Sorry for the late update! I was busy and had no clear idea for this chapter yet. I hoped it turned out okay. So here it is the second chapter of persistence. Yay

Disclaimer : I do not own POT ! waaaaaah, the end of the world….


Persistence : chapter 2

FUJI'S POV

Tezuka left me alone during practice. He never asked what had really happened and such, he just let me be. And I was thankful for that. If I had to explain what happened and why I wasn't really angry, then I would have to explain all those other times with the other guys. And well, that wasn't really my favourite subject.

Eiji usually knew when something happened. He was most of the time with me, so when a guy came to ask something or just say something to me, well the red head was most likely standing next to me. I was glad he noticed that I disliked talking about it, well I just disliked thinking about it. But there wasn't a lot of chance that I would forget all the things that had happened.

My best friend would just ask if I would be okay and when it took me awhile to come back he would come and see what was happening. I normally stayed close to Eiji, so he would hear me when I started talking louder in dismay.

But I trusted Ito more then the average guy, so I didn't mind to go further away. Apparently I was wrong in that.

I had noticed some worried glances from Tezuka once in awhile but that was it. After our warming-up exercises Eiji came to me for a practice match. But before we started he asked again if everything was okay, this time verbally. I just told him that Ito was quite persistent and that when it got too bad Tezuka came to help.

Eiji shot a glance at our buchou who was supervising some of the second years at that moment. I quickly told him that the stoic man didn't really know what had happened. Eiji then let it go and we started playing our game.

xxxTIME LAPSxxx

The next day, I and Eiji were walking through the halls on our way to our first class of the day. Eiji was talking about how happy he was to go on a date with Oishi after school. I just smiled at him and nodded once in a while. It was best to just let him speak whatever he wanted to say.

I was wondering when I would be able to go on a date, a normal one. Not a date where the guy acts all nice until we're a bit secluded from other people walking around and then start to kiss me and touch me. I just wanted a normal date, see a movie, and go to dinner or something like that. And I knew exactly the person I wanted to go with. Though I was sure he had no interest in it what so ever. Tezuka was just busy with tennis; the rest must be a waist of time for him. He does like fishing and mountain climbing, so I might propose that. He might want to come then.

At that moment somebody called my name which made me turn around. Eiji stopped walking as well and looked curiously to the approaching person. The person was a third year who, if I'm right, was in the same class as Inui. He was normal built, taller than me and was usually shy but friendly. I had seen him a couple of times but I didn't really know him, so I wondered why he had called me.

He bowed as he stood right in front of me and quickly yelled out in a hallway filled with people passing by: "Fuji-san, will you go out with me!"

I was perplexed for a moment; most people did this in a place with fewer bystanders. I had to give it to him, I liked his guts. But not enough.

"I'm sorry, but I can't," I politely refused him.

He looked up at me with a slightly red face and then asked me: "Why not?"

He seemed so nice, not like most people who confessed to me, that I decided to give him an honest answer. I hoped that since more people were listening in on our conversation that they would all know that it would be meaningless to confess to me. I hoped with this that they would stop coming onto me. It would run like wild fire through the school. And everyone would probably know at the end of the day.

"Because I already like somebody else, I'm sorry." I could hear all the gasps around me as I said this while still smiling. It wasn't exactly a secret that I was gay. I had told that to a girl once when she was about the fifth girl that day to confess to me. I was still in second year but it had been just like now. I got sick of the confessions so I thought with them knowing this; they wouldn't ask me out anymore. But girls were just strange; they still came to me in hopes that I would be interested in them. Even though they knew that I was into the same sex.

I just hoped that somehow it wouldn't be like that again. And that the confessions from males would stop, I was always surprised to how many guys were gay, most of which I always thought to be as straight as you can be.

Numerous assumptions were already in the making and newcomers to all the students already in the hall were immediately brought up to date. Who was it that I liked, were we already an item or was it a sad one-sided love?

The person in front of me smiled weekly and thanked me for being honest before turning around and walking away in the direction he came from. The bell went at that moment and everybody hurried themselves to their classrooms. I and Eiji were just a few steps away from the door so we calmly walked to the door and went inside.

A big part of my class had been present at my revelation and where now all hogging my desk. The teacher wasn't there yet; she probably had trouble going through the human stream that was splitting every now and then when a door of a classroom came in sight. I went to sit on my chair with Eiji going to sit next to mine. He hadn't said anything yet, but I was sure it would come.

My classmates started interrogating me and all they got was 'saa' or 'himitsu'. It wasn't very productive. They were all curious to my object of affection. But they wouldn't find out any time soon, not when it was my choice to make. Even my red headed friend didn't know who I liked. He must have had the idea that I was interested in a certain somebody but I never really told him that I liked a person.

I looked at him as he looked straight ahead looking like if he was deep in thought. Which with Eiji would last for about a minute or two before his concentration was broken.

"Ne, Fujiko!" he whined

I smirked at his short concentration span and looked at him.

"Why didn't you tell me? Who do you like? Is it Ochibi?"

"Echizen?" I laughed. That would have been something. Though, I would have probably been able to seduce him. No, I was stuck with some stoic unresponsive person who could steal my breath away with just one look and make me shiver with only his voice.

"Nya! Then who is it?"

At that moment the teacher came in and all the talking in the class died down. The teacher looked at Eiji as he softly apologized for being so loud and the others snickered. She started explaining the lesson of today as I leaned a bit towards my best friend and told him: "I'll tell you at lunch, okay?"

He immediately brightened and nodded enthusiastically before turning his attention to the talking teacher for as long as he could.

TEZUKA'S POV

The bell had gone so I walked back to my class. It was crowded in the halls as everybody was still busy talking to their friends. They then hurried to their classes as well. I walked inside the room, went to sit on my chair and gave Oishi a nod of acknowledging his presence. He smiled back and waited patiently for the teacher to arrive.

Two girls walked in the class still busy talking about what had transpired in the hallways just seconds ago. They made me remind of what I had been a witness off and made my heart ache in an unwanted way.

Fuji had been standing in the middle of the hall as I arrived and saw a guy bowing before him. I was curious to what was going on but was about to walk further for it was none of my business. That was until I heard the unknown person ask if Fuji wanted to go out with him. I tensed up and my reaction was to intervene. My heart was constantly telling me that Fuji was mine while my mind told me that that wasn't the case, yet. I was glad when Fuji denied him and was about to go ahead once again.

But then the guy asked why he had refused and I saw Fuji thinking. He was still smiling, but his smiled was seemingly softer than normal as he answered that he already liked somebody. My heart skipped a beat at the possibility that the one he liked could be me, but then my mind had to ruin it for me. I was pointed unto the facts and concluded that it was most likely not me he was talking about. I didn't like the idea of not being able to get Fuji for myself but I wanted to win himself for me, at least try.

Sadly enough, I knew that I wasn't the guy to seduce people, let alone Fuji. I badly wanted him, not only emotionally but physically as well. If he was mine, I would make sure that everyone knew that the tensai was taken. I noticed that when it came to the sapphire eyed boy I was turning jealous quickly and more emotions I had never felt before came to surface. Lust, was one of them. But I was well raised so I knew not to go with my wants until I was sure Fuji would be completely fine with it.

People around me tried to guess who he liked and most of them thought it to be Echizen, me or Eiji, Takashi was also a option for some. And even Inui was mentioned even though that that would be a terrifying couple. But what they were all sure about was that the guy must be from the tennis club. Some even thought of Atobe or Tachibana. I even heard the name Mizuki drop once in a while and almost laughed.

Fuji would have made a face of disgust if he would have heard that one. I then saw that Ito guy standing at the end of the hall on the other side. He looked strangely at Fuji with what I could define as lust, want and hope. I was sure that he thought that he was the one who Fuji liked.

I told myself that whenever that guy was around, I had to keep an eye on him, especially with Fuji in the neighbourhood. I was still angry at him for trying to force Fuji and fisted my hands. I just hoped that there weren't more guys like that after Fuji. But I was wrong with that thought.

XxxTIME LAPSxxx

At practice it became clear that a lot of guys had eyes for Fuji and not always in the innocent way. The day was very warm and the temperature was really high. Everybody was sweating as we were training out in the sun. It wasn't abnormal for a crowd to gather and I had usually ignored them until now. I noticed that a big part of the crowd was continuously watching in one direction, towards Fuji.

At a certain moment Fuji took a small break and grabbed his water bottle to drink. He sat on the opposite court from where I was standing. He put the bottle to his lips and lifted it up so the liquid could flow freely into his waiting mouth. Some of the water moved from his lips towards his chin, then down to his neck and into his shirt. I followed the line of water and softly gulped as I mentally berated myself for almost having my mind in the gutter. He then moved one hand towards his shirt and lifted it up to wipe away the liquid on his chin. My eyes immediately fixed on the visible skin and turned around to not have my attention focused too much on Fuji's sexy looking stomach. I then saw at least half of the crowd looking in a wantonly way at Fuji.

I wanted to shout at them so they would leave and stop looking at Fuji like that. It was like they were stripping Fuji with their eyes and doing much more in their minds. I kept myself from losing control and ordered Fuji to start playing again, he shouldn't get so careless. He smiled at me beautifully which made my heart race as I tried to act indifferently. I was going to practice myself a bit with doing some exercise but then saw Ito at the corner of my eyes. He looked like he was waiting for Fuji and that he wanted to talk to him. I hoped he wouldn't have the patience to wait until practice was over so he couldn't have a chance to talk to Fuji.

I would try to get him go away before the tensai would pass by him and Ito had the chance to grab Fuji. It seemed to me that Ito was starting to stalk him and I didn't want that. He just didn't know when to give up. Yesterday had apparently not been too clear for him that Fuji wasn't interested in him.

"Eh? What is this doing in my bag?" I heard Fuji say as Eiji curiously peered over his shoulders.


The end of this chapter. I have no idea when the next upload will be, since my final exams are starting in two weeks. I hope to update one before the start because otherwise you'll have to wait really long. I'll also go to Greece in the beginning of July for two weeks. So I'm just warning you guys not to expect a lot of uploads the following weeks.

Ja ne! please review.