave a grunt as an answer. "Ano, you forgot your jacket." Fuji handed Tezuka the object and the captain took it with a nod and threw it over his shoulders.

"Aren't you going to change?"

"No."

"Souka…"

"Fuji!" Eiji's cheerful voice teared through the dramatic atmosphere between the two and the redhead glomped his best friend. "Fuji, nya! Why didn't you ever tell me that you were the seme in your relationship? I thought we could have had uke-nights together and share gossips! Guess I'll have to have them with Tezuka instead, ne buchou? When are you free?"

Fuji noticed the tightening fists of the captain and decided it was probably best for Tezuka's sanity and Eiji's life that he stepped in and gave Tezuka some credit. "Actually Tezuka really is the seme, what you saw was just a one time thing."

"…!" Strangely enough that didn't seem to calm the captain down very much, neither did it calm Eiji down and the acrobatic player immediately called over his boyfriend, Inui, Ochibi and Momo, and every other regular he could spot to tell the news to them.

A commotion of murmurs broke out and some of the regulars were still convinced that Fuji indeed was the seme.

"Maybe Fuji only said it because Tezuka is the captain." Eiji had a new theory and he was explaining it wildly to Oishi, who was blushing and at the same time trying to make his partner stop talking so loudly.

Tezuka's knuckles were turning more and more white by the second.

"But Fuji-senpai was uke with Kawamura-senpai!" Momo started debating with Eiji and his younger boyfriend drew his cap lower. Ryoma and Kaidoh were of the only ones that kept quiet.

"I'll stick to my data!" Inui said dramatically. "Although Fuji has outdone my data before…Interesting…maybe Tezuka really is the…" Scribbling continued.

Fuji was just considering stepping in between again, when Tezuka's voice suddenly caused everyone within a ten miles radar to go dead quiet.

"I am NOT dating Fuji!" Tezuka snapped, making everyone, including Fuji, take a step backwards. The tall captain cleared his throat, slightly ashamed over losing his control that 'easily', but actually feeling kind of relieved.

"Go back to practice!" he barked out, quickly adding more space between them by going over to inspect some freshmen, but staying close enough to hear everything they had to say.

"Really? Is it true, Fuji?" Eiji gaped and the regulars gathered around their tensai.

Fuji glanced at Tezuka quickly, who shot him a deathglare saying 'give them the truth or else!' Fuji shrugged defeated. "Ah. It's true."

There was loud mumbles starting everywhere on the courts, especially loud among the regulars. "Jeez, I can't believe Fuji and Tezuka broke up!" Eiji commented shocked to his golden partner.

"According to my data they were probably about have hot, sweaty, make up sex when we came in and totally destroyed their effort and will to get back together." Inui said, writing something down again. "That would probably support the theory of Fuji being the seme…Unless Tezuka was the one who needed to apologize and make it up to Fuji somehow, then with Fuji's sadistic streak Fuji requested that Tezuka would have to be uke in order to make up and…"

Kaidoh gave a hiss and blushed, hoping never to have a fight with Inui since his boyfriend was not far from a sadist either. Plus he was a nerd, an even scarier combination…

"But in that case you can ask captain who he wants to be paired up with!" Momo grinned suddenly, bringing brighter faces with him. Leave it to Momoshiro to try to lighten up a situation.

"That's right!" Eiji agreed excited, slamming his hands together.

Fuji fought to keep his smile on, eyeing an even more annoyed Tezuka. "Let's just give him time to calm down first."

"He must need time after breaking up-" Oishi started, but Eiji cut in.

"Che. I bet even Fuji won't have the nerve to ask Tezuka."

"But there's a 99 percent chance Tezuka wouldn't even answer and in case he did there's a 99 percent chance he'd still say Fuji-" Kaidoh hissed again and pulled his senpai-boyfriend towards a safer distance before Tezuka could have another mental breakdown.

"Ooh! I see! How cute of Tezuka!" Eiji gave a big smile and hugged Fuji tight. "He is still doing the denial! But he really likes Fuji a lot!"

"Kikumaru-senpai, didn't you just say they had broken up?" Ryoma pointed out.

"Nyah, Ochibi is way too young to understand these things yet." Eiji only waved it away.

Momo clinged to Ryoma, who started to have problems to keep standing. "No, he's not. He's a quick learner." Momo laughed. Behind him Taka was grabbing a racket, feeling like he had something on his mind he needed to get out.

"Yosha! TEZUKAA, YOU SNEAKY QUEER! WE SEE IT NOW! YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT HIDING IN THE CLOSET NOW, BA-BY!" the scream echoed over the whole area and Tezuka, who had happened to have his back turned, jerked up from the ground. He was so gonna kill every single one of them! Well, maybe not Fuji…but starting from Kawamura!

In fast steps he headed their way again with no pleasant thoughts in his head whatsoever. This madness was gonna end once and for all. Seeing Momo grab the racket from Taka, made him slow his pace down a little and discipline himself again. Well Fuji was not gonna be slammed up against the fence atleast! That was a relief.

It annoyed him how he was still letting Fuji go without the same kind of punishment as the others. Fuji's well-being was still on his mind…maybe he really liked the boy. Tezuka shook the thoughts out of his head. He had had enough torment for the rest of the year, he was not about to receive torment from himself as well.

"Wait! Let's not have you snap on Fuji-senpai again!" Momo laughed as he had taken the racket and Taka broke out in a blush. Fuji came up to his friend, patting his shoulder.

"Don't worry. Taka-san has someone else now."

"Eh? So you mean I don't have to be your bodyguard anymore!" Momo said dramatically, faking sad.

"Mada mada dane."

Eiji hanged over Momo's shoulders. "Except maybe from Tezuka…-" he started, when noticing Tezuka had caught up to them.

"Regulars, 20 laps! You're not moving!"

Eiji bounced back to Fuji, whispering so loud into his ear that everyone else could hear what he said as well. "Watch out, Fujiko. He's definitely got his eyes all over you. And those are not uke-eyes, I'm on your side!"

Tezuka sent his glare over towards the redhead, about to give a reply of somekind when Oishi jumped in between. "But Tezuka, we were training!"

"Not all of you were!" Tezuka replied stubbornly. "Most of you were just-…where are Inui and Kaidoh?"

Everyone looked around, finding them nowhere. "…Training?" Fuji then suggested and the regulars fell quiet once more.

Tezuka inhaled deeply air before finding enough strenght to face his teammates. "You'll all be running laps until the time is up. And so will Inui and Kaidoh when I find them!" he ordered, turning around to go and find the two missing teammates.

Fuji hurried up to his side, taking his arm. "Tezuka, unless you wanna put them in an awkward situation, not to mention yourself again, I'd advice you not to go and look for them right now."

Tezuka shot his millionth glare already today, not liking the way Fuji had just said 'again'. "What are you talking about?"

"I still think Tezuka and Fuji are together." Eiji said to his doubles partner, while the regulars watched from aside Tezuka and Fuji's conversation. "That is a conversation between two people who know and understand each other. They just say they're not together so that it wouldn't affect the team or bring more squealing girls to our club practice."

"Yeah, girls do like gay-guys." Momo smirked, grabbing Ryoma's hand in his.

"…Momo-senpai."

"Yes, Ryoma?" the junior answered innocently. He held the hand firmly in place, and no matter how much Ryoma tried to break loose from his grip he wouldn't allow it to happen.

"This is why I train so hard!" Momo laughed, pulling Ryoma closer.

"I say he is still in the closet, so that's why Tezuka and Fuji try to hide it." Inui commented, appearing from nowhere.

"Well, that was fast!" Eiji teased and Kaidoh blushed.

"Hn, I felt pity." Inui replied easily, gazing Kaidoh who went to stand behind Oishi and Kawamura for shelter.

They all woke up from the quite embarrassing moment Inui had put them under, seeing Fuji walk over to them. "Tezuka told me to say that practice is over and to have a merry Christmas."

The regulars just stared at the tensai at first, even Ryoma had stopped struggling. "So you're free to go." Fuji continued, seeing that his friends were all still gazing him, and momentarily Tezuka, in disbelief.

"I told you so!" Eiji was the first to say something, pulling Oishi along. "There you saw it again!"

"Most impressive data…" Scribble. Scribble. "Hiss." Blush.

"E-Eiji, wait! Aren't we gonna change first?" his partner said, stumbling after him.

"And risk Tezuka changing his mind and making us run laps after all?" Eiji replied.

Oishi thought for a moment. "Let's go then." All of the other regulars seemed to think it was a good idea to take the chance and flee as well.

Eiji clinged onto his boyfriend. "Maybe we should take Tezuka with us shopping for gifts on Friday. He's not so social and has problems expressing his feelings, so that might be what's causing some problems in their relationship."

"Eiji, have you noticed how you keep changing your stories?" Oishi laughed, pushing Eiji playfully.

"Well in that way one of them has to be true!" Eiji said to his defence.

Momo laughed. "Since it's Fuji, we'll never know for sure."

"Momo-senpai, let go off my hand!"

"Make me." Momo teased and they reached the school gates. "Don't worry, senpais! He usually stops resisting after a couple of blocks!" Momo smiled over his shoulder and pulled a cursing Ryoma down the street with him.

Oishi looked worryingly after the youngest couple in their tennis club.

"Ne, Oishi?" Eiji woke him up from his thoughts. "We're taking Tezuka shopping on Friday then? Let's put him to find something special for Fuji."

"Oh…a-alright. I'll ask him to come and meet me around 12 or so. Good enough?" Oishi said and Eiji beamed him a smile, then leaned in and kissed his cheek as an answer.

"Just don't tell him where we're taking him, in fact don't mention me!" Eiji gave his sneakiest grin.

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The place was almost completely deserted when Fuji left the school ground, after being the only one to have the guts to take the time and change in the locker room next to a waiting Tezuka. In a way Fuji almost felt sorry for his captain about what had happened today, he had sort of grown a weak spot for the captain.

"You're Fuji Syusuke-san, aren't you?" Fuji looked up to see a boy stand in a corner, the long dark hair covering the most of his face. "I've heard about you, you are the tensai from Seigaku who likes to mess with people and torture them and see them suffer and-"

"Yes, that's me." Fuji interrupted. "Can I help you?"

"I know we don't even know each other, actually we are more of rivals. Seigaku's tensai and Fudomine's tensai, and I even played against your boyfriend, but he did beat me so we should be okay although we are in a way still rivals…-"

"Wait, you've played Tezuka?"

"Tezuka? You mean your captain?"

Fuji nodded, realizing then who the mumbling boy in front of him was talking about. "Oh, you mean Echizen! No, he's not my boyf-"

"Of course not." Shinji hurried to say, not wanting to step on Fuji's feet.

"No, really he's not-" Fuji tried to explain.

"Nobody said so."

Fuji sighed. Shinji just did, but there was no point in trying to force the truth upon the Fudomine regular. "So, what did you want to talk to me about?"

"You know I talk quite a lot at the same time, don't you? You couldn't have missed. People say it's quite annoying and I usually say what I think, but the problem is I don't say it all the time. Not when I really should. I only end up insulting Ann-chan and making Kamio mad at me. The bastard, he most likely hates me already, but what can I do? I dislike the girl for stealing my man and all, not for being Tachibana-buchou's little sister but-"

Fuji tried his best to keep up. Did this guy ever speak one sentence at a time? "I take it you are trying to tell, um, Kamio how you feel, but you can't. And you hate Ann because…?"

"She's a bitch. Sorry for my straight forwardness, but you probably feel the same about the girl constantly stalking your boyfriend. You know, the one in the long brown pigtales. Gotta be frustrating, eh? I bet Echizen thinks so too."

"…Right."

"She was so annoying during our match as well. Running onto the court so pathetically like that and thinking she had anything to do with your boyfriend-" Shinji mumbled, feeling Fuji's 'pain'. "Oops, I forgot he's your secret boyfriend, you shouldn't be ashamed. So many tennis players are gay, except the man I like, with my luck he is not…-"

"A-ah. So how would you like me to help you?"

"I can't confess to him."

"Why not?"

"Like I said I'm afraid he might be straight and in love with Ann-chan, the way he always looks after her with no reason whatsoever…"

"Souka. I'll see what I can do, but I doubt he's straight if he plays tennis and above all is a regular."

"Thank you, we're down at the street tennis place. Would you like to come right away?"

/Street tennis place/ Fuji hesitated. He was not gonna go there if there was a chance he could run into that guy in purple again, who's name he had once more forgotten despite all of his 'efforts'. "Um, are there a lot of other people there at the moment?"

"Just us Fudomine regulars…and her. I don't see why she's so obsessed being around us all the time, when she doesn't even play and Tachibana isn't even there right now. There is really no reason for her to be there…"

"I see, well the fewer people the better. Gives me more space to work on." Fuji said and they started to walk towards said place.

"Yes, you can torture in peace." Fuji cocked his head to the side and studied the other boy with a puzzled expression. "Must be fun. I know manipulating can be very nice in tennis, wish I could do so on people otherwise as well, then I'd make Ann-chan…"

Ten minutes later they arrived at the street tennis place.

"...and then I'd scare her off from ever trying to go near him again." Shinji finished and Fuji noted that there indeed were only Fudomine people there.

Shinji led Fuji to Kamio, who had just gotten back from a jogging trip.

"Shinji, there you are!" the boy said exhausted, while still listening to music. "Where did you go just now? Hey, do you wanna play a match?"

Shinji nodded quietly and went to warm up as well, leaving Fuji alone with Kamio.

Fuji observed the boy in front of him. He was still in his regulars uniform, so his dressing style didn't give anything away. Not that that hair alone wasn't screaming gay loud enough for Fuji to hear it.

"Saa, what are you listening to?" Fuji asked, reaching a hand to take one of the phones from Kamio's ear and leading it to his. It was all meant to be a gesture to get the redhead's attention and start a conversation from there then.

"Wait!" Kamio said surprised, but it was too late. Fuji could already hear the faint sound of Y, M, C and A coming from the one of the phones next to his ear. Kamio felt a blush creep up his face as Fuji laid his eyes upon him again. "I-It's a good song to jog to. It has a nice, um, rhythm."

"Without a question." Fuji smiled back, seeing Shinji come running towards them.

"Do you wanna start that match now?" Shinji said in his normal mumbly tone.

Gods, did Kamio ever! "Yes, let's go." Kamio tried not to be too excited to get away from Fuji and the embarrassment.

Fuji laid a hand upon Shinji's shoulder, pulling him closer. "He's gay."

Shinji looked upon him. "Are you sure? Maybe he's bisexual, after spending so much time with Ann-chan-"

Fuji shook his head. "He's gay." Shinji gave him a doubtful look. "And in the closet."

"Ann-chan is just a cover? I knew he wouldn't fall for someone like her…" Shinji muttered as he followed Kamio to the court.

Kamio gave a frown at the mumbling boy before quickly taking a position and serving, wanting to get the game started. As the two Fudomine players continued on their match Fuji went over to stand next to Ann-chan.

"So I hear you hang out a quite lot with Kamio." Fuji said and Ann turned to him surprised.

"Eh?" she blushed. "I guess. He's more like hanging out with me…"

Fuji cocked his head to the side. "Mm…maybe he has a crush."

Ann laughed. "Oh, I bet he does." She lowered her voice. "But I don't think it's on me…" Ann glanced Fuji once. "Well, I suppose you out of all know that tennis players tend to be…you know, a little…it's probably with the rackets and the balls, and the sweaty opponents or doubles partners…plus it's a sport and men like sports…"

Fuji opened his eyes for a moment. "Uh. Hai." he nodded, closing them again and letting out a smile. They resumed to watch the match for a while. "Am I really that obvious?" he then chuckled and Ann turned his way again.

She nodded towards the redhead on the court. "That's obvious." she comforted. "That's why he's trying so hard to hide it, unfortunally I only hang out more with these guys because I'm rather fond of this kind of love for a change. I hope you don't think I'm weird now." she laughed nervously and ran fingers through her hair.

Fuji shook his head amused. "No. You're even less obvious."

They turned their gazes towards the game again. The two players were playing very equally.

"Don't you think we should help them with the start?" Fuji then spoke again and Ann observed him closely for a while before giving out a huge smile.

"Shinji came to you, didn't he?" she gave out something close to a squeal. "I've too heard about your recent services."

Fuji blinked. "Now when you make it sound like that it's kind of embarrassing really."

Ann giggled and placed a hand to support her chin, leaning in closer. "So what do you have in mind?"

Fuji gave her another smile, before stalking down to the court where the two players were taking a short break. "Kamio. Shinji." he started and winked them closer. They obeyed.

"Listen, I've just talked to Ann-chan and she said that she would go out on a date with you, Kamio, if you win this match." Fuji said, directing his attention mostly towards Kamio and therefore missing Shinji's death glare clearly saying 'traitor'.

Kamio went beet red in the face. /The bastard Kamio/ Shinji thought, forcing his gaze off the redhead.

"And I'm under the impression you like her quite a lot so I thought you'd be glad, however there's a catch." Fuji continued.

"A-and what is that?" Kamio chocked out.

"Well, in order to get her talked over we arranged a bet and so if you lose you will have to go out with Shinji." Fuji explained, causing both boys to become speechless, but for different reasons. "That was the deal. Now what do you say?"

Shinji shot Kamio a look. "I-I guess." the redhead answered and Fuji turned to Shinji, who surprisingly enough hadn't started to mumble yet.

"Whatever." the boy replied and turned to go back to the court. Kamio gave Fuji a look that even Fuji couldn't read and followed Shinji onto the court.

Shinji served. /The bastard, I go to him and ask for a favor and this is what I get! Kamio is gonna try his best to beat me now since he's got a reason to date Ann-chan and it would be unacceptable for him to ever lose and have to go out with me. Fuji only made matters worse…/

"What did you tell them?" Ann-chan, and the rest of the Fudomine guys that had gathered around their interesting conversation, waited impatiently to hear more.

"Nothing really." Fuji just smiled and resumed to watch the rest of the match, well aware that the others were squirming from the curiousness around him. "Oh? Doesn't it look like Kamio's shots have lost their power?"

Shinji had noticed it too. He had easily taken another game from the redhead. Kamio did look like he was putting up a fight against his opponent, but he wasn't scoring any points. Nevermind that Shinji was playing seriously right now. The hell if Shinji was gonna let his guy go out with some girl!

The match ended pretty soon with the score of 6-3 in Shinji's favor.

Fuji chuckled, seeing Kamio dramatically fall to his knees. The boy was such a drama queen. It was also the expected result, considering that Shinji often played in singles 2 and Kamio in the singles 3, when they weren't paired in doubles that is. Besides Shinji wouldn't settle for anything less than a victory in this match.

Fuji gave his most comforting smile as Shinji and Kamio returned to them. "My, my, you lost so easily." he teased behind a voice filled with sugar. Kamio gave a slighty flushed look at him. "Have fun on your date together then, boys."

Everyone's jaws dropped low.

"Is he saying that Kamio and Shinji..?"

"Are Kamio and Shinji..?"

"I knew it was odd that he suddenly appeared with Shinji all of a sudden!"

"I'm sorry for doubting you, that was wrong of me." Shinji's voice came and the others almost jumped.

"I knew Shinji had invited Fuji here for that!"

Kamio looked over at Shinji. "S-Shinji, is that true?"

Shinji didn't break his gaze with Fuji he was holding, as in trance. "I thank you for falling through on your promise, oh see, now I can speak everything that's on my mind again. I'm so relieved. I can say that I am going on a date with my crush and that you arranged it for me and that Kamio did not really play all that seriously against me at all. I know when he's playing seriously against me, I know because I'm obsessed with him, remember?"

Kamio's face was turning more and more red by the second as Shinji continued letting out the things that needn't to be said. That should not be said. "Okay, okay! I think we better go now!" Kamio started pulling Shinji along with him.

"…I am so happy! He is gay too, and so am I! We're gay! We obviously have feelings for each other and not just for the date, but that he didn't play seriously against me at all. He chose me over Ann-chan, I am so happy. He chose me despite his fear of being out as a gay-man…" Shinji's voice died out as Kamio kept dragging him off the court as fast as he could.

"Waah! You did it!" Ann giggled then. "How cute, but now I really have to run! I'm seeing my brother for dinner. Catch you guys later!" she said, packing her things and running off.

"That's something you don't see every day." Ishida said his doubles partner. As soon as Ann was out of sight Fuji turned to face the rest of the now currently gossiping Fudomine regulars.

"Oi." Sakurai mumbled, refering to Fuji's smile directed at them.

"What is it, Fuji?" Ishida was almost afraid to ask.

Fuji opened his blue eyes. "Spare me the time, will you? I've got a lot of things to do today at home. Now when school ended Yuuta is coming over and I need to prepare."

"Yuuta? Weren't you dating Echizen?"

Fuji's smile faltered for a second, wondering where on Earth they had gotten that from. "Anyway, please do this by yourselves so that I don't have to do it all for you."

Uchimura was just about to ask Fuji exactly what he meant by that, when his doubles partner elbowed him to keep him quiet. "He meant that…do you wanna go out with me?" Mori said and his partner looked confused at first before giving a shy nod and taking his hand. The new couple left the place together.

"Yuuta's dating the fashion freak, Fuji's dating Echizen! Fuji and Yuuta are brothers."

"Oh, just brothers? I heard that…you know."

Ishida coughed. "No, just brothers I'm sure."

The other doubles pair followed the good example of the previous one and soon Fuji was left standing alone by the empty court. "Oh my, this was an interesting day." he mused for himself, before turning on his heels and heading home to prepare for something good to surprise Yuuta with.

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"Under the impression I like Ann-chan, my ass." Kamio muttered as he walked hand in hand with Shinji. "He knew ever since he found out that I listened to Village People…"

"Uh, yeah…dead give away." Shinji mumbled, not wanting to tell Kamio how Fuji had seen it from the start and how fast the Seigaku tensai had reached the conclusion that Kamio was an in-the-closet-one. It probably had been obvious to everyone else except for Kamio and himself, who had not dared to open his eyes and see what was right there in front of him.

"But you know, you don't have to go out with me…After all it was just a stupid bet-" Shinji started.

"What? No, Shinji, I didn't mean it like that!" Kamio interrupted and awkwardly took the other boy's hand. "I just didn't like the way he just knew. And from a bloody cd! He has got to be quite the tensai in guessing about people, don't you think?"

"Um, hai. I can imagine he is…" Shinji said and tightened his hand over Kamio's. "So, where do you wanna go?"

"Hmm, I'm not sure…Should we start with some tea or a milkshake?" Kamio replied. "There's this one place with ice creams and milkshakes nearby."

"Let's go there then." Shinji said and let Kamio lead the way.

"By the way, Shinji. Are you okay with this? I mean are you…?" Kamio asked, some rare concern spread over his face.

Shinji was happy. Kamio was concerned over him! Kamio cared for him! Shinji felt like…like…like talking. "I'm just fine, or should I say I am more than fine. I am super, thanks for asking! I couldn't be better. To think that I am out with Kamio, I've only daydreamed something like this would happen. I actually went to Fuji for advice and now I feel so…"

Shinji kept on rambling through their whole walk, not shutting up before they had finally seated themselves down on some chairs and started on their milkshakes. But Kamio didn't mind. He never did. It was a part of Shinji after all. And how he hated to admit that it was a good thing Fuji had stepped in when he did, because Kamio didn't know for how much longer he could've kept up the whole straight act.

"Hello, lovers, how's your date?"

"Good before you interrupted us, you should learn to leave people alone and mind your own business…-" Shinji started, Kamio trying to calm him down. He was getting the dark Shinji mode on again.

"Ishida! What are you doing here?" Kamio gritted between his teeth.

"We're out on a date." Sakari said and they sat down in the same table with two milkshakes as well.

"Not funny." Kamio muttered as he was forced to move so they could squeeze in.

"We are! We are on a date." Sakari insisted.

"It's true! Fuji sent us off after he had succeeded with pairing you guys." Uchimura said and appeared together with Mori, both carrying a milkshake as well.

Kamio and Shinji had to squeeze closer to each other again so that all the three couples could get a place around the pretty small table.

"So, where should we go next?" Mori then asked, looking at each of his teammates and leaving his gaze on his date.

"I don't know…Movies? Dinner? It's quite early though…" Sakari suggested and received a couple of smiles mostly from the semes. Yes, great idea! There they could be coupled in a dark room and the semes could close the space between them and their ukes without anyone else from the team watching them.

"Are you guys really here on dates?" Kamio said. He still suspected they were there to get their fair share of his torment now when they had discovered the truth about him.

"I think we are all more or less on a Fudomine mass date." Mori answered and received nods. "Hopefully you won't mind us coming along…after all, we don't want an angry Fuji after us!"

Some more nods and Kamio and Shinji gave each other a long and meaningful look.

Sakari took a sip from his milkshake. "So, the movies then?"

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A/N notes: Any requests or suggestions on who I should pair Tachibana up with? I will most likely not write a separate chapter for it, but I might just mention it at some point…