Hyotei's First Date

By NarutoandBleach

Disclaimer: Konomi-Sensei has all the rights to the series and I will never own it

Chapter 38: Winning their Hearts

That night, as storm clouds loomed over the quiet night sky, it was preparing to pour rain down on the city of Tokyo for the next several hours. But Ryoma wasn't worried since he came prepared for worse case scenarios with his raincoat since he didn't want to catch pneumonia. As for his teammates, they sometimes wander idly for long periods of time without even focusing on their main goal. All they could think of was their buchou's trademark phrase "Yudan sezu ni ikou!"

Once Ryoma entered the clubroom, clarity started coming into his eyes and mind as he glanced around at the regulars gathered in the classroom making sure that Tezuka-buchou didn't show up to warn them again after he left for Germany. Furthermore, he made sure to text them to keep working hard even after his final day at school that day. Suddenly, Momo and Kikumaru had to drag their kohai off without any explanation since this has been a common occurrence these days. Although Ryoma didn't flinch when he was being flung into a classroom with the others, he just sighed in disgust.

Following that stunt, the room was filled with useless hours of pointless bickering thanks to Momo and Kaido. However, Fuji wasn't there to stop them because it will lead to more distractions that could fray Oishi's last nerves. The last half-hour had been spent (doubt that it was) listening to Oishi lecturing them on the risk of severely injuring themselves on day and to make sure they observe proper behavior protocols at school grounds.

"Okay, we are off." Said Oishi as he saw a pleasantly-smiling Fuji casting him a considering look.
Kawamura was fidgeting self-consciously nearby. "Oishj, you wanted us to be here, so what is it that we are going to talk about?"

"As long as you guys behave, we can get down to business!" sighed Oishi.

Kikumaru practically threw himself directly at the vice-captain and attached himself with the entire length of his body towards the flustered boy's side. "We will behave, Oishi, now let's hurry this up because you promised me a date after this, Meow!"

"Eiji!" shouted Oishi as he tried to pry the red-haired acrobat off of him while Ryoma hunched his cap down towards his face to prevent himself from having redness sprawling all over his face. As for Fuji, he was chuckling like crazy while catching the room's attention. They all knew better to ignore the sadist when he was amused since the tensai has to be constantly watched in order to minimize casualties.

"This is about Tezuka's birthday, if I am not mistaken?" The tensai was cocking his head and many of the regulars visibly twitched at the motion. "I thought we agreed to have the party at Taka-san's restaurant?"

"Yes," nodded Oishi as he gave up on detaching a meowing kikumaru from him. "But I also wanted to address the matter of the gifts since we need to have someone deliver them to him in Germany. Also, I now that we all planned on contributing on getting our captain presents, but I think we should give him something as a group in order to show him team unity!" he said with earnest. Fuji didn't even have the heart to scoff at him since this was one of the best ideas that he could come up with.

"So we are going to get our captain a group gift?" asked Momo with a frown on his face. "Like what? I just bought him new footwear last year."

"Momo!" cried Kikumaru as he looked completely scandalized. "That's impersonal! I mean do you not know the meaning of "gift giving?"

"Those were good socks!" snapped Momo in a defensive way. "What did you get him, Eiji-sempai?"

"Stuffed panda bear and some stuffed-up puppets of Ryoma!"

Suddenly, silence met the proud declaration as Ryoma became flushed and flustered as he tried to make a mad dash to the exit, but Fuji somehow caught him by his uniform. Oisho was torn between exasperation and amusement at the memory of Tezuka's face with a teddy bear at his bedside. He could almost imagine the bespectacled teen spending a night with the youngest kohai of Seigaku because Fuki couldn't stop laughing for days afterward since that week had been made to let Tezuka suffer perpetual abuse in which students from Seishun Gakuen Senior high were absent due to the trauma going on between the remaining students and faculty members.

"Well I practically gave him free meal coupons for Kawamura Sushi." Admitted Taka.

"A box ed collection of novel series from me to Tezuka." Added Oishi.

Kaidou was twitching like crazy as the room turned their attention towards him. Damn sharing of opinions from the others. "Fsssshh! Grip tape."

"HA!" exclaimed Momo as he pointed a triumphant finger at the junior in front of the room. "Grip tapes are much more impersonal than the socks I gave him!"

Oishi sighed. "Momo, that's not something to be proud about…"

"Grip tapes are much more useful than stupid socks, peach-butt!" spat Kaidoh.

"What did you say, mamushi? Tezuka-buchou has tons of grip tape stashed in his dorm room!" retorted Momo.

Luckily, Inui swooped in and placed his hands on both juniors before they could lunge at each other. As he pulled back the hissing junior, he adjusted his glasses and said, "I have compiled all the notes I have taken on Tezuka and gave them to him as a multi-volume set." After that silence, the whole room had shocked looks on their faces as some of them turned stone-faced while the others were frozen stiffm (which was more of like "Holy Shit, there is a freaky stalker in the room! There was more silence rather than the pure "What the fuck" silence that followed Kikumaru's announcement), he continued with his defense, "It came with a few videos on his performance as well."

This only increased the freaky-stalkerish aspect in the classroom.

"What did you get him, Ochibi?" asked Kikumaru.

"Ryoma pulled down the bridge of his hat. "A watch of course."

This answer just earned a nod from everone because ryoma refused to confess that he didn't get his buchou the actual arm implement because as the foolishly naïve blind-believing boy he was, he had listened to his mother and his cousin's advice as they stuffed all the money inside Fuji-sempai's wallet while giggiling the entire way through. He should have known that women were purely evil and that his sempai was a sadistic son of a bitch for taking his money without permission. Even worse, Ryuzaki-sensei was proof of that because who ever allowed the use of Inui juice during tennis practice was equal to the devil in Ryoma's mind. But no, he had tried to go shopping for their generiously-offered suggestion but instead, Fuji spotted him and took the money (much to the surprise of the salesgirl) and left Ryoma to corner his buchou after he finished his friendly tennis match with the sadist of Seigaku.

Flashback

Tezuka stated at the gift in his hands as the high school junior was frozen stiff as he as he realized at what the bucho was holding, much to Ryoma's confusion. The junior high senior had sincerely hoped that his captain won't be disappointed in seeing the younger boy not wrapping up the gift. Howeve,r the package that it came in looked fancy enough to pass the younger kohai's tastes.

"Buchou?" asked Ryoma after several minutes of silence passed and the older boy barely even blinked at him.

Tezuka was twitching before turning an alarming shade of red. Ryoma was staring at his captain with a horrified look on his face. I broke buchou's heart! Ryoma panicked as his golden eyes widened while Tezuka opened and closed his mouth several times without making a sound. That sadist Fuji will kill me!

"Echizen," Tezuka finally spoke as the redness from his skin lessened and turned back to pink. "Do you know what this is?"

Ryoma stared at the gift in the older boy's hand. "Its.. lubricant." It was actually green tea-scented lubricant because his captain happened to like green tea.

"Do you know what lubricant does?" asked Tezuke as he tightened his grip on the rnate package.

"I believe it softens the skin and relaxes the muscles." Ryoma answered dutifully. He always wondered why Tezuka's voice sounded so strange because his mother and Nanako had explained that to him since he had no idea of the item's usefulness to deal with dry skin and muscle strain, and he was marginally disappointed for not knowing sooner. But it does not matter now though since he also bought himself a grape-scented one.

Tezuka finally let his gaze to the younger maile and a frown came to his lips as Ryoma stared at his captain.

"Did Fuji put you up to this?"

Ryoma was taken aback by that expression. "What? If you mean he took my money and spent it, then yes." Did Fuji get Tezuka the same thing? Damn that Fuji!

Tezuka dragged in a long breath and the flush left his cheeks—much to Ryoma's relief. "Thank you for the gift, Echizen. I should probably email my friends to tell them thank you as well once those packages are delivered. As for momo, I really wish he could have given me something better instead of socks because I could seriously put something foul smelling in his shoes next time."

Ryoma could only eye his captain and said, "Un."

"Isn't anyone going to ask me what I got for Tezuka?" asked Fuji as he released Ryoma out of his traumatized reverie.

For the third time, there was silence in the classroom because no one wanted to know what the tensai had gotten their stoic buchou because if anything Fuji had enjoyed, it was to horrify and shock Tezuka. He had done the same thing to the other regulars because no one dared to admit it to him that he was equally frightening like Akutsu Jin was.

"So what are going to get for Tezuka Buchou, Oishi-sempai?" asked Momo as he laughed nervously. Fuji's mood was beginning to turn sour because they can easily tell despite the fact that the effeminate youth was still smiling while Ryoma was edging towards the exit.

Oishi was casting Fuji a worried glance before turning to face the others with a strained smile. "Well, I was thinking of a new tennis racket for him, but the captain has his eyes on the latest version of the go pro camera phone so..."

"Doesn't that thing cost 22000 yen?!" Momo cried out.

"As it turns out, that item just came out last weekend and the current price is at least 18000 yen." Stated Inui. "To cover tax as well, we should give up at least 3000 yen each."

Kawamura smiled brightly, "That's not too bad. I think I can scrape that up."

The others nodded in agreement.

"Now that that's settled," Fuji's smile was starting to become more blinding instead of looking at the sun. "Let's play a little game, shall we?"

Ryoma immediately hightailed it ot of them before the tensai could lock him in with the rest while screams of his friends echoed down the corridor as the kohai sprinted as fast as he could from the classroom.

"I knew it was a bad idea to let Fuji-sempai watch all those horror movies. I should not have let him take money away from me." Ryoma thought darkly to himself.

Yup, he was having a dilemma.

As Ryoma looked at the innocent, inanimate form of his empty wallet, he had a bubble of panic stirring inside of him. He wasn't anticipating about being broke even though he had won tennis tournaments. Hell, he could live on his own. But right now, all of his hard-earned money that was resting with his parents and his rights to spend had been viciously revoked last week after that "lifetime supply of ponta," fiasco as described by his mother. (It's a lie, the goods only lasted one week.)

At that moment, Ryoma could only frown at the slumbering form of his father on the couch since he didn't have much of an allowance anymore. However, he wasn't going to mope about it for very long because there was no way that he would ask his family since there could be a job that was available to him somewhere?

"How much, little lady?"

Ryoma was pretty bored as his eyes were glued to the television in half-hearted interest. He didn't often tune into the shows that his father always watched because they always hold dubious content since his mother warned him not to see the stuff that his father showed him. Besides didn't the old man in the show just offer the female protagonist cash? And for what reason? As Ryoma looked closer; the girl didn't appear to be doing anything but smiling at the older man that talked to her.

"Depends. If you want to spend a night with little me,I can give you a deal." She said while smirking. "Ten thousand yen, you can have me all night. I will do whatever you want."

Ryoma blinked at that as the old man agreed.

"All night? What would they do at night?" Wondered Ryoma. He couldn't imagine doing anything except playing late night tennis and sleeping. However, the show on television had given him an idea because he knows that someone would really pay that much money just to have someone keep them company for the night, but who would do that?

Every tennis player in Japan would be able to do something like this, but who did he know would have plenty of money and would be willing to spend it willy-nilly?.. Ah yes, his boyfriend from Hyoutei

Oshitari was creepier than Fuji so he was eliminated immediately. Gakuto was too much like Kikumaru so Ryoma cannot survive a night with him. Kabaji wouldn't give two shits about the freshman. Shishido was a stingy fella that wouldn't even dare to cheat on Ohtori. As for his doubles partner, well he wouldn't go anywhere without Shishido, and finally, Hiyoshi would get all "gekokujyou" and kill him inhis sleep or so. However, Ryoma has a greater tolerance with Jirou, but the chances of him would be sleeping and wouldn't listen to his offer. All that leaves now is…. Atobe.

The Seigaku freshman was twitching like mad. Could he really stand a night with Atobe? Sure that old male was an egotistical, flashy, nutcase; then again, he was a really good tennis player. And he was surely rich enough to pay Ryoma to keep him company. Besides, the others would just piece together that Ryoma just needed some money to get Tezuka a present aside from him being a narcissistic freak, he was still generous enough to help out. Even if it means letting the leader of Hyoutei getting Tezuka a better present than all those plebians.

Once Ryoma had regained his confidence, he would pay a visit to Hyoutei academy High School tomorrow after school.

The campus of Hyoutei was ridiculously large and ornately done as Ryoma had expected. After he followed the directions from a sign done Venetian-style, he didn't have any problems entering the Hyoutei's tennis courts since it was pretty late in the day because Ryoma had ventured off on his own afternoon practice without being pestered by his annoying teammates. Furthermore, Coach Sakaki ;eft his team to do extra practice before they head home since they need that extra training.

Once Ryoma entered the tennis courts, it didn't take long for Gakuto to spot him and immediately point his boyfriend out. Atobe turned around with a smirk on his lips as he strode over the Seigaku freshman with self-praise from his lips.

"So have you finally decided to leave Seigaku and join Hyoutei, gaki? It was an inevitable decision for you ahn? Of course; no one can deny ore-sama's glorious aura for long! Were you really that awed by my prowess that you decided to leave Tezuka's side? We don't blame you, as I am good among men-

"Hold that thought please, Keigo. I want to spend a night with you since we belong together."

Atobe's drivel immediately came to a stop, even the hyoutei regulars were shocked and gobsmacked as they stared at the tennis prodigy. But Ryoma didn't seem to notice.

"Excuse me? Did you just say you want to spend a night with me?" Atobe echoed, still in the throes of horrible shock.

"yes, you heard me right." Ryoma reiterated irritably. Did the Monkey King understand what Ryoma was proposing to him? That girl in the anime said ten-thousand yen and you can have me all night. I'll do whatever you want." He was going to add reason, but Atobe and that reason had been estranged since birth and Ryoma was not about to lose this battle.

Oshitari was the first to recover and snorted with a smirk. "Now, Echizen-kun, you are worth far more than a paltry ten-thousand yen, ask for a million yen."

Choutarou immediately whipped around to look at his tensai with a horrified look, "Oshitari-sempai! Buchou can't really be serious about spending a night with Echizen!"

"Well, Echizen is obsessed with our captain and he did ask him nicely. So this would be like Atobe deflowering an innocent maiden…." Oshitari trailed off suggestively.

"Let me get this straight, you are short on cash because Fuji-sempai has held your money hostage until you meet his demands? Oh no! Not today! Only Ore-sama can make the demands around here, not Fuji! Now then, I have a task to leave for my servants!" he snapped. Then he turned his eyes towards the freshman once again and said, "Brat, do you even know what you are asking ore-sama?

"Yes, I do. I want to spend the night with you so we can have a lovely evening together with dinner and a comfortable sleepy night. Besides, this is an actual date between us sexy men, isn't it?" snapped Ryoma.

Atobe immediately raised an eyebrow while the others laughed like crazy. Even Shishido and Gakuto couldn't contain their excitement for very long. "And kami pray tell, what exactly would you and ore-sama would be doing during our time together?"

Ryoma eyed him warily, "I don't know, play tennis? And afterwards, we could spend our night alone together in your room and play catch-up since we missed out on that. You know you want me, don't you? Like I said, I don't need some sadist from Seigaku to pressure me. I have my own reasons to find love and tonight's the night that will happen."

Gakuto could only choke out a laugh. "Damn! Those two definitely got balls all right."

"Gakuto-sempai! So inappropriate!" Whined Ohtori

Shishido could only snort as he has no idea what that brat had just offered their egotistical captain. "What do you want the money for?" he asked before glancing at a smirking atobe. "Because I think you just risked your chastity by asking Atobe out."

"Tezuka-buchou's birthday is soon and he is in Germany." Said Ryoma. "And my what?"

Atobe immediately snapped his fingers before Shishido could respond, prompting kabaji to drag the struggling senior off. As Ohtori followed worriedly, he casted his glances back at the group before leaving the tennis courts.

"Never mind him," Atobe dismissed imperially. "Since you got such noble cause, I will be more than happy to help you. Of course my good friend Oshitari has a point; I will definitely buy you for 45000 yen tonight."

Ryoma eyed him suspiciously. "Really? Just to spend a night with you?"

Atobe smiled charmingly, "For the night you and ore-sama shall share together!" chuckled the captain.

Ryoma smiled evilly and thought, "This is the payback for you, Fuji-sempai, and soon you will see that I am the better game player!"

"It has come to ore-sama's attention," Atobe stated grandly while posing on a small theater-like stage with the dual lights shining down on him. The surround-sound system was humming out a grandiose melody as the diva spoke, and Ryoma found himself feeling utterly disgusted and impressed at the same time. Who really comes up with things like this? "That you, Echizen Ryoma, have been denied one of the most vital part of your education. As such, I will be your new instructor."

Ryoma could only stare at the older boy in dubious belief.

"You're going to lecture me all night?" asked the bewildered freshman.

Atobe was chuckling, "Of course not. Ore-sama is a hands-on instructor."

Ryoma could only smile at him as the night goes on without a hitch

By the next morning, practice began as usual while Kaidoh and momo were aggravating each other with their mere presence. Kikumaru and Fuji were laughing quietly themselves as they discussed something, probably some diabolical plan involving fish and bombs in whispers. As for Kawamura, he was running around the courts with screams of heavily-accented English that made no sense. And Oishi was trying to calm everyone down before Tezuka arrived for his final day of school. In fact, the only person present was Ryoma as he sat down on a bench watching aimlessly into the sky. If the others were not so regular they might have noticed their rookie's inattention, and they were so used to Ryoma trying to stay out of their way too,

"Tezuka!" cried Oishi with a sounding of relief and horror on the phone.

Everyone immediately turned their attention to Tezuka (sans Ryoma, who was pulled upright by a frantic momo) and tried not to look too guilty with the exception of Fuji. He was still smiling serenely as he calmly ended his convo with Kikumaru with –"And that was what the escape car was for" since Oishi didn't want to pay bail.

"Buchou, your racket…"

Tezuka glanced down at the item while his displeasure at finding them not training has somehow alleviated somewhat by the gazes that his new racket was drawing. "Ah yes about that, my grandfather bought it for me as an early birthday present since he said I will need it while in Germany."

He was sent into confusion at the crestfallen looks from the other regulars.

"That's what we were supposed to get you!" Whined Kikumaru loudly while stamping his foot

"I'm so sorry, I didn't realize that you were going to get that for me." Tezuka apologized with mild concern while Fuji was sulking like crazy.

"I had to ask for an advance on my allowance for two weeks. I can't even buy burgers anymore!" grumbled Momo.

Kaidoh hissed. "Shut up, peach idiot, no one wants to hear your whining."

"What did you say, Mamushi?!"

"I will need to harvest some ingredients myself for the next few weeks since the money I used was supposed to be for my juices." Said Inui.

"I had to borrow money from my sisters!" added kikumaru

"I asked my parents, so I will need to pull double duity at the restaurant."

"Saa.. I just found my money in my wallet and I had to keep echizen's money in here for safekeeping."

The others casted him fearful looks.

Kikumaru was like, "You didn't leave a corpse behind, did you?" before being drowned out by Oishi's admission that he used the money he regularly donated to charity in order to buy a gift.

Momo was glaring at the seigaku freshman, "I bet you used your earnings from the tournaments you won, eh, Echizen?"

Ryoma just shook his head. "nope, Kaasan said I cannot touch my winnings for the next few weeks. " he then paused and glanced at Fuji before resuming looking at the sky with an airy expression. "I decided to spend the night with my boyfriend Atobe instead since this sadist in front of you (pointing at Fuji) had pranked me yet again. But I got him back good this time."

This was met with complete silence and everyone was frozen stiff.

"You did what?" Fuji cut through icily.

"I said I slept with Atobe last night and he gave me a good education on what love really means. Besides, I am not going to waste money because I rather save it until my next birthday. But still, I had only spent 500 yen on a health guidebook for Tezuka since he needs it for his physical therapy in Germany."

"You brat! Did you really sleep with that narcissist from Hyoutei? What the hell? Did you lose your virginity?" snapped Momo as he wrapped his hand around Echizen's neck.

"Ochibi! What made you go and do such a thing? Did you really spoil yourself with that man last night? I hope Oshitari-sempai videotaped the whole thing." Smiled Kikumaru as he hugged Ryoma.

"Kikumaru-sempai, you are heavy!" said Ochibi as he tried to breathe. Once he was let go, Ryoma paused to take a deep breath before continuing his speech. "Yes, I did sleep with him because he has showed me some ways to dethrone Fuji and his sadistic tactics. And I won in the end because I was just lucky. And no, momo, I did not lose my virginity. What is it with you people and my sex life? Besides, I think Tezuka will definitely enjoy the book." Said Ryoma as he handed the present to Tezuka.

"Thank you Ryoma for the present, thank you all! I will cherish these for the rest of my life. Now then, you all get back to practice, or do you want me to assign you wimps 100 laps?" said Tezuka.

Everyone immediately left the clubroom immediately and returned back to the practice field with Fuji following them close behind before he winked back at Echizen, "Well played, little squirt. Looks like I will have to try harder to keep up with you." He thought to himself.

Tezuka then turned his attention towards Ryoma before talking. "don't mind Fuji-sempai. I am sure he didn't mean to do that to you."

"No worries, buchou. I had to do this because I didn't want you guys to worry about me. Besides, I can easily win everyone's hearts no matter who they are." Said Ryoma.

Tezuka blinked his eyes for a moment and smirked at him before ushering him onto the tennis courts to begin his intense training for the rest of the day.

Back at the Hyoutei tennis courts, Atobe was busy watching the whole thing on his phone and smirked, "Well done, gaki! You really have matured at your age. Now, I think you are ready for real love." He thought to himself while Oshitari observed from outside sulking grimly.

"That's not fair, Atobe! I wanted to have some relationship with that brat as well." He thought sadly.

To be continued…

A/N: I left off some crucial points for a reason because I didn't want to keep you all in suspense. Bu the way, did anyone catch Atobe listening to Bon Jovi? XDD This fiction shouldn't be too long because the next chapter will cover the conclusion and there will be other chapters later on. It should have the confrontation between Atobe and his club members. How do you think Hyoutei will react? What will Rikkaidai think when they see the video? And what happened to Shishido? How will Tezuka use his presents?

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