Eiji`s Family Secret Chapter 10: He is Not Family
He smiled and laughed. "Fujiiko, I'll never win against you, no?"
"You are right." The tensai smiled and looked at the others. The Hyoutei regulars had puzzled looks while the Seigaku regulars had happy ones.
Eiji sighed, then looked at the others who had their eyes on him. "Well, the truth is that…. Kein hurt me… He pushed me against the wall and hit me." He glanced at the floor, then at the Hyoutei regulars who were as surprised as Seigaku.
"K-Kein?... But you said your family wanted to kill you," Oishi said, looking at his doubles partner."I know all of your family, and no one is called Kein." It was impossible that Eiji was lying in a moment like that, but who was that guy Kein?
"He is a new member of the family who… joined us some months ago," the acrobat informed, playing with his fingers and not wanting to see his friends' eyes though he knew that most of them were wondering: how a new member can join the family without being born, and it was obvious that a baby couldn't hurt Eiji so… how?
"He is… my sister's husband … he is my family now, but he wants me," Eiji continued, now looking directly at Gakuto's eyes. The Hyoutei acrobat was the only one who knew about Kein, the youngest son of the third most powerful family in Japan. He was obligated to marry Eiji's sister, Eiko, to make both families one and even more powerful, but Eiko and Kein didn't love each other.
"W-What? What do you mean by 'he is family'?" Fuji asked, analyzing what Eiji had said. His sister's husband tried to kill him, and she didn't do anything.
"Well, when I was born, my sister was like 3 or 4 years old, and my parents met Kein's parents. They became close friends, and when they discovered that they were both powerful families they make a pact to have the youngest male from Kein's family marry the youngest female in ours, so my sister was the one chosen to marry Kein who is the youngest of his family…but…" the red-haired boy stopped there because it was hard for him to tell everyone the rest of the story.
"But what?" Momoshiro inquired, really curious to know what happened after that because he knew Kein wasn't the only one there trying to kill him.
"Well…. When I was chosen to perform the mission Kein was a little bit disappointed. He thought that Eiko was the one who would be chosen, but when he received the news about me being the one chosen in first place he decided to kill me. He began trying to kill me at the camp, then while I was sleeping, then in the airplane, in the clubroom, and finally in my own house." Eiji sighed and looked at Gakuto who was next to him, smiling. He knew it wasn't easy for him to recount the story, but he understood everything perfectly.
"What? But why you?" Inui tried to calm things down by using some logic and writing in his green notebook. "I think he has the same power as you, now that he is married to your sister?"
"No, you are wrong Inui, I'm the only one with power in my family, except for my father who was the former winner, but this power is only for one or two people at a time, so Kein doesn't have the power," Eiji explained, making same drawings on the floor with his finger to make it clear for the others. "But if I die my sister will get the power, and he will gain control of two-thirds of Japan. I control one-third of Japan, the central part which is the most important, and Gakuto controls one-third of Japan, the right part, so he is the second most powerful. Kein only controls the last part of Japan, the left one … but if I die or marry him, he would control more than half of Japan and be very rich."
"W-wait... you said that if he marries you he would get the control too?" Ryoma was a little bit confused with all that was happening. He hadn't know very much of his sempai, which made him a little bit mad.
"Yes, he already tries to get me, but I rejected him, because I'm not gay or something like that... so if he can't marry me, he has to kill me to get the power………Well I already answer so lets continue playing." Eiji avoided the topic by spinning the bottle and continuing the game, which finished a few hours later. Everyone was tired and sleepy so they all fell asleep in their sleeping bags.
The next day everyone woke up around 12:00 p.m. They had been so tired from the games last night but it had been fun, so they didn't mind sleeping late.
"Nyaaaa… I have't slept well for a long time, Gakuto," Eiji said, waking up and looking at the magenta-haired boy who was smiling and nodding. He was really happy that they had such a good sleep after such a long time. At the camp they couldn't sleep like this because they had to be prepared for anything, and with the attacks of Kein it was worse.
"Guys, I'm hungry," Momoshiro complained, looking at Roma who nodded. He then looked at Atobe who walked to the phone to call a servant, then sit back down and looked at everyone in the room.
"Breakfast will be here soon, so don't worry. Meanwhile what do you want to do?" Atobe asked, looking at his clock, the door, and finally at the others as they thought about what to do.
"Let's sleep a little bit more," suggested Jiroh, leaning again in his luxurious sleeping bag.
"No, let's play something," offered Yuushi seeing that no one was sleepy like Jiroh at that hour.
"Yeah … let's play ..." Gakuto and Eiji agreed, jumping up and down and looking at their friends.
"Mmm what should we play?" asked Momoshiro as he looked at everyone. They were all calmly thinking when the two acrobats suddenly stood up and began looking around.
"What happened?" questioned Atobe looking around and then set his eyes on the hyperactive boys who looked at each other, nodded and smiled at the other.
"It's nothing, so don't worry," Eiji assured, smiling and looking at his friends who didn't seem very convinced by what he said.
"I.. need to go to the kitchen.. Come with me Eiji please," said Gakuto, looking at the Seigaku acrobat who nodded.
"Why you need to go to the kitchen?" inquired Fuji, looking at them. "You can call a servant if you need something." They stop and turn around.
"Well, Gakuto caught some allergies at the camp.. so there are some foods he can't eat.." Eiji answered, smiling. "We are going to see what the servants are preparing for breakfast and tell them about his allergies." No one could say anything against that, because it was very possible that the magenta-haired boy had gotten sick at the camp.
Good idea Eiji , lets go. Gakuto thought and began walking out of the room with the Seigaku acrobat behind him. Both of them were smiling. Outside the room, the red-haired boy closed the door and looked at the Hyoutei acrobat. Their smiles were now gone. Gakuto was looking at Eiji with worry, and Eiji was really serious.
"Lets go to the back garden there no one will see us," the Seigaku player suggested, walking away. This was really serious. They could feel someone was spying on them, and they knew it was Kein.
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