I don't know why i wrote this chapter... i just felt like it i guess. please leave me a comment, sankyuu!

Disclaimer: spare me, I'm running a temperature. I do not own POT!!!

Fudomine: Case 2

He was having a bad headache. He really wondered if it was a good thing or not. It might have been an advantage to the team, but it was starting to get out of hand. Maybe he should just step in as the Buchou and put an end to this horrendous mess... But then again, that might affect their play, and eventually the team. It happened again, right in front of him. He furrowed his brows and sighed deeply.

"Kamio! Stop kissing Ibu!"

The crimson-haired boy broke away and blushed apologetically.

"The fact that I didn't say anything about your relationship doesn't mean that you can go ahead and make full use of that and fool around during practice!"

"Hai, gomen, Buchou!"

"Actually none of this would have happened if that Momo guy from Seigaku didn't tell us about that website called fanfiction. net. I didn't want to read it at all, it was Akira who said it wouldn't harm to take a look if it could improve our doubles play, so I read it. So all in all, it's that Momo guy's fault. And that Echizen. If it wasn't for his annoying 'mada mada da ne', I wouldn't have read the web page. I only read it because I wanted to beat their doubles pairing so that he wouldn't have the chance to say 'mada mada da ne' again…"

"Enough, Ibu!"

"Sumimasen, Buchou, we'll go practice now."

Kamio covered Ibu's mouth with his hand and dragged him away before Tachibana blew his top.

It had been a tiring day at practice for the Fudomine team, especially so for the captain, Tachibana Kippei. Apart from keeping an eye on all the players, making sure they were practicing hard and giving them advice at suitable times, he had to keep a special lookout for the 'newly wedded' Kamio Akira and Ibu Shinji. The warning he gave them didn't seem to be good enough to stop them from displaying their affections during practice. Yet, he could do nothing much in particular since their doubles play had indeed made tremendous improvement ever since they got together. All he could do was sigh. Every time he caught them kissing, the reason would always be Kamio was kissing Ibu to shut him up. He really had no idea whether he should consider that a valid reason or not.


Tachibana Residence.

Whenever Tachibana felt stressed out or tired, a nice relaxing hot bath always did the trick. It would always leave him rejuvenated and energetic for his next task ahead. Today was no exception. He took his hot bath, and made himself forget about whatever happened at training this afternoon. It really wasn't worth wrecking his brain frustrated over Kamio and Ibu since it was already off school hours. On his way back to his room, he walked past his sister's room and heard the girl giggling inside. Feeling curious, he knocked on the door.

"Come in."

He opened the door and saw his sister sitting in front of the computer. He was sort of surprised since he thought she must have been giggling while talking on the phone to one of those girl friends of hers.

"Oni-chan!"

"I heard you giggling. What's that funny?"

"Oh! This website I heard about from my friend, www. fanfiction. net. It's REALLY interesting."

"Fan fiction? what's that?"

"Oni-chan, you're so not up-to-date! Come and have a look! There's a lot on Fudomine ne!"

The boy walked to where his sister was seated and looked at whatever she was reading. He never knew such sites existed since he didn't really like working with computers. It was a new thing to him, and he found it quite intriguing. He quite liked the idea of it, until… Ann had to click on a title that contained shounen-ai. More specifically, KamioShinji pairing.

Unknowingly, he was reading the fic, but soon he came to realize there was something different about this one. There was an uncanny resemblance of what he had experienced the past few days at practice. That was to his misfortune, of course, Kamio and Ibu were kissing. A vein popped out on his forehead as his eyes widened in disbelief.

"Ann! Why are you reading such things? It's not very educational you know."

"Oni-chan! But it's interesting ne? I bet you thought so too."

"What's interesting? Kamio kissing Ibu?!"

"Um… not that of course, I mean the storylines, they're so creative! Besides, Kamio-kun and Shinji-kun are very close friends aren't they? It's not that unusual, really. I mean, even Momoshiro-kun and Echizen-kun are… you know… not straight."

"I thought you liked Kamio?"

"Nani?! I do not, Oni-chan!"

"Whatever it is, Kamio is in reality dating Ibu now."

"Hontou?! How come he never told me?"

"Maybe he didn't want you to know."

"Maa… we're good friends, he should have told me. See, so the fan fiction was correct after all!"

"…"

"Ne, oni-chan, who do you like? I want to write my own fan fiction!"

"What? Please, of all people, don't write about me."

"Why… oni-chan's so petty. Alright then, I'll write about Momoshiro-kun and Echizen-kun. Echizen-kun and Fuji-senpai sounds exciting too! Or, maybe I should write about Kamio-kun and Shinji-kun!"

Tachibana felt his headache coming back on. Curiosity does indeed kill the cat. He made a wrong choice to be curious of what his sister was giggling at. If he had just left her alone, none of this would have happened. And he thought that he had gotten away from Kamio and Ibu's intimacy since he was in the safety of his home. It never ever crossed his mind that he would be bothered by the couple within the boundaries of his house. Seems like the safest place is in fact the most dangerous place, as so heard before.

Now, he wondered how those authors could have pictured the two boys together even before they were dating each other. He, being around them almost everyday of the week, didn't even see anything apart from them being friends and teammates.

/What on earth were those fan fiction authors thinking?! They must have really vivid imaginations. Kamio and Ibu are both males, for crying out loud! It's… wrong? Is it? It should be, I guess. But Ann said that Momoshiro and Echizen were… and I think something's between Seigaku's Golden Pair too. Is it really that common already? Why am I thinking of all these? Oh whatever!/

-owari-