Title: His abusive past

By: Namikaze Naruto, tenma no ouji

Revised and Rewritten


His abusive past:

Mienai Kizuna

(Unseen bonds)


Rinko smirked and got into the car, "Let's go Miyuki."

Giving a nod, the auburn haired woman slid behind the wheel and started the car, "Do you wanna go anywhere in particular Rinko-sama?" Miyuki smiled into the review mirror as she eyed her mistress. "I can take you where ever you want to go, mistress."

"Surprise me Miyu." the former female Echizen smiled, "But we should stay away from the Tokyo area for now. Nanjiroh won't be welcoming to my presence just yet." Folding her arms across her lap, Rinko tilted her head out the window, "And we don't know what Akito is planning now, so stay away from the Kanagawa prefecture as well, don't want to run the chances of seeing him." With a smile, Miyuki put the car in drive and took of down the road. 'Soon Nanjiroh, very soon, you and I are going to be reunited.'


Kisuke tightened his hold over the file in his hand as he made his way towards his best friend, Kuniharu. Arriving at the man's office, Kisuke let himself in and approached the desk, "Haru." he called out gaining the said man's attention.

Blinking, Kuniharu smiled at his friend, "Ah, what brings you here Kisuke?"

Placing the folder on the desk, Kisuke took the seat across from the man, "Remember that first case we got, in America, with the young boy who was thoroughly beaten by his mother and had been in that coma?"

Kuniharu lost his smile and glanced at the folder briefly before leaning back in his chair and eying his friend with seriousness, "Of course I do Kisuke. I think about that boy every day. It's one of my biggest regrets you know, not being able to catch that bitch. Not being able to give the boy and his family justice for everything that woman had done to the kid. Echizen Ryoma, ka. Why would you bring something like this up now, five years later?"

"She's somewhere in Japan, Haru. Keigo spoke to me about it a few days ago when my father told him about the case. Turns out Keigo knows Echizen-kun and he told me that your son knows him as well, actually the entire Seigaku regular team knows the boy best. Echizen Ryoma attends Seishun Gakuen and is the teams first year regular." A small smile curled the man's lips. "It appears that your son and his teammates consider Echizen-kun as the teams baby and protects the boy as if his one as well."

Kuniharu stood up, eyes wide in surprise, "No way." he murmured, placing his hands on the surface of the desk, "I knew Kunimitsu had a new teammates, one that he and the rest of his team were fond of. It was obvious; something had changed about him this year and when Ayana and I questioned him, he mentioned a new team member and a friend, he didn't elaborate and we didn't push him to, we were just happy that he was beginning to open up and befriend peers his age." shaking his head, Haru took a glance at his friends, "If only I asked for a name, we could have been on this case sooner."

Kisuke nodded his head, "Keigo changed as well after meeting the boy. I didn't notice anything at first, but the change did happen. I asked his team about it and the only thing they said was Keigo was infatuated with Seigaku's first year." chuckling Kisuke stood up, "Keigo has a thing for Seigaku tennis player, first was Kunimitsu, now this so called baby of their team. It's amusing, I must admit."

"Does he still fancy himself in love with Kunimitsu?" Haru smiled. "I remember Keigo telling me that he was going to marry Kunimitsu and because he was older, he would be the husband and work while Kunimitsu stayed home and watched their kids."

Kisuke snickered at that, "Good times, ne, but no I don't think Keigo is in love with Kunimitsu, and I don't think he wants Kunimitsu as his wife besides I doubt your son will make a good wife with his looks." Haru laughed at that, nodding his head,

"So how was this brought to your attention anyways?" Kuniharu questioned regaining his serious mood, "Did something happen?" Picking up the folder, he flipped it open and scanned the old reports, scanning the words and taking in the photo's attached to each paper. "I still have nightmares about what happened to this kid."

Furrowing his brows Kisuke glanced at his friend, "Echizen Ryoma was shot." there was a moment of silence before Haru's head whipped upward and he stared at the Atobe head with wide eyes, "Keigo had been in a slump several weeks ago and I didn't know the reason. I asked his team who had been staying at the mansion, that's when they told me what happened." Glancing towards the window, Kisuke sighed, "Echizen Ryoma was with another boy, a Yukimura Seiichi when the shots went off. Yukimura tried to get the both of them away from the area they were in but with everyone pushing and shoving each other it made it hard for two teen boys to get anywhere. Echizen-kun was hit twice and was pronounced not breathing when the ambulance arrived. The EMT were able to get his heart beating again before they arrived at the hospital but during the surgery his heart stopped beating again. The doctors called his death and told his family the news." Haru's eyes closed, "But another miracle happened, somehow he began breathing again. I'm telling you that kid has got one very over protective guardian angel that wouldn't even allow death to claim the kid."

Kuniharu released a deep breath, "So Echizen-kun is in the hospital?" Kisuke gave a nod of his head and Haru cleared his desk, placed all his important papers into his briefcase and shut down his computer, "Let's go then. We can finally give that family something we hadn't been able to do before."

Kisuke gave a nod of his head, "Justice." he stated as the two left the office.


Yuuta sighed as he placed the phone in the cradle, a small smile wormed it's way across his lips, "And what makes you so happy, Yuuta bear?" a man asked, his smile wide and eyes sparkling.

The youngest of the Fuji siblings resisted the urge to sigh, "Don't call me Yuuta bear, tou-san, I'm not a little kid anymore, ya know. I'm almost 14." The man just smiled wider, unrepentant, "Really between you and Syuusuke, I don't know whose worse."

"Now, now Yuuta, would you want me to call you Yuutan instead." Blue eyes glittered in amusement before he returned to the matter at hand, "Anyways, why did you seem happy earlier?"

"Ah, a friend of mine, well he's more a friend of aniki, really, but anyways, he was in an accident quite recently and fell into a coma shortly after his operation. Syuusuke just called and said he's awake now." Yuuta closed his eyes, "Aniki was distraught upon hearing the news, everyone had been."

Sosuke took a seat beside his son, "I haven't seen your brother since I came home, I just assumed he was staying at a friends or at one of his teams training camps that they seemed to have often enough," Blue eyes slid closed, "Was he staying at the hospital the entire time?"

Yuuta gave a nod, "Yeah the Echizen family provided the Seigaku team with futons. pillows and blankets since it was apparent they had no wishes to leave their baby boy alone, encase he awoke, they didn't want him by himself." the 'lefty killer' paused when he noticed the shock look that entered his father's eyes, "What is it, tou-san?"

"You said Echizen? What's the boys name?" Confused Yuuta answered the question and blinked when his father quickly stood up, "I know who your talking about, excuse me for a while won't you Yuuta, I'm going to head to the hospital to talk with the Echizen family." with that said, Sosuke left the house.

Yuuta sighed and shook his head, "Between Aniki and otou-san, I don't know whose worse." he whispered, standing up. He had to return to the St. Rudolph dorms before Mizuki came looking for him. And he really didn't want Mizuki coming here to cause trouble, especially since his aniki hated the manager. Sighing once again, Yuuta entered his room. He better hurry up before his brother decided to come home.


Shiraishi gaped at the what he was hearing. He couldn't believe what Zaizen had just said, it couldn't be. Thanking his friend for telling him what was going on, the Shitenhouji buchou hung the phone up and glanced towards the teams first year who was laughing, wildly at whatever Yuji and Koharu had said. He was reluctant to break the news to the team, knowing how the freshman would react.

"Minna-san." he called out, eyes staring at the youngest of the team, "Zaizen just called and he had some news he wanted to share with us." As the team gathered around Shiraishi, the captain wrapped his arms around Kintaro, "Kin-chan, I know it's going to be hard for you to hear this..."

Kintaro blinked at Shiraishi in confusion, "What do you mean by that, Shiraishi-buchou." the wild boy glanced towards his teammates wondering if they knew what was about to say, but they seemed just as confused. Chitose and Kenya both stepped forward to stand on either side of Kintaro while Gin, Koharu and Yuuji stood behind, placing hands on Kintaro's shoulder. "What did Zaizen-senpai tell you buchou?"

"He told me that Echizen Ryoma..." Shiraishi closed his eyes, "Echizen Ryoma was shot a few weeks ago and was rushed to the hospital. During the operation, he died."

The words spoken caused everyone to freeze in disbelief, not being able to comprehend the words that had just been spoken. "What?" Kintaro whispered, shaking his head in denial. "No!" he screamed, "Zaizen-senpai lies, there is no way Koshimae is dead, he can't be!" he cried out, "Koshimae! Koshimae!" Kintaro wailed and Shiraishi brought the small boy into his chest, his shirt being soaked by the rears the younger boy was shedding. Koharu and Yuuji embraced Gin, both of them crying against the bigger male. Chitose and Kenya lowered their heads in sorrow. "Why? Why did he have to die?"

Chitose clenched his fist, when he found the person who did this, he was going to, well, he didn't know what he would do but he was sure he would make the person regret ever touching someone within the tennis circuit especially someone they knew.


It's been a few days since Ryoma awoke from his coma and everything was going great. The doctors told the group that Ryoma was healing quite well and they were going to release him at the end of the week. Earlier in the week he received a surprise visit from Fuji Sosuke, who he found out was actually Fuji's father, and after speaking with him for a while, Ryoma had given him the address to his house so he could speak with his father. A few seconds later, he thought he heard talking outside his door, but when no one entered he just brushed it off as Sosuke speaking to a doctor or something.

"Hey ochibi-chan, what do you want to listen to now?" Eiji called out riffling through the stacks of CD's. "Do you have any thing in particular that you want to listen to?"

Ryoma glanced towards the redhead and thought briefly, "Yeah, could you put on Mienai Kizuna" the redhead beamed and nodded his head, "I think that song is very fitting for the moment. It's heartfelt and upbeat." the strumming of the guitar filled the room and Eiji bounced towards the bed where Ryoma lay and leaped upon the mattress to cuddle against the smaller male.

"Ima boku-tachi ga kanjiteru kono omoi wa

Kotoba ni dekinai hodo no ooki sugiru arigatou

Me wo tojireba ukabu anata-tachi no egao

Donna mono yori itoshii ikiru chikara no subete"

Ryoma soft voice lulled Eiji to sleep. Smiling at his catlike senpai, the younger boy reached over and ran his fingers through the older boys hair gently, the movement reminded him of something Ryoga often did for him when they were younger, and whenever Ryoga was home that is.

"Umareta toki ageta koe wo mada oboetemasu ka

Hajimete hanashita kotoba oboeteimasu ka

Shinpai kaketa koto mo nandomo atta ne dakedo

Sore ga atta kara ima koushite toutoi namida ga afuredasu"

The doors opened caused Ryoma to turned towards it and watched as the rest of the team trekked in, holding plastic bags filled with food, snacks and drinks. Fuji grinned and joined Ryoma in singing the song that was currently being played while the rest of the team smiled as they headed towards table to get the food ready.

"Mune wo sasu hodo no itami ni naita yoru

Daijoubu to hagemashite kureta ne

Fuan de tsuburesou na tabidachi no asa ni

Ganbare to yuuki wo kureta ne"

Oishi smiled as he approached the bed, "Is he sleeping?"

Ryoma nodded his head, "He just fell asleep." he shrugged, "I guess my voice put him to sleep." snickers were heard from Momo's general direction, which caused everyone to glance at him wondering what he found so amusing.

"Your voice has the tendency to lull people to sleep not because it's boring or anything, it just has that peaceful quality to it, almost like a mother humming a lullaby." Ryoma rolled his eyes at his friends statement, was that suppose to make him feel better.

Fuji shook his head, "It's not bad Ryo-chan." the tensai grinned, "It's actually quite beautiful and I wouldn't mind listening to you sing all day." the brown haired glance towards the rest of the team, "And I know they feel the same way as well." Nods were the only answer Ryoma received before Inui placed a bento in front of him.

"Eat up." Inui stated, while Oishi shook Eiji awake, placing a bento in the redheads hands who thanked his partner. The only sound in the room was the music being played as the group ate their lunch, until the last part of the song came on, everyone sang the last line with small smiles.

"Towa ni kienu kizuna

Dare ni mo mienai kizuna"


Tsuzuku

(To be continued)


-The song I used belongs to Shirota Yuu, it's a lovely song, with an upbeat, catchy tune. I love it.

Translations: (Note that this is not the entire song, there's more, but I only used part of the song)

First part: Ryoma:

"Right now, we're feeling these feelings

A gratitude so great it can't be put into words

If I close my eyes, your smiles comes to mind

It's more beloved then anything, it's all the power (I need) to live"

Second part: Ryoma:

"Do I still remember the raised voices during my birth?

Do I remember my first words?

But worrisome things would happen over and over again

And because of that these precious tears start to fall"

Third part: Fuji and Ryoma:

"On the night I cried out of sadness as if my heart was pierced

Your 'it's alright' encouraged me

On the morning of my departure when I was almost crushed by my anxiety

You gave me courage and told me to 'do my best'"

Last part: Everyone

"A bond that will never disappear

This bond unseen by anyone else"

Tenma