CHAPTER 52

Sei and Ryoma sat in the library going over the basic Japanese. Like looking at all the symbols and how write them. Sei had folded his arms and rested on the table, putting his head on top and looking to the side as he watched the boy work out a small test he made for him. He was still wondering who had told the boy that girls kissed like that. Sure they do, so do guys as well, but he never got the answer of if it was just curiosity or if he liked her. Her... He didn't even know her name.

"Ryo-Chan, do you hate me?" The cat had looked at Sei like he had just been kicked. Sei realizing he didn't take the right approach and so carried on talking to explain what he meant. "I mean you could of kissed me if you were curious about something. I would of accepted without any question." Sei hoped he had cleared the mistake up.

"But when your with someone, aren't you meant to save all your special kisses for them? I don't get it. You and Syusuke are meant to be together, but you were going to give one of them away to Kunimitsu." Sei froze. He forgot Ryoma didn't know about the relationship thing. He sat up straight hoping not to give anything away and to come up with something fast. Looking around the room he saw a picture with a bowl of fruit. Smiling, he looked back at the boy and answered.

"Ah, so Ryo-Chan has never heard of the forbidden fruit." He saw Ryoma's mouth hanging and his eyes staring at him in wonder. He leaned in closer to make it look like this big secret. He then whispered once they where close enough. "It's where someone has more than one lover because there love is so big that they just can't share it with one person. It's something rare and not many people come across it so the ones that don't know what it's like forbid that kind of relationship."

"Wow," Ryoma couldn't believe it. There was such thing as forbidden love. "So does Syusuke know about..." He trailed off at the end still in awe over the whole thing.

"Yeah, he's part of it. There could be more of us in the future as well. We are all going to get married to each other one day." The cat was amazed something like that could exist. He never would of guessed it was possible to have more than one person that's special. They carried on the subject for a bit more before getting back to Ryoma's lesson. Sei hoped that Ryoma got the message and wasn't going to try kissing any other girl in the future.

It was the end of school and Sei had woken the boy as soon as the last bell rung for the day. Ryoma had begged the other to watch on the side-lines during practice before running off to the changing rooms to go find Momo.

When he got there, only five regulars there. All the other students part of the tennis team had already left to go start practice. The regulars were meant to stay there and have a team talk. Inui was also missing. Inui, even if not part of the regulars anymore, of course played a big part in their training. So Ryoma took his chance and went to Momo.

"Hey, Ryoma. What's up?" The cat took a few seconds to think of how to put it, but ended up going for the direct approach.

"Kiss me."

(In Sumire's office)

"So that all?" Syu asked as he leaned against the desk. He had planed on going straight to the changing rooms to meet the others, but ended up meeting Mitsu on the way and went with him instead. Oishi and Inui where there as well talking about the next tournament that's coming up. So with the conversation coming to a end they all left except Inui and Sumire who where going to talk about more special training programs they have come up with.

The three of them got to the changing rooms door and they could hear shouting from the other side. Not wasting anytime they opened the door and saw Ryoma clinging to one of Momo's legs shouting 'Kiss me, kiss me.' Over and over again. They just stood there shocked. No one in the room was talking except Ryoma and Momo who was yelling at the boy to let go.

The cat had finally lost his grip on the others leg and Momo used this chance to get further away by using Kaidoh as an obstacle, much to the snakes annoyance. Ryoma just sat on the floor feeling upset and slightly lost. He thought your meant to kiss someone that's important. He started to pout and look in Momo direction to make him look guilty. When he thought all hope was lost Inui decided to make his entrance and sit on the bench near the door.

Ryoma stood up and walked towards the data master. If Momo wasn't going to be his special one he would have a new best friend. "Ah, Echizen. What can I..." He never got to finish as the cat grabbed his face and smashed their lips together.

Everyone watched. Kunimitsu's face slipped and let his jealousy and anger show. While Syusuke was no longer smiling and was actually close to making his way over and ripping the boy away from Inui, while all the others had there jaws touching the floor.

The kiss was clumsy and held completely no passion. In a way it was just Ryoma moving his lips against Inui's and nothing more. He was also tugging at the others hair. Inui frozen and unable to do anything because the amount of surprise he was going though. Ryoma pulled away and just stared as if he was thinking about something. Everyone watched in anticipation. It was what the cat said that caught everyone off guard. "Eiji you lied. You said there was clothes being ripped off and tugging at hair and everything else." Even if he was still looking at Inui, Eiji could hear it and slowly backed away to the door. Syu had sent him a glare and walked towards the red-head wanting to know more about this lie. Eiji was about to leg it to the door when Seiichi turned up and grabbed him by the arm.

"Well... At least I now know who it was that put into my Ryo-Chan's mind to kiss a girl. Syu let's take Eiji somewhere else." With that Syu grabbed Eiji's other arm and they left for interrogation. Oishi shook his head. He knew Eiji should of kept his mouth shut.

Ryoma was now not moving. He was sad because it was nothing like the red-head had explained. Also he had just given his first intimate kiss away. The cat went over to Mitsu forgetting that he was angry, he lifted his arms up and tilting his head to the left. "Hug." The cat's eyes filled with tear. Mitsu sighed and sat on the bench behind him letting the boy climb on his lap. Ryoma straddled him and wrapped his arms round his neck. The captain started to rub his back trying to calm the boy down.

The regular's looked at Mitsu with either with cheesy grins plastered on there face or with a small notice of surprise on there features. In return he gave them all a death glare and swore in his mind that if they tell anyone else they will be running laps for the rest of the year. Looking around he noticed Inui now having recovered and writing a million miles a second all the information he had just got.

(With Syu, Sei and Eiji)

They had found an empty classroom and realising Eiji and they blocked off the door so he could get out. "Nya, I'm sorry. I didn't think O'chibi would actually try that out with one of us. I thought he was going to do it to one of you." He pointed to Fuji and Yukimura. Considering the fact Eiji had left out that Ryoma had tried it with him the other day. They looked at each other before turning back to the red-head. Syu smiled and was about to say something, but was interrupted. "Nya, anyway don't you two already have each other." Sei smiled.

"Kikumaru, have you even heard of the forbidden fruit." Even Syu gave Sei a look of confusion at that sentence. So with the 'talk' they had with Eiji they had managed to convince him into helping them with getting Ryoma and to never teach the boy about love. That, after all was their job. Eiji decided to help them as an apology from losing, as Sei like to call it, Ryoma's mouth virginity.

They let red-head leave first and Syu face slipped for a second. Sei caught it, but decided to leave it for now and would ask later. He knew Syu was planning on something even if it was his best friend that he was going to punish. That was probably a good thing for Eiji in a way as the punishment won't be as bad. It didn't take long for them to head outside as well.

They saw a load of teens from others schools with notepads and cameras. Sei sat to the side not wanting to get involved in any of it and watched while Syu looked around for Ryoma and Mitsu wondering where they had gotten to.

"Oishi, where's Ryo-Chan?" Oishi hearing his name turned and gave Syu a smile before pointing to the changing rooms. Syu went to Sei and dragged him with him hoping they can sort out with the boy who he should and shouldn't kiss. As they where about to turn the corner they heard Ryoma speaking.