A/N: This is where all of the oneshots in the series from the past three years are going to go to make things easier for any new readers and to just let my regular readers review these stories. Oh! And also, if people could review and give me ideas for what they want to see during any of the next holidays or birthdays, that would be awesome!

Sorry I haven't been posting. But here are a few more of the oneshots to continue catching up with the series. This is pretty much letting my readers know I'm not dead yet, and I'm still writing, albeit very, very, VERY slowly considering my brain is not cooperating with me. T-T

Title: It's Just Not the Same Part 2

Summary: He's not going to be here for his own birthday. Celebrating it is just not going to be the same. We're going to have to find some way to celebrate it right? Or do we have to wait?

Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis. The anime and its canon characters belong to their rightful owners. The only one that belongs to me is the OC in this chapter and the remaining ones.

"Oh my Kami!" Hanako yelled happily, eyes wide at what she saw.

"What's wrong Hanako?" Fuji and Tezuka asked, turning toward Hanako to see her practically gaping at something in another direction.

Everyone turned to where Hanako was looking only to scream or blink in surprise.

"Ryoma!" Fuji yelled, getting up with a large smile before rushing over to the younger and grabbing him into a large hug, Tezuka right behind him.

"Nice to see you all too," Ryoma chuckle, returning the hugs to both of his boyfriends as best as he could.

"How are you here?" Momo asked, still shocked at seeing his best friend in Japan instead of in America like they all had thought.

"Oyaji decided to cut the trip short and allowed me to go on an earlier flight. I wanted to keep it a surprise. How was it?" he answered, a smirk on his face.

"That was the biggest surprise ever!" Eiji yelled happily, hopping up and down before jumping forward and crushing Ryoma in a glomp.

Fuji and Tezuka were lucky to let go of Ryoma at the last second to avoid the tackle hug from their acrobatic friend.

"Eiji-senpai… Can't… breathe…" Ryoma gasped out, making the red-head loosen his grip on the younger.

"How did you even do that?" Hanako asked, rushing to the kitchen to fetch another plate of food for Ryoma to eat.

Ryoma chuckled before explaining exactly how he was able to hide in the house.

"Well I did say I got an earlier flight. I showed up just a bit ago actually when you guys were still setting up for the video call. I arrived by taxi if you have to know that. Anyway, I hid my suitcase in a nearby bush that I'm gonna grab in a bit and climbed a tree to sneak in my room through the window that I pried open. From there I just made sure I had my laptop and cell phone with me. It was easy enough from there," he finished with a smirk on his face.

"You little troublemaker!" Momo yelled, walking over and grabbing the boy into a head-lock before ruffling the boy's hair.

"Hey cool it Momo-senpai," Ryoma teased, pushing the taller off of him.

"Echizen," Oishi called out, bringing out the box of presents. "Since you're here, why don't you open these up hmm?"

Ryoma glanced at the box before shrugging with a smirk on his face. "Sure. Why not?"

For the rest of the night, Ryoma and the rest of the team spent their time playing games that Hanako, Eiji, and Oishi had managed to bring over just in case some of the team wanted to play while they waited for Ryoma to get on the video chat. They ate the food that several of them had brought and opened Ryoma's presents of course.

It was one of the best birthdays of the year in their point of view. Not only did they get to surprise Ryoma, but they got a surprise of their own.

Now here comes the next question when it comes down to it.

"How are you going to celebrate Christmas?" Hanako realized with a start, widening her eyes and looking at everyone with a shocked expression. "We didn't even know he was going to be back soon, so we didn't try to get a tree or anything!"

Kaidoh hissed in response to that, trying to think of a way to be able to celebrate Christmas with the youngest of them.

"How are we going to do this?"

"He could always celebrate it with one of us," Fuji suggested, a smile on his lips at the thought of allowing Ryoma to go to his house for the Christmas day.

"That's a great idea!" Oishi said happily, smiling before that smile turned to a small frown. "Except… who is he going to spend it with?"

"Obviously, he will be spending it with either Fuji or Tezuka considering the two are his boyfriends, Tezuka being his fiancé," Inui informed them all.

Fuji, Tezuka, and Ryoma all nodded in response before they all turned to each other for the decision.

"Why doesn't he spend half of it with my family and then the other half with yours?" Tezuka questioned Fuji, glancing at Ryoma for his input as well.

"That's fine with me. Okaa-san and baka oyaji are supposed to come in later tonight anyway," Ryoma answered with a shrug of his shoulders. He didn't really care whose house he went to first anyhow. As long as he got to spend it with his boyfriends.

"How about we let him celebrate with my family first and then yours Mitsu?" Fuji asked, tapping his chin with his finger. "Ooh! Better yet, how about we three go to my family's celebration first, then Mitsu's family, and then when Ryoma's family comes back, we celebrate the last of Christmas day here?"

"Are you sure? Isn't that a lot of trouble for you three?" Oishi worried for them.

"Nya! Don't worry about it Oishi~!" Eiji chimed, clinging onto his boyfriend's shoulders. "If anyone can figure out a schedule, it's those three," he chuckled with a large grin on his face.

"No kidding. If they can't figure it out, I don't know who can," Momo said, nodding his head in agreement.

"It's getting late," Ryoma informed them, looking at the clock. "Would you all like to stay here for the night?"

"If you wouldn't mind," Hanako answered, a small smile on her face as she nodded.

"That'd be great Echizen," Oishi agreed as Eiji jumped up and down in excitement.

Momo nodded with a large grin on his face as he decided to knuckle Ryoma's head once again, putting him in another headlock.

Kaidoh hissed with a simple nod of his head in response while Inui nodded, still writing down information in his notebook.

Tezuka and Fuji both nodded, not surprisingly, before the entire group decided to figure out who roomed with whom.

It was obvious that everyone was going to room with whoever they were coupled with. Therefore, Hanako got her own room, Kaidoh and Inui were paired up together, Momo was also in his own room because his couple was with Ann from Fudoumine, Oishi and Eiji in another room together, with Tezuka and Fuji staying in Ryoma's room of course.

"Can I sleep with Karupin in my room?" Hanako questioned Ryoma.

"I don't see why not. Karupin seems to like you well enough," he said, looking down at the ground where the cat was nuzzling against Hanako's leg.

"Yay! Thanks Ryoma-kun," Hanako said happily, smiling as she picked up the cat and went up to her guest room to sleep for the night. "Happy birthday again Ryoma-kun!" she called down the stairs before adding, "and a Merry Christmas to you all!"

Everyone returned the call with smiles on their faces before they each went up to their assigned rooms and rested for the night until the next morning.

The next morning, everyone went back to their homes while Ryoma, Tezuka, and Fuji called their parents in the early morning to tell their families their plans for that Christmas holiday. The parents were a little worried about whether it would work or not, but after some convincing from their children, they agreed to the little plan.

"Merry Christmas everyone," Fuji greeted as he walked into his home, Tezuka and Ryoma following behind him.

"Hello Echizen. Tezuka," Yuuta greeted, helping set the table for breakfast that morning.

When Fuji called, they realized that they would need to set up extra places for breakfast and cook more food considering they were visiting Fuji's family first for breakfast and the morning, then Tezuka's for lunch and the afternoon, and then finally Ryoma's house for dinner and the evening.

"What does your family do for Christmas?" Ryoma asked as they all sat down at the dining table for breakfast.

"After breakfast, we usually go for a walk around town until lunchtime," Fuji's mother, Yoshiko, answered them, smiling as she put the food on the table for everyone to eat. "Would that be alright with you?"

"That's perfectly fine," Tezuka answered with a polite nod before they all started to eat. "My family has the same tradition every year as well, so it really does not make a difference to me."

"Tell me," Yumiko, Fuji's older sister, stated a few minutes into the meal, "Exactly how did the relationship between you three start?"

"Well first it started when Kunimitsu proposed to me," Ryoma started off, showing off the ring on his ring finger that he normally kept hidden except for special occasions, holidays being some of those.

"Now that's a beautiful ring," Yumiko said, grinning at the piece of jewelry. "So how did Syuusuke get involved exactly then if you two were already in an established relationship?"

"Well it started on this year's Valentine's Day," Ryoma started until he gestured for Tezuka to continue.

"We had gotten a card then from someone anonymous. It was only by chance when we spent the day with Syuusuke on his birthday this same year that we managed to piece together some clues. The biggest clue was that Syuusuke kept mentioning how glad he was about our smiles, letting us know that he had written the card."

"We gave him a chance, and I don't really regret giving him that chance," Ryoma finished with a small smile toward his boyfriend.

"Well isn't that sweet," the mother commented with a small smile on her face. "I'm glad you boys have given my own a chance to be in a relationship with you two. It must be hard having to deal with a three-way relationship. Do you have any problems?"

"Not especially. We may argue here and there, but that's normal in any relationship," Tezuka answered her.

"And besides. Those fights are never about anything too big anyway," Ryoma reassured the Fuji family. "The worst thing that has happened is an accident here and there, but we survived through it."

"I remember the latest one," the father, Yutaka (A/N: I don't know his actual name), said, a small smile on his face as his stared at Ryoma. "You wouldn't believe how happy we were when Syuusuke gave us the call that you were alright. You had us all worried."

"Sorry for the trouble," Ryoma said, bowing his head slightly in respect before they continued on with their meal.

After finishing, they all washed up the plates and dishes and packed up any leftovers into the fridge before heading their way out of the house to start their walk around the city.

"Look over there," Fuji said, smiling as he pointed in a random direction to the group, two hours after they had finished breakfast, so it was close to noon at the moment.

"I didn't know we would meet your parents out here Mitsu," Ryoma commented, blinking a few times at the sight of Tezuka's parents across the park they were in at the moment.

"Why don't we meet them?" Fuji's mother asked, smiling as she already started walking toward the pair.

Tezuka nodded, gently grabbing Fuji's and Ryoma's hands into his own and walking toward his parents. "Okaa-san. Otou-san," he greeted as they all walked closer.

"How was breakfast with the Fuji's dear?" his mother, Ayana, greeted him with a smile and a hug.

"It was well," he answered before pulling his two boyfriends over. "As you know, this is Fuji Syuusuke and Echizen Ryoma," he said with a small smile on his face.

"It's good to see you again boys," the mother replied with a smile on her face.

"I'm glad to see that the Halloween event didn't cause any true harm to you Echizen," Kuniharu, Tezuka's father, told the boy with a slight nod of the head.

"Thanks," Ryoma replied with a nod of his own head.

"It's almost time for lunch Kunimitsu," Ayana told her son. "Are you and your boyfriends ready to join us for lunch now that the morning is over?"

"Well?" Tezuka questioned the two.

Ryoma nodded in reply as Fuji turned to his family.

"Fine with us," Yuuta replied for both Yumiko and himself.

"Go ahead and have some fun. We'll see you either later tonight or tomorrow correct?" Yoshiko asked her own son.

Fuji nodded in response, letting his parents know that he would be back by tomorrow afternoon at the latest.

"See you then son," his father replied before the Fuji family turned and left the park, leaving the three boyfriends with the Tezuka family this time.

"Let's go home then," Ayana said with a smile on her face as she turned on her heels and led the way to Tezuka's house.

"What does your family do in the afternoon after lunch?" Fuji asked the family as they got to the house.

"We tend to have tea and tend to the flower garden Ayana owns," Kuniharu answered the male, unlocking the front door as he did so.

"I'll get the table set up," Ayana chimed happily, glad to have some guests over.

"I'll help okaa-san," Tezuka offered, already taking off his shoes and stepping inside to follow his mother into the kitchen.

"Do you need any help?" Fuji offered, taking off his shoes along with Ryoma.

"No, no, make yourself at home in the dining room. We'll be out shortly," Ayana called out from the kitchen.

Kuniharu gestured his head toward the room and led the two inside where Tezuka was helping to set the table.

"Are you sure you don't need any help?" Ryoma asked, raising an eyebrow at the intricate tableware being placed down.

Tezuka shook his head and continued to work as Fuji, Ryoma, and Kuniharu sat down at the table.

It was only a few minutes later where Ayana and Tezuka carried out four trays of food and placed them on the table.

Within a few minutes of eating the meal, another conversation about the three's relationship started between the family.

"I know that Kunimitsu was the first to propose to Echizen-kun, so what made you two decide to accept Fuji-kun into the relationship?" Ayana asked, staring between the three teenagers in the room.

"He seemed sincere in his affections for us both, so we both decided to give Syuusuke a try in the relationship," Tezuka explained to his mother.

"We don't regret it at all. The relationship is going good," Ryoma added, sending a small smile toward Fuji who returned it with a peck on the cheek.

"That's good to hear. Now has there been any fighting at all between you three?" Kuniharu asked. He wasn't about to let there be any violence in the relationship. That just wouldn't do for his son at all.

"No fighting. Just pranks on April Fool's Day," Ryoma answered, chuckling a bit.

"Although the prank this year turned out not to be a prank," Tezuka answered solemnly.

"Ryoma-chan here tends to be accident prone it seems," Fuji teased, reaching over to grab Ryoma's hand in his own.

"What happened?"

"Remember how I wanted to stay at the hospital on the first of April?" Tezuka questioned his parents, earning nods in return. "That was because Ryoma had been hit by a car on the way home, and we wanted to be there for him."

"Oh dear! Has anything else happened to you young man?" Ayana questioned the emerald-haired male.

Ryoma was about to shake his head in order to reassure the woman, but he thought against that. These were Tezuka's parents, and he shouldn't lie to them. "On Halloween, a haunted house collapsed on me, sending me to the hospital and putting me in a coma for at least three weeks."

"Are you alright from that?" Kuniharu questioned, looking the male over from head to toe.

"Perfectly fine," Ryoma said, adding a small smile to reassure the two parents. He didn't need them worrying after all. Tezuka, Fuji, Hanako, and his parents had done enough of that while he was in a coma.

After finishing their meal, the three went outside the house with some tea in order to start tending Ayana's garden. After taking care of the flowers and bushes and trimming of any trees in the entire house plot, it started to get dark.

"We'll see you tomorrow then Kunimitsu. Make sure not to get in trouble," Ayana called after the three as they left the Tezuka household toward the Echizen household for dinner and to stay the evening.

"We will okaa-san," Tezuka called back as the three walked hand-in-hand toward Ryoma's house.

They made it just in time to see a taxi pull up with Rinko and Nanjiroh getting out of the car.

"Let us help you with that," Fuji offered, taking up a few bags along with Tezuka and Ryoma.

"It's good to see you boys again," Rinko said, smiling at the help. "Come on Nanjiroh. Let's go inside," she said, getting some of the smaller bags along with her husband.

Once they got inside, Rinko immediately started working to make some dinner for the entire group. The three teenagers decided to play with Karupin as they waited for dinner to be served.

"What made you want to celebrate my birthday yesterday even though there was a chance I might not even be here?" Ryoma questioned the two, trying to clarify something.

"We wanted to celebrate your birthday because you are our boyfriend," Fuji answered the boy, pecking him on the forehead and smiling at the other.

"If you weren't born yesterday, then we wouldn't have be able to meet you," Tezuka added, kissing the boy on the cheek lightly before pulling away and putting his forehead against Ryoma's. "We are glad you are born today, and we will never forget that."

"You two are so cheesy," Ryoma teased with a smirk on his face. "But I guess that's why I love you two so much," he added, leaning forward to peck them both on the lips before scooping Karupin into his arms.

"I'm glad you decided to come home early Ryoma," Fuji said after a few minutes of silence, the only other noise in the room being Karupin's purring and the sounds of cooking sounding from the kitchen. There was also the occasional yell from Nanjiroh getting hit over the head with something…

"What makes you say that?" Ryoma questioned, staring at his two boyfriends with a confused look on his face. "I mean, I know you were upset that you weren't going to be able to celebrate my birthday, but is that really it?"

"We wanted to celebrate the holidays with you," Fuji answered the boy with a chuckle as he ruffled the younger's hair. "Is that so wrong?"

"No," Ryoma said, shaking his head just slightly. Looking toward the side, he asked, "But seriously. What made you so upset that you wouldn't be able to celebrate with me? You could always celebrate with me next year or even after we got back from our trip to America."

"That's true, but there is something wrong with that," Tezuka answered the boy this time, throwing an arm around both Ryoma and Fuji and tugging them close.

Fuji smiled as he laid his head in Ryoma's lap as Ryoma was pulled into Tezuka's lap, Karupin being placed on Fuji's chest.

"What's wrong with it?" Ryoma questioned, leaning his head back against Tezuka's chest as he snuggled further into the embrace as Tezuka wrapped his arms around Ryoma's waist, laying his hands on Fuji's shoulders.

Fuji chuckled as he turned slightly and wrapped an arm around Ryoma's waist.

"You really don't know?"

Ryoma shook his head before blinking slightly as Fuji leaned up to kiss him on the lips as Tezuka leaned forward and kissed his neck.

They both smiled at Ryoma before giving the boy his answer. "It's just not the same if we can't celebrate with the person we love."

1) Promise of a Lifetime (Valentine's Day 2011)

2) A Broken Promise… Or Is It (White Day)

3) A Locket to Remember (April Fool's Day)

4) Everything Is Perfect (Fourth of July)

5) Picture Perfect Confession (Random Filler)

6) The Day He Comes Back (Tezuka's Birthday)

7) Am I Dead Yet? (Halloween)

8) He's Got Talent (Thanksgiving)

9) A Christmas Birthday (Ryoma's Birthday and Christmas Two-shot)

10) New Year's Promise (New Year's Day 2012)

11) Secret Admirer (Valentine's Day)

12) Wish Come True (Fuji's Birthday)

13) Returning the Favor (White Day)

14) Another Trick? (April Fool's Day)

15) Really? (Fourth of July)

16) A Little Terror Is Fine (Tezuka's Birthday)

17) Say Goodbye… (Halloween)

18) Thanks… (Thanksgiving)

19) It's Just Not the Same (Ryoma's Birthday and Christmas Two-shot)

20) New Start

21) Silver Lining

22) About Time

23) To No Avail

24) This Again?!

25) Heartfelt

26) We're Here

27) Just Us

28) Family

29) A Nice Surprise

30) Welcome Home

31) Definitely Interesting

32) It Hurts

33) What Now…

34) Back Home

35) Cars… Hate Them… (Latest One)