Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis.
Sick
Today was a normal yet hectic Tuesday afternoon. All classes have ended for Seigaku high and the Seigaku regulars were on the tennis courts practicing for their next competition which was only a month away.
Tezuka Kunimitsu as usual watched his team practice, making sure that his team mates aren't getting distracted. However he didn't realize that it was his focus on his teammates that caused him to be inattentive of his surroundings. Little does he realize that there was a softball heading his way, but Sakuno on the other hand was keeping an eye out for him when she noticed that softball heading Tezuka's way.
"Tezuka Sempai!"
Sakuno screamed as she pushed Tezuka away from harm, but she also lost her footing at the same time. CRASH! Tezuka felt like everything happened all too suddenly and so he was in a daze and did not have enough time to react let alone stabilize the very clumsy girl also came falling down.
"Are you two ok? Uhh…"
Oishi who panicked at the sound of the large crash came to look and found Sakuno and Tezuka's bodies crashed together and Sakuno used Tezuka's body as a cushion for her fall. Her arms on his chest as face were a few inches away from Tezuka's face.
Oishi thought it was best to sneak away before he gets caught. Too bad for him, Fuji and Inui noticed it and decided to investigate the sound as well. They smirked and hid behind the convenient bush nearby.
Sakuno and Tezuka both hadn't realize the weird position they were in as they both were a little more than possibly mesmerized in each other's eyes. Tezuka blinked a few times, his mind was dizzy and his face and his body felt warmer by several degrees. His heart was beating very fast. His found a hard time breathing also, he was showing signs of cold sweat.
Gosh… Am I sick?
Tezuka thought to himself, but he could see her warm brown eyes and her small lips that looked utterly… He quickly got up forgetting to ask Sakuno to get off first, causing her to land on her bum.
Tezuka realized that he had unintentionally pushed Sakuno off him and caused her to fall down once more, and that made him feel like a jerk as he quickly offered his hand to her and to his utter surprise, stuttered a little.
"…S…Sor…Sorry."
Sakuno was pretty flushed herself, the moment she reached and grabbed his offered hand to get up, he felt a jolt of electricity and his face once more red and his head was dizzy again. His heart was the worst of them all, as it was banging against his ribcage demanding out.
Tezuka quickly decided that he was very sick and he needed time to rest at home for rest allows him to perform better. He quickly shuffled away unlike his normal self and walked to collect his stuff and told the older Ryuuzaki their coach that he feels unwell and needs the rest, so he would be heading home now.
Sakuno who watched all this felt very embarrassed indeed, she thought because she caused him to fall down he is now angry maybe. He was leaving pretty quickly as he literarily ran his way back to his residential area. Bewildered she went to the smiling Fuji and the smirking Inui as they stood once again rather conveniently nearby for her to ask any questions.
"Fuji sempai, is Tezuka sempai angry at me?"
Sakuno was pretty innocent as she asked that question, but Inui and Fuji smiled or perhaps positively beamed at the possibility.
"Nope, he is sick."
Sakuno turned her head slightly in confusion as she asked
"Sick from what?"
Fuji laughed evilly as he only saw what we call a shadow of Tezuka as he whispered to Sakuno.
"Sometimes signs of love cause people to think that they are sick rather than acknowledging that they like someone, Sakuno-chan."
"Oh… how do we cure his problem?"
Inui wrote a few more words into the notebook as he replied in a very vague way.
"Simple, get the girl he is in love with and ask her to love him back."
Fuji and Inui saw Sakuno distinctly coloured as she ran off to find her friend Tomoe perhaps just an excuse to run away from them. They laughed and headed back to practice.
Once Tezuka got home, he checks his temperature as he sat in his own bed with medications when he looked at his temperature and checked everything he thought…
Eh Strange, my body feels much better… I wonder why?
