Prince Of Tennis Fan Fiction ❯ Eiji's Gift ❯ 1 ( Chapter 1 )

Title: Eiji's Gift

Author: Hex

Pairing: Golden Pair (really, just squint and stand on your head)

Rating: G

Warnings: Author is a SOOPER!dork.

Summary: Eiji is on the prowl for Christmas Carols.

Written for Lemon Advent

 

 

"I think it's, 'We Three Kings of Orient Are'. I'm not sure though, I don't really pay attention to the names of the songs. My mom is the one that loves them. But I think that's what it's called." Taka scratched absently at the back of his head. Momo was of the opinion that Taka looked like a small animal caught in a trap. Eiji had him backed against the wall and looking slightly traumatized.

 

"Ok, cool!" Eiji said and scribbled Taka's name and choice down on his list.

 

"What are you doing, Eiji-senpai?" Momo asked.

 

"Momo…" Momo back peddled slightly as Eiji suddenly appeared in his personal space; an expression somewhere between a sinister smile and a leer twisting his face. Momo suddenly fully understood the terrorized looked that Taka had been wearing. "What's your favourite Christmas Carol?"

 

"Uh…" Momo felt like a deer stuck in headlights. Or maybe a reindeer would have been more fitting. Momo was fairly certain he could count Eiji's eyelashes the other boy as so close. There was no where left for Momo to retreat to; the wall was cold and stationary at his back. "Frosty the Snowman?"

 

"Excellent." A pad of paper and a pencil appeared out of nowhere in Eiji's hands. He scribbled down Momo's name and song, his tongue poking out the side of his mouth as he wrote.

 

"Inui!" Eiji sprang down the hall after the other boy. He caught Inui by the back of his school uniform. "What's you favourite Christmas Carol?"

 

Momo breathed a sigh of relief. One never knew what would happen when Eiji was in one of his 'moods' as the team called them. He looked to Taka.

 

"What's he doing?"

 

Taka just shrugged helplessly in response and shook his head.

 

* * * * * * * * * * *

 

Eiji rested his forehead against the computer screen and growled in frustration.

 

"Why can't I find you, you stupid song?" Eiji cried and brought both fists down on the computer desk.

 

He had found Taka's and Momo's choices fairly easily. Inui's choice of the 'Ukrainian Bell Carol' had been a bit harder. He kept finding it, but a lot of the time it would cut off or the quality was bad. Finally he had found one that worked. It had taken Eiji nearly a half-hour of badgering to get Ryoma to give him a song. Eiji was fairly certain Ryoma had thrown 'Joy to the World' at him just to be left alone, but that was fine with Eiji.

 

Eiji looked down at his list. His brother already had `War is Over' on the computer, so Eiji didn't even have to bother searching for Kaidoh's choice. He had actually caved and downloaded `Felice Navedad' for Fuji, even though he loathed the song.

 

Tezuka's choice however, was giving Eiji quite a few problems. He hadn't found a single download for it. He pursed his lips at the computer screen.

 

"I'll just download something else then." Eiji scanned down his list and blinked. "This can't be right, I only have seven songs on my list." He stared at the list for a moment before smacking himself in the forehead. "I'm an awful person."

 

He grabbed his phone and dialed the number from memory.

 

"Hello?"

 

"Hoihoi, Oishi." Eiji grinned into the phone.

 

"Hi, Eiji." Eiji could tell that Oishi was smiling.

 

"O-i-shi." Eiji couldn't help the evil little smile that crawled over his face.

 

"Yes Eiji?" Eiji smirked at Oishi's resigned tone.

 

"I need to ask for your help." Eiji admitted and fiddled with the pen on the desk.

 

"You know I'm always willing to help you." Eiji grinned.

 

"Good, good. Have you ever heard of a song called trapick? Tre-pick? Trep-something or other?"

 

"Trepak? Like the Tchaikovsky song?" Oishi asked.

 

"I don't know. Tezuka said he liked it." Eiji explained.

 

"Probably Trepak then."

 

"I can't find it anywhere though. I want to listen to it. He said it's a good Christmas song." Eiji made sure his voice made it obvious he was pouting.

 

"Try looking under Tchaikovsky. That might be easier." Oishi replied.

 

"Thanks Oishi." Eiji said.

 

"Is that all?"

 

"No. One more thing, what's your favourite Christmas song?" Eiji asked. "Mine's-"

 

"Little Drummer Boy." Oishi said.

 

"How did you know that Oishi?" Eiji asked, incredulous.

 

"No, that's my favourite." Oishi replied.

 

"Me too! Oishi has such good taste." Eiji declared. Oishi laughed.

 

"I take it that's everything then? Because I need to go study." Oishi said. He sounded like he was trying not to laugh. Eiji mentally patted himself on the back. Oishi would often forget to take breaks when he was studying and eventually would start to stress himself out. Eiji was glad when he could cheer his friend up and give him a break from the monotony of homework.

 

"Yep, it is. Bye-bye Oishi."

 

Eiji smiled and threw a few more songs into the CD program. Silent Night; Oh Come, All Ye Faithful; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; The First Noel and Jingle Bell Rock to round everything out. Once he was done he bounced up from his seat.

 

"Victory! I'm giving the most thoughtful Christmas gift to the team this year."

 

Eiji dropped himself back down into the computer desk chair and began to burn copies of the CD. He called it Seigaku's Carols.

 

~~End~~