Sorry for the longer wait, I had to work in the garden and such (we have a big garden ;p) and got together with friends. So I didn't find a lot of time to write.

There are probably a lot of mistakes, so sorry about that one as well. Let me know if you see one and I'll correct it as soon as I can.

Disclaimer: POT is not mine, it would have otherwise been categorised as Yaoi with the perfect pair as main characters.

Enjoy this chapter.


Persistence: chapter 6

FUJI'S POV

The morning lessons ended quickly as I was looking forward with a smile to noon, knowing that I would be having lunch with Tezuka. It wasn't that rare for the two of us to eat together, mostly accompanied by the golden pair but somehow I felt giddier about this than normal. I had almost erased what had happened this morning that was how happy I was to have a calm, uninterrupted lunch.

Nobody except the four of us went to the roof at that hour, it seemed like it was our private spot that nobody dared to enter. No girls who came to confess, no guys who wanted to 'talk' in private with me, just me and my three best friends. And that was something dear to me especially with Tezuka there.

The bell then went signalling that it was lunch break. My red headed friend came to stand in front of me and bent down so he was at my height and looked curiously to me with a hint of excitement with his head cocked to the side for a little bit.

"What?" I asked happily, finding the expression he was showing very cute.

"Who do you love?" Eiji quietly asked, not wanting to pull to much attention to us.

"What?" I asked again, but this time surprised and Eiji noticed this.

"Mou, you forgot already! You would tell me who you liked, Fujiko. Please tell me, nya!"

"Eiji…" I reluctantly said to him, not exactly wanting to tell him Tezuka's name. I didn't mind that I loved him it just brought along a lot of complexities. I already experienced that having him look at me wasn't something negative for me, my body responded in a positive way. But what if he touched me somewhere inappropriate or kissed me? Though every time I thought of him kissing me, I just started smiling wider and had this want in me that it would be reality. I knew somewhere in my mind that it would be okay if he touched me, kissed me, he would even be allowed to make love to me. But…what if that was all he wanted. Just sex, nothing else….

"iko! Fujiko!" Eiji said louder as he tried to get my attention back. When he noticed that I was back in real life and not in my own mind anymore he repeated his question. "If you don't want to tell me, can I guess?"

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's just complicated."

"It's complicated that I know who you like?" he asked childishly.

"Well,…not exactly. Bu-"

"Then I can know!" he interrupted happily and just started guessing: "So is he male?"

"You know more than anybody that I'm gay Eiji, of course he's male." I told him while shaking my head lightly at his somewhat dumb question after having decided that it was alright for him to know.

"Nya, right, hehe. Uhm…does he do sport?"

"Yes." I simply answered and saw his excitement at this new game as we waited for the other two to arrive and get us.

"Do I know him?"

"Yes," I said and when he was about to open his mouth again I added: "that means he plays tennis, yes."

He looked surprised for a moment before grinning; finding it funny that I knew what he was going to ask.

"He's a regular." He stated as a matter of fact and I just nodded at him.

Eiji then thought for a moment before asking: "Is he a senior, like us?"

"Yes." I repeated once again.

"Nya! It's not me is it?" he asked eyes wide and mouth open.

"Haha, no, sorry, Eiji, you're my best friend nothing more. Though if you wanted I could always try to fall in love with you." I teased the red head as I came closer to him like I would kiss his lips. He blushed bright red as I started laughing at his reaction.

"Mou! Don't tease me."

"I'm sorry, I couldn't leave it." I still laughed as I sat against the back of my chair again.

He seemed to be calmed down as the blush had mostly disappeared but he seemed in deep thoughts as he was still trying to figure out who I liked. His eyes then popped wide as he seemed to have come to a conclusion.

"You like Tezuka?" he questioned in this unsure tone.

"What about me?" a deep male voice then said as Eiji looked behind me, where the source of the voice probably was standing. I turned my head so I could see Tezuka standing behind my chair. Eiji quickly said "Nothing" and started grabbing his things for lunch while he was busy trying to get the subject on something else. This easily succeeded as none of the two found it interesting enough to keep asking about it and didn't bud into other people's privacy.

I then saw Tezuka moves both his hands until they were on my shoulders and bent down a little. I was looking in front of me again, because otherwise my head would have been against his chest. Not that I would mind, but it would be a bit embarrassing, even though I had done it this morning which was a total different situation.

"Come on, let's go to the roof." He said next to my right ear as he softly put some pressure on my shoulders. I nodded and grabbed my things and stood up as he pulled his hands away from me. I smiled at him when turning around and looking at him.

The four of us went in a normal pace through the crowded hallways, getting stared by lots of students as we walked to the roof. Once up there we went to the edge and sat against the fence. Tezuka came to sit next to me with Eiji on my other side and Oishi in front of me so he wasn't left out of the conversation.

We were quietly eating from our bento's as I noticed Eiji giving me these constant glances before looking somewhere else. I decided to follow his gaze which I remarked landed on Tezuka. I then understood the meaning of his looks, a soft blush became visible on my cheeks and Eiji with his good eyesight saw this change immediately. He raised one eyebrow in question and I lightly nodded in response to his unsaid question. His eyes widened as he finally understood that, yes Tezuka was he one I liked.

That was about the most interesting thing that happened at lunch break. We talked, well more especially Eiji talked and Oishi responded with me sometimes answering as well and getting a nod or an 'ah' from Tezuka. The golden pair was mostly talking to each other so me and Tezuka was primarily left in silence but a comfortable one.

I wanted to lay my head on Tezuka's shoulder but this wasn't really okay for me to do since I didn't know how he would react. So instead I went to sit a bit different with my legs up so I could lean my elbow on it and rest my head into my hand. For some reason I felt tired and I still had to go through afternoon practice and a couple of classes.

As the bell would soon go, the four of us slowly made our way back to our respective classrooms as we said goodbye. Tezuka told me to wait for him in class so we could go to practice together to which I happily nodded in approval.

And then the waterfall of questions came from Eiji regarding me liking our buchou. I answered all of them or easily evaded those which I didn't really want to respond to.

The rest of the day passed by like normal, except for Tezuka picking me up in class and when changing both times he stood between me and the window again. When about to leave my best friend asked if I would be okay and I told him that nothing would happen. I wouldn't forget to close my window and curtains this night so everything would be okay. Besides I hadn't seen Ito for the whole day so I was happy to say the least. Maybe he had finally given up after seeing me naked and getting off on it.

I shivered as this last thought struck me, again realizing that he had seen me that vulnerable. I quickly put it out of my mind again and Tezuka helped me with telling he would walk me home. All the regulars looked surprised at buchou for a moment before reassuming their own businesses. They understood why he would do that and so did I. My heart felt so light as I got to spend all this time extra time with him, though he only did it for my security and not from some kind of feeling he shared for me.

The two of us grabbed our things after saying goodbye to all the others. Tezuka was locking up the clubroom since that was one of his responsibilities, his duties from being the students council president were also finished for the day. So he could go home as well.

We walked in another comfortable silence to my house. He stayed waiting as I opened my door and he looked around to see if there was any sign of Ito. I did the same and when seeing nothing suspicious I stepped into the door opening and turned around to say goodbye to Tezuka.

"You can always call me if something is wrong okay?" he said stoically yet his eyes were full with emotions that his face didn't show. I mostly saw concern in his eyes which made me very happy knowing he cared about me, in a friendly way of course.

"Sure, thank you Tezuka."

"Hm, just…be careful."

"I will. Don't worry, I'll close my curtains this time."

"Yudan sezu ni ikou, Fuji." He said his trademark sentence as I smiled at him and nodded.

He then left as I waved him off before entering the house and saying hello to my mother. She asked who I had been talking to and told her Tezuka walked home with me. She shot me this strange knowing look which I decided to ignore as I walked upstairs to do my homework.

After having dinner and showering, I went back upstairs to my room and went to bed. I popped down on my bed and looked into the direction of my window seeing the curtains still open. I quickly got up again and closed them after having looked around and into the tree to see nothing odd looking there. I shrugged my shoulders and went to change into my nightwear without worrying about having someone look at me. I lie in bed and almost immediately fell asleep.


Sorry for the short chapter, the next one will be much more interesting (hopefully) and longer as well.

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