TITLE: FATAL NIGHT
AUTHOR: Belle-ange
DISCLAIMER: I do not own "The Prince of Tennis" or its characters, its creator is Konomi Takeshi, I'm just a fan who likes to make stories of the characters, and all characters other than "The Prince of Tennis" were created by me.
SUMMARY: How come an unexpected night of sadness and impotence, can take you to something that you have been waiting for a long time?
PAIRS: Echizen Ryoma/Fuji Shusuke/Tezuka Kunimitsu
-I don't know anything more, his father only told me that he was in the hospital, and I hope that you will not go and bother them for now, just till Ryoma wake up, it is hard enough for them- Ryuzaki told them with a severe voice.
-Of course Ryuzaki-sensei, we will not bother them, we will wait till they tell us is fine to go and visit him- said Oishi with a sad voice.
-Yes, don't worry Ryuzaki-sensei- everyone answer.
CHAPTER 2
It had been five days since Ryoma was taken to his room, and till that moment there haven´t been any signals that Ryoma was going to wake up. His parent's haven´t left his side, while Nanako brought clothes and food every day.
Every day they begged him to wake up, they told him that he wasn´t alone, and they asked him for forgiveness because they weren't there with him when it happen so they could have prevented it.
And finally he start to wake up on the sixth at midday, Nanako went to find a nurse to check on him, while his parents took each one of his hands and were trying to make him react completely.
-Come on little one you have to wake up, we need you so much- Rinko started to talk to him.
-Oka-san is right Ryoma, we are here with you, nothing is going too happened to you here- Nanjiro try too.
They have been insisting for a while when Minato-sensei finally arrived, he asked them to wait outside while they cheeked him completely.
After 20 minutes of waiting, Minato-sensei finally came out to talk to them.
-I'm happy to say that Ryoma is fine, he was conscious for a couple of minutes and then he fell slept again, it's better that he rest for now- Minato-sensei told them.
Rinko and Nanjiro were really happy, they're little boy had finally wake up; Rinko went silently into the room, while Nanjiro called Ryoma's coach to tell her the good news.
ER/FS/TK
Ryuzaki-sensei just after hearing the news call the regular to her office to tell them the good news, so the regulars decide that they were going to visit after the training that afternoon.
And just like that the time went by too slowly for the comfort of the regulars, they were really impatient to go to the hospital and see the baby of the team.
When the training was finally over, all the regulars were waiting outside of the school for the taxi to arrive so that it could take them to the hospital.
It was a short way, and the moment that they arrived they went directly to Ryoma's room, the moment that they arrived they saw Nanako, Ryoma's cousin, waiting outside.
-Hi Nanako-san- Eiji greet her.
-Mina I'm afraid that this is not a good moment- Nanako told them, but a noise of a broken vase and a scream made her stop talking and turning to look at the close door.
-I SAID THAT I WANT TO BE ALONE, I DON'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE, WHAT PART OF LEAVE ME ALONE DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!?- That voice was the voice of their latest member, Echizen Ryoma.
Nanako sight tired, -I think it's better if you go and come back tomorrow- She told them looking really helpless.
Just when she finished telling them to come back tomorrow the door opened and two people came out of the door looking really tired. When Rinko saw them, she immediately apologizes for the screaming. –I´m sorry that you have come all the way to the hospital but this is not a good moment-. She told them
-Do not worry about it Echizen-sama- Tezuka Kunimitsu told her.
-Why don't you allow Tezuka and me to try to talk to him? - Fuji he asked concern.
-I don´t think that's a good idea- Nanjiro told them with worry.
-If he gets to upset we will leave immediately- Fuji continues.
Nanjiro and Rinko turn to look at each other to have a silent conversation, which Ryoma's mother won after 2 minutes, and then both of them turn to look at the boys and accept to let them try, so they took a step back to let them enter the room.
Meanwhile the others decide that it was time to go home, they knew that they weren't going to allow them to see Ryoma, so they said their goodbyes and left the hospital.
When Tezuka and Fuji entered the room, they found Echizen sitting on the bed looking outside of the window holding his knees to his chest while he was crying silently.
Fuji was the first one to approach him and take him in his arms, Ryoma tense up when he felt someone touching him but after a smell invade his sense and he recognize who was the owner of that particular smell he relax a little.
-ssh… everything is going to be alright- Fuji said with a calm and soothing voice.
Tezuka approach him too and put his hands over Ryoma's so that he would know that he was there too.
After a little while Ryoma finally calmed down and because of the fatigue of crying he fell asleep in Fuji's arms. Tezuka put him down on the bed, while Fuji tuck him in. The two of them took each one a hand and decide to wait till Echizen woke up.
ER/FS/TK
When Echizen Ryoma was finally awake, he look around the room but he didn't found anyone there, at first he was a little lost but then he start to remember what had happen before he felt sleep. First he had yell at his parents, and then his sempai's had come in, they had embrace him and reassure him; he had felt safe with them there.
Just thinking about it he felt his cheeks getting hot, he was so embarrassed, he had been crying like a baby in front of his sempai's.
Not long after he had woken up, he heard someone knocking on the door, he didn't want to see anyone, he just want to be alone and forget all of it. The person at the door didn't wait for an answer before coming inside; to his surprise the ones at the door where the same sempai's that took care of him last night.
-Echizen how are you feeling- Fuji asked him with a sad and worried voice, meanwhile both of the walked at the side of the bed, Fuji took a sit at the chair that was beside the bed, while Tezuka stood to the other side of the bed.
Echizen look down to his hands that were resting on his legs, they were looking pretty interesting right now. He didn't have the courage to see look at their faces; he was pretty sure that his family had already told them about what happened.
-I'm fine- he responds.
-if you want to talk about it, you know that we are here for you, that you are not alone- Tezuka told Ryoma, while putting one of his hands on Ryoma's shoulder showing him that he meant what he was saying.
-Tezuka is right Ryoma, even if we don't know what happened, we are here for you and nothing you say would change that- Fuji told him.
Ryoma felt something warm in his chest, he didn't understand the meaning, why did he felt this way?
-Thank you but I'm fine- he didn't say anything else, he didn't want to tell them of what had happened, it was already too much knowing that his parents knew about it.
After a while with no one saying something it become really uncomfortable. Fuji and Tezuka turn to look at each other with a worried expression but they didn't know what to do.
-I think it will be better if we leave- Fuji took Ryoma's hand –you know that if you want to talk about anything even if it is of how the weather is you can all us- he told him before standing up.
-it doesn't matter if it's in the middle of the night- Tezuka told him before he and Fuji step out of the room.
Before they close the door they hear Ryoma's replay "Arigatou sempai tachi", that put a smile on their faces because they knew that at least Ryoma had hear them.
Ryoma got comfortable again on the bed, he was tired and he didn't want to talk to his parents yet, it didn't take long for Morpheus to take him in to his arms.
ER/FS/TK
The next day Ryoma finally decide to talk to his family, even thought he didn't want to remember, the word that his sempai's told him last night help him to realize that he wasn't alone and that at least he could talk with his parents.
When he finished telling them both him and his mother where crying, his father was holding him in his arms, whispering word for him to calm down.
They convince Ryoma to talk to the police, even though he didn't know who did it, with a simple description they could start looking and with it maybe prevent that another person could be hurt.
-Otou-sama- Ryoma turn to look at his father, still with tears in his face –would you stay with me when they come?- he asked with a trembling voice, they hadn't hear him sound like that since he was 6 years old.
-Of course little one, I won't leave your side even for a minute- Nanjiro told him with a small smile, one that he hadn't seen in many years in his father's face.
In that moment Ryoma felt safe and happy, and the words that his sempai's Tezuka-buchou and Fuji had told him the day before came back "you are not alone", that thought put a small smile on his face.
Ryoma talked to the police that same day, the only person with him was his father, and he didn't want his mother not his cousin to hear every detail about that night.
The police officers were two men; they were really kind and understanding, they never pressure him to any answer, and when he didn't want to answer they didn't force him to.
In all the time that Ryoma was telling them about that night, he didn't leave his father's arms, and when he got stuck on a difficult part his father would give him support so he could continue.
They took a couple of hours but they did finish, at the end Ryoma was so relived, it took him a great deal to speak about what happened but with his father's support he made it.
The police officers told them that they would report anything knew even the smallest detail, but that it could take a while to find that person, because the description wasn't perfect.
Nanjiro told them that it didn't matter how long it took, just that they need to catch the criminal that hurt his precious little boy.
That night Ryoma didn't sleep well, he woke up a lot for the nightmares, but every time his father was there by his side supporting him and making him feel safe and loved.
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AN – Here is the next chapter of this story, hope you like it
(Edited 2015)
Greetings
R&R
Belle-ange
