Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of tennis
_
Ryoma always have a nightmares every night that can make him woke up in the middle of the night...
Every time he had nightmares...if he was in pain in his dream, his body will also feel the pain...It was called Lucid Dreaming...but Ryoma is more different than a normal...he could feel 3 times more pain in his body more than he had in his dream...
_
Ryoma went to school early and for their morning practice because of his nightmares...
"Echizen!" Oishi called Ryoma when he saw him near the courts
Ryoma just nodded and did not say anything...they noticed that Ryoma was silent and acting very suspicious all of the sudden,
all the seigaku noticed and came to him to asked what was wrong...
"Ochibi...What's wrong? is something bothering you?" Eiji came with the first question and followed by Fuji
"Are you alright? you don't look good?"
Ryoma shook his head and said a little small word
"im fine"
"Are you sure you're fine? Echizen.." Tezuka asked and made the others worried
"I'm fine bochou...You all don't need to worry about me" Ryoma said with a little smile and they all still worried of Echizen acting strange
As Ryoma finished running the laps and finished in the showers...Ryuuzaki Sensei announced to the regulars that they will be having a trip in the hot springs for two weeks...
Everyone shouted in joy "YYYAAAAYYY!!!!" they were jumping happily going crazy except for Tezuka, Ryoma, Fuji ,and Oishi who just standing there smilling...
Ryoma showed a lazy face imagining what will happen and thought "I have a bad feeling about this crazy sempais of mine" and he also thought what will happen in the hot springs if they are too crazy running inside the bus"I bet the hot springs would collapse if they never stop"
_
The next day all the Seigaku had their bags and laugage then drove off to go to their exciting trip
As they were in the bus, Fuji and Tezuka dragged Ryoma to sit with them to avoid the craziness of their teamates
Ryoma was sitting between Fuji and Tezuka, Fuji's hand were holding gently on Ryoma's arm and Tezuka also gently holding the other arm..., Ryoma felt the overprotective side of them that looked like they were protecting him from a situation they already know about to happen
"Woah...Fuji and Tezuka is being protective of Ochibi.." Eiji snickered
"Eiji what will you do if Ryoma was not sitting between Captain and Fuji?" Oishi asked
Eiji answered "Of course you already know that"
All of the other regulars flinched to heard Eiji's answer, they all knew except for Ryoma what will Eiji going to do...
_
flashback
Long ago back when he was in middle school, they had a fieldtrip to the mountains...
While riding in the bus Eiji was dragging one of his teamates to go with him like going on top of the bus roof, running and shaking the bus, running like crazy until one of them passed out due to shaking, Eiji won't stop his craziness until they reach their destinations
end of flashback
_
That others were thinking to not remember the most terrifiying scene when they had a field trip with Eiji when they were in middle school so only Fuji and Tezuka can stop him by letting Eiji's target sit between them
"Saa..Echizen will be alright if he's close to us, don't worry minna" Fuji told then so they can feel relief
"C'mon..i just want to have fun with ochibi" Eiji added
"Yadda" Ryoma lazyly said
"Sit down Eiji were are still far from our destination" Tezuka calmly spoke
"Okay~"
Ryoma was getting sleepy 'Oh no..not again..not in a time like this...' he thought in his mind to not sleep in front of his sempais so they won't suspect...but Fuji and Tezuka noticed
"Echizen, are you sleepy?" Tezuka asked
Ryoma nodded
"If you're sleepy then just sleep..we won't let them disturb you" Fuji added
"Arigato...sempai" Ryoma fell asleep and Fuji silence his team to not disturb him and Ryoma wishes that he won't be having another nightmare just for a while infront of his sempais...
as Ryoma slept, he had another dream...he dreamed of a place where the people was hitting him with a whip and throwing rocks at him...Ryoma was in pain in his dream...
While at the Seigaku...
"Minna..Ryoma is shaking" Fuji told the whole team and they worried of Echizen what was happening in him
"It..hur-ts...pai-n..." Ryoma's voice was shaking and tears flowing down his cheeks
While in Ryoma's dream, the poeple was still hitting him and throwing rocks at him, it suddenly stop when he heard a voice calling out his name
"n...chizen... Echizen!"
Ryoma woke up in a shock as his sempais were worriedly looking at him
"Echizen are you all right?!" Oishi shouted in tears
they keep asking him and Ryoma didn't say anything
"Echizen...you can tell us everything" Fuji said softly
"It was just a nightmare sempai..nothing else" Ryoma answered
"Then why are saying that you're in pain?!" they all asked the same question in unison
"I told you sempai, it was just a little nightmare"
Then a meanwhile, Ryoma fell asleep again, this time he had a dream of being abandoned by all of his friends and family, Ryoma shaked again
"Everyone, his at it again" Fuji said panicly to the others, they still couldn't figure out what was happening to Ryoma and this time it was different,
Ryoma was saying something different from last time
"okaa-san..otou-san... anikii...Se-mpa-is..." Ryoma said crying again but also different from last time...this time he was crying a lot...
All of the Seigaku were very worried...they were still confused why was Echizen in a pain
"What's wrong with Ochibi? why is he crying?" Eiji sadly asked
"Has he always been like this?"
All of their faces were full of sadness and sorrow seeing there little baby in pain, crying very heavily,
they heard Ryoma saying something
"e-everyone pl-ease d-don't l-leave m-me..." Ryoma's voice was really shaking
"Echizen...we won't leave you...we are here for you" they all said as Ryoma still shaking and repeated "I'm s-scared...p-please don't leave m-me"
"Echizen...don't worry...we're here" Fuji calmed Ryoma stroking his head...Ryoma felt warm and stopped shaking and they were all relieved...
_
Hour later...they still hadn't arrive because the place of the hot spring they're going has pretty far...
Ryoma woke up and slowly opened his eyes...
"Echizen...you're awake" Fuji smiled at Ryoma as Ryoma's head were on Fuji's lap and his legs were on Tezuka's
"Ah..Ochibi's awake!" Eiji rushed
They all went to Ryoma
"Echizen..are you okay?"
"Do you feel any pain? Head? Arms? Legs? Sides? Back?"
They all keep on asking and Ryoma was still silent...
_
(To be continued)