Thirteen

Graduation at Saint Rudolph came soon for Mizuki. Way too soon for his liking. Mizuki agreed to come with Yuuta to see his brother's own graduation. The next day Mizuki would be out of his dorm for good and he made sure that the dorm would belong to Yuuta. He packed all of his belongings and went down stairs finding Yuuta leaning against the wall waiting for him. He was a little more dressed up than he usually would be and Mizuki felt proud that poked Yuuta into doing it.

"Ready?" asked Yuuta.

Mizuki nodded. They made their way to Yumiko's sports car, as she had came back to Japan to watch her younger brother finish highschool. She smiled at the pair of teenagers and took them quickly out to get bubble tea so they wouldn't go too hungry during the ceremony since Mizuki and Yuuta were both skipping the feast at Saint Rudolph's to attend Syusuke's graduation.

They made their way to Seishun Gakuen where the campus was crowded as people made their way into the auditorium. There were many families along with students packed into the place. Yuuta, Yumiko, and Mizuki met up with the rest of the Fuji family on the balcony after walked through the overly crowded halls. Yumiko fished out her silver digital camera while Yuuta was left in charge of the camcorder.

"Nfu, Yuuta if your arm gets tired holding that you're welcome to let me hold it. I can probably keep it still better than you can anyway," offered Mizuki.

Yuuta rolled his eyes.

"Shut up; I can hold the camera just as steady as you can thank you very much. And if my arm does get tired fine; it's not exactly heavy but fine. Just don't drop it like the clumsy person you are," he snapped.

Mizuki made that face in which he was insulted, the way a girl looked insulted might we add.

"Why I never!" he hissed.

Yuuta was about to reply with something snide but the lights in the place dimmed and the graduation ceremony began. The headmaster spoke first greeting everyone who had arrived. Shuichiro Oishi then gave a quick speech as he was a school president. The president of leadership also gave a speech as well. Yuuta saw only saw through the tiny screen on the camera and felt maybe even a little nervous leaning on the railing to capture his old brother's graduation on tape until he felt a small hand encircle his own free one.

Yuuta looked to see if his parents had noticed. It wouldn't have been a good sign if they had. But thankfully they had went downstairs to take pictures and were right below them. The only person with them was Yumiko who stared down at their hands smiling fondly. Yuuta blushed a little and swung his head around as he heard his brother's name called for the first award.

Literature of course was the first to be given out to him, then classics of course. Mizuki in the middle of the ceremony wanted to record a little. Yuuta felt nervous about it but agreed to let him take over. The wood that kept anyone from falling over the edge was there, similar to railing you could say. Yuuta figured out he could easy place his arms around Mizuki's waist and nobody would ever know. Not even below them where his parents still were.

Mizuki made a quiet little chuckle and leaned into Yuuta a little. It was a comfortable position to where Mizuki wouldn't drop the camcorder or god forbid fall. It was close to the end of the awards ceremony that Yumiko poked Yuuta on the back quickly. Yuuta moved away from Mizuki quickly before his parents saw him and quietly thanked his sister for warning him. Yumiko was a savior sometimes. Honestly.

A third year ended up playing the piano with the chorus that preformed a popular J-Pop song; one being Dream's "Everlasting Snow", then going into an older song by the composer Yoko Kanno "The Real Folk Blues" and at the end everyone laughed as the teacher did not assign such a song to the list but the blonde haired third year automatically went into playing L'Arc-En-Ciel's 'Lost Heaven'. The teacher looked dumbfounded and the chorus and even the audience had sang along with the song. Syusuke and Ryoma Echizen (who was attending to see his senpais graduate and was down below them) being the most accurate with the English parts in the song.

Everyone applauded at the ending tunes. The headmaster came back up saying that everyone would be dismissed within five minutes that they needed to unlock the doors. While that was going on some of the odd people in crowd of students started doing what they'd do during a football game or a basketball game doing the little stomping thing to "We will Rock You". Yuuta ended up laughing at that because it ended up being funny.

Seishun's graduation ceremony ended up being a lot more exciting than the one at Saint Rudolph's to where everyone would get scolded for such a thing. The teachers here seemed not to care and tended to laugh or join along with it. I mean sheesh it was the last day of school; who would give detention on the last day of school unless you had stick up the ass…

The remaining last minute of the whole thing ended up being with a twenty second countdown. Some older teenagers and even some younger on the balcony were unscrewing water bottles and some had water balloons; and some of the more mature people had confetti to throw and one teacher was up on the balcony with a whole bucket of candy. Mizuki looked horrified a little; like there was going to be a huge chaotic mess.

"Don't worry about it. It's the last of school here and the last time people will even be here so they just let it happen," Yuuta reassured.

"But it's so uncivilized," said Mizuki.

"Psh for you," said Yuuta.

3…2…..1

Some screams from below them were heard as some of the teenagers dumped the water bottles off balcony. Candy and confetti was thrown and people caught whatever was near them. It wasn't as chaotic as Mizuki thought it would be. After all that ended everyone headed outside in a not-so-orderly fashion.

Yuuta met his brother and his friends outside. Fuji had bit of confetti in his hair and was smiling as he saw Yuuta. He hugged him and Yuuta scrambled away.

"I'm glad you made it," he said.

"Don't worry we got it all on tape," reassured Mizuki holding up the camcorder.

"Ah thank you Yuuta," said Fuji.

Mizuki rolled his eyes looking pissed that he was being ignored again…

Yuuta looked at the crowd of people. Momoshiro and Ryoma were sharing some candy with eachother while Kaidoh ran away from his little brother who had a water bottle and a water gun in his hand. Obviously both brothers had come to see Inui who was soaking wet and obviously Hazue had ended up bringing a special water bottle to dump on Inui from the balcony.

Seigaku's Golden Pair was talking excitedly with one another about where they were heading to this summer to vacation to. Something about Nagasaki. Yuuta turned back to where is brother was. He was having a conversation with him. Tezuka Kunimitsu who was looking a little irked from what happened in the auditorium but none the less he still looked as though he could still make the tennis team run laps on the last day of school.

"Ne Tezuka, tomorrow I'm moving into my new house. Maybe you should come over," said Fuji.

Tezuka looked at him and blinked.

"Already?" he asked.

Fuji nodded.

"As a graduation present of course. It's actually quite a big house; it'll get lonely. Maybe you could stay there with me, it's quite a large space and it's really nice; I wouldn't care if I had to pay bills or anything. I just want you to stay with me," he explained.

"I don't know.."

"Just consider it Kunimitsu," said Fuji.

There was a long silence between them and Tezuka looked deep in thought and Fuji waited for him to say something.

" Fuji, promise me that you'll do something great in life… No matter what you do I want you to be as successful as you can be out there. Be as close as you can to the best," said Tezuka suddenly.

Fuji's eyes opened, he smiled softly, and pressed his forehead to Tezuka's own.

"I will try my best if you will too. The only thing about it is; I want us both to go to the top together. Kunimitsu, I know it sounds selfish but I don't want us to part ways with anyone and especially not eachother. You could travel anywhere Tezuka but eventually I'd find you. And if you left me and never looked back I'd die!" he said quickly, the sentences were being jumbled up as he talked so fast.

"I won't leave because I have no where to go if I did. Everything will be okay I promise," Tezuka reassured.

Syusuke smiled and hugged him taking in his scent and letting his lips softly brush against his neck as if it were an accident. Tezuka didn't move to place his arms around him; he just stood there and let Fuji do whatever.

"Promise me that you won't do anything stupid," said Tezuka he looked as though he was about to cry.

"I promise."

"Swear it."

"I swear it."

"There, everything is well. Just remember that you promised me that," said Tezuka.

Fuji nodded and then Eiji pounced on him.

"Fujiko!" he exclaimed happily. Oishi laughed at the hyper red head with his hyper-ness. Ryoma and Momoshiro had also stopped fighting over the last piece of bubble gum and went over to say goodbye. Just a little ways over Kaidoh was doing the same to Inui.

"Inui-senpai..," he began.

"Hm?"

"I-I...I'll miss you here," he forced himself to stutter out.

Inui just smiled.

"Don't worry we'll see eachother all the time when we train. It's not exactly goodbye," he replied.

"Yeah I know. I'm acting stupid...fsshu. Maybe I'm trying to say something else but it's not coming out right," said Kaidoh.

"Maybe so; could you try to get it out right then?" Inui asked.

Kaidoh took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

"Inui-senpai I lo-" he began but felt cold wetness hit from the head down.

Hazue had got him with the water gun by hiding a tree.

"HAZUE!" he roared out. The little kid hopped from the tree to the ground and ran for it before his brother could behead him.

Yuuta and Mizuki looked at eachother and both silently agreed that if they were to be together they'd have to put up with Syusuke's friends. It wasn't a bad thing it was just all that could go on in one day.

(A/N: Yes I realize that a Japanese graduation ceremony would NEVER ve like this. XD Sheesh not even an American graduation ceremony would be like this! Well except for the stomping to "We Will Rock You" which was done last year in my 7th grade year.. Yeah, anyway we're getting reeeeally close to the sequel section of this fic. But there's a couple things that need to be capped up and said before then! Until next chapter!)