OK I know what you guys are thinking, 'oh dear god MORE PLATINUM PAIR!? STOP ALREADY!' ...not gonna happen, for you see this is a multi-chapter fic. Mind you I have absolutly NO INTENTION of going into the double digits with this one. I don't want to really TT-TT I'm still tired from the last one.
Ne, So yea Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Prince of tennis belongs to Konomi-sensei and First Stage of Love belongs to Mishima-sensei (I only borrowed the characters and idea...)

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"Ne, Yagyuu-san…I think…I…might like you…" a nervous Niou muttered as he shuffled his feet on the ground.

"I like you too Niou-kun." Yagyuu replied with a large smile. He was, as usual, dressed in a blue business type suit, one that an office type worker would wear, his glasses pushed into place, and his hair perfectly parted. Niou just wanted to reach his hands up and mess it up just for the sake of doing it, not to mention the fact that it would only add to Yagyuu's looks.

"REALLY!" Niou grinned. A large flowered Shojo background popped up behind the two of them and everything went all pastel like. (Like the Zabuza saga from Naruto, you know everything in those episodes where like that, just minus the shojo background.)

"Niou-kun, may I…" Yagyuu trailed off looking off to the side with a light blush across his cheeks. "I mean, would it be ok if I umm…kissed you?"

"Ugh…sure…." Niou muttered taking Yagyuu by the hand, leaning in they both closed their eyes for their first kiss. Niou had been looking forward to this for the past three months.

"Niou-san! WAKE UP!" Kirihara's shrill voice utterly destroyed Niou's girly dream.

"Son of a bitch!" Niou yelled falling out of his chair, one that he had meticulously placed so that such things wouldn't occur. 'That's it no more secretly reading Shojo manga before closing.'

"Yanagi-san says your break was over an hour ago, time to get back to work!"

"Che, suck up."

"You're just mad that you can't slack off here."

"At least I'm not a seaweed headed brat that sucks at life." Niou countered propping his chair back up.

"Yanagi-san, Niou-san is being mean again!"

"Who tattles anymore seriously?" Niou asked stalking out the door of the back storage room and into the main area of the book store.

"Niou would you man the register please, it's busy today." Yanagi asked.

"Sure why not?" Niou slinked over and began to check people out.

"Ah, Yagyuu-san is here again, second time this week." Yanagi stated from the book cart. As the bell from the front door of the book store sounded with a small chime signaling the entering of a customer "Right on time as usual."

'Yagyuu-san!' Niou thought quickly looking past his current customer, "Come again." He muttered as the woman walked off her bag in hand. Niou's eyes where transfixed on the man, Niou of course didn't notice his staring.

For the last three months Yagyuu Hiroshi had been coming to this same book store at least three to four times a week. He always made sure to buy at least two or more books during this time. Every time he came, Niou would be the one to help him find whatever it was he needed. Yanagi had never seen Niou work so hard to help a customer; usually it was either him or Kirihara having to wait hand and foot on everyone whilst Niou slept in the back storage room. Yagyuu on the other hand was different, he was Niou's customer and Niou's alone.

"Yagyuu-san, the books you ordered just came in." Niou said taking out the package from behind the counter. "There are also some new ones circulating around the floor if you'd like I can hold the bill on these until your done so that you can pay for them all at once."

"Would you Niou-kun? Thank you." Yagyuu smiled from behind his glasses before walking off down one of the numerous aisles.

"Not a problem." Niou sighed watching Yagyuu's retreating back.

"Not a problem. Man, Niou-san every time Yagyuu-san comes to the store you jump to attention and actually work." Kirihara laughed.

"Shut up Bakaya!"

"You two are at work please act like it." Yanagi reprimanded. Niou stopped his yelling of insults and glared at the younger man.

"Just you wait Bakaya your next birthday will be a blast" Niou grinned maliciously. Kirihara stared back in horror as he swallowed a large lump in his throat. Niou could be pretty scary at times.

"Oh look Yagyuu-san is done already," Yanagi commented as though the massive tension in the air, created by the other two workers, was nonexistent.

"Out of my way, Kirihara!" Niou shoved Kirihara to the side as he took his place at the cash register.

"HEY!" Kirihara glowered.

"Did you find everything ok Yagyuu-san?"

"Yes Niou-kun I did. Those books you suggested last time where enjoyable." Yagyuu said as Niou began to ring up his other books.

"Well they were different from what you normally got, so I though you might like a change of pace. A little disruption keeps things from becoming boring."

"Upon occasion things like that are. Laughter is good for the soul."

"If you'd like I could seek you out some for the next time you come in," Niou suggested ringing up the last book. "3,852 yen." (I don't know the current exchange rate from Dollars to Yen so thats COMPLETLY MADE UP!)

Yagyuu paid the amount and took the bag, "I'd like that. See you next time Niou-kun."

"See ya." Niou gave a weak smile and half wave.

"Ne, I wouldn't be surprised if Yagyuu-san was married and had kids, he's handsome enough." Kirihara commented as he reshelf books. Now that the shop was closed the three could talk freely about the day. Yanagi was counting the money in the register, and Niou was 'organizing' the magazines by content.

"Married?" Niou question turning the page in one of the porn magazines, "that's unlikely."

"He buys too many books every week; he would be able to support a family." Yanagi corrected, never missing a beat in his counting.

"See it's not possible." Niou let out a mental sigh in relief. He wasn't sure why but Kirihara's statement made his brain go into overdrive with actual worry, something that he would have to pay the seaweed head back for doing.

"Geez, I'm just saying he spent a lot of time in the children's section today."

"Children's section he never goes over there." Niou commented sitting the magazine down

"What do you do all day stare at him and watch his every move or something? Niou-san I didn't know you where a pervert."

"Who said I was a pervert? I just know what he likes."

"Still that makes you a stalker."

"Stalker: to harass somebody persistently, to harass somebody criminally by persistent, inappropriate, and unwanted attention, in example by constantly following, telephoning, e-mailing, or writing to him or her. Or, to follow or try to get close to a person or animal unobtrusively." Yanagi rattled off the definition like they where nothing.

"Well someone here is displaying their prowess," Niou snickered.

"I was not Niou, now Akaya would you please continue on with what you where saying before you started calling Niou a stalker?"

Kirihara, who was still in awe of Yanagi's awesomeness, blinked a few times before he began to speak again, "Oh right, I was saying that he went to the children's section and picked up a few of the picture books and flipped through them before setting them back down and moving on."

Niou's mind went into over drive again with these words 'Maybe he does have a kid, or maybe a girlfriend with a kid…or perhaps he's…married?'

"I'm gonna go on home, see you guys." Niou said quickly before taking off his work apron and setting it down on the counter.

"See you Niou," Yanagi replied. Niou gave a backwards wave before shoving one hand into his pocket using the other to open up the door and walk out.

o.O Such an exciting chapter...not...so this is the beginning, fairly simple no? I like it because its simple, no stressing out over silly things. I can't take anymore 'OMG PLOT TWIST!' moments I'll explode. -.- your reviews make me happy as always.

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