Chapter 3

Questioning Pieces

My last clues, of buchou, were his "Se" and "U" and an eye for blue eyes. I still couldn't get it, but one thing did cross me mind. Perhaps buchou had not meant just one special person, but, like me, that has tow, three, or even more. I might not be the only one to find "happy" in many people.

"Eiji?" Fuji asked me, "Just what did Keigo mean about Kunimitsu?" He laughed and patted my shoulder. "I know, never mind. Keigo doesn't know about Kunimitsu and I." Fuji held his hands to his chest, over his heart. "I'm so glad Kunimitsu talks about me so much, he must really love me."

Fuji was talking about buchou again. I was getting nervous, but then I thought about what he just said. What if Atobe didn't know about Fuji and buchou? What if that hint was misleading me? I was confused, I didn't know anymore. "You are possibly correct, Shusuke. Let's just carry on with our survey."

"There are so many people to ask, Eiji, we can't possibly ask everyone." Fuji looked around the courts, grinning. "Yuuta! Fuji spotted his brother, called to him, and waved. "Big brother Shusuke needs to talk with you!"

Yuuta's head snapped in Fuji's direction. He gritted his teeth and walked towards us with his head down. "Yes, Shusuke."

"I have a question for you, that will be answered, yes?" Fuji hugged his brother and I saw Yuuta's face tinted with pink.

"Yes, Shusuke." Yuuta answered again. I watched egerly as Yuuta moved away from Fuji. I assumed, before Fuji would ask, Yuuta might actually say it was Fuji who made him happy. That thought made me giggle.

Fuji held Yuuta's hands and smiled happily, "Yuuta, do I make you happpy? No, is there anyone besides me, that makes you happy?"

Yuuta's face turned bright red, he looked away from his brother and tried to escape. I knew that Fuji knew Yuuta would try to run, so he held a tight grip around Yuuta's wrists. "No one does, except—"

Fuji laughed, "Hajime can't make anyone happy. He's not an option."

"Oh," Yuuta kicked the ground, "Well, it wasn't him, I assure you."

I laughed at the two, it was funny how much Fuji despised Mizuki. "Make you brother happy, Yuuta, and answer him.

Yuuta growled at me, "I can't say it."

"Don't then." Fuji snatched my notebook and paper. "Write it." I was startled as he took my things, then I giggled at Fuji suggestion. Fuji wrote down Yuuta's name in a page then held out the open notebook and pet to his brother. He repeated, "Write it, Yuuta.

Yuuta stared, then sighed, as if he was just going to give up to Fuji that wan't like Yuuta at all. He took my notebook and pen, his hand was shaking as he wrote, and then he stopped. "Shusuke…" Yuuta whined slightly. "Aniki…this is—Why are you even asking me such a thing?"

"It's for me," I said grabbing Fuji's arm and dragging him to stand beside me. "It's a survey, trust me, no one else will see it except me, okay?" I lied.

"The how about me?" Fuji looked at me then gave cute pleading eyes at his little brother.

"Fine, but Aniki can't see." Yuuta finished writing the name and shut the notebook. "Here." I watch as Yuuta looked up, with his face flushed, and then he walked away playing with his hands nervously. He had given the notebook to me and I was a bit curious to see what he had written.

"Let me see!" Fuji flipped to the page Yuuta had written on. Fuji stared at the page and he looked very pleased at what he saw. "You know it wasn't nice to lie to my brother. You were intending to show me anyway, right?"

I nodded, I really was going to show him. Oishi told me no to lie or to deceive people, but I had my reasons. I have a reason for everything I do, don't I? "You must be really glad it's no Hajime, ne?"

"Yeah, of course." Fuji smiled and stared in a direction. "At least I like Saeki Kojirou." He squinted his eyes, I watched him wondering what he'd be staring at. "Is that Kunimitsu?"

I gave a startled look, I couldn't believe that buchou would come here. "Where?" I bounced up and down.

"I know Kunimitsu anywhere, that's him." Fuji nodded at me as I kept looking. I soon spotted him, but what confused me was that he was with people not from Seigaku.

"Ah! Tezuka's here!" I watched as someone ran by me. A red head that Fuji and I talked to already— Kamio Akira.

"Hey, you, stop." Fuji held out his arm stopping Kamo from going further. "Why are you going to see my Kunimitsu, Akira?"

"We've been waiting for him, I would've been over there sooner, but Shinji wouldn't le me go." Kamio laughed and tried to get pass Fuji.

"Answer me first." Fuji placed his arm back to his side. "Why is Kunimitsu here?" My best friend asked waiting for a reply.

"Oh, he just wanted to hang out with us." Kamio grinned, then he unwrapped apiece of gum and popped it into his mouth.

"Who's us?" fuji looked at me like I knew. I shrugged at him and stared at Kamio.

Kamio stood there laughing, "The guys and me, you know. Sanada and Sengoku, even sometimes Atobe hangs out with us. Oh, and rarely does Mizuki hang out with us, he's normally only there because he doesn't want his boyfriend to do something idiotic."

"Oh, okay." Fuji smiled and let Kamio continue on to his Tezuka.

I thought for a second. What was weird was that buchou was hanging around people besides Seigaku regulars, but they were all from different schools. Sanada from Rikkaidai, Sengoku form Yamabuki, Kamio from Fudomine, Atobe from Hyotei, even Mizuki from St. Rudolph. How does that connect, I wondered. Wait, they all, or at least two of them knew something about buchou. So! That must mean buchou is the one who adores Mizuki's lover, but I don't know who his lover is just yet. All I know now is that Mizuki's lover is either: Sanada, Kamio, Atobe, or Sengoku. Hopefully I'm at least correct this far into the game. "We should question Sengoku, Shusuke, he's the only one we haven't asked that is hanging around buchou."

"Yes, so, that's not really important. There are many more people around her, for instance Tachibana Kippei, Yoshirou Akazawa, Kirihara Akaya, Taichi Dan, and Inui." Fuji stared at Inui, "When did he get here?"

"Don't know." I tried to get Fuji form going else where, so I began walking toward buchou and the guys.

Buchou loked in my direction as I neared with Fuji. He quickly turn away facing Sanada. "Uh, Excuse me—" Fuji Said, I noticed that he probably wanted to talk to buchou about going somewhere and not telling him.

I cut off Fuji from finishing, I couldn't have let him scare away my prey. "We! Need to talk to Sengoku Kiyosumi!"

"Yeah, that's me." Sengoku stepped forwards with his hands in his pockets.

"Come with me, please." I grabbed Sengoku's arm to drag him away. I glanced at buchou from the corner of my eye, he made this face at me, a disgusted one, which confused me lots. After buchou gave that face he turned to Kamio and Sanada and the three laughed. Buchou laughed! I was so scared.

I took Sengoku a couple of feet from the other guys and I smiled and stared. "So, What'd ya want?" Sengoku shook my hand off.

"I just wanted to know if anyone made you happy?" I slapped my forehead just remembering this was Sengoku, the girl lover.

Sengoku smiled and laughed, "I guess it's not one person." He stuck his tongue out at me.

"Okay, I'm guessing guys aren't included in you "happy" list." I sighed. I guess I didn't get much out of him…


Finally I'm donewith Chapter 3, it took me all day to write. Oh yes, sorry about the hang off at the end, but I'm pretty sure a lot of clues were given in this chapter, too. I just hope I can end this soon, or else I might not be able to finish it ever. Thanks for reading. Hajime O.o