Mistaken – By RoyLover (AtoSae) Saeki's POV

Disclaimer: Characters belong to Prince of Tennis except Himeko - OC character

-Chapter 4-

A couple of weeks later, I found out how much weight I've lost from not eating too much. It was bad because my friends and the workers at my work place were all starting to worry about me a lot, and that was something I didn't want to happen. But how could I hide it when I was so weak now? I'm no good at tennis as I used to be, and I can't even swing my kendo stick right. Plus, I barely take walks to the beaches, and I barely come out of my little home. This was a terrible disaster, and I was bad at hiding it.

"Saeki, look at you! You're skinnier than those models in the magazines now!" Bane exclaimed.

"I have to agree on this...Saeki, you need help, and I'm being serious, too," David told me.

"It's okay, guys. I'll be able to pull it through," I assured them.

"You sure?" Bane asked.

"Yeah," I replied with a smile. "Everything will be alright."

That was what I always said to them, my friends...even to Fuji. I didn't want them to worry about me because my life was my own, and it didn't revolve around everyone else.

Well, my home life was bad. There were many times when I would imagine Atobe living with me at home while I was awake. That meant that I would talk to myself, thinking that I was talking to Atobe and things like that. I knew that this was happening to me, and I needed help and was in serious condition, but there was no way that I could afford some professional person for help. So I just continue to live in the condition I am right now, living in a fantasy of my own imagination. It was nice, but such a fantasy could never be as good as reality.

Still yet, weeks past as I got weaker, but still tried my best to keep my friends from not worrying. For today, I decided I would have a talk to Himeko without Atobe knowing...

I knocked on the door to the Atobe resident, a huge mansion. The door opened, revealing Himeko in a nice pink, flowery summer dress. Her eyes had become huge when she saw me, but, by luck, she happened to be one who answered the door and not one of the servants or Atobe. If it were, something bad might had come out of it.

"Saeki?" she said with surprise.

"Yeah...I wanted to talk to you..." I told her calmly.

"Oh, but Saeki, you've grown to be so thin and tired looking."

"It's alright. I'll get better. Don't worry."

"Ah, okay. Come in, come in."

I came in, seated in one of the black couches placed in the pure white dinning room in the Atobe resident. Himeko sat right across from me with much manners. My eyes could barely focus on her though, but I tried to look as strong as I could, being that I felt so weak at the moment.

"So what is it that you wanted to talk about, Saeki?" She asked me.

"It's about Keigo..." I told her.

"Oh..." she replied flatly, fiddling her finger.

"Why didn't you tell Keigo that I saved you?" I questioned, my voice sounding almost a shout.

"I-I..."

"Tell me...Why did you not tell him and let him hate me? Is it because you hate me, too?" I exclaimed, feeling such hatred against me at the moment.

"No, it's that..."

"Then what is it?"

"I love Keigo...Love him enough that I would have to not tell the truth to be able to have him..." she answered me, biting the bottom of her lip.

For a second there, I felt my heart beat come to a halt. After all this suffer, it was only because of Himeko's selfishness that led me to be like this...I felt so betrayed.

"So you don't care what happens to me?" I questioned, knowing I displayed a broken face.

"I do, Saeki! But...I don't know if it's possible..." she answered to me quickly.

"Before I go," I said as I stood up to leave the Atobe resident. "Why did that one servant attacked you? Who was he, anyways?"

She looked down, her eyes narrowing. "His name is Sukawa Jiao. I...was having some sort of a relationship with him...but when Keigo opened my eyes when it came to love, I fell in love with Keigo...so I told Sukawa that I wasn't going to be with him anymore and that's when he got mad and attacked me...Saeki, I'm so-"

"Himeko..." I suddenly spoke up, cutting her words off. "I accept your apology...It's alright. Everything is alright."

"You sure, Saeki?" She asked me with concern.

I nodded my head with a slight smile, trying my best to hold in my tears. I thought to myself how this friend of mine, Himeko, who seemed so perfect back then, but was so imperfect now. I started to walk away when I saw Atobe in front of me. "Keigo!" was all that came out.

"You son of a bitch! What the hell are you doing in my house?" Atobe hollered at me.

I closed my eyes tightly, the ache in my heart throbbing harshly. "I didn't..." Suddenly, I felt him knock me at the side of my face with the back of his hand, sending me to fall on the white, marble flooring. I slightly placed my fingers where he had hit me, staring at him with big, saddened, confused, hurtful eyes.

"Keigo, stop!" Himeko tried to stop him.

"Himeko! Don't you know that this man is the very man that tried to kill you?" He told her as she held his arm.

Slowly, I got back on my feet, my back facing them, as I said in a dead voice, "Thanks for ruining my life...Himeko." My feet moved on its own, running as fast as I could until I was far away from the Atobe resident.

"What is the meaning of this?" Atobe questioned Himeko.

Slowly looking away as her eyes narrow, she replied, "I don't know. I don't know why Saeki said that in the first place."