Chapter XI-Returning The Question

Disclaimer: Do Not Owe Prince of Tennis!

Warning: boy/boy (Tezuka/Ryoma) Do Not Read If This Offends You.

The next day, after Ryoma had his chat with Fuji, he had begun walking towards Kunimitsu's own home right after lunch. Both of them were supposedly going to meet the others at the private tennis courts that they know of.

He pressed the doorbell as the door opened, "may I helped you?" An elder woman asked.

"Uh, may I speak with Kunimitsu Tezuka?" Ryoma asked as he shifted nervously.

The elder woman nodded as she stepped aside to let Ryoma inside the home, "Kunimitsu! Someone is here to see you!" The elder woman called up the stairs.

Ryoma waited by the door with her as he saw Kunimitsu coming down the stairs, "Ryoma, what are you doing here? I thought we were supposed to meet the others at the tennis courts?"

"I came to speak with you for the time being," Ryoma replied.

Tezuka looked at the elder woman, "mom, I'm going to my room with him," he said as the elder woman nodded and the two went upstairs.

"That was your mother?" Ryoma asked.

"Yes."

"Where's your father or siblings?"

"My father died while I was young and I have a younger brother. His two years apart from me who isn't home right now," Tezuka explained.

"I'm sorry about your father," Ryoma said slowly.

"You didn't know," Tezuka replied as the two entered Tezuka's room as Tezuka sat at a nearby chair as Ryoma sat on the bed.

"The reason I came here today was to speak with you," Ryoma began.

"Did Fuji come to see you?"

"Yes?"

"Figures," Tezuka said slowly.

"Is that a problem?"

"No. What was it that you were going to say Ryoma?"

"To return the question that you've asked me three nights ago."

"Ryoma?"

"You ask if I was seeing someone, correct?"

Tezuka nodded, "correct."

"You also wanted me to answer if you wanted to date me, right?"

"What are you getting at? You rejected me, remember?"

"I know I'm sorry that I did but I just want you to know why I rejected you in the first place," Ryoma said as he began telling his story again to Kunimitsu this time.

Tezuka stared at him the whole time and before he knew it, Ryoma was on the bed, crying softly as he had done while he was telling his story to Fuji yesterday.

"He used you?" Tezuka asked angrily as Ryoma nodded after wiping his tears away.

"If I see that Smith in the future," Tezuka began as Ryoma shook his head.

"No. I don't want you to get in trouble Kunimitsu," he said.

Tezuka smiled as he knelt on the ground and he leaned forward to kiss Ryoma on the kiss passionately.

Ryoma returned the kiss eagerly as the two battled it out together as Ryoma was the first to go up for air.

"I love you Ryoma Echizen," Tezuka said as he caressed Ryoma's cheek with his fingers.

Ryoma sighed at the touched, "I love you also Kunimitsu Tezuka. I always will," he vowed.

End...

Ryoma: I hate you!

me: Reviewers wanted to be ended today Ryoma. How can I deny them? Unless there's a computer problem that I can't update, but there isn't...

Tezuka: Don't act childish Ryoma.

Ryoma: (hugs Tezuka) Where were you?

Tezuka: (Sweatdrops) Standing right with you.

Ryoma: (blinks) Really?

me: (Sighs) You two, get a room...

Tezuka: (Grabs Ryoma and leaves)

me: Thank gawd...

Fuji: (Chuckles) We'll be onto the next story soon

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