Rumours/Boys don't cry

By Old Fiat nFr

To the reviewers:

Merissala: Really? You don't like Fuji? He's my favourite character (him, kaoru, sakaki, & atobe). I'm sorry once again for the grammar mistakes. I'm so bad at grammar… I understand Latin & French better than English most of the time. Though I can't speak in Latin or French so I'm just stupid. I'm glad that you like the story though! Thank you for continuing to review!

Yaelifivefour: 92? That's a very good grade. That's about what I get in English. Ha-ha. I'm sure you'll do great on your final, even if you don't; I know that your English is superb. :) I don't know about Fuji being stupid… he has problems with releasing his emotions and telling people how he actually feels… problem that I share. Ha-ha. Kaoru is cute, I love when people call him cute (in the anime) and he blushes and looks kind of sick. Especially in that one where Kamio and Momo are racing… that was funny.

Ahotep: Strasbourg… c'est pres du allemagne ou Suisse? J'oblie. Désolé. J'ai vais à Suisse …2 fois… et je recomence regarde un… chose… qui dit 'strasbourg' mais j'oblie où… désolé. Lol. Oui, Momo est trés cruel. Lol. Oooo… la cousine d'Echizen? C'est une bonne idée. Je utiliserai ça donne… cette chapitre? Je ne sais pas. :) désolé encore pour ma français terrible. Lol

Chapter Eleven:

'Hello?' Shusuke picked up the telephone. He hadn't slept well the night before and thought me might be sick.

'Hi Shusuke!'

'Kiyoko? Erm, why are you calling?'

'Why else than to chat with my sweety? Keigo called and tried to say that he'd won the duel but I could tell he was lying.'

'Oh, he told you about the duel did he?'

'Yes!'

'Oh.'

'Shusuke? Would you like to go shopping with me today?'

'Erm… yeh, if you want to.'

'Of course I do! See you at the shopping centre at 2!(14h00)'

'Yes, see you there,' he replaced the phone carefully on the receiver. Last night had been terrible. After he and Yumiko had fought he had tried to make amends, which just made her angrier. Then he had asked his daddy and mummy if he could sleep with them and was promptly denied. When he had finally fallen asleep it was 3 in the morning.

He walked upstairs to chose some clothes for his date. He ran into Yumiko on the stairs.

'Yumiko,' said he. 'Would you please drive me to the shopping centre. I have a date in two hours.'

'Whatever,' she continued downstairs holding up one of her palms ensuring that he wouldn't talk to her anymore.

When Shusuke arrived in his room he sat down on the bed and pulled out one of his 'pre-seigaku' journals.

Hello! He had written. Guess what happened today? Well you can't guess because you're just a stupid pile of paper ha-ha! I'll tell you: Yuta has a crush on this girl and to show her he liked her he put worms in her dress! Ain't that stupid? I told him- to get a girl to like you, you have to tell her you like her with flowers and chocolates. He told me that was mushy and at least he has her attention now. He's so weird.

When Yuta and I are adults we have decided that we are to be the best doubles pair in the world! They'll call us the 'fantastic Fuji brothers' and everyone will love us! We drew pictures of our outfits; here is what they will look like:

Pasted in at this point was a drawing of what looked like an Elvis costume dyed pink and with more rhinestones.

Anyway. I'll talk to you later!

Future rich tennis guy,

Shusuke Yves St. John Fuji

He closed the book. God, I was naive then. He wished he were as blissful and ignorant as he had been then. His younger brother loved him, science was an easy class, and he had the time to draw pictures of what looked like Kiyosumi Sengoku in an Elvis costume.

Shusuke opened his wardrobe and pulled out a pair of Madras cut offs, an aqua Polo Ralph Lauren shirt, a pair of orange socks, and some pumas; which matched his shirt. He put on all this (+ a hat that matched his shorts) and went downstairs where his daddy and Yumiko were discussing Voltaire.

Not being interested in Voltaire, Shusuke found this a good time to ask his father if he would drive him to the shopping centre in and hour and an half:

'Daddy,' he said, waiting until there was a pause in the conversation. 'Will you drive me to the shopping centre? I need to meet someone there.'

'Are you going on a date?' his dad raised an eyebrow suspiciously. 'Sure I'll drive you there. Just be sure to remind me because otherwise I'll forget.'

Yumiko stared at Shusuke coldly, then turned to her father and started talking about Voltaire again.

Kaoru Kaido was jogging with a bit of a spring in his step today. Everything was beautiful in the world now to him. The birds were singing, the flowers were blooming, and traffic was moving fast. He started whistling a song, which he had heard in an operetta that his uncle had taken him to the year before.

The lyrics were running through his head.

The flowers that bloom in the spring- trala!

Bring promise of merry sunshine.

As we merrily dance and we sing- trala!

We welcome the hope that they bring- trala!

Of a summer of roses and wine.

Of a summer of roses and wi-

Kaoru backed up dazedly from the person whom he had just knocked over.

'You're gonna pay for that, punk!' Damn, it was Akutsu Jin.

Hello mates!

Old fiat nFr here (or course). I'm sorry once again that the chapter isn't very long. I love writing in this and I'll be having a lot of company soon so I'm trying to write as much as I can before they get here. Please keep reviewing and I'll keep writing!

-Old Fiat nFr-