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Learning to Play by Suteishichic. Chapter Two~ Fuji Yuuta

Warnings: Yaoi, Love, Angst, Fluff, and Lots of Sex. Some kink. You've been warned ;)

Disclaimer: Nope not mine. Still in my dreams. ;)

Over the next several weeks, Yuuta made many wondrous discoveries at his new school. He walked around feeling almost giddy with his new safety and freedom. He figured he deserved it because he could appreciate it so much more than the average person going away to school for the first time. He certainly reveled in it way more than his homesick roommate, Atsushi.
Even if the guy was homesick a lot, Yuuta really liked his roommate.
Atsushi was moody. He was really down sometimes. Some days Atsushi seemed like he was on the verge of crying and as fragile as an eggshell, but Yuuta by now knew from long practice with his Aniki how to cheer anyone up. And if nothing else worked, Atsushi was always up for playing a match any time of day or night.
The older boy was funny in the way he observed things and funny just in how he was. Atsushi had a lot of sides and moods and while it seemed strange at first, over time Yuuta began to really like Atsushi's different sides. He ran either hot or cold. One day Atsushi would be quiet and pensive and the next he might be all smiles and mischief.
One morning Atsushi would wake up loud, energetic, and be hilarious and the next morning he could be solemn, wistful, and almost shy. You never knew how he would be and he would change completely from one extreme to the next sometimes from day to day. Every time Yuuta thought he had Atsushi figured out, the next time he saw his roommate the guy would be completely different. At first it was frustrating, but after a while Yuuta just accepted that was how Atsushi was. At least the guy was never boring.
It took time getting to know someone new, but almost from the moment they met Yuuta felt he could trust Atsushi. In a very short time, Yuuta grew quite close to him.
He guessed it was the same for his roommate. Yuuta didn't see Atsushi during classes because they were a grade apart, but as soon as class was over, Atsushi appeared like magic by his side. The older boy tended to stick close to Yuuta most of the time. People joked that they were inseparable which was annoying, but other than the jokes, Atsushi always being around worked out well.
It was nice that someone was always glad to see him. Atsushi always made sure Yuuta was invited and included in everything even if Yuuta was younger than the other guys. He was always looking out for the freshman and he always saved Yuuta a seat.
The school campus was huge and Yuuta had to admit it was more fun to have someone to go exploring with. Especially someone else who found everything at St. Rudolph's new and just as strange.
St. Rudolph's was unique and was designed to be that way. It was set up to give a distinct advantage to their students.
The old Japanese system was simple. Approximately 95 percent of all junior high school students in Japan attended public schools and then fought to go on to the few, select, better private high schools. The better the high school, the more opportunities a student would have to get into a better university. The better the university, the better job opportunities a graduate would have.
The competition to be accepted to one of the elite private high schools was fierce. High school acceptance was largely based on a student's test results and students focused completely on their tests by their third year of junior high. Most would even take extra classes at special schools designed specifically for test preparation and still go on to hire additional tutors. The same would happen again when a high school student applied to different universities. It wasn't fair, especially if you didn't tend to take tests well, but 95 percent of everyone did exactly as they were expected.
Unless you were one of the five percent who had the money and the tenacity to find a shortcut. St. Rudolph's was designed by a Western businessman specifically to buck the old system. It was a large, private school that was spread out and felt more like a college campus than a junior high and adjoining high school. Unlike other area schools, St. Rudolph's did not have a grade school or any facilities for younger children. The school spanned from junior high to high school and was an escalator school. Simply put, everyone attending the junior high was already accepted into their high school. With the emphasis off the testing system until a student was preparing for university, it was felt the students could better focus on actually learning instead of simply on test-taking.
With that goal in mind, the school was run more like a university with separate buildings and teachers specialized for each subject. Unlike most Japanese schools where the students sat in one classroom all day with one or two different teachers, the St. Rudolph's students after homeroom set off to attend their different classes in different buildings. The system was set up fairly ingeniously to ease the new freshman students into a completely foreign university-like environment.
The freshman junior high students who were new to this way of living and studying were grouped by their homeroom classes. The first years moved with their entire small class of no more than twenty students to each different class throughout the day. This way the students maintained the feel of a stable class of peers and the only thing that changed was the classroom and instructors for each period.
It kept the students feeling attached to their classmates and at the same time introduced the new system slowly until it became familiar for them. The classes were closely regulated and the instructors were in constant contact in order to give individualized attention and should they need to keep any student struggling with the new system caught up with their classmates. The first years were assigned homework nightly and reports weekly in different classes on a strict schedule that forced the students to learn effective studying methods. The moment any student seemed to be falling behind, a counselor was called in to work with the student, the instructors, the class, and the schedule. This kept the entire class on schedule.
By a student's second year, some students from each class would begin to break off for more specialized classes and some students from other classes would join. The number of pupils in any class never exceeded twenty until their third year when the students were introduced to large lecture halls. The system was very structured and worked very well. The students graduating from St. Rudolph's held several advantages over others taught in the more traditional methods. When the St. Rudolph's graduates went on to universities they were used to an independent lifestyle and had solid studying skills that lead them to success in the world.
That at least was the big picture. On a smaller scale the first thing a first year junior high school student noticed was how enormous and almost overwhelmingly new everything was.
Yuuta was no exception.
When he first transfered, Yuuta didn't realize just how huge the campus was or how many students attended the school. There were tons of students, and as he discovered most of the wealthy school's students lived on campus in the dorms. There were very few who commuted. This too was part of the system's design.
Things were set up this way so that dorm life became a central focus and a student's friendships became a major focus of their experience at St. Rudolph's. A student's friends, or in the case of a large, strong club like the tennis club, their teammates became who they worked, lived, and played with. Living, working, and eating close together made everyone form intense bonds in a family-feeling atmosphere.
All of this was an unusual change for Yuuta who grew up spending most of his time alone. Yuuta didn't even realize how isolated he was before until after school started.
A year ago, he would have insisted he was fine had anyone asked him, but now seeing how it felt to have close friends that you shared everything with, Yuuta was surprised to find he used to be lonely. He was alone so much he didn't know that he used to be lonely.
But no more.
He decided this way of living was much better. It felt great to be surrounded by friends and Yuuta felt happy for the first time in a long time.
One night, about two weeks after he transferred all this occurred to Yuuta. It had been an amazing fourteen days where everything he knew was changed and replaced with all new things. It was fourteen days of waking up with someone by his side who cared about him. Forty two meals and eight snacks eaten with his friends. Twenty six practices and two matches played with his teammates where he felt a part of their family. Fourteen nights going to sleep exhausted but next to someone he felt comfortable and safe with. After just fourteen days he realized his life was changed.
He also realized before he fell asleep that night how happy he was.
Sure, when he first got to St. Rudolph's he missed Syusuke and his sister. He even missed his mom sometimes. And although Yuuta knew he had some unfinished feelings when it came to his Aniki, for now he was too busy and happy to even think about it. Yuuta decided to deal with his old life later so he could focus on this new one.
Their campus was huge and just as the St. Rudolph's system was designed, Yuuta suddenly became swamped with responsibilities and activities. He had little time to be alone or even think between his classes, the tennis club, and his new friends. His new school encouraged and even insisted that everyone have an active life. To make it easier, everything you wanted or needed was provided or accessible.
If you ever had down time, there were a zillion planned events from cultural excursions, to museum tours, to even movie nights for the students to get to know more new groups of people. It took a almost a week for Yuuta and Atsushi to learn it was common practice for a student to live on campus in the dorms even during high school until their senior year. It was only in the last year of high school that many of the St. Rudolph's high school seniors would move off-campus to live in the surrounding neighborhood.
Atsushi and Yuuta wondered between themselves just how big the area around the school was. Together they began to explore that too.
Yuuta was even more astounded when they discovered that for as big as the school was, the surrounding neighborhood was even more packed with places to go and things to do. The huge off-campus area that surrounded the school catered to the students. The local businesses and merchants tried to fill their every need and whim. It was an entire new undiscovered world.
Whatever the school didn't have readily available, the streets around it did. They were filled with music stores, book shops, coffee houses, tea dens, movie theaters, arcades, and more. There were many things to do, many new things to try, and always new places to go. St. Rudolph's felt like a new planet to Yuuta. Everything was so big and new and just waiting to be discovered.
He was very glad for Atsushi's company during their excursions because on his own, Yuuta really didn't think he would have been as brave or seen as much. Sure he might have gone and done a few things with the guys or run some errands that he needed to, but not like this. Every day he and Atsushi saw something new and did something different together. They picked new one thing or place they wanted to see and they went together. It was more fun to go with someone else and Yuuta appreciated the comfort of a companion in such a huge place.
It made him feel free and at the same time, not like a little boy alone and lost in a large crowd.
And without Atsushi around, it would have been easy to get lost.
Though his family life at home was a screwed-up nightmare, Yuuta always obeyed his parent's rules. He ate when and what they told him to, he studied when they told him to, and he went to sleep and woke up when he was told. Because of early tennis practices during the week when he lived at home, Yuuta was in bed by nine most nights. On weekends, he was usually in bed by ten unless there was something special going on or a cultural event his family attended. Even on those rare evenings they were usually home by eleven and he was in bed by midnight.
Yuuta liked his sleep, but a few times at home he forgot to go to bed. If his mom forgot to tell him to go to sleep, Yuuta would get into reading a manga, playing a game, or talking to someone online and before he knew it, the sun would be coming up on a school day. He would be surprised to see the sun flooding his room with light when he hadn't been to bed yet.
On those mornings when his mom would find him still awake, Yuuta was always punished and worse still were the times she got his father involved in his punishment. Like many young kids who lived at home, Yuuta was used to his mom waking him every day for school or tennis practice. She always made sure he was up and had the little things, like some money in his pocket, his lunch, and that he had any supplies he might need. His mom even checked to make sure he had his homework done.
It was an adjustment for Yuuta to do all of this for himself and to remember to take care of all those little things he previously took for granted. But Yuuta was learning because being away at school meant he was safe and free. He could make his own choices and decisions. He was the one who now got to decide what and when he ate. He chose what to do and how late he wanted to stay up. Yuuta went from a very structured environment to one that seemed filled with almost too many choices and possibilities.
Yuuta had a feeling though that if he had truly been on his own, he probably would be struggling by now. He wouldn't have stuck to a strict bedtime. He probably would have skipped meals or forgot things he needed or slept through a few morning practices. Yuuta soon found he also had bad habits of not studying left over from when he was trying to be the worst around his perfect brother.
He probably would have fallen behind without Atsushi keeping the both of them on a consistent schedule of when to sleep, work, and play. It was nice and Yuuta felt comfortable because Atsushi never pushed or ordered him around. He suggested and gave Yuuta choices of things for them to do together.
Best was that Atsushi seemed to value Yuuta's company and his opinions. They had long talks for hours on a variety of subjects. One day they might debate if there were any gods and the next they might be hashing out capital punishment or something else one of them learned in their classes. Atsushi liked to debate things. He liked to take the opposite side of whatever it was Yuuta was arguing. Atsushi in doing this often showed Yuuta new things and new ways of thinking just because he was so contrary. It was very cool.
Sometimes other guys from the tennis club joined in their discussions and debates, and no one was ever made to feel like they were stupid. If someone had a different idea or opinion, instead of being made fun of, the new ideas you or someone else brought up seemed to only enhance the talk. It was all very interesting and fun.
In fact, Yuuta couldn't remember feeling this free or being this happy. Not since he opened his Aniki's bedroom door to discover what their bastard father was doing on that fateful night--but that was all in the past. Now, he was free.
Just the decision of what to do each night for fun was filled with limitless possibilities. There were so many places to go and new things to do. The school expected the students to be mature and worldly and so there really were very few rules.
Basically there was a nightly curfew for tennis club members. It used to be midnight during the week and one in the morning on Saturday nights, but for some reason, the hours were changed right when Yuuta arrived to ten in the evening during the week and midnight on Saturday nights. There was a new informal rule too that the tennis club members were always supposed to stick together. When they went anywhere they had to go in groups or at least in pairs. You got in trouble if you walked back even from the school library late by yourself.
Mizuki-san stressed that they were never to go out alone or to walk around alone at night. He constantly said even though they were guys, they were to stick together. Mizuki-san made Atsushi and him promise like they were little kids or something.
True, Mizuki-san said it was for club solidarity and it did bring everyone together, but Yuuta wondered if it wasn't something else.
When he made a little joke with some of the tennis club members about it, no one except Atsushi really laughed. When Atsushi asked the others the reason for them sticking together, no one gave him a straight answer either. Instead, the conversation became strained and tense all of a sudden.
To prevent that, he and his roommate made a decision. Whatever the reasons were, they were willing to leave it alone so that tense silence stopped happening. Yuuta stopped making jokes and Atsushi stopped asking. They were part of the team and so they followed the rules. They stuck together.
According to the student handbooks Mizuki-san handed him and Atsushi the first day they arrived, there was another rule. An even more weird one. St. Rudolph's students were literally not allowed to date. It said so right in the handbook. No student shall date another student.
Mizuki-san strangely stressed that the rule was an ancient one and several times he pointed out this really applied to them not being allowed to date female St. Rudolph's students. He again emphasized again they were not supposed to date members of the oppositesex, and as tennis club members now, he expected them to uphold the rules as an example to the rest of the student body.
At the time Yuuta and Atsushi looked at each other and shrugged. They both thought it was weird. If not a girl then who else would you date?
Yuuta's head when Mizuki-san was going over all this was so bent on thinking about and missing his Aniki that he didn't think he would have to worry about dating anyways. He had never asked out a girl before or been on a date so for Yuuta, it was no problem. He didn't even have any female friends outside of the few people he met in the private tennis club he practiced in when he refused to join Seigaku's tennis club.
To him it really was stupid to even consider dating. They didn't even know anyone at school. Atsushi must have been feeling the same because when Mizuki-san asked them if they understood they both immediately agreed that they did.
But really, who had time to date? Yuuta had way too much catching up to do. Most nights by the time he finished school, the hours of practice, the piles of homework, and hung out with Atsushi and the guys for a while, Yuuta considered himself lucky if he ended up with six or seven hours of sleep a night.
After a few days of talking to the other guys though it became clear to Yuuta that what the handbook said and what actually went on at school were two entirely different things. The school did what they could to discourage couples from openly dating, but they planned group dates and things like cultural events and dances for girls and guys to meet.
All of it seemed so strange to Yuuta. There were designated areas on campus for girls and boys to meet up if they wanted to study or do things together. There were lounges in both the girls and boy's dorms for that purpose and they could meet up at the library, computer science room, and the food court. And then if that wasn't enough, there was all of off-campus when you could meet up with a girl.
But the rule was that boys and girls were not allowed in each other's rooms. You couldn't even hang out during the day with a member of the opposite sex and if you got caught in a girl's room or had a girl in your room, you got in severe trouble.
Mizuki-san stressed how this was an important rule to obey. When Mizuki-san wasn't around though, from listening to the other guys talk, Yuuta was sure that the rule was frequently broken.
The main purpose for going off campus seemed to be to meet girls and have fun. Yuuta quickly learned having fun almost always included girls in some way, though the tennis club guys didn't really hang out with girls or plan to meet up with them. Instead, having fun revolved around the tennis club guys going to look at girls, talking about the girls they were looking at, or talking to girls who "happened" to be off campus at the same time and at the same place. Every night. The girls seemed to be doing the same exact thing. It was very strange, but Yuuta had to admit, it was fun.
Yuuta soon found out that off campus guys and girls could meet up for real dates, and often did. Especially if a guy was into a girl who didn't go to St. Rudolph's. Always then they met up in town. Yuuta found this out from other guys in the tennis club like Nomura who was in Atsushi's class.
Nomura had been dating the same local girl since his freshman year. He said she went to an all-girls school nearby but lived at home with her family. Nomura explained the real rules and how the students worked around them to Yuuta and Atsushi.
Basically he said you could do whatever you wanted as long as you didn't get caught, but the other guys later told them Nomura wasn't dating a student. He was secretly dating an English teacher who taught at a nearby girl's school! She was so old she was almost thirty!
Two or three times Atsushi and Yuuta followed Nomura to see if he was meeting this older woman off-campus. They were terribly curious and it was fun as an adventure to see what would happen, but all they got for their troubles was lost. Nomura seemed to know exactly where he was going. With them following him far behind so he wouldn't see them, Nomura easily lost the two of them each time down some winding, narrow side-streets.
But Yuuta and Atsushi weren't really interested in girls--on campus or off. Every night they were already doing what they wanted. Somethings they were pretty sure no one else was doing and somethings that they were fairly certain were not allowed. If anyone knew. Which of course, they wouldn't. Because most importantly, they were pretty sure they wouldn't get caught.
Yuuta was always amazed at how fast things between them could change and how it happened usually depended on the mood Atsushi was in. One moment they were just two normal guys hanging out with their friends and teammates and ten minutes later, in their locked room alone, they would be pressed up against each other hotly kissing and petting.
Yuuta was becoming almost addicted to how Atsushi kissed. Both ways.
Depending on his mood, half the time it was Atsushi pouncing upon Yuuta the moment they got inside their room. Atsushi held him close and sought the freshman's mouth with his own. Those waves of kissing aggressively crashed against Yuuta's lips as Atsushi forcefully licked into Yuuta's mouth. So hot and safe and good that the freshman felt his knees go weak. When Yuuta couldn't stand any more, Atsushi would hold him up and smile as he continued his kissing attack.
The other half of the time, they would walk in the room and Atsushi would look at Yuuta. Just one look. Raw naked want and a silent question posed, please? Yuuta joked to himself it was as if the tide had gone out and he knew that was their signal for him this time to be the aggressive one with the older boy.
Yuuta never disappointed him. He could tell Atsushi in those moments loved when Yuuta pressed him against the wall and kissed him in that good, hot way. He loved making Atsushi whimper as Yuuta's hand reached down into Atsushi's pants. When Atsushi was too turned on to stand up anymore, Yuuta held him up and smiled.
In their room alone one night as they lay sweaty, spent, and cuddled up together they would sometimes finish their earlier debates. One night they agreed not letting anyone date, girls or guys in any combination seemed like a strange rule. Atsushi had been the aggressor that night so Yuuta was curled up on the older boy's right side. When Yuuta was the aggressor, they switched sides.
It wasn't anything they really talked about or agreed upon. It was just a little pattern Yuuta noticed that they had fallen into. It was nice. At first Yuuta had wondered which side and which one being the aggressive one he preferred but the truth was he enjoyed both.
Atsushi might be sort of moody but he seemed to have two main moods. One he was up and the other he was down. Not just happy or sad, but it had more to do with how energetic he was, how aggressive he was, and how fast he reacted to the world around him.
When he was up, he was very up. He was a ball of energy that sometimes for Yuuta was both fun and exhausting. When he was down, he was so mellow that it was hard to believe he was the same person that the day before could not be quiet for more than ten seconds.
Everything about him would change depending on which mood he was in and which mood changed from day to day. Even his playing style in tennis would change. When he was up he switched styles of playing so often you got dizzy. One moment he was an aggressive baseliner and the next he was a fierce counter puncher. When he was down, he was strictly serve and volley but clever at times when you least expected it. He could twist his body and would suddenly turn to return a shot you were sure was out of his reach.
Atsushi was fascinating.
They hadn't had sex yet, but they had done a lot of other things. Fun things. Yuuta enjoyed it all, but he was wary to not be too clingy after they fooled around. When he had been, especially when Atsushi was the aggressor, the older boy would tell Yuuta to stop it. Atsushi would remind Yuuta that this was just for fun because he was in love with someone else. He would tell Yuuta that the freshman really should not get too attached to him.
One time Atsushi had even decided they should stop. To Yuuta's shock, he seemed to be serious about it too. Atsushi said Yuuta seemed to be into him for more than just fun and that was a bad thing. He told Yuuta they would still be friends, but anything more was over.
For three days, they didn't touch each other. Three days, but only two nights. During this time, Atsushi switched into a down mood when he had been very up and aggressive the night when he decided they should stop.
Even though nothing else had changed, when they got into their room, Atsushi never gave Yuuta the look that said he wanted to be kissed. He never pressed Yuuta up against the wall either.
Yuuta kept waiting. Waiting and watching. He couldn't believe they were really going to stop completely.
His waiting and watching paid off finally on the third night. Atsushi's mood changed to up again. They got to their room and to Yuuta's surprise the older boy pressed up against him before the door was locked. Atsushi said Yuuta seemed only horny, not depressed or upset that they were breaking up or any nonsense like that. He told Yuuta he thought it would be fine if they continued. If Yuuta wanted to?
Of course Yuuta did want to continue. And yeah, his feelings had been hurt, but during those days, Atsushi was still around. He seemed as if everything else between them was normal. He was still being Yuuta's friend and stuff so even though it hurt, it didn't feel half as bad as when Yuuta's Aniki completely withdrew from him.
So on the third night, they continued, and things went back to normal for them. Yuuta learned to not cling to Atsushi especially after the older boy was in an up mood.
Just like he learned to do lots of things different depending on which mood Atsushi was in. When Atsushi was up, after they fooled around the older boy was sleepy but liked to talk. Not about anything big, but maybe just friend chatter. Maybe he did it so they didn't feel so much like a couple. Yuuta wasn't sure why, but he did know that when Atsushi was up and talkative, it was better to keep the conversation bouncing back and forth like a match between friends. After a while of talking, Atsushi would almost be too tired to continue. He'd end the conversation, roll over, and soon fall asleep.
They were talking that night about how weird the official no dating policy was. When Atsushi took a pause, Yuuta suggested that it could be it was just an old rule that no one had bothered changing or enforcing. Sort of like how it was illegal for someone to draw people having sex.
Yuuta's Aniki told him this a long time ago. Syusuke read very sexually explicit mangas of men being with men almost like he was suggesting something to Yuuta. He told Yuuta how in many places of the world, pictures of sex, especially of two men having sex were illegal to draw or own. His Aniki held up pictures and Yuuta couldn't help noticing Syusuke seemed to most enjoy mangas with stories of two guys related to each other having sex--usually while Syusuke rebuffed Yuuta's latest attempt to do those things for real.
Atsushi said it was a good point, but he thought the reason for the rule still being around was just in case something happened and a girl student got pregnant.
When he looked at it that way, it sort of made sense to Yuuta. He sort of forgot that things like that could happen when you had sex with a girl.
Thinking out loud and feeling maybe too relaxed Yuuta said, "Sex with a girl is so totally different from sex with a guy." Yuuta almost panicked as he realized what he said out loud. They had not had sex yet and he worried that maybe Atsushi would think he was too pushy or too into him.
For a moment, Yuuta's heart nearly stopped when he realized what he just stupidly said. He wasn't sure how his roommate would respond. Would he be annoyed? Think Yuuta was hinting? Would Atsushi want to take another break?

Been sickly.

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