Chapter nine, enjoy. R&R
Summary: With the breaking of a promise, Yuuta's world becomes unstable and seeks other people to try and bring that world back from the brink of destruction, but even after going as far as to try and repair things, will Yuuta ever find a way to repair the damage done (especially in his heart)?
Warnings: This is yaoi, YuutaxMizuki, FujixTezuka, YuutaxAtsushi, Fujicest, and Kisarazucest, and mentioning of TezukaxRyoma.
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis, nor any characters in this fic. And I do not own any songs you see, M-Flo loves Alex, 3.
// Watch me when the sky is dark and sun is sleep
Time is here for me to show you wait and se
Want to love you, give you just 'bout everything
Won't you come see me after 12AM
That's when I change...
Watch me when the Tokyo lights glow in the street
Something turns me on and makes me want to scream
Wanna hug you, rub you up and down to your feet
I let myself looser after 12AM //
Yuuta sniffed as he clung to his brother's arm. The tiny three-year-old was about ready to cry. He had no clue where they were, everything was so confusing. The elder boy seemed to notice the younger boy shaking and stopped to wrap his arms around him.
"Don't cry, Yuuta. We'll be home soon." Atleast it's what he hoped, but lied to make his baby brother feel better. Their sister had forgotten to pick them up at the playground, which was quite a bit of walking distance from the house for the two children.
"I wanna go home." Yuuta started to wail and Syuusuke got down on his knees, back to Yuuta.
"Hope on. I'll give you a piggy back ride." Yuuta wrapped his arms around his brother's neck as he was lifted up. He pressed up against Fuji's back, sniffing as the other boy started to walk. Time seemed to pass, but they weren't home.
"Aniki, when are we gunna get there?" Yuuta's head was resting on his shoulder, attempting to stay awake and watch where his brother was going.
"We're almost there, Yuuta." The said boy opened and closed his eyes a couple more times before he fell asleep. Fuji blinked before smiling to himself, humming as his quickened his pace, not too much that it would wake the sleeping child on his back.
"Huh?" Yuuta's voice was tiny as he felt a finger poking him awake. Fuji was smiling at him before setting him down.
"We're home, Yuuta." Yuuta's eyes went wide and he smiled widely at Fuji. Fuji opening the door since Yuuta was too short. Both boys walked in and sat in the genkan taking off their shoes.
"Tadaima!" Both boys cheerfully called out as they stepped into the house. Their mother rushed to them and drew them into her arms and kissed them. At that moment, their dad stepped into the house. He went from looking desperate to looking proud.
"Okaeri, babies." Both boys squirmed as their mother showered them with affection, giggling.
"How'd you get home?" Their sister stepped in from behind their father.
"Aniki." Yuuta happily hugged his brother, all tiredness completely taken away by the excitement of coming home. They were both given dinner before being sent right to bed. Fuji was lying in his bed when he could hear attempts at opening his door. The four year old got right up and let Yuuta in. Adoned in his feety pajamas, the tiny boy waddled past Fuji to crawl into the warm bed. Syuusuke followed behind and crawld in, cuddling his adorable baby brother.
"If I ever get lost, will Aniki always come find and bring me home?" Grey orbs were looking at his brother.
"Of course. I would be lost without you, Yuuta."
"Then I'll get lost so I can always come home happily with Aniki." Syuusuke laughed, ruffling Yuuta's hair.
"And I promise to always come find you, no matter what, and bring you home with me."
Yuuta closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep when the door opened and closed. He could hear soft footsteps tracing over to the bed.
"Yuuta, you asleep?" There wasn't any response, so the boy crawld into the bed and went to sleep. Yuuta looked over at the sleeping figure, seeing him in the perfect state. There was no pain on his face, no sadness, it was as if he was peaceful. He wanted to stretch out a hand and brush some strands from the younger twin's face, but didn't want to wake him. He couldn't only figure the twins had a fight after he started to tune them out. But for now, he would just pretend that he hadn't heard anything, and drifted off to sleep.
Morning came more quickly than Yuuta could've hoped for. But found his face flushing red as he found himself entangled in Atsushi's arms, who was equally red. Both boys got dressed, it was another beautiful day. The train was leaving first thing and they couldn't miss it. It would be a bit before the next one left for Tokyo. Yuuta sat on the seat, playing with Shuu, Atsushi sitting right next to him.
"My family will be a little different. So just be ready." Atsushi nodded. It was the only conversation that was spoken that morning. They even exited the train silently, Atsushi following Yuuta to his house. Yuuta opened the door and stepped in, removing his shoes. Atsushi followed and removed his as well, Yuuta turning them around so the tips were pointed to the door.
"Tadaima." Yuuta's voice wasn't loud, yet wasn't a whisper. He just figured his brother wouldn't care, he had Tezuka over. His sister and parents weren't home either.
"Shitsure shimasu." Both boys invaded the living room, settling down on the couch and watching movie after movie for a while. They weren't the silent movie watchers, no, they were forever making comments to each other and laughing. It was just good old fun. But it was cut short when Yumiko decided to pop in in the middle of a comment.
"He's hot, too bad he has to go after that girl."
"You so know he's just pretending to be straight. No guy in their right mind would chase after her."
"Yah, wish he'd chase me." Yuuta burst into a fit of laughter, trying to surpress the image of the acter chasing after Atsushi like a fanboy. "You better stop thinking naughty thoughts, Yuuta."
"No, no, that was just a funny image." Atsushi decided to tackle the boy.
"Gunna tell?"
"Just you getting chased by that guy, he was like a rabid fanboy or something." Their faces were a couple of inches away.
"Yah?"
"Tadaima. Eh? Yuuta, you have a guest? Oh, and that's a good movie. But Yuuta, you brought someone home with you. This calls for a feast. Good thing I got a lot." She happily hummed as she walked off to the kitchen. Yuuta almost slipped out from under Atsushi, face flushed red, same as the elder boy.
"That was Nee-san, her name's Yumiko." Atsushi nodded, moving.
"She always so chipper?" Yuuta nodded his head as he sat up.
"Yah. She's a regular Fuji. I'm the odd one out." Atsushi patted him on the head, but another voice made both turn to see Syuusuke in the doorway.
"Hm. Not Misaki." Yuuta sweatdropped.
"Mizuki, Aniki. No, this is Atsushi." Fuji nodded.
"Saa... The one who played with the boy who got hit in the face by a ball by Momo. Pleasure."
"Ah, likewise." Atsushi blinked, Fuji disappearing.
"This will be a long evening." Yuuta slid down in the seat and turned up the volume to the tv, drawing their attentions to it. The door opened and closed not long after they went back to watching the movie.
"Tadaima."
"Okaeri, Kaa-san." Yuuta and Yumiko seemed to call at the same time from two different rooms. The elder female laughed, stopping to smile at her son.
"And who is this, Yuuta?" Yuuta and Atsushi turned around.
"Atsushi." Atsushi introduced himself before Yuuta could.
"It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Is it fine if he stays the night, Kaa-san?" Yuuta's mother looked quite surprised, Yuuta really didn't ask to invite people over. She smiled and nodded.
"Of course. I should go help your sister with dinner. You two have fun and call if you need anything." She disappeared and both went back to the movie.
"Your mom is nice." Yuuta nodded.
"Yah." Yuuta twitched at the door opening, everyone was now home.
"Tadaima."
"Okaeri, dear." The two parents kissed at the edge of the genkan. "Yuuta has a friend over."
"Really?" Yuuta slumped down in his seat. Why was it such a big deal for him to bring someone over? In a second, his father was in the door way, looking in.
"I'm Atsushi. It's a pleasure to meet you." Atsushi gave a nod to Yuuta's father.
"Okaeri, Tou-san." Grey orbs turned to look at his father.
"Pleasure is mine. You two have fun." And with that he was gone. Yuuta wondered if his dad really had to stop in like that just to leave. He hadn't even brough up conversation or said any worthwhile. It could've waited till dinner or something, after all, the other way spending the night.
"Your family is nice, Yuuta, from what I've seen so far." Yuuta sighed and leaned his head against Atsushi's shoulder, closing his eyes.
"They're all acting nice because you're here. Even Aniki will be a little bit on the nicer side. But at Christmas, when Mizuki was here, you could cut the tension in the air with a knife." Atsushi chuckled.
"Too bad it can't cut through Mizuki's evil schemes." Yuuta found himself smirking as their attention turned to the current movie as a bunch of gun shots caused the younger boy to jump. Atsushi began to laugh.
"Is Yuuta afraid?" Yuuta huffed.
"As if." It wasn't long before the boys were called in for dinner, ending their marathon of movies. Dinner was a little relaxing, everyone was like a big family. There were often staring battles between Yuuta and Fuji, which would be broken by Atsushi, Tezuka, or Yumiko. It was a little relaxing, when compared to the evening that Mizuki had dinner there.
"Yuuta, dear, what happened to your hand?" It was the first time that his mother noticed the cast on his hand. He hadn't returned since Mizuki broke his wrist.
"Oh. I accidently broke my wrist a while ago." Fuji eyed him, seeming to see through it.
"It was Mizuki." Fuji popped a carrot into his mouth.
"Eh? He was so kind. He didn't seem like he would hurt Yuuta." Fuji shook his head.
"He really cares about himself. Prey tell, Yuuta, can it be you're dating Atsushi now?" Yuuta, who had been growing agitated at the talk of Mizuki, was no red and trying to stuff as many carrots in his mouth as he could so he wouldn't have to answer.
"So cute. You two are so adorable together." Yumiko was making mental notes to take pictures of them later. Conversation moved on like any normal family would hold, talking about recent events, questioning Atsushi, picking on Yuuta, the normal Fuji family things. Atsushi and Yuuta ended up in the living room after dinner, watching a couple more movies before heading up to Yuuta's room. Unlike when Yuuta went to Atsushi's, Atsushi was prepared to spend the night. Both boys changed right in Yuuta's room.
"You and your brother don't seem on the worst of terms." Atsushi tugged a long shirt on.
"It's how he acts with company..." Truthfully, it was just Fuji's silent way of asking Yuuta to return, Yuuta realized this after several months of attending St. Rudolph.
"Hm. Your sister is also picture crazy." Yuuta chuckled and nodded.
"Yah, it's where Aniki gets it from." Yuuta started to go through some of the boxes in his room, pulling the photo album out and bringing it over to the bed. Taking a seat, Atsushi joined him.
"What's that?"
"My christmas present from, Aniki. A photoalbum." Yuuta started to flip through and tell Atsushi about all the pictures. They all seemed to bring Atsushi up to the Yuuta he knows now, getting a feeling that Fuji Syuusuke shaped Yuuta into the boy he was now and Yuuta was unknowingly rebelling from being shaped anymore. But Atsushi wasn't going to say a word, Yuuta needed to figure certain things out on his own.
Lights out followed the conclusion of the photos. Sleep came easy to both boys, who felt at ease in the slightly messy room. As he was falling asleep, he was drawing in Atsushi's scent. It wasn't sweet like his brother's, but it was still gentle. It smelt like air, like the fresh air you breath in on a bright sunny spring day, where there's the right amount of wind. The scent dangled and played through his senses as he drifted to sleep, the last scent racing thrugh his senses was the sweet smell coming from his pillow. Fuji had used the pillow to help remember his brother, and now it was the gentle lullaby putting the younger one to sleep.
With summer quickly flying by, how will Yuuta's year be? And all the relationships he holds? And what about the next summer? Will it be as kind as this one? Find out next chapter.