Disclaimer: I do not own The Prince of Tennis

Dedication: This fic is dedicated to Ange Noir, a wonderful fan fiction author and an even more wonderful friends... and yes... she really did request Genichirou Sanada and Jin Akutsu.

AN: i couldn't decide on a title. I liked 7 Days with Genichirou Sanada but heh... I went with something else...

Broken Sons (or 7 Days with Genichirou Sanada)

Day 1

Apparently, Yuki, Jin Akutsu's mother, was in this hospital and that there had been some sort of accident. He was called out of school early by his next door neighbor Kimura, and sat pouting in the car the entire ride there, just like the 14 year old boy he was. He didn't even complain about the music they played in the car, his mind was wrapped up on the welfare of his mother.

"Don't worry too much, Jin-kun. I'm sure she'll be just fine," the pleasant lady assured him.

Akutsu had only grunted in reply.

Once at the hospital, Akutsu even sat silently for the first hour. It was only after his neighbor had to leave to go to her evening job that he started to grow restless.

He could barely uphold his tough guy image, being thoroughly worried as he had waited in the lobby for hours with no word of her conditions. He became more unruly with each passing minute and disturbing all of the other visitors with his constant fidgetting. He was slumped in his seat, uniform rumpled and disheveled, and arms crossed over his chest tightly. His eyes darted along the walls, towards the clock, then towards the other waiting people, and back towards the clock.

Among the occupants of the waiting area was a certain Rikkai star, Genichirou Sanada.

Sanada's eyes bore into the side of Akutsu's face, which only succeeded in gaining the other boy's attention and rendering him all the more irritable.

"What do you want?" Akutsu snapped, his voice loud and foreign in the otherwise quiet facility.

Sanada merely met Akutsu's hard gaze with one equally as unyielding.

"You're being disruptive," Sanada replied.

All of the other people waiting in the lobby grew uneasy from the tone both boys carried. It was true that the big young teenager with the Yamabuki jr high uniform was being disruptive, what with his angry mutterings and fidgeting, but they had no intention of angering him. All could tell that he was a walking time bomb… ok maybe not all. Sanada was the one exception.

Everyone braced themselves as the Yamabuki boy began to speak.

"Are you trying to--"

"Sanada-kun," A nurse exclaimed, poking her head into the waiting room and interrupting what would have without doubt been a falling out had she not arrived.

It seemed as if a moment passed as all in the waiting room turned to regard the intruder. The nurse chuckled nervously, wondering why everyone was staring with faces mixed with relief and terror. The silence was interrupted with the sound of a chair scrapping against the linoleum tiled flooring.

"Aa, thank you." Sanada said as he walked past Akutsu, acknowledging the other boy's growl. He took his place beside the nurse, ready to follow her back to the room his friend Yukimura was resting in, but before he took his leave he still had one more thing to say to that other young man. "We all are worried about someone. Not just you."

With those words, Sanada turned and followed the woman down the hall leaving a very angry Akutsu behind.

-to be continued-

AN: thank you for reading. This chapter is short, but this is really a prologue to their friendship that will develop. I want this story to be a reflection of only the moments of them together and how it develops into more. It will be 7 chapters long, meaning one for each day and on some days more will happen than on others. If you're skeptical don't worry. I have every day planned out already so I know where this is going.

Thanks again for reading. please review.