DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Gravitation or Prince of Tennis…not even in my dreams


4. NG Production meets Seigaku

Yuki woke up drench in sweat, a feeling of premonition surrounding him. He looked at the clock on his bedside table. It read 2:00 am. He shook his head, willing the feeling to go away. What was wrong with him? must be the stress. His hand inched towards the phone, maybe he should phone Shuichi. Nope, it should be morning in Japan by now and Shuichi would be tired from working and recording all night. He'd let him sleep.

He grabbed his lighter instead and lit a cigarette, his gaze falling on the sticker photo of the two of them, taken on their date. It was strange when the brat wasn't around to annoy him. He remembered when Shuichi had found him even in London and thought, Maybe this time too…he chuckled to himself. No, that would be impossible.

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At long last, the day that they go to America finally arrive. Three days after the announcement, Shuichi is packed and ready to go; he can't wait to leave Japan and go see Yuki.

"When are we going to leave? I want to see Yuki!" he whined. "Let's leave already!"

"Please be more patient Shindou-san, Seguchi-san and the others aren't here yet," Fujisaki told him. They were at the plane already, waiting for the others. Shuichi was the first to arrive, afraid that they would leave him if he were late; they were going to ride a private jet that would take them to Chicago, the first destination of their tour.

"There, someone's coming," Shuichi said pointing to where the door was located. Fujisaki turned to face the door. No one was there.

Great, Shindou-san's seeing things, he thought. He was about to protest when…

"Huh? Oishi's not here yet?" a red-haired guy was skipping towards them. He was wearing a dark blue t-shirt inside a blue-striped jacket. He looked around the plane. He looked older than him but no older than Shindou-san.

"Ah..no..we're the only ones who's here yet," he said. Upon hearing that, the guy stopped looking around and slumped down beside Shuichi.

"Hmp! And they said to come here on time," the guy grumbled to himself, when he saw him looking, he introduced himself. "Kikumaru Eiji, nice to meet you,"

"Fujisaki Suguru," he said. He gestured to Shindou-san. "That's Shindou Shuichi-san, our vocalist."

"I watch you guys in TV, you were great," he said, truthfully. Fujisaki thanked him. Shuichi however has no time to appreciate compliments.

"Argh! You're late Hiro!" he said as a welcome to his bandmate. The red-haired guitarist who has just arrived checked his watch and apologize,

"Only by a minute though,"

"Looks like everyone in Bad Luck's here," a voice said. They all whirled around to see who it was.

"Seguchi-san," Fujisaki said, relief on his voice. Nittle Grasper was just entering the plane. From behind Tohma, Noriko wave at them.

"I'm here too," she said.

"Sorry we're late Shindou-san," Tohma smiled at them. Eiji stared at him, mesmerized.

"Amazing, he's like Fuji," Eiji murmured to himself.

Ryuichi who was behind Noriko immediately went beside Eiji. "Huh? Who's this?" he asked.

"Kikumaru Eiji, Band of Prince vocalist," he introduced himself.

"Really? I'm a vocalist too!" he said, genuinely thrilled that they were the same. "Ryu-chan desu," Sakuma told him. "Let's be friends," he waved Kumagoro.

Eiji's eyes eagerly followed it. "Waah.. kawaii," he exclaimed.

"Ah, this is Kumagoro," he made Kumaguro bow before Eiji.

"Aww… I miss Daigoro nya,"

"Daigoro?"

"He's that big teddy bear I have in my room," Eiji said. "He's thiiiss biiiigg!" He gestured Daigoro's size with his hands.

"Ahh.. I wanna see too! I wanna see!"

"Too bad I can't bring him because he'll get dirty, I wanted to bring my Onee-chan too, because she's a fan of yours," Eiji told him about his family, in which Ryuichi eagerly listened. After that, he told him about the band. And by the time, the Band of Prince arrive, Ryuichi knew almost everything about them.

"We were waiting for you Eiji," Oishi scolded him. He had been worried that Eiji overslept again, but when he called on his house, his sisters said that he left already.

"Huh? I thought we we're going to meet at the airport by 7 'o clock?" he was confused.

"Right, at the airport," Oishi emphasize the word 'airport.' It took Eiji awhile to figure it out.

"Meet at the airport," he imitated Oishi's emphasis. "This is the airport…" he muttered to himself. Then realization came, "No, this is the plane."

Ryuichi clapped him on the back. "Very good Eiji-chan"

"Nya! Gome ne," He scratched his left cheek. "But you know nya, those instructions are confusing." He grinned at him sheepishly. There was no way Oishi could stay mad after that.

"But Momo got them," he just said, sounding surprised.

Momoshiro who overheard called out, "What's that supposed to mean, Oishi-senpai?" while Oishi bowed his head apologetically.

Upon hearing his name, Ryuichi started inspecting Oishi. "This is your bestfriend?"

"Hai! This is Oishi," he introduced them to each other. Oishi humbly shook Ryuichi's hand, the guy was practically a legend. He didn't think Eiji knew that, but then again, even if he did. He guesses that it wouldn't matter either way.

The other Band of Prince members started boarding the plane. Eiji spotted Fuji and excitedly introduced him to Ryuichi. Even Ryuichi was amazed by his similarity with his bandmate. "You're right he's like Tohma."

By now, the Band of Prince was starting to suspect that their vocalist has already told their life stories to the Nittle Grasper vocalist. It was confirmed when Ryuichi steered clear of Inui and avoided Kaidoh. But other than that, he inspected all the other members, he was glad to meet Eiiji's friends.

Even Shuichi was temporarily distracted from thinking of Yuki. "Wow, there's so many of you." His eyes lingered toward each of them. He was surprised by Fuji and Tezuka's heights, they were almost as tall as…"Yuki!" he suddenly exclaimed surprising them all.

"Yeah, let's go now, so Shuichi can see Yuki!" Ryuichi said. Shuichi rushed to hug his idol. He really understands him.

"Shut up! Our ichinen isn't here yet," Kaidoh snarled at them, the two vocalists cowered in fear.

"Scary," they said at the same time.

"Ochibi?" Eiji noticed for the first time that his co-vocalist was missing. It was because they were all still standing. Just then, the topic of their conversation, Echizen strode in the door.

"Wiz…."he greeted them.

"You're late Ochibi!" Eiji protested. "You're even later than me!"

"Gome. Gome," he apologized, although sounding not sorry at all. "I had Sakuno lead the way so naturally we got lost."

"Huh? Sakuno's here? We weren't allowed to bring someone but you still brought your koibito along," Momoshiro was envious. "That's not playing fair, not playing fair at all…"

At the mention of the word 'koibito', Shuichi started becoming restless again, only one thing on his mind, Yuki.

"So if you brought Sakuno along, where is she?" Momoshiro asked.

Ryoma shrugged his shoulder. "She and the others are going to get there in another way."

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On the other side of the airport, Sakuno, and the other Band of Prince crew were staring at their aircraft.

"Eh? A military plane?" Horio blinked his eyes. The others did too. A tall long-haired blond guy emerged at the door. He was carrying a gun.

"You must be from the Band of Prince, get in." he said, "Your manager's already here." he pointed at this back. On the window, they saw Manager Ryuzaki-san waving at them.

Sakuno looked around for something, maybe another plane. They weren't serious, right? Horio started climbing in, followed by Katchiro and Katsuo. She sighed in defeat and followed too.

Just as the plane was starting to ascend, Tomo let out a loud cry.

"Waah! Ryoma-sama!"


Sorry, this maybe boring but I can't have them arrive at U.S. just yet, I'm still doing research on their destination. Please bear with me.