File 4: Afternoon Escapade

Disclaimer: I want to, but I just can’t…

Rating: Still for teenagers in love.
Pairing: Still EijiRyoma

Author's Note: This is the shortest episode ever.
And yah, I do feel that all of that happened in here are jokes xD

File Summary: The seniors planned to follow the Eiji they’d been with for days; Mission Kikumaru Ambush!

Meanwhile, the real Eiji went on a sudden date with Ryoma?

Saturday morning; thirty minutes before the end of classes; Tennis club meeting room:

Tezuka: And that's it...

Oishi: I don't think that it'll work that easy, Tezuka.

Fuji: But it's for Eiji, so it's worth trying.

Inui: To prove ourselves that he is Kikumaru himself, we should do this.

Kawamura: So, all we have to do it to follow him, and when he goes home to the right house...

Tezuka: ... that's when we'll find out if he's the real one and ask him why he does all those stupid things just to get attention.

Oishi: Uhh... that sounds... lame, isn't it?

Inui: Well, home visitation is a lot preferable than confronting him somewhere else. Or better yet, let's make him confess with this... -he took out a purple-like greenish bluish concentrated liquid-

Fuji: Oh? -casted a bright smile- Interesting!

Oishi: -sweat dropped- O-Oi... There's nothing interesting with that, Fuji.

Kawamura: Poor Eiji, if he has to drink that. But I do agree we should think about this all over before deciding...

Fuji: Here, Taka-san. Your racket.

Kawamura: Uh? Un... -made a grip on the racket-

-Scene here was kindly deleted-

Tezuka: Saa minna, yudan sezu ni ikou!

All: OH!!

Without any word, Kikumaru left the campus, complete with still fierce looks and swift moves but instead of turning left, he headed on the right side- where the train station was located. Taka-san, who was at the campus gate, dialed a number.

Kawamura did two rings, so Oishi, after he had received the other senior's signal of alert, immediately contacted Tezuka. "He's not yet going home, what should we do?"

"Call Fuji and Inui right away. We have to keep on track with him."

The fukubuchou did what Tezuka had said, and after a while, Fuji and Inui were already moving after Kawamura who had direct sight toward their subject. The location was the downtown, quite distant from the residential area around Seishun Gakuen. Kawamura, now with Oishi, were just behind the redhead boy while Tezuka was located at the footbridge. The captain also had his sight on Kikumaru, but it seemed that he wouldn't be heading on the hamburger chain where he, Echizen and Momoshiro usually visit after school. After seeing Fuji and Inui approaching, the captain already called Oishi and started moving once again. Kikumaru passed by the food chain, followed by the five seniors; minutes later, Eiji, together with Ryoma entered the establishment.

"Ochibi, are you sure you're treating me today? Something is definitely going on in here..."

Ryoma had his usual cocky form, though he invited Eiji on a lunch wherein Echizen himself volunteered to be the 'it', and this made Eiji more suspicious. He suddenly remembered that scene at the vendo machine before...

Ryoma got speechless for a moment, his eyes lingering on his senior. Eiji blinked; Ochibi looked like he got struck by a lightning that he wasn't moving at all. He was the one who picked the coin and handed it over to the younger boy.

"Ochibi, what had happened to you? Nyaa, Ochi-bii..." and Eiji shook him a bit.

Realizing that he had been motionless long enough, small blushes formed on the first year's cheeks when he bowed as he fixed his cap. "N-Nan demo nai'su..."

"Are you sure? Didn't you make it on the Regulars?" This time, the red-haired boy was quite worried.

"Masaka," came Ryoma's cocky answer. "Of course, I have made it. No sweat required."

Eiji, as to express that he was happy, lowered his head and leveled on Ryoma's, they met face to face and this action made Ryoma startled and blushed more. "Well, that's nice! As expected from Ochibi!" He even had to lock the boy inside his arms.

"Ahh, sempai..."

Kikumaru looked down at the lad, and Ryoma lowered his visor more to hide his flushed, embarrassed face. "L-Like to have lunch... with me?"

--

Momoshiro, with Kaidou, had a doubles practice match with Kamio and Fuji's younger brother Yuuta. The St. Rudolf guy was all fired up that the Seigaku boys had difficulties in making points. Fudomine's vice captain was impressed. "Whoah, you have this secret talent in doubles after all, Fuji-kun."

"Indeed..." Momo scratched the back of his head. "You are really Fuji-sempai's brother!"

Yuuta made a cold glare, giving the dynamic tennis player some shivers, but took it back by closing his eyes and sitting on the bench for a while. Kamio, then called for a time break, and followed Yuuta. "Ne, Fuji-kun, are you alright?" Kamio asked as he sat beside the boy who was busy wiping his face with the towel.

"I just can't believe Mizuki-san would do such thing!" The young Fuji suddenly quiver with anger, and this was noticed by Kaidou. Yuuta continued, "We thought that he was the ideal one to send out at the assembly, we were wrong!"

"Huh? What happened?" Momoshiro asked.

"He just dropped the assembly the other day, and went home while nonchalantly saying that his job was done there, but the last day of the assembly was actually yesterday! He's a real shame for St. Rudolf, he's even our manager!"

Kamio blinked, "Mizuki-san went home immediately? That's weird... But, come to think of it..." and he put his finger on his chin. "When Ibu went home yesterday, he was actually quiet and wouldn't say anything about the assembly... and it was strange."

The Seigaku guys groaned with disbelief at the same time. The other boys noticed it.

"Eiji-sempai acted weird as well after he had been there," Momo exclaimed.

"And he went home after three days," Kaidou continued his rival's phrase, and both made an eye contact.

A perplexed silence followed.

--

The five Seigaku seniors lost track on their target after two hours of following him around the downtown, and they all ended at an abandoned four story building not so far from the train station. Inui fixed his eyeglasses as he tried to observe the place.

"We lost sight on Eiji but we all gathered in here..." Oishi trailed off.

"Eiji hates places like this..." Fuji's opened eyes were glaring at the seemed haunted building.

Kawamura looked at Tezuka, "Should we just go home, for now?"

Tezuka sighed and looked at his teammates, "We all know that Kikumaru won't be coming in this kind of place, so let's call this a day. Monday morning will be as tough as the past days, but for sure...

... that would be as difficult as before..."

Everyone nodded to agree with their captain. After they had casted another doubt look at the building, they gradually abandoned the area, and after a while, a member of Hyotei Tennis Club paused in front of the said structure-- his gray hair flipped with grace and fingers settling on his pale cheeks.

--

Eiji jumped a bit to fix Ryoma, who was in his back, in place since the boy was slowly slipping down as he walk. They were heading home; after spending the whole afternoon at the hamburger chain, the bowling center, the arcade and even went on a children's park to practice gymnastics and tried out see-saw and swing together. Since Ryoma was already 'out of battery', he teased the first year and ask him if he would go a piggy back ride with Eiji, and surprisingly the boy agreed, much to Eiji's surprise.

Kikumaru looked at his side, trying if he could see the younger boy's face- which he couldn't- and sighed after turning back his sight on their way home.

"Kikumaru-sempai..."

It was almost a whisper, and Ryoma's hands held on his senior's shoulders.

"We'll arrive at your house soon, Ochibi. Hold on tight, okay?"

The lad replied with a hum, nuzzling more on Eiji's back as he felt this sated intimacy they were having. Inside Ryoma's heart, he had concluded one thing...

"If this is the real Eiji-sempai, then who's that Eiji-sempai we've been with for days now...? Who was that acrobatic player who forgot his play style, hurt Momo-sempai with his words and the one I'd lose a moment with...?"

In the next file: -This is serious-
Clone problems, Inui's Latest Nutritious Juice and Atobe's ice cream treat..?

Author's Note: Why is this short?
1. I have no idea how to put Atobe and the others in this picture.
2. I only posted this to indicate that the seniors did follow Kikumaru which is unusual..
3. Eiji spent his money in the end after Ryoma treated him lunch (this makes no sense..)
4. The truth is not yet revealed in here (oya, I lied when I said that it'll be included in here xD)

"Nan demo nai'su" is translated as "Nothing (to worry about)". The suffix -su is used to show politeness of kohai to his sempai.

Also, I am planning to include not only Seigaku boys in the problem, so watch out for it.
For now, review this please and listen to Kikumaru Eiji's song "Honey!" with glee xD