Happily Ever After

Day Four – Days Before Turbulence (Part Two)

~Home~

~6:00 p.m. ~

“Where is Ryoma?” asked Haruya as she threw her bag down onto thoor.oor. “I’m exhausted, the preparations for the coming debate is real exhausting.” She sat down on the sofa and switched on the television.

She stared at the screen while waiting for Harumi or Tezuka to answer. They were the only people in the large living room before her. There were still no responses from them after five minutes. “Hey, where’s Ryoma? He should be here, it’s six and the tennis match Live from US is on.”

She looked backwards and saw that Tezuka was reading the newspaper while Harumi mouthed something to her.

“What are you saying?”

Harumi slapped her forehead, got up from where she was sitting and pulled Haruya into the kitchen where Haruka was cooking.

“What is it? I’m exhausted and stop pulling me around,” complained Haruya as she leaned against the kitchen wall.

“Ryoma hasn’t come home yet,” said Harumi. “And he had been sitting there in the living room since an hour ago, reading the same page or rather, staring at the same page of the papers. He seems and feels really scary.”

“Why isn’t Ryoma home?” asked Haruya.

“He went out with a senpai from his school – Momoshiro,” answered Haruka.

Haruya smiled with realization. “So, he’s jealous. I knew he had something for Ryoma.” She then looked at Haruka whose back was facing her. “Haruka, aren’t you going to correct me?”

“Correct what?” asked Haruka innocently.

“My saying they as a pair of to-be-lovers,” sang Haruya. “Do you know something we don’t?”

“Maybe.” Haruka smiled as she remembered Tezuka’s confession to her: I love Ryoma and I want to be with him.

~Living Room~

“Tadaima,” said Ryoma tiredly as he came into the living room. He felt a shadow on him. He looked up and saw the gloomy face of Tezuka. He straightened and stared back at Tezuka, trying hard to figure what was wrong.

“You are home, had a great time?” Tezuka’s voice sent chills down Ryoma’s back.

“Kind of,” answered Ryoma carefully.

“Where had you been to?” asked Tezuka as he crossed his arms. “You are being late.”

Suddenly Ryoma had a strange feeling that he was a wife who came home late one night and was being questioned by her possessive and jealous husband which the latter role was taken by Tezuka. Somehow, the thought of Tezuka being jealous pleased Ryoma which made him want to provoke Tezuka more.

Ryoma’s lips curled into a smile before he started to drawl lazily. “I was to the mall with Momo-senpacauscause he insisted that he needed ME to be there with him.” Ryoma stopped talking suddenly in a very teasingly cliffhanging way.

Tezuka’s eyes narrowed and looked almost ready to snap.

Ryoma then finished his sentence quickly. “He said that I must accompany him because he can’t decide on what he should buy for An.”

“An?”

“The sister of the tennis club captain from Fudomine – Tachibana An. Momo-senpai had a crush on her.”

“Oh.” Tezuka’s furrowing brows smoothened and he had visibly let out a sigh of relief.

“Are you jealous?” asked Ryoma suddenly and smiled devilishly.

Though Tezuka was taken back by his question; he was still able to answer calmly. “I am.”

“I like that,” said Ryoma as he put his arms around Tezuka slowly. He nuzzled his face against Tezuka’s chest. “Do you love me? I think I do.”

Tezuka was shocked and dumbfounded, he never expected Ryoma to take the initiative step to make a confession before him. He quickly gathered himself together and worked out a simple reply. “I do.”

Tezuka then tilted Ryoma’s head upwards and kissed him. He purposely made the kiss slow, letting their lips rub together sensuously. Ryoma let out a moan and Tezuka took this opportunity to dive his tongue into the depths of Ryoma’s mouth, deepening the kiss. The kiss lasted for about five minutes and when Tezuka finally let go of Ryoma, he could only lean onto Tezuka weakly and panting.

“You would better bath now, dinner is starting,” said Tezuka after Ryoma’s breathing returned to normal.

Ryoma had a victorious, or rather arrogant smile on his face. “Say it again.”

Tezuka frowned confusedly.

“Say you love me.”

Tezuka sighed and thought why he had fallen in love with such a devil, corrected: such a cute devil. “I love you.”

“Why? And when?” demanded Ryoma.

“I think it had been for a long time, just that, I realized it only recently,” answered Tezuka.

“Then why?”

“Do I need a reason?” asked Tezuka instead.

Ryoma tilted his head to one side while using his finger to tap his cheek. “Nah, I don’t think so.”

Tezuka smiled and used his fingers to caress Ryoma’s cheek gently, enjoying its smoothness.

Ryoma closed his eyes and leaned into Tezuka’s touch. After a while, Ryoma caught Tezuka’s hand and opened his eyes, staring straight into Tezuka’s dark ones. He looked serious and frowning. “Aren’t you going to ask me how I know I am in wit with you?”

“Probably because you know I am the only one for you,” answered Tezuka.

“I never knew you are so full of yourself, so extremely stuck-up,” smiled Ryoma as he draped his arms around Tezuka.

“I took that up from someone I love,” replied Tezuka softly.

~Kitchen~

Haruya stormed into the kitchen and slammed the door behind her loudly startling Haruka and Harumi who were inside.

“What’s all the fuss, you look so worked up,” asked Harumi.

“Listen to me, you won’t believe what I saw just now,” cried Haruya as she shook Harumi. “I saw Kunimitsu and Ryoma kissing in the living room.”

Harumi squealed. “Really, really?”

“Yeah,” replied Haruya.

“Oh, so Kunimitsu finally made a move,” said Haruka gently, despite all the excitements from her sisters. “Good for them.”

“Eh, you mean you knew there was REALLY something between them,” complained Haruya unhappily. “You are so mean for not telling us!”

“Well, they will tell if they want to, and before they do so, we just have to act normal, like we know or see nothing” said Haruka. “Understood?”

Haruya and Harumi nodded, still giggling.

~Dinner Time~

Haruka laid out the plates for dinner while humming a song. She felt happy for her brothers. She had to admit that the two looked great together!

Suddenly she heard the doorbell ringing. Immediately she put down everything in her hands to answer the door.

“I’m coming.” She opened the door and right away she was pulled into a tight embrace.

“Darling, we are home!” Came her mother’s voice from above.

“It’s nice to be back home! Hi, Haruka. We bought you a lot of souvenirs.” said Echizen Nanjiroh as he put down their luggage. “Your friend’s outside.”

“Come in, Mayuna,” said Tezuka Mai as she let go of her daughter and went out of the door, later coming back, tugging a girl along into the room. “I saw her standing outside when we came back. Mayuna, you should have just rung the doorbell! ”

Haruka looked at the petite Japanese girl in Kimono, long raven hair, soft brown eyes and unmistakably: Futada Mayuna – her brother’s ex-girlfriend.

She could feel the calmness before a storm.

~Interlude: How Ryoma found out he was in love with Tezuka~

“Ryoma, is this a cute necklace or this bracelet nice?” asked Momoshiro as he rummaged the shelves. “Give me some comments, won’t ya?”

“Hmm, just buy anything, can’t you? I want to go home,” complained Ryoma as he crossed his arms. He was feeling very restless and impatient, the only thought that was going on in his mind was: to go home. The face of Tezuka which kept appearing in his mind didn’t help at all.

“You look really sick,” Momoshiro smirked ambiguously. “You look like you are struck by the common phenomena: Lovesick.”

“Love can be sick?” asked Ryoma blankly.

“You are really zero outside tennis,” said Momoshiro sympathetically as he patted Ryoma’s head several times. “Love would fly away if you are going to stay as vague as this!”

“What about you!” retorted Ryoma unhappily. “So, how did you know you are in love with Tachibana Ru?”

“It’s Tachibana An,” Corrected Momoshiro. “First, it was just blushes when we touch. Whenever we came in skin contact accidentally, I could feel my pulse race and colours are rushing to my cheeks!”

“Then you know you are in love with her?”

Momoshiro sighed. “Of course not. It was when I began to miss her whenever I don’t see her then I know I’m lovesick. Not only that, I am worried of how she would think of me, whether I will make her happy when I do this, or will she be upset when I do that. There are some more symptoms, do you need more explanations?”

“Momo-senpai, I think I understand now,” said Ryoma softly as a realisation struck him and Tezuka appeared in his mind. “Could you make it quick, I want to go home early.”

“Give me a second, won’t you!” wailed Momoshiro as he began to rummage the shelves more fiercely.

~End of Day Four~

Authoress’ words: At last another chapter’s done. At last the *devil* had appeared, wonder what’ll happen next!!

I want to ask you readers a question: whether you want this story to have a lemon or not, tell me your answer in the reviews.

Lastly, pls review and same old dialogue: I won’t write another chapter if I don’t get enough reviews -_- Gomen

Actually this story was meant to be a short one, I never expected it to get so long ^o^

My business studies teacher might kill me, if she found that I’m busily typing yaoi fanfictions instead of doing her notes!! Believe me or not, English is not my mother tongue and my story-writing skills improved because I typed fanfics! ^O^