Disclaimer: None of the characters used here are mine ^^'

A/N: Soooooooooo… Here I come with a new English-written fiction :) I am taking back the basic idea of one of my previous fiction, titled Mon Petit Prince Charmant (in French) and making it better and longer :) Anyway, this is AU, this is Shonen Ai, and this is KuroxFaixKuro (though there will be bits of Saku/Syo)

Warning: This story being un-beta-ed, please feel free to report anything wrong (spelling, grammar, etc). I'll try to use the English spellings for the character's names (except for Flowright, because I really can't stand looking at 'Fluorite' ^^'), but since I'm more accustomed to the French ones, they might slip out… In wich case, just tell me and I'll correct that :)

Well then, let's get started for A Very Long-Lasting Crush!

01 Double Encounter…

It was the third September, it was cold, and it was raining. Tomoyo Daidouji, tightly wrapped in her red and black coat, her red umbrella shining with rain, was jumping happily between water pools, enjoying the splashing sound her actions produced, all the while directing herself toward her school's entrance. She spotted her best friends, Touya Kinomoto and Yukito Tsukihiro, who were waiting for her under the courtyard, and ran toward them.

"Ohayô Gozaimasu!" she sang happily, "How are you?"

"Fine." Yukito answered. "Australia is a fascinating country, I loved it!"

"How can you say that when you spent half of the holidays lying on your bed because of your sunstrokes?" Touya exclaimed, obviously not understanding his friend.

Tomoyo giggled at that. It was true that Yukito, like her, had a very pale skin, and was often subject to sunstrokes. However, when the Kinomoto family had invited him to spend the summer holidays with them in Australia, he had accepted without second thought, glad as he was to discover a new country. Tomoyo had met the two boys two years before, but she knew they had known each other since they were born, living in the same street since the beginning of their lives. Now the three of them were eight years old, and very close friends.

"Shall we go and see the classes' lists?" Yukito suggested with a smile.

"Yes!" Tomoyo agreed. "I hope we'll be together this year!"

The children's school was named the Tomohura Complex For Education, and provided almost every kind of studies from pre-school years to college years. The creator of the school –whose name was Clow Reed- had originally intended it only for children who were either born in Japan or of Japanese origins, but this had been a century before… Since then, the school had gained in size and students, and there were only a few classes per year where children had to speak Japanese during their days, and where they were taught how to write and read it. The 'J Section' was now the one that concentrated all the Japanese children, while the rest of the students were a representation of every other ethnies present in the United States. Since Tomoyo had entered the school, she had never been in Touya and Yukito's class, and she hoped it would change for this year.
Most of their classmates were looking at the lists, while the students who were not in the J Section followed their parents inside (the J Section's children were taught to take care of themselves earlier than the others). Tomoyo, being the tallest of the three, was the first to have a look at the lists, and she giggled happily when she saw her name on the same list as her friends'.

"The three of us are in the Sakura Class!" she announced, before going back to her inspection of the list. "Daisuke and Hikari are with us, too… Oh! There's a new boy, too!"

"Really?" Yukito asked curiously. "What's his name?"

"Flowright Yuui."

"Doesn't sound Japanese to me." Touya stated.

"That's because my father is Norwegian." A light voice answered from behind Yukito. "My mother is Japanese, but I don't really look like she does, do I?"

Yuui Flowright was a small and skinny blonde boy, with ice-blue eyes and a bright smile. He wore a light white coat with fur on its hood and wrists, as well as blue swirls on its shoulders. His hair was soaking wet, sticking to the side of his face, because he had let his hood down despite the rain.

"You know my name, but I don't know yours, yet…" Yuui stated. "Can you give them to me?"

"Of course!" Tomoyo chirped. "I am Daidouji Tomoyo and they" she pointed toward Touya and Yukito, "are my friends Kinomoto Touya and Tsukihiro Yukito."

"Those are nice names… Can I call you by your first names, or do you prefer me to go the Japanese way?"

"Do as you wish." Touya groaned while looking away, causing a few raindrops to fall from his brown leather jacket in the process.

Yuui gave a warm smile and was about to add something when the bell rang, and a teacher called out for the student:

"Sakura Class! Come with me, please!"

Tomoyo motioned for Yuui to come along and followed the tall, black-haired and red-eyed woman in front of them. Yuuko-sensei was by far her favorite, and she hoped the new boy would like her as well.
They took their places in the room and Yuui, being the only one who was new to the school –the others having studied there for at least two years- had to introduce himself to the class by answering Yuuko-Sensei's weird questions:

"Ever tasted of sake?" She asked with a smirk.

"My parents don't drink sake, they prefer wine." Yuui answered –and to everybody's surprise, his Japanese was not stained by the slightest of accent. "But I drank Vodka once, when they weren't home and my nurse thought I was sleeping." He had a fond smile when he said that, as though he were remembering some endearing memory. "It felt like sandpaper."

Yuuko-Sensei smirked, and Touya grunted on Tomoyo's left, slightly despising. As far as she was concerned, Tomoyo was rather surprised by Yuui's ease. Two years before, when she had had to answer's Yuuko-Sensei's crazy inquiries, she had felt very clumsy and akward, because she didn't know how to answer it… but Yuui did not seem to find it strange.

"Any grown up relative?" Yuuko-Sensei went on.

"Nanako-San's not my relative, I think. And Okasan says Dad and her never really grew up. So none, I guess."

"Last question: what's your favourite nickname?"

"Yuuai, but I cannot be called that when I'm alone."

Tomoyo exchanged a surprised look with Yukito, who was sitting on her right side, while Touya arched his left eyebrow… He often did that when he was interested in something weird. Yuuko-Sensei released Yuui, who walked back to the desk he had claimed, in front of Touya's. He sat next to a girl named Hikari, who had chesnut hair, light brown eyes and a sweet smile. After that, the first half of the day went very smoothly, until the bell rang to announce lunchtime.
Tomoyo had thought Yuui would come with Touya, Yuykito and her, but as soon a Yuuko-Sensei dismissed their class, he darted toward the door and ran across the corridors without waiting for them. Touya was the first one to start chasing after him, quickly followed by Yukito and Tomoyo.

When they reached the playground, they did not see Yuui at first but then, they spotted him next a great oak-tree, his blue t-shirt –at least three sizes too big for him- floating to the wind. The sun had finally decided to show itself, and the air was much warmer than it had been in the early morning… In fact, one could have thought to be living a spring day.

"Did he change his t-shirt?" Yukito asked when he saw him. "I thought it was white…"

Touya shrugged and walked toward the blonde boy, while Tomoyo and Yukito exchanged confused looks. Yuui was sitting on the floor with a big illustrated book in his lap, his concentration so intense he didn't even hear the three other kids approaching him.

"Why didn't you wait for us?" Touya asked when they reached him. "That's not very nice."

"Uh?"

Yuui didn't seem to grasp the meaning of Touya's question, and shot him a look of surprise, but Touya wouldn't believe it and insisted:

"Why didn't you wait for us?"

"Um… Because I don't know you?" The blonde offered as an answer.

Touya was about to retort something (and Yukito was beginning to fear a fight) when a light voice rang behind them:

"I was looking for you!" Yuui exclaimed while jumping on Touya's back, pressing his white t-shirt on his shoulders. "This is my brother, Fai. We're twins!"

"Well, no kidding Sherlock!" Touya sighed.

"You're really alike!" Tomoyo said.

"Yes, we know!" The twins said in unison.

"Say," Yuui added, "can we eat together?"

To everyone's surprise, it was Touya who agreed, and they followed Yuuko-Sensei to the cafeteria, the twins chattering happily about their first day of school in the United States.

End of Double Encounter

Special cookie to the one who'll guess what anime Hikari and Daisuke came from :) The first season was released in the late 90s, early 2000s and it told the story of eight children who had a great destiny, if it's of any help :)