CHAPTER 66

It was Sunday and Seigaku's next tournament was meant to be today. It was meant to start at 10 and Mitsu had just woken up looking around he looked to the boy who was laying on top of him. He was just grateful that everyone at school had stopped talking about the incident with Ryoma and him. He had in fact taken it out all on the tennis players that day after school and gave them no mercy. He had, after that recovered some of his pride, much to his relief.

He brought a hand up and ran it though the boy's hair and looked to the side at his alarm clock thinking it was still early since his alarm hadn't gone off yet. It read 9.47 am. Mitsu's eye twitch. Grabbing his glasses from the side and looked again hoping it was just his sight playing tricks on him... No it was really the right time. "Ryoma wake up." The boy yawned and sat up rubbing his eyes with his arm. "Quickly get changed I'm going to wake Syu." The captain ran out of the room and literally dragged the tensai out of his bed and told him to get changed quickly.

He was probably lucky the Gen slept with Keigo last night. He didn't feel like having the vice captain wake up in his haste. After all he had seen a couple of times when Gen had woken up in a really bad mood and only really turned back into normal Gen after he had some type of caffeine. Rushing back into his room he grabbed Ryoma by the waist and picked him up only to soon place him in front of the bathroom telling him to do his teeth. Once the boy was done Syu and Mitsu sorted themselves out while the cat went downstairs and greeted Tomo. The boy didn't even get breakfast when he felt his hood bring put up and clipped on to his head, then being slung over someone's shoulder. Syu had grabbed his, Mitsu's and Ryoma's tennis bags, while Mitsu had slung a bag that was full of food over his free shoulder since Ryoma was on his other.

Without a second they ran out the door and Syu had remembered to grab Ryoma's shoe in one of his hands on the way out. After the door slammed shut Tomo could only laugh. If they were running that late they could of always asked him to give them a lift.

As they sped down the streets they could both see the park where the tournament was meant to be taking place. They had 5 minutes. Ryoma was squealing and laughing finding it fun since he was still on the others shoulder and was swing side to side, bouncing once in a while. Running down the path in the park they looked for anything that symbolized their team in anyway. That was when they saw it. Sumire. Mitsu actually felt grateful that the old lady wore such a pink jumpsuit. The old woman saw them coming and instead of telling them off she just shouted at them to join the other at the signing the team up. Nodding they dropped all there things off near the math teacher and Mitsu kept the boy on his shoulder as they went to the others who weren't that far away.

Once catching up they signed in and Ryoma lifted his head and looked around to see the freshmen five all watching. There was also some second and third years as well who came to cheer them on. Ryoma felt movement from Mitsu again and they were now moving back to the lady in pink. He felt his feet touch the ground and he let go of the captain's shirt know he wasn't going to fall. The boy saw his shoes and grabbed them and put them on. As Sumire was about to shout at them for nearly being late, but she was cut off by Ryoma. "Can I have breakfast now?" Syu smiled and went over to where the food was and pick out some sandwiches, handing them to Ryoma so he wouldn't complain later.

"So is there a reason why all three of you were late?" She tapped he foot and had a singled raised eyebrow while she waited for an answer.

"Saa... Sumire. Mitsu was meant to wake me up, which he did, but all I know is that the alarm didn't go off." The pink lady's eye twitched at the first name. But she knew that must of been the truth since both Mitsu and Syu were always on time for things and since Ryoma is with them he should be too. They were all brought out of their thoughts on why the alarm didn't go off when Ryoma practically solved the mystery.

"Neh, is the alarm on the clock in the room." Getting a nod from Mitsu, the cat carried on. "Because I think it's broken. The whole way though the night there was this small red light on it and so I pressed a few buttons and eventually it turned off."

"Ryoma... That red light was a sign to show the alarm had been set."

"Oh, so who are we playing first?" The regulars sighed. Of course the cat didn't care. He was more concerned about tennis itself. It was Horio who noticed something.

"Hey, Echizen. Why would the alarm clock annoy you?" Some of the regulars wondered as well. They knew they where living together but that didn't mean the boy was in the same room unless...

"I slept with Kunimitsu. He's really comfy and let's me be on top." Ryoma had calmed down a lot after Horio's attack on him and had started to relax slightly. That, and there were others here so the cat knew he was safe. Everyone watched with wide eyes and Sumire laughed as Syu smiled. Mitsu could only imagine what trouble this could bring.

"Wait... you slept with him?" Horio felt jealous. He wanted to be the boys first. "I thought you were still a virgin." Ryoma felt so confused after that sentence. 'Virgin... what's that?' He thought.

"Yeah, I slept with him, but I don't get it." He looked at Mitsu hoping he would answer all the questions. "Why is everyone freaking out. It's not like you're the only one."

"There's more?" Tomoko now put her input in after getting over the shock slightly. She was more shocked at the fact her dear prince was into men.

"What's a virgin?" Syu knew it was his turn to do the answering. Mitsu after all was still trying to get over the shock of the boy saying that he had sex with him and not realizing what he did.

"Ryo-Chan," Syu called and Ryoma looked at him. The cat could tell that something wasn't right. Everyone was acting weird. "Come here." The boy went over and stood in front of the tensai. Syusuke lowered himself so he could speak to the boy on equal grounds. "A virgin is someone who hasn't had sex yet. Meaning they still have their virginity which is very special." He just had to hope the boy got it.

"Isn't sex bad?" Syu froze. He now wanted to know why the boy would say that. After all he seemed excited to know about the concept of it before. "I mean, it's like making love, but with no love right. Because if that's true then I don't want to lose my virginity." Most put their hands over their mouth to either hold the snickering or a small blush since the question and the boy's own concept on it were all so innocent. Syu hugged the boy and whispered knowing the cat would hear.

"Either though making love or having sex you can lose your virginity." Syu pulled back and kept his hands on the boy's shoulders. "Okay." The tensai was practically glowing at this conversation. He admitted that he loved the boy more and more for every second he spent with him. The cat now looked at him with determination.

"I want to lose my virginity in making love not sex." Syu smiled. "I still don't get what that has to do with sleeping?"

"Ah, well people normally use the term sleeping with each other as having sex or making love." He saw the boy go bright red as he finally understood what he had just told the others.

"I would never have sex with Kunimitsu." With that Ryoma told them that they have a tennis match soon and should go to their court. Much to everyone's amusement at the fact the boy finally got embarrassed about the subject. Tezuka didn't follow and was in shock and felt hurt at being told by the boy himself that he would never do it with him. Syu seeing this smiled and whispered into Mitsu's ear.

"You know Ryo-Chan only said not having sex, he said nothing about making love. So maybe..." Syu trailed off.

"He might love me, but hasn't realized it yet." Mitsu hoped he wasn't wide eyed or smirking at the moment. He actually felt happier knowing that could be true.

"Or he knows he does, but won't say." Syu smiled and looked at the captain in the eyes. This day had just gotten more interesting.