Title: The Second Meeting: Accidentally in Love
Pairing: YuuTari
Disclaimer: not mine, cool? cool.

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The school year started to get harder and harder, and Oshitari found himself left with less and less time to spend outside of tennis and studying. Even during summer break, he had to follow a strict schedule with homework if he didn't want to cram right before school started. Before he knew it, the district and prefecturals were already over, and Kantou was starting tomorrow. He and Yagyuu had only met a few times, for coffee or a movie, but Yagyuu hadn't kissed him again.

He finished the last problem on this week's section of his math homework and stretched. Maybe he should message Yagyuu to see if he would be at Kantou tomorrow. Deciding that Yagyuu would definitely be there and that he was tired from not sleeping enough all week, he ended up setting his alarm for seven a.m. and crawling into bed. There was a little blue teddy bear that had recently moved near his pillow, where the corner of his bed and two walls of his room met. "I saw it while taking my little sister to the toy shop the other day," Yagyuu had explained when Oshitari looked at him with puzzled eyes. "It reminded me of your hair, and your Higuma Otoshi." That had been as close to embarrassed as he'd ever seen Yagyuu Hiroshi – in fact, it had probably been as close to sheepish as Yagyuu ever got.

He awoke to the annoying beeping of his alarm the next day. He turned over in bed and hit the snooze button – he didn't particularly need to be up for another half hour, he just liked to have two alarms, the first to knock him out of his REM/NREM cycle and the second to fully wake him. When his alarm went off again, he was wide-awake and ready for the day. Climbing out of bed, he grabbed his Hyoutei school uniform and headed for the shower.

As soon as he got to the courts, he saw Atobe and Jirou already there. Jirou had probably slept over at Atobe's, he thought. Atobe made him do that sometimes, so he could personally ensure that Jirou was at the tournament on time. "Morning," he greeted. Atobe just nodded at him, and Jirou drooled a little onto the towel Atobe had insightfully placed between his shoulder and Jirou's head.

Hyoutei was slotted to face Rikkai in the semifinals, and Seigaku in finals. In quarters though, they had the pleasure of drawing Kakinoki. Oshitari knew they would win easily and didn't really want to watch the match. Instead, he searched the posting list until he found Rikkai's match – they were playing one court over, against St. Rudolph.

Rikkai's cheerleaders were loud, but he could easily spot all the former third year Regulars he'd seen at Nationals last year. Yukimura, Sanada, and Yanagi were watching the D2 match intently, oblivious to everything else around them. Marui and Niou were whispering to each other with grins on their faces, probably plotting some master prank together. Jackal looked back and forth between the match and Marui and Niou, clearly both interested in the game and worried about what the two might be scheming. Yagyuu was nowhere to be found.

He sighed. Maybe Yagyuu hadn't come. After all, he wasn't playing, and therefore wasn't required to come watch a match, especially not if he had other things to do, like studying. One thing he'd learned about Yagyuu was that he was apparently a very hard working, good student, always scoring close to the top of his class. Another was that he took very good care of his little sister, always taking her out or helping her with her homework. He turned around to return to Hyoutei's match when a hand stopped him. "Hyoutei's prodigy, Oshitari Yuushi, isn't it?" a familiar voice asked. He looked over his shoulder at who it was.

"I'm sorry, you are?"

"St. Rudolph first year, Mizuki Hajime. I've heard you're Yagyuu Hiroshi's newest boy toy," the boy said, giving off a strange little sigh-laugh.

Oshitari raised an eyebrow as he turned to face Mizuki. He hadn't realized that his and Yagyuu's dating was already public knowledge, but more importantly, "Newest boy toy?" he repeated, perturbed at this Mizuki's word choice.

Mizuki made that weird sound again - Oshitari wondered if he should tell him that it wasn't cute - and gestured to a spot behind Oshitari. "You can always ask him for yourself," he said, brushing past him and walking away.

Oshitari wondered if he would stand there turning in circles for the rest of the day, as he about-faced yet again to see Yagyuu walking up behind him, one hand pushing his headphones back to rest around his oh-so-pale neck and the other turning off the radio-cassette player clipped to his belt. Another thing he'd learned about Yagyuu was that he followed the news as if his life depended on it, whether via newspaper, magazine, television, radio, what have you. "Morning," Yagyuu said. Before Oshitari could collect his thoughts, Yagyuu had already walked right up to him and, gently resting his hands on Oshitari's biceps, leaned in to press a kiss on his cheek. "What did Mizuki want?" Yagyuu asked, voice low and sending warm puffs of breath by Oshitari's ear.

If Mizuki hadn't said those words to him, Oshitari thought, Yagyuu's actions would definitely have him in a daze. As was, his heart was already beating a little faster at their closeness. "Nothing," he murmured. He'd gotten upset with Yagyuu when Niou had kissed him, and that had turned out to be nothing. All Mizuki did was say something, and he wasn't even sure if the boy was stable. He shouldn't keep acting like a jealous and possesive girl - Yagyuu, gentleman of the courts, deserved more than that. Instead, he pulled back slighty and, wrapping his arms around Yagyuu's waist, pulled in him closer and tilted his head to kiss him right on his so very tempting mouth.

"Oshitari -" Yagyuu started to question.

Oshitari decided he liked switching roles and being the one who confused Yagyuu sometimes. It was more fun that way. "Call me Yuushi," he said.

Yagyuu's startled face slowly smoothed into a cool smile. "Yuushi," he repeated.

"Yes?" Oshitari was veritably grinning at Yagyuu, enjoying the way his name sounded in that smooth, refined voice.

"You do realize your teammates are watching us right now."

"Excuse me?" He pulled away from Yagyuu and looked where Yagyuu was looking. Indeed, Atobe was watching them a few paces off with an amused expression on his face that simply said he would never let Oshitari live this down. Shishido was doing his best not to laugh, while Gakuto was clearly trying to bring Shishido to his doom by hugging thin air and making kissy faces. "Oh wonderful..." he muttered.

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Oh what a weak link. XD For some reason, I kept thinking of the song "Accidentally in Love", by Counting Crows, I think? while writing this. Hence the title. XD 'Cause I think Oshitari's just crossed the border between like and love, not that it's easily defined or indicated.

I've just realized I probably screwed up - I thought the Newcomer's tournament was at the beginning of the year, but apparently it's at the end? Sorry...just pretend it's at the beginning. P