Hyotei's First Date

By NarutoandBleach

Teacher: Who has all the rights to Prince of Tennis?

Students: Konomi –Sensei of ocurse! The Person writing this will not own the series whatsoever!

Chapter 41: Cuddling Together

As Ryoma cuddled closer to the warmth emanating from his companion, he was yawning and grabbed Atobe's shirt. The fabric was definitely coarse. Strange, he would always imagine that keigo was asleep in silky pajamas.

Once Ryoma's eyes snapped open, he could see Keigo was right next to Ryoma holding onto his shoulder. "Shit! Where the hell am i?" he then looked up and saw the sleeping face of his boyfriend, but it turns out to be his captain. Furthermore, he noticed that Tezuka's left arm was curling around him and Ryoma was being pressed against his captain and the back of the futon. How they managed to get into that position during the night was anyone's guess since Ryoma was certain that they were sitting side by side when he was falling asleep.

He also tried to get up, but Tezuka only pulled him tighter towards himself. As Ryoma started wriggling to set himself free, Tezuma somehow took Ryoma's hand pressed it against his neck. This time, Ryoma slowly pulled his hand back and formed a fist before he punched buchou onto the shoulder. The older boy didn't even flinch or move. "Buchou! Do you mind waking up!?" yelled Ryoma in frustration

With a sudden inspiration, Ryoma slowly lifted his hand towards Tezuka's face and traced his fingers onto the boy's face until he found the nose. He then pinched Tezuka's nose and tried to wake up from the lack of oxygen. Instead, Tezuka just opened his mouth, Ryoma was almost crying.

Just as he was about to give up and go back to sleep, someone rang the doorbell. "If someone can wake buchou up here in this mansion, I will be eternally grateful to them." Thought Ryoma. Just then, he could hear the stirring in his captain.

"Echizen, where am i?" asked Tezuka.

"Do you mind letting go of my hair buchou?" asked Ryoma

"Sorry about that." Said Tezuka as he untangled his fingers from Ryoma's hair before letting him get up.

"Someone is at the door." Said Ryoma as another series of rings from the doorbell continued chiming, but neither Atobe nor the others woke up from that sound.

"I will go see who it is. You should go downstairs and make yourself breakfast in the kitchen." Said Tezuka as he got up.

"Thanks," yawned Ryoma as he gently ruffled his hair. He walked towards the bathroom to take care of business before looking at the time flashing on the microwave. "6:45 a.m. eh? Who is really up this early in the morning?"

As Tezuka opened the door, he was immediately ambushed by a cactus that was shoved under his nose. "It's good to have you back, Tezuka!" smiled Fuji. "Sorry I couldn't come to Atobe's place yesterday evening, but Inui didn't tell me that you were returning until really late and I was getting ready for bed by then."

"You shouldn't have bothered, Fuji." Answered Tezuka as he took the cactus. "So are you stopping by on your way to somewhere?"

"Don't be silly, Tezuka." Giggled Fuji. "I came to give you some breakfast on my way here. After all, I cannot really boil water."

"Huh." Tezuka would have slammed the door right in Fuji's face, but he knew it would be futile since he had a spare key to Atobe's house. As the captain stepped away from the door, he lets Fuji and his friends in since they all had apologetic looks on their faces.

Once the gang reached the kitchen in the mansion, there was a loud squeal. "Ochibi, did you just spend the night with both buchous from our school and Hyotei all together?"

"Echizen, are you cheating on your boyfriends?" asked Oishi.

"What's this? Atobe and Tezuka and Echizen? Ii, data."

Tezuka groaned since this was not going to be pretty.

He then went into the kitchen and the first thing that he saw was Echizen. A hint of panic came to his eyes and when Echizen locked eyes with him, he knew what the kid was planning. "Echizen, were you really trying to get me and Atobe together?"

Echizen was smirking at him and ran into the living room before Tezuka could hear the backdoor closing. He could see the questioning looks on the faces of his friends. "And here I thought that Atobe was just being paranoid."

Fuji had a disappointed look on his face. "You better start explaining right now, Tezuka-buchou."

Did Tezuka even think of Echizen as his friend? No! The brat is now against him.

As Ryoma dashed outside to get some fresh air, he was convinced that no one was following him. He then leaned on his knees and breathed hard before seeing an image of Tezuka's shocked face flashing in his mind. He then giggled since this was his chance to avoid Tezuka for a while. Furthermore the streets were very quiet and no one was up yet. Ryoma decided to check his phone since he noticed that there were some unreturned text messages on his phone. They were all from Atobe.

"Might as well deal with this right away." Mumbled Ryoma as he returned to Atobe's house. He just returned from a jog not too long ago and decided to finish what he started.

When he got to the house, he didn't bother ringing the doorbell as no one was awake yet. He quietly opened the door with the spare key he picked up from the welcome mat before closing it behind him. He then took off his shoes and tiptoes into Keigo's room but he was not there.

At that point, Ryoma went into the kitchen and found something that he definitely was not expecting: the Dirty Pair piled onto one another, cans of sodas sprawled around them and some half eaten pizza next to them. "What in kami's name happened here?" asked Ryoma out loud before heading to the living room.

Once there, he discovered that Shishido Ryo was snoring while clutching an empty soda bottle and pizza smearing licked off by the Afghan hound next to him. Ryoma then kneeled down and patted the dog on the head before heading towards the couch. Before he could sit down, his eyes directed his attention towards Atobe sleeping on the floor with Jirou tightly held in his arms. "Calm down, maybe they are just having a one night stand, but this is far different from spending a night with buchou. Maybe they just fell asleep."

Atobe was still not waking up and so Ryoma must help Jirou. Furthermore, he walked into the kitchen and grabbed a bowl from the cupboard and filled it with cold water before returning to the living room and dumped it on Atobe.

While Atobe was choking, Ryoma showed a deadly glare towards Jirou, forcing him to crawl behind Beat. But at least Ryoma has Atobe back.

"Good morning, Hyotei buchou. Did you have fun last night?" said Ryoma as he smiled brightly. "Or do you want me to call you Keigo-chan or kei-kun?"

Atobe looked at him for a moment as water started dripping from his hair onto the carpet. There was a questioning look on his face as he tried to understand what his boyfriend's intentions were. Then something clicked in his mind and a smile appeared on his face. He then pointed an accusing finger towards Ryoma. "Ah-ha, you were jealous that I had Tezuka all to myself, weren't you?"

"Mada Mada Dane." Said Ryoma as he dropped the bowl onto Jirou's head before heading back into the kitchen without stepping onto Shishido as he rolled onto his stomach and hugging the soda bottle.

He stared at the dirty pair for a moment before deciding to make some coffee because the guys at hyotei would need a lot of it to stay awake. Now normally, Ryoma would have stormed out of the house and waited for Atobe to beg him to stay. But this time, the tennis prodigy was feeling guilty that it was because of him, Tezuka was spending a night at Atobe's and that caused him to bring his subordinates over to be drunk. Furthermore, Atobe had a tendency to overreact when it comes to Tezuka.

As everyone waited for coffee, Ryoma sat down by the kitchen table before seeing Atobe joining him. He was still wearing his wet t-shirt but decided to dry his hair with a towel since it was a mess.

"So where have you been?" Atobe said. He was beginning to sound like a wife scolding his husband and Ryoma would come crouching like a husband out of town for the night.

"So sorry for not coming down sooner." He muttered.

"That does not explain where you have been now, does it? I have tried to call you from your room many times but you didn't answer." Said Atobe.

"Yeah, I know you texted me at least 30 times." Chuckled Ryoma.

"Why the hell didn't you reply?!"

"I was falling asleep because my buchou was crushing me." Ryoma continued muttering.

"What was that? I didn't quite catch that."

"I was watching my buchou's games in your guest room television and fell asleep."

"You fell asleep and you couldn't move because of the captain on your body?" Atobe was not convined at all.

"Yes."

"So let me get this straight; you are telling me that I have been worried sick, hyperventilating, and panicking just because you fell asleep!"

"Pretty much. Did you really hyperventilate? I was in the room this whole time and you didn't bother coming up to carry me downstairs to meet your teammates."

"Do not change the subject when ore-sama questions you!" said Atobe as he leaned over the table and stared intently at Ryoma. "So you didn't do anything else with your captain eh?"

"You have such a perverted mind, Monkey King!" shouted Ryoma

"Hmph!" atobe was crossing his arms. "you cannot blame me for thinking that. Why do you always run to him let alone spending a night with him instead of with me?"

"I already told you that it was not like that. The captain was holding me hostage and we fell asleep."

Atobe sighed and trailed his fingers through his wet hair. "You can't keep doing this to me."

"What am I doing to you?"

"This not talking to me. You can't keep ignoring me like this and I am tired of getting abuse from you."

"So, you'd be okay with having bruises from me if you knew the reason?" smirked Ryoma.

Atobe was laughing. "That's not exactly what I meant…" He then turned serious again. "Ryoma, I…"

He was interrupted by Jirou who flung his arms around him, and squealed, "Morning Keigo-chan! Did you see the picture that I took of Ryo-chan when he was sleeping? He was so cute! You might want to see it. I'll-"

He then saw Ryoma's golden eyes, those same eyes that would promise him pain and torment. Jirou slowly untangled his arms from around Atobe and hid behind Oshitari who just woke up. "Ryo-chan sure is scary." Whispered Jirou

Shishido emerged from behind them as he noticed the pizza and the mushrooms had disappeared. He then turned his attention towards the bowl of apples on the kitchen table and asked, "Are those things plastic too?"

"Who'd keep plastic fruits?" asked ryoma before handing one for Shishido. "Hope you slept well last night. Coffee?" he said before handing the cup to him.

"Thanks." Said Shishido as he set the cup on the table.

"You like fresh fruit? Well then ore-sama will make sure there will be fresh fruits next time you come here."

"I thought you said that they would attract insects." Muttered Shishido

Atobe then threw a plastic apple at his head.

"Ow! What the hell, Atobe!?" yelled Shishido.

He would have launched an attack on the captain if Oshitari hadn't intervened and directed him towards the coffee on the desk. "Do I detect the sweet scent of caffeinated beverage?"

"It's called coffee, you fake megane! And let go of me! I am going to knock some sense into that narcissistic bastard!"

"For a simple plastic decoration? That might be overdoing it, don't you think?" said Oshitari.

"Does he always talk like a walking encyclopedia?" asked Ryoma.

"No, it's a new thing actually. He used to have a terrible accent."

"Oh, what kind?"

"Kansai"

"You know, now that you mentioned it, I had a pen pal from there once."

"Do you still keep in touch with him?"

"No, not since he turned out to be a teenage detective, male, and has a girlfriend."

"Personal ads?"

"I was young and naïve at that time and I didn't know about his girlfriend."

"How old was he?"

"17, just like his rival from the east. I just met them a few weeks ago."

"WHAT!?" Atobe shouted as he knocked his own chair down when he stood up and shouted his question.

"Relax, I am just joking." Laughed Ryoma. "I am still keeping in touch with him as friends, but he was very busy due to exams."

"Don't ever do that again." Ordered Atobe. He then picked up his chair and took a seat. "I do not need any other reasons to be jealous of you. Tezuka is more than enough to give me a headache."

"I told you time and time again, you don't need to worry about Tezuka. I mean, we call him buchou because he just needs time for himself." Said Ryoma as he hoped that would explain everything.

"Whoa, did you hear that Yuushi? He sounds a lot kinkier talking like that." Said Mukahi as he leaned on the kitchen counter with a coffee cup in his hands. He was not alone as everyone else had their eyes fixed on them as well.

"So did you guys sleep well?" asked Ryoma.

"You didn't notice us here last night after how much flirting you did with your captain?" said Mukahi

"What?" Ryoma was oblivious to that response. "I didn't flirt with my buchou. He was just having you know problems sleeping and he wanted to embrace me last night."

"That was totally out of line. The way you said buchou is a little…. Different." Said Atobe.

"What is wrong with the way I say it?" asked Ryoma wide eyed.

"Oh shit, he did that again!" squealed Mukahi. "Why can't I talk like that? Why, yuushi, why?"

"What are you guys talking about?" asked Ryoma as he turned back to Atobe. "I'll ask again and I want an real answer this time: what is wrong with the way I say buchou?"

"Well, it just gives me nightmares of horrible images and its very provocative!" screamed Atobe.

"Yeah, me too." Groaned Shishido.

"Shut up, Shishido. You want me to hit you with an apple again, ahn?" glared Atobe.

"I seriously do not know what you guys are talking about. There is nothing wrong with how I said buchou. If there was something wrong, then I would have someone point it out to me." Said Ryoma as he tried to ignore the memories that are popping in his head like kikumaru's giggling, Fuji's quirked eyebrows, and Momo's smirks.

Shishido groaned overdramatically and closed his eyes while oshitari just had a glint on his face that reminded him of Fuji in a scary way. Jirou had his mouth open as if he didn't believe a word that came out of Ryoma's mouth.

"You seriously have to teach me that." Said Mukahi.

The comment literally pushed Atobe over the edge, or perhaps it was Oshitari checking out Ryoma. He then knocked the chair down again and pointed a finger at Ryoma before taking an imposing stance. "That does it! I am forbidding you from ever saying that word again!"

"What word would that be? Monkey King" glared Ryoma.

"Oh my god, it is not that one word miracle!" yelled Shishido. "And that would be the images that I woul rather not see."

"Now will you teach me that?" asked Mukahi.

"What is the matter with you perverts? And here I thought going to Hyotei was going to be a good thing, but now I have to deal with a bunch of freaks and perverts? Sometimes I wonder if Kenya blackmailed me into joining this school." Sighed Ryoma as he fled the kitchen while the others snickered loudly. Even Oshitari paused to readjust his glasses and smiled. "I think my cousin must have taught him well at shitenhouji."

The next day, Atobe came by and picked Ryoma up without groveling. But Ryoma felt regretful about what he did to his boyfriend previously. They were not fighting or anything when Ryoma left the house since he couldn't stand anymore of the sex and perverted lessons from Hyotei.

"well?" said Atobe.

"Yeah about yesterday. The whole buchou thing, he just said basically said the same thing you all did. He just wants me to be friends and not lovers and so he wants me to profess my love for you."

"Ah ha! See I told you so! I knew Tezuka couldn't handle this last night!" he then started a victory dance and then continued talking. "So, will you stop saying that word now?"

"I never said that!" shouted Ryoma.

"But… you just…. Why!?" whined Atobe.

"I like to see buchou blush." Smirked Ryoma.

"Oh of course you do." Said Atobe as he smacked his forehead. "Why am I cursed to fall in love with someone so insensitive like you?"

"In love?" choked Ryoma. "Wait just a minute here. No one told me anything about love.

"What, you are going to just claim that we were just having sex last night? That you think this is a step up in my tennis skills? No! I taught you better than that."

"That's not what I meant! I mean sure I like you as a friend, okay? But love? That is going a bit too fast, isn't it?"

"You like me?" asked Atobe. "That is just so like you, brat. I tell you that I reallylove you and you just go out and say you like me?"

"I like you a lot better than my own buchou."

"That's not sufficient enough!"

"Maybe I might learn to love you back?"

Atobe took a moment and looked at ryoma smirking again. "I am so going to nail your ass on the ground for that, brat."

"In tennis like you promised?"

"That too."

After another grueling match, Ryoma noticed something in the chain link fence that caught his attention since it was having a sign that said, "Property of Atobe Corp" on it.

"Does your family own this court?" asked Ryoma.

"Aa-hn, so you finally see why I am so wealthy. Why?"

"Well, what happened to the showers and the locker rooms?" yelled Ryoma

"If that is still bothering you, I can let them get started on building that." Suggested Atobe.

"Please don't. Otherwise, the perverts from Shitenhouji won't hear the end of it." Said Ryoma.

"I see that perverted school has made you into a love doctor." Laughed Atobe.

"I do my best. Besides, I should really convince your vice-captain to have a serious face to face chat with his cousin since he needs to stop filling my minds with unpleasant images." Continued Ryoma.

"I think we can arrange that." Said Atobe as he led Ryoma back into the car and towards the mansion again.

Back at Seigaku, rumors were spreading like crazy and decided that they need to put him in charge of handling love situations. Therefore a tennis club booth is required for Ryoma since he will be able to convince all the girls to get the guys they need since this is the only good way to make the tennis prodigy suffer.

"Looks like Echizen will be the one to handle all the duties as the temporary captain, eh, Momo?" laughed Fuji.

"Yup, that brat cheated on Buchou and now it is our turn to make that brat suffer the work that Tezuka left for him. And what better way to do it then with the school festival? Think of it as payback." Stated Momo.

By the time Ryoma returned to Seigaku, he was not pleased at what he was seeing in the tennis courts. And you can say he was beyond pissed at the courtesy of his 'wonderful' teammates.

This wasn't his first time experiencing the school festival but he was now being forced to participate since his teammates are ignoring his hard earned reputation of being the antisocial brat. Now, he is in charge of the tennis club booth. Why would they do that to him? Well, they needed a reason to make Ryoma suffer but since he was just starting out as the vice-captain, he didn't have much authority yet. No one needs to listen to him when he suggested laps because that was useless.

"I seriously hate you guys." Said Ryoma to Momo.

"Come on now! Do this for the school and maybe to your future boyfriend." Said Momo gleefully while snuggling the brat within his body.

"I am going to be leaving within the next 30 seconds if you do not let go of me." Warned Ryoma.

A few minutes later, he was released from momo's grasp, but not before he was receiving more hugs from Kikumaru. "Congrats on becoming captain, Ochibi! I think your duties here will be more than sufficient to win the heart of Atobe and our captain even if you have gotten advice from my senior officer from Hyotei."

"You blackmailed Oshitari and forced me to come to this festival!?" shouted Ryoma.

"I had no other choice, o-chibi. It was that or putting you through hours of love lectures from my romance professor and the guidance of Yanagi Renji." Said Kikumaru nervously.

"I will get you guys back for this!" yelled Ryoma angrily.

"And just who will you set payback to?" said a familiar voice.

"What are you doing here, kei-kun?" asked Ryoma.

"Ore-sama wants to try his hand at this game so please give me a few balls." Said Atobe

"Sure, here are your three balls." Said Ryoma as he gave Atobe three of them after collecting the money. "Knock down three piles of those things and you will get a special prize."

"Really? This game will be fun to play with. Oh Atobe-kun, you can win this, I have faith in you." Said the girl.

That really pissed Ryoma off. Why did they have to take his booth in order to fawn over with each other?

Ryoma watched as Atobe knocked down the piles while he covered his ears to stop him from listening to the girl squealing. "It was not that special." He mumbled and got the doll the girl had admired and the special prize he promised them, but not before he took the hyoutei logo and pinned it on there in order to get a reaction out of Atobe.

"That is so cute."

"Cute my ass! Why are you doing that, brat? I thought you were thinking my school was something special to you."

I don't know what you mean. But can you please not keep the other customers waiting?" sid Ryoma.

"Fine, but you are going to be the one counting money and giving me balls!" ordered Atobe.

"Atobe-kun I need something to eat!" said the girl

"Go get some food yourself then, I am busy here!" snapped Atobe.

The girl was staring at him incredulously with her mouth open while Ryoma smirked at her.