Sandra: Right I am back from holiday and full of inspiration!
"Ochibi-chan! Relax!" Eiji said placing a hand on Ryoma's shoulder, the boy glared at his sempai.
"I AM relaxed!" He exclaimed.
"Then why are you shaking like your locked in a fridge freezing to death?" Momo-chan said pointing out the obvious.
"Cause I AM freezing to death!" Ryoma yelled, pointing at the air conditioning turned on full blast above him.
"You know you can turn it off." Kaidoh said turning around in his seat.
Ryoma again pointed at the air conditioning, apparently the screw to turn it off was broken, and there was no other seats around for him to go to.
"Oh…too bad." Momo-chan said snickering and turning back round.
Ryoma glared at the two second year sempais, then he felt a shirt draped over him and a arm around his shoulder.
"It's not much, but at least I can keep you warm nya." Eiji said smiling warmly at the boy, Ryoma blushed but looked down to hide it, mumbling his thanks.
Oishi who sat on the opposite side of them looked over and smiled too.
"Bless them." He said to himself, but Tezuka heard him and looked away from the window to his two team mates.
He nodded, Oishi looked at Tezuka and smiled.
"We will soon be arriving outside the NG Studios. Please grab all your belongings before leaving." The coach driver called into the speakers.
All the Seigaku members grabbed their rucksacks from above them, Ryoma was about to stand to get his when the coach skid to a halt and he fell back down, landing on Eiji's lap. The two stared at each other for a while, but when Ryoma's bag fell from above onto his seat, the two snapped out of the faze, very startled.
As the Seigaku members got off the coach, they shielded their eyes from the blaring sun as they looked up at the NG studios company which was enormous.
"Eiji-chan!" A voice cried, running at great speed at the red head, causing both to fall onto the ground.
"Ryuichi-chan!" Eiji said, hugging his cousin tightly.
"Ne, I'm so happy to see you again! It's been so long!" Ryuichi sang as he stood up and pulled up his younger relative.
"Hello everyone. Nice to see you all again." A much calmer voice said, all eyes turned to the blonde male in expensive clothes that can only be rivalled by Atobe Keigo. It was Seiguchi Tohma.
"Ah, Tohma-san, nice to see you again." Fuji said, bowing to the older male.
"Ah, Fuji-kun. Glad you made it. We got so much we still need to discuss. I didn't get your cell phone number the last time." Tohma said, smiling just the same as Fuji.
"Yeah, we'll deal with that later. How's that singer from Ask doing?" Fuji asked.
"Oh, well, he's been…dealt with." Tohma said, Fuji opened his eyes, a glint ran past both their eyes as they both chuckled. Everyone except Ryuichi began to shiver.
"Ah, Eiji-chan, so this pretty girl here must be your girlfriend na no da?" Ryuichi asked noticing Ryoma standing behind the group.
"Uh…ha…hai…" Eiji said smiling nervously.
Ryoma took this as his cue to step forward. Doing a small curtsy he bowed.
"Wow, she's so cute! Eiji-chan so lucky!" Ryuichi said letting go of his cousin and standing in front of Ryoma.
"Konnichiwa. I'm Eiji's older cousin Sakuma Ryuichi. You can call me Ryuichi-chan!" The singer introduced himself.
"Hi. It's nice to meet you." Ryoma said politely.
"Ne, ne, what's your name?" Ryuichi asked, tilting his head in a curious and cute way.
"My name…it's uh…R…Ry…Ryoko…Echizen." Ryoma said slowly. 'Baka.'
"Ryoko? Hmm…Kawaii!" Ryuichi said, everyone released the breath they didn't even realise they was holding until that moment.
"Ne, ne, Tohma!" Ryuichi called as he dragged Ryoma over with him by his hand.
"This is Ryoko-chan! Eiji-chan's girlfriend! Kawaii ne?" Ryuichi said.
"She is rather cute. Nice to meet you." Tohma said smiling.
Eiji's cheeks inflated as his cousin still held onto Ryoma's hand, and boy was he jealous.
"Ne, Ryoko-chan, we got to get to our hotel now." Eiji said, taking Ryoma's hand and leading him away.
"Oh…see you later Eiji-chan! See you later Ryoko-chan1 BYE EVERYONE!" Ryuichi called, waving Kumagoro's arm at them.
"Ja ne." Fuji said to Tohma.
"See you later." Tohma said. Then Fuji parted too.
"Ne, Kikumaru-sempai, why are you walking so fast?" Ryoma asked, noticing the firm grip his sempai had on his hand.
"Because I want to see what our hotel looks like." Eiji lied quickly as they soon made it to their hotel.
"Eiji! Wait up!" Oishi cried as he finally managed to stop his team mates Olympic run.
"Nya?" Eiji turned around and saw Oishi panting heavily with Ryoma, and saw everyone else running after them still.
"Ah….gomen…" He said smiling, scratching the back of his head.
"SUGOI! This hotel is HUGE!" Momo-chan said as he looked all around him.
"Shut up baka! Your embarrassing!" Kaidoh hissed, but Momo-chan ignored his rival.
"Alright, here's our room cards, we have to share rooms, but someone will have to stay on their own." Tezuka said.
"So the pair ups will be…" Oishi started, everyone looked at their vice-captain as if they were being told who they will be facing in the ranking tournaments.
"Tezuka and Fuji." The two mentioned nodded.
"Myself and Eiji." Eiji sighed as he discovered who his roommate is, and wasn't who he wanted.
"Momoshiro and Kaidoh." The two went bug eyed, then turned to each other and glared fiercely.
"Takeshi and Inui." Inui adjusted his glasses and Kawamura just smiled politely at his roommate.
"So therefore Echizen stays on his own." Ryoma shrugged.
"Why does Echizen get to stay on his own?" Momo-chan complained, not wanting to share a room with Kaidoh.
"Because Echizen is a 'girl', and we're all guys." Oishi said. Momo-chan shut his mouth and nodded.
"Let's go." Tezuka said as they all made their way to their rooms.
"Ne, Oishi…" Eiji said as he and Oishi began to unpack.
"What's the matter?" Oishi looked at his team mate with that motherly worry.
"Do…do you think…I stand a chance with Ochibi-chan?" Eiji asked, finally looking up from his clothes.
"I think you do." Oishi said smiling warmly as he walked over and placed an arm around his doubles partners shoulder.
"Sankyuu." He said, then turned to the window and looked out in a daze.
"So what are you going to do then?" Oishi asked.
"I…don't know." Eiji said, pulling out of Oishi's arm and continued packing.
'Let's hope tonight's party would give you the courage to.' Oishi thought.
"Who are we waiting for?" Momo-chan asked as he looked at the group, they were sitting in the lobby getting ready to head to the party but some people were missing. Or to be precise, ONE person was missing.
"Echizen is taking rather long." Kawamura said.
"The probability of Echizen being late…100" Inui said, looking through his data book.
"Someone go up there and make that boy hurry up." Kaidoh said.
"I'll go get him." Eiji said getting up from his seat, catching the lift, he went up.
However, as Eiji's lift's doors closed, the lift next to him opened and Ryoma walked out.
"Echizen! You're late!" Momo-chan said pointing accusingly at the first year.
"Where's Kikumaru-sempai?" Kaidoh asked noticing their red head team mate wasn't around.
"I don't know." Ryoma said.
"Ah, he must've gone up just as you were coming down!" Oishi said.
"Stay here, I'm sure he'll come down when he notices you're not in." Tezuka said.
"ne, Ochibi-chan, we're very late now, hurry up and come down." Eiji said knocking on the door.
There was no reply.
'Maybe he's too busy getting ready that he can't hear me…maybe now's a good time to tell him.' Eiji thought.
"Ochibi-chan…" Eiji started, then cleared his throat.
"For quite a while…I…kept thinking about you…at first I thought…it was because you was cute that I liked being around you…but then…" Eiji breathed again.
"I began feeling really weird, and I knew it was more than like…I…I think I…I think I'm in love with you…" Eiji released his breath. Unknowing to him, someone was listening to his confessions.
"For a while, I began trying to find the courage to tell you this, but was always too scared…of what you would say back or do…" Eiji placed a hand against the door.
"If you would just give me a chance…I…I…" Eiji was suddenly cut off.
"You would what?" Eiji turned startled and looked at the eavesdropper.
"You…you…heard?" Eiji gulped.
"Every word."
"I…I…"
A smile formed on the others lips.
"Eiji is taking a really long time." Oishi wondered out loud.
"I think someone should go up and get him." Fuji said, everyone nodded and was about to nominate someone to go when they saw Eiji come around the corner.
"Eiji! Are you alright? What happened?" Oishi asked.
"Nothing, I just…left something in our room and had to go get it." Eiji smiled, everyone "ohh"ed and nodded.
"Let's go then!" Eiji said before his eyes landed on Ryoma and he took in a breath.
All the Seigaku members were dressed smartly, in their shirts, some wearing ties, some wearing denim trousers and others wearing normal trousers, nice clean shoes, hair done neatly. But Ryoma, acting as a girl, was dressed differently, and very attractively.
His hair was straight and flicked out with a nice glossy shine to it, a simple necklace and pair of clip on earrings, a white sleeveless dress that went down to just above his knees and a pair of white shoes to match his dress. He looked like an angel.
"Eiji, let's go then." Oishi said, Eiji snapped out of his thoughts and walked.
"WAIT!" Momo-chan cried, everyone stopped and looked at the powerhouse.
"Eiji-sempai and Echizen got to hold hands if they want to look like a couple." He said just before they neared the hall where the party was held.
Eiji and Ryoma blushed but linked hands. A surge of electricity ran through them both.
"Let's go." Tezuka said as they handed their invitations to the bouncer and walked in.
"Eiji-chan!" Ryuichi cried as he ran over to the group.
"Ryoko-chan!" Ryuichi cheered too.
"Hi Ryuichi-chan!" Eiji said smiling, holding onto Ryoma tightly.
"I have to introduce you to one of my bestest friends Ryoko-chan!" Ryuichi said, dragging Ryoma who held onto Eiji.
"SHU-CHAN!" Ryuichi sang as he bounced over to a pink headed male.
The pink haired male turned around, but it wasn't Shuichi.
"Eh…ah, gomen Marui-kun! Where's Shu-chan?" Ryuichi asked.
"Marui!" Eiji exclaimed, rubbed his eyes and looked again.
It was definitely Marui Bunta of Rikkaidai.
"Hmm…Kikumaru. From Seigaku. What are you doing here?" Marui asked as he blew another bubble from his gum.
"He's my cousin!" Ryuichi exclaimed happily.
"What are you doing here?" Eiji asked.
"Here with my cousin." Marui said.
"Cousin?" Ryoma asked.
"Shu-chan!" Marui called, then another pink haired male bounced over, this male was wearing very stylish rocker clothes.
"SHU-CHAN! You remember Eiji! This is his girlfriend Ryoko-chan!" Ryuichi cheered, letting go of Ryoma to glomp Shuichi.
"Nice to meet you." Shuichi smiled.
"Wait, if you're here, then by chance, does that mean…" Eiji turned back and looked to see Tezuka conversing with Yukimura Seiichi, Rikkaidai's captain.
Looked to his left and saw Sanada Genichirou, but he also saw Atobe, which wasn't really to his surprise.
"Why is Atobe here?" Ryoma asked curiously.
"Oh! He's one of Tohma's friends." Ryuichi said.
"Marui-kun!" everyone turned to see Jirou run over.
"Oh my god, Kawaii-chan's here!" Jirou exclaimed grabbing hold of Ryoma's free hand.
"It must be fate!" Said the Hyotei player.
"She's Eiji-chan's! Let go." Ryuichi said as he slapped Jirou's hand.
"She what?" Jirou asked blinking.
"I'm afraid he's right Jirou." Atobe said as he walked over, smirking.
"Atobe!" Jirou cried at his captain.
Atobe looked at Eiji and smirked.
FLASHBACK
"You…you…heard?" Eiji gulped.
"Every word."
"I…I…"
Atobe smirked.
"Looks like you're a step ahead of everyone else." Atobe said walking over to Eiji.
Eiji blushed and looked at the ground.
"I wouldn't normally help others, but seeing as this girl does seem to like you back, it's only a waste of time for Jirou to keep fawning for her." Atobe started.
"I'll help you all I can, BUT…" Atobe said.
"But what?" Eiji asked.
"You must keep her away from Jirou." Atobe said, Eiji blinked.
'That's a pretty dumb reason, but whatever.'
"OK." Eiji said, shaking Atobe's hand.
END FLASHBACK
Eiji smiled at Atobe, then lead Ryoma off.
"Just forget about her Jirou." Atobe said, Jirou sniffled, then puffed up his chest.
"No way! This is like in a fairy tale! I must save her from his evil wrath!" Jirou cheered.
Atobe blinked then sighed.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, tonight we have a special performance." Tohma said down the microphone. Everyone's attention went to the stage.
"We have four young performers from Rikkaidai school who will perform a piece for us to enjoy." Tohma said, as he left the stage, the curtains rose, to reveal Yanagi Renji on the guitar, Yagyuu Hiroshi on the drums, Niou Masaharu on the bass guitar and Kirihara Akaya on the microphone.
"Thank you Tohma-san." Kirihara said down the microphone, suddenly, the lights dimmed and a tune began.
Kirihara opened his mouth and began to sing.
"Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends"
People began to gather on the dance floor and move to the song.
"like my fathers come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends"
Eiji looked at Ryoma before leading him to the dance floor, Ryoma didn't know what to do but follow.
"here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are
as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends"
Eiji held onto Ryoma's waist and begand to dance, Ryoma was blushing and burning up from the closeness and the touch. Placing his arms around Eiji's neck was the only thing he can think of doing after watching all the people around him.
"summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends"
"This is nice…" Ryoma thought but said out loud unknowingly.
"I know." Eiji said, Ryoma looked up and blinked, staring into those deep blue eyes, he felt so warm and light.
At that moment, it was just the two of them and the sound of the music in the background.
"ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when september ends
here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again"
"Ne, Ochibi-chan…" Eiji started.
Ryoma blinked and nodded.
"becoming who we are
as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when september ends"
"Have you ever fell in love before?" Eiji asked.
Ryoma blushed.
"Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends"
Eiji rest his forehead against Ryoma and looked deeply into the others eyes.
"I have." He said, raising his lips to the boys forehead and kissing it lightly.
"like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends
wake me up when september ends"
Ryoma flushed, he didn't know what to do, and as the song came to an end, he slowly moved away from Eiji and bowed.
"I need to use the bathroom, excuse me." He said as he ran off.
Eiji watched as he suddenly felt like his heart has split in half.
TBC > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
Sandra: I'm sorry I haven't updated, but now I'm full of inspiration, if you still want me to continue then let me know that! Bye!