Hi! I'm a new member of fun fiction and this is my first story so please forgive me if I'll have wrongs in my grammars or spelling words.

Please read my story and give me your opinion, this is a prince of tennis story from when Ryoma and Ryoga were child until the second time they meet each other again.

Enjoy this.

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The Difference

Chapter 10: The darkness above the sun

That was a warm afternoon when the bus left the main stadium to back to the hotel; everyone were silent and didn't say anything about the events, only Ryoma seemed didn't care about anything, he was smiling while he was looking outside of the window; that was all the first time in his life that he wasn't mad of losing in a match, after everything that master Mifune told him about the truth now he didn't have fears and anxiety anymore, now the world was clear in front of his eyes and the true happiness filled his heart, but he knew well that he should meet someone as soon as possible, a very important person in his life.

- You seem happy Echizen!"

Ryoma turned to face his captain, " Don't you want to tell us that truth after all?!" Ryoma shocked when Byodoin asked him with a cold face and an impassive tone.

- I think that you should wait, since I don't know all the truth too, right master Mifune?!"

Mifune nodded and then closed his eyes again, he seemed deeply tired.

- I am captain of the team and I shouldn't know that what the hell is going to happen here?! " Byodoin shouted, he was really angry.

- Quite brat! " master Mifune shouted too to stop the struggle.

The cold shadow of silent overrule there again until the bus stopped in front of the hotel.

- Everyone come down faster!" coach Itaru said.

- Master Mifune! Can I leave now?!"

Mifune looked at Ryoma's happy but full of questions eyes, " I won't can stop you if you want to meet him, but give me time to tell the others about the events and then go brat!"

Ryoma shocked, " Do you want to tell them too?!"

Mifune sighted, " Didn't you see that guy's angry face?! If I won't tell them, something will happen at the end for sure!"

- Ah…so…" Ryoma said and then went to the hotel. There, all the team members were congregate on the main hall.

- So everyone! By all those events that happened today it's not advisable to keep the truth as a secret anymore!" when master Mifune said, everyone became silent, all of them were hunger for the truth.

- Someone who played with Camus and beat him to save us from a surly losing, a person who Camus called him the leader of Japan was…"

- MY OLDER BROTHER, ECHIZEN RYOGA!" Ryoma said while he couldn't stop himself not to say it.

Nothing in this world on that time couldn't hid and stop the team's wonder.

- W-what are you talking about?!" Byodoin seemed truly confused.

- Everything started since six years ago." now that was master Mifune who was talking.

- That year, the International Tennis Committee allowed the entry teams in the U-17 cup to use two middle schooler in their teams, that wasn't a suggestion, that was an order! And there, we selected two persons like the other teams too! One of them was..."

- Ryoga-senpai! Right?!" Renji said immediately.

- Yeah!" Mifune slowly.

- But those matches on that time aren't important now, the reason of the last events is, when we were playing on that World Cup Ryoga and the previous captain of our nation team, Captain Ehara Shuji, realized about a big extensive financial corruption or better to say "A big mafia" in Japan's Tennis Committee." Mifune added.

- Whaaaat?!" all the team members shouted with true surprise.

- That's impossible! There is no financial corruption in Japan's systems!" Oni said decisively.

- But Senpai! Mere trusting on something always brings corruption! This is a principle!" Ryoma said calmly.

- Unfortunately he is true! And what I said about that Mafia was right too! And more unfortunately this mafia is still there, not as big as what it was in the past but it's still do exist!"

- It's still do exist..How something like this could happen?.." Fuji murmured.

- With all the efforts we have made, that 'mafia' destroyed, but..." Mifune stopped his story, he seemed deeply pensive.

- What had happened then?!" Atobe asked slowly, but because of the full silent there his slow tone seemed loud as well.

- An accident happened..." Mifune's voice was too sad.

- Which accident?!" Ryoma was shocked, " You didn't tell me about it before, master!"

Mifune swallowed his hand in his hair, " We thought, that mafia was destroyed completely, but we were all wrong...the most important members of the gang were still active, and they are still active too! I can remember well that day on two years ago...the team members were on the bus, they were moving towards the camp U-17 that between the way...the bus..." It seemed to hard for Mifune to continue but he breathed deeply and said, " The bus fell into the valley."

- It can't be!" Ryoma's voice was shaking hardly, he really couldn't believe his ears.

- Thirteen persons were inside the bus, ten of them were a part of team, the driver, coach Mizushima Takashi..."

- Coach Mizushima?! Oh god...so he was related to it too..." coach Kurobe said sadly.

- Yeah..." Mifune confirm him, " And finally a girl named 'Takagaki Ayame', on that accident just two persons survived...coach Mizushima who is in a depth coma yet and..."

- RYOGA..." Ryoma's voice was like coming from the bottom of the pit, too slow and cold.

Mifune became silent, everyone became silent, that was a cloudy afternoon and the sun was covered with black clouds...

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- We arrived." Kintaro said slowly, no one didn't say anything. That was 8 p.m when they arrived at a hotel were Ryoga was there, Ryoma asked captain Rhinehart his brother's location.

- What should we tell him?" Kirihara asked.

- 'Sorry for judging fast and unfair', this is something we should say." Yukimura said calmly and then went to the entrance door, others went in too.

There Byodoin went to the reception of the hotel and asked the responsible officer if Ryoga was there or not they were talking that suddenly someone said,

" Ryoma-kun!" that was a warm and friendly voice.

Everyone turned to meet a blond hairy girl with bright green eyes, " Eh...Sorry...Were you with me?!" Ryoma said while he was surprised that how much her kind face was familiar to him.

- Oh God!" she said and then hugged him tight in her arms, the next thing Ryoma knew was being held tightly into the kind, warm and friendly pair of arms, gripping around his frame.

- Glad to meet you again, dear little cousin!" she said while her hot tears were falling down on Ryoma's neck.

That was no moon on the sky that night, but those thousands of stars on it, were all truly enough...