Author's Notes: To be honest, I did not really have the slightest intention of writing this. ::laughs::
This is for Summer-chan and solely for her. I hope you like this.
TeniPuri wouldn't be mine.
Kyodai Ai
Aniki.
Yes. Aniki. That was all he heard from the second year who was a few meters from him.
And, right now, he was hearing it still.
He took a step back and sighed. Perhaps he would attend practice alone. Not that Akazawa and the others weren't there. It was just that Yuuta seemed to be preoccupied with something he considered more valuable than tennis.
Rather, someone.
He wanted to call the said second year and drag him all the way to practice. But, somehow, he couldn't fin it in his heart to put an abrupt end to the younger Fuji's fleeting moment of happiness.
With his brother.
"Would you be home tonight?"
A nod and a soft smile. "Aa."
The tensai gave a sad smile. "Gomen. I won't be home early. I'll be with-"
"I know," Yuuta cut his brother's words and gulped hard. "I know."
Mizuki took another step back and sighed.
Aniki.
Yes. Aniki. That was all he heard from the second year who was a few meters from him.
And, right now, he was hearing it still.
"Why does everyone like Aniki?"
"Tensai? Aniki's no tensai."
"Why does everyone look up to Aniki?"
"Aniki smiles too much"
"Why is Aniki so stupid?"
"Why does Aniki love Tezuka-san?"
"Why am I falling in love with Aniki?"
"Tell me, Mizuki-san. Please…"
That was one question even his data could not answer.
"Syusuke."
His attention was suddenly turned to the source of the voice. It was Tezuka.
"Matta ne, Yuuta. Don't stay up for me, 'kay?"
"Why would I?"
Fuji just gave a chuckle and vanished into the streets.
The tone Yuuta used, Mizuki noted, tried to hide the sadness that he knew the younger Fuji had been hiding for a long time now.
"Mizuki-san."
"Hm?"
"Why does it have to be Aniki?"
He lowered his head and sighed.
He wanted to grab the older Fuji a while ago and beat the living daylights out of him. He wanted to make Fuji see how stupid he was, how dense he was.
And, as much as he really didn't want to, he wanted Fuji to love Yuuta, his brother.
"I… wakaranai."
After all, he didn't have complete data on the tensai. He wouldn't really know everything.
And, after all, love was never to be predicted by data, even if the data on the said person was complete.
Because, to understand Fuji, the heart was needed.
And that was what Yuuta exactly did.
He used his heart and even gave it to Fuji.
But, the problem was, love was never a two way street.
And, Mizuki also knew, the heart was needed in understanding Yuuta.
And, perhaps, that was one things that the tensai didn't know.
30 December 2004
10:22p