1Café
By: 1xmocha
Pairing: OT5
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis nor the characters.
Chapter 3
As soon as he heard Ryoma's voice he was relieved. Fuji, and old time friend and once-upon-a-time ex-lover, called him today about his new interest that he met at a café. As soon as he heard the name of this said interest he almost dropped the phone.
Ryoma...
Ryoma had been I guess you could call it his first love. He had known the boy since he was 7 so for about 14 years now. As a child he held a flame for tennis and so di Ryoma. He had met the boy at a tennis function and as soon as there eyes met he knew they would be rivals forever.
He didn't, however, expect it to turn into love.
Yes THE Tezuka Kunimitsu who would rather die then show a sign of weakness had somehow fallen in love with a brat.
Ryoma had always been there. He just never acted upon it. And he thought he would always be there when he was ready...
But today's call changed everything.
He need to tell Ryoma before it was too late.
He had ran all the way to the café where he worked just to find him with another man.
A very fine one at that but...
Still...
He was use to seeing Ryoma with other men. He saw their looks of lust and so on. Heck he got them himself every once in awhile.
"Kunimitsu..." Ryoma spoke with a smile.
Tezuka twitched his lips up a little in a ghost of a smile.
"Ryoma..."
"Ahem." the man cleared his throat as a sign to break out of their trance.
"Oh yeah."Ryoma spoke getting Tezuka a glass of water. "You don't know each other yet. Kuni this is Monkey king, a regular here, and monkey king this is Tezuka, my mentor and best friend."
"..."
Well...he was about to change the best friend part but whatever...
"Nice to meet you. I am Atobe Keigo." Atobe smirked.
He could tell that even though ryoma claimed they were best friends, Tezuka wanted to be more. And with the look Ryoma gave him, so did he.
It made his blood boil.
He was not giving up on Ryoma without a fight.
Like they say keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer.
Plus it didn't hurt the fact that Tezuka was highly good looking.
"Great then. Make nice nice with monkey king for a while Kuni." Ryoma spoke with a smile as he turned to leave.
"I get off work in thirty minutes so that's when we can go play our 'game'."Ryoma winked..
Atobe figured he might have turned a little red because Tezuka tried to stifle a laugh.
"Not 'that' king of game. A game of tennis. We have been playing for 14 years."
Oh...
"It's ok.. No need to be embarrassed." he spoke with a smile.
Atobe stared at him and then smirked.
Why go after one person when he could get 2?
Because he hadn't the heart to try and slit them apart despite his earlier intentions.
With Ryoma he got Tezuka and with tezuka he got Ryoma. It was a pretty straight forward deal and either way he won.
Life was good.
Until that call.
"Hello?"
Atobe and Tezuka looked at Ryoma who had just answered his cell.
"Oh Fuji-san."
Atobe narrowed his eyes as he hear that name.
Who was this Fuji guy?
He turned to look at Tezuka's pale face.
Did he know who this was?
"Oh you want me to come today? No it's not a problem."
Atobe narrowed his eyes even further.
Ryoma hung up his phone and looked apologetically at Tezuka.
"I'm sorry Kuni. Something came up. But maybe we can play later?" Ryoma pouted.
Tezuka smiled at his typical cuteness. "It's fine. I'll always be here for you."
Ryoma smiled even brighter.
"Thanks. See you tomorrow. Bye monkey king, bye Kuni."
"Bye."
"Is it ok to let him go?"
"Yes."
"Why may I ask?
"Were going to follow him."
Oh...
Atobe smirked.
This was going to be fun...
TBC...