disclaimer: Still the same..I don't own anything XD

A/N: Nya, here's the next chap..it's kinda strange.. sorry. Nevertheless I hope you'll enjoy reading it -nya- hm..maybe I'm uploadng the next on this day too...as some kinda excuse XD


Mindfields I

„Mum?... Nya, sorry ; I'm okay. Yeah...I just...I just wanted to tell you that I'm not going to come home today- I'm going to stay at Fuji's… Yeah, overnight stay. Ok?…Hm?…Nya, don't want to talk to him, just tell him to go home again. And don't mention that I'm here either, would you? Please Mum. Ah, tank you"

Eiji hung up, frowning. His mother had just mentioned that Oishi had come over to his house, obviously with the intention to talk to him, or, to quote his mum, to "settle things".

It was annoying, as he wasn't in the right mood to face his dark-haired doubles partner. In school would be soon enough, the redhead assumed, Nevertheless, a slight grin stole control over his expression as he was thinking about that. Oishi's behaviour had been too predictable- that was just one of the reasons, which caused him to stay here instead of being home.

"Nya, I'm back!", Eiji exclaimed while re-entering his friend's room. "Hm? What are you doing, Fujiko?", he continued further, watching the brunette shuffling through the pages of a leather-wrapped book and finally closing it, effectively hiding the content from Eiji's curious eyes. Which caused the latte one to became just more curious; he couldn't help it.

"Me? Nothing", the other replied and chuckled softly, before leaving his position and straightening up. "I'll get you the spare futon, just excuse me for a few moments…Ok?", Fuji said while passing his friend and leaving the room, shortly looking back smilingly, before actually disappearing.

Left alone, the redhead glanced around curiously; it was always interesting to see other people's rooms. But, he had to realize quickly and with some disappointment, there weren't any major changes compared to the last time he had been in his friend's room.

Ok, there were some new photo albums, neatly arranged in the brunette's bookshelf, and it seemed that some new pictures decorated the wall his friend was using to pin his recent favourites on.

But, except this, things seemed to be the same like before.

Eiji continued to examine the room with his eyes, partially looking for the book Fuji had looked through earlier, but he couldn't find it. Instead, one of the photos, which were pinned on the wall, caught his eyes immediately.

It seemed to be taken at night, or late evening, showing some part of landscape; trees, which surrounded some kind of alley or clearing. Above them, a bright crescent, partially covered by clouds, awarding them a weird gleam.

It took Eiji a few seconds to recognize the bench, which was visible in the right corner, only represented by its left half.

Somehow, if he thought more intense about it, the scenery seemed kind of familiar to him… Finally, he got it. It was the bench near the street-courts he could see on that photo, the same as…

The redhead just wondered, when Fuji had managed to take this one, as there already were small blossoms hiding between the leafs of the trees…

All in all, the atmosphere caught him. Eiji would estimate it as calm, maybe romantic in some way, but nevertheless as slightly gloomy and melancholic- He couldn't tell exactly, it left him with mixed feelings.

"Do you like that one?", the amused voice of his team-mate pulled him out of his thoughts. Fuji stood in the doorframe, carrying a futon, which he laid down on the floor. Carefully arranging it, the brunette looked up occasionally to observe Eiji's reaction. The redhead had blushed a bit, he recognized.

"It's…pretty", the addressed one answered after some seconds, well-knowing that "pretty" probably wasn't an appropriate term for describing that photo.

"Hm..If you like it, just take it", Fuji offered smilingly, before leaving his kneeling position and moving to his friend's side, who looked at him with widened dark-blue eyes- a unusual sparkle glittering in them.

Eiji knew that Fuji rarely gave away his self-taken photos, so he just was surprised to get that offer- a rare opportunity.

But faster than the redhead was even able to react, the brunette had reached out his hand and removed the picture from it previous place, playfully holding it into his best friend's field of view.

"Nya, thank you Fujiko!", the acrobat managed to say, a wide, true, smile curving his lips, when he took the picture and placed it on top of his bag carefully. He still asked himself, when Fuji had taken that one, but asking him about that would be in vain. Eiji knew that his friend liked to save some secrets around him- which, honestly, frustrated him sometimes. Although, when he managed it to be persistent enough, the redhead could find out pretty much... But enough with this, he scolded himself, before focussing on different things again.