Yay \o/! An update! I found some time to write XD So here you have the 11th chapter. I hope you enjoy it! And please don't mind the mistakes I made.

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Persistence : chapter 11

AUTHOR'S POV

Ito saw from his place in the tree how Tezuka softly kept giving Fuji small pecks on his lips. It was clear to everyone who would see it, that Fuji was enjoying the sweet attention he got from the man he adored.

But Ito saw this in a whole different way. To him the captain was continuously kissing a reluctant Fuji who had no choice but to lay completely still under the bigger man's ministrations. He desperately wanted to intervene, but found no way to do that. The window was closed so he couldn't enter the room and knocking on it wouldn't be of any help either. The bad captain might just get mad and work it out on his poor Fuji.

This was torture for him, just seeing Fuji helplessly lying there as he got harassed. He knew he had to comfort Fuji tomorrow at school, at least that was how he saw it in his Fuji obsessed mind. He couldn't take it anymore and climbed out of the tree, careful to not make any noise.

He was angry and depressed as he walked home and thought of plans to make sure Tezuka would stay away from Fuji. At least they hadn't had sex yet. If that would happen and Ito would found out, he would go completely berserk. That godly body was his, and only his.

FUJI'S POV

XXX TIME LAPS XXX

It was school again and I was walking together with Tezuka towards the entrance. People weren't really surprised any more to see us coming together. Nobody noticed that we walked closer to each other than before and occasionally brushed our hands against each other.

I felt so relieved to know that Tezuka loved me back, to know that he wasn't the same like all the other guys who had thus far confessed to me. Last night when we laid in the same bed, all he had done was shower me with short kisses on my lips and cheeks, he even kissed me once in my neck, right before he hugged me closer and went to sleep.

It had felt so great, so sweet to be treated like that. I felt special, I felt wanted, not only for my body, but for who I was.

I felt absolutely happy.

Even something so small to other people, had lifted my heart. In only two days I had been able to forget the things Ito had done to me, let it go and move on. I trusted Tezuka to never do something like that. And I was curious to see more of his character that only I would get to see, things that he'll only do for me. He had been so mushy acting yesterday, but I had really liked it, this way I knew that he trusted me too and was prepared to let me see his other side.

I smiled the entire way to school, a genuine one. And some people who noticed the difference, wondered why I was so happy, unknowing that the reason was walking right next to me.

The whole day went by relative quickly as I looked forward to tennis practice. I had eaten lunch with everybody, and they all asked how I was doing, showing their concern. I thanked them for helping me and said that I was feeling a lot better. As I said this I quickly glanced to my right where Tezuka sat. They all noticed this and grinned for a reason unknown to me. They didn't knew that the two of us were together, so I found their reactions strange.

When everyone was already gone and me and Tezuka calmly walked to our classes, I asked him why they had reacted like that. My boyfriend then mentioned that they had heard me say that I loved Tezuka in my sleep. I felt embarrassed but asked if Tezuka didn't mind that. He answered that he saw no problem in them knowing, so we decided to tell them after practice.

Practice went by as usual, the only difference was that when I stood next to Tezuka I stood closer to him than I normally did. I was sure that by now Inui had noticed it and had written down the closer proximity between the two of us.

After changing and all of the non-regulars had left already, we came out of the showers. I walked around in my boxers and right after pulling on my pants, Tezuka touched the bruise on my stomach.

"Does it hurt? You didn't have trouble training right?" He asked seemingly dutifully as a captain, but the way he said it together with the touch showed that he was really concerned. The other regulars stopped with what they were doing and just looked to the interaction between the two of us.

I simply nodded and enjoyed the cold hand on my stomach. I then noticed a change in Tezuka's eyes and he seemed to be keeping himself in control for something. Only seconds later did that emotion disappear and it seemed he had given in to whatever it was.

I soon found out what he had been thinking about as he slowly but surely came closer to me. His hand on my stomach moved to my hips and pulled me closer. His face only inches away and he whispered only for me to hear: "let's show them." My eyes opened wide at his words but I nodded after getting over the shock. He smiled and leaned closer as I tiptoed to reach him faster.

Our lips met in another soft kiss, which was the first one of the day, except for the quick good morning kiss. I could hear the gasps around us and someone say 'finally' which was probably Eiji. I then only paid attention to the lips on mine and the accelerating of my heart.

We parted again and I just couldn't help but tease my captain: "You just wanted another kiss, didn't you?" I said and winked at him. He looked surprised before a smirk could be seen on his face, making all the other regulars gasp in surprise again. I softly laughed and though I received no answer from him, I knew I had been right.

The others then started asking all kinds of questions, like when we officially became a couple, how it happened, what Tezuka said in detail after I told them he had been mushy. I didn't tell them though. A mushy Tezuka was only for me.

After a while everyone had left and Tezuka was locking the door as we stood outside, ready to walk back home. He turned around and knowing that no one was normally around at this hour, certainly not at the tennis courts, the taller man bend down again and kissed me once more. He pulled back looking satisfied. I smiled and we started walking away. I looked around once and saw that there really was no one in the neighbourhood so I decided to try something.

I walked even closer to Tezuka and slowly took his hand in mine. Said man looked down to our hands and he pulled his away to my disappointment. I tried not to show it as I looked forward, seemingly unchanged. But only seconds later did I feel his warm hand taking mine and I looked down in surprise.

Looking to our entwined hands and feeling his bigger one around mine, made me realize why he had pulled back. I realized that this felt more normal and more relaxing then when I held his in mine. His hand was bigger and mine seemed to perfectly fit in it. I smiled happily as we kept on walking like that to my house. There he said goodbye and told me he would pick me up tomorrow. He gave me one more quick kiss before he turned around and walked further to his own house.

AUTHOR'S POV

The two of them were both unaware of two onlookers when they stood in front of Fuji's house. One was smiling widely, while looking through the window from the living room towards the lovely dovely couple. When she heard the sound of the door opening she immediately went into the hallway and waited for her son to come in and explain himself. Though she certainly wasn't upset. She was curious about how her son got the ever so stoic captain to act like that.

The other person was less innocent than the interested Yoshiko. He had been following them from the tennis courts all the way to Fuji's house. He was furious towards Tezuka for taking Fuji's hand, like he was some kind of hostage and for kissing him twice that day, as far as he had seen. He was even mad that they walked together to and from school. He should be doing that and not that unsophisticated brat.

The only thing that he couldn't understand was why Fuji had tried to take a hold of Tezuka's hand first. His mind, with only eye to Fuji, started making up an idea that Fuji had tried to stop him from walking together. But Tezuka wouldn't have that so he grabbed his hand, making Fuji unable to get away from him.

His own idea made him even more angry towards Tezuka and he started to think further of his plan on how to get the stoic man away from Fuji.

FUJI'S POV

The next day in school was much similar to the previous one. Nothing really happened and people still hadn't noticed anything between me and Tezuka. But that was probably for the best. Though I would be happy to be rid of all those confessions once and for all. But I was scared for the reactions of all the guys who wanted me.

Tennis practice began again and I came to stand next to the captain during my breaks as he kept observing all the other players and giving pointers here and there. Everyone was very busy with practicing and nobody really paid attention to the people watching us and walking around.

After a while, training had ended and we were all changing and showering in the club room. Me and Tezuka stood by our lockers as we got dressed again after a refreshing shower. I heard my captain's locker open but noticed his frigid reaction once he took his uniform out and wanted to put his tennis outfit in.

"Tezuka, is something wrong?"

"iie," he said as he took out an envelope addressed to him. That wasn't something new either. Even the stoic buchou got love letters once in a while, mostly anonymous ones because the girls were too shy to say it directly to him. They were afraid of his reaction towards it, seeing at Tezuka made it seem like he wasn't interested in something called love.

'Oh, how wrong they were' I thought happily.

But I then noticed, as he turned around to throw it away, red bold letters on the other side that said: leave Syusuke alone!

I immediately walked to him and grabbed the letter away from him. He didn't expect it so he didn't put up any resistance. Until he noticed that I was opening it and his surprised ebbed away.

He tried to get it back from me but I was already busy reading it. When hearing a gasp coming over my lips, all the other regulars quickly looked to us and asked what was wrong. I ignored them and pointed my direction to my boyfriend.

"Tezuka, he is threatening you! Why did you just want to throw it away!"

"Since it wouldn't have made a difference if I read it or not. I'm not going to heed to it."

"But…..he'll hurt you…" I softly said as the others looked on in worry and interest.

The stoic man came over and hugged me close to him as he whispered into my ear: "How could he hurt me? I'm perfectly fine at defending myself. And it's probably a loose threat as well. So don't worry about it, okay?"

"Tezuka, it's from Ito! It never is a loose threat when it comes from him."

"Just calm down. I never drop my guard down, you know that."

I nodded in reaction as I grabbed him tighter and nuzzled his neck. Tezuka then took the letter from me and casually dropped it with the garbage. He then gave me a quick kiss on my forehead before he started to redress himself again.

Everyone took this as a hint to start changing again and to leave for their respective homes. Tezuka walked me back to my house where he kissed me again, but on my lips this time. After that he too left and I hoped that nothing would happen to him. Ito could be dangerous.

I had already found that out the hard way.

XXX TIME LAPS XXX

Another day at school went by as usual. It was lunch break and I was walking towards the roof where I would wait for Tezuka. He had stuff to do for the student council so he couldn't pick me up at my classroom.

As I walked in the hallway a guy stopped me in my steps. The hallway was pretty much abandoned since most of the students were already outside or they stayed in their respective classes.

I waited as the guy seemed to gather his thoughts before he blurted out that he wanted to go out with me. I rejected him like I always did and tried to walk away from him, not sure on how he would react.

But as I passed him by he swiftly grabbed my hand and pulled me to him. He backed me up to the wall as he kept coming closer and closer to my lips. I tried to push him away, but the guy was bigger and stronger than me so it didn't make any difference.

At the moment that his lips would meet mine, I heard Tezuka yell and the guy quickly looked up in shock.

"Ah…Tezuka-san…."

"Fuji, come here." He strictly said. So I quickly walked to his side. He kept his gaze locked on the now frightened male.

I noticed that some people started to gather and watched what was happening around them as they went to the toilet or to get some food. They were still minor but it was sure that whatever happened here would be spread like wildfire by that small group.

Tezuka came to stand in front of me as he pushed me behind him. He then addressed the other guy in his stern voice; "What do you think you were doing?"

"I…nothing….I just asked him out….". he hesitantly answered

"And you had to do that by pushing him to the wall?"

The guy's eyes widened as he didn't know how to react; "I….well….I….I'm sorry I won't do it again! I promise!" he then bowed deep towards the two of us.

Tezuka stepped closer the bowing figure and softly said, but loud enough for me to hear and maybe even some of the people who stood right next to us: "Don't ever kiss him or touch him."

The male stayed bowing in fright or shock as Tezuka stepped back towards me and grabbed my arm, softly pulling me along with him towards the roof where we would eat. But this of course didn't go unnoticed by the people standing close to us.

Once the two of us reached the roof, Tezuka asked if I was okay. I simply nodded and thanked him. But seeing his worried expression I just couldn't help myself and wrapped my arms around him, hugging him. I felt his body get rigid before he quickly relaxed again and also put his arms around my waist.

We stayed like that for a couple of moments before my boyfriend pulled away saying we should eat. I snickered at him and he looked curious to me.

"I never thought you would be this possessive." I said smiling to answer his look.

"I'm not…I'm just protecting you."

I laughed softly before answering; "Thank you." After that I gave him a quick kiss and then began to eat.

The incident that afternoon was the start of many rumours about me and Tezuka. Though this seemed to be a good thing. There were less and less people, girls and guys, who confessed to me. Most of the guys stopped since they thought that I was taken by the student council president. And they really didn't want to go against him.

But a disadvantage was that during those two weeks, everyone started to look for signs between me and my captain. Those who didn't believe it, wanted to see it with their own eyes. So they kept following us and a lot of people came to watch our practice.

This annoyed Tezuka, since practice was constantly disturbed by the noise they made and the occasional screams from our fan girls when they thought they saw something happen between us.

It was right after class, and the two of us were on our way to tennis practice when we were stopped by a guy in the middle of the crowded hallway. Everyone's attention was immediately drawn to the tree of us and a lot of whispering could be heard.

"Tezuka-san, Fuji-san, I want to ask something."

Tezuka merely looked to him and made a nod, silently telling him to be fast since we had somewhere to go.

"Are you guys really together?" he immediately asked without beating around the bush, which most would have probably done.

Since the start of the rumour, I neither Tezuka ever replied to it. This meant that the students weren't certain that we were together, but we never really told them that we weren't a couple.

"You never denied it. So can we take that as a yes?" another person asked, this time a girl. She looked oddly familiar to me. And I then remembered her as the president of my fan club. She was never one to bite her tongue and mostly asked what she wanted to know, which was the reason why she became the president.

I looked at Tezuka not sure what to say. I didn't really minded them knowing it. This way almost all of the guys would stop coming after me. I also wanted everyone to know that Tezuka Kunimitsu was mine.

The latter then surprised me by asking: "If we say it's true will everyone stop following us and disturbing practice?"

Everyone around us gasped at his words, taking this already as a confirmation on the gossip.

Most of the people were satisfied with this, they started whispering and some of the girls started to squeal. Some answered that they would stop following us and Tezuka seemed to be satisfied with that.

"Yes, we're together. Now can we leave?" More fan screams were heard as the some off the girls even jumped up and down in joy. The guys started to talk animatedly though some of them looked dejected. I looked down, trying to hide the upcoming blush as my heart speed up its pace.

The president of my fanclub, told us we could leave. But then the guy who had started all this came in between and said: "how can we know you're telling the truth and not just getting rid of the rumours."

This caused new murmurs around us as they all thought about it. Some people defended us and said that Tezuka would never lie, certainly not about something this important.

But the first guy, still wasn't satisfied and then fired a suggestion that made everyone in the hallway as silent as the wind as they waited for our reply.

"Then prove it. Kiss each other."


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