Can't Help Falling

A Fanfic about The Prince of Tennis

By: Fujima Priss

'Claim' All characters are not mine. If they were, Everyone's in for a big harem ^^ hahaha.

Tez x Fuji X Atobe

A/N: It's a little bit early before valentine's day but here's another installation of the cliche perfect pair story. As promised no pregnancy symptoms and no moody Fuji. Just typical lovey-dovey perfect pair. So here it goes. Douzo!

Chapter 13

The Beginning

"Twins?" Fuji's eyes grew big. They are having not one baby but two. The tensai followed Tezuka's hands as they reach for the paper held out by Inui. "What's that?" he whispered as he bent backwards so that his body was leaning over Tezuka's.

"Ultrasound…" Tezuka said as he moved the paper closer for Fuji to see. "Although the babies can't be seen yet."

Fuji smiled. He had lost one family yet, they created a new one. It wasn't as bad as he thought. Everything started to get better. "We're not alone. You're not alone anymore…" He held Tezuka's face to face his own. He was very happy that tear started to swell up in his own eyes.

"Then, why are you crying?" Tezuka whispered as he brushed his hands against the watery blue orbs of his partner. The tensai smiled. "I didn't know I could be this happy." He whispered as he took Tezuka's big hands on his own and kissed it.

"Thank you, Mitsu…"

Tezuka slowly closed the door in their bedroom and walked towards yhe living room. He sat down the couch and massaged his temples, clearly something in mind.

"Where's Fuji?" Inui asked bringing a bottle of liquor into the living room. He handed Tezuka a glass and poured him some liquid from the bottle.

"He's tired, I let him rest first." Tezuka said grabbing the glass stretched out for him.

Inui sat infront of his ex-buchou and adjusted his glasses. "Twins huh? That's a good start." The short-haired megane took a sip of his ice-cold liquor and eyed the weary man infront of him. "Yet you're not that excited."

Tezuka sighed. He played his glass in his hands, watching the ice cubes dance. "It's been more than a hundred years. I don't even know what my father looks like anymore. Yet here I am having two kids." He said as he looked at his own image reflected in the tiny glass he's holding.

"I don't know how to be a father."

The brunette could hear Inui's smile building on the other side of the living room. "True, not one of us know anything about being a father since it's been a long time." Inui said, "But if Fuji is the mother, I have no doubt that everything will be allright."

Now Tezuka could feel his lips forming a small smile. "He's really excited about it."

"Then there's nothing to worry about." Inui smiled. He raised his glass in mid-air and pointed it to Tezuka. "So cheers for being a father."

"Aa." Tezuka said while raising his glass, both glasses making a clicking sound. "Kanpai."

"Thank you!" Fuji bowed his head infront of the counter.

"Fuji-san…are you sure about this?" the counter lady peeked infront of a counter glass and asked him for the last time. "You could change your mind before I turn over your temporary absence from the university." She said while holding into Fuji's paper.

The tensai smiled. "I sure about this. I'll just finish this semester."

"But you're doing so well in your classes." The lady imposed.

"I can always come back…" Fuji found his hand automatically holding his stomach. The lady saw a glint in Fuji's eyes. Finally, seeing that there was no chance to change Fuji's mind, the lady sighed.

"I'll wait for you to turn your application back in next year."

"Thank you very much." Fuji said bowing first, before walking away. He passed the hallway of the admissions offices and down the stairs to the entrance. Just as he was nearing the bottom of the stairs, the king appeared at the entrance.

"Atobe." Fuji greeted. The king looked up the stairs and noticed that the tensai had been meaning to talk to him.

Biting his lips, Atobe looked away and rapidly walked to the opposite side of the hallway. The tensai realized that Atobe is still avoiding him. He hurriedly ran down the stairs and ran after the king. Just as he was near the diva, a hand grabbed his hand. Fuji looked back in frustration, wanting to pull his hand away he caught a glimpse of the other person holding his hand.

Jirou was gripping his hand trying to stop him from moving any further. Fuji noticed that the sleepyhead had a very depressed look in his eyes, but before he can say a word, Jirou suddenly smiled. "Fuji-san, do you wanna have a cup of coffee?"

"But—Atobe…"

Jirou smiled larger. "I know this place inside the school."

Looking back at the diva, then turning back to Jirou, Fuji didn't have any choice but to nod. "Alright." Finally, Jirou let his hand go.

"Ehhhhh, you're pregnant?" Jirou shouted at the calmly smiling tensai infront of him making all the other customers sitting on the tables surrounding them look awkwardly across their table.

Fuji smiled, "I believe we must be discreet about this since people would be surprised to hear that a boy got pregnant." Jirou blushed and slowly sat back down on his chair. "But how can that be? How was it possible?"

"Saa, I don't know either…" Fuji said crooking his head down on one side and smiling innocently. "Although…Inui said it has something to do with your potion and Atobe's flames going into my body as I was in the middle of transforming." He said while lifting his little glass and sipping his coffee.

Jirou sighed and mimicked Fuji in grabbing the glass and sipping his own coffee. "I still can't believe this would happen." The sleepyhead placed his glass down and crossed his arms infront of his chest. "So it was all because of me and Atobe."

"I think so…" Fuji said, now he was enjoying the cake that Jirou brought for him. "I don't understand it well though, Mitsu and Inui were the ones discussing."

Jirou was ignoring the tensai and was now looking blankly at the sky, "So if they can do it, maybe I can also do it too…"

"You saying something?"

Jirou forced a smile, he never saw the tensai so energetic and act like a kid before. Maybe having kids does change lives afterall. "Ah!" The sleepyhead bumped his fist into his palm remembering something. Fuji stared at Jirou as the latter opened his bag and looked for something. Finally, the Hyotei player pulled a thick book and placed it infront of the tensai.

Fuji stared at the book infront of him, recognizing the book he once read while sneaking into a private room in Atobe's mansion. "Is this—" he looked at Jirou who was now beaming. "I thought you wanted to see it? Now that you're actually one of them, I think it's safe for you to read what's inside."

"Thanks…" Fuji nodded at Jirou and slowly opened the book. He was engrossed as he flipped the pages one by one until the very page where he realized that Tezuka was different a long time ago. He smiled and traced the picture of his now lover pasted at the corner of the page. The others didn't seem that different now that he was one of them. The babies he was now carrying had been proof that he'll stay with Tezuka forever.

The tensai slowly turned the page and noticed that this was the same page he also wondered off before. He suddenly closed the book and looked at Jirou. "Ne Jirou, I have a favor to ask you."

Jirou blinked a couple of times before smiling. Fuji's blue orbs told him that the tensai was serious. "What is it?"

Fuji walked straight under the lined-up Sakura trees that were waiting for their time to shine. A couple of years back, he met his soulmate under Sakura trees in his first year in middle school, now that same person is the father of his kids.

"Spring…" Fuji said out loud while looking up at the tree. Spring is coming soon and he exchanged a year or two of university to stay home and become a good "mother". The strong late winter breeze brushed his hair, he hasn't realized it but his hair was getting longer. At that same time, he decided that he could actually grow his hair longer, since he'll now have a big belly, the long hair would just help his feminine face to ward off any unwanted attention and questions.

"I see you're enjoying your new life…" A voice greeted. Fuji looked down and moved his attention to the man leaning on the nearest Sakura tree, his cap hiding almost half of his face. The tensai moved forward and smiled at the man.

"Konnichiwa Sanada-san."

The other man remained silent, unaffected by the smile the tensai was giving him. He quickly raised his hand infront of the smiling tensai and slowly lifted his head. "Yukimura wants to talk."

Fuji could feel a lump in his throat as he slowly reached for the other man's hand. Next thing he knew his surroundings were lost and he was now sitting at the floor with Yukimura sited in a couch infront of him.

"Are? Where the hell am I?"

Yukimura smiled and motioned to the sit infront of him. "Konnichiwa Fuji-kun, please have a seat." The blunette then looked at the man who was walking to take his place on his right side. "Gen, you must be gentle with him after all he's pregnant."

Fuji's eyes grew large as he continued to stare at the feminine figure infront of him. "How did you know?"

A high pitch chuckle can be heard across the room. Fuji, suddenly felt chills against his spine. Even after everything, Yukimura can freak people a lot. "Of course I know everything. I am after all…a child of God."

So it wasn't just a nickname back then… Fuji told himself as he carefully picked himself up and sat on the chair. He placed both his hands above his lap and refused to make any eye contact with the blunette. "Oh, don't be scared, I called you here to congratulate you…"

Fuji could feel a smile forming in his lips. "And to warn you…" The tensai suddenly brought his eyes up to face Yukimura's serious ones. Just when he thought everything was all right, shit happens.

"Don't glare at me Fuji Syusuke…this is a friendly warning, you see I too…" Yukimura's eyes suddenly soften. "had twins of my own."

The blunette raised his hand forward as a blue orb floated above his open hand. "With the help of the lightning wizards, I too had bore children of my own. Marui, which all of you know as Bunta and—" Yukimura stood up and moved forward so he was face to face with Fuji. "his twin brother Akaya."

Yukimura smiled as Fuji's own large blue orbs stared at the glistening marble infront of him. Slowly Yukimura brought the memory orb to slowly touch the skin in between Fuji's eyes and blew it. Fuji could feel tons of memories invade his own. Memories that belonged to Yukimura and Sanada.

Their first meeting.

The transformation.

The accident with the lightning wizards.

The pain Yukimura had while bearing both children.

The happiness of having a family.

The moment the twins got their powers. Marui's shield to protect the whole coven and Akaya's ability to inflict internal pain to people around him.

Marui's sadness

And Akaya's retaliation against his own powers.

Fuji felt the memories being sucked out of him and seconds later, he was back facing Yukimura, a marble in his hands once again. "What was that?" Fuji asked nobody in particular as he held his head with both his hands confused.

"I just shared parts of my memories to you…" Yukimura said while looking at Fuji intently. "My twins had powers that contradict each other. My own Yin and Yang. Defense and offense. To protect and to inflict pain."

"I—" Fuji could feel his own mind shatter. "I don't understand."

The tensai felt his hands being taken into a set of warm hands. Yukimura held his hands tightly and continued to look at him straight in the eye. "Having twins is a curse. You can have one but you can never have both."

Yukimura felt the tensai's hands shake. He knew that saying this would be bad since the tensai just came from a very bad experience to fight for Tezuka. Yet, here he is making Fuji fight again, this time for kids that hasn't been even born yet. "You are different from me and I don't know what will be the future for your kids. I only warned you since I know the pain of having to fight for this."

The blunette reached up to touch the lowered face of the tensai. Yukimura looked up to meet Fuji's eyes. "In my case, I had to choose between my coven and my child. You had done more than enough to fight for Tezuka. If you ever come to the point where you have to make a choice like mine." Yukimura gave Fuji a re-assuring smile. "I don't want you to regret that choice."

With one final clutch at Fuji's hand, Yukimura stood up and went back to his couch. "If I keep you here for long, Tezuka would definitely charge at my doors looking for you." Sanada moved towards Fuji's seat and reached out his right hand. The tensai looked up to the emotionless Sanada infront of him to the smiling Yukimura sitting across.

"What happened to Akaya?" he asked as he pulled up his arm to reach Sanada's.

"You should go now Fuji, I don't want your possessive lover worrying about you."

Knowing he wouldn't get any answer from the blunette, Fuji grabbed Sanada's hand and was gone.

"Syusuke…" Fuji jolted up at the sound of his lover's voice. He looked up from the dining table and smiled at Tezuka who was now standing near the kitchen.

"I'm sorry, I haven't done dinner yet." The tensai said as he quickly stood up his feet and ran into the kitchen. Tezuka's hand grabbed the tensai's hand to stop him from running.

Fuji sighed and placed a kiss on the megane's cheeks. "Okaerinasai…"

"Are you not feeling well?" Tezuka asked as he placed a hand over to Fuji's forehead. "Don't worry about dinner, I actually brought home some food." Tezuka let Fuji's hand go and placed a box above the table. "Sit down, I'll prepare the table."

The tensai obediently walked to the table and sat down the chair as Tezuka placed the plates and glass. Dinner went by in silence. Fuji didn't know how to bring it up during dinner until they had finished and the megane had ordered him to rest in the living room and leave the cleaning up to him.

As every night Tezuka would sit in the couch in the living room to read a book while Fuji watches tv or does whatever he wanted. Today, the buchou couldn't concentrate at his book as he stared at Fuji who was blankly staring at the television obviously not really into what he was watching. Tezuka placed his book down and stared at his lover.

"Syusuke…" he called. Fuji looked up and stared at his lover in return. "Come here…" Tezuka motioned Fuji to come to him and patted his lap to tell Fuji to sit there. The tensai grabbed the remote control and turned off the television as he slowly went to Tezuka's chair and sat on his lover's lap. The buchou wrapped his arms around the tensai and slowly whispered. "What's bothering you?"

"I saw Yukimura-san today…" Fuji started. "and he let me see most of his memories…"

"And what did you discover?"

"He also had twins…" Fuji said. Sensing a lot of emotions going through his lover, he grabbed one of Fuji's hands and held it. "He said, having twins is a curse." Drops of water slowly fell into Tezuka's arms. The megane found the tensai's head and pulled it closer to him letting the tensai rest his head just below his chin.

"You believed him?"

Fuji pulled himself away from Tezuka to face the hazel brown orbs. "I saw his own memories. He couldn't possibly alter them."

"What you saw was true." Tezuka said, pushing the wet locks away from the tensai's beautiful face. "but Yukimura and you are different." He whispered, cupping the tensai's face in his own big ones. "His children never had the blue eyes you do now, but ours will."

"But a curse is still—"

"We've been through a lot." Tezuka said while kissing Fuji's cheeks, "Do you think a curse can stop us now?" He pulled Fuji's face away and grabbed one of his hands. "If there is indeed a curse, we'll fight against it won't we?'

Fuji nodded.

"I know this isn't the right time to ask you this," Tezuka whispered as he held Fuji's right hand. "and I've been thinking a lot about it, I want us to be a family."

Fuji's eyes grew wild with surprise as a shiny sapphire that matched his eyes was presented infront of him.

"Fuji Syusuke, will you marry me?"

"Yes."

A/N: There you go! I got it finished before Valentine's day, though it was a little short.

Do you want a magical wedding? or a simple one? or not at all? waaaaah. well give me your thoughts on this.

So R&R? haha. Wish you all a happy valentine's day. ^^ Give chocolates and enjoy the chocolates :)

Btw, the chapter's title came from one ok rock's single The Beginning which was also used for the Rurouni Kenshin movie. And since I'm going for their concert this May courtesy of my good old friend. I might as well dedicate this chapter for them! yeah!