Through Karupin's Eyes

She was in luck. Extreme luck. When she couldn't hatch any genius plan to keep the smiling weirdo away from her master, Ryoma was forced to have a total bed rest due to 'excessive stress' and 'lack of sleep'. Hmm.. wonder what that means, she thought. Anyway, total bed rest meant no school. No school meant no 'Morning Practice'. No morning practice meant no 'Fuji'. It was all that matter for her. (1)

"Ryoma-kun, I will leave your breakfast on the table. Be sure to eat it, okay?"

"Un.." Was his weak reply while jerking his face toward the wall, trying to hide his flushed face from Nanako. Which failed. Miserably. Since Nanako was giggling her way out, mumbling something about 'Ryoma-kun is so cute sometimes'. He didn't dare to catch her next sentence so he desperately tuned out any sound making its way to his ears.

"Meow." Karupin said as she tried to gain her boy's attention. She moved closer to his face and licked Ryoma's ears afterward, which tickled him. A lot. Meaning she succeeded in earning Ryoma's attention.

"What is it, Karupin?" He asked, absentmindedly stroking her fur.

It was a rhetorical question, she knew. It's not like Ryoma would understand her words anyway. So, like usual, she took it as a chance to say anything she wanted, Ryo-chan, you are so hot. I love you. I hate that 'Fuji' guy. Kill him for me?

"Meow.. meow meow." Was what he heard.

"You hungry?"

Oh yeah, since you brought up that topic, I am hungry. May I eat your breakfast?

Ryoma was about to give Karupin his breakfast (it's not a Japanese food anyway so he didn't feel like eating that morning) when suddenly someone burst in to his room.

"Oi, seishounen! I heard this ridiculously funny news this morning!"

He rolled his eyes toward someone who was 'biologically' his father, and gave him an annoyed glare saying 'WHAT?!' and of course, Nanjirou being Nanjirou knew what the glare was saying but pretended like he didn't.

"Nanako-chan said that you suffered from 'excessive stress' AND 'lack of sleep'!! Haha. That's just ridiculous!!" He said, grinning, "You just want to skip school, don't you? Back in my days, we use 'sudden sever headache onset' or 'stomach cram' whenever we felt like skipping school.."

The Seigaku's tennis prodigy didn't hesitate to throw a pillow toward his father, which hit Nanjirou's face. Hard. "Shut up." I am NOT skipping school! He added mentally. Did he pretend to be sick so he could skip school? Of course not! Skipping school meant no tennis. He loved tennis. That's why he wouldn't skip school. School was fun! Wait, scratch that. School was not fun but tennis was! He enjoyed playing a match with Momo-senpai (though he hated playing double with him. Period.), and Fuji (2), and playing a match with Tezuka (even though he lost most of the time), and Fuji, and teasing Kaidou's senpai about his secret jogging route (which passed Inui-senpai's house twice, wonder why…), and Fuji, and… waitaminute!!!

"Whoa! Your face is burning." Nanjirou commented as soon as he put pillow away from his face. "Don't tell me you have a fever."

There were times when Nanjirou could be so dense, he certainly glad that this was one of those times. Just what was he thinking?? He mentally said the word 'Fuji' three times in less than two minutes!!

Ryo-chan is having that weird color on his face again. Karupin thought as she took a look at Ryoma's face carefully. You okay, Ryo-chan?

Damn it! I am NOT skipping school. I AM sick and it's all FUJI'S fault. Wow. Now he mentally said 'Fuji' four times in 2 minutes. Something was messing his sane mind!

"Go take a rest. I will bring you some medicine for your fever later." Nanjirou ordered as he marched his way out, he stopped halfway and turned around to give Ryoma a wink while saying 'I'll call your boyfriend and tell him that you are sick today'.

Oh he felt like banging his head toward the wall. Just when did his father notice that he was going out with Fuji? Little did he know that Nanjirou was referring to Tezuka (since they both often play a game at his private court at evening), which meant that he was only kidding when he said 'boyfriend', which also meant that he still thought Ryoma was still single.

Through Karupin's Eyes

Fuji was jealous. Completely, absolutely, undeniably jealous. Of a certain Himalayan cat. Which happened to be sleeping peacefully in his lover's arm. Who was still looking cute even though he was only wearing a rumpled pajama. He was so jealous that he instantly snapped his eyes opened and leaked out his evil aura. Which suddenly made Ryoma shuddered.

It was noon already. After he heard Ryoma was calling in sick that day he decided to visit his lover as soon as he could. He even told a lie, wait.. 'lie' is such a barbaric word… he was just 'bending' the truth a little bit.. yeah! That's it! He even bent the truth from Tezuka in order to have permission to skip the evening practice (he doubted Tezuka actually buying his words btw, but he still got his permission nonetheless, after he mentally intimidated the stoic captain).

"Fuji-senpai?" Ryoma called, his eyes were still barely opened. "Is it night already?"

"How are you feeling, Ryoma-chan?" He asked as he quickly shoved the cat as far as possible.

He's fine when you're not around. So LEAVE. I mean it! Or do you want me to give you another scratch?

Karupin was about to plunge her paws in any part of Fuji's body, really. But Fuji was one step ahead of her as he swiftly threw the cat out of the room, whispering "You have to go, Karupin" with his usual evil grin before he closed the door. Karupin was making a loud scratching sound from outside not long after, which made Ryoma felt a little annoyed. No one was allowed to treat his Karupin like that!

"Why did you throw her out?"

"Who?" He asked sweetly, showing his most innocent face to his lover who was just about to twitch his eyebrow in a cute manner. Now that he thought about it, Ryoma was always looked cute in his eyes..

"You know who, Fuji-senpai!"

He just chuckled, of course he knew who was Ryoma referring, or should he say 'what was Ryoma referring to', but he loved to annoy his lover so he was only pretending to be clueless. Oh well, it was only a cat, there was NO WAY he would lose to a cat, so that Himalayan cat WAS NOT going to be a problem for him. or so he thought. Hm.. maybe he should ask Ryoma about this… you know.. just to make sure..

"Hey, Ryoma-chan… who do you like better? Me or that cat of yours?"

Ryoma just glared at him, wondering why did Fuji asked such question so suddenly. Yeah he liked Karupin, but she's a cat for heaven's sake! Just what demon had possessed the tensai's brain to even think he would choose Karupin over his sadistic brunette lover? (3) Oh yeah, since he had come to this area, he couldn't help but notice that Fuji indeed possessed a godly beauty (he would NEVER let Fuji know about that thought btw). If Fuji was a girl, he might even go out with him. Wait. He was going out with him… did that mean he was indirectly saying that Fuji was… beautiful?

"Mada mada da ne…" He said as he quickly buried his face on the pillow, embarrassed with the fact that he mentally said (and visualized) how beautiful Fuji was.

Did he ever say that Ryoma was SO CUTE when he said his trademark words while hiding his blushed face? He was so cute that he instantly had the urge to hugged his lover, kissed him and ran his fingers on his bare skin (as soon as he managed to take off Ryoma's pajama that is…) and.. //cough//cough// Get a hold of yourself, Syuusuke!! (4) "Seriously, who do you like better?" He finally said after he was able to calm his pervert mind down, which was a hard thing to do since Ryoma was looking rather hot with his messy hair and his half-unbuttoned pajama.

"Do you have to ask that?" Fuji nodded while mumbling 'uh-huh' sound, making him let out a deep sighed before he continued, "You," Fuji was in total bliss as he heard Ryoma's answer, for the several times he was convinced that he was not so one sided after all… well, he wouldn't be that happy if he heard the 'I guess' part that was said in a very weak voice which was barely audible not long after. Lucky for Ryoma, he didn't.

After that little information was settled, Fuji decided that it was safe enough for him to take a seat on the edge of Ryoma's bed. So he did. He made the outer side of the bed sank down as he put his weight down the bed. Now, Ryoma's bed was not big so when Fuji sat down and laid his hand on the bed, he 'accidentally' brushed Ryoma's waist. And since it was supposed to be an 'accident', Ryoma didn't protest let alone pushing his brunette lover away, which was a BIG mistake. You see, aside from being a tensai, Fuji was also a pervert. When he found out that Ryoma was not protesting when he 'un-accidentally' touched Ryoma's waist (did you REALLY believe that Fuji 'accidentally' brushed his hand against Ryoma's waist?), he took it as an invitation to take things one step further.

Ryoma was busy calming his heart down and fighting a blush when Fuji swiftly slipped his fingers under the boy's pajama and explored Ryoma's back from there. He could hear a small moan came out from Ryoma's mouth before the said boy abruptly pulling his body away (since he was not mentally ready to put up with whatever his lover was planning to do so he decided that pulling away was the best choice). Which failed. Because Fuji quickly hold his waist firmly. Which caused the younger boy ended up burying his face on Fuji's chest. Which then pushed Fuji's upper part body to the floor while his legs were unintentionally hooked to Ryoma's leg as he try to keep his balance. Which made Ryoma pulled down Fuji's sweatpants as his free hand was grabbing the nearest thing in order to pulled his face away from Fuji's chest (he was kinda like Fuji's chest actually, but he was suffering hypoxia because of it so he MUST pull his face away!!). Which then exposed Fuji's lower abdomen – waist – side thigh skin. Which made them both end up in a rather weird position. (5) Great. Just great. If someone saw them in that position, he was going to kill himself…

Just when he thought that things would not get any worst, he could hear a his door swung followed by a loud gasped and a freaked 'Meow'. He also could hear a weak 'Ouch' from Fuji not long after and somehow he knew that Karupin was giving Fuji her deadly scratch. Again.

"You!!"

Damn. Why must it be oyaji who caught me in my worst moment?

"Ah, Echizen-san.. There is an explanation for this. I swear."

Right. But you're still the one who started it, Fuji, so it is all your fault!! He thought irritated-ly but decided to give Fuji a kiss since the brunette didn't make things worst with his lies.

The younger boy managed to crawl his way up to Fuji's head and pressed his lips against Fuji's, which made Nanjirou jaws dropped open in shock and it also made Karupin plunged her paw again into Fuji's arm, but this time Fuji was too preoccupied with Ryoma's lips and Ryoma's warmth on his body that he blocked any peripheral sensoric sensation making their way to his brain except the one from his lips and his trunk.

"Get off my son!!" He said angrily as he coarsely pulled the youngsters apart, breaking their kiss. Fuji was about to correct Nanjirou's word actually (since Ryoma was the one on the top position, Nanjirou should say 'Let go of my son' instead of 'Get off my son', and since Ryoma was the one who started the kiss, Nanjirou should be directing his words toward his son) but since Nanjirou looked like he was going to explode anytime he decided to shut his mouth up.

"Tennis court. Now."

Through Karupin's Eyes

(Nanjirou's POV)

Today Ryoma is sick. Heh. I don't know that brat can get sick. Anyway, Rinko is going on a trip since yesterday and she won't comeback until tomorrow, Nanako is busy with college, that only leaves me to take care of that cocky son of mine. What a bother..

When I checked his condition this morning he was looking rather good. At least the brat still had the energy to throw a pillow toward me. He did look a little flushed though, his fever must have reach 39C (6) or something since his face was as red as a boiled crab. When I come to his room for the second time now, he is sleeping while hugging Karupin. God that brat looks cute when he is asleep. I don't want to wake him up so I quietly put the medicine beside his breakfast.

"Mada mada da ne, senpai…"

I hear him saying in his sleep. Senpai? Hm. Must be his most treasured senpai, I figure, since he has this adorable smile on his face. No, I don't have any problem if my son turned out to be gay. It is a common thing actually, It is what will most likely happened if you are a male who is only thirteen, surrounded by fellow male, supporting each other on the tournament, finding that one special person who is more skillful, then you try to beat him everyday and you won't stop until you succeed and before you know it you are already fallen for that guy. Heh heh. I don't know whom he is referring to but I hope it is that Tezuka boy. I like him.

Evening come, I hear someone knocking at the door. I wonder who. I rush to the door and find a smiling brunette who wears Seigaku's tennis uniform. Ryoma's senior in Tennis club perhaps since the kid has a tennis bag with him. It turns out that his name is Fuji Syuusuke and he come to check on Ryoma's condition. Aw. He is such a nice senpai.

So I let him in, leading the way to Ryoma's room, and I go back to my room to read my //cough// magazine //cough// Aah.. this is heaven!

(Karupin's POV)

I suddenly get back from my kitty dreamland when I suddenly smell an awfully annoying smell. It's that Fuji guy smell. What is he doing in Ryo-chan's room? I lazily roll my eyes toward him, giving him a glare saying 'In this room, I ruled. So back off, pervert!!'

I can sense a complicated aura radiated from him. Hm.. what does it called btw.. hatred? No, it's not that hostile. Disappointment? Close, but still isn't the right type or aura.. wait.. I think it begin with a 'J'.. jeopardy? Jealousy? Arrggh, I don't know!! I'm a cat for kitty sake! I'm not even supposed to know any emotion aside than 'happy' and 'unhappy'.

He is standing still on the bedside for a few minutes, and I swear I can see an evil glint in his eyes, but I shove the thought off. That guy always has that glint in his eyes which make me think that maybe he is having this 'evil glint syndrome'. Not long after, I can hear Ryo-chan calling his name. See? You're waking him, idiot! Get. Out.

"Fuji-senpai? Is it night already?"

That's weird. Ryo-chan's heartbeat is so composed when this guy is not around, why does it making a loud pounding sound now? No.. don't tell me that Ryo-chan is having that.. tachycardia? I heard the doctor said that word this morning.

I suddenly felt that someone was shoving me away from my boy. God this guy is so rude! He shoves me away from Ryo-chan twice in two days period!!

"How are you feeling, Ryoma-chan?"

He's fine until you showed up! Leave! I mean it!! I yelled, but that brunette ignored me so I'm getting my paws ready, heh.. lucky that I've been sharpening my paws since yesterday. This is going to hurt, Fuji-chan..

Eeh?? What happened?? Since when do I obtain the ability to levitate? Oh. Someone is lifting me. Correction. Fuji is lifting me. And somehow I have the feeling that he is up to no good, and my feeling is ALWAYS right. Hey! Why does he take me toward the door?? Is he going to-? Arrgghh!! He is throwing me out of Ryo-chan's room, literally. Damn you! (7)

"You have to go, Karupin." He says while having that annoying grin on his face. The door is quickly shut the minute I landed on the hallway floor. Sometimes I hate being a cat. You see, cats have paws. Paws can't twist the door knob (geez, why don't Ryo-chan use a sliding door instead). It's as simple as that. So, with the understanding that I won't in my whole cat life be able to twist the door knob, I decide to scratch the door instead, hoping that Ryo-chan will took a pity on me and let me in. Seems like Ryo-chan doesn't hear my desperate plea.. oh well.. I can't blame him. He is sick, maybe he does not have the energy to get off the bed. I should search another way in.. I'll try the balcony first..

Great is the only word that came out from my mind when I arrived at Ryo-chan's balcony. The balcony door is locked. The curtain also blocks my view of the room. I have no idea of what is going on inside that room. Which is not good. Okay. Time for emergency plan. Shees. I don't like using the emergency plan since it has something to do with that hentai old man.. but oh well. I'm desperate.

(Nanjirou's POV)

I swear I'm going to get rid of that cat one day! Bad kitty!! I am just doing a quick visit to the kitchen to fetch a glass of water, since it is meant to be a short trip, I don't lock my room. Hell I even don't close the door! But when I enter my room again, I saw her smiling victoriously (or so I thought. I can't differentiate Karupin's facial expression, maybe Ryoma can..), both of her paws are tearing my precious magazine.

"KARUPIN!!!" I yell, trying to save the remnant of my poor magazine. It's the limited gold edition damn it! "You are SO dead!"

"Meow"

I see this evil glint in her eyes, god I should start seeing a psychiatrist soon… cats can't make 'evil glint'.. I'm just imagining things. Saying that cats can make an evil glint is like saying Karupin is in love with my son. Haha, how funny is that (8) Okay, back to the main issue. Karupin immediately leave my room after she gives me a mocking snort. It's like she deliberately making me chasing her. Wait. I'm imagining things again…

Oh well, deliberately or not I am going to teach that cat a lesson! So I chase her. It is a hard thing to do btw since Karupin can run very fast (she have four legs! Of course she can run faster than me!!). Ten minutes of running around the house (I'm thinking that maybe Karupin is toying with me but I quickly shove the thought) I found her standing still in front of Ryoma's room. Oh yeah, maybe I should ask Ryoma to catch her, she seems so calm around him.

With that in mind, I approach Ryoma's room casually, trying to be my usual ignorant self. I am about to knock the door when suddenly I heard this loud sound of some object falling to the floor followed by weak 'Ouch'. Does he fall off bed? Oh no! I slammed the door open and begin to search the room carefully. But what I found is beyond my imagination…

I gasped at the view in front me. Just a few feet away, lies my son, half naked, one hand is grabbing the brunette's sweatpants, face is buried on the taller boy. Just beneath my son is my son's senior in tennis club, one hand is holding Ryoma's waist while his other hand is pulling up my son's pajama. And their legs' position is… I don't even want to describe it..

When I'm still on my shocked state, I can see Karupin plunge her paws on the brunette's stomach. Ouch. That has to hurt. Well done Karupin!

"YOU!!" I shouted, demanding an explanation. Have I said that I'm okay if my son turned out to be gay? Well I take it back. I'm only okay if Ryoma was in love with the Tezuka kid..

"Ah, Echizen-san.. There is an explanation for this.. I swear.." He said, still smiling calmly. I am about to yell 'What are you two doing?!' when suddenly I see Ryoma crawls his way up and gives the brunette a quick kiss. Hello!! Don't you notice that your dad is here??! I can see Karupin plunges her paws again, this time on the brunette's arm. Now when I look at his arm carefully, I can see recent scratch marks beneath the new mark that Karupin makes. Does that mean Karupin had scratched the guy before??

"Get off my son!!" I shout while pulling Ryoma away from him. "Tennis court. Now." I continued absentmindedly. Well, if they already have a serious relationship, I might as well check how good his tennis skill is. If the kid doesn't pass my standard tennis qualification, he can just say his goodbye to Ryoma.

A/n:

Whew. I manage to put this chapter before the end of the month. Is it a little.. dry? Oh I don't know! My humorous side had vanished the day I start my new semester this year. In other words, I'm in no way, shape or form to write humor.. Since I personally think that this chapter sucks, you are free to send me critics or even flames if you want to.. Seriously..

Anyway, I'm starting to get side tracked from my main idea again… I better end this fic fast. I'm predicting it will be finished in… 2 or 3 more chapters. Oh yeah, I'm feeling like there is a LOT of OOC-ness in this chapter, am I right? I also got confused when I wrote the first person perspective so if anyone sees any grammar mistakes tell me okay?

I kinda screwed the last chapter… haha.. Maybe I'm the only author who 'accidentally' upload the wrong story. Oh well… that's what you get when you upload a story IN THE MIDDLE OF INTERNAL CLUB MEETING especially when you are the CLUB PRESIDENT…. //snicker// I won't hold a meeting in a place that has hot-spot facility anymore…

I don't see any problem with the Japanese terms so on with the… medical terms! (you are thinking I'm going to write footnotes aren't you//grin//)

Hypoxia: lack of oxygen

Tachycardia: a fast heartbeat

Heh.. I'm trying to give the simplest explanation on the medical terms, I hope it is enough

Okay, next is the footnotes…

(1) Karupin begins to call Fuji with his real name now, I hope you don't get confused with this… Oh yeah, just for your information.. at first Karupin thinks that Fuji's name is 'Morning Practice' but then she realized that Fuji's name is, well, Fuji, so she is going to call him Fuji from this chapter on…

(2) Haha, Ryoma started to throw away the '-senpai' suffix… I wonder when will he call Fuji by his first name… //snicker//

(3) It is called Jealousy, Ryoma-kun. JEALOUSY.

(4) I never know that you are such a gentleman, Fuji-kun..

Fuji: I'm not. //smiles sweetly//

But you are! At least you are able to control your pervert-ness. Oh I'm so proud of you Fuji-kun!!

Fuji//evil grin// Saa.. that's because this fic's rate is T. If the rate is M I won't hesitate to… //evil laughter accompanied with the eerie BGM//

Oookay, may I took back what I said earlier?

(5) Again, another confusing paragraph. I seemed to use a lot of 'which' word in this paragraph… oh well.. //grin//

(6) I know there are several countries that use Fahrenheit scale instead of Celsius but I'm using Celsius, okay? 39C is equal to 102.2F if I'm not mistaken.

(7) Now now Karupin.. what have I said about 'girls' and 'cursing'?

(8) You have NO IDEA of how RIGHT your thought is, Nanjirou-san! Haha..

Fuji: Ne, moodychan… I have a question…

What is it Fuji darling?

Fuji: What happened to my punishment game with Ryoma-chan?

Aha.. right.. the punishment game…

Fuji: Don't tell me you forget about it..

//nervous laugh// Must've slipped my mind… haha.. GOMEN!!

Okay that's all. Next chapter will be up by the end of the month. If I manage to survive my Pediatric, Internal Medicine and Obstetric class… arrgghh!! Those classes are KILLING ME!!

Disclaimer: PoT is NOT MINE. Never was and never will be.