Hiruma Yoichi was watching his team practice. Musashi was stood with him.

He let off a few rounds with his gun drawing everyone's attention and allowing Cerberus to catch Sena and bite him. He snickered to himself.

"Practice is over. Get here tomorrow after school!"

Musashi looked at him before saying "Finishing early today?"

"Keh I have to watch Yuki. Old Lady wasn't around today. Father may have forgotten about her again."

Musashi nodded. He knew how much Hiruma and his father didn't get on and how he neglected Yuki.

"I won't be in school for the next week. You are in charge of practice."

With that he turned and walked away. Musashi shook his head. He didn't want to be involved in whatever scheme Hiruma was planning.

Hiruma quickly changed and left school ignoring his teammates. Yes he knew he was acting differently but at the moment he didn't care. Hopefully by the end of the week he and his sister would be free of their father. The only reason he hadn't left and started living in the apartment he owned was because of his sister who he had been looking after since she was born.

Walking into the apartment he saw his father asleep on the couch with his sister playing in the cupboards.

"Yuki. Get out of the cupboards. NOW"

The small girl with black hair that spiked much like his own turned around.

"Yoi-nee! Your home! I'm hungry. Can you make some food pleeeeeeeese?" She turned her puppy dog eyes on him. He smiled.

"Of course. Come on lets go out for food. Its Friday lets have ramen. Also I'm going to have to sign you up for nursery. That way I know you will be somewhere safe for the day"

He held out his hand which she immediately grabbed onto squealing when he lifted her onto his back. He looked down at his father growling as he left.

Ten minutes later they arrived at the ramen shop. They sat down and he ordered two ramen. As they were waiting for it to cook Hiruma pulled out some small animals for Yuki and the team practice sheets for him to do which he would drop off at Musashi's the next morning so that he could train the team while he was busy sorting out his sister and father. Suddenly he heard voices behind him.

"Hiruma!"

He turned and looked seeing the whole team entering the Raman stand he groaned in his head. "We were trying to contact you but you would pick up your phone."

"Fucking shrimp, Fucking Manager what do you want?"

"Well we thought that we could all eat together for once." Mamori replied annoyed at the blonde

"Well too bad I'm busy at the moment"

"Two ramen for you sir." A waiter called to him.

Hiruma nodded and picked up the ramen.

"Two Hiruma?"

"Yes fucking manager now leave me alone. I won't be at practice for the next week Musashi will be in charge so if I hear any of you have been slaking off…" He left the threat on the end. Let them imagine the things he would do to them. He glared at them and they walked off to a place where they could all sit.

"Nee-san who are they?" Yuki asked while slurping her Ramen.

"Those people are my teammates on the football team at school."

The two sat in silence for a while and ate their Ramen. Soon Hiruma notices his sister was falling asleep. Shaking his head he quickly paid their bill, packed their stuff up and picked her up before leaving, taking no notice of his teammates who were watching him. Arriving home he quickly changed her into her bed cloths and put her to bed. He closed her door wand walked to his own room where he quickly finished the training plans for the team and the analysis that he needed to for near next match which would be in a month's time.

Seeing that it was almost 1am he went to sleep.

With the team

"Musashi who was that girl with Hiruma?" Monta asked. Everyone knew that they would have to ask either him or Kurita about Hiruma.

"Hmm? I will let Hiruma tell you when he decides but it is someone he cares for. He would even give up American Football if he really had to too keep her safe."

Everyone looked surprised by that. They knew how much he loved football.

"But why was she out so late she appeared to be about 4?" Mamori asked.

"That's because she is four and that was quite possibly her evening meal. The girl is not cared for that well and it's often Hiruma who gives her her evening meal. I know that they go out once a week to get food and it's always somewhere different." He replied looking at Mamori." I only knew because if Hiruma is ever ill then I look after her. The girls' father does hardly anything to look after her."

The group nodded realising that they would get no more from him and from the look he gave their other teammate who may say something they would get nothing from him either. The group finished and slowly left in small groups.

With Hiruma the next day.

Hiruma walked up to Musashis house early the next morning. He knocked on the door and was glad when Musashi opened it.

"Old man. Here are the team practise sheets for the next week."

Musashi nodded and turned around. "Thanks Hiruma."

"Keh. You may want to watch the news a bit more this week. Tell the team to as well especially on Wednesday."

With that Hiruma turned around and walked away.

He quickly arrived back at his home and took Yuki to the babysitter for the day. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow she would never have to go back to his fathers and she would be able to stay safe with him. He spent all day at his Lawyers going over all the paperwork before returning to pick up Yuki from the woman who lived in the apartment opposite him. He knocked on the door and the woman, named Sakura, opened the door.

"Oh Yoichi. I thought you asked you father to pick Yuki up they left about 10 minutes ago."

"Dammit Sakura-san you know why I leave her with you and not my father" He swore as he ran back to his apartment cursing.

He entered the apartment to see his father standing over his sister who was covered in blood. He quickly shoved his father glad for his football skills and that his father was slightly drunk. He quickly checked over Yuki not noticing his father behind him managing to stand up and throw a punch at him. It was another 5 minutes before the man went unconscious and left Hiruma alone. He reached out his hand for his mobile and rang 999 quickly calling for an ambulance.

"Help please. Father beat up." He was quickly falling unconscious "Hiruma Household. Sakura garden…" With that he couldn't keep awake anymore and fell into darkness.

It took less than five minutes for the police and an ambulance to arrive. The paramedics were quickly shown to the apartment where there were a group of men watching over a large man who appeared to be unconscious. An elderly woman was watching over two others a small girl with black hair and a tall blond with similar features.

"Miss do you know what may have happened here?" One of the policemen asked softly.

"I should never have let her leave. I should have listened to him."

"Ma'am we need you to tell us what may have happened here."
The woman looked up at the police woman.

"I look after the girl Yuki while Yoichi is at school. I knew that he didn't trust his father and thought nothing of it when the father came to pick her up. He used to occasionally but when Yoichi came to pick her up and then bolted off I knew there was something wrong. He looked so panicked. I followed him up a lot slower though I can run anywhere near as fast as him. I found them like this. I called a couple of the lads to move the father away from the two."

"Thank you ma'am. Can I have the names of the people here?"

"Well the girl is Yuki. She is four. Yoichi is the blonde. He is seventeen and was trying to get custody of her in a court hearing tomorrow. The older man is their father Yuuya. He is their father but since Yuki was born he has become nothing more than a drunken waste of space. Yoichi is the one who earns the money in the house and makes sure Yuki is looked after. I look after Yuki every day while Yoichi is at school. On a Friday I have to let her go home early but Yoichi will often return home after ten minutes or so. He really doesn't trust his father." With that she began sobbing again. Another Police woman came and took the woman away so the Paramedics to help the two young people who were unconscious. They were quickly put onto spine boards and had neck braces around their necks as the paramedics didn't know how much damage had been done to them by the older man. They were quickly rushed into the waiting ambulances and to the local hospital.

Later that night Musashi was watching the news like Hiruma told him to wondering why?

"Breaking News. This afternoon police were called to a house in Sakura Gardens in Tokyo where a report came in of a man attacking two young people. The elder of the two who was aged just 16 managed to knock the man unconscious and called the police before falling unconscious himself. There are unconfirmed rumours of the other child, a four year old girl, was the boys younger sister that he was trying to gain custody of."

Musashi was shocked by the news. Only he and Kurita knew where Hiruma lived and that Hiruma got beaten up so badly meant that there had been trouble. Hopefully Kurita would not tell everyone that it was Hiruma who was involved but he doubted it. Picking up the phone he dialled Kurita's number.

"Musashi… What's going on with Hiruma?" Kurita said as soon as he picked it up

"Kurita calm down. We can't tell anyone besides Hiruma said that he wouldn't be around this week anyway so we should be safe besides nobody but us knows where he lives. His school mail is always sent to a post-box which is not near to his house so they won't find out either."