Chapter 3: A date?
It had been two days they had been there. Syusuke had kept his word that he would spent time together with Yuuta. The two siblings would set out on different route from the father-son so they won't interrupt their time together. There were a lot of things that Syusuke found interesting. There are different types of fishes in the lake every day. And he found out that view of Fujisan is different a bit from different lakes (baka aniki, Yuuta would say). Yuuta understood his brother a little bit, but still can't help feeling annoyed of the protective shield that aniki had over him. He wonder what would Mizuki-san thinks if he was here instead of being together with the rest of the team members, on their vacation they had plan a day after he agreed to come here with aniki. The worse Muzuki-san can do was asking him to do lots of tennis practices with him. Well, he could still stand it.
"Mitsu-chan?" Syusuke said curiously as he eyed on the figure not far from them.
"Who you are calling aniki?" he asked when he heard the name he never heard before.
"Kunimitsu. He's with someone. I thought the two Tezuka would be together."
"You're right aniki. I've never seen that girl before. Who do you think it is?" He turned to his brother. He could swear that his brother was grinning a moment ago. This is bad; something is on his brother's mind.
"Come on Yuuta," he said as he pulled Yuuta's hand, for the second time here.
"Where to aniki?"
The two Fuji follow Kunimitsu as close as they can. They caught a few of the two conversations.
"It has been a long time, hadn't it?" they heard Kunimitsu said.
"Not that long, just two years. How is your mother? I sure missed her cooking."
"She is fine. You should come to our house once in a while, you know."
"I sure miss the time we spent together while I was there. The time spent with you Kunimitsu." The girl wrapped her hands around Kunimitsu's arm. Kunimitsu smiled. A smile that Syusuke was sure he had never seen before. Buchou never smiled, let alone grinning. Who is that girl that able to make Kunimitsu happy? Eh, his girlfriend?
"Yuuta, do you think that's Kunimitsu's girlfriends? Maybe that explained why he was a bit different these few days."
"I donno aniki. That girl seems to be older than Tezuka-kun a lot, don't you think? I don't have the habit of prying to people's life. It always the other way round. People come to pry my life," he whispered back.
Syusuke pinch lightly on Yuuta's cheek. He knew pretty well that the word was meant for him.
"Fuji-senpai, what are you doing hiding here?" said a voice that nearly scare Yuuta out of his wits.
"Shh… See that?" he pointed toward Kunimitsu.
"Yes, what is so special?" he said in his I-don't-care attitude.
"Echizen-kun, what do you mean what is so special?" asked Yuuta.
"I've been seeing them together since yesterday. They seem to know each other well."
"Do you think it's his girlfriend?"
"Saa…" Echizen shrugged. "I better get going. Don't let buchou found out you two had been spying on him. He make you run laps if he ever found out about it. I can bet it's no less than 100 laps."
The next day, Syusuke and Yuuta purposely bump into the girl that was with Kunimitsu yesterday. Yuuta protested all the way, but couldn't do anything. Knowing aniki all his life, he had better not disagree with him. Anyway, it is not that they are doing anything bad.
"Konnichiwa," his brother greeted.
"Konnichiwa," the girl replied. "How may I help you?"
"What's for today's special?"
"Eto… We got American breakfast set, Chinese breakfast set, Japanese breakfast set and Korean breakfast set. Or you would like to try to mix any two set. It's famous here."
"Ok. I want mixed set. Give me Chinese-Japanese breakfast set and give me hot chocolate with it. How about you, Yuuta?"
"I'll have the same."
"Ok, that's two sets of mixed Chinese-Japanese breakfast set, with hot chocolate."
The two nodded. The girl makes her way to the counter.
"Aniki, look," he pointed at the counter. Kunimitsu was there. He is here again today. The two definitely has some sort of relationship. The Kunimitsu he knows at school was different from the one he saw from the day they start to camp here. He wants to find out who is that girl to Kunimitsu and he had to find out before they return tomorrow morning.
Ten minutes later, the girl returned with their order. Seeing that the place was not busy, Syusuke decided to have a small conversation with her. He hoped the girl wouldn't mind.
"Arigatou," he said when the girl had put the order down.
"Ano, can I ask something?"
"Sure," replied the girl.
"It's my first time here. It some beautiful place you have here. It there any place you would recommend us to go from here?"
Yuuta stared at his brother. What is aniki trying to do?
"Well, if you want something relaxing, you could try fishing. There are fishing poles for rent to customers who didn't bring their own fishing pole. You could also go into the nearby forest for jungle tracking. And if you would like to get closer to the Fujisan, there is a boat going out everyday, to take tourist to see Fujisan as close as possible."
"I see. How much rent do they charge for fishing poles?"
"Well, depends on what type of poles you want to rent and the fishing tools that goes with it."
"I see. How about the boat that goes out? It is free of charge or I have to get the ticket from somewhere?"
"The boat leaves about every two hours. You can get the ticket from the dock."
"Syusuke, what are you doing here?"
"Ah, Kunimitsu. Breakfast," he answered innocently pointing at his breakfast set.
"I can see that. But she had been standing here for about five minutes."
"It's nothing Kunimitsu. He was asking questions. By the way, do you happen to know these guys?" she asked pointing to Syusuke and Yuuta.
"They are the guys that followed me for this vacation."
"Is that your girlfriend, Kunimitsu? I saw you two together yesterday."
The girl blushed. Five seconds later then she laugh. Syusuke couldn't see what was so funny. Kunimitsu also grinned. Ok, maybe something is wrong.
"Michiyo Yumi. Nice to meet you."
"Fuji Syusuke and this is Yuuta, my little brother."
"Yumi-san is my cousin, Syusuke. What makes you think that she is my girlfriend?"
"Smiles and actions. I never seen you smiled like that in school before." Kunimitsu just grinned at the tensai. "And she is nothing that could resemble your cousin."
"She is my mother side cousin."
"That explain why it is not Tezuka Yumi. Sorry about earlier."
"It's ok. Since you are friends of Kunimitsu, it's my treat today. Enjoy yourselves."
"And I thought she was your girlfriend. Sorry Kunimitsu."
"Apology accepted. So you two better eat it before it is cold."
Fuji Syusuke was not called tensai for nothing, and now Syusuke feel like he is so dumb. Yuuta just grinned at his brother's mistake. He know what to tell nee-san when he get back tomorrow. The rest of the day went fine. The two Fuji went on the boat Yumi-san had told them earlier and enjoy the view. Yuuta had forgotten about the anger he had with aniki earlier of the vacations. Well, in fact he enjoyed this holiday. He might regret later when Mizuki-san tortured him with unending practices for not going with the group, but for now it's worth it. Later that night, Ryoma joined the four of them for dinner. As the camping ground had provided places for barbeque, Tezuka-san had suggested having barbeque that night before they go back tomorrow morning. Kunimitsu had totally forgotten about the disappointment before he came, and the shock that Ryoma showed up and the mistake the tensai had make. Well, it's not a bad holidays after all. But he kept in his mind to double check with the others before he planned for the next holiday and to remind himself to mark his holiday else where.
"Let's have a group photo," suggested Syusuke.
Who would have thought this could have happened.
-Owari