Seatmates Chapter 6

Gone

For a billion times, I do not own PoT. Laws of physics would not be broken if I did own it.

Background for this chapter: A day without Fujikawa is never the same

There were a lot of times when Fujikawa was late, and then there were few times when Fujikawa was earlier. But there were rarely any times when Fujikawa was gone. Sanada thought it was a nice change of pace before, but now he was just getting bored in class (surprisingly). He thought it was because he had no one to talk to (and bother him, but that was Niou's job). Throughout the morning, Sanada would just stare at the clock, wondering what time she would be here, and what kind of pointless conversations she would talk about during class time and throughout the day.

"Fujikawa Hairi," The teacher called out, snickers could be heard throughout the room.

"Late again?" A classmate questions rhetorically.

"What a surprise." Everyone laughs (besides Sanada, of course.)

"Settle down, settle down," The teacher states, and writing something down in the attendance book. "She'll be here soon."

To everyone's surprise, most of the period went by without any signs of Fujikawa. Sanada (unlike himself) stared at the clock, until the bell rung, signaling break time, and that's how he knew she wasn't gonna be here. She always arrives after 5-10 minutes after class starts, not 30 minutes. It was second period: Classical Literature. They were reading a book called A Dark Night's Passing. It was about an author trying to escape his unhappiness through marriage. Sanada could not see why the author in the book would escape unhappiness. He could tell that this man needed to train his mental fortitude, as marriage by itself could not make one happy.

"Sanada, take it easy. It's just a book."

Sanada snapped his head up, and looked around. He thought he heard Fujikawa's voice. He looked to his side, and saw that no one was there. Sanada Genichirou, you are slacking off! He thought angrily to himself. Sanada was gonna have to move 100 grains of rice from bowl to another, in order to train himself to become more focus. (AN: This honestly happened in the anime. New PoT Specials, I believe it was called).

"You're too hard on yourself. Take a break once in a while."

He put his face in his hands. This was gonna be a long day.

It was finally lunch. All of the imaginary voices of Fujikawa were gone. He was honestly gonna yell 'shut up' if the voices didn't stop, but he was in class, and no doubt he was gonna be sent to the office if he yelled that. He sighed. Sanada could feel a migraine come in his head. Sanada got up from his seat, and brought his bento to Yukimura's class.

Yukimura looked up from his seat, as well as Yanagi, and smiled, "Genichirou, finally come to join us?"

"Ah," Sanada nods, and sits in front of Yukimura and Yanagi. Sanada opens his bento. Yukimura and Yanagi resume their conversation about tennis practices and what should be changed in the regulars' training menu.

"Whoa! Sanada, that looks great!" Yukimura and Yanagi notice the distant far off look in Sanada's eyes.

"What do you think, Genichirou?" Yukimura questions, and Sanada (for once) doesn't pay attention. A smile begins to play on Yukimura's and Yanagi's face. "Genichirou?"

In an instant, Sanada snaps his attention back to Yukimura, and says, "My apologizes, Seiichi. It appears that I'm not well today. I shall increase self-discipline training, so that this would never happen again."

"There is a 64% chance of your behavior is cause by over working yourself or lack of sleep," Yanagi states, and gets out his notebook, and begins to write stuff down. "The other 36% is because Fujikawa Hairi is not here."

"…What are you getting at, Renji?" Sanada questions, eyes narrowing. Yanagi closes the book, and puts it back in his bag.

"Nothing in particular, Genichirou," Yanagi answers. "But it's probably because of the combination of boredom and stress that you're experiencing hallucinations, and your mind is trying to cope with it by creating a stress reliever, in the form of your classmate."

Stress reliever? (How the hell did Yanagi know he was going through this? Well, Yanagi did know everything, especially questionable things). He wanted to scoff. It was more like a stress maker. (But honestly Sanada was relieved. He thought he was going insane).

"Of course, this is just a theory," Yanagi states. Sanada nods.

"It was nice speaking with you. Unfortunately, I must take my leave, and do something for the disciplinary committee. I shall see you at practice," Sanada states, and leaves. Yukimura looks at Yanagi.

"Hallucinations?" Yukimura questions. Yanagi gives a slight mischievous smile.

"To be 100% honest, I made most of that up in my head. Some of it's true though," Yanagi answers. Yukimura chuckles. "Sanada may be experiencing Fujikawa Withdrawal Syndrome, as Fujikawa is subliminally removing stress for Sanada, instead of causing it."

"Would this affect Sanada in tennis?" Yukimura questions. "The withdrawal?"

"Not at all. After all, he takes his stress off through tennis," Yanagi states. "And our teammates."

Yukimura begins to smile slightly, and Yanagi states (a slightly worried look on his face), "90% chance you may be thinking of something right now involving Genichirou and Fujikawa-san."

"…Maybe," Yukimura answered vaguely with a slight mischievous look in his eyes. Yanagi sighed. "Besides, it's fun to see Genichirou like this."

"Ah. It is."

The Next Day

"Fujikawa Hairi," The teacher calls out. There was silence. "That's ano-"

"Ah! Sensei!" The said female exclaimed, slamming the door open to the class. The teacher looked at her with a brow, while her classmates laughed and Sanada was giving her the infamous Look. She sheepishly scratched her head. "Ha… I'm late again?"

"What do you think?" The teacher, Mr. Matsuda, rhetorically asks. "Go sit down."

"Hey, Sanada," Fujikawa greeted. Sanada grunts, acknowledging her existence.

"Where were you?" He asks out of genuine curiosity, and just as he asks the question, Fujikawa sneezes. "You're sick?"

She shook her head, and answered, "My mom was. My dad let me stay home to take of her, even though she was sleeping most of the time."

Sanada immediately saw that as an excuse to miss school, and narrowed his eyes, "Fujikawa Hairi, you are not suppose to miss school for that pathetic reason. Imagine how you're future would be impacted."

"It's not my fault!" Fujikawa defended. Sanada narrowed his eyes.

"No, but it was your choice," Sanada retorted. Fujikawa huffed, and crossed her arms.

"I'll never be able to escape my parents," She whispered. Sanada narrowed his eyes at her into the most menacing glare he could produce.

"Excuse me?"

"I didn't say anything."

BOOM! Another chapter done. Just a few more chapters then I could move this story along. Hopefully you guys like this. Do give me constructive criticism for my writing, and if my character's a Mary-Sue and if any character is out of character.

Ugh. I feel like Sanada's OOC in this chapter. What do you guys think? I mean, I put the whole hallucination think to be funny, I know Sanada would never experience that in the anime/manga.

Speaking of the anime, I rewatched it. Dude. Every tennis player in there is like FUCK PHYSICS. Especially Kikumaru. I mean Yukimura defies physics too, but it ain't as bad as Kikumaru. I mean, duplicating yourself, somehow managing to roll the ball UPWARDS AGAINST THE GODDAMN NET (see that Nationals match when he went up against Higa Chu).

Question of le Day: Which tennis player defies physics the most?

And now...

Adieu