Thanks to all reviewers that this fic has made it this far! (I wasn't even planning for a chapter 2, to be frank.) And special thanks to my 50th reviewer, Hajimari!

"Hiroshi…"

"Hmm?"

"Let's switch,"

"We can't,"

"Why not?"

"You're cuffed on your right wrist; I'm cuffed on the left. It'd be sparkling obvious if we switched,"

"But this is so boring! Even if we were supposed to be stalking fukubuchou and buchou's progression, we are now stuck in this… hospital that buchou is so acquainted with."

Before Yagyuu could reply, the Seigaku regulars who were pressed against the door shushed them.

"We can't hear them,"

Niou poked around the tray that was next to him. "Oh, use this," he threw them a stethoscope.

Rummaging around the pot of treasure (the tray), he undid a roll of bandages and smirked. "Hiroshi-chan.." he sang and tightened a length of cloth in front of him suggestively.

"Niou-kun! We're in public!" Yagyuu pushed the cloth away from his face.

"Well, apparently Seigaku doesn't know that," Niou pointed to the column of boys desperately trying to listen to whatever Fuji or Tezuka was speaking at the moment.

Yagyuu sighed and dragged Niou to a row of seats where the others were all waiting innocently at. Echizen was right at one end, sipping his favourite ponta as he merely glanced at his senpais' actions. Flopping down beside Renji, Yagyuu wondered why the data specialist hadn't joined Seigaku.

He looked down the row. Next to Renji was Yukimura, then Sanada, then Atobe. That made sense. Yukimura was clinging to Sanada rather discreetly; however Yagyuu could see the clench in his hand. Sanada seemed torn between Yukimura and Atobe, although he leaned more towards Yukimura, Atobe demanded an answer whenever he asked Sanada a question. Renji was just there in case Yukimura extended his full ability of his blinding smile. (and sadism)

Jiorh was next to Atobe, and Saeki was sitting next to Jiroh, who was suffering from Jiroh's fanboying about Fuji. Fudomine had sped off when Tachibana called them away, and St. Rudolph was commanded by their fuming manager to stay and not interrupt the "sadistic bastard". Ryou had stayed behind with Atsushi. Oshitari had gone off somewhere in the hospital, and no one seemed to notice or care.

"87 percent chance you think you're the only one who has spotted Oshitari missing," Renji suddenly spoke up from beside him.

Yagyuu maintained an indifferent front even though Renji scared the hell out of him for a second, until he realized that oh, it was Renji.

"Ano…" A nurse blinked at the scene in front of her. "May I help you?"

"Ah, no, it's alright," The Seigaku regulars scrambled away from the door as the nurse regarded them with suspicious looks, but didn't say anything as she entered the room.

Eji quickly slid a foot in door before it closed and successfully secured an opening.

"Do you guys see anything?" Momo spoke.

"No, they're hidden behind a curtain," Inui tried to shift himself in a better position.

Fuji's voice was heard when he spoke.

"Take it off." Giggle. "Ow.. not so hard…"

"Just bear with it." It was Tezuka.

"Slower…"

"Are you ready?"

"Yeah, it's just... that spot…"

BAM

A pile of boys fell onto the floor as they leaned too hard forwards.

Four heads in the room snapped to look at the sound and drew the curtain. Fuji was on a bed with the doctor hovering over his legs and Tezuka holding Fuji's hands. Tezuka froze in mid action. Fuji tried to stifle his laughter. The doctor and nurse looked at the boy pile weirdly.

Oshitari Yuushi unexpectedly showed up at the door.

"I took the trouble to look for a nurse to get you guys off the door, yet it didn't work," he muttered to himself as he stepped over the pile.

"I heard you broke your wrist and ankle, Fuji,"

"That was fast," Fuji narrowed his eyes. Atobe, Hyotei, they're all in it.

"Heard it from Atobe," Oshitari shrugged off the look Fuji was giving him. "You know how he is, he wanted to play Tezuka but Tezuka left with you."

Fuji gave him one last look before half accepting his explanation. "Why are you here?"

"Atobe's outside the room. I'm supposed to meet him for lunch but since he's here, I might as well visit."

Fuji smiled and thanked him for the thought. Tezuka continued his task in wrapping the bandage on Fuji's wrist while the doctor did Fuji's ankle. The nurse winked at Oshitari before exiting the room and Oshitari nodded his thanks, although her presence didn't prevent Seigaku's blunder of revealing themselves. Oshitari bid Fuji farewell and left the room.

"So," Fuji turned to address the rest of Seigaku on the floor. "What are you doing here?"

His eyes promised sadism on his part, and everyone cringed.

"We came to see how you're doing, Fujiko!" Eji burst out. "I mean, it'll affect your tennis and all…"

"I see…"

The regulars sighed a breath of relief as Fuji didn't say anything else.

"Matta ne, Fujiko!" They quickly backed out of the door.

Sanada and Yukimura came in and left after exchanging a few words. There was only Atobe, Jiroh, Oshitari and Saeki left waiting outside.

"You saw how it was like today," Atobe addressed Saeki.

"It's... kind of scary," Saeki commented. "But as Fuji's friend, I have to help out."

"Good," Atobe patted Saeki's shoulder and stood up, grabbing Jiroh's collar. ("ATOBE, WAIT! HE HASN'T TOLD ME ABOUT FUJI SYUUSUK-") "Our next course of action depends entirely on you."

When Saeki entered the room, there was only Fuji and Tezuka left.

"Tezuka-san, can I speak to him for a while?" "In private," he added, when he saw that Tezuka didn't budge.

Fuji nodded at Tezuka as he stood up to leave.

"Fuji, how's your injury?" Saeki helped Fuji up so he was sitting.

"I can't play for a while, but other than that, it's okay,"

"Who were those girls Fuji? They put you to harm!"

Fuji smiled at his friend's reaction. Perhaps he could tell Saeki all that's been troubling him.

"Fangirls, Saeki," Fuji smiled wryly. "I'm sure you have some."

"Yes... but not as... ah, pushy, as yours."

"They weren't like that. Something happened, and then they started chasing me. I mean they always did, but this is…"

"Crazy," Saeki finished for him and they both chuckled.

"If I knew what happened, maybe I could fix it…" Fuji trailed off, eyeing Saeki. However, Saeki really didn't know how it started.

"With you in this condition, and that kind of girls after you, you need to be protected," Saeki stated it so seriously that Fuji couldn't help but laugh.

"Well then, will you be my knight in shinning armor, prince charming?" Fuji spoke in a high voice.

"Of course, my fair princess," Saeki held Fuji hands in endearment until both of them could stand it no more, and burst out laughing.

Tezuka leaned against the wall outside as he heard their conversation.

Somehow, it disturbed Tezuka that Fuji could so openly tell Saeki his problems, and not to him. But what disturbed him more was that he was disturbed about Fuji opening up to Saeki more than him, when Saeki was Fuji childhood friend after all. Just what was he thinking?