“Welcome to the Varsity Baseball Team tryouts, I’m Akanishi Jin and I’ll be in charge for today.” Akanishi announced to the group of freshmen before him.

Kazuya didn’t know if luck was on his side or not, to have Akanishi be the one in charge of the tryouts. Somehow, he felt pressured to perform better when Akanishi was around. For a second, his eyes wandered slightly away from Akanishi, and saw Junno wink at him from the spectator’s stand, mouthing a silent ‘good luck’ to him.

“Alright, this group of you on the left,” Akanishi separated the group of freshmen into two groups, “Please follow Ninomiya-san to the other end of the field. The rest of you do your warm-up and I’ll screen each one of you personally.”

Kazuya could feel himself shaking with nervousness as he stretched his arms before holding the bat tightly in his hands. “I can do this.” He thought to himself, mentally preparing his mind for utmost concentration.

“Kamenashi-kun! You’re next.” Akanishi called, looking up from his clipboard and flashed him a smile which made Kazuya’s heart thump harder against his chest as he walked towards the batter’s box. Before he knew it, a ball was heading his way and he barely hit it with his bat.

“Nice try, Kamenashi-kun.” Akanishi commented as he jotted down quickly on his clipboard. “ But it’ll be better if you swing the bat this way. Let me show you.” Kazuya immediately allowed Jin to take his place in the batter’s box.

“You have to swing. It’s as if someone kissed you on your left shoulder and you have to swat that person away.”

“Oh! You mean like this!” Yamashita appeared from nowhere and gave Akanishi a peck on his left shoulder. Although slightly taken aback, Kazuya stared daggers at Yamashita as Akanishi threatened to plunder him with the bat.

The rest of the tryout was a mere blur as all the activities happened one after another, and before he knew it, the tryouts ended. And Kazuya found himself a new member of the Varsity Baseball Team.

In the University's cafeteria...
“Kazuya! Have you arranged your timetable?” Junno asked as he sat down next to Kazuya with his lunch. Kazuya lazily handed his timetable to his friend as he poked at his food with minimal interest.

“ NO!! Don’t take this subject, Kazuya!” Junno exclaimed as he looked through the other’s timetable, “That teacher is known to be a killer. Oh! That subject too! Drop that, it’s too tedious.” Without asking Kazuya, Junno started making changes to the other’s timetable. Kazuya rolled his eyes and ignored his friend. His mind was still preoccupied, by that very scene of Yamashita kissing Akanishi’s neck at the tryout.

“Didn’t he mention that he is not gay?” Kazuya thought to himself before he snapped out of his thoughts when he saw Junno wrote ‘French’ as one of his subjects.

“Junno! Why are we taking French! I’m not taking that! You know how weak I am at languages…” Kazuya yelled as he snatched his schedule from Junno.

“Please?” Junno looked at Kazuya with puppy eyes, “The seniors told me that the lecturer is very young and very cute.”

“Junno!” Kazuya scolded, “You don’t take subjects because the professors are…” He was distracted by Yamashita and Akanishi walking towards their table.

“Ah! It’s our junior and my dear neighbour, the skinny terrier! Yo!” Yamashita did not ask for permission before sitting down heavily opposite Junno and Kazuya.

“Eh!!! You are Taguchi! From elementary school!” Yamashita exclaimed as his eyes widen as he recognized Junno after staring at him for a while, “How did you know this skinny terrier?” he asked pointing to Kazuya.

Kazuya frowned at the mention of his unwanted nickname and turned to look at was laughing at the queer nickname Kazuya was given. Still smiling, Junno just explained to Yamashita about how he met Kazuya a long time ago, while Akanishi tried to start a conversation with Kazuya, much to his surprise.

“So, excited to be on the team?” Akanishi asked, taking a huge bite off his burger, “ We’re having a welcome party this weekend you will be there, right?”

Kazuya looked at the older man with wide open eyes. “Was that an invitation?” He thought to himself.

“Yes, I’ll definitely be going.” Kazuya smiled at Akanishi enthusiastically. Junno looked over at the two with a knowing look. Yamashita noticed how Junno and Kazuya seem to send secret messages in silence. “These two, that they are both the same, freaks desperate for men.” he thought to himself. “I have to protect Jin from them.”

“Well, Jin! We’re late for classes! Let’s go!” Yamashita suddenly shot up from his seat and grabbed Akanishi by the arm. “We’ll see you newbies at the welcome party this weekend!” And that was the last thing they heard before Yamashita dragged Akanishi out of the room.

“Junno,” Kazuya asked immediately when the other two left the cafeteria “ Do you think that Yamashita likes Akanishi?”

Junno burst out into laughter when he heard that.

“Ka-zu-ya-chaann!” Junno reassured as he slung an arm over Kazuya, “Trust me, Yamashita is the last person on this Earth to fall for Jin. He’s not like you and I.”

“B-b-but… he can always change his mind!” Kazuya retorted, “ I saw him trying to kiss Akanishi that day at the tryout!”

“Yamashita… he wouldn’t. He’s homophobic.” Junno looked away from Kazuya, his mind wandering back to his elementary school days with Yamashita. “He was my first crush. The only one I have confessed to… in fact.”

“EHH!!!” Kazuya could not believe what he just heard. All these years he had never heard Junno mention anything about his love life and now Junno have to shock him with this information.

“I went up to him in the playground one day.” Junno started to tell Kazuya his story as they packed up their things and headed out of the cafeteria, “ After I told him how I felt, he stared at me with that serious look and said…” at this point, Junno suddenly started chuckling.

“What… did he say?” Kazuya asked, curiosity almost killing him.

“He shouted ‘Get away from me! I don’t like weird boys like you!’ and ran away crying to his mother. And he never really talked to me again till the elementary school anniversary we had a few years ago. Childish, isn’t it?” Junno continue chuckling at the memories.

“Ne… do you still like him?” Kazuya asked, falling into step with Junno.

“Maybe…” Junno replied and Kazuya’s eyes widen, “ not. Because I love Kazuya more! Give your new lover a kiss! ” Junno yelled and playfully jumped on top of Kazuya and gave him a bear hug from behind.

“Junno! Stop it! Everyone is looking at us!” Kazuya tried to struggle away from Junno’s silly antics.

At the Baseball Team’s Freshmen Welcome Party…

“Now that we have all mingled, let’s play a game!” one of the 2nd year seniors suggested and the crowd of boys cheered in agreement.

The welcome party was fine and most of the team members were friendly and have brought along their friends from outside the team. After knowing that they could bring friends along, Kazuya dragged Junno along because he did not want to be alone.

“We’ll all take numbers from this box, and we will give random numbers random things to do!” yelled another senior and the room was filled with noise again. Kazuya could tell that many of the seniors were slightly tipsy from the drinks and Akanishi was one of them. He was almost laughing out loud and being a lot noisier than usual.

After a while, a box was passed around and all of them took a number from it and sat down around the small room. The game master was one of Matsumoto-san, one of the third year students.

“Now… No. 10 will bite the ear of No. 31!!! Who has the number 10 and 31? Come out please!” The crowd cheered as two tipsy guys stumbled to the center of the room. One of the seniors whom Kazuya recognized from the tryout as Ninomiya-san, bit the ear of the other guy who seemed to be his friend. The crowd went wild with cheers as they did the task.

“And now… No. 23 shall kiss No. 14 on the forehead! Who’s the lucky No. 14?” And Kazuya laughed when he saw a very unwilling Yamashita get up from his seat, revealing the small slip of paper in his hands with ‘14’ scrawled on it.

“Ah! And No. 23 is Akanishi! How sweet! Best friends, right?” Matsumoto-san laughed as the crowd of baseball players laughed along. Junno saw Kazuya’s fist clench again and he knew that this would not turn out to be something good.

Yamashita’s blood almost froze when he realise that Akanishi was really going to do the task as Akanishi stumbled towards him. Looking at the tipsy Akanishi and Yamashita who was standing shakily in the middle of the room, Kazuya clenched his fists in anxiety.

“Damn it. He is so drunk!” Yamashita cursed when Akanishi wrapped an arm around his neck and started to lean closer. The crowd cheered and made whistling sounds as Akanishi inched closer.

“Tomo-chan…I love you!” Akanishi mumbled in his drunken slur.

The next thing Yamashita knew, he could feel Akanishi’s lips on his, and not only that, the other’s tongue found its way into his mouth and was invading his mouth in all possible ways. Frightened, Yamashita pushed his friend away, his mouth still bruised. The crowd cheered and applauded their courage to carry out this task.

Junno and Kazuya looked at each other, then back at the two young men in the middle of the room.

“Akanishi …WINS!” Akanishi yelled as he tried standing up, punching his fists into the air before falling back down onto the floor. Ignoring everything around him, Yamashita got up quickly to rush to the washroom.

“Maybe he went to have his mouth sterilized?” Junno commented. “I told you he is really homophobic.”

Kazuya did not know what to do but to nod. In his mind, he felt a strong surge of jealousy that he did not ever experience before.

Yamashita slammed the door of the washroom shut as he supported himself at the basin.
“It was just a game… a game…. Jin was drunk…” He mumbled under his breath over and over again. “But why did it feel so good?”

Suddenly he clasped his hand over his mouth, touching it as he remembered how it felt when his friend kissed him a moment ago.

“Damn. Am I…gay?”

TO BE CONTINUED…

Author's notes: Sorry for the late update!! Have been really busy. But I will try my best to write more this week. And I actually wrote this last night but LJ was being a bitch and refuse to let me post it.

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