This time it our little baby and his senpai-tachi! Pure friendship!

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This is about how everyone feels towards Akaya's demon on the courts

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YUKIMURA

It wasn't suppose to be like this. Every time I watched him transform, seeing those young passionate green eyes turn red, although I would never say it, it scares me. Captain of Rikkai's tennis team and I'm truly afraid of my baby.

It wasn't like this before, when he just tried out last year when I was a second year, he a first year I had been intrigued that such a young boy could have such power behind those eyes, like a dam holding back enormous amounts of talent and strength that could be toned for Rikkai. I admit that was my first thought after he had fought against Sanada and Yanagi.

But when we went off, something in him spoke to me; even as he laid on the ground yelling

"I will beat you Three Demons one day! I swear!!" I knew I wanted him on the team as a regular.

He was a strong boy with an amazing ability to reach towards goals only us Kings aim for. And so when he first received his yellow uniform I couldn't help but be so proud of the little boy. As he gazed up at me with those bright green orbs of his, and that wide lop sided grin, I found out that my little habit of reaching out and patting his head was where that was formed.

However I also learned that along with those bright green orbs and lop sided grin, was an attitude of arrogance and pride in the shape of a double-edged sword. With his arrogance he earned scorn from his opponents giving him fuel to beat them on the courts, with that pride he would refuse to fall no matter what was in his way; it was because of those traits I found that it was the key to the dam.

It was how the devil came out. And how my little baby was gone.

Each time I watched my baby, I swear the harder it got to watch, I remember many times I would have to clench my arm to force myself to not up and run to him plead to him to stop, how all that strength and hard work was wasted on low attacks to the opponent's body. It was Rikkai's law to Never Lose, and I can see the reason behind the transformation but why did he have to do it? Was it just to prove that he could defeat his enemy?….

No. I know the reason, it was the same reason he first tried out for the team, it was because of me; to beat me, to defeat me and raise above those he deems the strongest, he transforms into that monster.

It's because of me that he loses himself, how ironic. To fear that which I created, how stupid.

But still if that is the reason then I must in all my power, help my baby learn to control this monster, it's the least I can do not as a Captain and not because of fear; but as a senpai to him, as a friend towards my little Akaya.

I must help him.

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SANADA

He was arrogant and a pain in the ass to me and Yukimura, I could see that the moment he first tried out for the team, strutting onto the courts dressed in pure white that day last year. I automatically thought 'another useless brat who doesn't understand the meaning behind hard work and Rikkai's law' and I was proved right when the first year aimed his racket towards others in taunt and mockery however when he turned and aimed it towards me, Yukimura and Renji I was beyond shocked

"I want to challenge the strongest here to a match!" that cheeky grin widening along his pale face, and I knew I didn't like him.

Yet for some reason still unknown to me, Yukimura let him try out making Renji go first, followed by me and then himself.

I admit when he fought with Renji he showed promise I caught automatically but it was deeply hidden behind those crude words or arrogance, he still possess today.

When I fought against him I noticed that that strength and promise I saw in him, had sharpened when he didn't complain in having no rest between his match with Renji and mine; but only to seem to be all the more concentrated in his serves and defense. Even his eyes had become sharper.

However when he matched up against Yukimura did I notice that that concentration had taken a turn and what I saw still makes me shutter. In an instant those determined green eyes had turned burning red, and his net play had tripled to where he was even pushing Yukimura back.

Ever since that day, the boy has tried and tried to strengthen that thing in him, to my better judgment. But what can I do? Our relationship isn't the closest just teammates as it were, not even senpai and kouhai. But still I find that for some reason I push him harder than most.

I tell him to run more laps than the others, I tell him to practice harder and not to slack off, to get tutored by Renji, Jackal or Yagyuu, I tell him and watch over him constantly why? I still don't understand myself but one thing.

One thing I do know is something I will always hate. I will never accept that demon, this child turns into….. In a way now I see why I push him. For myself I push the second year each time so that I won't have to see that red eyed monster, it's selfish and I'm ashamed that I can say that….but is it really that bad?

In a way this child will grow. He will get stronger and learn and develop when we leave him next year, he will know Rikkai's law by heart and pass it onto future generations in our place.

And so for now…maybe it seems weak and selfish but in the end I know, after all the hard work I force upon him, Akaya will become strong on his own and not have to rely on that monster.

So until then I will push him.

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YANAGI

Contrary to rumor as it were, this kouhai of mine isn't violent off courts. He is still arrogant and pushy, prideful and very naïve to the point it can be completely stupid. But I know like Yagyuu and Jackal that this child is smart. In more ways than one.

He pushes himself on his work, complains and whines yes but he applies himself so that the work he didn't understand before is understood and he is able to know what to do with it when he doesn't have me.

This one kouhai that is a friend of mine as well, is someone I care for but try as I might not all my efforts come out in colorful results. Off courts I can calm him into working on his English, to raise that D to at least a low B, to have a little understanding of what he's suppose to know. I can help him in this way; but on courts……is where my hand cannot reach.

On the courts he loves so much, is where all sense of resistance crumples and all the discipline I taught him when faced with a problem falls to my feet. On the courts is where that demon appears and the calm kouhai I know is gone.

I remain silent on the matter each time but with each time I fear that demon in this little boy grows stronger, I would know, I once played beside him during Nationals. Never have I been frozen in place such as that time, in fear of all things. And of this child, of all people, of course a part of me somehow knew that this would happen I never tried to do anything to prevent this demon, no this devil to come out.

It is because of that I blame no one but myself, seeing Yukimura's baby draw innocent blood from my childhood friend, it must have been a sin that day to watch and do nothing as this child stained his hands for the sake of us. I am the senpai, I am his upperclassman, I am The Master and yet….I couldn't do anything in the face of this devil! And even now that Nationals are over, now that we have won for the third time this little boy is even more stubborn in strengthening that monster in him, not this time.

I will not let what happened that day happen again, I will teach this child mental resistance, I will teach him spiritual discipline, I will teach him to be calm and yet aggressive; he will know what it means to Never Lose in a match as well as yourself. Akaya will never have to rely on that thing again, I swear it.

With all that I am I will teach him.

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YAGYUU

He's not the smartest person out there, I knew that from the moment I saw him last year passing him by in the hallway one day, before I knew he was going to try out for the team. At that time I was ignorant at what I saw, I brushed him off as another childish boy with an ego much too big; much to my surprise to find that not only was he what I had thought him to be he was powerful, with a strength I had never thought he would posses.

To my shock even more was when those rebellious eyes had turned murderous and hateful, each time I watched from afar, for I could never get any closer, I feared the boy. I knew his potential Yukimura saw it as well I'm sure, as did everyone else but how they feel towards this child's demon I know not, but I do know that I can't understand how.

How was it that one moment in the face of danger this child would aim and kill his enemy without a batting of his eye or even worse, a laugh.

A laugh that would echo in my head for days after, how was it that this was the same person I taught in Mathematics, this calm and naïve child was the same as that demon on the courts? I would see him joke with Niou-kun, eat and laugh happily with Marui-kun, look up with pride at Yukimura-kun, grumble at Sanada-kun, and ask for help from Jackal-kun and Yanagi-kun, this little boy our baby as our captain had dubbed him was that devil, his hair stark white, skin blood red, eyes crimson and that smile….

I admit my relationship with him isn't as it is with the other regulars and I have made little to mend the gap, but that doesn't mean I don't care. He is after all, my kouhai the youngest of us all, the future of Rikkai's tennis team, I do not want any one else to fear him as I do, as I did. This child doesn't deserve that.

With all the enemies he's already created because of that monster, what he needs most is friends; those who he can go to when I know I can not help.

And I think I know how, I know he will never be a Gentleman nor anywhere near that title as I have earned, but I know this boy can learn patience, and so he will learn. He will understand Mathematics and all that I can help him with, with the year already dwindling and only half left I know that it's far too late for me to do anything about our relation but that will not stop me from helping with what I can for him in the future. Akaya will have friends, they will not fear him, and he will have a future I can give.

With this he will know friendship.

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JACKAL

How often am I forced to watch over him? Our little kouhai. Since he came onto the team second year was it, since then it's always been me who has to watch him, not that I mind much….it's because of that time I've learned more about him than most.

I've learned that he can be really whiny about things, is an addict to games, hates his homework with a passion, loves History even though he won't let anyone know, this little second year is many things I've come to learn but one thing that I never thought he would be… is a demon.

I was absent the day he tried out for the team so when the boy matched up against another third year one day in a match and had begun to turn I fell to the ground in shock, others had tried to help me up but as I continued to stare into those pits of fiery red, that snarl twisted and misplaced, my legs refused to work and would always give out under me. Never did I think that that one day I would have a strong friendship with the boy.

I admit though, when Yukimura told me that I would be the one to watch over him, the first thing that ran through my head was 'Don't you dare put me with that monster!' it might be painful but I truly feared him and I wanted nothing to do with the kid. I even had half a mind to leave the team because of him, now that I look back on it I'm glad I didn't. Not only would it have been an insult on my teacher back in Brazil but I would never have had the relationship I do now with this child.

It had taken a long time for me to loosen up around him, and he around me; if I remember correctly there were many awkward silences between us. He would pout and fold his arms saying that he was old enough to not need a babysitter, that Yukimura-buchou was being overly protective and that he didn't need me, at the time I was all too happy to get far from the kid, but the captain stood firm and everyone behind him.

Now that I think about it, they might have done that to scorn me….. Either way it was because of that my fear of him has long been gone, and him pushing me is far from how he acts now. But….that thing I was afraid of is still there, every time he fights with an opponent and backed into a corner, every time his opponent is stronger than him and his pride has been cut at, that monster shows itself through blazing red surrounding by gleaming green no longer kind or the kouhai I knew.

And ever since we won the Nationals that demon has come out more and more, and there is nothing I can do about it. Third quarter has come and gone and now that the end of this school year is approaching there is little I can do. Exams, practice, family, too many things have taken my attention from his well being and now I have no time. Every time I saw that thing on the courts I would tell myself I would do all I could to convince him to not lose himself in a match, and each time he would tell me he wouldn't lose himself, that he would be okay and beat the opponent the way he wanted and no one else's way. Where has that lead him?

Where has that lead me? When I have gone will he only depend on that monster for power, will the future for Rikkai fall from grace and land into hell? I don't know, and that's what scares me the most. But now that I've decided….now that there is little I can do, there is still one thing I can give him. I can give him my attention, to make sure that at the end of this school year he remains in control, to put rest my fears and let Akaya lead himself to Kingship.

He will have my time.

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NIOU

I've been called The Trickster and I'm proud to say even when I leave middle school I'll remain The Trickster, sadly for a year I'll have to make do without my apprentice. I've been told so many times that this kouhai of mine is like me in so many ways, from the way he thinks in the classroom to the way he spoke during Nationals. Of course like all great work making him like me took time, when he was a freshman I knew that look in his eyes the moment he rebelled against the buchou and I knew if he had gotten into the team as a regular I would make sure to make him like me.

To broaden that look of mischief and love for chaos, I was going to make sure the kid knew the difference from a lame ass prank to full blow entertainment by pain of another. I knew that look in his eyes, they were the same as mine calmer and naïve but none the less with practice and hands on experience the kid was going to know, what I live for.

So when he had gone bloodshot that day, a part of me was taken aback but then again another part of me expected something like that to happen. After all he was like me, I could see that and I was never what anyone expected. It was going to be a little set back but I knew with time the kid would see things my way and come to me, in the end I was right and now the seaweed head is my schooly wide known apprentice. But….what I wasn't expecting was that white haired creature he had turned into one day. That blood red skin, those glowing neon green eyes, grinning face that seemed to cut his face in half, that laugh that was more diabolic than I admit; I could ever produce. I never wanted to see that side of this kid ever again but during Nationals it was the plan to bring that thing out, twice.

In order for him to grow, was it? Hell I don't remember now, that was what….last year. It's summer now and I've rarely seen anyone other than Yagyuu or Marui at the candy store; its hard to say but now that I'm talking about that kid I kind of miss him....wait what the fuck am I saying?! All I'll miss is having a junior prankster beside me, or to blame in place of me but nothing more.

Still…it's hard to think that while all of us will be in high school, the baby's going to still be in middle school. Heh I guess I should have taken the time to teach him better pranks or at least dye his hair another color. That Akaya better not do anything until he comes to high school so I can do it to him!

I guess I'll just have to wait for him.

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MARUI

And so here we are, in high school and no little kouhai all of us know and love. No more annoying whining, no more having to take turns and baby sit, no more….no more little seaweed head. Tch, I guess I should be glad I mean now I don't have to share my candies with him, and I don't have to treat him to ice cream or stuff like that; which would normally be his favorite past times.

Ok so I guess I am a little sad the kid isn't here anymore but like Yukimura said it's only for a school year. We'll see him real soon and besides Rikkai middle is only down the street we can visit anytime so it's not like he really isn't here. But still its because we're not with him, it's because I'm not with him I can't help but feel anxious. What if I didn't teach him enough? We were more than a tennis team, more than The Kings, we were a group of friends with a baby. I'm sure the others feel the same way as I do, I can see it in their eyes when during practice everyone seems to be looking for the kid, or turn when a name that sounds similar is called out.

I admit I've turned more than a few times, but more than ever I feel…scared. I haven't taught the kid anything that'll help him now that I'm gone, and I know the others haven't much either. That's one of my regrets actually and it just so happens to be the one with the biggest consequence.

What if he relies on that demon in him, like that day so long ago? What if when he comes back to us, he won't be our little baby anymore. What if that thing in him comes out normally and not just on the courts? What if?! No.

No. I have to believe in him…I have to believe that that kid learned something in those two years of being under us. Although I'm sure no one on the team would say this, but no matter how scared I am about that thing in Akaya, he won't fall to it. I'll believe in him, even if no one else will.

I'll believe in him.

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Me- done! Damn this was the longest one-shot I've written!!!! And I admit it wasn't as easy as I thought! Hahah

Niou, Yagyuu and Marui were the hardest….for some odd reason. But I hope they came out right! I mean, they kept in character through out their whole monologue!

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