NthTitle: Star-Gazing Gone Wild, Chapter 2
Rating: PG-15 ish.
Pairing: ZukaFuji
Genre: Romance, Complete and utter crack.
Summary: Chapter two of my sequel to Speed-Dating Gone Wrong. Atobe and Saeki are scheming again! This time, the dating place shall be the planetarium. The empty planetarium.
Warning: My third attempt at writing a fiction starring sarcastic!Saeki and so-completely-over-confident!Atobe trying to match make Tezuka and Fuji, the most platonic pair of the century.
Disclaimer: Again, I must say that if one day I owned them, I would marry Tezuka and Fuji together, make Atobe go bankrupt just for the heck of it and tennis would be the last thing on my mind.
A/N: BEWARE ALTERNATING POV. The story is written in Saeki's POV, then Atobe's, then back to Saeki and so on.
~Star-Gazing Gone Wild~
And from now on, let us prepare for tomorrow.
I glare menacingly at the pamphlet silently resting in my hands. I hate to admit it, but Atobe did have good taste when it came to choosing romantic dating sites for virgin platonic lovers. I knew, without a doubt, that Fuji would thoroughly enjoy himself if he were really to visit such a grandiose place...
"—but did you really have to reserve the whole planetarium center just for them?" I ask the multimillionaire incredulously, crumpling the pamphlet as my arms shook at the idea of how much it must have cost. Never had it crossed my mind that match-making a stubborn prodigy and a closet romantic iceberg would affect Japan's income so.
"It makes it all the more romantic and private, Saeki. Trust Ore-sama's prowess on this one," Atobe assured me. "And besides, a few million yen is nothing. Tezuka can earn it back in a few months if he's determined enough."
I cringe. Poor, poor Tezuka-san, being used like this by his boss. Even though I doubt Atobe would really keep this charge against him, I wouldn't let him have his way with me if I were his employee. I am however against the idea of leaving Tezuka and Fuji alone in a planetarium. Without the somehow calming atmosphere of a crowd, they could easily feel uneasy and stray away from each other. "You shouldn't have booked the whole place up. They will feel unsettled in each other's company," I insist, my gray eyes bearing into Atobe's silver ones. (Ironic, isn't it, that even his eyes' color is closer to wealth than my own.)
Atobe sighed exasperatedly at my ignorance. "It would save us the trouble from having uninvited third parties interfering with them if the whole place belonged to them. Besides, I already paid and the fee is hardly refundable," he argues.
And we are not considered as third parties, I wonder mutely. "There is no choice then," I said, surrendering to his highness. Well, as long as Fuji lost his virginity and I not a penny, I was fine with anything. Atobe just proved to be generous beyond the usual portrayal of rich people. It was grand time somebody stood up for the sake of banning boring, platonic love.
"Good. I shall meet you, and Tezuka his date, tomorrow morning at nine at the planetarium's entrance hall," Atobe orders, leaving no place for me to argue. I lifted an eyebrow, wanting to challenge his confidence for a few moments, before convincing myself that deflowering Fuji was my prior duty. I therefore dropped the matter and agreed to meet him tomorrow, promising him that I would not run late this time. Fuji would scarcely give me the chance of convincing him anymore. If I don't drag him there by force he would not face Tezuka again for the world after how things ended the last time they met.
Without so much of a greeting, Atobe and I parted ways just like the night before.
~oO~Oo~oO~Oo~
Ore-sama is currently standing in front of Tezuka's house with two of my competent bodyguards following the golden path I left behind as I walked from my limousine to the threshold. My sublime self wasn't going to break in my employee's residence; those were pathetic solutions for incompetent fools. Ore-sama is greater than that since after ringing the bell, it scarcely took Tezuka a few seconds to open the door to the sight of my purple, frilly shirt of the latest fashion. With a majestic swing of the arm, I prevented Tezuka from slamming the door to my face. Hmph. Such typical greetings coming from him.
Seeing as he wasn't going to chase away my highly desired company anytime soon, Tezuka sighed and asked what I wanted in a rather annoyed tone.
"I have arranged you a…" I pause, catching myself just in time before I revealed to him my top secret scheming. Ore-sama's tongue reflexes save the day again. "I have reserved the planetarium for the day and you must go and collect knowledge to further your competency regarding your job," I tell him instead, easily coming up with an excuse. Ore-sama is just that brilliant.
"Atobe, I work as a CEO, not an astronaut in training," Tezuka told me exasperatedly.
"Do not inform my magnificent self of things I already know!" Ore-sama disallowed him to debate further on the subject, as I have summoned my bodyguards with a loud snap of my elegant fingers. They dragged Tezuka inside the house, one holding a casual outfit that consisted of a lavender button-up shirt and black pants, and the other a bouquet of roses and a pack of heart-shaped chocolates stuffed inside a gift bag. And I did not even want to hear Tezuka complain about the frills. The fine chocolates from Belgium should be enough to knock Fuji Syuusuke off of his feet and into the arms of my employee.
"Put him inside," I order, gesturing at my shiny limousine, when my two bodyguards were done forcing Tezuka to dress and accept the gifts for his soon-to-be beloved. When he was comfortably settled inside the car, and the doors were locked, I then grinned triumphantly and flicked my silky hair with an elegant swing of the wrist. "Now then, since I don't have the honor to possess the keys to properly lock Tezuka's house, you shall stay in front of the door to prevent any burglars from going in, understood?"
"Usu!" my two bodyguards replied.
Satisfied, I mounted my car and told my driver to bring us to the planetarium, never bothering to close the front door of Tezuka's house as I left.
~oO~Oo~oO~Oo~
When he wanted to, Fuji could be as stubborn as a few thousand mules united. Or perhaps more. I knew I needed to force him out of his house, but I practically had to lure him out after running away with his tennis bag and handcuff him to the cab's handle to force him towards our destination of the day. It earned us a few suspicious glances from the driver, but my sanity was the last thing that bothered me right now as Fuji's icy glare bore into my back. I sigh as we finally arrived, and my childhood friend's breathing became labored. He wrestled me for a while, trying to flee from my grasp, but when it came to physical force I was stronger, and very proudly so. I was glad that Atobe and Tezuka had already arrived. The former was standing on the outside of the planetarium's transparent doors and the latter glaring at him for being locked inside. Without further delay I picked my childhood friend and his tennis bag up bridal-style, earning myself a guaranteed death sentence from his platonic lover, and mounted the last stairs towards my goal. Upon my arrival, Atobe unlocked the automatic doors, and without leaving Tezuka the time to react, I dropped Fuji and his tennis bag's extra weight in his arms and Atobe trapped them inside again.
"Mission accomplished!" I shout, wiping a few beads of sweat from my forehead with all the work it took me to do such a simple task.
"Good job," Atobe praised, but not without adding that my ways of doing things were too graceless and maladroit. I refrained from commenting that his part of the work was taken care of by his escorts.
Across the door, I could see how Fuji sent a last glare my way, trying to pulverize me to dust, before sighing in defeat and dragging his date inside the planetarium to enjoy their private visit for lack of better things to do.
"Well, I guess my job is done for the day," I declare, turning around and walking away. "Don't forget to let them out at six o—"
I didn't get to finish my sentence, as Atobe's hand descended on my shoulder and dragged me backwards to the planetarium's side entrance, which clearly said "STAFF ONLY". I was about to comment on Atobe's illicit actions when I suddenly realized where we were. A few dozen television screens adorned the walls of this small confined room, each showing a different part of the planetarium that was being filmed. Atobe smirked as my expression lightened up.
"You're a genius," I told him.
"Be awed by Ore-sama's prowess," he replies shamelessly.
Who would have known that he had the mind to especially install surveillance cameras all over the place the night before? Now if anything explicit happened here, we wouldn't miss a thing. I couldn't help but grin at the idea.
~oO~Oo~oO~Oo~
Ore-sama knew the second I hired Tezuka Kunimitsu as my employee that he was a hopeless romantic in hiding. There was no arguing with Ore-sama's incredible sixth sense as it never failed my dignified self before. It was written all over Tezuka's cold face that he seriously needed to get laid, but hasn't found a suitable partner in crime yet. Ore-sama, being my charitable self, knew that it would be highly appreciated if help was on its way to him. Ore-sama therefore organized that speed-dating session hoping…, no, knowing that he would find his match there.
Ore-sama dignifiedly admit that I wasn't expecting it to be an overly feminine male that would catch his eye. And definitely not an almost mute one at that.
But Ore-sama doesn't judge. As long as my employees got laid and didn't complain about a thing at work —not that Tezuka Kunimitsu ever complained— I was ready to recur to my sublime prowess to match-make them as soon as humanly possible. The world knows Ore-sama's expertise usually surpassed such a slow pace. Melting an iceberg proves to be unexpectedly easy when taken in my honorable hands, as it has nothing to do with global warming this time.
~To be Continued~
A/N: I FINALLY HAVE A FEW DAYS OFF!! Magical Buchou shall be updated tomorrow, hopefully. I'm really sorry for the wait! _
So think will not be a two-shot after all. I'm having way too much fun toying with Atobe and Saeki's characters to end it so soon. The fluff and mischievousness shall come next chapter, as the narration will have switched back to Tezuka and Fuji. What will they do now, to get Atobe and Saeki back? Stay tuned! ^^