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Disclaimer: Prince of Tennis and its characters are not mine.
That night never happen again, and if ask why, Hotaru and Keigo doesn't have an answer. Hotaru did not get pregnant, either. They celebrated Hotaru's birthday, as well as Atobe's graduation. He decided to go Business rather than professional Tennis.
"I want to try managing your business, Dad," he told Daisuke one evening while they were taking dinner with Hotaru, her brother, Ryo and her father, Takuya. Hotaru stared at him with questions lingering his eyes.
"And why's that?" his father asked. Daisuke is glad that his son want to try operating his business but he also know that his son love tennis.
"I think," he paused. "I think that if I want to marry Hotaru-chan here, I need to have something stab;e on my pockets and pro tennis doesn't guarantee that."
Hotaru blushed and glared at him. Kinomichi Takuya remained stoically silent, "Idiot! Who will want to marry you?"
"You, who else?" he grinned at her. They started bickering and bantering with each other, however, the older Kinomichi grunted in his seat and when the two looked at him, they lowered their head in embarrassment as they realized what had just occurred. Ryo laughed at them silently and continue to eat his food.
"Well, Hotaru-chan has to finish high school first before you guys can marry each other," Daisuke grinned. "A grandchildren can be taken care of right now, if you want. Right, Kinomichi-san?"
Takuya gave him a disbelieving look, "I think that a child is not necessary as of now if they want to be successful in the future."
The way he said those words are so unemotional but a tinge of concern did crossed his eyes; which Keigo and Daisuke caught.
"Dad, I don't know you have such perverted thoughts," Keigo scolded his father. "I would like to have a child, maybe two, with Hotaru-chan but I also don't want to ruin her future. I know that she will love being a mother to our children but she will also want to have something that she would love to do other than tending for them."
"Excuse me," Hotaru interrupted them. "I am here. You can ask what I want personally without you answering for me."
"I would love to have his children," she blushed again. "I will probably take course in business also, but Ryo here will going to take over Dad's company and Grandpa left me the dojo so I think I have to manage it to continue his legacy."
"Yes," Takuya nodded approvingly. "If I had not take over the company, I should be the one doing the managing in the dojo. But father left it with you, Hotaru. I will want to see you gain more students as years pass by."
"Yes, Dad," she said. They have gotten closer but the politeness still evident by the way they are talking to each other. Ryo don't; he talked to their dad with respect and politeness but not too overly it sound like a robot talking to a robot.
"So you will devote yourself to do kendo for the rest of your life?" Keigo asked her.
"Well, you can say that," she said, grinning. "I am still going to play tennis but not that much. I am sure the group would want to play with me again."
"How was being a captain doing you?" he asked in concern. Weeks after they had the unprotected love-making, he was as agitated as a mother hen looking for a comfortable position of shileding her eggs from every one's view. He thought that if Hotaru might be pregnant and the stress of being a captain get to her, it may affect her and the baby's health.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, they didn't get pregnant and never did it again. They were both disappointed but look through it in a bright eyes. They said that maybe they were given a chance of getting settle in the future before having to start their own family.
"It was great, but also tiring," she said. "We submitted our application for the district's women tournament after months of training and the district approved it. Thank God, there are people who joined us before the actual tournament started."
"I heard you guys went until the regional?" Daisuke asked. "Congratulations."
"We didn't get to the Nationals though," she frowned.
"Don't worry," Keigo reached for her hands. "I believe in you."
"Thank you," she smiled at him sweetly. Her bright smile pierced his heart with do much joy. "We are just getting started. Going up until the regional, and placing sixth is a big achievement. That was a big jump for us, not when our team members were just starting tennis themselves."
"Well, with brothers like Tanaka and Oda, adding Yanagi, Hanamichi, Matsumoto and that Haruto," he frowned at the last name. He still cannot beat that guy even though he was a National player himself. "Is he always absent whenever you guys have an important celebration?"
He still do not know that Haruto and Hotaru are on and the same. "Yes, he's alwys like. Our friends are used to him."
"Well, I don't" he pushed, voice getting darker as he remembered how much humiliation he face every time he play with that guy. "He's rude for not showing up on occasions. He missed your brithday, as well as you celebration when you guys passed the district, prefecturals and got into the regionals."
"I think you need to tell him already, onee-san," Ryo whispered to her. He learned about her little secret when he barged in her room and looked at the things in her walk-in closet trying to find some old rackets of her sister she 'stopped' using.
"I think I should," she said out loudly.
"Should what?" her father asked nonchalantly.
"Uhmm," she looked uncertain. "I need to have a private conversation with Kei-kun later."
Keigo furrowed his brows when their fathers turned to look at him, "What about?"
"It's a secret," she smiled nervously.
"Are you, by any chance, are having a baby and you need to tell him about this in private?" her father asked dubiously.
"No, Dad," she answered. "It's something to about Haruto-kun."
"And you cannot tell it about him without having us hearing what you say, Hotaru-chan?" Daisuke asked his practically-daughter-in-law.
"Yes, you're right, ji-san," she told Daisuke. "This has to do about Haruto's origin..."
Keigo narrowed his eyes, "Later." He echoed her word before. Hotaru felt a shiver ran down her spine because of the coldness in his voice.
She knew that he did not like Haruto because he was jealous with him the first time Shiro and the guys mentioned him to Keigo with those awful innuendos. According to them, she and Haruto go out 'together' every time the group go somewhere together. What Atobe do not know is that the reason 'they' go together is because he was her.
She was guilty for not telling him anything sooner, and maybe he will hate her after she confess to him but she knew that she need to tell him now before he will learn it from other people.
That night, as she and her family are staying over Atobe's mansion, she went to Keigo's room.
"I remember going out at night to play tennis in the street," she started. "That was when I met Shiro and the others. I began to do it because my father told me I need to quit playing after I finish middle school. Before graduation, I started looking for a peaceful place to play, but instead, I found a group or players with different behaviors. A book smart, a bishounen, a masochist, a leader, and a silent one. Odd group, and they all have something in common- they are sons of business owners, like me. I met them before I met the girls, maybe I knew them more than the girls.
"They let me in their circle. And I found another way to play tennis without my father knowing about it. For precaution, I decided to dress up as a guy," with this she looked at Keigo in the eye before reverting back at the floor. "I told them, a week after the announcement of our engagement, I think. Instead of feeling deceive, they opened their arms more widely to me. I know, at that time, that I found my true friends. The girls are the bonuses."
"Are you saying what I am thinking you are saying?" he asked her. He slowly moved forward towards her. She backed away and felt her back touch the wall beside the door.
"If you are thinking that I am Haruto, then yes, I am," she said.
He didn't say anything and it made her look up. He was now in front of her, nearly inches separating them away from each other. His eyes are dark, not with disgust or hatred, but with lust. He kissed her full in the mouth and she whimpered. They kissed alright, but not this steamy. After that one night, they are afraid to deepen their kisses for the thought that it may lead some where unforgivable. But tonight, it seems as if Keigo doesn't care if what he is doing was unthinkable. In a mere matter of minutes, they were in the bed, doing it. Didn't even bother using a protection. Again.
They lay in the bed, skin to skin, warmth to warmth, as they catch their breaths after their climax.
"I love you," they told each other at the same time.
They closed their eyes and slept together.
This time, when they opened their eyes in the morning, a little life is growing inside her. She learned about it after three weeks of nausea, vomiting, and weakness. Because of this, she needs to forfeit her captaincy and Murosaki, who is her fukubuchou, inherited. The Mother Superior allowed her to go to school until her stomach get bigger, after that, she will do home-school for the next months she's going to carry her child.
Keigo is very delighted and shared the news with his close friends, mostly the regulars and those other tennis players from other schools he became friends with.
"I still couldn't believe you're going to be a father soon, Atobe-san," Momoshiro congratulated the older boy, now a man.
"Congrats, Monkey king," Momo's best friend and the tennis prince, Echizen Ryoma said.
Atobe let that passed. He is happy and nothing can make him frown a little. If he's not thinking about Hotaru's welfare, he would have shouted his happiness about his girlfriend's pregnancy to the whole world.
Hotaru passed junior year with flying colors as before when she was a freshman even though she was home-schooled and had a baby. She married Keigo in the Mayor's office to legalize their son's birth. They decided to get marry in the traditional way after she gave birth, and it may take time because a girl always want to get involve in the preparations of her own wedding and an always bad mood, crazy-hormone woman cannot do that. She also need to stay in the hospital for two weeks after the birth to check her up, and then a month to heal her the stitches in her opening.
Keigo is a wonderful dad. Even though he gets frustrated with his assignments and home-works from college, he is patient towards her and their son. His love for them shows everyday, and she love him more because of this.
There are always up and downs in life. They may fight over something, or sulk in the corner because the one said something mean, they will always go back to each other because they couldn't take another minute to be away or mad from each other. Their son grew bigger with their love for each other.
And as this story closes, these two protagonist would like to thank everyone who read their story.
The End?.. Maybe...
A/N: I know the ending sucked and too abrupt, but good news! I will going to write a sequel of this, a shorter one about how they struggled to their everyday life bringing up their son...
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