Personally, I think Ryoma is cute here. Though she'll return to her sleepy and oblivious self in the next chapter. Ice cream will never be the same once you read how Fuji see's it .

The two laughed.

It was a sight to behold, the little girl merrily eating her cake and drinking Ponta, joking and smiling, as her partner wore her sacred (and never before borrowed) white Fila cap, a true blooming smile on his face as he talked to her.

Inui could not believe his eyes. He took off his glasses, wiped them then put them on again. They were still there. They were still laughing. Suspicious!

"Ii data" He murmured, opening his notebook and scribbling on it. His client would be very much interested in his data. Oh so interested.

"-And so oyaji decided to just throw it all away" Another laugh from her favorite sempai

She had been hanging out with him in the meadow by the park for a while now, they had done so ever since he carried her here, and she smiled. It was their secret he said. Their secret hiding place

"Saa, is the cake to your liking Ryoma-san?"

She nodded sweetly, having been energized enough by the flood of Ponta he had brought with him. "Thanks for the treat Syusuke-sempai"

He smiled "Your not as tired as you always were before, I am glad. Now I get to talk to you more"

She gave him a curious look "Talk? What about?"

His thoughts stumbled for a second "Ano…tennis, yeah. The Kanto finals are coming soon. I heard you were getting special training again"

"Yeah…Tezuka-sempai said I should" She spoke with a curt nod

You could practically see the arrow shoot itself into his heart at her comment. Keep it cool Fuji. It's not like your dating her or anything. She might just admire Tezuka. There cant be anything the stoic man had over him…right?

"Saa, you've always been Tezuka's little admirer" He spoke after a moment of silence

A yawn escaped her and so she took a sip of her drink "Yeah. Tezuka-sempai is cool" she commented absentmindedly

Another arrow struck.

"So what do you like about Tezuka?" He asked curiously with a tilt of his head

She went deep into her thoughts before mumbling her answer "He's strong (in tennis), He never disturbs my sleep unless if its important (like tennis), he's smart (about his tactics in tennis) and he's got really smooth moves (in his tennis games). What's with the sudden interrogations Syusuke-sempai?"

He raised an elegant brow at the list, arrows puncturing and painful squeezing his heart as he listened. "Smooth moves?"

Inui's eyes widened "Ii Data" he mumbled once more, he never knew his own buchou had the hots for the soon to be Pillar of Seigaku. Hmm. Interesting. His client would be VERY much interested in this little piece of information as well.

…

Fuji (and several other men in the park) watched as she licked, suckled and just about attacked her ice cream. You would almost think the ice cream was her long lost lover who she was suddenly reunited with, which somewhat irritated the tensai if only it weren't for the blissful look in her eyes

"Saa, your quiet into it Ryoma-chan" He commented

She let a small smile grace her face as she nodded before eyeing his ice cream "Sempai, what flavor is that?" she pointed at his ice cream scoop which was a light green in color, momentarily abandoning her ice cream.

"It's my favorite flavor (A/N: just making this on the spot ._.) Chocolate mint ice cream"

Her eyes brightened even more "Can I try?" she asked

He debated on the ethics of sharing his ice cream. Ahem. Take two. His FAVORITE ice cream. Then again, screw ethics! If she attacked his ice cream like the way she did hers then…no Fuji. Bad Fuji. Thoughts like that aren't suppose to be in your hormonal head till you got in a relationship. A grin spread over his face.

"Saa, go ahead" He approved slyly, handing over his ice cream.

She took it with gusto and took a slow and sensual lick. It brought shivers to her stalkers.

He took it back from her small hand "Did you like it?"

"Yeah, but vanilla is still better" She commented, sucking on one of her fingers which had (un) fortunately been covered by a drop of vanilla ice cream.

The perverts in the park had nosebleeds.

"As expected" He commented, quietly leading her away from the park full of stalker perverts. Or…ahem…newly turned stalker perverts. They could all blame Ryoma for turning them into so.

"Syusuke-sempai, can we go over to my house?" She asked quietly, pointing to a road leading straight to her (new) house

He gave it a quick glance "Huh, I thought you lived in that hotel"

She shook her head "Not anymore, Oyaji and Ryoga cant live there with me" she explained, walking with her sempai towards her new house.

He walked silently, assessing in his head the address of her new house into memory

"95% chance that Echizen was forced" Inui muttered, writing quickly into his notebook, still stalking the duo.

The two Echizen men watched. Oh yes they watched very carefully from the window on the top floor of their new house

"That's him Oyaji, the one who was carrying Chibisuke" Ryoga spoke, suspicion in his voice.

The glass in Nanjoroh's hand suddenly broke "He's even wearing the brat's cap"

Ryoga growled, noting the strange truth. Though he was somewhat happy that his sister had made quiet an effort (was actually Fuji's effort) in keeping awake, if it was just for some guy they hadn't met yet then it was probably a wrong idea to keep her awake.

"What do we do Oyaji?" The only son of The Samurai asked.

Said Samurai smirked "Let's go welcome the brats new friend"

"Hmph, cant she make normal female friends for me to date? Chibisuke so un-cute"

Nanjiroh laughed. Yup, this kid was definitely his. Had the Echizen touch in him too. He patted his son on the back before the two prepared themselves for their new visitor. They were Echizen men, and Echizen men took charge over their women. Ahem…that is…if the women didn't happen to have pointy teeth and deadly hands that could castrate them…so they took charge in secret! Yes, secrecy was their middle name.

"Meow" Karupin purred, quietly of course. He had already met this particular suitor. He was nice to him and gave him fish. A very worthy suitor indeed… his mistress chose well.

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