Thanks to everyone who replied to my 'Help!'message, I'm finally ready to move on.

To FujixSaku0709, it would be a-okay with me.

And to isagani14 , it looks like I've been there for a while, but after I wrote Delusional, a lot of things were happening and I dropped for a while until I decided to write Of Carnations and Candy. .

Also, special thanks to Otakugal, rubyxdragon, Team 7x, -fUjI-lAwLiEt-, Animecherryblossem33, and Nina Natsu for the help in indenting and favorite-ing stuff.

And to my first few reviewers Prinx, -fUjI-lAwLiEt- (haha, I was thinking about the sempai thing too), Otakugal, and everyone else (I squealed when I saw I had reviews… )

And last but not least, anyone who decided to throw their two cents in for me for what to do after the last chapter.

February 14th, Valentine's Day

-Tennis Courts-

It was the end of practice, and Inui had begun lecturing about the importance of stretching before playing. Fuji had tuned him out a little, though one would not be able to tell by looking at him. He was studying his surroundings, one of his hobbies he picked up over the years. Tezuka was stoic as usual, Eiji was bouncing from foot to foot, Oishi was trying to get him to stand still, Kaido was adjusting his bandana, Kawamura was the only one listening tentatively, Echizen was nervously cracking his fingers, Momo was – What?! Echizen what?! Somethings up…

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"What?!"

Everyone turned around.

"Ne, Ochibi… what'sa matter?" Momoshiro asked, "Inui only said that we had to stretch for at least 20 minutes from now on… it's really not that bad."

"Uh… oh. I thought he said something else," he replied, "well, I'm just going to go now…." He headed for the exit.

"Wait!" Momo tried to call him back, "wanna grab some burgers with us?" But he was gone.

"Guess not…"

"Hey," Fuji spoke up, "did you guys notice anything different with Echizen today?"

"Come to think of it, he did seem rather spaced out today," Oishi replied.

"He seemed to be in such a hurry to leave practice today," Eiji piped up, "I wonder where he left to go."

"Or someone to meet?" Kawamura said quietly.

"What?!"

"Would he – "

"Who – "

"A girl?!"

"Follow him!" And with that, they tailed him out of the courts.

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"Hey!" Eiji said enthusiastically, "there he is!"

"Eji! Keep your voice down! He'll hear us!" Momoshiro pulled him down into the bushes, where the rest of the Regulars (minus Tezuka) were hiding in.

Eiji popped up again, "awww! Ochibi's blwwuuushhhinnggg!"

"Shush!"

" – you see… What I meant to say was… Oh yeah! These are for you…"

"Flowers and candy?!"

"Our ochibi is growing up!"

"Young love…"

"Good blackmailing material…." Fuji trailed off, his hand still clutching his beloved camera.

"Fuji! Where'd you – "

"Quiet! I can't hear what they're saying!"

" – my Valentine?"

"What'd he say?"

"Fsshh… Are you that dense?"

"Do you wanna have a go?"

"Fssh… Bring it!"

"Shut it, both of you!"

"S-sorry, Kawamura-sempai…"

"Aw! They're hugging!"

"Woah. This is even better…"

…

"Erm... It's been like four minutes now... why aren't they moving?"