I knew you all would see it my way! And so here you all are the long awaited! Second part! Enjoy!

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"Hurry we have to find him!" Sanada yelled as the team spilt up each one looking for their kouhai.

There was no fucking way they were going to let him go without a say! How in world did the kid think he could just say goodbye and get away with it? All this time they were worried about him, all fucking year! And all this time he-

"Akaya!!!!" Yukimura screamed out, he was the last person the boy talked too, all those heart felt words of praise and pride, love and adoration- damn it all! Why didn't he see it!? He had known something was off long ago, when he asked the boy head on he had denied anything and instead asked for a game….at the time why didn't he see? Why couldn't he open his eyes and see his baby was-

"Akaya!! Where are you!!" Marui yelled. All those times he had invited the kid to hang out with him, they were best friends. Close friends who could lean on each other so why! Why didn't the damn kid do just that!? Why didn't he tell him- why keep it a secret!? Why couldn't he have seen it….the changes he saw before everyone else- he should have known…he should have

"Kirihara-kun! Come out! Please!" Yagyuu called out- he was at fault. All those tutoring sessions all those times he and Akaya were building a trust- a friendship, why couldn't he have noticed and taken action!? What good did it come from telling Yukimura when he could have done something himself! What was a friendship and trust if he couldn't protect his kouhai! What good did it come from-

"Akaya! It's me Jackal answer me!" if he was his babysitter since the beginning of middle school and he choose to ignore the signs. He saw the decline of smiles, of jumpy hyperness, of 'I want to go here!' or 'Jackal-senpai can I have ice-cream?', he saw it all and choice to ignore it, do nothing and brush it off for some god-forsaken reason! What did that make him?! He was assigned to care and watch over the boy and he failed him- he didn't deserve-

"Akaya! Stop running and talk to us!" to be called his vice-captain. All those times he would watch the boy's actions on the court and off it as much as he could. He would give him laps and chores to do to make him stronger- Sanada told himself the reason he watched over Akaya was so he could carry Rikkai when they left, he would be the captain and their hope. So what could he say now- when the boy was going to leave? Without so much as a word on his half! Sanada would not let that happen, he would find Akaya or-

"Akaya! Akaya are you here anywhere!" he'd be damned. To let his kouhai go like this… Yanagi cursed at himself for being such an idiot. He was the Master, the nutritionist and the one with all the data on everyone- this- this was an insult to himself and to Akaya. He was always the one the boy went to when he couldn't get Jackal or Yukimura, they were not only partners but friends and sometime doubles partners. For so long he knew everything about the boy, it was his job so there was no excuse why he didn't see the reason behind the changes. No reason why-

"Brat! Where the-" icy blue orbs caught a mob of curly black hair by the edge of his eyes and instantly began to run after it through the city's crowd. Pushing past families and friends Niou followed only one person,

"Akaya! Stop running!" he rarely called the boy's name but now- now he had damn good reason too, and for a moment the boy in Rikkai's tennis uniform hesitated and Niou sprang forward, grabbing his hand for dear life.

"Akaya!"

"Let me go!" clashing for a moment's heartbeat icy blue met with emerald green dyed in red, tears running and welling behind his orbs Niou felt his hand being pushed off and watching his kouhai run into the street.

Slowly he watched it all play out and never would he forget….

"AKKKKKKAAAAAYAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!"

He could never let them see…he couldn't face them-- not like this. He was pathetic. He had known he would leave Rikkai his second year, long before he was accepted into the school he knew he would say goodbye.

He knew it all but what he didn't know was- to make such good friends.

Marui- his best friend.

"Come on Bakaya let's go eat I'm starving here!"

Jackal- his babysitter.

"Akaya I told you not to do that! Now look what you've done- run!"

Yanagi- his doubles partner.

"Behave Akaya, now apologize"

Yagyuu- his tutor.

"Again Kirihara-kun, read this passage and write this sentence"

Sanada- his vice-captain.

"50 laps now!"

Niou- his mentor.

"Damn brat! That was perfect! But not as good as mine puri"

Yukimura- his idol.

"You've made me so proud Akaya"

All of them were his friends, his family. The only people he let into his heart, other than his real family. He didn't expect to make such friends….all he wanted was to defeat the best at the best school, that was all- so when he had to leave; the shock, hurt.

It tore him and broke him, all summer Akaya could remember nothing but feeling numb thinking nothing but freshman year, all those memories he had made were going to be all he had when he left.

And all year he tried to hide it, by working on his school work he had to raise his grade, and he needed to fix his English- now that that country would become his new home. He couldn't hang with them anymore, he needed to pack, he needed to be with his mother, father and sister, he needed to close his heart.

Everything was changing slowly but definitely he was cutting them from his life- but not before he finished his one goal. The last thing he could do for himself and the last gift he could give them, a match with Yukimura.

But- even that was asking too much, and in the end he failed. And then- everything afterwards just fell apart.

For during that entire game, he felt the rush, the adrenaline, the pure joy of fighting in a tennis match with the best tennis player in the world, the joy it was to have his friends watching him and cheering for him, to match and take points from his captain. All of everything he cherished in life was brought out in that game. And when it ended….

Showed him just how much he was going to miss Japan. How much he was going to miss his teammates, that no matter how far he pulled himself away he could never close his heart to them. Oh god- how he didn't want to leave.

But- what could he do?! What could anyone do! He would leave, he would say goodbye and this would be the last memory he was going to have….no. Akaya couldn't let that happen. No matter how hard, he would not let the last image of him, to his team, be crying like a baby; he would say goodbye like a man.

He would say goodbye even as tears ran down his face! And now….now that he said it, he couldn't face them.

Akaya ran and ran into the city, the heart of Kanagawa prefect, trying to get as far as he could from them. When a voice he knew called his name and a hand grab his.

"Akaya!"

"Let me go!" he didn't want to see but he did. Those icy blue eyes that rarely shown anything other than mischief were sad and wet with tears- something he had never seen before. Niou Masaharu was crying- for him? Was everyone else crying too? No!

Pulling away from the older boy, Akaya felt his body move without his command and run into the street.

The last thing he heard was a scream, once again he had never heard, coming from Niou-senpai, before everything faded to black and crimson.

"How is he?" Marui's soft voice asked, empty of any green bubble, somber violet orbs gazing down at the one sight everyone was looking at. Their kouhai bloodied and broken, pale and white, bandaged all over IV lines crawling along his body from under the stark white sheets. The sound of his breath machine and the rhythm of his heartbeat drumming in everyone's ears.

"The doctors say he's lucky but even they're not sure when or if-"

"Enough, don't say it Niou! Enough…" Yukimura said standing by his kouhai's head stroking the glistening wild black hair.

"…sorry"

"God, why- how did it come to this" Sanada's voice rang out

"When he needed us, we-" Jackal began

"He isn't suppose to be like this, this isn't Kirihara-kun" Yagyuu clenched his fist

"It is…damn it all, it is our Akaya!" Marui cried hiding his face beneath his red hair as Yanagi held his shoulder, the sound of whimpers from both the doubles resounded through the white room as soon Jackal fell to his fears. Sanada's strong hand on his shoulder, everyone knew the feeling- everyone was feeling just one emotion. Thinking of just one thought.

"Wake up Akaya! Damn it brat wake up!" whispering to himself, hiding his face behind his bleach hair,

"Wake up Akaya, we're all here, Sanada, Yanagi, Jackal, Marui, Yagyuu, Niou and I are all here for you" looking down at the boy's pale face, Yukimura bit his lip to prevent his fears from surfacing

"We're not angry at you, so please Akaya wake up! Just wake up" closing his eyes, the teen felt his tears escape and fall down his face running and finally free….as if by a miracle.

A voice spoke- soft and rasp, it was a voice.

"S-senpai-t-tachi"

"Akaya!" in unison eyes of all colors looked onto confused and faded light peridot orbs but eyes they all knew by heart.

"Wh-where"

"You're at the hospital Niou brought you here"

"You were hit by a car kid" Marui smiled through his tears, holding the boy's right hand careful of the IV lines hooked into his pale skin.

"A car…?"

"Remember you ran into the street during rush hour, brat you had my heart racing faster than it's ever been" holding the boy's other hand, with his free hand Niou wiped his face

"..y-your all crying"

"Because of you Akaya, you're alive!" Jackal grinned not wiping his tears from his face, he was proud of them as it were- they were tears of joy.

Looking around at his friends, slowly tears fell from Akaya's eyes and dripped around his breathing mask

"I'm sorry…senpai I'm so sorry!"

"Don't be Akaya!" Sanada urged, his voice soft and yet strong

"It's our faults, you have no one to blame" Yanagi smiled looking at the boy, opening his eyes at the sight

"We're the ones who ask for your forgiveness Kirihara-kun" Yagyuu smiled his glasses glittering in the sunlight from where he stood by the window.

"No. I- I ran away like a coward, I disgraced the Rikkai name! I-"

"Akaya no! you've done nothing wrong!" Yukimura urged, gently reaching down to make the boy look him in the eyes, "all of us are proud of you, no matter what you are our kouhai and precious friend"

"You are our only beloved little brother" everyone looked at the boy in bed, crying his eyes out as they smiled at him, proud and lovingly. They were a family and nothing was going to break their bond- nothing.

Looking at each of his upperclassmen, each one he met with wet eyes peridot orbs meeting with icy blue, dark brown, blue-grey, the glint of glass tinted with purple, light brown, violet, and finally sapphire.

"I don't want to leave you guys..."

"A-Akaya?!"

"Hey Akaya!"

"Kirihara-kun!"

"I-I don't want to say goodbye again--"

"A-Akaya! Don't close your eyes!"

"Stay awake! Akaya!"

"….sen-pai…I" closing his eyes the beating of the heart monitor began to resound throughout the room faster and faster, the green line jumped up and down the screen, Yukimura knew this! He called the doctors, they screamed for the nurses and in a flash men and women in white coats came running in.

Pushing them out. And closing the door, Rikkai's tennis team- minus one, had to stay and wait outside.

Before long without anyone telling them anything, they saw the door open and the same men and women pushing a bed out and rushing it to the emergency room, their Akaya still in it.

"Oh God no!" Yukimura knew this! He knew it all too well, without consent he ran after the doctors, rapid footsteps following closely behind him. The doctors had no time to push them away as the team followed Akaya's bed around corners and past other patients.

Finally they stopped when they saw that familiar bob of black seaweed hair disappear behind doors they were forbidden to pass.

"Let us in!"

"Marui!"

"We have to see what happens to Akaya!"

"Calm down!"

"We have to-"

"Over here!" Jackal yelled getting everyone's attention, as he ran into the double doors right beside the ones that took their friend. Following close behind the dark teen, everyone stared in silent shock at the sight before them.

The body of their kouhai naked on a white table, tubes and life support hooked to his arms and lungs, as doctors in white surrounded him. They were performing….surgery.

"No! oh God no! not him!" hiding his face behind his hand, holding his face tight Yukimura bit his lip and tried to quell his whimpers and screams.

"Akaya! No oh- no!" Marui fell to the ground, dragging Yagyuu down with him, holding the redhead, the gentleman turned his head to hide his tears.

"Akaya!" clenching his fists wanting nothing more than to bang on the window and demand the doctors to stop, Niou felt fresh blood in his clenched palm- it was nothing compared to what his kouhai was going through.

"..Renji what is the-" hiding his face beneath his hat even Sanada could not bring himself to utter those words.

"I don't know, I don't know anything anymore!" hanging his head his wide shoulders shook as tears fell against the hard floor beneath him. It was all they could do, they on one side of the glass wall while their youngest member and close friend on the other, alone.

Hours pasted and still Rikkai's tennis team stood by watching as the doctors performed on their kouhai. Seeing them cut him, stab him and bleed him; it was sick. Disgusting and nothing worse had ever been seen or felt- not even Yukimura's absence, he knew it was nothing compared to what Akaya was feeling.

But no one looked away, they would burn this into their minds, this was not Akaya's path to walk alone.

When the doctors stopped and nodded to each other they closed the boy up, leaving they left the nurses to cover him and take him to the recovery room. The team watched and followed every movement.

"Are you Kirihara Akaya's guardians?" the main doctor asked once they were in the room, meeting each ones eyes and settling on one

"Yes we are his teammates, I am Yukimura Seiichi his tennis captain, how is he doctor?"

"Well, I'm not suppose to say you're not his parents or blood relation"

"Like hell we aren't"

"Niou-kun!"

"Please tell us doctor, we're all he has right now" looking into the boy's dark blue eyes, the doctorslowly nodded

"When he came in he was severely wounded not just from the car accident, but from self-inflicted wounds as well it seems"

"Self-inflicted?" Sanada's voice dark and menacing- voicing everyone's same thought.

"What do you mean sir?"

"Kirihara Akaya-kun has fresh wound on his knees and elbows as if he's fallen a lot of times, he's got scars and bruises on his palms and feet as well as stretched muscle tendons in the calves and triceps"

"Those are tennis wounds" Yanagi spoke up,

"Tennis?"

"Yes, we are Rikkai Daigaku Fuzoku's tennis team"

"I see, well from what I saw I'd say Kirihara Akaya-kun has been pushed far too much he's ruining his body like that and now since the accident his lungs have been punctured and some broken bones; I'd advice you to not let him do anything rash for a really long time"

"I see thank you doctor, as his captain I swear to you I'll not let him do anymore harm to himself" bowing at the man, he turned and left the teens alone.

"All this time…." Yanagi murmured

"So this is the reason why he was able to beat Sanada" Niou said

"He's been pushing himself until he broke his own body" Jackal spoke

"Bakaya! You idiot!" Marui cursed

"All he wanted was to make us proud" Sanada whispered

"What would come of it, if he broke his body in the process" Yagyuu questioned

"…He would have hid it from us, by the time his body finally broke down he'd be in America, he wanted to make us proud by any means necessary even if it meant…he'd never play tennis again; this was his last gift to us" Yukimura placed a hand over his kouhai's forehead, gentle and warm.

"Akaya, you little fool" kissing his forehead Yukimura looked down with everyone eyes wide and watchful, caring and loving.

"You've always made us proud…." always.

Two months after the accident, Kirihara Akaya left the hospital, in a wheel chair and bandaged up, behind him were seven others.

Together, the eight of them would take the world. All eight of them and no less.

Me- and it is finished!!!!! My first two-shot and longest chapter! Although I do have to say I still sucked at the ending!

Ugh! I can't finish good stories with good enough endings, but still! Don't let that stop you from reading and reviewing!!!!!

I do plan on 200 reviews ya know!