Rating: K+
Summary: I can't play tennis anymore, So I quit...Why? That's simple, there is nothing left for me. Ryoma stopped playing tennis. why? Some angst and death(no regulars). Will Ryoma get his will to play tennis back?
Pairings: You will see it when you read it.
Listening: Plumb - Damage
Notes: I forgot to do this with the other chapter but I will do it now
'When they think.'
"When they speak."
singing
And everybody is a little out of character or that is what I think

Thank you for the reviews:
oruchuban Ebichu: I don't think Tezuka means to be this hard. But I think he doesn't know any other way to show his feelings. With that pairing I don't know yet, I'm really troubled. Who fits Ryoma better, Tezuka who looks in personality like him or Fuji who can break him if he wanted to, but also knows better than anyone that life is hard.
CelicaChick: Just like I side I don't know...It's an even score. I know that they look a like, but I do think that Ryoma saw him merely as an stepping stone. Although he might be the one person who could make ryoma interested in tennis again. But maybe he doesn't want that anymore. I know I'm really confusing everybody.
Craze Izumi: He can become a singer...he might be the next prince of pop hahaha. But we will see.
Chebl0s: I'm sorry, but ryoma did quit himself...or...I did make him. But anyway it doesn't mean the end of the world just read and you will see that the world will not end.

When there is nothing left for you - part 3

"Okaa-san, I'm off to school." Ryoma said when he walked out of the house. Ryoma knew his mother was worried about him, she didn't thought it was smart to go to school already. When he threw out his tennis gear she was nearly devastated. She knew how much it would mean for her husband that his son would keep on playing tennis. But there was nothing she could do. Nanako had been crying the entire time when he threw out everything.
Every minute this morning she asked Ryoma: "Are you oke?" Ryoma brushed it away with a smile. He never was someone who would smile a lot. But he decided it would be the best thing and that made him wonder if Fuji did the same thing. Smile so that people can't touch you.

The walk to school was long. And with every step he took he just wanted to run home and go hide under the covers. He was scared that his old teammates would be angry with him. But he couldn't tell them, not yet anyway. When he finally set foot on schoolground he was over his fear. But he still wished he had kept his cap. He had thrown out even his old cap, the one thing he could hide under.
Ryoma was late like always. "Onegai, Sensei." Ryoma said when he entered the classroom. "Don't worry and take your seat." the teacher said.
'Okaa-san must have called the school and informed them.' he thought while everybody was staring at Ryoma, like he had a big pimple on his nose. He could just read there faces that they wanted to know everything. Ryoma took his seat next to Sakuno who smiled at him unsure. Ryoma smiled back at her not knowing that this would scare Sakuno.
Sakuno almost fell off her chair, she had never seen Ryoma smile a lot and never to her. The only thing Ryoma could think of was. 'What was her name again?'
When lunchbreak came Ryoma avoided all the questions that were fired at him and ran away. He locked himself in the music room. That was the place where he stayed the entire lunchbreak. After the lunchbreak he went back to his class. Luckily none of his classmates tried to ask anything. If they did he would just start to glare again. That smiling didn't seem to help.

After school Ryoma thought about checking up on his old teammates, but he decided that that only would lead to trouble. But when he walked out of the school, he saw Fuji standing there with his everlasting smile.
"Hi Echizen-kun, the weather is nice, ne?" Fuji made his smile even wider.
"I guess..." Ryoma said without paying a lot of attention to Fuji. "Where are you going, Echizen-kun?" Fuji asked.
"Home." and Ryoma walked past him. Fuji didn't like to be ignored, so he ran after Ryoma and started to walk next to him. Both the where silence. Than Ryoma let out a deep sigh. "Fuji-sempai, why are you following me?"
"Just to make sure that you don't disapear from the face of the earth again, but how are you doing, Echizen-kun?"
Ryoma stopped walking and looked at Fuji's face and said: "I'm not planning on disapearing and I'm doing quite fine." Then Ryoma did something Fuji never expected, he smiled and continued to walk. He left a stunned Fuji behind him, who had his eyes open. 'Why did he smile like that?' Some how Fuji's heart hurt seeing him smiling like that. A smile that was torn and not real.

"Did you hear it?" Kikumaru bounced around on the tennis grounds. "What is it?" Momoshiro asked. "Ochibi is in school again." He said happily.
'Hmm the brat is back, but he doesn't bother to show himself to us.'
"Shall we go to eat something after school, Momo-chan." Kikumaru asks. "I don't know."
"Please come, Oishi is going to and he is buying." Kikumaru looked pleading at Momoshiro.
"Ano Eiji, I don't have that much money." Oishi stept in when Eiji started to talk about him buying food for everyone. "Oishi, don't be like this, I'll make sure you'll have a great time." Kikumaru softly pinched Oishi's hand, who turned red and stammered: "Oke."
"So Momo, what do you think are you comming?"
"Yes sure."
"Hoi, Hoi...!." Kikumaru bounced further. Oishi smiled that his best friend was happy again. 'But where is Tezuka?'

Half way home Ryoma thought of something and started to walk faster. Being in that music room, brought back memories of the past, memories he had forgotten.

---FlashBack---
"Please mommy, play me a song." Ryoma pulled on his mothers skirt. "Oke, just one Ryoma." She got her guitar and started to play a song. When the intro was finished Ryoma started to sing.

Uh...Again tonight there's the fleeting starry sky
Uh...The shining stars are hanging with wishes...

Although worries will always endure,
The door is opening
Walking, falling, you're the one that picks me up and gives me strength
So you'll become a proud star I'll sing
Now I wont do less than my best, I'll become stronger like...

Unswaying love, this important love
No one else is so precious
This night is surely uneasy but
We're the one that won't lose, but go on living...

Ryoma's mother stopped playing when her husband walked in on them. And Ryoma looked at his father startled, like he felt he was doing something he wasn't suposed to do. Rinko hugged her son and wisphered in his ear: "Don't forget that your voice will reach everyone that will hear it."

---EndFlashback---

"Fuji, what do you think?" Asks a stern voice behind Fuji.
"Oh, Tezuka. What do I think? That he might not come back." Says Fuji with a sigh and wants to walk away but Tezuka stops him. "What did he do, Fuji?" asks Tezuka again. "He smiled." Fuji looks up at the sky. "Do you know that I don't want to lose him, without him tennis is no fun anymore." Says Fuji finally looking Tezuka in his eyes. "I feel the same, but what can we do?" "Nothing for now, it's his choice."

Authors Note: I know this chapter went really slow and I'll try to make it up to you. I wanted to post this chapter yesterday, but I went suddenly with a friend to Amsterdam. So I did it today. The song I used was from HAL - The starry sky. I did use the translation. I make this story longer than I thought.Please read and review.