I liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive! Hey guys, sorry I have been gone such a terribly long time. In freshman year of high school I had to get surgery on my back and a few months later I found out I only have a couple more years left due to the state of my lungs. After that, I decided to write my own stuff instead of fanfiction. I didn't think I would ever come back to be honest. However, a couple weeks ago, I got private message from a reader and they asked for a request. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyways) I was very surprised and shocked. Then I came back and found out the past year and a half I've had 15,000 plus readers loyally reading my stuff since I stopped posting. Again, I was so shocked. I decided to take the request and here it is.

I will be finishing this story no matter what. It's a request; I'd feel bad if it went unfinished. However, if I die before it's completed, I asked a friend of mine (Thanatos God of the Dead) to finish it after I am gone. If you go over and read his stuff, don't be so horrified. He started editting his stuff again and even has a live in Beta to go over it for him. I have left this story in good hands.

I will try my hardest not to keel over! The doctors say I will live to finish a Bachelor's degree! So I have at least 2 to 3 more years left!

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or Prince of Tennis.

Thank you to cutemarty1999
I hope you enjoy it and thank you so much for this request.

"I still don't fully understand why we're going on this trip," Momoshiro grumbled as he leaned back into the van's seat. Ryoma didn't reply to his seat mate, but only pulled his hat back over his face and pretended to sleep. Momoshiro glanced at the shorter boy and snorted. He made to poke him in the spot he knew would get the biggest reaction.

"Well, Momoshiro, it's a team building exercise," Coach Ryuzaki replied as she glanced back at him using the rearview mirror. Momoshiro jerked his hand away and sat up straight at the first sound of her voice. He recognized the hidden threat behind her tone. Her gaze fell back to the road as she continued. "It's only for the next few days. I wouldn't just leave you if I thought you would die. I'll be back to get you."

"Alone in the woods," Fuji repeated the idea playing in everyone's heads. He chuckled softly and leaned back. "Could be fun." He looked over at Tezuka sitting across from him. "Could be romantic." He whispered so only Tezuka could hear.

Tezuka glanced at him but said nothing.

However, Tezuka was not the only one to hear Fuji's comment. Oishi flushed slightly at the words to pass the tennis genius's lips. He looked down at the red head sleeping against his shoulder and quickly looked away. Oishi had agreed with Coach Ryuzaki that the trip would be a good idea for their regulars to build better bonds as a team. It hadn't occurred to him that he would be alone with his lover without worrying about his parents or Eiji's family. The two could be alone together. He bit his lip and felt his heart pounding.

"A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste," Inui offered his voice dusted with amusement even though he didn't look up from his notebook. Oishi blushed redder as he looked up at the other sitting beside and across from him. On the other side of the data player, Kaido looked at Inui confused before returning to looking out the window, bored.

Momoshiro laughed. "Viper looks scared, huh, Echizen?" He said, glancing out of the corner of his eye at the bandana clad tennis player. Ryoma ignored the taller boy and continued to pretend that he was sleeping.

"What was that?" Kaido snapped, shooting a glare towards Momoshiro. "You wanna fight?"

"Oh, you wanna fight me, Viper?" Momoshiro growled, turning around to fully glare at the other man. "You think you could handle that?"

Fuji flinched as the heated words gained volume and shouting commenced. He sighed and looked over at Tezuka. The other man said nothing and took the slighter boy's hand and gave it a comforting squeeze. "Just wait," he murmured so quietly Fuji was unsure he had actually heard him.

"Momoshiro! Kaido!" Ryuzaki's voice shocked everyone into a stone silence as it rose over the shouting. "If you don't shut up I'm leaving you on the side of the road and you can walk back to civilization!"

Oishi sighed and shook his head at the events that passed around him. He barely paid attention as the fighting ensued and merely flinched with Ryuzaki interrupted. He glanced between the two boys as they fumed and looked away. His thoughts were stuck on Inui's words. The tall quiet boy did not react to the ruckus and Oishi decided Inui was just being his creepy self. He felt uneasy as he stared back out the window as the trees whipped by.

The boys looked at each other and then at their supplies before them. In the distance they all heard the van as it drove away. A collective sigh escaped all of them. "Alright, well I guess first thing is the tents." Oishi said as he looked at the four tents compressed and unassembled at the top of the pile. Inui agreed and moved to one of the tents and began attempting to assemble it. A few attempts and he ended up with his wrists tied together against the folded, fabric shrouded poles. He flushed and cleared his throat. Kaido rolled his eyes and knelt beside him and helped release him.

"Oishi, you and Eiji go collect firewood," Tezuka said as he fell into the old role of captain. It had been awhile since he had been over them, but they all had to agree that the man would always be their captain. Fuji looked up at him in adoration, his blue eyes in view. "Inui and Kaido will dig a fire pit. Fuji, Momoshiro, Ryoma, and I will set up tents and go through the supplies to see what we actually have."

Oishi nodded and Eiji smiled brightly, finally snapping from his grogginess after having awoken from his nap. He gripped Oishi's hand and began pulling him down a path. Oishi laughed as he followed after him, allowing himself to be led.

Inui and Kaido moved forward and began the task of preparing a fire pit. As Kaido began digging Inui went in search of rocks to ring around the pit once it was dug. Tezuka looked around and saw Fuji already pulling up a tent.

"Ryoma! Get up!" Momoshiro's voice echoed. Ryoma sat on the edge of the clearing with a Ponta in hand and his back against a tree. He looked up and Momoshiro with little interest and took another sip of his juice. "Ryoma we have to get this done! Get up."

"I've never been camping before," Ryoma muttered around the rim of the can. "I don't know what to do."

"Really, never?" Momoshiro asked surprised. He took a step closer and held out his hand to Ryoma. "Get up, I'll show you." He offered, a lot gentler than his earlier demand.

Fuji smiled to himself as he pulled out the tent and began building the dome. "I think Momo likes Ryoma," he said quietly up at Tezuka as the taller man approached and picked up another tent. "What do you think?"

Tezuka brought his gaze to look at the other teen and barely shrugged before he too pulled the tent from its case and began forming another dome. Fuji laughed softly and looked away as he moved his tent a little further from Kaido as the hunched over form grumbled through his pit digging. Fuji noticed something shine in one of the paper bags as Momoshiro removed the last two tents and handed one off to Ryoma. "Viper I found a trowel." Fuji announced as he pulled it out.

Kaido glared at the brunette and snatched the mini shovel from Fuji's grasp. He stabbed it into the earth and began digging quicker. Fuji chuckled again. Tezuka followed his initiative and placed the tent a little further from the pit. Ryoma finished forming his own dome with Momoshiro's help and set it away from the pit. Momoshiro smiled with pride at the shorter member briefly before finishing his own tent and setting it away. He looked back at Kaido and scoffed. "What is that viper? That's not how you dig a fire pit-."

"You wanna fight?" Kaido growled whipping around and glaring at Momoshiro.

Fuji laughed and shook his head. "And it begins."

To Be Continued...