It was only meant to be a walk to clear his head, away from the family, away from school life which was burdening him so much. It had been another disappointing start to the year and in Yuuta's mind it could only get worse. Another Christmas spent with his family sitting on the sofas, drinking tea and not speaking. His sister locked in her room out of sight, she had tried getting on with her life, and Yuuta knew that. There had been a twinge of excitement in her voice when she had spoken about the new boyfriend that she had taken an interest in about July the year before, and had been asked out in November. But, according to his parents as he wasn't there at the time, all he did was pity her, so she had broken up with him and fallen back into her depressed attitude. Yuuta himself had been treated like a piece of delicate art at St Rudolph's by the teachers and fellow classmates, there seemed to feel like there was a large space around him which more than not having to be filled with members of the tennis team who hadn't moved up and on to the high school.

Lost in his own thoughts, he wasn't thinking on where he was going in general fact. He had just escaped St Rudolph's for a while, and he was able to keep somewhat of an eye on what was in front of him. He could hear the cars driving past him at high speeds and he knew he was walking one of the more popular routes of the shopping centre. People were as usually skilful dodging the boy, whilst talking on their phone or chatting to their friend, so no one really had the time to pay attention to the fact that there was a middle school student walking in school hours down the middle of the pavement. He was happy that way until he actually bumped into someone and it was more embarrassing the fact that he fell over on his back instead of the other person. Grumbling to himself about the how the person probably wouldn't even notice and try and help him up, Yuuta rubbed the back of his head and jerked back in surprise when he saw a hand come into view of his face. It was out stretched and frowning Yuuta followed the arm up to the owner of the face.

Giving a startled yell he scrambled backwards and pushed himself up from the pavement. Standing there with clear blue eyes open, a tilt to his head with a bit of confusion mixed in stood his own brother. Yuuta took only a few seconds to take in the rest of his brother. Fuji's left hand was hanging by his right side, a long sleeved shirt slid over some of it. There was a definite thinner tone to his body, which was not good as he had been most certainly slender before he had even kidnapped. The boy who stood before Yuuta was most certainly Fuji without a doubt.

"Are you alright? I didn't mean to bump into you" came the smooth gentle tone, which could have been associated with that of someone comforting a soul, but for Yuuta it was like the bells were going off inside his head. Yuuta scrambled for that retreating hand, holding it tightly.

"Aniki?" he asked, his voice breaking half way through the word. It was Fuji's turn to look startled and shocked, although Yuuta only took this as a good thing. All that was really going through his mind was about the fact that Fuji was standing there right in front of him and he wasn't about to let go.

"Excuse me. I need to go." Fuji protested; his face was set with alarm and fright as he tried pulling his hand away and much to his success he managed after several tries. That time was short lived as Yuuta grabbed hold of Fuji's left wrist and pulled out his mobile phone quickly. He thought that the wrist felt slightly chunkier but that thought was short lived. He could feel the tugging and pulling in an attempt to get out of the grip but did not think much on it, as he was more busy instructing his sister to come and collect him as both their parents were out. Keeping a tight firm grip on Fuji's wrist, he flicked the mobile phone shut and placed it back in his pocket.
"Yumiko said she would pick us up at the park." Yuuta said, tugging Fuji along oblivious to the elder boy's pain and discomfort, he just didn't realise that he was pulling on Fuji's bad wrist. In Yuuta's mind he was much too eager to get home so he could shout at his brother for leaving them in such a state of depression and be able to take out his anger and know his brother would comfort him.

All Fuji could do was follow, if he tried to protest he would stop walking and then there would be a large tug on his wrist. He didn't know this strange person who had determination written across his face but he did know that he wanted to get back Eiji. He had only wanted to walk outside for a small while, not far, just up and down the street to get a breath of fresh air. There was a familiar aura about the streets they went down, or was pulled down, and a familiar tone to the voice of the stranger. Fuji realised then that this person wasn't completely a stranger, he had seen him on some of the pictures that had been spread out across the apartment, not many but some. It had been two days ago that they had watched the house and been inside the other one. They had only time to explore the ground floor because Kevin had pulled them out after a short time and as they were walking away Fuji could have sworn to see a black haired, with two hanging pieces of hair, person step into the front garden. Kevin had made them spend yesterday looking at the pictures. Fuji daren't question Kevin's actions but secretly he wondered what this had to do with his and Eiji's tennis skills. A quirk jerk to his wrist, as he realised they had been standing waiting for the green man so they could cross, sent shivers of pain up his arms and he gave a quiet hiss of pain through clenched teeth but brought him back to reality.

As they crossed the road, a black iron bearing sign stood over what Fuji presumed to the entrance to the park, to the front a large car park had been built. There were a few cars there; the stranger seemed to be tugging him along to a red car where a woman stood with sunglasses covering her eyes.

"Excuse me but I need to get back." Fuji said, feeling a sense of cold wash over him, not a stinging type of cold feeling but that of what you needed when you were really hot. He tried removing the stranger's hand from his wrist without tugging on his own arm. "Please" he said with a desperate tone to his voice.

"Shusuke?" a whispered voice floated into his senses and Fuji turned to see who had made it. The woman who had been standing by the red car was now standing next to Yuuta. Fuji tried to take a step back but couldn't due to Yuuta holding his wrist still. 'How does she know my name?' He thought to himself looking around for a way to escape.

"See I told you!" the stranger that had bumped into him was now speaking to the strange woman.

"I didn't not believe you," came the soothing voice of the woman.

"Are mum and dad home?"

"No, but they should be in about 15 minutes."

"Nee-san, please let's go. I want to cheer them up," Fuji was lost half way through that conversation and so it was only when he felt a painful tug on his arm that he realised he was being lead into the car.

"Please! I need to get back!" Fuji tried to protest to no avail, as no one was listening, caught up in their own world as he was almost placed in the back seat. 'I'm sorry Eiji' he thought as within less than a space of a minute, the red car was already on the road heading somewhere. Holding his left wrist protectively, he wanted to curl up to protect himself from the two strange people.

You will have to excuse me for this chapter ... I am very tired, its now 5:40am in the morning. Gomen nasai if this is bad ... ahhhhhhh no Tuti! T_T watching a show called *pnish* and its got two Tenimyu first cast characters I like (Tenimyu is the prince of Tennis musicial, brilliant piece of work. Go and watch it, its amazing. Anyway first cast is my favourite! ^-^ best cast ever), anyway *pnish* did a parody thingy of 'Little Women' a book i have read many times and Tuti played the character that becomes seriously ill with scarlet fever T_T (and he looks cute as a girl ... how the hell does that happen?)

demoncat13: lol. As for character personalities ... I don't know ... I only placed her as momo because of all the jumping she does and general hyperness in her reviews.
eijikikumarufan01: Oishi nearly caught them in this chapter ... and yeah your idea helped with this chapter.
ElementalCat: No, there might be a bit of Fuji but more Momo. Yeah sorry, might redo that chapter sometime in the future ...
yume229: Why Kawamura? Oishi would break down and be almost unrepairable, Inui would probably try and posion them with Inui juice, Tezuka would probably scare Kevin out of his skin, Kaidoh, Momo and Echizen are in middle school and would probably find it difficult to comprehend with. Kawamura has a flat to himself and he's probably got one of the strongest personalities in the whole thing
Midori-Emmi: Woah, thank you for the compliment. Don't worry your not the only one who felt that way about that chapter, it will probably get redone when I go through this at the end. And updated for you!
BF: Its a pain, I tell you that for nothing, been this way since Saturday actually and no its still not sorted itself out ... Anyway Yuuta wasn't around the houses but he did bump into Fuji in this chapter ... quite literally (ignore that last pun on literally).

Three votes in your reviews please tonight!

1) Should I write an Eiji chapter first or go straight to Fuji's house?
2) How do you think Fuji should react and behave when he sees his parents?
3) How do you think Fuji's parents will react and behave to seeing him and seeing the way he is behaving?

So Reviews Please!