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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      M/M
  Fandom:
      Tennis_no_Oujisama_|_Prince_of_Tennis
  Relationship:
      Kirihara_Akaya/Marui_Bunta
  Character:
      Kirihara_Akaya, Marui_Bunta
  Additional Tags:
      Crossdressing
  Stats:
      Published: 2010-11-16 Words: 4441
****** The Teenagers' Guide to Teamwork ******
by Nimori
Summary
     If Marui has to be stuck with a non-Jackal partner, at least it's a
     gullible one. Marui and Akaya duck out of Niou's stupid teamwork
     exercise.
Notes
     Written for emmayori for santa_smex 2008. Thanks to Veni for the
     beta.
"Dude, this is so gay."
From the other side of the tree Jackal grunted, and a page rustled. Marui
snapped his gum.
"Seriously, I'm going to kill Niou for suggesting this." He didn't add that he
was going to kill Sanada for agreeing to it, even though he totally was, as
soon as Sanada shrunk a little and forgot all that kendo. "I'm talking blood on
the courts, you know?"
"Uh-huh," said Jackal, like he thought Marui wasn't going to kill anyone. Marui
scowled at the sky. Crisp blue. Perfect tennis weather.
"Teamwork exercises, what the fuck, man. Tennis isn't a team sport. Not like
soccer, or something."
Silence from behind him. Belatedly Marui realized he might have hurt Jackal's
feelings, because Jackal was a bit girly like that.
"And you know it's not even like real doubles practice, which is at least
useful. I never want to play doubles with that freak in a real tournament, so
what's the point of teamwork training with him? What a waste of good practice
time." Snap. Even his gum sounded pissed. Sanada had set a bunch of snot-nosed
first years guarding the courts, or Marui would have tried to talk Jackal into
a game instead of sitting under a tree doing nothing. Although really, hiding
from Akaya on the tennis court was like hiding from Yanagi in the library. He
laughed, and Jackal made an irritated noise and turned his page louder.
What a girl.
"You're such a girl."
"You're such a fatass." There was no heat to the insult though, and barely any
interest, so Marui leaned back against the tree and blew a bubble. Then he blew
a bigger one, trying to get it to touch his bangs.
"Senpai! Hey, Senpai!"
"Aw, crap." Marui's bubble popped in his face, all over his hair, and he'd
forgotten what a mess that made. Akaya was jogging across the lawn, all flaily
awkward limbs and hyper enthusiasm a puppy would be embarrassed to show. Marui
jumped up. "How did he find us? Dude, come on, we have to run."
"Let's see," Jackal said, accompanied by a distinct lack of running. " A, this
hiding spot sucks, so I'm only surprised no one else has found us. And B, he
found you, not us. There is no us. Tennis isn't a team sport."
"You are such a fucking girl."
"A girl who has successfully evaded her assigned partner," Jackal said as Akaya
bounced up, "which makes one more thing I'm better than you at."
"Senpai, what are you doing?" Akaya whined. "I've been looking everywhere for
you. We're going to lose at teamwork and Sanada-fukubuchou is going to hit me
and then make me run laps forever and then I'll be too tired to kick his ass
before exams." He said all this as though it were some master plan of Marui's
to fuck up his personal goals for the year, and Marui had to admit it would
have been a funny plan if he'd thought of it. But really, he just didn't want
anything to do with an exercise invented by Niou. And also Akaya was like the
second worsest person to be stuck being partners with.
The worst, of course, was Sanada.
Who was striding across the lawn straight for them, Yagyuu – or possibly Niou,
from the snickering that went on when they drew for teams – sauntering in his
thundercloud wake. Marui grabbed Akaya's arm.
"Right, change of plans, partner," he said. There was no sound of objection
from Jackal, and when Marui peeked around the tree, the bastard and his stupid
gay book were gone.
"What change of plans, Senpai?"
Oh well. If Marui had to be stuck with a non-Jackal partner, at least it was a
gullible one. Unfortunately he was also a perpetually broke one, so that left
out ramen. And the arcade. And pretty much everything else fun in the entire
world. "Right, plans. The second half of the exercise is homework, so we're
going to my house-- Wait, did you say you got a Wii for your birthday?"
"Uh-huh, but what--"
"We're going to your house and practice our teamwork there." Marui looped his
arm through Akaya's and began steering him away, keeping him carefully turned
away from their incoming vice-captain. Across the lawn, Sanada scowled harder
and sped up to a jog.
Marui grinned at Akaya and then bolted, calling over his shoulder, "Race you
there!"
Akaya squawked and charged after him without a glance behind.
 
*
 
"I don't see how me watching you play is going to improve our teamwork," Akaya
grumbled. He was slumped on the couch, kicking the table leg and glaring at
Marui's guy, who was currently kicking alien ass.
"That's why you suck at doubles, my dear little kouhai. Besides, you only have
one controller. Who the fuck only has one controller? Die, you slimy fuck."
"My sister broke the other one. No, no, go left here, go left."
"Shut up and let me work my genius."
"Senpai, you're gonna--"
Marui died.
"This game is so gay." He threw the controller at the Wii. It skittered under
the table instead. "Don't you have any better ones?"
"I have Tennis," Akaya said, stealing a glance at the pair of racket bags
slumped together in the hall. "But it's kind of lame, so maybe we can play
real--"
"No." Sanada would be checking the neighbourhood courts by now. "We're here to
improve our synergy, remember?" Niou was so lame. Wii Tennis was lamer than
lame. The guy wouldn't even do any flips, no matter how hard Marui hit the
buttons. "Don't you have any money? I'm hungry."
"I needed new shoes," Akaya said, like that was an excuse for weaseling out of
treating his senpai. "But my sister probably has some." He sat up, expression
brightening.
"As your senpai, I should discourage you from stealing." Marui rolled over on
the floor and his stomach growled. He kicked Akaya's leg. "Well? Go get it."
Kirihara Akako was a bigger slob than Marui, only in pink. Every surface in the
room was cluttered with girly crap; it looked half the shops in Harajuku had
thrown up over the bed and floor. She couldn't possibly have enough money for
ramen if she bought that much crap. What kind of selfish sister didn't save
enough money to treat her little brother and her little brother's senpai? And
it wasn't like she made it up in other ways. Akako had nice tits, but that was
about all she had going in the friend's-hot-older-sister department.
"She hides stuff in her underwear drawer? Seriously?"
"I dunno," Akaya said as he rooted through piles of lacy things. "She thinks
I'm afraid of her bras or something. Oh, ew." Akaya dropped a box of condoms on
the floor.
"Hurry up, I'm starving." Marui bounced on his toes, then scooped the box of
condoms. He was already spinning a tale of genius seduction to impress Jackal
and possibly, if he put a lot more creative effort into it, Niou.
The search for ramen money turned up nothing but condoms, birth control pills,
fifteen yen, a diary filled with nothing but 'Akaya-kun is a loser' written
over and over, and more condoms.
"Dude, why didn't you tell me your sister's a whore?" Marui asked, bouncing the
fifteen yen in his hand.
"Because she has a boyfriend and he's bigger than that guy from Hyotei, the one
that's always following Atobe. I don't really care if he kills you, only after
the Nationals, please, Senpai." Akaya flopped on the bed. An avalanche of
clothes and magazines slid off. "This blows. We have no money, Mom's not home
to cook, Sanada-fukubuchou is going to hit me tomorrow and we're losing to Niou
and Yukimura-buchou. You suck, Marui-senpai. I want a new partner."
"I'm a great partner."
"We're not doing anything. I don't want to lose because you think teamwork is
watching you play my Wii."
"Teamwork, huh." Marui snapped his gum. There was no way he was doing any of
the things on the list Sanada had passed around. Standing face to face and
mirroring each other, letting Akaya catch him like some fainting girl....
Stupid Niou and his stupid ideas, trying to get them all to act like idiots.
Mind, Marui didn't care if Akaya looked like an idiot. "Okay, okay. I got one.
Take off your shirt."
"What?"
"Now who's a sucky partner?" Marui smirked.
"Fine, fine." Akaya yanked off his shirt, leaving his hair an even bigger mess
than before. He folded his arms across his bony chest and glared. "There. Now
what?"
Oh, to be so young and stupid. "Here." Marui snapped one of Akako's bras at
him. "Put this on."
"Is this really part of the training?" Akaya wore the same wavering expression
he had when Sanada had called him an idiot for thinking Santa Claus was real.
Marui wasn't about to sit Akaya down and have a heart-to-heart about the power
of belief and the beauty of innocence like Yukimura had, though.
"Akaya-kun, who planned this exercise?" he asked, instead, and Akaya's face
fell.
"Niou," he mumbled, and took the bra.
It was very pink and had an impossible number of straps and hooks and weird
embellishments like bows and lacy hearts, and Akaya, despite all the
opportunities afforded by having an older sister, had even less idea what to do
with it than Marui. But they got it on him, stretching it awkwardly across his
chest, which had looked so narrow until they stuffed it into a bra. And then
Marui insisted on padding it with tissues, because it just looked weird
otherwise.
"Now what, Senpai?" Akaya asked in his meekest I-am-biding-my-time-but-someday-
I-will-kill-you-all voice.
"Skirt," Marui said cheerfully. "You want to win, right? You want to beat
Yukimura and Niou, right?"
"I guess." Akaya took the skirt, suspicious but obedient. If Marui had only
known how easy it was to convince Akaya to dress up as a girl for the sake of
the team he would have tried years ago, preferably in a place where Niou and
Yagyuu could see and be awed by his pranktastic genius.
One skirt, two high-heeled shoes and an injudicious application of Strawberry
Kiwi Cooler lipstick later, Akaya was wobbling around the living room like a
drunken crane, trying to balance a book on his head. He kept sticking out his
tongue in concentration and smearing his already-smeared lipstick. Marui wished
he'd remembered to charge his phone. Pictures would have made his year.
"We'd better kick ass in Niou-senpai's stupid fake doubles tournament," Akaya
muttered. He kept dropping the book because he wouldn't stop looking down at
his own tissue-enhanced chest.
Marui decided not to tell him there would be no tournament, because Jackal
couldn't possibly win playing with anyone but Marui, and Sanada had spent the
entire day inflicting cooperation on everyone else instead of doing his own gay
exercises with Yagyuu. And Yukimura, as awesome as he was at everything else,
was a really crappy at doubles; anyone on the court ended up fair game, even
his supposed partner. All of that meant there would be no fit challengers for
Marui and Akaya when it came time to prove themselves.
Marui was gracious enough to accept a win by default.
"Stop looking at your own tits," Marui said as the book crashed to the floor
again.
"I can't help it. They're all weird and pointy. How do girls walk around like
this?"
Marui had never seen a girl walking around in a bra and skirt and high heels
and smeared lipstick, but he really really wished more of them would. "Stop
complaining. Real tits bounce. And jiggle. And--hey, do you have any balloons?"
Akaya didn't, so Marui opened a bunch of condoms and filled them with water, at
which point Akaya really got on board with the plan, because while water
balloons were awesome under any circumstances, no teenage boy anywhere had the
power to resist water condoms. It was genetic. Or hormonal. Or something.
"Ew, they're slimy. And cold. Why did you use cold water?"
"Because I didn't realize you'd be such a whiny girl about it," Marui said.
"Stop squirming." Akaya's nipples had tightened to little points as Marui
packed the condoms into the bra. He was determined to get a C-cup at least, but
the condoms weren't cooperating. One slipped out and burst against the tiles,
and they both snickered. "Okay, okay, turn around."
Akaya did, and he had tits. They were strange and lumpy but they jiggled and
they bounced and that made Marui very happy.
"I don't have to walk around with a book on my head anymore," Akaya said to his
tits, "do I, Senpai?"
"No." Marui tried to think of something else to make Akaya do that was both
hilarious and jiggly.
"Good," Akaya said, and walked into the doorframe, looking at his tits. Marui
grinned.
 
*
 
"You're supposed to be learning teamwork, aren't you? Hold still and let me
practice."
"Fine," Akaya grumbled, and flopped back unhelpfully.
Marui took it as a challenge to his powers of seduction -- after all, girls
might not exactly turn around and present their bra clasps for unhooking,
which, Marui decided, had been the whole point of the exercise all along. He
shifted closer and put an arm around Akaya's shoulders. Akaya grunted.
"Why are you touching me?"
"You expect me to get a girl's bra off without touching her?"
Akaya grumbled and eyed the Wii controller with an expression of profound
regret. Marui looked down at his fake tits. They'd lost some of their appeal as
they settled into weird shapes. The bra was still nice though, pink and lacy
and dark in spots from the water. He wondered if Akaya's nipples were still
hard, wondered how that worked for girls. He leaned in closer.
"You smell nice."
"No, I don't," Akaya said, blowing his role yet again. He actually did smell
nice, just not in a girly sort of way. More like a sweat-and-clean-laundry sort
of way. Marui slipped a hand between the couch and Akaya's bare back, and let
his fingers play over the damp skin. Akaya shivered. "Senpai, you're kind of
freaking me out."
"Shut up and let me get to the bra, dumbass."
"Oh." Akaya blinked and squirmed a little and then seemed to rally. "Right. You
smell… well, you don't stink. Want to take off my bra?"
"Idiot." Marui wriggled closer, pressing his thigh to Akaya's. Akaya's breath
was suddenly very loud. "Girls don't just offer like that. You have to talk
them into it."
"Make up your mind! Do you want me to cooperate or resist?"
"Pretend to resist but really cooperate. Don't you know anything about girls?"
"No."
"Dude, you suck. Where's Jackal when I need him? Jackal's already practically a
girl. Okay, look, you're a girl."
"Right."
"And you want me to feel you up but you don't want me to think you're easy, so
you're not going to do anything to help but you're going to give me as many
opportunities as you can without looking like it. Got it?"
"Um."
"Just sit there and don't move. And shut up. God." Marui gave up on seduction
and felt along Akaya's back, searching for the clasp, trying to remember why
the hell he'd thought this was a good idea, other than the fact that this was
probably going to be his only chance at perfecting bra-removal before it really
mattered. Akaya only fidgeted and looked bored. Probably not a good sign, if he
were really a girl. But he very clearly wasn't.
"Thanks for blowing the fantasy, brat," Marui said, still fumbling for the
clasp, still not finding it.
"Marui-senpai? You are so gay."
"You're the one in the skirt."
"You're the one trying to feel me up."
"Feel up what? You have the worst boobs ever and where the hell is the hook on
this thing?" He yanked a strap.
"Don't you insult my boobs," Akaya said. "I like my boobs. Besides, you made
them, so it's your fault if they suck."
Marui gave up on unhooking the bra and eyed the lumpy saggy wet boobs in
question, locked away forever behind an impenetrable barrier of pink lace. What
should he do? A real girl would have laughed at him by now. Maybe he ought to
just skip the bra removal and go straight for gold. Start small, so to speak.
Right. He cupped one and squeezed, expecting something spectacular even though
he knew it was fake. Instead it felt weird and gross and wrong. There was too
much give, and the condoms were shifting and sliding under his hand and--
"Senpai!" Akaya gasped and clutched at Marui and then they were both shrieking
laughter at the water sluicing down Akaya's stomach, heedless of the
upholstery.
"Senpai, you popped my boob!" Akaya yelled and Marui grinned and reached for
the other one. Akaya flailed, all elbows and knees, and Marui used his
gymnastic prowess to fling himself across Akaya's shifting lap and the condom
balloons tumbled out and burst and not all in that order.
"The couch is all wet. My mom's going to freak." Akaya didn't sound worried
though and only squirmed under Marui. His lipstick was smeared halfway to his
ear.
"It's not a big deal." Marui smirked. "It happens to everyone."
"Shut up, fatass."
"Make me, brat."
"I would except your fat ass is crushing me."
"You're pretty mouthy for someone who has wet condoms hanging out of his bra."
He reached in and pulled one out, then another. At the last one he slowed down
and deliberately let it drag over Akaya's nipple, trying to peer down the bra
to see if they were still hard.
"Senpai. That's cold." Akaya shivered. He sounded weird, like he was trying not
to cry.
The deflated bra didn't look as bad as it had before. Marui reached back with
both hands and undid it in one motion.
"Dude," he said. "Am I a fucking genius or what?" Then he realized he had both
arms around Akaya, that he was sitting on his wet and half-naked kouhai and
holding a pink bra, and probably looking like the gayest gay who ever gayed.
"Hey," Akaya said, "are you gonna, you know, get off me? 'Cause I'm just
saying, you're not in a good spot right now."
"Afraid you'll get a stiffy?"
"Senpai," Akaya said slowly, as if he were speaking to someone very slow and
not a supergenius like Marui, "you're sitting on my dick. Of course I will."
Marui tensed. His dick decided that Akaya's had the right idea and contemplated
joining in. Akaya had green eyes. Marui had never noticed before, but it was
really... Shit. "If you're dressed as a girl, does it count as gay?" he asked,
a little desperately.
Akaya considered this very carefully. Then he put his hands on Marui's hips. "I
think it does, Senpai. I'm sorry. But I won't tell anyone you dressed me up in
my sister's clothes and tried to make out with me."
"God, I hate you." Things were firming up under Marui's butt. And Akaya was
wearing a skirt, and how hot was that? Marui dropped the bra. Akaya's nipples
were still hard. Marui gave in and touched one; it was firm but yielded to the
pressure of his thumb. Akaya sucked in a breath and did something with his hips
that almost sent Marui tumbling to the floor. But then suddenly they were a lot
closer because Akaya had an arm around his waist and was pulling him in while
pushing up, and he was a lot stronger than he looked and things were going
seriously wrong between Marui's legs. Seriously, seriously wrong.
This whole mess was clearly Jackal's fault for being such a girl that his
girliness had reached epic levels of contagion.
Akaya didn't seem to care in the slightest and was now kneading Marui's ass in
a way that was both alarming and really, really hot. And he was panting in
Marui's ear, which wasn't as gross as Marui would have thought ten minutes ago.
It's the skirt,Marui thought, a little hysterically, and let himself squirm
against Akaya. The bony angles did nothing to discourage his dick. In fact, his
dick rather liked the angles. And it really liked Akaya's dick when they met,
totally by accident, through Marui's shorts.
"Oh jeez," Marui said, and gave up pretending he wasn't humping Akaya like a
dog. Akaya said something incoherent, and got a hand between them and squeezed
and that turned Marui's thoughts to pudding. Someone got his shorts open and
the skirt hitched up even higher and then there was heat and spit and four
callused hands that didn't care what they grabbed as long as they didn't stop
moving.
"Senpai," Akaya breathed, right in his ear, all shiver-inducing and sexier than
his stupid annoying male kouhai had any business being. "Can I put it in you?"
"What?" Marui sat back. "No! You're the girl. I put it in you."
"But Senpai, I'd be really careful. And you can do me after." Akaya stopped
touching him and his eyes had narrowed and his gaze turned sharp and Marui
realized Akaya was trying to play him and he remembered just how fast their
scary demon prodigy learned.
"Akaya-kun, I'm your senpai. I should teach you these things, which means I do
you first and then if you pay attention you can do me." As if.
"Promise?"
Marui grinned. "Trust me."
And Akaya did, which was part of the problem. Marui just couldn't take
advantage of that. Well, not too much. Not without taking care of him, too.
And there was one area of expertise in which Marui had supreme confidence in
his abilities.
He slid back and pushed Akaya's skirt up to his waist, and that sounded so
wrong but was pretty damn hot. He'd never touched another guy's dick until five
minutes ago but he had plenty of knowledge on the subject of dicks in general,
and his own in particular. It was almost cute the way Akaya jumped and gasped
like a big virgin, and a little flattering too, because Akaya's eyes rolled
back a bit.
"I give the best handjobs," Marui said. He never had, but that wasn't the
point. He'd be the best anyway. Akaya made a funny little noise that was about
as hot as the skirt, and clutched at him. Marui shifted his grip, and then
leaned in and kissed Akaya's neck because he'd always wanted to. Well, not
Akaya's neck in particular, usually just some faceless imaginary girl. But
Akaya was good too, maybe better because he didn't smell like flowers, only
sweat and clean laundry and a little bit of Strawberry Kiwi Cooler lipstick.
The angle was wrong but he firmed his grip anyway, unsettled at the strange
experience of an erection in his hand and no corresponding pleasure. Watching
Akaya's face though, that was almost as good as feeling it. Akaya wasn't even
pretending not to like it. He probably couldn't.
His face had scrunched up and gone all red. He thrashed a bit and Marui sped up
even though his wrist was starting to hurt and Akaya grunted and went boneless,
trembling and limp against the couch, leaving a gross mess on Marui's hand.
Marui wiped it on the couch.
"I am so the best," he said, pleased at further proof of his genius, even in
areas as diverse as jerking off another guy. He tried to catch Akaya's eye, but
he'd shut them.
"The best at being gay," Akaya said, and flung an arm over his face.
Marui smacked him. "Come on, brat. My turn. Show me what you've learned."
Akaya dropped his arm. He looked like he was going to protest, then thought
better of it. He shrugged, spit in his hand, and cupped Marui's dick. He
stroked once and his hand was so warm and soft and damp and it wasn't anything
at all like Marui's own and he jerked, electrified, and came all over Akaya's
fist.
Two-point-eight seconds, said avoice in his head, a voice that sounded a lot
like Renji. Kill me now.
"Not one word," Marui said, eyes closed.
"But, Senpai--"
"Shut it."
"I was just going to say--"
"Akaya."
"That was really cool."
Marui opened his eyes. Akaya's were shining and puppy-like and frighteningly
earnest.
"You are such a fucking moron," Marui said.
"We should do teamwork exercises every day," Akaya said. "What are you doing
after practice tomorrow?"
 
*
 
"So I totally got laid yesterday," Marui announced to the entire club in the
locker room.
"Uh-huh," said Jackal.
Practice was back to normal, but Marui felt like he'd been run over by a
cartoon steamroller. Sanada had hit Akaya, and chased Marui all the way to the
girls' basketball courts because Marui wasn't stupid enough to stand there and
take it like a man like Akaya was. He still got a punch in the arm and had to
run twice as many laps as Akaya but it was worth it just to see Sanada thumping
full out after him.
And best of all, Yukimura had been smiling serenely through practice while Niou
was pale and wild-eyed and probably wishing he'd never heard the word
'teamwork'.
"I did so," Marui said. He pointed at the evidence on his neck. "See? She was a
total wildcat."
"You did that yourself," Jackal said without looking up from his bag. He was
searching for his book. Marui knew this because he'd personally thrown it
behind the toilets.
"Did not. Those are totally teeth marks. You can't fake those."
"Wow, Senpai." Akaya came over and pretended to inspect the mark he'd made. And
he had made it, even if Marui had refreshed it that morning with a nail file.
"That's so cool. Was she hot? I mean really really hot? Like so hot you would
totally let her be the guy next time?"
Across the locker room, Yukimura's head snapped up and his placid smile
vanished. "Marui, you didn't."
Marui, caught under his captain's terrifying stare and the sudden rapt
attention of the rest of the team, weighed the merits of another sprint across
campus so soon after the last, and decided that all told, he'd take his
chances. He dropped his towel, leapt over the bench, and ran for his life.
He really didn't want the last thing he ever heard to be Akaya shrieking:
"Buchou, don't kill him, I haven't got my turn yet!"
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